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Handy. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. On the plus side it was mild today. At least. Can you imagine if we were below freezing because wed be buried in snow. Now, while that may have been welcomed news for, you know, lets say the ski areas like the pocono mountains, the rest of us dealing with all kinds of wet, kathy, including flooding. Yeah. When we do translation from rain to snow wed be talking about feet of snow. We picked up two to 3inches of rain in many locations especially south and east of philadelphia. That heavy rain that moved through earlier that set off thunderstorms in south jersey is moving up into Central Jersey and off the coast. Temperature is 63 degrees. The high today 65. Feeling more like april than february. And the warmth is pretty much going to stick around. Not 60s but well above average. The 63 in the city. 48 in pottstown. 52 in the poconos. Warmer than allentown. Its all about location and dover right now strong southerly winds and 66 degrees. We do have some fog where we have the cooler temperatures and that warmer air starting to live in. Lancaster quarter mile visibility the same in pottstown, allentown half mile visibility in the poconos and only an eighth visibility in reading this has been problem through the entire evening it will continue into the overnight until drier air moves in. We have a cold front moving through behind this. Youll see tomorrow morning still some rain through south jersey and delaware. And slowly skies will clear. It will be become partly cloudy to clear during the day tomorrow. Temperatures up and down. But what about your valentines day . Well talk more about coming up with your seven day forecast. All right. Sounds good. In the meantime, drivers be care. Flooding on the roads. Fox 29s joyce evans live along the Schuylkill River where roads closures have been an issue all day long. Joyce. Reporter yeah, we are right here at montgomery avenue and the Martin Luther king drive, and you can see sections of the roadway are still closed off and theyre probably going to be at least until midnight. At least along here one of the officers told us. Its because theres still ponding deep ponding going on in sections between here and the falls bridge. But the problem now is, drivers are coming, they either cant see them or theyre ignoring them. Drivers running up on road closures all over. New york city i didnt expect it at all. Two too late to stop tom managed to find an opening just wide enough without smashing right into the barricade. How did you do that . I just reacted when i saw it and i saw some space and thats what i went for. Reporter police say better the barricade than hitting one of these deep puddles. Hydroplaning, then needing tow truck or possibly an ambulance. Accidents keeping police busy on both sides of the Schuylkill River. And poor drainage areas. Smaller waterways not to be out done. Flowing ten times faster than normal. Ive never seen anything. Reporter anything like how the dip klee trickling tranquil Wissahickon Creek is raging like an angry river. Nearby resident and professional photographer edward, had to capture the crazy current and the erie fall rolling in and o out. You had to stop and take this tremendous force of nature. Reporter that force has been evident all day. So much rain and flash flooding making driving a pain all over. This is in flourtown near bethlehem pike. No reports of any real damage as of yet. Its how edwards hi can appreciate all of this. This gets me excited. Reporter excited for him. It is pretty to see if youre standing there looking at a raging creek going by and its staying win its banks. But those areas are coming over and into the streets down here. Thats why youll see some of these all through the night police say. But they all should be gone by the morning rush. Meantime, be careful. Slow it down. And dont get into an accident. Youll get there. Thats right. Take it nice and easy. Thank you, joyce. Before you head out the door in the morning turn on good day philadelphia. Got the could you do covered with Current Conditions and the skies and on the roads and youll get all your days news. Good the day starts at 4 00 and goes until 10 00. Right now family in delaware cannot go home Delaware County that is investigators are looking into what rt stadia fire in their home. Firefighters headed out to the unit block of south front street in darby just before 7 00 tonight. They tame the flames a short time later and no one is injured. However, the red cross is assi assisting the family. The super bowl drain continues for the eagles now another assistant coach is leaving the team but dont worry hell be back here for game in philly next season just as the opposing head coach. Kristen rodgers has more on the departure of frank reich. Kristyn. Eye eagles are now out a quarterbacks coach and an offensive coordinator frank reich signed a fiveyear deal to become the new head coach fort indianapolis colts. Hes expected to be introduced in press conference on tuesday. Now Doug Pederson call the plays but reich played a big part not only scheming for the eagles offense but he had a solid relationship with the quarterbacks as well. His departure comes a few days after the eagles quarterbacks coach john flip poe named offensive