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Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At Five 20150128



complaint alleging sexual misconduct against her. sources say what followed were allegations of her having sex with two male firefighters in a vehicle as well as with other firefighters paramedics and fire department leaders in multiple city fire stations. we're told the inspector general's office gave a completed report to city officials recommending punishment but the mayor says -- >> i'm not going to prejudge something that i don't have all the details op. >> reporter: the president of firefighters union local 22 reacts in a statement released to fox 29 saying "we are aware of the inspector general's investigation but cannot and will not comment as we do not know the specifics of the allegations or the conclusions drawn in the ig's report. ". we're told the philadelphia fire department leadership has been told to make reforms and policy changes after this incident took place. back to you, iain. >> dave, thank you. breaking news right now. police are investigating the discovery of a world war ii era weapon it's happening in chester in delaware county. police say a rocket launching device found a little more than an hour ago and police are telling us it appears to be a bazooka from world war ii. it's not clear if the weapon is still active or not. we will continue to follow this story and bring you any updates when they become available. >> happening right now terrifying stories of survival but survive they did as people jumped to safety when flames swallowed up a montgomery county apartment complex. that fire burned through apartment after apartment in the middle of the night and tonight dozens of people have nowhere to go. fox 29's dawn timmeney is live at the scene at fort washington. dawn, what a scary night. >> reporter: super scary lucy. many of the the residents were sound asleep when the fire alarm started sounding. the fire breaking out in this second story apartment here and i have to tell you a lot of people scared to death as they tried to make their way out of this apartment. this building was actually condemned three years ago. the fire marshal telling me that the management company that took it over got everything up to code and he is crediting a working fire alarm system with saving lives everyone's. >> we had fire coming from the window here. we had smoke coming from a lot of the other windows. we had smoke on all four floors. we have people on the balconies basically trapped. >> frenzied families are forced to jump to safety after flames break out at the four-story washington tower apartments on bethlehem pike in fort washington. it was just before 1:00 o'clock this morning when fire erupted. >> the police did a great job with getting people off. they were jumping from the balconies out front and this could have been a lot worse. >> reporter: someone hundred residents escaping with just the clothes on their backs. benjamin two children had to be lowered to the ground. >> they were coming through the windows. they couldn't even jump down. tough scene in our lives. we have never experienced something like this before. >> reporter: this is a look inside the second floor apartment where the fire started in a bedroom. three of the fire people who live here suffering minor injuries. taylor harris lives a few doors down and heard the alarm go off. >> i look out opened my door and the whole hallway was just black with smoke. i didn't even think about it. i just ran. just got low and covered my mouth and just book it out of there. i couldn't see anything. so i pretty scared. >> reporter: harris and others returning to their apartments this afternoon to gather up some of their belongings. many of the victims are temporarily being put up at a nearby best western until the apartment owners can make the necessary and costly repairs. >> um, i don't have an answer for them. i'd love to get them back in as soon as possible. get them back to their lives. people have jobs. they have school. >> reporter: now damage could be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. the damage was mostly to these four apartments here on the corner. they were gutted. the hope is that the owners of this building can maybe seal these apartments off and then get the rest of this apartment building repaired and back up to code so residents can hopefully move back in. in the next several days. that still has to be determined. right now this building has been deemed inn inhabitable and the exact cause of the fire is still under investigation tonight. dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. >> all right dawn, thank you. bitter cold and more bone-chilling temperatures on the way in our area. here's live look outside at center city. a beautiful sunset. we don't have any snow to worry about tonight but dangerously cold out there and it's going to get even colder. let's check in with chief meteorologist scott williams whose out in the cold in old city tonight. scott? >> iain, don't let that sunshine fool you that we had today. the high temperature only 35 degrees. the morning low in philadelphia was 20 but feels like temperatures for a part of the day were in the single digits. so as we take look at the