His parents had not heard from him in days and then they found his body and now investigators want to know who killed him. Good evening, im iain page. Im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. That mans heart broken family is talking to fox 29 tonight. Our Shawnette Wilson live outside the Gloucester CountyProsecutors Office in woodbury. Shawnette. Reporter just awful. The victims family hadnt seen him in day so they went to his house looking for him. They were devastated as you can imagine to find him dead ton see exactly what happened to him. My wife come in. Shes hollering for himself couldnt find him. And she says the couch and everything is a shamble. Reporter frank if as yo and his wife were stunned when they opened the door to their sons tiny house just behind their home on buck road in elk township. He took me inside to show me the place had been ransacked. I seen the couch laying over and the television blasting. Reporter frank says he lifted the couch and there was his son. 59yearold Michael Fazio dead underneath with a pile of blankets covering him. Took them off. Then i seen him i grab his butt and shook him a few times. No movement. So i ran right in and called the police. Reporter frank says whoever did this bound his son and left him for dead on the blood stained carpet. His feet were tied. Hands behind him. Bag over his head and duct taped. Reporter they found michael around noon on monday after they hadnt seen him all day sunday. The Gloucester CountyProsecutor Office says michael was assaulted and an autopsy determined the cause of death to be quote mechanical and positional a fix ya. Frank says his son struggled with drinking but he doesnt know who would want him dead. He was pleasure to be around when he wasnt drinking. Everybody liked him. Reporter investigators say so far no one has been arrested. Cant wait to hear from them. And cant wait to hear they caught somebody. Somebody did it. Theres no way in this world that boy could have tied himself up by himself like that. No way. Reporter and again no one has been arrested. The Gloucester CountyProsecutors Office is investigating along with elk township police. Dawn, back to you. All right, shawnette, thank you. Happening now a brazen thief targeting food trucks in West Philadelphia. He spotted on Surveillance Video casing the neighborhood but he pulls out a gun. Now, food truck owners are doing business differently. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in West Philadelphia for us tonight. Chris . Reporter well, dawn, he works seven days a week to feed his family and hes been known to feed other people down on their luck without any money. Well tox night, this food truck owner here in West Philadelphia who had a gun pointed to his head says he doesnt feel safe around here any more. Shaw ramon has been cooking up halal food from his truck on 45th and walnut street since he immigrated from pakistan a year and a half ago. Hes never had a problem here until monday night. Showed me the gun like he shoot us and he say give me the money. Reporter Police Released this Surveillance Video of a man who pulls up in a darkcolored chevy malibu calmly walks down 45th street towards this food truck. And in a matter of a minute, police say he entered the back of the truck and put a gun to ramons head and got away with hundreds of dollars in cash, vitter yo captured the man just before and after the robbery. These people are out there freezing in these trucks trying to make a few dollars for their families. Reporter Police Detectives say the man struck again two hours later a mile and a half away. This time a food cart at 34 many and lancaster on the campus of drexel university. Again, the victim held up at gun point where the guy got off with hundreds of more dollars. Enters this truck points a gun to the persons head and demands the money. Takes it and gets back in the car and they do the same thing, gets in the car and drives off. Reporter customers tell us hes frequently giving away free food to those with no money. He now doesnt even feel safe in his own neighborhood. We do very hard work. Like safe. Reporter now police say a total of 1500 bucks was taken from both trucks but they also say with Crystal ClearSurveillance Video they believe someone in southwest or south philadelphia knows this guy. They are asking them to call southwest detectives. Iain . Lets hope it happen, chris. Thank you. You dont need me to till its bitterly cold outside. No wonder there arent many people walking about on the ben franklin parkway and that means anything that may have melt dad is now freezing yet again. And that could mean for another tricky morning commute from everyone tomorrow. So kathy, how cold exactly is it going to get . Too cold, dawn especially for mid march. We should be warming up with the days getting longer but were not. In the deep freeze with a northwesterly wind that continues to be at least ten to 20 miles an hour. Temperatures right now mainly in the 30s its 25 in the poconos. 33 in wilmington. 