so the daytime temperatures will be above freezing, then we refreeze overnight. right now in philadelphia, throw but look at the north and west 19 in allentown. 22 in pottstown. it's 27 in the poconos but milder to the south and east. we will refreeze overnight and that means temperatures between 26 and 30 degrees anything that looks shiny that looks wet obviously is going to be ice. most likely on those untreated surfaces the road shoulders, steps, sidewalks, please be careful even if in your driveway come tomorrow morning. then we'll be watching an area of low pressure. our neck front that will be bring something rain possibly tomorrow afternoon. possibly some wintry precipitation early wednesday morning. and then tracking this coastal low that many people are talking about. we'll separate the fiction from the facts coming up with your seven day forecast. all right, kathy thanks before you walk out the door be sure to check in witness fox 29 weather and traffic authority for any problems out the roads to latest forecast bob kelly and sue serio have you covered starting at 4:00 a.m. live look at allentown. think you it bad in philadelphia. parts of lehigh county saw nearly 3 feet of snow. it has created scenes like this throughout the city. mounds of snow blocking roads doesn't look like those cars are getting out any time soon. city officials say hang tight trying to get all of these side streets here. fox 29's chris o'connell is live in allentown. chris, the mayor is calling this an unprecedented snowfall. >> reporter: yeah, luce associate heat high valley just got pounded with this storm. here in allentown, many parts of the city still digging out parts of it got more than 30-inches of snow. case in point look where i am. this is north jefferson street. there's not been a plow that touched this street in three days. it's got residents frustrated and city officials calling for patience. record snow -- >> they suck. >> reporter: means record frustration. >> the taking me almost an hour to get home from work when it should take me 10 minutes. >> reporter: blizzard of 2016 dumped almost 32-inches of snow in allentown. it not only left cars buried in mounds of snow, but entire city blocks. >> can't get to no w roads all covered up. plowed in. they didn't clear the small streets. >> reporter: some residents say the city waited way too long to call snow emergency leaving cars on the streets with nowhere for plows to put the snow. >> i see nothing but snow and a bunch of cars. >> reporter: the city admits it was overwhelmed. >> plower operator could not meet up. >> reporter: the mayor it may be a few days before snow removal crews get to have streets in the city. he's calling on residents to move their cars to one of several pa* public lots now op open. >> we are asking everyone to be patient and i can't stress that enough. they need to be patient. i understand your frustration. i get it. we're not being able to get out to every street and every -- in every district of the city. >> reporter: record snow or not, some are wondering how long it will be before cars are dug out and streets are back to normal. >> they need to do a better job. we pay enough for taxes where this should have been taken care of as fast as the snow was falling it was hard for them to stay on top of it but i folic they could have done a better job. >> reporter: back out live on north jefferson street this one of many streets untouched by snowplows. city officials say they hope to get to them in a couple of days. just how bad is it? well, city officials are asking any private contractor had has backhoe or a front loader to come to the city and help out with these snow removal duties. it is a big job that's going to take days. lucy? >> it sure will, thank you very much, chris. n montgomery county, workers at the elmwood park zoo are cleaning up after the heavy snow collapsed its birds of paradise exhibit. that's steal measure roof no measure for matt its had saturday's blizzard. the the birds that live there were in different building before the roof caved in thank goodness. so none are hurt. the zoo however is closed until further notice while workers clean up damage from the storm. right now crews are working to clear out city streets and all that snow has to go somewhere. skyfox over broad and washington in south philadelphia as crews are piling up the snow there before it was loaded into melting machines. public transportation is back up and running but public and arch diocesan schools will be closed tomorrow. too many streets are still snow covered. so if you live on one of those streets the mayor says help is on the way. >> we do appreciate your patience. we're getting to your streets. we have to take care of the big ones first to get everything rolling. and then that affects the most number of people but we haven't forgotten you and we are coming or already there. >> the city says you can call 311 if you got unplowed street. mayor kenney says every through street will be cleared by the end of the