102. 5. Which really got me nervous. As any parent knows, who has a sick child,it is a heart wrenching proposition. Nicholas is normally a healthy and active fourth grader who enjoys doing projects with his dad and loves baseball. Now, he was having shortness of breath. His cough worsening. A chest xray at an urgent care confirmed nicholas had pneumon pneumonia. A dangerous complication children across the country are experiencing. In a flu season considered to be the worst in nearly a decade. Not the news this doting father of two wanted to hear. I live for my children and the bottom line is that i i cherish them and when theyre not well, it just drives me insane. It really does. Reporter dr. Mike says the flu causes inflammation in your body. Taking a toll on your immune system. And that makes you more susceptible to bacterial infections and pneumonia. As father, im petrified, because we know that new known ya can be very very serious, and the flu can be deadly even in healthy people. Reporter making matters worse, nicholas wasnt getting better. Even after taking antibiotics over the weekend. He was back to chop in Center City Yesterday for another chest xray. Doctors prescribing a more potent treatment. Dr. Mike says the flu is nothing to mess with, and parents need to be very vigilant. If they don look right f theyre short of breath, they just had the flu if they have a fever that wont go away you need to get them checked out and get them checked out early before it gets too late. Reporter the good news today is the first day nicholas temperature has finally dropped. So dr. Mike is hopeful the antibiotics are doing the trick. But he says they are taking it one day at a time. Dr. Mike also adamant if you have not gotten a flu shot get one. Get one for your children it is the best protection against the flu and minimizing the symptoms. Dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. Thank you much, dawn. Breaking news out of the camden county. Firefighters are investigating a what started house fire in cherry hill. Sky fox over the scene left hundred block of liberty bell drive in cherry hill. You can see flames coming through the roof right there. It broke out right around 4 00 this afternoon. Nobody is hurt. Love is officially back in philadelphia. Our bruce gordon is live at loves home which is love park. What a welcome back, bruce, it looks mighty fine behind through. Reporter yeah. Actually kind of quiet right now. But there has been a steady stream of camera phone toting visitors here all afternoon and hey, why not . What is the city of brotherly love without, well, love . Heres your proof. Real love always comes back to you. Robert indianas simple but powerful sculpture a centerpiece in the city since 1976 arrived back at its name sake park late tuesday morning. After a year at Dilworth Plaza and a year in the shop to clean it up and tweak the colors on its outer edge. Visitors from near and far were awaiting to welcome it home. Love it. Love it. Yes. Miss it. Miss it for a long time. Wonderful to see it back. I wonder what happened to it when it was taken a way. Where did it go . I thought it was brand new sign. You know it looks nice. It really, you know, stands out. This is one of the reasons why we came here to philadelphia to see this its iconic. People come from all over the world to take a picture at that love statue, its always been that way. Reporter love sculpture 830 pounds of painted aluminum, 108 cubic feet of row tan mack back drop generates a different story for every visitor. Nicholas and meghan came to philly from baltimore last february so he could surprise her with a proposal. It didnt quite work out as planned. We were trying to find the love park sign. We were trying to find rocky steps. Couldnt find any of it. Reporter all to do the proposal right there . All to propose. What went wrong . What happened . We couldnt find the love sign. We didnt know where it was. We were looking all over philly for it. Tried to propose in frist. Didnt work out. Reporter never could fine it . No. Then we ended up going to bridge and it happened under a bridge. Reporter [ laughter ] that seemed kind of sad in a way. It was raining. Still work out. She said yes. She said yes. Six months later going strong. Reporter what i love about that story is that depending on the exact date when they were here last february, nicholas and meghan probably could have figured this all out. The sculpture was either in the shop or right across the street next to city hall. All he had to do was ask. But lucy guys dont do that. [ laughter ] thats so fun theme all right, thank you very much, bruce gordon. Happening right now, in philadelphia, police and city officials have Just Announced major drug bust. More than 2 million worth of heroin and fentanyl are now off the streets. Jeff cole joins us in studio with the details. Jeff . Reporter lucy, philadelphia leads the nations big cities in overdose death. Likely 1200 in 2017. Today the attorney general came to town with more proof of phillys struggle with drugs while throwing cold water on a plan to battle the problem. Residents say