Meeting with police and prosecutors without any comment. Surrounded by camera crews and reporters, mccoy made his way to an uber car and left all the talking to his attorney dennis cogan. He loved to talk to you. Hed love to talk to you. But im not letting him talk to you because theres ongoing investigation. Reporter two hour sit down with investigators took place at the Office Office mccoys tos attorneys after a planning meeting at the da office was abruptly canceled when the media found out about it. Sources say mccoy wanted a chance to tell his side of the story. Investigators left the meeting tight lipped. No comment. Reporter meeting came as fox 29 obtained these photos of officer Darnell Jesse one of the off Duty Officers allegedly punched, kicked and stomped by members of mccoys party during a brawl over an expensive bottle champagne at recess lounge in old city more than two weeks ago. Jesse and the other officers suffered significant injuries including broken bones, cuts, fractured ribs and hairline skull fracture. Both of these off Duty Officers were the victims of a violent assault that night inside the nightclub. Its clear theyve suffered serious permanent injuries as a result of the beatings. Did nothing wrong but im not going to say anything more about it. Reporter ongoing saga over the high profile case has left mccoy under investigation along with four or five of his friends. Nfl and his team the Buffalo Bills are watching the proceedings closely but not commenting. No charges are expected against the off Duty Officers. Still theres no word on when the da will make a decision on the fate of mccoy and his friends. Well see how things turn out. We expect a criminal investigation. Reporter this was unusual move by Defense Attorneys and prosecutors today the attorne attorney District AttorneySeth Williams has said he will not rush to make a decision in this case. Still no timetable on when he will make that decision or whether charges will indeed be filed. Iain. All right, dave, thank you. On your radar tonight a wet night around the area. Heres life look from reading to night. The roads you can see all the water on our lense at the canal wood suites you definitely will need a heavy coat and umbrella. These people had the right idea in center city with big story is more rain on the way tomorrow. Kathy. That is much bigger, more powerful storm, iain. First we have to get rid of this. Some light rain, some patchy fog and actually some drizzle still cold enough to see an icy mix as you head towards northampton counsel teen the poconos. Poconos 30 degrees. Elsewhere warm enough for rain and it will be in the liquid form through most of the region overnight tonight. With the exception of the poconos and Northampton County we still have winter wet advisory for sleet and freezing rain through 9 00 oclock tomorrow morning. Overnight 39 in the city. 34 in the suburbs with light rain and drizzle little fog and then the main event the storm will be moving our way by seven, 8 00 oclock tomorrow morning with periods of rain. But does it have a history of severe weather. Severe storms in the deep south and even some tornadoes. For us the main threat damaging winds a high risk through the mid atlantic. A risk for the southern part of the Delaware Valley and a Thunderstorm Risk through the philadelphia area. Coming up well talk about when winds could reach 60 miles an hour in some parts of the regi region. I am concerned this could take down some trees and power lines. Well talk more about that with the seven day later in the broadcast. All right, kathy, thanks. That same system heading our way causing deadly damage in the southeast. National Weather Service says at least seven tornadoes hit parts of louisiana and mississippi at least three people were killed across those two states. Right now authorities in several communities are going through debris looking for survives. Around the Country Apple customers are raising autoalarm button about privacy issues in the wake of a government request. Simultaneous protests held today cities around the country including right here in philadelphia. The fbi wants to crack into the iphone of the suspected terrorist but privacy advocates call it a slippery slope. Chris oconnell has a closer look at the issue in center city tonight. Chris . Reporter dawn, the Center City Apple store here on wall net street was one of 50 demonstrations going on around the country tonight. In support of apple and against the fbi. The big question, should the federal government be allowed to hack into your iphone . It was a small group with a big message. Very slippery slope. Reporter the issue of privacy took center stage at the walnut street apple store. While ipads and mac books were being sold inside, outside apple supporters were protesting the federal government similar demonstrations were held across the country. We need to know about it because its us. Its our private communications. Its everything that people keep on an iphone most of our lives. Reporter protests over privacy revolves around syed farook the San Bernardino shooter who killed 14 people and injured 20 in december. The fbi ordered apple to develop a back door hack to unlock farooks phone in hopes of gathering new evidence. But apple ceo tim cook citing privacy issues is fighting that request. He said at stake is the Data Security of hundreds of millions of law besiding people and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyones civil liberties. One protester invoked city for father ben franklin in a new age dilemma. Our favorite 98 tiff son of course