Federal prosecutors say conditions inside are unsanitary and the animals are not being kept correctly. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. It could be beyond cruelty issue also a safety issue. People who live nearby are speaking out. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live in center city. Dave. Reporter lucy, you can call this uncle sam versus johnny would know hes the owner of the poultry shop that is the target of that lawsuit. Tonight Us Attorneys Office saying it needs to protect the public. Its a small shop on the corner of seventh and dick coin son in the heart of south philadelphia. Customers come gone all day at the j and b pole tree mark. They pick out live chickens, wait for them to be slaughtered and hasnt it over right on the street. The chickens are held under conditions that are unsanitary. Exceeding high temperatures, for example, 80 degrees. Us attorney for philadelphia has now filed suit against the tiny pole tree shop and its owner johnny would know claiming inspections showed they sold chickens that were improperly labeled or stored in unsan tower conditions that would harm consumers. Its about the safety of the food that is being consumed bite public. I dont shop there. I would never, but it upsets me to know that the theyre not following regulations. Animals arent treated properly. Reporter complaint says at one point inspectors found 40 bags containing a thousand pounds of chicken in the back of this pickup truck on ice. The owner voluntarily agreed to destroy that chicken. Neighbors like this woman who didnt want to be identified say the legal action is long overd overdue. I hate it. I report it to the city before, and i call the city 31 werent same day they just close the case. It smells and very very very crowd. Reporter suit says chickens can miss branded and sold without handling instructions. Mr. Wong around today . Hes not here. Its inn appropriate location and poor treatment of animals. Reporter lawsuit filed in federal court seeks to stop violations at the shop and protect consumers. Now, the owner has 20 days to respond to the lawsuit then a hearing will be set up. We did stop by the shop as you saw in the story left a card. We have not received a call from the owner. If we get one, we will update you in the meantime the federal government is not the only ones monitoring that shop. Well have more on that coming up at 11 00. Iain . Dave, thank you. Skyfox over an emergency scene in Delaware County tonig tonight. A car slammed into a building along Marshall Road just after 8 00. Its not clear what led up to that crash. We dont have any reports of any injuries. Crews did stabilize that building. New Surveillance Video clearly shows two men who not only beat a juniata park man but bound him and gagged him and left him. Investigators say these two guys walked into a mans garage on friday night forced him into his bedroom. Two days, two days tick by before the mans brother found him with a broken knows, cuts and bruises. Police are hoping this video will help find these men. Philadelphia city leaders were hoping soda tax would bring positive changes. Now, reports say hundreds of layoffs could be coming after the new tax. Beverage distributors claim the citys tax on soft drinks has cut beverage sales by 30 to 50 . Thats worse than the city had predicted. Now local supermarkets and beverage distributors say that they are gearing up for layoffs. City officials expect sales to bounce back after this initial shock when pressed about the issue today mayor jim kenney says more time is needed before jumping to conclusions. There will be some fall off in sales. Its and in way with cigarette tax and with liquor by the drink tax and anything else thats been imposed and that tends to come back. There will be a percentage of people had dont come back but thats not going to be what it is right now, and its hard to even determine because we havent had a full month. We need sick months to eight months to determine exactly the level of taxes being collected. Mayor kenney pushed for tax on sweetened and diet beverages to pay for pre k and other city programs. Septas broad street line is back to operating normally tonight. A service along the subway shut down this morning after train hit and killed someone. Police are still investigating what happened. Now just yesterday, of course two trains collided at 69th street station in upper darby. Septa crews have now removed most of the damaged cars and most Train Service was back to normal today. The crash injured four people and a train operator remains in Critical Condition. Live look at Philadelphia International airport. American airlines back in service after rough start to the morning at the airport. Its Computer System was not wo working and that forced a ground stop. Airline spokesperson says all these problems began when american system failed