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night the latest in series of steps to make things safer is on the agenda. fox 29's bruce gordon has more. >> reporter: on a sunny autumn day the schuylkill river trail through center city is buzzing with activity. but when the sun goes down, these crowds disappear. >> i've been hearing the stories about the kids on the bikes and attacking females. >> reporter: mack i was little nervous. > yes, it does. >> reporter: half dozen attacks over the past two years have spurred city officials to action. first they made the lighting along the trail more reliable. then they installed better mile markers so crime victims could more easily report their location. and now crews are installing 21 security cameras along the trail to better keep an eye on things. the price tag $150,000 picked up by the city council president's office and that of district councilman kenyata johnson. >> if you're outside enjoying yourself any public space here in the steve philadelphia that you should feel safe. >> reporter: the cameras will not be monitored in real time. but can quickly be reviewed for evidence of a

section this week ton night our bruce gordon got to the bottom of this sad story. >> reporter: sin coat cat is on the mend, not yet sure how to get around on three legs. her owner kim schmidt has questions for the folks who took the fourth. >> why did you do that? why? what was the reason you had to do that to my cat? for what. >> reporter: schmidt has had stinky for 16 years and that her right rear leg has always been off kilter. >> she's always had a limp since the day she was born. >> reporter: on saturday this indoor cat got outdoors, ran kim looked everywhere for her beloved pet without success. on monday, kim learned a neighbor had picked up the cat and dropped it off at the animal care and control team act phil philly. she rush to the shelter and got the shock of her life. >> i was in hysterics. i collapsed to the floor. are you freaking kid he me. my cat has no leg. >> reporter: acct shelter takes in 15,000 cats every year. most never find a new home. annie says acct medical personnel made the quick situation stinky would be easier to adopt out with three legs than a mangled loo

photos are bruce gordon went lookin for answers. >> reporter: star buck at 20th and callowhill is a busy place with a steady stream of customers rushing in to pick up their specialty coffees and pricey pastries. >> oh, my god. that's disgusting. >> reporter: but we came to the coffee shop bearing bad news or more accurately pictures of pests. >> what do you think? >> i think i want to return this bagel i just purchased. >> reporter: half dozen tweeted photos sent to fox 29 appear to show mice running around the starbucks. our tweeting source told us the shots were taken thursday night after the store had closed. there's one on the floor. and another one playing hide and go seek on a pastry rack. there's one stretching for a better look at what else there is to explore. i showed the photos to the starbucks morning manager after an initial, oh, my god, she told me they had had reports of mice few weeks ago, and that she had ordered the front doors be resealed and the traps be set out. she said she thought the problem had been resolved. the philadelphia health department last inspected

. our bruce gordon joins us live tonight at the entrance of the trail at 25th and locust. bruce? >> reporter: iain, the trail along here, the schuylkill river trail, may not be any more dangerous than a typical philadelphia neighborhood, but the assaults, the attacks that have taken place along this stretch of as fall got a whole lot of attention and so city officials needed to act. when the sun is out the schuylkill river trail through center city is a beehive of activity. but when darkness decedents on this trail most folks steer clear. >> you wouldn't like to be out here at night. >> no. just in general i don't like going out at night too much on the trail you never know whose here. >> reporter: half dozen violent attacks or sexual assaults some guy gangs of kids on bikes over the past two years have pushed city officials to act. first they repaired and replaced broken lighting along the trail. then they installed clearer mile markers eye so crime victims could more accurately report their location. and on wednesday, work crews were busy installing the first of 21 security ca

