the four young men dinardo accused of slaughtering in his father's bucks county corn field in july. also in court, dinardo's cousin sean kratz accused of in three of the murders. kratz pleaded not guilty and may face the death penalty. dinardo has admitted to the killings but must stick to his story up to his trial date or the da says he'll seek the ultimate penalty. >> if we uncover additional evidence or if he wishes to go to trial, that's his progress good tiff. we'll be prepared and we will then at that time seeksly death penalty. >> the families of the four victims all young men from the region filled the court. dinardo's mom, father and siblings sat along a wall. their attorney on the move refused comment. >> can you give us reaction what your client thought today? what happened here? >> freddie. >> can't comment on it right n now. >> do you have anything to say, anything you can tell us right now. >> can't comment. >> dinardo appearing to have lot of weight his hair close cropped was led from the court in shackles while mark poe tash talked of his son. >> he was an exceptional athle athlete. great musician, hard worker. trustworthy, dedicated and it goes on. >> reporter: the district attorney says he will keep his word. he will not seek the death penalty against dinardo. as long as he keeps up his end of the deal. live at the courthouse in doylestown, fox 29 news. >> thanks jeff. investigators have now zeroed in on what started a fire in montgomery county that killed two little boys. the pennsylvania state police fire marshal says a faulty extension cord plugged into a space heater started it. intense flames swept through the lukens home on submit avenue early yesterday morning. brian lukens montgomery county deputy sheriff he managed to get out with his wife and nine-year-old daughter sophie. he tried to rescue 11-year-old brian, jr., and six-year-old parker but he could not get to them. they were trapped inside their second floor bedroom. their mom, dad and sister are still recovering in the hospital. as you can imagine, their need is great and so tonight firefighters are accepting donations for the family at the former schwenksville fire company. that's on main street. it's from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. right now police in upper darby still searching for 75-year-old missing man. francisco martinez has dementia. the last time his wife saw him was around midnight the night before last on prof den road. his family says he took off without a coat only wearing his pajamas. police say martinez likes to walk along oak avenue and drop in on the businesses. so if you see him, please give police a call. have you seen this boy? 12-year-old eric simmons has been missing since yesterday. police say the last time someone who knows him saw him was on the 5700 block of champlois street in philadelphia's east germantown neighbor. simmons 5-foot ten, was wearing black sweat pants and a black coat with fur on the hood. so snowy start to our day. but now clear skies. let's take live look if we can at allentown, of course, this is lehigh county where you are -- do i even need to tell you you'll want to layer up before you head out. kathy orr is here with what we can all expect now. kathy? >> wow! what a night. >> right. >> it's cold. it's good night to be indoors. you can see on the slopes they picked up 3-inches of snow in the poconos, plus they continue to make the snow. why not? the temperatures are cold enough. skies are clear. it's going to be a quiet night tonight. but more snow coming tomorrow. it's 32 in philadelphia. 15 in the poconos. 29 in wilmington and 30 in millville went got our forecast of a coating to a couple of inches of snow across most of the region. now overnight, 16 in pottstown. 16 in allentown. nine in the poconos. and in reading the temperature around 17. 20 in millville and 23 in dover. philadelphia there will be a range between about 19 and 23 degrees across the county. it's going to be a cold night. we'll talk about the snow coming tomorrow with your seven day forecast. i'll be back in just a few minutes. the ban very snowy start to december. hasn't it? >> it surely has with cattle involved as well, kathy. clearly, the cow wasn't happy. and that unhappy cow ended up on. 95 during the morning rush today. she escaped from living nativity in old city not once but twice. fortunately drivers steered clear why rank bless caught the cow. she's okay. but tonight folks are asking how stormy the cow managed to keep getting on out. shawnette wilson joins us live at first united church of christ. shawnette. >> reporter: lucy, this holy cow likely has people saying hole hold cow! >> i hope you thought that was funny. we'll turn the camera around for you and show you stormy's replacement this is ginger here at the scene for tonight. this is after as lucy mentioned stormy got loose not once but twice. meet stormy, seven and a half years old and part of the live nativity is a church in old city. >> nothing really faces her. >> apparently not. i got a call at 4am saying she had -- she was out, and i got down here as quickly as i could. >> we think, we're not sure, someone let her out. >> michael caine is the pastor at the church. just me