said that those who attack is aing chris face their liberty for a little bit of safety deserve neither. Some we spoke with said they are willing to sacrifice little privacy in the name of homeland security. Id rather be safe than be secure in terms of the data. I trust the government and i actually trust apple. Even microsoft ceo bill gates chimed in taking sides with the fbi. Well, the courts are going to rule and it will be good to have that precedent. I do think want the government to act on that are behalf they feel like the safeguards are there. Reporter now, apple has already said it does not want to comply with the governments request but it has officially until friday to appeal that ruling at a to a federal judge, dawn. Interesting. All right, thank you, chris. The same man now under arrest for two different crimes in southwest philadelphia. Both crimes a day apart back in october. Police arresting 20yearold malcolm polar yesterday. They say back on october 7th polar rob this 7eleven on south 70th street. He allegedly got away with 300 in cigarettes. The next day officers say he robbed an Auto Tag Service on dicks of a stabbing the man inside. Hes now facing robbery, theft and assault charges. Disturbing video released today shows a man actually shooting heroin on crowded septa bus. That 25yearold man overdosed and police revised him. Police arrested him saying its for his own good. Fox 29s bruce gordon explains. Its a Great American epidemic. Reporter Upper Darby Police superintendent Michael Chitwood says the actions of 25yearold michael meanie of middletown Delaware County showed that epidemic in all its brutal detail. Meanie shooting heroin aboard septas packed route 111 bus as it travels through upper darby last thursday afternoon. Hes putting a needle in his arm. Hes shooting up. Reporter win minutes, meanie slumps to the floor of the crowded bus. Hes out. Reporter upper dash plea police responderring to multiple 911 calls board the bus and administer the nasal spray narcan to reverse the effects of the overdose and revive meanie. Hes rush to the hospital where hes treated and released. Five days later, after tests confirm meanie was carrying heroin hes been charged with possession. Reporter yup. Saved, then criminally charged. Part of a new tough love policy in upper darby where police have grown weary of putting off the devastating impact of drug overdose. Im saying that its wonderful to save a life. But what does it do about the addiction . Nothing. Reporter since december, Upper Darby Police have used narcan to revive more than 50 heroin overdose victims. But many rhee return the to using. Two later died of overdoses. Chitwood says arrests put the victims into the criminal Justice System where drug rehab can be compelled. Meanies criminal record says chitwood included roughly 10 prior arrests for drug use. Now, the rules have changed. By arresting him, the sentence may be some sort of mandatory drug treatment which otherwise would not have saved him if you happen if you saved him with the narcan and sent him on his way. Hes in the system. High mope is he gets help. Theres currently not enough funding to cover all of the rehab demanded by the heroin epidemic. His hope even if some of the arrested addicts can be compelled to get help, it will be a better result and simply saving theyre lives and sending them back out on the streets. In upper darby township, bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Dove Police Officer resigns just months after a jury acquitted of him of kicking suspect in the head. Dam cam video catch the end count. Corporal Thomas Webster did not mean to kick the man in the head was aiming for his chest. He was acquitted in december and has been on paid leave ever since. Officials saying his resignation Effective Immediately and call eight negotiated separation. Another primary contest in nevada tonight. Caucuses for the republicans still have a few more hours to go before a winner is announced its a crucial test for the top three candidates donald trump is fighting for a Third Straight win while ted cruz and marco rubio are fighting to stay in contention. There are 30 sell gates at stake in nevada and trumps rival concede they are running out of time to stop him. If they dont slow him by super tuesday they can be out of luck. A local woman loses it inside a Dunkin Donuts throwing a ceramic mug at the manager. What went so wrong it sparked this tantrum. A guy trying to renovate a house walks in the door and sees this growing inside. It looked like a cook coon. It looked unreal like mold. Seeing that right there gave me the chill bumps down my skin. What he finally realized it was that sent him running from the house. A local young woman on a mission. Shes even taking her fight to the court. What she wants to force every woman to do to serve their country. Plus Airline Passengers get a shock seeing this guy walk in buck naked. Why Airport Police wer local Lgbt Community rocked by the brutal murder of a transgender woman in frankford. The 25yearold was found lying on a street badly injured on saturday night. She died a short time later. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at Philadelphia Police headquarters. Shawnette. Reporter well, police have not released a motive so its unclear whether this young woman was targeted bathes transgender. In the meantime people who knew her have lots of questions about what happened. Its definitely a crushing blow to myself and other women who share the same lifestyle as i do. Reporter 25yearold maya young a transgender woman stabbed and left for dead in frankford. Her murder sent shock waves through the community. Because were just human beings first. You know what i mean . I think a lot of people hear the word transgender and, you know, theyre scared because they dont know, and um its unfortunate things like this have to happen. Reporter maya graves is friend of the struggling. Shes understanding to understand why isnt maya is definitely who was sweet person. So the idea of somebody trying to hurt her is, um, unimaginab unimaginable. Reporter police found maya outside at 4800 penn street just before midnight on saturday. She had been stabbed in the neck and chest. Police drove her to frankford aria hospital where she died shortly after. Its really sad, you know, the community is suffering. Reporter sanchez is coordinator of the trance Health Information project of philadelphia. Keisha was just murdered. Before that london was murdered. Were on our seventh murder here in philadelphia of trance woman of color. Reporter graves hopes her friends killer will be caught soon. Meanwhile, she is remembering young as the kind young lady she met year and a half ago. Maya was a very funny girl. She was very honest. She was very trust worth. Somebody who you can talk to with open arms, and not, you know, quick to judge you. I really respected her for that. Reporter and back here live, police say there is a 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and convict. That is the case for all homicides. Dawn, back to you. Shawnette, thank you. A local mother accused of leaving her fouryearold daughter behind at a center city macys store after police say she was caught shoplifting is in custody tonight. Investigators say 27yearold mahogany ashley terry was caught stealing hundreds of dollars worth of merchandise on february 11th. When store security brought her into an office for questioning she ran off leaving the little girl behind. Terry was taken into custody last night. The state attorney general says her office will consider whether to charge powerful Electrical Workers UnionJohn Dougherty after a street fight with a non union worker of the some the battle was caught on tape and fox 29s jeff cole spoke to the alleged victim. Reporter it was about 8 30 on the morning of january 21 when joshua key see the owner avenue nonunion Electrical Contracting company says he was punched in the nose bioElectrical Workers Union boss John Dougherty. How does he strike you. Leaned toward me, left right, right. The left connected right here i was pretty much standing there i didnt have my hands up or anything. The union leader broke his nose he says and also hit him with a glance of blow on the forehead. Video from a service station Security Camera shows the aftermath of the altercation. It happened in the south philly neighborhood of third and read where a strip of new housing is being built by south philly builder barry sable. Thats dougherty in the sunglasses and white hair. Key see is being pulled back by a friend. Sable claims the electrical workers had been protesting his use of nonunion workers. Key see 36 says doughertys men struck him 15 to 20 times and he responded by punching one of them. The whole time i had it in my mine not to hit dock consider tee as i said hes an older gentleman and he had sunglasses during the whole, you know, event he had sunglasses on. Reporter dougherty spokesperson in statement tells a far different story. He claims the union boss was not the aggressor. He says key see through the first punch after making verbal threats against doughertys family. Key see denies the threats and says he didnt know who dougherty was at the time. Key sees lawyer says detective james powell of the south Detective Division investigated the case. After an investigation the detective powell determined that there was charges that should be made against and did in fact prepare charges again Johnny Dougherty and the three or four other people. Last friday, he speaks on the phone with the prosecutor philadelphia District AttorneySeth Williams who tells him he has a conflict and kicks the case. He indicated to me that in fact he had transferred this case to the Attorney Generals Office and i asked why . And i still dont know why. Reporter by text, williams wrote to fox 29 he referred the case because of real or perceived conflicts he added he would have been attacked because of either preferential or overly harsh prosecution. Joshua key see plans to sue and is trouble by the das actions. Really makes me disappointed people have to live in a city like this, you know, where people, you know, who are put in power to do certain things disregard that, you know, given who the person is. Reporter william says he has a conflict and the process to kick the case to the attorney general. In a statement attorney general Kathleen Kane setter, she has conflict as well because dougherty is high profile and was a contributor to her 2013 campaign. She says shell let other qualified attorneys in her office make the decision on whether to take or deny the case. In the newsroom, jeff cole, fox 29 news. A child is by a accused of pointing a toy gun at a passing car. Who was in that car that made it so much worse. One boss up usual request. What hes now requiring every employee to do that may make you uncomfortable. Plus, forget that password. Why you may have to snap is selfie the neck time you shop online. Now with tomorrows traffic, heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Watch for construction crews during the midday along 495. 