it was sunday night around 6 00 along north fourth officers moved in investigators with the Pennsylvania Attorney general federal immigration and police have been watching the two men living at 4345 north fourth believing they were moving a deadly form of street drugs. Fearing trouble, this man asked we not show his face or report his name. What did you see sunday night, sir . I seen a lot of police cars, um, vans and everything. But i didnt know what my neighbors was doing. They were quiet. So i dont Pay Attention to none of that. Reporter did he say played on table tuesday, drugs, a gun, packaging and equipment all used by 24yearold cesar guzman and 30yearold Jeremy Sanchez rosario says the attorney general to sell heroin and fentanyl on city streets. The amount of drugs we seized would have created 250,000 doses of heroin and fentanyl. Reporter investigators say the drugs have a street value of over two and a half Million Dollars and are further sign of the iron grip the deadly pairing of heroin and fentanyl have on the addicted here. Shapiro says investigators made undercover buys from the pair and watched them for a month federal immigration says guzman a dominican is here illegally. What do you think now that all that was going on . Its crazy. We didnt even know it up until now. I was like wow. Didnt even know our neighbors was like that. Reporter philadelphia wants to combat Overdose Deaths with Safe Injection Sites places addicts can use heroin and get medical help. Shapiro was opposed. A city spokesperson says, its talked to shapiro about this and respects his opinion which today he expressed aggressively. Theres no safe way to inject yourself with this kind of a poison. And i think our focus needs to be on getting people into treatment. Reporter shapiro says there will need to be a change in state and federal laws to set up Safe Injection Centers while pledging to return to the north philly neighborhood to continue the battle and sale of heroin in this city. Im Jeff Cole Fox 29 news. Lucy. Speak of drugs, jeff, in mercer county, new jersey a2 month undercover drug investigation ended up catching those people. Reginald jackson, jade law and, ryan poland and anthony hernia now all face various drugs and weapons charges related to selling and possessing crack, cocaine and heroin. Police searched a stash house in trenton and say they found the drugs, a gun and some cash. The question is why . Why you doing that . Police are searching for those people who decided it was somehow a good idea to watch the eagles parade on top of somebody elses car. Well, the woman who owns the car park it near judson street and pennsylvania avenue to watch the parade herself. When she got back, well, the damage was done. Im feeling it. Im feeling it. And then theres that. Yeah you can go ahead keep on saying that. Recognize these two people. Police are after them for stealing traffic lights after the eagles super bowl win. The video shows them as you heard them saying that theyre stealing all of that. Apparently they thought the city has enough lights they decided to take those. Police believe the lights are from juniper and mark streets and, yes, police are after all these people. Sexual harassment training could soon become a requirement for all City Employees in philadelphia. Every single year. Its part of a bill proposed by several City Council Members today. And today they held a public hearing right now its up to each department to make sure all supervisors are trained on enforcing the sexual harass many policy. Under the new bill, that would change making annual training mandatory for every city of philadelphia employee. All employees deserve to feel safe and support the at work. Employees deserve to not be sexually harassed at work or at least not fear retribution if abuse is reported. The city says it has certain departments where annual training is not necessary and those cases the city would require training every three years. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look down the shore at cape may with temperatures on the rise. Nice break from the bitter cold this past february. Kathy joining us now with a first look at the forecast. Man, its warming up kathy. It is. I mean today the coldest day and from here on in i think its going to be very, um, pleasant for many of your valentines. We are outside, of course, at rehoboth beach, delaware, we have on shore flow. 40 in philadelphia. 35 right now in millville and wildwood its 35 and in dover it is 35 degrees. Ultimate doppler precipitation moving up from the south. There is a chance of some light freezing rain around here overnight tonight. Most of this not making it to the ground just yet. But well keep an eye on that. Otherwise were talking about a partly cloudy sky. They in philadelphia overnight. 30 in millville. 24 in the poconos. 