Community. Police say theyve arrested the man who gunned down an 81yearold grandmother on Christmas Eve. Were now learning why Authorities Say that alleged shooter pulled the trigger over and over again. Good evening, im dawn timmeney. Im chris oconnell. Police announced the arrest just hours before marie bucks friends, family and neighbors gathered to remember her life and thats where fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose joins us. Sabina a very sad night in south philly. Reporter absolutely heartbreaking, chris. Now for hours tonight there were hundreds of people lined up outside of the funeral home here just waiting to get inside to pay their respects. Now i spoke with family members, and they tell me they are grateful and comforted that there has been an arrest. I feel relieved that before they bury her at least they got the case solved. Reporter outside funeral home where loved ones gathered thursday evening to say goodbye to 81yearold marie buck her brotherinlaw al telling us his family is th
Almost happy new year. Thomass off, bobbies off, mike jerrick will be back and thank you for waking up early and joining us on this last day of the week and heading in the new year. New years eve and it will be a lot colder out there. You noticed it when you walk outside the door this morning if you were watching. If you november yet done so. Bundle up. What is the number today. It is a five because it will be cold, windy, blustery today, and there is a slight chance of a snow shower, why . Because all of the cold air is coming across the great lakes and occasionally, one of those bands of snow, hits our area. So, further north and west we will go more likely you for see snow shower or two, today but all we could find was one little one just southwest of Lancaster County around york, pennsylvania and that is it. So temperatures are in the mid 30s, this morning, just about every where, except the mountains but the wind chills are in the 20s, so, that is what it feels like, that is what
Commissioner, Philadelphia Police say this is an officer and a girl in a tussel, but there is much more to this story than what you see on this video. Also ahead, it is the first day of school for some philadelphia children, how the new soda tax is helping them get a new start on their education. Plus there is an old game that has police on alert, and a warning for you right now. What you need to know. Kind of like pokemon go on the go. So there is a warning this morning, that we will tell but. Great to have you with us, we are halfway through the week on this wednesday. Thomas drayton along with karen hepp. Good morning to all of you just waking up. We had some problems, probably, up right now on the vine street expressway. Fifty50, just like your creamer, half and half, one half open, the other half not. When i was coming down part of the parkway was closed, too. And they have whole new pattern there on the parkway too. Ill let you get to that in just a minute. Defer your traffic rep
You have just seen a decent person. Doing penance for his sins whose sins are many. With your skill for social security, he is over 50. He is unemployed through no fault of his own. Item, the skills that gave him work for the past 30 years are now out of date. He is, in short, broke, out of work, and desperate. Multiply him by the millions and millions of other aging workers that will be in our midst by 1970 and you have a problem of national magnitude. The grey ghosts of the great society. I got nothing come in until social security. Thats 15 years from now. All that they want is 22yearold college graduates. What am i going to tell the kids . What will they think of their old man . Can you imagine anybody at my age going back to school . The problem has been phrase well my business trend editor at newsweek. As he puts it, the brutal fact is that there is discrimination of sorts going on in american industry today. When men are considered to be over the hill when they are in their prim