33 in millville and 35 in atlantic city. So the whipped chills that feel like reading is even lower. Feels like 26 in the city. Feels like 19 13 rather in the poconos it feels like 27 in dover. The good news is, the winds are going to diminish bad news is temperatures are going to fall quickly and well wake up to temperatures in the 20s through the i95 corridor to the south and west and waking up to temperatures in the teens to the north and west of the city. Pottstown 18. Reading 18. Allentown 19. The poconos it will feel like only 17 degrees tomorrow morni morning. Of course, the st. Patricks day forecast is coming up. We have weekend snow and rain to talk about and then watching the potential for a developing coastal storm that could throw back additional snow for sunday. Well talk more about that coming up with your seven day forecast but for certain the refreeze is immediate concern for tonight and tomorrow. All right, kathy, thanks. We told you last night about the citys warning about that falling ice. You really really need to be careful out there with high winds and fluctuating temperatures. Ice and snow can come sliding right off buildings especially high rise and thats why officials with l and i along with the Streets Department have been out surveying any sites that could be problematic. Potentially dangerous areas are being blocked off and warning signs are up all across the ci city. A bucks county boy is still in the hospital after a tragic accident while playing with a family dog. The fiveyearold was found unconscious face down in the snow outside his home in no one knew what happened at first. Police now believe the dog grabbed the boys scarf and pulled it tight to cut off his air supply. The child is under heavy sedation at chop tonight. Possible justice for some burglary victims. Police say they may have perm belongings to return to some people this all involves more than a Million Dollars worth of stolen goods. Investigators say some of it was then sold philadelphias jewelers row. Fox 29 dave kinchen reports from center city. Top notch watches, precious bracelets, valuable coin collections and other stolen items on display by multiple officials who want them back in the hands of the rightful owners. Prosecutors say the goods were swiped in an elaborate burglary ring that spanned all across the Delaware Valley an allegedly under every ended up jewelers row stores of shahaz. We found him at one of his stores today. Are these allegations true . Were you selling stolen goods . Did you know they were stolen. Reporter he refused to open the door and comment what investigators are calling 1. 5 million in stolen goods. He was charged with belonging to corrupt organization and receiving stolen property and has since been released. Four other men were also charg charged. These defendants effectively targeted high value homes and specifically looked for jewelry, designer purchases and cash. Reporter detectives say they recovered 50,000 stolen pieces of jewelry and other valuables grabbed at numerous highend homes between august of 2015 and july of 2016. Extensive ring that investigators say were responsible for eight burglaries in Montgomery County, six in delaware county, one in chester county, plus alleged thefts in cherry hill and new castle county, delaware. Investigation revealed that these crimes were the product of a sophisticated and organized effort by this criminal enterprise. Reporter police raided his v jewelers store this past january it is now closed. Officials say his home was also searched when they found more suspected stolen goods and buckets along with computers and documents we repeatedly tried to talk with shahaz. We want to get your side of the story. We just want to get your side of the story. Reporter Montgomery County das office announce add creation of the website where you can look at the pictures of that stolen jewelry and file a claim if you believe one of those items might be yours. We have a link to that website on fox29. Com. In jewelers row, dave kinchen fox 29 news. New tonight a local middle schoolteacher facing assault charges. Police in linwood, new jersey, say Kimberly Pesce is a teacher at bell haven Avenue Middle School pulled a students chair backward so he hit his head on the floor back in february. School officials called authorities the day after the alleged assault and Police Arrested her. Upper darby daycare worker accused of shoving fouryearold little girl down the stairs goes before a judge. Sarah gable faces charges in the incident which was captured on Surveillance Video at the child care of the future daycare center. Today the 52yearold woman waived had he ever right to preliminary hearing leaving Court Without comment. Gable scheduled to be arraigned on april 12th. Tonight a pennsylvania pastor facing charges in the death of his own granddaughter but people are divided because the pastors religion rejects modern medici medicine. Roland foster the pastor of the fundamental Faith Tabernacle congregation is charged for allegedly not reporting neglect of his twoyearold granddaughter ella. She died of pneumonia in november. The congregation preaches to place trust in god alone for healing. Kids in the secretary have died in the past of treatable diseases until now no church leaderleaders have ever faced c. Ellas parents are facing Involuntary Manslaughter charg charges. Watch this. See the trunk open . How about the woman jump out. She just saved herself from a kidnapper. Beautiful model posing on the train tracks. Thats where she died and this is her funeral announcement. A secret happening in your neighborhood. Could your teenager be involved in a sex rink . And whoa homeowner finds more dust bunnies in the garage. He found an alligator. Dont turn over to hgtv. Dont do it. Details are disgusting. Alleged sex trafficking ring that ran in part out a northeast philadelphia hotel. 