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And thats exactly what he wants to do for the eagles. Coming up were looking into nick foles play and his thoughts on tom brady. Thomas. Cant wait to hear what he has to say kristen. Oh yeah. As we cher on the eagles still reminded we have one more game ahead of us. A great reason to come together at Philadelphia City hall this afternoon to say prayer for the city and the birds. Dozens of people decked out in eagles gear coming together to cheer on and ask a higher power to watch over the eagles. The eagles just need a prayer to just Stay Together as a team. I think that they have been a great exhibition of faith because even when their leader went down, the team said, we are not going to stop. We are going to keep going forward. Were going to believe in ourselves. A lot of faith. We should point out the prayer wasnt just about the birds. People at the event also addressed the opioid crisis, homicide and poverty. There you go. For eagles fans old enough to remember all the way back to 2005, the super bowl is a much delayed rematch. Our bruce gordon joins me in studio. Bruce, us old cats remember the eagles and the patriots played a dose see of a super bowl 39. Reporter id like to think im a middleaged cat. They sure did. One of the closest title games every played and one to this day leaves many birds fans with a sick feeling right in the pitt of their stomach. If you look closely beneath those heavy winter coats you ca almost see the chip on the shoulders of eagles fans. 13 years after the birds almost had them lost to the new england patriots. I remember them being in the super bowl. Gnaw high school. Reporter do you remember how they played . Bad. Throw up bowl. Reporter yeah. I think there was definitely spy gate going on. This is a chance for redemption. Reporter new england entered that super bowl as defending League Champions in the early days of what would become a grid iron dynasty. Radioed injury remembers the game well. The patriots were favored by seven points. And they were considered the best team in football. By many people. But the eagles were right there with them. Largely because of the play of their talented but temperamental wide receiver terrell owens. Who limp flood the game on badly injured right ankle only to record nine catches for 122 yards. He played magnificently you could make a case that even though the eagles lost the game, he should have been the mvp. But by the Fourth Quarter tom brady, yeah, hes still around, had given the pats a tenpoint cushion. Then pi with less than six minutes to go, the birds mounted the most frustrating touchdown drive ever. Donovan mcnabb led the birds on 13 play 17yard scoring drive that pull the eagles to win three points but the drive seemed to take forever. Where is the sense of urgency . Because you need two scores. This isnt like one score gets you even with them you need two scores. Reporter philly ran out of time and new england won 2421. A story line later developed that a nervous mcnabb through up in the huddle during that last scoring drive. Didinger with nfl films watched the game from almost every conceivable angle. So i saw everything that happened, and i never saw any evidence of him throwing up. I didnt. Reporter later the patriots would be caught video taping opposing coaches on side lines presumably stealing plays. Did spy gate cost philly that super bowl . Probably not. I can understand how eagles fans would say we got cheated and, you know, thats really our trophy but they stole it from us. I think a Better Team Won that day. Reporter an old saying that revenge is dish best served cold. 13 years later, eagles rematch victory, that would be tasty indeed. Lucy, grab a knife and fork. Im ready to rock rental with that one. Thank you very much, bruce. Of course keep it right here on fox 29 news. Well have much more on the super bowl bound eagles over the next 90 minutes and leading up to game one to the game one week from sunday. Checking in with your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Taking a live look outside. Allentown lehigh county, good afternoon to you. Those temperatures taking a tumble. We feel the difference, kathy. Oh, yes, thomas. At this hour, what time is it . At 5 05 . Its still light outside. How do you like that . Take look at ultimate doppler a few clouds rolling in and this is the view from wilmington. We are gaining a minute of daylight a day and you are definitely going to notice it as we round out january and get into february. So were looking at a partly cloudy sky out there right now. The temperature in wilmington is 38. Its 40 in philadelphia. Its 24 in the poconos. We have that northwesterly wind and thats very cool wind for us that means temperatures are going down tonight big time. Much cooler at this hour than it was yesterday at this time. 15 degrees cooler right now in philadelphia. 18 degrees cooler right now in the poconos than it was yesterday. Overnight tonight, 27 in philadelphia. 