to return after the airport conducted a planned internet outage overnight. It took about four hours to get the Computer System back up and running. So before that the Airlines Agent has to check folks in manually which made for those long lines you see right there. More turmoil at a delaware prison weeks after a deadly inmate uprising. More than two dozen medical workers have quit i the aftermath of that connections Corrections Community support programs the medical contractor at james t. Vaughn Correctional Center has reporte reported tha9 resignations since the february 1st uprising. At least eight Correctional Officers have also resigned this month. During the standoff, four staffers were taken hostage. Corrections officer steve floyd was killed. Both Prison Reform advocates and Correctional Officers union are calling for reforms to improve conditions. Police have identified two men killed in a shooting in wilmington yesterday morning. Ainsley cumberbatch, jr. And jameel congo both 23 were killed along the 2200 block of north market street. Police are still looking for the killer. To northeast philadelphia now 27yearold man has died after a serious crash yesterday. Police say Dennis Alexander was standing in front of his mini van on woodhaven and horton thornton roads he was pouring fluid into his radiator when a car crashed into his van rear ended him. Twoyearold twin sisters who were passengers in that van are in Critical Condition tonight. Police say the driver of that third car is behind it all. Admitted he was distracted by something in his car. No charges filed as of yet. Break to go night another major policy change in President Trumps first 100 days. Federal prosecutors for transgender students rolling back the Obama Administration issued the pro allowing schools to less transgender students use bathroom and locker rooms that matched gender identities. Now, it will be up to states and School Districts to decide also today the president sent his top aids to mexico with Immigration Reform thats one of the biggest issues right now. Us secretary every state along with the Homeland Security secretary planned to meet with mexicos president also knew today a firmer timeline of when President Trump plans to repeal and replace obama care. Health care is moving along nicely. Its being put into final forms. Sometime during the month of march maybe mid to early march well be submitting something that i think people will be very impressed by. Repealing the Affordable Care act could end coverage for 1. 8 million people. It could still take months to make it threw the legislative process. Breaking news right now to Montgomery County we go. Skyfox over the scene of a hazmat leak on the blue route. Now this tractor trailer overturned just past 9 00 in the northbound lanes thats near mile marker 19. State Police Say Two lanes are blocked right now. So if youre going through that area its going to be slow going for you alternate route of course the best way to get around this one. Not clear right now what the truck is leaking or how that happened. A middle township, new jersey, man says hes alive tonight because of his dog. His pups barking woke him around 3 30 this morning and soon after his home was gone just burned to the ground. Although the home is a total loss, the man is so incredibly grateful. Our Chris Oconnell has the amazing story. The only thing i have whats in that truck. Reporter a couple of burned photos and a few documents is all he could salvage. Not surprising after seeing th this. A massive Early Morning fire engulfinengulfing johns middlep home along the delaware bay. Today this is all thats left. His entire house, two boats, a classic motorcycle, and a lifetime of memories gone in minutes. But as his home was literally burning to the ground, he made it out alive thats because someone out there was looking out for him and that someone is named sadie the dog. This is sadie. She still a little shaken after all the threeyearold mut has been through a lot. 100 whole heartedly believe that my dog saved my life. Reporter he came home last night, made a cheesesteak and went to bed. It was about 3 30 this morning when he heard sadie. My dog, you know, noticed something wasnt right and just started that eighty nining. Wasnt barking. It was like a crying noise. She knew something was wrong . She knew like, hey, you know, better you better wake up. Reporter he rounded up his four dogs and wearing just a pair of pants he ran outside only to watch his home burn. I slid open my back door looked outside and the siding was engulfed in flames. So i was just trying to get out. Reporter now wearing shoes and a shirt he got from friends, most everything he has is gone. But he knows stuff can be replaced. Hes just happy hes alive and as for sadie, well, theres a big steak dinner in her future. Shes going to get taken care of tonight when i feed