Two trains slammed into each other this morning. The question the National Transportation safety board wants answered is why . The Early Morning crash disrupted septa service for hours. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. And ntsb investigators are still on the scene. But first, how all this began. Just passed 8 00 this morning septa Officials Say one train slammed into another on the same track. Then derailed. Those cars hit part of a third train on adjacent track. One of the train operators is in Critical Condition tonight. The crash hurt three other people but all of them are out of the hospital. That meant delays once again. And headaches once again for be bee leaguer septa commuters. Federal investigators are involved and combing the scene for any clues as to how this all happened. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is at the 69th street terminal in upper darby with more information. Chris . Reporter thats right, iain. Team from the ntsb got here about 7 00 oclock tonight. They continued their work behind me. A look where you see these rail cars crushed, this is exactly where this derailment happened injuring four people. Those investigators continuing to comb the scene at this point. Theyll be here through the night. Eighty two you really have to feel for anyone who uses the septa system. Its been one thing after another. Derailment a labor strike equipment problems. Some say who use the septa system its about time Transit Authority gets back on track. Investigative team with the ntsb arrives tonight to septa 69th street terminal. As they begin to probe todays derailment that caused four injuries. Its the latest in a transit incidents that are making commuters blood boil. Ive about had it. They keep raising prices and dropping service. Its getting rough. Some something breaks down at least once or twice week. I dont know i can trust septa any more. Reporter commuter complaints are just the tip of the iceberg for what has been even by their own accounts a bad year for septa. Last summer, a third of the brand new silver liner rail fleet was taken out of service because of a defect. In november, the system was paralyzed due to transit worker strike. In january, two trolley cars collide injuring dozens. Earlier this month, more rail car defects. This time on the market frankford el. Do you feel that customers may be losing faith in the authority . Well, i certainly hope not. Reporter septa officials admit this year has been a string of bad luck, but they also say many of the disruptions have been safety related to prevent future failures. Inspection processes enable us to find these things and get ahead of them before they cause a problem. So i think thats indicative of our processes are working. Reporter even with all the problems, some commuters wouldnt travel any other way. I think septa is great. I think it gets me where i need to be. Reporter back out here live at the scene of the derailment, you see those two rail cars. That is the epicenter of the inspection. Ntsb investigators and septa will be out here through the night, but theres good news for commuters at this point. The market frankford el will be up in full service come tomorrow morning rush hour. Lucy . That is good news. Thank you much, chris. Of course tox night, riders who use septa Regional Rail spent more time than usual waiting for their trains. Septa tells us signal work led to delays on several lines. When we dropped by Jefferson Station we saw delays as long as 60 minutes on some lines. Of course, should any new delays pop up you can learn about them first on fox29. Com. Bob kelly is keeping an eye on the roads and the rails all morning long on good day philadelphia which kicks off at 4 00 a. M. A man and a child are in Critical Condition after an ugly crash in northeast philadelphia this afternoon. Skyfox was above the scene of woodhaven road around 1 00 oclock. Police say a car crashed into a disabled mini van. 28yearold man and a twoyearold girl in that mini van were badly hurt. Driver of the other car also had to go to the hospital but is in stable condition. Happening right now, yet another search for three guys who targeted a man minding his own business. This story sounds familiar, it is. Similar type of attack has hammed three times in the past month. Guy just walking sucker punched helpless. The two other guys move in. This latest attack happened saturday night in center city. It was all over an iphone. Police are now trying to determine if these bad guys are connected to a similar investigation. Our Dave Schratwieser is live outside central detectives. Dave . Reporter iain these three thugs according to investigators were lying in wait on a back street in center city randomly targeting the victim for his iphone. When they saw an opportunity, they took it. I was talking to my friend on my phone, and they attacked me from behind. Reporter it was brutal attack caught on video in the 200 block of south camac street in the heart of center city. The victim spoke to fox 29 by phone tuesday night. The one punched me in my throat, and then the other guy put nia choke hold. Reporter detectives say the three suspects were roaming through center city in the hours before the vicious attack. When they randomly found this 30yearold center City Resident with a 700 iphone 6s they pounced. When you look at the video before the attack it looked like they were looking for someone to rob. They were, you know, they were up to no good. Reporter lots of people use camac street to cut