An attack by a knife-wielding woman on an officer from a Delaware County police department was caught on a cell phone video camera.

It all started last Sunday when a Chester City police officer responded to a 911 call about a woman waving a knife at people at a gas station along 9th Street.

"She was wielding a knife and yelling and screaming at people walking past her," said the witness who caught the entire incident on camera.

The video shows the officer approach the woman and the woman throwing the knife at him.

The witness, who asked to remain anonymous, says that although the woman did attempt to hit the officer with the knife, his reaction was unnecessary. He can be seen on the video hitting her several times before Tasing her.

"...Just because he's an officer of the law and he wears a badge, doesn't take away he used excessive force on this female."

Chester Police Commissioner Joseph Bail told NBC10's Neferti Jaquez that although the video doesn't look good for the officer, the public should wait to jump to conclusions.

"We will have it investigated," said Bail. "Anytime we have officers involved in questionable activity, it's bothersome to us."

The officer, who was injured in the attack is off the streets. An investigation is underway.

The woman in the attack is facing multiple assault charges.

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It was intended to be a simple family trip to Inida. They’d planned just to see family and tour the area from which their ancestors hailed. But a basic request to see a school where his mother formerly taught led Ajey Bhagwat, a junior at Methacton High School, to form an organization to help change the world, one backpack at a time.

Bhagwat said that once he returned home to the United States, he wanted to gather his friends to form a group called Kits for Kids.

“I wanted to find a way to help kids in India,” said Bhagwat. “I went there over a summer, but I knew I couldn’t do it alone.”

He spoke with a fellow Methacton junior, Vinay Parakala.

“The school is close to Ajey’s family there,” said Parakala. “Kids there cannot afford an education, but this school is free.”

Though there is no tuition at the school, students still often lack the ability to purchase very basic needs, such as notebooks and pencils.

“I knew about the school, that it was there,” said Bhagwat. “I just never thought much about it. I’d never visited it before, but I made it a point to go on my second trip.”

During that visit he realized he wanted to make a difference.

“I realized how fortunate I am to have an education, to have a school, clothes on my back,” he said.

Parakala came up with the “Kits for Kids” name and gathered a group of the boys’ friends, including Pooja Bobba, Ajay Benno, Varun Belur, Jeffrey Li and Elaine Shiao, all students at the high school. The group quickly divided roles and shared the workload to spread the word via marketing, communications, event planning and preparation.

“We split the work evenly,” said Parakala. “Elaine and Pooja did the communicating, while Jeffery did the website.”

Soon the group had its organization up and running. They were able to raise funds for school supplies with unique events, like a Super Mario Tournament, which allowed players to donate a $5 entry fee to play.

“We then use that money to buy the supplies and ship them to India,” said Bhagwat.

Other events included an ongoing supply drive at the school, where high school students brought in brand new pencils, pens, notebooks and erasers to donate. They also participated in the Holy Festival at the Holy Bhratiya Temple in Lansdale for both publicity and to ask for donations.

Kits for Kids will also host a Movie Night at the high school’s auditorium open to the public and families. For just a $5 suggested donation, those in attendance can enjoy an affordable night of family fun and give to a worthy cause.

Once funds are raised, the seven students unite to purchase the school supplies and assemble the kits. Each “kit” is a backpack containing one notebook, two folders, five pencils, a protractor and rule, a pencil sharpener, black and blue pens, an eraser and a pencil case.

The school students, who reside about four hours east of Mumbai, Bhagwat said, can’t afford even these basic items.

“In August and September, we hope to send more,” he said. Shipments to the Bal Vikas School in Kulgaon, India, are made as often as the group can fill the backpacks.

Li said he focuses on promoting the events via the group’s website and on Twitter and Facebook.

The busy high school students don’t plan to stop there.

“I hope that if the school is filled with supplies, we could move into other countries, or perhaps another state in India,” said Bhagwat.

The group also hopes to expand outside of the Methacton community to grow its reach.

“We are speaking with kids at Abington, North Penn, Upper Dublin and Spring-Ford to start clubs in their areas,” said Bhagwat. “We hope that when we go to college, others will continue the club here.”

Through their charity work, the students say they have learned a lot.

“In general, we are able to go to school,” said Bhagwat. “If I need a pencil, I ask a friend for one, or I pick one up, and I just write. I get to go to school, and not worry about having enough paper to do my homework.”

He said his club hopes to take that same worry from others.

“I hope with this worry out of their mind, the kids can focus on their education,” he said. “Education is a way out of poverty, and with the right educational tools, they can break the cycle of poverty.”

All funds raised by the organization go directly to the purchasing and shipping of school kits for children. There is no cost or paid help for the program.

For more information on Kits for Kids, visit the group’s website here, like the Facebook page here or follow it on Twitter @KitsFor_Kids.

This story was published through a news content partnership between The Alternative Press of Lower Providence and NBC10.com

A river is a strange place for a pop-up park but a temporary park featuring a beach, fountains, lily pads and more is going to soon be a reality in Philadelphia.

