Terrifying ordeal as that gunman tried to rob the woman right on her front steps and then tried to break in the door. What he didnt realize is her stepson was inside and he quickly put a stop to it. As i seen her look back as somebody was following back my stepmom said she saw gun. Reporter he doesnt want to be identified but he has the stitches and the gout tell fox 29 with a Close Encounter caught on tape with a gunman who tried to rob his stepmother and burst into their home last week. Just kicking and pushing and kicking and pushing and hes trying to get. Trying to get in somehow. Surveillance cameras captured him walking down west cliveden street 4 30 last wednesday. He made a dash toward the woman as she entered the house suspect slipped and fell down. Then rushed the front door and tried to break it down. He just trying to defend my stepmom make sure the guy does not get in the house what so ever. The struggle to keep the gunman out last add matter of seconds but the suspect was so persistent this would be Good Samaritan put his fist through the window trying to ward the gunman off. He got 15 stitches for his trouble. I just reactioned and purged through the window and he took off. This is what i ended up with. Reporter home is equipped with surveillance cameras surveillance cameras, wednesday Police Released video looking for the publics help to dent fight gunman. Meanwhile, the victims stepson is relieved no one got seriously hurt. Hes glad he was there to protect his stepmother and his home. Kind of surprising to me. I just had to act fast somehow. Im glad i was there or else it could have been worse, you know. Reporter now the gunman ran from the scene with a silver handgun. If you want to get another look at that video you can go to our website at myfoxphilly. Com. If you have any information on that suspect you can call northwest detectives. Lease see. Thank goodness her stepson was home. Police are looking for whoever opened fire on a north philadelphia street hitting two people includeing a teenager. Gunfire rang out just before 8 00 tonight on the 2400 block of North Lawrence street. It hit a 15yearold boy in the leg a53yearold man has several bullet wounds. Both are in the hospital in stable condition tonight. No school today for students at Chester High School in Delaware County the problem the heat isnt working. Keeping students at home for several days now. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live outside the school in chester tonight. Shawnette, what about tomorrow . Reporter well, iain, i just checked and its already posted on the district website that school will be closed again tomorrow. Now, this has been ongoing problem here at Chester High School. The school had to close for a few days last academic season for the very same reason. Its a short week for students here at Chester High School. The buildings h vac system some working knocking out heat to different areas of the school. Monday administrators dismissed school halfway through the day because it got so cold inside. Then they canceled school entirely tuesday and wednesday. Superintendent Gregory Shannon says the building is closed now for emergency repairs. Its our hope that its a shortterm fix. We have staff on the ground now trying to remedy the problem trying to remedy the heat challenge that is weve had and its our hope in the next 24, 48 hours well be a able to reopen without any additional heat failures. Reporter shannon says he doesnt want to reopen the school too soon and have to send students back home again. Chester high has nearly 900 Students Affected by this problem. You have an older building that sits over the weekend and the heat is lowered over the weekend because the building is unoccupied. Certainly when you come in on monday morning the building is chilly and it takes some time for the boilers to rise to the temperatures in the building. We want to ensure the entire building is acceptable. Reporter Officials Say the department of education is working with the district on a permanent solution to this problem possibly a new system. But were told that is going to be costly. So that likely wont happen any time soon although the superintendent con firm exact dollar amount. We hear it could be in the millions. In the meantime, when school will reopen will be determined on a day to day basis. Lucy . Shawnette. On your radar a break from the freeze. Scott williams what do you have . Lucy, the High Temperature today made it up to 32 degrees during the afternoon. Tomorrow were looking at temperatures near average but ultimate doppler showing that snowfall that parts of southern and central sections of south jersey as well as delaware saw it is out of here it will be another cold night temperatures at or below freezing right now area wide. We have 31 philadelphia. As well as millville and Atlantic City. So tomorrow morning youll still need to bundle up temperatures will be in the