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your body reacts. but look at the numbers north and west. it feels like 16 below already in the pocono mountains and we're talking about feels like temperatures in philadelphia tonight five to 15, yes 15 degrees below zero it's going to feel like 20 below moving toward the pocono mountains. so this is going to be a dangerous scenario. bundle up, check on the elderly. check on your pets, and also just stay indoors if at all possible. there will be a little warmup comingcoming up i'll talk about that with the seven day when i come inside. back to you. >> you're welcome back inside very soon. thank you scott. you know it by the calendar you know it by stepping outside just ask scott it is winter. >> it is. only days into 2015 feeling some of the coldest temperatures of the year. our chris o'connell is live in camden where people are looking for ways to get warm and get off the streets. chris? >> reporter: guys, not much warmer across the river here in camden. bone-chilling temperatures. you just heard scott. let's check exactly how cold it is here in camden. and working in those wind chills, what you're seeing now is the average -- the temperature right now 21 degrees here in camden and actually dropping. let's go to the wind chill right now. you see the winds whipping up. it feels like 12 degrees right now here in camden. well that frigid bone-chilling temperatures forcing officials here in camden and all over to go under a code blue for the night. we're standing in front of the -- one of the three warming shelters here in camden. this is the joseph's house of camden on washington street. this is one of three for people to get out of the cold here today. but it's not just like you said it's not just around here. it's all over the place. we were all over today and you just saw people bundled up. it is dangerously dangerously cold. as we see people bundled up they have their scarves, they have their hats on. it's also the roadways. a major accident in bellmawr off of route 42 earlier today. that was cleaned up and once again had to do with after effects of the snow we had last night. now, let's bring you back out here. we also -- when you're out there, you're seeing a lot of this. we're in a parking lot right now now. but some of those secondary roads are still covered. there's definitely slick spots and it's going to continue to freeze. those freezing points will continue throughout the night. so officials are saying stay up doors if you are outside you need a shelter please look for one of these shelters. if police see homeless people out, they're going to be taking them to shelters but a bone-chilling night especially watch the power as well. of course, we'll have much more on this dangerously cold weather we're having coming up tonight at 10:00 o'clock. guys? >> thank you, chris. with the bitter cold temperatures expected tomorrow morning several school districts already making changes. brand wine and red clay school districts in new castle county and on a two hour delay tomorrow. woodbridge school districts in sussex county also a two hour delay. the christina school district in new castle canceled half day pre-school for tomorrow. we'll have all the latest school delays and cancellations tonight at 10:00 as well as on fox 29 morning news starting at 4:00 a.m. and "good day philadelphia" at 6:00 a.m. you can see all the latest school closures and delays on myfoxphilly.com. click the weather tab right at the top of our home page for the latest forecast information and live radar image images. to a developing manhunt in france right now. dark day in the city of life. gunfire erupt in the streets of paris today. masked men stormed the offices of a satirical newspaper. they kill at least a dozen people and tonight those gunmen are still on the streets. fox's kitty logan has what's happening right now. >> reporter: targeted in a deadly terror attack in france. marked gunmen -- masked gunmen storming the offices of a satirical magazine. france raising its terror alert to the highest level. >> they are dead because of the idea that they had a thought. idea the freedom. >> reporter: the controversial paper had previously come under attack. its offices fire bombed in 2011 for putting its prophet mohammed on the cover. it tweet add cartoon of isis leader shortly before today's shooting. editor-in-chief and the cartoonist were among those killed. >> today's murders are part of a larger confrontation. not between civilizations. no. but between civilization itself and those who are opposed to a civilized world. >> reporter: u.s. embassy in paris will remain open. and there's an nypd presence outside the french consulate in new york. president obama calling the attacks cowardly and evil. >> freedom of expression is something that can be and silented. >> shooting has been praised by al-qaida and isis supporters. both groups have previously threatened to tack france. in london kitty logan fox news. happening now more fallout in philadelphia's