Balagomingo road. Another water main break in moorestown behind some traffic trouble tonight. The westbound lanes of kings highway still closed at Pleasant Valley avenue after a water main break this morning much the water as you can imagine these temperatures turning into a sheet of ice. Officials are hoping to have the road back open within the neck half hour. A huge break in northeast philadelphia leaves a huge mess. Dozens of homeowners still cleaning up there mud, water and ice self hours after that water main break overnight. Lets get right out to dawn timmeney live in that neighborhood tonight with more. Dawn . Reporter iain, its not something you want to wake up to in the middle of the night at 3 00 in the morning. Water gushing everywhere. But it was the harsh reality here for dozens of people who live in the far northeast. Well thats where the water line was up to on the door. Reporter janet shows us just how high the water was along her house in the far northeast after an 8inch water main break reached wreaked havoc early this morning. The water was just coming in. I mean it was pouring. Coming up from the ground. Just there was nothing to do. Reporter she woke up to a loud noise about 3 00 a. M. Within moments she says it was a raging river was running through her garage and basement. Its mud covered. Just totally mud covered. Water saturated. Just a mess from the beginning to the end. Reporter the huge break flooding a number of homes. I probably have to replace my washer and drier. I dont know. My heater has damage. All of my stuff in my basement is wet. So who knows . Report roar this backyard looks like an ice skating ring. And check out this driveway. Several in need of major row pairs. Tom garris fears his cadillac is a goner. This one was sitting too far low and the water build up pretty quick and mud came up. Reporter Water Department crews working all day long in bitter cold conditions trying to restore service. 125 homes losing Water Service. A handful with no heat. I may go and stay in a hotel tonight. Stay warm. Reporter certainly not the way this neighborhood expected to ring in the new year. I cant shower. Im all filthy with mud. You can see i got mud all over me. So i dont know what were going to do. Reporter all the hard work here is done right now. Water Department Crews are waiting for an 8foot long pipe. Once that arrives, theyll be a able to get the Water Service up and running and people here, iain, will be able to take a hot shower and a hot bath. Hopefully very soon. Lets hope for them, dawn. I cant imagine. Thank you. N Gloucester County the first day back to school at williamstown high was more than little more exciting than anticipat anticipateed bece sprinkler leak forced students and teachers to have to evacuate there while the fire marshal and crews work on the pipe the students wait tad nearby middle school. They eventually did get back to class. In Prospect Park a busted pipe gave students Interboro High School an extra day off. The high schools website says the students and pre k students got day off but the district has yet toons no if theyll be back to school. Below freezing temperatures are hutting Heating Systems to the test and that includes school buildings. Our bruce gordon joins us live in upper darby where a chilly building mixed with an apparent School Clothing policy has got some kids and parents grumbling. Bruce . Reporter iain, with any older building and Beverly Hills middle school was built in 1930 keeps things uniform mally warm in the winter months can be challenge. Grandmother of a eighth Grade Student reached out with a bizarre sounding complaint. School officials would not let students combat the cold in the most obvious way possible. Afternoon dismissal at Beverly Hills middle school the kids were bundled up to face outside temperatures in the teens with a wind chill even lower. But eighth greater annika maynard stayed home on this day. Home with her grandmother in a Philadelphia Row house doing her best to stay warm. What has you home from scho school . The temperature at school. Being i knew it was going to be cold i didnt want to go to school because were not allowed to wear our hoodies or jackets in school. Reporter thats right. Annika told us and self other students confirmed, the heat at Beverly Hills isnt working properly. It hasnt worked kev tently for some time. And says annika when temperatures plumetted just before the holiday break, chilly students were told they could not wear coats or hoodies inside the building. They let us wear hoodies some days but if the teacher toll to us take it off then we actually have to take it off. Reporter even if you were cold. Yeah. So some kids were told to take off their hoodies if they didnt they were sent to this place call the dc, the discipline center, where you get like a detention. Reporter after several requests for comment and explanation, the Upper Darby School district released a statement tuesday afternoon acknowledging that quote a limited number of classrooms were colder than others because a malfunctionin malfunctioning r venting systems. District did not specifically address my questions about the coat