without a halter, um, trying to razzle a cow that kind of is 1100 pounds and strong. >> reporter: the middle of the night and there stormy near ramp to i-95. officers responded. they led stormy by rope back to the church. >> she's doing great. she's fine. she's laying there chewing her can you do. she's just being -- hanging out being a cow. >> reporter: not so fast stormy broke loose again around 6am. >> she went towards the wyndham. i set said let's get her in the parking garage. she was contained. >> stormy was coralled this time at the wyndham hotel parking l lot. >> it's being walked down. do you see it. >> back to the manger stormy goes. all that attention on tv brought out protesters. >> stormy has a voice. i mean we saw stormy express herself. she got up, she escaped twice. she showed the world that she is not happy living in confinement. there's nothing even christ like about what these animals are doing here in this manger and how they're being he can lloit lloited. >> reporter: all right. here's a live look again at ginger the replacement for stormy here at the nativity scene and ginger has been mooing since we've been here lucy remains to be seen whether ginger is happy as well. i can tell you the protesters are no longer here. there were two people who stopped by just now to take look but other than that, things pretty quite here right now. >> back to you. >> thank you very much, shawnette. the philadelphia city council just pass the its toughest crack down ever on what they call nuisance stop and go stores. the this legislation once included an order for the stores to remove the bullet proof glass. well our bruce gordon joins us. that part of the bill has changed fairly significantly. >> it sure has lucy. he'll explain about that in just a moment. what you shall know lawmakers have now finally after many years taken a stand on corner stores that all too often have become a blight on their communities by 14 hoy three vote council members today said, enough is enough. >> inside of packed city council chamber, owners of so-called beer delis mostly asian american pleaded for the right to keep the bullet proof glass that separates them from their customers. >> i was a victim of a robbery when i was ten years old and i don't want that to happen again. >> if you took the bullet proof glass from our store, there will be more people die.& >> reporter: critics of this stores blasted them as predatory places vulnerable neighborhood residents are take advantage of. >> this bill is bigger than plexiglass. this bill is about responsibility and accountability. two words stop and go owners never had to live up to. >> reporter: the legislation calls for tighter rules on seeding public restaurants, what can be sold at these stores. the original bill did in fact demand that bullet proof glass separating merchant from customer be removed. as amended the bill now merely says the city's department of licenses and sessions has three years to make rules for the use or removal of the barriers. city councilman david oh said even that went too far endangering store owners. >> if we take down the safety glass, they're not changing their business model. they're not moving. what they will do is purchase firearms. i think that is a worse situation than what we have today. >> reporter: but the bill's sponsor cindy bass railed against stores that she says for years have sold beer and shots of liquor, loose cigarettes and drug paraphernalia to customers drunk and stoned while doing nothing to deter public urination right outside their door. >> masquerading as restaurants they sell almost everything you need to get high. and if they don't have it, often someone loitering inside or outside has the rest. >> reporter: moments later, council voted for the crack do down. implicit in cindy bass' comments was the idea that delis, beer delis, should actually sell food, have adequate seating and working bathrooms. and that business that operate responsibly may find they do not need barriers between them and their customers. we've got three years to find out if she's right, lucy. >> controversial to say the least. thank you very much, bruce. police are talking to woman who may be involved in a crash that killed a man. they say she was in a toyota corolla that slammed into another car around 12:30am yesterday at the intersection of torresdale and distance street in tacony. the car that hit -- the car the car roll la hit sailed through the fence. police say the driver and passenger in that corolla got out and ran off. the impact of the original crash ejected a 30-year-old man in the back seat of that car and he later died at the hospital. omarosa out at the white house and now she's breaking her silence and bob kelly he's not very silent very often. he's got a lot to say spreading good tidings and joy, bob. >> reporter: hey, gang, it's another very kelly christmas. to night we're coming to you live from hatfield, montgomery county! merry christmas. >> on the michael's residence. holy lights. when we come 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. >> police are searching for a man breaking into newly constructioned buildings in south philadelphia much the man is caught on camera not once but