day on wednesday. for local dependent ensteep to get around getting back to normal routine will be tricky because septa is not back in full operation yet. all the snow left on the tracks and city and suburban roads shawnette wilson live at warminster station with more on that tonight. shawnette. >> reporter: iain, it is slow going as you can imagine but things are definitely moving. although septa officials did say tonight that some trains had to be canceled this evening because of manpower issues. but they are working to restore full service. >> 747 train and it took about an hour and 40 minutes to get to suburban station. >> reporter: evening train pulled into the warminster station tonight. it let off passengers weary from long commute this morning and for some an even longer one back home. >> they cancel the 5:33. cancel. gave me no time. then i took the subway. took the 55 bus to warminster. then i sat there and waited for this train so i can get home. >> reporter: many mass transit rider has similar experiences. as septa tries to get back up and running after the weekend snowstorm. septa officials say pounded tracks and rails. >> i got the schedule at warminster this morning. >> reporter: at the jenkintown station michelle was told to expect 10 to 15 minute delays. >> this morning it was even later. it was like 40 minutes late to jenkintown from warminster and right now it is 30 minutes late back to warminster. >> reporter: this is the on the problem. some commuters parking lots had not been plowed. >> it doesn't even look like it was tempted because i was surprised 'cause this does have a lot of stalls, and i know a lot of people that do use this train. >> reporter: some say despite all the problems septa was still the best way to avoid messy roads. >> the train was running so i was glad to get to work. >> reporter: and back here live i do want to say that some trains are running on schedule like this one that just pulled up behind us moments ago twenty eight on time. in fact, photographer pointed out a minute early. eye as for the snow covered parking lots i'm told that crews will come in lucy after midnight and start clearing snow from some of these parking lots at the train stations also go to fox29.com real link to you septa so you can check those updates on train and bus status where is you head out tomorrow morning. back to you. >> sounds good. thank you so much shawnette. live look right now at philadelphia international airport. my goodness it's a vast difference on the runways from saturday. everything is back up and ru running aft complete ground stop and the snowstorm and of course during the massive cleanup afterwards. let's take live look actually a look at the security lines from this morning. little thinner than normal for the busy airport. a lot of airlines are still regrouping after canceling thousands of flights. to reading we go a live look. remember we'd love to see what it looks like where you live. so just tweet us using the #fox29snow. sky fox over a wild scene in south philadelphia earlier tonight. a state police say a woman jumped from the passenger side of a car going at highway speed this was on i-76 eastbound near university avenue. the car was in the left lane when she jumped incredibly she was not hit by any cars. she was taken to the hospital as a precaution. officers say they're does not appear to be any foul play involve. take a close look at this man. lower merion police are after him. it's for a rather nasty crime. >> you got to hear what he did in a library stairwell. dave schratwieser joins us live at lower merion police headquarters tonight. dave. >> reporter: iain, low merion police released surveillance video of that man who defecated in the stairwell of a local library. they call that criminal mischief. tonight the folks at the library called it disgusting. >> gross. >> reporter: library in lower merion was packed monday night and buzzing about the release of this surveillance video showing a man roaming through the library moments before police say he entered an open stairwell here and defecated. >> i think it's really sad when you hear something like that. >> it's pretty indecent and actually the library does very good job. it's a new building. public bathrooms are very nice. >> reporter: lower merion police released the vitter yo of the man as he walk through the library on south brain mauer avenue. eric green was stunned to hear the news much he's been at the library for the past two weeks studying for upcoming scam. >> i've seen couple police officers but i've never -- they never made any announcements or about that. i had no idea about that incident. >> reporter: green can't understand why anyone would do such a thing. he believes there's more to the story and the man in the video probably needs help. >> to have to go in the stairwell isn't exactly necessary at all. >> reporter: jessica myers and carly tray gary were studying for mid term at the library. they heard about the surveillance video in an e-mail. >> i