30 in pottstown and 32 in dover. So a much warmer start to the day. I should say moderate start to the day tomorrow than it was today. Today we were in the teens and 20s. Tomorrow mainly in the 30s. Get ready a huge warmup for your valentines and beyond. Very unusual end to the month of february. I say end its from here on in, lucy, some big surprises. Ill be back with that seven day in a few minutes. Well talk then, thank you very much, kathy. The Opioid Epidemic hits home for so many families, and for one in particular, after getting nearly torn apart by at diction, theyre now helping save lives across our area. And its mardi gras new orleans of course the place to be a look at the celebrations ahead. Happening right now, iphone have a new feature that could save your life. The new sos system on the phone will Call Emergency Services without you having to say a word. Our joyce evans joins us live from lindenwold, new jersey, with how all of this works. Joyce . Reporter well, lucy, the calls still come in just like a regular 911 call here at the call center. Theres no distinction. But apples claim is that you will no longer have to buy in many cases a separate app that will allow you to make that emergency call without anybody seeing you do it or knowing you did it. 911 where is your emergency . Reporter camden countys 911 center takes about 1. 7 million calls every year. Authorities are constantly developing and looking for better ways to get help to people quicker. Particularly in cases of abductions, home invasions, or terrorist attacks. Tap five times and, um, two, three, four, there you go. And what i would suggest if youre in a situation just keep tapping because sometimes it might not register the one tap quick enough. Five quick clicks and then a swipe. At some point you got to pull that phone out. Not if you had the iphone x. The x is roman numeral ten. You squeeze the power and the volume buttons at the same time to activate the emergency sos. We hold these two burt butt tons i can actually feel the phone vibrating in the countdown l you go well stop right there at two. Reporter you can turn off the siren. Its just secret way of you calling 911 at that point if we dope hear any sounds or anything well listen for couple of minutes. If its a hang up call, we can call back and we can try to figure out whats going on. Well listen again for i at that point we can actually hone in on between probably about 50meters or so of where that phone call was coming from. Reporter any way to tell how much time it may save. No i can tell was. Any tool that we can use to save a live shades shaves off time. Seconds better than what we had. Reporter and that is the truth. Right. Theyre still going to get prank calls. They expect that. But we have our old phones here at fox 29. We could use an iphone x. What we would have to do no case we were going get pocket dial because if you got the new phone you got to hold both of them down for five seconds at the same time. Ours you have to tap it. So youre to the going to mistakenly dial it in your purse or somewhere, lucy. Thats good to know. Looks like you need a charge on your phone. Youre almost dead there, joyce. That is correct. Reporter yeah. Umhmm. Go find an outlet. All right. Thank you, joyce. In washington, d. C. , the nations intelligence chief had a big day testified before Senate Leader toss lay out our grave vest security threats. Foxs Lauren Blanchard reports. Reporter white house claims the background check into one of its former staffs accused of hitting his exwifes had been on going. However today the fbi director appeared to contradict that timeline. My understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. That office had not completed their process in order to make recommendation for adjudication to the white house. Fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. And then a completed Background Investigation in late july. Reporter director Christopher Wray as well as the other chiefs of the Intelligence Community spoke before the Senate Intel Committee to give updates on Global Threats from north korea to china and russia. The United States is threatened by Cyber Attacks every day. Reporter chiefs unanimou unanimously said they believed russia had meddled in the 2016 election and would try again. Russia perceived that its past efforts has successfully and views the 2018 u. S. Mid term elections as potential target for russian influence operations. Reporter as the white house and congress are grappling with the task of trying to pass a budget, the top intelligence officials also noted the risk posed by the soaring u. S. Debt. This situation is unsustainable. As i think we all know and represents a dire threat to our economic and national security. Reporter the officials also said despite the olympics and see seeming goodwill betweee south and North Koreans theres been no change to the u. S. strategy when it comes to dealing with pang yank. In washington, Lauren Blanchard, fox 29 news. Today fat tuesday otherwise known as mardi gras. Its time for people to celebrate before the solemn lenten season. The party is already underway as you can see in new orleans. Fat tuesday is the end of the twoweek long season of partyi partying. Which brings around 840 million into the city. This years events even more special spectacular than usual. With new orleans also celebrating its 300th anniversary. My first