495 between the exit number one for 95 all the way up to exit number five. Theyre also going to be working at the cottman avenue interchange they have the offramp closed through the overnight and then watch for Construction Zone during the midday and a brand new pattern for the gang coming in from south jersey on the 42 freeway. Could be a messy morning commute. Sue and i will have all the details when we ick it o choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number, and the ultimate sleep number event, going on now. Sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. You like the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store, all beds on sale right now save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed, know better sleep with sleep number. Now your winning lot row numbers. Plain full of passengers forced to use the emergency chute to get off their night in the middle of a blizzard. This was in the northern part of japan. The engine on the Japan Airlines flight caught fire forcing it to abort take off of the engine apparently stalled after sucking in snow and then there was an explosive sound when the pilot restarted it. Passengers say smoke also fill the cabin. Fortunately only one woman suffered minor injuries. Phoenix police and firefighters face bullets and names at a shooting that left five family members dead including the gunman. You can see the flames pop up through the roof. Force these firefighters to take cover. It happened this morning. Four of the People Killed were adults. The fifth a girl whos age has not gunnery leased. Police say officers shot and killed the gunman. A 911 caller from the home described the shooting as a did he mess tick situation. Investigators say all of the people involved are related in some way. Computers, printers and firearms and Insurance Company in georgia getting a lot of attention. Because the owners requiring all employees to carry guns. You heard right the Company Provides insurance to private jet owners ceo lance toll land says as soon as an employee gets a license to carry a concealed weapon he gives them a gun. Toll land says after hearing about recent home invasions and Violent Crime in atlanta he came up wip the new office mandate. Ive always been armed. My family is armed and my employees are armed. We have locks and alarm systems but its that extra measure of somebody breaks through a window or break through a door i can take care of myself. Toll land says all businesses should consider giving employees guns as long as they agree to go through the proper training. A local woman just loses it and side a Dunkin Donuts throwing a ceramic mug at the manager. What went so wrong it spark this tantrum . A young woman on mission. Shes even taking her fight to the courts. What she wants to force every woman in the country to do. Dawn these storms have history of heavy rain and damaging winds and theyre moving toward the Delaware Valley. Well take a look at when our winds could peak at 50 even right now at 10 30 a prank lands several teens in handcuffs accused of of point tag gun at a car driving past them. It turns out that gun was just a toy. But it look real to the Police Officer they pointed it at. The florida officer was off duty driving with his wife when he says the five teenagers pull up. He says they point add toy gun like this at his car. But says it did not have the orange tip. The teens were soon arrested. Investigators say this prank could easil easily have had deay consequences. In a situation like this, you know, we do have individuals who have firearms who lawfully carry concealed weapons permit. Those juveniles are fortunate they were not shot and kill. The five teens in the car charged with aggravated assault with firearm. One was also charged with having drug para they are nail ya. In washington, d. C. Two teens arrested in connection to a brutal assaultively marine veteran. Group of teenagers went after him. Cops were able to identify two males scene kicking the victim much police are now looking for a third teen whos a girl. They say she stole his wallet victim was eating alone the mcdonalds when he says the group started harassing him then they followed him outside and attacked him. A day after borrow Council President is arrested another bombshell in a small Delaware County community. Tonight the Council President is off the hook and the police chief is off the job. Hey, chief, can you talk to us about why you made an arrest of your borough president . Sorry new york comment. Reporter you made the arrest. Dont you think your excuse me, sir. Upland police chief had nothing to say to fox 29 Chris Oconnell yesterday about the arrest of borough president christine peterson. Nelson charged peterson who also works as a secretary in the Police Department with forgery and theft. He claims peterson forged a detectives signature on timecard. Delaware county District Attorney dropped the charges today saying there was insufficient evidence. The chief has been suspended. The District Attorney says that matter is still under investigation. Philadelphias iconic love sculpture has new temporary home. The sculpture was moved from love park across the street to dilworth park today. The move is to make room for 16 million renovation project at love park. It will add some more green space, new fountain and renovations at the Welcome Center in jfk plaza. The love sculpture will move back to love park when the project is finished in about year. You might have noticed the Sirius Center lit up tonight one of several iconic buildings lighting up from coast to coast the light the way tribute Honors National eating disorders week to raise awareness for those touched by them. 30 million americans battle eating disorders at some point in their lives. Kathy orr is tracking some rain on our way here, i think. Some wet roads out there right now in old city physical. Rainfall today ranging from a couple of tenths of an inch to near. 30 of an inch in philadelphia. So this was just precursor to the big storm that going to be moving in. Few light showers in areas of drizzle expected during the overnight. So this is a little bit of a lull and then by seven, 8 00 oclock in the morning periods of rain will be moving back so during the morning rush but heavy rain with this Storm Holding off until after the dinner hour on wednesday. Temperatures still pretty much on the mild side across the region. 