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Snow showers and rain showers moving through the midwest and as this is starting to move into portions of pennsylvania. We have a little mix in South Central pennsylvania from had harrisburg back down through hageers town and that will spread in the philadelphia area throughout the evening hours. Even a little bit of rain showing up on radar right now but not sure that is making it to the ground. Big one is tomorrow night into Tuesday Morning. Out ahead we have winter storm warnings in effect, this is for philadelphia, bucks, montgomery up through mercer county, in new jersey. This extend into northern new jersey, but also encompasses all of south jersey. Winter storm watch out for western suburbs that includes the poconos, lehigh veil back through Berks Chester and all of delaware this will be upgraded to a winter storm warning or Winter Weather advisory at some point tomorrow. Highest accumulations will be expect the the the further are north and east that you go. We have a blizzard warning for ocean county. This is same time frame where highest amount of snow will be but because this is a potent strong storm we will get a ton of wind with it. That will cause worst blowing and drifting. White out conditions a along the Central New Jersey coast. Temperatures right now coming off of a pretty decent january after afternoon. Were well above freezing. Fortytwo in philadelphia and wilmington. Mid 40s south and east. Where you might see rain showers and a bit of the mix over tonight and early tomorrow morning. Temperatures in the 30s north and west. Lets time it out, round one heading in to tonight. This evening you wont have any problems until probably ten or 11 00 oclock when the snow starts to move in the western suburbs and i have heard people are already make ago lot of preparations smart to do so, you can still do that for next couple of hours. By midnight here is that snow moving in, four or 5 00 a. M. We have light snow band and then that will coast road for morning drive. We are not expecting a lot of snow out there tomorrow morning. The however, it is the timing that will cause the the issue. So expect a slower commute. Throughout the the day we will get a lull, just on and off snow showers but right here this more organized looking ban of rain and snow that is beginning of this strengthening coastal storm, that does move through and bring us snow tomorrow morning. Reintensify off shore and spin this snow band back in east to west. Here is our time line for now. Slippery morning drive for tomorrow. The there is a break tomorrow have afternoon. By night heavy at accumulating snow will move in. It will be wind which blowing and drifting snow especially along the coast. That is where worst of the snow will be. The storm moves out late tuesday afternoon. So snow showers arrive after midnight, 30 in the city, 24 in the winter suburbs. Tomorrow on and off snow. Watch for slippery road. Heavier snow at night. Much more on the amounts still to come lucy and iain. Thanks very much, caitlin. As region braces for this major storm penndot is getting a jump on snow look novel preps. Dave kinchin is live in norristown tonight. Just guessing penndot had a lot to say and probably do. Reporter this is a big plan, consider this biggest penndot winter counts salt plan yet this season. They have thousands of tons of salt, behind me that will be loadedded up into, trucks. We will go to some video, and we shot video of the first truck, we saw actually getting salt added into it. It is one of 394 trucks that will be used in this operation what they are doing now is also putting brine on the road and relying on the brine laid from the previous storm friday night that went into saturday. Now they are expecting to have 394 trucks on working starting tonight into tomorrow, and they are looking for one to 3 inches of snow on the ground and they say that they are focused on the morning drive. Heres more on what to expect. The road are going to be saltedded but they will than wet. Some back road may be snow covered. If you are traveling, if you need to get to work at 8 00 and you usually leave at 7 30, best advice is leave by 7 00 oclock because you will need to give yourself a additional time to get to your destination. Reporter as you heard from caitlin moments ago the big storm, big stuff is coming, of course, tomorrow night and that means that penndot will be listing that number from 394 trucks plowing and saltlaying trucks over to more than 400, as well because they will call in more contractors, and penndot wants to remind all of the drivers out there if you have to leave if you have to travel anywhere tomorrow, give all of the trucks enough space to do their work and certainly be safe out there on the road, as well. Iain. Dave, good advice, thank you. Heres a live look at i295 in west deptford, new jersey. Ny