He sent out over the week then he says was meant to be satirical for now the university is not defensing him g evening im iain page. Drexel has condemned those tweets but this professor is not rolling over. Fox 29s brad sattin live tonight on drexels campus with more. Brad . Reporter iain, this has gotten a lot of attention today on the surface a white associate professor is accused of making a couple racist comments in a few tweets. Some are online calling for his firing but others say he is a longtime expert in Race Relations and they are simply missing his point. It was a Christmas Eve tweet that drew immediate fire Drexel University associate professor of politics george sick rail low maher saying it was satirical and posted op his closed private account exposed he says by the online publication bright bart. It read all i want for christmas is White Genocide. Followed up with, to clarify when the whites were massacred during the haitian revolution that was a good thing indeed. Taken at face value and written by a white professor much of the initial response was his belief online and among someone a quiet drexel campus where students were still on winter break. Kind of a pretty messed up way to state whatever he was trying to state. I dont think thats okay. Reporter drexel responding while the university recognizes the right its faculty to freely express their thoughts and opinions in public debate professors comments are henry hence cybill, deeply disturbing don not reflect the values of the university n everybody male to fox 29 he explained that he quote sent a satirical tweet about an imaginary concept White Genocide for those who havent bothereed to research White Genocide is an idea invented by White Supremacists its a figment of the racist imagination it should be mocked and im glad to have mocked it. He also expressed disappointment witness university for commen commenting before understanding the context and some students agreed. Hard to know for certain that someone being satirical in such an extreme format, but i understand where hes coming from. I think that a lot of whites are complacent about White Supremacy and i think he was right to make a point about it. Reporter that point certainly stirring a lot of controversy across the nation tonight. The associate professor saying hes gotten lot of Death Threats in the last 24 hours. Drexel university saying theyre planning a meeting with him now, iain torque get to the bottom it. All right, brad, thank you. On your radar tonight, if you were lucky enough to not have to go back to work yet it was great night to take in the sights and sounds of the holidays around the city. It was dry temperatures in the mid to upper fours. Meteorologist mike masco with more op your forecast. Its only going milder from here. Iain were talking temperatures 10 00 oclock into the upper 4 40s. 48 degrees the big number at 10 00 oclock. Most spots in the Delaware Valley are now approaching the 50degree mark. In around philadelphia 48. We just showed you but places like cherry hill are coming close now hitting 50. Glassboro at 48 degrees in voorhees youre just about there. So really delightful feeling temperatures and these numbers almost 10 to 20 degrees milder than where we were last night this is a nice treat. The played trade off to the mild temperatures are the visibilities coming down dense fog to the north and west pottstown, allentown youre rhee reporting around a quarter to half a of a mile visibility that will continue to drop through the rest tonight. Ultimate doppler showing us a ribbon of showers and storms out to the west. That will actually approach the region as we get into tomorrow morning so pair of fives i was your way off to work. Mostly cloudy skies around lunch time 59 and going for temperature of 61 degrees. When i come back well talk more about the mild temperatures and the fact that its only going to last for a short amount of time. It will get cold once again those details are coming up. Iain. Mike, thank. Im not sure which new christmas clothes to wear back to school or work dont decide without checking the fox 29 weather app its available for android or app if he devices. Developing right now police are hoping that you can help locate this greatgrandmother and great granddaughter missing since Christmas Eve. Police say 71yearold Barbara Riley and her fiveyearold were on their way from mays landing, new jersey, to North Carolina to visit family for the holidays. They were last seen at an exxon station in reuter glenn virginia barbara is driving a silver toyota suv. An incredible story of survival for one lehigh woman and her family. 