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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

Today is Monday. It's also the first day of July. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. Philadelphia police were called Sunday night to break up an enormous roving crowd of teens and young adults in North Philadelphia. It started as a barbecue, but ended with 800 to 1,000 young people gathering.

Jesus.

Police were initially brought in, right, around 1130 in the evening to Jefferson and Sydenham Streets. The window of the first arriving patrol car was broken. Police quickly

realized that there were more young people than officers. So they reorganized and established a command

post to coordinate resources. Police worried about the safety of the crowd and the neighborhood

worked to protect nearby businesses. Members of the crowd were seen jumping on cars. Police

vehicles were damaged six on cars. Police vehicles

were damaged six in total. They said broken windshield and side mirrors. Officers from across the

city were dispatched. Officers from the 3 to 11 p.m. shift were held over in an effort to manage

the crowd. Highway Patrol and emergency response teams worked to disperse the crowd. A police

helicopter flew over the crowd to track it. Now, police said the crowd started to break up at about 1 a.m. But smaller groups were still seen walking around neighborhoods moving on to North Broad and Seas will be more streets among other places. In the end, no injuries were reported and no arrests were made. So that's pretty good that they were able to break that. It's astonishing. Yeah. All from a barbecue. Police said a nine-year-old girl is in critical condition after an illegal explosive device exploded in her hands inside of her Kensington home. It happened Sunday morning at about 1030 on the 1800 block of East Wizard Street. Neighbors say that they heard an explosion, saw smoke and heard screams coming from the child's home.

One neighbor covered the child's hand and rushed her to the hospital with her distraught mother.

Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit is investigating.

Police were expected to serve a search warrant on the home to look for devices similar to the one that injured the girl.

There's no word yet on if any of the other devices were found, but police believe the girl found an explosive, possibly an M80. Yeah, M80s can definitely do a lot of damage, especially if you're holding one. I never got my hands on a real M80 when I was a kid. Never did. Or cherry bombs they were also called. But if you did, they were known to be.

Some people say they were a quarter stick of dynamite.

I don't know if that's quite it or not, but they're very, very powerful.

It's a big boom.

Well, we were really stupid.

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