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And that is freezing rain as well. So in philadelphia reports of freezing rain as well as in Port Richmond along i95 and also levittown, trenton and lower makefield reporting in areas of freezing rain. So still you have to be very vigilant i now cloudy in wilmington but reports of freezing rain in mill side and in lift wood and well continue to watch those temperatures. Precipitation falling in the form of snow in the poconos. So no issues there. That Winter Weather advisory will continue until 9 00 oclock tonight and most of those concerns will be shifting south into south jersey look at the temperatures. We are warming to 36 in Atlantic City and in wildwood. 34 in millville. So i think mainly rain for you but still could have a little freezing rain micking in and right here along the i95 corridor the precipitation is falling. Temperatures have cooled. Philadelphia 31. So the air temperature below freezing and the ground temperature is as well we freezing rain it look like rain feels like it its when it hits a surface like a ground, car, railing, sidewalk thats when it freezes instantly. To the north and west, that icy mix will continue and slowly see thinking come to an tech night. Lehigh valley light snow and sleet will be ending about 6 00. Philadelphia suburbs sleet and freezing rain. South jersey and delaware freezing rain and rain will be out of here by 9 00 oclock. Coming up huge changes in the forecast lucy major warmup then heavy rain your eagles game day. Ill see in you few minutes with that. Ma its an active lately. Thank you much. Kathy. The weather closed down a lot of schools with others did you missing students earl sole they can get before all the ice sets new jersey Jennifer Joyce has been talk wig parents scrambling to pick up their children. Look like its windy out there right now in pennsauken, jenn. Little win doos its colds. Windy and cold. We havent seen any major issues here on route 70 in pennsauken. But it is that ice that was a big concern for School District and why they decided to close so many schools in our area early. In camden, new jersey, they had two schools that couldnt even open today because of weather related issues. Rain began falling in pennsauken, new jersey, around 3 00 p. M. The start of the afternoon rush. The salt trucks were on stand boy as temperatures hovered above freezing. Its bad weather. Its time to go in the house and get hot chocolate. Reporter parent with a plan after picking up his two daughters 43 Kramer Elementary School in camden. The entire district was on an early dismissal because of the impending storm. Im okay with it becaus a lot of the teachers have to travel so theyre worried about their safety as well as the childrens safety getting home. I rather pick them up early than later on when the weather is like really slippery. Reporter students gleefully ran out the school doors be piled into cars. For some moms, dads, grandparents. Im zooming right now. Change of plans made for a hectic afternoon. The pick up is even bananas because i go 43 here now i go to the other school to pink other grandparents. Camden Public School chief Strategy Officer andrew bell says the district understands School Closings can be inconvenient. Theyre doing their best to keep parents in the loop because of the extreme Winter Weather, two city schools could not open at all today. Officials say a pipe burst inside of Cream Family School on mull forward street. 100yearold york ship Family School has no heat. Maintenance crews the day working on the hvac system. The goal is to have our buildings open, warm every day for our students. Our families depend on us to do that and when we have these challenges its pressing on everyone who works in the School System 43 the superintendent to the teachers to the manet negligence staff. Reporter cream lottery wont open until wednesday at the earliest. A lot of schools homes, cars in our area are having these types of weather related issues. Luce zoo. Indeed they are. Thank you very much, jenny. Theres route 73 in south jersey rough ride this morning because of a water main break which backed up traffic big time. You know how it goes. Water main break and freezing temp can mean all kinds of problems so it went near signal et drive in voorhees. I was those brake lights tomorrow night, though, all lanes are back open. Fox 29 is your Winter Weather authority and you can track this icy mix in real time along with kathy and our team of meteorologists. All you have to do download our fox 29 Weather Authority app. Its easy its free and its you can find it in the i tunes and google play stores. Federal investigators joined the probe into this weekends deadly fire in north philadelphia. It killed a firefighter and a resident. The atf is now helping to determine where and how the fire began. Also today Governor Tom