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Ton night, parents want answers. Good evening, thanks for joining us. Im chris oconnell. Im dawn timmeney. Students out all week in Monroe Township, new jersey. Tonight, just the district announce something schools will reopen on tuesday. Fox 29s dave kinchen joining us live from williamstown, new jersey, where parents just met tonight. Dave . Reporter thats right. Parents tell us theyve been so mad about this they started a petition to get a change of leadership here in the district. But tonight they say it was all about sounding off. Right now im furious. Reporter jenn for witten says shes had enough of the mold problem at holly glenn elementary where her son goes and tells fox 29 it has impacted his health. I know hes been sick for the past four years going to that school. And a good portion of the pictures that were shown with mold he was in those classrooms. Asthma, he has to do nebulizer treatments, allergy medications and as soon as he started this year hes been nothing but sick. Reporter she was among dozens of parents filing into the while jumps Town High School theater to blow off storm in a meeting run by parents. Even though the Monroe Township School District says most schools will reopen for students tuesday following district wide precautionary shut down for most of this week after the mold was found. At this point i kind of want some justice. I want them to own up to what happened, you know, if something happened, then let me know it happened. It never should have come to this. Theyve known. My older son was in the district ten years ago, and, you know, with all this coming to light there have been Health Issues now we can look back on and say wait a minute, maybe this was part of the problem. Reporter come tuesday students who go to holly glenn and whitehall Elementary Schools will be taught another buildings while crews continue to work towards acceptable air quality for students and staff. At this point i kind of want closure of the fact of are the schools clean . Reporter the School District has not confirmed whether schools have made their children sick. We should point that out. We can also tell you for more information on the holly glenn relocation plan, you can log on to our website fox29. Com. Meantime, district Officials Say theyre continuing to work very hard on this case and to deliver top air quality. Back to you. All right, dave, thank you. Happening now a 13yearold girl is missing in toms river. Police say antonella marinos family has not seen her in two days. The family says she left her home on wednesday night and they havent been able to contact her since. Authorities say the teen may be in the company of 19yearold named Jeffrey Troutman from jackson township. They dont suspect him of any criminal wrongdoing but they want to talk to him. Anyone with information should contact Toms River Police department. A teenager is in Critical Condition after being shot in the back of the head. Wednesday night in oxford circ circle. Now, two days later, prosecutors have charged an 18yearold with attempted murder. His name is muhammed good. He is behind bars tonight. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live from Philadelphia Police headquarters tonight with this story. Shawnette. Reporter well, chris, the victims family is relieved and grateful for the Police Officers who put him in the back of a patrol car and rushed him to the hospital. They are also relieved that that suspect is in custody but they are disturbed by the enact that 18yearold had a gun. 16yearold messiah shiver ton remains in aria torresdale hospital tonight two days after he was shot. His condition unresponsive and streaks many critical. This is the hardest thing she ever going to have to go through. Row Ceta Paterson is his grandmother. Her daughter is too distraught to talk. This is senseless. Teenagers need to stop it. Everybody needs to stop it. Like, you know, theres not going to be another generation if yall keep killing each other for nothing. Reporter police say it happened just before 4 30 wednesday afternoon. 18yearold muhammed good is arrested and charged in the shooting. Police say officers on patrol saw good bustleton and magee avenue firing several shots at the victim then running off. Police caught him on the 2200 block of unruh. They believe messiah what the intended target. Shot one time in the back of his head. Completely unresponsive. When he got to aria torresdale hospital, he never regained consciousness. Reporter former philadelphia fire commissioner derek sawyer is his uncle. We all praying that he recovers from this. Because at 16 hes too young to lose his life. Reporter family members say messiah is an 11th greater an all around athlete. He plays basketball, football and will he cross. Sawyer says what happened has changed everyones life. The reality we lost two young men not just one because that young man when he goes to jail he doesnt get a chance to live his life either. Reporter police have not released motive in the shooting and the family says thats not the only question they have. My biggest concern how did 18yearold get their hands on a semiautomatic begun . I dont understand that. And i think we need to work on trying to figure out how we can get guns off the street. Reporter and police say they did find that gun that the suspect used in the shooting. They say he tried to ditch it in some burbs as he ran off. Dawn . All right, shawnette, thank you. Right now, for the rest of the weekend a major disruption on your drive. The northeast extension