dot is preparing to keep highways like this one moving. Our brad satan is monitoring preparations taking place in cherry hill, camden county. Brad, what is going on there. Reporter we have been checking in with the agencies across the state of new jersey to see how preparations are going from the state police, from the department of transportation, as you mentioned, as well as power companies. All of them saying her gearing up for potential as caitlin mentioned of a blizzard over the next 24 to 48 hours. Of course, what that means for the road here if you are doing any driving some very dangerous conditions. Train and bus services massive cancellations that is a possibility and those power outages. The warnings across new jersey are out be prepared marlton pike along the 3,000 lane miles across the state maintained by nj dot and 2600 trucks ready to hit new jersey state roads at the first sign of snow. They are prepared, are you . I actually didnt know snow was coming but now that you mention it im any of us. Reporter as a nurse she knows it could be a busy next few days. I cannot take a snow day so i have to be there it doesnt matter how much it snows. Reporter thanks to friday nights winter blast there is residual salt on the roads so additional preps were told are not needed. Salt trucks will be out at the first sign of snow plowness service after 2 inches fall. From patco to new jersey transit, Public Transportation is expect to be hit, and nj transit announcing late this afternoon there is potential for significant shut downs and for monday through wednesday, they will cross honor tickets meaning a train ticket, for instance will be used for a bus. Also concerned about power outages, pse and g with extra manpower now on stand by. Old man winter may be just warming up, or more appropriate thely cooling down, and we found some washing off that warning a at least for now. We have a foot of snow coming and you are washing your car, how come. It was dirty. I said lets go to a car wash. Reporter toms car will stay inside when the snow starts to fall. Put it in the garage, tail first, will detail it inn side. Reporter staying inside good advice. I got off the phone with the new Jersey State Police who are urging drivers once this storm starts as they always do, not to go outside and not to drive if you dont have to. They do offer these tips, of course, if you are out outside in it to make sure you have a charged cell phone, you want a flashlight, blanket and plenty of water. It is amazing that people that just dont have necessities in a bad situation if it were to arrive. Best advice stay off of the road once this storm hits, iain. That is good advice indeed thank you. Philadelphia International Airport is all about preparing right now. Es specially with the seasons first major storm around the bend been taking a break from the heck tech evening, air sport spokesperson diane, thanks so much for taking a moment diane. With the forecast calling for one big pile up for snow what are you doing right new to prepare . We have been preparing all day for this, lucy. We are totally prepared for whatever Mother Nature is planning to throw at us. Our crews are here and we are ready to go and we have pretreatedded runways and taxiways and precipitation. And, we are, here for the duration, we are expecting this to be a long event. Tonight we are expecting in the overnight hours and into tomorrow morning some light snowfall. But they are really big storm that we are expecting is going to be here tomorrow evening and into tuesday, and, we are fully prepared. We have been in Conference Calls with the airline, as well as city officials. Keep the lines of communication open and discuss what were doing here and is there any issues, and just so everybody is on the same page and is prepared to deal with this storm. Absolutely, dianne, thanks so much for joining us. Good luck out there. Thank you lucy, take care. Shes battening down the hatches right now. You will need a lot have of information before you head out in the morning. Fox 29 morning news starts at four l. A. M we will bring you forecast, Road Conditions and list of School Closings and delays as that big storm approaches. Track storm anytime of the day at my fox philly. Com just click on that weather tap. Were following a developing story, right now along the east river in east falls, along the river in east falls tonight. Body of the missing bucks county teacher has been pull from the river near the skudder falls bridge. Forty yearold Christopher Tully was last seen near city avenue and lincoln drive on january 6th. Police found his body around 1 00 this afternoon n word on how he died or ended up in the river. Rowan University Freshman is out of the hospital following an off campus drive by shooting just past 1 00 this morning. The teen was at party at campus crossing apartments in glassboro. Witness