first police officer on the scene. our bruce gordon joins us in studio, bruce, you've seen this footage and it's wild stuff. >> report roar lucy, lots of us have been in convenience stores in the wee hours of the morning and found things to be a little sketchy. but we probably haven't seen witnesses of scenes like this one. one you're about to watch posted online it's already been shared nearly 50,000 times. folks who live and work along the 5,000 block of frankford avenue will tell you this 7eleven can get a little rough and tumble. >> you know this stuff happens all the time. no matter what time of day it is. >> in this neighborhood this is not so unusual. >> no. not at all. >> reporter: this stuff, police were called to the 7eleven around 2:15am sunday october 1st. authorities say the night manager ordered two women, 20 year old lachay whitaker and 2884 old tiara brown to leave the store. he claimed she shop lived the night before. cops say the prairie fused to leave and so were locked in by store security. someone called the cops. watch whitaker square off against a 7eleven

this afternoon. >>> fox 29 getting results tonight for folks in grays furry. our bruce gordon just might have found the trashiest block in all of philadelphia. i mean look at that. >> reporter: welcome to the place that gives filth delphi ya it's bad name. 1600 block of south bam brie street. this hundred yard, two lane stretch between tasker and morris is little more than a landfill on asphalt. linda peterson barnes pushed her eight month old grandson passed his mess and shook her head in amazement. >> wow! wow! what you going to do? what can they do about it. >> reporter: apparently not much of the debris includes discarded television sets, old mattresses, construction debris of all kinds. trash has been illegally dumped right next door to what sixty two dull trace of vehicle facility. signs are posted all along the building right beneath cameras that are clearly no deterrent. the school district isn't exactly doing its part to beautify the neighborhood. fronting bam brie is a graveyard of beat up and vandalized school district vans. stacks of undelivered newspapers dating to lat

office release a new survey saying as much. how too is it? do the numbers add up? our bruce gordon has followed this controversy from the get go. >> reporter: at bruno's pizza on cheltenham avenue on the border between city and suburb manager melvin robinson says the city soda tax has dropped sales of the beverage by 60%. >> people are not buying sodas. >> on the philadelphia side. >> on the philadelphia side. no one is buying sodas. nobody can afford it. >> reporter: robin sews' claims mere numbers found in the city controller's survey which found 88% of responding business owners claim the soda tax has cut into their overall sales. most by 10% or more. said the controller in announcing the findings -- >> there is a passion and a, um, an intensity to the feeling of these business owners that this tax is killing them. >> reporter: but the survey may prompt more questions than answers. for one thing, it reflects claims made by solaced today retailers, claims impossible to verify without hard numbers. and look at the map of the businesses claiming revenue losses due to the tax. the darke

philadelphia. bruce gordon joins us in stewed eighty seven this information came to us via an anonymous tweet. >> yeah, it sure did, chris. late this afternoon in fact we were able to talk by phone with our source. he asked that we not use his name but said he lives in a nearby apartment that has seen the mice before. last night, he took out his camera and the results, well, they were not pretty. >> starbucks at 20th and callowhill is a busy place with a steady stream of customers rushing in to pick up their specialty coffees and pricey pastries. >> oh, my god. that's disgusting. >> reporter: but we came to the coffee shop bearing bad news or more accurately pictures of pests. >> what do you think? >> i think i want to return this bagel i just purchased. >> reporter: half dozen tweeted photos sent to fox 29 appear to show mice running around the starbucks. our tweeting source told us the shots were taken thursday night aft the star had closed. >> there's one on the floor. and another one playing hide and go seek on a pastry rack. there's one stretching for a better look at what else the

gordon has been on top of this fro the very beginning life now in studio. bruce. >> reporter: lucy, to say the so called soda tax is unpopular with those who sell sweetened drinks in philly that would be a understatement much those businesses led the fight to repeal the tax in court and at the state legislature. the question does this new survey from alan butkovitz a vocal critic of tack tell us anything new? at bruno's pizza right on the border between city and suburb manager melvin robinson says the philly soda tax he's forced to charge has dropped sales of the beverage by 60%. >> they're not buying soda. it's like -- >> on the philadelphia side. >> on the philadelphia side. no one is buying sodas. nobody can afford it. >> his claims mere numbers found in the city controller's survey. which found 88% of responding business owners claim the soda tax has cut into their overall sales. most by 10% or more. said the controller in announcing the finderrings -- >> there is a passion and an intent is the to the feeling of these business owners that this tax is killing them. >> reporter: but

