>> right now "fox29" weekend anger and frustration a local charter school closes for good and hundreds of parents are left scrambling wondering what is happening to their children. >> i'm shocked at the whole thing. >> why one mom says it's down right ridiculous. >> climbing in a casket while still alive imagine that. wow do it. the experience that could change your life forever. >> and really good for your wallet while it lasted. brace yourself while the prices at the pump are about to go back up. >> your pictures and comments and stories and it's about to get interactive.

>> your news, your neighborhood, live and interactive, this is fox29 weekend. >> and good morning you to and happy new year for the very first time of 2015 welcome to our show, fox29 weekend. >> i'm karen rogers. >> i'm lauren johnson. >> we have a hepatitis square. >> first a check of interactive weather. it's down right chilly outside. >> i saw snow flurry this morning and i said what? >> this is going to be northwest. >> west of the turnpike that's what we'll look at a wintry mix through the first part of today. for the rest of us this will be rainy day for us with temperatures pretty much.

here's a look at winter weather advisory, monroe, northampton, lehigh, down to lancaster county, that's until 5:00 tonight. as the system moves in it's a wintry mix. we could see about an inch of ice, sleet accumulate. not a whole lot. it will be a tricky travel out there until the temperatures start to warm up. here's the system now. it's coming in from ohio vaelly starting to push in on the philadelphia area. what we're looking at right now is a little bit of sleet activity coming in right through lancaster county. we're dry in philadelphia and will stay that way until mid-morning. and then the rain starts to push in. as we head into about noontime and through the afternoon through tonight as well. here's a look at temperatures now. coldest temperatures to the north. 28 lancaster and 25 allentown. slightly warmer in philadelphia we're above freezing. this is why we're looking at all rain for us and snow and street

start northwest where the temperatures are cooler and below freezing. here's a look at fox future cast as we go through the morning. noontime, heavy rainology and off throughout the afternoon. tapering off 9, 10 atlantic city tonight and showers linger into tomorrow here's a look at foxcast, a mix north and west that lasts until mid afternoon the mix and changes over to rain. for us all rain in philadelphia and points east. 41 noontime and 43 for the high today. tomorrow we go up into the 60s, believe it or not. it will get mild around here. looking at record temperatures sunday. i'll show you the complete forecast in a little bit. back you to guys. >> thank you so much. several people without a place to stay after a row home fire in southwest philadelphia. >> this say bad one. flames were so bad people had to jump from the roof in order to

jump to safety. we have sabina live at the scene. >> good morning, guys, let's take you to the scene behind me. you can see the aftermath of this devastating fire. three row homes just totally destroyed. if you look at middle one there that's where people on the scene tell me the fire is believed to have began. let's take a look at sky fox video we captured for you last night from the scene. now, again, 19 people are out of their homes this morning. two victims rushed to hup and another at chop and no word on their conditions. people on the scene, initial reports indicate a 70-year-old man suffered burns on 90% of his body. police say two people had to jump from the roof of the row homes. fire fighters rescued several victims. witnesses of the scene tell us the fire appeared to be coming from inside the walls of the home. they say that because they described that every time firefighters wore douse the

flames they come roaring back. we spoke with people open the scene and this is what they told us. >> basically we heard the screaming from the house. and after that we seep a lot of people running and then seen a lot of flames just coming from the first floor and it went above the roof. it was crazy out here you know? a lot of people just screaming and deposit have much kloming on and police was asking us to help clothe them and what have you. those are scary times. >> and definitely a frightening time that neighborhood lived across the street and said flames at one point were so high you could not even tell there was a house behind them. now the red cross is assisting the families displaced from their homes. peco was called to the scene for live wires in the back of the home. back here live it does appear power was restored to much of the block. again you could see the devastation that this fire

