And there may be countless others who never show up in the reports because they are called cout surfers guys who lost their jobs and lost their which and lost their homes and go from thousands house, fam i, friends trying to get a rave over their heads. Many of these veterans have jobless. In addition to being homeless, some find transitional housing. Some do find permanent housing well bring you the story of one veteran looking for just that. Ok. Yeah. Are you in a hurry . No. No. These days here, i get winded. Yeah. Cant run like i used to. Frank wes scott served be the army and National Guard and lost his job as a taxi driver two years ago, was living with a friend but recently became homeless. I caught up with him as he was meeting with a field representative. A mobile declined housing for Homeless Veterans. Are you still looking for one . A drive sneer yeah. How much . 8 52. Yeah. 8. 52. I got one increase since i started. Once. No. Frank never owned a home. He did rent apartments over this years but evicted and didnt real ease he may be emable for veteran ben vate fits. Have you tried to provide for any Service Connection through the va if. No. I always thought you had to have 20 years. Well that is retirement then the nonservice. Eye never knew. I never knew. Were you told . No. Ok. I might have had some hearing loss. Where did you sleep on the first night. On a bench. I asked if he had family. He said he had brothers . Does he know your situation . No. You have reached out. No one in the family talks. You have thought about reaching out to them . Do you know. Frank is typical. They are primarily single men over the age of 50. They are often veterans on the wait list for income based housing and may not have the skills needed to listened a job. We found a single veteran tepcally board beens with the family members and the once who have been homeless for self years and co oh coring Mental Health and medical dig knows or maybe adicks. Adecks that have not been treated for several years so they dont have a family ties or maybe Community Resources that they can access any more. What is going to happen pooh so with frank. I am right now what we are pursuing is transitional housing. And so Hotel Placement is so short term and he is open to a tran digsal housing program. So that is what we are working on and working on application for that then while were doing that a . A group home . It is actually a program for veterans where they can stay for anywhere from 90 days to years to gain stability that they need to transition. It is a transition that soldiers on hopes to make easier through a planned tran digsal community. It is based on successful communities in massachusetts for veterans like frank. We are looking to build 75 unions of pepper nent Affordable Housing for single male veterans give in the demographic of the veteran we have been seeing and the point and time numbers that is a population. So we will start to with single male veterans and what we are looking to build unions for them that will be affordable that they can stay in for the rest of their lives and kind of reestablish them as community members. The problem among homeless and jobless vets persist so many men and women go off to fight for our country and identifying for our liberty ap come back from wars find sem selfs on a bench without a job and a placings to go and without family. I want to introduce to you somebody who has bam champion of veterans across the country and is a congressman in new jersey his name is tom mccarthy. Great to you have. How are if you. Thank you, bill. Good to be with with you gain. He met a couple of vets. We were out there talking to people who have really struggled to get anywhere to get that chauffeur over the head and get the job. What is congression doing about this problem. We have more in south jersey than any other part of the state. Represent a lot of them. I heard the same stories you are describing and come back from serving and they cannot get a job which is the main cause. The because of joblessness and Mental Health addiction issues and he other main causes. A few things we cannot do. We targeted like hire more heros which i was cosponsor which gave spal businesses to hire veterans if a. Piece of legislation in the last conflays authored and got basedded into law was cree acing a joint executive committee during the department of defense and the d of to require them to work together. They have never done that. People are transitioning from the military to the villain sector and the military was not really set up to help them do that. So i was passed into law and that joint executive committee exists and they are working together. Thank you, tom. Appreciate all are doing on be half of the cop stit ents and streets in washington. All right. He want to bring in the guest for tonight. We got special guests here in studio us. Billionly hearn who is a rm forenavy veteran. Bill, you have been helped out by the programs and we want to hear your story. You are the head of go and you certainly have been out there helping out a lot of the veterans help them get placed and get jobs and assembly man is the leader in the new jersey state legislature. John i want to start with you. There is a bill that was passed a few months ago and goes effect. Tell me about it. How does it help . Well, a vet hans about charged with a nonviolent nonviolent crime and it is the result of the experience in the military. Meaning did they go for help. A criminal penalty and it was u incomously passed and great legislation and will help the veterans. So who sponsored this . You pushed this through. What inspired him . I give him a lot of credit. He is a veteran. Represent in the law rack is. He said this is something we need. It was my judgment and common sense. Let me ask you. Something like that sounded helpful to get the place. Tell tell me about the organization a little bit. Sure. So the 11th year now and founded in 2006 after one of the best friends. We have been able to help thousands across the state of new jersey but across the country now. With job placement and homeless and we are really proud to see this and pass. Was it a hinderrous. It goes effect in december are they hanging