If youre heading out tonight or any time tomorrow be sure and bundle up and dont go anywhere without our fox 29 weather app. Its like having our meteorologists available at the touch of a button and its available for apple and android devices. Developing story after a violent night in frankford. Philadelphia police are trying to figure out if the same group of men attacked and robbed two people at different times. It all unfolded in less than an hour. Fox 29s dave kinchen life at Philadelphia Police headquarters tonight where theyre piecing together the clues. Dave . Reporter and police say there are a lot of clues here that point to the same group of suspects and they are on the hunt tonight. Jocelyn still has a hard time walking in public. Fearful after she was beaten and robbed last year. Me personally as a woman, i dont think it should happen to anybody, and i think that is awful. Reporter just imagine what shes thinking walking in frankford where another woman 18yearold was grabbed by the neck, whipped with a gun, kicked and punched by four men who demanded money. Just after midnight on the 5100 block of frankford avenue. I think thats horrible. I wouldnt wish that upon anybody. Reporter Philadelphia Police say that 18yearold woman even curled up into a ball to protect herself on the street. The suspects eventually ran off. This area alone, like a lot of bad stuff happen to people. Thats crazy. Like she beat yall. Why would you jump in that lady and take her money four men, like, thats a little bit too much. Reporter detectives believe its the same passe who popped up a block away a on griscom a half hour later getting out of white impala with tinted windows carrying firearms including a shotgun. Investigators directed a 29yearold man to the ground searched his pockets for money. Kicked him in the face and even shot him in the side giving him a graze wound. His wallet and credit cards stolen. I was just here yesterday and i left and i just came back. Its amazing how things happen i say a new york minute is a philadelphia second. You blink, something happens. Reporter both victims ended up at the nearby aria Frankford Hospital to be treated for their injuries. Meanwhile, neighbors are taking precautions. Im going to protect myself. Bottom line, like, it makes me a little scared but at the same time, like, you got to be prepared for thing. Reporter well police say the men were wearing dark colored sweatshirts and overall dark clothing including pants. If you have any information give Philadelphia Police a call. Police are also looking for Surveillance Video. Lucy . Thank you very much, dave. No water or gas for about 20 families on the 2300 block of east boston street in fishtown. Crews are out working for a third day in a row trying to fix this mess of a water main break turned sewer leak turned sink hole. The Philadelphia Water Department says it first needs to fix the sewer pipe then fix the water main. It is hoping, hoping may be the key word here, to have it all done in about a week. The search is on tonight for two Armed Robbers who stormed no a rite aid in east mt. Airy police just released this Surveillance Video from the robbery about a week and a half ago on the 8200 block of stenton avenue. Police say demanded the employee open the register and said quote you know what this is they got away with cash. No one is hurt. New at 6 00 Police Charged two men in connection with a metro pcs robbie in the ogontz second of the city. Police say 41yearold Jeffrey Hampton and 26yearold mark, robbed the store on the 5600 block of north broad two weeks ago. Surveillance video caught the pair right before at a nearby business. Detectives used facial recognition to catch them. Theyre both facing robbery and related charges. A judge has set the date in the theft trial against the chief president and treasurer of a local fire company. Gary bryce, elizabeth, and lauren the form of Colwyn Fire Department will have their day in court on february 13th. Prosecutors allege they took cash and wrote checks to themselves without authorization stealing more than 42,000. New at 6 00, philadelphia prosecutors have charged a schoolbus driver after they say he left a little boy all alone on the bus. Investigator sauce 28yearold jamar henry pulled up to the shop rite on the 6700 block of haverford avenue, told the sevenyearold boy quote sit tight. Ill be right back. The young boy was alone for about 10 minutes until Police Showed up. The driver told police he had a bathroom emergency. But police say that did not match up with what they saw on Surveillance Video. Police say his actions are unacceptable. You cant leave a child a sevenyearold on bus thats running, um, theres so much potential for danger or something to happen there where somebody could have taken that bus not even knowing that kid was on there or taken the bus with the kid oh and there. So, you know, just not very smart any way shape or form. Police say the driver also had marijuana on him. In a statement