them, thats for sure. Reporter in middle township, cape may county, chris oh com fox 29 news. Police in delaware are getting closer to identifying a man linked to the kidnapping of two women in recent days. New Castle County Police say they have boosted their patrols around the arundel apartments. A woman was sexually assaulted, pulled into a car and driven to atms and forced to take out money. This past sunday. Police believe the same guy did the same thing to another woman at the top of the Hill Apartments in wilmington earlier this month. Detectives are end happening Surveillance Video from that incident. Neighbors though are concerned. You never think like that could have been me walking into my apartment. My building is all the way across the woods in the dark. So it was very like stomach turning. Police say both victims reported the suspect as having an accent but detectives dont 93 what kind of accent exactly. Neighbors gathered together tonight for big announcement in bristol borough. What they just learned had them cheering. Blockbuster announcement from nasa. Entire solar system filled with new and discover planets a lot like earth. Why some scientists are calling this the goldie locks zone. Sharp 87yearold local man. Hes talking for all senior citizens. He says are caught in the nightmare with their prescription medications. They put something out on the market never warned me or anybody else that that was going to come back that we couldnt get off it. So now were trapped. What he wants people to know about the elderly and opioids. It could happen to anyones grand parent. Kathy orr is tracking your forecast a red going on. A lot of red, a lot of orange. You know what that means. Soaring temperatures. Were not just talking about warm temperatures. Were talking about going 25, even 30 degrees above normal as you head toward the end of the month. Details coming up in the seven day. Fast, rhythmic drumming its coming soon to the poconos americas largest indoor waterpark. Kalahari resorts conventions book your african adventure now whats more magical than with top prizes of 50,000 . The answers winning. On the spot. Oh, yes play pot of gold, the new game from the pennsylvania lottery. And you could win. On the spot. Keep on scratchin less than an hour someone or a lot of people could be a lot richer. To nights powerball drawing is 403 million bucks one of the largest in the history of the game. You get a ticket . Yes. Did you . Were in the pool. At least i am. Can i be in with you. I forgot. Ill see. Please. A lot of folks in our area spent some time scrambling to get last minute tickets. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in cherry hill the hizzy as iain calls it. A lot of people with big lotto dreams. Hey, shawnette. Reporter im sure somebody covered you. Im positive. I hope so. Reporter this store behind me we gotcha. The store behind me is empty right now most people i think just wanted to have their tickets so they could be home in front of the tv tonight waiting for those numbers to come out but, yes, certainly everyone has dream, a plan of what to do with the money including an adorable fiveyearold i talked to tonight. 7eleven in cherry hill cranked out ticket after ticket after ticket hoping one will be worth 403 million. We used some birthdays. Somebodys we liked and we have three tickets. Reporter Frank Juliano came in twice to get tickets. Were playing. Reporter Powerball Jackpot rose to the tenth largest in the games history after no one won on saturday. The crowd has been steady throughout the day but not out of the door. A lot of people came early to make sure they didnt forget to play. How lucky is this little girl that her grandfather letting her decide what to do with the money if he wins . Candy. Buy candy . A lot of candy. I love it. 400 million worth of candy. Your dentist bill will be that same amount. Okay. Lucky we got a good dental plan. Reporter as cute as she is these were my favorite people in the lot row line tonight. Ill give her half if i win. I already knew that. And you all are my witnesses. If my ticket wins its all mine. [ laughter ] reporter with nearly a half a billion dollars up for grabs, theres no need to argue. Theres definitely enough to go around. Put my kids through college. Buy her another house. Yeah. No more work. No more. Vacation. Travel the world. Reporter sounds like a good plan. The good news you dont have to go anywhere. You can stay with us and catch the drawing life it will happen right before our 11 00 oclock newscast. Of course, right here on fox 29. Iain . All right, shawnette. Well be watching. Thanks. In the citys hole also burg se second the search is on for a robber who got away with hundreds of dollars worth of stuff. Surveillance cameras caught the man breaking into sunoco by throwing a brick through the win do. Police say he grabbed a bunch of cigarettes, lighters