fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. right now a bizarre standoff for a group of families without a home. now take a look. some with children. only weeks old. set up tents in this abandoned lottery fusing an offer from the city for a roof over their heads tonight. good evening, i m lucy noland. i m iain page. they say it s part of a much bigger problem. our fox 29 s chris o connell is live at this so-call tent city in fair hill tonight. chris? reporter: that s right, iain. at least seven homeless families will be staying yet another night in this make shift tent city here in north philadelphia. these families some of them as you said with infant babies rejected the city s offer for emergency shelters tonight. instead this will be their home they say to prove a point. we do have space for up to six families tonight. reporter: the city s top two housing officials arrived to fair hills tent city offering emergency shelter to the two do
dozen people who have taken up residence on the corner of cumberland and american streets for the past four days. but that offer came with a resounding no. we re not taking that offer. homeless advocate sherri, organized the tent city to show awareness for the city s homeless problem. for days they ve been taking in gifts of food and water. some even handing over cash donations. but why not take the offer a emergency housing? these people are being offered shelters and you re encouraging them not to take it. okay. that s such a fox 29 question. it s legitimate question, though. wait, wait, wait. why do you set up land mines and you walk night. we did talk to searer brooks who says she was kick out of the shelter along with her one month old and two other children. i got laid off from my job. i lost my apartment, and i tried to go for help but nobody would help me. reporter: she s not taking shelter tonight. instead she wants a permanent home. the very pu
successful and safe visit for the pope and for the public. reporter: security officials are defending the order toss close down the ben franklin bridge stretches of highway and restrict movement in a three square mile swath of center city. outdoor event such as we see here to the burlington-bristol parkway in philadelphia, it creates enormous challenges bust we have to adapt to that and we have. reporter: joe clancy director of u.s. secret service. he says plans must be in place to evacuate the pope and visitors in case of an emergen emergency. you have to have structure. if you don t have structure, you have mayhem. reporter: meanwhile city officials are still pushing back against claims that philadelphia has overreacted to the pope s visit. adopting security measures that go far beyond what will be experienced by those in new york and washington when the pontiff visits those cities. there are any number of events in both new york and washington, d.c. all ticked
its head coach records 1,000 wins in his career and he does it in front of a home crowd. good evening everybody. i m joyce evans. i m dawn timmeney. herb magee is in his 48th season as head coach. fox 29 s brad sattin was there asthma guy made history. reporter: easy to see right off the bat herb magee doesn t seek out attention n fact he may even ab little embarrassed by it. but on the day he s trying for win number 1,000 there s no way around it. he s worth take your shirt off for. he s the idol. it s all about basketball. what does that tell you about him. i don t think i don t know. he s a really awesome guy. reporter: surrounded by a team an game he s devoted his live to. former players and college buddies wouldn t miss this one remembering his old playing days. three-point play were alive when he was there he d have scored 4,000 points. i mean he could he just could shoot the eyes out of a basket. reporter: and you could see it in his player s actions
her eye. when you are showing this amount of skin the thought of never shaving again is an amazing thing. laser hair removal, but amber joy knew she had to be very careful but who was operating that laser. i heard horror stories. i have seen people have scarring from laser hair removal and i m lucky that i started out with the right doctor. lasers are very complicated. lasers are powerful surgical tools, but in the wrong hand they can burn you blind you. everybody keep your glasses on. see this white circle? that is laser basically burning a hole in what you could consider the camera s retina, the same thing could happen to your eyes. how difficult is this to work on people with darker pigment. so people with darker skin are much more susceptible from the laser, injury from the cooling spray. amber joy learned that the hard way after her first successful treatment withdraw i can burnstein she got a gift certificate for a different doctor. this is just a follow