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Additional showers moving from the west. Coming up the next 12 hours well see a few more showers moving through but after sunset, after 7 00 oclock, all the activity will die down and skies will clear but cooler air is going to move into the Delaware Valley right now it is 58 in philadelphia. A rain cooled temperature, 48 in the poconos. 60 in wilmington and 60 degrees in millville. The big story is going to be the cold thats coming. Mild through the evening, 9 00 oclock some clouds. Mostly cloudy at 11 00 with a temperature of 53 degrees. Then the big story the weekend storm with an area of low pressure a noreaster that will move up the eastern seaboard. The main impact sunday cold enough for snow. Were still watching in exact storm track. Coastal flooding a concern as well. We will be seeing some accumulating snow. More on the details coming up with your seven day forecast icy you later in the broadcast. Kathy, thanks. Right now at 5 00 a close call in old city. Skyfox shows the destruction at fifth and race streets. Bricks and stones came tumbling down from a building that was under demolition all that debris damaged everything cars to a street lights. And most definitely shocked people passing by. Some say the points all of this to problem far bigger than the building. Thankfully no one was hurt. Lets get out to karen hepp in old city tonight. Karen . Reporter i want to show you right now the construction site is actually back open. You can see these big heavy machines are at work right now as we speak. For much the day most of the day race street had been shut down again you can see that is now back open. Specific to this site this is project, huge project that goes for an entire city block. Taken lost safety precautions. You can see that they have the safety fencing thats up. They have barriers and the sidewalk is closed theyve been inspecting many times havent had no incidents, no violations, nothing problems until today. Thats what landed on the schoolbus this morning. Big stones a tree and a street lamb. Four, five, six windows busted in. Frames sticking inside. Glass all over the seats. Stone. I had stones flying across the steering wheel. Reporter Spencer Reynolds saw his live flash before his eyes. Thank god no one was hurt. Reporter he just dropped the kids off seconds before at the constitution center. Fifth graders from harleysville were here for a historic field trip. Only just pulled on to race street when he got trapped. Traffic was backed up at the red light. I heard the rumbling and saw the dust and that was it. The rest was scrambling. He managed to walk away just fine but the collapse on very busy street has a lot of people asking questions. 401 race has been under demolition since january it used to be an old whitman chocolate building in the 50s pink cuss brothers suit manufacturers in the 90s. Now it was empty and being doll demolished to make way for new apartments. L and i Officials Say they conducted at least 19 inspections and found nothing to be unsafe. In the course of the demolition, the wall became unstable and at that point it fell. Unfortunately, even when all safety precautions are taken, its impossible to 100 eliminate possible out come. Reporter attorneys for the victims of the Market Street collapse that happened in 2013 where six people died say the public needs to be better protected. What you had in the Market Street Building Collapse is you had an open Salvation Army store next to an active sight. Here you have an open street next to an active sight. And so when the initial safety planners are looking at this demolition project, they must say to themselves, what is the worst Case Scenario . What can happen here that we can plan against . Reporter so right now, race is open. They expect that it may be open and closed over the next couple of days they take down this last section of the building. So be prepared for that in old city. One last thing theyve now figured out during the course of toys this day you can see the columns up there, they were doing some work and the floor there the concrete floor supported by the columns one of them gave way and thats what caused this collapse they figure out now that it was part of the concrete floor that fell down causing the problems on the street below. Iain, back inside to you. Ill take it karen. Search is on tonight for whoever shot and killed a man in strawberry neighborhood of philadelphia after 1 30 this afternoon on the 2600 block of north 31st street. Skyfox flew over the scene. Someone shot that man in the head and stomach. Died at the hospital. Now to developing story out of center city after nearly a year long grand jury investigation, the Philadelphia District attorney announcing charges today in a 2014 triple homicide investigators say several key pieces of said lead them to one of the alleged killers. Fox 29s dawn timmeney joins us in the newsroom. Dawn this was a hard case because witnesses werent cooperating . Reporter thats right, iain. Investigators say cell phone records, ballistics evidence and an atm card all led them to Quadir Jeffreys. They say this grand jury investigation helped them build their case so they were finally able to charge