and Energy Drinks all of that is estimated to be worth about 700. This hammed thursday around 4 30 in the morning. In Delaware County ridley township commissioners introduced an ordinance that would ban smoking at parks and recreational facility. Vote is slated for next month. The township is working out all the details. Fines will be part of it. Critics sauce it goes too far. Supporters say it will help keep second hand smoke away from children and animals. Commissioners home residents would abide by the plan f they dont, police and park and recreation most likely the ones to enforce it. Small Bucks County Community on cloud nine after Winning National contest. Aim at breathing new life into its Business District and thanks to all of you our many of you who voted for bristol borough earlier this month. Amazing. The town just won a half Million Dollars. Fox 29s bruce gordon reports on all the excitement from bristol borough. Bristol reporter after months of campaigning and more than a week of voting it all came to this. A packed house at bristols riverfront theater the locals on edge waiting to hear these wor words. You guys did it, you wouldnt [ applause ] reporter this borough fewer 10,000 people will receive half a Million Dollars in marking help, grants, publicity and advice on signage and social media. All in an evident to revitalize bristols Business District heart of which lies along mill street and radcliffe. Folks who live here like what they see. I got little shops, coffee shop, you know, just pretty mellow around here. Reporter calm waters Coffee Roasters they cant wait for the prize money and what it can do. Whoever up and down mill street here does well, we do well, too. Reporter everybody benefits. Yeah. Were all in it together. We had an army and you were the soldiers. Reporter bell led this contest effort and believes this borough won even before the prize money was announced. It has been unbelievable. It has energized, mobilized announce way we havent seen ever. Reporter as the town folk hugged and cheered and wept allowed the contest rep reminded them of the importance of Small Businesses in small towns. There is a renaissance happening in bristol borough right now already before we got here and were just happy to be here to help add fuel to that fire. Reporter its a fire that burns brightly inside the folks who believe a once proud riverfront manufacturing town can be great again. People are coming together i think. Reporter you feel they have hope for our town, yeah, they have hope. Reporter contest organizers will be back here in bristol in just a couple of weeks scouting individual businesses to be featured in the videos theyll produce not every business will get grant money but the hope is that the success of some will improve the bottom line of all. In bristol borough, im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Big congratulations to them. Caught on camera, actor Harrison Fords big mistake that could have led to disaster on the taxi way. Newly released video showing how close he came to hitting another plane. For doctors baffled this poor teen just cant stop hiccupping. How long she is has been going on. Poor thing. This is a college break up iain. The girl wrote an apology letter to the guy but he wasnt having it. What he did to that letter thats gone viral tonight. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Theyll be working tomorrow along 295 and 42 right there at the ramps in bellmawr all part of that longterm reconstruction project. Also, the vine expressway closed tonight into early tomorrow morning crews are usually good at having to cleared up and ready to go by about 5 00 oclock tomorrow. Theyre also going to be working on 95 tomorrow. The roving penndot crews southbound 95 pretty much from the airport all the way down through delco and theres a new diner in town and you know were goining to visit tomorrow the folcroft diner the spot for our breakfast segment. Well see you there starting at 9 00 oclock. Well check the jam cams, sue has got your thursday forecast. Well meet you right here starting at 4 00 hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. Come on, moe. I have to go. vo we always trusted our Subaru Impreza would be there for him someday. Ok. Thats it. vo we just didnt think someday would come so fast. See ya later, moe. vo introducing the allnew Subaru Impreza. The longestlasting vehicle in its class. More than a car, its a subaru. Now your winning lottery numbers. Chaos and destruction protesters were forced to leave federal land near the Dakota Access pipeline. Some demonstrators refused to leave after the governments deadline today. So protesters set 20 fires leaving sevenyearold boy and 17yearold girl hurt. Police say they arrested around ten people for refusing to leave. Protesters have been there for seven months fighting the pipeline. Missouri man