and hoodie policy prior to the break. Except to say students were pe permed to wear coats today in the building if they fell it necessary. I cant not just go to school. Its not an option. Reporter kind of like to not be freezing while youre in there im guessing. Yeah. Her grandmother says an efficient heating system ought to be given even in a 90yearold building. I think its ridiculous. You cant learn under those conditions. Reporter for the record, we cannot find any evidence on the district website that officials had reached out proactive toll parents to explain the problem with the heating system. In that written statement, district Officials Say they are currently working to repair and replace those broken heating motors. But no word on when that work will be complete. Iain. Bruce, thank you. Of course you can track this cold weather and the upcoming snow that kathy was just talking about real time just download our fox 29 weather app its easy, free and you can get it in the google and i tunes store. Philadelphia now has some new leaders more than twenty seven elected officials were sworn in today including a new District Attorney. Our jeff cole was there and joins us now live in studio. Jeff . Reporter civil rights attorney turned politician Larry Krasner is the District Attorney tonight completing his unlikely rise to Elective Office a critic of the criminal Justice System he now sits at the seat of power with his supporters looking for reform. If we dont get any results, we are going to shut everything down. Reporter phillys new da Larry Krasner thought members of his movement would give him time to get his feet wet, he was wrong. Moments after his swearing in, activists demanded action on Police Shootings and stop traffic on south broad. Krasner stuck to his theme of inclusiveness. And so today, we start the long road towards trading jails and trading death row for schools. [ applause ] reporter the longtime civil rights attorney powered to victory with millions from a wealthy donor took the oath from his wife a city judge with one of his sons holding a bible pressed on the Opioid Crisis krasner thinks err heroin users need a safe place to inject. If you want to safe lives, you need to engage in harm reduction. Supervised injection sites are a form of harm reduction. Reporter joining krasner her sevenyearold by her side rebec careen hard the new controller the first female to hold the position of spending watch dog reinhardt will try to sniff out waste in schools as the district comes back under city control. We need to have a good mix of schools that includes charters, but, um, we shouldnt be prop up failing charters either. Reporter a choir filled verizon hall with moving gospel music. Preachers called for redemption and reform. The citys mayor praised newly sworn in judges while hammering donald trump. As we know today in our national scene, our courts, are sometimes the last bit of space between democracy and dictatorship. Reporter newly minuted controller Rebecca Reinhardt is going after the Parking Authority and the operation of sheriff jewel williams. Krasner thinks cash bail keeps pore people lock up. Hell end it. President President Trump laying out his foreign priorities in series of new years tweets that include support of Anti Government demonstrations in iran. For more than 20 protesters have been killed. President trump calling the Iranian Regime brutal and corrupt and warning that the us is watching. And now the Trump Administration is calling on iran to unblock instagram and other social media that protesters are using to organize. When a nation clamps down on social media or websites or google or news sights, we ask the question, what are you afraid of . The president also focusing on north Koreas Nuclear program while also slamming pakistan in a new years tweet. Well tonight police are investigating after a womans body has been found in northeast philadelphia. Now, she was in her 50s her body was found inside a van on the 4,000 block of fair dale road. Investigators are not saying whether her death is a tributed to the cold weather or other causes. So are they being left in the cold . Residents of one Apartment Building say theyre feeling the chill from cold air blasting through their hallways. That story is ahead. Kristen. Iain the eagles are getting back to to work tomorrow to start pre paying for the playoffs. Number one thing Doug Pederson wants to incorporate in ,000 in america last year. We need to stand up and say enough. The only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. Choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. Make sure that the lives weve lost will not have been lost in vain. Addiction is a disease. When you ask for help, help is there for you. Iand i like these awardwinning cheddar puffs. First place. Both events . Booyah were an awards family. Youll like them both but love our price. Awardwinning organic cheddar puffs from aldi. Simply smarter shopping. In one Senior Center in philadelphia, the people who live there just cant seem to escape the cold and theyre inside. Our joyce evans joins us live in studio with more on this. Joyce. Reporter iain, you know