Wolf ordered flags known at half staff to honor fallen fire lieutenant matt letourneau. That includes all flags on the capitol complex and at the commonwealth buildings in philadelphia. The order takes Effect Tomorrow at sunrise and continues through sunset on saturday. Joyce evans has been talking with people inside the Department Today as they try to deal with their grief. Joyce, just so many tough days ahead. There really are. You cant imagine, we can never imagine what they go through. Thousands of firefighters and other First Responders 43 all over are likely to go and pay their respects but then theyll go right back and suit up for the next emergency. They have no time to process, no time to grieve. Its really a lot to bear. Veteran firefighters who have been there are working to help others get help. Its heartbreaking. Crushing there is a family firefighters in two counties where he served and the general public. Many of whom owe their life or that of a loved one to lieutenant matt letourneau. He was a very special person. He was very special person. Reporter youre not surprised by these stories. Nothing surprised me with matt. I was sitting next to him thursday night and 30 hours later i hit the hospital with him. The ed mark says the loss avenue comrade and a rescue victim leaves many fellow firefighters hurting inside suffering in silence much its why he and 40 recently trained members of the Fire Department Peer Support Team will be heading out. Were stepping this whole thing up now. Reporter fighting to change the culture of a tough guy image. You dont talk about those things. Pull up your boot straps, youll be okay. Suck it up kind of thing. Reporter its working. No one can help firefighter better than firefighter unless you get into professional counseling. Reporter retired batallion chief Michael Yeager noesis first hand. He suffers the post dramatic stress of the 13 deaths he saw in his career. Just keep going over and going over. What if and how come and why didnt i and all those other things that, um, you cant control any way. Can you believe that with hi extremely high rate of suicide among firefighters and a mothers plea to him a few years ago when one of yeagers protegees took his own life. He gets emotional when we ask why he spend his retirement trying to save firefighter lives . Sure, i ride my motorcycle and i go on trips and all that other stuff. This is very rewarding to me even though you cant measure it you know somebody is getting help. Reporter while you guys are out here saving doing everything you can to save a life, who saves yours . I talk to people. I talk to my brother. Youtube other friends. I still talk to people 43 jobs year as ago. Reporter all these he still gets emotional. Mike yeager, ed mark and the Peer Support Team stress they are not professional counselors but they are a bridge between talking it out, firefighter to firefighter, and helping somebody get professional treatment. Lucy. Which is absolutely crucial. Thank you much, joyce. The Fire Department just released information about the services for lieutenant letourneau. Two public viewings at the cathedral ba Social Security sill lay of paints peter and paul thursday at 4 30. Friday at 9am followed by funeral mass at 11 00 on friday. No idea whether this has anything to do with our weather but just before 2 00 this afternoon a tractor trailer overturned in philadelphias eastwick neighborhood. Island avenue lindberg boulevard the scene. We dont know about any injuries as of yet. Happening right now, in Burlington County, a shock for a Church Congregation suddenly without a pastor because of a surprising admission. Our jeff cole is live in hainesport and, jeff, youve reported on this church in the past. Reporter we have lucy. It was in 2017 we reported on allegations that a daycare worker allegedly sexually abused small children here. There have been no charges in that case but now in an unrela unrelated situation the long hoy time pastor here david jost is gone aunt cloud. Tonight the parishioners of st. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church are in shock over the sudden departure of their long time partner david yost the bishop of the church in new jersey tells fox 29 yost had an inappropriate relationship with a female parishioner. This one was taken back by the news. He made a promise and he crossed the line. Reporter parishioners were called to an afternoon meeting sunday by letter with bishop Tracy Bartholomew in the recording of the gathering obtained by fox 29 she spoke of jost. A number of weeks ago i was called by an incredible individual that your pastor engaged in an adult married woman a member of this congregation whos not his wife. She told the 50 to 75 people gathered she then conducted her own investigation. I received additional rewards ranging 43 unwanted advances to other inappropriate