say that is when a car drove by with the spray of gunfire. Police later spot that had car and arrested a man on a warrant from another county. A Philadelphia Police officer is recovering tonight after a drunk driver plowed into his cruiser. It happened just before 2 00 at 52nd and market streets in southWest Philadelphia. Police say a 39 yearold woman slammed in the cops cruiser. Prosecutors charged her with dui and he is in stable condition with neck and back pain. Fire rips through a vacant home in West Philadelphia check out charred remains of this row home on 55th and cedar. Flames took over the house just after 11 00 last night. Three families who lived nearby were affect, the red cross is now assisting a total of 15 people. There is no word yet on how this fire started. Happening right now japan is still trying to rescue a hostage being held biasis. The Intelligence Community is still working to confirm the the authenticity of a video, claiming to show the execution of another japanese hostage. The terror group isis says it has killed 42 yearold haruna yukawa, the the terrorist say that they are Still Holding japanese journalist kenji goto. Still ahead on fox 29 news at six close call you have got to see. Santa ana wind cause a sign to come down why a witness says this amazing video does not tell the full story. A local woman killed in the hit and run during the holidays, her heart broken family is talking about what happened and they are not only after the person who killed her but they have got a message, howard . Allstar weekend for both nfl and nhl but with the super bowl one week away guess what just wont die . You got it, deflate gate. Now im going to tell you how i can tell patriots head coach Bill Belichick is not going papa sometimes, in football, you go for 2. Sometimes, in pizza, you get 2 without even trying. Get a large one topping pizza free when you purchase a large pizza. Order now at papajohns. Com. Papa better ingredients joe better pizza. Peyton better football papa papa johns. More than a month after i police and her family have no idea who is driving that truck, it happened, just before christmas at holmesberg and tonight teresa poseys family is asking for your help. Sabina kuriakose spoke to them as they gathered for a vigil this afternoon. Reporter a mass, at the passing of one month, since three threeyear old teresa posey was struck and killed by a hit and run driver as she crossed state road in philadelphia. Who gives you the right to take my daughter from me. Who gives you that right. That is what i want to know. Teresas mother ana filled with grief and anger at the the driver who hit her daughter and didnt stop, two days before christmas. It happened just before 5 30 in the evening december 23rd aster risa left a prison on state road where she was visiting her boyfriend. Witnesses saw a dark colored older model tow truck or pick up, fleeing the scene at a vigil after mass mourners vowed to never stop looking but whoever was behind the wheel. May we never give up this search, to find out who, rode that truck that killed teresa. He had a lot of friend. She was your friend. She was your friend for life. Reporter teresas family raising money for an reward using this go fund me page goal, 20,000 to keep this case from growing cold. We are looking for a person that is a coward, and wed like him to turn himself in. Get a heart. Come forward please. Reporter family with a broken heart. Everybody loved her. Reporter hoping for the answer that is will help, them heel. Sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. New memorial dedicated to people, lost to gun violence in philadelphia. Memorial, lost unveiled at Overbrook Presbyterian Church and features 203 colored tshirts on structures each mark with the name age and date of death of those gun victims. Does owns have people were there to pray and honor for those lost in the city. Moving along broad street crews installed new piece of fine art. They had task of unpacking and rhea sem blink this 16foot sculpture call the young punch juggling. It now graces front entrance of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts, there is a series latest in the series of pieces showcasing the iconic italian artist connecticut artist robert cap license completed it. Still ahead on the fox 29 news at 6 00 while we brace for snow california has high wind. It is whipping up Serious Problems close calls as well, hear from a man who witnessed this. Next. And a veteran with a troubled past battling ptsd and bipol will air disorder until he find martial ars. The his inspiring turnaround that he hopes will help other vets cope. Penndot is getting ready for what could a history making storm. Our live coverage of the preparations, in the news. Webuyanycar. 