coordinator for the fr the minnesota vikings. Heres are Doug Pedersons thoughts. Pass coming up late later on spors sunday the two spots the eagles have to be. A look at the philly special. How it came to be on sports sunday. Iain. Kristen, thanks look forward to that. Congratulations from one texan to another Actor Matthew Mcconaughey took out a full page ad to congratulate eagles quarterback nick foles on his big super bowl win. Foles was born and raised in austin, texas. There you go. Happening right now police on the hunt for killer in southwest philadelphia. One person has died. Two others are in the hospital after a shooting on elmwood avenue. Fox 29s brad sattin live now at police headquarters. Brad . Reporter lucy, police tonight are couldnt firing they are looking for two suspects. Apparently, a witness saw the two men walking from the steen and tonight we spoke to that witness. Man was shot dead right here. Reporter 25 year resident of the neighborhood who asked not to be identified was putting away groceries when he heard the gunfire outside at the corner of 75th and elmwood just before 2 00 sunday afternoon. You heard the shots. I heard yeah, they were going 15, 16 of them bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. I came down and went to my window and looked and as i looked up the street, the two men were up this back alley behind these houses and they just were walking away. Reporter he says Police Arrived fast but could not locate those possible suspects. The neighbor then turned his attention to the victims who were inside thistle vo when they were shot. One man possibly the driver he says was unresponsive on the pavement. The other man who was passenger was shot in the back. He was Walking Around not even realizing he was shot. Reporter third man ran off for help. Police are confirming a 23yearold man was killed, a 24yearold rushed to press hospital in stable condition and 21yearold hit twice in the leg had someone drive him to the hospital. Another neighbor was playing with her grandkids when she herded what sounded like machine gunfire. This man drove by the car moments after the shooting. The door was shot out and there was somebody in the vehicle. I couldnt make out the details. I drove by. Nobody stopped us. Reporter police scoured the car for evidence before it was towed away way. Neighbors left to wonder who did this and worry. Im scared. I got children. Im scared. Usually have dont have this kind of thing right in this area here. Reporter sounds of gunfire are becoming more frequent. One neighbor tells us, he last heard rapid fire gunshots after the eagles won the super bowl. This is getting crazy. Reporter police are telling us tonight one of the two injured men has been relea released from penn presbyterian hospital. The other one still recovering. Police are not say if or why these may men may have been target. Police are investigate a deadly shooting in north philadelphia. They found the body of a man in this 30s or 40s in a vacant lot on the 800 block of West Huntington street. They found him with a gunshot wound to his right upper thigh. Police are looking for the person who killed him. Today family, friends and fans paid respects to nba player rasul butler. Jennifer joyce has more from the memorial service. Reporter for two hours people filed into the gola arena at lasalle to pay their respects to rasual butler. 38yearold philly native was killed last month in a highspeed one car crash in los angeles. His wife lea labelle known as contestant on American Idol also died. This is heartbreaking because he was young. Reporter Omar Donaldson says butler was his first cousin. His family was proud of him and enjoyed watching him dominate on the court and like many who knew him, respected his worth ethic. Thats why pat riley always liked him. Thats why all the nba coaches liked him because he was always good on the practice squad you ready to step in any time. He was drafted by the miami meet in 2002 and played for several teams in the nba until 2016. At lasalle university, butler was a twotime first team all atlantic ten player. City councilman Kenyata Johnson grew up with butler in the point breeze section of the city. Its his character that impressed him the most. He always would come back and give to the neighborhood. He was a sponsor of the Point Breeze Youth Development Basketball League every year and so he gave back and never forgot where he came from. Reporter to these mourners and more butler will never be forgotten. We proud of him, man, its just so hard, man. Love my cousin. Ill miss him. Reporter no forth philadelphia, jennifer joyce, fox 29 news. A drug warning this morning from police in evesham township, new jersey. Theyre worried about a lethal batch of heroin. Yesterday Police Say Four People overdosed in a span of 24 hours in the town. Theyre asking you call 911 right a way if you think someone is overdosing. The families of two new jersey fishermen missing since thursday say theyre now considering launching a new effort to find them. 30yearold paul matos and 34yearold Dennis Smalling sent out a distress signal 46foot boat early thursday. They were off the coast of barnegat. Theist it monday night from point pleasant. Coast guard crews searched all day thursday and friday. But found nothing and called off the search friday night the families are now considering raising money for a private search. You know this flu season is rough. You may even have battled it yourself. How rough . 