this afternoon was released. he is now in local hospital with life -- non-life threatening injuries. now take look. let's go live to skyfox right now above the scene. you could probably -- i'm not sure what you can see it's very dark. this all started in building c inside the vaughn correctional facility. that is where 100 inmates are housed. it happened about 10:30 this afternoon. right now what you are seeing is an overwhelming police response, ambulances, other law enforcement continue to pour in. we saw correctional emergency response and tactical teams along with the fbi has been on scene. it's been reported by recorded phone call from inside the prison to local news journal newspaper that inmates want better treatment. that may be the reason for this takeover. so as it stands right now, four officers remain being held hostage. no word on their condition. or how many inmates are holding them. >> progress toll 40:00 p.m. this afternoon that one correctional employee was released and transported by ambulance to a local area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. at this point we do not know if there are any other injuries or persons injured. work wig the department of corrections the fbi and delaware state police we continue negotiations to obtain a peaceful and safe resolution. >> reporter: now just a little background here. the james t. vaughn correctional facility is delaware's largest state prison. it houses 2500 inmates. it also houses the state's death row population, but right now, this maximum security prison going into crisis motor going on its seventh hour right now, and just a few minutes ago, i did speak with a corrections officer. did he not want to be identified. i told him, crazy day here, h you h? he slugs his shoulders told me, guys, every day is a crazy around here. we'll have more tonight at 10:00 o'clock. >> all right, chris, thank you. in berks county a toddler is dead now prosecutors say her parents are to blame for not getting her medical care. ella grace foster died at just two years old. >> prosecutors in this case say the little girl died from pneumonia. fox 29's dawn timmeney is live in reading. dawn? >> reporter: well, lucy and iain, district attorney here tells us that the family called their pastor whose actually the little girl's grander father the night before she died, and he anointed her basically praying and rubbing oil on her forehead, but no medical treatment was sought because it is simply against the family's religion. >> to me it's incomprehensible. >> reporter: berks county district attorney john adams details the tragedy that unfolded in this house on ta talbert role in upper top hawkin township in last year. state police responding to the death avenue two-year-old little girl. the children had basketball sing sick for 24 to 48 hours. her breathing was labored. she died in her father's arms after his wife called him home from work. >> both parents indicate that they did not believe in medications or doctors and the death of the victim was god's will. >> reporter: jonathan and greg foster are members of non denomination al church and it is completely against they are religion to take any live-saving measures. an autopsy two days later revealing the little girl died of pneumonia. >> if the victim would have received medical treatment that there was a 95% chance or better that the victim would have survived. >> reporter: the parents have been released on unsecured bail and are back in their family home caring for their six other children who range in age from infant to 10 years old. the district attorney says a very close eye is being kept on them. >> sure there's a safety plan that's been imposed, and the children are being monitored so that if there is an illness, they will will be taken to doctor. >> reporter: according to the district attorney, that has already happened. another child was sick after little ella grace died, and that child was taken to see a doctor. the parents face up to 12 and a half years in prison if convicted of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child. iain and lucy? >> thank you, dawn. next step in the sexual assault case against comedian bill cosby decide two things where to hold his trial and who will hear the case. a judge today set a february 27th hearing on those issues. cosby's defense team is worried the potential pool of jury ours in montgomery county have seen too much news could have ratch of this case. prosecutors don't have problem with bringing in an outside jury but they want the trial itself held in montgomery county. right now that's set to begin in june. young teacher is in jail tonight accused of having sex with a student and police say their relationship began at a school for troubled girls in delaware county. fox 29's dave kinchen is live in radnor. dave, what happened here? >> reporter: well police say it all started with teenager passing a note to the teacher asking about kissing that teacher and police say what happened next was a month long sexual relationship. >> did you have sex with the minor? not one word from former radnor township teacher nina scott. 28-year-old facing 34 counts of institutional sexual assault of a minor after an alleged sexual relationship with a 16-year-old female student when she attend the village school for troubled girls in rose montgomery. >> the only way i can describe what this teacher did is down right disgusting. >> cops say scott and the teen had sex in scott's downingtown apartment and on the grounds of the village school between february and october of 2016. a claim the school disputes. >> just from a personal perspective as a parent and as a police officer for 36 years, never ceases to amaze me when you put children in the care of a position such as a teacher that they violate that trust. >> reporter: police say the keep-year-old girl was moved to a youth services center luzerne county where investigators found her journal and love letters written from scott calling the teen her girlfriend. scott also said her two-year-old daughter is their daughter