Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11 00. On top of several stories happening right now. Democratic senators are calling on their colleague al franken to resign including one local politician and raging wildfires are burning out of control in southern california. Fierce winds are fanning the flames as firefighters battle to put them out. And in Montgomery County, a trip to see santa ended in heartbreak and awful message scrolled in lipstick on moms car. Thanks for joining us im lucy noland. This is what she came back to after taking her terminally ill son to meet santa. Our Chris Oconnell joins us live from king of prussia with a story youll see only on fox. Chris, just breaks my heart. Reporter yeah, you know, lucy, going to visit santa claus every year is a magical time for any kid. Well a trip here to the king of prussia mall yesterday by a Montgomery County family was absolutely ruined and it was all thanks to a real life grinch. Like any sevenyearold, garrett coins annual visit with santa claus at the king of prussia mall is what holiday memories are made of. But this years visit to saint nick turned sour when the gilbertsville family walk to the malls disable parking area outside of nordstroms nancy was stunned to find this message scribbled in red lipstick on her car window it says ur not handicap. So angry and so upset and im a crier so then the tears just were coming, and i didnt know what to do. Reporter you see garrett suffers from a rare neurological condition called batons disea disease. Once a normal healthy threeyearold, garrett is now blind, losing his motor skills to a disease that normally ends in childhood death. Theres no cure. Theres no treatment. Reporter then you have this happen to him . Umhmm. Trying to make memories for my family and that happens. Reporter although her car was parked in disabled spot with a league parking placard the family cant understand, cant imagine who would do something owe offensive. Its hard enough raising a child with special needs. Now this. I just want the person to realize what they did was wrong, and to learn from it montgomery do it again. Reporter now Upper Merion Police believe there may have been witnesses who saw this incident yesterday outside nordstroms about 11 00 oclock in the morning. Theyre also looking at Surveillance Video that may have captured the incident. Lucy . Hopefully it did. Thank you much, chris. East germantown route 26 bus hit a woman police say it happened during rush hour right around 5 30 this evening on chew avenue in eastwood lawn street. Paramedic took her to the hospital. She should be fine. In Upper Darby Police caught the guy who they subrulely beat a 75yearold man who legally blind. Police tell fox 2925yearold marvin hopper is now in jail for assault and robbery. They say he attacked the man week and a half ago on glendale road blaming his femur, stealing his cash, phone an backpack. Were following breaking news out of california. Out of control a growing number of wind whipped wildfires are challenging firefighters. Not only northwest of los angeles, but now in la including a new fire that erupted this morning. Take a look here. Phone video shows massive flames shooting into the sky around the main north south freeway that cuts through los angeles. It is burning through las exclusive bell air neighborhood just an inferno. The fire is so intense, officials shut down part of the this freeway so firefighter cos battle the flames. And thats just one of five fires biggest is in venture what county the thomas fire. So it has burned more than 65,000 acres threatening more than 12,000 homes. It is already destroyed 150 buildings. The fierce gusting an winds are also fueling the nearby ry fire and that creek fire in kay gel canyon. Winds can change with the santsanta an nass and come westo us before because its done that before. You bare vol time to get out. Thats what happens. Fires are so intense one fireman caught on camera shows how hard his job is. He was overcome as he battled to save a house state Officials Say the worst yet to come. With santa an nass predict to do gust to 65 miles an hour later this evening. Back here at home, happening right now, in south philadelphia, big problems for 87yearold woman whos caring for family with medical issue. After broken pipes led to no water. Neighbors stepped up and ran garden hoses from their homes to hers. Dave schratwieser already getting results live in south philadelphia. Good stuff, dave. Reporter lucy, within the last 99 minutes Water Department crews have been down here on hutchinson street trying to get to the bottom of this problem. They dug in the middle of the street. Theyve been exploring where the water is coming from trying to restore water to the neighborhood and a a couple of people here who lost it. Tonight were told they are about to make some repairs. They should come here and they should take care of it immediately. Reporter 87yearold elvira has her hands full caring for her disabled daughterinl daughterinlaw. Oxygen and feeding tubes need to be maintained. The last thing she needs is a problem witness water at her south philly home. But the water has been off for two