think it's a little insane someone pooped on the stairs when they have a lovely bathroom about 10 steps away from the staircase. >> unbelievable. very strange. >> reporter: police hope someone will recognize the man they say he could be from the area. >> i wouldn't see why you would need to use a stairwell but maybe he has lot of on the problems going on. he probably needs help actually. >> disappointing to see somebody engage in behavior like that. >> reporter: now sources tell us tonight that police are making some progress identifying that man in the video. folks are with the library hope he never returns. iain? >> all right, dave, thank you. skyfox over a fuel spill earlier tonight coast guard says 250 gallons of diesel fuel spilled in the schuylkill river. this after an even larger spill on land. multiple agencies are involved after 4300 gallons of fuel spilled at century link facility near 24th and market streets. crews are deploying ab soar bant materials into the river to soak up that fuel and also use vacuum trucks to row move the fuel from the water. pennsylvania department of environmental protection is also helping in the cleanup. ♪ >> a gun out, these two storm into a local grocery store and demand cash from the woman at the counter. then this. it gets worse. what the robbers did when that woman screamed for help. plus afraid of what's crawling around their office. employees too scared they'll get fired if they don't go to work. >> it make my skin crawl much it's absolutely disgusting. >> what they say has invaded their building even biting people at their desk. >> new line of business for the philadelphia mob much the industry that's putting the mob in houses all across the city. plus, established over a pot of chili? what police say a house guest did as couple was cooking that landed him i ♪ live look tonight at reading as our area continues to dig out from saturday's blizzard. >> down the shore it's flooding that rocked communities. sky fox over north wildwood this morning as homes and businesses are trying to dry out. the flooding many say rivals the water that came surging in during super storm sandy. >> fox 29's jennifer joyce takes to us stone harbor hit hard by high tide. rebuilding has begun one day after powerful storm barreled up the coast devouring dunes in north wildwood flooding homes and businesses and forcing at least 150 evacuations. >> this is all bay mud covering the floors. >> reporter: jim flynn of flynn's real estate agency says the storm surge forced 14-inches of water into his business compared to 8-inches during super storm sandy. >> we did not prepare for this severe tidal flooding. >> reporter: north wildwood mayor patrick says the tidal rush bow a foot higher than predicted. greater intensity that makes a huge difference. >> the sand -- the beach came up to his gazebo and now there's about a 15-foot drop from the gazebo down to the sand. >> reporter: acting governor toured south jersey beaches with dep officials. she said it's too early to make any damage assessments. some people in cape may county say they will spent at least the next several weeks cleaning up and they think governor christie is underestimating the aftermath in the southern part of the state. >> there are children who couldn't be in their homes all weekend who have no food. they're clothes are ruined. yeah, this is a totally different area than north jersey and isophot always aware of th that. >> reporter: you it will take little bit of time before these damage assessments are completed and we fine out what federal aid if any could come to some of these south jersey shore towns. in stone harbor, jennifer joyce, fox 29 news. >> video posted on youtube of new jersey governor chris christie is making the rounds on social media. at a campaign event in new hampshire a girl with ties to new jersey asked this. >> why are you here in new hampshire campaigning instead of there helping serving the damages done by the coastal flooding from the storm? >> well, because it's already done. it's already done. >> okay. >> tell me why you think it isn't. >> i have friends family calling sending me videos and pictures. >> where? >> all over the state. >> all over the state? >> of flooding. >> all over the state. really? i don't he want me to go down there with a mop? you know, the fact is -- >> christie said that only one county cape may county had flooding damage. according to our weather authority at least three counties have been dealing with flooding issues. the governor has come under fire in recent days for his response to the flooding in south jersey. it's not just new jersey that got hit from this weekend's storm. fox 29 viewer sending this video from bethany beach, delaware. sunny skies today, but the storm and rough surf eroded a lot of beach and chopped away half of the dunes. route 1 between bethany and dewey beach is now reopened after the flood waters have rhee subsided. moving to south philadelphia tonight as your community digs out and gets back to normal show us