upper 20s but that sunshine, it is making a come back. So cold overnight. High temperatures tomorrow near that average this time of year which by the way is 40 degrees but coming up ill talk about potential wet weather for a part of the upcoming holiday weekend. Back to you. Iain . Scott, thank you. Check this out. Cars smashed up, a home damaged and neighbors terrified in Delaware County. This was how a Police Pursuit ended on chester pike in collingdale. The man they were chasing kid was driving erratically when they tried to pull him over. Even after all of that he got out of his car and turned the chase into a foot race. Some neighbors made sure their kids were safe after learning he tossed a gun while making a run for it. I made sure the alarm was on. And just made sure that he wasnt hiding out in our area. You know, and just got a little nervous because yes, it was a police chase. Kid was charged with aggravated assault and reckless recklessly endangering another person. Still developing to night zero receives terror threats and scares that have authorities on alert from new jersey to washington, d. C. The fbi arrested an ohio man for isis inspired terror plot targeting the us capitol and members of congress. The Justice Department says the suspect was quote aspiration al not inspirational. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell has been following the latest on this threat and two other developments closer to home. Chris . Thats right, lucy federal investigators say a 20yearold cincinnati man who is an isis sympathizer planned an tack on the u. S. Capitol but the plot was foiled before it was carried out. The fbism says the public was never in any danger but the threat was very real. A plan to attack the United States capitol with pipe bombs and guns. Arrested 20yearold Christopher Lee cornell also known as rav feel merris adea. His father says his son recently converted to islam. Last couple of weeks he finally started opening up. I said, well, i know you convert converted to islam. Whats your muslim name. He shared that with me two days ago. Reporter the plot described as a jihad is outlined in this criminal complaint. It says cornell who professed allegiance to the Islamic State planned to to travel to washington d. C. Use firearms to shoot and kill employees and officials in the us cab toll. Cornell was arrested outside cincinnati gunshop moment after he purchased two semi automatic rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition. As soon as the purchase was over, and he left the door, several agents came out and tackled here in the parking lot and took him down. Reporter just hours earlier 90 miles away from the nations capitol a scare at the Delaware Air National guard base in dover. Armed security guards were part of an increased security presence at the base after an Alarming Number of vehicles approach the gate and left. Some of them asking for directions. Officials say the alert is out of abundance of caution. Yet another scare at joint base mcguire dix lakehurst. The base exchange and commisary was evacuated when a suspicious package was found. Military police spent three hours investigateing before giving the base the all clear. Now back to delaware. The Delaware Air National guard tells us it is still on heightened alert tonight called threat con bravo the same base frequently used by vicepresident joe biden. Lucy . All right, chris. Security video showing a clash at a Camden High School has a mom up in arms tonight. You can see a student and guards just going at it. Is it violence against a special ed student or a teen acting out . The students mother is very angry and shes calling what happened brutality. Fox 29s jeff cole investigators investigators. Reporter watch closely to see whats going on. Its november 14th 2014 inside camdens Woodrow Wilson high. In the group on the right is miguel cologne diaz a 16 year old special ed student. Hes being taken to an office by two security guards and administrator and an aide because in violation of school rules he has a cell phone in his pocket. He claims it was off. He enters the office. Security security person grabbed your arm. Yeah. Reporter didnt what . Do like that. Reporter twisted your arm . Yeah. Cologne diaz says he becomes frightened and pushes back into the hall and thats when it all breaks out. A School Security officer can be seen bare hugging the teen, pulling him off his feet and sweeping him toward the office. The teen slips to the floor and the other guard joins in. They seem to wrestle off screen and cologne diaz is finally forced to back into the office. Hit me two times. Push me to the wall and the floor. Reporter he hit you in the head two times. And the wall and the floor. Yeah. Reporter the boys mother was given the video by an attorney in the office of the camden public defender so she could clear her sons name. After he was charged with making terroristic threats during the