jeffreys with these excution style murders that happened two years ago. The victims were shot at close range inside this house on the 6300 block of martins mill road in northeast philadelphia. It was february 13th, 2014. Kerlin charles, Brian Williams and freemont found with bullets in theirs heads. Each of the three victims were shot excution style contact gunshot wounds to the right item loral lobe. Reporter two were bound in the Home Invasion robbery. Charles was selling pot out of his house. They say jeffreys and Corey Thompson awaiting trial in the triple murders knew that. They were in contact with one another before he let them into the house and once they got in the house, they had other plans. Reporter after a year and a half investigation into jeffreys, the das office calling for an investigating grand jury which determined murder charges should be brought against the 24yearold. The gun was big part. There were two firearms used in the martins mill murder thats what the ballistics evidence shows. Investigators were able to link one of those guns a 9millimeter to jeffreys by way of a Home Invasion in hunting park almost a month earlier. Fired cartridge cases from the scene matched a fired cartridge case from the scene of a horrific Home Invasion shoo shooting just 26 days prior for which jeffreys was convicted. Reporter investigators say information from his cell phone put him at the scene of the crime. We looked at his cell phone records. We look at his mothers cell phone records. We look at girl friends cell phone records. We look at the patterns they went through and who he spoke to, who he associated with. Reporter investigators also say evidence shows jeffreys used one of the victims atm cards after the murders. It took a lot of connecting of the dots to put this case together, but as i said, all of the the roads kept leading back to Quadir Jeffreys. Reporter and Quadir Jeffreys is zebb ago 20 to 40 year jail sentence for the Home Invasion robbery. If convicted of the triple murders he can be sentenced to three live sentences. Lucy. Thank you very much, dawn. 19yearold gloucester county, new jersey woman faces charges of strangling her newborn baby. Prosecutors say jade france Franklin Township choked the baby girl with her bare hands until she died then she hit the body. Prosecutors charged her with murder, concealing human remai remains. Shes in jail on 250,000 bail. A disturbing story in Northampton County tonight. Thats where prosecutors have charged a man in the death of a 17 month old toddler. District attorney John Morganelli charging 32yearold gary foley, jr. With homicide, prosecutors say in february of 2015 foley called 911 said the baby was not breathing. Police say foley told them he was feeding the young girl a hotdog she began to choke. An autopsy later found the infant died of a skull fracture. Her death was ruled a homicide and investigators say inside the mobile home of the babys mother with three other children at the time of the incident. Mr. Foley was the only person in control of the child. Were sure the injuries were serious injuries that could not have been inflicted accidentally. So theres definitely a recklessness or up tension al act on the part of the caregiver in this case. The babys mother heather surrogate was not home at the time. Investigators say conditions inside the home were deplorable. Both foley and surrogate are now facing child endangerment char charges. Chain reaction crash ende ed with a house bursting into plames in pennsville, new jersey. It happened this morning right around 4 30. Police tell us pick up rear ended a car. The trucks driver lost control ended up taking out a gas meter then crash into the house which went up in flames. Everyone inside did get out safely, though, no one at all is injured apparently. The driver behind the crash faces charges and the house is a complete loss. In west philadelphia, a firefighter and a fire victim were rushed to the hospital after flames ripped that was a row home it happened this morning on race street. The firefighters injuries are minor and the other person had smoke inhalation. Theres no word yet on the cause of the that fire. Fire also gut add row home in the citys wynnefield neighborhood. Crews were called out to the 5300 block of west Oxford Street this morning. You see crews working their way around all that heavy smoke. Luckily no one was inside. The fire did not spread to the home next door. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Tonight were seeing how septa Police Arrest add man wanted for a shooting of a philadelphia Fast Food Restaurant worker. Septa Police Released footage from an officers body camera today after the arrest last we week. Police cleared the bus before walking up to Ronald Graham whom officers found sleeping. Septa employee recognized him from video and graham has made many complaints about septa to Customer Service. He apparently calls Customer Service and hes an angry rider. So much so that the woman that saw the video immediately knew who it was and knew it was that angry man, and contacted us and we forwarded that information to philadelphia police. Angry rider. Prosecutors have charged graham with attempted homicide and other offenses. Earlier