through this neighborhood. There are no less than a dozen surveillance cameras on this block. The latest attack comes just weeks after a similar incident on south broad street. This time a 25yearold walking in the 1200 block was surrounded by four suspects. They punched him in the face, then kicked, stomped and pummeled him relentlessly. It could be the same guys much thats still under investigation, also. Hopefully its just an isolated incident and the city feels pretty safe. Reporter two weeks ago at 24th and lehigh a third attack. A 55yearold man was approached from behind by three men. One punched him in the back of the head, knocking him unconscious. A witness snapped a picture of one suspect. I hear its happening a lot. You know, its kind of a scary its kind of scary thought. Three very sad people that are coming into the city and doing things that they shouldnt be doing. Reporter now, the victim tells us he was not seriously injured. Police are looking for Surveillance Video in stores near the crime scene hoping to get a better look at these three guys either before the attack or after it. Theyre still trying to see if theyre linked to these other attacks as well. Iain . All right, dave, thanks. Tonight Wilmington Police say a second man has died from a shooting that we first told you about earlier tonight. Police were called to 22nd and mark street just before 11 00 this morning. 23yearold man was shot in the head and died at the scene. The second victim also a 23yearold man was shot in the chest and arm and has since died at the hospital. No one has been arrested. The warden of a delaware prison where inmates staged that deadly up rising is now on leave. The department of corrections says warden david pierce was put on paid leave but wouldnt say if the decision was relate to the hostage takeover of the james t. Vaughn correctional center. Inmates took four staffers hostage earlier this month and Corrections Officers steven floyd died. The Delaware State Police are conducting a criminal investigation into floyds death and the state will launch and independent investigation once that is finished. President trump first 100 days in office. Immigration reform again a top priority. The Trump Administration has revealed new guidelines. Millions of People Living in the us could be targeted for deportation. The department of Homeland Security says they are beefing up security including adding an additional 10,000 immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Also any Illegal Immigrants who have been convicted or arrested will now be prioritized for deportation. The aclu immediately rejected the plan they say theyll challenge todays President Trump condemned for the first time a growing number of antisemitic incidents across the country. Its terrible. I think its horrible. Whether its anti semitism or racism or any anything you want to think about having to do with the divide, anti semitism is likewise its its just terrible. President trump made the comments on a visit to the new africanamerican history museum. Call it tuesdays with toomey and demonstrators want to talk to pennsylvania senator pat toomey the oldfashioned way in person. So this scene tuesday these activist who have organized weekly demonstrations gathered yet again in center city. Theyre hoping to convince toomey to hold a face to face town howl so they can ask him about such things as health care and hold him to his pledge he would not be a rubber stamp for President Trump. He did have a fell phone town hall last week. Crushed while on the job in southwest philadelphia. The question tonight is how did it happen . But information is still hard to come by tonight. We know a 42 year old man was loading a vehicle and some type of container something went very wrong. He ended up crushed and he later died at the hospital. It happened this afternoon along the 2300 block of south 58th street. Authorities have yet to release any other information. In bucks county two men are charged with two separate child sex assaults in the same park. Solebury Township Police have arrested barton and fisher for two separate incidents. Investigators say barton met a 13yearold at pat lively park and assaulted him earlier this month. Fisher met a teen online and agreed to meet at the same park where the assault happened. Each man is now facing various Sexual Assault charges police would not say if their cases are connect the. How often is this really happening . Yet again, the accusation a teacher had sex with a student. This time it centers on Buena Regional High School in new jersey. This time its Teacher William jacobs who state police say had sexual relationship with a 17yearold from november of last year through this january. And they add, once jacobs learned they were investigating him, he told the teen not to cooperate with them. Prosecutors have charged him with sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child and Sexual Assault. No way to live. A woman is in tears. She says the house she rents is infested with rats. She even told her landlord. If you dont like it you got to move and i shouldnt have to move. I pay rent over here every mon month. And he dont care. All he wants is collecting the money. Thats right. She says he told her to move. The promise he made after she went public with her story. A mother terrified. Her oneyearold baby was choking and losing consciousness but three angels were just minutes away. They happened to be in uniforms and what they did changed her perspective of police forever. You may be