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Line as we head into the remainder of your evening a few leftover flurries watching those temperature below freezing. So that means on the roads especially those bridges and overpasses you have to be careful for some slick spots. Coming up well talk about the weekend weather, what to expect at the linc on sunday as well as when to expect, yes, temperatures in the low 50s. Iain and lucy. Scott, thank you. You can keep track of the weather on our website just head to myfoxphilly. Com, click the weather tab at the top of the home page for the latest Weather Information and live radar images. To a developing story now out of the Oxford Circle section of philadelphia. Police have just released video of an Armed Robbery where gunmen stole thousands of dollars from two men and thats not all. Robbers also stole one of the mens passports right before his flight overseas for his mothers funeral. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live outside northeast detectives and, dave, police have got to want these men off the street right away. Reporter no doubt about that. Some terrifying moments for these two victims as they were attacked and robbed at gun point. Detectives say this was a big score tonight they have some video they want to you take look at. The entire incident was caught on tape. Really scary. Reporter thats how neighbors described the Early Morning begun point robbery caught on tape on the 7100 block of large street. The gun toting bandits made off with over 7,000. Victimizing a young man headed to the airport for a trip home to china for his mothers funeral. Here you are trying to get back home for funeral and you get robbed and all your money gets taken. Unfathomable it could happen right here rt report robbery happened just after 5 00 a. M. Wednesday and was captured on surveillance camera rahs as the victims stood on the front steps of a friends home waiting for him to drive him to the airport. The gunman one wearing a mask approached. They stole cash, chinese currency and ipad and his passport. They both have guns. They come right at him. They take his dufflebag. He was robbed of a lot of money and his passport and he was attacked. Reporter at one point the gunman led the two men away with guns to their heads and their hands up. Neighbors a woke to find police combing the area for the suspects. They console the victim and worried about their own safety. Im from the city and its getting a little bit too close to home for me. Reporter police say both men were armed, video shows one wore a mask. The cameras also caught a tight shot of the second suspect investigators hope the images might click with someone who may know the men. Meanwhile neighbors say theyre scared this could happen again. I dont know how somebody could be targeted at 5 00 a. M. Reporter now the victims managed to get away from those gunmen and flagged down a Police Officer. Police again looking to see if theres any other information out there. If you recognize these guys, you should call northeast detectives. Coming up at six detectives are trying to figure out if the suspects had inside information on all of that money before this robbery. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, dave. A judge has convicted Raphael Jones in the murder of Philadelphia Police officer moses walker. Jones shot and killed walker during a robbery just after the officer got off duty in august of 2012. A codefendant who plead guilty to third industry murder testified against jones. A camera caught both of the men during the crime. Jones waived his right to a jury trial so he could avoid the Death Penalty and sentencing is in march. Investigators with the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms are at the West Oak Lane home where a philadelphia firefighter died. Joyce craig was battling a fire at the row home tuesday morning. Investigators have not yet figured out how she died or what started that fire. Funeral services for craig are on saturday. Carjacking a tempt ends in an a crash in overbrook a man driving illegal cab was robbed and assaulted by a passenger. According to police, it happened near 58th and lebanon early this morning. The man hit the driver in the head with a gun. The driver hit the gas pedal and crashed into two parked cars. The passengers ran off. Theres no word yet op the drivers condition. A cheltenham township Police Officer is recovering tonight after being hit by a car. This happened this morning on washington lane in wyncote. Investigators say officer was placing road flares at an accident scene when another car hit him. Police believe icy conditions caused the driver to lose control and the officer is in stable condition. Quite the hall from drug bust in delaware. That is 983 bags of heroin. Yesterday a new castle an officer reported seeing what he thought was a drug deal from a car on westth eighth street near clayton he pulled over the car and said thats where he found all the heroin. Two people inside that car and he are a evident ready the passenger but the driver 27yearold joshua small wood got away and tonight has a warrant out for his arrest. Happening right now, the search for shane montgomery. Investigators are concentrating on the Schuylkill River again today. Surveillance