40 in philadelphia. 36 in allentown little bit colder in the poconos. Sitting at 30 degrees. Were icy mix maybe freezing drizzle is likely overnight. So one storm moves away. And then the major storm, the more powerful storm will be taking over. Warm air ahead of this system will really boost our temperatures into the 60s. After 7 00 oclock tomorrow night, see this line of some reds and oranges . This could be a squall line of thunderstorm moving from west to east in philadelphia by nine, 10 00 oclock while were on the air and you can see by midnight it moves out. But snow with cold wrapping around on the back side of this system. We stay on the warm side of the storm lucking out if you dont like the snow. As we go hour by hour, you can see temperatures mainly in the 30s and fours into the late night hours. By 7am some spotty showers and some pockets of heavier rain during the morning rush. By about noon, 60s to the south. Our winds become southerly. And then we begin to see things change. By 5 00 oclock, 64, 62 degrees in philadelphia. This is a trend so somewhere in the 60s. Then heres our squall line to the west going through state college. But by the evening, after 7 00 oclock, it makes its way in our far western suburb. Then as we make our way at 10 00 oclock, well be talking about this on the newscast tomorrow night. You can see some heavier thunderstorms highlighted in dark reds scattered so keeping a very careful eye on the radar tomorrow evening now casting as these pockets of storms really blow up and then you can see by midnight the storms move away and temperatures are still warm in the 50s and the 60s. Rain estimates still around an inch through the philadelphia area. 10ing little bit lower south and east well keep an eye on that the main storm threat heavy rain and thunder between 7 00 p. M. And midnight. And then talking about the strong winds. Winds gusting to 60 miles an hour not everywhere but in those very strong cells possibly severe storms in the region especially south jersey and delaware and the potential for wind damage with these gusty wind. Overnight 39 in the city. 34 in the suburbs no weather issues tonight or tomorrow morning. Tomorrow evenings with the storms we will see the full impact of the storm. The High Temperature 62 will come in the evening. On our seven day forecast you can see we clear it out thursday. Early high 58. But we will be in the 40s by late morning. At the latest. So it will be chilly and windy. Friday, saturday in the 40s. Sunday and monday, monday the last day of february, in the 5 50s. Tuesday around 40 but im looking at new information that says probably the mid to upper 40s. Thats the first day of march. March comes in like a lamb. Well be talking about of course the heavy rain through the newscast tomorrow. And of course following it on social media when were not on the air. All right, thank you kathy. You bet. How about this . Fox 29 jenn fred hits the hardwood tonight. Look at her out there jenn and several on the members of the Philadelphia Media taking on team of boys and girls at the howl center. They played during half time at the sixers game tonight. Despite jenns smooth moves and that turnover the kids beat the media all stars for a good cau cause. She did a great job. She did. Airline passengers get a shock seeing this guy walk in buck naked. Why Airport Police were not surprised. A cop waiting in line at the drive through for several minutes before deciding to walk in. What happened a woman throws a violent tantrum at a southwest philadelphia Dunkin Donuts when police say she didnt get what she wanted. Tonight investigators are looking for this lady the video shows her knocking things over on the counter and then throwing a ceramic cup much the cup caught the store manager in the wrist. Police say she was set off because she was dissatisfied with her service. The woman got away in dark colored car. Police believe it might be a forward for taurus. In your money tonight, mars is recalling chocolate bars 55 countries after a piece of plastic was found in a snickers bar in germany that could lead to choking risk. Its not clear how much the recall will cost the company. Spokesperson said most us consumers should not be affected for a complete list of all the recalled products which include milky ways and snickers head to our website fox29. Com. Mastercard wants to get rid of passwords when it comes to buying things online. Instead youll take selfie. The Company Announced its launching new mobile technology that is will allow cuff mers to verify their Online Purchases using selfies or fingerprints and were talking soon. They say the technology will be rolled out by big banks in the united states, canada and the uk in the next few months. The company says its better way to protect you from identity theft. A fast food chain under fire in alabama