The door. What can i help you with . Joking with you. Reporter flowers, candles and handwritten notes pile up on the steps of maries Grocery 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 the agonizing pain she feels over the loss of her aunt. Investigators say someone shot buck several times as she stood behind the counter. Shes owned the place 44 years. 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, you know, some words cant be said. Reporter also a mystery to the family they tell us whoever did this didnt take anything. Iain, back to you. Tragic, shawnette, thanks. Developing now the search for missing family members. You recognize them . This greatgrandmother and great granddaughter went missing on Christmas Eve. Police say 71yearold Barbara Riley and fiveyearold lamyra were on their way from mace lanning new jersey to North Carolina to visit family. They were last seen at a exxon gas station in luther glenn, virginia. Barbara driving a silver toyota suv. Meteorologist mike masco here with your forecast first at 11. Bottom line its mild temperatures. Were look at 10, 15 degrees warmer than where we should be for at this time of the night. 49 degrees thats actually above average for afternoon highs and we are looking at a southwestern wind bringing in between 15 to 20 miles an hour bringing in all the mild air from the south. So look at your numbers in response to that wind. 50 in atlantic city. Millville 49. The cooler sports towards the north and west into the upper Lehigh Valley. Phoenixville holding on to the 40 with this wind coming in well see much milder temperatures. So even the Lehigh Valley youll find yourself into the lower and middle 50s. Visibilities down to the north. Pottstown, allentown reporting quarter to around 1 mile visibility the next thee hours will stay pretty foggy before the winds kind of push around the fog and allow fort visibilities to improve. Ultimate doppler showing us out to the west. Scatter the ad showers an thunderstorm out there. Thats a cold front thats going to bring much cooler air before it comes through here, look at your numbers. Pittsburgh is the 65 degrees at this hour. So a lot of mild stuff across the ohio valley down across the Tennessee Valley this will continue to push up from south to north. But in its wake we are seeing much colder temperatures where its into the Single Digits and teens. Fox future cast will show us middle and upper 50s at 8 00 oclock in the morning. Scattered shower will be out there. Well get up to around 60 degrees. That front slices through here and by wednesday, were looking at a day that will be spent into the lower 30s and up towards the north and middle 40s in town. Much cooler weather expected by the middle of this week. By thursday thats when well watch a storm system off our coastline does it develop if it does develop we could could be talking about addressing the idea of a rain snow mixture accumulations definitely too early to be called, but north and west Higher Elevations these are some of the spots that may pick up maybe a couple of inches if this storm matures. Well have to watch that closely. 59 degrees your afternoon highs tomorrow. Wow. Upper 40s to around 50 degrees. 61 down to 45 degrees on wednesday. Thursday transition back over to rain and even a snow mixture at 45. But nine comfortable day on friday seasonably speaking 41 degrees. And by next week new years eve if you have big plans, i know iain does, 40 degrees into the 30s at night f youre going to the mummers parade upper 40s your daytime highs. Sue serio will be back 4am to update that storm on thursday. Thats what well be watching. Iain. Mike, thanks. I am off new years eve. Dont start your day without the fox 29 weather app. Get weather alerts and live ray dan or i dont know phone available for apple and android devices. Philadelphia police are on the hunt for whoever shot and critically wound add man in the citys nicetown neighborhood. Police say the 52yearold man was shot on the 3800 block of north bowyer street around 11 30 last night. Someone drove the man to Temple University hospital where he is still in critical condition. Investigators are not saying anything about a possible motive right now and investigators are not sharing the identity of the victim. A twitter post sparking a debate today about what exactly a local University Professor was trying to say in a Christmas Eve tweet. Was it racist, for now the university is not defensing him. Fox 29s brad sattin is live tonight on the campus of Drexel University with more on the tweet and the backlash it brought. Brad. Reporter there is some backlash here, iain on the surface you have a white Drexel University associate professor who made some comments that some deem as racist. On his twitter feed. Some online are calling for his firing. Others though say hes an expert in Race Relations and the tweet was simply misunderstood. Was eight racist tweet or one that has many simply missing the point . It was exposed by the conservative online publication bright bart says Drexel University associate professor of politics george sick roll low ma her reported to have tweeted all i want for christmas is White Genocide. Taken at face value coming from white faculty member it sounds outrageous and some students agree. Kind of a pretty messed up way to state whatever he was trying to state. I dont think thats okay. Reporter drexel responding that the comments are utley. In and email to fox 29 he explained he quote sent a is satirical tweet about imaginary concept White Genocide for those who havent bothereed to their research White Genocide is an idea invented by white supremacist a figment. Racist imagination it should have been mocked and im glad to have mocked it. Some students understood. I understand where hes coming from. I think a lot of whites are complacent about White Supremacy and i think that he was right to make a point about it. Reporter now in his email he sent to me he says he has been getting Death Threats in the last 24 or so hours. The university is planning to have a conversation with him in the coming days. They say, iain torque get to the bottom of it. All right, brad, thank you. Incredible story of survival for one Lehigh Valley woman and her family. 