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

Today is Wednesday. It's October 27th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning. In the news this morning, a Philadelphia police officer was rushed to the hospital after he was shot while responding to a dispute between a landlord and a tenant on Tuesday afternoon.

It happened on the 5,700 block of Overbrook Avenue, around 3.30 in the afternoon in the city's windfield section just behind St. Joe's University.

According to police commissioner Daniel outlaw, two police officers with the 19th district walked into the home and

were immediately confronted by a 31-year-old male suspect armed with a hammer and a pickax.

Police say the suspect refused to drop the weapons and began walking towards the officers.

That's when the 35-year-old officer deployed his taser.

The suspect was briefly subdued before he continued to attack the officer, the commissioner says.

While the officer was on the ground, the offender then mounted the officer sitting on top of him and struck him repeatedly with one or both of the weapons, said outlaw.

She says multiple police officers then discharged their weapons, striking the unidentified suspect who later died at the hospital.

The officer who deployed his taser suffered at least one gunshot wound in the leg.

He is currently listed in stable condition at the hospital, but is looking as though he will need to

have surgery. It's still unclear how the officer was struck by gunfire. Police say it doesn't

appear the suspect was armed with the handgun. The two officers who initially responded to the

incident have been with the department for four years. Firefighters are dousing hotspots this morning after a four-alarm fire destroyed an auto sales

and repair building in Pensac in New Jersey. The cleanup effort could delay the morning commute

for drivers heading from South Jersey into Philadelphia because of the road closures on Route

130, which I just mentioned. The initial call came in at 1030 in the evening for a raging

fire at the U.S. Auto Auction Building located in the 6,600 block of South Crescent Boulevard,

according to Pensac and fire chief Joseph Palumbo, a huge ball of fire shot into the air, producing

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