46yearold karen klein, her husband and 10yearold son were on their way to the grand canyon they got stranded on snowcovered roads. Mrs. Klein got out of the car and walked 26 miles to look for help. Searcher found her in cabin saturday two days after she began her trek. Shes now recovering at a utah hospital. Her son and husband are doing okay. Tonight a family is pleading for answers in that senseless killing of a south philadelphia grocery owner. There are still no arrests in the shooting death of 81yearold victim on Christmas Eve morning. Lets get out to fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live at Police Headquarters with more information. Shawnette. Reporter iain, youre exactly right. Still no arrests and still just a vague description of what the gunman was wearing when he walked into that store just before 9 00 saturday morning and tonight the victims family continues to plead for help trying to identify that gunman. Flowers, candles and handwritten notes pile up on the steps of maries gross row store on south sixth street in south philly. Its where someone gunned down the owner, 81yearold marie buck, Christmas Eve. Its been very rough on the family. We sort of dont know whats up or whats down at the moment. Reporter angela smith describes thing a gonysessing pain she feels over the loss of her aunt. My aunt was a rock. She was the rock for this commune n she was rock to this family. Reporter vest gathers say someone shot buck several times as she stood behind the counter. Shes owned the place 44 years. Its inconceivable. She always had a big smile when you walked in the door. What can i happen you were it . And joking with you. Reporter neighbors stopped by to remember the woman who they call a saint. Its a sad thing. She was a very nice lady, too. Hurting. Like if your mother died, your father or your children. Some words cant be said. Reporter Family Members say the person who shot buck didnt take anything. They cant understand why this happened. I cant wrap my head around that someone would do that to my precious aunt. Reporter and were told the victim worked in her store six days a week. She lived just few doors away with her husband. Iain . So tragic, shawnette, thank you. In the citys Oxford CircleSection Police are on the hunt for a driver in a hitandrun around 5 45 this Evening Police say a driver hit someone on bustle avenue and roosevelt boulevard and took off. The striking vehicle may have been a black saab. Theres no word now on how that victim is doing. And tonight delaware troopers are looking for clues surrounding a christ mat eve hitandrun. Authorities say 54yearold lisa bolden died saturday night after a car hit her on chris keenan road in new castle that car kept driving and medic pronounced her dead at the scene. Police think a white four door sedan hit her it probably has damage to the right front corn corner. Relationship with the United States closest ally in the mill east has not yet been a simple one in the last eight years. The Obama Administration winds down israel believes the us played a key role in orchestra orchestrating one last parting shot and they say they can prove it. Foxs kevin cork is in honolulu, hawaii with the president. Reporter clear evidence thats what israeli Officials Say they have that proves the Obama Administration was in fact behind the controversial Un Security Council resolution vote condemning jewish state. We have rather iron clad information from sources in both arab world and internationally that this was a deliberate push by the United States the fact they helped create the resolution in the first place. Reporter that resolution demanded israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied palestinian territory including east jerusalem. The u. S. Abstained when allowed for the measures passage in the international body. Abstention not only as a break with us tradition by some as an act of revenge directed at israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahou who frosty relationship with president obama went into the deep freeze during the run up to the Iran Nuclear Deal the jewish leader bypassed the white house to defiantly address a joint session of congress. I think he was trying to get even. Look, he called me into the Office Office before the election, i want your support and i have to tell you i will always have israels back. I didnt realize what he moment he would have his back to establish him in the back, and he just stabbed him in the back. I wouldnt say surprised. Disappointed in the volume of the reaction because i think it fails to acknowledge that totality his president s record. Reporter Obama Administration officials strongly reject suggestions that the us was behind the vote or has turned its back on the jewish state. Principal Deputy White House press secretary eric schultz saying president obama has done more or israel and its security than any previous u. S. President before adding, we cannot have a two state solution be a slow gap while the lines on the ground are making a two state solution less likely. Direct reference to the expansion of israeli settlements scene as historic protective buffer by many but as unlawful incursion by opponents. Conflict to date isnt about homes, it isnt about jews living on the side of that line or that side of a line it goes to the