It was a boom after boom after boom. One after the other. Had to have been like six to eight booms. Reporter it was just after 11 00 this morning when a tanker truck lost control onramp from route 90 to route 130 near the betsy ross bridge dumping nearly 8,000 gallons of gasoline. The fire ball was massive spewing thick black smoke even scene coming out of nearby storm drains. Driver was able to escape. No word at this point on what caused the crash but the ramp is just feet from homes and neighbors say accidents happen here all the time. Watching tv and nervous you hear bang you look out the thing and theres car stopped right before this two days ago one did it. Theres always accidents back there but never a ball of fire like that. Reporter neighbor Marissa Clemons through on her bathtub grabbed her dog and ran for her life. I her bank, bang, bang, bang four explosions big. Like i said i look out and the sky was so black i thought i didnt know what was happening. Firefighters eventually used a foam retardant to put out the fire. But strong winds blue that thick smoke everywhere it could be seen for miles. Evacuateed neighbors were finally allowed back home by mid afternoon. Their homes were safe but the smell of oil persisted. Doesnt smell too good. Reporter no it doesnt. You can take look its getting dark kind of hard to see. You see a green dumpster brought in a little while ago again as the dee pre removal continues. The Environmental Concerns still being investigated. If youre driving this area a couple places to avoid route 90 east is closed at route 73. As well as route 90 east ramp to both north and south 130. Best to avoid this area. Were hearing crews could actual be on the scene for upwards of 48 hours. Lucy and iain. All right, brad, thank you. Witness whos were just too close for comfort say the inferno was terrifying. Words started spreading fast and people who live near the scene rushed home. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live in pennsauken tonight with their stories. Chris . Iain this neighborhood was shaken in a big way this afternoon. The folks who live here live very close to route 90 you see how close it is. Theyre used to traffic along here. Theyre even used to the occasional accident or two but certainly nothing like this. I heard a big bang and when i looked over oy just saw flames 30 feet in the air. Reporter first came one explosion then another. It was like armageddon. Black smoke billowing overhead. Reporter moments after the tanker caught fire, no one in the neighborhood new exactly what happened. Fearing the worst. I thought it was like a bomb went off. Thats what it felt like. I didnt see a truck or anything anything. All oy saw was loud bang and flames. Im thinking whats going on now . Reporter as the fire and choking black smoke from the tanker approached nearby homes some voluntarily evacuateed. Other whos live here were at work. Heard the news and rushed home. I had doctors appointment. You can get anywhere near this area. I just want to make sure that everybody was good and as im traveling im just im speeding because im trying get hope. Tracy lynch was worried about her dog mika home alone less than 50 yards away from the explosion. Shes heard of accidents here but this one was just to close to home. High mart is skipping a beat. My main concern was dote get the dog out of the house. As we bring you back out here live update, their homes evacuateed tonight. All of those residents are back in to their homes. But just how this happened and if the driver will be charged. Those are some questions we have for drpa whos investigating. Well try to find the answers to those questions tonight at 10 00 oclock. Lucy, iain. A lot more to develop into. Were staying on top of this developing story all night as you her chris say. Youll find the latest 24 7 on myfoxphilly. Com look right on our home page normal snow but bitter cold in your fox 29 winter wet authority. Heres a live look at Philadelphia International airport. Were not expecting to see any new snow in the immediate future but its still going to feel frozen solid temperatures going to stay bone chilling. Scott williams with an early look whats ahead this week. Scott. We are looking at arctic air continuing across the area iain as well as a black ice concern for the overnight and first thing tuesday morning. But take look at the temperatures. Teens in allentown. Single digits in the pocono mountains right now. 23 wilmington. And philadelphia 24 in atlantic city. But factor in the wind it always feels like 14 below in the poke gnomes the sit feels like the Single Digits north and west it feels like the teens right now in south jersey. So those temperatures will continue to plummet. By 11 00 oclock, were looking at 10 degrees and then overnight lose in the singles digits even some locations will get below zero. Coming up well talk about record territory an brief brief warmup later ahead this week. Guys, back to you. All right, scott. Thank you. We are following breaking news for you right no. A judge ordering new Jersey Governor Chris Christie to put more money into Pension Funds for retired Public Workers. Unions for Public Workers sued the governor after he said last year he would not make full pension payments even though he agreed to back in 2011. Lawyers for the union say a judge has ordered more than 1. 