The loss of her brother 13yearold chris mackey as she stands before crowd of people wearing a tshirt bearing his picture. Im still in shock, like, i never thought this would happen to my brother. She and another Family Member spoke during a vigil put on my philadelphia cease fire a day after police say chris was accidentally shot to death behind a home on east walnut lane in germantown. They say he was with other teens playing with a gun when it happened. Today a 15yearold boy was charged with unvoluntary manslaughter a second teen a facing lesser charges. They trying to say that it was an accident. Two people got charged for it. Reporter eddie mackey is the victims uncle. My family right now is grieving beyond what i ever could imagine. Reporter a crowd people gathered for this cease fire vigil. We need to come together more often. Not just when theres a time of tragedy. Making a plea for conflict resolution and for people to put down the guns and for gun owners to lock up their weapons. Police believe the teens found the gun in vacant house on the block. Community members Say Something needs to be done to keep guns out of the hands of children. Please, everybody, lock up your guns. Fine the ammunition, lock it up separately. What i seen out here today diversity with all different people coming together realizing that life is very important. Reporter and back here live, police say they found the revolver that was used in the shooting. They say it had been tossed in yard nearby where the incident happened. They also tell us they found jewelry which they believe was stolen. Lucy . Thank you, shawnette. On your radar hoping your Holiday Weekend might have kicked in early because its an absolutely gorgeous night to get out and grab a bite to eat or just do make a little shopping late night like these folks were doing in center city. But is there rain in the forecast . Meteorologist Scott Williams has that answer. York there is some rain in the forecast overnight tonight for some and then during the day tomorrow for others, lucy. In fact that humidity has already begun to increase across the area. Scattered showers across the area for your friday and new information for your Holiday Weekend ultimate doppler right now dry and quiet look at whats happening out to sea. Were looking at some showers trying to move in a little closer to Cape May County also Atlantic County well keep tabs on that for the overnight. But a storm system off to the south. That will head in our direction and also a cold front off to the west. But High Pressure that has been our friend. Lets go hour by hour. A few scattered showers after midnight moving toward 3 00 a. M. Look at Cape May County were watching out for some of those showers potentially a rumble of thunder. This is 4 00 a. M. Atlantic city also cape may and wildwood so we have some Early Morning shower chances in the forecast down the shore. So coming up well time out the heaviest rainfall across the area and also a thunderstorm threat. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, scott. With the Holiday Weekend upon us be sure to stay ahead of the weather with our fox 29 news app. Track rain using the live radar or have alerts sent to your phone you can download it in i tunes or google play. Federal judge sentence add virginia man to 35 years in prison for snatching a woman off a germantown street. 38yearold delvon barnes pleaded guilty to federal kidnapping charges last september. The judge handed down his sentence today. Surveillance video capturing the kidnap in november 2014 grabbed national attention. Authorities found carlesha gator three days later in virginia with barnes. He used mass sick ties on gator and stuck her in the trunk avenue car. A philadelphia mother accused of of suffocating her two Young Children has been declared not competent to stand trial. Sophia heinz will remain in the hospital until shes well enough for her case to continue. Police say heinz admitted to killing her seven month old son and three year old daughter using a bed sheet while on a trip to florida earlier this month. Teen driver is charged in that crash that killed robbin robbinsville new jersey superintendent dr. Steven mayer. The 18yearold student is charged by death by photo and leaving the scene of a fatal Motor Vehicle from that apri april 19th crash that killed the 52yearold and his dog while out for a run. The drivers name is note being released because she was 17 at the time of the accident. Fourth of july holiday week send soon to get underway. Thats got lot of people to see fireworks. If you live in pennsylvania unusual law could restrict what you buy. Chris oconnell is getting in the holiday spirit in upland delaware county. Hello, chris. Look at you. You really are getting in the holiday spirit. Nice. Reporter thats right. Thats whats all about. Fourth of july weekend. You certainly going to see and hear a lot of this this weekend. If youre going out to buy fireworks, if youre going out to set off fireworks, be sure you know what youre buying, be sure know where youre buying it from. What youre looking at here legal fireworks in pennsylvania. This is the sparkler fountain kind of fireworks. These are the kinds that dont leave the ground. But once you get into the bottle rockets, the firecrackers, those kinds of things, you are breaking the law. Just a tradition. Fun below stuff up report roar tis the season for fireworks. We got bottle rockets. Reporter phantom firework on the fourth of july weekend is