in the month he shot an employee at a north philadelphia churchs chicken because he was angry after the employee was cleaning near him. Its a picture so offensive were choosing to blur it. I never thought in a million years it would ever be my scho school. If you saw what these kids shirts really said you may have trouble understanding how anyone would think this is okay. The big fallout theyre facing tonight. Announcement you dont often hear from a local School District. Officials want to hire hundreds of people. The story behind this dramatic shift. A local contractor is not happy to see our jeff cole again. Not at all. See what happened when he tried to ask a few questions outside a city court. Talk to me for minute, man. Bleep. What are you angry about . Why customers are pursuing him and the legal troubles he faces. Fox 29 investigates coming up. Coming up at 6 00, did nachos lead to a shooting at this convenience store. The startling statement one manmade to the clerk before the bullets started flying. I495 northbound in new castle county, delaware because of what youre seeing right there. Car suddenly just caught fire. It happened around 10 00 this morning. The driver got out fine. Took crews about an hour to tame the flames and get the traffic flowing again. Happening now, a major push to phil teaching vacancies in the troubled Philadelphia School district. The goal higher 800 new instructors by the end of june. So theyre ready for the start of the school year in september. The idea of classrooms without teachers is simply unthinkable and most suburban district. Bruce gordon joins us to say its an annual concern in philly. Reporter its been a problem in the city for years. But this year School District Officials Say they are getter getting an early start and publicizing their efforts to fill those vacancies and get teachers in front of kids where theyre needed. The email sent to us last october by a student at Northeast High School broke our hearts. Jasmine, told thus for the says year in a row she had no real science instructor. Just a socalled cover teacher assign to the class ram to keep order. Please help us she wrote. We have nothing. Reporter how frustrating. Very. Because i want to go to college, not knowing anything. Reporter jazzlin even sent us a video we blurred the faces to protect privacy. Showing that cover teacher at his desk while handful of students stared into space or dozed off at their seats. Philadelphia began this school year with around 200 Teacher Vacancy and even now in march, many of those vacancies remain. Come september says district superintendent will yup hite, things will be different. Hes looking to hire 800 new teachers bite end of june. Because we want every child that starts with us in the fall to have a teacher in front of them and not a vacancy. Reporter easier said than done. All districts are looking to phil vacancies at this time of year and wealthier suburban schools, well, they can offer a betting teaching environment than what rookie instructors will face in cash strapped philly. Jerry jordan heads the Teachers Union in philadelphia. The teachers need to have books, they need to have supplies, teachers in philadelphia are spending thousands of dollars out of their pockets in order to buy supplies for children. Reporter then theres the pay starting salary in philadelphia is just over 45,000 a year. But because of a longstanding contract stalemate, district instructs havent gotten a raise since 2012. Says jordan of would be plick they need to know what theyre going to earn this year, text year and the following year. Reporter city of philadelphia thats not necessarily possible . Well, not without a contract. Reporter dr. Hite admits its a tough sell but insists the job is right for the right kind of person. If individuals who get into this field really get into this field to do things to make a difference for young people, what better place than to make a difference for young people here in the city of philadelphia . Reporter dr. Hite will host an information session for perspective teaching candidates next tuesday afternoon 4 00 oclock at district headquarters. He admits the lack of a new contract is a real problem for would be hires and frankly even more so for those already on the job and going years without a pay raise. Lucy . All right, thank you very much, bruce. Three franciscan friars charged with letting a suspected sexual predator work closely with children are no longer working at their religious assignments. Pennsylvanias attorney general filed child endanger many char charges against giles sheinellely, robert dee a verse is a and Anthony Chris telly earlier this week. Kane says attorney general Kathleen Kane says they were ministers of a franciscan religious order and allowed brother steven baker to work with children even though he faced allegations of sexual abuse. Their respective dice cease removed chris telly and dee a verse so from their positions. Sheinellely was dismissed at a catholic retreat in florida. Strong reaction still pouring in from both sides of the aisle in washington, d. C. Following president obamas nomination of Merrick Garland replace the late Antonin Scalia on the supreme court. Fox are Garrett Tenney has