14 in the poconos. 28 in dover. With wind chills in the teens. But there is a warmup. Well talk more about that with the seven day forecast. Ill see in you a few minutes. Sounds good. Thank you kathy. Philadelphia police say a to death in her own home. Authorities say they found tammy blunts body this afternoon on wissahickon avenue in the east falls enabled. The windows in her home were all open and a dog was lock in the bathroom. Police say they found blunts body after family members became concerned after not seeing her oh hearing from her in a few days. Stab wounds and blunt force trauma. Taken into custody was Malachi White 27yearold who miss blunts son. He has some Mental Health issues, and our understanding at this point he was not taking his medication. Police say prosecutors will file murder charges against her son later this evening. A scare at East Germantown high school. It went on lock down after reports of a gun on campus brought by a student. Police say they got the call around 10 30 this morning helped to parkway northwest high school. They found a beebee gun in a locker and arrested a teenager. My sister is in school, and when this happens it kind of likes scares the whole family because there have been threats and from people in other states that we heard that there have been a lot of shootings, threats and things like that. It scares us. But to experience it is a different level. The school does have metal detectors its not yet clear how the student got the beebee gun inside the school. Tonight police are still on the hunt for whoever shot four people last night in north philadelphia. At about 9 30 p. M. On ridge Avenue Police arrived on scene to find a man shot in his back. He is in critical condition. Another man ended up at the er shot in the back, leg and shoulder then two 13yearold boys both shot in the leg showed up at the hospital. Theyre both stable. Police are hoping surveillance videos will help them track down the shooter. Happening right now, pennsylvania congressman Patrick Meehan says he regrets not going to court to clear his name. The congressman under fire for using tax paying dollars to settle a sexual harass many case. Our jeff cole sat down with meehan. I understand he also has regrets about signing that confidentiality agreement, jeff . He does, thomas. 62yearold married father of three meehan wishes he fought it out in court claiming hes done nothing wrong. He says hell pay back the tax dollars if hes found to have been in the wrong. Are you trying to retaliate against her, hurt her now. Not in one shape or other. This is a person i care about deeply. Reporter but facing a serious threat to his public career, meehan is striking back claiming hes been attacked and falsely accused of sexual harassment. And looking back on it, i should have litigated this. Youre saying you didnt do anything wrong. I should have litigated that case. But i felt that that was not going to end up in a good place for her. Reporter instead, accused of being hostile to a longtime aid after she rejected his romantic advances, meehan paid her thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds in what he says was severance for good work. Did you ever pay severance before for anyone in your offi office. Short ones. Reporter short ones . Whats that mean . Advice was given and i took the advice. Reporter three days aft the bombshell broke in the new york times, the former top county and federal prosecutor sat for lengthy interviews tuesday saying the aid decades younger had become his soulmate. I have feelings that were generated in that. I said an attraction. Did you have romantic feelings for this woman . I did not have romantic feelings. I was, a relationship that was very professional relationship. Reporter the republican serving in his third term released this letter he wrote to the woman in may after he learned shed begun a relationship with someone outside his Office Writing i thank god for putting you into my life signing with all my heart patrick. The times report meehan became hostile. You did not turn hostile to her when you found out that she had an outside boyfriend . Thats the claim. Thats the claim. I do not agree that is substantiated much thats why im here making sure that people know. Reporter you didnt do that. I wasnt hostile oh to her. Reporter meehan admits he signed an agreement not to talk about the case but claims the womans attorney broke it and says there was a request for money. Somebody came and asked for money for the young woman. Reporter then what happened . Did you give them the money . No. Reporter what happened then . They went to they went through the process that evolved through the office of compliance counsel. Reporter then the thousands of dollars in tax dollars was paid. The former aids washington lawyer says meehan has violated the agreement not to talk and shes considering all legal options. She says, her client will cooperate with the House Ethics Committee investigation of all this. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Lucy. All right, thank you, jeff. Another emotional day in court as judge used a doctors own words against him. The courtroom was rivetted during the sentencing former usa gymnastics dr. Larry nassar. Getting ready for the eagles well take to you minnesota for the stadium preps. We just moved in about four months ago, but the living rooms pretty blank. Its really nice when clients come in and have done some of their own research. Working with a bassett designer was really easy. Just kind of ties in very well. We love it just kind of ties in very well. Hurricane maria slammed into their home but what happened next had a family from puerto rico not only in philadelphia but also receiving the gift of life. This evening Shawnette Wilson has the story avenue mother and her little girl who just received livesaving liver transplant at chop. Once the storm hit puerto rico, we had a long nine rough days. She was very sick. She was in need for transplant. Reporter miriam is dealing with two lifechanging situations. My home was destroyed. Not completely but it was destroyed. We lost everything in it. Reporter Hurricane Maria damaged her home in puerto rico last september and doctors urged her to leave the island to seek better care for her daughter sixyearold victoria. She was diagnosed with a liver condition when she was seven months old. She had very weird disease called pitch vick type two she would get real yellow. Would stop eating. She would stop drinking she was was getting dehydrated. Reporter miriam left puerto rico after the hurricane hit and her daughter was admi admitted to chop. They spent spent a month and a half there and discharged december 23rd after victoria had a liver transplant novembe november 30th. Miriam says they still have doctors visits to make sure her doctors body doesnt reject the liver and cant return to pr. Her treatment is for two years. Were visiting the hospital three to four times a week. Reporter miriam and victoria have been staying at the franklin Residence Hotel in center city on assistance from fema due to the damage to her home in puerto rico. But the assistance runs out february thenth. They have to leave. Biggest concern is, not having a stable place for her to be in. Um, she cant be in a shelter. Reporter because of the post transplant medication victoria is taking, her mom says her immune system might not be able to fight off sickness yet. Shes looking for a place to stay that will be safe for her little girl as she continues to recover. Im just afraid that were not going to have anywhere to go. Shawnette wilson, fox 29 ne news. After seven days and more than 150 emotion packed statements from victims, a judge has handed former usa gymnastics dr. Larry nassar his sentence of 40 to 175 years behind bars. And the judge today made sure nassar knew he would never leave prison. Foxs matt fin has more from chicago. Acceptable apology to all of you its impossible to write and convey. I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days. Reporter disgraced former directly to his victims before a judge handed down a heavy sentence for his role in sexually assaul assaulting young gymnasts. Sentencing hearing lasting seven days as more than 150 of his victims including former olympian came forward to share their stories. You still think that somehow you are right, that all right doctor, that youre entitled, that you dont have to listen and that you did treatment. I wouldnt send my dogs to you, sir. Nassar pleading guilty to sexually assaulting ten girls under the guys of medical treatment. Judge sentencing him to 40 to 175 years behind bars. Saying that with this sentence, she assigned nassars death warrant. You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again. Reporter usa gymnastics has been under fire over their mismanagement of the scandal with three of the Organization Board members stepping down earlier this week. Kerry perry the new president and ceo of usa gymnastics releasing a statement after the sentencing. Saying i will not waiver on my commitment to focus each and every day on our organizations highest priority. The safety, health and wellbeing of our athletes. We will create a culture that empowers and supports them. They say they care and that they want to be there for us and theyre assuring our safety but what are you doing to do that. In addition to todays sentencing nassar is already serving 60 years for child pornography crimes. In chicago, matt fin, fox 29 news. Right after nassar stood up to apologize the judge read a letter that he wrote to the Court Last Week using his own words against him and the court was rivetted. I was a good doctor because my treatments worked and those patients that are now speaking out were the same ones that praised and came back over and over hell has no wrath like a woman scorned. Ohx. It is just a complete nightmare the stories that