itemed to flip to hgtv before you do meet lio lionness. Hes spending a whole lot of time in a local library. He cant read but hes teaching kids to read. How hes helping them. Id rather watch lieness than hgtv any day and kathy orr of course. Thank you very much. All better in hgtv. Look at the stream behind me. Ultimate doppler shows the may sprinkle across the region. After that its what everybody is talking about. May like warmth. Ill be back with the seven day. Highway once known for cleanliness is bad until need of cleaning up m drivers say theyre so sick of seeing the trash lining up along the blue route. The garbage is piling up for unfortunate reason. And our bruce gordon explains you may not like the answer from penndot. Reporter its the darndest thing. Traffic volume on route 476 the blue route near the lima exit south to i95 is actually down by more than 10 over the past five years. But the trash lining this once pristine highway, well, thats up. Way up. Drivers see it. Its definitely an eye sore. Definitely an eye sore. Seems like people just fling trash out the window, you know, whether its cigarette butts or fast food trash. Reporter you noticed it . I have lately. Its been a lot of trash there lately. Reporter worse than befor before. Yeah, worse its been a lot than before. Reporter we saw all kinds of trash lining the embankments and Center Median of 476. There were the usual fast food wrappers and cups. Auto repair supplies. Discarded clothing. Even a porno dvd . Really . This stuff is hard to miss. All the time. Wonder hook is putting it there. Reporter maybe who is supposed to be picking it up . I know who supposed to be picking it because i pay them with my taxes. Reporter it aint happening. Its not happening. Reporter in fact, penndot tells us they spend three and a half Million Dollars a year picking up trash along theyre Extensive Network of roads. Along 11 miles of the blue rou route, businesses pay a company to clean up in return forgetting their signage in front of all those motorists. But that program only runs from march to october. And penndot expends its energy on snow removal and pothole repairs this time of year. Meaning this stretch of 476 could go most of the winter with only one or two cleanings. Its a matter of with the Road Conditions we have here, do i want to start syphoning money off the roads weary paving to big litter. When i pick it and two weeks later it looks the same. Reporter losing battle. Its a losing battle for us. Reporter there are some folks who would say it sounds like penndot is giving up on that battle. No, we havent given up entirely. Reporter maybe not. Some drivers have gotten so accustomed to seeing trash lining this highway, they barely Pay Attention any more. Youre used to it after awhile, you know. Reporter real . You just get used to seeing it . Yeah. Watch the traffic and you just dont even notice it any more. Reporter its gotten that bad. Yeah, exactly. [ laughter ] reporter the month of march and warmer temperatures right around the corner we would hope and expect to see some cleanup crews out here soon, but none of that matters without behaviors changing. Heres a reminder, folks. The side of the road is not your trash can. In wood lapped, delaware, county, Bruce Gordon Fox 29 ne news. Unexpected twist in an alleged carjac carjacking child abduction. Philadelphia police now say the incident last night was all hoax. A 22yearold pizza Delivery Driver said he was babysitting a fouryearold boy when someone stole his car at 15th and courtland with a kid inside. Police found the car not far away. Marcus fletcher is now charged with making false reports. Police say he admitted lying about the missing child and said he did it because he was the victim avenue holdup and didnt like the way it was investigated. He wanted to watch police quote work harder. If you built it, they will come. Well that is the hope of philadelphia developer bart black steen and hes just dropped a loft money on that gamble. Which brings to us the boardwalk near the former showboat casino. Black steen just bought up property right there including garden peer across from the still shutter the revel casino as well as volleyball between it and the showboat. Hes hoping to draw you in for all kinds of new outdoor fun. Three Philadelphia Police officers are being hailed heroes tonight after saving a oneyearold babys life. It did not look at all good when they arrive on the scene but these men in blue knew exactly what to do when seconds counted. Our dawn timmeney has the story. I just was inconsolable is not even how i really was. It was just out of this world. Reporter Jasmine Smith was beside herself. Her oneyearold baby boy jason suddenly started choking on sunday morning at their home on the 2900 block of wish hard street. The baby becoming unresponsive and losing consciousness. I ran downstairs and yelling to my husband, whoever could hear me in the house, call 911x. Reporter officers from philadelphias 30th street district were there in minutes. I could immediately see that the child was in bad shape. His body had gone completely limp. I have children myself so the oneyearold definitely took toll oh in my head but i had to put it aside don the job. Reporter the three immediately jumped into action. Officer elliot performing rescue breathing for ten minutes. While officers wolford and williams monitored the childs pulse and vitals. Eventually he regained consciousness before being rushed to saint christophers hospital. Im very thankful for them. Reporter