the story from the white house. Reporter cranking up pressure on republican makers to consider the tom nation of Merrick Garland president obamas pick to replaces . Toy ask a lee y the gop vowed not to hold any voter hearing on the nomination until after the election. Despite the opposition, legal experts say garland would not represent a huge ideology shift on the high court. He is pro abortion. Yup. He is anti gun. Almost all other issues hes center right and on many issues hes very close to where Justice Scalia was. Reporter most republicans are Standing Firm in their refuse al to even met with garland while Senate Democrats are demanding a swift up or down vote for their nominee calling potential year long delay unprecedented. They want donald trump to pick the next nominee. We shouldnt even be talking about him. Even if barack obama were to nominate george w. Bush, he wouldnt be considered either. Reporter garland starts his courtesy calls with senators today meeting first with patrick lee hey of vermont, the top democrat on the judiciary committee. Garland supporters are now highlighting his credentials and hoping to amp leck year pressure on republicans who are refusing to consider any nominee. Having the process break down would be an unprecedented injection of partisan politics into the supreme court. Reporter two republican senators have suggested they could be top some sort of compromise if a democrat wins the president ial election. At the white house, im Garrett Tenney, fox news. One of the biggest and busiest cities in the world people in mexico city are being advised to stay inside. The danger lurking outdoors. Somebody egging you to get in trouble witness police. The way one guy did it in this neighborhood has people talking and their worried. This dog was missing and believed to be dead but as you can see shes alive and well. Im just speechless. Theres not really any words that can explain it. Like this is not a day that we thought would ever happen. Where she was found and why people are having trouble understanding how she even survived. Aww. Mexicos capital city has big and pressing health problem. Government officials arent quite sure what to do about it. The air pollution mexico city is so bad officials are telling residents to stay indoors like beijing for awhile there. Ozone levels have been dangerous for three days now. Officials are widening traffic restrictions hoping to lower the concentration of ozone in the air. On capitol hill lawmakers harmed away at michigans governor over his response to water contamination in flint. Several leaders even told him flat out he should resign. They say governor Rick Schneider ignored several warnings about lead contamination in the citys water lawmakers also cited emails reviewing the governor was advised of the danger a full year before he publicly admitted knowing something was wrong. But the governor tried to push back saying the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality assured him the water was safe. Inefficient, inn effective and unaccountable bureaucrats at the epa allowed this disaster to continue unnecessarily. Ive had about enough of your false contrition and phony apologies. Susan head man from the epa bears not onetenth of the responsibility of the state of michigan and your administration and she resigned and there you are dripping with guilt. Since the crisis was revealed michigan has approved 67 million in emergency funds to try and correct the problem. Us senators have reached a tentative deal to also replace flints pipes but the bill is being held up by objections from senators in utah and florida. In the midwest, big floods. First responders evacuate about a dozen homes last night in Marathon County wisconsin. The river swelled over its banks yesterday officials closed major roads and highways, shut off gas to homes as well. Just makes sure if youre living near a water way such as the river that you monitor it closely because the water is slowly going up. Officials say water levels should drop throughout the evening but theyre still warning residents about and continued flooding risks. Picture so offense were choosing to blur it it if you saw what these kids shirts really said you may have trouble understanding how anyone would think this is okay. They are facing big fallout. This concrete contractor is between a rock an hard place. He came out swinging many fox 29 investigates tried to ask a few questions. What he told jeff cole. Kathy . This weekend everyone is going to be talking about the spring nor either. Spring officially begins on sunday. Saturday that low will be in the gulf of mexico moving up the eastern seaboard bringing rain and snow and accumulation. More details coming up when we come back. Driving under the influence state police is hyped a crash last night at the i95 toll plaza in newark, delaware. Investigators say 31yearold matt rude of virginia failed to stop his cadillac at the toll booth and rammed into the back of a dodge durango. Two other cars were also involved in the wreck. No one is seriously hurt. He faces a long list of charges. New tonight the head football coach at Conestoga High School has resigned after three of his players were charged with assault earlier this