current conditions right now it's 34 degrees. the wind chill not as brutal right now at 27 degrees. but if you're stepping outdoors, bundle up. 34 in philadelphia. still some colder air off into sections of new england that continues to funnel in our direction. it's 29 in pottstown. we have freezing in wildwood as well as dover. you factor in those winds it feels like 20 degrees right now in atlantic city. and it feels like only nine right now in the pocono mountains. so for to into the clear and frigid. not as blustery but we are looking at teens and single digits. it's dry for now but take look at that clipper around sections of international falls and marquette michigan we'll have the timing when that arrives when i come inside. back to you, lucy. >> see you then scott. the blizzard of 2015 was anything but around here. not in massachusetts though. the eastern part of the state just slammed with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane force winds ripped through some areas. and people are cleaning up and surveying all of that damage. boston residents are digging out 2 feet of snow buried cars and roads and this day has people mav navigating from wicked conditions when they head out. >> i walk out the stairs snow was up -- you had to feel your way. >> cambridge street in boston was horrible. it was very icy. people were getting stuck there. >> reporter: meteorologists have been taking a lot of slack for snow totals in the new york and philadelphia areas that just did not live up to predictions. but forecasters for coastal areas from long island up through new england were on target. and the recovery may take some time. winter storm ju inform o the largest storm to hit boston in january on record. and forecasters say temperatures in the city are going to dive for a week with more snow on the way. >> we have 850 miles of streets in addition to thousands of -- hundreds of schools and thousands of ramps. crews are going out to clear all of that. other parts of the state hit even harder. the blizzard knocking out power on the entire island of nantucket and the ocean breached a marsh field sea wall during the storm flooding homes and leaving widespread damage. >> this storm was a tough one. the winds were very powerful and the wave action was -- you couldn't see it but you can hear it. >> at the height of the storm more than 36,000 people lost power imagine how cold it got. today fewer than 10,000 people remain in the dark though much of nantucket is still out but the utilities say they are hoping to get the power back on for everyone by tomorrow. investigation is now underway into who opened fire with a semi automatic weapon in a southwest philadelphia neighborhood. police were on the scene in the 600 block of regent street earlier today a semi automatic weapon believed to be an ak47 was found. they also took several shell casings into evidence. no one was hurt. but right now police don't know who opened fire or why. he's in police custody tonight. he had a lot of you shaking your head. today police arrested a 40-year-old man accused of attacking a teenager on her way to school on a trolley. we showed you this last week. teen says her backpack was apparently accidentally bumping into the man so she says he attacked her on that septa trolley. her nose is broken. she had a black eye, scratches across her face. and today damon olive turned himself in to police. he faces several charges. it is a big day for two police officers who stopped an armed robbery. philadelphia's police commissioner dropped by to say thank you. monday morning the officers were staking out an area around a dunkin' donuts on the 6200 block of front street. a slew of armed robberies had been plaguing the area. that's when they saw a masked man walk into the donut shop. officers anthony sherman and paul austin say their training kicked in and immediately they took him down. >> walk right up to the door, looked in, seen there was no patrons in there. turned back around pulled the mask down. went in the store. >> we couldn't believe the to be honest were. >> look at this goo. >> that's what we said. we were laughing. we said he must know someone in there to do this. but it turn out he was there to rob the place. >> the two cops immediately arrested 20-year-old russell mason what's who now facing multiple robbery charges. the dust and debris have settled but questions are swirling about that roof collapse in center city. >> it happened at a very popular store sending several people to the hospital. bricks apparently fell from the building next door. tonight the search into how this happened. plus, the smart phone app police warn could put police in danger. it alerts users to the locations of officers in their area. why despite their best efforts departments may not be able to stop it. >> a local boy is bravely battling a rare disease. he is getting a lot of help and concluding from a group of people who just made a very special dream come true. >> coming up at 6:00 handcuffs apparently not enough to stop a pennsylvania woman. she was able to drive off in a police cruiser and the whole ♪ >> we are following breaking news out of southwest philadelphia right now. skyfox is live over a deadly shooting on the 2600 block of must have felled street. police say a