4,000 lives lost every week and the worst part we may not be over the worst of it yet. A car slides across the interstate comes out of nowhere, right . Well, not exactly. [narrator] look around. If our world isnt stuck in the past, why is Higher Education . We say, if theres a better path, you should take it. And when there isnt, well, you know where im going with that. Dont do things by the book if the book cant keep up. Take your page from one that hasnt been written. We took two renowned universities, including a premiere medical school, and created a Single University that defies convention. At jefferson, were making modern look old and making old look new and making sure new is not enough. Were adding more weight to your degrees and more meaning to your careers, going where others wouldnt dare, making connections few think to make, and setting tomorrows standards by breaking todays, because we believe the lines that are drawn are meant to be crossed. Thats where the future is born. And once you realize youre not limited to whats possible, guess what . You redefine all that will be. Dash cam captured a car careening out of control in wisconsin west of milwaukee. You saw what happened there. Skidded then took out another car in front of it. A Police Officer captured this on interstate 94. No injured though. Police say someone had reported the out of control driver as recklessly driving shortly before that crash. Officers cited that driver. Season is shaping up as one of the deadliest in recent history. And the worst may still be yet to come. Foxs bryan llenas reports. 13 grandkids. Shes going to be very missed. She was beautiful wonderful woman. Reporter greg is 58yearold wife angie is just one of the many victims of the flu. This year the country is battling one of the worst outbreaks in recent memory. In severe seasons in the past, over 700,000 people have been hospitalized and 56,000 people died from the flu. We may be on track to reach or even exceed those records. Reporter this year flu strain is proving an efficient killer according to the centers for Disease Control and prevention over 4,000 deaths are being report record recor repor. What weve seen in the past five years an average much 16 years of elevated flu activity and were only at week 11. Angie does did not get her new shot and for her husband greg the message is simple. If you got one its not too la late. I left for just a few minutes. Thought everything was going to be okay. And i got a phone call that she had just passed. Reporter hospitals across the country are reporting more patients with flulike symptoms than during the 2009 swine flu pandemic that virus sickened nearly 61 million americans and killed more than 12,000. In new york, bryan llenas, fox news. Were on top of a developing story out of weftedville, ohio now getting more information on that tragic shooting that killed two Police Officers there. Weatherville police gave update this morning on the shale footing of the two officers. They say both men were shot and killed responding to a domestic dispute in weatherville on saturday about 20 minutes north of columbus. Suspect 30yearold Quinton Lamar smith had gunshot wounds during the encounter. Police are investiating a 911 call in which smiths wife can be heard saying that her husband shot the Police Officers. As you can imagine quite emotional. But we he will get through this. We will take families under our wings and make sure theyre taken care of. Police released details that officers had been to the smith home several times since 2017 for Domestic Violence allegations. Russian officials now released video of the exact moment a Russian Airliner cras crashed killing all 71 people on board. The plane had 65 passengers and six crew members on board. It crashed near moscow shortly after take off. The Airlines Regional jet disappeared from radar a few minutes after departing. Essentially and rescues crews found debris 25 miles from the airport. Local villagers reported hearing a very loud boom with some saying nearly blue on the windows in their homes. Investigators are now developing into what went wrong and have already recovered one black box. President Vladimir Putin is canceled a plan trip to sochi so he can monitor any developments. Site scene chopper turned deadly in the grand canyon three people died, four others injured. The helicopter they were on crashed into the kansas saturday afternoon. Investigators say six people and their pilot were on that tour when a man saw the chopper go down and burst into flames. He says two of the sr. Advisors were badly burned and bleeding. Ntss investigating what went wrong n2001 the company had a deadly chopper crash that six people. New York Attorney general filed a civil rights lawsuit against Harvey Weinstein after four month investigation into allegations of sexual miscondu misconduct. The attorney general says the company repeatedly broke new york law by failing to protect its employees from harassment. He says the sale of the company has to make sure victims are compensated. Domestic abuse allegations are plaguing the white house forcing two Administration Officials to resign this week. Speech writer david