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Power is slowly being restored to tens of thousands office people. High wind expected to die down somewhat tonight. Scary. Speaking of which, National Weather Service Confirms a tornado touched down in the state forest are popular with campers in florida. It was a small kind, ef0 but tornado nonetheless. Look at that damage. It ripped apart a 35foot camper. Weather service says twister reached 65 to 85 miles an hour, at least a dozen others were tam pink nearby where the tornado ripped through. No one was injury. President obama and a indias Prime Minister declaring an era of new twist. President on the trip design and, and, crane yenis explained substantial progress is already being made. President obama arriving in new deli on sunday where he was welcomed with the state dinner at the president ial palace. The the president , expressing his desire to have a stronger relationship between the two countries. Our visit reflects deep connection that is long friendship between our peoples. Reporter president obamas visit comes four months after independent yan Prime Minister, met with the president in washington. The the three day trip is expected to include discussions about climate change, Economic Issues and the fight against streamism. Prime minister m o di, speaking out about security saying a global strategy is needed todd fight terror groups. Unaudible. Bring terrorist to justice. Reporter both leaders insist that the trip is not the just symbolic and they say substantial progress has been made. That includes plans to unlock billions of dollars in nuclear trade, into deep and defense ties. Today we have achieved a break through understanding on two issues that were holding up our ability to advance our Civil Nuclear cooperation and we are committed to moving toward full implementation. Reporter on monday president obama is scheduled to become the first u. S. President to a attend indias republic day festivities. The his truck will be cut short to fly to saudi arabia to pay his respects after the death of king abdullah. In new york brian yenis, fox news. Still a ahead on fox 29 news at 6 00 a sea of pink inside a prison. Why officials believe inmates dressed like this it will change the way they behave, behind bars, and on the streets. Lets take a live look outside at interstate 76 in problems here, right now but morning rush hour will look different. Live coverage of the major winter storm and how will it impact you coming up next. A dry evening for those preparations, we have some snow, moving in, overnight, this will be just a warm up for major storm that is moving in monday and tuesday all across the northeast, we will have the latest youre looking live at new york city almost a year ago crews clearing out a foot of snow that fell around that point. Look at these drivers spinning their wheels and some snowplow operators getting stuck in their vehicles where 2. 5 feet of snow fell. Joyce evans in the social media center with how new york mayor bill deblasio is sounding off alarms ahead of up this coming storm. Reporter he is, iain. Mayor deblasio is pleading with resident to take the impending storm seriously and use the utmost caution. To start preparing right now, for what is about to hit them. The city is doing everything, that we necessity how to do to keep you safe, and were asking you to keep yourself safe and your neighbors safe as well. This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before. Well, the potential to be far worse than last years debilitating storm, even worse than any other storm on record going all the way back to 1872. He is asking commuters not to drive to work tomorrow, fearing that they may not be able to drive back home. The mayor says, new york will have 2400 workers covering about 12 hour shifts, for as long as they need them. Iain and lucy. Iain and lucy . All right joyce thanks very much. It comes as in surprise their fox 29 Winter Weather authority is, hopping. All across the northeast. It will be historic for new york and boston. Do not even try to travel there tomorrow night and tuesday. It will not happen. Just shut down. In philadelphia we will have our problems ourselves even though we will not see blizzard conditions that they will. But a a major storm monday into tuesday. Bigger then what we saw, not similar, but any of the storms of last year. It was a crazy winter. We had so much. I think the most we had but most we had for one last year was 13. 