mardi gras. Loving it whoo trance tans to come out of the carnival with a little scratch. Nothing serious but a scratch is like a trophy. It says i was there and i did my part. Around the world people marked the occasion in unique ways including this town of italy hosts a battle of the oranges tradition dating back to the middle ages. These folks dress up in medieval costumes you see what theyre doing, throw fruit at each other. Here at home people are marking the day before Ash Wednesday as well. This morning jenn fred stopped by haaglys bakery in mayfair people lined up to get their hands ionophose naughts doughnuts traditionally eaten before lent begins. Can we see a for naught. We want to know what they look like. Thats a powdered one. We make a Cinnamon Sugar. Thats taken off. Probably three to one Cinnamon Sugar now. Three to one. Three to one the diehards still want the way the traditional. Im german. Why do not have any of these here at station. Bring them on over. They look delicious. Youve got a little more than half hour to get your hands on them. Haaglys closes at 6 00. The man who attacked new york city and the jersey shore with Pressure Cooker bombs has learned his fate in a courtroom. And save injection sites, you know its controversial. It lets heroin users shoot up while supervised by a doctor. One local neighborhood says, umum, not in our community. [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. 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And we will bring you more as soon as we get that information in. The man who set off bombs on new york city street and at a charity race on the jersey shore will spend the rest of his life in prison. Federal judge sentenced Ahmad Khan Rahami to several live terms today. In 2161 of his Pressure Cooker bombs exploded in manhattan chelsea neighborhood. And injured 30 people. That blast happened just hours after a pipe bomb exploded along a marine corps charity run in seaside heights, new jersey. Israeli Prime Minister benjamin yahoo Police Recommendations to indict him on corruption charges will end with nothing and nationwide tv address he denied he accepted gifts in exchange for favors to newspaper publisher for favorable corn coverage. Police recommendations go to the attorney general who will decide whether to press charges. The lottery fight continues in new hampshire. At issue here, a woman who won nearly 560 million, what a powerful jackpot that was, happened last month. Shed just like to keep her name out of headlines. She wants to be anonymous. The Lottery Commission says, that it can disclose her identity under the states right to know know. The woman signed the back of the ticket after winning. She is now suing the commission asking that it allow her to remain anonymous or white house her name recent place it with the name of a trust. Philadelphia Police Officers are Teaching Middle School students how to interact with Law Enforcement for black history month. Officers and a Deputy Sheriff from the National Black Police Association spoke with students at the, tax school in west philadelphia. Now, students learned about Mutual Respect want to do and thou act if you get stopped by a police officer. The association stressed how important these events are and for officers to get out and meet the people who they also work to protect. Our goal is to random acts of kindness and to do community out reach monthly. Just to show students, to show citizens that Police Officers are human, that we care and that those who are in some of the most im pour rapid neighborhoods theyre lives matter to us as well. Mayor kenney also spoke with students about civil rights and how hard the fight is for everyone to be treated equally. Still ahead, not in my backyard. Thats what some in one local neighborhood are saying about Safe Injection Sites. What happens now. Kathy is tracking your forecast. Kathy. Were talking about warming temperatures this week. Right in time for your valentine but that wont be the warmest day. Well go about 20 degrees above normal around here and it doesnt look like its going to end soon. Happening right now, philadelphia considering opening save injection sites. Places where heroin use can shoot up while under a doctors care. But to say its controversial is probably an understatement. As our hank flynn found out, a lot of community dos not want to see it in their backyards. Im in hank im in kensington at somerset street station. This safe injection site for heroin users at local officials keep talking about, might it . Just happen but theres lot of details that need to be worked and a lot of questions. Where will it go . My take is people love to say not in my backyard, but here in kensington its in the front yard, the backyard, the side yard, why not here . Gave us safe works. Tie offs. Um, clean alcohol pads to clean up the blood or anything so you dont have no diseases going around. Reporter Brian Dougherty struggles with addiction just come from Needle Exchange and it says safe injection site must happen in kensington. No matter how many people are saying, you know, they dont want it here and