Trash fire. The Security Guard was put back. Were trying to come up with a reason why this is occurring. Its a huge safety issue which were concerned about. Reporter a parent of his cabrini student tells fox 29, the university failed to notify township authorities to those december fires. Morgan cherry now commutes her mother doesnt want her sleeping in east hall. The school failed to alert Law Enforcement . Yes. Good back in december. Yes. We had to call. Reporter whats your reaction to that. I think thats really unsafe. Reporter spokesperson for cabrini tells fox 29 the local fire march sal reached out to the university while it was investigating the december fires. Police say they were alert to do last weeks trash fire by the school and cabrini says it notified parents and students by email police have brought in county investigators to assist in what they call a serious crime. Its a significant crime much its a significant risk, and you know, rises to the felony level. Reporter this is the same dorm same floor where racist words were scrawled on a door last fall. But no one is linking the incidents at this time. In radnor township, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Horrific crime in Philadelphia Police are looking for a trio they say kidnapped a man and set him on fire. The victim survived but he has burns to his side and legs and now police are looking for whomever did it. Police just held a press conference the last hour. Bruce gordon joins us at the philadelphia special victims unit with more the case. Reporter yeah, iain, imagine waking up youre typically quiet philadelphia neighborhood to what sounds like a minor explosion and the site of a man on fire. Well for folks in one olney neighborhood that nightmare was all too real. Neighbors on the 5400 block every westford road say theyre Early Morning quiet was shattered before 6am monday by the sound of violence. It was like he was in pain . Yes. Reporter this woman she asked we not show her face was awakened by the noise. The very first thing you heard was what . Like boom like something, like, i said wow. Reporter like an explosio explosion. Y. Reporter you look out the window. Yes. Reporter you see this man on the ground . Yes. Reporter what is he sayin saying,. He was screaming help, help, help accident. Reporter the victim was lying next to the car. Some people come out and he was on fire and the car reporter he was actually on fire . Yes. Reporter Philadelphia Police say a 34yearold man theyve withheld his identity was leaving work at harbison and benner around 11 30 sunday night he was jumped by three men who zip typed his hands behind his back, through him into the back of his 2006 pontiac and drove him around the city. We did learn that a Family Member did begin to receive messages from our victims phone from the people that abducted him demanding 10,000. This went on for at least five hours. Reporter around 5 40am the pontiac was spotted on westford road where his attackers doused him gasoline and set him on fire. A neighbor told our dave kinchen the man was able to cry out. His hands was tied and he was kidnappers was trying to kill him. I was 65 scared. Reporter victims was rushed by ambulance to temple hospital with second and third degree burns to the lower half of his body. Around midday a police tow squad arrived to remove the charred pontiac from the road as neighbors reflected on the horrible scene that shattered their sleep and their sense of safety. But police say they do not believe this was a random act of violence. We dont believe this is a random act. Obviously they were demanding a ransom. Were working with the family now. Reporter the Information Police do have comes in part from comments made by the victim to firefighters and paramedic out on the scene on westford. The police have been able to talk to the victim because of his medical condition critical at last check. The attackers last seen in a black owd you audi with heavily tinted windows. Iain. Bruce, thank you. Fire officials are investigating after flames took over a pizza shop in kensington it happened ozzys at the corner of b and westmoreland just before 11 00 this morning. The restaurant is a total loss. Thankfully no one was hurt. Initial reports say the fire could be suspicious. Now lets get over to your fox 29 weather authority. As we take live look down the shore in ocean city, new jersey. A little chillier than the past few days. Dont worry it will warm back up again. Kathy orr joins us a with first check of the forecast. Iain washington a day. The high today made it into the 60s but that was at midnight and then temperatures crashed in the wake of a cod front. 51 degrees at 6am. 9am43. And by noon, it was 42. So nearly a 20degree drop and looks like well going to see another swing in temperature. Very dramatic temperatures this week. Were looking live at rehoboth beach, delaware arc really beautiful evening. Temperatures still relatively decent for this time of day with a northerly wind. Its 30 in the poconos. 44 in philadelphia. And 42 in millville. Northerly winds in wildwood with a dem cher of 40. As we look ahead overnight it will get cold, light winds clear skies. We call it radiational cooling. Any warmth that builds up escapes into the atmosphere and we cool even more. So 20 in pottstown. 24 in wilmington. 