behavior on the part of the pastor. Reporter she on the phone with fox 29 says jost admitted to some of the allegations and agreed to retire on januar january 3rd. A woman came to the door at josts lumberton home monday but wouldnt open it. Josts behavior is not kim cal and shes not contacted law enforcement. Church goers say theyre saddened. You surprised this is a pastor. Umhmm. This was a parishioner. Right. Um, no. It doesnt surprise me. Its still a man. You know, and a man of god . [ laughter ] you know. God or not. Reporter now bishop bar thal hollow mew says yost left the church and retired she would not speak about whether he in fact will get his retirement pay. She says that the church does not condone this kind of activity and will confront it. Spokesperson for the Burlington County Prosecutor Says theres no kim cal probe underway of david jost. Live in hainesport, jeff cole, fox 29 news. Lucy, well have more at 6 00. Talk to you then, jeff. Concerns growing after university of pennsylvania student disappear. Well have the latest on the frantic search for the sophomore. We are gearing up for a battle of the birds this weekend we are gearing up for a battle of the birds this weekend our kristenel 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. 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Blaze bernstein university of pennsylvania pre med student was visiting his familiar until lake forest, california on winter break and was last seen around 11 00 p. M. Last tuesday after cooking dinner for his parents. Bernsteins parents say he left their home around midnight to meet a friend that hed been communicating with on social media at a nearby park and never returned. A search for the College Sophomore began on wednesday morning after he failed to show up to a dental appointment. His parents holding out hope. If you hear me, if its okay for to you come home. We love you. Blaze, come home. Wherever you are, whatever has happened, we dont care. We just want you here. Find a way home. The friend bernstein met up with at the park told police he used the restroom and when he came back out, bernstein had disappeared into a wooded area. That was of the last time anyone has seen him. Friends and family have been using drones to search the area where bernstein disappeared. Meanwhile, investigators are hoping for information that will lead to the teens whereabouts. Any sign of him, any clothing, obviously him, were hoping to find him, hoping that hes just incapacitated and in need medical assistance. So that we can get him and bring him home safely. Police say they dont foul play is involved here. They also say that that guy he met at the park has been ruled out as a suspect. In the Operations Center im iain, lucy, back to you. Thank you iain. Physical police are searching for a man caught on camera making an illegal withdrawal 43 an atm with a crowbar. The atm happens to be at the George Smith Towing Company on the 3100 block of south 61st street. Surveillance cameras caught a guy pulling up in a lightcolored car, walk on over to the atm, pry it open with the crowbar and taking off with 5,000 in cash. It happened on the Early Morning of the christmas eve. But police have just release this video. If you know anything, they would love to talk to you. Now in the russia probe fox news confirmed special Counsel Robert Mueller is considering interviewing President Trump himself as part of the investigation. The Washington Post was the first report this and the president is in nashville right now to speak to the American Farm bureau federation. Foxs lauer rin blanchard reports 43 washington. Reporter the president using the opportunity to talk about what his administration is doing to help those in rural communities. We have been working every day to deliver for americas farmers just as they work every single day to deliver for us. Reporter the president using his speech to tout the tax reform bill just passed plus announcing an executive order aimed at bringing highspeed internet to more rural communities. Every democrat in the house and every democrat in the senate voted against tax cuts for the American Farmer. Reporter in the latest twist in the Mueller Investigation into russian meddling during the 2016 election, the president s lawyers are preparing for the possibility the special counsels team will ask to interview President Trump himself. Theres no official request yet and its possible there will never be an interview. In a statement the president s lawyer john do you do said, the white house is continuing its full cooperation with the osc in order to facilitate the earliest possible resolution. A lot of negotiations perhaps in private but i dont think its in the president s interest to sit down on video tape or on the record. On the lighter side the president taking time to ten the National College football championship game