northern liberties section over a charter school closing. angry parents and staff standing outside the walter palmer school on the 900 block of north sixth street. they're demanding paychecks parents want student transcripts. let's get right out to shawnette wilson. what else are these people look looking for shawnette? >> reporter: dawn, they're looking for someone to resolve their issues and to answer some of their questions. but as you can see behind me, the school is closed. the majority of the gate here around the main entrance is locked. it has been for quite sometime. now, things all came to a head over winter break we were told that parents and staff here at walter palmer charter were out on winter break. they were notified that the school would not be opening back up after the holiday. after continued problems with finances. parents were left to get their children to other schools. but without act cities their records and teachers say the last paycheck they received was back on december 19th and they were just recently notified that it's unclear when they will get their final paycheck. a group gathered outside this afternoon hoping to get answers. >> today was our supposed pay day but we received a notice stating that we would get something in the male when our pay was going to be, you know, delivered to us. but no time frame no date, no further information. >> many of us are facing foreclosures evictions repo sessions of our cars, things of that nature. we're not able to take care of our families. >> reporter: you may have noticed some people behind me. the pre k is still open here but they are attached to the building but not affiliate the with the charter school. in the meantime, some parents told me that someone did come outside earlier and told them to come around back and that they would get access to their kids records. it's unclear if that ever happened. we do know that the teachers, the staff members here about their paychecks never got any answers and again the phone to the school is still disconnected so we weren't able to get through either. lucy? >> all right. thank you very much, shawnette. former philadelphia principal is now the eighth person charged in a sweeping grand jury probe on cheating on standardized tests. state authorities arrested 43-year-old lola marie davis o'rourke today. authorities say the former leader of an elementary school had both students and teachers change incorrect answers on the pennsylvania system of school assessment to boost test scores in 2011. what made those investigators so sure? well, a data company said the chance of all of those erased answers and new answer answers happening natural system less than one in 100 mel i don't know. prosecutors have charged davis o'rourke with records tampering forgery and conspiracy. philadelphia's own bill cosby is returning to the state stage tonight this is new sexual assault allegations lodged against the comedian. fox 29's joyce evans joining us nouse with the details and the controversy surrounding cosby's tv wife. >> reporter: dawn and lucy, this is cosby's first time on stage since november and many people are saying that they will not show up to tonight's show in canada while others say they plan to go and they plan to heckle cosby during his performance. tonight's show happens as another cosby defender comes forward. phylicia rashad played claire huxtable cosby's tv wife on the cosby show. she's defending the entertainer saying he's being framed in a plot to destroy his legacy. she told the website show business 411 quote forget these women, what you're seeing is the destruction of a legacy and i think it's orchestrateed. now more than a dozen women have come forward since november claiming cosby sexually assault assaulted them. decades ago and just today three more women came forward in california with their open allegations against cosby. for most part cosby has stayed quiet about the allegations as he continues his comedy tour. dawn and lucy. >> we'll see what happens tonight. thank you very much, joyce. in one local community the search for a vandal who targeted a church. yeah based on the damage this crime took some planning. we're looking at the clues. >> karen hepp is working on a story in the fox 29 newsroom. karen. >> good evening, ladies. major bombshell this morning on radio maybe you heard it long time wmmr host steve telling his listeners had cancer. no symptoms, no idea until he got the news this october. >> i'm here to tell you that i was diagnose with it, had surgery, had no pain, never used a painkiller. i'm back to 95% of what i was before surgery and right now as everything looks i'm cancer free. >> coming up, why he waited to tell his listeners this news and what he wants you to do right now. >> wow ! all right, karen. parents and children listen up. how does no more homework sound? pretty good, right? the new trend in schools that keeps all those hard to figure out problems in the classroom. >> speaking of things that sound pretty good coming up at six alcohol