very heart of whether or not theres room in the middle east for one jewish faith. As it israeli controversy swirls president obama remains convinced of his own political power. Telling cnn if a it were legal to run for a third term in 2016 he would have won. Im confident that if i, f i had run again and articulated it i think i could have mobilized a majority of American People to rally behind it. As you can well imagine the president comments werent going to make their way passed donald trump. Almost immediately he responded by saying this about the president s comments in that exit interview, president obama said he thinks he would have won against me, he should say that, but i say no way. Isis, oh care, jobs leaving, et cetera. Just a small reminder of what was at stake during the election but a measured response frankly when you consider these two men will have to Work Together a lot in the weeks to come. Traveling with the president in honolulu, kevin cork, fox news. A local man finds himself out of work tonight its all because he was just trying to help someone else. Yeah, i knew it was breaking the rules. Why did you do it. You got to be find to people. I mean its outside. What he did thats got him out of work and why he says hed do it again. He was a goat on the lamb this farm animal was headed to the big house but find out why some officers at a south Jersey Police department decided they wanted to find this little guy a good home for the holidays. Thats coming up next. A lot of excitement on Independence Mall tonight on the third night of hanukkah. The popular menorah parade started at eakins oval and made its way down to old city. This was the end of the parade at Independence Hall where the large menorah was lit. You can see the crowd dancing for the jewish scene and dancing. People in northeast philadelphia woke up to Christmas Morning to this. Their tires slashed. Now police are trying to catch the vandals behind it. Police say someone damaged the tires on nine cars on the 900 block of folk rod street sometime between midnight and 2 30am yesterday. No word on any suspects. Search is on for a burglar who bust flood offices of a popular Philadelphia Restaurant owner. This guy on Surveillance Video broke into the star Restaurants Office building on the 100 block of Market Street and got away with a laptop, a sirius xm radio they belonged to steven star who you know probably owns and manages more than dozen restaurants in philadelphia. Christmas may be over but the Holiday Shopping frenzy is not quite done yet. Many people across the area flocked to malls that were crowded to check out all the deals, use those gift cards or just returns of unwanted gifts. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi reports on how more shopping craze from the Cherry Hill Mall. Reporter the stores at Cherry Hill Mall packed. The mall is jam. The sounds you hear over and over the hum of the register scanner. Its all part of the post Christmas Shopping frenzy. I got loaded with gift cards. H and m, foot locker all of them. So, you know, the normal 21yearold gifts now a days new york city more kiddie presents. Spending gift cards just shopping for myself now. I think were all getting for ourselves. We bought everybody elses gifts and i know now im treating myself g thats right. Most everyone it seems is right back out here using gift cards spending christmas cash and returning and buying more. Its a good day as far as shopping goes because you see a lot of people same thing as being spending Christmas Money and whatnot. Ill use my gift cards i got for christmas and go from there. Reporter for the Retail Industry the day after christmas is a time to blow out their leftover merchandise and book mark the end of the year with big sales. Most shoppers take advantage of the opportunities. Most but not all. Yeah was at christmas yesterday. We got everything we needed. He got me everything and money i needed. So im happy. The next thing is probably an engagement ring. [ laughter ] reporter wow, how about that their next stop could be the jewelry store. At the Cherry Hill Mall, im Joanne Pileggi, fox 29 news. The search is on tonight for the killer who stabbed man to death in allentown. Police say 27yearold lord guererro was pronounced dead at the hospital this morning after the incident at sixth street and sum summer court. Another man is in the hospital. Theres no word on his conditi condition. There was a disturbance in the street involving several people. No arrests made. Police are looking for a guy responsible for scary christmas robbery juniata park. This guy walked into Texas Chicken and burgers on 3900 block of kensington avenue pull out gun and demanded money around midnight on christmas. The 19yearold employee gave the money and the suspect ran away. If you recognize this guy, please call police. It wasnt a reindeer who got separated from santas sleigh in Camden County this christmas. Tonight its a goat thats got police scratching their heads. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose went looking for answers in winslow township. Reporter rosco the billy goat spent Christmas Eve on the lamb. Breaking out of his home on south jersey farm. Luckily he was spotted by a Winslow Township Police officer as he dodged cars on busy road. The concerned officer quickly tossed the eightyearold long haired goat into the back of a squad car. No doubt rosco thought his time on the run had come to an end. Indeed he was headed to the big house. He was good shape. And seems pretty happily. The homeless farm animal was in good hasnt. Patrolman Austin Schmidt says fellow officer set rosco up in police dog enclosure retired cop came by way hey and feed. Maybe rosco was thinking live in the pen wasnt so bad. But the policeman wanted to make sure the wayward goat going to home for the holidays. Put it on facebook. Listen we got a goat here. Does anybody know anything about it. Reporter heres a note detectives were quick to make sure for any worried poise boys and girls they checked to make sure rosco was not a rogue reindeer and santas sleigh was still on track, you know, just in case anybody was worried. Now the response stores in town swung open to welcome the billy goat into their happy homes. Owner did come forward but it turns out he didnt want the little guy any more. By now Winslow Township Police were fond of their gentle new friend the department tracked down a local farm that agreed to take in the abandoned animal. Rosco is now living in big field with new friends including these donkeys and other goats. Its christmastime. So i feel like Everybody Needs a home around christmas. Reporter the officers here say rosco was not the future tift of the century but theyre glad they could give him a happy ending. We treat every animal with respect luckily social media came to the rescue and one of our people here in town took him. Reporter to give you perspective this is the pen that rosco spent the last couple of days in. Its not so bad considering he was homeless, but the Police Department is much happier he is now back on a farm and among friends. The owner of the farm tells me that rosco is healthy and doing well. In winslow township, is a bone in a kuriakose, fox 29 news. Holidays are supposed to be time of peace and joy but it was anything but in one american city. The Staggering Amount of people who were the victims of gun violence in chicago in just three days. Its a race again the clock. The nations largest drug lab is is trying to stay ahead of the next drug concoction before it has deadly consequences. What the Drug Enforcement agency is using to stay ahead of the curve. Now with tomorrows traffic heres bob kelly. This week its me sue serio and its not too early to start thinking about new years eve. Two of the big parties around xfinity live and the Franklin SquareHoliday Festival and electrical spectacle Holiday Light show, is that title long enough for you . All this happening in fact at Franklin Square theyre going to countdown to 6 00 oclock for the early Fireworks Show and then again for the late Fireworks Show the point of all of this in a traffic segment is, you got to make plans to be where youre going to be early because theres sure to be lot of traffic around both of these venues on new years eve. To see if theres any traffic morning you know school is off this week join us for good day we get started at 4 00 a. M. Think of your fellow man. Lend him a helping hand. Put a little love in your heart. Take a good look around. And if youre lookin down, put a little love in your heart. Put a little love in your heart. In your heart. avo the subaru share the love event is happening now and will have given ninety Million Dollars to help real people like these. Now your winning lottery numbers. Recordsetting tragic Holiday Weekend in chicago. Violence throughout the city has claimed 12 lives and wounded more than 40 others and thats only counting shootings in the midwestern city since friday. Detectives say they are making progress in some of the cases. Theyve seized 45 guns over the weekend. Police are also questioning several people of interest and they say most of the shootings are gang related in the south and west side of chicago. These were deliberate and planned shootings by one gang against another. They were targeted knowing fully well that individuals would be at the homes of family and friends celebrating the holiday. More than 700 homicides have been reported this year in chicago so far. That is up more than 200 from last year. While were enjoying above average temperatures here, people in north dakota are digging out from a christmas storm. Dos september of roads every closed, blowing and drifting snow, ice on the roads are creating near visibility zero visibility at times all the ice on the power lines is knocking out electricity. That makes for dangerous conditions when temperatures are 15 degrees with wind chills of five below. In michigan, a massive sink