tonight in atlanta. I think its pretty exciting to have the president in the same building as us. I minette will be a cool experience to be able to see him in person. Reporter game wont be politics free with at least two different groups planning to protest the president as ten dance. In washington, lauren blanchard, fox news. Nearly 200,000 salvador january immigrants may have to leave the United States in less than two years. Trump Administration Just announced its ending special protections for immigrants 43 el salvador. Democrats and immigrant advocacy groups say the move before break apart families and force the immigrants back into violence playing country. Battle of the birds this saturday at the linc as eagles look to get one step closer to the super bowl. Kristen rodgers joins us live way look how the eagles are getting ready for the falcons much kristen. Lucy, for the first time in nfl history the one seed eagles are underdogs in their first play off game. Yes, the falcons currently favored by two and a half points but the birds they couldnt careless. The eagles have played with chip on their shoulder this entire season now its just business as usual. Some guys say they dont need the Bulletin Board material. Other guys 35 off of it. Really though this negativity is fueling the fire for every eagles player in that locker room. Weve been disrespected all year. Our record speaks for itself. Were a team and thats been disrespected week in and week out. Just come out and we ring the bell every week. Weve been underdog sips 11 went down and we just found a way to win. You know what i mean regardless whether its offense helping our defense, defense helping our offense or special teams. We just got to go out and play our type of footbal. Eagles have an important factor on their side saturday. Theyre playing at home at the linc so fans, rest your voices now. Because the team says theyre going to need that support they got during the regular season now more than ever. You look side by side our home games and road games were significantly better at home much thats why it was important for to us get home field advantage. You take the travel out of the equation, you know, its tough on opponents when the fans are loud. I know our fans will be loud. Its tough on the opponents in a hostile, you know, environment, you know, thats what philly is. Thats what the linc is. Oh, yeah it is. Coming up later in sports, hear what the message for nick foles is this week as he works to lead the eagles offense against a stout falcons defense plus how the birds are generating a higher sense of urgency right in time for the playoffs. Lucy. All right, talk to you soon, thank you very much kristen much not what you expect to see on your morning commute. Coming up a truck burst into flames on the new jersey turnpike and camera caught the whole thing. Excuse me everyone paul . Paul . This is three Million Dollar mega multiplier the new game from the Pennsylvania Lottery with top prizes of three Million Dollars three Million Dollars did you win . I dont know. Im so excited about it. This could be a big winner just had to share. Carry on. Sometimes the moments before you scratch are as exciting as the moments you do. Keep on scratchin police say no one is seriously injured and they dont yet know why the truck caught fire there. Also new jersey chaos at the hoboken rail terminal much police say a person jumped into a police suv and drove it through the terminals doors. Right during the morning commute. No one is hurt but station is damaged as you can see. Police have someone in custody either trying to figure out why they did what they did. They have not yet released the persons name. New york city three people are injured after a fire at trump tower. Something caught fire in the buildings heating and airconditioning system at about 7 00 this morning. Smoke billowing up 43 the roof of the Manhattan Building as firefighters fought the electrical fire. Took about an hour but they did get it under control. Firefighter and two other people are hurt. But their injuries are not life threatening. Back here at home, First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School kicked off 2018 with anti bullying seminar this workshop has its roots in the Columbine High School shooting. Its part of whats called rachels challenge the goal is to set off a Chain Reaction of kindness and compassion rachel scott was the first teenager injury killed in columbine. This is such a message of hope and it gives them the drive and the motivation to go on and to keep going after those things in life that matter which is what rachel did and so her message just continues on to show them that, hey, things may not be the best right now, but it can go on. You can go on and you can make an impact a positive impact. Mnt sponsors rachel challenge about inspiring students to make their school safer and more connected place. Fox 29 is your Winter Weather Authority Live look at ocean city, new jersey. Man that looks like complete winter right there. Tracking the sleet and the ice kathy orr. We have warm air coming in so theres some fog down there as well. Take look hyped meme ultimate doppler here it come its moving through right now. Through narberth and marion the mainline through havertown, philadelphia and trenton, freezing rain. I just step outside, a glaze lucy out there on the deck. Well take a look at your forecast and the warmup coming up. Your daughter wants to stay organic. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 1,300 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. [ laughs ] rodney. 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Its coming route right now and theres more baltimore and washington and this is moving eastward so philadelphia we may be in this for at least another hour or so. Lets take look at ultimate doppler. Freezing rain. Its very light. But its in philadelphia. Reports of very slick sidewalks in east falls, marion as well. I got report 43 narberth saying everything is slick. Of course, any untreated road is going to be slick as well. In trenton reports of some freezing rain as well as in morrisville, hamilton, weiss horse and princeton down to wilmington we had mostly cloudy skies last hour but its filled back in with a mix of sleet and snow and freezing rain thats through lift wood as well and greenville, icy mix and heading towards Carneys Point route 130 freezing rain. Youll think its rain if youre walking down the street when it hits that subfreezing surface like a railing like a car like a sidewalk untreated thats when it becomes ice. Because those temperatures are well below freezing its been well below freeze fog over week. You can take look at center city philadelphia. Traffic moving along here but on a slow pace not that many cars out. Everyone heeded the Early Warning. The wind chill is 22 with winds out of the South Southwest at 1. Anything that falls will be in the form of snow. Wilmington that icy mix millville the temperature about 4 feet where this is measured is 34 but the ground temperature still could be below freezing. Wind chills in the teens and 20s. Thats going to persist through this evening. It will be a cold one as we go hour by hour during the evening more of that icy mix through philadelphia, south jersey as well. And changing over to rain especially to the south and then all of it will be ending by about nine, 10 00 oclock tonight. So Lehigh Valley now pretty much through 6 00 oclock. Everything is ending. Philadelphia and suburbs boy eight. I think most of it should be out of here and then south jersey and delaware by 10 00 oclock the precipitation should be uming to an end but it will be cold overnight. Any rain that falls in south jersey is going to be freezing overnight. So please be aware of that. The low in millville 30. Wildwood 30. 31 in philadelphia. And 24 in the poconos. Tomorrow high temperatures will be up there. About 42 degrees. Not quite as cold but believe it or not. This is normal. It just hasnt been normal in weeks. Well see a surge of warmth and a big warm up bite end of the week. Then friday and saturday looking at one to 2inches of rain moving our way. More spring like. Heres a look at your seven day. 40 for wednesday. 49 with a chance of showers thursday. How about near 60 friday for the birds the rain should be out of the here temperature 52. Then 20 degrees colder on sunday and monday 31 degrees. But at least its dry. Right, lucy. Its dry and incredibly close to 60. Yeah. Got to love it wet but warm. Which is fine. Thank you much, kathy. You bet right now investigators are looking into how and why this house collapsed in north philadelphia. You can see its a partial collapse. Happened just before 5 00 this morning on the 2900 block of stillman street. No one is hur. Not sure if anybody is actually living there. The freezing rain and sleet we have been anticipating setting in as you heard kathy orr tell you folks of course heading home 43 work in this p. M. Rush hour traffic. So timing is absolutely terrib terrible. Jennifer joyce live in pennsauken. Jennifer, so were getting reports of sheets of ice now. Reporter yeah, good evening, lucy. We know that rain always makes for a messy commute but on top of that, we have freezing ground conditions and we have sleet and freezing rain at the height of rush hour. Its 5 30 there are lot of cars on the road we are live here along route 70 in pennsauken and this has been a really tricky system for public works crews because earlier in the day it was mostly rain obviously you cant saul when its rain because it will wash the salt away. So we have been seeing salt salt trucks and plow trucks coming through this area just monitoring conditions. Only recently within the last 15 or 20 minutes have we actually seen these crews laying that salt down on the ground. So its tough. Its not very good timing samp natalie we havent seen any major incidents here along rout. But because temperature it has been hovering around freezing, but as kathy has been mentioning the ground is already frozen after last weeks arctic blast so we do know that as soon as any sort of precipitation hits the ground its going to make for these slick conditions. Back to you. All right. Thank you very much, stay safe out there Jennifer Joyce. 