5 inches in philadelphia. That is certainly within striking distance of this storm. That will being for two round, one tomorrow morning, far less than the one monday night and tuesday but still it will be basically snowing for two days. Here we go lets start out with ultimate doppler right now. We have been talking about a clipper system since late last week but this little clipper system will move by and intensify rapidly off shore spinning back in the area and bring heavy snow, and gusty wind. So right new this is what we are looking at that mix of rain and snow showers traversing through ohio valley starting to move into western and South Central portions of pennsylvania right now. The it is a mix where temperatures have been well a above freezing for hageers town harrisburg and eventually into our western suburbs, tonight. So this is very beginning of it. But main event will be monday night into Tuesday Morning and out ahead of that we have Winter Weather alerts to tell you about. The winter storm warning that is for, straight through the philadelphia area all of south jersey that is all counties in white. That is a blizzard warning heading east into ocean and Monmouth County where we are talking one to 2 feet of snow and white out conditions for many hours. Travel coming to a stop there. Still winter storm watch toward our west, Winter Weather advisory for central pennsylvania. Winter storm warning extend all the way up threw up state new york interior new england and that blizzard warning extend through new york city boston, cape cod hartford connecticut, rhode island even through eastern maine, in that blizzard warning where snow will continue. Into wednesday for those guys. Back to the philadelphia area lets go through it for you. Time frame by time frame. Starting with this evening this is an appetizer, snow showers, coming in by about midnight, we will see this spread in west to east, overnight through tomorrow morning. The thinks not a lot of snow but it is certainly enough snow to cause headaches for monday morning commute. We will see those road covered, probably an inch or two, 8 00 a. M. Monday morning snowing over philadelphia and that will cause a slow commute. We will see a bit of the break throughout the afternoon, scattered snow showers. Through evening we will see more organized snow, and that low pressure system. This is 5 00 oclock tomorrow evening and that will change over to snow, as we head into the overnight hours that will change things to snow, as it gets colder. Snow heavy at times along the coast. That snow express west war. Note thinks sharp cut off. At lot have off watching in the western suburbs lancaster county, western Chester County and Delaware County will say what major winter storm because you might not be included this this due to the short cut off with this system. The further north and ease better chance for heavy snow high wind and continue all monday night into Tuesday Morning. So this storm, certainly, favors the coast. That does move out quickly by tuesday afternoon the worst will be monday night and Tuesday Morning. But dover up through wilmington, Chester County and allentown, you guys will see six to eight clutches. You may see more tomorrow morning in some spots because of that sharp cut off. 20812 for city. The most of south jersey bucks, montgomery and poconos and that becomes a foot to foot and a half, very likely for trenton, new jersey back through Burlington County and new york city and further you get into boston. These amounts may be conservative at this moment. It will be easy to see 2 feet in parts of the long island. Snow rates one to 3 inches an hour, thunder snow, all of that with the blowing and drifting. We are talking about travel being shut down north and east of philadelphia this is our first go. Expect adjustments. It could be conservative but give you an idea what week diagnosing out from Tuesday Morning. Win gusts an issue monday afternoon you see them over 40 miles an hour at the shore 306789 miles an hour here in the philadelphia the white out conditions for all of them expect overnight into early Tuesday Morning as those wind continue to howell. This time out of the northwest at 30 miles an hour, a at times. A lot today, and digest. We will break it down with our wintertime line what to expect from this major storm, well again, tonight and just the beginning, into monday morning, light snow after midnight slippery morning commute, one to 3 inches. We will get that break and heavy at accumulating snow just after after 10 00 p. M. Moving from east to west. Wind will increase, blowing and drifting of snow, especially, at the the coast, and expect very hazardous travel, snow day for everyone on tuesday. Snow showers after midnight tonight. Thirty in the city. Thirtytwo the High Temperature tomorrow with on and off light snow main event, arriving at night and lasting through tuesday. Your seven day forecast, 32 with the snow and cold tomorrow heavy snow Tuesday Morning. We will probably see wrapped clearing though late in the afternoon, that is great we need to dig out because it will be very cold to follow wednesday, unshine, 30 degrees, believe it or not another chance for snow once we get through this thursday and friday and incredibly cold weekend saturday and sunday highs in the 20s. Winter took a while to ramp up to get here you know compared to last winter. Based on