Maybe school or quick meeting. You come back out to your car and find its been towed. Tonight theres a push to stop that from happening so much. Good evening, im iain page. Im lucy noland. Also tonight the owner of one of the citys biggest towing companies is setting the reporter straight. Our Chris Oconnell in Spring Garden tonight with the story. Chris . Reporter guys, if you know if you drive anywhere in the city chances are you are very familiar with signs like these all over the place. Park here you will be bet towed but some people call those people predators. Some are calling them cheaters. Well torque night, the Philadelphia City council is trying to reign in what they call rogue tow Truck Drivers. Mitchell kirschner watches where he park these days. You should. He remembers last month when his roommates car was about to ghettoed. He had to pay like 250 for them to not tow it. To not tow it . Yeah. They were like 250 or were together it. Remember back in august when fox 29 told
World war ii and korea. He was fighter pilot. As a test pilot, he once set a trance continental speed record. Not just matching force but overwhelming force. He served 24 years in the u. S. Senate the longest serving person to ever represent ohio. In 1984, he ran for the president ial democratic nomination. It didnt work out. But that long political career and career with nasa allowed him to return to space. Its a very youre just anxious to go and get going im sure it will be the same this time. In 1988 at age 77, he did. John glenn was a uniquely American Space hero, a combat veteran with boy next door looks a strong marriage and nerves of steal. His lifes story of striving hard succeeding suffering set backs and high flying redemption as american as it gets. As the First American to orbit the earth president john f. Kennedy said glenn was the reason we made it to the moon. Happening now, the search is on for this car. Police say the driver just drove away after hitting a 12yearold ch
Packaging get swiped right off front stoops but what was inside these boxes something precious. Clothes meant for children in need gone. Just taken and now the Good Samaritan who checked the donations is hoping for a miracle. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. That woman who collected the donations reach out to us here at fox 29. Lets get out to fox 29s Dave Schratwieser at sixth District Police headquarters witness story. Dave . Reporter iain n Good Samaritan is heart broken because shes worried that some of the kids who were expecting gifts now wont get them. Shes hoping that folks will replace the gifts and the thief gets caught. They were for gifts in our community. Danielle and her friends on social media are in a giving mood this Holiday Season they donated and collected dozens of coats, hats and gloves for kids at the gw child school in south philadelphia. Either kids between eight and 14 dont have enough money to get basic searches like winter coats, scarves, hats, glo
Finally the snow. Have you been outside tonight. Some places are already seeing snow. To escaping it youll get a dose of Winter Weather and winter does not even officially start until next week. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Its physical all right. Lets get straight to meteorologist kathy orr. Tis the season, kathy. It certainly is. And here it is. For the first time im seeing white popping up close to Philadelphia Movement of this not making it to the ground but we do have some flurries making it across northern parts of, lets see, delaware and also into Chester County, New Castle County, Delaware County in pa. Temperatures right now cold enough for snow in most of the area. Philadelphia 36. Wilmington 34. But in allentown it is 27 degrees. So well go hour by hour and see those snow showers developing mainly through delaware and south jersey and moving off the shore by about 3 00 a. M. So just a couple of hours of snow but it will be a burst of snow and that means there will be a very
North derby avenue tonight a sign that something could be very wrong. Authorities have been on the scene for hours. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im chris oconnell. In for iain page tonight. Authorities have been on the scene all night. Details still coming in at this hour. Shawnette wilson live near the scene in ventnor tonight. Shawnette, what is the latest . Reporter well, still a very active scene here at dorsett and marshall in accept nor heights. You can see behind me police cars still blocking off this street here behind me. This is marshall avenue. Still no official word from investigators yet as to what type of call they responded to. But what we can tell is you that this has been an active scene for well more than two hours now and just from the video we were able to get earlier it appears that investigators have been surrounding a house on the 700 block. We also drove around to the other side near burly and saw that that part was blocked off as well. No word on any arrests o