are being fabricated to sensationalize this. The fbi investigated them in 2015 and found nothing substantial because it was medical. Now they are seeking the Media Attention and financial reward. Would you like to withdraw your plea . No, your honor. Throughout the sentencing phase the judge often praised or consoled victims aft they gave their statements. The u. S. Olympic committee issued a Statement Today calling on the entire gymnastics board to resign. Well they wanted something for nothing that they broke out the pepper spray West Whiteland Township Police are after two men who attacked nace sees Security Guard they say the guard saw the men put merchandise into a shopping bag at the exton square mall store. Then walk out of the macy without paying. When she confronted them they whipped out the pepper spray and shot it at her dropped the bag and took off. Inside that bag police say 900 worth of stuff that macys officer is okay. Sunday will be here before you know it. While the eagles are busy practicing and getting ready to head to minneapolis, crews there, they are working day and night to make sure the stadium is ready for the big game. Nfl took over u. S. Bank stadium about a week ago after the vikings beat the saints. And there are lots of prep that is need to take place before the game. Look at that, can you believe it . Eagles in the end zone. We still have a long way to go, um, but weve gotten a lot done to this point. Now, most of the changes are Little Things but theres a lot of them such as adding desk tops to a section of upper deck sea seats. Thats auxiliary press so we have additional seating for for press since the press box just isnt big enough for the super bowl. Nfl is also building about 15 additional broadcast booths and theyre in the process of covering up all the vikings logos with super bowl signage. The center of the field with the nfl logo and the end zones painted with team names are the only parts of turf that were replaced. Still got more artwork to do on the field. More grooming on the field as you can see theres armor deck out there on the field for the riggers and part of the half time show so once that comes up we got to regroom the field, dress it. Back it into playing condition and touch up a our painted are areas. 600 employees work aig round the clock. By the way the deadline for most of the field work to be completed is tomorrow. Thats because theyre going to need a week of rehearsals for the big half time show of course featuring Justin Timberlake. All right. Some super bowl conspiracy theories are willing around tonight. Nfl fans are concerned about how the patriots earn their trip to minnesota. Speculation that the patriots jaguars game on sunday was fixed one reason why, well, video from the afc champion shim game shows a referee congratulating tom brady on his game winning touchdown. The refs behavior is unusual since officials are supposed to be neutral. Critics believe officials helped the patriots win. Coming up here at 5 00 the rush is on to get all that eagles merchandise ready. Was your morning commute snarled . A sticky situation could be to blame. Skyfox over a sticky scene in tinicum township delaware county. Tractor trailer carrying honey overturn at the intersection of 291 and bartram avenue. It happened last night but the crew and the cleanup they are out there well into the this morning. The family avenue new jersey state trooper killed aft being hit by a car will receive 2. 4 million to settle lawsuits related to his death. It was back in march of 2016 when sean cullen was hit by a car in Deptford Township while responding to a car fire. Officials say the 31yearold trooper was trying to cross the southbound lanes of i295 to get to a burning vehicle when he was struck. He died the next day. The settlement will be paid by the Insurance Companies of the drivers involved in that crash cullen left behind a fiance and two young sons. Bill cosby traveled to new york city for a funeral. He spoke at mondays service in harlem and page 6tv got the exclusive video. When i heard about i called george and i said, george, a play has to be written about the two of you. Yes [ applause ] later that day cosby returned to the stage to perform a comedy zeta jazz club in philadelphias germantown. Its the first time hes performed since dozens women accused of sexual misconduct. His retrial is in april. All right. We dont need to tell you this new season is a rough one. One local hospital is dealing with the influx of cases. Kathy . Were talking about cooler temperatures for the next couple of days but then the jet stream lifts north and it will be mild again in our seven day forecas 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. A surge in flu patients causing hospitals all across the region to take action here. Lehigh Valley Hospital have set up tents right owd site of cedar crest and mullen berg Emergency Rooms due to all the patients m your are the of the United States has a