video shows shane heading toward the river after leaving a bar in manayunk. The 21yearold College Student hasnt been seen since that night. Before thanksgiving. And fox 29s dawn tim money knee is live in manayunk. Dawn, i imagine the weather might be slowing things down today. Reporter slutly, lucy. The weather was a big concern today. Not conducive at all for search and rescue and i have to tell you police are definitely feeling frustrated right now. But they are not giving up. Theyre just looking for anything to go on. Northwest detectives back along the banks of the Schuylkill River in manayunk today retracing their steps, scowering the area for any clue that could lead them to missing West Chester University student shane montgomery. Everybody is going back to the same areas hoping something will pop up. Especially with the weather changing some of the wind blowing maybe something will open up. That will lead us in the rye direct. Reporter yesterday the marine unit in the schuylkill dredging the river but coming up empty. Investigators now focusing on the river after Surveillance Video from outside christies nail salon just across the street from kildares irish pub shows the 21yearold walking west on main street after leaving kildares early thanksgiving morning. Are notary loosing that video but confirm it shows shane turning down a driveway by the salon walking over canal foot bridge into the parking lot along the schuylkill. Yes, this is the place we know he came. Nobody else was around. Nobody else followed him. He walked into the parking lot. If he came back here theres a lot of different ways that he could have gone. That wouldnt have been picked up by the camera. Reporter thats why detectives are checking out every and any way shane could have gone. Including the area by this chain linked fence and this wall above the river. If he did fall in the river i mean its going to go far ways down. Well continue to keep checking that. Reporter the weather did hampering search efforts. The current too strong to put divers or boats in the water. But they will be back at it so soon. Were always holding out hope, you know. I would love to find him alive and i think thats what were all hoping and praying for. That is for sure. Now, shane was last seen in this parking lot and cars were seen leaving the lot after shane was spotted on surveillance. Police say there is a possibility that he could have left in car but right now theres no evidence of that either way. Coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock, complete strangers showing up here including an attorney from new jersey and a woman who claims to have psychic ability looking for shane montgomery. Lucy . All right, dawn, well talk to you then. Cia director john brennan is defending his agency in the wake of the controversial release of a Senate Report detailing interrogation techniques against terror suspects. He reminded the nation that the agency used those tactics for one goal to prevent another devastating terror attack like 9 11. The report took five years to write. Brennan says the committee did not interview any cia officers. The senators behind the report say the interrogation techniques were worse than what the cia had told lawmakers. Brennan says he agrees that in some cases officers used unauthorized and abhor represent tactics. The Previous Administration faced agonizing choices about how to pursue alqaida and prevent additional terrorist attacks against our country. While facing fears of further attacks and carrying out the responsibility to prevent more catastrophic loss of life. The white house says it is standing behind brennan and the cia. Dismantling of the phillies is on after 15 seasons short stop Jimmy Rollins is gone headed off to the dodgers but whats the hold up with the official announcement . Howard he is skin in the newsroom with that story. Howard. Its going to happen, iain. Jimmy rollins will be in la dodger but the sources tell me the reason is that theres Nothing Official yet is because there is a third team involved. Now, we mentioned it yesterday involved in this trade and the team is the San Diego Padres involved in this threeteam deal. Now the padres trade which involves a Minor League Pitcher his name is zach evelyn. Evelyn would be one of the two pitchers coming back to the phillies and that would be from the dodgers. Now the padres dodgers deal is awaiting a physical for matt kemp and then that deal will be official and then the phillies deal will be official and rollins will be a dodger. Now as far as cole hamels in the deal im told the red sox are a front runner and the dodgers are still not out of the picture. The phillies want the top two pros specs from the team and if thats the case i know the red sox want the phillies to pick up part of the 96 million still owed hamels. Now as far as ryan howard, there is no interest around baseball and anything will have to wait until at least january. Im told the phillies people that have seen ryan howard tell me hes lost a lot of weight. But the phillies field people want howard elsewhere even if they have to buy out the contract. Well have more and that will be coming up in sports. All right. Howard see you then. In philadelphia tonight the search for a thief. He broke into a store, left behind a whole lot