breaking into the buildings four times in six days. this all began november 24th police say at the buildings on the 1400 block of climber street. so far he's gotten away with micro waves, two bikes and the generator. former white house aid omarosa manigold newman is setting the record straight on her decision to leave the white house. the out-going white house staff denies the reports she was fir fired. she's leaving on her own terms. new man acted as director of communications for the office of publicly lay yea son but her status in the administration came into question when chief of staff john kelly took over in july. but newman insists those reports are also false. >> i resigned, um, and i didn't do that in the residence as being reported. john kelly and i sat down in the situation room which is a very secure, very quiet room in the white house and we had very candid conversation, and i wanted to make the one-year mark that was one of the goals that i set out to. and then get back to my life. >> newman says her last day working in the white house is january 20th. tavis smiley vowing to fight back after getting suspended from his talk show indefinitely following allegations of misconduct. pbs announced the suspension yesterday after an independence investigation uncovered multiple credible allegations against smiley. the accusations levied against him not specific. tavis smiley has aired week nights on the public broadcasting service since 2004. actress selma hayek join the dozens women speaking out against harvey weinstein. in new york times op ed wednesday. she calls him my mounter. she claims weinstein's made many sexual advances on the set of frieda such as him requesting massage her and take a shower together. she says the producer threatened to kill her following one of her refusals. weinstein issued a response saying all of the allegations sexual allegations as portrayed by selma are not accurate and other who's witnessed the events have a different account of what transpired. so it's official. the ncc voted to scrap obama era regulation that guaranteed equal access to the internet. fog' joins rosen has what you need to know about net neutrality. >> reporter: the chair votes ay. >> net neutrality is no more. fcc voting to scrap the obama era regulation designed to ensure equal access to the internet. row placing witness hey system that allows broad band providers to showdown the user interface for apps put out by arrival firms or block them all of altogether much it's a slippery slow that could allow isp's charge more for internet access and sensor the internet. >> i am among the millions outraged. outraged because the fcc pulls its own teeth advocating responsibility to -- >> fcc chairman claims the change is necessary because he says net neutrality rules couldn't strain online investment and prevent companies from innovating. >> it is not the job. government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy. we should have a level playing field. >> reporter: new rules are supported by the white house but opposed by companies like netflix, amazon and other content providers who claim customers may have to pay more to keep their services strea streaming. congressional democrats also strongly criticizing the fcc vowing to keep the issue alive through next year's mid term elections. >> young people know what this means. this is about democracy on the internet. >> we bring this issue into the 2018 congressional races across this country. >> reporter: today's vote is far from the last word. the feet now moves to the courts where pro net neutrality groups will challenge the fcc's decision. in washington, james rosen, fox news. so a media mega deal brin bringing homer simpson so disney world. disney is paying $52.4 billion to a eyre entertainment assets. international properties and regional sports networks from 21st century fox. they are the parent company of fox news and fox 29 which is among the assets fox is keeping. disney ceo says the deal will bring cutting edge technology to consumers that would be you in more compelling ways. it's a very kelly christmas tonight in montco, montgomery county, our bob kelly is on a mission to find some of the best christmas displays across the delaware valley. man, it is mission accomplish right there in hatfield, montgomery county, bob, love it. >> bam, you got it. it's a very kelly christmas. hello from hatfield, montgomery county. whoo! >> it's sure out here but i'll tell was we got plenty of christmas lights here on the front lawn of the michael family in hatfield, brian thank you so much for invite mowing out. >> you're welcome. thanks for coming bob. >> introduce the rest of the family for us? my lovely wife kim who puts up the obsession. >> how crazy is it around here putting these lights up. >> it's explosion all over. insight and out. >> the folks love it. come on let's go for a walk. we'll -- come on with me brian. how many years have you been doing it? >> this is our 20th year of doing this. >> i want to tell the folk at home, you were decorate, then moved to oklahoma. >> that's correct we moved off to oklahoma city. >> you took all your lights with you. >> we took them and brought most of them. some stayed out