Caesars, harrahs, tropicana and trump taj mahal and the timing is not good for those casinos. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. All of this of course just days away from the july 4th weekend. Our dawn timmeney has been following developments all day and joins us live from Atlantic City. Dawn . Reporter well, iain and lucy, the union says it pick the Holiday Weekend to send a lot loud and clear message this serious. Union spokesperson tells me they do not want to strike but they are prepared if need be. Members of unite local 54 are getting in strike mode today strike captains are being trained and science being made if the event the union 6500 casino workers hit the picket lines friday. I work at ballys for 26 years almost and i make 8 and 99 cents an hour. Elaine malloy is a cocktail server. She says in the last 10 years, shes only gotten an 80cent an hour pay increase total. She says when the casinos were struggling in 2011 workers each gave back 1,500 to keep the industry a float along with other concessions. Now the business is up they made a good profit that theyve given themselves a pay increase and bonuses and incentives. So now its time to give back to the workers that helped you out in 2011. Reporter local 54 is in contract negotiations right now with five casinos. Caesars, harrahs, ballys, trump taj mahal and the tropicana. If a deal is not reached, house keepers, porters, hospitality workers and bartenders could all work off the job during one of the resorts busiest weekends. We need to make a stand. Obviously, doing this on fourth of july weekend really sends a message to the company that thats how serious we are about it, that were willing to take a hit as well. Reporter jason knight has been bartender at harrahs for over nine years. He says its tough to make ends meet when prices go up and your wage stays the same. It affects you on a daily basis. Of time you leave your house whether its gas or whether its groceries or youre going out to dinner, whatever it is and the fact that our pay hasnt increased it affects you every day. Reporter Atlantic CityOfficials Say a strike is not in anyones best interest but county president marty small does empathize with the workers but small says the timing is not good. Especially during the fourth of july weekend. It will put a burden on not only our Public Safety but other people in the city. Businesses will be down and we looking for business to go up. Reporter neither caesars entertainment, trump taj mahal or tropicana returned my calls for comment. Average pay for these casino workers is 11. 74 an hour. They say they just want a decent middle class living. Iain . All right. Dawn, thank you. Atlantic city councilman says the city can save some money by eliminating two Council Seats. Council president marty smalls says getting rid of two of the three at Large Council seats could save the city 480,000 over four years. Those Council Seats do not actually represent any particular neighborhoods. Small says only at one large seat is needed to break potential ties among the six ward council members. It will not and i repeat it will not deter the residents from representation because everyone should be allowed to award representative and we have the extra person for tie breaking purposes on a vote because you never want to put that power in any mayors happened when hes serving as mayor and council on decisio decisionings. Full council will consider the proposal tomorrow but even fit agrees state lawmakers would still need to approve it and city voters would need to give eight final okay. New developments in the terror attack on instant bull airport. The dental toll from the bombing just rose to with the death of airport worker at the hospital a short time ago. 239 people are recovering from injuries after the latest attack on a major world city. Tonight, investigators are trying to pin down how this happened and who is responsible. Our joyce evans is here now with new information on the attack and its aftermath. Reporter lucy, no americans are among the dead or seriously wounded, and according to authorities in turkey, the Islamic State is responsible. The suspected culprits and the timing of these attacks have airports here in the u. S. Stepping up security. The attack in turkey is changing the way u. S. Airports are operating now with a stepped up Police Presence from boston to atlanta. Authorities assure passengers that behind the visibility display of force is another behind the scenes. Ahead of the busy fourth of july travel weekend. We have as you know security at some of our transportation hubs. Were always on high alert basically here in new york. Reporter three attackers hit the busy airport with guns and suicide belts. The power of the bombs suggest they used weapons grade explosives. Turkeys Prime Minister says one of the attackers blew himself up outside. Two others took advantage of the panic to run inside with guns and more bombs. One american recalls the chaos. What wept through my