more like a toy store on christmas eve. This 500gram repeaters biggest fireworks you can purchase as consumer. Reporter customers come from new jersey, from connecticut, from north caroli carolina. Hawaii, alaska, put tow ricoh. Reporter theres one customer who cant buy most of whats inside this Pennsylvania Store and thats pennsylvania residents. In what might be considered the strangest law on the books, aerial firework the kind that shoot in the air and firecrackers can be sold at Pennsylvania Stores but only to out of state residents. People who live in pa cant buy them or use them. Were allowed to sell to any residents outside of the state of pennsylvania. We check everybodys id. You have to take them out of the state to legally use them. Were here hoping to really kind of wow the whole neighborhood this year. Reporter new York Resident trina pom lombardo driving to virginia for the weekend she literally filled her car with fireworks well over thousand dollars worth. Every year we stop at phantom fireworks on the way down and pick up as many as we can fit in the car. In little known law pennsylvania residents can apply for personal backyard fireworks permit. But it has to be signed off by local police. Would it allow larger fireworks and firecrackers including this 1,500dollar package called cause for divorce. Everything is illegal so we dont get to do this kind of stuff. I just want something that explodes. Reporter it is important to note every municipality, every state, has their own rules when it comes to fireworks. For instance, in delaware, this would be illegal. So be careful in the local rules most importantly if youre lighting off this stuff be very careful. Iain, have a great Holiday Weekend. All right, chris, great advice and you be careful. Great live shot by the way. More than a month after fire destroyed the American Legion the citys bridesburg section crews started tearing it down and thats what has one woman who lives nearby concerned. Sandra porter was told by the city shes got to be out of her home from 7am until 5 00 p. M. While crews demolish the charred building but she says shes allowed to be in her home at night. They tell me its unsafe for 12 hours of the day, and not the 12 hours at night. They say its safe at night which i dont think it is. Fox 29 talked to a Demolition Company tonight. They say it is the protocol the citys license and Inspections Department to clear property that is are next to ones that are being demolish while crews there are working. The company says it also follows all osha rules and guidelines. Crews will remove the walls near porters home by hand. Theyre hoping to have demolition finished by next week. The clock is ticking for a deadline on a possible strike by casino workers tonight taj mahal is last casino still negotiating with the employees union. Local 54 the unite here Union Earlier reached deals with ballys caesars, harrahs and the tropicana. The union wants to recoup concessions it gave the casinos in past negotiations when the gambling halls were in bad financial shape. 65,000 Union Members have been threatening to hit the picket line tomorrow. No word just yet if taj mahal workers will still go on strike if their union and their boss cannot reach deal in the next couple of hours. Drivers in new jersey can keep enjoying their cheaper gas at least for now. State senators were expected to vote today on a plan to hike the garden state gas tax by 23 cents a gallon. Cutting the sales tax by 1 taj point. Today that vote did not happen. Speakinspeaking of clocks tig the Transportation Fund runs out of money thats right around the senate and assembly do not agree on each others bills Senate PresidentSteve Sweeney does support a proposal that would hike the gas tax by 23 cents a gallon iain just toweled. The money would be put in the Transportation Fund which is running dry. A lot of people arent happy. But at the end of the day when the bridges start to shut down the roads continue to crumble you have to come up with solution. Governor christie also supports the gas tax hike it seems its not a matter of if but when the price of gas in jersey will rise dramatically. Good news, though, for the garr depth state. The governor did just sign the states 34. 5 billion budget for the new fiscal year. It looks like there wont be a long budget impass in pennsylvania this year. 31. 5 billion spending bill is on its way to governor wolfs desk and he says hell sign it. House budget today that includes increased funding for public schools. Theres going to be more money to help pennsylvania combat the pope opioid crisis. Lawmakers still need to find a billion dollars in new revenue to fund it. Portion arent necessarily pretty. This porker is set for Plastic Surgery. Why he needs to get an eye job before the accident too late. A man goes on rampage inside a church pulling limbs off statutes and smashing treasures. It reminded us you have just how vulnerable we are as people. What this path of destruction has Church Leaders saying. This guy wore rubber glove to do his dirty work. The crime he committed was just as random as it is disgusting. A man accused of being a decorated veteran. How hes been getting away witness and fooling people for years. It was a radical transportation for one fox 29 employee. In just a year he shed extra pounds and has a whole new outlook on a man wanted for questioning the did he know of a fouryearold girl has turned himself in to philadelphia police. Cops say Demetrius Williams