woman was shot in the face about an hour ago. she was taken to the hospital of the university of pennsylvania. we are told she did not survive. police say a person is in custody right now. a shake up in the phillies front office. last fall fox 29's howard eskin said david montgomery is out as team president and now it has happen. montgomery has been on medical leave and today the phillies announceed pat gillick who has been acting president is taking over permanently. montgomery will become the team's chairman and he's saying "i am fortunate to be healthy enough to resume some of my previous responsibilities. i am appreciative that pat is willing and able -- available to remain as the club's president " ". now in october howard reported montgomery's decisions as president shaped the phillies into the second oldest team in major league baseball. we'll have a report from howard coming up in sports. now to developing story in the investigation into the lulu lemon roof collapse. investigators trying to figure out what happened inside the center city philadelphia store yesterday. workers and customers were inside when the second floor roof suddenly caved in. the collapse sent three people to the hospital and it's got everyone asking how could this have happened. licenses and inspections has been on the scene all day trying to come up with some answers. fox 29's bruce gordon is live at the scene in center city for us tonight with new information. bruce? >> reporter: officials with the city's department of licenses and inspections joined insurance adjusters for an and side look at the wreckage at lulu lemon. among their chief concerns, a huge rooftop air-conditioner. there it is on the far right hand side of your screen. sitting per listly close to the caved in roof the clothing store store. >> oh, my god! that's insane. >> reporter: outside daniella had planned to buy some work out clothes here. she's getting married next month month. >> i can't believe that happened. i love this store. just right in the middle of the city. so -- >> reporter: have you been here lately? >> i was just about to pop in actually. >> reporter: not today. >> it's closed, no. >> reporter: it was around 3:30 tuesday afternoon when at least 50 square feet of bricks fell from a wall of an elevator shaft just above the sixth floor of the building next door and crashed through the roof. the one-store lulu lemon athletic today. three customers all 27-year-old women were hit by debris and suffered minor injuries. on this day after the accident, masonry restoration crew spent the day a top the six story building repairing the brick wall. l andism tells me the owner of that building pearl properties has brought in an engineer to check out the facade. volunteering to let that engineer work on the next door building as well and is cooperating with their efforts. through the all customers of lulu lemon peered inside and expressed their amazement that the collapse did not head with fatality. >> oh, my goodness that is so horrific. oh, wow. good thank i wasn't in there. >> reporter: that taller building 1529 walnut has been cited several times by l and i but none of those violations was serious. nothing since 2011 and nothing since the new owners took over the place. very preliminarily source at l andism tells me one likely scenario is that the mortar between the bricks on that upper facade may have been eroded by winter and water and failed when that mortar failed it made etch easier for the wall to topple in any kind of a significant win. that's very preliminary information. iain and lucy? >> bruce, information nonetheless, thank you. the pressure is on to get the national spotlight on the city of philadelphia once again. >> delegation from the democratic national committee is touring the city of brotherly love. one more time today. that's a good thing actually. it's about to make a final decision on where to hold the 2016 convention. so fox 29's joyce evans joins us now with what's more at stake. a lot joyce. >> reporter: lot indeed, iain and lucy. we're talking about 200 until i don't know dollars, more than that for starters. that's what the could bring to our local economy and what the mayor and crew have to do before they leave here is show that our city is more than up to the task. mayor nutter and ed rendell a former dnc chairman and ex pennsylvania governor are among those giving the committee a private look at philadelphia's historical sites again. the first tour took place back in august showcasing the liberty bell and independence hall, of course, they are big tourist attractions. they're going to see all of the hotels in the area that would hold huge crowds. also, they're going to want to check out the expanded convention center. xfinity live, wells fargo center centers, they are place these events could be held. other key points they'll want to get across philadelphia has done it before hosting the republican national committee in the year 2,000. ty certainly has the security and the no how to take on huge huge crowds like the welcome america and made in america concert series and we've got the pope and the world meeting families remember they're coming this fall. city leaders say philadelphia should have no problem raising the funds it will take to host