thought he was planning a terror tack with members of isis. Instead he was communicating with fbi agents. The agents hatched a fake plan to target kansas city. Fbi agents arrested robert hester, jr. , friday when he arrived at what he thought was a immediate meeting to talk about the attack. Prosecutors say hester serve thed less than year in the army. He met several times with people he believed were part of isis and that agreed to participate in the tack he thought was going down on monday. Well for at least one neighbor, this is all very hard to belie believe. No possible way. Not robert, jr. No way. Hes a loving father. Hes a loving husband. He plays with his kids out here in the front yard with him. Hell keep helps keep an eye on the other kids here in the neighborhood. Fbi says hester social media post grabbed their attention. Now the bureau says that though posts showed sympathy for radical islam and violence. Scary phone call for one College Student in Washington State turns out to be a scam. Callers told 19yearold sam obrien that his mom had been kidnapped in florida. They said the only way to keep her safe to stay on the phone and buy hundreds of dollars worth of prepaid phone cards. So obrien did. By the time he had already spent 250 bucks, his uncle sent him a text saying his mom was okay. She was vacationing in miami with her hubble. She has no idea how she was targeted. They knew my name. They knew where i lived. And it was hes in seattle. He wasnt really expecting an 813 area code. They said if you get off the phone well hurt her. Well kill her. Police told obrien they cant do anything even though things were stolen because theres no way they can trace it. Hes a sharp 87yearold local man and now hes speaking out for all senior citizens. He says are caught up in the crisis over prescription painkillers through no fault of their own. Kathy orr tracking your forecast. Oh yeah. Were talking about springlike temperatures, but just as quickly as it warms up, it cools down. Its back to winter in a snap over the weekend well take look at the numbers coming up. Blockbuster announcement from nasa. An entire solar system filled with newly discovered planets. Why some scientists are calling this the goldie locks zone. Hambone sally 22 hut hut tiki barber running a barber shop . Yes surprising. Yes whats not surprising . How much money david saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Whos next . Lottery of different sort has thousands people hoping to it hit it big. The not money theyre after to get into a philadelphia Charter School. It received almost 10,000 applications for just 96 open slots. The lottery to enter the Mass CommunityCharter School in somerton closed yesterday the only requirement to win a slot in the school is to be a philadelphia resident. In your health tonight, a growing number of seniors on pain meds are finding themselves in the middle of our nation opioid crisis. Some medical experts say seniors are just the latest growing population of opioid addicted and overdosed. It is happening at a alarming rate. Joyce evans talked sharp 87yearold man from our area who is fighting back. He reach out to us to tell his story. Its not how you look, its how you feel. I know that for a fact. Reporter thats how mr. John responds to all the compliments he gets on how great he looks at 87 years old. I have a torn meniscus in my left knee. Im on oxygen and ill be on it for the rest of my life. Reporter not so bad he says as long as he keeps his gorgeous childhood sweetheart by his side. This year ill be married 70 years with my wife. I have five children, 12 grandchildren and 17 greats. Reporter john loves keeping up with Current Events and miss marie she loves rela relaxing in her favorite chair enjoying her favorite classic movie. Weve seen hard times. Weve seen good times. Weve seen bad times. But no time has been worse he says than what he and the mrs. Are going through right n now. Managing pain in the twilight of their lives. It brought something out on the market never warned me or anybody else that that was going to come back that we wouldnt get off it. So now were trapped. Reporter caught in the middle of the nations opioid crisis. Really get dependent on this stuff. Reporter seniors, patients over 50 years old, account for at least 30 of opioid overdose cases. Thats according to a study by Johns Hopkins university. But some medical experts believe the percentage now may have grown even higher than that. I never took the pain pill until i was 80 years old. Reporter he says he had major back surgery in 2010. Gave me 180 pills per month of oxycodone. Reporter for almost seven years i was taking them like every four hours as soon as i felt pain coming on. To mow it was like an aspirin. I can take one and 15, 20 minutes later i didnt have any pain. Reporter thats all changed. Now that the government is cracking down on