25 in philadelphia and 23 in trenton. Overnight in the poconos 13 degrees. We are looking at some mild temperatures moving our way right in time for valentines day. Talk more about that coming up with your seven day. Ill see in you few minutes. All right, kathy, thanks. Fbi is offering a reward now for any information that could help catch a man they say is wanted for a murder 11 years ago. This is 29yearold edgar dough. The fbi wants him for his involve many for a murder in skippack township on februar he was last known to be in mexico but he may be in honduras or guatemala. The fbi is offering a 5,000 reward for any information leading to his capture. Puerto rican whos left come to philadelphia from Hurricane Maria are pleading for help. They say housin housing that the gotten from fema is set to expire this week and they fair theyll be homeless. Today outside city hall, activist along with evacuees called on local governments to extend the temporary shelter assistance program. No more than 1500 evacuees are in philadelphia. Out in the street with all three of my kids one of them being deaf. Why we dont have an extension. How can we do this . This is inhumane. This is why we are screaming loud. Help them help them get the services in the city of philadelphia. Puerto rico continues to deal with another set back an explosion and fire through much of the island territory without power once again late last night. Although most customers do have power back as of now. Third party and independent candidates will have easier time running for office in pennsylvania. Longstanding federal lawsuit just been settled a judge approved a provision that requires less petition signatures for candidates to yall if you for the ballot. The agreement caps the i remember at 5,000 signatures for third party candidates. Also no longer have to pay for legal challenges. President trump turning to congress to fulfill a promise to fix americas roads, highways and more. The white house is churning out spending plan worth trillions. President trump calls his 200 billion infrastructure plan the biggest and bold defendant yet saying the funds will be used over the next decade to fix all the crumbling state and local roads, highways and airports. Its the second Budget Proposal from the Trump Administration some conservatives criticized the plan saying it falls short of their long held goal to eliminate the budget deficit. We eat deal whitman today tower spending or in a couple of years that will dictate to us what we have to cut. And those will be ugly cuts. Congress is running out of time to strike a deal for those young immigrants nope as dreamers. The march 5th deadline set by the president to officially end the daca program is now just three weeks away. An envelope, mysterious white powder and that combination sent donald trump, jr. ,s wife to new york City Hospital earlier today. Vanessa opened the envelope addressed to her husband this morning at their app. She called 911 and said she was coughing and feeling nauseous. Preliminary test indicate the substance is not dangerous the Trump Organization has not commented and the secret service is investigating. Skyfox over the intersection of tuckahoe road and glassboro in Monroe Township early reports here that students were not on that bus when that accident happened. The bus collided with another vehicle at this intersection theres no word yet on any injuries. We of course will bring you update as soon as we debt one. Back just in time for valentines day. Love statue returns but its going to look a little different. Kristen. Iain eagles may have had few coaches leave the nest but it look like theyre filling those spots from win. A look at who is in trenton state and federal officials are pulling out all the stops to deal with two many crows. Heres the deal. This winter about 30,000 crows have decided to hang out in new jerseys capitol city. Since theyre safety in numbers large groups are roosting together thats got some people that live there now not happy about it Us Agriculture department will use pyrotechnics lasers spotlights and amplified recordings of crow distress calls to fry to scare away the birds from trenton. Love is coming back to the streets of philadelphia just in time for valentines day. The famous sculpture returning to its home tomorrow. It will make a number of stops in parade around philadelphia before its reinstallation love park. The sculpture of course removed for repairs year ago while the park was being renovated but the tourist attraction will look a little different. Its been repainted to the original colors of red, green and purple. Group of bicyclists come together to remember a fellow cyclist. The Bicycle Coalition of greater philadelphia lined roosevelt boulevard today near large street where 22yearold daniella, died after a driver hit her last monday. Investigators say she was crossing the busy road when it happened. The group put up memorial for her and protested for a safer road. I pray that they would do something about this death boulevard. Its not fair to everybody losing their families. Its a shame. They need to do something about this as soon as possible. Its very sad. I dont know unbelievable. My family is in shock. Serve in shock. I have no words. The Coalition Says they believe speed cameras could help pedestrians and drivers stay safe at least in the short term. Attorney general Jeff Sessions linking opioids and Gang Violence in a new push to end the opioid epidemic. The Trump Administration ramps up its response to the crisis, sessions is increasingly focused on enforcement. Crit takes say its tactic that wont work and the focus should be on treatment and prevention. However the Administration Says its committed to confronting the problem pointing to the 13 billion they have requested to fight the crisis as part of the president s budge. Addicts also become desperate and get into all kinds of terrible situations and violence can often occur. Your automatically feel like were a criminal when were just trying to live our life take care of our family. Also today Perdue Pharma the maker of oxycontin announced it would stop promoting opioids to doctors and plans to lay off about half of its sales staff. Meanwhile visit to philadelphia was also on sessions a . End dada. The attorney general talked to members at the yacht union league of philadelphia in honor of bray hamlin couldnts birthday. He was also there to receive the lincoln award. Sessions talked about how the 16th president s values would hold true today. He said lincoln believed that keeping the rule of law was the most important thing we can do to preserve our political institutions. Today celebration is indeed a good way to honor lincolns legacy but at the department of justice we seek to honor that every day by up holding the rule of law and respecting the rule of law, respecting the legislative process. Sessions also claimed Federal District court judges are not up holding the rule of law. One example they blocked president trumps policies on immigration. Lets get back to your fox 29 weather authority. As we take a look in doylestown, bucks county tonight. The roller coaster of temperatures continues. Meteorologist kathy orr has got a full check of your forecast in just 152nd. In weather were talking about some cooler temperatures tonight but its not going to stay that wage looking good with clear skies tonight in wilmington, temperatures today in the 60s now in the 40s. A cold front moved through and that changed everything. Its 41 in philadelphia. After a high of 61. 