So be prepared. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im dawn timmeney. Iain is off tonight. Scott williams its tracking when the rain is going to move on out and the temperatures going to drop. Yeah, thats right, dawn and lucy. It took awhile but those storms finally started popping here late this evening across the area. As expected, south and east of the philadelphia area so well zoom in a little closer right now and you can see moving out of delaware right now into sections of south jersey. Nothing currently severe but some of these storms could pack a punch gusty winds in excess of 40 Miles Per Hour as well as some pea sized hail. Well move into sections of delaware, moving out of new castle and moving into sections of salem county right now around the piles grove area looking at light rain. Moderate rainfall right now moving around the stow creek area cedarville into down force queue and Cumberland County also lightning headed toward the dennis area eventually back toward the Sea Isle City area. Now most of the coverage out to see and also reports of potential tornado far south around the maryland and virginia border earlier this evening. Still a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for that particular area. The culprit a cold front moving through. This will likely end the heat wave across the area some of those storms still going around midnight especially south and east of i95 tomorrow morning there could be a leftover shower or thunderstorm down the shore when youre watching sue but most of the action moves out to sea and the humidity starts to drop overnight and early tomorrow morning. Once again, it looks like we will have an end to the heat wave today we made it to 93 degrees. Well talk about cooler changes as well as maybe a good soaking rain later this week with the seven day. Back to you. All right, scott, thank you. Stay ahead of any dangerous weather with your fox 29 news app. You can look at live radar and get weather alerts sent right to your cell phone its free just search for it in the apple or google play stores. Wawa youre go to place to fill up your tank, get your daily cup of joe, may soon offer another convenience. You might soon be able to pick up a cold one. At least at one wawa. Shawnette wilson is live in cards forward tonight. This is big deal for wawa lovers, shawnette. Reporter yeah, right now, this is actually a pilot plan for wawa stores. In the meantime, acme, giant and wholefoods in this area already sell beer and wegmans here soon will, too. In the meantime wawa, though, is drawing mixed reactions. Would you buy beer from wawa . I guess if i needed a beer i would. For me the convenience is because i just live very close. Its going to be very convenient. Closer than regular so why not . Reporter a lot of wawa customers shopping at this store on naamans road in chadds ford are happy it will soon start carrying beer. Every day this is my wawa. Reporter wawa got the okay from the Concord Township board of supervisors they voted to allow the sale of beer at this one locate. It would be the first wawa in bense to sell alcohol. Not everyone is happy about the decision, though. What is this world can we truly control . Reporter some fear it might cause a problem we underaged drinking its a store where young people shop too for other things. People like money theyll do thing the wrong reasons to get money. Reporter biggest concern though is from beer distributors. Jeff works for brewers outlet up the road from what the what that will sell beer. I wont be able to compete with them. They can sell six packs i cant. Reporter he cant compare with the Convenient Store powerhouse that has just about everything and will now be even more of a one stop shop than it already is. If theyre there for coffee and there they get their beer there. Its not fair to me because i cant draw them in with coffee or i cant draw them in with, you know, snacks or lunch. Reporter and this still needs approval from the Pennsylvania Liquor control board. In the meantime were told that when this does happen, beer sales will be restrict to do certain hours here at this wawa. Dawn . All right, thanks shawnette. All lanes are now back open on the pennsylvania turnpike after a bad accident shut down the eastbound lanes for eight hours. Skyfox overhead as drivers finally started moving again. The highway was closed after an incident involving a tractor trailer. Now this happened between the willow grove and bensalem skits. Cardboard inside that trailer caught on fire causing a mess. There were reports some drivers were even running out of gas after being stuck in that backup for so long. And it was a mess on the new jersey turnpike as well. A deadly and fiery crash stopping traffic for hours. A dump truck struck an under path and interstate knife and ended up on its side this morning. That fire may have damaged the bridge as well as gas and power lines. At last check, lanes along i95 were still shut down as investigators specced that bridge. And some drivers