for allegedly refus refusing to serve a Police Officer. The officer says he waited in a chris cal restaurant drive through for about 10 minutes before he decided to get out and go inside. He says once inside, workers at the count walked away. The officer thinks his job has something to do with the treatment. My first reaction was take the whole mirror thing out of it this shouldnt happen this is the not way any customer wants to be treated when they go into a place of business. The Company Released a statement saying we take this allegation very seriously. Our policy is to serve all guests promptly and with a smile and this case we clearly did not meet the officers expectations and we want to correct it. A guy trying to renovate a house walks in the door and sees this growing inside. What he finally realized it was that sent him running. A local woman on Serious Mission under fire. What she wants to force every. Shock for passengers at the nashville airport when they see this guy walk in with no clothes on. Hes naked. Turns out its not the First Time Police say hes done Something Like this. Officers say they found him in an Airport Parking lot back in 2009 wearing nothing but his seat belt. A local College Freshman is on a mission of equality. She says its time for all women to step up and serve their country. Shes even filed a suit. Fox 29s karen hepp sat down with the south jersey woman. Reporter Elizabeth Kyla Bell played softball for parsippany high, went to homecoming dances and made her mom so proud at graduation. Now shes all moved into her freshman dorm at moravanian college in bethlehem pretty typical teenager but this girl from new jersey is also a trailblazer. She thinks its time women registered for the draft. Ive always felt strongly about like gender equality. Like ever since i was little. Reporter so strongly shes now the face of a class action lawsuit. Shes suing to have women register for Selective Service just like all young men when they turn 18. Men are required to so i feel like women should, too. Reporter from private benjamin to gi jane it has taken long tim to prove that women have courageous under fire. But its finally happened. 2016 is the game changer year for the First Time Ever now all military jobs are open to qualified women without exception. Theyll ab loud to drive tanks, fire mortars, lead infantry soldiers into combat. Theyll be able to serve as army rangers, green beret, navy seals, air force para jumpers Everything Else previously open only to men. Reporter right now women are training for those rolls both the army and the marine corps chiefs say its time for women to register for the draft, too. Its great how they like actually said that they think that women should be required to register for draft because thats like a big deal. Military generals. Reporter elizabeth tried to register for Selective Service twice and was rejected both times. Last summer thats when she brought her lawsuit well ahead of all of these whirlwind changes and then again more recently. Public fight has brought criticism even from friends. They all give me their support but some of them dont agree with me necessarily. But they give me their full support. Reporter of course there hasnt been a draft since 1973. We have a volunteer force. Elizabeth or anybody else wants to serve, they can go and try to sign up. But for elizabeth its about having true equality. She hopes registering will become a universal right of passage for all americans regardless of gender. In order to have full equality, you need the positive and the negative side to equality. Our karen hepp will be following elizabeth suit of course and well bring you any updates. Texas man just wanted to renovate home until he open the door and saw what was growing inside. Take look. Would you even know what this is . Apparently no one had been inside this home for 10 years. Allowing this to grow on the couch. I dont really know what it is. Then it click to do me. Like this might be aor something. I had my phone in hand i wasnt looking at thats hornets nest. Its time to go. Thats right. It was a hornets nest. Property owner is working with an expert to remove it. Fox 29 is a news team a team we want you to part of. Were always asking towsend us videos and photos well now were partnering with a new app to make it really easy for you. All you have to do is fresco it. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell shows you how. Reporter like most of you, i use my iphone every day but not just to make phone calls or answer emails. I use it to make news. I shoot video, i shoot pictures of what i see around me. If theres a story there, i am getting it and now you can to do the same. Witnesses say they heard explosionings that shook the ground someone stopped to record the clouds of smoke. Reporter fox 29 viewers are changing the way news is captured and reported. We now have an app that lets you become a photojournalist part of our team. The app is called fresco news. With your iphone just download the app, you are then instantly connected to us. Fox 29 news. You are now on our team. Through the app our assignment editors will let you know when news is happening in your area. And give you a chance to cover the story for us. Oh, and make money, too. Youve actually been sending your videos and pictures for years. But fresco is making it easier. And some of you are already using it. Check out this picture from matt henry. Reporter when high winds struck in chester county. When snow fell in buck county. Breaking news in philadelphias frankford neighborhood. Reporter or when