jason who just celebrated his first birthday on friday with a big party on saturday is feeling much better now. Officers elliot and Williams Stopping by saint christophers this morning with toys for this little guy who gave everyone a big scare. Kind of stuck with me so i decided i was going to see him today when i came to work. The fact we saw him today and he was up and around like looking around, moving, it was great. His little cruiser. Reporter jasons mom says she was beyond touched by the officers taking time out of their busy day to make sure her baby was okay. It meant more than words can ever, ever explain. It warmed my heart and it gave me a completely different outlook on police in general, but especially in my neighborhood. Because it just lets you know, you know, were here for you. Reporter little jason will probably be in the hospital for another 24 to 48 hours. His mom says doctors suspect he may have had an asthma attack. He was in the hospital a week before with Reactive Airway disease. But a happy ending here. Dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. Thank goodness it ended well. Traffic in new york city not unusual, right . But this is. The bull running. Bulls running on wall street is good. Bull running around the streets of queen not so much. What he was running from. What are your go to Big Box Stores is doing something tiny. Big change to make much smaller store. Her house is infested with rats when she turned to her landlord for help she said he told her to just move out. So apparently the rats could stay. What that landlord finally agreed to do once she went public. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Get ready for big delays coming to delco theyll start the pothole patrol tomorrow along 322. Theyre going to be working between already crazy busy stretch of route 1 all the way down to i95. Theyre also going to be working tomorrow on the schuylkill expressway. Expect the cones. Youll start to see them around belmont avenue and then all the way through city avenue. The vine expressway also closed through the overnight till about 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning with that reconstruction of the overpass. Have yourself a great evening. Well check the jam cams. Sue has the forecast. Well see you starting at 4 00. Fast, rhythmic drumming its coming soon to the poconos americas largest indoor waterpark. Kalahari resorts conventions book your african adventure now now your winning lottery numbers. How would you like to see this guy chowing down in the corner of your room . You know if you got one you got a hundred. A woman in houston says the home she rents is infested with rats. When she asked her landlord for help, he told her, hey, move out. Linda rose says over the last five months, rats have moved in and she cant get them out. I was in the bathtub and i was got in the tub the rat jumped in the tub with me i was taking my bath and i screamed so loud and just made me so mad. Hes talking about if you dont like it you got to move. I shouldnt have to move. I pay rent here every month and he dont care. All he wants is collect his money. After she took her story public the landlord says he can fix the problem. Has put poison out and hes also sending an exterminator. Someone keeps damaging a statue of jesus in indiana. For the second time in two weeks vandal broke the head off of a statue at a church in indianapolis. The first time it happened Church Members were able to reattach everything. But this time whoever broke off the head also took it. The statue is only five years old. But the church itself has been around for about 100 years and has deep ties in the neighborhood. Despite all of this, the church pasor has got sense of humor about it. Someone needs jesus thats for sure. [ laughter ] wed welcome him. Wed forgive him. Thats what its its all about. Pastor says the church is so desperate to get the statues head return he wont call police if the vandal just brings it on back and police do not have any leads. Some of our nations most recognizable and beloved monuments. What vandals wrote on washington, d. C. Landmarks. And kathy orr track your forecast. Oh, yeah. Were talking about a surge of warmth unlike anything weve he have seen in the month of february. Its going to feel more like may. Well take look at this historic week coming up when we come back. See this Health Assembly . I found it down here in the woods off dead mans curve in pemberton. A lot of crashes hee over the years. Some of them fatal. Find out what Burlington County is doing about it. Hanks take coming up. In gloucester township two men causing trouble at a community park. Police say the men you see here tried to pry open the soda machine. They did damage to the machine and left in a dark colored car this happened last friday around 4 30 in the morning. Neighbors sitting face to face with police. They are not in trouble. They just want something really simple, to make sure their community is safe. Police chief mark talbot invited one and all to his office this evening. People could ask the top cop anything at all. The chief held a similar round table last month. The depth says this is all about reaching out to the community it serves. A church target of one crook who hid inside until everyone else was gone before making his move. Police say the guy walked into the saint joan of arc church on willow bend road in marlton, new jersey, last week and slipped into a guest room on the second floor where members of the church live to hide. Police say hours