. >>> residents want to know what is killing the fish in ridley lake. ion news" reporter sarah bloomquist is live in ridley park tonight. sarah, what's the story there? >> reporter: well jim residents couldn't help but notice the odor of fish in the air. they saw the dark black color of the water here at ridley lake and of course they couldn't miss the hundreds of dead fish floating along its edges. they first noticed the dead fish yesterday. it's worse today. neighbors called "action news" hoping we could get them that answers. >> this morning we came out to have breakfast here and we noticed all the fish floating. >> reporter: hundreds of dead fish are floating all over ridley lake. sun fish catfish carp and trout. >> collected around the edges it smells like dead fish. the stench is pretty bad. >> reporter: this is a popular lake and a pretty little community park here in ridley park, a place before people come to fish and hold family gatherings but not when you have to see this. >> you don't want the kids to see dead things. they're going somewhere t

"action news" reporter sarah bloomquist is live tonight at the lake in ridley park with more. sarah. >> reporter: sharrie every so often there's a faint fish odor in the iran you can see just how pitch black the waters of ridley lake are right now. people live around here say that's not normal at all. and all along the edges of this lake there are dead fish everywhere. residents noticed the problem yesterday and called "action news" today hoping we could help them get some answers. >> just see a lot of dead fish. >> reporter: the waters along the banks of ridley lake are filled with fish all sizes, trout, carp. >> looks about 30, 40. all up and down the bank and all so. >> reporter: this is a popular park here in ridley park. people come here to fish and hold family gatherings. today they couldn't help but notice the dead fish and that foul fishy odor in the air. >> it smells really fishy and gross. >> reporter: this afternoon borough workers were out skimming the surface of the water trying to clean up the lake of the dead fish. jessica gray lives nearby. she called "action n

sun fish cat fish, carp, trout, they all floated to the surface of ridley lake. officials think heavy rain brought too much nutrients to the lake and that robbed the water of oxygen that fish need to breathe. they hope it is over. >>> president barack a obama had a lot of nice things to say today about ongoing efforts to make camden, new jersey a much safer city. obama arrived at philadelphia international airport but today was all about the other side of the delaware river and it was all about forging a modeled relationship between police and the people. "action news" reporter kenneth moton is live at camden county police headquarters. kenneth, overall this was a good day for this bee league earth but hopeful city. >> reporter: it really was jim. president obama toured the operation center a at camden county police and praised this department and nearly 20 minute speech. the the president said work is long way from being done here in camden and resident agreed. >> ♪♪ >> it was a big day for camden. the the president of the you had, and a community, in the middle

lake. "action news" anchor monica malpass live in the news room with the details on this fishy story. >> reporter: it's happening at the ridleyy the dead fish are now starting to smell and not so great as you can imagine. take a look. our cameras did spot several fish floating at the top of the water today. coming up at 5:00 "action news" reporter sarah bloomquist live with an update from the parks department and a possible explanation of why this is happening. also a new report rates the best smartphones out there and the results may surprise you. consumer reporter nydia han tells us where your phone will rank on the list. we'll have those stories and more coming up in just a little bit on "action news" at 5:00. shirleen see you that end. >> thank you monica. >>> a new class of veterinarians received their degrees from the university of pennsylvania today. 120 penn vet students graduated in a ceremony at the annenberg center for the performing arts. the school was founded on the principle that animal and human health are interrelated. today's grads listened to a key note speech from dr. tracy mcnamara. she formerly worked at