The development was saddened to hear of her passing. She was a very nice woman who had a lot of energy. She liked to go outside and feed the birds and she got around quite often and was in great shape. Reporter Police Believe theres no foul play. Theres no indications on the residence at all of any forced entries or anything like that. House with the front door was secured much the back door was unsecured where she exited the house. Reporter chief clark urging the public and family members to check on your elderly neighbors or loved ones highly vulnerable to the biting cold no matter how healthy they appear. I just seen her recent al few week ago and she seemed to be in very good health. Reporter you said to her, boy, i hope i look like you when im 88. Thats exactly what i said. I hope i look just like you when im 88 and get around like you do. Reporter fox 29 has learn the woman had little if anything on when her body was found. Coroner will now trying to determine the time of death. Police investigators will also hope to learn why she every went outside in the cold. We have learned this woman foss name but will not report it until police tell us they have notified the next of kin. Live in northam top township, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Iain, back to you. Jeff, thank you. Were following some breaking news out of south jersey right now. Prosecutors have charged the husband of a popular south jersey radio host April Kauffman with her death more than five years after she was found dead in their linwood home. Lets get right tout oh lucy noel in the Operations Center with breaking details. Iain, it is a big day. A long time coming. Prosecutors now say dr. James kauffman a ranged the murder of his wife April Kauffman in 2012 to protect his drug ring. Drug ring during that time they say kauffman was working with members and associates of the pagan motorcycle gang running an illegal pill mill operation out of his office in egg harbor township. Now in 2011 his wife april threatened to divorce him and expose him to authorities. Thats when investigators say kauffman a ranged through a member of the pagan gang his wifes murder. Frank mulholland received a ride to the kauffman residence on may tenth, 2012 of the the doors were left open and Frank Mulholland was given a gun to carry out his task. He went inside and shot April Kauffman twice. I think for the first time today i can actually breathe for the past five and a half years i have felt like ive been holdi g my breath on daily basis. I couldnt even begin to describe to you today, um, the emotions i feel. Prosecutors have charged another man in connection to aprils murder and six others they say are part of the drug ring. The man who they believe actually shot april died of a drug overdose. Now prosecutors say this drug operation actually continued until this past june when Police Arrested kauffman on weapons charges. Back to you, iain. Lucy, thanks. Heres some breaking news now. A water main break in philadelphias West Oak Lane neighbrhood. Skyfox is live over the scene near washington lane and rodney street. The Water Department telling us crews are heading to the scene. We of course will bring you more information as we get it as you see that water gushing out of there at that street corner. Many questions remain in the fie fire that killed a philadelphia firefighter and another person in a north philadelphia home. Investigators are trying to figure out how it all started. Joyce evans is at that scene in north philadelphia tonight. Joyce . Reporter iain, the manpower working this investigation includes a lot of agents. Local and now federal. But what theyre likely to tell you about how their progressing, not much at all. Suring up the collapsed structure for investigators to get inside. And get to the bottom of what caused a deadly house fire other narrow 2200 block of north colorado. The scene where a man was trapped inside. When we get a report of people thats trapped we make every possible effort we can to get to the person. Reporter that rescue effort ended with fire lieutenant Matt Letourneau trapped under collapsing debris. Another firefighter inside was hurt but managed to get out. And eventually they located the individual, removed the person. He was transported but he also passed away. To and then, you know, theres its had a toward speculate what happened after that. Reporter the Atf National Response Team on scene helping local investigators figure out why it happened. Their primary goal is to help with the forensic mapping of the structure, a digital reconstruction that could help lead to exactly where the fire started and then on to how it started and how letourneau died. And now the man initially trapped in that house his name has still not been released. The family next door that was forced out during the fire, they have been relocated on this block. Iain . Joyce, thank you. Mourners will pay their respects to letourneau later this week that will be two public viewings at the