All Holiday Shoppers can do is watch. Good evening, everybody. Im joyce evans. The accident happened this evening at a buck county mall. Child is being treated at chop tonight. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live in the newsroom now with the very latest on th this. Chris, how is he doing . Reporter horrifying day at the mall. That sevenyearold boy from trenton still remains at chop tonight. He was airlifted that after a horrible accident happened at the Oxford Valley mall where his foot became lodged at the bottom of a mall escalator. It took rescue crews 20 horrifying minutes to free the boy. Now that escalator was shut down when we were at the mall tonig tonight. It happened in front of many Holiday Shoppers. Police say the mother of the little boy screamed alerting another shopper to hit the emergency button on the down escalator. Now, witnesses tell me the boy appeared to be in shock when ems crews took him away. We do not know the extent of the boys injuries bought there was no amputation. Now one witness says there were many on lookers who tried to help. Just heard some screaming and then everybody started running towards the elevator. I could tell something was going on. So i went out there myself. Im retired policemen and i see there was nothing i could do. Because he was totally stuck in there. So security showed up. Then later on the Fire Department showed up. Reporter the escalators undergo route teen maintenance and this was recently inspected this escalator knowledge problems with it. With that particular escalator in the past. As for the sevenyearold we do not know his condition tonight. But we are told he is resting comfortably. Joyce . All right, chris. Thank you so much for that update on that report. On your radar tonight, milder temperatures and some sunshine . Fox 29 meteorologist Domenica Davis is here to tell us all about it. Hi, joyce. We are going to keep these mild temperatures around really through the first half of the week and i do think tomorrow we will get some sunshine. Weve been saying this every day and those clouds have been sticking around but good news. Because the clouds are breaking up even though its nighttime you cant see it. Tomorrow you will reply the benefits of that. Were dry on the radar. All is quite and look at these temperatures. 45 degrees that is the the actual air temperatures wind chills are only in the low 40s. The winds right now out of the north northwest at 10 miles per hour. They will lighten by tomorrow. So heres a look at your wake up forecast. 35 in the city at 7 00 oclock. 34 in the suburbs. Well have partly cloudy skies and then we will get in on some sun during the first part of our monday. It is dry and mild so heres look the your weather headlines. Tuesday, though, utoh, rain comes back into the picture. Keep the umbrella handy. Well be looking at that by the afternoon and then the weekend rain and snow chances both saturday and sunday. So a lot to talk about and ill tell you all about it coming up and show that you seven day forecast in just little bit. Joyce . All right, domenica, thank you. Well a local familys house is nearly destroyed just before the holidays and they say it was a fire bomb. As fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose tells us the family is lucky to be getting out of there alive. Blew the front door in. Reporter this mangled wreck what remains of dans front door. He asked us not to use his last name but says 1 00 oclock sunday morning, somebody through a fire bomb into his germantown home. We we asleep and i heard a bank and i went and looked down the steps. I said oh, my god they through a fire bomb. It happened at east of east colder and lena streets. They laid their bodies over his four month old granddaughter to shield her as firefighters rescued the trapped family. Thats whats left of the familys christmas tree. The babys presents destroyed. All of this was on fire. Reporter unbelievably the house next door had been struck by a suspected far bomb two weeks ago. All eight people in that home got out safely. Thats from the other side. Reporter dans family is okay, too. But his home is partially destroyed. Fire marshals are investigating whether in fact this was a fire bomb that torched this house. Fire officials tell us there have been more than one incident neck door. In germantown, Sabina Kuriakose, fox 29 news. Fire rips right through a home in chester firefighters walking through the charred remains here on the 200 block of west 22nd street. It started just afternoon today. Crews on the scene tell us it spark in the basement of the row home but no word on what caused it. The red cross is offering help to a family of nine. Tonight two Philadelphia Police officers are recovering from injuries after a car crash in the frankford neighborhood. It happened early this morning at frankford avenue and sellers street. One officer has a broken leg. The other had some minor injuries. Including one to his hand. No names have been released. No word yet on what caused that crash. An american citizen has illegally entered north korea and hes denouncing u. S. Polic policies. Foxs bryan llenas