head was the images you have from paris and orlando that they come around and shoot you now and its the scare you have that theyre coming for you. Reporter president obama spoke witness turkey president reaffirming uss commitment to its allies good well do whats necessary to protect our people. Ive confident that we can and we will defeat those who offer only death and destruction. Reporter now, Authorities Say we can also expect to see tighter security outside our airports including sweeps of vehicles and increased patrols at pick up and drop off zones. Iain . Joyce, thank you. Three possible are in the hospital tonight after a crash in philadelphias juniata park. Skyfox over the scene at l street and hunting park avenue. Police say a city trash truck was going through the intersection when the driver swerved to avoid hitting another car. The truck then flipped on its cidar and hit the stop light. A mailbox an fence. None of the injuries are considered to be light threatening. Judge will not drop the bail for two pennsylvania men arrested last week trying to drive into new york city with a cash of weapons. The attorneys for john cramsey and dean smith asked the judge today to let them post 10 of their 75,000 bail. The judge said no. Kimberly, also arrested hired a new attorney wasnt at todays hearing. Cramsey had posted online he was headed to new york to rescue a 16yearold girl whose friend had overdosed op heroin. It is a Beautiful Day in your fox 29 Weather Authority. If youre able to make it to the beach, it was the perfect way to soak in all of this wonderfulness. We found some weather in Atlantic City and tracking our next chance for rain, though. Lets check in with meter psychologist scott william. Yeah, absolutely beautiful today, lucy. Much improved from yesterday. Felt like a sauna. The humidity was high. Were dry, were comfortable and looking pretty good if youre stepping outdoors for your midweek plans. As we expand the view, you can see really a lot of sunshine, dry conditions all across the area. Theres a light breeze and look at the comfortable temperatures. 84 right now and look at that low humidity. 37 . Dew points right now in the 50 50s. Yesterday they were in the 70s. We have 86 in Atlantic City. 82 in dover. Upper 70s in pottstown. Low spents as we move toward the pocono mountains but those dew points in the comfortable even pleasant category as we take act look at that scale this evening. So if youre stepping outdoors, dry, quiet, no problems whatsoever. But coming up, we are tracking some rainfall chances for the latter part of the week and your holiday forecast. All right, scott, thank you. Only on foxing heroin epidemic hold on philadelphia neighborhood a long time resident phils ajar with drug needles found in his block during just a 20 minute search. Phillys ken segment ton neighborhood has its share of problems. Crime, poverty and drugs. Heroin in particular. And what drug users are leaving behind as parents worried about their childrens safety. Our bruce gordon is live in the newsroom with this story. Bruce, its heartbreaking that people live this way. Reporter it sure s fet federal Drug Enforcement agency reported just this week that deaths from heroin overdose tripled from 2010 to 2014. To more than 10,000 a year and in neighborhoods like kensington the Drug Paraphernalia left behind by users is endangering kids and scaring the heck on the of their parents. This whole strip here is basically shooting gallery. Reporter call aitken sink ton version of an easter egg hunt. Long time resident Bill Richardson walk his block saturday looking for drug needle e found them. How long did it take to you fill that jar . Literally 20 minutes. 20 minutes of walking up and down the sidewalk collecting needles. I filled this whole jar that. Blew my mind. Literally blew my mind. Reporter this neighborhood not far from kensington and allegheny was back in the day full of businesses and decent jobs. This graffiti scarred building at jasper and willard used to be a factory. Now its a pigeon coop. Drugs have taken over. Heroin especially just four days after richardsons search we found lots more needles. They litter the streets. Its like a disease. You got to find a cure for it. Reporter vivian how wars grown daughter lives in home surrounded by these needles. How nervous are you for her safety when you see this drug activity . Not only for her for my grandkids, too. You tell your kids dont touch them but you got little ones thats curious. Touch a stick you dont know what that child has. Its rough. Have a good one, my friend. Reporter Marvin Collins is former crack addict clean for nearly 11 years. He seize the left behind by heroin drivers who drive into the neighborhood, park, shoot up, toss their needles and drive off. Im not here to be a judgmental person but in the day its about our little ones. You got kids walking right through this. They pick the up. Reporter Bill Richardson was surprised to hear how many nude dells we found so soon after his