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Looked through the blinds to see what was going on. Reporter thats when this woman who does not want to be identified says she saw her neighbor shoved to the sidewalk being beaten up by two young m men. As the neighbor got up, one of the two guys really started slamming him and nothing him back down on the ground. Reporter police say the 65yearold victim and his wife were walking along the 700 block of south Second Street in Queen Village not too far from their home when they got into an argument with the pair. It turns into a physical altercation they start beating the male. The male has injuries to his mouth, his head and scratches on his body. Reporter police say during the course of the attack, the victim who has a permit to carry pulled out his gun and fired three shots. The 21yearold was hit in the neck. The 20yearold in the stomach. The two making a run for it barely making it a block to second and bainbridge. Thats where they were then taken to the hospital by ambulance. I had already called 911 and was on the line with them when i heard the gunshot. Reporter this woman says from what they saw the 65yearold was just trying to protect himself. There was no way that our neighbor was going to be able to fend off these two guys and with the strength behind the punch that is i saw it was not just like it was serious. Reporter others in the neighborhood are rallying around the victim. I guess they pick on the wrong guy. Selfdefense. I heard he was getting beat in the face. Thats awful. Reporter now the two young help are hospitalized in stable condition. So far no one has been charged. District attorney will decide whether the 65yearold victim will face charges or if he did indeed act in selfdefense. Coming up at 6 00 oclock, more on what police say may have started this all. Iain . Dawn, thank you. Breaking news out of delaware tonight. State Supreme Court just overturn the conviction of a former Prep School Head master who was sentenced to 50 years in prison on child porn charges. The court says today search warrants obtained by police investigatinvestigating chris cr wheeler were unconstitutionally broad. Wheeler was convicted last year on 25 counts of dealing child pornography. He waived his right to jury trial after a judge denied a defense request to suppress evidence seized by authorities. Wheeler is former head master at Tower Hill School in wilmington. Windy day coming to an end in your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. You might see branches down on your street or maybe in your yard today. In allentown, crews have been very busy working to clear branches off power lines. Similar issues in bensalem where the wind knocked trees on to roads and power lines. And things are about get cold, cold enough for snow which, yeah, we are tracking. Lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr. Im not putting away my sweaters yet. Dope do it just yet. Nor your gloves and your hats maybe one more round of snow before spring really hits. You can take a look outside with the deep blue sky. Low humidity. A few fare weather clouds and tumbling temperatures still at midnight we were at 60. 8 00 a. M. 47, noon 42. Right now up a degree at 43. But wind chills in the 30s. Take a look at the peak wind gusts across the region n philadelphia, Atlantic City and reading gusting to 40. Gusting to 39 miles an hour in wilmington and pottstown. Pottstown checking in with a 36mile an hour gust. Now right now ugh combine the gusty winds with colder temperatures, it feels like 14 in the poconos. 26 in pottstown and 31 in millville. Wildwood, trenton, wrightstown and even in philadelphia. Not as window dee tonight. Looking at cool air for tomorrow. Watch an area of low pressure dig to the south and move offshore. During the day on friday and that means the chance of snow. Weve been talking about it all week. Heres a look at your impact on the local commutes. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow evening no issues but a high impact friday morning even though it will be light snow it will be a slow go. Well talk more about this and how much to expect where you live coming up with that seven day forecast. All right. Kathy. Thanks. Two families are out of their homes tonight after a building collapsed in wilmingt wilmington, delaware. This was the scene along the 1100 block of north heel street around 9 30 miss morning. Fire Officials Say a home that was in the process of being demolished collapsed. High winds could be to blame. Medics took one man who lives next door to the hospital for some minor injuries. Authorities evacuated the homes on each side of the collapse. Wilmingtons licenses and inspections agents say they were damaged because of the falling debris. The search is on for a man police say kicked and punched an officer this morning in olney. It happened in east godfrey avenue while police were investigating the report of domestic violence. They say a man became belligerent and caught fought with officers when they tried to search him. An officer and the man fell over a railing and the man took off running. The officer is not seriously hurt. Big developments today in you decide. Ben carson may be suspending his campaign for president at some point not just yet, but the gop hopeful releasing a Statement Today saying that he will not attend tomorrows fox news debate in detroit. Statement doesnt say that hes ending his campaign altogether but he does say quote he does not see a political path forward after seeing the results from super tuesday. Carson says hell discuss more about his future of his movement on friday. Meanwhile the dust has settled on the super tuesday and donald trump and Hillary Clinton appear to have chart add clear path towards nominations. And now the other campaigns are trying to plot their own courses to keep their president ial ambitions alive. Foxs Caroline Shively has the very latest from d. C. Reporter trump trounces. The donald takes home wins in seven states. Surging past the rest of the gop field. There are paths but theyre awfully narrow at this point. Drum happen a good night. He won seven states. It was an impressive performan performance. Reporter while texas senator ted cruz kept his Campaign Alive with a decisive win in his home state. In order senator marco rubio faces the fight of his life. With just one victory in minnesota. Polls show rubio could lose his home state to trump. We feel very strongly about what were going to do here in florida. Very optimistic if we win florida, all of us were talking about today doesnt happen. John kasich turned his attention to trying to win midwestern states. His campaign is on live support. Im not engaging in personal attacks name calling or mud slinging to become president of the united states. Reporter meanwhile, vermont senator Bernie Sanders is back on the campaign trail after picking up four states even as Hillary Clinton settlements a clear lead among democrats. We were up against a candidate supported by the entire political establishment, somebody almost universally known, someone who had been anointed as the inevitable nominee. Well, guess what . Shes not so inevitable today. Reporter on thursday the republican candidates will have another chance to go head to head in a fox news debate in detroit. Hoping to gain votes in michigan battleground