later he began Walking Around the building stealing cash and gift cards. Investigators think he called a cab for his get away ride. Our hank flynn taking on dangerous dodely stretch of road in Burlington County. Its the scene of one crash after another. Some have lost their lives at one curve in pemberton. Hank went there today to see what officials are doing about it. Take that car for instance. See how fast its going. Does not know that curve. Hell be in for a nice surprise. Reporter curve in pemberton Burlington County that sneak up on you. Ronnie lives here it the intersection of mount misery road and junction road just south of browns mills he just got his license but he knows the turn. Says if you dont know how tight it is heaven help you. All i can say its potential hazard for all drivers he is special physical youre driving here going 70 or whatever, you do not know this road youre going to get hurt one way or another. Reporter the thing is its not hard to find pieces of car like this it look like part of a grill, fattest tam to the sheer amount of cars that have gone over the high side over the years. How many . Locals have lot of count. Theres quite a few, been quite a few accidents here and the two fatal ones across from where we are right now. Reporter police says as many as ten cars went off the curve in 2016. And though thats up from previous years it sounds about right to larry ditto. I would say it could be as much as once month here they get some kind of accident. Reporter it was september of last year when samantha went sells car left the road on the outside of the curve. She was killed. Her memorial is one of two the there. Another person was killed in a crash the same place seven week later. Police say alcohol was a factor in one and possibly both crashes. Across the road from i samanthas memorial the one to sarah weekly in died in crash at the curve in 2008. Its dangerous. I got dogs, and people dogs get hit bite cars. People drive like pancakes. Heres another one. That dude was booking. Katie reid lives on mount misery road less than mile from the curve. Though the speed limit is 40, people drive much faster. Those long straights lead directly into the curve. There goes one right now. He had to be doing 60 miles an hour. Is that i mean is that the story of this road . Yeah. People go faster than that. People go they go high speeds. Reporter we called Burlington County to see what might be done but didnt hear back by news time. The curve has reflected signs seven reasons that caution drivers but are they enough . One county official told nj dot com there wasnt enough traffic at the curve to warrant a flashing light like the one less than two a and half miles away by the new Lisbon Post Office im no engineers ten crashes on one curve in a year maybe something more is called for. Im hank and thats my take. Search is on for whomever vandalized monuments on the national mall. And not just one landmark either. Vandals hit four. Someone marked up the lincoln memorial, world war ii memorial, Washington Monument and the d. C. War memorial over the weekend beyond the pale. So incredibly disrespectful. In some messages the vandal scrolled jackie shot jfk and references to september11th terror tax. Preservation crews are working to clean up the monuments. Initial examination indicates that this was permanent marker some of kind and the first treatment was gun yesterday by the monument preservation crew. Investigators believe one person is behind all of this. And they are now reviewing surveillance footage. What killed the half brother of north koreas dictator investigators in malaysia are having a tighe tough time figuring it out. The autopsy results for kim jong nam are inclusive. Investigators are trying to confirm if he was poisoned after two women approached him at an april port and sprayed him with unknown substance last week. Heart attack has been ruled out and kim did not have any puncture wounds. Four people have been arrested in that death. Authorities are looking for several others. New york city traffic is bad enough. Throw a bull into the mix. Chaos. The bull running around the streets of queens trying to dodge some cops. What he was running away from. You hit someones car now hes getting a reward. How the mistake earned him some money. Sometimes usually being honest pays. Surveillance video from china shows someone losing control of a bike and hitting a parked car. He left a note apologizing and attached what amounts to about 45 bucks to pay for the damage. The cars owner went to police trying to track him down. Turns out it was high school student. The car owner thanked him for being honest and gave him the equivalent of about 1,450 as reward. Isnt that nice . It is nice. Love that. In your money tonight. Wal mart trying new concept theyre rolling back literally. Retail giant going small and theyre opening a Convenience Store. Wal mart testing the concept in north texas. The retailer just opened this 2500 square foot store just south of fort worth. Now, keep in mind, that the average store for wal mart is more than 105,000 square feet. This is itty bitty. In comparison. You can buy hotdogs and pizza. Typical Convenience Store fair. Wal mart has another store like this in arkansas. If it takes off expect to see it in your neighborhood. Not wawa. Its not a wawa. Nothing a wawa. If you know if you wanted to buy a trump sign that is use to hang at the taj mahal casino you wont be able to do it. Ebay auction which featured one of those sign Social Security long