there. >> take look at the front lawn here. this is just the one side. we're along kimberly way here in hatfield. tell us what you have here. the choir? >> yes vintage choir made b by pole lore ron i just restored them this year really hard to find. we mix that in with more modern technology the dancing trees. >> love it. >> when you go on by you can tune your radio to 90.5 and you can hear the music which beats to the -- the trees go to the beast music? that's correct. >> you got the reindeer. you got santa's train that looks locate an oldie but goodie and even the -- even the soldiers. the plastic blow molds you call them. >> that's our blow mold election. nutcracker choir i call it and in the trees a lot of ornaments which is one of the cool things i have you don't see in lot of displays things hanging in trace made out of blow mold. >> right below here you have the lollipops. tell me about these things here. >> that's my lollipop fence. i started collecting that about 20 years ago. there's almost a hundred of them that make up my fence around the prompt. >> you told me the company that makes these blow molds, they're going out of business? >> most of the companies that manufacture these products have gone out of business. union products, empire, general foam. they're really a treasure to have and we really enjoy having them in our display. >> gang, this is just one side of the front lawn of their home and when we come back in the next half hour we'll take you for tour on the other side. having some fun here in hatfield. a very kelly christmas. we're here along 102 kimberly way. come on by. we got a hotdog cart and hot chocolate for everybody. >> i'll be on that hot cocoa with you. all right, bob, talk to you in a little bit again. that is fantastic. this is not so fantastic. coming up a man accused of trying to steel beer from a liquor store. do you see what he's doing? we got the story. ♪ would be beer thief chucked can astor clerk during attempted robbery in california at the craig liquor store. the man told the cashier he didn't have id to buy cigarettes and walked away. he came back with a case of beer then tried to make a break for it. well he ended up doing what you're seeing there grabbing the cans and hurling them at the clerk and police say he then walk out took off in green suv and, yes, they would very much like to catch him. now in south philadelphia, police are searching for this man. they say he stole another guy's wallet out of the locker at the sweat gym on the 700 block of east passyunk avenue around two weeks ago. surveillance cameras at the footer rei on south tenth street captured him using the victim's credit card to buy stuff. tension is growing in st. louis suburb a man who police say shot two officers is barricaded in a home. this happened hours ago. two police officers ended up shot this morning in bell fontaine neighbors north of downtown st. louis. the bullet bullets hit in their. they had bullet proof vests on. they're alive tonight. the officers went to the home after someone called 99 about shots fired w they got there they got into struggle with a guy. police say he pull out handgun shot both. that they returned fire. we don't know any more than that right now. as we said this is breaking news. we do understand police believe he may be armed with an ar15. more as that news continues to break. the man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl in delaware. before throwing her into a pond to die is asking a judge to reduce his bail. that judge ordered 24-year-old daniel, held in lieu of more than $1 million cash bail. santucci also asking for state appointed attorney. police say the four-year-old that he abducted the four-year-old along the 4800 block of sugar plum court in april. today marks five years since a horrific shooting at an elementary school. it was december 14th, 2012. a seemingly normal day that turned to horror when gunman adam lanza stormed sandy hook elementary school with an ar15 he killed 20 children and six staffers before taking his own live. police say even actually parents say even half decade later it's still difficult to process all of this. understandably. no one wants to get a parking ticket, right? well now there's a new app that could help you not to get one. and hang's take is what do you think? hey, think ben will like it? yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music? i'm serious, i never know what to get him. just tell me you got him fios too. sigh. mrs. layne, fios is a 100% fiber-optic network. that, plus this sick console, he'll be like whaaaaaattt. your new tech is best on the 100% fiber optic network. so get fios. now just $79.