it. the price tag, 55 to $60 million. the committee is already visited columbus ohio. they did that on monday, and they'll get wined and dined in new york on friday. those are philadelphia's competition. so when will the decision be made on this? sometime in the next couple of weeks. one more note here. president barack obama and vice-president joe biden are both come to go town the the president will be here tomorrow and biden on friday. both will be speaking with the democrats policy retreat right in society hill down the street here. i think our chances are pretty good iain. >> i think you're right, joyce. let's hope so. thank you. philadelphia's reputation as a great place to live and do business has helped the worldwide company made decide to make its new headquarters right here. march nutter announcing today the american bible society will relocate to philadelphia from new york city. it's coming to fourth and market here in old city. the company makes and sells the bible around the world in every language. it's ceo says the decision came after looking at factors like the cost of living and the opportunities the city of philadelphia has to offer. the mayor says he's glad that's catching on. >> you could literally be anywhere and be welcomed with open arms but we're fortunate that you chose philadelphia and we're appreciate tough and we're grateful. as you mentioned the city not so much temperature wise but the city really is hot. the doors to its new location could open this summer. the company also plans to create a bible discovery center, a rare scriptures depository and a scholarly working lib library. those things could be done by next year. teenagers out trying to make some money by shoveling snow could thing, right? wrong. at least in bound brook new jersey in in one particular circumstance. police told two teens to stop trying to round and business. someone had called in a report of suspicious persons. the police chief says it wasn't safe to be out after a state of emergency took effect and the chief says the teens also did not have a license to solicit business. probably the kids had no idea they were supposed to have one of those. decades old wrong made right today in south carolina. >> icons of the civil right most back in court to see their convictions thrown out. the history being made. the past meets present in california. through an actual gold heist. a group of guys got away with the gold and why that loot is worth a whole lot than you might expect. a big change of luck and fortune for a special dog much this little by was abandoned. soon he'll have fans around the world. how he's about to take the world stage. activists in japan demanding the release of the hostage being held by isis militants. dozens of people gathering in front of the japanese prime minister' official residence in tokyo. the effort to free the hostage and a pilot gaining momentum after the latest ultimatum presented by isis. jordan information minister says his government is ready to swap a captured iraqi woman for the pilot but may made no mention of the hostage. >> great time lapsed video to show of the storm that unloaded on boston parts of the new england area got hit with nearly 3 feet of snow closing schools and knocking out power to the area. you can see this video taken yesterday. several feet of snow just building quickly on this person's deck. >> history made in the south carolina courtroom. emotion was palpable. today a judges toed out the convictions of nine black men arrested for sitting in a whites only lunch counter diner. they did that when they were college students during the civil rights movement. 54 years ago eight college students and one civil rights organizer became known as the friendship nine. they opted for month of hard labor at chain gang rather than let people bail them out. statement that rang out clearly and rank outloudly and by the way the judge who tossed out the convictions today is the nephew of the judge who sentenceed those men. >> ironic is that. smart phone app that might seem like a cool idea at first but police want to you think long and hard about it. >> it tells users exactly where police are in your are a. you can probably guess why cops aren't happy about this but they say it could be down right dangerous. and the local four-year-old battling a rare diss or has his dream come true. >> absolutely unbelievable. >> the surprise that brought a room fall of people to tears. scott? >> lucy, right now it's dry and cold but we have a couple of chances for some snow in the if you have high blood pressure like i do, many cold medicines may raise your blood pressure. that's why there's coricidin hbp it relieves cold symptoms without raising blood pressure. so look for powerful cold medicine with a heart. coricidin hbp. ♪ welcome back. let's do this. live look at pocono mountains camera. it just gorgeous sunsetting on a cold night getting colder. few snowflakes could blow back in the forecast by the end of the work week. those details coming up in your fox 29 winter weather authority. the app is called ways and allows anyone to have access to the location of police officer. >> here's the worry for cops. the wrong person gets that information, that could turn dangerous if not deadly for officers. fox's phil