month. Chester county prosecutors say the three players used a broom handle to sexually assault a freshman player on octobe october 15th. On a day they referred to as quote no gay thursday. The school says the locker room had an inefficient add dull presence through on the the football season. In addition to the coachs resignation the entire varsity and Junior Varsity staff have been relieved of their duties for the up coming fall. Racist photos go from a small Michigan Community across the country via social media. Now schools taking action after several students allegedly posted the disturbing pictures online. Foxs Hannah Saunders has the story. Reporter . Community members against race civil gather the at gross point South High School to thank School Administrators for their quick action after a troubling post this weekend to social media. We will not tolerate as a community anybody being prejudice against or acting in a bigoted fashion because it is disruptive to the school environment. Reporter six students have been suspended for five days after this post surfaced instagram showing three caucasian students with the n word written across their tour shows along with negative messages directed towards africanamerican students at the school. Before these students took the post down it had already been shared to facebook and twitter sparking outrage and threats. It is a word that does not merit presence in any situation. Reporter the hope is that this incident will be used as a learning experience for schools all over the country that when something gets posted to social media, its out there for good. Miracle bail al senior at the High School Received praise for being one of the students to denounce the post. Think before you post anything and just get approval from a friend or any other person and of course never post hateful speech because it will follow you. Reporter she describes gross point south high as norm normally being harmoniously diverse. I have seen pictures similar to that, but like southern schools and i never thought in million years it would ever be my school. Reporter a representative from the attorney generals Michigan Cyber Safety Initiative was also on hand speaking on the power and potential dangers of social media. This really is about education. Its about education, educating our students, and educating our parents also. Reporter additional efforts are being put in place by the school to make sure Something Like this doesnt happen again. In gross point farms, Hannah Saunders, fox news. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Rain today and snow in the near future. Meteorologist kathy orr has a lot to talk about in your forecast in 15 seconds. Yes, spring begins on sunday and that is our next chance of snow and just not a little bit of snow. Not a wee bit but accumulating snow. Well talk about that but first lets get through the showe sho. Spotty showers on the Doppler Radar screen this afternoon and theyll continue for the neck couple of hours and then diminish after sunset which is shortly after 7 00 p. M. On the National Temperature map you can see 40s to the north. Philadelphia in the 50s. 70s through the mid atlantic and some 80s in the south. Unfortunately we really never tap into that warm air. Its going to be cooler from here on in. Winds gusting to 22 miles an hour this evening in pottstown but wait until tomorrow the the gusts will persist from the west in the morning gusting to 25 miles an hour in philadelphia. In the poconos gusting to 36 miles an hour it lab blustery friday and by the afternoon 5 00 p. M. Gusting to 30 miles an hour through philadelphia and its suburbs in the poconos gusting to 26. We will sun for friday but it will be turning cooler and quiet windy. By saturday everybody watching this an area of low pressure that will be spreading some showers and thunderstorms through the gulf coast and up through the mid atlantic even into the midwest. We will be eyeing this storm as it make its way up the eastern seaboard and by early sunday morning it brings us rain and snow. Were still watching the exact track of this storm that will determine how much precipitation and what type of precipitation we get. The jury still out on the timing of this for the most part our models are really not in a consensus on the exact timing but it looks as though sunday morning is the best start time at this point. Accumulating snow especially for philadelphia to the north and west where we see the mixing there will be a lower accumulation. When we look at our computer models the nam is a short term mod. Gfs our american model its been pretty reliable this winter. Euro very reliable in the long range you can see these two right around four to 5inches of snow the european over 7inches. The question is how much is going to stick . It looks like a heavier wet snow mainly accumulating on the unpaid paved surfaces. Still a lot of details to iron out. Begin sunday at rain, mixing with wet snow. So i dont anticipate that will be sticking but by nightfall, theres a better chance of all snow everywhere that would be sticking and then monday morning everything would be gone. So well continue to iron out those details for you and of course update you throughout the