14yearold girl says she was enclaved enslaved and forced to work there. We first told you about this last week and now fox 29 investigates is taking a closer look at sex trafficking in philadelphia. Our Dave Schratwieser goes behind the scenes of the sex trafficking ring and youll find out it could be happening where you least expect it, even in your own neighborhood. Heres dave. Reporter it looks like any other house on this West Philadelphia block. The corner of 51 is the and warren. The place needs a little work, but nothing out of the ordinary. Probably never guess that this used to be ground zero for a big sex trafficking ring. You come in and you go upstairs. Reporter this guy claims to know all about the house want went on here when it was known across the region as the headquarters for the passionate touch. A sex for money operation with its own website and marketing plan. City and federal investigators say it was run by these three men, graham, brian wright and rinaldo,. She got charged with sex trafficking. Do you think thats what it should have been. Thats what it is. Is that what they were doing. Thats what they were doing. Reporter according to this former patron people would come from far and wide to the house. All over. New jersey, maryland, they had a back page. Reporter there was security. They meet you there and you pay them credit, cash or debit. Reporter pay to play arrangement. Sixtyfive dollars half an hour. One hundred dollars for an hour. Its a supply and demand. Demand is there and as long as the demand is there the supply will keep coming. Reporter while the money flowed so did the sex. Especially on the weekends when this former prey patron says the women were basically held hostage. The girls cant come out friday, saturday sunday. Working around the clock. Around the clock. Theyre seeking the people that are not strong. Seeking the people that are not able to say no. Reporter city and federal investigators say this was the pro tow typical sex trafficking operation. With young girls being lured in by the promise of a home, clothes, money and in some cases drugs. Former patron says the girl girs were 18, 19 and 20 years old. Detective kate gordon of philadelphias special victims unit says for some women caught up in sex trafficking operations, the starting age can be as young as 12. Your child could be gone for a few hours and say theyre going to friends house when in reality thats not at all where theyre going. Theyre actual tal hotel with four other people and this is occurring. Reporter detectives gordon and officer ashley, are among half dozen svu detectives and supervisors who have now joined forces with federal Homeland Security investigations, the fbi, the Salvation Army, Us Attorneys Office and the District Attorney on a new task force charged with cracking down on sex trafficking. Number one goal is just to recover these girls, get them out of the situation but then also to go after the people that are doing this to them. Reporter investigators also say they work hard to get young women out of the sex trade and on a better path in life. The Salvation Army plays a vital role. They cover everything from housing to basic needs, clothe clothing. They need care as well as longterm therapy, treatment. Reporter investigators say sex trafficking operations are not just confined to the inner city. They can pop up in neighborhoods like this one in northeast philly. Human trafficking is one these types of crimes that is truly hidden in plane sight. If youre seeing a lot of different people and coming, coming and going, Pay Attention to your neighbors. Pay attention to the cars that are coming and going. Parents need to be aware of what their children are doing online with mobile devices. Girls are being recruited at High School Ages by their pierce. Reporter investigators have a warning for parents of young girls. If you see someone coming home with newer clothes, a brand new phone, language that isnt something you necessarily were aware of before that youre hearing that doesnt quite make sense. Girls are coming from upper middle class homes in the suburbs. Theyre coming from families where, you know, their parents are loving. Reporter dave schratwiese schratwieser, fox 29 investigates. Airline personnel are also being trained to look for young women who may be traveling with men into the city just for the purpose of sex. Of course investigators say if you see something suspicious, you can contact them anonymously information is on our website fox29. Com. Bensalem Police Department trail blazing with new crime testing technology. The Bucks County Department will become the first in the country to use rapid hit id for dna testing. The new technology generates lab quality forensic dna profiles in less than 90 minutes. The citys Public Safety director says this means catching criminals. It can happen faster and the streets will be a lot safer. Its not about necessarily locking up people its about preventing victim tomorrow and that comes by locking getting criminal off the street today. What took us 18 months then took us 30 days now as the da said give us an hour and a half start well get these guys and gals. Some critics say it can be difficult to regulate how dna samples are collected because theres no state or federal oversight. Temple is recalculating the increase to the price of its meal plan which it partly blamed on the soda tax. The university had announced the 6 hike for next year. Mayor kenney though criticized schools for raising fees calling the soda tax a scapegoat. Temple says the Mayors Office raises valid concerns and they are now reviewing the amount of the increase. Well, take a look at this. See that trunk open . And then see the woman jump out . Believe