42 degrees right now in millville. 41 in dover and 36 in allentown. As we look at the country you can see that colder air coming in. Pittsburgh 32. Buffalo 23. And detroit its 26 degrees. So much colder air coming our way for sure. Now, today high temperatures early in the 60s tomorrow we go below the average of 43. Wednesday about 10 degrees above normal. And by thursday, 20 degrees above normal. So a big up swing in temperature and theres really no cold to be found over the next couple of weeks. That will take us right through the end of february. I dont think anybody is complaining about that. Future cast shows during the day tomorrow, dry conditions. So plenty of sun. Few clouds moving in for your valentines day but more sun than anything else. Then rain if youre going out to dinner in the evening by about eight, 9 00 oclock moving into philadelphia and move through and then thursday more clouds but more warmth moving in across the region so overnight tonight we have a cold night and chilly start to the day tomorrow. The poconos 14. Allentown 21. 23 in trenton. 24 in wilmington and 26 degrees in dover. During the day tomorrow, well have plenty of sunshine. But cooler temperatures. The high 41. But winds out of the northeast becoming easterly at five not much wind wont have impact on wait feels like out there. Real pleasant day and nice day actual toll get outdoors and get some fresh air. On your seven day forecast from the weather thor, valentines day can be iffy. It can be stormy. But not this year. Wednesday will be beautiful. Gave 89. 52 movely sunny. Some clouds and showers moving in late. Thursday a chance of rain but 65. Friday 55 with some showers. Saturday cooler, sunday near 50. Next monday for president s day mostly cloudy, 55. A chance of a shower. But iain, february last year was well above average. I think well end the month that way again this year. Everybody keeps saying, oh, look out for march. Maybe youre right. Kathy. Ill take it while i can get it. Enjoy it. Kristen more changes for the eagles. Iain, eagles may have felt the super bowl drain way couple of their coaches flying the coop but theres plenty of talent left to take over. Coming up a look at who has taken over for the eagles and why fans should be excited about this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. So whether youre a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. Pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny. Com new york state. Its all here. Its only here. It look like eagles found their night quarterbacks coach. According to nfl networks the birds are promoting press taylor to take over for John Defilippo as hes headed to the vikings. Taylor has been the assistant quarterbacks coach since 2016. He first join the eagles in 2013 when chip kelly naped him offensive Quality Control much copy. Taylor is the guy had brought the philly special to the eagles after watching tape of the 2016 bears. Still no word on who will take over as offensive coordinator, though. The sixers have been unbeatable at home in 2018. Literally they are undefeated at the Wells Fargo Center since the new year. Tonight they look to go for their tenth straight win in south philly. As they host the knicks. So whats allowed the sixers to find their rhythm as of late . Robert covington it says it all comes down to playing together and strengthening the of the team. Our chem tree has gotten a lot better on both sides of the ball. Um, weve been on dough fence our rotations have been there. Much more previous. I guess its because, you know, the way weve been playing and we pay more attention to the small things that have been hurting us a little bit on the offensive side weve been taking care of the ball a lot better. Villanova is number one no more. The wildcats dropped to number three in this weeks ap poll. Wee we knew this was coming after nova fell to saint johns last wednesday. Virginia took over the top spot. Michigan state came in at number two. Well, weve all had that moment in our life. Moments in our life. We havent reached our goal. Yet weve wallowed, learned from it and got stronger. The same thing goes for olympians as well just like us. Including us skaters gas so and adam rip on. He became the First American female skater to land a triple axle at the winter games. She both won bronze medals. Its a dream realized and as rip on said last night four years ago after not making the olympics in sochi, they sat on her roof and ate in and out to console themselves now four years later theyre olympic med lifts and the emotions are just everything. I cant get over after she lands that triple axle. Did you see it. It was mazing. Shes so excited. And thats the emotion you want to see from the olympics. Actually i think i saw that 140 of the olympians on the us team are all first time olympians. Yeah. When you see those emotions its so real. Raw first time. The snowboarder the 17yearold snowboarder. Yes. Came out of nowhere. But they dont really come out of nowhere. Theyve been working hard for many years if exactly. All right. Join us tonight on fox 29 news at 10 00. You know its flu season as getting it once isnt bad enough. Some people are it going the flu twice. Boomerang thing. Whats behind the virus second stand . Youll find out tonight at 10 00. Mack sure you get your flu shot. 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