weve been telling people over and over if you dont have to go out in this brutal weather, dont. But when several Senior Citizens from the same complex called us and said, hey, were wearing our heaviest winter coats and hats inside we went to check it out. Its so unfair. I lived my life, work my life, raised my family, nook my kids this my time and im sick and tired. Reporter hopping mad after we found longtime residents of germantown house. I am cold. My apartment stays cold. Reporter the past few days so brutal that bundle up residents piled into the buildings lobby to talk about taking action. War the reasons were down here for. We need heat. Its not right that we have to live in such conditions as Senior Citizens much we are not paying rent to live like this and we do pay rent. Reporter invited us inside his apartment to feel for ourselves. It was warm but it seems like the heat dont om works when they want it to work. Reporter its random says his Home Health Aid elena. Its just constant thing with no heat. Little heat. Some heat. Today we actually got some heat which is a miracle. At night we freeze in here. Reporter they showed me what appears to be the biggest culprit, out in the hallways. Its full blast up here. Full blast. Theres another vent down there. Thats where all this cold air. Reporter pha Officials Say these vents draw fresh air from outside. And in the wintertime, a built in heater is designed to warm that air. Not today. So thats blowing right on his wall here. This wall is cold. Yup, this is where his clothes would be. Reporter this is nothing. The second and third floor youre going to feel like youre outside with no sun. Resident Council President Beatrice Johnson says neighbors try everything to block out the cold blast from the hallway. Still, their water barely heats up so they take chances using their ovens. And these are the names and all the apartments. Nobody wants to hear it. Reporter Felicia Madison says management brought her a couple new heaters just a few days ago. They really i had the oven on and the oven almost caught on fire. Reporter they call us desperate for solution for everybody. This is the only thing we had left to do. Weve been begging and crying to everybody for heat. Reporter didnt her back from the Philadelphia Housing Authority saying a crew went out this afternoon and they found the extreme cold was preventing the heaters and the ventilation fans from warming the air so they turned the fans off but we just check within the hour with those residents and they say some fans are still blowing at full force. As for the heating inside the apartment, pha says they found nothing wrong with the buildings system but they are now overriding their Energy Saving feature because of its so outside. Iain. Lets hope it works. Thank you, joyce. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. You know a chilly one across the delaware valley. Heres live look at cape may, new jersey. Not a night youll want to be out on the boardwalk down at the shore or in old city you cant escape this dangerous cold. Now, theres Something Else to throw in the mick. Snow. Kathys forecast in just 15 seconds. Just when you thought you didnt want to hear anything more joyce is saying no more cold. Im with you, joyce. No more cold. No more wind chills. Were talking about teen, single numbers, below zero. Enough all right. Were not used to this but unfortunately were going to be seeing more of the same at least through this week. In old city philadelphia it is cold. Theres little bit of a wind. Winds right now out of the west at 12. The wind chill is ten. The temperature is 22. But its at these types of times when you have wind that you dont even care about the temperatures. Theyre irrelevant. Its all about the wind chill what it feels like when that wind is taking that warmth away from your skin. The poconos it feels like five below. In allentown it feels like four. Millville nine. Trenton 11. If youre going out this evening just cover up as much as you can. We have a Long Duration cold event thats going to continue its already been going on for a week. As temperatures have been below freezing since after christmas. And more cold. More arctic air right through sunday and after that it looks like it will retreat a little bit and well get above freezi freezing. Now overnight tonight lose will be at the teens from i95 corridor to the south and eve. Single numbers to the north and west. Then during the day tomorrow, the temperature will be rising to around 31, 32 if were lucky well make it to freezing a few clouds moving in ahead of a coastal storm. A noreaster. The National Weather service already issued a winter storm watch for central and south jersey along the coast in Sussex County delaware this goes down into maryland, have have a the carolinas it is going to be a mess. If youre trying to get down to the south a friend of mine trying to get to myrtle beach, wait until the storm passes because youll drive right night. An area of low pressure developing just to the north of the bahamas. And its going to move up the eastern seaboard. This is all snow right through the carolinas, charleston, into the coast toward the