and the girls mother 25yearold Shakira Holmes that some kind of domestic dispute before the girl was killed. Holmes was arrested on friday and charged with third degree murder. Originally police thought the little girl had shot herself. Philadelphia police fixed their breathalyzers after problem discover with the testing. The department had used expired solution while testing the instruments. However police say it appears that did not impact any readin readings. Theyre asking the District Attorney to review all cases during that time. Now police say there testified all their instruments with a new solution and blame the original problem on human error. A sink hole in philadelphias ken sipping ton neighborhood causing some concern and frustration among residents tonight. You can see the hole at f and wishard streets. Residents tell us its been there for about three weeks and today a car fell inform people afraid someone would get hurt. The city doesnt do something soon. Weve got a call out to the city streets department. So far, though, no response. Handful of homes and businesses along one berks county street have their water back on tonight. Talking about sing holes, big one opened on their street yesterday crews installed about 80 feet of new water main today after this sink hole broke open along abington drive in wyomissing this happened yesterday. Water is back on tonight. But Water Company is telling residents to please boil it for the next 48 hours while the company tests the water to make sure its all right to drink. Investigators are still looking into what exactly created that big old sink hole. So this pot bellied pig is about to have some Plastic Surgery of sorts to save his site. In quakertown a Veterinary Surgeon will bring the world back into view for that chubby little piggy. Bruce gordon spent the evening in bucks county and learned obesity is not just a people problem. Reporter poe poe the potbellied pig could not have been less interested in my visit egg him at the roth mill farm and piggy camp. All he can think about is resting. He has big surgery tomorrow. He wants to get his beauty rest. Hell need it. Poe poe arrived at susan pig rescue facility in october 2014 tipping the scales at nearly 350 pounds. She says his owner did what too many owners of pet pigs do. They over feed them. Strict diet has cut poe poes weight by more than half but the former fat has left him functionally blind. The flaps of skin are blocking his view . Totally closes his eyes and he cant open them because theres so much fat on top of the eyelids. Poe poe. See he cant see anything. Poe poe . Reporter enter the quakertown veterinary clinic. Whats going on with the ferret. Poe poe has gone from off the charts fat to two or three on the piggy profile scale, dr. Arlen wilburs will operate to remove the extra flab from around his face. First well lift the nears a proper position and stretch the skin up away from the eyes and that allows the pig to then have eyes and see. Kind of a pig facelift, yes. Reporter cost of susans foster care and dr. Wilburs surgery doesnt come cheap. So how to put this delicately. Why bother. I care. Owe want the animal to have a better life. Reporter dr. Wilbur wilburse a side kick, a Board CertifiedPlastic Surgeon for humans. Its not about making poe poe look as cute as this little guy. No, this is strictly a case of humans doing what they can to help our four Legged Friends. No matter how they look. Or how they smell. It means his quality of life is going to be increased just like it would be for us. Poe poe this way. When poe poe can once again open his eyes, hell see what compassion looks like. In warwick township, bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Just ahead of the fourth of july holiday old city septa station gets a new name to fit in with its historic surroundings mayor jim kenney was among the leaders at the renaming today of the fifth Street Market frankford line station now known as fifth street Independence Hall station. The name is the first step in rehab project there. Septa is hoping to make a critical structural repairs to that station and wants to secure a federal grant to pay for the project. We are less than a month away from the Democratic National convention and today the Philadelphia International airport joined the excitement. Fox 29 was at terminal a today where officials unveiled new Photo Exhibit it highlights philadelphias president ial Convention History going all the way back to 1848. Former pennsylvania governor ed rendell who is chairman dnc House Committee says this is the first thing delegates will see when they arrive. This exhibit is also part of the wawa welcome america celebration happening all week long. Theres nothing much better than a spoonful of cookie dough before it goes into the oven. Why the fda is ruining the par party. You should think twice before you eat raw cookie dough. And hes at the center of a popular pod cast with millions of listeners. Why a judge is grant agnew trial for the subject of a man goes on a rampage inside a church pulling limbs off a statue, smashing treasures. What this path of destruction has Church Leaders rethinking. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. You know tomorrow throughout the day going to be that rush to the shore. You want up and over the walt wilt man bridge no later than 2 00 oclock. Otherwise you expect a jammo all the way down to the shore. No matter what time you go, though, keep in mind, the expressway ramps to the parkway theres only that one lane. Well be down there bright and early broadcasting live from the wildwood boardwalk all morning long. Have a great night. Well now your wiping lottery numbers. The death toll from tuesdays terror attack is rising. 