has reaction from the state department. Reporter an american citizen crosses illegally into north korea seeking asylum. Illegal carried out against the nation of iraq serves as a perfect example of how the Us Government acts like a maffia enterprise. The 29yearold man says he entered the country by crossing the river border with china. Unlike other americans who cross into north korea it doesnt appear martinez has been taken into custody. Martinez strongly criticizing the us for alleged Human Rights Violations in press conference in i have never been personally affected by the human rights abuses in the United States but have known many people who have been affected. Reporter martinez mother tells Media Outlets that her son is bipolar and had tried crossing into north korea once before. State Department Deputy spokesman saying we are aware of reports that u. S. Citizen crossed into north korea and we stand ready to provide all possible assistance. The welfare of safety of u. S. Citizens i was proceed is one of our top priorities. This comes during sense times between the u. S. And north korea. Investigators believe the communist country is behind a cyber hacking at Sony Pictures in response to the new James Franco Seth rogen movie the interview. The movie portrays the assassination of dictator kim jong u. The u. S. Secured the release of two other americans jail time for alleged Anti Government activities and espionage. In new york, bryan llenas, fox news. Arrest is made in the murder of an Auburn University football player. 18yearold Leonard Mitchell was shot early this morning at an Office Campus apartment complex. His Girlfriend Told Police mitchell was arguing with somebody at a party when a third person just started shooting. Investigators say that gunman was 22yearold march kale heart. He was taken into custody this afternoon. Its been a busy weekend on capitol hill. The senate came to an agreement on the spending bill. But it wasnt easy getting there, and as foxs Mike Emmanuel reports, one senator is taking heat from both parties. Reporter threat of a government shut down is off the table for now. The final vote was 5640 last night in the senate on a 1 trillion plUs Government funding package. Texas senator ted cruz challenge the constitutionality of the measure because it does provide some money for Homeland Security which could be used to help i policemen president obamas immigration executive action. Cruzs effort was rejected 7422. The senates top democrat ripped cruz. Junior senator from texas is wrong, wrong, wrong on several counts. The most importantly for us this evening is an tack on this bill because its not an appropriate place to constitutional will the of any executive branch action. A vote rama saturday in the senate reid was able to start the process of confirming two dozen president obamas nomine nominees. Republicans take control of the senate next year and it will be harder to confirm the president s picks. Some are criticizing senator cruz and fellow conservative mike lee of utah for fighting the government funding package. I dont think they accompli accomplished anything except perhaps harry reid was able to get nominations on appointments through the senate otherwise probably wouldnt have. But i respect their right to exercise their responsibilities and their rights as senators. Reporter but the texas senator says reid would have done it sooner or later. Look one thing to keep in mind, he was going to force these nominations through either today or monday or tuesday. He was going to do it one way or the other because that has been his tenure in power has been and abuse of power and it was wrong. Reporter you wont hear the frees government shut down until at least late february. Thats when Homeland Security mon is due to run out and a Republican Led Congress is likely to challenge the president s unilateral action on immigration. In washington, Mike Emmanuel, fox news. And still ahead on fox 29, remembering a heartbreaking tragedy two years later. How a local community is remembering newtown and pushing for change. Plus, a raging brush fire is threatening homes and lives tonight. Where neighbors are being forced out by claims. Welcome back everybody. Today marks two years since one of the most tragic heartbreaking days in our nations history. On december 14, 2012 a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in newtown, connecticut. 