in limbo waiting. Yeah. Outside of the city of newark. This doesnt happen anywhere. Wewe have been lobbying for it r long type. Senator booker created this Counter Program and a lot of pushback throughout the state and say this is not what they need but now, why pushback. Well, across. The idea of segregating a certain member of part of the population and giving them the own courts and we got pushback and were really proud to see the state Legislature Step up and pass this throughout the state because it is necessary and required and a lot of them are faced with struggles and that doesnt end a year or two years when it he is over. What was your expense strike in. A Great Organization. They got to housing and go and help you get a job. How long were you homeless what was the experience if. I was not homeless long. They took me a are and got know stay. What kind of job . It is interesting group. We get jobs through agency. We go out and fix say tv sets or put together furniture. There is lots of different kind of jobs. Ultimately, what i believe, ultimately expand to many different jobs. Whats the satisfaction level like . A huge success. Every day. Every single time i see clothe on those home and send their kids tough school or able to send their kids to college and turn their lives around t. That is a big win. It is a great win for us to get. He feelette is my friend helping his buddies back here. I meap, it is why we do this. Seeing those success stories. It is fantastic. What else happens . It seems to me the private sector and inspire odd by the death of a friend is what gets people motivated to ac. And anything out there and the legislature and can or will and wants to do. Well, we also passed a Tax Exemption for that just a few thousand dollars that was done not too long ago. The bottom lines we have to make sure people remember that they give their. Hard work. Thank you. Appreciate. Thank you. Congratulation. Good news is that soldier on has helped frank wes stot find tran digs transitional housing he can stay on for up two year and hopefully tone way. Coming up. Well bring you the story of organization that is trying to help veterans get the job skills that they need to succeed. Welcome back tonight. I am bill spadea. Of course lets check in with dan zarrow with the local weatherment we told you earlier never break about a veteran who returned to find himself jobless and homeless. Well, good news is that thanks to the fret folk at soldier on, he has got transitional housing for the next two years at least. And this is organization that helps veterans in eight new jersey counties find homes so they can get a rave over their head and start their life again. The job search. There is a Great Organization in newark that is working with veterans to try to get them the job skills training that they need and education and of course helps them found a job that is going to keep them off the streets. He started the gi go fund after one of the best friends killed in iraq. All the young kids and just hit home. The cars are real. The soldiers and marines are real individuals and real family members and sacrificed everything we didnt do much. So this is our west bay to give back with the help and the soldiers coming home and marine coming home and helping them find jobs, housing, location. Helping to put their lives back together after they hit pause. Initially the gi go fund was focused on getting homeless vets off the streets of newark. Where i am right fou. In my fis, he are here in newark new jersey and right he opinion us this is highway adjacent to north penn stitial and rather than sitting behind the desks and look for them. We would go to them and go by going to them we have to find where they were and moltly newark penn station is where many of the Homeless Veterans live ante easiest way to serve them when that middle of this night. This is a busy city. Cannot identify. Who is homeless on the streets of pew work be a the only time to do that is the middle of the night and in the morning. The only people there are the people hopeless. We had Significant Impact there. We when we first started there were hundreds at the penn station. Were now under 30 many people have been housed. Gi go runs a standdown for homeless vets events that draws hundreds of veterans and offers food clothe, checkups, jobs and lel assistance. Today, veterans like 20yearold moore are gi gos focus. Moores now going to college and something he never thought about doing and living in a Single Family home well the wife, and twin boys. I was pretty much homeless. Currently i live in a one family home it has backyard annika gage. You know, that is ready. Robert lyon an army veteran worked in the Public Schools as Security Guard for 12 years but is looking to advance his can i rear. I am hoping for a lot of in thes. He gave me this brochure here. Basically a program. There is room for advancement. I help veterans with employ president and Education Needs that they need to fill a claim and anything that will make them more marketable or anything that could get them aheadp life. Lawrence and stacey wood are married, both former marines and currently working part time but want fulltime positions. Yuma, arizona, from 2000 to 2004 United States marine corps with squadron one. Weapons and tactics what dy basically was took care of the records, the weight and balance of the aircraft. Suffered from 1997 to 2011 and i served in okinawa way which was the first duty station then primarily in camp l. A. June in north carolina. I deployed in 2007 iraq. The gi fund assisted me with update might resume. Reresources and stuff being new to new jersey. I am working nights at fedex grand and obtaining my education at the university of phoenix online. For money veterans as long as they serve three or more years, what makes them more marketable is a a chance to get a Free Education and a monthly sti pen through the gi bill. They can also choose from 2training courses online and at jobs. Gigo. Org. 21,000 new applicants each month log on looking for resume help and training. Oftentimes we take resume interrable format and really turn at this time were a and put it the correct format and helps them tell the story of