of damage and hes not the only Person Police are after in this crime. And you know what they say about karma, right . It doesnt seem to have been the case for one man in florida. Hes a convicted sex offender but he just became a multi millionaire thanks to lottery ticket. The growing controversy coming up. Family pets get way out of control in a florida home, and now crews are removing hundreds of rats. Scott . Lucy, temperatures are dropping and the snow is still flying in several locations across our area. When it moves out and when we finally warm up next. Get ready for some german engineered holiday excitement. At the volkswagen signthendrive event. Right now, for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a new volkswagen. Like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the precisely engineered passat tdi. Ah, the gift of clean diesel. For the new volkswagen on your list this year, just about all you need, is a pen. Festive, isnt it . Get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first months payment on select new volkswagen models. Surveillance cameras capture this crime in a business in east germantown. A man was able to force open a security gate over a window. Then he gets inside the woodlawn deli and Grocery Store and steals 1,200 and a gun it happened last thursday morning. Investigators say several other guys acted as look outs if you have any information, please call police. A mid the growing National Debate over the use of deadly force by police, some philadelphia officers have begun wearing body cameras. A small group is trying out the cameras in a pilot program. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in center city. Chris . Reporter lucy, about 30 Police Officers assigned to the 22nd district in north philadelphia volunteered and started wearing those body cameras about a month ago. Today we got a first chance to look at those cameras. It is a pilot program, a test for the next six months but make no mistake about it, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsay says body cameras are here to stay. The unveiled about six models today. These are the among the test models the department is testing for the neck six months the cameras are worn on the chest or the shoulders of each officer. The officers activate them themselves when theyre respon responding to vehicle stop or a 911 emergency. Now, that video is downloaded become part of the investigati investigation. Now, police say this gives officers and citizens a true and accurate description of those police end counters. Cameras help to, one, provide an accurate record of what took place and i think when everybody is aware that something is being filmed, it can alter behavior not the behavior might have been negative to begin with but certainly are more aware and more conscious of it. When youre interacting with a suspect or just the public in general everyone is on their best behavior and an officer is also on best behavior. Reporter now, the goal is to outfit every officer in the city with one of these, but thats going to take years, because this is very expensive proposition. Just how expensive and how it will be funded is yet to be seen. But commissioner ramsay says they are here to stay. So far from police they say response from the public has been fairly positive. Iain, lucy . All right, thank you very much, chris. Big name in philadelphia politics is about to get back into the game. Former city councilman frank rizzo tells fox 29 hes running for a democratic at Large Council seat. Rizzo lost his council seat in 2012 when he was a republican. Political analysts have speculated voter doctors not reelect him because of his parents paying in the controversial Retirement Benefits program known as drop. Rizzo was the son of the late iconic philly mayor frank rizzo. New poll shows jersey voters are still mixed on a potential Chris Christie run for the white house. According to this poll majority of voter dos not think christie would make a good president. A survey finds 53 hold that view versus 40 who think christie would do a good job. 49 say the american electorate not ready for a jersey guy like christie for president. Christie says hell make up his mind next year. The clock is ticking down a midnight deadline to pass a bill to keep the federal government from shutting down. Lawmakers are clashing measures tucked inside the 1 trillion spending bill. Heres foxs joel walled man. Just hours after a partial federal government shut down and no one knows what the end game is. Right now, a trillion dollar deal is on the table causing deep political divisions among both democrats and republicans. It is clear that there is disagreement on both sides of the aisle about this bill. Some democrats led by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi are sharply pushing back on the deal because of the inclusion of new Campaign Finance limits and roll backs of wall street reforms that affect banks. We understand that our constituents, our workers, our people out there, our consumers, know that we bailed out the big banks and they know that we would be putting them at risk one more time. Reporter conservative reps can want a more firm review of the president S Immigration exec tough order including stronger language to defund mr. Obamas action. House Speaker Boehner is dough fending the packaging saying negotiators of both parties already agreed on all of the measures folded into the legislation. We worked through this process on bipartisan way. The white house says president obama will sign the house spending measure if congress can actually pass it. This compromised proposal merits bipartisan support on capitol hill and hopefully will arrive in the president s desk in the next few days. The house unexpected recessed before calling a vote on the spending bill. Both sides adjourned and went behind closed doors to see if they have the necessary votes to push the bill through or in the case of some democrats to block it. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Now to a fox 29 news investigation. A heart ailment lands a south jersey man in a wheelchair. He decides to expand his home so he can get around. Thats when all the trouble starts. Fox 29s jeff cole is investigating the case and joins us from the newsroom tonight with a look ahead to his roar coming up at 10 00. Jeff. Iain mike and nancy wood live in snug home in south jersey very nice place but small for a man in a wheelchair. So they decided to tack on an addition to give mike some freedom to move around. But they say months after they paid a local couple 10,000 bucks for cabinets and countertops, they have nothing. My heart dropped because all i could think of is, oh, my, what do we do now . Reporter you put your hands on me, you put your hands on me. You put your hands on me. See the reaction we get thats some of it right there when we fox 29 investigates presses for answers and learn why Law Enforcement is now involved in all of this much thats tonight at 10 00. We hope youll watch us as fox 29 investigates. Im jeff cole. Lucy . Well see you then, jeff. The fbi is thanking a local organization for its help fighting what it calls a silent epidemic and that is human trafficking. The bureau gave Child Services incorporated Directors Community Leadership Award today. The fbism says the group is helping its fight against Child Exploitation and child sex trafficking in just one year Child First Services has impacted a lot of young lives. In just that one year, there was an increase of about 32 in the number of children that were rescued and a 43 increase in the number of pimps that were arrested. Child first provides safe housing, counseling and education to child sex trafficking victims. The u. S. Navy showing off its new laser gun at sea. It says its working even better than expected. See what it can do. And you probably see them all around. People are tracking steps, calories, even sleep with fitness bands, but do they really work . We are putting them to the test. A list of things not to show up with at the courthouse, drugs are probably putting high up on that list. Especially if youre already facing a drug charge. Police say this guy came to a court date with heroin in his pocket. The explanation he gave office officers. This woman is among almost 80 pebble arrested during protests in england. They were protesting the choke hold death of eric garner in new york city. He was a stat didnt island man that was put in a choke hold with a Police Officer in july. Last week a grand jury decided not to indict the officer in garner death. Police say yesterdays demonstration in london turned violent. When protester as tacked the security staff at a london mall. Four california boys in the spotlight of an amber alert are safe tonight. But it took a when i would car chase an 90 minute standoff on a freeway first. Police have arrested the boys biological father. Investigators say during the chase, the man hit his brakes in the middle of a freeway overpass and just stopped. And an hour and a half ticked by. Two of the boys in the car made a run for it and made it save toll officers. A swat team then moved in. Got the other two boys and arrested their father. Well, immediately where he stopped was our concern. Dangerous area. If he would have stopped right here it would have been lot better. Less ways to go. Stopping in the middle of a trance road like that our concern was that maybe he was going to try to jump over the side and take maybe some of the boys with him. The boys father is a person of interest in the disappearance of his wife. Last night, police found a womans body in the trunk of a car that does belong to the family. So far though theyre not saying who she was. Man officially dubbed a sexual predator in florida is now a millionaire. Timothy pool won 3 million from lottery scratch off ticket he bought it last weekend at a Convenience Store near orlando. 