how it's going. we want to see wait locks like in your area. just tweet us and use the #fox29snow. one man arrested after a stab at a south philadelphia convenience store. police tell us the victim was stabbed in the face and cut on his ear in the 2100 block of south sixth street. he's at the hospital much he's expected to be okay. police arrested the suspect less than block away. the man accused of ambushing a philadelphia police officer in the name of islam will not be in court until march. a judge moved preliminary hearing for edward archer from today to march 10th. prosecutors say archer ambushed officer jesse hartnett in his patrol car on january 7th. doctors released officer hartnett from the hospital on friday. he was shot three times in the arm. the fbi is investigating the act as an act of terrorism. armed robbery caught on video in west philadelphia. philadelphia police say these two guys walked into the rodriguez grocery store on north 57th street last thursday, surveillance video shows one of the guys pulling a gun on a female worker. cops say she yelled, drawing the attention of some people outside but once the suspect pointed the gun at them, too, they ran off. the two guys got away with money and took off down race street. if you are from philadelph philadelphia, you know the name. >> dietz and watson and today a big birthday for their longest serving employee the company is known for lunch meats, franks and sausages and momma dietz turned 91 years old. she started coming to work with her dad back in 1939. he was the founder of the company and for 76 years dietz and watson has run a family business. what keeps momma working at 91? >> because i have an interest and i have desire to help and hope that we do well, and what i can do to help, lie do. >> employees celebrated momma dietz birthday with a cake an lot of specialty sausages. he was walking home way couple of friends when his life was almost cut short. >> we heard pow, pow and first thought it was firecracker. >> it wasn't a firecracker. it was gunshots. his baseball hat saved him. what even doctors are calling a miracle howard? >> the eagles they hired new coaches and today they started on signing the core players they need to keep. one of the starters on offense will be here for while and zach ertz talk about how chip kelly was important for this day. that and his thoughts on sam bradford. that's coming up in sports. >> all right. we've seep pretty weird postings for a place to stay from vw vans to tents in a front yard. what the website going too far? >> now with tomorrow's traffic, here's bob kelly. good evening, everybody. watch out everything is going to refreeze on the overnight to make things a little slippery for tomorrow's morning rush hour. the ppa, though, they're back to enforcing the meters and kiosk parking all across the city for tomorrow morning. so get ready for that and before you even pull out of the driveway, make sure you get all the snow off of your car. we saw a lot of cars out there this without the snow cleared off the roof or trunk of the vehicle. if you're using philadelphia international airport check the status with the airline. freezing temps, more ice, sue and i will see you bright and >> now your winning lottery numbers. ♪ all right. quite a complicate get up at this car dealership in doylestown bucks county to clear the lot at fred beans employees had to move huge row of cars, then plow, then move them all back. it takes long time. we are told this started at 8:00 this morning. >> long work day. meanwhile take look at this snowplow. trouble in new york. >> plow stuck on the streets of queens. the street hadn't been plowed in 24 hours even a tow truck couldn't get this thing out. they had to call in the heavy equipment. it took a bulldoze story free the plow. parts of queen got buried under 30-inches of snow. >> vince young in trouble again with the law tonight. police in austin texas arrested the former quarterback for dwi. officers pulled him over early this morning and say that he smelled of booze was slurring his speech. couldn't walk a straight line. in their report, police called young quote uncooperative and polite. did he post bond though and was released today. incredible stroke of luck for florida man who was shot by a stray but ball let. >> lucky baseball cap may have saved his life. saturday afternoon josh cronin was walking with two friends orlando suburb when he thought he heard a firecracker. but then he felt pain in his head realized he was bleeding his friends called 911 he'd been shot in the head. doctors later told his mother that her son's baseball cap quite possibly saved his life. >> they think that perhaps the plastic clip that puts the size in the back of the cap, um, pobbly deflected the bullet enough, the momentum, so that it did not go through his skull. >> doctors are calling a mirac miracle. he still has a lot of swelling and too much for them to remove the bullet as of now. they'll try again in few days much police are searching for the