44 people are now confirmed de dead. Turkish officials are conducting raids around istanbul taking more than a dozen people suspected of being involved in tuesday terror attack into custody. Turkey is blaming isis for the attack. The airport is back open tonight with heightened security. Now back here in the us a Washington StateCatholic Church is reconsidering its open door policy after vandal caused thousands of dollars in destruction. The act all caught in tape as happens so often these days. James myers splashed treasures and pulled limbs off statue before they arrested him. They dont know why did he what he did. Church officials are reconsidering their Visitor Policy since this is the third incident in just few weeks. It reminded us of just how vulnerable we are as people in this building and how vulnerable the treasures are we have in this building. Sad. Neither of the other two previous incidents involved nearly as much damage. Bogomip nor burglaries. Some stole a brass the first time a wallet the second time around. A woman in in georgia is alive thanks to Police Officer who came to the rescue in her smoke filled apartment. The entire ordeal caught on the officers body cam. 77yearold Judith Augustine was in her apartment when it started to fill with smoke. The air got so thick they fell on the ground. Someone had to call 99 and Carrollton Matt Jones heard scanner channel about the fire. He raced to the scene and drag the womans limb body just out in time. Shes okay tonight. Fire Officials Say food on the stove caught fire. A nevada dad faces charges after police say he left his two grown daughters both of whom have autism inside a hot rv. One of those girls died. It happened outside the tropicana casino. Authorities say the father left the 25yearold twins in an rv with no airconditioning or water as some sort of punishme punishment. Investigators found the man at a nearby hotel with his girl of girlfriend. This man accuse accused of pretending to be a decorated veteran. How investigators claim hes been getting away witness it fooling people for years. It was supposed to be a place where children go to have fun. Tonight this bike park is clos closed. The crimes that could mean these kids have to find somewhere else to go, scott. Lucy its a warm and comfortable evening. 77 degrees but look at those dew points. Climbing already into the low 60s. Coming up, timing not one but two systems that could bring clouds and the ride on i95 is smoother tonight after this car fire and accident jammed things up during the evening rush around 6 30 in the southbound lanes not far from cottman avenue. Crews had just repaved this section of the road with new concrete. Police shut down traffic while fire crews worked to put that fire out. We dont have any reports of any injuries. Very popular place in fairmount park. The philly pump track is where bikers can have some fun on on outeat door course but tonight its closed and it will stay that way. Until officials can figure out how to stop people from stealing bikes. Fox 29s karen hepp explains the parks plan. Reporter thousands of kids get to hit app awesome truck pumping away for free in parkside. Just walk up to the philly pump track, grab a helmet, bike and ride. But this week some bike thieves ruined the run fun for everybody stealing four bikes when a volunteer wasnt looking. We have to close the track. At this point we have to make sure our security measures are in process that this doesnt happen again and so we can make sure we can provide those bicycles for the kids who need them most. I love bmx. This is the first Time Opportunity for me to do this. Reporter it was the first opportunity for thousands of kids. Philly pump park opened three seasons ago and has ban huge success. The first time i came i was like i have to go back tomorrow. Like it was like lot of fun. Reporter now the fun is on hold. Bikes are locked up, the track covered and theyre going to have to build a big ugly fence that the kids cant jump come and with better security. The parks Facebook Page is flooded with diss appointed fans take good look. This exactly what the stolen books like like. 24inches and diss toys ting tiff. This bike is a race bike. Two of these out there. Very unique design. Very easy to catch. If we see a bike that we suspect is this well be able to tell if its ours. Whoever stole the bike robbed the whole community of summer fun. After this camp left today the park closed indefinitely. I dont want this to be closed because i love riding. I love being out here on the track. Reporter they have managed to get one of the kids and get one of the bikes back. There are three more out there and three bikes missing. If you have any idea where they are contact the people at the pump track but the physical police. They dont want to get people in trouble. They just want the bikes back. They can be returned no questions asked. Im karen hepp, fox 29 news. History made in washington. Defense department ending a ban on openly transgender troops serving in the military. Defense secretary ash carter announce the change today after a year long study on the issue. Transgender Service Members are now expected to be able to formally change their gender id in the pentagons