battle and later plead guilty to disorderdisorderly conduct in juvenile court. My son never had problem before in this school. He never have problem at home. Never, never. Reporter its unclear just whats going on here but the boys mother thinks her sons school aid who the mom says doesnt speak spanish mistakenly believed cologne diaz threatened her during the altercation. Your son said i want to change you get a new aid she believed the word shank as in establish. That word she understand report roar the teen has not returned to school. Community activist Angel Cordero is outraged by how the boy was handled. What they did wrong was the aggressive nature how they took a special needs kid and just like assaulted him. Reporter fox 29 has been told the School District is convinced the boy did use the word shank and did make the threat. In a statement the district says its Security Officers were acting as they should to protect students and staff when a threat is made. In the newsroom, jeff cole, fox 29 news. Chilling video shows the moment of a suspect pulls a gun on Police Officer. The officer simple question just before he was murdered. And a terrifying shock for neighbors just shoveling their walkway. Right when i get there they flip her over. Oh my god its liz. Neighbors body found in the snow. The one clue that could shed light on the 55yearolds final moments. Plus a professional twerk kerr her socall booty therapy featured on international television. Tonight her connection to an isis terrorist. A little girls heartfelt message to her daddy who had died. Written on a balloon and released where it turned we are still following breaking news for you tonight. That massive water main break in northeast philadelphia. Skyfox is live over the scene on grant avenue. You can see that water just spewing from the ground. This is right near the corner of grant avenue and blue grass road. The flooding in the area is bad. So avoid that area if you can. Of course we get more information well pass it along to you. Its tough enough to be Police Officer on bike in winter around here but just that much tougher when thief walks off with your ride. It happened friday afternoon in Washington Square inside the lobby of a building at 21 south 12th street. Investigators say the officer was dealing with a police report. Surveillance video shows the man coming off an elevator and taking the bike and he got more than a set of wheels. Police say that trek bike deck out with all kinds of police gear. Delaware teacher turned himself in to police today accused of having a sexual relationship with student. Police say 50 yeared richard how well the second of wyoming are delaware was having a relationship with a 17 Year Old Girl at Caesar Rodney high school. Investigators say it started back in march of last year, and up to last month. Police say it included inappropriate acts on School Grounds and at his home. He is charged with several counts of sex abuse and is now being held on 550,000 bond. After months on the run, a born to kill gang member is in jail tonight. Employees say tam minute lee was found yesterday at a hotel six in virginia. He was charged by Philadelphia Police with a number of crimes including murder and attempted murder back in september. Police say he bound beat and stabbed three men before throwing them into the Schuylkill River but one of them miraculously survived and it was all allegedly over drug money. Bill cosby have to address his accusors . Theres a possibility. A new allegation of Sexual Assault against comedian may fall within the statute of limitations. Today a woman told Los Angeles Police cosby sexually assaulted her at the playboy mansion in 2008 when she was 18 years old. She claims cosby gave her drink that night and thats the thing she remembers before waking up in a bed naked with a comedian. Her lawyer called his client brave and blasted cosby today for making fun of the situation. Apparently mr. Cosby feels brazen enough and confident enough in his actions to make jokes at some of his shows about the 25 plus women that have now come forward. Shes certainly not jokeing. The lapd is now investigating and her lawyer wants police to get video from cameras at the playboy mansion that he believes could hold key evidence. A tragedy with potentially long lasting consequences. 