state before voters head to the polls on tuesday. In washington, Caroline Shively, fox news. Governor christie out of the president ial race of course but after his endorsement of donald trump hes still very much in the spotlight. Now some papers in his home state are calling for the governor to resign. Fox 29s karen hepp live in the newsroom with all those details. Karen. Its not just one or two. Six papers in new jersey half a dozen calling on christie to resign saying he is not fit to be governor any more. Those papers issued a joint editorial pretty unusual move. They include the cherry hill courier post, the vineland daily journal, and in the editorial it uses very strong words to describe the governor like selfish and after months of campaigning against republican front runner donald trump the newspapers say they are disgusted with this endorsement. Theyre calling him a political opportunity tift and accuse him negligenting people of new jersey much his endorsement of trump came as a surprise to to so many people when it happened last week. Since the time hes been defending it. He said trump is the guy beat hillary. A lot of pundants think the endorsement christie is hoping to be pick as a vp candidate. They looked like that. The governor clearly not talking about any of that iain. Karen thanks. Happening now a sure sign of springs. Pothole repairs even though its ban mild winter some drivers say theyve had tough time on the roads one woman claims a pothole destroyed her car. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live along schuylkill expressway near 30th street tonight. Chris . Reporter yeah, iain, were hearing a lot of pothole Horror Stories tonight. With the warmer weather coming, you could almost set your watch by it. Pothole repair crews cruising the highways and by ways and streets in your area, march the busiest time for all of them. We caught up with philadelphia Streets Department this afternoon. They were using their side reading vacuum operated rock transfer truck. Thats a fancy name. Like the cadillac of pothole row pair machines filling holes up in the northeast. But one pothole so bad it totaled donna normans 2010 hahn today. Eighths total loss. She was driving across the intersection of 55t 55th and kingsessing in southwest. Slammed into a crater like hole. This is the pothole that was recently fixed but as you can see someone put a maintenance barrier inside to prevent others from doing damage. I hit the hole, and my electrical system went out. I thought the car was actually on fire. So i hurried up to try to pull over and get the kids out. Air bag popped out of the car. My windshield broke. Reporter well now as the time penndot and the city want to hear about these locations of potholes. Here the phone numbers for penndot roads called call 800fixroad in the city dial 311. Make sure youre giving exact locations of these landmarks. Now coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock, how does this year stack up to other years when it comes to pothole problems . Well explain coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock. Iain . Ill take it chris. Talk to you then. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the Royal Caribbean anthem of seas runs into more trouble and makes an early return to new jersey for the second time in less than a month. What went wrong this time . And a traffic stop leads to major discovery for police and one man desperate to stay out of jail. The disgusting act officers say he tried to avoid getting arre arrested. He balanced debilitating squeeze his entire life. He has a new fight for independence. How you can help him get the service dog he says will open open so many doors. My main concern was just everyones safety in the building. Ivory actor on instinct. Store manager, army veteran just did what came natural when two Armed Robbers stormed the store. Why hes out of a job tonight. And coming up all new at 6 00 Good Samaritans rescue a man from burning car. This story may have ended trap tragically without a combination of three things. A cruise ship battered by storm last month is forced to cut another trip short. Royal caribbean anthem to the seas returned to bayonne new jersey this morning two days early. The company says the captain was trying to avoid a strong storm off the North Carolina coast last month of course the ship sailed into a storm and was damaged by 30foot waves and Hurricane Force winds. There were also reports of a possible norovirus outbreak on the ship. It had nothing to do with the virus as far as we know. We didnt see anybody sick on the ship although i know there were some people viral flu but didnt affect us and we enjoyed the people. We just wish it was longer. Several passengers on the ship last month encountered the storm have filed lawsuits against Royal Caribbean. Mayor jim kenney plans to Ask City Council to approve fund fog 800 body cameras for the citys Police Department in upcoming budget address. The more than 1 million price tag includes equipment and it infrastructure. The mayor is asking the city to foot half of that bill and says hell look for donations to cover the rest. Kenney says body cameras are an important step forward to improve Public Relations between police and residents which he says is a priority. Happening now, the stars will look a little different tonight astronaut scott kelly hes back on solid ground after spending nearly a year in space all in the hopes of one day sending a manned mission to mars. Foxs Steve Kerrigan has the story. Out of this world experience over for american astronaut scott kelly and two russian colleague. The three landing safely in kazakhstan bringing kellys year in Space Mission to a close. Theres nothing like, you know, new cold air coming into the cab soul. Kelly traveling a total of 144 million miles through space circling the earth more than 5,000 times. His 340 days off the planet a record for us space flight. Stints aboard the International Space station typically last about six months. Year is a long time, you kn know, i you know, it felt like i had been up there my whole life, you know, after about the first six months. Reporter the extraterrestrial experience a precursor for an even longer mission a human journey to mars. Nasa is hoping kelly will help them learn about the longterm effects of zero gravity on the body. Even though i look forward to coming home and theres things that i miss, i felt like if it was more the right reason i clearly could have stayed, you know, however long it took. Reporter kellys identical twin retired astronaut mark kelly pitching in here on earth. The two under going tests throughout the mission to look for differences in the genetically matched subjects. By going to mars one day it will make things better here on earth. So happy to be part of that. Reporter Kelly Society return to ruse houston today where hell reunite with his family. Steve herry began, fox news. Hes got frequent flyer miles going. Hell probably get free pretzels. Delaware transportation officials are giving you a the chance to sound on proposed changes to vehicle fees that could save you money. The dmv waves the fee if the vehicle is a gift from one Family Member to another but not if it has a lean on it. Proposed provision would wave that fee no matter what if its a family gift situation. Residents say theyre local