person who shot him. afraid of what's crawling around their office. employees too scared to get fired if they don't good to wo work. what they say has invaded their building even biting people at their desk. >> a new line of business for the philadelphia mob much the industry that's putting the mob in houses all across the city. kathy? >> our next weather system comes from the west and brings us rain. we'll talk about that for tomorrow and a system that will be offshore but will it stay ♪ right now at 10:30 digging out from the blizzard. let's take a live look at the poconos tonight it is late at a blue mountain ski area. you know what that fresh foot of powder is going to definitely draw people out to the mountai mountains. >> take look at havertown from above. here's some video taken via a drone along route 3 busy afternoon for people with snow blowers and shovels a lot of work for those people trying to get a handle on all of this snow. across the river in camden they're still digging out as well. but slowly. slowly life is returning to normal. >> most of the major roads are clear tonight but those side streets that have yet to even see a plow. we've been talking to all kinds of frustrated residents tired of being snowed in. camden officials say crews are working around the clock to clear those streets. public transportation on nj transit is back up and running for the most part. city street crews say they will get to your street but the word of the day or days really is patience. >> these are those irregular storms that after a day of is you shine you can't just look out the window and say, you know, it's sunny, how come there's snow on my street? >> 40 plow trucks working to clear those roads. 24/7. camden's school district is closed tomorrow as the city continues to dig out. chester county church rebuilding after some heavy damage was done to the property. calgary fellowship church in downingtown roof collapsed this weekend during the snowstorm. church officials say about 5 feet of snow blew on to the roof and the collapse caused significant damage to the building and to the sanctuary. church officials anticipate being out of the sanctuary for at least sick months. the church will use their gym to hold church services for now. in montgomery county, this hill was the place to be this afternoon. skyfox found dozens of kids i'm thinking adults if i were there shredding in norristown with the sun out it was just the perfect day to get out and enjoy the snow. i love sledding. do you like sledding iain. >> not any more. i used to love it, though. those kids are out of school having great time. >> oh yeah. >> more fun tomorrow. >> we were building forts in my backyard this morning. >> good for you. >> yeah. we love snow days. we're still seeing snow on the side streets but you can see right here on market street in old city philadelphia no problems. little bit shiny on the shoulder and that means little icy so please be careful during the morning hours. temperatures will be below freezing. right now still above freezing in philadelphia. 33. the high today 40 degrees. not much wind. look at that just 3 miles an hour but that will be picking up tomorrow with warm southwesterly breeze. so right now dry conditions but look at this. our next system moving in with rain and through the great lakes they get the snow. it's just a weak front but nevertheless it could bring light showers during the afternoon. we have 20s to the north and west. teens in allentown. refreezing overnight. 38 in millville and right now it is 38 degrees in atlantic city at the airport. so future cast shows overnight a few passing clouds. otherwise the front approaches tomorrow. the clouds will be increasing a of it a chance of rain ahead that frontal boundary moving through late in the afternoon then early wednesday morning, part of this system could be clipping south jersey with a chance of a wintry mix or maybe few snow showers and then all of this moves offshore went see a nice sunny day for your wednesday. a lot of folks on social media have been talking about the weather this week and a coastal low that was on the weather maps. it's dangerous sometimes to look ahead and i'll show you why. so first tuesday we have this front moving through then developing low pressure system, yes, it will develop in the gulf of mexico. cross over florida and move up the eastern seaboard. but now new data into the computer models and showing this is tracking well offshore all the models have it offshore that appose to be the trend and tomorrow we'll confirm it right now it will not ab threat to the main land u.s. and we stay dry thursday into friday and into the weekend which looks really nice. everybody can go we dodged that one. overnight to in the city 28. in the suburbs 19. moonlit skies but watch for icy patches. we know that. during the day tomorrow, we melt again. 