plain tickets for less than $20? time is running out. who is offering them and whe ♪ one of the most popular radio personals in our area opening up about a very personal battle with cancer. >> steve morrison of the preston and steve show on wmmr today said he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. fox 29's karen hepp live in newsroom. he spoke about this very candidly this morning and i imagine he's getting a lot of support. >> so much support. enormous flood of support. so why did equate on this one in order to come forward he's such a public guy he speaks candidly about things. he didn't want to be a distraction from all the holiday fundraisers that his show was working on and steer the spotlight away from those important causes he's reflect add lot and finally talking right now because he realizes how important it is to raise awareness and truly believes this can save lives. so i was getting a series of tests and i had had my psa checked and my psa level was high. >> phone lines are twitter facebook all lit up this morning. the guy we listen to on the radio steve morrison of preston and steve had prostate cancer. he was pretty surprised when he got the diagnosis in october. >> i had no pain prior. i had no symptoms. nothing to indicate you know, nothing but caught this early made all the difference in the world. >> dr. mike cirigliano is steve's doc with the simple psa test they caught this disease early and the cancer was removed robot klee in december at penn abramson's cancer center. >> between 20 and 30,000 people will die this year from prostate cancer. it behooves you in this new year to get yourself check. if you're a man you have a family, you have children, you have a wife, if you care about them, then you need to care about yourself. >> that's exactly why steve is finally speaking out today. if that makes a difference i'm telling you this happened to me and i exercised a lot and i eat right and it still happened to me, it could happen to you. don't be worried. get the test. you're probably fine but if you catch something early i mean i'm just a couple week after surgery, i am booking along. >> he's doing absolutely fabulously. he is cans four free right now. dr. mike will keep monitoring to make sure he stays that way. both men recommend that all men out there get their psa levels checked a simple blood test that they believe will save lives. >> all right karen. important information to get out there. thank you. the new jersey high school football program that saw its season canceled can a mid hazing and sexual allegations will return to the field this fall. the program will resume for the 2015 season. the superintendent canceled the 2014 season back in october. days before seven players were accused of hazing and sexually assaulting four teammates inside the locker room. the boys will be tried in juvenile court. none of the coaches have been charged. the football team's long time head coach remains suspended indefinitely with pay from his tenured physical education teaching position at the high school. former baltimore ravens cheerleader chargeed with raping teenaged boy has not made a plea deal but she did make an appearance in a sussex county court today. both sides reviewed the case the 47-year-old molly shaddix a chance to strike a deal but that didn't happen and she maintains she's knot not guilty. in november prosecutors charged her with third dough rape. unlawful sexual contact and providing alcohol to minors. the charges came after a 15 year old boy told police she began a relationship with her near baltimore and them met up at a vacation rental home in bethany beach. her trial is going to start in march. new jersey governor chris christie faces an ethics complaint stemming from that dallas cowboys game over the weekend. the american democratic league fund says the governor broke state rules by accepting tickets to a dallas game as a gift. gifts such as tickets are banned by new jersey state law. now the governor' office says there is an exception that allows gifts from family and friends. governor christie says cowboys owner jerry jones is considered a friend and the governor boy the way says he plans to be at sunday's cowboys/packers game in green bay. >> new life tonight for the shuddered lap club casino in atlantic city. it looks like a pennsylvania real estate company has agreed to buy it. newly filed property records show an affiliate of devon based endeavor property group is buying the complex. we don know the price tag. neither company would comment on the report. the atlanta club is under a deed restriction barring it from operating as a casino again. it closed its doors in january of 2014. a facebook page dedicateed to finding shane montgomery is asking volunteers to help remove the many flyers posted ad asking for information in shane's disappearance. that request asking people to take the flyers down so they don't upset the family any further. 