collection effort. Like others we talked to on this block hed love to take his wife and two kids and escape all of this but financially im not stable enough to move. So were basically trapped here. In this environment. Its a playing literally. Its horrible. Reporter neighbors tell me philadelphia bicycle cops do what they can to roust the heroin addicts but the result is simply moving them from one block to another. Leaving behind a trail of needles. Iain these are good people trapped in dying neighborhoods. Its tough to watch. Absolutely, bruce, it is. Thank you. A pennsylvania man walking scary determination outside the white house. Investigators say he may have had a dangerous plan but he didnt get very far. A sign like this would probably discourage most people from going into a home. But it did not stop a woman from florida just wait, though, because this story gets way crazier from here. And you are watching a woman right here on a mission. She just walked a thousand miles without a top. Shes doing it to fight Breast Cancer. Why she says awareness is no longer enough. And coming up at 6 00 surveillance pictures captured at an tm show guy police say has been stealing money the victim is well aware of the crime but doesnt know how it happened. The mysterious theft. New video shows the Moment Secret Service agents shot a pennsylvania man outside the white house. It happened last month but this week a judge told jesse oliver row he had to stay in jail while his case wound through the courts. Police say the 31yearold from ashland refused orders to drop his gun and thats when a secret Service Agent shot him. The judge said he is a danger to both himself and the community. Police are on the hunt for the person who stabbed a camden cab driver. Police say the fiefyearold driver was in his cab near state and front streets around midnight when map got in. Officers say that man asked the driver if he had change for a 50 bill. Well family members say the driver is juan for tuna the boyfriend of his daughter says right after the passenger asked for change he started stabbing for tuna. He got stab in the cab and then he crashed on purpose and the car accident, so it could cause like attention so so everyone would be alerted. And they were. A Good Samaritan rushed over and took for tuna to Cooper University hospital. His family says hes in stable condition tonight. Hayes tack kerr ran off. Philadelphia police are looking for the woman who robbed a man in the citys olney section. Police say a man was walking out christian express store on the 5200 block of north fifth street on june 6ing a woman showed him a gun and ordered him to drive her to his house. She choked the victim and stole his car, cash, a tablet, wash an necklace. Jury finds a local dr. Guilty in running a pill mill where he legally illegally distributed drugs generating millions of dollars. Authorities say william j. Obrien the third who has offices in philadelphia and levittown ran the drug operation with help from the pagans motorcycle club. Obrien was found guilty of more than 100 counts of distribution of controlled substances. Dispensing hundreds of thousands of painkillers. Hes now facing a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years. To a story you saw first on fox. Search for a serial bandit. The fbi needs your help to find the man who was robbed 10 local banks since 2012 and no ordinary criminal. This guy couldnt seals his face with various props he also wears a large straw hat. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has his story. Reporter . Very calm, collected and professional for lack of a better term. Reporter he uses disguise that is catch your attention but conceals his identity so well that investigators have been trying to track down this serial bank robber since 2012. Lets roll up and do this. I think theres planning and some of the evidence points to that. There is preplanning. Reporter considered armed and dangerous the fbi has been hot on the trail of this guntoting bandit since his First Bank Robbery in horsham four years ago this month. First rob before he he was wearing a suit and tie an straw hat. We dubbed him the straw hat bandit. Reporter also the hoodie look. The full veil with a golf hat ensemble and just a plane white pillow case with two eye holes cut out. Hes also dressed up. Sporting a shirt and tie in several of the robberies much this time with a fishing hat, red bandana and sunglasses. And of course the fbi says theres always gloves, a gun and very few words. Give me the money. Stay calm. Be fast. No dye packs. Reporter this serial bank robber target bucks and montgomery counties. Struck from royersford to Plymouth Meeting from yardley to schwenksville, and twice here in ambler at two different banks. The bandit has also gotten into several bank vaults. Heres the fbis latest sketch. Agents believe hes in his 50s, 6foot to 6foot two, they want an arrest before anyone gets hurt. He could step to the teller and take a shot at them. We dont gnome hes