taking their frustrations out by posting pretty interesting pictures on social media. Trying to make the best of a bad situation. Take look stranded people used up some of their time by playing catch, some even sun bathing. Punch the out stone cold out at a philadelphia nightclub and a camera rolled. Police are hoping what it caught will help them catch the guy who threw the punch. They released this individual yost june 28th assault outside a club on the 1700 block of columbus boulevard. Police say a guy ex changed words with another man then punched him knocking him out. Investigators say one Club Security tried to stop the man who threw the punch, he got in a taxi and took off. Take a good look at this police 67. Do you recognize this woman . New Jersey State Police hope someone knows who she is. Her body was found along the Delaware River in west deptford in january of 2014. Investigators think she was between 30 and 60 years old and about 5foot five to 5 feet 7inches tall. Investigators still dont know how she died. If you know anything give police a call. Developing right now new information in the hitandrun of a fiveyearold girl in north philadelphia. Now, fox 29 has Learned Police are looking at a vehicle that may have hit the little girl. Sunday night although investigators wont yet confirm whether its the suv they believe is involved. Carli green was playing on north lambert street when police say an suv came up the block, hit her and just kept going. Doctors released carli from the hospital last night. Developing to night, police are searching for the gunman who opened fire on soldiers in mississippi. Luckily no one was hurt. Two soldiers were standing guard at the Camp Shelby Training Center when a pickup truck drove by, the gunshots coming from inside that truck and then the driver just took off. No arrests tonight. The space considered one of the premier Training Facilities for National Guard troops. Police are making presence known on the streets of camden tonight. Instead of tracking down bad guys theyre hoping to get the word out about safety, health and community. Fox 29s dave kinchen at Police Headquarters in camden. Dave, whats happening there is all part of a much bigger movement. Reporter absolutely right. The Camden County Police Department has made it a point time prove relationships between police and the different neighborhoods in camden. And theyre doing that on National Night out. It may look like a Birthday Party but this get together in north camden is something more. A rebirth and this National Night out seems to be the perfect time for a celebration. Its a good in spirits to have all these kids out here families, so its real good. My nephews and nieces out here. Reporter party complete with face painting, balloons and free ice cream part of the reason you see smiles around. Many like Maria Morales never expected it in the neighborhood. You can keep the kids out and let them play outside. Before you couldnt. Reporter never thought youd see that. I thought it wouldnt change that fast. They brung Camden County cops in. Reporter thats those Camden County cops happy to give back and build bonds that come tikrit cal time with so much unrest between police and minority communities. We have officers out partaking of what the residents as far as eating, hanging out. As far as even just breaking bread. Communicating, getting to know each other. Reporter Police Captain says National Night out is about celebrating the progress. Im officer gabe. Which is huge. Because now youre not seen as just the officer youre actually scene as part of the community. Reporter all the while breaking down barriers. Some of those barriers can be getting out of the car and interact. Staying in that area get to know the community. Getting to know who lives there, who doesnt live there and know who they are by name. Reporter the best part the kids see the difference, too. Theres no drugs over here or nothing. Reporter its a good thing if the kids can see the difference too. Five National Night out events across camden and brought together members of the various town watch organizations. Lucy. All right, good night. , thank you very much dave. Fans are getting theirs first chance to see the eagles in action. Howard eskin is here with the first open practice of the summers training camp. Exciting times, howard. Football is back. They have another one on sunday but that clearly was an energy an different buzz for the eagl eagles. Now theyre close to 20,000 people at the linc its a practice to watch this years team for the first time. The fans were pumped. Excited being there. There were times when fans broke into eagles chant and times when they were just excited about some of the plays. After practice, many of the players signed autographs for the fans. Obviously the fans like the up close personal experience. But at times they dont understand there is work to do. They yell at us and ask us tocol come to talk to them and sign autographs in the miffled practice. We cant real dollar that. We