neighborhood started to smell like a gas station ever since construction began on new home there is. Fox 29 investigating jeff cole in the newsroom with a look ahead at his story coming up tonight at 10 00. Iain neighbors in this Community Say theyre forced inside when the search walls into their neighborhood knowing history of the property they cant understand why housing is actually being built there. The construction is underway on just under 3 acres of land whereas fault was once made in a heating oil depot stood. Neighbors claim as soon as backhoes opened the earth and the weather warmed up, the odors hit. Bottom line, whats your concern then . Is it your concern that this may be in fact an environmental hazard thats happening here that may be being stirred up by all thats going on . Yes. Exactly. Where is the smell coming from . Is that dangerous for my wife and my children . Reporter tonight the builder finds trouble with environmental official and why does a local politician just keep on striding when we show up camera rolling . Thats as fox 29 investigates. We think its pretty important story here tonight at 10 00. Lucy back to you. Absolutely much looking forward to it jeff. Some young scientists are showing off their skills today in delaware county. Hundreds of middle and High Schoolers from bucks, chester, delaware, montgomery and philadelphia counties all gathered at new Man University today at the 2016 south eastern pennsylvania science olympiad regional competition. Six through 12th graders put their impressive inventions to the test. Basically its an academic track meet in which you have people who do engineering, people who do study events and they work as a team, and to see the best teams really get involved, its a lot of fun. Sounds awesome. This yea year event includes be building and electrical and wind power. Philadelphia police chief inspector joe sullivan wearing a hat we dont often see he helps students read across America Today which celebrates dr. Seuss birthday. Sullivan read cat in the hat to the kids at the West Philadelphia school. Philadelphia eagles marking read across america day in germanto germantown. Nose tackle bow allen read to more than 50 students from West Oak Lane charter school. It was part of book donation event at march luther king high school. Santander donated 3,000 books to at risk kids. The demand for Mental Health services is going up at one university. Thats expensive. How liquor might help. Plus 10 teen accused of of shooting Family Members. Theyll be okay but wait until you hear why police say the young man pulled the trigger. Riding shotgun in a car with no driver. Its an idea that still might be hard to wrap your head around but its closer than lot of us would think. What we were surprised to find when we stepped inside a selfdriving car. Elmos got the moves have you got the moves . All new sesame street live lets dance Second Street<\/a> in Queen Village<\/a> not too far from their home when they got into an argument with the pair. It turns into a physical altercation they start beating the male. The male has injuries to his mouth, his head and scratches on his body. Reporter police say during the course of the attack, the victim who has a permit to carry pulled out his gun and fired three shots. The 21yearold was hit in the neck. The 20yearold in the stomach. The two making a run for it barely making it a block to second and bainbridge. Thats where they were then taken to the hospital by ambulance. I had already called 911 and was on the line with them when i heard the gunshot. Reporter this woman says from what they saw the 65yearold was just trying to protect himself. There was no way that our neighbor was going to be able to fend off these two guys and with the strength behind the punch that is i saw it was not just like it was serious. Reporter others in the neighborhood are rallying around the victim. I guess they pick on the wrong guy. Selfdefense. I heard he was getting beat in the face. Thats awful. Reporter now the two young help are hospitalized in stable condition. So far no one has been charged. District attorney will decide whether the 65yearold victim will face charges or if he did indeed act in selfdefense. Coming up at 6 00 oclock, more on what police say may have started this all. Iain . Dawn, thank you. Breaking news out of delaware tonight. State Supreme Court<\/a> just overturn the conviction of a former Prep School Head<\/a> master who was sentenced to 50 years in prison on child porn charges. The court says today search warrants obtained by police investigatinvestigating chris cr wheeler were unconstitutionally broad. Wheeler was convicted last year on 25 counts of dealing child pornography. He waived his right to jury trial after a judge denied a defense request to suppress evidence seized by authorities. Wheeler is former head master at Tower Hill School<\/a> in wilmington. Windy day coming to an end in your fox 29 Winter Weather<\/a> authority. You might see branches down on your street or maybe in your yard today. In allentown, crews have been very busy working to clear branches off power lines. Similar issues in bensalem where the wind knocked trees on to roads and power lines. And things are about get cold, cold enough for snow which, yeah, we are tracking. Lets check in with meteorologist kathy orr. Im not putting away my sweaters yet. Dope do it just yet. Nor your gloves and your hats maybe one more round of snow before spring really hits. You can take a look outside with the deep blue sky. Low humidity. A few fare weather clouds and tumbling temperatures still at midnight we were at 60. 8 00 a. M. 47, noon 42. Right now up a degree at 43. But wind chills in the 30s. Take a look at the peak wind gusts across the region n philadelphia, Atlantic City<\/a> and reading gusting to 40. Gusting to 39 miles an hour in wilmington and pottstown. Pottstown checking in with a 36mile an hour gust. Now right now ugh combine the gusty winds with colder temperatures, it feels like 14 in the poconos. 26 in pottstown and 31 in millville. Wildwood, trenton, wrightstown and even in philadelphia. Not as window dee tonight. Looking at cool air for tomorrow. Watch an area of low pressure dig to the south and move offshore. During the day on friday and that means the chance of snow. Weve been talking about it all week. Heres a look at your impact on the local commutes. Tomorrow morning, tomorrow evening no issues but a high impact friday morning even though it will be light snow it will be a slow go. Well talk more about this and how much to expect where you live coming up with that seven day forecast. All right. Kathy. Thanks. Two families are out of their homes tonight after a building collapsed in wilmingt wilmington, delaware. This was the scene along the 1100 block of north heel street around 9 30 miss morning. Fire Officials Say<\/a> a home that was in the process of being demolished collapsed. High winds could be to blame. Medics took one man who lives next door to the hospital for some minor injuries. Authorities evacuated the homes on each side of the collapse. Wilmingtons licenses and inspections agents say they were damaged because of the falling debris. The search is on for a man police say kicked and punched an officer this morning in olney. It happened in east godfrey avenue while police were investigating the report of domestic