46yearold karen klein, her husband and 10yearold son were on their way to the grand canyon they got stranded on some snow covered roads. Mrs. Klein got out of the car and walked 26 miles to try and get help. Searchers found her in a cabin saturday. Two days after she began that trek. Shes now recovering from utah hospital. Her son and husband are okay. Its the day after christmas and you can imagine malls one of the busiest places if you were out there today. We were at the Cherry Hill Mall look at those crowds. They flocked there for deals and discounts. The post Holiday Shopping frenzy well under way. Some people we talked to didnt waste any time using gift cards they got as presents. Other shoppers headed to the stores to return Unwanted Gifts or just to treat themselves. I got load of gift cards. I got h and m, foot locker all of them. So, you know, the normal 21yearold gifts now a days. No more kiddie presents. Spending gift cards and shopping for my self now. Were all getting for ourselves. We bought everybody elses gift and i know now im treating myself. You have a gift you dont want. Weve got tips hahn you can get cash for it. Head to our website fox29. Com. A four leg christmas mystery in winslow township, new jersey. A local farm animal stealing the spotlight from santas reindeer. Fox 29 is that so bean in a kuriakose tells us how a Police Department brightened the holiday for a lot of goat. Reporter rosco the billy goat spent Christmas Eve on the lamb. Breaking out of his pen on a winslow township farm. He was spotted by a policeman and brought to the station in a police cruiser. No cuffs for the record. Patrolman Austin Schmidt says the Department Took a likely to the friendly little guy. Put rosco up in a small shelter outside retired officer stopped by with feed and hay. This they knew was an up usual case. Ive got this goat right now. It was christmas after all. Feel like Everybody Needs a home around christmas. Winslow Police Posted this photo of rosco on facebook asking volunteers to take in the abandoned goat. Responsives poured in and rosco a name be stowed by officer schmidt is now in good hands. Alone no more with new friends including thee donkeys and even some good looking lady goats to keep him company. Looks like life is good. Happy ending. Yes. Happy ending. Just to give you some 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, Sabina Kuriakose fox 29 news. All right. You did your shopping, you wrapped everything and tore open the packages. One retailer says wait a minute, dont throw everything out just yet. Who wants those empty boxes. Its hank im here with frankie and nick were the spruce street video. Theyre massive fans of George Michael. The british icon passed away yesterday. Well talk about what it all means in just a minute. Millions of americans are celebrating the start of kwanzaa today. Kwanzaa focuses on seven principals. Each day holiday honors different one. During the week a light lit. This the 50 many anniversary of the holiday. In burlington county, new jersey Maple Shade Police need your help finding this pair. Investigators say the two tried to use a credit card that had been stolen from someones car. The surveillance pictures from a wawa on route 73 and police say the two tried to use the card Christmas Morning n your money you ripped open all the christmas packages but you might want to think twice about throwing amazon boxes you have. Amazon has way for to you put those boxes to good use. You can recycle them and clear out clutter at the same time. Online retailer come up with the give back box program. You can use those boxes to ship clothing and other stuff to goodwill for free. All you have to do is print a shipping label at give back box. Com and it wont cost i was thing. If you drive at home from holiday vacatio veigh may want l up in new jersey or delaware. According to gas buddy. Com average cost of gas is ringing in at 2 and 29 cents. Here in pennsylvania youre looking at 2. 46 a gallon. Prices are sun 17 cents from this time last month. Now to Seattle Washington where a generous and anonymous donor made christmas unforgettable for Homeless People and they did it with steak. Someone donated 3500 pounds of thick rib eye steaks to the Union Gospel Mission for its christmas meal. The unique and generous gift turned into many christmas dinners for those in need to the holidays. The mission runs on donations but no one has donated like this before. About 80 of the meals we serve are supplemented through donations. This is above and beyond and something really really special for christmas. Its awesome. You can get meal like this at a homeless shelter. I mean who does that . The steaks go for about 10 bucks a pound someone spent about 35,000 for these amazing meals. Happening right now the world is mourning a pop icon. Fans and celebrities are paying their respects to george micha michael. News of the british pop stars death broke Christmas Day and many fans are in shock and disbelief and stopping by his home in england to leave flowers and notes. Michael first rows to inn National Stardom in the 1980s as part of the team do you woe wham singer later achieved Award Winning success as solo artist earning album of year grammy for faith in 1989. He sold more than 100 million albums. Michael said to have died of heart failure. He was 83 53. Tonight tonight hangs take is hank is remembering the legacy of George Michael. He became a pop icon put impact went way further than just his music. He became someone for