have to practice. Were going to talk to them now, now that practice is over. Oh, man, its awesome. I didnt expect this many people to show up a lot of enthusiasm. Always good to play in front of your fans. So it is a lot of fun. Absolutely. Football just the same as it was when we were little kids. You take some of the work weve been doing behind closed doors and bring it out to the public is always great. No, its great. We love coming out here and practicing because all the fans are here but also nice to be in your home stadium on your field we play during the season. So its a nice change for to us get out here. There was a question remaining about why chip kelly did not have Demarco Murray practice on sunday because chip only speaks a few times a week. He didnt practice on day one. Chip kelly addressed that today, and an answer was kind of interesting. Lie have that coming up in sports. Dawn . Two guys looking for the pefect target. They break in but leave the car. The bizarre thing they stole that may have you double checking your back seat. And that hurts. That is an eightyearold boy begging for help. Handcuffed in a chair at school. Why the sheriffs deputy who slapped on those cuffs said he had no choice. He survived fighting for his country overseas but almost died in a blast in his bedroom. What exploded in this veterans home. A devastating crash took their daughter and now this local family is looking for her beloved dog. Im hoping we find him. Wed like to have some closure. So tough. How you can help reunite this family with a link to the daughter they lost. Briefing news coming out of northeast philadelphia right now. Skyfox over the 2700 block of grant avenue. This is where police are telling us that a vehicle actually dragged an officer and she now has an injured hand but we understand nothing more than that which is obviously very good thing. Police have not made any arrests at this point. They havent told us what led up to what happened here. We will bring you more as the news warrants. Have you seen this dog . His name is skittles and he belongs to a young woman whose life was cut short in a car crash just last week. And somehow in all the commotion of that accident, the pup ran away and now the girls family is desperate to get the dog back. They are asking for your help. Fox 29 weekends karen hepp has the search from woodbine, new jersey. Report. He was my daughters best friend. We just want him. Reporter brook harris loved animals. But she loved skittles best of all. She rescued the twoyearold shelter dog at the beginning of the summer and promised him a forever home. The 20yearold Just Graduated College as a veterinary technician hadnt so many plans. Last thursday afternoon, something went wrong and she failed to make a turn on rout route 347 and crashed into the woods of dennis township. As her animals needed dinner her dad knew something must be wrong he went out to the road and found a policeman. He told me parents wore the nightmare. He said go back home. Theyll be two officers to come see you. When i got home, they pulled in the yard and they told us she was gone. Reporter brooks mother cant even speak about the tragedy. The loss is just too powerful. Little sister taylor says, it has ban whirlwind of agony. Just remembering all the times i had with her and trying to find skittles and just remembering how good of a big sister she was to me. Reporter skittles was micro chipped has a tag that says exits. Friends from animal hospitals set up Facebook Page to spread the word. Perfect strangers search and the family prays. Im hoping we find him. Wed like to have some closure. If you see skittles or have any information we put a link on our website myfoxphilly. Com on who to contact and who to call. Im karen hepp, fox 29 news. Hopefully they can find him. Unmanned and out of control a run away garbage truck left a street on beaver street. He stepped out to talk to a supervisor when the brakes disengaged. Two parked cars could not slow it down. Three more cars further down the block also ended up in its path. The Garbage Company wont say if its covering the damage to all those cars. Tolls could soon rise for drivers crossing two bridges connecting south jersey and pennsylvania. Were talking about the taconypalmyra bridge and burlingtonbristol bridges. Right now, tolls are 2 if youre paying by cash. The Burlington County Bridge Commission wants to double that to 4 if you have ez pass you would get a break paying 3. The popes visit to philly is getting closer and it seems people may be getting scared off. You know, from all the talk of the massive crowds and monumental traffic jams and after all the hype surrounding septas lottery for its Regional Rail passes, you know what, they are not sol out tonight. Fox 29s bruce bore don shows us whats going on. Reporter no doubt the crowds and chaos that will accompany the popes september visit to philadelphia have caused some locals to head in the other direction. I need a vacation. Ive seen it seems like great time to