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This teen facing charges to night after police in newark, delaware, say he damaged mailb mailboxes. They say 19yearold scott smith vandalized them saturday night in the community of timber farms. He was with another person but so far hes the only person that police have caught. Purrs charge him with criminal mischief and underaged possession of alcohol. A new year and new owner for Atlantic City revel casino a colorado developer bought the revel 43 glenn staub the price 200 million. Which is a relative bargain. The revel will reopen this summer with a new name ocean resort casino and heres some very good news for the area. This reopening means 2500 to thee thousand new jobs the revel of course first opened in 2012. So two apple investors are telling the company to do more in the fight against childhood smart phone addiction in an open letter the california state teachers retirement system Jana Partners are asking the tech giant to add more Parental Controls to its devices. They cite studies which show excessive smart phone use can lead to higher risks of depression and suicide in children and teens. Other side effects they say disrupted sleep cycles and inability to Pay Attention in class. To help combat the problem they very much like app foal create news ways for parent to filter what their children is see as well as the amount of time the kids are on their phones. Combined the firm open 2 billion in apple stuck. Frozen fans you can rejoice. Look at that. A real live ice castle now opened in minnesota. It has taken workers nearly a month to build this Winter Wonderland and still water, minnesota about half hour outside of minneapolis. 1 acre space comes complete with ice carved tunnels and fountains, slides, frozen thrones and even spiral ripping towers. We grow 10,000 icicles a day. Those icicles are hand placed and water is sprayed over them so make them grow larger, that process is repeated over and over. Took about 25 Million Pounds of ice to bill this dream cast castle. Its creator expects 100,000 visitors this season including people who come to the twin cities for the super bowl, of course, so, you know, you can go see the eagles, yes, were thinking positively here and you can also catch a glimpse of the ice castle. Kiming up, could it be a game changer for overnight workers . A closer look at the new drug doctors are working on. Its a food trend that mate made its way to our area taken bread to whole new level. Mike ,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. Wint winter Authority Live in reading berks county. Got to take it slow as you head home. We are seeing conditions that are unfortunately perfect for ice to form on the roads right now. Its really tough for many to get a good nights sleep for people who work overnight shift it is even harder. Now however researchers are testing new medication that could be a game changer. Heres foxs beth galvin. Reporter at 33 joakim is kind of a professional designated driver. When you cant get behind the wheel in the middle of the night, he and his drivers will come get you. We call kind of like a Ride Share Service were taking the clients car home. Reporter for the last seven and a half years, joe who runs his own company of 14 drivers has been on the road 43 dusk to dawn. And then i have to get the bookkeeping done. Have i to make sure the staffs hours are accounted for. Got to make sure that the staff is properly paid for. Reporter he gets about four hours of sleep a day. Half what most sleep experts recommend. You can drink so much coffee and Energy Drinks or stick your head out the window to be able to stay awake eventually those dont work. Reporter because those all nighters behind the wheel are long. All right. We are ready to get the next client. 