20 children and six educators killed. In Delaware County today vigil to make sure the victims are never forgotten. And gun laws tightened. Fox 29s brad satin was there. Reporter about 50 demonstratodemonstrators turneds march today. All in agreement that in the past two years since sandy hook, not nearly enough has been done. The march began with this promise. We will never forget sandy hook. Reporter with a choir singing inside waiting for their return, two groups Delaware County united for sensible gun policy and women strength of chester pa together they walked several blocks along route 320 Holding Signs and getting beeps. Demanding a new state law requiring a youve universal background check to buy any begun in pennsylvania. Its Organizer Says he you dont beat the nra ove overnight. It takes time to build movements that can challenge a power thats been really end trench the for 30 years. Reporter lynn watsons daughter has inlaws into had children inside that sandy hook classroom that day. It just hit me in my gut because that was my daughters relatives. I feel heart broken. Reporter Nadine Friedman brought her kids here. When sandy hook happened, my youngest daughter was a first grader and just tore me apart. I remember my mom crying. And how she felt. It made me feel i was glad it wasnt me but i felt glad it had to be them. They heard from charles and Diana Reynolds their only child was killed eight years ago no one has ever been charged. I thought that day, that moment, that my life was over, cause the will to live was like taken out of us just like that. Reporter the group will drive a handmade tile mosaic to newtown as a gift to the organization that supports its victims. With a special memory of those 20 little children and six courageous people. Reporter none of the newtown families were here tonight obviously but one of them a mom who lost a son that day did write this letter saying that when Something Like this happens, we all have choice. We can allow the event to define us or we can be the one who defines what happens next. This Group Chooses the ladder. In springfield, brad satin, fox 29 news. Authorities are work to go find the suspect wanted for burning a 19yearold woman alive in mississippi. People in her small town said their final goodbyes to Jessica Chambers this weekend. Investigators say nine 8 of her body was burned last week after she was doused with some kind of liquid and set on fire. Her body was found lying outside her car. She died at the hospital. But not before giving a clue to authorities. Chambers a former cheerleader, was getting ready to start college. Friends and neighbors are just shocked. She was the one that was thrown up into the air and just a high flyer. They said fly high, jessica. Well, today we can fly with her as love lifts us today. Surveillance video shows chambers at a gas station here a mile from where she was left to die. Police are analyzing her cell phone records. Cleanup is underway tonight after flooding and a tornado caused major damage on the west coast. Mother nature may strike there again. Foxs will car has that story. Clean up yup continues across the west coast another storm is set to slam into Southern California. That system though shouldnt bring as much damage as we saw in the last round of storms where we saw a tornado set down in south los angeles. Residents actually thought it was an earthquake because tornadoes rarel rarely happen in california n fact the end tear state only averages about six a year. The same time a number of homeowners are still recovering from dangerous mudslides across the region. Areas that had been hit hard by wildfires in recent years dont have any vegetation to stop the flow of water. In some neighborhoods, mud piled up 10 feet high almost up to rooftops. In the process dozens of homes were damaged. Get through mud and its just like concrete. Probably much worse than an earthquake. The house is a total loss. Reporter heavy rainfall caused severe flooding throughout the region. Residents in wed wood springs near San Francisco had to wade back to their homes to see what was salvageable. Two people died as a result of the powerful storms up in oregon and fierce winds knocked power out for tens of thousands of residents along the west coast. It was the second big storm in california in the last 22 weeks. Both accounted for almost all of the rainfall in Southern California since july. Thats about 4inches. Experts say it only made a dip in the threeyear drought in california. The state would need 75inches by next september to completely put an end to the drought. That mean the state needs consistent storms for the rest of the winter to really help. In los angeles, will carr, fox news. A pre Holiday Celebration today for some local children. Variety Childrens Charity host add party for kids and their families at the shara ton society hill. The dance floor was packed as you can see young people rocking out to the latest hits. The party was topped off by a visit from Furry Friends of sesame place and, of course, jolly old saint nick was there, too. Fox 29 wants to see your holiday lights. All you have to do is post your pictures or video on social media, facebook, twitter, instagram, just use the fox 29 lights and we will put your display on tv. Check this one out. This is bob, he tweeted this picture of his home. Look at all of that. Thats in jamison, bucks county. Nice enough. Well, still ahead tonight, is there anything at all you can do to save your smart phone from a nasty fall . We have protective cases went put them to the test. Wait until you see what works and what does not. Plus, a baby beating incredible odds why a birth like this one wont be happening again for decades. Domenica. Joyce, even though we didnt get a whole lot of sunshine temperatures still pretty nice for today. A high of 47. We were all running a couple of degrees above normal, but