lauer was just fired from nbc for inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. but will the top executives at nbc and comcast be fired for putting out so much fake news. check out andy lack's past. >> matt lauer was the face of nbc news a fixture the franchise. >> reporter: public radio icon garrison keeler says he was also fired wednesday by minnesota public radio for what the network called allegations of improper behavior. keeler the former host of a prairie home companion claims he was fired because he put his hand on woman's bare back while trying to console her. keeler says he apologized when the woman recoiled and claimed they remained friendly quote until her lawyer called. keeler says at age 75 he has no interest in arguing about this. in new york, rick leventhal, fox news. the lauer and keeler incidents are among the most surprising in part because the accused have lonegan been considered to be so professional such gentlemen. bruce gordon joins us now to provide some context for this growing scandal and to explain how it might impact biggest on on-going kim cal case our area has seen in years. >> reporter: iain, maybe it's the down fall of these tv icons that makes folks say, boy, you think you knew somebody. but experts say sexual misconduct often curse in way ws outsiders even co-workers would never suspect. >> she's totally incompetent. >> not so along check out this youtube clip of the office popular culture often portrayed sexual predators as cartoonish lot loud mouth. behavior obvious for all to see. >> to be fair, blonds, brunettes there are a lot of dumb people out there. >> they are women, right. >> i didn't say it. i didn't say it g i said it. >> nbc matt lauer seemed so professional but may help explain this co-workers stunned look. >> how do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly? and i don't know the answer to that. >> reporter: cbs charlie rose left his colleagues feeling the same way this seeming gentleman did what? >> let be very clear. there is no excuse for this alleged behavior. >> i'm always thinking you too. >> dr. mow cook howard of women organized against rape says that surprise is no surprise. >> because in some instances the sexual assault occurs or sexual harassment occurs behind closed doors it could be a one-on-one. no one else is there were you the two people. >> reporter: dr. howard says the allegations against movie mogul harvey wine steep seemed to have changed everything for victims who had remained so quiet for so long. >> it was a switch, you know, the switch clicked on, women and individuals that are sexually harassed in the workplace are feeling comfortable enough to come out and tell their story. >> reporter: sex assault allegations against comedian bill cosby were for years treated with scepticism by many. prosecutors at his only criminal trial failed to convict cosby last summer. but recent events may make his retrial next spring a different ballpark says veteran criminal defense attorney bill brennan. >> when they turn on the tv charlie rose is gone and the next week matt lauer is gone. who might be gone next week it would be up a impossible not to taint or at least in some way get to the jury pool. it's going to change the mine set of the public, the public is where we get our juries. it's going change verdicts. i think it's frankly a conversation that is long overdue. >> reporter: that conversation extends to all manner of sexual misconduct. dr. howard is colonelly working with a state lawmaker to combat so-called street harassment those aggressive cat calls from men at work sites in some cases force women to alter their travel routes to escape intimidation. iain this story is only growing. >> absolutely, bruce. thank you. we of course will have continuing coverage for you and this developing story page sick starts right after our newscast at 6:30 and for more you can watch fox 29 news at 10:00 or head online to fox29.com. three to six years that is the time one man will spend in pri prison for that attack that outrage people across our area. judge sentenced 29-year-old barry baker for punching a man with cerebral palsy in west chester in may. surveillance video shows right before he attacked the man baker was mocking him. baker plead guilty to simple assault charges in september. a fight outside the university pizza shop turned deadly. >> tonight police say the shooter may have been trying to protect a woman when he fired. our jeff cole has more on the story. >> joins us live from west philadelphia. jeff? >> reporter: lucy. the fate of that 24-year-old graduate of drexel university rests in the hands of the district attorney tonight. whether to charge him or let him walk free in connection with last night's shooting. >> cell phone video captures moments of violence on the fringe of the drexel campus. no! >> that's the screaming of the dead man's girlfriend say witnesses drexel students three floors from the street heard it all. >> we heard three gunshots, and we just heard people screaming and run running in every correction direct and we heard car horns and stuff and then the police were here win a few minutes. >> reporter: police say it was just before midnight when a female drexel student was involved in a loud argument with her 21-year-old boyfriend. he leaves her. just then say investigators a 24-year-old drexel graduate with a nine mill neither glock pistol an license to carry approaches the woman. >> he walked up to see if the woman was okay. boyfriend returned and assaulted the 24 year old who had the perm to carry report roar the man with the gun takes a punch say police. he pulls his weapon and squeezes off the fatal shots. >> we heard three consecutive gunshots, and then afterwards, um, we her the woman scream wagon did you do? and, um, she was screaming a lot. >> reporter: while detectives moved in and out of local shops, drexel students complained they hadn't heard from the universi university. >> i was really shocked honestly especially more on drexel's part because we haven't really heard any information