soar ren tine resigned after accusations of Domestic Abuse days after Top White House staff rob porter resigned for similar reasons. Soar ren zens exwife says he put out a cigarette on her hand and ran over her foot with a c car. Porter resigned on wednesday. Two ex wives came forward with accusations and pictures surfaced of one with a black eye. President trumps adviser Kellyanne Conway took to the sunday shows to defend the president s handling of it all. The president is very disturbed by what he sees absolutely. You can feel look you can feel somebody did a great job for you. You can talk about somebodys competence and work product in the person you worked with and thats what the president did friday in his statement. And you could still feel horrified when you see pictures and couldnt item rain yous reports. President trump had said on friday he was surprised by the allegations and that porter did quote a very good job at the white house. Pennsylvania democrats criticizing a newly proposed district map. State Republican Leadership center their plan for new Congressional District map to Governor Wolf friday. Pennsylvania democratically dominated Supreme Court throughout the current map last month saying it diluted democratic votes. The Court Ordered state lawmakers to draw up a new one by this past friday. Golf nor wolf has yet to comment on the new map but had praised the courts decision to reject it old one. Vermont police bust 55 new jersey teenagers for having little too much fun on their winter break. State police say troopers broke up a party involving a lot of alcohol and jamaica vermont early sunday morning in the southern part of the state. Authorities say they were respond to go separate vandalism reports when they found the underaged High School Seniors with a lot of alcohol and marijuana. So they collected the alcohol and then they watched as the teens destroyed it and they called their parents. They say its a happiest place on earth. Money cant buy happiness. Tell that to the folks at disneyworld getting in is going to cost you more. Wasting away in margaritaville could soon be a bit more difficult. Serious shortage of tequila is on the horizon super bowl but a super sunday at the Jewish Federation greater philadelphia the federation held its super bowl per sunday event in bala cynwyd to raise funds for vulnerable people. Hundreds of volunteers showed up and others flooded call centers to raise money which the federation says fund critical priorities both locally in israel and other areas around the world. Trending now the cost of your Family Vacation is headed up. Disney increased prices on tickets to its theme parks. One day regular park tickets to disneyworld Magic Kingdom will go up four bucks, cost 119. Prices at the other three parks at disneyworld epcot, Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom also headed up in california one day regular park tickets at disneyland will be 117. Thats up seven annual passes, though, theyll also be increasing in price. Also trending right now new details about this springs Royal Wedding Kensington Palace the prince harry and Meghan Markle at noon on saturday may 19th which is 7 00 a. M. Our time. Windsor and archbishop of canterbury will efficient. It will take place at wind czar castle 25 miles 25 miles of Central London. Im thinking 25 miles from Central London how ill go with that one. Marguerita lovers be warned serious problem a foot. Worldwide shortage of tequila. The smooth and its tastes good, and its a good mix for other things like lime and aga agave. Tight squeeze for agave producers as supplies getting low and the prices at the plant keep going up. A lot of things weve had shortages on. With limited availability of the popular alcohol on the horizon bar managers are already noticing a difference. They say more sought after brands are hard to come by because producers dont have enough to send out. For many customers its bottoms up for now until the supply bottoms out. Some customers arent taking too kindly to the idea of a possible shortage. Very scary. Very scary. Some Research Shows shortages may continue until 2021 until better planting strategies happen. In case you havent noticed youre paying more at the pump average price of a gallon of regular went up seven cents over the past three weeks its now at 2. 65. Thats nearly 35 cents above where it was a year ago. You can blame Higher Crude Oil costs for the increase. A couple gets amazon packages on their doorstep almost every day. The thing s though, they didnt order the stuff. Theyre also not paying for it. So what gives . Kathy . In weather iain were talking about the rain slowly moving away but the flooding concerns continue. Plus temperatures up and down this week. But not feeling like february. Well take look at your seven day coming up. Get the best internet with the best shows and get the best of both worlds. 