violence. They say a man became belligerent and caught fought with officers when they tried to search him. An officer and the man fell over a railing and the man took off running. The officer is not seriously hurt. Big developments today in you decide. Ben carson may be suspending his campaign for president at some point not just yet, but the gop hopeful releasing a Statement Today<\/a> saying that he will not attend tomorrows fox news debate in detroit. Statement doesnt say that hes ending his campaign altogether but he does say quote he does not see a political path forward after seeing the results from super tuesday. Carson says hell discuss more about his future of his movement on friday. Meanwhile the dust has settled on the super tuesday and donald trump and Hillary Clinton<\/a> appear to have chart add clear path towards nominations. And now the other campaigns are trying to plot their own courses to keep their president ial ambitions alive. Foxs Caroline Shively<\/a> has the very latest from d. C. Reporter trump trounces. The donald takes home wins in seven states. Surging past the rest of the gop field. There are paths but theyre awfully narrow at this point. Drum happen a good night. He won seven states. It was an impressive performan performance. Reporter while texas senator ted cruz kept his Campaign Alive<\/a> with a decisive win in his home state. In order senator marco rubio faces the fight of his life. With just one victory in minnesota. Polls show rubio could lose his home state to trump. We feel very strongly about what were going to do here in florida. Very optimistic if we win florida, all of us were talking about today doesnt happen. John kasich turned his attention to trying to win midwestern states. His campaign is on live support. Im not engaging in personal attacks name calling or mud slinging to become president of the united states. Reporter meanwhile, vermont senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> is back on the campaign trail after picking up four states even as Hillary Clinton<\/a> settlements a clear lead among democrats. We were up against a candidate supported by the entire political establishment, somebody almost universally known, someone who had been anointed as the inevitable nominee. Well, guess what . Shes not so inevitable today. Reporter on thursday the republican candidates will have another chance to go head to head in a fox news debate in detroit. Hoping to gain votes in michigan battleground state before voters head to the polls on tuesday. In washington, Caroline Shively<\/a>, fox news. Governor christie out of the president ial race of course but after his endorsement of donald trump hes still very much in the spotlight. Now some papers in his home state are calling for the governor to resign. Fox 29s karen hepp live in the newsroom with all those details. Karen. Its not just one or two. Six papers in new jersey half a dozen calling on christie to resign saying he is not fit to be governor any more. Those papers issued a joint editorial pretty unusual move. They include the cherry hill courier post, the vineland daily journal, and in the editorial it uses very strong words to describe the governor like selfish and after months of campaigning against republican front runner donald trump the newspapers say they are disgusted with this endorsement. Theyre calling him a political opportunity tift and accuse him negligenting people of new jersey much his endorsement of trump came as a surprise to to so many people when it happened last week. Since the time hes been defending it. He said trump is the guy beat hillary. A lot of pundants think the endorsement christie is hoping to be pick as a vp candidate. They looked like that. The governor clearly not talking about any of that iain. Karen thanks. Happening now a sure sign of springs. Pothole repairs even though its ban mild winter some drivers say theyve had tough time on the roads one woman claims a pothole destroyed her car. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell<\/a> live along schuylkill expressway near 30th street tonight. Chris . Reporter yeah, iain, were hearing a lot of pothole Horror Stories<\/a> tonight. With the warmer weather coming, you could almost set your watch by it. Pothole repair crews cruising the highways and by ways and streets in your area, march the busiest time for all of them. We caught up with philadelphia Streets Department<\/a> this afternoon. They were using their side reading vacuum operated rock transfer truck. Thats a fancy name. Like the cadillac of pothole row pair machines filling holes up in the northeast. But one pothole so bad it totaled donna normans 2010 hahn today. Eighths total loss. She was driving across the intersection of 55t 55th and kingsessing in southwest. Slammed into a crater like hole. This is the pothole that was recently fixed but as you can see someone put a maintenance barrier inside to prevent others from doing damage. I hit the hole, and my electrical system went out. I thought the car was actually on fire. So i hurried up to try to pull over and get the kids out. Air bag popped out of the car. My windshield broke. Reporter well now as the time penndot and the city want to hear about these locations of potholes. Here the phone numbers for penndot roads called call 800fixroad in the city dial 311. Make sure youre giving exact locations of these landmarks. Now coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock, how does this year stack up to other years when it comes to pothole problems . Well explain coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock. Iain . Ill take it chris. Talk to you then. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the Royal Caribbean<\/a> anthem of seas runs into more trouble and makes an early return to new jersey for the second time in less than a month. What went wrong this time . And a traffic stop leads to major discovery for police and one man desperate to stay out of jail. The disgusting act officers say he tried to avoid getting arre arrested. He balanced debilitating squeeze his entire life. He has a new fight for independence. How you can help him get the service dog he says will open open so many doors. My main concern was just everyones safety in the building. Ivory actor on instinct. Store manager, army veteran just did what came natural when two Armed Robbers<\/a> stormed the store. Why hes out of a job tonight. And coming up all new at 6 00 Good Samaritans<\/a> rescue a man from burning car. This story may have ended trap tragically without a combination of three things. A cruise ship battered by storm last month is forced to cut another trip short. Royal caribbean anthem to the seas returned to bayonne new jersey this morning two days early. The company says the captain was trying to avoid a strong storm off the North Carolina<\/a> coast last month of course the ship sailed into a storm and was damaged by 30foot waves and Hurricane Force<\/a> winds. There were also reports of a possible norovirus outbreak on the ship. It had nothing to do with the virus as far as we know. We didnt see anybody sick on the ship although i know there were some people viral flu but didnt affect us and we enjoyed the people. We just wish it was longer. Several passengers on the ship last month encountered the storm have filed lawsuits against Royal Caribbean<\/a>. Mayor jim