caused completely wiping out three row homes and they already condemned all those homes. three people rushed to the hospital. no word yet on their conditions. karen and lauren, back to you. >> sabina thank for the update. >> bucks county a barricade situation is now over swat teams were called in 9:30 last night investigators say a man with several gun was was threatening to call his mother who was threatening those in the home and as well as a neighbor. no one was injured. >> this morning's cover story parents of a local charter school beyond frustrated they're scrambling because the child's shut down after months of financial turmoil. so many parents are trying to figure out where they can find a place for children to go to school in days. the district says they'll try to find a place for all the palmer students and will in the area of

public schools. talking about this, nicole haines, her daughter attended palmer middle and miss hin department of public charter. >> nicole, as a mom what went through your mom when you got the letter saying the school is close are for good find a place for your child. i was very frustrated and just a mess because it was christmas time. we was happy and then got the letter and saying that your child's school is closing. >> how did you feel about the palmer school system for your child before the school had decided to close. were you happy with it before. or not really. what did you think. >> i was happy with the school and my child was happy there too. >> what will you do next? >> try to find a school and have to buy a new uniform and i

guess apply financial need for that school. >> it's a big struggle when you have all the up knowns for this. you're an expert for advocating for parents and schools. what did you think when you heard the news. we knew palmer was having financial problems along the way and suddenly shutting its doors. >> it was a terrible tragedy and my heart goes out to all the parents and families struggling with this sudden school closure. i think the biggerer issue beyond what is happening at walt palmer the situation with palmer charter while extreme closing during middle of holiday break with little notice to families, it may seem extreme. it's not unique. another charter closed december 31 and mosiaca and logan announced it was in bankruptcy is placed in receivership and future of their schools in

unclear. and there's been a number of schools where this situation is happening. and i think the bigger issue we have to think about, schools need to be table institutions and whenever school plus closes the most at risk population is children. >> let's go to the facebook comments the great things about charter schools they're able to crackdown in behavior a way public cannot. behavior is out of school in public school district and teachers are pretty much helpless. >> charles writes it's a lottery that's why your school is going to pits that's why i moved to new jersey. he moved to new jersey. helen i have a question wondering for a long time. new jersey did something sued abbott schools and zones saying children in certain zones that were under privileged were not getting enough resources and won and those schools have to now give more money. why don't we do that in philadelphia here. >> we just filed a lawsuit or number of groups mild a lawsuit last month and in court and will

be seeking money for one, pennsylvania does not have funding formula for any school funding one of three in the state and gap between wealthy and poor schools in the state of pennsylvania more than doubled in the last four years alone and we're doing a terrible disservice not only to school districts like philadelphia but dozens across the state of pennsylvania really suffering when we don't have a responsible or even same system for making sure schools have basic needs for financial stability that allows them to do what they need to do to educate children. it's important we look at funding. abbott was a groundbreaking lawsuit it gave the lowest performing schools average sum of of the top performing schools in the state of pennsylvania and allowed a number of schools to do extraordinary things including places and school districts like union city new

jersey that invested in professional development and turned alone a low performing high poverty school district. >> does your daughter have a place to go come monday. >> not yet. >> oh, do you have any prospects? do you know where you'll liquor what is likely for her? >> well, it's hard with neighborhood schools because there's nothing else left at this point. >> it's heartbreaking ladies both thank you so much for your time we appreciate it it is all the more tragedy when we have a school ending up closing not because of the fault of academics but because of the money. we appreciate your time and hopefully can work towards solutions for all our children and schools schools in philadelphia. use the #fox29weekend29weekend. >> for more information in deadly crash in bensalem 18-year-old shelly the man accused of killing a 16-year-old told police his car was in bad

shape when driving the window defroster didn't work and had tunnel vision and speedometer was not working right the 1984 ford bronco was not registered didn't have insurance and fake inspection tags. shelly faces multiple charges. they say he ignored a school bus light and killed a girl as she crossed the street. >> still ahead "fox29" weekend the race is on. 2015 has begun and we're thinking about november. our political experts weigh in on the future of philadelphia. who is the best person to run this city? plus one dad's message to his little girl. >> are you queen yet. >> no. >> what are you? >> no. >> what are you? >> it's