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Storm lift up the sky in suffer Surfers Paradise in queens us a strahle y1 sky scape per was hit multiple times. We all like getting packages from amazon i guess but imagine getting several a week you didnt order. Sounds great but its actually a scam. The exam is called brushing. Online sellers buy their own products through fake buyer accounts. Theyve created. Amazon ships the product to the real address that gives the sellers to right a positive review about their product. One family was getting stuff once or twice a week for a number of months. Initially it was somewhat comical, you know, another package would come from mr. Amazon. Lets see whats in it today. At first i was amazon says its investigating multiple reports of this scam throughout the country and it will ban vendors and reviewers who abuse the system. In your health tonight arc celebration of life and love and the happiness of cancer survivors. Tracy bio a local nonprofit dedicate to do Breast Cancer awareness through an event in philadelphia today just days before valentines to show survivors love. Cofounder tracy smith says she set up all kinds of activities including makeup stands and jewelry to pamper those who have endured so very much. A new study shows just how many germs you encounter inside an airport and on board a plane. Fox isolette neat at a roman talking with passengers flying out Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport rt. Reporter millions fly in and out of any given airport on any given day. So its no surprise there are hundreds of thousands of germs on any given surface you touch. Thats pretty scary actually. Insurance quotes. Com conducted 18 tests across six surfaces from three major us airport and airline flights. You wont believe what they found. Thats disgusting. Reporter thats right. Disgusting. Those Self Service Machines you use to check in the screen had would 50 bacteria. Thats more than a toilet seat. I take preventive vitamin c and a as well to make sure i dont get sick because i travel. Reporter arms and chairs on the air part holding 21,000 germs. Water fountain buttons, about 19,000. Ive just noticed lately when i travel a lot more if i dont carry sanitizing stuff on me i get every little cold and sniffle. Reporter three germy yesterday places inside of a plane, the button you flush, the toilet with, has about 95,000 germs. The tray table 11,000. The seat belt buckle 1,000. Im not a germaphobe but im not trying to take anything extra home. Reporter if you dont want to arrive at your final destination with more than your luggage. Keep it clean. Anita roman, fox news. They did not specify which airports had the most germs. Lets take look at wilmington on thighs rainy day. Degree rear all day long. What about the week . Are we going to be in for dry week . Kathy . Hmm, thats great question, iain. Its going to be hit and miss. Some cooler weather, some warmer weather, but we got to get rid of this. About two to 3inches of rain move through. A few lightning flashes through gloucester and camden counties. Thats out of here. Little bit of a surprise to many just hearing that rumble of thunder. You can see still deck outer in green a week later. Why not we got to keep this party going for the eagles. 63 degrees in philadelphia. The high today 65. Winds out of the southwest at nine. They will be falling during the morning and tomorrow afternoon from early highs overnight in the 50s and 60s. So 48 in pottstown. 53 in the poconos. 42 in reading still 66 in dover. We do have some fog where we have those cooler temperatures to the north and west. We have a cold front coming look at that line. Philadelphia 63. Pittsburgh 33. So a 30degree differential and you can see that cold front cuts right through the zen zen pal part of the stay. 13 in chicago. 12 in minneapolis omaha 10 degrees. Cooler air is coming. Not quite that cold fortunately that air will moderate before it makes it to us. Get rid of most of this moisture but still a few showers coming up the coastal plain tomorrow morning dealing with rain in south jersey along the expressway and parkway and even through central and southern delaware weve had flooding their continues in kent county that slowly kicks off during the afternoon and skies clear. It should be very pretty sunset in the wake of the clouds and that moisture. As we look overnight, 43 in philadelphia. 26 in the poconos. 37 in pottstown and 40 in wilmington. Tomorrow afternoon temperatures will be falling into the 40s. Thats where theyll pretty much stay partly sunny northwesterly breeze, 46. Around normal for this time of year in sharp contrast to the 60s today. Tuesday mostly sunny 41. Not bad just a little cool. For your valentines, jump and to 51. Thats pretty nice. Thats much more like march than february. A chance of rain on thursday. 61. Unbelievable. Cooler friday. Near 50 not bad. A chance of morning rain or snow shower saturday and sunday morning. Thats just chance. Otherwise skies will be clearing during the afternoon. So not so bad. Few morning lows in the 20s but other than that, looking nice for your valentine and thats a look at the seven day forecast. So much drier after tonight. Looks good. And mild. The story today was the rain. It was 63 degrees. I had jacket on i was over dressed. I know. Incredible. All right. That will do it for us here to the fox 29 news at 10 00. Keep it right here for sports sunday. This is fox 29 sports sunday presented by nissan. A week ago today the eagles inked their names in history and became world champs. Come a look at what the eagles have been up to since then. The most comprehensive and unique look at the philly special how the city keeps on celebr

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