49yearold Anthony Gabriel died last week when he was crushed by a collapsed silo at a cement import facility in Bristol Township in buck county. Now, the First Responders who recovered his body are facing devastating damage to their equipment and just maybe their health. Our bruce gordon has the story. Reporter mobile clean up crew spent this day hosing down and scrubbing off rescue 10. One of several trucks from the egley volunteer fire company now out of service. This is our third time just the inside we spent about two hours just on the inside and its still dusty in there. Were trying to get what we can. Reporter egley volunteers were among an army of firefighters who raced to the silo collapse early last thursday morning. They spent most of the n100 hours searching for Anthony Gabriels body a mid a mountain of twist the metal and talcum powder like cement dust. Chief carl pierce. We gave the family a promise to bring the second testimony out and i think everybody is more focused on that and it took a day or two to come back here to really figure out what happened here. Reporter what happened was that cement dust coated everything and everybody on the scene. Most of egleys equipment is covered with the fine powder. Some can be clean. Others must be replaced. And because the firehouse itself serve as a relief station for dozens of other firefighters, the cement dust was carried throughout the building. The hvac system must be thorough thoroughly cleaned or replaced. Breath taking. Tax you back a little bit because we know we have a lot of work to do between now and the next couple of weeks to get back in service. Reporter surrounding Fire Companies have come to egleys rescue. Bringing men and machinery to cover for the depleted service while they work to get back on their feet. And all because a group of volunteers made a promise to family their loved ones body would not be abandoned. Any regrets . Not at all. Nope. Wed do it again tomorrow if we had to report roar its what you do. . Its what we do rt row report roar the firehouse and its gear are fully insured. The potentially troubling news the egley volunteers will meet with doctors next week to try and figure out whether prolonged exposure to all that cement dust damaged their health. In the meantime Anthony Gabriel is set to be laid to rest this saturday. His grateful family ask asks donations be sent to the egley fire company. Go to myfoxphilly. Com. Well help you mack it happen. In the newsroom, Bruce Gordon Fox twin news. Its sounds like the script from an action movie. A bus slips on ice and plunges off an overpass, but that was only the beginning. What happened next thats even more shocking. A Small Business own are in just wanted to drum up new customers so he turn to the Us Postal Service to help him deliver some flash she mailers but the only call he got was a complaint. I think they was supposed to have been actually delivered and didnt do it. He just stuffed them in my box. Who put them there and what will the post office do now . Fox 29 investigates. And enjoying your chocolate without any of the calorie. Thats right. Getting all that great flavor without any of the guilt. The new trend that could make your jaw drop. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening everybody. Of course, this mornings snow going to leave some slippery Road Conditions through the overnight into tomorrow morning. Especially down here along route 1 as you work your way 32 dover for the folks watching us down the shore tonight slippery on the way to cape may. Wildwood avalon even back roads threw south jersey as well. And then closer to the city, theyre doing work along 295. Theyll be out there tonight southbound between woodcrest station and the approach to the 42 freeway. And theyrely working to night into early tomorrow morning on the pennsylvania turnpike. The stretch between Fort Washington heading in kop. Well check the roads and the weather conditions first thing bragging rights thats what these two guys have earned after making it to the top of he will cap tan in a the Yosemite National park in california one of the most difficult mountain climbs in the world and they were the first to do it free hand. Using only their hands and feet. They did have ropes just to breck a fall. The climb took 19 days. That is one mazing rock by the way. Could canned goods stop a School Shooter because this is an actual plan and it has lot of people upset in alabama. Another straighters at Valley Middle School wants students to use cans to stop a threat. Its part of an emergency plan called alice. Which hundreds of districts actually do use the country. What it calls for you throw items at the shooter like textbooks or cans and some do sub do you him or her while other students escape. Administrators say its a last resort. Their safety and security is number one thing that we are looking at here, and we are trying to give them options rather than making them sitting ducks. What alice promotes is that you have objects around the classroom that are available to you that you can readily throw and kids can run out of the room, you know, if that but that is the very very last resort. The district wants to start that plan next year. New horrifying photos released the terror tack inside a french kosher market. That show hostages huddling in an aisle and one man being ordered to put his hands up. With others murdered on the floor around him. Four people were killed in the attack. The gunman claiming to be linked to alqaida. The french newspaper where 12 people were