>> welcome back it's 8:15 in headlines officials in indonesia found two large objects on sea floor they can confirm it's part of the missing airasia plane. object are in the water 30 meters deep. that's the flight that crashed last sunday. so far only 30 bodies were found. >> a 7-year-old girl sure vivld a plane crash that killed four other them southwest kentucky last night. police say a small plane went down and 30 minutes later the girl walked up to a home and told a person inside what

happened. she was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. >> and also we now know funeral arrangements for former governor of new york state three time governor and legend larger than leafy mario cuomo laid he to rest on tuesday at the st. st. ignatious in manhattan. hi death came hours after his son's second term inauguration for office. >> and weather for the first saturday ever new year. dominica lots of word about the s word, snow. >> we have out to the northwest, far northwest, west of turnpike we're looking at what will be wintry mix for much of today. part of today. for rest of us it will be rain. let's start with twitter question. and this is from kathleen. writes from driving from cape

may to philly from cape may and wondering what the warm will be like. well it depends what time you leave. if you leave now you have a dry commute. but, as you start to go later today, i would say any time afternoon it's going to start to get wet. especially the closer you get to philadelphia. because we do have this big system that's coming in from the ohio valley. it's rain and snow on the western edge of this because that's where the cold air is. still too mild here. again we're looking really west of the turnpike. that's where we'll see wintery mix until 5:00 today. that's where we have winter weather advisory if you're in the countyes monroe, carbon, northampton, berk, lancaster that's where you see wintry mix for today. here's weatherhead lines. west of pa turnpike, all rain east. and sunday turns mild, temperatures into the 60s around here. we'll still have leftover clouds and showers talking rain with 60

degree temperatures and for the workweek get ready we have another arctic blast coming into the picture. heres a look at temperatures, below freezing mounts pocono. 22, allentown 25. pottstown 28, slightly warmer in philadelphia above freezing and that's where the rain is expected to be. that's a look at the 7-day forecast. today rain day, mild, temperatures up to 62 degrees. then we fall to 40 monday. it's a dry day. chance of snow showers tuesday. arctic blast arrives tuesday. look at temperatures tuesday. 22 only for the daytime high. we'll have another check of the weather coming up. >> so confusing about what to wear. >> in health a hepatitis square in south jersey. as you know by now health officials confirmed two new cases in hamilton township one month after food handler at rosa's catering contracted the virus. an employee at the hairport

salon was diagnosed and fitness up instructor hamilton ymca. anyone who visited any of these three aix locations may be at risk and you have questions on how to protect yourself and family. i was vaccinated for hepa 1, b 1, 2, while in the military. dr. mike is here to answer questions. thank you for waking up and coming in here for us. >> honored to be here. >> mark's question how long is he protected for the vaccinations. >> we think about 20 years. it's good and most people recommend now that 1-year-old's get vaccinated. people who are at risk. people who raffle to under developed countries and people who have chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, those are the people that need to get that hepatitis a vaccination i give it all the time in my office. it's the right thing to do. >> are people skeptical about

vaccinations sometimes people have those questions and they're worried and they won't want to get it to young kids. >> forget it. read my lips. get vaccinated there's so much misinformation out there it's ridiculous. vaccinations prevent measles. we just had an outbreak of measles. it prevents things like hepatitis a, saves lives, get child vaccinated my son and daughter both have gotten all vaccines recommended. >> i have bob here i brought bob let me show bob. what happens. how do you get hepatitis a. >> right. >> well, sometimes you go to a restaurant and one of the workers that's prepping your food has the virus. now this is where it gets a little gross. if you don't wash your hands and have virus what happens the virus is shed in your when you go to the bathroom. if you wash your hands and touch food what happens bob

comes along this is old bob okay you eat something like sandwich and it has virus in it, it gets into your intestines and gets to your liver and liver is there where it replicates and causes inflammation. problem then it sheds and then when you go to the bathroom you can cause infection. i have a couple pictures. let's look at what the culprit is. that's hepatitis a virus there. the good news, folks, is that hepatitis a usually does not cause long term problems like hepatitis b or c and not as bad or life-threatening. let's take a look. one tell tale signs you get jaundice, you see whites of eyes there they're yellow. and your urine becomes dark. you can have nausea and vomiting and feel terrible. those are the symptoms. >> listen dr. mike will be here.