weekend. In the city overnight, 44. In the suburbs 39. Partly cloudy and chilly. During the day tomorrow sunshi sunshine, 60 degrees but blustery with winds gusting to 30. Even 35 miles an hour and as you plan your friday, sunny in the morning. Mid 50s by noon in the afterno afternoon. Just windy the high near 60. Partly sunny in the evening. On the exclusive fox 297 day forecast saturday cold with a morning low of arthritic. Sunday morning 31. Rain mixing with snow. Keep an eye on that accumulation even though those computer models are saying 4inches, 5inches, how much sticks thats going to be the question. And a lot could change with the track. We will be seeing a warmup next week. Look at that. Next wednesday and thursday 60 and 70 respectively. No snow can withstand 70 degrees. No. It will be gone soon after it falls. Iain even were shocked. We saw that one model close to 7inches. Dont let that scare you. I know. I heard you in the background. A very special day of course for the irish. Right. I was at the irish hem yacht at front and chestnut and we had the commemoration of the great starvation. So this was the 13th annual irish memorial ceremony. So i emceed that. Mayor kenney was there. A lot of dignitaries. They laid a wreath on that beautiful bronze irish memorial. We had dancing from mcdater cool school of irish dance a wonderful event. We want to say a special hello on this st. Patricks day. Afterwards, everyone walked over to the plow and the star for lunch even ran into this little guy. A baby leprechau leprechaun nam. Jack, aww. Thats the cute alert for today. Exactly. Do you think jack still has his snow suit ready for your 12,000inches of snow. I shouldnt even showed that you. That scared you. It did. Dont be scared. We couldnt help it. All right. All right. Thank you very much thank you, kathy. Just a model. Right. I dont like that model. I dont either. It will guy away even if it does happen. Egging somebodys house is enough to get you in trouble. It causes a lot of damage but the way one guy did it in this neighborhood has people talking tonight and they are worried. Men listen up a certain procedure you may be considering but not want to talk about. Why right now could be the the best time of year to finally have it done. Coming up all new at 6 00 what happened in this store was way beyond a nat chose craving. Two guys walked off with a chip what they said next that set off a burst of violence. Elmos got the moves have you got the moves . All new sesame street live lets dance Liacouras Center april 14th through 17th tickets on sale now after years of controversy sea world is ending its orca whale breeding once and for all. The theme park announced today that this generation of killer whales will be its last. Sea world is going to introduce what it calls new natural orca encounters rather than theatrical shows. It says the programs will focus on enrichment, exercise and overall health. This latest move follows serious push back from a lot of people after film black fish call out sea world for inhumane practic practices. A childhood prank has landed one man in jail on felony charges. Hes accused of egging the home of an elderly man in ohio. Police say Jason Company san target the same home more than a hundred times in a cleveland suburb. Hes now charged with felony vandalism. Police say the eggings happened from may 2014 until june of 2015 and largely stopped once he moved from the street where all this happened. The home own are in targeted says the egg damaged his home and the whole thing kept his family on edge. The accuracy with which they hit the front door, lets say, is tremendous. Almost seemed hike they zeroed in. While the eggings were happening clemens was cited for the condition of his home and says he thought the suspect wanted him to move but its not clear why these two guys just werent getting along. Poor guy. Something you should be taking into account when you think about your risk for amounts heim mers disease. Why it could be harder for women to tell theyre sick than men. A local contractor not happy to see our jeff cole again when he tried to ask a few questions outside a city court. Talk to me for minute, man. Bleep. What are you angry about . Customers are pursuing him and the legal trouble he faces fox 29 investigates is coming up. Howard . Phillies still grind the ought in spring training. Something special today for st. Patricks day. And sean bell is with the villanova wildcats as they get ready for that big game tomorrow night. That will be coming up in sports. Vo across america, people are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes with noninsulin victoza®. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. But it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza®. He said victoza® works differently than pills. And comes in a pen. Victoza® is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. Its taken once a day, any time. Victoza® is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. Victoza® works with your body to lower blood sugar in 3 ways in the stomach, the liver, and the pancreas. 