they dont want it in their backyard its hard to hear. People got to open their eyes and accept reality that you keep looking at something its not going to disappear. Its just going below up in your face eventually. Reporter a safe place to use, free of arrest, thats the idea protection from overdoses, clean works, city Officials Say there go to go with it but the devil is in the details the city wont run it thats clear its in illegal gray area. How would federal Law Enforcement react . Where would it go. If theyre going to build one they should build it in good locations where theres no businesses at all. Something that people they can go to and dont want to affect anybody. Reporter angel owns four sons pizzeria ken sing top and lippincott. Good slice bay the way. Hes for safe injection site but the pizza shop is his investment he doesnt want the site across the street. I think they should build one. Keep all the addictions centralized and get them off the street somewhat. If you put it in an area way lost business it will kill the Property Value and make the businesses look bad. Reporter fair point. Councilwoman Quinones Sanchez has voic voiced opposition to te site. The only working sight in north america vancouver has been found by a number of medical journals to have slashed overdose hiv rates without any crime increa increase. It works. Its going to somewhere. And since out in the open addiction has plagued kensington for decades this is writ belongs. Im hank and thats my take. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look at wilmington. Where we are ramping up for a winter warmup. So the question is, how warm is it going to get . Kathys forecast in just 15 seconds. All right. Here we go. Today temperatures in the 40s. Tomorrow were going to go in the 50s then beyond that on thursday see clouds moving up from the south in old city philadelphia. The average high is 43. In wilmington we made it to 40. 38 in atlantic city. 42 in philadelphia. Reading and trenton 39 and allentown 40 degrees much not so bad. Its only going to get warmer. 39 right now in allentown, reading and lancaster. 36 in wilmington. And in dover 35 degrees. The same in millville with a persistent on shore flow and also a few sprinkles down there as well. We do run the risk of seeing little bit of freezing rain or freezing drizzle south and east of philadelphia tonight. So please be aware of that. When you look at the country as whole warmer air in nashville building up toward us over the next couple of days. But yesterday we had temperatures in the teens and 20s in chicago and minneapolis. And today a little bit warmer with a southerly push and thats going to be the trend. As we go hour by hour well see a mostly cloudy sky tonight. Some morning clouds. Giving way to increasing sun for your wednesday and your School Valentine very nice day with temperatures at least 10 degrees above normal. Few showers moving through overnight. Thursday looking good. A mix of clouds and some sun. And really staying rain free till the evening. And this is when temperatures sky rocket ahead of this front had that will bring the rain. Thursday were talking about temperatures well into the 60s really going feel nice and then the rain moves on in by thursday evening. So this warming trend is going to continue. Well jump up 10 degrees tomorrow. Well jump ten more degrees on thursday. And its going to be a nice surge with a cold air really locked up in canada far to the north it doesnt look like it will come down any time soon. Overnight 33 in philadelphia. 30 in pottstown. 31 in reading and 32 in wilmington. 24 in the poconos. So still some good snow make weather during the day tomorrow morning clouds giving way to increasing sun. Southwesterly winds will be the key. Theyre not strong thats the direction we want. The temperature 52 degrees. As we look at the seven day forecast from the Weather Authority, thursday more clouds than sun but the High Temperature 65. Friday some morning rain, 60. And then just a chance of a shower late saturday. Sunday near 50. More clouds on monday, 53 for the president s day holiday and then mostly cloudy tuesday. The high 60 again. At this point were nearing the end of february. Guess what lucy noland . Hmm. Punxsutawney phil was wrong. [ laughter ] i know youre in the a big fan of his forecast. No. Hes usually always wrong. Dont like the guy. [ laughter ] hes so cute. Its a love hate. Hes acute little guy. All right. Thanks very much, kathy. A short 19 months ago nick foles the super bowl mvp told his agent and his family he was retiring from football. He was going to be High School Pastor joining are join his father in the restaurant business. Thank goodness for the eagles the quarterback reconsidered he dropped by the ellen show through some footballs talked about his wild journey and how tough it was to hit the grid iron again. It was almost paralyzing to go back and play, and you know, i prater about it and i realized that the tougher situation the thing i was more afraid was to go back and play. I would have been fine going a different way in life and done whatever and helped people