kenney plans to Ask City Council<\/a> to approve fund fog 800 body cameras for the citys Police Department<\/a> in upcoming budget address. The more than 1 million price tag includes equipment and it infrastructure. The mayor is asking the city to foot half of that bill and says hell look for donations to cover the rest. Kenney says body cameras are an important step forward to improve Public Relations<\/a> between police and residents which he says is a priority. Happening now, the stars will look a little different tonight astronaut scott kelly hes back on solid ground after spending nearly a year in space all in the hopes of one day sending a manned mission to mars. Foxs Steve Kerrigan<\/a> has the story. Out of this world experience over for american astronaut scott kelly and two russian colleague. The three landing safely in kazakhstan bringing kellys year in Space Mission<\/a> to a close. Theres nothing like, you know, new cold air coming into the cab soul. Kelly traveling a total of 144 million miles through space circling the earth more than 5,000 times. His 340 days off the planet a record for us space flight. Stints aboard the International Space<\/a> station typically last about six months. Year is a long time, you kn know, i you know, it felt like i had been up there my whole life, you know, after about the first six months. Reporter the extraterrestrial experience a precursor for an even longer mission a human journey to mars. Nasa is hoping kelly will help them learn about the longterm effects of zero gravity on the body. Even though i look forward to coming home and theres things that i miss, i felt like if it was more the right reason i clearly could have stayed, you know, however long it took. Reporter kellys identical twin retired astronaut mark kelly pitching in here on earth. The two under going tests throughout the mission to look for differences in the genetically matched subjects. By going to mars one day it will make things better here on earth. So happy to be part of that. Reporter Kelly Society<\/a> return to ruse houston today where hell reunite with his family. Steve herry began, fox news. Hes got frequent flyer miles going. Hell probably get free pretzels. Delaware transportation officials are giving you a the chance to sound on proposed changes to vehicle fees that could save you money. The dmv waves the fee if the vehicle is a gift from one Family Member<\/a> to another but not if it has a lean on it. Proposed provision would wave that fee no matter what if its a family gift situation. Residents say theyre local neighborhood started to smell like a gas station ever since construction began on new home there is. Fox 29 investigating jeff cole in the newsroom with a look ahead at his story coming up tonight at 10 00. Iain neighbors in this Community Say<\/a> theyre forced inside when the search walls into their neighborhood knowing history of the property they cant understand why housing is actually being built there. The construction is underway on just under 3 acres of land whereas fault was once made in a heating oil depot stood. Neighbors claim as soon as backhoes opened the earth and the weather warmed up, the odors hit. Bottom line, whats your concern then . Is it your concern that this may be in fact an environmental hazard thats happening here that may be being stirred up by all thats going on . Yes. Exactly. Where is the smell coming from . Is that dangerous for my wife and my children . Reporter tonight the builder finds trouble with environmental official and why does a local politician just keep on striding when we show up camera rolling . Thats as fox 29 investigates. We think its pretty important story here tonight at 10 00. Lucy back to you. Absolutely much looking forward to it jeff. Some young scientists are showing off their skills today in delaware county. Hundreds of middle and High Schoolers<\/a> from bucks, chester, delaware, montgomery and philadelphia counties all gathered at new Man University<\/a> today at the 2016 south eastern pennsylvania science olympiad regional competition. Six through 12th graders put their impressive inventions to the test. Basically its an academic track meet in which you have people who do engineering, people who do study events and they work as a team, and to see the best teams really get involved, its a lot of fun. Sounds awesome. This yea year event includes be building and electrical and wind power. Philadelphia police chief inspector joe sullivan wearing a hat we dont often see he helps students read across America Today<\/a> which celebrates dr. Seuss birthday. Sullivan read cat in the hat to the kids at the West Philadelphia<\/a> school. Philadelphia eagles marking read across america day in germanto germantown. Nose tackle bow allen read to more than 50 students from West Oak Lane<\/a> charter school. It was part of book donation event at march luther king high school. Santander donated 3,000 books to at risk kids. The demand for Mental Health<\/a> services is going up at one university. Thats expensive. How liquor might help. Plus 10 teen accused of of shooting Family Member<\/a>s. Theyll be okay but wait until you hear why police say the young man pulled the trigger. Riding shotgun in a car with no driver. Its an idea that still might be hard to wrap your head around but its closer than lot of us would think. What we were surprised to find when we stepped inside a selfdriving car. Elmos got the moves have you got the moves . All new sesame street live lets dance Liacouras Center<\/a> april 14th through 17th tickets on sale now Terry Bradshaw<\/a> . What a surprise you know what else is a surprise . Shingles. And how it can hit you out of nowhere. I know. I had it. Cmon lets sit down and talk about it. And did you know that one in three people will get shingles . all no. Thats why im reminding people if you had chickenpox then the shingles virus is already inside you. all oooh. Whos had chickenpox . Scoot over. And look that nasty rash can pop up anywhere and the pain can be even worse than it looks. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist. About a vaccine that can help prevent shingles. Four people are injured after a possible tornado touched down in alabama. Meteorologists say the storm hit early last night near the town of emergency crews say they found the four people took them all to the hospital. Some homes are damaged and the storm also tore down trees and power lines. Possible break tonight in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines<\/a> flight 370. Us official says debris ad washed up over the weekend. Its been identified by experts close to the investigation as a part of the same type of the aircraft as the missing flight. The plane seemingly disappeared two years ago this month. All 239 passengers have been declared dead. The United Nations<\/a> Security Council<\/a> approves the toughest sanctions on north korea in decades. The u. S. And china spent weeks crafting the resolution. It punish the north for its recent Nuclear Tests<\/a> and illegal rocket launch. Sanctions target individuals, banks and businesses and require that all cargo leaving and entering the north korea be inspected. Its still not clear what effect the sanctions will have and u. S. Military Officials Say<\/a> they expect the threat from north korea to continue to grow. Tennessee teen faces charges