go. Reporter avoid the crowds . Sure. Its going to be a mess down there. Too many people period. Too many people. Just released numbers from septa sale of Regional Rail passes for the big event provide hard evidence there really is a fear factor. The Transit Authority first attempt at selling the passes on first come first serve basis resulted in a website crashing run more than 50,000 attempts to log on for passes all at once. The second try mondays day long Online Lottery went far more smoothly says spokeswoman gerri williams. It look like most of the people who entered the lottery will be able to get the passes that they want. Reporter that turned to be out to be understatement. The lottery produced just 38,000 customers. Requesting 328,000 rail passes. Factor in duplicate orders that may be dropped, youve got at least 22,000 rail passes unsold. By any measure, an unwelcomed surprise. World meeting of families official continue to push back against the idea that visitors should be scared off by the scope of the event. There are logistics, there are a lot of plans that have to be made. There is going to be walking as mayor nutter has said but in the end, it is going to be an unparalelled experience. So we would say, come to the world meeting. Reporter even though sales of the rail passes fell short, some of the most popular suburban train stations did sell out. Septa is in the process of figuring out which stations have sold out, which stations are still in play and how theyll sell those remaining passes. That information could come out as early as wednesday. In the newsroom im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Fox 29 has you covered for the popes visit to philadelphia. Just head to myfoxphilly. Com and look for a special section on our home page. You decide 2016. The final roster for the first Republican Debate fox news announcing the lineup of the gop candidates in thursday nights debate here are the top 10 candidates in the polls right now. Donald trump, jerk bush, scott walker, ben carson, mike huckabee, ted ruse, mar mark coy rubio, Chris Christie and john kasich. A threeyearold girl finally found kidnapped by her mother missing for more than year. What that mother was trying to protect her water from. He treaded water for four hours during the storm before the coast guard could rescue him. Tonight the first sign that new jersey man describes what a fishing trip turned into a fight for his life. And playing the lottery every day for years when he finally hit it big. But theres a big problem. I went to look for my numbers but i didnt have it. Utoh. I throwed it away. Threw it away. Hope was not lost. The unexpected helping hand to dig up that Winning Ticket. Speaking of lotteries, dawn, heres a look at your winning numbers. So good luck. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. Good evening, everybody. Road crews are out 95 northbound that new traffic pattern at girard avenue and theyre also working further north up near the cottman of a interchange till about 5 00 oclock tomorrow morning. The septa trolley blitz continues all of the subway surface trollies divertin divert 40th and market from that the market frankford line rolls new downtown and through the overnight into early tomorrow, watch for lane restrictions along route 422. Its hump day well see you bright and early tomorrow morning at 4 00 a. M. Consideration id like to put in my 15year notice. Youre quitting . Technically retiring, sir. With a little help from my state farm agent, i plan to retire in 15 years. Wow youre totally blindsiding me here. Whos gonna manage your accounts . This is a devastating blow i was not prepared for. Well, im gonna finish packing my things. 15 years will really sneak up on you. Jennifer with do your exit interview and adam made you a cake. Red velvet. Oh, thank you. I made this. Take charge of your retirement. Talk to a state farm agent today. Breaking news right now. Bucks county skyfox. Live over trap lane in langhorne where crime seen investigators are at work right now. Thats where police say a 66yearold man was stabbed and killed just before 5 00 this evening. Officials say theyve arrested the mans 26yearold son. They believe he stabbed his father in the stomach with a sword. Again police are still on the scene gathering evidence trying to piece together what exactly happened. Controversy tonight over this video posted on youtube. Video showing a kentucky Deputy Sheriff who works as a School Resource officer handcuffing an eightyearold boy, an eightyearold boy. School Officials Say they call the sheriff because the boy and another girl were being disruptive. You heard the deputy say the kids were taking swing at him tonight the aclu filed a lawsuit on behalf of the parents and the children. It is illegal to restrain students in Public Schools in the state of kentucky. Incredible scene tampa florida. A foot of rain dropped which has had search and rescues crews saving people by boats and wading through water. With the ground saturated and creeks