hole has one town under a state of emergency. Two dozen families in frazier just north of detroit have been forced out of their homes after the sink hole opened up Christmas Eve morning. One home partially collapsed. That lead police to block off major roads and divert traffic. Authorities say its not clear how large the sink hole could be but they believe its linked to possible sewage problem more than 50 feet underground. It was broke, compromising, and causing a backup and again thats what theyre frantically trying to alleviate that pressure. Town officials are hoping to get residents back in their homes within two weeks. A local man finds himself out of work because he was trying to help someone else watch he did and what he says he would do again. Fox 29s mike masco tracking your forecast. Yeah, beautiful evening out there with temperatures rising into the 50s. We do mostly cloudy skies across town right now and if we go out to the west, theres some scattered showers developing. Im meteorologist mike masco. Showers out there tomorrow morning but trade off will be 60degree weather. Well have those details coming up. All right. Its philadelphia new years tradition for years. But now some people want to see a change to the mummers parade. What a petition with hundreds of signatures is asking for. In burlington, new jersey, a 29yearold just been charged with luring. Police say tar affect sing tried to get juveniles into his car for oral sex. The kids were able to record one of the end counts they had and he allegedly tried to lure them the judge is now holding him on 25,000 bail. Holiday season is supposed to be about helping others but at least one man says that desire to help the homeless conflicted with his boss plan to keep them away and getting fired days before christmas was a dark moment for him and his family, but he told our Bill Anderson that the support of his friends and the lessons he learned definitely filled his Holiday Season with light for goodness sake. Reporter what do you do when your own morality a sense of doing right violates your jobs policy . Curtis ship man says that right before christmas he was trying to be helpful to a homeless person, his employer didnt like it and it left him unemployed just days before christmas. I got fired for allowing a homeless guy to sleep in the back in the Maintenance Area in the back of the job. Reporter the job was as Security Guard at two Apartment Buildings near Rittenhouse Square and the reason curtis says he did it honestly pretty simple. When you let him in. Yeah. You knew you were breaking the rules. Unfortunately, yeah. I knew i was breaking the rules but why did you do it. You got to be kind to people. I mean its cold outside. Reporter whats interesting he understands that he broke the rule. But his desire to help it was just more important to him. My boss the Security Company broke our number one rule, blah, blah, what am i supposed to just leave him out there . Reporter his wife tamika shares his outlook on how to treat people shared it on facebook and was surprised by the overwhelming support. People responded in such a positive way i did not expect it. I thought i was going to get some negatives feedback because the fact that he did break a rule, however, it was the opposite effect. Reporter as we walked through Rittenhouse Square talking it was clear curtis developed a relationship with homeless in the area that at least partially influenced his decision to help. Watch out for you, they watch out for them. Homeless folks report rom homeless man gary is one of the many he says he developed a relationship with. Obviously we wanted to hear his view finding him wasnt exactly easy. Lets see if we can find ga gary. I know he shoots into mcdonalds every once in a bit but hes usually in this area. Reporter we finally found gary in the alley near curtis old job on sansom. Theyre relationship seemed sincere. It was really cold and crappy outside, pouring down rain and, um, he offered to help me out get out of the rain. And give me a warm place in the back to sleep. Cost him his job for that, i think its dead wrong, and ill let god takes his course on that. Reporter the Apartment Building is unnamed because they were unavailable to comment because the holidays but we had follow up. As for curtis, he hopes to land on his feet soon with a new job and leaves us with a final thought before we choose to ignore the homeless. Make that one decision or you lose your job or Family Member passes or whatever have you, you can be out here, too. All of us can be out here. Reporter for goodness sake, ill Bill Anderson. New year is now less than a week away what will the year 2016 be remembered for . With a lot of negative news making headlines, why americans are optimistic about 2017 and if you fill up your tank in pennsylvania, youre already paying 18 cents more than the national average. But prepare to dig a little deeper into your pockets. How much more you can expect to spend on gas starting