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee with a 2-year agreement. ♪ former pennsylvania governor and former homeland security secretary tom ridge is out of the hospital. ridge is back at his maryland home after leaving a texas rehabilitation center. the 72-year-old was in the hospital in that rehab center for almost month after having a heart attack while attending a republican governors association conference in austin, texas. reports tonight house speaker paul ryan could be eyeing the exit door. political magazine reporting ryan is considering retiring fter the mid term elections next year. right now the wisconsin republican is close to achieving one of his two main goals. that would be tax reform. his next commit system reforming entitle the program. political observers say ryan may be call eight career after that, however if you talk to ryan, he is saying not so fast. third time is a charm. right? that's what everyone is favorite agency the ppa is hoping. once again the parking authority is letting you pay your meters with a phone, but we have been hurt before. can we trust the parking authority this time around? here's fox 29's hank flynn. >> we giving the steve philadelphia enough of our money. stop ticketing so much. it costs us. it's holiday time. merry christmas. >> reporter: it's hank. i'm tired of guesting tickets, of course you are. philly parking thor says the solution can right here on your cell phone. my take is, it's not for me. but it might work for you. >> tamika notice about the philly parking authority's new app called meter up. but she doesn't trust it. >> no, no, no! absolutely not! >> reporter: how come? >> no credit card info. no credit card -- they got the right to charge me whenever they want. no. >> reporter: it's technically the new new app rolled out to replace the old one with which failed when the vendor chosen by the ppa went belly up which replaced the one before that. downloadownloaded date long stot it's coming online in center city and other neighborhoods to make it easier to pay parking fees and avoid situations like this one. >> that starts at 4:00 o'clock. >> reporter: how late were you? were you a long time late. >> i only, you know, i just want to have my gelato. so i stopped by to get my gelato for five minutes. that's it. >> five minutes you got a gela gelato. >> five minutes i get -- >> how much did the gelato cost you $40. >> fifty-one dollars. i got to pay. >> reporter: so the app it's a 40-cent convenience fee per trance act but if you stay over a space two hour limit you can buy another couple of hours for double the rate. triple it for the two hours after that. even so, it works for some. >> right. because i mean i avoid getting a tick. you know which is going to cost me 40, 50 bucks. i'd rather pay a couple extra bucks for the app and not have to worry about getting a ticket on my car. >> reporter: to avoid getting towed. fair point. call me old. i get hung up on putting my credit card on the app and i'm not the only one. >> with a lot of the hacking and everything hike that, you know, putting your information in there, it has the potential just to really collapse your own personal information. >> reporter: yeah, the app might be excellent but for me that's beside the point. the auditor general accused the ppa of gross mismanagement last week among many other things. i'm not giving them my credit card number or my pay pal. i avoid dealing with them whenever i can butt because i don't trust them. period. i'm hank and that's my take. ♪ all right. checking -- easy for me to say. let's try that again. checking in with your fox 29 wet authority. live look at reading berks county where skies are clear but man it's cold outside. kathy is tracking all that, even another chance of snow, um-hmm, in 15 seconds. one of things skiers love the most when we show these cams from blue mountain and camelback and shawnee are the groomers and their out there tonight the snow guns are blowing. you can see right here on this side of the run and here is the groomer that's going back and forth on the screen. so 3-inches pick up in the poconos. a fresh mother nature snow and now they're making that snow like crazy which is great for the ski season. maybe this weekend getting a couple of good runs much tomorrow would be a great day. 32 degrees right now in philadelphia. winds are out of the northwest at 12 miles an hour. creating that wind chill of 23. so even though we don't have a lot of wind, the temperatures are cold enough to create some discomfort. right now ultimate doppler showing pretty much all is dry. no weather issues. a if you clouds rolling from the west. it's 32 in philadelphia. but only 15 in the poconos. 29 in wilmington and 30 in millville. with that wind, about ten to 15 miles an hour, it feels like three in the poconos. 23 in trenton. 20 in wilmington and 16 in rea reading only feign in allentown. if you're going out tonight bundle up. fox future cast takes us hour by hour. you can see during the late night hours, nothing in the wave any type of precipitation. some clouds lifting up as the storm will be passing to our south again. another clipper. and we're going to watch friday as the clouds thicken, and we see some snow showers moving up from the southwest as early as 1:00 o'clock on friday. this could come even a little bit earlier like around noon through wilmington and heading toward delaware county. by 3:00 o'clock, we we can see it on the jersey side as well and that darker lavender is where we'll see heavier snow and then it moves out. by 6:00 o'clock it's cleared off the coast. if you're going out tomorrow night just going to be cold a little bit breezy. as far as how much snow with this, not a big deal. a coating to anime of snow and a higher accumulation that 1 inch as you head further toward the shore. overnight tonight, temperatures mainly in the teens. only be nine in the poconos. 