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Reporter the godfather of concrete was not happy about our reunion. Talk to me for minute, man. Bleep. What are you angry about. You may remember ant thee dimatteo. We told you in the fall about customers complaints with the business he runs with his wife kim monaco out of their sewell, new jersey, home. Ron and nancy fallon of atco not only didnt get their backyard pool deck and walkway finished they say their pool liner cracked when we water swepting 19 it while they waited, plus theres this. He called me a cripple mfer i dont want to repeat exactly what he had said. Reporter fallons hold a 2,700 Court Judgment dense dimatteo but have yet to get paid. Walt and Sherri Mcguire hired the godfather to lay a paver patio behind their mantua home but when another contractor checked the work he says this patio is just going to collapse and youre back wall the first good rain you get its will just role down the hill. Reporter dimatteo cut a check. It bounced and he never brought the mcguires fire pitt. Then they say, he threatened to embarrass their family. A third couple from williamstown was promised a pool deck stamped and colored like hardwood but got this instead. It was supposed to be like a Hardwood Floor brown color, supposed to be shiny looking wood and it is gray like old boardwalk look. Reporter not to mention there were cracks, spots, ripples, a hose mark and a boot print. They too had the work completely redone before it could push in the walls of their pool at a cost of 10,000. They only got some of their money back from a credit card company. Dimatteo claims the fallons wa wanted too many change, the mcguires wouldnt pay fort second half of their work and he didnt threaten them while he says the third family was tough to deal with. But the new Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs investigated complaints from these three customers and two others. Violations were filed against dimatteo and monaco for among other things failing to register his Home Improvement contracts and not completing work on time. They can settle or get wacked with a 7,000 civil penalty and 15,000 in restitution. Thats not anthony dimatteos only legal trouble. Hes been in and out of court on numerous cases. Hes even spent time in federal prison on firearms and threat charges. The 52yearold tried to declare bankruptcy but that case was tossed when some of his customers objected. Now, hes likely to face two trials in the spring. In philadelphia, he faces terroristic threat and contempt charges. He allegedly texted his exwife that hed have benefits cut off and a few other things in store for her if she messed with his boat. We asked him outside family court about his affairs. Bleep. Get out of my way. What are you angry about. Bleep. Get out of my face. Get out of if i mace. Are you still in get out of my face. Are you still in the business. Bleep. We didnt even come near you. Next time ill jam the camera down your throat. All right. All right. Are you still in the concrete business. Im in your mothers business. Okay. So may third trial, right on this . Reporter we also went to his Court Appearance monday in mantua on a bad check charge. A judge gave him 30 more days to pay the mcguires 1500 bucks. Whats your thought about that . I think its horrible. I mean the guy continuing to do the same thing over and over and over again to people, you know, innocent people that work hard for their money. You cant say anything about this . This time a lawyer snuck dimatteo out a back door to avoid our camera. The contractor who also uses the business name dimatteo and son concrete and allay Custom Concrete face as 15,000 civil case next week brought by the williamstown couple. Yet hes still advertises on south jersey craigslist offering to do concrete, hard scape work. Previous versions of the ad said reply to tony at one of his phone numbers. And he lists a pennsylvania contractor license number thats not his. Former customers are fed up. Im a heart and kidney transplant recipient. My wife is a Breast Cancer survivor. I worked hard to earn my money and keep my money and not have somebody stick their hands in my pockets and just take it. Yeah, quite angry. Reporter jeff cole, fox 29 news. We got breaking news coming out of Burlington County new jersey. Skyfox is live over the scene of motorcycle crash in pemberton right near berming home road and indiana trail. Medic took the biker to virtua Memorial Hospital with severe injuries. We dont know the persons exact condition. As we learn more, well bring it to you. Tonight in your Health Researchers say gender might play a roll in symptoms of early alzheimers disease. Researchers found that women generally have better verbal memory. They say this could be because women have better verbal memory skills than men throughout life. So women might have a buffer of protection against losing those skills before the effects of alzheimers disease kick in. The study shows there was an advantage among females with full alzheimers. More research though needs to be done. Scientists hope the finalings will improve diagnostic accuracy the study comes from Albert Einstein college of medicine. A recall tonight of canned tuna bubble bee food a recalling 31,000 cases of chunk light tune nass because of problems during the commercial sterile laying process. It could