always going to be a danger. Reporter Dave Schratwieser fox 29 news. The serial bandits last bank robbery was almost a year ago in dresher. The fbi believe hes cased other banks but walked away because the situation wasnt quite right. Agents dont know why hes gone quite and theyre hoping a reward and the images you just saw will lead to an arrest. Anti gun group joins two philadelphia area congressmen in calling for an end to violence. Cease fire pa joined together with area leaders to observe the national day of action to disarm hate. The group also paid special recognition to congressman Brandon Boyle and bob brady for their rolls in last weeks sit in on the house floor of the representatives. My question is, what are we going to do . I mean, how many moments of silence are we going to have . What does that accomplish . A moment of silence does nothing. We need to act. Congressman brady says hes proud to have a zero rating from the nra because of anti gun stance. The 2016 wawa welcome america festival dozens of events leading up to the fourth of july. Today it offered free admission to the rodan museum. Fox 29 inside the museum along the ben franklin parkway where it look like a lot of people advantage of the deal. Wawa welcome america festival of course ends with a big concert on the fourth of july. Wild police chase ended in dramatic fashion with one officer nearly running over the man they were after, but he got back up and he kept on running much how officers finally caught him. And beware the next time a facebook friend reaches out. It could be a scam. The new scheme targeting your profile and your friends. Like that abby road profile. Local children overcoming tremendous challenges showing theyre not alone. The special party with some very special pups on a mission. Pennsylvania state senators approved today the houses 31 billiondollar budget plan. It cleared the senate with 47three vote with minor changes. The house passed its version just a day before and includes a 5 spending increase about half of what Governor Tom Wolf proposed the new spending is for public schools, prisons and Human Services bunk among on the things. Pennsylvanias new fiss confidential year starts on friday. In canada arc deadly house explosion has forced dozens of people out of their homes in ontario. The blast killed one woman and injured nine others much the force of it damaged at least two dozen homes. Officials say residents cannot go home until they secure the area and they dont know how long thats going to take. No word yet on what set off the explosion. President obama has just arrived in canada to a 10 north american Leaders Summit for the final time. The president is meeting canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau and mexican president enrique pena in ottawa. While this is president obamas final summit meeting it is Prime Minister trudeau first. The president will have oneonone meeting with both leaders in addition to a meeting with all three. A fastmoving wildfire in california forces hundreds of evacuations as it gross to roughly 300 acres. The fire broke out yesterday on a trail about 50 miles northeast of sacremento. More than 250 firefighters battled the flames and triple digit temperatures. Officials are now saying the fire has slowed down while some residents are still out of their homes. One couple said she feel fortunate to be safe. Im just happy were together as a family and got the important things out of the house and thats all that real reelly matters right now. At this point the fire is holding within the retardant lines. We dont have immediate structure threat. Officials say their biggest concern now is changes in the weather as firefighters continue to battle that fire. A dramatic arrest in houston, texas. Police officers used their suv to take down a man they were after police in houston. So they got call to go to a home tuesday because of an intruder. When officers rolled up several people started to run. One guy ran into a field. The guy you see right there, where an suv, well, sideswiped him, right . Then a Police Chopper landed and an officer got out didnt that, tackled, brought him down. No one apparently, though, is hurt. A sign like this would probably discourage most people from going inside this house but it didnt stop a woman from florida. Just wait, though, this stories gets encase eighty three from there. Are you a fan of walnuts go ahead grab another scoop. Scientists have just discovered they may help you age more gracefully. Scott . Well, lucy, beautiful conditions on this wednesday, low humidity but how long will it last . Were track something thunderstorms as early as friday and will that System Impact your Holiday Weekend . New information next. All right. Heres live look at lake wallenpaupack. The rain is long gone. Beautiful day and were looking ahead to the Holiday Weekend our next round of rain. Meteorologist Scott Williams will have what to expect. The death toll in triple suicide bombing in istanbul, turkey, has