critic of the tax since day one. our bruce gordon joins us live in studio. >> reporter: yeah, well, i tell was folks let's start with the fact that most philadelphians like the idea that the money from this tax goes to support expanded pre kindergarten for city kids who qualify. lots of business owners and their customers hate the idea of a soda tax to pay for it but it's not clear this survey sheds any new light on who is being hurt and how badly. >> bruno's pizza fixture on cheltenham avenue right there on the border between city and suburb but manager melvin robinson says the philadelphia sweetened beverage tax he's required to charge has killed his soda business. >> don't make no money off sodas no more. kids don't buy them. you know what i mean. >> reporter: you get nothing on sodas. >> you get nothing on sodas. >> reporter: city controller survey found 88% of responding business owners claim the society soda tax has cut into their their overall sales most by 10% or more. said alan butkovitz of mayor kenny's signature legislature -- >> i think the administration hahas minimized a

in charge of protecting them on high alert. bruce gordon is live at police headquarters. bruce, each new attack creates really a new challenge for authorities. >> reporter: yeah, you're right, lucy. police tonight in philadelphia say they are unaware of any local connection to the mass shooting in las vegas given the nature and number of big outdoor events in this city and region authorities are certainly trying to learn what they can to better protect us. concerts are the tar guests mad man. local who's have experienced good times on the ben franklin parkway are stunned. >> does it make you think twice about going to a big outdoor event at this point? >> it does make me think twice. >> just like you never know when you leave the house lyle ukee come back again or not. >> phase one begins on the 24th. >> philadelphia first responders go through extensive planning before each big outdoor event. this was our sneak peek at made in america planning in 2014. but police commissioner richard ross says each new terror incident reminds us there's only so much that can be foreseen. >> wh

coming back. also ahead, a sheep who lost her flock. our bruce gordon is on the case. bruce? >> reporter: you know lucy i thought high a beat on the owner of his sheep. paper work comes up on a bow beep, little. i was wrong very wrong but i'll spin i was yarn that you might like straight ahead. step away from the remote folks. ♪ hey grandpa. hey, kid. really good to see you. you too. you tell grandma you were going fishing again? maybe. (vo) the best things in life keep going. that's why i got a subaru, too. introducing the all-new crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. (all with worry-free ownership. colors in your neighborhood... head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone... shift your thinking about buying your next one. >> warning tonight for pennsylvania drivers. you're going to want to change your travel plans if you take northeast extension and lehigh in carbon counties in tomorrow night through monday morning i-476 between the lehigh valley and mahoney exits will be clos closed. crews ar

gordon got a look at those photos and went looking for answers. he joins us in studio tonight. bruce you spoke with that photographer? >> reporter: i did indeed. he asked that we not identify him, but he says he lives in a nearby apartment and has seen the mice before. last night, well, he happened to have his camera handy. at the star buck at 20th and callowhill, business is booming. customers flock here to buy their favorite flavored coffees and pricey pastries. >> that's disgusting. >> reporter: but what we came here to talk about with customers was not on the menu board. oh how would you like your mouse, shore, tall or grande. >> what is your reaction to this? >> i'm appalled. i'm ready to take this backout put this in the trash or something. i don't like normally eat starbucks but that right there that's very nasty especial al round here. you would think it would be much cleaner. >> reporter: half dozen tweeted photos show mice running a muck at the starbucks our source tells us he snap the pictures thursday night after hours. there's little mickey on the floor. and there's mini