lead to contaminated tuna. The affected tuna is right there on your screen. If you have one of those product, parked with a can code that starts with the letter t as in tom, throw it out. The company is offering refund if you bought any of this. That information you can find on fox29. Com. So folks figure out a way, iain, to watch all the basketball they want. And not only the app thats right march madness is not underway on the court its happening in the urologists office. Its proven some fans will go to to any lengths to sit back and watch College Basketball all weekend. Doctors at the Wisconsin Institute of urology say theres been increase in scheduled vasectomies it occurs through friday. So fans can be on mandatory rest and they can have all the time they want to watch basketball all they can handle with all these games over the weekend. Patients are typically in and out of the office in about an hour with strict orders to relax for the next few days then they go back to work on monday. Couldnt you just take couple days off . Im not sure why i find it so funny but its killing me. A couple comp days. This dog was missing. They thought she was dead. As you can see shes alive and well. Im just speechless. Theres not really any words that can explain it, like, this is is not a day that we thought would ever happen. Where she turned up and why people are having trouble upping how she even survived. Coming up at 6 00 a huge mess in old city the partial collapse of a building right by a schoolbus. No one was hurt but a few things had been different this story would have been tragic. U. S. Navy discovers 18 month old German Shepherd on island near california. The pup had been missing for nearly five weeks. Everyone thought she had died. Foxs jamie chambers shows the dramatic twist no one expected. Im just speechless much theres not really any words that can explain it. Like this is not a day that we thought would ever happen. Reporter back on the mainland safe and sound lune nat one and a halfyearold German Shepherd is some kind of canine survival expert. They drove around the entire island multiple times. After days of searching by water and by plane luna was presumed lost at sea and given up for dead weeks ago. But just yesterday, something mack us will happened on san clemente island. Were driving up the main road spotted her opened their car door and whistled and in she jumped. Just like luna was in the caring hands of naval conservation any of thes. Everyone on the island wanted to see her. Have a picture with hinge everyone fell in love with her. This is really the story of a four legged survivor who beat the odds then beat those odds as well. But it started with luna falling off of her owners fishing boat in the dark of night without a sound her owner nick believed she was lost at sea. Broken hearted, he held out hope that luna could survive but to make matters worse, the island of san clemente is not a hospitable place. Theres no standing fresh water on the island on a permanent basis. With the luck of el nino storms puddles formed and luna survived off of eating dead seagulls, fish corporations and rats. Have to thank the navy. From luna and her owner nick and myself and everyone that knows this dog i mean our deepest gratitude to them. Luna is with the family friend on the mainland right now. Cannot wait to be reunited with her owner, of course, tonight. To night at 6 00 cold case heats up. Three people murdered, excution style in a local home. And now more than two years later, an arrest. The long road investigators had to take to get here. And just when you thought winter was over, get ready. New information tonight about just how much snow were about to get on the very first day of spring. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Developing right now arrest more than two years in the mak making. All started in a house in february of 2014. That house there. Police say someone murdered three people execution style. Tonight a man is charged with the crimes and Authorities Say they pulled out all the stops to catch him. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Investigators say several key pieces of evidence helped them crack the case. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is in the newsroom with the story. Dawn. Reporter the District Attorneys Office says ballistics evidence, cell phone records and atm card were key to solving this case. There was nothing simple about this investigation. Reporter the Philadelphia District Attorneys Office says the evidence pointed to Quadir Jeffreys as one of two gunmen behind a twoyearold triple murder. It happened inside this house on the 6300 block of martins mill road in northeast philadelphia. Kerlin charles, Brian Williams and freemont killed in the Home Invasion. They were shot execution style. They were shot point blank range in their heads. Reporter investigators say because witnesses were unwilling to cooperate, they had to call for an investigating grand jury to build their case against jeffreys. Every homicide case we have witness intimidation and that occurred in this matter as well. We needed to get associates to come in and answer innocuous questions. They didnt want to do it. We needed the grand jury to