sunday. Now to a video thats sure to go viral from our area. Members of one local church did the mannequin challenge on Christmas Eve. Take a look. That is Saint Johns Lutheran Church in folcroft delaware conte posted this video on its if anything Facebook Page creating quite the buzz out there n your money the cost to fill up in pennsylvania going up again. Beginning sunday gas tax will increase by another 8 cents a gallon drivers will now pay about 78 cents a gallon in tax. The state has the highest gas tax in the country. The money goes to fund Road Construction infrastructure maintenance penndot says its used the money to fix thousands of bridges and has boosted Road Construction spending about 1 billion. Siberian tiger currently living in the brandywine zoo in delaware is getting ready to move to the bronx zoo. Shes eightyearold and one much 500 siberian tigers in the world and they can month shell move to the bronx zoo and be matched with a male tiger for breeding. She came to wilmington zoo in 2011 and zoo Officials Say theyre not sure if another tiger will take her place. Were coming up on new year but age odd controversy is simmering in philadelphia. What to do about the mummers. Some say forget about center city and bring the parade back to south philly. Supporters of the move started online petition that gathered more than 600 signatures. Butch cuts and impacted the mummers in recent years meaning a shorter parade route and a change in venue for the fancy brigades who now perform at the convention center. Well some local kids are spending their holiday break learning basketball schools skills from the pros and today they kick off the threeday sixers holiday hoops clinic for kids across the region. This video from Cardinal Ohara high school in springfield is one of eight locations hosting the clinic and parents can sign up their kids for 100 bucks. Theyre also get two sixers tickets invitation to a sixers practice and that new facility in camden, and an autograph from a player. Its a race again the clock. The nations largest drug lab trying to stay ahead of of next drug concoction before it has deadly consequences. What the Drug Enforcement agency is using to stay ahead of the curve. Heres live look out toward the airport this evening. Looking at mostly cloudy skies and reduced visibilit visibilit. Fox future cast will bring showers into the overnight hours and 60degree weather. Details coming up. my hero zero by lemonheads zero really can be a hero. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero due at signing, and zero first months payment on select volkswagen models. Right now at the volkswagen sign then drive event. The race is on to fine the next killer street drug its high tech and high risk. Illegal drugs are con stanly being restructured to try get around the laws. We have inside access to the latest weapons on the war on drugs. Reporter this nondescript warehouse somewhere in south florida. We are the southeastern laboratory and cover the Southeast Region of the United States and the caribbean. Reporter is home to the ft. Knox of illegal street dru drugs. Here you can meth and oxy condone, steroids, we have marijuana, company cape, marijuana, synthetic heroin, cocaine. The cases in the back. These are bulk submissions which are key loads of cocaine. In the corner is the candy which actually has fentanyl. Reporter were inside the federal Drug Enforcement agencys largest lab in the United States. The dea lab deals with new drug compounds so vast and dangerous location isnt publicized. Its a new danger. Not just for the public but also for the law enforcement. Reporter simply bringing potent illegal drug samples here from dea busts means suiting up. Isnt we go number eight which is this hazmat suit that you see here. Reporter taking extreme precautions. Its very dangerous. Reporter before chemists can even analyze them. Lab coat is a must. Proper shoes, gloves and goggl goggles. The reason arise in synthetic opioids including one thats 50 times more potent than heroin and belows morphine away. Its dangerous because its one hadnt dread time for potent than morphine and can go through your skin and if you inhale it it can cause death. Reporter fentanyl it has legitimate medical uses like pain relief for cancer patients. Delivered in time released patch. On the street illicit pill can kill instantly. Im grinding for analysis. Youve got your sample. Yes. I have my sample. Severing climbed up. Were going to run it on an strum. Im going to run the sample. Reporter this sample is clear of fentanyl. That doesnt mean were in the clear. This unnope and others can be just as if not more dangerous. This area is still considered the hot side. What does that mean. This is side where we have all the potential dangers. Solvents, the components. Okay. Thats what you have on your black list as well. Illegal drug makers play chemist. Things are constantly changing. Changing the structure of compounds every so slightly trying to stay