days. So a neighbor is now pumping water into her home way hose. He put the hose through to try to get me some water for her. I have flood if my basement. Reporter anthony lives right next door. He has a different problem. Water is running into his basement from the street. Hes not happy about it. I think they should be down here now fixing the problem. Reporter he and the neighbors believe the problem is the result of some Streets Department or contractor work on the block here in connection with construction of new homes. They were pounding with the backhoe and they broke the pipe. We came out to investigate and found there was broken service line at the proper. Reporter water depth says the problem is not in the stre street. Its the broken service line and thats the responsibility of the homeowner. They own them. They have to maintain them. Unfortunate whole they break, homeowners have to repair them. Reporter neighbors are holding their ground on whats behind this but mostly theyd like the water problems cleared up once and for all. They want to take that further with the Streets Department or with the city as a whole. Reporter now the Water Department pumped out the water in the street. Capped off the line in the street im told a plumber will have to return here tomorrow to finish the job. Lucy. Thank you very much, dave. So school went on lock down in society hill where police have arrest add 13yearold. They say that student brought a gun to the general george amoun3 mccall Elementary School. Police say someone reported that gun stolen in 2013. And say the student claimed to have found the gun in a vacant lot near eighth and mark streets. The principal of a Delaware County Elementary School sudden resignation has left parents surprised. The superintendent of the Wallingford School district told parents that Joshua Peterkin the principal of wallingford elementary has resigned due to quote inappropriate action. The School District says his actions in no way endangered or involved students. But wont say exactly what officials think he did. Parents were happy to know their children werent involved at any children werent involved. In whatever it might have been. It felt comforting that whatever is happening has nothing to do with our immediate concerns which are our children. The schools former assistant principal is now the acting principle. Developing story now. The flood gates are open on capitol hill almost every female democratic senator is now calling on franken to resign following even more allegations of sexual misconduct. Today a seventh woman came forward accusing franken of force sibley trying to kiss her in 2006. Hours after that a number of Democratic Senators inn lied of concluding eight women and Chuck Schumer called for his resignation. We need to draw line in the sand and say none of it is okay. None of it acceptable and we as elected leaders should absolutely be held to a higher standard. Pennsylvania senator bob casey was the first male senator to join the wave of calls with a tweet that said i agree with my colleagues who have stepped forward today and called on senator franken to resign. We cant just believe women when its convenient. Franken is expected to mick some kind of announcement tomorrow morning. However, his offices said that he may not resign. He is still discussing all of this with his family and will say more tomorrow. Time magazine name its 2017 person of the year. But its not just one person. Its a group and they are called the silence breakers. Thyre the people who broke their silence on sexual misconduct. Millions have comforted since october saying men in powerful positionings sexually harassed or assaulted them on the cover few familiar faces like taylor swift and actress ashley judd. Times says this highlights the dramatic cultural shift we have seen in recent months and the ongoing hash tag me too movement which has helped fuel a worldwide discussion about sexual harassment. All right. Naughty or nice . Santa strikes unusual poses with the kiddos and now some are telling him to tone it down. While others say you know what, its all fun and games and we like it. Heads up a transit sign ends up in a new jersey womans car. That looks terribly dangerous, right . Turns out the driver didnt even realize it was there. Wow. You would think you would have heard a crash, bang, boom or something kathy. Thats lucky writ there. Oh yeah. Were watching a stalled front to the south. That could potentially bring in some snow showers by the weeke weekend. Ill explain that and have the details in your seven day coming up. Officers new officers of sorts are hitting philadelphia streets. 