21-year-old college student's body was found saturday in the schuylkill river in manayunk by a volunteer dive team. montgomery was last seen alive in the early morning hours of thanksgiving. he was hanging out with friends at a manayunk bar. he never returned home. his cause of death has not yet been released. family and friends are remembering the life of shane montgomery all this week. a viewing is set for tomorrow from 5:00 until 9:00 p.m. at the saint john the baptist church in manayunk. a funeral mass is friday at 10:00 in the morning at that same church. area college students gearing up up for life after school. the urban league of philadelphia's internship fair hosted students from various universities today. you know how important connections are when trying to get a job, right? this event connected young people with companies. those students heard from some of the region's top businesses about various opportunities and this is the second year the urban league has held this event event. a rude awake kenning in texas with several earthquakes rattling the lone star state. tonight scientists are trying to figure out why the earth seems to be moving a little more these days. eight children treated for hypothermia in the washington, d.c. area. three metro buses kicked them off -- three of them. why? they wound up stuck in the freezing cold without a ride. >> and as the holidays end a lot of marriages. why we see more divorces this time of year than any other and how you can keep your own marriage right on track. ♪♪ >> we may soon have answers as to caused an air asia jet to crash in the java sea 10 days ago. all 162 people i was bore the plane died. search crews today say they found the tale of the plane which usually holds the black boxes. that flight was on its way from indonesia to singapore when the went down. so far about 40 victims have been recovered but officials say the weather and high waves are making the recovery efforts extremely difficult. texas is shaking and nobody knows why. scientists in the lone star state are trying to figure out what's behind a big increase in the number of earthquakes rocking the dallas fort worth area. the latest ones hit yesterday. southern methodist university scientists say before 2008 they had only one reported earthquake in what's called the fort warmth basin. since then at least 100 noticeable quakes have struck the area. yesterday' social security a first for many people. >> we're sitting in the conference room upstairs, and the whole place just shakes. >> even this part of tech text has old faults and those old faults have stored stress. just one day before the quake hit seismologists deployed a new monitoring device in the area. that's right now looking at the data. the quakes did not injure anyone and left no major damage. the fbi is searching for a motive in this deadly attack at an he will pass eye so texas va clinic yesterday afternoon a gunman opened fire. a doctor was killed, the gunman shot dead. officials have not yet revealed the identity of eat. investigators spent the day interviewing hundreds of patient patients and staffers hoping to get some kind of answer. it was last year that the el paso clinic came under scrutiny after an audit showed it had the longest wait times for veterans trying to see a doctor for the very first time. in washington, d.c. it's a new congress with a new faces but with the same old issues with the obama administration. specifically, gridlock over the keystone xl pipeline. it's first order of business taking up by new senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and president obama is already saying he will veto any legislation approving the much delayed $5.4 billion project. the pipeline would move oil nearly 1200 miles from canada to gulf coast refineries. the bill's sponsors both democrat and republican say it will create american jobs. >> threatening to veto a jobs and infrastructure bill within minutes of a new congress taking the oath of office. a bill with strong bipartisan support is anything but productive. >> we already have in place a well established process one that predates this administration for evaluating infrastructure projects that span international borders like the keystone pipeline. so i don't understand why congress would weigh into the it wade into a process that's already on-going. >> the bill sponsors saying they have enough votes to pass the measure. they say if the president follows through on his veto they'd attach the keystone measure to another bill. fast food meal served up with a human tooth. no extra charge. >> that disgusting discovery was made how about the popular restaurant chain is handling this one. plus, nothing is sacred for vandals in one local community. they targeted a church and did serious damage. tonight the search for those responsible. scott? >> dawn, right now dangerous cold conditions moving in. as well as wind chills dropping below zero but how long will it last? details next. >> welcome back. live look at blue mountain from our pocono mountains camera. we talk about those postcard pictures all the time. this is a