from them on this, and usually they're the first people month reaction report roar drexel says it use its alert system only in on-going threat to the university community. in a statement its president wrote "safety is always our top priority. tuesday evening a night some here won't soon forget ". >> we saw the woman in the street. she was crying and screaming. then we kind of backed away from the windows and waited to hear more. >> reporter: she also toll us that they shut their lights off because they were fearful. law enforcement sources say the decision to charge this shooter will rest on how aggressively he was attacked and how quickly he shot. live at police headquarters, i'm jeff cole fox 29 news. folks. thank you jeff. people have just started gathering for vigil for the homeless man who police believe a group of teens beat to death in northeast philadelphia. officers found 57-year-old kevin cullen sunday he was lying on the ground with his pockets turned inside out. authorities are working to identify the find the teens involved. hurricane maria left behind the trail of wreckage leaving most families with nothing. one man decided he had to do something about it and move his family to philadelphia. he need add job. he needed a lot more than that as well, and you as usually do our viewers stepped up and our joyce evans first talked to him. joyce after our story aired he even turned down in job offers. >> he absolutely did, iain. but that was only because he had no way to get to them. some of those offers for him came from pretty far away. he doesn't have a car yet. but he is determined at only 26 years old and willing to do whatever it takes to get back on his feet and take care of his own family again. >> ready for big day. >> reporter: dressed to kill as the saying goes. head to toe. >> all set report roar gene's loved ones couldn't be more proud. and gene, he couldn't be more nervous. >> yes. a lot. >> reporter: a lot has hammed in just a few days. >> i'm startin starting from sch over here from zero, yes. >> reporter: we first met gene at philadelphia's disaster assistance service center a week ago. >> just for help, you know. >> reporter: they lost practically everything when hurricane maria slammed into the island of puerto rico. the proud young husband, father of three with another on the way stuck it out for as long as he could until he was forced to go gather his wife, kids and grandmother and head to family in philadelphia. >> i was really nervous to be honest and i was -- i was heart broken. i left puerto rico to be honest i was trying on the plane and everything. >> reporter: life became even more stressful. >> we're just trying to find a job. it's really hard. >> reporter: fox 29 viewers responded to gene's plea for work, saying he would take any job at all. >> and thanks to you guys that's like -- that what really hemmed me out a lot to be honest. the same exact day the news went up on the news, i had a bunch of calls. >> reporter: gene went on back to back interviews. >> custodian. there was a truck driver position. and the chick-fil-a. >> reporter: he really impressed one of them. >> can you believe it? >> no. to be honest, no. i'm shocked. you know, especially at this position. >> good morning. >> reporter: he's assistant manager at the chill ten ham chick-fil-a. >> clock in. >> clock in. >> reporter: says he feels at home here already, and he'll take all the overtime he can g get. >> things are coming together kind of fast. >> yes, thank god. >> reporter: really fast for him. gene credits his grandmother for his determination and great sense of responsibility. and his faith in the kindness of other people. he's got his five-year-old in kindergarten now. prenatal care for his wife and next week he's going to be checking out what housing may be available to him and his growing family. lucy? >> philadelphia living up to its name. >> that's right. >> steve brotherly love, my friend. >> all right. thank you joyce. coming up ocean city is dry, right? how did it just get named the drunk est city in new jersey. our hank flynn explains. the not -- hello, kristen. >> lucy eagles have played good football so far but now it's time to turn that dial up ahead in s michael: i'm thankful that i'm alive and have a second chance. james: i'm thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. darlene: i'm thankful to be able to help people in crisis. vanessa: i'm thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. christie: new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. but if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know: we are here for you. this holiday season, choose help. call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj.gov. ♪ ocean city is known for a lot of thing. the beaches, the boardwalk, the rides, but not really for drinking. and there's a reason for that. it's a dry city. so the big question is, how did it make headlines as the drunkest town in new jersey. >> as our hank flynn found out it's not even close. what gives? here's hank. >> i can't sigh them labeling ocean city as that type of town. >> reporter: it's hank. i'm on asbury street in beautiful downtown ocean city which some news reports having a the drunkest city in new jersey. my take is, they're wrong. completely wrong. i'll tell you why. retired toll taker tommy agnes took me to breakfast at uncle bill's pancake house today. neither he nor the manager patrick can figure out this story about ocean city being the drunkest town in the garden state. >> you know walking on the boardwalk, strollers, family, you know, it's not that type of town. i can't see it being that type of town. >> i do enjoy that it's a dry town. keeps family atmosphere. >> reporter: yeah. >> yeah. and family atmosphere is really what attracts people to ocean city. >> reporter: just drove all the way up asbury street by the beach, by the boardwalk. not a bar in sight. it's a dry town. what gives? >> we don't even have bars here. you can't open bring your own liquor to restaurant it's not byob. >> not even byob. >> yeah. maybe