widespread outbreak of the virus. The center for Disease Control says so far 47 people have died from the flu season so far. Governor phil murphy ordering a review of new jerseys medical Marijuana Program saying he believes its been difficult for people to get the care they ne need. One familiar until south jersey understands this struggle all too well. Joyce evans live in camden county. The family youve been following says this program has made a big difference in their lives. Reporter yes, theyre one of many, lucy, but there could be many, many more, and that was really one of governor murphys Campaign Promises that he was going to quote make medical marijuana less political and more compassionate new jersey lags behind many other states that pass those laws later and theyre smaller states some of this video may be disturbing that were going to show you n now. Ready for your meds. Rivera household buzzing with the promise of a better day. So far so good. Hopeful he says after new jerseys new governor announced a bold move to reform the states medical Marijuana Law to make it more affordable and accessible in the next few months. Were not much further along in responding to the needs of patients than we were in january of 2010 which is extraordinary. Thats eight years ago. At one point the highest prices in the country for just an ounce of medical marijuana which was over 500. Just for an ounce. Reporter thats why medical professional and army veteran Ricardo Rivera has been risking his livelihood and his freedom confronting powerful lawmakers. I was kick out of the town hall meeting because i wouldnt stop because my daughter is dying right before my eyes and im begging for help. Reporter hes paying whatever price it takes to get the medical marijuana and then prepare himself the cannabis treatment that has improved his daughters life tremendously. As you can see, shes doing dramaly well compared to even back when you were here last time. Okay. Okay. Come on much shes going to seize. Ricardo wanted all of to us see what life is like for his sweet little tatiana. Her condition of severe epilepsy and autism once had her on more than a dozen powerful medicati medications that left her heavily sedated, bedridden overly aggressive and fading away. Thats a half ounce. Reporter he says because of his home cooked cannabis treatment and dietary changes tatiana now 11 can go for days without a single episode. But he still fighting for tatiana and other patients. I mean any given moment we can get into, you know, any sort of trouble and i mean, our family is always at risk. Reporter he says hes more than hopeful but hes not afraid to take on the new governor either. If he doesnt keep those promises as you know i will go to a town hall meeting and call him out. You work hard for your daughter. Thats my girl. Thats all i got. I mean, without her, im nobody. Reporter dont you just love them. He says tatiana is taking only two medications other than his cannabis treatment and that her seizures while die day theyre less often than they used to be and not as traumatic. But they keep on fighting for everybody, lucy and thomas. Familys fight certainly worth it. Joyce evans this evening, thank you. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Taking a look down the shore. Wildwood, new jersey, good evening. A brisk. Pretty. And blustery day out there. Always nice to look at. You step outside, though, youll feel the difference. The big question are we going see another warmup . Kathys forecast in veep second 15 seco. Today about 20 degrees cooler than yesterday on the parkway its pretty busy for a wednesday night. The temperature is 40 degrees. Thats the normal high for this time of year. We made it into the lower 40s look at that wind out of the west northwest at 16 miles an hour. Putting a chill in the air and thats going to continue into the day tomorrow. So 24 in the poconos. 34 in pottstown. About 38 in wilmington and 39 in millville. If youre going out to tonight its going to be much cooler land than last night. We have snow showers through central parts of pa. Um per bucks and montgomery with these flurries otherwise its just going to be mostly cloudy tonight. You can see that cold air through the planes extending all the way to the west. 28 did in detroit. 29 in chicago and that cold is coming with some northwesterly winds. Another chilly day tomorrow with temperatures right around normal and in the 40s. Overnight tonight though we will sing into the 20s. 27 in philadelphia. 23 in pottstown. 25 in wilmington and 14 in the poconos. It will feel colder with that wind. Waking up to a feel like reading of 19 in philadelphia in millville i will feel like two in the poconos tomorrow morning. 