outer backs through allay up through virginia it ends off the coast of nova scotia where winds could be gust fog 75 maybe even 80 miles an hour. This is powerful storm. Hour by hour, you see tomorrow night snow along the coast. And then it moves inland as the storm gets a little closer. You can see right along the i95 Corridor North and west, thursday morning at 6am its snowing. Then as the storm pulls away toward new england everything begins to move out by late thursday afternoon it should be out of here by thursday evening. Three to 6inches the call right now through south jersey and delaware. Where we have the watch. One to three philadelphia and suburbs and less than one as you get farther away from the storm toward the lehigh valley. So as we look at the seven day forecast the snow begins tomorrow night. Goes through thursday. The wind is going to be a big factor with this. Gusting to at least 35 miles an hour in philadelphia. Gusting to 50 down the shore. Friday morning wind chills below zero. The same for saturday. Temperatures slowly moderating next week. Kristen, you know, i dont know. Well need that january thaw sooner than later. What do you think . Im just saying the only good thing the eagles arent playing this week and we dont have to sit out in that because thats not look fun. Eagles have a bocks of to check before the playoffs. Who their starting quarterback is not one of those questions. So calm down, guys. Coming up how pederson is handling practice this week and what he is saying about those eagles assistant coaches that are being linked to other lets be clear. Lets be clear. Nick foles is the eagles starting quarterback. Doug pederson isnt here for any talk of a quarterback controversy or the eagles starting nate sudfeld. So you guys can put that to bed now. Immediate did talk today about the reports of interest from other teams to the eagles assistant coaches. Defensive coordinator jim schwartz linked to the giants and quarterbacks john fillipo tied to arizona and chicago. Pederson says he knows theyre still putting the eagles first. The challenge is obviously you know, having themselves pre faired for potential interview but at the same time, you know f they have to balance the job that they have here and making sure that were ready for practice tomorrow and the next day and thats first and for most. The players made it clear after their loss to dallas they want to put on the pads and get to work tomorrow. Doug pederson agrees. The the eagles need to work on that grit before the playoffs. This something the players want. Its not its not a punishment thing its not coming direct from meche whats the players want. I listen to my guys and i think that they understand that theres a sense of physicality we have to get back to. The eagles will either play the falcons if they beat the rams or the winner of new orleans carolina you can watch the panthers and saints right here on fox 29 kick off at sunday at 4 40. Joel embiid is doubtful tomorrow but theres a bigger injury update. We got the most confusing news about Markelle Fultz that sounds like hes getting close to getting back to practice. You can decide here. What it said sixers say fultz quote has been cleared to begin the final stage of his return to play program. That consists of gradual reintegration into Team Practices and training, complemented with additional conditioning work to support fitness readiness for game play. Maybe well get that in english one day. Take that as youly. The bills are in the playoffs for the First Time Since 1999. Large part because the bengals beat the ravens so to say thank you the bills fans have donated over 100,000 to andy daltons foundation. How about that for a thank you, gift. Thats good. Good one. Oh yeah. Exactly. Good for bills fans. Long time for them. Best of luck to them. All right. They know about cold weather, too. Oh yeah. That does it for us here at 6 00. Up next page six followed by dish nation at 7 00 and tmz at 7 30. Have a great night. El broke, homeless, selling my body to get high, locked up, a slave to heroin that was my life. Married, a homeowner, a professional, recovering and thriving thats my life now. I got help. You can too. New years means a new day for those struggling with addiction. Dont suffer. Dont wait. Choose help. Call 844 reachnj or visit reachnj. Gov right now on page six tv, who did Martha Stewart call a basic bitch . Whats the secret connection between Jake Gyllenhaal and cara delevingne. When this celebrities become a thing . When did jason momowa secretly tie the knot . All the answers on page six tv. Welcome to a very special episode of page six tv. Im elizabeth wag meister. And im carlos greer. While the rest of our cast is at home for the holidays were here with you to ring in 2018. [ applause ] viewers count on us for the latest breaking news on everything from keeping up with which kardashian is pregnant to the hottest breakup stars and unfortunately the evergrowing list of sexual harassers in hollywood. But we also play a lot of games. So todays episode will be our biggest game yet. The page six tv showdown. [ applause ]
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