it or not she just saved herself from a kidnapper. Wrong place, wrong time. Imagine trying to run from a volcano. Bruce . Reporter its been a week of snow and sleet and subfreezing temperatures but we found some folks beating the winter blues with the help of a little bit of a prank on mother nature. My story is ahead. Iain. All right, bruce. Keep it here. Dont go anywhere. Now with tomorrow traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Watch for the falling ice everywhere. Even here on the delaware Memorial Bridge where the outside lanes were blocked all day today. Some of the septa bus routes still on detour. Check the system status before you head out that front door tomorrow. Septa. Org or i put links on my facebook and twit pages. Well be in for another icy start to tomorrow but, hey, its st. Patricks day. Well be looking for the leprechauns. Grab your sha lay lee and meet me tomorrow party mcgee good day philadelphia st. Patricks party kicks off at 7 00 oclock. Ill have my breakfast with bob segment in the 9 00 oclock ho hour. Free admission and its free breakfast or for everyone. 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A car speeds away from gas station in birmingham, alabama then a woman you saw her fall out of the trunk. She had just been kidnapped and jumping out was her only option to survive. The woman says a man robbed her, drove her to several atms, took her money. She found the glow in the dark safety latch inside the trunk and Surveillance Video caught the moment she broke out and ran into the store for help. I left her inside a safe place and locked the door and called the police. She was scared, shaken up and she was bleeding on her left leg and left arm. He believes the guy had a gun and tried several times to get some cash out of the atm. Police are still looking for that guy. Aspiring model mourned in Southeast Texas after she was struck and killed by a train. She was also pregnant. The mother of 19yearold Thompson Says she was taking photos along the train tracks one of the last photos. It was used as her funeral announcement. She moved out of the way of an approaching train but apparently did not see another one coming in the opposite direction. Thompsons family and friends held vigil lighting candles and releasing balloons in her memo memory. Now to florida, where pest control took on whole new meaning. Yeah all after a man finds unexpected guest in his home. Yeah this coldblooded guest inside a home on merit island near melbourne where eyes are not deceiving you thats a gator in his guys garage. Trapper was called out to wrangle the 6foot gator. At first the homeowner thought someone was playing a prank on him. I walked into my garage to get a few things. I went to reach for a box, and i looked down and there was a fake alligator and i thought, who put a fake alligator in my garage . And then i realized when it hissed at me it wasnt fake. It was a 6foot long alligator. Wow the guy then called the wildlife trapper who came to remove the guy but as you can see that gator wasnt very happy about leaving. Not at all. Developing right now, a father found his son dead in new jersey. A live report is coming up next. Kathy, dont say theres more snow coming. I wont say theres more snow but there is. Yeah. We have a warm front and you can see it right there going through chicago. A chance of snow. With that and then a coastal storm could come close enough to bring us additional snow. It will accumulate. Details on that coming up. And what is this seniors on bar crawl. You got to hear this one. Developing story now that were following for you. Murder mystery in elk township, new jersey. Our Shawnette Wilson is live and shawnette a man is dead an family is desperate for answers. Reporter they are iain. They had not seen their day all day sunday. Monday they went looking for h him. Frank fazio is the father. He found his son 59yearold Michael Fazio dead inside. He lived in tiny house behind his parents home on buck road in elk township. The victims father says his hands and feet were tied up. A bag taped and placed over his head. His body was covered in blankets and put underneath an overturned couch in the living room. Investigators say he was assaulted and say the cause of death based on an autopsy is mechanical and a position a fix ya. The carpet was stained with blood. Frank says his son struggled with drinking but was good guy when he was sober. He does not know who would have wanted him dead. So far, no arrests have been made. When i come back at 11 00, hear what michael father says his son did just days before he was murdered. He wonders if it had anything to do with what happened. Well see you at 11 00. Back to you. Shawnette, thank you. Its been raging controversy now for weeks but more members of congress say they do not have evidence that trump tower was wire tapped during the election. The Senate Intelligence committee agreed today with yesterdays House Judiciary Committee findings the White House Press secretary says hes not backing down much listen to this back and forth. So, again i saw no indication of wire tapping. I think the president has been very clear when he talked boise and he talked about it last night. He talked about wire tapping. He meant surveillance. Hold on. I understand that, jonathan. Where was your passion and where was your concern when they all said there was no connection to russia . Where was it then . Crickets from you guys. Meanwhile President Trump suggested new evidence will soon be available to congressional investigators. A