risen to 42. Dozens more people are injured. Three people attacked at a turk airport yesterday. One of busiest airports in the world. Authorities say all three terrorists arrived by taxi the first walk into the terminal opened fire. Then blew himself up near xray machines much during all of that chaos, a second attacker ran upstairs and blue himself up. Meanwhile, a third attacker waited outside and blue himself up as people flooded out in a panic. Authorities believe that isis is behind the attacks. Some cassone know workers in Atlantic City are preparing for a possible strike. Workers under local 54 say it will go on strike on friday if it cannot reach an agreement with five casinos they include ballyss caesars, harrahs, the trop and trump taj mahal. Union president bob mcdevitt said workers dont want to strike but theyll hit the picket lines if they dont get fair deal. The strike could affect as many as 6500 casino workers. To say authorities had a wild morning in the tampa, florida, ear just doesnt really quiet cover it. Police say someone called 911 about woman who was high on heroin. That woman ran no a condemned home but that was just the beginning. Foxs axle bank picks it up from there. Reporter in any language, a house with this sign is nowhere you want to be. Why somebody would tear away the seams of the tarp and make entry into the home is beyond me. Reporter but thats what 25yearold shaina, allegedly did early this morning. Police say she was high on heroin and hiding after an unidentified neighbor called 911. She wound up in a home being treated for termites. Its just so crazy. What these drugs can do to you and you end up doing things like. Reporter fire foots wore hazmat suits. She was screaming and yelling. And every time we tried to get close to her she would run. Reporter after an hour, firefighters say she ran under the house fitting between the wood slats. Firefighters ripped off the protective tarp. Well stabilize the situation and ventilate the structure and make the scene safe for us, make the scene safe as possible for her, and we stay here all day if we had to. Finally we heard one of our fireman yell ive got her, ive got her he was right here at this corner right here. It took three firefighters and two Police Officers to get the girl into custody. She is very lucky. She is very lucky. She will be charged with violating probation on a previous drug charge. The incident has gotten attention around the neighborhood. In a county that has reportedly had more heroin overdoses than any other in florida. She needs help. A lot of times i see people going into the jail system that really needing to into a Mental Institution where they can get some help. Reporter evan axle bank, fox news. All right. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. What a Beautiful Day out there today. I hope it stays like this. Yeah. I mean yesterday was air you could wear. Today is refreshing air. I mean the humidity is low. Temperatures are comfortable and those dew points have been dropping throughout the day. So as we take live look outside of our studios a nice gentle breeze. Get outdoors and enjoy after the broadcast, of course, were looking at 84 degrees right now. Look at that humidity at 37 . The due point the measure of moisture in the atmosphere any time its below 60, thats when we talk about it feeling really comfortable and pleasant. Winds have been out of the west northwest drawing down some of that drier air across the area. Winds out of the west northwest 10 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. A little breezy down the shore. We have that land breeze as well but look at ultimate doppler scanning the area. Dry, quiet, the coast is closest rain you had to head into sections of new england right now that rain will stay to the north but were watching a system off to the south that will bring us some showers as early as friday. So dry conditions for tomorrow. As this area of High Pressure continues to move on off toward our area. So tomorrow will be beautiful. Sunshine, low humidity and then were watching this system thursday night into friday morning. It will continue to move a little farther toward our area increasing the cloud cover, lift in the atmosphere and some scattered shower chances so well zoom in a little closer. Skipping tomorrow because it will be nice. But heres the clock. 7 00 a. M. When youre watching good day theyll be down in wildwood it looks like it will be cloudy, member a couple of showers around during the day to start. Then better chances as we move toward the afternoon we get little more daytime heating. You can see by lunch moving toward 2 00, 3 00 in the afternoon dotting the map scattered showers and up that storms. Once again friday our next chance for some scattered showers any time during the day. Temperatures right now, looking pretty good. We have upper 70s pottstown. 78 in reading. Low 80s millville. 