overflowing, homes flooded, buildings flooded even senior care facility. Search and rescue teams had to help get the residents out to higher ground. Mondays rain mark 11 Straight Days of downpours forcing evacuations in three counties. Almost 15 months after police say a florida woman kidnapped her daughter that threeyearold little girl is back with her dad tonight. Police say 23yearold Meghan Elizabeth everett grabbed her daughter lilly and just took off. That was in may of 2014. Lillys father reported the girl missing and investigators have been looking for her ever since. Fbi and Putnam County Police Tracked down everett and found lilly safe and sound. The two were living under false names more than four hours away. Tonight everett is in jail on kidnapping charges and little little system in her fathers care. Big relief to know that shes, you know, going to be okay but is going to be a long road. It is going to be difficult. But well get through this as family so i think everything will be all right from here on out. The fbi says everett took her daughter away because she did not want her to receive vaccinations. Everett also left a note last year for her boyfriend saying she feared others would brain wash her and raise her the wrong way. A trip to the bathroom turns very creepy when a woman hears a noise coming from the air freshner. So i looked and im like okay this is odd. I open it and noticed that there was an iphone. Umhmm. It was recording. What an employee said when she confronted him. Plus he survived fighting for his country overseas but almost died in blast in his own bedro bedroom. What exploded in this veterans home. Scott . Dawn, right now storms still hitting parts of south jersey and delaware. When this rain moves out and more moves in next. Hows it progressing with the prisoner . Hell tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. As you were. Where were we . 13 serving 14 service if your boss stops by, you act like youre working. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Wedding day nightmare in delaware county. A story youll only see on fox. Bridal shop suddenly closes and its left several brides without one of most important parts of their big day, their Wedding Dress. Kind of a big deal. We sent out Chris Oconnell get some answers and hes live in media tonight with more on this we love ill lit rater bridal blunder. Chris. Delaware county brides are scrambling tonight to buy their second new Wedding Dress. Thats because the bridal boutique where they bought their first Wedding Dress suddenly closed its doors and closed its doors. Im not on your property. Thats the reaction we got when we went looking for answers from the owners bridal sophisticates. A bridal shop in media, delaware county, that suddenly shut its doors. I put it on and it just felt like ooh princess i guess. Report Rory Becca Steve line gets giddy thinking about the dress of her dreams a designer eddie cay ball gown. She and her fiance andrew are getting married on september 6th. One problem she has no dress after plunk down a 1,500 to bridal sophisticates nine months ago she told that dress was never even ordered from the designer. When i talk to the manufacturer, they said they never received payment, any type of payment for the dress. When you called her . When i called her her number had been disconnected. Steve line bought second a dress and so has heather weed her wedding is in november. I just loved it. I fell in love. Reporter she says she paid bridal sophisticates 1500 bucks up front for her designer eddie cay dress in february. And now three months from her big day, her dress and her money are nowhere to be found. Not so much about the dress. I can wear anything. Im marrying the love of my life. But the fact she would do this to so many girls who are trying to plan for the most special day in their life it is very heartbreaking. Reporter witness exception of a few dresses hanging from a rack the store is completely empty. Its website taken down and the phone number this is not working number. Reporter disconnect. We went to visit the owner monterey leka at her aston home last week. Chris from fox 29. We arrived she was packing her car. She is selling her house and moments away she told us from leaving town to virginia. All the brides who are looking for their deposits on their dresses. Yes, they going to get it. She didnt want to talk on camera any more but the own are in of this longtime Bridal Business claims recent financial problem on the did he mice of that business. Did you send a notice to your customers. Her husband did tell us their customers will eventually get their money but didnt say when. We do not take anybodys money. We dont. We are decent people. Weve been decent. 