21 in wilmington. pottstown 16. 20 in millville. even down the shore will be cold. wildwood 24. atlantic city that's at the airport 21 degrees. during the day tomorrow, we'll see the sun early then increasing clouds. afternoon snow showers. southwest winds at about 5 miles an hour. so lehigh valley poconos really missing out on the snowfall tomorrow. on your seven day forecast from the weather authority saturday how about 40 degrees and sunny. that's a good shopping day. sunday a chance of an afternoon shower but that's a rain shower. a chance of snow in the morning on monday. partly sunny tuesday. and they can wednesday and thursday chilly with highs in the 40s and lows in the 30s. so lucy, once we get passed tomorrow it's a little quieter. >> all right. i'm good with that. last night those huge snowflakes coming down. >> it was pretty. >> we kept sending you back outside. >> that can't help. >> i know. that's why my hair is like this today. >> your hair looks great as always. >> talk zoop. >> okay. >> thanks kathy. we weren't the only ones with snow today. the you unique way a michigan school district put out the word that [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like... cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? nah. so, why don't we like flo? she has the name your price tool, and we want it. but why? why don't we actually do any work? why do you only own one suit? it's just the way it is, underdeveloped office character. you're right. thanks, bill. no, you're bill. i'm tom. you know what? no one cares. ♪ snowstorm that has slammed a large part of michigan has left roads icy and slippery and mercury stuck in the teens and single digits. the storm hit the area yesterday. did not leave for hours. plows are on the move. neighbors had to get out their shovels. snow blowers and everything else to clear out their driveways and sidewalks. this is throughout much of the lower peninsula which is large. forecasters say shifting winds will keep a few lake effect snow showers alive dumping even more snow. so employees in michigan in one school district in particular channeled their inner freddie mercury to nouns school clothes. >> don't get out of bed come ya'll head keep your jammies because you get to stay home today. we got snow on the road whipped just blows got to stay safe so school is going to close. >> vassar has a snow day. >> that is great. got to love queen's late front man freddie. those five employees do rock. my goodness gracious. vassar public school district having fun announcing a snow day by singing queen's we will rock you. very special birthday by the way at the philadelphia zoo. dee lock the polar bear just turned 37. dee locks celebrated her special day with a lot of visitors. even got a birthday cake and treats. makes her the old defendant known polar bear in the country. see zoologists say polar bear typically live to be about 25 years old in captivity. the zoo says the care from keepers and veterinarians helped her live longer. it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in montgomery county. bob kelly is in hatfield with this week' as very kelly christmas 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. >> your health now problem faced by many people with darker skin light spots that end up spreading across your skin. doctors had a hard time treating those spots until now. fox 29's joyce evans reports on new medical break through. ♪ >> wanting to correct all of the things that have plagued me over the years. and kind of be the best me i can possibly be. >> reporter: what's been plaguing this new york city businessman may not be all that noticeable to you or me. >> my issue is on my neck. >> reporter: it's mostly covered up but driving terry cyrus nuts there's a discoloration. you can feel the texture of the skin is different than the rest of my face. >> reporter: years of shaving has darkened his neck much that's not all. >> there's like spots, hider spots up on my upper torso and my back. >> reporter: where did they come from? >> i don't know if that's hereditary. i know my dad had issues as we well. >> reporter: hereditary, sun damage, age all of the above theoriux says he's tried lots of remedies. >> the skin creams, you know i guess bleaching methods thing of that nature. >> reporter: none of it works. >> no. >> fourths lighten spots. >> they had me doing creams and things of that nature which can be very taxing to say the least. has a very bad odor. >> reporter: difficult to apply there but even on his chest. >> no success. >> reporter: he works out. says he wants to be able to take off his shirt. >> you kind of limited to what you can wear without people kind of giving that you look, what's those spots, you know, do they itch? are they contagious? >> most people have patches where you will have areas of hyper or hypo pigmentation. >> reporter: and treating it can be pretty tricky with some people says plastic surgeon stephen davis. >> anybody that has pigment already in their skin it becomes a little bit of a challenge to how do you go about balancing out the hypo and the