adding, we miss and love you, too, giving your daughter a hug and a kiss. >> what did she say about these charges? >> first and for most i'm not going to comment on the facts that at this point. i think it's really important to remember at this point that, you know, miss scott is presumed to be innocent first and for most. that's the most perform thing. >> reporter: investigation documents say it started with the teen writing a note to scott asking about kissing her with scott replying that it would be their secret. police also say scott originally lied to them to protect her job and child but ultimately admitted to the physical relationship. >> right now we're in the process of reviewing the charges. reviewing the allegations. >> reporter: village school also released a statement saying that it's their understanding the alleged incident did not, did not happen on school property. they also say that nina scott was suspended and then fired once charges were pending. back to you. all right, thank you dave. president trump first 100 days in office within two weeks he's already back in our area. mr. trump head to do delaware late today to honor a fallen u.s. navy seal. he boarded marine one late this afternoon along with his daughter ivanka to head to dover air force base. he's making this unannounced trip to honor the returning remains of chief special warfare operator william ryan owens. owens died during a weekend raid on al-qaida base in yemen. trump joined owens family for the private ceremony. now back to your fox 29 weather authority. we take live look outside of our old city studios on this first night of february. what can we expect for the rest of the night and for tomorrow. let's check in with kathy orr. >> well, weather wise, we're talking about a pleasant day today as the sun sets across the region. temperatures are still on the mild side. it's 47 degrees. the high today 50. winds out of the west at 14 miles an hour. beginning to kick up just a little bit. 47 in the city but 41 in allentown only 31 in the poconos with that westerly wind. this evening temperatures will be falling through the 40s. our skies mostly cloudy becoming partly cloudy out there. and we will have little bit of a wind especially by 11:00 o'clo 11:00 o'clock. a chilly breeze with a temperature of 40 so wind chill will be a factor. take a look at these future wind gusts. now tomorrow morning, not so bad but by the afternoon it will be gusting to 25 miles an hour in philadelphia and its suburbs. gusting to around 20 miles an hour in the poconos. putting a bit of a chill in the air as we head toward the end of the weaning and especially for your weekend. tomorrow we'll talk about falling temperatures in the forecast. winds of change and some super bowl snow showers and flurries. more thon with your seven day later in the broadcast. i'll see you then. all right, kathy. thanks. one new jersey boy kick out of the boy scouts of america because he's transgender but now the organization is changing its policy. tonight that little boy's message after this emotional roller coaster. 24 hour music marathon. the reason they sang and played for a full day. sean bell. lucy, jeff collins at temple might occur on this day. today he signed his first class at temple and find out why he got emotional while recruiting one of his players coming up later in sports. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. welcome to 8 and a half maple street. it's half a house. and even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, it's a full house to the wilsons. because they have fios, their half house has full internet, with uploads as fast as downloads. don't pay for uploads that aren't up to speed. get 150 meg internet with equal uploads and downloads, tv and phone for only $79.99 per month online for one year. only from fios. ♪ a couple of students accused of trying to sneak a loaded handgun into campus in delaware county. >> burt our bruce gordon says classmates actually helped tip off authorities. >> reporter: when the pup per darby high school senior arrived on campus by bus wednesday morning, school officials were waiting armed with information from a student or students. >> it was reported to us by word of mouth that there was a rumor more that this person may be in possession of something that he shouldn't have in school. >> reporter: security officers and upper darby police say they wrestle from the 12th greater and his 11th grade companion this metal box. inside a 9-millimeter handgun ready for use. >> it was loaded with a clip. two rounds in it in the clip. >> reporter: police said they also found four vials of marijuana in that box. both teens were charged with weapons and drug offenses. security officials praised the kids who brought them the information and the adults who headed off a dangerous situati situation. >> that handgun never made it into school. it was headed off before that situation occurred and that is a testament to our school security and our administrative team that work well together with the upper darby police. >> reporter: 12th greater has been in trouble before. targeting pope francis at his own high school via twitter when the pontiff visited philly in september of 2015. superintendent michael chitwood read the tweets. >> i'm a terrorist but it's fun. i'm assassinate the pope. then on the 25th of september he says, i'm gonna buy a big ass gun and really shoot up ud. >> chitwood says the teen now 17 was charged and locked up for awhile. >> this kid should have been put away somewhere for evaluation, now he's trying to walk into school with a gun. to a place that is overwhelmin overwhelmingly goodie sent kids. report roar back at the high school news of the violent incident was met with something of a slug. >> i wasn't surprised stuff like this happens in the past, but kind of sad i guess. i don't know. >> reporter: authorities do not know whether the gun was brought to school as part of a specific plot. two 70-year-olds are charged as view niles. upper darby high school does not use metal detector. the issue