fox29 weekend he'll answer questions live on the air thank you so much. >> loveia. >> all right. karen. >> so many of you are talking social media out cry and she says she's not a feminist. why she says her remarks are taken out of context and we're getting so many comments coming in already, we get this one from darryl g talking about funding of schools and palmer closing and i don't understand why we can't make lottery game for funding of pennsylvania schools and this beautiful area shot. tj thank you so much. he's up there fly around and taking beautiful pictures. we'll be right back. use #fox29weekend29weekend. we'll be right back. use #fox29weekend29weekend. >> good morning, mike.

>> welcome back remember the old campaign, you come a long way baby, one actress kelly sweepy clarifying comments she made about feminism. the tv star says she doesn't consider herself a feminist because she never really faced inequality and she likes the idea of women taking care of the men and she's cooking all the time for her new husband. the media blew up. you believe you should not have

the right to vote. your costars deserve a bigger paycheck than you. >> feminism made it possible for you to cook for your hubby instead of forcing you. >> kelly what's her last name. kaley cuoco what's wrong with enjoying your husband and cooking for him isn't that what partnership is all about. on instagram she wrote her comments were taken out of context. she said i apologize if anyone was offended. >> always out of context. people go crazy on you. such a nice run. we were fueling up our cars cheaper and more money in our pockets. but did you notice, there's a change that is happening because in more parts of our area we see a spike in prices and another news request the right stuff by new kids open the block. thanks for sendsing that in.

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>>:27 look at the people behind me. they are macking off with more than 7,000 in misdemeanor from inside cherry hill mall. they walked out and investigators say the same pair also stole 24 michael courses

watches and if he recognize them you're asked to call police. >> on january 15 bottom dollar will be closing some stores. 2200 workers will be receiving severance pay. some will get job counseling, are aldi will be taking over for bottom dollar. >> i'm jeff cole it's time for fox unfiltered where we respond to comment and complaints right here on the air ♪ and we have to admit, our viewers noticed the darnest things. barney please stop using same wedding video every time you talk about a wedding on good day, every day, same bride and

groom. find another again eric video to replay. you're right, barpy, we actually talk about that a lot in the newsroom. the guy in charge of that is executive producer tom loud on. you can not come up with better video? >> you're right we've been lacking in that videos are used toochb. we have a bride in here today shooting a video. what do you think? >> we hate to admit it male anchors and reporters have to wear makeup when we go on tv we have to due to the lighting not fooling everyone especially fans of mike jarrett. mike, rub that makeup in. an marry tell mike he's wearing too much blush today what are you talking about i think it's your tv set. >> next, we do a lot of news. 8 1/2 hours a day. weekends, web sites, social media sites. unfortunately they're bound to be mistakes.

we admit it. too many typos in some of our stories jill noticed in story of woman giving free hair cuts our story said she was 2 years old and jill another horrible typo really whoever proof reads these articles makes makes you look like more ones, more ones, september that a little harsh. -- isn't that a little harsh and proofread is one word. >> and look who we ran into at walmart. alex holly in walmart. you're doing a great job. welcome to philly. alex, you really are doing a great job on good day. >> thank you, jeff. >> thank you. >> thank you, janet it was nice meeting you i love it when people say hi off the street. you know we're starting at 6 a.m. now? >> 6 a.m.? >> yes. >> starting monday. >> starting sglon does jarrett

know who will wake him up. >> we have to figure that out. >> i'll work on that right now. >> and that's it for this edition of fox unfiltered. we wish everybody a happy new year keep the e-mails coming in 2015. we certainly like to hear from you. i'm jeff cole. take a look at the forecast now. this is one of those days we'll have the tail of every hour being a different scene. until the poconos you may get snow says doe min ka davis today. we have a little of everything in the forecast over the next 24 hours. wintry mix north and west will be rain. and one thing we'll all have today we'll see temperatures climbing through the day right through the evening as well. it will get mild around here. he's a look at ultimate doppler

