Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10 00. We start tonight with fire down the shore. Skyfox over the scene earlier. You can see the flames engulfing a familiar bridge. Anyone who uses the garden state parkway to get to the southern shore points probably remembers the beasley point bridge. Parkway now runs right passed it all toll bridge caught fire around 7 30 tonight. No word yet on the extent of the damage or how it started. Dads all over the city are getting ready for a very special walk with their children tomorrow morning. Its call part of a National Movement to get more dads involved in their childrens lives. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Lucy is off. Im iain page. Organizers say it can help inspire countless children to do great things. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson is live at city hall tonight. Shawnette. Reporter its a powerful thing happening tomorrow. Fathers all over the city plan to walk their children to school then join other men for a march and to
After undergoing several rounds of test, it was confirmed. Governor wolf stresses his cancer was caught very early and now raising awareness for all men. I want to be open and use this as an opportunity to say, routine checkups for whatever matter. Wolf says he will be receiving treatment in the coming weeks in the york area where he is from and downplayed his treatment as minor and didnt need chemotherapy. Screening for Prostate Cancer includes a physical exam and a blood test to start. Here are the recommendations, most men start at the age of 50, if you are at a greater risk, you start at 45, any africanamerican men or a relative diagnosed before the age of 65. Some men start at the age of 40, if you have a first degree relative diagnosed at an earlier age in their 40s or 50s. And talk to your Health Care Provider about your risks and when you should start screening. Ali thank you. Turning now to the forecast, we are tracking is rain falling lightly in most areas of our region but i
Potential for small hail, pea to quarter size. Well check back in later thank you. Philadelphia police say they have solve aid cold case that dates back to 2003. Five people were killed in a fire in the citys olney section and 13 Years Later Police figured out who started on purpose. Chad pradelli is live at Police Headquarters tonight with the details. Reporter yes rick, a 13yearold cold case but police did not give up and yesterday they picked up their man. He is 31yearold abdu rivera, they say he is a career criminal now facing life behind bars. They say rivera fire bombed a home in 2003. Killing santiago his wife and daughter and motherinlaw. And police could not nail down the case and it went cold. In july of 2014, two of my best detectives reopened the case and followed leads and found witnesses. Homicide captain james clark says that John Santiago got into a fight with rivera and two of his friends at a club earlier in the night and santiago an experienced boxer got the best of
Find the bottom. Reporter first up lets get you over to david murphy and talk a lovely day. Matt pellman has traffic. Reporter we have clear skies and clouds are filtering in well expect a mix of clouds and sun. Tam is right its going to be a mild one as we go through the afternoon. 50 degrees in philadelphia. Still cool in a allentown. 42 the 44 in reading, 47 in trenton. 45 in wilmington, 50 in millville. Close to 50 in cape may, new jersey. Heading into the driveway to catch the bus today. Looks like mid 40s between 6 00 a. M. And 8 00 a. M. , cool, partly cloudy and breezy. Rolling through the day, its mild, 47 by 7 00 a. M. 10 00 a. M. , 51. Noon, 55. We have a tendency to zoom up to 70 and high of 72 around 4 00 p. M. One thing about this, the farther north an east you go from philadelphia, the cooler it will be probably mid 60s like trenton and allentown. A back door front is coming down from new england and it hold the temperatures down again. Cloud cover mixing with sun overal
Becomes the topic during the president ial debate. And the popes fiat goes up for sale tonight at the philadelphia auto show. But the big story is the light snow on this friday afternoon. The action cam found flakes falling in trenton earlier today. And we could see more. Its cloudy and windy into the weekend, lets get a first choke with Melissa Magee at the big board. Reporter we are tracking snow showers scattered around the delaware and lehigh valley, we can seem them on stormtracker 6 live double scan and go in tighter on street level Storm Tracker, from trenton to philadelphia and down to willing. Philadelphia we deal with light wet snow at this hour. If are you just to the north of the city and jenkintown, we are dealing with a heavier burst of snow and same in interior portions of south jersey and Medford Lakes and along route 4in new jersey as well. Well talk about what to expect for the rest of the afternoon. We are trackling the spotty snow showers and most are brief in natur