postcard picture and dawn timmeney i expect to see you on that slope right there. gorgeous. no more significant snowfall today but the snow that fell is sticking around and things are about to get even colder than they already are in the poconos and throughout the delaware valley. chief meteorologist scott williams will have an update coming up in your fox 29 winter weather authority. have to pull out the longjohns. >> um-hmm. happening now the search for a gunman in philadelphia's fishtown neighbor. he was caught on camera opening fire in a crowd of people on the 5800 block of west girard avenue. police say a fight got out of control on saturday. to men shot. they're in stable condition tonight at temple university hospital. if you recognize the gunman you're asked to give police a call. >> who would destroy a religious shrine tonight a hitter 86 church is manayunk is trying to find out who would desecrate the more than 80-year-old shrine and police want to find that person. it happened just before the new year. our bruce gordon is live in manayunk. bruce. any leads? >> reporter: no. short answer not yet lucy. for generations, members of the holy family family have come here to the scenic gratto behind his historic catholic church to have photos take. on important family events. ♪ >> it symbolizes what we stand for. >> reporter: a pile of rubble remains of the iconic gratto at the church of the holy family. a concrete statue of the virgin mary lies toppled a mid what remains of a field stone out cove that looks lick it was hit with a correcting ball by vandals. marie is a long live parishioner parishioner. what went through your mind when you saw that. >> i really wanted to cry to think anything as beautiful as that could be destroyed by someone who had no thought. >> reporter: monsignor patrick sweeney says the gratto was an important of the rich history of holy familiar al church that has been around since the 19th centrism the did he say play was built in 1933 to replicate a shrine in lord's france depicting 1858 story of the french teenager bernadette who says she saw a vision of the virgin mary. scores of miracles have been ascribed to that french site in the decades that follow. the monsignor says it's not clear whether the destruction was a case of random violence or a deliberate attack on the church. >> if it were an attack against religion, you know, that would concern me more, because, you know it's open opposition to what we're trying to accomplish or do here. >> i'll say it again. there are no morals, respect or fear in some people any more. >> reporter: church secretary theresa spanks says her facebook page is filled with outrage over the destruction. her grandfather helped build the gratto. >> unbelievable. this is sad. all we can do is pray for whoever did it because apparently something may be traumatic is going on with them. they need prayers. >> reporter:. >> that was bruce gordon report reporting. back now to your fox 29 winter weather authority. i took my dogs for a walk today and the little one was not liking the cold and the ice on the snow, on the sidewalks. >> he wanted to get out. >> get dog bee booties for them. >> i'm checking into checking into that lucy. >> that's good thing to to talk about right now pets because tonight it's going to be really cold. bring the pets indoors tonight. check on the elderly. make sure your children are adequately heated as well because as we look at the temperatures 21 degrees but that's really only a part of the story. look at the wind chill. that's how your body reacts and how you should dress. 5 degrees already what it feels like in philadelphia. but look at the temperatures today. the low was 17. the high temperature only 24 degrees. so below freezing the entire day. we should top out around 40. take look at all of the wind chill advisories and warnings posted along the eastern sea board pretty much over half of the nation looking at some type of wind chill advisory or warning with his arctic front. that's moving through this evening. so when you wake up tomorrow morning in philadelphia, south jersey, delaware, it will feel like five to 15 degrees below zero. so dangerous. toward the pocono mountains it will feel at times up to 20 degrees below zero but look at the winds out of the northwest right now gusting over 30 miles per hour in philadelphia. almost gusting to 40 miles per hour as you move toward atlantic city. so the wind is going to make it feel really brutal outside. look at the feels like temperatures right now in the pocono mountains it feels like 16 below. it feels like three in atlantic city right now. feels like four in wilmington as well as dover. so by 8:00 o'clock, it's going to feel below five in philadelphia. but look at tomorrow morning. 