killed and another terror attack is back in business. People lined up today to buy the latest issue and on the cover a caricature of the prophet mohammed holding a sign that reads Jesuis Charlie 3 million copies sol out before 8am. Meantime Youtube Video of a terror suspects sister is gaining a lot of attention. Her brother the gunman involved in the market shooting and what shes doing may come as surprise. Shes a Dance Teacher but its not ballet or hiphop. She actually teaches twerking. The New York Post reports the 39yearold booty therapy classes cost 350 for a 20 minute session. A show in the 1990s featured her using dance to combat racism in france. The family has released a statement after the shooting saying they quote condemned the acts of terrorism and that family members do not share extremist ideas. Chaos erupts in a car wash when a driver doesnt stop and plows right through. She was like stop, stop, stop the last second she just had to jump out of the way. Why the driver just couldnt slow down. And incredibly generous tipper which ill tell you about in a second. Scott . Coming up were talking about a system that could impact a part of the weekend much lucy . All right. You want to know about that tip err dont you . I know you do. It happened in philadelphia. Its a cab ride that earned the driver yeah this is great a thousand bucks. Thats a bi right now an officer killed in the line of duty and his body camera captures every horrific moment. A man shot the flag staff arizona officer while he investigated a Domestic Violence report. Now the Police Department has released video from the officers body camera. We do want to warn you about the video is tough to watch but it does not show the actual shooting. All started with reports of an incident involving 28yearold robert smith and his girlfriend. Police say it happened on december 27th. 24yearold officer tyler stew war found smith and began to question him about the Domestic Violence. Officer stewart asked to search smith to make sure did he not have a weapon in a split second things took a deadly turn. Mind if i pat down your pockets real quick. You dont have anything in here. No, no. Nothing in here. This is my smokes. Okay. We wont show you what happens. Police say you hear three gunshotgunshots. The camera goes to the ground and three more shots. Officer stewart died and the suspect killed himself. A toms river schoolbus char hulk of metal tonight. The scene that unfollowed in old freehold road today was incredibly dramatic. Police say the bus driver smelled something burning. Pulled off to the side of the road and the entire thing as you can see just erupted into flames. No children were on the bus. Only an aide and the driver. Nobody is hur. Investigators are try egg to figure out what started that fire. There are a lot of they know you might expect to be buried underneath the snow. A dead body probably isnt one of them but thats exact to what happened to one man in suburban illinois. He made the dreadful discovery of 55yearold elizabeth lutzs body yesterday evening. The woman was face down in the snow along the parkway in front of the home she shared with her companion of eight years. Neighbors could believe it. My neighbor that was shoveling and he noticed that there was a dark thing over there in the snow. He figure, oh, its just like a garbage bag. Right when i got there they flipped her over, oh my god its liz. She had breast cancer. She had copd. She had a lot of, but she kept on trucking. She just kept on being happy. Police are still trying to piece together how she died. But right now theres no indication of foul play. A car wash turned into chaos in sacremento. A 92 yeared driver just plowed through the car wash before crashing. The manager saw the whole thing and does he have a story to tell to foxs recent in a. Reporter wait for it. Wait for it. And bam caught on camera a car speeding through this quick quack car wash in sacremento. Thats a whole new level of quick crack. 94yearold man paid for car wash but then something went wrong. The car blasted through the wash at 40 Miles Per Hour taking workers by surprise. Just take a look at this employee. One second hes smelling, the next shes in fear. She was like stop, stop, stop stop. Last second she just had to jump out of the way. Reporter the car came to stop in the vacuum area. Another lady that was in the back vacuuming her car actually backed her car up and backout five seconds before impact. Reporter no one was injured. Damages are close to one hen dread thousand dollars most of the it has been fixed. Shively knows it could have been much worse. Stuff can be fixed. Theres insurance and things for stuff like that. You know, people are the most important thing. Yes, they are. Some people do some amazing thing. Take the philly passengers that has cabbies throughout the Delaware Valley talking. A philly cab driver got a thus san dollars trip for less than a two minute trip. He picked up a man in old city. They had a brief conversation during the less than 1 mile trip and then the mystery passenger tells the driver hey i appreciate how professional you were and gave him a 989. 