5 billion be paid back into the fund. This ruling comes as governor christie is scheduled to deliver his add butch address tomorrow. The state is expected to appeal today ruling. Happening right now a employees shooting under investigation in lehigh county. Sky fox over North Plymouth street in allentown. An officer stabbed right there. He was chasing a man investigators say had just stabbed his girlfriend. Other officers opened fire. Fox 29 bruce gordon has been on this story all day. Live at state Police Headquarters right now in bethlehem. Bruce . Reporter lucy this all began with a violent predawn attack on a former girlfriend and ended with the alleged attacker 42yearold Jerome Nichols dead at the hands of police. Investigators say 4284 old Jerome Nichols broke into the home of his former girlfriend around 3am. And stabbed her with a large kitchen knife. Wounded and bleeding, the woman pushed an upstairs window screen out into the snow bank and begged for help. What specifically did you hear this morning . Just screaming. I heard screaming like your mom heard even more than that. My mom heard her full blown saying help meek help me and i need help. Somebody help. Somebody, somebody is all she heard. 911 call put state police on nichols trail. Trapped in an Industrial Park, investigators say he turned on officers. He stabbed him multiple times at that point officers from both Pennsylvania State police and pd dischargeed their weapons in an tempt to stop the act. This action resulted in the death of the attacker g his uncle described him as a hard worker a veteran but one who had a history of bad break ups with women. What do you mean by problems with relationships. He didnt want to let things go, you know. Reporter when the break up happened he wasnt good with it. Not good with it at all. Reporter joe murphy new nichols for most of his life. Said he made one bad choice after another. I thought maybe he changed things around. If you go in prison long enough you figure the light would shine and say, hey i got to knock this off. Apparently he didnt knock it off. Investigators say police tried to stop nichols in the Industrial Park by tasing him. It did not stop him. Lehigh county da says hes seen dash cam camera individual yost altercation. The shook incident that involved both the Police Officer and the Pennsylvania StatePolice Trooper appears to be certainly justified under the circumstances that ive now seen on video tape. Reporter now we are agreeing with the local authority whos have asked not to name the officer who was stabbed by nichols. We do know hes a fiveyear veteran of the force and were told that both he and nichols former girlfriend will likely recover fully from their stab wounds. Iain . All right, bruce, thank you. Happening now, a shooting unside a south jersey Security Company leaves one person dead and another in the hospital. It happened just after 7 00 this morning at Shields Business Solutions in moorestown. Police say 4284 old edgar figure row yes shot his coworker 3184 old melvin nievez four times before killing himself. On going domestic situation is behind the shooting. Hes now critical condition. You know what they say. You can run but you cant hide especially in a ventilation shaft in bucks county. Early morning burglary at a levittown gunshop led to a standoff with police. They say two burglars barricadeed themselves inside mikes gunshop. It took some doing by police to find the two unarmed men they were hiding in ventilation shaft of a pizza shop in the same building as the gun store. Bunch Township High School confirmed case of whooping cough Health Officials say the student is being treated right now and the school has been cleaned. They are warning that other students who are feeling sick or who may have been exposed see a doctor right away. But those officials also say they are not seeing more whooping cases than normal in the county. The 72yearold facing a decade in jail for collecting antiques. Talking about a new jersey man facing a gun charge over an antique weapon that doesnt even work. Tonight the sheriff is talking about the case for the very fir. Innocent animals forced to live in deplorable conditions. The dogs owner plans to leave them behind. The officer stepping in to go above and beyond to help these guys. Howard is live in clearwater flor. All the players are here. So what is up with ryan howard . Well tell you about that. And chase utley got an interesting call in the off season from Ruben Amaro A Deptford new jersey woman accused of of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her cousin to buy lottery tickets. 