6am it's going to feel like 15 below in philadelphia. the pocono mountains it will feel like 23 degrees below zero so bundle up, dress in layers, stay warm, extra chapstick some lotion out there. and then tomorrow, yeah, more of the same. we're looking at feels like temperatures still below zero in philadelphia. where we're not alone though. take look across the nation. look at the clock tonight and tomorrow morning all the way toward new orleans at 6:00 a.m. it will feel like 12. it will feel like 30s even in orlando tomorrow morning. so here's the bottom line. entire area below zero. winds they're going to gust to 40 miles per hour and then, yeah coldest air of the season. so check on the elderly. check on your pets. pipes. they could burst. you might want to run a little trickle of water wrap them in heat tape as we look at ultimate doppler even looking at a few flurries some snow squalls trying to move through the area and those temperatures continuing to drop. not a typo. we're looking at eight in the city for the low tonight. the record is safe. that is 2 degrees for tonight. but look at the wind chills. below zero. so i can't stress that enough. that you need to take this with precautionary measures. just bundle up. just stay indoors if you can overnight tonight. 21 that's it tomorrow's high temperature. that seven day forecast showing you, 32 on friday. and then a little relief sunday and monday. with temperatures getting above freezing. but we could be looking at some rain maybe some wet snow monday and tuesday of next week. >> all right. for now we just have to bundle up in lots of layers. >> yup. >> thank you, scott. well we already know that constantly taking selfies to that obsessive point probable system not too healthy. >> then you have to talk to most teenagers. i'm just saying. >> does it mean you're a quote psychopath? the new information suggesting the answer depending on who you are could 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republicans and farmers who don't want rails on their fields. it's estimated to be completed in 2028. well, would you like a tooth with that order of fries? >> no. really? global food giant mcdonald's is under fire tonight after customers discovered human tooth and plastic pieces mixed in with some food at some of their restaurants in japan. one child's mouth injured by a piece of plastic in an ice cream sunday and another customer found a tooth in their fries. yuk! two other customers discovering pieces of plastic mixed in with chicken nuggets. in response the burger chain pulled nearly 100,000 nuggets cooked at a tie lapped factory. mc don nam's has not yet confirm the two incidents are related. history comes to live in boston. folks got a glimpse at the 1700's they opened a time capsule from 1795. so cool. the capsule was in the cornerstone of the massachusetts state house. sam adams who was the governor in 1795 and paul revere buried it. can you imagine inside that metal box a collection of old coins and engrained cellarer plate possibly by paul revere and also neatly folded newspapers. a conservator for bosses toes museum of fine arts removed the capsule from its long time residence after water leaks threatening its safety. museum will preserve those precious items put them on display and eventually return them to the estate house. here's the question. could takeing too many selfies mean you're a psychopath? those are not my words. they're a study's words. new study out of ohio state says men who posted selfies often scored higher than average on anti social traits. psychologists say the men displayed psycho pa thick tendencies such as a lack of empathy. and many of the men in the study who took more time and effort to improve their selfies, you know, all those filters before posting them online scored higher on a measure of narcissism. so there you have it. (laughter). >> there you have it. this is story that would make really any parent very angry. >> list zone to this. eight children treated for hypothermia in the washington, d.c. area after they're kicked off three different metro buses. why they wound up stuck in the freezing cold weather with no ride. >> and tis the season for divorce. why we see more divorces this time of year than any other and to keep your own marriage on track. howard? >> where was the survey on women taking selfies? i didn't see -- i didn't see that. all right. the flyers finally won a game last night after losing five straight. but may have lost a key player. who actuall . all right. a washington state homeowner looking for new home after his floated away. take a look. this house fell into the wallace river and floated downstream. small bit of luck. homeowner was out of town when it happened. the sheriff' office says the river bank has been eroding for years. los angeles police are looking for a moon who vicious al tacked a woman in korea town. surveillance cameras catching the whole thing it shows the woman walking into the elevator and a man following her. you see what just happened he through her out of the elevator on to the ground. wrestles with her. kicks her. punches her before taking her purse. police say this guy has robbed several other people in the area area. the washington, d.c. metro bus system is investigating how eight brothers and