personnel system by october 1st. Right now, most of our transgender Service Members must go outside the military medical system in order to obtain medical care that is judged by doctors to be necessary. They have to pay it for it out of the of their own pockets. Carter says the military will now spend the neck year develo developing new guidance for commanders on everything from new training guidelines to medical protocols. A nice summer night. , right for a long Holiday Weekend as we take a live look across the ben franklin parkway just love that view always so pretty. Temperatures still in the mid 70s but trouble, hmm, could be brewing. Meteorologist Scott Williams. What do you have . Right now its still pretty comfortable, lucy. Look at the temperatures a pair of sevens and the humidity still not that bad. Its up though at 58 and so are those dew points now climbing into the low 60s. Remember, earlier this evening those dew points were in the 50s. So thats telling me that the humidity is increasing and also our chances for rain will increase tomorrow. High pressure, though, Still Holding on. Off to the south, this is an area of low pressure that were watching a warm front as well. Well off to the west that is a cold front that will be moving in our direction during the day tomorrow a part of the area highlighted in yellow a slight risk for some Severe Weather mainly carbon and monroe counties. Were looking at the potential for winds gusting over 50 miles an hour maybe a little bit of small hail. But where you see the green, this is just indicating some march jim general thunderstorms g day drives you down in wildwood. Cape may county. I cant rule out a spotty shower early in the broadcast temperatures upper 60s. Warming pretty fast, though, were looking at 74 degrees at 10 00 a. M. Its going to be kind of cloudy, muggy and steamy down there as well. Overall friday forecast 79 for the High Temperature tomorrow. Scattered showers around. Beautiful weekend though. 80 on saturday. 81 sunday. Maybe a late day popup storm on the fourth of july. And what about the pocono mountains . Unsettled for tomorrow. Once again the greatest risk for Severe Weather in the pocono mountains tomorrow but beautiful saturday, sunday dry. Monday were looking at High Temperatures in the upper 70s. Lets time everything out. That High Pressure in control now, but watching the clouds increase tonight from the south. That frontal boundary moving in tomorrow afternoon and evening from the west. And then all of that moisture is out of here for the weekend with another High Pressure moving in. Well zoom in closer. Heres 6 00 a. M. Down the shore once again i cant rule out a couple of spot tow showers. Cape may county, Atlantic County down the shore early tomorrow morning. Its going to be kind of cloudy and muggy spotty showers really any time during the day, but then better chances during the afternoon and evening as of course that frontal boundary continues to head in our direction. So keep that in mind if you have some friday evening plans or friday evening firework. You might be dodging a couple of downpours. Temperatures right now still pretty comfortable. Low to mid 70s across the area. As we look at that Weather Authority seven day forecast, the High Temperature in the city tomorrow 84 degrees. Once again, scattered showers, not out of the question really any time during the day as that system moves in from the south and also during the west. Its out of here for the upcoming weekend. Sunny, dry and nice and then sun to clouds on the fourth of july. Maybe an overnight shower but better chances as we head toward tuesday and then we heat things up wednesday, thursday, High Temperatures around 90 degrees. Wow all right. Thank you scott. Nice tomorrow morning iain it. Will be. I can tell you that. Dont forget wake up with good day tomorrow the crews heading back down the shore. Theyll be in wildwood on the boardwalk. Bring your four Legged Friend in red, white and blue for patriotic pooch parade. It was only on the market for a wee little time when pip see first released i crystal pepsi is coming back. Why the soda giant decided to bring it back. He was fishing off the coast of florida when he found a message floating in the ocean. What the message said that has his fisherman concerned you just cant make this next story up. New York City Police are searching for a man who stuffed a bag of fees down a woman pants around 6 00 monday evening in manhattan. This video shows the man come up behind the 27yearold woman grabbed her waist and should have the bag down her pants. Police believe its the same man who threw feces at a different woman a few hours earlier in a separate attack. All right. The man at the center of the popular serial pod cast getting a new trial over his conviction of killing his teenaged girlfriend. Maryland judge handed down the decision in the nearly 20yearold case today. He was sentence totter life in prison in 2000 sand for the murder of his former high school friend. The judge granted the new trial on grounds that his original attorney did not properly crossexamine a cell tower expert about the reliability of data that put his phone near the spot where lees body was discover. We have been fighting for this day for, um, about eight years now, and its been a grueling fight, and um, there have been a lot of disappointments along the way and there were times when it looked like we had lost, but, um, you know, weve made it. The Attorney Says that he credits