major fire broke out in northeast philly. I was on 95 driving north when i saw the plume of smoke. Headed out there. Shot the video and when i was standing here, i got the buzz there was annulet for it as im stooding the video i up loaded it right to the app. Reporter fresco users like jared, were there to capture it then connect with us here in our fox 29 newsroom. I got notified moments later that they had purchased it. Kind of proud of that. Its kind of cool. Reporter small parade in Center City Philadelphia today for lincoln day. Im here with my iphone. Andrew tobin used fresco to share a little bit of philly history with our fox 29 viewers. There was a parade in town for abraham lincolns birthday. I recorded a few videos and took a few photos of the civil war era lee tractors and those were purchased by fox news. Reporter its easy to do. Download the fresco news app, respond to an assignment, shoot, up load, get paid. Its kind of cool. Especially how easy it was just to take individual crow with my phone and up load it. It was kind of neat. Stop taking selfies and go out and document something a little more worthwhile. Very nice to have an outlet and content that matters to somebody presented to a larger group. Reporter that quickly youve become an important part of our fox 29 news team and you can see how as you watch your news gathering on our air and online. So were looking for people on the ground with cameras in their pockets and making them part of our team and changing journali journalism. So go fresco it. All right. There you have it. Changing right before our eyes. Consider it done, guys. Tom, whats up in sports. Talking hockey night guys. A streak on the line shane trying to extent his streak to one point in 16 straight games. Flyers scored first tonight down in carolina and ryan howard heard all the chatter this off season about his future and today he finally addressed it. His approach to what could be this final season in your flyers wrapping up five game road trip tonight with game in carolina. Sean back in the lineup ahead of schedule but the flyers playing their second straight game without the captain claude jr. Row. The flyers strike first in this game. Scott to matt read one to nothing flyers in the first. But thats all they scored for the night. Carolina would get the next three off jordan stall right there. Hurricanes within three hiv one and shaken streak ends at 15 straight games. Sixers hosting orlando. The former sixer own this team. He loves playing against them a season high 35 points. The dust settles 124115 magic over brett bound sixers. How about temple taking on the tulsa golden hurricane looking for win number 18. Temple led this game by 12. Could you believe it . When the dust settles on this. The golden hurricane light it up from three. They outer score the owls big time, 6130 to end it. The final score 7455. Phillies with first phil full squad work out in Clearwater Today and, yes, third baseman Maikel Franco finally showed up. He was due in yesterday but manager said about francos arrival today quote i dont have an issue with. Lots of issues surrounding ryan howard off and on the field. Most likely his final season with the phillies. And hes heard all the talk about struggling versus left hasnted pitch anding being a platoon player. Today he sonned. Im looking to be able to go out there and just play. Thats it. I just want to go out there and go play. I mean, like i said, check the numbers, check the track record all that good stuff, i know i can hit lefties. Theres been talk in the media and all this kind of stuff over the past three years and this and that whatever about not hitting lefties and whatever. I mean man its about just going out there and go doing it. In you one villanova wildcats getting ready for their biggest game of the season tomorrow night. Number one villanova number five xavier back on new ears eve villanova beat xavier by 31 points. Xavier pick themselves up a little bit ranged fifth in the country now and host villanova in that revenge game tomorrow night. I think weve really competitive guys. I think they like that challenge us against the world. I think they really enjoy it. Feel a little bit more pressure when theyre at home like theyre expected to win and all their friends and family are here they dont want to make mistake. When theyre on the road i think they have an attitude like, lets lay it all out there. Biggest game of the year for the cats number one, number five there it is you can see it tomorrow night on our sister station for sports fox sports one coverage at 7 00 oclock. Well have a full wrap up tomorrow night at 10 00 oclock much business test for the cats. They survive this one they most likely are number one in the big east tournament right her on fox and probably number one seed in the ncaa tournament. Fantastic. Isnt exactly. Tom, thank you full hours of Entertainment News next. Tmz followed by dish nation and chasing news and the simpsons. Were back at 4 00 a. M. Grab your umbrella if you are headed outside. Downpours are on our way. Sending shock waves through our area, reward for the person who killed a young transgender woman. People in nevada have spoken. Well tell you who came out on top in the gop caucuses, good day, what is it, tuesday, wednesday . It is wednesday. But first of all, i want to gave you a high five for nailing the pronunciation of nevada. Yes. See, i learned. Was knew sneeze whg she walked by . Sue, it is colds and flu season and the hands are very dry. It must be winter. I think so, casino of in the thick of t although less than a mon u