hyper pigmentation without creating a problem for them in their skin? >> reporter: problems that lasers and chemicals might create. >> you can definitely see the difference. >> reporter: the doctor and certified esthetician angela fowler are trying a modified version of micro needling designed to improve skin textu texture, scars and pores and such. but what will poking tiny holes in terry do for his discoloration? >> so after we micro needle the area, we can drizzle behind it stuff that we know is going to affect the hyper pigmentation. >> reporter: blends of agents designed as topicals a specific mixture for each individual patient to make dark and light areas less noticeable. >> so this zone is what we're trying to blend into this. so that's what these little micro channels are creating. >> reporter: numbing cream was applied first. >> even with the numbing you can feel it but it wasn't too bad. kind of puts you in the mind of tweezers if you're trying to pull an inn grown hair out of your neck. >> reporter: uh-huh. >> except it was like repetitive in nature. >> reporter: now it's up to terry to complete serum applications at home and maintenance after another visit. >> this is nowhere near as bad as some of the people that we see. i think there's one session is going to lighten this significantly. >> reporter: we'll see in a few weeks. in cherry hill, joyce evans, fox 29 news. here's a question. could you be allergic to your christmas tree and not even know it? well, the asthma and allergy foundation of america says if you have allergies you may want to take extra care this time of year. live christmas trees can be a source of mold and pollen. recent study found a spike in people with a allergy symptoms once a christmas tree lights up their home. all righty. it is beginning to look a lot like a very kelly christmas in montgomery county. this holiday season our bob kelly has been on a great mission to share our area's best holiday displays and tonight bob is in hatfield, montgomery county. you've been visiting with the michael family, right, bob? >> reporter: we've been having some fun all night long. check out this helm here. brian the homeowner you've been doing it for how many years. >> this is our 20th year. >> twentieth year. unbelievable. this great. i love this advantage here from the corner of the front. you have santa. you have the reindeer. when do you start putting all the lights up? >> usually about two weeks before halloween. you have santa on the roof and halloween figure on the ground. >> do you have a plan? is there a system to the whole thing? >> i kind of lay them out in sections based on theme like you have the gingerbread men here. the snowman family then the choir and the north pole area. so -- >> you have folks coming by all night long. all day long. but also helping to raise money for good cause. >> we are. so we often get asked for charity and we don't collect that but my wife was recently diagnosed with attacks ya and her twin sister tonight we're asking folks to donate to the attacks ya foundation at www.attacks ya.org and also collecting donation here from our big eye hotdog friends who volunteered their time and parts of their proceeds to the cause. >> that's great. in the holiday spirit. the front lawn we're here at 102 kimberly way. has everybody like the lights so far. >> yes! >> hat feel coming out in hundreds here tonight. and check out this. we got our buddy the hotdog the big guy hotdo hotdogs, hot choc. whose ready for a hotdog and hot chocolate. >> me! >> 102 kimberly way in hatfield. put the the kids in the car and bring them on by. some of the lights that they have -- you moved away to oklahoma. you took ally lights with you. and then came back? >> we did. it took a whole 18 wheeler just of christmas lights to come back. >> get out of town. >> that's correct. >> 18 wheeler filled with christmas lights. >> we left half of them so somebody could start their own deck raises. >> what do the neighbors say when you moved back in. you got a great corner property here. this is unbelievable. >> we've been well received pretty so far and we're trying to be careful of the traffic and keep it safe. >> as you can see come on everybody you can see our breath going out. it's cold but the lights keep us warm. we got the hot chocolate and the hotdogs. we'll be here all the way up through the 6:00 o'clock news. so put the kids in the car, come on by. 102 kimberly way here in hatfield, montgomery county. everybody give a wave. >> merry christmas. >> bob, just a quick question, bob. real quick. >> yes. >> i'm guessing that they're real happy you're there not just because of your exuberance and wonderful personality that suit that you're wearing must raise the degrees at least ten, right 10 degrees suit right there. >> exactly. >> it is -- you know, it's cold standing still. that's why we got to keep moving, right, gang, keep moving. keep moving. to stay warm. >> you keep on moving. you keep on moving. bob kelly check back with you a little bit later. love it. >> let's go to pennsauken, new jersey, right now. this great. goodwill holding its annual holiday party. about 95 clients who have disabilities attended the event this morning. not only did