federal judge in maryland also blocked the white house travel ban. We told you last night a judge in hawaii stopped hours before it was supposed to be in effect. Would have block travel from six majority muslim countries. Trump Administration Calls the ban search for protecting against terrorism but Many Democrats are hailing the ruli ruling. Philadelphia mayor jim kenney saying tonight the ban would be trade be trade our founding principles. Meanwhile new Budget Proposal from President Trump. The plan includes an increase of 54 billion in defense spending all set by taking money from more than a dozen other agenci agencies. And that includes huge cuts to the state department, the epa and the National Institutes of health. The proposal also ends federal support for the national undocument of the arts and can you tell us for eliminating program that helps poor people heat their homes in the winter. He fought for our country in world war ii. He lives in our area but now this elderly veteran says hes on the verge of being evicted i was because of a bad check. He has dementia and even with his family stepping in to help, its a challenge our hank flynn has the story for us. First 1200 wound up being 1200 black recruits and we were in the same camp. Reporter 92yearold Alfred Johnson is is a proud world war ii veteran. A marine in fact one of the first black men drafted into the us marines in world war ii. We fought them out there on the boat off the california coast all the way out to headed towards about 150 miles away from japanese area down there. Reporter okinawa. Mr. Johnson suffers from early stage dementia recently mistakenly wrote a rent check on an account that didnt have the funds something hes got no history of doing but set off an ugly and confusing series of events. So they told you theyd take a personal check. The office did. You sent them a personal check. I hand carried it. They refused it and charged you late fees for being late. All these other fees. When you tried to pay it on time. Yes. So thats the thing. You dont have beef with owing the rent. Off beef with with the fees. Fred johnson is his soninlaw and easies felled up with the landlord lindy management he and his wife have taken over power of attorney mrt the older man from getting notice of eviction proceedings as well several hundred dollars in additional fee charges. Were not paying these fees for march. Not doing it. Ill go to court first. If news is the whole mess is selled we reached out to lindy and they told no eviction proceedings were final they added out of respect for the johnsons theyd wave the additional fees if the johnsons paid alfreds march rent which fred told me did he today. Its okay if you write them a bank check just for the cost of the march rent. We did that. Right. Be happy to. Be happy to. Do away with all of this, we had no idea we were still in legal action. Older johnson covered mr. Johnson financial affairs. All is well that ends well. What about us . What do we do when its time to step in and help a parent, a grand parent who is struggling . Dr. Mike cirigliano says it happened with his mom and it could happen to anyone. Theres a lot of people out there that dont realize how vulnerable older folks are. Especially if theyre memory is not what it was and theyre starting to develop the signs did you have mensa so you got to really be involved. Take look around. Make sure that theyre eating. Make sure theyre cleaning themselves. And if they arent, then it might be time to get help. Dr. Mike adds that if your folks are having trouble driving as they get older have them tested and if they cant pass, dont let them drive. The hardest decisions are sometimes the right ones and the toughest ones to make i just hope in the future i can help my parents the way that johnsons have. Im hank and thats my take. Luckily it all worked out for them. Exactly. Tough situation. All right. Wrong place wrong time. Imagine trying to run from a volcano. Wawas newest gimmick happening just on wednesday. You can earn some money. 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Delaware county based Company Announcing today its launching a threemonth campaign to find some new talent. Wawa looking to fill Customer Service and Management Level positions and it will host wawa career wednesdays this month and next for people interested in those positions. Well no immediate for a beer run amazon now delivers alcohol. Prime members in columbus and cincinnati, ohio k have beer and Wine Delivered to them for free in two hours. Hundreds of popular brands like budweiser and bare foot are part of this promotion and iain theres a charge of 7. 99 for members who want their drinks in less than an hour. Thats your money news tonight. Wow arizona man saved this litter of kittens but they almost didnt make it. The guy who wants to stay anonymous found a box of kittens and alerted the neighbors but when the neighbors reappeared they had a shovel and looked like they were going to kilt cats so thats when the guy had some intuition and found the kittens in a trash can. The most ridiculous thing ever. Like the 30 minutes that the cats were probably in there garbage can for me to go and look for them, you know, he could have taken them somewhere. Happy to tell you the kittens are doing just fine tonight. Aww, so cute. Well, who is that . A second grader gets the surprise of his life and well hes playing it cool. Kathy orr i cant believe im saying this has snow in the forecast. I know. Thats right. Not one but two chances. Watching the development