86 degrees look at that the warm spot with that land breeze in Atlantic City. The dew points they are dropping into the low 50s for the pocono mountains we have a dew point in the 50s as well in philadelphia. Upper 50s in Atlantic City. So once again, that scale remember yesterday it was oppressive with the humidity with those dew points above 70 but right now those dew points in the pleasant to comfortable category and thats where it will stay overnight and during the day tomorrow. So upper 50s in the burbs. Mid 60s in the city for tonight and then tomorrow, mostly sunny, beautiful conditions kind of set similar to today with that low humidity. And what about down the shore for the Holiday Weekend . By friday, those scattered showers around, temperatures low 80s. Saturday right now looking beautiful. 79 degrees. 80 on sunday. And then on monday, the fourth of july, sun giving way to clouds. Maybe a late pop you haveup storm but the majority of your saturday, sunday and monday is going to be dry. Water temperatures climbing up into the upper 60s, low 70s. Here at home, nice again for tomorrow. Scattered storms around on friday and then look at the weekend. 86 on saturday. 88 on sunday. Then monday sun giving way to clouds. We should stay dry watching a southern system that will definitely bring some rainfall our way by tuesday. All right. The fourth looks good early. It does. Clouds will roll in and watching that southern system. Ill be holding down the fort for all of us guys on the holiday. Thanks. Watch the fireworks from the rooftop. Florida officials are warning of a deadly summer predator and you cant even see it hiding in the water this thing does. The way this water enters your body that could really put in you danger. And look out the next time a facebook friend reaches out. It could be a scam. The new scheme targeting your profile and your friends. Coming up new at 6 00 new jersey gas prices jump top among the highest in the nation . Say it isnt so. Right before huge travel weekend, too. Something big is about to happen. That could make it a done deal. Pennsylvanias capital city drying out. Severe thunderstorms slammed harrisburg with nearly 2inches of rain in a very short amount of time yesterday. That water stranded drivers and roads quickly became rivers of sorts. The flood water was waste deep in some parts of the city. Thankfully, no one is hurt. And harrisburg has a couple more days before another round of rain on friday. Pope francis asking pilgrims in saint Peters Square to pray for people of turkey today after that attack on instant bull airport. The pontiff speaking during prayers on saints peter and paul day adding that quote may the lord convert the hearts of the violent. Pope francis last visited turkey in november of 2014. Back here in the u. S. A dangerous killer is lurking in the waters of florida. Making things scarier you cannot see it with the naked eye. Officials in the tampa area are warning people about an amoeba that breeds in fresh water and is behind a form of meningitis. You could even find the amoebas in pools or hose water if theyre not properly chlorinated. Doctors say the risk of infection is very low. Occurring only when infected water is pushed up the nose allowing the amoeba to enter your brain. But if you do catch it, its almost always deadly. Infectious disease dr. Actually lost her son to the disease. Several years ago. His first symptom was a headache. He was tired and sent him to bed. The next morning when, um, my husband went to check on him, he noted that he had a fever and he was hard to wake up, and his neck was stiff. He couldnt move his neck forward. I cant even describe it. Sad many cdc stresses you can only catch this when the water enters your body through your nose and you have no risk of infection from merely drinking water. If youre already a fan of walnuts grab another scoop. Scientists discovered they may help you age a little more gracefully. Well explain. Love walnuts. Love this, too. Local children overcoming tremendous challenges shown they are not alone. The special party with some very special pups on a mission. Howard . The phillies as we know are looking heavily on their prospects for the future. But now they are having issues with one of their top prospects and some more fun memories of buddy ryan. All that coming up in sports. Look out the next time one much your facebook friends reaches out all may not be as it seems. A new exam lets someone steal your Facebook Information and all the Public Information you have on your profile and puts you at risk. Im very cautious already with any of my accounts. I put Strong Passwords on my accounts. Reporter just last week sues learned being careful online doesnt prevent this. I thought my account got hacked. Thats why, um, i changed my password right away but after after talking to my friends they were saying actually its a fake profile. Reporter the moment county man realized someone took his facebook pictures and unique name and created a new account. Luckily his friends let him know right away. They were saying, hey, someone created a fake