the school says durham is now removed. With record low Approval Rating governor Chris Christie today focused his state of the state speech on bipartisan issue tackling and ending new jerseys opioid epidemic. I am ready to work with and listen to anyone with more ideas on how to address this issue. Ill accept ideas from any corner of the state from any political party, from any level of government. Heres what im unwilling to accept. Inaction. I will not have the blood of addicted New Jerseyans on my hands because we waited to act. I will not willingly watch another 1600 of our citizens dye and watch their families mourn and suffer. Christie announced hes launching a onestop website to make it easier to access treatment. Its reach nj. Com. Meanwhile scary few moments earlier in christies speech when a pastor fainted. Audience members rushed to him him out after a moment of silence christie asked for prayers for the pastor. We dont know how hes doing right now. Outbursts and outraged accompanying president elect Donald Trumps first cabinet confirmation hearing. Several times during todays hearing for senator Jeff Sessions, authorities had to escort protesters out of the room. Pretty clear that capitol hill democrats hope to derail frumps pick for attorney general. Alabama senator had to answer some heated questions from senators. Foxs Tom Fitzgerald on the hill tonight. Tom this was real life high stakes drama. Reporter it is iain and lucy. And it is still going on. We are now entering our ninth hour of these hearings and essentially folks the question tonight here in washington is this. Who is Jeff Sessions . Is he this southern, quiet, alabama senator with a deep respect for the law that republicans will tell you, or is he this right wing republican fire brand who democrats donald trump will use as weapon genesis enemies. Right from the get go today it was clear opponents to sessions nomination were loud and interrupt tiff and in thighs hearing from the get go. The United States Capitol Police having to remove several protesters from the Senate Judiciary committee. Would anti sessions demonstrat demonstrators wearing blue clucks clan outfits shouting things like you cant arrest me, im white. What im doing is saying that hes a racist. Reporter police drag those protesters out of the room, though, Senate Democrats got to work trying to drag down senator sessions reputation. Democrats unleashing attacks on sessions civil rights record, his position on women one ems issues and Donald Trumps promise to sick his attorney general on hillary clinton. The president elect said to his opponent during a debate even quote, if i win, im going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look at your situation. Reporter when it was senator Jeff Sessions turn to talk, he took the criticism head on. He said flatly, he will excuse himself from cases looking into the clinton foundation. He defended himself against charges of racial incentive have the and said he would he would be a strong advocate for police officers. Who sessions says suffer from low moral from the obama years. I accused of in 1996 of failing to protect the Voting Rights of africanamericans by presentinpresenting the voter fe and condemning civil rights advocates and organizations and even harboring amazingly sympathies for the kkk. These are false charges. Reporter now, this hearing is still going on tonight. We are expecting a panel later on this evening with new jersey state senator corey booker testifying against senator sessions nomination on the basis of his civil rights record. At one point today, the late pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter was invoked as sessions was trying to talk about how he has Work Across Party Lines and worked with other senators throughout the years. The bottom line on all of this, iain and lucy, democrats just dont have the votes to stop sessions as attorney general. It is widely expected donald trump is going to get him in the justice department. Were live on the hill tonight, Tom Fitzgerald, fox news. Back to you. All right, tom, thank you for that. Meanwhile president obama will give his farewell address tonight in a live speech from chicago. Fox 29 will air that speech live for you tonight at 9 00 oclock and then it will be followed by bones and then our lady news. Backlash over the citys sweetened drink tax not dying down any time soon. Tonight, why some prices are even higher than youd expect. Dear on the loose in a dealership how it finally made its way out of there after giving employees quite the scare. Sean. Iain its been all bad for the flyers lately tonight they finally get good news. One of the guys made the all star team. Fine out who later in sports. Hello, peco. Hi. Can you help me save on my energy bill . Old appliances. Like a hot water heater . Its around here somewhere. Nope. Nope. What is this thing . Sir, have you looked in the basement . Huh. Oh, yeah. No wonder. It was hidden behind all of my free weights. If