snow coming in just to the west. that's where we have snow and wintery mix starting to move in to the lancaster area and poconos you'll start to see that as well coming up and down to south is where the rain is pushing in as well. by about noontime we'll all be looking at wet weather. this is massive system coming out of the ohio valley. now carrying a lot of cold air with it. again mainly a rain event for everybody from start to finish. winter weather advisory though posted and this is basically norm and west of turnpike where we have winter weather advisories in effect until 5:00 tonight. where you have that you can expect about inch to coating of some ice it really means the roads will be slick out. there be careful when you travel. here's a look at your pocono forecast for today. because i want to show you temperatures will be fairly mild by mid afternoon. so this wintry mix is going to start to changeover to all rain by this evening and tomorrow you'll have that much warmer

weather. tomorrow turz much cooler north. that's where we have threatp wintry mix. 34 in philadelphia and temperatures already in the 40s. down in cape may right now. 41 degrees. here's today forecast for today 44 that is the high and we will have the rain coming in by afternoon and then tonight we'll fool to 4 1. mild evening. here's a look at 7-day forecast. 60s tomorrow. leftover showers and very cold here in the week ahead. back to you. >> all right. check out this video from southern australia. brush fires burping out of control there. police declared them a major, major emergency at least five homes destroyed and we understand hundreds more are also threatened. >> there's a little girl and this is so sweet she gets very, very important advice from her father. coming up, what he had to say to his little princess who will one day grow up to be a queen. >> we're doing weekend what do

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>> i am pretending to you you right now. i have no idea what this means. >> okay. it's exactly 8:39 let's talk about this cute story of this little girl getting advice from her dad going viral over the web. he wants all the little princesses to know how a real man should treat her take a list. >> are you a queen yet? >> no. >> what are you? >> princess. >> princess. >> princes? >> right and when will you you become a queen when you get what? >> bigger. >> bigger when you get married? >> yeah. >> and when you get married, you are going to find a what? >> king. >> king right because you'll be a what. >> queen. >> and he's going to always do what? he's going to rewhat. >> respect you. >> right respect you and he'll

only put his hands on you if he's what. >> giving you love. >> if he's giving you love, that's right. >> good luck to anyone who tries to date her. she knows the story. the story got so much response "fox29" facebook page diane said she may not understand it all now what her dad is teaching her is so awesome. what a great family. let's hope and pray there's daddies out there teaching out to treat women. treat her like a gwynn, love her and respect her. how cute is she. >> treat like a queen dominica. >> you're the queen. he said i can't see come to inic a's outfit -- doe minic a's outfit. >> i'm missing my ice skates.

i. >> i have them at home. >> let's talk about lower gas prices. everybody is saying it feels like you have so much money. 500 to 700 savings per year per car and why will it change in one of our areas. already not to pay a little more. some drivers are seeing higher prices you're not just going crazy yet they did just jump ten cents you hear the music playing no, no, no, no, destiny child, mical requested that one. no, no, no, no, destiny child, mical requested that one. your requests com

>>:45 news now moments on sin city man stuck on a zip line over an hour. they watched over him until emergency crews arrived. he was hanging 80 feet above the ground. the zip line company gave him a full refund as they should afterwards. a couple heading to minneapolis get quite the new year's day surprise. allison and zach, allison went into labor in flight. flight attendants and pediatrician on board helped her

breathe through contractions and the pilot diverted the plane where they rushed her to the hospital. >> i'm going to not fly after -- during my next pregnancy or leave my state to be on the safe side. >> or town. >> i can understand that one. carl perry was born three months early. he's in newborn icu just topping 4 pounds. nurses say he's doing well. >> thank you lauren. we got this request from braden winter heword. he said i have a request you can make a hash tag about new year's resolution what's is your new year's resolution and have you stuck to it use #fox29weekend #newyearsresolution. >> it's gray out there. >> yes, it is. not going to be a washout but we'll have showers this afternoon. if you're out to the norm west in allentown, or scranton or