what authorities suspect was too many doctors over prescribing narcotic painkillers. Too many patients and non nonpatients abusing the meds. We have a real crisis. Reporter its an evident to safe lives. Now theyre putting me in in the category of addicts. Reporter were not naming or blaming johns doctors past or present. We cannot say john was over prescribed oxycodone for his condition nor can we say john every took more than the dosage he was prescribed. We can say, however, that hes done feeling ashamed or guilty and abandoned. Its not fair. Its not fair. Reporter after his doctor of nearly 40 years retired, he entered a nightmare to try to find a new dr. Who would help him manage his pain at a level he was used to. She says, well, well cut you down to a certain point the pain will be tolerable. Reporter 30 pills fewer per month. Next doctor visit she said i violated the rules by being eight pills short. After she talked to the boss. She told me to go look for another Pain Management. Reporter john says when he asked why john, if we keep giving you these pills we can lose our license. Reporter john says he was losing his dignity and his ability to cope with the pain. How bad is this pain . You get nervous, you get twitching. Reporter desperation set in. I dont have anybody else to go to so i have to go up the bleep bleep once a month, right, pay, h i paid the prescriptions 18 is now costing me 150 for the Pain Management doctor. Reporter can you get off of these things . I heard its very hard to get off of it something about some kind of you have to go away to a rehab or something. Sometimes i feel like maybe i should go. But then i say, well, im not going to go away for couple months and leave my family. Im 87. And i dont know how much time i have left i would sure like to spend it with as least pain as possible. Reporter his wife is suffering too right now. Side effects they believe from fentanyl patches that they say were prescribed for back pain. Her hands like this. Walking around. Moaning oh, oh, oh. We dont know what to do. She toll us shes taking anxiety medication now. John says hes speaking out now for all seniors in pain desperate for relief and hooked on a medication through no fault of their own by doing what they trusted was the right thing. A lot of times i pick the paper up, here it is again. Reporter growing numbers of overdoses and deaths do bother him. Sometimes i feel like, hey, im getting off of these. Im starting to feel good and then all of a sudden it hits me one day im just feel like im going into withdrawal. Reporter john is down to 112 pills a month now and doing okay he says. Marie says she has no complaints about her treatment which includes vicodin but they both feel saver that theyre granddaughter tiffany watches over them. I would just like to see them comfortable. I think they deserve that. Im doing the best i can. Thats all i can tell you. Were still out there fighting. Well keep on fighting. Reporter joyce evans. I told them im not going to quit. Reporter fox 29 news. You know its amazing, isnt it, because they didnt have any idea. Right. That this could happen. Yeah exactly. Its sad. It is. Mr. John is very much hoping that, you know, by telling his story he can help others within his generation. Also serve as warning for young people youll think twice before using or abuse such powerful drugs. Are you holding off on buying something on amazon . Well, now might be the time to do it. Because retail giant is offering a special discount the time is running out. She cant stop hiccupping. How long one teen has that the hiccups after doctors has her doctors baffled. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. New video shows just how close Harrison Ford came to mid air disaster. Last week the 74yearold had the scare in the skies over a Southern California airpor. You can see the small plane he was flying low over an American Airlines jet on a taxi way. Now ford was supposed to land on parallel runway. Faa is investigating. In your money tonight, students at a local university can now take advantage of cheaper uber rides. Thanks new partnership between Lasalle University and the Ride Sharing Service students can get to and from the olney septa station for 1. 99. That is for uber pool. Riders might share a ride with other passengers thats about a quarter cheaper than a septa bus or subway ride. This marks the first time a university has partnered with a Ride Share Program in philadelphia. Would you like to get discount on your next amazon purchase. Always. I got good news for you. Online retail giant offering coupon code to all customers but you got to hurry it ends at midnight. Amazon celebrating its win and top spot on a reputation poll. Amazon scored a record high 82. 27 on the poll so whats that mean for you . Well, spend at least 50 bucks use the coupon code big thanks and get an 8. 