youre not an expert, peco can help. We have lots of ways to help you save energy and money. Peco. The future is on. Ive spent my life planting a sizesix, nonslip shoe into that door. On this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. But these days its phones before forks. They want wifi out here. But behind that door, i need a private connection for my business. Wifi pro from comcast business. Public wifi for your customers. Private wifi for your business. Strong and secure. Good for a door. And a network. Comcast business. Built for security. Built for business. Oh, my god thats so sad. Wild moments inside a georgia car dealership. A deer ended up trapped inside. The unexpected visitor jumped into an open window and made its way into the showroom of alexis dealership. Eventually he made it out through an open garage door. After more than week out of the public eye philadelphia mayor jim kenney spent part of this day back in the spotlight touting his Signature Initiative expanded pre kindergarten. Part program paid for by controversial new tax on sweetened drinks. Bruce gordon reports the mayor has s not apologizing for any ruffled feathers. Reporter mayor kenneys visit to the childrens playhouse in south philadelphia was meant to highlight the expansion of Pre K Program citywide. An additional 30 students here some 6500 new youngsters in class when the roll outs complete. Phl pre k is to be paid for by the kenny administrations controversial new penny and a half cents per ounce tax on sweetened drinks. The mayor is in no mood to hear about crit tickets. You dont think there are that many people that are upset about this . I think those youve highlight are upset about it but i think you havent highlighted are not. Reporter they look. They look a lot. How much . Reporter well, at the j and lynn deli and mini mart few blocks away the owner says the socalled soda tax is costing him customers. Soda business no good. Reporter no good. No good. Anybody buying soda here. Nobody. Nobody. Report roar this customer overheard us and blasted the t tax. I stopped buying soda. I buy sugar and tea bags now. I do not buy soda any more. Reporter at the yogi grocery not far away soda sales make up a third of the business. So owner rasheed has absorbed some of the tax passed on by his distributor. The result his prices have increased but not by as much. Because i dont want to lose the customer. But reporter youre taking a little bit of a hit yourself. Yes. Reporter so you dont lose the customer. Yes. Is that working. Police are coming in saying youre cheaper than other people. Reporter mr. Mayor, there are some folks willing to spend a little extra to support kids education. A couple more cents. So, yeah. Im okay with it. Reporter he is special physical it goes to the right place. Especially that, yes. Reporter kenney suggests there are more fans of the tax than the media is reporting. I think that in a 302nd one minute soundbite report you can find four or five krahn tee people to complain. I think there are the rest of the people upped how important it is for our kids to be educated and have the productive life. Reporter the mayor saves some of the his fire for some retailers whom he says are jacking prices beyond all reason. Then blaming city hall. Here are three standard sized beverages. This 16ounce drink on our coins are going everywhere. This 16ounce drink should be 24, 25cent increase in costs. The 16cent beverage out here somewhere a nickel an quarter about 30 cents on the 20ounce soda and this big old 2liter bottle 67 or so ounce that is means about a dollar in new taxes. If youre facing any kind of increases above and beyond these guys, maybe you should be talking to your grocer because something is wrong. These are the tax rates were seeing all kinds of stores jacking things well beyond this rate. I want to talk mayor kenney. Hes seems cranky. Cranky, never. [ laughter ] all right, bruce. Thank you. Appreciate it. Now back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Kathy says its going to warm up. She promises. You shouldnt be cranky about this. No. No, no, no, no. Unless youre in the poconos it will snow and thats where we want the snow, right . You can see on ultimate doppler a warm front will be lifting through but the temperatures are cold enough in the Lehigh Valley and the poconos to start off as a little bit of snow before we transition into the warmer air and some rain. Right now 36 in millville. 36 in philadelphia. 33 in pottstown. These temperatures are going to be warming up during the late night hours. 