profile of you with your picture asking us to be your friend and one of my friends said they were also asking for money. Reporter its an easy way for scammers to prey on people. Theyll say things like im out of state, im out of the country i lost my wallet. Can you send me 5,000 . Reporter Reginald Corbett heads a Cyber Security organization. He says these profile are out to steal money or even your identity. Talk about general conversation and over time theyll start to ask you more personal questions. Bottom line, beware if someone who is already on your friend list sends i was new request. Dont just assume they started at a different page or got off facebook for while. Once you verify that it is a fake page you can contact facebook and facebook will go through their process of either verifying or row moving that person or removing that page off of their site. Thanks to sues, his clone page was down quickly non one fell for the scam. I think its more for them than for me. For me i didnt it didnt really do any harm. He was sure to put up a post letting them know about an imposter. If this story has you thinking and youre wondering if youre profile page as been examined, it will show you all of the different web sites associated with your picture. Lindsay whats, fox news. To your health now another reason to keep your weight under control. Obese people may be at a greater risk of developing multiple sclerosis. British and canadian researchers analyzed weather obesity influenced by your genes was associated with an increased risk of that. Those who qualified as obese had a 40 increased risk of developing ms. Study authors say the average age of onset for ms is between 28 and 31 years old. These findings are in the journal medicine. Walnuts may help older adults age more gracefully. Researchers examined data from more than 50,000 womens over three decades and they found older american who 81 or two servings of walnuts a week reduced their risk of developing physical impairments later in life. Well balanced die the key to living a healthy life which includes limiting sugary beverages and foods as well as consuming low fat foods and foods with healthy fats. The findings appear in the journal of nutrition. The healing powers of pet therapy at work at penn vet. That is where a very special party just happened and it is the Fourth Annual best friends barb. It brings together kids with facial differences who are patients at chop and dogs that have had their fair share of health problems. Heres fox 29s dawn timmeney. I really love to see them. Play with them sometimes. Theyre really a adorable. Reporter page wills forms an instant bond with this golden retriever emma. The dog has facial differences just like the 14yearold. I feel sympathy to them because i know what tear going through. Reporter thats the whole idea behind the best friends bash at penn vet. It brings crane knee yall facial patients from chop together in a unique way with dogs that have Similar Health challenges. I think it brings them out of their shell. It brings them into the world. In april i had my 12th surgery and im going to be 10 in august. Reporter mary, has been through a lot in her young life. But she doesnt let it get her down. Everyone is different. Even dogs, too. Its not just humans that are different. Report roar this party celebrates those differences. The children see that they are not alone and that they can be happy just like their four legged friends. Kids can like really open up to them. Reporter lisa, coordinates this Specialized Pet therapy at chop. Her dog is one of the therapy dogs. It really helps put things in perspective when a parent tells you its the first time their kid smiled in week or two weeks. I think it really says something for the joy a dog were king to their bids. Reporter its not just the children. Everyone including the dogs benefit. The dogs get all the attention that they want, and the children theres this special thing between the child and the dog. If we can make kid forget theyre in the hospital for five minutes then its all worth it. Theres one word to describe the best friends, fun. Dawn timmeney fox 29 news. Thats wonderful. You are watching a woman on a mission. She just walked a thousand miles topless. Shes doing it to fight Breast Cancer. Why she says awareness is no longer enough. And coming up at 6 00 new surveillance pictures captured in an atm show guy police say has been stealing money. The victim is well aware of the crime but doesnt know how it happened. The mysterious theft. vo we went to hollywood to ask if americas favorites burgers, tacos and chili could taste just as great made with turkey. Thousands stepped into the jennieo tasting booth to find out. With just one bite, they knew. Now its your turn to make the switch. Prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. Farm, crate, and store. Were focusing on fresh. So you dont have to guess. My giant. The Philadelphia School district says it is on track to fill all available teaching positions