serial for helping raise questions about the case. Still prosecutors could appeal the decision for new trial torments night in your money you can drink like its 1992 again. Pepsi bringing back crystal pepsi but only for limited time. The soda company says people have been begging for the clear sodas return. When it released crystal pepsi the first time around it barely lasted a year on the mark. A lot of folks who tried it just didnt like it. You however can try it yourself starting on july 7th. If you just recentl recently graduated from college you better plan on working longer than your grandparents had to. Currently the average age so retire is 62 but according to a new study by nerd wallet 2015 College Graduates will have to work a whole lot longer before they can retire. Theyll have to work until theyre 75 because of increasing student loan debt, rising rents and mismanagement of money. This man is accused of pretending to be decorated veteran how investigators claim hes been getting away with it and fooling people for years. And for some folks few things are better than getting a finger full of cookie dough before it goes into the oven. The reason the fda says you might want to think twice and this has nothing to do witness eggs and the batter. Radical transformation for one fox 29 employee in just a year he has shed extra pounds and got whole new outlook on life. The two secrcrcrcr [ woman on p. A. ] now boarding track 6. Do not leave bags unattended. [ male announcer ] maybe you see something suspicious. But you dont want to get involved. Its nothing, you think. Can you be sure . If you see something, Say Something. Report suspicious activity to local authorities. Man vacationing in the florida keys finds a message in a bottle asking for help. The story starts more than month ago when the Us Coast Guard removed two dozen Cuban Migrants from a dee economicked lighthouse off the coast of the keys. The men and women are now on coast guard cutter as the legal system tries to sort out where the group should go. The man on vacation found a message floating in the water. It was in spanish and asked for help. Saying the group was being mistreated. The way we were able to translate they were being treated like dogs. They werent people treated very well. U. S. Coast guard says it takes all reports of improper treatment seriously that the matter is currently being investigated. Speaking of florida, florida man accused of impersonate ago in order to gets jobs. Hes facing charges. Investigators say steven lang used fake discharge members to get jobs at two Pool Companies investigators say lang also had purple heart license plate which they believe he got by using the same forged discharge form. They say detective discover the lies after she arrested him for an unrelated crime. They gave us documentation saying he was never in the military and it was a physical document. Lang admitted to forging the discharge document. Meanwhile his father speaking on behalf of his son says lang regrets mistake and looks up to his brother who actually is an army sergeant. You love dipping your fingers in that mixing bowl spoonful of raw cookie dough. Whats that, i can hear you. I think you said yes. Fda says dont do that. Nono. Not because of the risk regulars and the ris riskily salmonella. This time its raw flour. General mills has issued a volunteer recall of 10 Million Pounds of flower sold under gold medal signature kitchens and gold medal wonder brands. Landslide in japan sent this house sliderring down a hill into other houses. It shatter noose a pile of woo woods. Mudslide in the city is behind all of this. Got news no one injured because officials evacuated the area the day before. For one fox 29 news staff just deciding to get off the couch gone for a walk one day was the start of a live changing experience. Live shot for the philly Half Marathon last fall coworker told fox 29 photographer chris fox that if he put his mind to it he can run in the next one. Heres steve keeley with his story. Reporter your body is a fat burning machine. You can turn it on and off by the foods that you eat and by the exercise that youre doing. Reporter become bat burning machine and following his simple advice not since the 6 million man tv show we can rebuild him better and stronger, faster. Reporter has another man working in tv become such a machine. Just got to do something. And what chris did soon after taking this picture back in october was a no cost no gimmick workout. You he simply went out for walk. And then bravely as he was buying 2xh size shirts and pants with 38inch waste, he started upping his exercise with each walk with added runs in between. Whats called interval training. Ill run as far as i can run and then ill just walk until i feel better so i can run again. When i first started out, i couldnt run half block. Were you saying to myself i cant do this. I was asking myself, what am i doing to myself . Walking and running and following a simple diet cut out all the fast food i was eating five, six days week made a big big difference. Reporter chris felt what mike predicted hed feel the walking and short burst of running in between made him not want to throw away all the exercise effort with bad food choices soon after. Why would you sabotage yourself. If youre going to go out and do half hour of any sort of exercise why you going to come home and go eat gatorade or a power bar and actually eat more calories than you just burned off . Once i started really looking