sisters wound up getting kicked off several buses during yesterday's snowstorm. good samaritans finding the children ages four to 14 years old they were all had you had dead up together trying to stay warm on a doorstep around 9:00 in the morning. they say they were on their way to school but they never made it there. the children say they were kick off of three different buses that were going out of service. the good samaritans called 911 and even went with the children to the hospital where they were treated for hypothermia. >> you have little, small children on your bus. you cannot do that. >> they finally got in contact with their mother and stuff and they're home rate now safe. yeah. they're home right now safe. even the mother gave me a big hug. she was -- she didn't even know her kids was out here. she thought they was in school in class. >> metro bus system says it center out an immediate notice to all bus operators reinforcing the company's policy which is, even if a bus route gets canceled by bus control drivers are obligated to carry passengers to the end of the route unless there is an eminent safety hazard. >> that makes sense now doesn't it. a group of sky drivers and airplane crew have one amazing tale to tell tonight after jumping mid flight to survive. the plane's engine failed shortly after taking off in new zealand. the six quick thinking sky divers unstrapped the six crew members to themselves they tandem jumped what was below that lake. they all made it to safely with no major injuries. witnesses would could not believe what they were seeing. >> saw the plane coming across. smoke coming out of it. and saw the plane -- para shooters jumping out and heard a big bank like it blew up. it blew up before it hit the water. >> investigators are on their way to the crash site to find out what went wrong. this one not surprising a florida man arrested op drug charges and his t-shirt is probably the reason why. fief-year-old john richard ballmer charged with possessing methamphetamines and marijuana. a photo posted on the sheriff's facebook page shows ballmer wearing a t-shirt that reads " "who needs drugs" underneath that it reads "no seriously i have drugs". he was arrested monday at a k mart store. after police say he tried to hand a small bag of drugs to someone that was standing behind him. what if your children and their by you never had to do homework again? educators have just flip the learning model most of us grew up on its head and they're making sure who know the material the best helping your children get through it. fox 29's joyce evans introduces us to flipping. >> reporter:. >> come on in. choose your seat. >> reporter: it looks like after school study hall when you walk into room 203 at friends haverford. >> we'll talk about yesterday's stuff. >> reporter: not sixth period math class. students working alone. working in small groups. teaching each other. >> two at a time in a video challenge. >> i'm on wave 12. >> is that good. >> yes. >> if i take one from both sides. >> reporter: or specialized instruction with the teacher where you get to ask any question you want. >> start to do it but then it would get all jumbled up. >> this is being multiplied by five. >> did you get it? >> yes. eventually. >> it's about taking every student and meeting them exactly where they are and giving them that just right lesson for where they are to get them to the next place. >> reporter: madeleine is doing her homework. >> because that's an optional thing we're allowed to do. >> that would be great idea. >> reporter: this is how they do it in chris mccann's math class of fifth and sixth greater. >> why is that so difficult now? the days of teachers standing at the front of the room lecturing people are numbered. >> reporter: new school versus old school. sort of. >> in my classroom all of that still happens. it just doesn't happen in the same order and it doesn't happen all in one big group. >> reporter: the bases of the flipped learning model. technology driven where traditional class lessons like lectures are watched on video at home. when the application and practice or the traditional homework all done in class. >> so this is kind of new for all of us and there's different stations. >> it's not easy for student to walk into class sit down and get to work without the teacher speaking to them necessarily. let's talk a little bit about the steps. >> reporter: teacher chris as he's called tried it out for the first time last school year. >> we're using published curriculum and -- but they feel like it's personalized because the pace is personalized for them. >> reporter: they are grouped and graded but only teacher chris knows where they really stand. no peer pressure. no judging. >> they learn from each other and there's not the hierarchy of the honors class and the non honors class. >> reporter: a roving math coordinator also checks in to see if they're really getting it it. and they seem to really like it. >> it helps me think better and it helps me focus more. it gives