20 years after doing business clean, nice and neat. At least for two brides, those words are too late. Hopefully get my money back and then get married. A bump in the road. The goal is marriage. Reporter now, the owner told us she was going to contact all of her customers win 24 hours. She told us that last week but tonight, those customers said they have not received a phone call. Those women said theyve contacted the state police and theyre being told this is a civil matter. Dawn . All right, chris. A womans trip to the bathroom while out to lunch ends with her running out to call the police. Lisa copeland asked that her face not be shown here. She says she went into the womens bathroom at a Sandwich Shop near phoenix when she heard beeping coming from the air freshner in the corner. She opened it up and inside guess what she found an i phone and she says it was recording everything. She ran out, found her boyfriend and they told an employee. He was like im so embarrassed. Hes like i dont want to call the police because, um, i dont want to ruin my stores reputation. Hes like i get out at 5 00 oclock and ill call the police then. Lisa and her boyfriend didnt like the employees response did he that not wait. They call police right away. They came and took the phone and now investigating. Thats scary. We have got some weather brewing out there. Scott williams whats going on . Right now, lucy and dawn, keeping tabs on a cool front that will likely bring an end to the heat wave for most tomorrow across the area. Right now showers and thunderstorms still popping right now in south jersey and parts of southern delaware. Well zoom in a little close sr. Right now. You can see the red, the orange, millville moving toward fort queue around see ale city looking at very heavy rainfall and look at the vivid lightning showing up right now as well around dennis and moving toward down, woodbine still looking some of that moderate to heavy rain this will continue moving to the east impacting atlantic city. As we move into sections of Sussex County and delaware, you can see some moderate to heavy showers and thunderstorms continuing to move toward the east if they hold together moving toward the Rehoboth Beach area within the next hour. Likelihood of some small hail showing up with this system as well there could be some pea sized hail moving into Sussex County as well as toward the Sea Isle City area so just a heads up on that. Otherwise, we start to dry out a break from the humidity as well as the heat for tomorrow. But by midnight still some ongoing showers and thunderstorms mainly down the shore that activity should diminish early tomorrow morning. Were looking at decreasing clouds. Some sunshine and drier conditions. But yes, day marked day eight it officer third heat wave the longest heat wave of the year. 93 degrees was the high temperature. Tomorrow will the heat wave end it looks likely across the area. 89 degrees the high temperature, but dont be surprised if we squeak out another day with the high of 90 tomorrow. 83 degrees right now. But look at the dew points. Dropping into the low 50s right now across the area. Temperatures really comfortable north and west upper 60s. Pottstown 62 in the pocono mountains. And look at the drier air. Dew points in the 50s north and of philadelphia. Still pretty muggy, though, upper 60 toss right around 70. The latter part of the week will bring a storm system thursday night into friday. It looks like the heaviest of the rain will be down the shore but friday looks like a wash out depending on your location. But look at the temperatures. Mid 80s by thursday. Only in the upper 70s for frid friday. Rain tapers early saturday. Cooler temperatures for the upcoming weekend. Back to you. All right. Scott. We have breaking news for you out of new Jersey State Police headquarters just told us they reopened i95 in new jersey after a fiery crash there that had lanes shut down for hours on end. And backed up traffic for miles. One person died when a dump truck struck an underpass this morning. Crews were able to finish repair work ahead of schedule actually and lanes just reopen. Two guys looking for the perfect target. They break in but they are not looking for fashion or electronics. What they stole that may have you double checking your back seat. Plus playing the lottery every day for years. When he finally hits it big, he realizes he threw away the ticket. The unexpected help that dug up that Winning Ticket from the trash. In your money tonight smart phones keep getting smarter. Apple and google are adding features that can anticipate what you want or need even before you want or need it. Sounds like a hub, right. Feature called proactive assistant. Its going to learn you from your apps how you use them and also for your travels and contacts. I wonder what george or well would think. Google plans to introduce google now tap which will tap into your brows sr. History, email and youtube habits. Well this is huge for parents. Netflix announcing a Game Changing new poll is he for new moms and dads. Company is now allowing employees to take paid unlimited maternity or paternity leave during the first year after their childs birth or adoption. Netflix will continue to pay the employee their normal salary during that first year. Streaming company was