of the pennsylvania turnpike is closed between lehigh and carbon counties. Workers are replacing a bridge there shutting down the highway through monday at 4 00 a. M. Detour is in place but for some drivers it would wind up taking you an extra hour out of your way. We all are tired of being with traffic headaches. Its no fun. But now penndot is looking to clear the path. Its talking about a plan that would actually allow to you drive on the shoulder of the road in parts of delaware coun county. Fox 29s brad sattin is live along the blue route in woodland with the details. Brad . Reporter yeah, dawn. Give you a better sense of where we are. This is the blue route where it comes together with interstate 95 behind me and change is on this stretch are coming. Rye now every now and then we see someone illegally driving on the shoulder. Well, soon, that illegal ride may actually be legal. Whats the best way to keep your sanity on the blue route and i95 at rush hour . I never drive the blue route and 95 at rush hour. Reporter that is the correct answer. But if youre among the knife thousand vehicles on i95 and the 85,000 on the blue route each day, and its rush hour, well, how to describe the driving experience . Psychotic. Like its crazy. Reporter thats coming from a philly bus driver. So how is this for an idea . Opening up the shoulder to traffic during the busiest times of day . It could be dangerous. Reporter well hear penndot out its not like it will start tomorrow. There will be years of environmental and engineering studies first. But the goal to cut the bottlenecks where three lanes are reduced to two. Penndot wants to use the shoulder as a third lane on 476 in both directions from west chester pike to i95 and on i95 southbound from ridley park to the Commodore Barry bridge. Utilizing the shoulder that is we do have, maybe widening in some places, but during peak travel times, when those bottlenecks down on 476, down on 95 are bad, this will help alleviate some of that congestion. Report roar plans are already in the works to one day open the shoulder on i76 from 202 to the blue route. They say shoulder driving is already working well in virgin virginia. Of course, there are concerns about broken down cars and emergency vehicles getting through. They are able to manage the shoulder in such a way where they can open and close it based on the needs. Just maybe get alex cutters home 15 minutes faster. Get off work. Youre just like, uh, traffic, man. Reporter and so he may get home faster but no time soon. Any of these shoulder improvements up grades, new constructions, wont even start until the 2020s. Dawn, were still talking years away. All right, brad, thank you. Stunned customers waiting in line at a philadelphia Dunkin Donuts find themselves in the middle of a robbery, a man with a knife jumps the counter and asks for money and it happened in the middle of the afternoon. It may not be the first time this guy has struck. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser with the story tonight. Thats scary, sir. Thats really scary. Reporter customers and employees jumped out of the way when this knifewield be robber vaulted over the counter at Dunkin Donuts on girard avenue and terrorized the place. Come on, now. God for bid they could have really got hurt, like, and, like, im still p in shock. Reporter it happened wednesday just before noon as the suspect announced robbery and then opened two Cash Register drawers after frightened employees refused to help. Threatening the employees with the knife and they back off thankfully so theyre not hurt in this in this encounter. I dont like trouble like that. Thats really awful. Low lives. Theyre low lives. He jump over the counter and he has a big knife. Reporter this is the latest knife point Armed Robbery in the area in recent weeks. Police have already connected seven robberies to one suspect. Now theyre trying to determine if this latest stick up is also linked. Were still trying to put together if see if this male or the other male fits the profile of the ones that we have Surveillance Video and stills around the area. Reporter in the latest robbery the suspect was also caught on camera disposing of the clothes and mask he wore in the robbery. He was then picked up on surveillance cameras in a local Convenience Store with another man. Then entering this maroon Ford Expedition with black rims. We want to definitely get the one guy. We didnt obscure the face of the second male, too, we want to at least know who he is because hes clearly with the person that committed the robbery many. I hope they catch him, sir. I really do. Reporter incredibly the suspect did leave behind the knife he used in the robbery. It was right there on the counter. Police tell us they have recovered the clothing that he took off during his get away. They hope to get fingerprints or dna off that clothing. At police headquarters, Dave Schratwieser, fox 29 news. Raging wildfires still burning out of control tonight. Thousands of families now homeless. But thanks to one celebrity chef, at least theyll have a hot meal tonight. screams . Its hank im in boyerstown new jersey the only place you can run by a cop with a hockey mask and machete and they just wont care. Hanks take coming up. Scott williams tracking your all important weekend forecast, scott. Get ready for roller coaster road in the temperature department. The jet stream will adjust. The temperatures will warm um a few showers in that forecast. Details coming up. Oh, you brought butch. Yeah butch growls at man hes looking at me right now, isnt he . Yup. butch barks at man butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. laughs vo you can never have too many faithful companions. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Its now day five of battling those Deadly Wildfires in californias wine country. Today finally a sign of hope. Crews reporting their First Progress in containing the massive fires. Still the fight is star from over. More than 9,000 firefighters continue to attack the flames tonight. Many volunteers are doing all they can to help the victims as the situation just remains desperate and some coming to help well some are celebrities famous chef guy cooked up meals for First Responders and victims in santa rosa. I mean this is the least we can do. Were so happy to do it and so sorry for our friends that have lost their homes and but theres lot of really good people coming together. Sadly the wildfires claimed more lives tonight. The death toll now stands at 36. Raging fires have destroyed at least 5700 homes and businesses. Pennsylvania attorney general josh shapiro is suing President Trump over his decision to stop cost sharing payments under the Affordable Care act. In a press release shapiro says without these payments insurance premiums could sky rocket. He says premiums would increase for more than 400,000 pennsylvanian whos buy individual insurance plans and available at all. Longer be the department of health and Human Services released a statement saying it could not justify the payments without congressional authority. President trump tweeted this morning democrats should call him to fix the health care problem. He is cutting cost sharing reductions or subsidies or the insurance bail out however you wander to today it and with that, yes, you can have quick unraveling of the Affordable Care act. Congressional Democratic Leaders Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi released a joint statement calling the move quote a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage. Well, lets take look at the ben franklin parkway tonight. A chilly evening. But apparently, thats going to change. Meteorologist Scott Williams tracking a weekend warmup. Your forecast in 15 seconds. Temperatures the past couple of days have been below average, but a warmup on tap for the upcoming weekend. Lets talk a little bit about the area wide numbers. Mid 70s tomorrow in center city. Maybe a passing shower. Dont cancel any plans. Not a washout. A few showers down the shore, 7. Low 70s for the Lehigh Valley with a spotty shower. Ultimate doppler most of us dry, but a few sprinkles, central sections of delaware around dover, also, as you move toward cape may, Rehoboth Beach with that persistent easterly wind, locking in those clouds, and also those cooler temperatures. We have 64 degrees right now in philadelphia. Look at that humidity, 84 . The wind direction currently out of the north and east at about. We have 64 degrees philadelphia. 64 in raleigh look at atlantic 74 degrees. Low 80s in dallas. Well tap in to some of that warmth for the upcoming weekend. Temperatures for tonight, thou though, cool. 56 degrees in allentown. Low 60s philadelphia. Low 60s for wildwood along with atlantic city. And that forecast hour by hour tomorrow, were looking at some cloud cover around tomorrow morning, a few spotty showers, especially south and east of philadelphia, but look at the temperatures. 75 degrees philadelphia. 74 in allentown. Mid 70s that will generally be the rule for tomorrow. So if youre headed to the maybe a passing shower mid 70s and then look at sunday. Out ahead of a cold front temperatures climb to the low 80s. The pocono mountains its cloudy, maybe a spotty shower, 60s for tomorrow. 70s for your sunday. That Weather Authority seven day forecast showing the roller coaster ride behind that cold front look at monday. 63 degrees. 62 on tuesday. And then look at the warmup again. Next week low 70s by thursday and into friday. Back over to you. Were all over the map, sco scott. Well, did you walk in the path of a black cat . Or knock over any salt today . None of these superstitions bother one new jersey town on friday the 13t13th. Our hank flynn went out to see why nothing there seems to scare them. Can i get you something to drink. The United States and the United Nations Security Council its hank. Its hard to scare anybody here in blairstown, new jersey on friday the 13th. My take is, thats because this is the town made murder its middle name. Dressing up like jason the murderer on friday the 13th in blairstown you might have well dress up like santa. Halloween is my christmas. Its not friday the 13th too often. So had to come see where the magic happens. Reporter some call it Camp Crystal Lake blairstown, new jersey y the original friday the 13th was filmed and so every friday the 13th the town is a pilgrimage for horror streaks. Borrowed jason costume and made the rounds. Are you scared of me . No. Thats what i thought. Okay. Just making sure. Reporter tom kramer was new blairstown cop in 1980. New on the force just a rookie. Uhhuh. And my chief called me one morning youll be in movie. I said youre kidding me. He says no, youll be in friday the 13. A lot of play blairstown matt kramer got it all started much hes been dressing up as Jason Voorhees for more than ten yea years. Its his civic duty. Its a blast. Its like a carnival. People stop and want my picture. I hold babies, i hold pets. Just a fun day to be in blairstown. Reporter horror fans agre agree. Get the hell out of here ralph. Its money for a small town honestly from four