in any which way possible but i new make more growth i had to go back in and face that fear. His grandpa nolan said you got to get back on that horse. Thank goodness nick foles today. What a story. Its now heavier than ever to catch up close look at nick and carson. Not the eagles super stars but carson. Not the eagles super stars but birds of a different this is so exciting, dave carson. Not the eagles super stars but hey gus, meet tucker. Awwww. Whoaaaa . And axle, angie, frank, charlie, millie, ralph, henry, audrey and duke. Yep. Ten times the fun. Sorta like this. Ahhh, ten times the bucks. Its one of the new times the bucks games from the pennsylvania lottery. With millions in prizes hot diggity dog keep on scratchin aah . I would have said you were crazy. But so began the year of me. I discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts. And the indescribable rush of saving drivers an average of 620. Why does fear feel so good . I fell in love three times once with a woman, once with a country, and finally. With myself. So, do you have anything to declare or not . Isnt that what im doing . Never been easier scenic and carson up close. Theyre penguin counterparts that is. The adventure aquariu in camden showed off the real live birds to our lauren johnson. You have got to get to adventure aquarium. Heres why. Carson and nick they dont look like what you think they should, right . Oh there we go a little surprise for the camera. Im here with cal land who cares for them this is the cutest Little Creatures youve had in while. Theyre so adorable. We love when we have penguin chicks here. The reason for their big appearance unveiling today you guys will big event here. Yes, we announced we had these chicks as well two other chicks and theyre names we have carson and nick over awesome eagles. So appropriate. They were born back in december they were named before they became super bowl champions. Actually we decided name after we found out that you are gender we dont know if theyre boys or girls right away. We had to find their dna out first we thought it was fate, you know, super bowl and we got two males after having lots of females we had to name them carson and nick. This is carson and this is nick. There we go, folks. You got it. Wee got our super bowl winning champion quarterback penguins over here in camden. You have to come check them out. Back to you guys in the studio. We have breaking news out of philadelphias olney neighborhood. Police sources are telling us someone has shot two people. Skyfox over the scene. This is the 200 block of fully street. Police have rushed both victims to einstein hospital. We dont know how theyre doing. Well bring you more as it comes in. Still ahead, a mothers love saving her daughter the clutches of death and now together theyre saving lives. First though todays moment in black history remembering colin powell as chief many in january of 2001. When he became the nations first africanamerican secretary of state under george w. Bush. Get the best internet with the best shows and get the best of both worlds. Fios by verizon gives you the Fastest Internet available for only 79. 99 a month online with a two year agreement, and your netflix is on us for one year. And with the gigabit connection on the 100 fiberoptic network, you can stream on up to 100 devices at once. So get the Fastest Internet available, plus netflix, plus up to200 tv channels, plus phone, plus a twoyear price guarantee. All for just 79. 99 per month. Its time to fiber optics your netflix. Go to getfios. Comto switch today. Check out this tweet from septa police chief thomas nestel. Apparently someone thought they were quite clever by hiding their heroin stash in a newspaper. Clever except for the part when they left it all on a bus. Nestle says that person actually came back and said hey, anybody got it . The answer was oh yeah we do. Transit police found it. Then they also found the stash of cash on the guy and a knife. We know the Opioid Epidemic is a National Crisis so many families facing huer rids they just never imagined. But day by day we hear stories of triumph and we see glimmers of hope from those who have faced the worst. Iain page is in our Technical Operations Center with the story of one family very strong fami family. Iain. Lucy so many of these stories we hear about end in tragedy. That was almost the case for a local woman who nearly died from an overdose. But thanks to her mom who saved her, shes now thriving and inspiring others. Monica may cock is a beautiful young woman who had so much going for her. Loving parents, a younger brother, two sisters monica grew up in nice house in south jersey but when she was 15, she had ovarian sifts and the doctor prescribed percocet and vicodin. Soon monica was addicted to opioids. Three years later, she started using heroin. Its cheaper compared to 30 a pill its ten dollars a bag. Its the same thing. Reporter monica graduated from high school in 2000 sand eight and went on to Beauty School but her addiction was getting worse. Initially her family had no idea but eventually her mom found o out. My daughter