you should go to sea isle. it will be a different story. >> reporter: that is the story as it turns out. when usa today ran a story picked up by others it was based on good research done by 24/7 wall street a financial news outfit. i got them on the phone and found out people are getting terms confused. >> it's important for people in ocean city to understand that there's a difference between ocean city the city or town and ocean city the metropolitan statistical area which encompasses larger area. >> reporter: much larger area all of cape may county in fact. metropolitametro polestars ticad by the federal office of management and budge. ocean city has 11,000 possible. the ocean city metro statistical area has 95,000 including the wildwoods, sea isle city, other places. >> the purpose of these studies is not to insult the geographic areas of the communities. >> reporter: i get it when people are fingering little ocean city for all the drinking going on in cape may county and apparently this is a considerable amount, folks are bound to get annoyed. so this summer bring what you want to ocean city. the liquor store is just over the bridge. but it's not the drunket town in new jersey. not own close. i'm hank and that's my take. ♪ camden's adventure aquarium making sure are the fish are festive, too. do you see what's going thon. >> aquarium install the world's tallest underwater christmas tree today. it tops 18 feet. coral decorating it presents surrounding it kind of got to wonder what the sharks and stingrays and other fish are thinking especially since santa claus and his elves dove into the tank to top off the tree& with a sea star. >> nice. >> let's get back to your fox 29 weather authority now. as we take live look at wilmington new castle county on this mild wednesday night. how long are these warmer temperatures going to stick around? kathy's forecast in just 15 seconds. clear skies, light winds arc beautiful night to be outdoors. i hope you had the chance to get out there tonight and maybe take peek at the international space station a lot of folks saw it. hit me up on twitter if you saw it. temperatures right now pretty decent even down the shore in ocean city. a look at the music peer where we're in the 50's. 56 in philadelphia. the high today 64. that is 13 degrees above normal. pretty mild across the continental u.s. and in the 50's the 60s some and 70s. and to the north even minneapolis in billings in the 40s this afternoon which is mild for them for this time of year. clear skies overnight tonight and during the day tomorrow we'll see a few clouds roll in tomorrow ahead of a cold front. that front has a little bit of rain not a lot. it's going to be after the nine, 10:00 o'clock hour we see the rain move in toward the poconos and lehigh valley. that was philadelphia about 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m. early friday morning. and then the skies clear from the northwest to the southeast. so friday mornin we'll be talking about more sun, but temperatures just a little bit cooler than they have been. we're not going to see any more 60s at least not this week. highs this week yesterday 61. today 64. tomorrow still above that average of 51. the same goes for friday. but not quite as warm. when we look at the current snow cover over the us only eight-point 3%. that's not much for this time of year, and now through early next week, temperatures will run above average but after that, it's not going to stay that way. as a matter of fact, by next wednesday, we're going to be seeing bit of a blast of cold air. by december 6th here comes that blast into the great lakes and northern plains and that cold air begins to spill down through the central part of the country and work its way eastward. so temperatures will be changing by next weekend for sure. so overnight, low temperatures mainly in the 30s. 27 in the poconos. during the day tomorrow, temperatures warming again into the 50s. not quite as warm as today. 54 degrees with increasing clouds. that rain comes in late at night. on your seven day forecast from the weather authority, nice start to the month of december on friday. 53. cooler saturday on the rise sunday. and here's another warmup for monday and tuesday. with high temperatures in the mid to upper 50s and here's the change. next wednesday cooler, a shower, 51 and that's a downward trend. but for the meantime, it's looking good at least through early next week. that's a look at your seven day forecast. kristen we send it over to you. >> thanks kathy. >> you can argue with the fact that the eagles ten and one record right now isn't great. it's the best record in the nfl the birds note their play recently needs to be cleaned up for this final stretch. hear what corrections doug pederson wants really? 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it's not joke. as far as that goes i think that come with, um, it starts at practice. i will say that. you see us any time we get a chance to go against the offense you know what i mean we're compete tag irel. guys as the secondary we want to shut down alshon and torry. get up in those guys grill and vise versa. you know what i mean those guys are trying to go over top of us just that level of competition at practice when we go out to the game it's very very high. >> we'll have much more on the eagles out west sunday on fox 29 "game day live". then at 1:00 great nfc match up with the vikings and atlanta then later the panthers visit the saints. real sal great double header here on fox 29 this sunday. >> yeah. >> an lot of teams that, you know, we'll be seeing in a couple of weeks down the line. maybe a little preview. >> exactly. >> yeah. >> kristen, thank you. all right. so thank you for the warm weather. >> what a day. >> much appreciated. >> 64 today. 54 tomorrow. so 10 degrees change there but then warming up by the beginning of next week again. >> wow. before next wednesday that's a turning point. i think it will get cooler after that. >> december and all. 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