sold out shows at the Movie Theater to the pack diner also in the mov movie. Back on main street another blairstown native mrs. New jersey Parker Sanchez was holding court. And friday the 13th he is special system such a wonderful bran. Its exciting that people think this little town that were a part of is actually part of something lot bigger. Museum on main street features a lot of original stuff from the movies, machetes, chain sauce, sweater its good time. Next friday the 13th hit blairstown its weird and hilarious. Youll love it. Im hank and thats my take. You know whats not scary, the way the Philadelphia Eagles are playing kristen rodgers. There you go. I dont want to talk about friday the 13th. Eagles move to five and one and this continues to prove that the hype is very real. Its also real around carson wentz. Hear what play his teammates say solidified his role as the eagles leader next in sports. Paulsboros a very proud community. Its been on the decline with the closing of the refineries and theres no jobs in the community. If theres no jobs, theres no education, theres no food on the table. Whats important is the children. Steve sweeney. He fought for em. This is where hes from. Steve sweeneys been here since the beginning. Steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. It wouldve never been done without steve. It was a pride in building this port and then knowing that were coming back. Being five and one is good. You know what whats even better . Having more wins than the rest of the nfc east combined and having one of the best records in the nfl. What a way to star the weekend for the eagles. The guy leading this team now carson wentz. Hes being solidified as the guy for this team. Nowhere more so was that evident than that hit he took last night. His teammates loved it just dont leave with your throwing shoulder next time carson. You want to look at a game and talk about character. That freaking shoulder right there. The guy got smacked early and often in the beginning of the game, never wavered his confidence and composure. That speaks volume how we feel about him and how he feels about us. Joel embiid and sixers in kansas city tonight. Short bit away from allen field house his old shop pink grounds. You got to know he gave a rock jock jay hawk last night. Ben simmons trying to get it for joel embiid over throws him a little bit. Embiid pulse it down finishes with the buck. Quiet night for him so far though. He had five points just in that first half. Little later, defensive board right there. Takes it up the court. Lobs it up for simmons. Comes down with the dunk. Sixers lead 9575 in the third. Flyers back home in philly ready for home opener tomorrow night. Tough start to the season with road trip out west. But now back in the friendly confines of the Wells Fargo Center they are happy to put that behind them. Yeah, i think you always look forward to that, umum, you know, its early in the year and were coming off of a tough road trip. Obviously now weve got a stretch here at home that becomes real important to the start of our season. Phillies bench coach larry bowa shifting to advisory role now win the team. Hes going to be Senior Adviser to general manager matt klintock. Hes not going to be on the Coaching Staff under the phillies manager who is still yet to be hired. Lets go alcs game one yankees and houston. Bottom four astro up one to nothing. Runners on second. A base hit up the middle. Carlos scores from second. Astro up two to nothing. They currently lead two to nothing in the sixth. Well the least surprising news today bruce arena resign as the manager for the Us Mens National sewing kerr team. This is aft they failed to make it to the world cup for the First Time Since 1986. Arena admitted quote we didnt get the job done. Yeah, i think a lot of fans would agree with that statement right there. That one hurt. That one hurt. That one hurt. No surprise either with bruce arena. Yeah. Before we go tonight, special announcement we have a new addition to our fox 29 family our producer aaron just welcomed a son. Meet baby elijah. Little guy made his appearance last night around 11 30 perfect timing. Baby was born just as the eagles won last night. That im sure hes going to be eagles fans know aaron. Aaron and his wife jess their first child. Congratulations. Absolutely. Thats awesome. All right. Dawn, what is coming up at 11 0 . First a big congratulations to aaron and his wife. But thing get ugly at the game last night. But its not even about a rivalry and one man is under arrest. The violent video that everyone is talking about today and the eagles fan who tried to break it up and coming up a special hangs take. Ill see you back here at 11 00. He tells it like no one on television in our area can. Hank flynn dives deep into the stories no one else will even touch. He gives us his always you meek take on the story. Tonight it is a half hour of hank. Thank you for joining us im lucy noland. Im iain page. The first story hank brings us tonight is about an epidemic thats destroying lives opioid. But its also tossing people out of their homes and they have nowhere else to go. Our hank flynn took a walk down Market Street and found the proof. Im going to put this out there. I am not homeless. I just struggle. Reporter its hank. Take little walk down Market Street with me and tell me what you see. My take is you might see a couple more people on the down and out who need a little help than in years past. Start at city hall go a lock before you meet d

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