The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation announced Friday its plans to create the Spruce Street Harbor Park on the Delaware River this summer.

The DRWC points to a series of floating barges that will serve as the centerpiece of the project located at Penn’s Landing Marina at Columbus Boulevard and Spruce Street.

The positioning of the pop-up park near the Great Plaza gives people who head to the area for a festival, concert and/or movie the chance to relax a little, according to officials.

"Spruce Street Harbor Park, thanks in part to a grant from ArtPlace America, stands to substantially augment the already fantastic lineup of summer events at Penn’s Landing," said DRWC president Tom Corcoran. "By creating new spaces, we’re showing Philadelphia and the region just how beautiful and accessible the waterfront can be.”

Some of those attractions at the pop-up park include hammocks, a mist walk and summer foods.

The project is a partnership between the DRWC and a group of designers.

"Not only are these spaces amazing, they're cost effective and immediately attainable. Their ephemeral quality keeps us intrigued and our attention focused on what's next," said project collaborator David Fierabend of Groundswell Design Group.

The park is expected to open June 27 and will welcome visitors until Aug. 31.

A new report from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) found bad news for minimum wage workers.

The national report entitled Out of Reach found that the average minimum wage worker in Pennsylvania would need to earn at least $17 an hour--more than two-and-a-half times higher than the state's $7.25 minimum wage--in order to afford a two-bedroom dwelling.

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According to the report, in the Philadelphia region, the average two-bedroom costs $1,135 dollars a month. A person would have to work three full-time jobs at minimum wage or earn at least $45,400 annually to be able to afford two-bedroom housing anywhere in the region.

NLIHC's Senior Vice President for Policy, Linda Couch, said the report findings show a gross mismatch in earnings and housing costs, and force workers to make some difficult financial decisions.

"In the Philadelphia area, someone would have to earn more than $21 an hour to afford the average two bedroom apartment; $21 an hour is leaps and bounds above what the minimum wage is in Philadelphia," Couch said.

"So their options are to move further and further away and to contribute to traffic and congestion; or to live, maybe in substandard housing, which no one wants for anyone in our communities; or to pay really high percentages of their income toward their housing costs, which leaves them less for other of life’s necessities like food, and clothing and health care."

County-by-county breakdown on hourly wage needed for a typical 2-bedroom dwelling:

NLIHC has conducted the national report to document changes in housing costs and wages in the U.S. since 1989. The report calculates the housing wage -- the amount a person would need to earn in order to afford housing--for each state, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Nationwide, this year's report found that the average hourly wage needed to afford a two-bedroom at fair market value is $18.92, more than two-and-a-half times the federal minimum wage of $7.25.

According to Couch, even a modest increase in the federal minimum wage would have little impact on the nation's housing affordability to wage earnings gap.

"The federal minimum wage, if it was to be raised to $10.10 or $12.10 would still be insufficient to meet people’s really basic needs like housing," she said.

"For a lot of people, the minimum wage is the ceiling; its what they earn now and what they’ll probably earn in a couple of years. Where ideally, that would be the floor, and that would be where we would start from and people would move up. But people’s wages are stagnating and in a lot of markets people’s wages are going down just as rents are going up.”

The report found an even larger gap between earning wage and housing costs in New Jersey and Delaware.

The NLIHC report found that New Jersey has the 5th highest housing wage in the nation at $24.92. Delaware came in 12th with a housing wage of $20.09.

On Friday, local activists gathered in locations throughout the Philadelphia region to demand an increased minimum wage of $15.

Mayor Michael Nutter's Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders (R.I.S.E.) will host a informational clinic this weekend for ex-offenders looking to have their juvenile arrest records expunged.

The clinic is being co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (PLSE) and the Men in Motion in the Community (MIMIC).

Councilwoman Maria D. Quiñones-Sánchez took to social media to promote the event, which is scheduled to take place this Saturday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Edison High School.

Do you have a criminal record or know someone w/ one? Now is your chance: RSVP for Saturday's clinic @PhillyRisingMDO pic.twitter.com/VrHcnPdu8v

— MariaQuinonesSanchez (@MariaQSanchez) April 18, 2014

To expunge a juvenile record means to erase or destroy all evidence related to the arrest and any subsequent verdict. Under Pennsylvania law, a juvenile adjudication is not a criminal conviction. However, similar to an adult criminal record, a juvenile record that is not expunged could affect an individual's ability to join the military, pursue higher education, or obtain employment.

According to the Juvenile Law Center (JLC), few individuals petition the court for expungement of juvenile records because they have the false impression that juvenile offenses are automatically erased from an individual’s record at the age of majority or because they do not know they are eligible to do so.

PLSE has hosted a series of expungement clinics through it's Criminal Record Expungement Project, including a December 2013 session that assisted 150 juveniles with the criminal record expungement process.