1999 pool pleaded guilty to a sex crime involving a 984 old boy. He is listed on the Florida Department of Law Enforcement as a sexual predator. The United States navy is showing off its new weapon the office of Naval Research released this video on youtube page of a new laser weapon. In the video the laser is used against two targets including a boat which bursts into flames. Navy Officials Say the weapon can destroy targets win pinpoint accuracy. The navy says its still about 10 years away from deploying more laser prototypes. In the season of holiday parties many of us will have a drink or two. Eggnog, for instance. Why doing that the alcoholic version in the hours before you hit the sack could cause a nasty side effect we are not talking about a hangover here. And bad santa. A lot of people think these bar controlling chris kin guess are meant to clearly, these are not the real guys much these guys just hired a lawyer to fight for their right to party. Well explain all of this. Right now were looking at a few flakes flying across the area but there is some milder few flakes flying across the area but there is some milder itll come from my kitchen. The Biggest Surprise this season wont come from an upset, try our new philly cheesesteak pizza. A large for 12. Add a red kettle cookie for 6 and a portion of the proceeds go to the salvation army. Better ingredients. Better pizza papa johns. Heres life look at old city right now. Another day of some bitter cold out there and a lot of us saw more snow. But dont worry we just got to get through today and then i promise you things are going to improve. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams will have those details coming up in your fox 29 Weather Authority. Whole lot of santas running a muck clearly the real santa claus is not in this crowd of pub crawling santas in new york city. What you see there, well, its now heading to court and leaving santa claus fighting for his right to party. Foxs Linda Schmidt explains what the legal fight is all about. Reporter the yearly santa bar crawl is scheduled for saturday but where no one knows. It is usually in manhattan primarily on the Lower East Side in the east village where last year it drew about 30,000 participants. But Community Board three has banned the rowdy revelers and bars like epsteins dont want any part of it. Three years ago, we did it. We participated in it and we allowed them to come inside. And there were three fights, people were puking everywhere. Its just a mess. Reporter some neighborhoods say they are tired of scenes like this. Drunken santas duking it out in the snow. Vomiting, vandalizing and urinating in public. A Block Association called the Lower East Side dwellers is encouraging bar owners to post not wanted flyers on their doors and windows. Santa con unfortunately does it sets a standard for the sort of behavior is down here. Which is at least the people that come from it and its fairly lawless. Reporter originally santa con was going to kick off this years event at a park in bush wick brooklyn but residents and City Council Members quickly put a stop to that. So now santa con has hired famed civil rights attorney norman segal to fight for their right to party. We should ban the term ban when it comes to santa con. People can walk through every neighborhood in the city and if theres any community thats going to physically ban people ill challenge that. Reporter and not only santa con getting a backlash from some communities, but also metro north and new Jersey Transit are all banning booze the a stations and on trains this weekend. On the Lower East Side, im Linda Schmidt, fox news. You can see that snow in new york. We had a lot of that today. We did. We certainly had our share of it today. Flurries film it was pretty. It wasnt too much. It didnt stick. Not even winter yet and were lookin looking at slick ss with those temperatures dropping tonight. Keep that to mind if youre stepping outdoors overnight as first thing tomorrow morning but look at some of the totals com coming from across the area. Gilbertsville, hilltown township, 1. 5inches. Mainly on the grassy surfaces and glassboro in south jersey saw a trace of snow earlier this afternoon. As we look at ultimate doppler, things starting to settle down a bit. We still have some pockets of flurries. Well zoom in a little closer. You can see around sections of bucks county, but its very light and you can see that indicated by the color, the gray showing you that its very light intensity when you have that brighter white, that indicates some heavier snowfall. So still a few flakes flying around reading also moving toward the pottstown area northern sections of Chester County as well still looking at some of the flurries, but were not looking at the accumulating snowfall that we saw earlier this afternoon. Temperatures today certainly were chilly. 33 degrees was the low. In the philadelphia area. We made it to 38 degrees but normal for this time of year is a balmy 46 degrees. And were looking at temperatures increasing over the next several days beyond that number. So look at the numbers right now. Were at or below freezing in several locations. 32 degrees thats going to be that critical temperature that well watch out for during the overnight for the development of some of the black ice especially on those bridges and overpasses. But you factor in the wind, how your body reacts, how you should dress it looks like temperatures feel like 22 in lancaster. I wasnt witness degrees. Thats it toward the pocono mountains. This pesky area of low pressure, the noreaster weve been talking about all week long, its still slowly trying to move away. But it will have some success as we progress toward your friday. So as we roll the clock by 7 00 p. M. , still a few flurries mainly north and west. And then we start to finally dry out and even clear out as we move toward your friday. The sunshine will return across the area tomorrow but its going stay