trash has neighbors mad. they want it gone. our bruce gordon went to check it out and he says it may be the trash iest block in philadelph philadelphia. >> reporter: welcome to the place that gives timth adelphia south bambry street. this hundred yard two lane stretch between tasker and morris is little more than a landfill on asphalt. linda peterson barnes pushed her eight month old grandson passed this mess and shook her head in amazement. >> wow! >> wow! what you going to do? what can they do about it. >> reporter: apparently not much. the debris includes discarded television sets, old mattresses, construction debris of all kinds. trash has been illegally dumped right next door to a school district of philadelphia vehicle facility. signs warning against dumping are posted all along the building. right beneath cameras that are clearly no deterrent. the school district isn't exactly doing its part to beautify the neighborhood. fronting bambry is a graveyard of beat up and vandalized school district vans. stacks of undelivered newspapers date to go late august suggest this mess has been

needs first grader, that could be even a bigger problem. bruce gordon live in prospect park, delaware county, with wasn't family's heartbreaking story. bruce. >> reporter: iain you said it. school can be stressful enough for special needs first grader but getting to and from class or getting to and from after school activities that ought to be the easy part. it doesn't always work out that way. >> seven-year-old tyler barlow stayed home from school wednesday to be with his mom to be safe. >> i didn't want to go to scho school. >> reporter: why is that? >> because i thought something was going to happen. >> reporter: it's understandable. on tuesday afternoon, tyler was picked up from his elementary school by a wheat services van like this one to be driven along with a couple of other special needs students to a group therapy session in havertown. but tyler fell asleep in the back seat of the van and neither of the driver nor an aide noticed. as they traveled to havertown, drove back to their headquarters lot in prospect park and then left the van. >> you were in a parking lot

gordon to sniff out the truth and report back. he joins us in studio with what he found out bruce. >> i just took the clothes pin off my nose much this is not the usual sight, sounds and yes, smells of the big city. this is some serious stench. it turns out mother nature and, yeah, lazy locals are to blame. >> tim mclaughlin out for a stroll with his miniature daschund maddie. pity them both. they as they pass 23rd and parish a nasty sewer odor wafts upward. maddie is the first to notice. he has a big cold web snooze. >> i need your powers of description here it. >> smells like stale stagnant water, garbage type thing that just comes up from the sewer. >> reporter: distinctive sewer smell. >> exactly yes. >> reporter: philly if you know is assaulting nostrils all over the city these days. we asked the water department's john to explain why. short answer, three weeks without measurable rain. normal rainfall water flow noose the street corner inlets and dilutes flushes away the waste found inside. >> when it's dry and waste and debris that's inside of it, you just get a much stronge

comes after fox 29's bruce gordon himself reported on dangerous conditions facing students crossing the road. the day of that report school officials painted their own homemade crosswalk but now they have a real one and stop signs to calm the traffic down. coming up it's a smelly situation and the hot weather certainly is not helping. why you're holding your nose when you walk down certain city streets. sean? >> here we go. preseason game two and sixers are already dealing with an injury to markelle fultz. hear why number one overall pick will miss tonight's game coming up in sports. after 8 years of chris christie, is kim guadagno the change new jersey really needs? guadagno is christie's hand-picked successor. says she's "proud to be part of the christie administration." guadagno was chris christie's right hand as our schools came under attack, critical services were underfunded, and our credit rating was downgraded...11 times. from the bridge to the beach, we've seen it all, and we've had enough. kim guadagno isn't the change we need. did you know slow internet can actually hold

students are in hot water. >> after the high school homecoming football game our bruce gordon has the story tonight of rocks and racial slurs. >> reporter: lots of quakertown high school students leaving school monday afternoon pass add yard sign that reads "hate has no home here" but what happened friday night just across the street at alumni field makes you wonder about that promise. it has quakertown parents shaking their heads. this mom has a son at the high school. >> they would be in trouble if they did it. >> they were your kids doing it i'm guessing you would be pretty unhappy. >> yeah i would. yeah, he would be in trouble. >> reporter: as cheltenham high school's football team arrived at quicker town for friday night's game, witnesses told officials from both schools that some quakertown fans began to shout vile racial slurs at some of the cheltenham students. and later through rocks at their bus. dr. wagner marseille is cheltenham school superintendent. >> our cheerleaders, members of our band, um, were insulted using racial terms the most divisive racial terms you can use.