21degrees in the poconos. It will take some time to warm up there. Winter weather advisory in effect for northern and western suburbs. Through parts of bucks and upper montgomery and into the Lehigh Valley berks county and into the poconos. Until 2 00 a. M. To the north for our suburbs only until 10 00 p. M. It will warm up above freezing by then. So we have this warm front sweeping through with some rain. And then by tomorrow looking at increasing sunshine the temperature around 50 degrees which is 10 degrees above normal. Then by the Time Thursday rolls around well be about 20 degrees above normal. So another warm front lifting on through. Fox future cast as we time it out hour by hour shows by 11 00 oclock, midnight, we start to seat moisture building in through the poconos the upper Lehigh Valley seeing some snow. Wintry mix through reading berks county and through Doylestown Pottstown could be little freezing rain mixing with rain we warm it up and see heavy rain sweeping through the and tyre john. Then by the morning, increasing sunshine should be a very pleasant day. After that, another warm front moves through tomorrow night. And we see temperatures soaring not just into the 50s but the 60s. Its not going to last long but at least we will be flirting with some mild temperatures. In the city overnight 35. The suburbs 30 with temperatures risinrising with that southerly. During the day tomorrow 50 degrees really nice day to be outsider. Winds out of the southwest about five to 10 miles an hour. As we look ahead on your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority mild and windy for thursday. The high 61. 52 degrees for your friday with temperatures falling in the afternoon after a cold front moves through chance of a morning rain or snow shower saturday. The same sunday with morning lows around freezing. And for the holiday on monday, look for a chance of rain the same on tuesday but the High Temperature 52 degrees by next tuesday and that is my kind of january weather, sean bell. I dont know about you. Yeah. I love it. It will be a lot of jogging and playing golf but check this out. The sekoses talking about play all of a sudden. I know that sounds crazy listen to what the guys actually had to say about having that play off mentality plus the flyers in the middle of a tough stretch. Today one of the guys gets great great news. See who is going to make their first ever nhl all star team. Thats coming up next in sports. Playoffs, talking about playoffs. You kidding me . Playoffs . [ laughter ] any time we can play that video im playing it. Playoffs . I love it. Jim moore i love it thats right around here actually talking about the playoffs. I know that sounds crazy but all of a sudden the sixers seem to think they have a chance. Theyre 10 and 25 and seven and a half games behind the eighth seed in the east not likely. After being the joel embiid started saying playoffs much thats what were aiming for. Today they got back to practice and ben simmons is doing team drills for the first time. The sixers are going to get a little extra boost after the all star game. Coach brown and joel embiid talked about having playoffs mentality. Theyve heard me say since theyve met me that the playoffs and regular season are completely a different sport. Its not even close. And that requires a hardened mind and hardened way to see the world and so that mentality i applaud. We starting to win games and, um, i have the mindset and im sure my teammates they have the mine set like i said the other day we seven games out of the playoffs i think theres chance. Tomorrow they taking on the 96 nick but who notice if derek rose is actually going to be there. Yesterday he just went awol didnt show up didnt tell anyone either. Today hes back with the team got fined but still really no explanation at least publicly for what actually happened. To the flyers tonight they take on the sabres and theyre trying to get out of really really tough tough slump. Theyve been terrible lately to be honest. They lost lost eight out of the their last 10 games but its not because of this guy. Its not because of wayne simmons. Simmons is in the flyers best player by far. Finally getting rewarded for it today he was selected to his first ever nhl all star game. I think its pretty mean fu full. I think some of the guys we have on this team are deserving to be all stars. Getting my first opportunity. Its pretty special to me. I just want to thank my teammates, Coaching Staff everyone in the organization for making this possible. Congrats to wayne simmons. But playoffs . Playoffs. If we had a chance to play we have to play that. Absolutely. Greatest soundbite of all time right there. Playoffs . Can your voiceover he even go that high. I love this. You have no idea what you started. From here until 10 00 oclock show this one will be doing playoffs thing all night long. Exactly. All right. Doctors are hoping that rising interest in a certain holistic therapy may lead more people to depend less on potentially dangerous addictive painkillers. Joyce evans takes closer look at touch therapy. Tonight on fox 29 news at 10 00. For more on that. That does it for us here at 6 00. Well see you back here at 10 00. Have a great night. Inside edition is up next. [a5df] passenger revolt. Stand up for what is right and walk out with me. And he is a former u. S. 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