already receiving high marks for offering its employees paid unlimited vacation time. Love that. Yes. Its the dream for anyone buying a lottery ticket, right . To win big. Yes. But what if you threw the big winner away . Gone. Frederick jackson stopped into his Neighborhood Convenience store outside atlanta every single day, dawn, to buy at least one lottery ticket. Well friday night he wouldnt 10,000. Huge. Except for the fact that he misread his ticket, thought he was off one number and asked the clerk to, hey, can you throw this out for me . It wasnt until the next day that he realized his mistake. So iran back to the car. I went looking for my number but i didnt have it. So i utoh, i throwed it away. I did pretty good. He jump in that dumpster no luck, though. The following day a clerk found the ticket in a back room trash can. You know what jackson claimed his prize this week and even shared some of the cash with his Favorite Convenience store. Isnt that nice . Dont forget, you can now watch the lottery drawing every night right here on fox 29. He was lucky twice. Yup. Well next he tried water for four tread water for four hours during a storm that. New jersey man describing when fishing trip turned into a fight for his life. And louder the shotgun going up. Shot up here and put holes in my wife. He survived combat but almost died in a blast in his bedroom. What exploded in this veterans home. Do you recognize a couple of guys in this video here . Philadelphia police are looking for them for robbing a jeep on the 2300 block of south seventh street. You can see them checking the vehicles doors. They find one unlock. Police say one guy starts rummaging through it while the other guy is acting as look out. What did they take . Police say a case of motor oil. A dramatic coast guard rescue 45 milsey of off the coast of cape may. We first brought you this incredible story of survival on sunday night. Well, now the man who stayed a float without a life preserver for four hours is talking what he did before help arrived. 45yearold Damien Sexton of williamstown lost his footing and fell off his boat on saturday night. Sexton says the vessels auto pilot made it impossible for him to get back on board. Despite heavy rain and strong winds, sexton dreaded water and swam 10 miles to reach a cargo ship in the distance that freighter pluck him out of the water until the coast guard arrived and sexton says he had a lot of motivation to stay alive. My family, my wife and my kids, i could just picture their sorrow and their grief with me being gone, and i knew it would ruin their lives and i love them too much for them to go through that, so i just kept going. I didnt stop. I didnt give up. And i dont where i got the strength. I dont know how i did it. But i made it. Incredible. Sexton says the coordinated effort between the coast guard, the freighter an friend also on his boat helped save his life. What a story. Thousands of evacuated winds whipping fires raging in a state that knows wildfires this season in the middle of a historic drought horrific with dozens of homes burning. Firefighters battling 20 wildfires across california. Yesterday the largest jumped a containment line and gusty winds are not helping. It has rained lightly in the area near that fire. But Officials Say that blaze is so big little bit of rain is not going to help. A veteran survived fighting overseas but it was actually a blast in his own home that almost took his life. The michigan man says its all because he tried to quit smoking. Foxs randy shows us what exploded right in that vets hand. Pushed it. It just exploded. Reporter its safe to say this vapor pen was the bomb. This thing fired up. Out of my hands. Hit the wall. Reporter Sergeant Jason dike man from down river to have been down for the count. His arm was scorched. I went to put the ointment on the other day and skin just ripped off. Reporter his thumb could have nerve damage. Theres a bunch of scrap nel in there. Reporter part of his abdomen was burned black. Like its for real like charred black like charcoal. Reporter he was vaping a vapor pe inform like an ecigarette, a safer alternative to smoking tobacco unless, of course, it goes boom. Louder than shotgun going off. Reporter thankfully the pen was not in his mouth just his hands. It shot up here and put holes in my wall. Im thinking the thing probably would have shot into my mouth and probably stabbed me in my neck or something, you know, and first person had to come in was my eightyearold son. Hes going to find me here with my face blown up and bleeding everywhere. Reporter he learn legislation protects stores that sell vapor pe in s from lawsuits because a Chinese Company made the pen it will be practically impossible to go after it in court. Its just crazy. 