shoe man has the story. >> reporter: it's one of the many features on the popular navigation app called ways you can pinpoint the location of a police officer you may see just tap on the screen it has a little police icon to the map. detective meghan aguilar with 16 years on the job thinks that's potentially dangerous. >> the concern we'd have police in an are a and someone who meant harm to the police officers would be using the app for something other than its intended purpose. >> lapd chief wrote this letter to google ceo larry page. google owns ways. reading in part "the ways app currently couldn't figure poses a danger to the lives of police officers". >> i think it's an important discussion to have. i mean, all information total information is not good and i think all of us are becoming increasingly aware of that as technology increases. >> reporter: in the days leading up ismaaiyl brinsley ambush of those 2nyd officers he'd been using the wase app to track cops. wase doesn't see it that way. saying yes their concerned with safety, too, but of the the driving public. issuing a statement saying police partner support was and its features including reports of police presence because most use sr.s tend to drive more carefully when they believe law enforcement is nearby. >> it is a fascinating issue because technology has to be absorbed by every organization affected by it including the police. >> loy he'll will law professor stan goldman says it's first amendment issue. >> it would be very difficult under the first amendment to say that the police could ban people from just identifying where police happen to be at any given moment. it's a balancing between the safety of the police and the fir amendment. >> reporter: for now it doesn't appear waze has any plans to change the app though chief beck would appreciate a personal response to his letter of a month ago. >> there are things that -- that probably better are left unsaid. >> phil shoe man says there's no easy solution here. the fir amendment make it very hard to stop someone from simply saying what they see which is what this app does. we reached out to the philadelphia police department for a comment. they told us they are aware of the app but it hasn't become a problem around here as of yet. let's get back to your fox 29 winter wet authority now. when i went to warm up my bar car today it took extra long for that thing to kick in. it was low this morning. >> the low in philadelphia was 20. we made the up to a high of 35 but single digit lows for philadelphia in that seven day forecast. as well as yes some snow. all right. no snow right now but let's talk about the changes want to expect over the next several days. it's going to be bitterly cold overnight tonight. low temperatures in the teens. in the city. outlying colder suburb. we'll dip into the single digits but the good news it's not going to be as blustery as it was earlier today. tomorrow night we'll be watching a light snow event move in with a clipper from the west to east. not a whole lot of snow expected and another chance for a wintry mix sunday night into monday. looking at the temperatures right now it's 34 degrees. winds out of the northwest at nine. so the wind chill not as brutal with those single digit wind chills we saw this morning. receipt now it feels like 27 degrees. looking at those numbers across the board we're looking at upper 20s north and west. that's a popular number. 29 degrees right now reading allentown pottstown as well as lancaster. we have low 30s in the state of delaware from wilmington down to dover. so you factor in the wind how your bouderie acts how you should dress on this wednesday evening out it feels like 20 degrees right now in atlantic city. 18 what it feels like in allentown it feels like nine in the pock know mountains. we saw a lot of sun shown today. dry conditions. no precip in our area. you have to head all the way to the north and west around marquette, michigan international falls minnesota for some snow showers. that's the clipper that will head in our direction this time tomorrow approaching from the west. i think the afternoon and evening commute will be okay but watch the timing here by 7:00 p.m. we're watching some of those light snow showers move into lancaster and berks county not a whole lot of moisture associated with this by 9:00 p.m. most of the light snow toward the lehigh valley as well as the pocono mountains. so a window of opportunity for some snow from about 8:00 p.m. tomorrow to 3:00 a.m. on your friday and this system is out of here and we're looking at sunshine across the area for your friday morning. so right now we're looking at those accumulating snows with that clipper toward sections of canada. it's going to move on down into our area by 7:00 o'clock tomorrow maybe some light snow beginning once again toward lancaster and berks county and then overnight into early friday before all is said and done we could be looking at maybe a coating to an inch mainly north and west of the philadelphia area then sunday night into monday, we're going to be watching the coast. there could be an area of low pressure developing right now some of the models want to keep it a little farther out to sea. but some cold air will be in place. so we could be looking at a wintry mix. maybe some freezing rain, some sleet or some snow once again sunday overnight into monday. but look at the temperatures tonight. 