harrisburg you'll get a little wintry mix to start the system off for today. there's winter weather advisory it is basically north and west of turnpike that goes until 5:00 tonight. we're not looking at accumulation but it will get slick out there. temperatures warm up throughout the day. first part is below freezing. there's a look at ultimate doppler. this system coming in from the west pushing out of ohio valley taking its time. i'll delay the start of rain here from city open east. you can see right around dover starting to get -- cape may you get shower soon enoughment for the most of us we won't see this rain push in until noon. snow coming in leading edge of northern part of the storm. allentown looking at showers pushing through over the next couple hours and snow showers and little mix. there's a look at fox future cast showers pushing up through the afternoon. heavy rain through middle part

of afternoon and tapers off tonight with lingering showers tomorrow. 44. that's the high today. mix to start. rain and clouds. take umbrella with you. tomorrow we'll talk 60 degrees in the forecast. i'll tell you more about that coming up in a bit. >> good morning we're talking gas prices these are lows we've not seep for a long time. but for how long will that stick around and are you ready to start paying more. let's look at some of latest numbers from aaa. nationally drivers are paying average of 2.23 for gallon of regular lar 50 cents less than a month ago at 276. take a little at numbers in pennsylvania now. december 31 prices were 2.56 a gallon in pennsylvania and now obviously a couple days later new prices, new year, 10 cents more. prices are 2.65 a gallon. what gives with that. that's the question for aaa jim joining us by skype this

morning. why the higher prices? good morning. >> i think across pennsylvania you'll see prices climb a little as a result of 9 or 10 cepts a gallon increase in wholesale gas tax that brings -- you'll see pennsylvania prices creep up while maybe surrounding states are dipping down a little. >> reaction from twitter on this one comment says oivay i can usually fill up in new jersey. do you think this will be a trend. remind us what's the purpose of the gas tax what is money used for. >> gas tax is really crucial here because when the bill was passed in '89 pennsylvania rose 36% -- roads were poor or mediocre he and bridges structurally deficient or obsolete. you can't kick the can down the

road for too long you have to pay. this is result of it. we're seeing last year 10 cents increase in wholesale tax this year another 10 cents increase in gas tax. we'll get a break in 20 16 and back at it 201 for third and final time as result of '9. >> gas price have fallen this year. it doesn't hurt much. got to love the state of pa for putting 10 cent tax on gas because it's too cheap an we need more money for roads get real. you are saying they need to get real. is that just gas prices going up as part of transportation bill. there's other components as well. >> there's other fees but the one that really i think is the main thrust of right now is people see the gas tax and see 10 cement increase and that's usually not okay with motorist they don't like to sew the gas tax.

in pennsylvania's case it was critically important. >> well thank you so much. we appreciate your time. we'll have to grimace as we shell out more money. thank you have a happy new year. >> you bet karen thank you very much. >> of course you can join our conversation what do you think of the extra 10 cents. is it fine? do we need to pay to fix roads and bridges? use #fox29weekend and join the conversation. >> coming up one doggy's journey to lose about half his weight. that's a big puppy right there. and remember, our dr. mike is here to answer your hepatitis questions or any questions you pay v send us your questions include #fox29weekend and we're playing your tupz all morning include #fox29weekend and we're playing your tupz all morning long brandi by the ojs twitter

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>> a new year means new edition of the oxford dictionary. >> eldesko. >> a new tradition. >> any parent of children know this five second rule you can eat it if it's been on the groundless than five second. you want to tell you dr. mike has given us permission if it is 35 second rule. it's type, fine don't worry about it. >> depends where it falls that's what i'll say. >> i would not pick it up and put it in my mouth some things. >> and if it fell into hair or something no. >> dog hairy have a dog so sometimes if i drop something game over. >> if there's a bug in your drink. >> i'm not drinking it. >> it's a drink. >> no way.