the Lgbt Community to look up to. Heres fox 29s hank flynn with more. Report if you listen to the words of all his songs kind of was, you know, little ahead of himself. Reporter fran see price used time George Michael he had that kind of appeal. I loved his music even guess i wanted to be George Michael. Reporter it happened that way a lot with George Michael the english super star who died Christmas Day at age 53. Franny wants spruce street on 12th a gay video sure and she works with george who became a George Michael believer. My best friend was obsessed while walk out of there it was a phenomenal show. I walk out of there a fan. Reporter michael was a massive star. His big sole full voice, his style and sometimes edgy sex appeal gave him worldwide fame his public struggles with drug abuse and sexuality gave him humility that evades some performers. His 1998 arrest. People could relate. He was intertwined with that. His struggles were, you know, public. Whereas ours may mine and other peoples werent necessarily but it was, upping, you definitely relate to do th that. He did everything with, you know, millions of eyes on him. That takes lot of courage. Reporter paid a visit is a samantha at lingerie lilly a lynn jr. Ray shop in the gayborhood. Reporter the way she see it michaels was figuring him zest out through his work. He didnt hide behind this style but he help his style to accept himself and others accept him for who he was. Reporter . Thats true. I know he came out at the time when people were not acceptin ag of gay people at all at that time. He was just a really nice guy. Does. Reporter anthony runs nuts and bolts boutique on spruce street that caters to gay men. First of all anthony loves madonna he wants to make that clear. But he says that michaels work started out so with the band wham became not stylish but trend setting and hell miss the music. When im looking at him as performer and when im looking at the fact he will no longer be anything, um, thats upsetting i mean its upsetting when Robin Williams died. When, you know, weve lost so many famous people this year. Its been intense. Reporter here here. Prince, i still cant deal with that one. David bowie, Leonard Cohen forget it i just hope we can get out of this week and into next year without losing another great performer. Rest in peace, george micha michael. Thanks for the good stuff. Im hank and thats my take. Sean bell here now with preview what hes talking about in his commentary tonight. As you know theres a million bowl games which is probably a million too many. Ill tell you why i hate bowl games and why this shows a larger problem in sports. Thats comin coming up next in y sports commentary. Sean bell takes on the fact that there are just too many bowl games and too much immediate crotty. These bowl games are a joke. Ive said it before. But im going to say it again. You have a bunch of teams playing terrible games that dont deserve to be there. Like today. You had Mississippi State playing miami ohio. Mississippi state went five and seven during the regular season and the rest of the teams that played today went six and six. Thats what they do now. We reward teams and people for being average im just sick of it i know im about to send incentive right now but i dont care. This is the equivalent of giving kids participation awards. Which is a joke also you get no love for losing being average or just participating. Thats not how life is. Thats now how sports works. You only get trophies and get to play in post season play for being a winner. You either win or take your butt home and get better. Take the participation awards out of sports and get rid of these garbage bowl games. Iain . All right, sean thank you. Actress cary fisher still in the hospital after whats being called a cardiac episode during a flight from long don to los angeles last week. Fisher is now in stable condition. Her mother Debbie Reynolds posted update on twitter asking everyone for their prayers. Fisher best known for her role as principal says lea in star wars much shes now 60 years of age. Wow i know, right. Well, we got a final quick look at weather. Dont blink. Youll miss the 60s tomorrow. I dont want to do that. Brief window and thats it back to reality. Much colder by wednesday. 45 degrees. Now thursday dont get excited if youre a big snow guru because i dont think this system will be very white but a lot of wet more as we get into thursday night and friday and cooler as we get into next weekend. If you have big plans i know you two, social butterflies im sure you got big plans saturday night. Well be fine. Theirs it could be whole lot colder this time of the year. 30s for new years eve. New years eve mummers parade looks pretty good. I am off new years eve. There you go. Ill be home probably by 11 00 oclock. Go wild. Yeah. I work 8 00 a. M. On sunday. Im still going to get it in. But still there you go. Coffee and youll be all right. More Entertainment News coming up on fox 29. Tmz and dish nation and stay tuned for chasing news followed by the simpsons. Were back here at 4 00 a. M. For fox 29 morning news and good day philadelphia. The Good Day Team will have your morning weather and traffic covered all morning long. Thanks for watching. Have a goo and good morning, happening right now on fox 29 morning news a local great grandmother and granddaughter are now missing after setting off to visit family. We will tell you compactly where they were heading. Plus, pleading for answers and a 81 yearold Grocery Store owner gunned town inside of her store on Christmas Eve morning. Now her family wants your help to get the gun man off the streets. Also ahead this morning a holiday tweet by a local College Professor has gone viral for all of the wrong reasons. What students are saying this morning about one of their teachers. Unaudible. That is inside a mall, lots of bad behavior,