cathedral basilica of saints peter and paul. The first is thursday from 4 30 to 9 00 p. M. The second is friday at 9 00 a. M. Followed by funeral mass at 11 00. The cold weather busting pipes all across our area. Latest casualty the Marriott Hotel in center city. Pipe in the building next to the Pennsylvania Convention center burst around 4 30 this morning on the filbert street side. So the water flooded the lobby but didnt go any further. So the marriott didnt have to evacuate the hotel. Lets check in with your fox 29 Weather Authority now as we take live look at reading in berks county after a long spell of brutal cold finally getting little bit of a break but how long is it going to last . Kathy orr. Thats the, what is it the 64,000 question. Exactly. Is that what it is. Thats what it is. Outside its beautiful. Todays highs pretty impressive, iain. Above normal. Normal is 40 in philadelphia. Made it to 45. First time above 40 since christmas. And we definitely deserve that. Wilmington 46. Atlantic city 45. The same in philadelphia. 44 in trenton, reading and allentown. So not a how much difference from north to south. Well continue to see these temperatures fall though tonight in the 30s pretty much where with the exception of the poconos. Right now with that northwest wind in millville it is 32. So we are going to refreeze overnight with clear skies and light winds. So it will be icy come tomorrow morning. Overnight lows in the teens and the 20s. Get ready for a cold start to the day tomorrow. Ut guess what . In the seven day well be chasing 60 degrees. We do expect some rain though coming our way and will that rain impact the eagles game . Well talk more about that with the seven day in just a few minutes. Iain. Kathy, thanks. Well new Jersey Governor Chris Christie giving his final state of state address today before he began he started holding a moment of celebration for governor Brendan Byrne who passed away january 4th. Christie says he decided to run for governor nine years ago to be different. The shine a light on new jerseys problems and offer Achievable Solutions in his speech he talked about many accomplish many like super storm sandy, the rise of camden and dealing with the opioid crisis. I leave you today grateful, happy and a better man than i was when i walked in here for the first time eight years ago. For that and so much more, i thank you, but most of all, i thank the wonderful people of the great state of new jersey. Governor elect phil murphy who succeeds christie will take office next tuesday. Pennsylvania state police need your help locating two men they say burglarized a Convenience Store it happened back on december 2nd. Police are just releasing these pictures hoping you can help. Police say two guys smashed the glass doors of the 562 mini mart on boyer ton pike in earl township and once they got in, they smashed Cash Register and took off way lot of cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Surveillance cameras on the outside of the building caught one of them in the vehicle that they escaped in. If youve got any information, call police. Well the fraternity has been banned from pennsylvania for ten years after the 2013 death of baruk College Freshman chunk michael dang. Ruling yesterday comes hours before four members of the frat were sentenced for think role in his death. Dozens of other defendants have pleaded guilty and they were sentenced to probation investigators say the 19yearold dang was blindfolded, forced to wear a heavy backpack and then repeat repeatedly tackled as part of the fraternitys initiation ceremony. It truly is a miracle that no pledge had been killed before this and unfortunately it was a master time. In addition the fraternity will have to pay fine of more than 110,000. To washington, d. C. Now where President Trump says he will wants a bipartisan plan on immigration but insists that any plan has to include funding for his border wall. Meeting at the white house today the president suggesting a two faze immigration deal. First, dealing with Border Security and the daca program which will end on march 5th without an agreement, then broader issues after that. I think what were all saying well do daca and we can certainly start comprehensive Immigration Reform the following afternoon. Okay . Democrats say the president s non negotiable border wall is not the best policy and doesnt help the dreamers. They fear it could lead to a government shutdown. Still ahead, heroin a problem in many of our communities. Now neighborhoods are using something as simple as porch light to try and combat the issue. Kristen . Iain im outside of the linc here. Coming up how Doug Pederson is preparing for his first post coming up how Doug Pederson is preparing for his first post seasoin america last year. Deaths 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. Youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe its time to be your own . Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it. With strayer universitys mba program today. Happening now, a blue porch light youve seen it before and typically it means solidarity and support for police. But in two philadelphia neighborhoods that blue light is now about something else. To discourage shooting up of heroin on philly stoops. Our hank flynn has his take. There you go. Blue light goes on. Reporter bam they see that, that means we dont want nobody here. Reporter its hank im in kensington with Carlos Melendez who screwed one these blue light bulbs in over his stoop to keep users from using on his porch. My take is i was skeptical carlos seems to think it will work. I went shopping for blue light bulbs in kensington to examine city hall blew Light Program which goes Something Like this. Thank you very much. Heroin users apparently cant find veins to inject aunt blew light. So install one on your stoop they wont shoot up there any more. Carlos says hell give it a go. Hes got curious nieces and nephews. Whats this for, whats this for they poke themselves you never know they might have aids. Any kind of disease thats out there running. Reporter he says he clears the stoop of Drug Paraphernalia in the mornings maybe with blue bulb he wont have to any more. You think it works. I think it will work. Reporter okay. Everybody gets together it will work. Reporter the program mainly for kensington and fair hell providing blue light bulbs through nonprofit and supposedly police but something about the idea of shutting down user by shining blue light on him. Come on. Is that going to keep you from finding your spot and doing your thing . Absolutely not. Reporter no . No way. We can feel for your veins. Most people we got muscle memory. We know exactly where were going any way. Reporter dre and philly know their stuff. Theyre addicts and they were hunkered down make shift shelter on allegheny doing their business. Philly got frost bitten fingertips. By product of this brutal winter blast. Blue light has zero impact on their ability to use they say but they add the light sends a message theyd respect. You know what i mean. First of all we shouldnt be getting high on peoples stoops any way. Okay. Respect thing in itself. Somebody does that i think theyre doing it through an act of hostile will the, cruelty. Reporter first everyone not as considerate as dre and philly seem to be. Seconds the idea that a blue light would negate users ability to inject himself is silly. Maybe in a lab, not on the avenue and other users confirmed that. This initiative is for the residents however and if users take their business up the block away from my stoop because of it for any reason even consideration, maybe theres something to it. Im hank and thats my take. Weve got winner in the new jersey lottery. One ticket matched all five numbers in yesterdays cash5 drawing. So the jackpot 640,000 much the ticket was sold at woodland petro on mt. Ephraim avenue in wood land. The store will get two thus san bucks for selling the ticket. Lets get back to your fox 29 wet authority now. As we take live look at doylestown in bucks county. What a difference a day makes. Temperatures getting above freezing today. Fell like a heat wave. Is it going to keep climbing though temperature, . Kathy will break it all down in 15 seconds. What a day. Temperatures in the 40s. You cant beat that. After weve been in the deep freeze and even on Blue Mountain beautiful evening. The snowboarders and skiers are still out there. Why not . Temperatures in the 30s instead of the singles numbers, and below zero. Its 39 in philadelphia. The wind chill 33. Not much of a wind out of the north northwest at nine. 39 in wilmington. 28 in the poconos. 32 in millville. 38 in dover. And as you look at the nation as a whole pretty mild everywhere. 61 in atlanta. Warming up in florida. Tampa 4 degrees. But temperatures pretty average for this time of year. So its back to normal across the delaware valley. Take look at ultimate doppler not much going on we have a clear sky. Not much wind. And not even a cloud around. Well watch the jet stream give us a little bit of a break over the course of this week lifting tour the north and west and giving us temperatures that are at or above average. But with that, will come some rain. Quiet for your tuesday night and wednesday. By thursday night some showers moving in to the north and west. And then it takes over. Thursday into early friday and into friday afternoon. Rain. Some of it heavy. But when we look at the amounts theyve been coming down with our computer models. The gfs down from about an inch to a half an inch. The euro down from 2inches yesterday to about an inch maybe an inch and a half. Even the rain basically between one and 2inches or about half an inch to an inch and half in philadelphia. Overnight it will be cold. The poconos 15. Pots up to 17. 22 in philadelphia. 21 in millville. 