R.I.S.E. assists ex-offenders that have been convicted, sentenced, and incarcerated with case management, substance abuse treatment, behavioral health and family strengthening, life coaching, and educational and employment services.

According to the JLC, a person may file to have a juvenile record expunged if the charges against the individual were dismissed, if it has been more than six months since a discharge from a consent decree or supervision, more than five years since an adjudication of delinquency, or if the juvenile is over age 18.

This weekend's clinic will provide additional information about eligibility for expungement for residents in the 19111, 19115, 19124, 19125, 19133, 19134, 19135, 19136, and 19140 zip codes.

Residents who wish to attend the clinic must register by emailing mdqs@phila.gov or by calling 215-683-3370.

Miley Cyrus has postponed her upcoming Philadelphia performance at the Wells Fargo Center on Monday due to an on-going illness.

Cyrus' camp made the announcement on Friday evening through a Comcast-Specator spokesperson. (Comcast is the parent company of NBC10 and Comcast-Spectacor.)

The 21-year-old pop star has been hospitalized after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the antibiotic cephalexin. She was taking the antibiotic to treat a sinus infection, according to a spokesperson.

Cyrus had already cancelled performances of her "Bangerz" tour in Nashville, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo. and Charlotte, N.C. The rest of her U.S. tour dates were also postponed on Friday.

The rescheduled date for the Philadelphia show is set for Saturday, Aug. 2,  the singer's reps said.

This is the second time the concert date was moved. Cyrus was set to perform on Tuesday, but the Philadelphia Flyers' Stanley Cup Playoff game against the New York Rangers bumped the show to a day earlier.

A man had both of his legs severed after being run over by a SEPTA Regional Rail train last night.

The unidentified 47-year-old man was struck by a Manayunk-Norristown train near Ross Road, not far from the Bridgeport Station in Plymouth Township, Pa. around 9:30 p.m. on Friday, a SEPTA spokesperson told NBC10.com.

SEPTA said the conductor tried to stop but couldn't in time.

The victim was taken to the hospital in extremely critical condition -- both of his legs amputated, according to the spokesperson.

Several trains on the Manayunk-Norristown line were canceled Friday night due to the incident. By Saturday morning all train service returned to normal.

Plymouth Township Police and SEPTA investigated the incident.

Police told NBC10 that the incident appeared to be an attempted suicide and that the man threw himself in the path of the train.

The owners of a scrap metal yard in New Jersey were tied up, beaten and threatened with guns when a group of armed robbers stormed the business looking for cash and valuable platinum, then fled while shooting at police officers, authorities say.

The five robbers went into the Bayway Scrap Metals on Amboy Avenue in Elizabeth Friday afternoon and tied up several employees, including owner Carol Navarro and her husband. They were threatened and held at gunpoint for 90 minutes. 

"One of them asked how long we were married," said Navarro. "I told him 45 years, and he said, 'Well, you're going to die together.'"

"I could hear him keep telling my husband, 'Shut up or I'm going to shoot you, I'm going to kill you,'" she said. 

The men were after $20,000 in cash and a pile of catalytic converters worth an estimated $250,000 because of the platinum inside. When they got what they wanted, Navarro said they told her, "Today is your lucky day."

Police spotted the robbers two miles away with a U-Haul truck full of stolen catalytic converters. They allegedly fired at officers as they tried to get away, two of them in a stolen vehicle, but four of them were eventually caught. No officers were injured.

Michael Howard, 22, and Rafael Clemons, 27, Sharod Saunders, 30, and Steven Chambers, 47, have all been charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree carjacking, aggravated assault and multiple weapons offenses, officials said Saturday.

Bail for each defendant was set at $1 million.

Information on attorneys for Howard, Clemons, Saunders and Chambers was not immediately available.

One suspect remains at large and is believed to be heavily armed and dangerous. Police are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the suspect's capture and conviction. 

Police recovered an AK rifle and three handguns from the arrested suspects. 

Navarro helped identify the suspects in a lineup. Her husband needed stitches but he and the other hostages are going to be OK, she said. 

Navarro said she immediately called her son Jamie Navarro after the robbery. He believes his family's scrap metal business was targeted. 

"They absolutely, 150 percent, they planned this," he said. "This was planned, premeditated." 

"I think they're a bunch of scumbags, and I hope they rot in hell," he said. "I hope they get a long time in prison because that's what they deserve." 

-- Brian Thompson contributed to this report. 

Nearly two dozen undernourished pit bull puppies were rescued during a drug raid at a 4th Ward home Friday, where police found evidence of a large dog fighting ring ­— dead animals stuffed in bags, maimed dogs and bloodstained walls.

“We found four dead dogs in a garbage bag, thrown away like yesterday’s garbage,” said John DeCando, Paterson animal control officer. “It was horrible. This is one of the largest dog fighting rings I’ve seen.”

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In addition to the dogs, police found an estimated $12,000 worth of crack cocaine and marijuana and a handgun, Oswald said. DeCando said steroids used for fighting dogs also were found in the home.