62 discount. Hurry. Blockbuster announcement from nasa. An entire solar system filled with newly discovered planets like earth. Why some scientists are calling this the gold did he locks zone. Kathy orr tracking your forecast. Like the planets, not too big, not too small. Just right. Tomorrow the temperature will be just right. Were going to be warming it big time but its not going to last that long. How about a 30degree temperature drop. Thats coming over the weekend. Well have that coming up. First this moment in black history. Today we remember betsy coleman. In 1921 she became the first black woman in the world to earn a pilots license. She had to go to france to do it though because us flight schools would not accept her because of race and gender. We get hiccups every now and again this michigan teen says shes had them for two years. Two years. Doctors are trying to figure out why 17yearold carly cant stop hiccupping. For now doctors can only say this appears to be some sort of, well, what they call brain misfire. Were all hoping she gets back to normal really soon. A scorned ex decides against taking the high road when his exgirlfriend sends him an apology letter. Instead 20yearold nick lutz of florida found a red pen and graded apology error and shared her mistakes on twitter. Some of her mistakes misspelling loose with 2os. His grade on the letter a 61 if i think people can relate to bad break ups or bad relationships or being wronged by someone they cared about. And they wanted to do what i probably did. I dont know about that it all sounds ice cold but lutz did take the high road i guess with one as spec he didnt share why they broke up. He hasnt talked to her sin the letter went worldwide. Im going to guess hell have few more girlfriends in his life. Guess he wont get back with her. Earth 2. 0 could it be that scientists just discovered our ticket out of here . Okay. Lets just say the search forin the universe just got one big boost. Nasa a team of astronomers made a stunning announcement today. Seven planets a lot like earth only a cosmic hop away. This is big. The answer might just be yes. With pardons my gram mayor teachers this aint no hollywood script. Years of research involving nasa space telescope and network of high powered ground based tell scones are behind this remarkable find. Discovery gives us a hint finding a second earth its not just a matter of if but when. Reporter sedgley newly discovered rocky earth sized planets in solar system much like ours a rare discovery throw that that three of them are in what astronomers call the goldilocks zone and youve hit the scientific powerball jackp jackpot. Not too hot, not too cold, just right. With this discovery weve made a giant accelerated leap forward in a search for life on other worlds potentially spea speaking. No one is saying that giant blue cat like people are flying around on winged dragons water possibly. For one of them strongly suggest water rich composition which is very exciting because its one of the planets in the double zone. Astronomers named the systems north star, sun, trappist one about the size of jupiter. Trappist one is much cooler. Much smaller and that our sun so the planet in its zone are much closer to it. Very close to it with short orbital. Short, yeah. It takes a year for us to orbit our sun. It takes these newly discover planets from one and a half days to about 13 days at 40 light years away its a cosmic hop. If only we beam ourselves over to the constellation aquarius, home to this newly discovered solar system. The vistas are supposed to be amazing out of this world because the other planets will look. Huge big moons. Because their star is so dim compared to our sun it will look like a never ending sun lit sky. Kind of cool. Sounds like a song. Beam us up scotty. On your radar getting ready for taste spring as we take a live look at allentown tonight. You can leave your coat at home i promise. Kathy orr has details in just 15 seconds. So if iain says leave the coat at home, i believe iain. Yeah. Leave the coat at home. Actually its going to be great day to be outdoors, shorts, tshirts, not in the morning but definitely by the afternoon. Look at the temperature. 