98 sent tip much thats astounding. Our weather will be pretty good too. Im very about this this. Whats on your radar scott. Little bet of warmup lucy. Temperatures today were right around freezing. Tomorrow well be in the upper 30 toss near 40 degrees which by the way thats average for this time of year. Parts of the area saw a little bit of snowfall. A coating to an inch in central southern sections of delaware as well as extreme south jersey. All of that snowfall, that precipitation its out of here. Temperatures are. 31 degrees right now. But you factor in that wind it feels like its in the 20s. Once again the afternoon high was 32 degrees. Thats freezing. The normal this time of year is 40 but look at that record in the low 70s on todays date back in the 1930s. Its 31 Atlantic City as well as millville. We have 27 in reading as well as allentown. 22 in the pocono mountains and take a look at the wind chills. Theyre not that bad because the winds will actually be diminishing as we move tour the overnight. So not making it feel quite as bad. So heres the moisture that brought us that snowfall far southern zones earlier in the day and afternoon. Its all headed out to sea. As we roll the clock overnight its dry tomorrow its going to be sunny but once again still a little chill in the air but not quiet as cold as it has been across our area. That will take us into friday as well as the first part of the weekend. That dry pattern. As we move toward the second half of the upcoming weekend some of the computer models are hinting at app area of low pressure that could bring some rain and some wind. But also, some milder temperatures. Sunday High Temperatures will likely be in the mid to upper forts but it will be a little bit of a trade off as we have to contend with that possibility of some showers then turning blustery and drier for mlk day. Temperatures tonight in the 20s. Upper 30s once again for tomorrow. Its chilly but its not going to be as harsh as it has been. Well keep upper 30s in the offing for friday. Then saturdays dry and cold. Arthritic for the High Temperature and then you can see temperatures in the mid to upper 40s for sunday. But well be watching the coast for that potential rainfall in the afternoon and evening. It should move out of here for mlk day but it turns windy and blustery with temperatures a little colder back into the 30s as we move toward early next week. All right. Ill take the warmup. You know that. All right. Youre not complaining. Exactly. All right. Thanks, scott. A bus slips on some ice and plunges off an overpass. But that was just the beginning. What happened next that sounds like the script from a movie. A police chase like youve probably never seen before. What had officers running after yup, that little piggy. And forget eating your favorite sweets. The new trend to enjoy chocolate without the calories but is wild goose chase in Wisconsin Police much this chase involved a pig much thats a smart pig who broke free from a pig farm near war saw over the weekend. Neighbors spotted the animal. Police responded chased that pig for nearly half an hour before catching hip. Hes now at the Humane Society and headed to farm sanctuary. Told you it was a smart pig. Call him the simpsons super fan. 35 year old russian man plans on building an exact real life version of the simpsons house. Going to cost him 5 million rules to make the ambitious project reality. It turns into about 78,000 american dollars. He plans on building it just outside of moscow and living there with his family. Good luck to him. Most of us just love chocolate. Evening i do. Me too. Candy bars, chocolate syrup on ice cream. But i cant believe im saying this but snoring it snorting chocolate. It may not so appetizing. No. People are doing it. Does ridiculous. Check it out. Chop chopping chocolate down into a powder and sniffing it up your nose cuts down on calories and you could smell chocolate for hours afterward. Those had have tried it have even gotten a rush but doctors say its not such a good idea. Snort ago powder of chocolate is probably not good for your sinuses or your nose. Its probably going clog up the filter to your breathing. There you have it. Those sniffers dont come cheap. They cost around 60. One maker says he sold 25,000 of them worldwide so far. Sounds irresponsible and dangerous. A florida teenager goes from handcuffs to hailed as hero. How he jumped into action when a Police Officer collapsed. A Small Business owner figured it was the perfect time to give his company a boost so he paid the post office to deliver some mailers along area routes. New business came flooding in, right . Think again. Disappoint justin drabick. Very, very. Very. Its hard times you