after he opened fire on his family. Did he not want to get out of bed and go to school. Authorities say early yesterday morning in nashville the 16yearold boy became enraged when his mom and his grandmom told him to get up and get ready, guy. Thats when investigators say he grabbed a gun from his closet and fired hitting his grandmother twice. And grazing a 12 and sixyearold. Police say the teen then dropped the gun and took off. Police did recover the handgun and then captured the suspect a short time later walking on straight way near some railroad tracks. Authorities say everyone shot should be okay. The teen now faces charge chargn Juvenile Court<\/a> with four counts of attempted homicide. A traffic stop leads to major discovery for police in one man was desperate to stay out of jail. The disgusting act officers say he tried to avoid request getting arrest. He battled did he bail at any timing disease his entire life. He has a new fight for independence. How you can help him get the service dog. Wind gusts to about 30 miles an hour out there with plenty of blue sky. The cold is here. Light snow expected by weeks end. Well time it out and show was to expect as we head into the weekend when we come back. Grover cleveland here. Yes, the dashing fellow on the thousanddollar bill. With cash4life, the great game from the pennsylvania lottery, you could win a thousand dollars a day for life you could buy a new house or maybe even treat yourself to a trip to the islands. And with drawings every monday and thursday, that means 2 chances to win every week. Cash4life from the pennsylvania lottery. You could win a thousand dollars a day for life. Heres live look at pocono mountains camera. The days are getting longer. Almost 6 00 oclock until the sun sets. It will be a cold night an chance of snow in the forecast. Meteorologist kathy orr has got those details coming up in your fox 29 Winter Weather<\/a> authority. Argument, a fight, shots fly and so far no charges from what happened on Queen Village<\/a> street. Two attackers are recovering from gunshot wounds after the men man they targeted shot both of them. Last night along the 700 block of south Second Street<\/a> in philly that philly enabled police say the 65yearold victim and his wife were walking when they got into some kind of argument with the two men. Turned physical and investigators say the victim who has a license to carry shot both men. So far no charges against anyo anyone. A Philadelphia Municipal Court<\/a> judge is facing criminal charges. The federal case against judge Joseph Oneill<\/a> involves a phone call according to an indictment just before hearing a civil small claims case oneill was told by another judge that the defendant was a friend of his and that oneill should take a hard look at the case. The fbi claims oneill denied having the conversation when agents questioned him about it. Oneill is now charged with ma making false statements to the fbi. Police say they have arrest add major player in a gun trafficking ring despite his best efforts to hide his identity. And the way the police say he tried avoid being identified may leave you feeling shocked and maybe disgusted. Foxs evan axle bank has the story. Reporter dash cam Video Shows Police<\/a> near akron ohio taking a man no custody after stopping a suspicious vehicle. Hey, do you have any 3 00 in the morning in high drug area. He was with three other people. I cant tell was he was doing but probably wasnt social call. Reporter police say he gave a younger brothers name. Theres no doubt based on the 813 Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> and port tampa tattoos that they had a bay area man. But who . Reporter while police phoned tampa detectives, he did the almost unthinkable. He literally chewed his fingerprints off of his hands. Pictures show that 24yearold kirk kelly was in panic mode. Sometimes people sand them but i never heard of anybody chewing their fingerprints off. Kirk kellys home address in tampa on wyoming avenue. Hes nicknamed cracker boy and wanted for allegedly trafficking stolen guns. Weve been looking for him. We think hes a major player here in tampa in that regard. Reporter he has been wanted since september. Ohio police idd podded him by the tattoos. He knows hes facing jail time. Hoodies writ. He was lik liking bouncing ad the country on buses trying to get as far away from home as possible but he couldnt eat his way out of this one. We run in people with warrants all the time, but its pretty unusual we find somebody from a thousand miles away. Kelly will be extradited back to florida. Theres no word it he yet on when that might happen. Im just cant even. Mild weather quickly coming to an end. Meteorologist kathy orr has your forecast in 15 seconds. Pass good afternoon everyone. We have a mainly clear sky, blue skies with low humidity but very windy conditions. Winds out of the northwest sustained at 23 miles an hour. The temperature is 41. Ultimate doppler were seeing lake enhanced snow showers along the great lakes. We will just be seeing a clear sky with some clouds moving in tomorrow. Courtesy of this. Right now diss organize but our next weather system will be diving from missouri down to the deep south and collect moisture moving its way up the eastern seaboard to bring us some snow by late tomorrow night. Right now in philadelphia, 41. 40 degrees if millville and 27 in the poconos with the wind it feels much colder. So lets go hour by hour through the evening. Clear skies, cold temperatures expected overnight. By thursday afternoon the clouds roll in in advance of the snow. By 7 00 oclock still cloudy. By 9 00 p. M. , we start to see some snow showers through maryland and also possibly southern delaware. The snow that falls tomorrow night into the overnight will stick. Temperatures will be cold enough through the wee hour of the friday morning. But once friday late morning kicks in, well be seeing temperatures right around freezing and then maybe just a little bit of a slushy mess but for the friday morning commute we will see a high impact with light snow showers possibly some rain through south jersey and then this will be ending during the late morning early afternoon as the storm winds up and moves offshore. So we look at the impacts for friday. Were talking about temperatures being around freezing and that will make it a heavier snow but not heavy in the intensity just more sticky and wet. During the day as well the snow sticks to those nonpaveed surfaces and slick, of course, for the morning rush when temperatures are pretty cold below freezing in most locations. Snow estimates possibly one to two, slushy inches accumulating north and west. Two to three through south jersey there will be an area we could see 3inches or more through areas of delaware and south jersey. We have to watch for the exact track of this storm as it continues to evolve and develop. Overnight tonight its going to be cold. Lows in the 20s. Wind chills will be in the tee teens. Winds out of the northwest but still gusting to 25 miles an hour. Cold start to the day. But a pleasant finish. Not as much wind during the day on thursday. Increasing clouds and temperature 42. After that, we see a surge of warmth in the seven day foreca forecast. It gets much milder. Temperatures will be soaring by next week. So 42 for thursday. Some morning snow showers frid