42 a few showers late in the day. as we look ahead on the seven day forecast looking good. high temperatures mainly in the 40s. with low temperatures in the 20s and 30s. staying generally below freezing at night. watching the coast on friday but right now looks like we'll be watching a storm well offshore. just spectators and then over the weekend it looks nice with highs well into the 40s and lows in the 30s want to share few pictures this is from barnegat bay forked river, new jersey, it looks icy there. and philly social retweeted my tweet -- >> what? >> look at this. i love this picture. i was on my way to grab dinner and independence hall looked so beautiful in the snow. love that. we walk by it a lot because we're located right here and we don't want to take it for granted a beautiful picture after the blizzard of 2016. >> do you like cute pictures and videos. >> um-hmm. >> we got one for you. >> at the national zoo one panda still having great time. >> very good time. who doesn't love pandas? see what i'm talking about. the zoo tweeted out this picture of tiang tiang rolling around in leftover snow. the panda became a big hit on social media over the weekend when the zoo shared another video of him making snow angels, love it. the zoo is closed again today leaving the panda lots and lots of time to play without prying eyes watching. >> coming up, established over a pot of chili. what police say a house guest did as couple was cooking that landed him in the hospital. we've seen some really weird online postings for places to stay overnight from vw vans to tents in somebody's front yard you don't know. what the website air b and fight over some chili gets a guy stabbed. you heard that i police in detroit say a guy was visiting a man an woman at their home this weekend. they started fighting with him when he stirred a pot of chili they were cooking much police say the pair started beating him and then stabbed him. the victim was able to escape is going to be okay. the couple was arrested and charged with assault. in your money tonight hilton hotel chain trying to track younger crowd. the new brand is called true aimed at travelers looking to spend between 75 and 90 bucks a night. hilton is trying to compete with chains like the comfort inn. the hotels will be a mix of areas, you know, urban areas, suburban area and also at airports. one guy tried to take advantage of this weekend's snowstorm by posting a place to stay on the website air b and b it's for igloo in brooklyn. the ad for the boutique winter igloo for two promised snow polka lips get away. the cost 200 bucks a night. >> what? >> it took air b and b a view hours to catch they deleted the post saying it did not meet occupancy standards. >> did not. workers in one in order call center afraid to go walk into their building. >> and probably really really creeped out. and this is why. bed bugs a whole lot of them. these are pictures employees have taken. they work at 24/7 in touch in clearwater providing customers support for brands like a. air bnb and netflix much the company admits it found bed bugs at the building. it says it has treated the building four times and inspectors have not spotted any live bugs since and employees say not true. and they're very worried if they don't go to work they'll get fired. >> it makes my skin crawl. i'm fighting the you were to scratch myself right now. i know that there's no bugs on me. it's absolutely disgusting. >> you don't want to bring them home with you. workers have filed complaints but says it has shared documentation that pest professionals are working on the issue. next new line of business for the philadelphia mob. the industry that's putting them in houses all over the city. ♪ [ woman on p.a. ] now 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[ male announcer ] maybe you see something suspicious. but you don't want to get involved. it's nothing, you think. can you be sure? ♪ if you see something, say something. report suspicious activity to local authorities. ♪ they're back. experts say the philadelphia mob has grown in numbers. the city has hasn't seen sin the late '80s. it's claiming it's gone legit. >> getting in on the city's booming rebuilding and real estate business fox 29's dave schratwieser shows what he found in a two-month long investigation. >> reporter: if you happen to be at the corner of 21st and passyunk just before christmas, or at the corner of 11th and jackson two weeks ago, you would realized right off the bat that the philly mob is back. fox 29 undercover cameras were rolling as one of city's most powerful wise guys george borgesi emerged from mob social club in south philly. >> hey, george you got a minute? >> who is it? >> want to ask you a couple questions. >> these guys are hanging out together and business together none of that is prize surprising. >> reporter: borgesi has been out of prison just over year and has been the center of attention in south philly for months now. hanging on street corners with fellow weiss guys in deep discussions with high ranking mobsters like acting mob boss joe ligambi or reputed under boss steve mazzone. >> he's obviously a player. he's in