gone. Top bid 7500 bucks. Not sure why the post is down. Nor if it was actually legitimate. Crews took down the signs earlier this month. President trump owned the now closed casino in 1990 lost control of it though, in bankruptcy. Icahn is now trying to sell it. Question toss night about the future of a football stadium for temple university. Feasibility stied study for the stadium is now on hold but its not clear what that means. The school says a statement there is no change in status and that it continues to consider the future of a university stadium. Many homeowners near the school and students want to block the stadium fearing arise in taxes and tuition. Temple currently uses the link as its home field but that lease expires soon. Meet lionness, cute little beagle this pup spending whole lot of time in local library. He cannot read. But he is keeping children teaching children to read. Youll love this one. Kathy is tracking your forecast. Im going to love the forecast. You are going to love the forecast. Yes, 70s last week but we can have back to back and record this week. We are going for the warmest february of all time. Well check the numbers in the forecast coming up. vo what if this didnt have to happen . I didnt see it. vo what if we could go back . What if our car. Could stop itself . In iihs frontend crash prevention testing, nobody beats the subaru impreza. Not toyota. Not honda. Not ford. The allnew subaru impreza. More than a car, its a subaru. Check this scene out in queens today. A bull gets loose and takes off running through neighborhoods. The bull had escaped from slaughter house and kind of was running away from the cops for a couple of hours. But police finally coralled him in a backyard and used tranquilizer darts and he died on the way to the animal care center. Close story home meet a local pup that is alls book worm his name is lineness and hes been hanging out at one branch of the Philadelphia Free libra library. Not really concerned with reading books for his own pleasure. Maybe. Hes a dog. What hes doing is encouraging kids to get cozy with a book. Fox 29 photojournalist bill rohrer has the story. How about if i have him sit report rot if the free library of philadelphia he doesnt bite. Reporter fiveyearold lineness the dog is in for a treat. Lineness is a therapy dog. Does anybody know what therapy dog is. Reporter few times a month lineness and his own are in christina hes a beagle. Reporter visit the children throughout the city. Listen to them read. Sam i am. Therapy dog provides comfort and love and support and fun. Reporter this is all part of one book, one philadelphia. The program that promotes literacy. You guys see a dog that looks like lineness in this group. Reporter kids are nervous at first. But after a few words in stars are for making wishes. Reporter nerves are gone lineness settles in. I think what the dog does makes them feel calm and relax relaxed. Distracts them from the stress of reading especially in a situation where a lot of kids around them. Reporter getting the children to sit down for an hour to read may be difficult for adults. But the task is no match for lineness. Lineness loves to hear stories and lineness doesnt care if you have trouble with a words. Or if you read slow or if you read quiet. He doesnt care. Reporter he just wants to hear a good story. Over the years, watching kids and their reading skills improve is one of my proudest moments and i think all it took was a dog. People always say thank you for doing this. Im like, me . Im not doing anything. Its the dog. Its just i feel so lucky. Reporter in philadelphia bill rohrer, fox 29 news. Isnt that great. Thats great. Getting the kids to read. Its awesome. Pup is all excited because he gets lots of pets and loves. Its a win win. Yes. Philadelphia city hall some star students are getting special recognition by the mayor. The School Districts career Technical Education schools honor students for exceptional academic performance and leadership tonight. From extreme drought to devastating flooding in california, they cant catch break, rescue crews in son jose being trapped people out of the their cars as flood waters continue to rise. Another string of heavy storms drenched the once drought stricken area near half the state is under either a flood, wind or Snow Advisory right now in california is big. Mudslides have been blocking roads for days at a time. On your radar tonight looking at a taste of spring as we take a live look the wilmington, delaware. If you like sundays temperatures they were in the 70s youll like what kathy has in store for her seven day forecast. Details just 15 seconds away. After another 50degree day with temperatures well above normal, were going to do it again but well go one better tomorrow into the 60s and then temperatures just climbing from there on in. In old city philadelphia the temperature is 43. The low normally is around 29 degrees. But its going to be mild overnight tonight with lows in the 40s. Right now, lancaster 41. You can see in wrightstown its 38 degrees. After highs in the 50s well go 60s tomorrow then 70s on thursday and friday. Normal highs this time of year are only in the mid 40s. So were talking about temperatures going 25, even 30 degrees above normal by the end of the week and thats going to continue into part of the weekend so we have this huge ridge building in the east and to the west they keep getting storm after storm in the Pacific Northwest and also through california that all moving into the mountains. They