7 degrees in the suburbs. 16 in the city. but not as blustery thankfully but still either way you cut it we're talking about cold conditions overnight as we move ahead to tomorrow, arthritic degrees. clouds increase that snow arrives. after about seven 8:00 o'clock from the west and mainly it will stay north and west there could be a coating to an inch. but look at saturday morning. 9 degrees. a high temperature only 24. then watching the coast sunday night into monday for that wintery mix. we could maybe see some sleet freezing rain we'll update that forecast at 6:00 p.m. >> not a.m. p.m. i gotcha. >> 6am too. >> 6:00 p.m. first. >> this is true. >> all right. accurate on both counts. >> scott thank you. big fear for a lot of parents. allergy that can hurt their kids before they even know it's there there. >> my son has got all kinds of allergies. tell was. still to come the treatment that could end one day peanut allergies. and happy bride at a texas wedding and she'll never have to worry about one single argument many. how? she just married herself. i know you're asking why. we'll try and explain this one. coming up at 6:00 the first state aims to become the first to do something else. how delaware is aiming to save you some trips to that ♪ >> there's one thing that doesn't wait on mother nature and that's a mother giving birth. a connecticut couple was forced to break the statewide travel ban this week. the two braced a blizzard for the arrival of their newborn baby. sarah says even though the baby wasn't in had her forecast not due for another 2.5 weeks her plans were changing. >> i was thinking this better not be false labor because i'm not doing this again. we couldn't really see what was happening out there. we were a little bit scared. i honestly wasn't thinking that much about the weather as much as i was thinking about, you know, this guy and if he was comeing. >> after a 45 minute drive through the blizzard they arrived safely at the hospital. graham michael whom some call a blizzard baby was born yesterday morning. mom and baby are doing just fine fine. >> your health of your children. hope could be on the horizon for people who have children with severe peanut allergies. researchers at the murdoch children's research institute gave a group of 30 kids increasing amounts of peanut protein over -- probiotic over an 18-month span. nearly 80% ended up with no allergic reaction to peanuts. big. however researchers say some children still did have serious allergic reactions so that study continues but it's promising. a heist you might expect to so at a movie like oceans 11. police say three robbers slammed an suv into the front windows of wells fargo museum in san francisco. investigators say they got away with four historic gold nuggets from california's gold rush era. it all happened in the middle of the night on tuesday and now authorities are on the hunt for the burglars and the gold they stole. >> exited the vehicle held one security garr at gunpoint with a handgun and took approximately four to 10-ounces of gold from the display case at the museum. >> the gold they stole valued at approximately $10,000. >> that is a big chunk of change. we've got a big change of luck and fortune for one special dog. >> this little guy was abandoned but soon he'll have fans around the world. how he's about to take the world stage. >> and a local boy bravely battle as rare disease. he is getting a lot of help including from a group of people who just made a special dream come true. tom. >> lucy the phillies have a new team president but if he had his druthers would david montgomery still be the phillies president? montgomery on his new role and howard eskin's >> topping your entertainment headlines tonight taylor swift is taking on the hackers. ♪ >> the pop star's twitter instagram accounts were hacked this week. it seemed fairly harmless until the hackers said we're going to release nude pictures of the popular singer. joining us to help us sort this the host of dish nation head crack much what's going on here head crack? >> well, hate is going to hate and hackers are going to hack. lizard squad are response al for hacks in the last few months. some of those were like sony gaming network as well as xbox. they have taken responsibility for hacking taylor swift's twitter and they allege that they had naked pictures of tailor swift. i don't think anybody who really nose would really believe that. taylor swift is like an actually living brady kid. like you know she plays the game right and i don't think she would have seed dionne her phone whatsoever. she even took to her twitter and told the 51.1 million fans, hey you think you got make photos of me hmm, let me see photo shop that. something to that degree. i just para phrased that. i believe her. >> all right. head crack, thanks forgetting to the bottom of that. a lot of buzz over a classic movie rebuilt all female cast of ghost busters. we got quite a line up. they are pulling the hollywood big guns and it may totally work. kristin wig, lesley jones from s snl also indicate mckeon nan from snl and melissa mccarthy. this thing can't go roth. a