79yearold doris little charged with Second Degree theft by deception. Shes accused of of depleting her 93yearold cousin bank account. Prosecutors say little took about 214,000 bucks to buy mostly scratch off lot row tickets. That money was supposed to be used to pay her cousins nursing home bill. 243,000. That is how much prosecutors say a Gloucester County man stole in Social Security benefits. New jersey grand jury indicted 62yearold nicholas sever reno jr. Today. Prosecutors say the paulsboro man took the benefits of his father who died 29 years ago. They say his father worked a second job using a false name and a Social Security number. A second one. When he died, prosecutors say he still collected the benefits paid to that false identity and never reported the death. Developing now in comer land county people remain upset over the arrest of a row tired teacher. The span in big trouble over his 300yearold collectible pistol doesnt fire. The sheriff now answering his critics. Fox 29 weekends Bill Anderson in the newsroom with more on what is going on. Bill . Reporter yeah, 72yearold retired teacher gordon dan visitor facing 10 years in prison for possession of a 300yearold flint lock pistol that was in his car when he was stopped by police. This weekend Cumberland County sheriff robert ostino inform the pub look there was another man in the car with her vangilder and that man was arrested for drug possession. The sheriff was unphased when i told him that some questioned his motives for sharing that information. Some are saying that the the mention of drugs in the car that did not belong to mr. Vangilder mentioned of heroin paraphernalia not belonging to mr. Vangilder part of a larger Smear Campaign that angered a lot of people on social medial the sheriff had quick and to the point response. Mr. Vangilders vehicle and numerous empty heroin packets were found in the vehicle. It was eight smear against him no. Maybe esche be a little more careful who he allows to use his vehicle. The sheriff pointed out that the police have to enforce the law. They dont get the luxury of selecting which ones they want to enforce. And thats his comment. Amazing how much energy on social mode ya this story has gotten how many comments. I dont know its going a you way. Ill stay on top of it and keep you informed about what happens when mr. Vangilder goes to corp. This is one of those stories that always blows up on fox 29 social media. If you have any comments, leave them on our fox 29 Facebook Page and of course you can always tweet us at fox 29 philly. All right. Bill, thanks a lot. Back to your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. Yesterday seemed like such a long time ago. It was beautiful. Wasnt it . Warm and balmy and now here we go with that wind blowing in. It was like cold again. Goodness. Yeah, just think those warm thoughts and maybe that will get us through the week you guys because that arctic air continues to funnel in this evening and overnight. Clear skies lows tonight are going to be in the Single Digits for most. Even a few locations will have lows below zero and then tomorrow, its going to be sunny like it was yesterday but bitter cold will continue for much of the area during the day tomorrow with temperatures stuck in the 20s. So as we look at ultimate doppler, the good thing about this cold its a dry cold were not looking at any snow or sleet or freezing rain. However, our friends to the south you can see little rock shreveport, greenville, mississippi even toward tupolo dealing with a winter mess on their hands especially on the roadways as we time this out that will continue to move toward the atlanta metropolitan tow area by tomorrow morning. Charlotte North Carolina getting in on that as well. That system will stay well to the south so tomorrow were going to see a lot of sunshine but it is going to stay cold across our area and then as we roll the clock tomorrow night even toward the middle of the week well stay dry. There could be a few flurries that sneak in as we move toward the pocono mountains but otherwise its jut going to be a dry and cold week. Speaking of cold right now its 23 degrees but you factor in that wind it feels only like nine right now in philadelphia. So thats how you should dress for those feels like temperatures. As we look at air temperatures right now in the teens for pottstown 4 degrees in the pocono mountains. Mid 20s in millville you factor in that wind, it feels like one below already in allentown it feels like 14 below in the pocono mountains and it feels like 11 degrees currently in sections of atlantic city. So for tonight we bottom out in the Single Digits in the city around five. And look at this. The suburbs north and west, two below with that cold ground that snow pack those temperatures will easeily tumble near record levels across the area. For philadelphia the record tomorrow morning is two. The forecast is five. But look at wilmington. The record is six and your forecast there is two. Atlantic city is going to come close by one or 2 degrees as we move toward allentown. Your forecast low is two below and the record is four. So youll likely smash that record there. So wind chill advisories for the pocono mountains feels like temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below zero. And as we roll the clock ahead by 10 00 p. M. It will feel like 10 below in philadelphia. 