know. And, um, could definitely use that business were not getting from it. Fox 29 investiga water main break still gushing water in northeast philadelphia. Its breaking news weve been following since the top of the show much this is brand new video into the newsroom. You can see that geyser is just going much its right near the corner of grant avenue and blue grass road. The flooding in the area is still bad. That is still going so avoid it if you can. Well 10 people are dead and five others hur after horrific prison bus crash in west texas the department of criminal justice bus was carrying 12 prisoners and three Corrections Officers when it skidded on the ice slid off an overpass and then on to a train passing below. The train dragged the bus for a short time before stopping. Police are still investigating. How does a teen getting booked into jail get honored by the Police Department . Well, by doing this. You see an officer filling out paper work at a Police Booking facility when he suddenly just collapses. Well the teen who is still handcuffed starts kicking the security fence and yelling to other officers to come and help. Well it worked. Doctors say what the teen did is the main reason the officer survived his heart attack. That officer is returning to full duty at the end of the month and you know what, next week the departments honoring the teen who that officer had arrested for violating probation after a burglary conviction. A Small Business owner is trying to hang on tonight hes had to cut employees hours and hustling for every dime after an attempt to boost his business fails miserably. He says the Us Postal Service let him down. Fox 29 investigates is working the story. Heres jeff cole. Reporter love is proud of the heating oil and hvac company hes built from the ground up. Hands on owner employees three drivers arc service tech and an Office Manager. What do you like about this work. I like helping people especially when oil prices are so high. We try to keep our prices down. Reporter as the cold weather approach love wanted to drum up new business. Rather than higher people to walk door to door like he used to do with strong results he aimed for wider reach by showing some love to the Us Postal Service. A friend suggested trying every door direct male. A service that the struggling Postal Service now billions of dollars in debt started in 2011 to fight off competitors. Find the customers who matter most its website says adding its designed to he reach every home every address every time. Just sign in pick exact mail routes, drop off times and theyll take care of the rest. Love was hoping for a big jump in that business. Did that happen . No it did not. We have not had one phone call from that direct mailer. Reporter thats right. Not one call from a new customer customer. Even though love targeted parts of suburban abington and phillys germantown section. He did it in part because he knew a longtime Heating Oil Company had gone out of business. Love nearly cleaned out his advertising budget on the post cards. The 7,000 to be distributed in germantown cost a grand to print, plus 1200 bucks to deliver. Love says, he did get one call from the germantown mailers a complaint. I kept pulling and pulling. That happened, too. After Barbara Mitchell found 120 stuffed into her mailbox she struggled to get them out and alerted love energy. I think she supposed to have been actually delivered. He didnt do it so he stuffed them in my box. Reporter he expected to you throw them out . I guess but i didnt. Because i know the guy had to pay for them to have them done. Reporter after hearing from Barbara Mitchell, love energys Office Manager shirley says she called the post office. She says the post Office Manager apologized and took mitchells cell phone number and made arrangements to pick up the post cards but those post cards were in fact never picked up. She says the foul up has hurt the business. We are down from an average of 60 deliveries a day to under 20. And its really hur the business business. Thats a big hit. Its a very big hit. So what happened . While love energy says it couldnt get much of a response from the Postal Service, we did. Its Area Corporate Communications officer would not speak on camera. In a statement he wrote that a recent hire was working Barbara Mitchells route on the day she found the mailers stuffed in her mailbox. He calls what the carrier did an improper delivery and claims it was addressed but won say if the carrier was punish. What about love energy . You want the Us Postal Service to make this right. Yes i do. Reporter get the benefit that you that you hoped were hoping to get . Correct, yes. Reporter it looks like it will happen. The post office tells fox 29 it will lee deliver the mailers in germantown at no postage cost to love energy. Love who met with an apologetic post Office Official for an hour last week says he feels better now about the response