3 00 oclock in the morning. We got about six more hours to go. All right. Were on our way to get our last client of the night. Hopefully well be able to stay awake. Reporter the next morning we caught up with joe. I was really drowsy actually dosed off a few times and had to pull off on the highway a few well, off the highway few times just because, um, i was just a little tired. Reporter neurologist sleep specialist doctor may cal laci in atlanta says joe has something known as shift work sleep diss or. His work at night sleep during the day schedule has thrown off his hormones and body clock. It is not a natural phenomenon for somebody to go completely against the grain and kind of fly in the face of Mother Nature if you will. Reporter so when joe needs to sleep i definitely feel it. Reporter he cant. The end results is that you have cumulative significant sleep deprecatiodeprivation. It can cause a great many serious medical problems. Thats why joes volunteered for sleep study here at neuro trials to see if he might be a good candidate to test out an experimental new drug for people with shift work sleep diss or. The test medication is a non amphetamine designed to stimulate wake promoting transmitters in the brain for about six to seven hours. Helping shift workers stay alert on the job without keeping them up when they need to sleep. So that the person after they get off their shift is fall asleep without difficulties because the medication is still in their system. Reporter joakim really hopes this new medication will help. Because while he didnt mind driving all night, so you dont have to physically im just worn out. Im ready to just, f i can find a floor and theres enough space ill sleep. Ill try. Reporter beth galvin, fox news. Used to feel like when i did the Early Morning shows. A lot of folks are talking about Oprah Winfreys speech at the Golden Globes captured the spotlight last night becoming the first africanamerican woman to receive the cecil bdemill for lifetime chief many it recognizes her contributions to the entertainment industry. In her acceptance speech oprah acknowledge the importance of equality and the times up movement. She addressed young girls in the future. For wholl women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men but their time is up. Pat honorees include barbar b advice san, Denzel Washington and george clooney. Have you ever heard about a cheese bread 43 georgia good. You ya gotta try this. This will be a special edition of ya gotta try this. Ive been promised a georgian georgia. This look Like University city. And it is. Please meet my friend melissa. She is a baker. This is a brand new place. Welfarely new. Six months or so. Walnut street cafe. Ironic klee and surprisingly on walnut street. Its the basement bottom floor of that giant silver building the fmc building. Exactly. I like the place. Its pretty. How would you describe it . I say its clean. Modern and light. Modern and light. Airy. Maybe airy. Sounds like, york, it is airy. And yet theres a bit of sophistication. Yes. Wouldnt you you. Theres an elegance. There really is an elegance. Perfect for you. Also casual. And yet casual. All right. Get to the food or not the baker head baker. This is a catch morey. I was toll its a georgian boat. Its a georgian egg boat bread like the originally bread bowl its not 43 the state of good. Good the country of georgia. The country of georgia. This would be a traditional around the holidays or year round. Year round. The bread has been shaped into a boat like vessel. The bread the dough gets sprinkled with cheese and then the cheese gets rolled up in the bread. So that its shaped like a football. Yeah. It. Look like a football. Okay. Whats inside the boat . Well theres the cheese, theres also ham and egg. Ham and egg. Its sort of like a your john calzone. Oh thats perfect, yeah. I like to rip off the ends and dip them in the egg. You can do eat it however you would like. Do you want to do it together. Okay. Three, two, one, rip. Then you dip it. Dip in the egg. Yeah, baby. Ooh, god, thats really good. You know what makes this . The bread. Shall we dip again . Thats double dipping, isnt it . [ laughter ] im okay with double dipping. In this case. I am, too. Eat your heart out. Were going to double dip. Go. Oh, god. Is that ham . Theres ham. Ham on the bottom. French ham. I like your boat. Well thank you. Im joining your navy. Ill tell you that. Thank you melissa. My pleasure. My pleasure. Whoa i never heard of this. I never tried it now you gotta try it. Good thing George Costanza is not around he didnt like double dipping. Used to seeing mike jerick behind the anchor deck. Today he had a different kind of job guest barrista 18th and market in center city. The coffee store donating all proceeds profits to the fellowship at the Community College of philadelphia which provides scholarships for students at the school. Quite a scene out west. A bevy of tanya hardy looks a likes have been competing at a Movie Theater i work overtime when i can get it. I need my blood sugar to stay in control. Weekends are my time. I need an insulin that fits my schedule. Tresiba® ready announcer tresiba® is used to control high blood sugar in adults with diabetes. Dont use tresiba® to treat diabetic ketoacidosis, during episodes of low blood sugar, or if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. Dont share needles or insulin pens. Dont reuse needles. The most common side effect is low blood sugar, which may cause dizziness, sweating, confusion, and headac. Check your blood sugar. 