22 below in the pocono mountains and then tomorrow morning, we are looking at dangerous wind chills across parts of the area. So not as harsh though by wednesday mid 30s and then back into the 20s and freezing for the latter part of the week into the first part of the weekend. All right. Scott, thank you very much. I got a great way to warm up. Lets go to florida. Want to do . Lets go to florida right now. Howard . Mr. Eskin. Its about 67 degrees here now. But it feels probably a little bit less than that but i want to know what it will feel like over the weekend. However, this spring training. It thoughts of summer and warm weather and thoughts of ryan out ward like whats he thinking . And chase utley talks about the team and an interesting call he got from r do you want to know how hard it can be to breathe with copd . It can feel like this. Copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Spiriva is a oncedaily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. Spiriva helps me breathe easier. Spiriva respimat does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms. Tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. These may worsen with Spiriva Respimat. Discuss all medicines you take even eye drops. If your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells you get hives, vision changes or eye pain or problems passing urine stop taking Spiriva Respimat and call your doctor right away. Side effects include sore throat cough, dry mouth and sinus infection. Nothing can reverse copd. Spiriva helps me breathe better. To learn about Spiriva Respimat slowmoving mist ask your doctor or visit spirivarespimat. Com local constable rescues three dogs from what is being described as a filthy home. When that person got there plymouth township constable showed up at the Chestnut Street home to evict the tenants what he found threeyearold dog and two puppies all pitbulls. The resident said were leaving the dogs. The constable called up a local rescue for help. Hes also helping pay for the adult dog to get neutered and vaccinate. Rescue is looking all over those dogs and putting them for adoption. All right. Theres a little fog here but theres no snow. Suck it up back there in philadelphia. Im only kidding. Although all the phillies players were here today its not the First Official workout until tomorrow but today was day one for ryan howard. Thats right. He was here. He did everything, everything from hitting in the cage, working on his offense which wasnt really good last season, to working with the phillies coach larry bowa on fundamentals of fielding an area he was not good last season either. But he did spend some time signing autographs for all the fans. Now he spoke to them but would not speak to today to the media. Now, obviously hes not real happy with all the trade rumors and desire for phillies to get rid of him. But one of the players that did speak, yeah, hes trying to take pictures of all the media. Why would he want pictures ofs . However, he was here, hes been here for couple of weeks and that would be chase utley. But how does he feel about this team rebuilding . I like to look at it as filtering in some younger guys and giving them an stunt to play and see what they can do. I was 24 at one point getting into the big leagues and it was exciting. Off lot of energy and that can go a long way. So im excited that see these guys, you know, guys like codey ash she continue to improve and some other guys in the bullpen get some work. So thats the way i look at it. Chase did not rule out his approval of a possible trade because of the respect he says he has for the organization. But he said its not like likely. Knows he needs to play less games this season but what about the possibility of playing first base if ryan howard is not here . Ruben called me early in the off season and wanted to pick my brain about it. I said, listen obviously i would im not going to say no. I still think i can play second base at a high level. If theres times during the season where w rhino wants to give somebody a blow and put me at first base, i would be open to it but i dont see a position change at that is point no. Reporter i think actually he could play some first base because i dont think ryan howard will be here the entire season. Now as far as the weather i wish i was back suffering the pain with all of you guys. Sure do you. While standing here in 70 in degree weather. Im all for you. Were a team. Were team. Thats right. Thank you how war. Be sure to join us for fox 29 news at 10 00. I want to you take shirt look roll quick a mom forced heard i may be a pizza maker, but i know a few things about dessert. Like chocolate, and more chocolate. Introducing papa johns new Double Chocolate chip brownie. Delicious. Decadent. Served warm, for just 6. Better ingredients. Better brownie. Papa johns. Inside the oscars deborah from the wet red carpet. Birds eye coverage from inside Edition Special correspondent chopper zoe. What do you see from up above . Just a sea of black umbrellas. And were with the biggest names. The oscar moments everyone is buzzing about. Who gave this son of a bitch his green card . My very dear friend. John travolta. Too creepy . Deborah plus, what you didnt see on tv. 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