last winter that is what happened it was relentless every three to five days and it never got warm so we could not melt. We had snow all over the place. Have after a while there is where to put it. This is coming back with a vengeance, i necessity so here we go. I was looking at the radar going where is this storm. Usually they come up or over. We were talking earlier. So that storm is just going to come out of no where almost. You are not seeing the big storm yet. The that is a typical clip are moving across the northwest that we we see a few inches. It moves off shore picks up energy from the ocean, transforms and turns into a major noreaster. A lot have even why i. That left over storm from friday and saturday night still sitting up in new england. So they will combine. Yes. There you go. All right. Perfect storm. Yes exactly. Caitlin, thank you. Still ahead tonight, an urn containing a tamlys loved one is return after almost a decade the the in mystery surrounding the remains and how it was finally solved up next. Plus, pressures relics at the Auction Block what collectors shelled out for a collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia has been sold for more than 800,000 at auction, among the items sold the most extensive eyewitness accounts of the assassination of the president. Also sold photos and even a lock of hair from our 16th president. After eight years of family locates a missing urn. Touching story that spans coast to coast. Foxs Lauren Dimarco explains how that urn finally returned home. Reporter a least union eight years in the making. Earl johnson the the third reclaiming the urn holding the ashes of his father earl johnson, junior. It is amazing. The it really is. Im speechless because this was a chapter that was lost, and finally we got him back and it is all because of you and your parents, your mom so thanks. Reporter it is end of a mystery kay justice has been trying to solve for a long time. They found an urn in the box that didnt belong to her while unpacking a move from her mothers home in south dakota in 2007. In conflict with the moving company, right away and, pictures of the urn along with it. Never a peep, back from them. Not a thing. Reporter kays mother held on after she moved back to port land. The the family even called the room where they kept it earls room. People say why dont you just scattered him at this point or toss it. I could not do it. I dont know. If it were my loved one what would i want, i dont know it didnt feel right to me or my family. We were willing to hold on to him, and keep trying to find where he was speaksed to be. Reporter documents inside the box had a maryland address. So after trying several other things this year she thought the the email fox five. They a attempted to track down jacksons family there was no forward ago dress, but in less than 24 hours, a viewer, who saw our story and knew earl helped us piece it all together. My first thing to do was to start to cry a little bit and got my head together and then called fox. I called you guys. And then lauren put me in contact with kay. Then we have been emailing for the last two weeks. Reporter earl, who lives in texas, traveled to portland to pick up his dad from kay, in person. He provided with us this photo of his parents. My mom and my dad together and we can figure out as a family what and how to make sure that they Stay Together and so for me it is completing the chapter and it starts a new and i owe it all to you guys for your love. Im speechless. Thanks. Reporter Lauren Dimarco fox news. And straight ahead on fox 29 news at 6 00 we are bracing for a major winter storm. Live coverage of the preparations. Plus a veteran with the troubled past battling ptsd and bi polar disorder until he found martial arts. His inspiring turn around that he hopes can papa sometimes, in football, you go for 2. Sometimes, in pizza, you get 2 without even trying. Get a large one topping pizza free when you purchase a large pizza. Order now at papajohns. Com. Papa better ingredients joe better pizza. Peyton better football papa papa johns. We were talking about this since the beginning of the newscast major winter storm heading this way. You better start getting prepared, dont wait for that snow to start falling. Fox 29s dave kinchin is live at penndot yard in norristown, dave. Reporter you said it. Right now penndot crews are getting ready to load hundreds of truck full of salt. There is a big dome behind me. And across the penndot facilities were talking about thousands, of tons of salt. Just a lot. Ill tell thaw much. Lets go to some video. Here is a truckloading up thousands of tons of salt as we talked about set to go out as part of the winter seasons biggest road prep operation yet. Penndot calling up 394 total trucks, that is a mix of staff and contractors. They will spread salt after midnight, aiming for the morning drive, and