stay in the cold. We stay on the warm side at least for the next four days and then temperatures will begin to cool as we head into the second half of the weekend. But when we look at the month as a whole february is on track to be either the warmest on record or the second warmest. Consider these records they go back to 1872. So very long standing records. Obviously we cant remember a february quite this warm. When we look at the forecast overnight the low around 42 with mostly cloudy skies. Temperatures not changing all that much for where they are right now. Southwesterly winds at about 5 miles an hour. Tomorrow dont be deceased by the morning. It will be gloomy and cloudy a few sprinkles. The sun will break out in the afternoon with a light southerly wind and high temperatures going for around 63 so a great afternoon and evening to be outdoors. It will stay fairly mild. As we look ahead on your seven day forecast from the weather authority, thursday 73. Near record warmth. Friday i think its going to be record breaker at 75. Saturday still 71. Sunday cooler, more seasonal at 48. Monday 50 and by tuesday a few showers, 52. But tuesday is the last day of february. And when we look at this, stretch from thursday into friday, especially friday, were talking about records. Now the record for thursday is 75. Be very close could touch it back in 1874. Fridays record 74 degrees set back in 1985. So a lot of tens on that scale, of course, temperatures cooling down temporarily before we bounce back up. I want to show you great video from moorestown, n tox night. I was happy to be part of their science night. Hundreds of parents and their children were there to learn more about science and experiments even had experiment set up for the kids and knee try tracking light link. We got to play. This night was all in preparation for their science fair coming up in april, of course, we want to wish them the best of luck and theres nothing like getting kids involved in math and science. Lucy and iain, its all great stuff. Love it. Scary flame of lightning, kathy orr. Hell tell was. I wouldnt touch it. Youre a meteorologist you know what youre doing. Trained professional. There you go. Kathy, nice job. Sean bell youre trained professional. A little bit. Eh. Eh. At times. The weather looking like clearwater up here. You brought it back with you. Youre welcome. Thank you. Youre welcome phillies a couple days away from first action in spring training Pete Mackanin gives a strong indication who the day one starter will be. Jahlil okafor the topic of trade rumors. Fine out who is the latest to jump in the mix next in sports. Nba trade deadline two days away but sixers have been trying to get rid of cook for for months now. Rumored to go to the pelicans, to the celtic, to the bulls and now Indiana Pacers sixers havent been able to get great deal for okafor. Dee marcus cousins trade they probably wont get much of anything. Pacers are desperate to get some talent around paul george this trade might actually work. To a Little College hoops. Lasalle taking on rhode island. The rams Jared Terrell gets it in the corner and nails the fade away three right there. Rhode island goes oh on to win, 6756. Explorers fall to 1512. Phillies spring training rolling along theyll see their first action against the university of tampa. Phillies pitching staff is set. Even though the manager wont commit to an opening day starter he pretty much gave it to jeremy hellickson. Lets put it this way. Hes probably got hes probably got the best chance to be our opening day starter. Im not going to deflea nouns it. Anything can happen during the spring but he was last year. Im not making the announcement he will be this year, but theres a good chance he might be. He pretty much just made the announcement. Supesuper bowl of nascar is comg this sunday. The beautiful daytona 500 right here on fox with the biggest most historic race of the year coming up in few days we decided to head down to dover to speak to nascar historian who refuses to miss this race. Its an ordeal to go. You better be out there 5 00 oclock in the morning to get within a mile of where your seats are. Reporter the 30t 30th year George Keller will be there but simple question youre asking. Why keep going . What i look forward to the most is what we say in the business the second green lap. Thats because if they dont wreck on the first one that second green lap will take your breath away when they come by. That orange line we got to be down to 35. George is a retired history season working as dover speedway historian much hes been over to 300 races. 30 at daytona. Some people might think George Keller is nuts. Well, i would have to agree with them. Who else would do this . Of course, daytona 500 will be right here on fox 29 this sunday. Coverage for the first race of and sixers whats going on . Is there a trade . I kind of feel like that wont be. I do too. This has been happening forever. I think well be stuck with him for while. You are not going to get anything good. Exactly. We got hope. Lucy whats coming up at 11 00. Hopes spring eternals, my friend. Theyre showing up in your front yards and in your yards, in your neighborhoods and across the nation k a sign actually met unite the country . Our Bill Anderson is talking to folks who hope a simple sign can create a better world for goodness sake. And your local weather in your first five minutes. I forgot to by lie lotto tickets. If you did, lottery drawing is neck. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at