46 at this late hour. The high for the day made it to 58 as we look to the past couple of hours you can see temperatures staying pretty mild in the 50s right through the evening and not till 9 00 oclock, 10 00 oclock we slowly see them falling off. The wind is calm and that means we will be seeing some clouds and some patchy fog overnight. Winds now out of the South Southwest warming us up reading still at 51. Wilmington 45. Millville 43. When we look at the month as a whole were talking about 17 days with above average temperatures. Highlighted in the read and only five days below average and guess what . The next six days as we end the month will all be above normal. So we are chasing a historic record could be the warmest february of all time. As we watch High Pressure building off the coast we stay in that southerly wind for your thursday and for friday. But swiftly after saturday the winds will be shifting from the south southeast to the northwe northwest. A cold wind comes in and temperatures fall some 30 degrees from saturday afternoon into sunday morning. So its going to be a very quick flashback to matter of hours but that doesnt come till the weekend. Overnight tonight, 48 in the city. Cooler in the suburbs. Mostly cloudy with areas of fog. Southwest wind during the day tomorrow well see morning clouds and some fog. Afternoon sun. Teperatures boosting to the southwest wind up to fun degrees. The record for the day is 75. 75 the record in philadelphia trenton 74. Wilmington, allentown, reading, and even Atlantic City lower 70s for records. Some of these could be broken come tomorrow. As we look ahead to your seven day from the weather authority. How about 75 on friday. Thats a record breaker. Perfect ten. Saturday morning showers. Afternoon thunderstorm possible thats a rare february storm. 73. After that front look at temperatures crash. The morning low 40. Afternoon high sunday 48. Then 52, 54 and ends the month. March begins with a temperature of 60 degrees and that sean bell is feeling much more like spring. It does feel like spring, but its not feeling so spring for the sixers. They made a surprising move today one that might open up the door for Jahlil Okafor in that deal plus the flyers back in action taking on the washington capitols. See if they can get those two points they so desperately need next in sports. Fios in the house dave this fios party is da bomb fo shizzle its tv totally ahead of its time. Yo, let me check that. Oh snap. That x1 voice remote is crunk and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. What should i watch . Things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] whats fios . Fios has fallen behind. Dont fall with it. Xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv. The flyers three points behind the final wild card spot with over 20 games left in the season. Theyre going to make move, they need to make one now. They got a win again the canuks on sunday, but the canuks aint the washington capitols. The capitols are the best team in the league and today they showed why. Flyers already down by one the capitols on the power play right now. Check this out. The tenpoint accuracy perfect placement thon give them two twozero goal. In the second he does it again with a little luck. It goes right off his skate and in between his leg. The flyers lose fourone. College hoops villanova has only lost twice this year one of those ls came in this game against butler bulldogs last time they played the bulldogs pulled you off the upset at ho home. Wildcats trying to get pay back at pavilion. Temple with the defense right here trapping in the corner. Miguel bridges with the steal and brett favre like pass right there to josh hart. He finishes with two hands. Nova currently up by three in the second half. Fran dunphy taking on Central Florida in the game. Temple up by one right here. Usc taylor nails the three to give Central Florida the lead. Now in the closing seconds temple with one last shot right here. Kick it to the corner. Drives and Mark Williams gets wide open three but cant get it to go. Central in order gets the rebound and the win 7169. Owls fall under 500, 1415. Sixers making some moves but not the one we thought they would make. They are reportingly trade ilyasova to atlanta for 22nd round picks doesnt make sense. This seems like a sam hinkie type of move but this could be a move that can free things up for that Jahlil Okafor trade. I dont know. Well see. To racing the super bowl of nascar coming up in a couple of days. Daytona 500. Earlier this week i spoke to jersey native martin truex jr. , who finish second last year close close race and even though hes done this thing many, many times, the excitement is still there. Its like the first day of school. Every time you go back to the race track and you go to dayto daytona, all right, now the biggest race of the year, so its definitely kind of wild, um, the excitement level like i said is always high and were always just, you know, amp as drivers to get the season kicked off. Of course the daytona 500 will be right here on fox 29 on sunday. Coverage starts at 1 00 oclock. Always a good race. Cant wait. A bigging. I think okafor is staying. But well see. It doesnt look like it but that move make it seem like something is brewing. I hope so. Lucy whats coming up at 11. College student was at the top of his game before things to turn for the worst fast. His brain had swelled to the point it could have killed him and he survived and started a mission to save others. 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