that will expect to see one to 3 inches of snow on the ground, brine sprayed on the road and while penndot says they will have you covered they have word of caution as well. The aim of our operation is to keep our roads passable wet as possible but when we have heavy at accumulating storm where we might get an inch or two an hour, motorist need to be prepared that they will be driving on snow covered road. Reporter of course secondary road and limited access road are part of that plan as well. Now penndot will boost their number of trucks out there, a as we go into monday night, that is when majority of the snowfall was expect, they will be over 400 trucks at that point and that includes a mixture of staff and more contractors that will be out there, but penndot officials stress if you dont have to travel, they say simply dont. Stay home and, of course, watch fox 29 and we will keep you updated guys back to you. Thanks very much dave. You will need more information as you head out in the morning. Fox 29 morning news starts early 4 00 a. M. We will bring you latest forecast, Road Conditions list of School Closings and delays as that big storm heads on in. You know what, in it or range but it is pink, that is new black for inmates in georgia town. The the department of Public Safety is changing uniforms, to orange to pink in hope of the the new color stop offenders from wanting to come back. Apparently some do. And it sent a message to those in the outside you dont want to find yourself behind bars. They are going to be going out on the road, pick ing up trash, of course shackled with an officer right there with them but it is high wrist built. So everybody will be able to see them and people driving by will look at them. High visibility. Right now it is too early to tell if the new change will make a difference but some inmates are already saying they are not coming back because they are not going to wear pink again. For one local marine life was a Series Offset backs, disappointments and obstacles, constant struggle to overcome physical and emotional damage until martial arts gave him an outlet to cope with his Mental Illness and help him rebuild his life. Robert councilmano is 42 years old, fit and in tenth. Looking at it now it is hard to tell how much trauma he had has seen since he was young. Roberts childhood wasnt pretty, his father committed suicide when he was just ten. His stepfather beat him and his mother relentlessly. I have one vivid memory of him beating my mom, and we had front gate to park the the car. From the tv down to the stairs. Punched holes in the wall. My brother was beat. That went on for 13 years. Reporter robert joined the marines in 1991 to escape the abuse and find a purpose but things got worse. He was always getting into fights and could not get along with others. He was honorably discharged in 1996. Next he tried college but he was always fighting with professors and unable to maintain any healthy relationships. So he went looking for answers at a va hospital and learned that he had ptsd. The the thought were going through my head schizophrenic, that is kind of genetic. Reporter cosmo as he is known, also learned he was bipolar. That really rocked me because, you know, bipolar and medications they gave me made me a zombie and a different person. Reporter three years ago cosmo found the martial arts and it has done what medications cannot. I have an outlet. It is great. Im not going to stop. Reporter cosmo trains at princeton martial arts five to six times a week and the work has paid off. He is a purple belt already and currently ranked third in the world. It has change his life. It has got a lot of therapeutic qualities to it. When they come through the doors of the school it is like they go into ought a owe pilot and every fear worry, crazy thing stops at the door. Reporter cosmo says martial arts give him a sense of comradery just like when he was in the marine core. It is a family thing. You have to trust these people. You are placing your early in a situation where you can get hurt. Same thing, you cannot trust the the person behind you, god forbid something can happen. These right here are good just as big one notch under world. Cosmo isnt just excelling at martial arts. That is world, i took second in that. Reporter he want to inspire other veterans. Once you do it dont stop it. Reporter we caught with him talking with vets in the rehab center in the va hospital in philly. My goal, it is to inspire people to find something to maybe get involved in the activity. Within day in my rocking chair i want to go, i helped change the the world a bit. Awesome. Reporter well, cosmos journey continues, he is due for a promotion soon. The his next belt is a brown belt. It takes most people five to eight years. He has been at it for just over 36789 quite impressive. Howard . Basketball for a coach who has reached