23 new civilian police officers. The Philadelphia Department police depth has 13 week program for people who want to learn first hand about what its like to be an officer. Its all about building a bridge between police and the communi communities they serve. Michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This holiday season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Philadelphia police are on the hunt for a man caught looking through the window of a home in manayunk. Police say surveillance cameras caught him looking into bathroom window of the home on the 100 block of green lane sunday just before midnight. When the woman at home saw him, opened her front door to couldnt front him, well, he r ran. People look forward to their quirky pictures with new age santa at the ax forward mall and when they went for pictures this year, they were surprised to fine out they could only take well not those pictures. They could only take traditional pictures. Our dave kinchen is live in langhorne with this one. Dave . Reporter lucy, santa here in bucks county is pretty creative, but alas theres a group telling him essentially to knock it off. Naughty on one arm, nice on the other. Old saint nick has a new flavor in buck county. Many kids love it. But many parents dont. Naughty and nice tattoos, yeah. Yeah, lets be lets be kid friendly. Reporter he holds some of the kids upside down. Gets a little goofy with them. That might be a little rough on some of the kids. I dont know that i necessarily would appreciate it. Reporter why the new Company Managing santas operation at the ax forward valley mall in langhorne told him to knock off the reindeer games putting the fun on ice. Many people are upset because they love the poses and they love him flipping the kids upside down and getting on the floor with them. Reporter meghan green is santas daughter and says his different style has become a tradition of its own. Hes a people pleaser he likes to make everyone happy. He like to do what they the people want. Reporter cherry hill programs is the company that took over the santa experience and says quote we remain dedicated to preserving the tradition and image much santa with authentic visits for every guest to our programs. We up hold mat psychiatric of one and only santa for all believers by providing a consistent approach at every experience we operate not just Oxford Valley mall. Im surprised that 2017 people are freaking out over tattoos and stuff like that. Its kind of i would have never expected it in any way. Santa daughter says hes still filled with the Christmas Spirit despite the changes. Hes still will get on the floor and talk to them. Hes still going to play with them. He wants that special connection with everyones kids. Reporter the photographer who work with santa on projects not related to the mall says that they will still take pictures and offer services for non traditional images with kids. Back to you. All right. Thank you much, dave. Take look at this. That my friends is a transit sign sticking out of a womans car. That is not even the most interesting part of this story. Police in south hackensack, new jersey, pulled over the driver saturday. And when they asked her, about, hey whats up with the sign stuck in your car . She says, what sign . She didnt even know it was there. Police say it somehow got stuck in her car when she was driving in secaucus about 20 minutes away. Heres a shocker for you. They arrested her and she now faces dui charges. A major kipp diplomat out of washington, d. C. I have determined that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. President trump beginning to fulfill campaign promise. Pledging to relocate the us embassy in israel. It adds another layer to an already complex situation in the middle east and volatile situation. Both israel and israelis and palestinians claim jerusalem as their capital. But neither has been recognized until now. Here at home, philadelphias Jewish Community cheering the president as announcement at the Klein Life Center in rhawnhurst they gathered around the television to watch history for more than 20 years the Us Government talked about officially recognizing jerusalem as israels capital. The Israeli Legislature meets there it is the countrys supreme court. Israels president and Prime Minister have their official residence in jerusalem as well. You feel like this is long overdue . Yeah. I do. I believe that god has everything in control. And he had trump do this at the precise timing that he schedule. Local whos support the palestinian point of view denounce the president s decision but they did not want to speak on camera. They told us they were too afraid of reprice sals especially those with families still living in or near jerusalem. Your Weather Authority now with life look at our pocono mountains camera. We got some snow going there now i guess the question is, is this most likely the manmade variety up there you think. Oh yeah. Because have they had few flakes flying, kathy . Its enough. Maybe a few flakes. Three. Like three flakes. Present Company Excluded by the way. Yeah. Were talking about great snow making weather lucy because it will finally be cold enough. Thats ban huge problem we havent had consistent cold in the month of november or even through december. Now take look outside this is old city philadelphia. Looking good tonight. Pretty quite the wind is light, the temperatur temperatures areg skies clear its 41 degrees. The high today 58. You may say okay, right, it was 58. At about midnight it was. Temperatures continued to fall in the wake of a cold front. Winds right now out of the southwest 8 miles an hour. 41 in the city. 31 in lancaster. Wilmington 39. Pottstown 32. Allentown their. Wrightstown it is 35 degrees. Only going to get colder. When you look at the nation as a whole chicago 28. Detroit 32. Minneapolis 18. Rapid city 13. 