18 in allentown and pottstown it will only feel like 18 degrees. Now during the day tomorrow, well warm up with a good deal of sunshine. The high around 40. So what you see is what you get walk outside right now it will feel just like that tomorrow but youll have some sun and less wind. Winds out of the northwest at five to 10 miles an hour. Well take a look at the jet stream right now we have a trough in the east. Thats allowing the cool air to sing as far south as the deep south. It all lifts north by saturday and thats when we get temperatures in the 50s. Even pushing 60 degrees. Take a look at your seven day forecast. Friday 43. Saturday a perfect ten, sunny, mild, 56. Warmer on sunday, some spots could make it to 60. But well have the rain to contend with just like the other day. For your monday, 46. Tuesday 36. And by wednesday, looking at a high of only 4 degrees. But look at this. This is the extended outlook going into the first week of february. And there is a very good chance that we will above average temperatures especially in the Delaware Valley through pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware heading down to the mid atlantic and at least that takes us through groundhog day. Hmm thats coming up februar february 2nd. Well send it back to you. Already. Wow umhmm. Thank you very much, kathy. So can you get enough of those carbs . Do you want more . I mean do you crave them lot . 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Researchers have discovered the dating app doesnt have the best encryption needed to keep your swipes and photos and matches hidden from online snoops. Which means anyone sharing the same wifi as you can see your tinder photos. Even up load their own images into the mix. Now those researchers told tinder about the flaw in november apparently it has yet to provide a fix. Speaking of technology is your teen addicted to smart phones . Are you . A new study from San Diego State university finds teen whos spent more time on social media texting and gaming and video chatting on their phones are less happy than those who played sports and interacted with an actual human being. Researchers also found a spike in depression and suicide among teen girls who use their phones more often than the others. Now, then theres this. The age that a child gets their hands on a smart phone has actually continued to fall dropping from the age of 12 years old in 2012 to now ten in 2016. Do you find yourself eating too many carbs . Yeah. New study says its not your fault, lucy. Its my brain. Blame your brain which means it is your fault. Yeah. This latest study comes from japan and researchers there discovered that neurons in the brain activate during times of stress and that can stimulate your cravings for all those carbs. Researchers activated these neurons in mice the animals ate three times the rate of high carb foods compared to other animals explaining why we love the comfort food. Caught two stories up with her newborn baby. Her home caught on fire. Apparently not the right video. Apologize for that. A neighbor though steps in to make sure she gets out alive. Fly eagles fly. The rush is on to get all that eagles more than 1200 people have died from overdosing in philadelphia last year. Now in an effort to fight the opioid crisis, the city is looking into becoming the first in the country to allow Safe Injection Sites its something certainly not without controversy. Both sides of the argument having their say this morning on good day philadelphia. Devon receives executive director of Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition and popular radio host dom giordano sitting down with our mike jerick. And now in 2018 its time for new leadership weve had 30 increase in overdose death deats between 2017 and 2018. How can we say anything is off the table . No is the time to embrace what countries all over the world have done. This is not. Thats true. This is what progressive nations are doing address problem thats killing far too many people. But, um, you know what will be said, arent you just encouraging drug use, devon. Not at all. People are already using drugs and now theyre using drugs in abandoned house and in alleys and whats happening is theyre dying and theres nobody there to help them. And every person that dies is a broken family. Its a daughter without a fath father. Devon. Something we need to talk about. The humanity. If im hooked on heroin even go down to allegheny in kensington under the el or whatever and i shoot up ill probably get arrested in a cop sees me doing it if a cop sees me doing inside of one of these injection sites i wont be arrest idea. No. Thats the idea. Heres the thing. We cannot incarcerate our way out of the opioid problem. We shouldnt be arresting people. We should be connecting them with services and that is what this is all about. Dom,. Mike this is clearly normal liesing ive been to prevention point its outrageous if you actually go there and see whats going on and to devons point that didnt work now theyre doing this. What will they do in the future why have people overdosed i would ask devon . Why dont we provide the heroin well know what the level is of tolerance. How far does it go. The