rain is lurkin lurking out to our wed degrees above normal, but rain is lurkin lurking out to our wed moves into our deciding between bread is no longer a problem. Healthy pa offers namebrand Health Insurance for the cost of a few basic groceries. If youre uninsured, call or apply online today. And there she goes. More than 40yearold building comes crashing to the ground in less than 10 seconds. Crews brought down this 17story building in south field, michigan this story. A Community College is using the land to redevelop the site. Its going to be an addition to its campus. An official says renovating tower would have been way too costly. A raging brush fire in Western Australia is threatening homes and lives. Its happening on the outskirts of the city of fire towering over a new housing development. The evacuations look at those flames have been ordered. Firefighters are attacking it from the ground and above trying to bring it under control. Shooting stars lighting up the night over germany. The annual light show reached its peak this morning. These shooting stars are really a meteor shower. Burning up as they enter the earths atmosphere. Experts say in perfect conditions around 120 fragments can be seen in an hour. And in cleveland, a baby was born at just the right minute at 10 11 on saturday, the decembe december 13, 2014. Yup, that means the little girl was born at 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 7pound, 14ounce hazel grace was born saturday morning at clevelands fairview hospital. Her family already knew she was going to be born on this special saturday date. But they didnt know that she would get it right down to the minute, too. Hazel just got a visit from her three older sisters. Mother and new daughter are doing just fine. And what do you do with 4,000 feet of defective fire hose . You give it to safari animals of course. Robbinsville Fire Department was looking for ways to dispose of the hose so they donated it to Six Flags Great Adventure and its going to be used to make toys for elephants, lions, tigers, baboons and birds. Well, nothing will ruin your day like dropping your cell phone and watching it just shatter before your eyes. Theyre expensive to row place. You might know that if youve broken up. Up next cell phone cases put to the test. Which ones really protect your the test. Which ones really protect your phonewhats possible today . Wifi access in more places then ever before. All your favorites in the cloud and on every device. A home you control with the touch of a finger. News and entertainment that informs and delights in ways you never thought possible. Comcast nbcuniversal bringing media and Technology Together for you. Welcome back. Youve probably seep people Walking Around with smart phones shattered, the glass all cracked up. You probably have one yourself. So you already know that theyre expensive to replace. But is there a case that will really protect your phone if it hits the pavement . Foxs jeff bay land set out to find out. Reporter the patients arrive in rough shape. Its broken. Is it broken. Reporter multiple fractures are common. I just freaked. Reporter it hurts. It was a devastating day. Reporter to break. It slipped out of my handout. Reporter your phone. At least 130 bucks for the surgery. It works. Reporter or buy protection against the bumps and bruises. Its cracked on the bottom corner. Reporter of smart phone live. The first sign investigators are going to put protective cases to the test. If you pay more im surprised the glass is not broken. Reporter do you get more. Dropping it. Reporter we started out at a Package Testing Lab and quickly discovered its not easy to break a phone. Dropping it. Reporter even one without a case. That was over 500gs. Everything looks good from a height of 3 feet. Reporter its not so much the force of the fall. Yup. As you can see there first drop, cracked all the way down. Reporter but what it hits that matters. We see most of our breaks in parking lots, you know, sidewalks, that type of thing. Reporter matt is a smart phone doctor who makes house calls. Most expensive part is in the screen. Reporter its usually the screen that needs inn intensive care. Face plants are worse followed by corner strikes. 3 feet gone ahead and drop this phone report roars this test is meant to simulate a typical accident. It was designed for us by technicians the International Office technologists. First up, a 50dollar heavy duty case. We take Android Phone and see how well it handles a corner drop on concrete. 