of a coastal low. Well talk more about the possibilities coming up. British tv crew was in the wrong place at the wrong time when a volcano blew in italy. The bbc team was on mount aetna along with a group of tourists. Their cameras caught a second of the eruption and then well everyone just ran. Several in the group did suffer minor injuries. A major surprise for a classroom second graders in Montgomery County. The students were told they would have mystery reader but they did not expect this story time reunion. Hey, buddy. Come here. You can say hi. Look at you staying in your chair exactly like youre supposed to. [ applause ] look at that smile. Thats owen and his daddy u. S. Air force mayor major john. He returned from duty in kuwait. The children got to hear all about the majors experience as pilot. He happens to be methacton graduate the students were dressed in red, white and blue for patriots day. Look at that. Good story. This is not good story. Its freezing out there right now. Yeah. Really . Yeah. Outside definitely no place to be just ask our bruce gordon. Hes live in center city. Bruce, how you holding up . Reporter not bad but cold and getting colder. You may see the backhoe behind me and the crew working thon big mountain of snow. Its been a rough Winter Weather week. Mother nature may be playing a little bit of practical joke on philadelphians well tonight we found some philadelphians who wanted to return the favor and put one over on mother nature. Outside the item which are was plum to go well below freezing by the predawn hours of friday and all around were signs of winter. Nature hibernating. But inside the Pennsylvania Convention center the white snow and gray slush replaced by a rainbow of colors nature showing off. Its like a breath of fresh air. Its spring. Beautiful. Reporter of course that beauty is the results of massive fraud. For the expression dumb as a begonia. Trust me its an expression. These flowers just about all of them have been tricked into blooming at just the right time. Well ahead of their natural schedule. Theyre chilled to 37, 38 degrees in early october. Made to think its winter then. Depending on the plant we bring them out in december, january or february and put them in the greenhouse and actually warm them up from the ground actually do underneath heat. We actually add more light to trick them to thinking its spring. Reporter beautiful flowers tricked into performing on this annual late winter stage. These flowers are not that smart basically. Okay. But theyre attractive. Theyre beautiful. Sometimes in life not being very smart but being attractive can get you somewhere. These flowers are a great example. Get you very far all over the world. Reporter it happens with humans too youre saying . Yes. Report roar this years show has a dutch theme with more than 130,000 colorful examples of hollands most beaut fell exports. You know these flowers or the mouth theo flowers in the world, dont you . Yes. Because theyre tulips. Get it. No, i come on uhuh got that. We get out of this experience especially during the week of snow and sleet and how long wind more than a sight or sound or even a smell. Its a feeling. Theyre promising. They let you know that warm weather is on the way. It reminds you that you can make the city look like this. Reporter well the city crews are trying to do something for pedestrians so tonight. Carving out some gaps and some walkways in the snow. Its going to be a tough sledding tonight because of all that refreezing weve been talking about. But at least at the Pennsylvania Convention center through Sunday Spring has sprung. Iain. Its about time, bruce. Check that out. Beautiful. Bruce, thanks. You know on your radar tonight more bitter cold out there. A chilly night across our area. So is there a chance for that snow to melt or ice soon . Well kathy orr has got details in just 15 seconds. Temperatures struggling to get out of the 30 todays tonight we go back into the 20s and the teens little bit more hope as we end the work week tomorrow. The temperature is 34. It feel like its 26. The winds out of the west at just 10 miles an hour. A huge improvement from earlier today. Right now in philadelphia its 34. 25 in the poconos and 34 degrees in allentown. But it feels colder with that wind. Even though its a 10mile an hour whipped it feels like its 26 in the city. Feels like 25 in reading and the poconos it feels like it is 13. Overnight tonight, we have a clear sky, lighter winds, so cold temperatures and then well watch this warm front thats through chicago move on through late tomorrow night. Some of us will be seeing some rain. Others some snow. The cold air still through the great lakes all the way down to the deep south in florida and behind it, some milder air so it will get warmer eventually. Its just going to take some time and not going to be rea rey in the near future. Dry tomorrow and sunny very pleasant day. Best day of the entire week. By late tomorrow night into saturday morning we see some rain from philadelphia south and east. Cold enough for snow to the north and west. And that continues through the morning into the afternoon in fact in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos, by saturday evening we could have couple inches of snow for the rest of us, it will just be mainly rain. Then all eyes on coastal low that will be developing that could come close enough to push back some snow showers especially in south jersey and all the way up into new york and new england by saturday into saturday night. Keeping careful eye on this. This area of low pressure associated with that warm front that bring us the rain and snow on saturday. Will move off the coast and intensify and that is what it has the opportunity to push back that moisture into the philadelphia area. Keeping a careful eye on how close and how strong this storm system ends up being. In the meantime, were just talking about cold rover night. The low temperature in the city 23. In the suburbs and the teens winds will be slacking off making it feel comfortable but even colder. During the day tomorrow the high 41. A beautiful st. Patricks day. On your seven day forecast from the weather authority, saturday you have the snow and rain showers. Most of us seeing the rain. The high 45. Sunday morning snow showers possible. 