conversation continues by the way you can watch the full interview on our website fox29. Com. National School Choice week and schools throughout philadelphia are celebrating both private and charter. More than a thousand altogether. People from across the educationaedgespectrum spoke tos tenches and parents about educational options. Not all children learn the same. So educators need to step up to give parents better options. Many childrens education is based on where they live, and sometimes in some of those areas the options are not good options. So we want to make sure that everybody has access and has the opportunity to work to get the best education for their children that they can. So thats our goal. National School Choice week sees more than 32,000 events throughout the country. A harrowing two weeks for new jersey mother trapped in a house fire her home gone. She ends up in the hospital. But it could have been much worse here. She had to throw her infant daughter from a window to save her from the raging fire and then she jumped. Who caught them both . Heres Bill Anderson for goodness sake. As im pulling up i heard a voice said help, help. I was with my cousin. We heard a voice. We stopped the car and thats when i jumped out and my neighbors came running out as im walking up to my door and they was like thats your house. Your house is on fire. Thats your wife. Think about it for a second. Your mother of a newborn. You smell smoke and then realize theres a fire and theres no way to get out of the house except the second floor window. What do you do . Reporter looking at the damage on the first floor of the house, you can see that faith maldonados decision to drop her newborn daughter out the second floor window and hope a neighbor caught her was really her only option it had to be done quickly because moments later, she was overcome by smoke. Reporter it could have been a tragedy. But instead we went to speak to faith, her fiance michael and meet baby aid degree anna and hear about how a neighbor who caught the baby and helped break faiths fall and other whos treated them made this into a story with a positive out come. Reporter aside from a scratch on the babys face, she was fine. Likely with very little memory of how close she was to serious injury or even tragedy if a neighbor hadnt been there to catch her. Im grateful. Give you a big hug. Appreciate you saving my wife and my kid. Reporter faith faired worse she spent two weeks from the hospital with cuts from the glass and smoke inhalation that has her struggling to speak. The family knows neighbors who stepped up during the fire and have continued with donations and support are a lifesaving gift. Its a blessing. Nice to see that. Reporter so its another story of a fire, a story you see too often, but this time it ends with a baby finger shake youre a lucky little one. Reporter an family smiling rather than grieving because a community acted like, well a community for goodness sake. Im Bill Anderson. With the big game little more than week away people are grabbing up super bowl tshirts and hats and alike. What you might not think about though a licensing. Those logos are a no go for stores that make their own shirts but one tee Shirt Company have little new fun making Creative Designs for fans. Our Chris Oconnell explains. Its going to be crazy for the next two weeks. Reporter still 12 days away from the super bowl. We came in, phones were off the hook. Everyone is throwing parties. Reporter but by the sound the screen printers are making, it might as well be game day here at rush order tees. Com in northeast philly. People are calling in to make shirts about their team because theyre celebrating and everyone gets pretty wild together. Reporter its here where your idea, your picture, your meme is transformed into a tee shirt. Because of licensing they cannot print the eagles logo but anything else goes. Like the now famous eagles underdog image. Or the catch phrase philly philly. And todays latest, remember the eagles subway guy, hes now got his own shirt, dubbed the pillar killer. When people jump on either a meme or something thats popular among sports teams, upping, they want to be part of it. They want to wear that. You know reporter thats how it becomes a shirt. Absolutely. Reporter rush orders teas started with a single machine the last time the eagles were in the super bowl. Now 13 years, 250 employees and a giant warehouse later, they now produce 6 million shirts a year. The company of life long eagles fans say shirts like these take on a life of their own. This is awesome. I think this is the best part being able to see like the shirts, like, so many people create crazy shirts and its awesome to kind of see those playing in life scene them out on the streets. Reporter unlike game jersey unique custom shirts are becoming a thing these days. A chance for fans to be creative and have a connection with their team. People want to be part of something, right . We see that across the entire year whether its a Family Reunion or a big sports game, right . They want to have their identity with something that they affiliate with and we make that possible for them. Like pillar killer. The Shirt Presses will be wor working overtime through the super bowl. Coming up a College Student giving a voice to the voice less she started a blog dedicated to sharing thomas, of course youre a huge n sing fan. Every album. Bad news. So if you were getting your hopes up for this years super bowl half time show looks like the rest of the crew is not joining Justin Timberlake on stage in minneapolis. Rumor is not true . Heart broken. Tmz caught up with member joey fattone and asked the burning question. He simply said if i was doing something, i would be at rehearsals right now. Theres your proof. So apparently its just justin. You can still do the dance moves. Exactly. Hopefully there wont be a wardrobe malfunction. Last time justin was on with janet jackson. Lets hope so. A local College Student is using her voice to tell the stories and the men and women most in need philadelphias homeless population. Fox 29 40 tote Journalist Bill rohrer shows you. I basically just listen and like look at my notes at the same time. 20yearold college should have march Lauren Purnell has the passion to become a print journalist. I kind of think of it like an interview series. So to help build on her interview in writing skills lauren started a blog. The blog is much more than a tool to launch her career. Its really just taught me to just be more open minded about people. The blogs goal naming the homeless. Our blog contents are primarily personal stories from Homeless Individuals with intent of tearing down negative connotations for the term homeless. Every other saturday afternoon lauren and her family head in to philadelphia with their note pad and a care package filled with all sorts of necessary items. Well have gloves, socks, hats. Toothbrush, toothpaste. Bunch of different shirts some of them are still brand new and have tags on them. Clothing and mys are mostly donated by friends and family. Well others donate money toward naming the homeless gofundme page. Its just real relieving and overwhelming that we got so much support. So far lauren interviewed six people. Just shows you that theyre a real person and they went through some stuff just like everybody does. Chaz pictured here is known for finding stray cats a new home. Usually when you think homeless, like, a lot of negative stereotypes come to mind. So this is the kind of show you that like it gives you a name, an image arc person a story, a background an all these Different Things that happen in their life to bring them to where they are today. Her home kathy capture the images with her cell phone as laurens sister helps taking notes. Naming philadelphias homeless one sentence at a time. In burlington county, bill rohrer, fox 29 news. Love it. Will do it for us here at 5 00. The news at 6 00 starts right now. What a difference a day makes. Temperatures tumbling and its going get colder. But theres a life at the end of this chilly tunnel. Fly eagles fly. Excitement building here at home and halfway across the country. U. S. Bank stadium getting ready to host the birds and patriots. And theres definitely no love lost between the two teams. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Thanks for joining us here at 6 00 im Thomas Drayton iain has the night off. What do you say we begin with all the eagles excitement . Im sure you can feel it. We have Team Coverage for you tonight. We kick things off with our kristen rodgers. Hey, kristen. Playing in the super bowl is a dream for so many young kids and now that treatment is reality for the men on this eagles team. People were talking for months after the super bowl last year that incredible come back from tom brady and the patriots. One guy not talking about it fletcher cox. For a pretty interesting reason. I mean i really dont watch football, so yall know that. You dont watch football . No. I dont watch sports. You know that. Do you watch the super bowl. I dont watch sports. I tell that you all the time. Hes never watched a super bowl. I wanted to ask fletcher what he does watch but time in the press conference ran out. We do know that he loves auto racing here he is with indy car driver juan pablo monitor row. Maybe hes races instead. The first super bowl hell watch is the one hes playing in. Coming up turning our attention to nick foles as he gets ready for the biggest game in his life. Thomas . What, doesnt watch . I know crazy. Cant wait for the foul up on that one. As we cheer on the eagles still reminded that we have one more game ahead of us. A great reason to come together at Philadelphia City hall this afternoon to say a prayer for the city and of course the birds. Dozens of people decked out in eagles gear coming together in solidarity t

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