but hopes its not too little too late now you know likely what happened to your mailers . Correct. Reporter they didnt deliver them . Correct. Reporter they may have just dumped them . Thats what it look like. Reporter which he spent money for . Yes. Disappointed . Very, very, its hard times. We can definitely use that business that were not getting from it. Reporter and get this. The Postal Service tells its direct male customers to bundle its mailers by route. Love says he did just that only to watch a postal worker break them apart. The Postal Service says that was unprofessional and claims its dealing with it. Love energy has gotten some response to its mailers dropped in abington and willow grove. But those may be existing customers. Jeff cole, fox 29 news. A young girl wrote a letter to her dad who had passed on. She sent it away on balloon and it turned up about 400 miles away. Restaurant customer in auburn calf confidential found that balloon in the parking lot thought it was trashed. He asked the Restaurant Owner if she had a trash candice covered one amazing message from that girl. Happy birthday daddy. I will always be your little girl dad. Dont forget that. I miss you. She was so moved she found that girl on face bock. She asked in the letter to send her a reply. And so i dont know maybe it came here for a reason. Kind of think so. She zen the little girl a care package with july roo and photo albums and letters and messages from people in auburn. Great story. Whats coming up in sports howard. Larry brown came back to town and he wins a basketball game. Thats the first thing. Flyers in tough win against the washington caps. One of the more physical hits the flyers they have injuries to steve Mason Nicholas grossman and brayden colburn. Still inconsistent with their scoring as welch lets go to washington. All right. First period, flyers scoreless. Rob for steve mason but the caps score. It turns out jason the only goal of the game. But watch the hit coming up on scott lawton by matt. Oh, my gosh. He didnt return to the game but the flyers still lose it, one to nothing to the caps. 76ers 17. 5 underdog tonight. Are you surprised . To toronto. Second best team in the conference. What great hustle bite sinks sers off the rebound. What great defense. Unbelievable. Toronto started the game off 13zero. Remember lou williams . From the corner fouled by nerlins noel fourpoint play. Sixers covered but lost 10084. All right. The teams were temple at home against smu. The real matchup was former sixers head coach larry brown against the temple head coach fran dunphy the teacher and the pupil. Lets go to the center at temple temple. Theres larry brown with his former player aaron mckie now an assistant at temple. Fran dunphy the coach for temple temple. Actually temple led by 13 at the half. 13 early in the in the second half jesse morgan with the three. But smu big come back tied at 52. There it is. Nick moore hits the three. 6055 larry brown wins it against the fran dunphy. Another one of the other teams playing tonight villanova. This is like a walk in the park. They scored nine, threes in the first half. Nine threes. They lead 6755 in the second half. All right. When head coach gets another job do any of them say anything other than all that nonsense that coach speak. But the alltime huckster is rex ryan. Introduced today as the Buffalo Bills head coach. Heres the alltime coach that says nothing. This thing on . Its getting ready to be on. I know its been, you know, 15 years since the bills made a playoffs. Get ready, man were going. Hard work, through preparation and all of that, were going to see how many teams match our work ethic. Come september, this team will be ready period. All i know it might be look key look key here comes buffalo behind you. I just cant believe that theyre going to be ready in september. The fact that rex ryan said that is Ground Breaking stuff. Its a joke. Some of these things. Its a joke. laughter . All right. Tmz is coming up at 11 00. Back here at 4am for the fox 29 morning news. Good day. Im cohosting with the gang. Sue sr. Yo and bob kelly have your weather and traffic. Stay tune. Lucy, make sure you set your search heats up for missing woman. Where investigators were overnight. The story continues to unfold this morning. Unbelievable water gushing into the sky in northeast philadelphia where you need to watch out for this morning sue . Yesterday, talking about some snow to the south of us, anything remarkable in store for today well answer that question in your Weather Authority forecast coming up. Chris . Sue, thank you. Authorities are on high alert in new jersey all the way down to washington, dc after a series of threats and scares. How that situation is being handled this morning. Good day everybody, it is thursday january 15th 2015. Goods morning to you. One thing i notice right off the top
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