kind of chilly as we approach friday evening and overnight as well. Now, were talking about that noreaster for us, but take a look toward the west. We continue to watch a lot of very heavy rainfall that Pineapple Express that moisture originating from hawaii just slamming into sections of northern and central parts of california. Mudslides are going to be a concern. Youll be hearing about that over the next several days. So temperatures tonight, below freezing. Watch out for black ice. Tomorrow well call it partly sunny. Youll see the sunshine return across the area. It stays chilly as well as breezy. Winds will be out of the northwest 10 to 15 miles per hour. The Weather Authority seven day forecast showing you that as we move toward saturday, a high of 43 degrees. Still a little chilly. Seasonal day. 46 degrees for the High Temperature on sunday. It stays dry and then as we move toward monday and tuesday of next week, what about 50 on monday . 51 degrees as we move toward tuesday. And then it turns chilly again by the latter part of next week. But right now it looks dry for the seven day forecast. Kick off forecast 8 30 sunday at the linc cowboys taking on the birds. Were looking at temperatures in the upper 30s. It will be dry but its going to be cold for tailgating as well as for the game so keep that in mine. And of course, the eagles are going to win. They are going to win. Big game first place and division is on the line and cowboys it will be heated. Good football weather. So thank you. Exactly. Thank you scott. It will be good on my couch. Ill tell that you. Tiz the season for packing on the pounds. Every year you hear tips on keeping your eating under control without missing out on all the fun. Coming up some ideas you probably and amazingly might not have heard before. And family pets get way out of control in a florida home. Crews are now removing hundreds of rats. And coming up at six you heard a lot of talk about limiting salt for your health sake but one place says its using salt to c why you might want to lay off alcohol before bedtime. Even one glass of wine can wreak havoc on your sleep. Doctors say Drinking Alcohol before bed may initially induce sleep but it leads to much poorer quality of rest. They say alcohol interrupts your internal body clock that regulates sleeping and waking overtime regular drink asking even lead to withdrawal symptoms and insomnia. Its the most wonderful time of the year but probably not for your waistline. Nobody wants winter festivities to weigh them down. Dr. Oz has got some advice for keeping the holiday feasts from leading to those extra pounds. Gaining a few pounds over the holidays doesnt only put your wardrobe at risk it can also spell out trouble for your heart. New Research Shows that gaining just 5 pounds can cause your Blood Pressure to go up by four points. So keep those extra pounds and points at bay ive got few tips for you first i want to you take the napkin test to spot gut bu busting grease. Appetizer leaves an oil meal leave it off your plate. Next to help keep your sweet tooth in check sip tea. Its natural sweetness helps curb cravings before they start. I take mine with milk and a touch of honey. Heres one more tip. Aft eating stand up for your health. Lounging around after a meal can actually increase the risk of diabetes. Sitting for prolonged after eat asking cause blood sugar levels to spoke. End your meal with a 15 minute walk. Remember the holidays are a time for celebration not the time to drop a dress size. Give yourself break and maintain your weight this holiday season. You can watch dr. Oz right here on fox 29 weekdays at 1 00 p. M. Okay. So on list of thing not to show up with at the courthouse, drugs are probably pretty high up there. Yeah and especial physical youre already facing say a drug charge. Police say this man came to a court date with heroin in his pockets. The explanation he gave to officers. And you see them every people. People tracking their steps, calories, even sleep. But those fitness bands really work . See what happens when we put them to the test. Howard . The phillies theyre still trying to make more deals at the baseball winter meetings but i will tell you why the Jimmy Rollins deal with the dodgers is not official yet and what the eagles quarterback mark sanchez is thinking going into the dallas game. Is thinking going into the dallas game. Thats ah, push it. Is thinking going into the dallas game. Thats push it. P. Push it real good ow oooh baby baby. Baby baby. If youre saltnpepa, you tell people to push it. Push it real good. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Ah. Push it. Im pushing. Im pushing it real good oregon man apparently brought Little Something extra to court noun hes in even more trouble because of it. 23 year old Michael Durbin was supposed to appear on heroin possession charge on tuesday. Authorities say he showed up to the courthouse with a syringe and a cotton ball in his pocket deputees believe couldnt taped heroin. Officials say durbin told him he thought he left those thing in the car. Durbin was arrested and charged with another count of heroin possession. Drought stricken california has been in desperate need of rain but not like this. Flooding rains, blizzards and Hurricane Force winds are pounding the state right now. Foxs Claudia Cowan is in pacific today california tonight where people are dealing with the worst of it. Reporter rain starting to fall in San Francisco wednesday night as the powerful storm started battering the west coast. Heavy precipitation is expected and as much as 8inches of rain is forecast for coastal mountains over a 24hour period. Schools all across the bay area closing ahead of the storm. Staffers at one school passing out flyers to parents notifying them of the closure. Id rather him safe at home than anywhere else. Reporter the storm is being called a Pineapple Express since the system originated in hawaii. Four casters say it is one of the stronger storms to hit the state in five years. People are filling up sand bags to help prevent major blooding while others rush to stores to stock up on supplies. Tarps, batteries, flashlights, anything to do with this storm thats coming up. Wrestling with my big generator its all fixed up and so im set. This is the last item on my list. Reporter crews also prepping beach areas for the wicked weather. Bulldozers working to build berms in newport beach. The Weather Service issuing a High Surf Advisory in the state warning waves will top jetties and sea walls the ocean could also spill over into low lying beach areas and parking lots. Some surfers in seal beach taking advantage of the rough seas before the storm arrived. Little exit chi. Took a few to the face but not too bad. Reporter the storm is expected to move south through the day and then slowly weaken as it moves east. Across nevada, arizona and new mexico. In pacifica california Claudia Cowan, fox news. What started as few pets has now increased to hundreds of rodents. Hard to believe but a florida womans home has been overrun by rats. The spca says there are up to 500 rats in flor recent browns home schenn did not know what to do. The spca has removed some but hundreds remain and flor recent doesnt have the heart to fumigate. Those few rats she got as pets two years ago mull applied and now rule. The rats they have taken over. Theyre in every room pretty much in the house. Did you think of it as a big deal or a problem. I still dont. Hushes shes never been sick because of the rats wouldnt like to humanely trap and remove them but says thats easier said than done. Hopefully somebody will help her. Now i want to you look at these things. These bands. You see them everywhere really. They are the hottest gifts out there this holiday season. But we were wondering do these bands really help you get fit . Foxs chris chmura puts them to the test. Cindy schneider is perpetual motion. All moving. Also, always wearing her fit band around her wrist. I paid about one hun doctor dollars for it. Reporter this bracelet records every swing on the court. My point. Reporter every step with leo the dog. And every mile on her bike. I wear it no matter what im doing. Reporter multiple colors for fashion plus blue tooth connecting the tiny computer inside to her iphone. I like seeing the numbers. Reporter sin tree tracks her personal best and competes with friends worldwide who also wear this tech sensation. I like to be in first place. Reporter last year, consumers ran up a tab of 2. 5 billion on socalled wearable Business Insider estimate olympic sprint 212. 6 billion by 2,018. With selection changing daily, and heavy weights like mike crow soft and apple introducing new products, what wearable is right for you . We turn to ben tailor with finds the best. Com. He complete add marathon comparison of 26 different models for time magazine. The top were pretty good. Taylor found a wide field of features and prices. Essentially he says the more you spend, the more it will do. Taylor sweet spot for value is around 100. Even though some will fetch 200 bucks. You dont nieces particularly need to spend that much to get one of the top products. Reporter some models offer sleep analysis, but ben is skeptical. Theres a little bit of snake oil still there. Reporter he says finding the perfect fitness band hinges on balancing your love of the look. Black one with the white polka dot. Reporter and your understanding of the app. Youre also want to carefully consider battery live. Which is all over the map. There is a huge range. There are some that can barely get through a day. There are other that is can last hundreds of days. Reporter reviews of fitness band accuracy are mixed. Some might log 100 steps when youve only walk 50 but does that even matter . Accuracy matters depending on what your intention is. Report roar jonelle garcia holds the ph. D. In health behavior. Shes currently researching the psychology of fitness bands at all childrens hospitals. Asking whether this strip of rubber can teach us Healthy Habits and get us moving even if the numbers are a little off. If you see value in it for your goals and what youre trying to chief i think it definitely has its place. Reporter cindy can see it. Yes. Reporter she is wrapped around the fit bit. Its a part of me. Reporter thats wrapped around her wrist. Definitely helps me with a healthier lifestyle. Reporter shes such an eager cheerleader keeps me going. Reporter were surprised her walking companion isnt wearing one, too. Actually they do. They do have them for dogs. Reporter watch that leader board, cindy. Chris