lot of people holding their breath waiting for ghost busters three. this is the closest we'll get to it even some talk about possibly bill murray making an appearance in it which would be fantastic. especial physical they can pull dan ackroyd along for the ride as well. i mean i'm looking forward to it. it will drop sometime around july 22nd 2016. so man i'm excited. >> all right. we'll look forward that. head crack always pleasure. thanks for stopping by and dropping some knowledge. we appreciate it. after fox 29 news at 10:00 we've got two hours of news info taken many. catch tmz and inside he had dig followed by dish nation at midnight and chasing at 12:30. >> here's one from the dumb criminal file. a couple of guys walk into a convenience store in michigan one of them goes up to the counter, asks for cigarettes the clerk whips out his wallet with hissism d. his partner in crime then pulls out a gun and forces the clerk to fill a bag with cash. they take off with cash in hand. just one problem though. aside from committing crime they left the wallet behind. id and all and thanks to that wallet as you might say police say it was very easy tracking them down and of course the arresting them. >> congratulations are in order for a houston texas woman who just tied the knot and her wedding is going viral because she, she married herself. she vowed if she did not find love by the time she turned 40 they would he can change vows with herself. since it's not actually legal to marry yourself her sister performed spiritual service. >> wow! i think that in order to really be happy you kind of have to get to know yourself first in live period. so you know, to each his own. >> the key to happiness is loving yourself before loving someone else. >> i think everybody can agree with that one. a local little boy says he has super hero powers and he most definitely has the powerful story. >> he is fighting a rare disease that affects just one in 2 million people. >> but in one single bound a group of people just made his dream come true and our dawn timmeney has the story. >> reporter: little aj gonzales is about to get the surprise of his life. >> hey buddy. >> reporter: four-year-old and his family arriving back at their bellmawr, new jersey, home after a group of volunteers spent the entire day createing a dream bedroom for aj. magical makeover. >> big hugs. >> reporter: you'd never know the but this cute little guy suffers from extremely rare genetic says called fop syndrome. fop is a debilitateing disease where aj' muscles slowly start to turn to bone. >> always smiles. doesn't matter. he could be in pain. we can rub cream on him. give him his steroid no matter what it is always smiling. i don't know how he does it. >> reporter: fop is sometimes referred to as stone man syndrome. in many cases, injuries can cause joints to be permanently frozen in place. aj was diagnosed at three. >> it will progress until it limits his mobility. he knows. he'll tell you he's a super hero hero. he has extra bones. those are his super powers. >> come on in. >> reporter: that's why ay is about to get a new super hero bedroom thanks to a non-profit organization called special spaces. they do bedroom makeovers for children with life life-threatening medical conditions kim resnick is the director of the delaware newark philadelphia chapter. >> it just touched my heart i knew it was a perfect match for me to volunteer for. >> reporter: a perfect match because sadly kim knows what it's like to have a child with a rare disease. >> my daughter actually had a neurological illness called luke company dystrophy it was very rare and we lost her at four-point poof years old post surgery. we lost her, it took some time to obviously grieve and heal and get back in to life and the best way i knew how to feed my soul was to give back. >> reporter: so kim and her crew of volunteers mostly family including her twin sister jennifer spend many a weekend makeing special spaces. changing children's lives one bedroom at a time. this is a look at aj's room before. a lot of time in planning going into transforming aj's space into a place of hope and inspiration. >> we're a little anxious beforehand and then we're just in work mode all day and then the excitement sets in and we wait, you know, for the child to come home. ♪ >> reporter: and aj's reaction as he walks into his room, priceless. wow! >> how did that get here? >> no detail is forgotten. there are super heroes on the wall a bat mobile bed a batman ceiling fan a gotham city mural, you name it, they thought of it. >> this is super cool. >> reporter: aj is all smiles. everyone else crying tears of joy. >> hey, how did that get up there? they brought us an angel. it's amazeing. who does this? >> reporter: aj breaks a bone it causes a new bone to grow. he can't risk being hurt so he can't play sports and has very limb contact with other children children. >> he's magical batman. >> the disease will take over and this is going to be his safe haven. this is absolutely unbelievable. this is fabulous. >> what do you think buddy? i'm happy for him. he goes through a lot of struggles for him to be that happy, it makes me happy. >> push that button in there. >> reporter: it makes it all worthwhile for the volunteers. >> oh a