at my weight and seeing the numbers come down you want to maintain. You plant to put good fuel in your body. Reporter chris learned what many dont realize that sugar is the evil ingredient in almost everything. From the top ingredient to salads dressing to shake and bake mix and so many of those socalled healthy grain foods. They put sugar in our bread. Whats happening all this lowfat, no fat and seventy three the fat they put sugar. The sugar cant be processed and goes right to fat. The worst type of eater before i actually started working out. I just started eating salads, chicken, good food. You got to actually eat foods that are designed to be burned by your body rather than to be stored as fat. Really simplifies it. Fat burning foods, fat storing foods, miracle intervals. You can do inter val training thats the combination and you can do that for the rest of your life. Reporter no gimmicks and no cost unless you count having to change your wardrobe from 2xl top and 38 waste pants to medium an approaching a 30inch wife g my wife cease a difference. My kids see the difference. I feel better. Not too had he been for a guy headed towards age 50 feel way better and looking way better than did he approaching age four. At cooper river in camden with a whole new person as a news partner, steve keeley, fox 29 news. So the key is eat less bad food and exercise. Okay. Chris registered for the next philly Half Marathon. Good for him. Its wonderful. Howard. Novel idea. Good food and exercise. Vegetables are also good for you. No kidding much thats all i eat. You got the keys now. Watch the sugar, too. Thanks for the help. Johnny manziel has more problems. The nfl is coming down with the hammer on johnny free fall. And they may not be done yet. Flyers rookie shane gotisbehere did a real solid thing today. He brought last year the team the phillies will play tonight won the world series. The royals have struggled little bit this season but theyre coming up that world series win last year. Yes, the phillies open a threegame zero less tomorrow night at home. Phillies coming off that three threegame sweep in arizona. Now, phillies however lost one of their pitchers in the minors because really freak accident. His name is matt imhoff. Who lost his eye while working out. Imhoff shown here in the hospital had a belt snap while working out and a piece of metal came out of the wall, hit him in the eye and the head. They had to remove his eye to save his life. Homage in clearwater for the phillies single a team. His career is over at 22 years of age. Big come back tonight. The mets and the cubs. Mets were down threezero its now theetwo in the seventh inning. Bad throw by the second baseman. That allows two runs to score. The mets were down theetwo. They go up fourtheme ninth inning cubs had second and third and nobody out this is the bases loaded with two outs. They did not score. The pop up byebye razz who made the error. The mets win it fourthree. Surprise winner in the College World series omaha nebraska. How about this. Coastal carolina a school of enrollment of under 10,000 students goes on to win the College World series two games to one. They beat arizona. Johnny manziel has more problems. Man without team after cleveland wanted no parts of hip. Johnny manziel giving a four game suspension by the nfl for substances. Its plural abuse violations. Nfl made it clear that could be more for conduct issues which could add games if a team in the nfl would sign him. Have i no idea why a team would sign him any way. He would miss at least half the season and hes not good enough to play in the nfl1 of the flyers hockey player took hi himself outside of sports in the world world. He paid visit to the wounded Police Officer from folcroft pennsylvania, christopher dorm dorman. He brought gifts a 63 flyers jersey what that does is identify his being a member of the 63rd Police District and that was in folcroft, pennsylvania. When you look at a role model i mean people see hockey players and athletes but we see Police Officers, you know, firefighters like that and to see what hes going through right now and see how much of a warrior he is, this guy is Walking Around and it was a week ago much its pretty maze and im pretty sure kids will be looking up to him. If you know, its nice when people do that. Yeah. When a player comes out to see somebody and a player thats loved by the philadelphia peop people. Oh yeah. That was really nice. Im sure it brought spirits for guy that obviously has long way to recovery p exactly. Thanks howard. We got a full hour of entertainment news. Tmz, followed by dish nation, tune into chasing news and the simpsons. And you know were back here at 4 00 a. M. For fox 29 morning news and of course good day philadelphia. Theyre in wildwood. Getting a pick up line, casino that failed meet an agreement with casino workers right before the holiday. More breaking news 3 teens stabbed during a fight at a local carnival whom Police Arrested and how walmart is involve in the brawl. All eyes for the weekend. Rain moving in our area are we cleared for the rest of the weekend . Dave will look at your forecast next. Rain will ruin fire works, lauren johnson. Sure would. It is friday, first day of july, 2016. You know what that means . We are heading back down the shore. We are going to wildwood. We will be live a at the boardwalk from 7 00 to 10 00 a. M. And of course you can win a new car, mazda cx9. Just head to fox 29. Com, click on the contest page ri