friday. Not a lot of snow by any stretch. And of course there is variability in those amounts as we get closer and you can see saturday pretty quiet. A morning flurry possible with the next system thats a clipper on sunday and then we have the warmup. Monday 54. Tuesday 65. And by wednesday, 73. There you go. Thats crazy. Thats like march madness. That is march madness. Thats the only thing i saw on that seven day was wednesday. Next wednesday. His eyes went straight to it. Focus on that. Exactly, kathy, thank you. You bet. Demand for Mental Health<\/a> services is going up in one university which cost the plan now being considered to sell booze to help make ends meet. Three prison officials arrested in california. What theyre accused of of making inmates do so those officials could win money. Coming up at 6 00, is it possible threaten someone without using any words . The critical debate surrounding emojis and the case involving a young girl that set this whole thing off. Find fantasy shows. When it comes to the things you love, you want more. Love romance . Get lost in every embrace. Into sports . Follow every pitch, every play and every win. Change the way you experience tv with x1 from xfinity. Three San Francisco<\/a> sheriffs deputes are facing charges accused of of forcing jail up mates to fight and gambling on it. Prosecutors say they threaten the inmates with violence and or refuse the them food. If they did not fight. District attorney in San Francisco<\/a> says it happened at least twice and one of the inmates says then deputes scott new toll the two inmates if they did not fight each other hed handcuff them or tase them, beat them or send them to different jail where there would be fewer privileges. This crime severely under minds the moral authority of the honest hard working deputes that work hard day in and day out to protect us ton ensure that we run our county jail system in a proper and legal manner. An attorney for sheriff new says the charges are overblown. Paying for Mental Health<\/a> services by selling booze. Tonight Major University<\/a> not everyone is buying it. 15 of the student body Perdue University<\/a> sought Mental Health<\/a> Services Last<\/a> year. The on Campus Center<\/a> needs more resources and staff. The Student Government<\/a> is trying to come up with ways to pay for it. One idea is selling alcohol at sporting events. But some students feel fear would it create new problems. The money is going to a good cause but also just pretty ris risky. It also might people get rowdy at the games. So added alcohol probably make them even more rowdier. The Student Government<\/a> says alcohol sales would raise about half a Million Dollars<\/a> a year. He balance add debilitating disease his entire life. This local man now has a new fight for independence. How you can help him get the service dog he says will open so many new doors. My main concern was just everyones safety in the building. I react the on instinct. Store manager army vet did what came natural when two Armed Robbers<\/a> storm the store. Why hes out of a job tonight. Sean . Iain villanova has one game left before tournament season. The only time really matters for the wildcat and we talked to josh about expectations in the month of march. Thats comin coming up later in sports. A Texas Community<\/a> in mourning after Police Officer<\/a> is killed in the line of duty. 29yearold david however died in surgery shortly after being shot the suspect was also killed. Police dont know what prompted the shooting but they say the suspect fired at two officers just minutes after he was approached. When you get called out and leave your family behind, or your spouse behind or your friends behind, you dont know what the next minute holds. And so its important for the family of the officers, for the pd to know that community is supporting them. The police chief says the officer serveed new york city Police Department<\/a> for five years before moving to texas. He was engaged to be married. In Maryland Army<\/a> veteran out of a job after doing something he said was simply instinct al. He tried to stop a couple of shoplifters from running from the cvs store he managed. Reporter this happened last friday morning were told two men came here to the cvs ran inside headed straight for the pharmacy. They jumped the counter and then apparently told the pharmacist open the save. My main concern was just everyones safety in the building. I reactioned out of instinct. Reporter joe says he couldnt just watch as two men invaded his store looking for drugs. I immediately ran downstairs, went to our cashiers, told them to call 911 that the store was being robbed. Joe then confronted the two men who were trying to leave after stealing prescription drugs. He says one of them had this screwdriver. As we were passing through the aisle, um, the one tried to hit me with the screwdriver and kind of blocked it. Met him at the front door. Kind of where the main struggle happened ended up disarming the one guy of his screwdriver. Reporter two suspects ended up getting away and not long after well joes boss arrived with bad news. Due to the action that i did, um, they had oh had terminate my employment effective 5 00 p. M. That day. We asked cvs and their policy following incidents like this in a statement it said in part the safety of our customers and employees is always our highest priority. We do not comment on specific security p. M. Sees as we do not want to undermine them. You think he should have been fired for this . I wouldnt have. I wouldnt have fired him if i were management. Joe doesnt think he should have been fired either. He moved to this area to manage the store and isnt sure what hell do now. Its not a good feeling. Ive never been let go from a position he is supperly for Something Like<\/a> that. Joe says he really feels down about losing his job. But he is already on the job hunt. In fact when Police Officer<\/a>s came to investigate the scene, he asked them if they were hiring and they said they were, so joe applied for job at the Prince Georges County<\/a> Police Department<\/a>. In beltsville, matt ackland, fox news. Since people first heard of the toe story hes reporte repoy getting a lot of job offers. People are cleaning up after Severe Weather<\/a> tour through the area. For one family in Portland Oregon<\/a> that clean up means fixing their home. Bob adams says a 60foot tree toppled right on to his house. You can see what happened. Tour right through the roof and the bathroom. Damaging the ceiling. The first floor and a neighbor actually saw it happen. I was actually on facebook. I was updating my status, and thats what i was doing, i look over and i just saw this huge tree falling on to our house. I thought it was going to hit our house. Luckily it didnt. But it was it was pretty catastrophic. Updating her status on facebook as we all do these days. This is the second time this has happened to the adams family in six years. A local man spent his entire life battling a debilitating days. Cerebral palsy forced him into a wheelchair years ago now hes hoping for a little independen independence. He believes service dog will help him achieve his goal but the costs they are overwhelming to him. Fox 29s Bill Anderson<\/a> spoke to the family fighting for him. Reporter joe fitch is 30 years old. He loves pets. Everywhere i look you