a goal that never happens. Deflated footballs by new England Patriots just wont die, Bill Belichick did things this week he has never done before. Is the head coach lying . Does his lip moves when he National Hockey league has their allstar game it is going on as we speak. The most leagues are trying to make the games relevant by putting in gimmicks, naming the teams after one of the players, jonathan taste, which means, one of the nick lead another, does anybody know hot teams are . The problem for flyers fancies they have players on different teams, jake voracek playing begins claude giroux. Lets go to columbo, ohio. Ill call them voraceks in the light uniform. Nice pass here behind his back to jay voracek. So voraceks scored right there in the white uniform. Claude giroux is in the dark uniforms. We will call them girl rights. Right now voraceks lead girouxs and the score is tenseven. The super bowl one week from today last year story line going in the game was outrageous comments by seattle defensive back richard sherman. This year it is talk of deflated footballs. Lets in the treat this lightly. The patriots cheated there should be suspensioned. Air pressure in football is there for a reason. Bill belichick does not speak to the media unless he is told by nfl rules. But this week the nice guy spoke twice. Yesterday was really a joke, when he is now in the scientific aspect s of balls losing air pressure. Im in the a scientist, im not an expert in footballs im not an expert at football measurements im just telling you what i know. I will not say that im mona lisa veto of the football world as she was in the the car expertise area. He has never had humor. So all of a sudden, body language person would destroy him and bill nye the sign it is has destroyed everything he said. I think what it takes for College Basketball coach, to win a thousand games. Consider this, if a head coach won 35 games a year. That is really pretty hard, very difficult but it would take over 28 years. Duke head coach, mike chef ski won his 1,000 game today. He one his 1,000th game. He is a legend. He is in the hall of fame and he is still coaching. His duke blue devils in the blue, led early, off the turnover right here and the basket. However, saint johns played a heck of a game today. They come back they lead by a ten right here and they led by ten with 8 36 left and duke out scores saint johns 26seven. Seventyseven68 they win. 1,000 games, 39 years is a long time to still be coaching. To see the happiness of my players makes this enjoyable. We have to keep tonight perspective, were 17two. We have to go to notre dame on wednesday. So for this moment for basketball, for the game and for our program we will enjoy this one for right now. He is a great coach and always gets great players. One of the all time greatness philadelphia basketball was tom gola. A lot of people may not remember him but tom goal will a played at lasalle and went to the philadelphia warriors in the nba. He had a great year as a member of the Basketball Hall of fame. The arena at lasalle is named after tom gola. Today he has a statue on the campus. The formerrexplorer larry cannon spoke at the ceremony. Tom gola was basketball royalty, and his accomplishment thes are such that they should in the be ever forgotten. Now, the statue, hopefully his basketball memory will continue for a very long time. I knew tom. I never saw him play. I know he was a great basketball player. Belichick thems going to the super bowl tomorrow. Boy, am i going to have fun there. I cannot wait. He has another one just in case you need it for the super bowl. Liar, liar. You called it from the beginning. He has been buried, tom brady has been buried by troy aikman and mark brunell. I mean please. We will be buried in snow for a week or so. Yes. Getting out of town just in time. You belter get airborne soon, man, i have to tell you. Yes, all right. That will do it for us, we will see you back here at ten. She will have a whole lot to talk about. A lot. You know, some people give off a vibe of do not mess with me. I kind of give off a vibe of hey, you could pour soup in my lap, and ill apologize to you. I get pushed around a lot when im traveling. Like, ill book a flight on some garbage airline lets call it, i dont know, belta airlines and ill show up for my flight on belta airlines, and ill say, can i get on the airplane, please . And they go, no, the flight is delayed nine hours. [spits] and i go, okay and i go to the bathroom and then i come back from the bathroom, and i go, any updates on the plane . And they go, yeah we took off while you were in the bathroom because we hate you. Here, take this meal voucher that doesnt work. So i take it over to the applewrappedincellophane snack place, and i go, can i have food with this, please . And they go, no and i go, okay

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