19 in denver. They were in the 70s a week or two ago. Huge changes with arctic blast coming our way. So it will get colder before it gets warmer thats for sure. We have a stalled front the front that came through last night. Thats going to stay offshore. Area of low pressure will ride along that over the next couple of days and that will bring our neck chance of seeing some snow. So the cold air will be in place no doubt about it. It will be reinforced with another front saturday and this is going to be staying for awhile with high temperatures only in the 30s lows in the 20s as we round out the weekend. So look at the chance of snow. Well see that front stalled offshore. And then still sticking around close enough to bring us a chance of snow especially south and east of philadelphia and this would be saturday night in sunday morning. A lot can change. This is just one track of this particular storm but nevertheless it would be our fir chance of seeing anything even if it just sticks to the grass in south jersey it would be the first snow. The first measurable snow would have been tenth of an inch or more. Well continue up to date on this. Overnight 36 in philadelphia. 36 in willed wood. 24 in the poconos waking up to 29 in pottstown and in allentown tomorrow. Thursdays high 48 degrees. But that wind out of the west gusting to 20 will put an occasional chill in the area even though it will be sunny d day. On your seven day forecast here come the cold. Friday 39. Saturday 40. Sunday 39. Monday 41. Tuesday more clouds and look at this. Another front late tuesday into wednesday. We just cant win. Even colder the high only 32 in philadelphia. Highs in the suburbs will be in the 20s, and more lows in the 20s as well. Tis the season. I feel if its going to be cold it might as well snow. This is true. Thank goodness my furnace is out. This will be fun. I got the guy coming tomorrow. Well see how it goes. Kristen rodgers what you got . Lucy Time Magazine person of the year gave a voice to a lot of people across the country i think there are few face whos people across the country i think there are few face whos should have been include no matter how you holiday, people across the country i think there are few face whos shouwhere you holiday,de or who you holiday with. Stay bright with dunkins holiday coffee flavors like brown sugar cinnamon, and peppermint mocha. Grab your favorite and make your holidays happen. The holidays run on dunkin. 1thats like a big yummy hug. . So hug it up hug more. Hug large. Hug medium . Hug that. Live it a hug life with 1. 99 medium or larger hot chocolate. America runs on dunkin. Silence breakers the voice that is launched a movement. They are Time Magazines 2017 person or rather people of the year. Those people featured include activistsing actors professors, engineers, even a strawberry picture but i feel there were women left off that cover. Athletes because the me too movement has very much impacted the world of sports. Olympic Gold Medalist mikayla maroney was sexually a buoy usa team doctor when she was just 13 years old sean the only accuser. 125 girls reported assaults against larry nasser. He plead guilty awaiting sentencing in federal court tomorrow. Brianna stewart number one pick in the 2016wnba draft was molest the at nine. That man was arrested two years later. Maroney and stewart are a few of the athletes who have said me too. And while Time Magazine tries to show a diverse Cross Section of our can untree, i feel theyre leaving a group of strong women that serve as roll models for other Young Athletes going through the same trauma. The message is what matters. But i think people forget just how big this scope really is. Lucy . Touches whole lot of people. Thank you very much, kristen snow in the forecast right. Philadelphia police sending message telling drivers no savesies. Department created video based on the hit netflix shows stranger thing. Theyve seen really strange things like filled trash bags saving things even a toilet. They say dont do that. Save a parking spot. Umhmm. Announcer today on tmz harvey look out gronk because matt damon is now on your case. You think that gronk suspension was fair, bro . One game . Probably, yeah. Gronk just got suspended for that late, dirty hit. One game. One game. Harvey wants him to go to jail. I thought it should have been a few more. He got one game. Thats in line with the penalty. Harvey first o. J. s found not guilty and then all of this. [laughter] Margot Robbie and Tonya Harding were actually together last night at the premiere of i tonya. Harvey i want to see this movie. Nancy has to be pissed. Its all about tonya, who bashed her in. Shes out with Margot Robbie and nancys at home. Tonya harding is the far more interesting of the two. Nancy kerrigan was just skating, why . And thats it. [laughter] John Travoltas next movie is not coming out even though it was supposed to come out in the next 10 days. John travolta is so mis
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