who they are so they have a shot. More job training will be available in new jersey and around the country thanks to a new Technology Center partnership. The training center. Were helping equip tech folie low goy support the military partners and veterans to help transition them to the work force and giving them the skills they ned than the treaning they ned to meck it he isier for them. Panasonic wants to help train veteran farce number of reasons. They have brett motivation and help people in the mill tar rain very good at working together as a team. The i that is helpful in being a collaborative envirn. It is a call length to get it. That is what we advocate for the education and help them understand and he be a ry what they bring though terrible table and the skill sets they brought home with them can benefit the place of work. They are leaders. That leadership can help the place of business. What an Incredible Organization and certainly they got the work cut out for. The vetraps that are getting the help knee need are appreciative. Lets check win dan disbar we are the weather. Meteorologist hey, it is cold throughout. You probably noticed the first arctic blast of the season now firmly in police as we dive in. One of the reasons this is so significant is for part of the area and this is our first news of the season. A free warning in effect nor northeastern new jersey through the five boro os of new york and temperatures will drop nomly to the low of 32 tonight but well to the 20s and in fact i expect record lows to be not only broken but smashed and we bottom out around 20 degrees across the area. Record lows way higher than. So record bookkeepers have erasers at the ready and looks like we very new entries by time on saturday. Your forecast for tonight, gain, we bott testimony out around 20 degrees and that is cold. You add in a little beth of a breeze and it feels even colder the windchill in the teens for part of the overnights and that is winds dying down with eptishine and temperatures come up a little bit. We top out around 40 degrees and that is cold for midnovember and you are going to need the sweater, jacket or coat. Sunday we top out upper 46 tee around 50 degrees still pea low normal but not bad. Mostly cloudy day and we say l may see showers season sunday night and the forecast ex week below normal. No big storm on the horizon. For the least temperatures forecast and weather info, dont forget to follow me on facebook and twitter. I am meteorologist dan zarrow. Here is a look at the headlines were chasing today. New yorks legendary Carnegie Deli may have closed down a year ago but getting new life online. The company will offer dllys most popular menu items able online to order across the country. They will be shipped that supplied the midtown restaurant. Last night we told but how sleep apnea is being blamed for problems. With 44 taken off active duty ap now they are saying that the sleep disorder could lead to higher chance of developing awfully me ear and a study of more than 200 men and women show the sleep apnea showed a higher risk of brain flak dole wig could lead to the disease. Check out this moment in italy a reporter questioning the brother of a famous jailed mafia boss who gets a little upset and headbutts a reporter and the journals of suffered a broken nose and detabbed by police. His brother is serving ten years in vill for exhaustion. That is a look at the headlines we are chasing today. Coming up next, more on the stories of the veterans that are struggling to make ends neat found a jobnd to put a roof over their head and the organizations helping the and what this is government that sent them off to war in what are they doing to make things right at home. Welcome back to chasing news. Am bill spadea. I hop you got information out of the information we gave you tonight. We wanted to bring you the stories of success. Robert lyons, moore, t are on the way a job and roof over their head. Thats the start. Throws three Great Stories of course the married marine couple that has a job now and outside of those stories, how many veterans are in our community that tonight will not have a roof over their head . Tonight, they will know they go to sleep somewhere. Maybe in a park. Maybe in a bus station. Maybe in a train station. Tomorrow morning they will wake up and try get their life in order. The idea is that you know that there are so many veterans throughout who have served our country faithfully. Dobb their duty. They had their sense of duty and patriotism and come back home and cant get a break. Well, i hope you help with some of the organization and learned about tonight. They need your help. And you can go online and post this on our website and certainly tweet it out and put it on facebook and there are Great Organizations out there that are doing their part and of course we checked win our congressman in new jersey who is sue doing everything he can do mack that the right resources are be on that the vets and this all started started a least now and the abs is behind it when President Donald Trump tacked about protecting our veterans during his campaign. Well, it seems he is following through with that promise and thanks to not only the brave courageous politicians throughout doing the right thing. The organizations throughout helping carry out the important messing to get the roof and the job for our veterans. Thanks for watching the show tonight. Always happy to be in your homes. Well see you tomorrow night. Live from center see in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11 00. Right now the first deep freeze in our area it is on. Temperatures have dropped like a rock and folks you see theyre layering up, bonechilling weather that has a lot of folks throwing another log on to the fireplace much thanks for joining us at 11 00. Im lucy noland. Hard to believe we were talking about 70s mere days ago. All right, Scott Williams you warned us and here it is. The coldest night in, what, eight months . Absolutely, lucy. You have to head all the way back to march to find temperatures like this. Look at philadelphia right now. 26 degrees. Its 23 in allentown. 22 already in reading berks county. Trenton 23 degrees. 27 in dover