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And now Preston and Steve's News Updates with Kathy Romano.

All right, today's Thursday, February 9th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning, and the news this morning. Three people are now in custody after a Philadelphia

police officer was shot twice in the abdomen during a vehicle investigation on Wednesday afternoon.

Police Commissioner Daniel Outlaw said the injured officer was improving at the hospital

and that he was no longer in critical condition. The shooting happened at 340 in the afternoon.

They are the intersection of 60th and summer streets in West Philadelphia. Two officers

approached the vehicle and at some point the passenger of the vehicle and one of the officers

got into a struggle. The suspect shot the officer, striking him in the abdomen area just under

his vest police said. The other officer returned fire in the three suspects in the vehicle fled the

scene. At this point, it doesn't appear that any of the suspects were hit by gunfire.

The injured male officer was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by his partner.

The officer underwent surgery and was previously listed in critical condition but has improved

according to Outlaw. Thank God he's improved because it had to be at close quarters that he got shot.

Yeah, right. The injured 32 year old officer is a five year veteran of the force outlaw identified

the three suspects as two men and a woman. The charges against the three suspects have not been

released. Anyone who may have seen anything during the incident is being asked to call police.

US Senator John Federman, the Pennsylvania Democrat who suffered a stroke during his campaign

last year was hospitalized Wednesday night after feeling lightheaded while attending a Senate

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