you almost like confidence to work because you know no one going to judge you if you don't know the answer to a problem. >> if you need help we can ask each other and i like being able to ask each other things. >> a lot of the educational work we do is dependent upon our ability to be flexible. report roar head school michael zimmerman believes the combination of traditional teaching and the flipped model just may be what the united states needs to regain high standing in education. >> so it's vital. >> reporter: it's really working there. some educators say the flipped model may not be practical for class that is may be overcrowded or ones that may have lower achieveing students with other needs or for students who may not be motivated enough for this kind of discipline independent study. dawn? >> certainly different take, though, joyce. thank you. holidays aren't the only thing that's over. apparently a lot of marriages are as well. statistically this is the time of year when most marriages also come to an end. fox's matt king takes a look at the numbers. why january brings a spike in divorce rates. >> reporter: on his desk this attorney keeps a plaque displaying the quote from a fictional private eye and three books he felder authored about divorce. >> he's a degenerative. he's cold girls. escort services. whatever. >> reporter: apparently no one makes any of those accusations until after the holidays. >> they want to get vacations they want to get their presents. they want to have nice parties when -- when the holiday over divorce lawyers start clicking. >> reporter: the united states sees an average of 876,000 divorces every your but according to the divorce attorneys on no day do more people file for divorce than on first monday in january. >> there is a real demarcation between december 31st and january 1st. >> reporter: last decade p.m. leal mella goldman advertised herself as a counselor for women in transition much she calls the holiday a time for masking reality once the light comes down people see more inclined to throw their spouse out into the street along with their christmas trees and husband and wife or vise versa become plaintiff and defendant. >> i have more referrals more people who are in the throws of singing for the first time about -- thinking for the first time about divorce. many people who are reflecting on what was. >> get a fresh start. fresh husband. fresh wife. new fights. >> reporter: on the upper east side i'm matt king, fox5 news. >> all right all you idol fans the wait is over. 14th season of american idol kicking off tonight right here on fox 29. >> ♪ >> the search for the next musical star beginning in national jennifer lopez and keith urban talking about what the contestants need to do this year to earn a golden ticket to hollywood. >> they have to knock our socks off. they have to create a moment. they have to do something special that separates them from the packs because at this point there's so many good voices. >> you have to be real, you know, just be authentic. whatever that is. everybody is different as people and they just come in and just -- just be true to themselves. >> good advice. other stops on the i dull audition tour this season include minneapolis, new orleans, long island and san francisco. american idol's latest search for super star starts tonight at 8:00 o'clock on fox 29. then there's the premier of tv's hottest new show empire. that's at 9:00 then you can get a full wrap of the days news, sports and weather on fox 29 news at 10:00. ♪ >> straight a head at 6:00, you thought today was cold. wait for tonight and tomorrow. what you need to know about this dangerous winter weather that is grabbed us and just not letting go. plus, terror in the streets of paris. masked gunmen storm the offices of a newspaper killing a dozen people. the first clues about what motivated the dead al tack. ♪ and here at home plane tickets for less than $20. time is running out. who is offering ♪ right now at 6:00, dangerous cold weather gets even worse. the snow and ice remain as the temperatures take on an even more biting chill. >> it's not going to be a night dawn much this combination of wind and low temperatures will be a dangerous one. good evening i'm lucy noland. >> i'm dawn timmeney in for iain page. let's get straight over to chief meteorologist scott williams for a look at this cold night ahead. scott? >> it's a dangerous cold dawn and lucy. we're talking about pretty much half of the nation with some type of wind chill advisory or warning. look at the map. all wait to the gulf coast. southern texas. even tampa looking at wind chill concerns and you can see the philadelphia area we are included in that too. so zooming in a little closer. toward the pocono mountains feels like temperatures 15 to 20 degrees below zero. a little farther to the south philadelphia south jersey and delaware, it's going to feel like five to yes 15 below. how does it feel right now? it already feels like 18

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