melissa came to me and this was a couple months before everything happened and said, i have feeling that monica is using heroin. She gave me little baggy and i thought, oh, god, you know, i felt my stomach just drop. Charlene may cot is her mother. And after researching heroin on the internet she confronted monica. We found this baggy. I said please, you know, tell me whats going on. Are you using heroin . And she freaked out on me. She was screaming and yelling. Said i cant believe that you would even ask me that. Deep in your soul youre thinking, i want to believe her so badly. Yeah. Its easier. Worried about monica, she thought treatment was the best option. Monica beat her to it. Mom, i have to talk to you. Im going away to florida. Im leaving tomorrow on plane and im going away to rehab. My first instinct was i dont want her to go. My Second Thought is would you rather pick up the phone and call her alive in florida. Right. Or have to go and visit her headstone . Mon any coo was in treatment for sick weeks in palm beach, florida and things were going well. I filled my time with meetings and therapy. Doing everything i was supposed to do. In objection of 2015, monica came home to new jersey and hooked up with her exboyfriend. Two days later, she was supposed to meet her mom at a drug forum at a local high school but she never showed up. She called me and said, listen, mom, im not going to make it home by midnight it will just be a couple minutes later. Ill there be. Ill be okay. The next morning charlene knocked on monicas door but there was no answer. She was out doing errands when she got call from her daughter. You need to come home as fast as you can. She said because i dont know if hes in her room with her, i hear noises coming out of her room. Charlene raced home and tried to get into monicas room. I was pounding on the door. Because the door was still locked i went outside and i climbed the ladder and was trying to look in her room. And i saw her on her bed, and she was gray and purple. And the noise that my daughter was hearing was her trying to breathe. God. I busted in her bedroom door and i had my son run down and get the narcan and i just learned cpr and narcan within two weeks prior. If i hadnt, she wouldnt be here. Right g because her heart stopped like twice. While i was doing cpr. Wow im happy that she taught herself how to do narcan because if it wasnt for her my sister would be dead. Medics raced monica to the hospital. The prognosis wasnt good. They didnt think she had 24 hours to live because she had a heart attack and a stroke and multiple organ failure and brain swelling and they said that she had everything in her system. There was fentanyl as well as heroin, they said you need to talk to your husband and make arrangements because most likely she will not survive. I refused. I woke up to my mom saying squeeze my hand if you can hear me. Okay. Just relax. Deep breath. Monica was in the hospital for six weeks. She had to learn thou walk again because there was nerve damage to her leg. So much so they almost had to amputate. Oh, my god. Monica was determined to make it. Go, monica. I was in a diaper. I was in a wheelchair. And still kept going even though i didnt want to. So like its possible. I think that was one of the hardest things it was even harder than seeing her go away to rehab. When your watching your daughter in her 20s wearing a diaper. She cant walk. She was having a hard time feeding herself. Monica has come a long way from almost dying to thriving. Now, she speaks to kids and shares her story about addiction trying to remove the shame and stigma of the disease. Gives me something to look forward to. Makes me happy. We got to start doing outside meetings in the summer. When you even hear one story and you know that youve changed one life, and as many times as she does this, i just get prouder every time. Grateful she made it and grateful shes making the choices that she is now. Well monica is in recovery thanks in large part to Michelle Perez who founded city of angels in 2009 in hamilton new jersey a recovery center. She has trained hundreds of recovery coaches and monica is now one of them. So if you know someone struggling with addiction city of angels can help and we put link on our website for more information. Lucy. It is wonderful to know that groups like this and families like that exist. Wonderful stuff. Thank you iain. We now know when and where the first meldings spencers in open in pennsylvania. Keystone remedies in bethlehem will open its doors. Terra vida holistic center. Other locations opening by saturday are near pittsburgh and harrisburg. So youve seen them out in the streets selling newspapers just trying to make their lives better. And now they would love for to you walk with them for just a little bit. Kristen. Lucy eagles former offensive coordinator frank reich was formally introduced to the colts today and were learning more about who will potentially take over for him in philly. I have more o we buy any car any make, any model, any age, any price from 50 bucks to 100 grand we buy any car any, any, any, any at webuyanycar. Com, the gimmicks stop with our ads. Trading in our selling your car is hasslefree with just three easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, drive to your local car buying centre. And three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes. 