has been debated in the past. this incident may reignite the conversation. in upper darby, i'm bruce gordon fox 29 news. the young north jersey boy kick out of the boy scouts because he's transgender can now rejoin his troop. he's got a lot to say. boy scouts of america says it's changing century old policy to let trance jent children to enroll. eight-year-old joel maldonado from see saw cuss says he's happy to be back. >> gave my mom a call that i can't go any more. because the mothers were having issues with me being there because i was a girl. it sounds stupid to me. the kids -- it's none of their fault. all transgenders should be septembered of who they are. >> there you go. joe says he's excited to get back to his friends and all of the activities he missed. some students are putting new meaning to peaceful protes protests. ♪ music students at rider university's west minster choir college are in marathon mode. hoping to keep the college in princeton. pianists and singers other musicians are protesting using their talent in this 24 hour marathon because of declining enroll many and financial concerns rider officials are considering moving west minste minster's choir college to the university's main campus but students fear such a move would mean they lose programs and students. back to your fox 29 weather authority now. as we take a live look at reading on this first day of february. tomorrow is groundhog day. but forget punxsutawney phil we got kathy orr. >> and she's cuter. >> thank you. [ laughter ] >> iain thank you for that vost confidence. you know what his percentage is? >> what? >> i put it on twitter. >> low. >> what is it? >> low. >> i would say. very low. 39%. >> oh you're calling out punxsutawney. >> we'll see he usually says six more weeks if you do the math that's all february and half of march and we usually say you have to get through st. patrick's day to really feel good about winter being over. take look at ultimate doppler a few snow flurries going through the poconos. a few sprinkles to the south. a lot of this not even making it to the ground as we say goodbye to january look at this over 5 degrees above average for the month. mild one. 15th warmest day on record. as we look ahead february starting off mild but not going to stay that way. it's 47 right now. the high today 50. 31 in the poconos with this west southwesterly wind. wilmington 44. in dover 42. future wind gusts are going to be really impressive over the next 24 hours. tomorrow morning winds gusting to about 11 miles an hour in philadelphia not a big deal. by the afternoon here we go again. winds gusting to 20, 25 miles an hour out of the northwest in philadelphia. this whole hear highlighted in orange our suburbs as well on the pa, jersey and delaware side seeing some gusty afternoon winds. you know that will be reflected in the wind chill. how it actually feels. so tomorrow morning, wind chills will be in the 20s. but it's really friday morning when we have colder temperatures that we feel the bite. this is friday at 6am. it will feel like four in the poconos. 11 in philadelphia. 11 in trenton. and look at millville. feel like 14 in lancaster it will only feel like nine above. that is friday morning. so today we made it into the 50s it was 50. tomorrow 45. we go below average right through sunday. but then the tide begins to turn again. up and down again at least for the beginning of february. overnight 34 in the city. 28 in the suburbs. partly cloudy with a west win. tomorrow that wind kicks up during the afternoon. the temperature will make it to 45. but at least it will be a beautiful sunny day. and then we'll see if punxsutawney phil sees his shadow. remember f he sees his shadow, that means six more weeks of winter. cloudy skies, of course, punxsutawney some flurries at 7:30 it will be 20 degrees. will he want to come out of that bureau? probably not. here is your seven day forecast. colder for friday, saturday and sunday. sunday a few snow showers for your super bowl. turns milder. tuesday 50. wednesday 60. that's my kind of february. >> how about you? >> i'm with you on that, kathy. >> you know it's his type of february. >> exactly. >> high school kids get way too much attention. >> do you think so. >> can we agree on that. way too much attention. >> really? >> you get videos of them playing basketball or football. early recruiting. guys get all types of things because it's national signing day. we'll check ou out who jeff cols signed in his first year of temple's head coach. super bowl li, falcons and patriots. how this can be a coming of age situation. that's coming up next in sports. >> first, though, this is of course black history month and we've got this moment for you. today we're honoring claudette colvin she died in 1955 at the age of 15 schenn became the first person arrested for defying bus segregation in the south. did you know that her arrest happened nine months before the arrest of rosa parks? 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i said full room, full board pay for all his tuition, pay for his books. pays for his fees. tears, real tears, hugged her son and whispered in his ear, i am so proud of you. we get emotional, too. i'm not going to say i dried. maybe i did. maybe i didn't. nobody else was there it was a special moment. >> you can cry, it's okay. >> that's what it's about. i explain about high school gets getting too much attention that's what it's about right there. free ride. it's a difference maker. >> amazing. >> that's great. >> that does it for us here at 6:00. we'll see you right back here at 10:00. have a great night. inside edition is up next. ♪ everything nature's promise is so wholesome. and it doesn't take the whole paycheck. giant's exclusive nature's promise. eat well for less. my giant. trying to make me eat my greens?low. no, just trying to ve you some green. whaaat?! thousands of blue tags. thousands of low prices. my giant. the passengerrer who says she was kicked off a plane. >> for showing too muchly vj? 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