. bruce gordon is live in richboro, bucks county with what the first daughter had to say and how it was received. bruce? >> reporter: iain, after the very public failure of the attempt to repeal and replace obamacare the trump administration badly needs a victory on tax reform, and so dispatched his very popular daughter to this political swing district of bucks county to try and close the sale. [ applause ] >> reporter: evan today trump made her case with tax reforms with non of her father's obama bashing a simple pitch to the middle class. >> the cost of raising a family, the cost of raising children has really increased very dramatically. so we're advocating strongly for the expansion of child tax credit. we think it is critically important. >> reporter: town hall featured pre screened questions from an audience of more than 200. the event provided few specifcs but the audience did hear promises from the first daughter that taxes will be lower and easier to calculate and that business red tape will be cut. >> part of the reason you see the economy soaring at such high social secu

more near accidents. over the past number of months our bruce gordon is live now at 59 andth and catherine. bruce, it's like the wild west out there. >> reporter: yeah, lucy, we're told by neighbors it's been like this for quite awhile. a brand new survey of philadelphians asks them to rate city services and the streets department does not fair particularly well. maybe this story is one of the reasons why. with high quality security cameras in place the a and t deli at 59thth catherine get a front row seat to the demolition derby outside. boom, bang, bloom mow. why all the accidents? >> i think the light is together green. >> both sides are green. >> for both sides. >> both ways think they have the right of way? >> um-hmm. >> reporter: in fact it's a little more complicated than that. three of the four traffic lights facing east and westbound catherine street traffic have malfunctioning yellow lights. here's wait look likes from the driver's site. got a green light as you approach the intersection, the signal goes blank. then suddenly a red light. block captain troy barred. >> th

our area. now back home trying to make sense of what they witnessed. our bruce gordon spent this day in wilmington with a couple of friends still wondering how they made it out of las vegas alive. bruce. >> reporter: lucy, so many emotions including oddly enough guilt. these two friends are wondering how they survived when so many other doctors not. >> i'm walking around but some people aren't that lucky. >> reporter: 42-year-old steve gold knew exactly where he needed to be. back on the field at the wilmington blue rocks frawley stadium where he serves as head grounds keeper. >> to be back here doing this is -- >> this is your release. >> yeah. >> reporter: comfort zone? >> i think so. >> reporter: just two days removed from the las vegas country music festival now drenched in infamy. gold attend the vegas concerts with his friend meghan o'donne o'donnell. both say the music was great. the beer was cold and the crowd was friendly. and then the shooting started. and the music was drowned out by the rat at a time at a time of seemingly endless gunfire and the screams of the dying. con

wildly out of control. our bruce gordon joins us in stewed eighty seven bruce, we've all made a late night trip to the neighborhood convenience store. >> reporter: yes, we have, lucy i'll bet most of us have never encountered the senior about to watch. right through the front window of a local 7eleven store. seen captured on camera phone and now shared online more than 50,000 times. >> police and locals will tell you the 7eleven on th the 5,000 block of frankford avenue can get a little dicey in the overnight hours. >> at nighttime i'm afraid to come around by myself. >> reporter: that's wild around here. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: so it was around 2:15am sunday, october 1st. police say two women, 20-year-old will he shaye whitaker and 28 year old tiara brown were told to leave the store after a shoplifting incident the night before. cops say the prairie fused to leave and so were locked in by store security with police on the way. watch whitaker square off against a 7eleven staff and moments later kick at the front door as that staff appears to point pepper spray in her dire direct

department tells our bruce gordon the shore answer is about three weeks ago without measurable rainfall. without normal rainfall, water flows into the street corner inlets and flushes away. that waste found inside. >> when it's dry and waste and debris inside of it, you just get a much stronger sense of what the smells are that are coming out of the inlets. >> reporter: fully concentrated and just sitting there? correct. >> philadelphians are also partly to blame for the odors. that is because some folks to trash even dog waste down into those inlets. let's have them stop that. all right. >> yuk. >>> turning to the weather now. as we take live look at wildwood with this warm weather, it certainly nice enough to take a trip to the beach. hard to believe it's october. meteorologist scott williams has your weekend forecast in just 15 seconds. >> get ready for warm and humid conditions for the upcoming weekend. 84 degrees the high temperature tomorrow. we should stay dry but as we move toward sunday, upper 70s and we could have a scattered shower really any time during the day in fact also