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Heres the problem. So many people just walk right by them. Dont even make eye contact. So now one step away is encouraging all of us to spend a few hours walking in their shoes for Goodness Sake. Heres bill anderson. Good morning everybody. Help the homeless and low income with just a dollar and get a great paper in return. Reporter one step away newspaper is a tool a way for the homeless to make money by selling the paper for a dollar that they got for a quarter with all profits going to them. But periodically one step away tries to do things to expand awareness about their mission. Our big sell off brings Community Members together to distribute the one step away newspaper alongside one step away vendor on the streets of philadelphia. Reporter in the first year after learning of their efforts i basically watched as people pretty much ignored them. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon. How you doing . Good morning, ladies. Reporter in year two, i actually went out with them and sold the papers so i could experience exactly what they experience as they try to climb out of homelessness. Were helping raise money for the homeless today. Would you buy a paper . How you doing, sir. Reporter this year after seeing how much the experience impacted those of us who participated, they decided to expand the program. This year, anybody and everybody is invited to our big sell off. Its our time and our money. Reporter the hope is the more people that feel for even a moment what homeless trying to get back on their feet deal with the more understanding will be. Bill arrow wood was a guest vendor last year as well and feels like the experience it definitely changes you. I think oe of things you really see when youre in the shoes of the guy that is out here doing it sigh how hard it to get peoples attention and have them recognize you as a person. Reporter you also become more sensitive to at least having the common did he zen see to speak to people like you would pretty much anyone who took the time to pleasantly greet you on the street. Even times i cant help them out with food or buying a paper or reaching out to them, i know them. And they know me and we see each other and we make eye contact we say good morning Like Neighbors do. Reporter big sell off is friday they hope to, of course, spread awareness and help those in need. But if more people give just an hour of their time, i know, bill knows, and youll know it could be bigger than that. Little humanity back to our city something we could all do a little more of. Reporter now we could but will we for Goodness Sake . Im bill anderson. And thats your news at 5 00. Ill see you back here at 10 00. Heres iain page with fox 29 news at 6 00. The coughing, sneezing, the new is everywhere and the virus is take its toll on our little ones and in some cases turning deadly. The signs you need to watch for in your son or daughter. Take a look at this. Millions of dollars worth of drugs off the streets to night and out of our neighborhoods. Authorities saying this seizure will save countless lives. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. But first at 6 00 just in time for valentines day, the love sculpture back where it belongs. Its getting quite the welcomed back at love park. Thanks for joining us tonight at 6 00. Im iain page. Our bruce gordon has more on that triumphant return. Reporter they say real love always comes back. Robert indianas simple but powerful skull cheep cher a philly landmark since 1976 was trucked back to its name sake park late tuesday morning. After a year at Dilworth Plaza an year in the shop. Clean it up, repaint it and tweak the color on its outer etch the artists originally intent. Visitors from all over the place were waiting with their camera phones. Different but still welcomed. Welcomed in any shape or form. This was well missed. Its wonderful to see and its beautiful the way its displayed how people can stand under it, too. I think the park looks nice the it improves the park and everything. It looks good. Its just outstanding. Yes. You like what you see. Smaller than you expected but nice. Still just as nice. Yeah. Very symbolic of the city. Reporter sculpture all 830 m all 108 cubic feet of romantic back drop prompts a different memory for every visitor. Nicholas took meghan to philly from baltimore last february so he could surprise her way proposal. It turned into romantic comedy. We were trying to find the love park sign. We were trying to find rockys steps. Couldnt find any of it. Reporter all to do the proposal right there. All to propose, yeah. We couldnt find the love sign. We didnt know where it was. We were looking all over philly for it. Tried to pro propose in front of it didnt work out. You never could find
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