>> the bug didn't drink much. >> you have all boys. girls may not do that. >> we'll go to next one on list it's a -- hahoosive. >> and someone who posts obsessively on facebook, keyboard warrior. >> what do we have going on. >> facing death while still alive imagine. i don't know if i could do this lying in a casket it's closed and you're still alive. would you do it? >> no. >> the experience that could change your life forever. >> it's getting you thinking. >> and more tunes. we love that you ask for the weekend request up town function by bruno mars. you're loving that video.

no wonder why. love this video. you can get your request in use the #fox29weekend. >> started from the bottom now we're here. >> it's a challenge. >> ♪ this is mama log. >> i want you to do this. it's 2015. forget about bills or losing weight have a clean slate for you and your wife. >> clean slate. >> let's clear our heads what are you going to do to be fabulous. >> ignore kids they take up a lot of time and money and they get me mad and i can't use the threat of santa is not coming back santa already came i'm going to ignore you and put myself on timeout. >> clean slate you're on timeout all 2015. s kids won't get yelled at all

>> right now a hepatitis square we know you have questions. we have answers. tweet us #fox29weekend 29 weekend. >> and also this sound like a night mayor. imagine being alive trapped in a coffin. some a say it's a life changing experience. they did it open purpose. wow do this. powerful stuff. let's join the conversation. >> welcome to "fox29 weekend". it's january 3rd already. >> i'm lauren and i'm karen.

>> and we have the weather as well. look the winter nature walks across the delaware valley. our come to inka wants to give us the forecast. >> if you like a wintry mix do a nature walk. you say the words and here we go. and aj matthews we see snow in philly and rain in philly that is going to happen. and northwest will get wintry mix. >> so lehigh, lancaster, berks county, you do have the fix for it. you have a chance for mix.

wintry mix. so at least first half of today for the city on east it will be all rain event for us. tim turz will be pretty mild. that i will be the case really for next 48 hours. and here's a look at weather headlines. west of turnpike all rain to the east. by sunday, it's very mild. we'll still have clouds and showers. it's not a washout. temperatures will be in the 60s. isn't that crazy. so warm air working in with the system. and then it gets sharply cold area round here. we have an arctic blast. it arrives tuesday and talking temperatures in the low 20s showing up in the 7 day. it will get cold. 4 mount pocono and 28 allentown and mild air is sitting to the south that's where rain zone is, 35 in philadelphia, 43 wildwood.

here's foxcast. temperatures around 35. mix north and west. that mix lasts to the early part of the afternoon. just clouds and showers around here through noon and then we'll see steady rain coming into the picture by late afternoon. there's a look at 7-day forecast. 62. temperature on sunday. leftover showers. dry on monday. chance of snow showers with cold air coming in tuesday and look at high thursday. only 22 degrees. so it gets very cold around here. definitely taking the umbrella with you today. >> and. >> after a row home fire 6 8 in south west philly. >> flames were so bad at one point people had to jump from the building to save their lives. we have sabina live open the scene with what we know at this hour, sabina. >> take a look this morning this is the aftermath of that fast-moving fire. you can see three row homes left

with burned out shells and scorch marks on other homes. we talked about frigid temperatures. look at the roadway along the entire block. it's covered in salt. of course they had to put that down because of amount of water that firefighters had to use on this fire. there's still, though, slick spots here along this road. now let's look at sky fox video we captured for you late last night when this fire was in full form the fire started after 9:00 last night and three people were taken to the hospital. we're told two people had to jump off the roofer of row home to try to get to safety. initial reports indicate a 70-year-old man suffered burns to 90% of body and companies of victims we have two at hup and another at chop. red cross is assisting 8 families, 28 people in need of

food, clothing and shelter for foreseeable future after this devastating blaze. witnesses tell us homes were engulfed in fire within minutes and had little time react. let's listen to what one neighborhood told us. >> extremely fast. i was outside not long ago and five minutes later we heard screamings. flames were engulfing the hoution. it was hard to he soot house. you knew the house was basically what was kindling the fire. at the same time it was extremely high and covered the whom thing. >> and that neighbor tells us he heard screaming and came out and says dozens of neighbors and people who lived in the row homes were out on the street h he saw several children. they appeared to be okay. and back here live again the houses have already been condemned and tlaevr already been boarded up. 8 families out of a home this