the middle of all of this. >> reporter: early january, there was borgesi again with mazzone in dominic grant dee walking talking near the new clubhouse at 11th and jackson. a week earlier more than 20 weiss guys and wanabees gather the there. socializing and hanging out. again, not something borgesi wanted to talk about. >> how about the guys hanging out? you don't want to talk. >> look, in this live everybody needs friends. attorney edwin jacobs who led the defense team in the last half dozen mob trials says there's nothing suspicious going on here. >> it's not the least bit surprising upon release from custody any of them would seek out and couldn't grew gate with their friend. quite natural. >> despite lengthy federal prison sentences experts agree the mob is back stronger than ever. >> given the guys who have come back from prison and are back out and about, you probably in the 25 to 30 maybe thrive and we haven't been that high since the end of the scarfo era. >> they're doing the right thing. it's good to have a wide circle of friends. good to be a member of the community. >> reconnecting with people with whom they committed crimes doesn't body well for rehabilitation. >> dave, the former head of the organized crime strike force in philadelphia. he too believes the mob is back to the mid 1980 strength. >> eerie retired from law enforcement now. i'm sure the people who are still there are concerned about it and i'm very confident that they're going to be watching closely. >> reporter: federal and state investigators believe ligambi still oversees the rei surveillance yet philly mob. over 30 inducted member are back on the street. sources say several new mobsters were recently inducted into the local family. while the overall numbers are strong, insiders say they're divided in four factions. one headed by ligambi, one by former mob boss joey merlino and another by convicted wise guy phil narducci but of nicky scarfo mob in the 1980's a fourth faction is said to be loyal to joe punk tour another convicted scarfo mob captain. >> whose the boss and who wants to be the boss? i mean, you know, joey merlino is very clever that way and if i had to take a bet i'd say joey still the guy in charge. >> sort of seems to me that the federal law enforcement authorities look at the godfather one and two as a textbook and it's not a textbook it's a screen play over investigated, over indicted, over tried simply overblown. >> that's a nice statement for somebody to make on behalf of the people who are paying him to be their paid poll gist. >> with all these made members of the mob on the streets here in philadelphia you're probably wondering what are they doing to earn money these days? there's no doubt they're peace of pie has shrunk considerably. but the 2016 version of the mob claims they've got legit. >> you talk to people. they're legit. they're legit. they're legit. these guys have a track record. they're legit, sure. you wanted to business with them? that's on you. >> reporter: it's no secret the home building and home renovation business is booming in philadelphia from northern liberties to south philadelphia. construction can be seen on almost every corner in some neighborhoods. contractors and building supply companies can barely keep up. all that building caught the local mob's eye and now they're building renovating and flipping homes. >> interesting thing we're hearing is that they're getting involved legitimately in reconstruction, rehab, mortgage reefy. >> reporter: remember that meeting being run by borgesi back before christmas? well, that took place at the south philadelphia headquarters of a real estate company in a local mortgage company. they buy homes, renovate them and try to flip them for handsome profit all legit. just not something borgesi wanted to discuss with fox 29 investigates. >> just want to ask you a couple questions. about real estate. >> good for them. i'm glad they're in business. i hope they make lot of money. if they do, i hope they offer me a partnership interest. i'd like to be able to get into that real estate boom. >> they're certainly enterpris enterprising and they look for opportunities to make money. >> he's doing legitimately, god bless him. we'll see. >> borgesi is not the only one doing. convicted mobster joe, owns properties all over philly including one of these newly renovated row homes on south second street. bought it for 200 grand early last year and renovated it. it listed for sale at $629,000. good work clearly pays off. >> anastasia said that may be so but they're a love eyes on all of this. >> down the road, everybody is watching, and if they cross that line, the feds and the state police and the local police expect them to eventually cross that line, 'cause that's who they are. they'll be prosecute. >> i think they ought to be applauded, not scrutinized. not investigated. >> reporter: sources say state and federal investigations are keeping a close eye on the bulging mob ranks and their endeavors. joey merlino has been