nightlight. >> it's just the most amazing feeling it really is. >> a grateful gonzales family already wanting to pay it forward. >> we'll volunteer all the time we have give back to another child what they gave to our child so they can have the same feeling we have i'd do it a hundred times in a row. >> reporter: there is no known cure for fop stun syndrome. clinical trials are underway for a drug to treat the condition but it would be years before aj could even be eligible because he's so young. still the family says, it gives them hope and that's what they're cling to go as they try to raise awareness about this debilitating disease. dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. great story an really cute kid. >> yeah. how about this special spaces is completely volunteer based? >> right now they rely on facebook and old-fashioned word of mouth to let people know about the good work they're doing. if you're interested more information can be found on special spaces at our website myfoxphilly.com. not so very long ago i'm trying to think when i first herd selfie. usually i'm about a year hype everybody else. >> i might be behind that. >> but it wasn't very long ago and now selfies of course are all the rage. >> and while he may not have made it to the super bowl 1nfl star can now call himself the official selfie champion. >> they have those. >> now they do. you're right. how about this. arizona cardinals cornerback patrick peterson visit add high school in arizona where he said the guiness world book of record for taking the most selfies in an hour. the previous record was 657. he just blew it away. he was taking pictures with the kids he beat that record and then some. he took 1,004 hadn't dread 49 selfies. that's about 25 selfies a minute minute. of course his hand can't move any longer. cramped up. i'm fifty five the lat battery could last that long. >> we are calling it must watch wednesday lucy and i will be glued to our seats for fox's new hit show empire. >> the show really has it all. we're talking mew zig we're talking money and more than a little bit of drama. it features a family run entertainment company and all the problems that come as everyone fights for a piece of the pie. oscar nominated director lee daniels got the idea for the show on in 2010 while watching the hit tv series glee. >> it was the first time that i was little like, ooh a little envious because i wasn't really envious of any of my competitors because i felt like, you know, my movie was the best one even though we didn't win, you know. i didn't care. but i was actually envious of glee. gosh, i wish i could have -- i wish i could have done that. >> and did he. so well in fact empire already got an early second season pick up after just three episodes. you can get your music and drama fix from our jam pack lineup tonight. all begins with american i dull the 8:00 o'clock then the new episode of empire at 9:00. immediately after your full wrap up of the day's news, weather and sports on fox 29 news at 10:00 with iain and myself. now here's a story that is sure to put a smile on your face. it's about a special pup who will take part in this weekend's puppy bowl. about six month old keen know's story can be called rescue dog's dream come true a few weeks ago he was left abandoned in a box with his brother at nevada animal shelter. shelter volunteers placed the pups in temporary foster home but they also sent in applications for keen know to appear in the popular puppy bowl. aft rounds of interviews he won a spot on the show. >> he was beautiful. as soon as we opened the box we knew these guys were the ones. >> puppy bowl is a win win game. all the dogs are rescue animals who will most likely be adopted adopted after they appear. ♪ straight ahead at 6:00 heat at a local fire department and we're not talking about a fire. how some sexual shenanigans landed a lot of firefighters in hot water. ♪ plus the woman who proved a little too much to handle for police in one pennsylvania town. officers handcuff her and put her in the back of a patrol car. but the trouble wasn't over. she inspires you. no question about that. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough 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cold in old city tonight. scott. >> cold indeed it is. temperatures this afternoon made it into the mid 30s after a morning low in philadelphia of 20 but tonight we're looking at teens in the city, even single digits in the suburbs. so let's look at the weather headlines as far as what to expect over the neck several days. bundle up tonight if you're stepping outdoors. lows in the teens. we have a couple of snowfall chances light clipper tomorrow night we'll be watching it move in from the west then another system is possible that could be a little stronger sunday night in monday. 27 degrees right now in atlantic city. we have 20 in the pocono mountains. upper 20s in wilmington you factor in that wind how you should dress and how your body reacts it feels like 19 in wilmington as well as atlantic city. we'll dip to 16 in the city. 7 degrees in the suburbs. it could even be a little colder once you move toward the lehigh valley and the pocono mountains but take look highlighted well to 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