see them. Reporter hes a huge football and wrestling fan. Joe also had Cerebral Palsy<\/a> since birth he has strong dire to be independent and that led to joe wanting a service dog. Joe, tell me why you think you need a service dog. I think it will, um, help me. Joe mother told me although his communication can be challenging his mind is sharp. He wants to self sufficient and began researching service dogs that can help him with that independence. Ultimately the goal is for joe to be independent as independent as possible living alone, living in a situation maybe with a roommate or something but just as independent as possible. So the dog can help that happen, that would be great. Reporter after Extensive Research<\/a> the family found a Service Dog Organization<\/a> that they were comfortable with. Thats when they found out that service dogs costs thousands of Dollars Money<\/a> they just dont have. Joe began the process of raising the money with a gofundme account. This one is 10,000 of donation which joe has been working really hard and got the foot hold in that. Does he need help with that. Reporter on his own, joe began reaching out to everyone from politicians to celebrities. Hes a huge eagles fan. So he tweeted them. He loves actor and wrestlers the rock so he tweeted him. But so far no luck. You tweeted the rock . Yeah. Yeah. Reporter then joe tweeted us. We wanted to see if we could help him spread the word about his gofundme page and help raise the money so that he can have both a support system and a companion. Its just a companionship. Just having a responsibility, somebody to take care of, somebody to, um, to be there for you, and, you know, these dogs are pretty amazing. Reporter so far joe has raised nearly 2,000 of the needed 10,000 and his hope is that people watching will share his page on social media. Make a small donation if possible and help give him a chance to in his mothers words no longer be trapped. Joe loves to travel and we do travel, and i think it would enable him to be, you know, get out there and see the world and see, you know, the country the way he wants to see it. Bill anderson, fox 29 news. Dogs can bring so much happiness and hope in so many ways. We put a link to joes gofundme page on our website fox29. Com look under seen on t involve. Wish you all the best. Riding shotgun in a car with no driver. Its an idea still might be hard to wrap your head around but its closer than you might think. What we were surprised to find when we stepped inside a selfdriving car. Its not stick shift, right . No. Coming up at six just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, the Royal Caribbean<\/a>s anthem of the seas runs into more trouble. Makes app early return yet again to new jersey for the second time in less than a month. So what went wrong this time . Good samaritans rescue a man from a burning car but this story may have ended tragically without a combination of three things. Check out this phone video high winds picked trauma poe lean right there and blew it away in washington state. Yesterdays winds took down power lines and trees. The National Weather<\/a> service says gusts reached nearly 60 miles an hour. We recently learned of one of googles drive less cars crashing into a bus. Its the first time one googles cars appears to have been at fall. New survey shows most drivers would not feel safe in a hands free vehicle. How about you . Foxs crystal clark has more on the technology thats already taking folks for a spin. Reporter ask your average driver if they trust let going of the wheel and youll get a resounding no. In a survey of 1800 drivers, aaa found that 75 say they would not feel safe in an autonomous car. I think it might malfunction or crash. I dont trust mechanics at this point. I would never drive it. I think technology messes up all the time. Museum of science and industry in tampa is working to debunk those myths with drive less vehicle. People are really pleasant the underwhelmed. They are satisfied that its safe and reassuring and friendly and not dangerous. Do you press go and it does the rest for us. Once you hop on bore the conductor merely presses a start button the car does all the work from there. Lasers shoot continuously about 300 lase lasers per second its recognizing justifying and validating what it needs to do in reaction to everything around it. It can recognize the difference between a waving flag and a child walking in its path its able to stop within 3millimeters of an object. This thing is so accurate your teenager may want to take it to the dmv. The car got his its drivers license every single time. When driver less elevators debuted in the 1900s, they faced scepticism. A human operator had to be assigned just to push the button so people felt comfortable. Auto mated cars are the elevators of this era and people fear of driving them too shall pass. Whether theres four people or three people or twoyearold or 90yearold, the technology is there. Its perfectly safe. Sadly im afraid of elevators too. Florida one of the few states that agreed to make its road available for driver less car testing by the way tesla the ought though Company Electric<\/a> auto Company Already<\/a> at that phase. Tonight at 62 00 attackers pick the wrong target. Police say the victim fought back with fire power. I guess they pick on the wrong guy. Selfdefense. What witnesses saw. I hit the hole and my electrical system went out and watch where you drive. Along with these weather change come, of course, potholes. Were hitting the streets to tell you what to watch out for. Live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 6 00. First at 6 00 return to Winter Weather<\/a>. Winds blowing today making things feel colder out there. Temperatures are dropping tonight. This is ahead of a chance for Winter Weather<\/a> moving in to focus. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Changes are indeed on the horizon lets get straight to chief meteorologist scott williams. Lucy and iain, we talk about this yesterday. Tumbling temperatures across the area. Yesterdays High Temperature<\/a> was in the mid 60s right now temperatures upper 30s. Were dry and quiet now but take a look at future weather. Were going to be tracking an area of low pressure. Its going to bring the cold air along with chances for snow tomorrow night into friday. So as we look at ultimate doppler right now, you can see were dry and quiet. The storm system for tomorrow night into friday still taking shape well to the west. Thats going to pick up some moisture from the gulf and then eventually head into our area. So what about the impacts on your weather tomorrow . Tomorrow mornings commute fine. Tomorrow evenings commute fine but look at friday morning. Were talking about a high impact on your commute. Allow extra travel time as that snow will be falling. But what about todays plunge in temperatures . Midnight temperature in philadelphia 61 degrees. By noon we were at 42. And look at the current temperature right now. Upper 30s. But feels like temperatures are even colder. Its been pretty gus","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia801307.us.archive.org\/17\/items\/WTXF_20160302_220000_FOX_29_News_at_5\/WTXF_20160302_220000_FOX_29_News_at_5.thumbs\/WTXF_20160302_220000_FOX_29_News_at_5_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240624T12:35:10+00:00"}