ahead of the law. How often do you find something knew using this instrumentation . The amount of new compounds that were seeing is increasing within the last two years with the synthetic and now witness fentanyl. That translates to anything from bath salts to elephant tranquilizers to synthetic opioid known as pink involved in increasing number of overdoses nationwide. The dea has a secret weapon. It allows to put the monthly will he youll back together. This half Million Dollars call a Nuclear Resonance spec tromm meter its one of the powerful instruments a crime lab can have to identify new compounds. Well be able to say to our agency, dea headquarters new compound were seeing in the streets. Reporter all this only a small fracture of the killer street drugs they have on hand here. Citizens should be aware that to me it is truly playing russian roulette. Do you not know what youre going to get. Reporter and it is a constant race to stay ahead of the next deadly compound. Check on whats on your radar. Live look over reading to night. Dining out after earlier rain showers and the good news the temperatures will be staying above that freezing mark but for how much longer . Meteorologist mike masco has your forecast in 15 seconds. Temperatures are rising through the overnight hours. Its 49 degrees at 10 00 oclo 10 00 oclock. The winds have been very busy increasing out of the southwesterly direction between 10 to 15 miles per hour. South wind this time of the year will really crank our temperatures an allow them to rise that has been the case. Look at the numbers into the 40s closing in on 50 for millville, out towards atlantic city, dover at 50 degrees. Here in philadelphia again 49 degrees. Now the trade off for the overnight hours will be the reduced visibilities. Our visibilities coming in at around a quarter of a mile towards the lehigh valley. Mercer county out towards trenton reporting a quarter avenue mile visibility. They will start to improve as the winds pick up so thats good news. But again next three hours do you have to travel just know there will be decent amount of fog on the roadways. Cold front out to the west you can see the showers even imbedded thunderstorms across ohio. Thats going to come in for the morning commute and then as they depart the showers were going to see our temperatures rise. Look at pittsburgh at this hour. 65 degrees. National holding on close to tent degrees. And that will be in for tomorrow. Now, as we get into, say, wednesday or thursday, the tail end of this week, look at the cold air start to go build up toward the Northern Plains its 19 only in minneapolis. That will make its way into our area as we go into the midweek time frame. So 8 00 oclock tomorrow morning scattered showers for the lehigh valley. This front will really kind of break apart. Were not expecting widespread rain but upper 50s 8 00 oclock. Going into the 60 mark by the lunch time hour tomorrow and then much cooler air comes in for your day on wednesday. Lets fast forward to thursday because well watch a shot of cold air come at us. Some of our modeling picking up an area of low pressure trying to develop off the delmarva. If this is the case and the solution we could entertain the idea of a rain snow mixture thursday night into friday morning. Could be a little bit of accumulation especially to the north and to the west. Well watch that and sue serio will update tomorrow morning at 4am. 45 degrees in mount pocono. 59 degrees tomorrow in philadelphia here in town real delightful weather. Well go for about 61 for daytime high for tomorrow. Much colder for wednesday, 45 degrees and that mixture of rain and snow will come in by thursday things dry out, calm down by friday with a temperature around 41 and if youre start to go make plans for the weekend for new years eve festivities or new years Day Festivities mummers parade daytime highs will be into the 40 and overnight lows down into the 30s. Not bad for this time of year. Iain. Not at all, mike. Thank you. 2016 had a theme song perhaps it would be rems its the end of the world as we know it. New survey reveals how fed up we are with the year that brought us mass shootings, death of rah ram bee, fake news and will car research has more. Reporter we started 2016 on the wrong foot. The Times Square Alliance revealing 18 of people thought the country got better this year. About a third however say it got worse and maybe thats why mother jones declared Dumpster Fire as the meme of 2016. Top news event since january including mass killings and pollings like ambush of bush of nightclub in orlando which now stand as the worst shooting in United States history. Other notable tax taking place in france, belgium, turkey and pakistan, 63 of the ap polls say these stories impacted them personally. More than half of those say stories of people being killed by police and vise versa were the years most Important News but overwhelming majority president ial election as the biggest story and certainly