chmura, fox news. You can read the reviews of the band youre looking for just head to our website myfoxphilly. Com and look under the scene on tv tab. Drivers are getting a huge surprise lots of them. Big doses of Holiday Cheer in one michigan town. A Police Officer and lowell is very busy pulling over people but not to give them tickets. Hes actually handin handing out presents. How nice is that . He says he came up with the idea last mon month. His goal to get to know his community and give the drivers a lift. Some people were nervous. Some people didnt want to be stopped by us. Theyre especially when i told them what the infraction was. We see people sometimes at the worst points of their lives, i mean new york really calls to us say, hey, were having a good day. But they call us when they need help. Look at that. I love that. Now in two days the officer handed out 30 presents. These were spent dee, too, iain. They were worth 7,000. So its all posted on youtube and its a joint effort between the Lowell Police department and the up tv network. Good for them. How about this . In massachusetts a lay away angel is spreading some holiday joy. The secret santa surprised more than 150 shoppers. Foxs ted daniels looks at this very good deed. Reporter the toys r us in billing ham its where a kid can be a kid. Actually your lay away has been paid off for you. Reporter a complete stranger can be an angel. Absolutely. We were there when diane brewer from men don found out she may not have to work extra shifts to pay for the presents she picked out weeks ago for her son. I have no words. I cant believe someone would do that. Thats so nice. Run around all this week picking up lay aways everywhere. So this is really awesome. Reporter the person we know only as the lay a way ang angel. Walked in and with little fanfare paid off every single lay away balance at the store. The angels good cheer, good fortune for one fief 54 people. With all the craziness thats going on and to actually see that, it makes your heart feel very good. Reporter the balances range from a few dollars to a few hundred. For a total of 20,000. The reactions, those are priceless. Thats insane. Thats awesome for everybody. Happy about it and cried a little. Reporter jason wood made a special trip from graph ton to pick up his items. Toys for his six month old and fiveyearold daughter. I wish there were more people in the world like that. Reporter jason used the money he was planning to spend to load up the toys for tots donation box. Thats how its supposed to work, isnt it . Yes it is. You pay it forward, and its good karma. Reporter in a box store, full of material things, a reminder of what the holidays are really all about. Lay away angels, cops pulling over people to give them presents and then the season of giving. We have more than 200 families from our area that are feeling the love today. Fox 29 is there as social workers at a moving company helped deliver presents to children at local hospitals all part of Kelly Ann Dolan Memorial Fund sponsors the annual adopt a family program. The Program Matches families of seriously ill or disabled children with sponsors to ensure that families in crisis can share in the spirit of holiday season. Its amazing how kind people can be during the holidays especially when they know that there are families that are in crisis because of illness in children. Sponsors include church groups, businesses, individual families, scout troops and school groups. Straight ahead at 6 00 the winter we have not been able to shake this week. Brutal temperatures, fun for giving winds and snow. But things are looking up. And its been the subject of a heated nationwide debate. Strapping body cameras on to Police Officers. Philadelphia police are trying it out and theyre showing us how it works. Plus treating sickness with salt. Right now at 6 00 the snow moves out but those cold temperatures are staying with us. It was yet another day tough to be outside. Along with the winds and cold temperatures came snow. Believe it or not things are about to improve. Good evening, im iain page. Lime lucy noland. Weve seen rain, snow flurries all day. Lets get straight to chief meteorologist Scott Williams. Good evening, lucy and iain. Right now most of the heavier snow that we saw earlier moving out. We still have leftover flurries and well be watching temperatures as we move into the evening and overnight. So well zoom in a little closer across the area. Still a few leftover flurries but most of that diminishing around bucks county. Moving into moment county around the norristown area still looking at a few of those flakes flying also moving toward pottstown, but most of the action is diminishing across our area. We saw upwards to an inch and a half in upper sections of bucks and Montgomery County but temperature right now at freezing in millville, atlantic city, pottstown, 32 degrees. 32 in allentown as well. So the bottom line as we head into your thursday evening and overnight, a few leftover flurries out there. Those temperatures dropping below freezing so you have to watch out for some slick spots especially those bridges and over passes. But coming up im timing a warmup as we head into the weekend and also were looking ahd

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