24 in dover. So this means anything that me melled today it is not dry is going to refreeze. So those sidewalks parking lots even some of the streets sews please beware of that come tomorrow morning. Another icy start. During the day tomorrow temperatures warming to 41 which is average for this time of year. Parly sunny, no wind to speak of. It will be a real pleasant day with a few clouds rolling in. Your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority, pretty decent mostly cloudy for your thursday. Near 50. Friday 60. But its going to be bit of a wet day. For the birds, morning clouds and rain for our tailgators but it will be drying out and getting windy and cooler in the afternoon. The early high 52. Colder, 20 degrees colder for sunday. And for our day of service on monday back to below freezing temperatures. 31 monday. And then tuesday sun and cold and 36. So turning cooler and a little bit blustery for that game maybe it will be good luck, kristen. What do you think . May be. I mean you know it look like its going to be lot nicer than it was against the cowboys so im not going to complain for that. Kathy. Coming up, im here live outside the linc. How Doug Pederson is preparing for this first post season game as a head coach plus the veterans message for the whats this . Breakfast with a view like whoa. Get a free build your own grand slam after your next online order in january. Whatever you want, whenever you want, now wherever you want. Order at dennys. Com. Doug pederson did his best to channel his inner Bell Belichick when talking with the medial his rather curt message for the team this week. Do your job. Your backs are against the wall so come out swinging on saturday. You can feel that extra heat from Doug Pederson and really from the entire team that it this week. Just reminder that play off football is a whole different beast. This will be the first time that pederson has been a head coach in the post season. So how does he plan on getting through it . By relying on past experience as player and as a cyst ant and of course on his players now. To be where were at and to have, v home playoff game and, you know, feed off the fans, the crowd, which is going to be electric on saturday afternoon, um, and just again stay in the moment. You know, do the things that got us to where we are today. Um, and thats kind of been my mindset, you know, the last couple of weeks. The eagles are used to being in this position underdogs with a chip on their shoulder that is. But for a lot of guys this is their first play off experience. So Doug Pederson had those veterans who have won super bowls give some words of advice this week at practice. Most of the guys that have had super bowl rings, um, has talked, you know, and done everything they can to pretty much ease the tension and, you know, ease everybodys mind including the young guys and weve been doing that throughout the week. Thats a big part of it and i think that as long as we continue to, you know, have each other back, you know, let all the younger guys talk to the guys that got playoff experience and stuff and lean on those guys and just continue to, you know, grind and work her thats the main focus. Doug pederson was pretty fired up when we had chance to talk with him earlier today. I mean it is the playoffs after all, everything gets amplified. High chance to talk with brent celek today in the lockers. He said that Doug Pedersons energy mirror that is of the Team Underdog over dog whatever you want to call them, they are chomping at the bit to get out there on the field on saturday against atlanta just right over here at the linc. And their message to the fans couldnt be simpler. Just be loud. They want fans to come out in full force because they know thats going to help especially on the defense. Iain . All right. Those fans will be out in force kristen, thank you. We know thats home feel advantage. Wounded vets and their families got to make new friends in florida keys to cap off the soldier ride cycling event from key largo to key we have. Group dropped by the Dolphin Research center in marathon. They rehab dolphins but resear researches how intelligence they are. The Wounded Warriors to the go share flipper shakes, high fives and dorsal fin tugs at the center a zero receives lagoons. Lets talk about the weather that. Will be big factor on saturday at the link glynn talk about even rain empty morning. Take look at the seven day forecast. 49 tomorrow with increasing clouds. I shall say 41 tomorrow. Then by thursday the clouds role in. Rain moves in thursday night, iain. Friday kind of rainy day but 60. Thats not bad. Some rain saturday morning so early tailgators it will be damp, front comes through. It turns colder and windy for the game. But at least it should be drying and then turns much colder for saturday into sunday, 20degree difference between saturday and sunday. Amazing . That is amazing. I will take the rain and 60. I know you will. [ laughter ] just for you. Thats right. Thank you. Coming up tonight on fox 29 news at 10 00, how about bats inside a Walmart Store . Oh, no. Is this a movie . 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