91 of these boxes have warnings. Nothing that say, hey, this product may explode in your hasnts. Thats what you get left with, a bunch of bills and, you know, sorry about your luck. Reporter that from guy who serve tours in iraq and afghanistan. Make it through all that and come home and a vapor cigarette almost takes me out. Its crazy. Reporter its not the first time a vapor p elf inform or ecigarette exploded in someones hand or mouth. Earlier this year, ecigarette battery blew up in a texas mans pocket. It was like a firecracker. It made the same exact noise, you know, wooshing sound and then burning sensation. Reporter as for dike man he took to vaping after kicking his tobacco habit. Now lets just say the close call could be cause for a relapse. Been better off smoking, huh . Yes, sir. Deadly alternative at least its long, long. Not going to blow up my face or kill me. Fox reach out to the company that made his vape per pen but havent heard back yet. His congressman says shes loo looking into possible regulations. Now if you cant get enough of foxs smash hit empire, youll love this news. How would you like to be on the show, on the show during season two . Well, empire is looking for its next artist to appear on the hiphop drama series and its taking a gold tour bus all around the country to hold auditions. Thats audition from detroit. The tour is making 15 stops in different cities including philadelphia. Theyll be in town on september 6th and 7th. So if youve got that luscious lion sound mark your calendars. You can also submit a video by the way online visit fox empire artist. Com. Dont forget empire returns to fox 29 for season two lots of people waiting on septembe september 23rd. Speaking of excitement, howard eskin in the house. Thats right. And the eagles were in the house for the fans today. But youll see something. I have seen some wild things at games but not many with what i will show you tonight. Wait until you see this,. And, yes, eagles got an open practice for the fans. But it seems like chip kelly is constantly asked by media circle back on issues over and over again. The latest 360 by chip kelly along with the real reason Demarco Murray did not practice on day one of camp. Thats coming up in sports. Controversy after off duty cop opens fire on three teens. Exclusive aid audio reveals a massive response. Was it too much . Here we go. Another dating app. Is this one really safer than others . This app is supposed to take the creep factor out of online dating. Tonight at midnight on fox 29. The phillies open series tonight against the Los Angeles Dodgers but the story was about the return ofly . Me rollins to philadelphia for the First Time Since his trade in the off season, and he was leading off. Lets go to the ballpark. For the Los Angeles Dodgers, number 11, short stop, jimmy rollins. By the fans and by jimmy, he had two hits. But the phillies with a score tide oneone wow that pitch was terrible. Franco with the bases loaded made sure he did the right thing with it. Seventh inning one out, grand slam. Phillies go on and beat the dodgers six to two. Before the eagles practice in front of close to 20,000 fans at the linc chip kelly was asked to rehash lot of old situations. There was more about Brandon Boykins comments which chip reiterated was has been said for two days that chip has an open door policy with players. I guess the statute of the limitations will never be over on riley coopers mistake over two years ago and why he stayed with the eagles and again chip said cooper was wrong, said cooper knew he was wrong, but his team leaders at the time michael vick and jason avant supported cooper. Okay . Time to move on, gang. All right. All players were out for practice. The fans got a chance to see the new eagles team Demarco Murray was out for the second day aft missing day one on sunday. Today chip kelly gave the explanation as to why he was not hydrated enough. We monitor the guys, you know, in a lot of different ways and theres a reason we do it if a guy is we feel like isnt hydrated enough which puts him in more susceptible situation injury thats what were trying to do. Thats part of what our Sports Science thing is. Were trying to prevent injuries instead of saying afterwards, you know, joe jones pulled his hamstring what was hydration level. He was dehydrated. Why didnt we know that before he went on the feel. You cant guessed mat a coach to make sure youre at your peek and come out and perform at your best left. Its definitely different and something to get used tom i think from a career standpoint it definitely helps. All right. Its time to go bulgaria for a soccer game. Israeli against bulgaria and it is amazing. Its really israeli in the blue. Theres a penalty there so the referee comes up with the red card. Well, the fans didnt like again the home Bulgarian Team so the fans come out. And they chase the israelis off the field. Now, the worst part about this, its a preseason game. It doesnt even count. Doesnt count. Wait until it really starts. Full hour neck with tmz followed by dish nation and chasing news and the simpsons. Were back here at 4am for the fox 29 morning news and good day philadelphia. Mega millions drawing is next though, good luck announcer today on tmz harvey poor meek mill