. >> sreenivasan: last december tanya brown's son brandon tate- brown had been killed, shot by philadelphiae after being pulled over for driving with his headlights off. >> to know that my son suffered like that and that i was not there to protect him or lay my body on him, and then probably kill me too. it breaks my heart. i'm his mother. and i couldn't do nothing to help him. >> sreenivasan: brown is not alone in her pain. there have been 394 shootings involving the philadelphia police since 2007. in many years, the department saw more police shootings than new york city, a city five times its size. charles ramsey is the philadelphia police commissioner: >> there are changes that need to be made. and we need to make them. and we can't ignore them and pretend that everything's ok. because it's not. >> sreenivasan: two years ago ramsey recognized the crisis, and commissioned the u.s. department of justice to review philadelphia's police shootings. the report, released this month, documents the harsh reality that has plagued this city and included 91 recommended changes. >> you know we've do

. >> tanya brown on the hail engineering team designing the world's first hailstorms. >> we may not have huge fire or things like that, but we have hail every year. >> what do you use to simulate hail. >> we use water and fresh ice and create spheres and create ice stones that we can shoot with our canons. >> something like this would be 70 mph or so. >> that's hard. >> yes, they can cause a lot of damage, especially if you have a lot of these guys on your house. >> on the other side of the spectrum, wildfire. 2014 was a brutal season fueled by one of the worst droughts on record in the west and southwest. it's a major concern to the insurance industry because one out of every three homes is now built close enough to be devoured by flames. >> we're looking at the embers that travel a mile or more beyond the perimeter of the fire and land some place where there is no one watching, and then there is flame generation, flame contact and structures are lost. >> more fire retardant building materials and fewer openings for embers to fly in. >> some of the research conducted shows tiny design t

fox 29's dave kinchen was there as tanya brown dickerson spoke this afternoon.hat is she trying to achieve? >> she says she wants justice for herself her family and the memory of her son. she also wants reform here at philadelphia police headquarters headquarters. >> am i crying all the time? yes. do i feel bipolar because i don't know when it's coming? that's how i feel. >> raw emotion from tanya brown dickerson after announcing a class action civil suit against the philadelphia police department following the death of her son 26-year-old brandon tate brown shot and killed by police last december. >> i believe with all my heart that my son's rights were violateed brutally and severely. >> reporter: her attorney says they're institution a class action format to represent all citizens of philadelphia and their demand for court overnight police department's use of force tactic. they're also suing alleging violation of his constitutional rights. and suing for wrongful death false arrest, assault and battery. >> i believe he was not given a chance and i want reform.

tanya brown dickerson says philadelphia police officers lied about her son brandon tait brown reachingfor a gun. he was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in mayfair in december. the suit names city and two police officers as defendants and seeks machine try damages and police reform. >> i believe with all my heart that my son's rights were violated brutally and severely. i believe he was not given a chance and i want reforms. i want laws changed. that is why i'm standing here. >> police and city officials have no comment on the lawsuit. an investigation by d.a.'s office resulted in no criminal charges against two officers involved in that shooting. >>> chester county man faces third degree murder charge accused of allowing his elderly father to die from neglect. thinks the subject eduardo brian the third of the west white land township. prosecutors say he let his father a world war two veteran die in deplorable conditions. they alleged that the younger o'brien removed his father from the rehab facility and failed to provide even the most basic of care. o'brien is accused

tanya brown dickerson son brandon tait brown was killed in the traffic stop in december. she filed a wrongful death suit against the city claiming officers planted evidence to make it seem like her son was reaching for a gun. the district attorney decline to charge officers saying surveillance video corroborated the officer's story. >>> two with men are taken to the hospital after being shot in wilmington. chopper three over the scene tuesday night on west sixth street. police have not released identities of the conditions of the female victims. chopper three was over christiana hospital where a group of people gathered following the shooting. police are trying to figure out what led up to the the gun fire. >>> a young boy is in critical condition after he is hit by a car in frankford. the it happened on the 1700 block of, brill street, just after 8:00 o'clock tuesday night. that boy was rushed to children's hospital. philadelphia police tell "eyewitness news" that the driver of the car remained at the the scene. the accident is under investigation. >>> right now 5:13. ka

tanya brown dickerson says physical police officers lied about her son brandon tate brown reaching for. he was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in mayfair back in december. this suit names the city and two police officers as defendants and seeks monetary damages and pleasure fors. >> i believe with all my heart that my son's rights were violateed brutally and severely. i believe he was not given a chance and i want reform. i want laws changed and that's why i'm standing here. >> police and city officials have no comment on that lawsuit. an investigation by the da's office resulted in no criminal charges against the two officers involved in that shooting. >>> well, we are tracking big changes for our weather and we mean big changes. meteorologist kathy orr is standing by outside on the cbs3 sky deck. it's going to be a little different out there in not much time. kathy. >> absolutely, chris. right now, we have a few clouds rolling in outside now on the sky deck and that's just the beginning. we're seeing them moving in from the south on corm stan three. it will be much co

tanya brown dickerson says philadelphia police officers lied about her son reaching for a gun. he was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop in mayfair in december. the suit names the city, and two philadelphia police officers as defendants. it seeks monetary damages and reforms within the department. >> i believe with all my heart that my son's rights were violated brutally and severely. i believe he was not given a chance and i want reform. i want laws changed. that is why i'm standing here. >> reporter: neither police nor officials from city hall have commented on this lawsuit. the d.a.'s office did investigate this and it result had in no criminal charges against officers involved in the shooting. >>> turning now to a developing story a plane carrying former president bill clinton makes an emergency landing, after a problem with one of the plane's four engines. clinton was traveling in the east african nation to visit projects funded by his family's foundation. we're told engine of the canadian turboprop dash seven has been repaired and aircraft has since taken off

here's tanya brown dickerson tonight in powelton attending a mayoral forum on police reform.he same day she spoke out about the lawsuit she's filing against the city. the class action civil suit comes after her ton brandon tate brown was fatal the shot by police last december. she says her son's constitutional rights were violator but legal experts say it will take a lot to discredit police accounts of the incident. >> i believe he was not given a chance and i want reform. i want laws change and that's why i'm standing here. >> they say the jury could disbelieve the police officers testimony and instead find without any evidence there was a gun dropped. first of all that's not the way it works in court. >> city has 30 days to respond to the lawsuit. >>> heart pounding moments as a woman purposely sets a gas pump on fire. the entire area goes up in flames. one man barely escaping that inferno. what he told the woman just before she ignited the fire ball ball. >> and caught accused of going a hotel to meet up with a 10-year-old girl he met online. the gift fbi agents say this g