bouncing in and out of time. he made an appearance at a now years eve party in packer park with ligambi. he join close friends during the mummers parade on new year's day all reported on social medial the mob is still getting headlines not just the ones proclaiming their down fall. investigators are wasting there time and taxpayer money. >> we don't have enough money to run our government. that which we do have in my mind would better be spent on protecting our borders from international and domestic terrorists. >> that's true but you're in the city, and you get in a situation where you've got a problem with these guys, then they become the terrorist you got to deal with. >> you don't make new members if you're going out of business and enterprising criminals don't join an organization that they think going nowhere and falling apart. >> dave schratwieser, fox 29 news. all right. interesting. here's howard with a look what's coming up in sports. >> i want to get one of those homes before i have to sell it. all right. eagles started to make sure they will keep their core players on the team. one of the starting players on offense has little more money today. he wasn't selling homes and he will be here for while. he gives chip kelly some of the credit and the flyers are trying to get off that losing streak and it it came ♪ a lot of guys would love to have sam back. jordan and myself in particular. >> yeah, the eagles have players they want to make sure they sign. zach ertz is one and he wants sam bradford signed and back as the quarterback. especially since ertz signed a big-time deal that will keep him for quite awhile. ertz signed a five-year contract which keeps him here another six years five-year deal worth 42-point mill but the important numbers the guaranteed money and ertz will get 20 million guaranteed. ertz drafted in three years ago in the second round coming in with chip kelly as the new head coach at that time. how much did chip kelly mean to his numbers and his career? >> chip pushed me in ways aren't reflected in numbers. i think my blocking has progresseprogressed these thee o levels i wouldn't have reached it if weren't for him and coach peel. those guys push me to be player i definitely wasn't when i first came into the league but on the field and off the field. i owe lot of my success and a lot of my future success to coach kelly. >> zach ertz made another point today saying was money was not a driving force to the deal. he wants to play his entire career here. be around for a championship. money not the factor because of his personality. >> i'm very cheap off the field i don't really spend so the money is not something i paid attention to. i don't really care about the money honestly. >> all right. and malcolm jenkins got call from the pro bowl he will be in the pro bowl. the flyers have been off since last thursday coming home tonight trying to end two game losing streak it liked the flyers were turning the you corner. tonight it was boston to the wells fargo center. the flyers were down two to nothing in this. two-one in the third period with just under eight minutes to go. wayne simmonds score. two-two. with wound minutes left in the game brent connelly deflects it in. boston wins the three-two over the flyers the flyers know the problem and it's now dangerous. >> this time of year everyone is fighting for points. a couple of games. we got to make the most of them and chuting ourselves in the first the first peer and it haunted us tonight. >> i thought they were metal detectors in building. that must hurt if you shoot yourself in the foot. how do you get the guns in there. >> hockey is a game for tough guys even in fee wee hockey. one kid tried to show how tough he is. he'll check this guy right into the boards. oh -- >> wow. i hate when that happens. >> miss cal could you laying. >> look, bang. >> that poor little guy. >> he just bounced off. >> he's young. >> see what happens when you try to do that to another player. >> coming up full hour of entertainment news. tmz followed by dish nation then chasing news and the simpsons. >> and we're back here at 4:00 a.m. for fox morning news. "good day philadelphia", sue serio and bob kelly have g and this morning the fox 29 morning news, three days later and we're still cleaning out from the blizzard of 2016. >> yeah, from schools and businesses things are still shut down. while the the crews continue to clean everything up. new jersey governor chris christie under fire for his response, to a question asked at a campaign event about the the clean up efforts in new jersey. good day, everybody it is tuesday january 26th, 2016. we have to remind you public and catholic schools in philadelphia again closed to day. you can see school closings and delays at the bottom of the screen scrolling. check out our web site also at fox 29.com. >> my kid delayed two hours, that is because the clean up continues. >> my sister is a librarian at baltimore county school a

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