the noisy yesterday. Shes guilty of a very very serious crime. Donald thinks be little link women makes him bigger. Out come may have been jar tolling majority the nation 55 think the coming year will be better regardless of the west wing regime change 12point improvement from last years poll. It has been privilege of my live to certain as your commander in chief. Being on the side lined benefited president obama hes ending the year with a healthy 53 Approval Rating according to the latest fox news poll. 2016 wasnt terrible for everybody. The cubs won the world series and Us Womens Gymnastics Team swept gold at the olympics in rio. Will carr, fox news. Sean, whats coming up in sports . We have a bunch of bowl games and one that ended in last second field goal attempt. Preview tomorrows big temple game. The guys talk about what they need to do to make history against wake forest. Thats coming up next sports. Temple trying to make history tomorrow in the military bowl. A win against Washington Forest will give them their 11th w and that will be the most in school history. Senior running back jihad thomas talks about what they need to do to get it done. We just got to go out there don what we do. We cant turn the ball over. Rush the ball fairly well. Get pj comfortable. Continue to play as well as theyve been playing for the past, you know, month or so. Um, and like i said we cant turn the ball over. Go out there and play effectively. Match the intensity. And penn state playing in big boy bowl for the first time in years. Really for the First Time Since that scandal they play usc in the rose bowl on january 2nd and coach James Franklin talks about what they need to do to get w. You cant afford to get down by a bunch. Our offense allows to us score points but their offense is the type of offense can that score points at any moment. Well have to play great for four quarters. Each possession is like gold. Each series is like gold. Each rep is like gold we got to approach it that way in practice and in the games. Of course, theres a million bowl games leading up to the ones that actually matter a lot of them shouldnt even be in bowl game but still we couple good ones today. Miami of ohio take ong Mississippi State in the st. Petersburg goal. Neither should be in a bowl game at all but look at this. Bulldogs fitzgerald with touchdown run. Later they would get a field goal to get the lead. Miami did have chance to win it, but its blocked right there. Mississippi state comes away with the win, 1716. To the quick lane Bowl Boston College and maryland bc with trickeration right here the reverse pass back to the quarterback. Patrick tolls with 20yard touchdown. Bw went up 3613 at one point in this game maryland makes it close but at the end theyre sacked on fourth down and maryland falls 3630. Nc state and vanderbilt in the kipping world independence bowl. Second quarter wolf pack up seventhree. Daniels does the rest. 55 yards td. Nc state 14thee in the Fourth Quarter now raheem heinz look at this really really is that fast. Its a an actual motion everyone thats in actual motion gets the big one head doctored td. 4117nc state. A lot of bowl games. Earlier bowls you had a fiveseven record. Everyone gets one now days. Okay . Too many. Too many and im going to complain about it in the 11 00 oclock. Okay . Okay. Im going to fed up. Ill tell you why this is problem with sports. It is a problem. Even the chiefs, remember that game we showed earlier with the chiefs. If the other team had that little fast guy on defense they may have been able to stop that big guy throwing the glass maybe. That was real time. All right. Final quick check of weather. Lets look at the seven day real quick. Tomorrow will be 61degree day. Thats it. Next seven days pretty much on par for average or if not below average. By thursday rain and snow. Well talk more about that system could be an important system coming up tonight at 11 00 oclock. All right. Look forward to that. Mike, that was thank you very much. That will do it for us at 10 00. Stay right where you are. Coming up at 11 00 more news. George michael was an icon in the music world but his impact was felt much more than his music. How the Gay Community is remembering the wham singer. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. Right now at 11, big mystery tran much dee in south philadelphia has got some neighbors on edge tonight. Family members of an 81yearold woman are desperate for answers after someone murdered her this Holiday Weekend. Im iain page. That elderly victim died behind the counter of the Grocery Store she owned for the past 14 years. Lets get out to Shawnette Wilson at philadelphia Police Headquarters. Shawnette this murder has really shane the community. Reporter it certainly has. You know, the family obviously is stunned. Tonight they gathered at the victims home just a few doors away from the store she own. Its inconceivable. Because she just she always had a big smile when you walk in the