they get to enjoy a holiday feast, but santa himself handed out presents, took the time to come down from the north pole. that's so cool. goodwill says since most of its clients have to struggle to make ends meet or they live in group home many of their supporter as adopt clients for the day. a family seeking safety from organized crime in mexico has taken up sanctuary in a local church and we've got running a small business is demanding. and that's why small business owners need more. like internet that's up to the challenge. the gig-speed network from comcast business gives you more. with speeds up to 20 times faster than the average. that means powering more devices, more video conferencing, and more downloads in seconds, not minutes. get fast internet and add phone and tv for only $24.90 more per month. comcast is building america's largest gig-speed network to give small businesses more. call 1-800-501-6000 today. one family now local say they faced violence and persecution in mexico. they headed north looking for safety, asking for asylum and now after years the government says they've got to go back. but philadelphia church is offering them sanctuary. bill anderson has their story for goodness sake. >> translator: i came here because of crime injustice and corruption in my country. i came here because of the violence from organized crime running rampant in mexico. >> reporter: carmella hernandez didn't plan to come to the united states at but at some point her live in drug cartel areas of mexico became too much so she and her children came to the san diego port hoping for asylum. >> translator: before i came to this country, i lost three family members, two of them were my nephews, and one them was my brother. one of my nephews was decapitated report roar the discussion often comes down to doing what one side think social security right versus doing what the government says is legal. today in north philadelphia, a family faced that conflict. >> advocate long stood at this place for justice, for equality and for human rights. and it seems quite fitting that we continue that tradition. >> reporter: carmella has been in our area two years while her case was considered when she received notice her asylum was denied and she would be deport deported, local church couldn't let that happen. >> she's a warm compassionate woman. she loves her children fiercely. and i can only imagine if i were in the same situation, i would want somebody to work with me and to help me. ♪ >> reporter: the help given was to publicly offer sanctuary to carmella and her kids they'll live in an app in the church with the support of the congregation had knows that they welcomed in someone facing deportation but also someone whose life is likely in danger if she returns to mexico. >> i did not see any other options except to open the door to receive her and her family. >> reporter: carmella wears an ankle monitor show immigration knows where she is at all times. >> ♪ >> reporter: this is a public statement that carmella and the congregation are opposing immigration policy because it's risking lives of people who tried to follow the rules. >> translator: i'm resolved to being sang to you wary. ice knows exactly where i am. and if they come and take me out -- take me from here, then it's up to them what they're going to do. >> reporter: so following the law meant possibly putting somebody's family at risk, what should we do? >> we often see those -- >> it's the right thing to do. >> reporter: church of the advocate believes they made the only decision they could make for goodness sake. i'm bill anderson. ♪ fox 29 news at 6:00 starts right now. ♪ a community coming together helping a family who lost two little boys when a fire burned down their home. tonight, we know how it started. also, brand new developments in horrifying case that gripped the area last summer. four men dead found buried on a bucks county farm and now the two cousins charged face a judge and the death penalty is on the table. ♪ >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6:00. unthinkable tragedy. a fire tour through a family's home killing two young boys and injuring their mom, their dad and their sister. tonight investigators say they know what started that fire on submit avenue in schwenksville. the state police fire marshal unit blames an electrical failure of an extension cord that was plugged into a space heater. i'm lucy noland. iain page will join us at to end. now tonight the community is coming together to help the family. fox 29's dave kinchen is live in schwenksville. dave? >> reporter: lucy, we're inside the garage of the old schwenksville fire company where people have gathered local firemen and friends of the lukens family. what they're doing here is they're accepting cash and gift card donations for the lukens family to help them get through this tragedy. we're here at the 300 main street in schwenksville, 11-year-old brian lukens, jr. and his six-year-old brother parker died when their home caught fire on submit of a wednesday morning. their father montgomery county sheriff's deputy brian lukens, sr. was able to get out the home with his wife and daughter but they were tragically tragically unable to get