43. And then getting milder spring begins next week with 40s and 50s but remember the normal high this time of year is eight round 52 degrees. So still below average. Well send it over to you. Gang it was supposed to be easy first round game for villanova far from. What jay wright had to say about the game might actually shock you plus the flyers got a big win against the penguins yesterday but they needed to follow that up with a clutch within against the devils. See if theyre play hopes will still be alive next in sports. One seed is supposed to destroy a 16 seed like destroy. But villanova came out awful against mount saint marys they really looked bad early they went the first five minutes without scoring. They looked nervous confused something you dont see from a championship level team but luckily they got it together in the second half. Dante did you vincenzo came off the bench to give them a spark wildcats within 7656 this game is a lot closer what that score says. Jay wright credited mount saint marys. Trying to figure out what happened. This is our 35th game. I didnt think we were capable of that. I thought we were capable of coming out and, um, missing some shots. Coming out and make something mistakes but the level of energy we started the game with i just didnt think we were capable of that. Im in a little bit of shock myself. Fix that. Having you go to the elite eig eight. Princeton notre dame. In there second half notre dame with the dunk. Colson created 11point lead but princeton would fight all wait back and get a shot at the end to win this game. Right here. If it goes you win. But no. They couldnt get it done. Notre dame survives 6058. To the flyers yesterday they got lucky they were able to beat a tired Penguins Team and pick up two points in the wild card race. They need to continue that mow moan tum against the devils. But they laid and egg. The flyers already down threeone in this one trying to make a game out of it. Right here with the shot and Brayden Schenn with the perfect redirection. But the devils would just take over after that. Look at this. Taylor hawk gets oneonone steve mason and gives him the Allen Iverson like cross over but on skates. Mason would leave the game that. Play with the lower body injury basically got shook. The flyers get crushed sixtwo. Now to perform former Sixer Nerlens Noel he was happy to leave the sixers. The big man situation wasnt going to work. He knew it and he was right. He had a whole lot of love for philadelphia. A day before coming back to philly to play the sixers for the mavericks brought everyone cheesesteak at chickies and petes signed autographs and just expressed how much he loves this city. Meant the world to me. Im very loyal person myself, and i strive off of being real and doing the right thing in life. I really wanted to stay on the right path and i thought this was great thing to show how much i respected the experience. He wanted out badly but he loves the city and he loves the guys he played with. I mean he hangs out with them all the time even though hes in dallas. He comes back hanging out with them tonight. Great dude good Everybody Loves philadelphia. Many players. They leave and still love it they come back. What about the bracket . How you doing. Im doing okay. Although arizona could mess everything up for me tonight. They better win. Ive only been wrong once. Okay. Im not doing one. My daughter is doing one. All right. That will do it for us here at 10 00 oclock. Iain page standing by with whats coming up at 11. Meet the man who has been overcoming obstacles his entire life. Even after losing a leg how hes inspiring other force Goodness Sake and your wake up weather and seven day forecast for the first five minutes. See you right after this. This march score the perfect basket. Buy 8 participating products in one transaction and get a fandango movie ticket. Up to 10 total value. Only at my giant. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. Mystery tonight thats got local family devastated. Their son is dead. Police say someone tied him up and suffocated him. Thanks for joining us, im iain page much his parents made the gruesome discovery and say their sons home had been ransack. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live in woodbury, new jersey, tonight. Shawnette, i know you talked to his heart broken parents. Reporter i did. And you know they said they hadnt seen him in a day iain which they say is unusual because their son actually lived in a tiny house behind them on the same property. My wife come in. Shes hollering for him. She couldnt find him. Reporter frank fazio and his wife were stunned when they opened the door to their sons tiny house just behind their home on buck road in elk township. He took me inside to show me the plac