their efforts to try and keep you safe. our bruce gordon joins us live now at police headquarters with that story and bruce, each new incident puts added pressure on law enforcement. >> reporter: yeah, it sure does, iain. look there's nothing quite like the feeling of listening to great life music out out sunshine or under the stars with thousands of fellow concert goers around you but sadly these venues have now been add the to the list of targets chosen by mad men to inflict maximum suffering. >> ♪ >> reporter: philadelphia has a well earned reputation for pulling off big outdoor concerts on the ben franklin parkway. think welcome america and made in america. but the slaughter in las vegas has some locals thinking twice. >> it's pretty frighte frighten. >> reporter: you're getting nervous about these big outdoor events. >> yeah. usually to the point i'm praying before they even start. >> phase one begins on the 24th. >> reporter: philadelphia first responders plan thoroughly for each big outdoor event. this was our sneak peek ahead of mia in 2014. but police officials say keeping u

his efforts to help our viewers solve their quality of life problems, bruce gordon has seen more than his share of trash strewn neighborhoods in philadelphia. this one, though, might take the cake. >> he's in grays ferry tonight working to get results. bruce -- >> we can't even see him. >> bruce, are you there. >> reporter: yes, i am here. here i am back here went mike way through this minor bit of rubble on this 81 of hundred yard long and two lane wide stretch of philadelphia pro roadway. if you can believe it, this representatives a slight, slight improvement over conditions that we found this morning. this just might be the trap yesterday block in all of filth delphi y1600 block of south bam brie street. what should be a connector between tasker and morris is instead a long narrow dump. we noticed linda peterson barnes pushing eight month old chase past this mess. >> would you take your grandson down this street? >> oh, no, we couldn't even get through. they got blocks and everything down there. bricks. >> reporter: you'll find your filthy favorites here discarded television sets,

turns out that was not the case. our bruce gordon is live on the block tonight in overbrook. bruce looks like you're already get something action. >> reporter: it sure looks that wage we'll talk about that in just a minute. behind me, one of the many vacant homes strewn throughout the city of philadelphia left behind when this city depopulated over the last half century or so. nearly half a million philadelphians gone leaving behind a mess that really causes some problems for neighborhoods like this one. >> hi, ya'll take care. bye-bye girl. >> reporter: 1600 block of north 56th used to be such a nice place to live says block captain rose rollins. >> very nice. really nice. all homeowners then. >> reporter: over time many homeowners have moved away or died. vacant properties now dot the block. then this sign appeared on the front of the long empty 1685. work in progress. >> what was your initial reaction. >> i was very happy about that. very happy. >> reporter: something good is going to happen. >> something good is going to happen here. >> reporter: so much moore high hopes. rehab

property would be looking good. it hasn't work out. bruce gordon is live on the block right now in overbrook with more. bruce? >> reporter: the city population here in philadelphia has stabilized the past few years. over the past half century, nearly half a million philadelphians have left town. leaving behind vacant properties all over the city. vacant properties that have made life miserable in neighborhoods just like this one. >> hey, lady. >> how you doing baby. >> reporter: 1600 block of north 56th is just like so many others in philadelphia says block captain rose rollins. >> you moved in '99. >> right. >> reporter: what was it like along this block. >> very nice. really nice. all homeowners then. >> reporter: over time some folks moved away. others died. vacant properties dot the landscape and so when this sign appear on the front of the long empty 1685, work in progress -- >> i was very thrilled and very happy to know something is getting done. >> reporter: it was a mirage. rehab work began and ended started and stopped. then the renovations seemed to stall completely. >> n