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State and local leaders that would include Governor Tom Wolf were at the Ribbon Cutting the company says it will create more than 100 where the new jobs through its partnership with the commonwealth. The state provided about sick hundred thousand dollars to the company for the expansion project. Weve got unique contests going on right now. This one is a tie in to the newly released movie i tanya. Anita roman has more on why people are dressing up as the infamous figure skater. Joyce. [ applause ] christie. [ applause ] dakota. Reporter meet the contestants. Nearly a dozen Tanya Harding look a likes competing for the gold. Im a figure skater. Reporter the story of figure skater Tonya Harding quickly taking the big screen by storm. The focus of the film hardings connection to the 1994 attack on Nancy Kerrigan her rival and olympic teammate. And really the movie is less about the actual event and more about the person that Tanya Harding is and has become and honestly you end up having so many emotions for her and you feel for her and you empathize and you dont realize all of the stuff that she had to fight her entire life. Reporter creative director for the eye hal mow draft house cinema a costume contest before saturday nights showing was only appropriate. I tanya is distributed by a Company Called neon. And they are a parent or Sister Company of allah ma cinemas. They manage to bid for and win the rights to distribute this film coming out of the toronto film festival. I tanya described as biographical black comedy film is already bringing in rave reviews. I never did this. Its really funny. Congratulations. In the end just like at the movie and real life, only one contestant walk away victorious but everyone left smiling. Anita roman fox news. Winners prize package by the way included i tanya poster. That does it for us here at 5 00. Heres iain page with fox 29 news at 6 00. A wintry mix making it rough out there on the roads. Even though the temperatures warmed up the ground is still pretty cold making for an icy evening rush home. Weve got Team Coverage. Remembering a hero killed in the line of duty. A fire lieutenant lost trying to save one more person. As investigators work to figure out what happened during the fire that took two lives. Live 43 center city in philadelphia this fox 29 news at 6 00. We begin tonight with the wintry mix greeting you on your way home. Heres live look at rehoboth beach, delaware. Definitely not a night you want to be on the beach. Meanwhile in old city people are coping with the icy mess. The recent cold though creating the perfect conditions for ice to form out there on the roads and your fox 29 Winter Weather authority is tracking it all at 6 00 43 the sleet to the slush thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Weve got Team Coverage for you tonight. Our Jennifer Joyce taking a look how everyone is handling all of this lets begin with kathy orr. Kathy thats correct ground is cold and thats the biggest problem when it comes to the icing. Absolutely. I just stepped outside our studio and it feels like rain but you can see a glaze on the sidewalks and anything untreated the railings, cars parked and everyone is kind of walking like this. Very slow and very cautious and youll need to do that tonight. You can see that pink that is all some freezing rain mixing with rain. In philadelphia we still have freezing rain as well as in trenton and a little bit of an icy mix mix wig snow to the north. So freezing rain in philadelph philadelphia. Nicetown, merion, haverford, in narberth we heard it is very slick. Port richmond and even whitman park on 676. Some icing conditions. Freezing rain being reported in delran, light freezing rain in cherry hill. And haddonfield greentree mt. Laurel and even into lump per ton, new jersey as we take look at wilmington you can see colder air filtering in. Mixing with sleet and little bit of wet snow in wilmington along 95 and thats heading south even toward baltimore and washington. Out there you can see pretty slow conditions not many cars on the roads. I think everyone heeded that Early Warning with the icy conditions coming. Through 9 00 oclock tonight we still have that Winter Weather advisory in the focal point will be the i95 corridor and to the south and east. Temperatures right below freezing along that i95 corridor and the ground temperature is even colder. This is about 4 feet above the surface. The surface is colder. 32 in millville. So thats very questionable. Some icy conditions for you. And down the shore, you can see in Atlantic City and wildwood temperatures air temperatures in the mid 30s but the ground temperature still could be at or below