4 feet. 5 feet. 6 feet. Reporter will the same kind of casework as well for this iphone five . From 5 feet. Nope. Reporter so far both phones have escaped injury. From approximately 8 feet. Nope. Reporter and were still good. Reporter how much protection does the 50 case offer to phone that does a face plant . Galaxy s3 from a height of 5 feet. 6 feet. No problems for the android. But our iphone runs into trouble at a drop from 7 feet. As you can see, sustained heavy damage. Reporter next we try a case that has similar features but sells for just 10. We repeat the same corner and face drops in both our phones much theres no damage to either one. Whether you spend 50 or 10 doesnt appear to make a difference as you might have thought. Reporter whats important is for the case to have an inner plastic shell with a rubber bumper pad on the outside to absorb shock an lip some feels the phone face from hitting anything directly. That People Choose a case for style. I dont want to big ugly bulky case on my phone. Reporter but our test found style is about all youll get. From high of 5 feet. And this one is completely shattered. Reporter in summary, heavy duty cases offer more protect but you dont have to spend 50 to get one. And just remember, even the best cases have limits. The lcd has cracks innocents why were not getting a good image any more. Reporter Google Search most phone breaks from a slip out of a pocket, falling off a countertop, even off the roof of a car. Next most common would be sitting on it and breaking it or dropping it in the toilet or putting it threw the wash. There are cases that are waterproof but we didnt test any of those. All right. They broke a lot phones. What is better this week you tell us is our weather, domeni domenica. Compared to last week which was just a crummy week. We had a lot going on. Didnt needed to much to make it better. Exactly. So this week the temperatures will be mild. It starts out mild but we do have some rain to talk about and eventually by the weekend well be talking some rain snow mix so well get wintery once again. 45 though thats the current temperature. Feels good out there. Temperatures much easier to take today than they were over the past couple of days. We have 42 in pottstown. Its 33 in mount pocono. So cooler up to the north, of course, but everybody is above freezing every running about two to 4 degrees above normal. Winds are still out of the northwest. Northwest and they are brisk but its not doing too much to the wind chill. It feels like its 40 in the city which is not bad at all. 41 for the feel like in willed wood. 36 in atlantic city. So it really doesnt feel too terrible out there. Ultimate doppler is keeping us dry. Unfortunately, though, it doesnt last for long. Tomorrow is our last dry day and get the umbrella because we have a line of showers out to our west cup throughout of the central planes pushing into the ohio valley and this arrives for us by tuesday. So tuesday afternoon were going to start to look at rain back into the forecast. Heres a look at your fox future cast. Well roll through monday. Just to show you no proble probs going on. I think we will get some sunshine in the picture finally on monday. Clouds stay out to our west in the morning. Well call eight partly cloudy sky. We will see some sunshine through the first part of the afternoon and then the clouds start to advance ahead of that rain. So by monday evening, the clouds start to push back in or late afternoon. Well become overcast and here comes the rain by tuesday much its afternoon time closer to 2 00 p. M. Well start to see it move in from the west. By tuesday evenings commute, we are looking at some rain showers and then that will last through much of the evening before it exits on wednesday morning. And wednesday morning first thing we could see a little bit of sleet mix in with that up to our northwest. But pretty much for everybody its a rain event with temperatures still sitting well above the freezing mark. Tonight no worries. About the rain or really any bad weather at all. 35 degrees for the overnight low. Its movely cloudy but those clouds already breaking up so id say its pretty much partly cloudy overnight. And then those clouds will give way to sunshine tomorrow morning. Tomorrow great day, 47 degrees. Typically around this time of year we shall be at 45 hell do 2 degrees better than that. Well have clouds and sun again those clouds really start to develop around three, 4 00 oclock well become overcast once again. Theres a look at the seven day forecast. Tuesday its dry in the morning but the rain does move in. By dinnertime through the evening commute and through much of the evening so youll need the umbrella fort second half every your tuesday. Dry wednesday and still mild. It gets cooler by thursday and friday and then saturday and sunday right now its looking like a storm system thats going to start to develop push its way through the ohio valley late in the week. S to interrupt our weekend by sunday evening. We could have a little bit of mixed precip. Still a ways out. Well monitor it. But definitely something we will be tracking all week long. I was kind of hoping that gets better the next few days. Me, too. Thanks domenica. That will it for us for the fox 29 news at 10 00. Keep it right here because Keith Russell is standing by with sports sunday. Im Keith Russell for sports sunday. A game this town has been waiting for with so much on the line. Has it been worth the wait . Its getting worth the wait right now ill tell you. . 19 moot fall played like he had never touched a football. His starting dee bee leaves you saying you have to get better because it cant get worse. Jon runyan in the house to bre
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