by the start of the new school year. Superintendent william hite says the district is already filled almost all of its current vacancies bite end of the week they should about 45 openings left. Its he can treatmently important because its important that students begin the year understanding and forming relationships with individuals who will be with them throughout the year, and the way you start is general the way you will the year will go and the way you will finish. So far the district has hired 531 new teachers. A Breast Cancer survive says we have enough air wearness about the disease and now we need action. She just got the washington, d. C. After walking 1,000 miles topless for the cause. Fox ronica cleary has her stall. Paulette mckenzie leap heart started in biloxi mississippi and walk 1,000 miles to arrive at the capital today. And she did the entire walk topless. I walked topless for many reasons. The number one reason is to take the stigma and the shame away from women who have had the double mastectomies without reconstruction. We have no reasons to be asham ashamed. You know, my walking across the country topless with no shame has healed so many women. Beyond removing the stigma paulette wants to see Health Care Reform associated with the cost of the treatment. She says she was lucky to have car and furniture to sell to help cover her costs and she knows many women are not as fortunate. She arrived today on her 50th birthday a milestone that was incredibly important to her. This birthday is special. Because, um, so many women didnt see 50. They fought the same battle so im celebrating them and thats why it was so important for me to reach the capitol, you know, on my 50th birthday. Leap heart caught the attention of movie producer her story was chronicled in star story a full length documentary. They begin filming at the beginning of her journey which began april 30th. She wears yellow, not pink, in her walk. I dont want to give them a pretty story wrapped up in a pretty pink bow about Breast Cancer because thats not what it is. This is it. Across my chest. Leap heart says yellow is the color of healing and yellow is the new pink because we dont need any more awareness, we need a cure. Gofundme page has been helping leap heart with costs and shes been chronic link her journey on facebook. Good days taking over wildwood friday but alex holley and mike jerrick already got a chance to hit the beach. Check it out. Its a good day down the shore. Lets hit the beach. Who wants it . There we go. They look like they need towels. Wait, wait, move over. Move over. How you doing . Its mike jerrick. We love you guys. Enjoy your towel. You work so hard on this. Ive been doing it for years. Which one is yours. Thank you so much. Lets get a pic. Nothing like the beach in the summertime. So cute. Yay its a good day down the shore. You want a towel, too . There we go. Thank you. You got it, man. Every morning i watch you guys. Boom you like our new towel i think its pretty but we have one thats a little better. One of us is going to get hurt. Fox 29. Next up. Wildwood. Thats so fun dont miss good days wildwood show this friday the crew will be at shell lineage and the boardwalk and the mazda will be as well. Dont forget you can enter the contest to win that mazda cx9 once a day. How cool would that be just log on to fox29. Com. Tonight at 6 00 were just days away from one of the biggest weekends of the year down the shore. But could a strike ruin Atlantic City derail your plans. Intense talks happening now. And people in this neighborhood call it a shooting gallery. But not for the reason you might think. Needles are dropping more quic quickly they can get picked up. Options neighbors say theyre now considering. Live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 6 00. First at 6 00 a story youll see only on fox. A fed up resident of one of philadelphias most drug infested neighborhoods takes up a collection of heroin needles. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. That. Site is troubling to say the least, and so is what we found in that very neighborhood today. Our bruce gordon is live in the newsroom now with the story. Bruce, youre just back from kensington. Reporter neighborhood that is in many ways dying. Once filled with factories and jobs, now covered with discarded paraphernalia from the heroin epidemic that is killing users and endangering those around them it. Blew my mine. It literally blew my mind. Reporter Bill Richardson took a walk last saturday from this longtime on east willard street. He was looking for drug needles. And he found them, man, did he find them. 20 minutes of walking up and down the sidewalk collecting needles i filled this whole jar. Its a playing literally. These drugs. Its horrible. Reporter it wasnt always this way. Many years ago, this neighborhood near ken sipping ton and allegheny was full of decent paying jobs. Richardson points to a long vacant Brick Factory building now a rest stop for passing pigeons