morning just days after the new year receipt cross is assisting them. >> a deadly crash, 18-year-old michael shelly man accused of killing a 6-year-old told police his car was in bad shape when driving shelly said window defroster didn't work, tunnel vision, speedometer didn't work and 1984 ford bronco was not registered and didn't have insurance and had fake inspection tags. shelly faces multiple charges. police say he ignored a school bus warning light and killed a girl as she cross the street. >> all right. only a couple sdaisz into the new year and look ago head to november elections at 20 16 as well beyond that. found to be very busy election cycle as philadelphia is physicianing a new mayor to replace michael nutter and also person people at large thinking about replacing president obama

the year after. in fact there's already people talking about next year's precedential elections on-line on facebook. fox news radio reporter posted 20 16 didn't see you there and that came two weeks ago. of course we have to get through 2015 first. we have election activity. joining us now to talk about this republican strategist renee moore and democratic strat jij eleanor dezy good morning ladies. >> good morning. >> the expression is all politics is local. let's look at the mayor's race. who do you think are front runners coming out who is your money on and obviously it's a long lens we're looking at now. >> i think the field is just established now karen and i think by february when we do petitions that's when it comes down and when the field will be determined. right now, we have tony williams. lynn haib ra ham and several other candidates but we don't know if that will be the field

right now. petition time will tell. >> what do you think renee any republican contenders do you think sam castle will jump in. >> oh, my god i want sam katz he could have won the last time. i'm excited about him i have my money on sam katz. >> i did tell you pennsylvania society renee was lobbying for sam to run. i was with her. >> do you have news for us what was he saying was he dipping tow in water a bit. >> absolutely without a doubt in my mind. >> sam could not wait it out and run as independent too and bypass primary. that may happen too. you may see independent candidates this time. >> let's talk about big political sfait. delegates. >> i have been a gel gat yes and so is rep a.

>> 0 16 standing there be voting somebody. rep a who is money on who are you standing to pull lever if had you to pick today. >> if i had to pick today jeff bush, hillary is scared to death of him. >> eleanor same question. >> i would go with hillary because as i said women will be voting strong. >> all right. >> not that woman though. >> okay ladies. >> i love you though. >> we appreciate it. happy new year to both of you. >> happy new year to everyone at fox. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> of course, all of this here you can join our local conversation about local or national politics and use #fox29weekend.29 weeken >> reed is is in the hospital following an injury while working out. reed was using elastic exercise fwand broke hit him in the face and he fell down. staffers say he'll return to washington d.c. this weekend and will be in the senate when the

114 congress is sworp in tuesday. doctors expect him to make a full recovery. it can be dangerous sometimes new equipment you don't know how to work it. >> so many people get injured in the gym. >> usually simplest thing you're doing where you fall and get hurt. >> how about the football. you cannot make sense of what is going on yesterday. does he have the power not have power statement from eagles that came out. we'll talk about that one this morning. a lot of changes happening in the front office. we'll tell you who is doing what now. >> and first, amazing story a little girl walks away from plane crash. what she did next. plane crash. what she did next. karen discover brookside,

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♪ if you want it ♪ ♪ ♪ go out and get it >> welcome back. it is exactly 9:14 now. taking a look at headlines. officials in indonesia have found two large objects on the sea floor and can confirm this is part of that missing airasia plane. object are in water that is the about 30 meters deep. the flight crashed last sunday with 162 souls on board. so far only 30 bodies have been found. >> a 7-year-old girl survived a plane crash that killed four other people in southwest kentucky last night and police say a small plane went down and 30 minutes later a little girl

walked up to a home and told the people what happened. she was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. >> when you have a doctor in the house at any cocktail party they're like dr. mike here is problem we did this dominica, everybody, lauren saying we have this problem. we're getting your questions right now. taking them using #fox29weekend9 condition questions. >> people wants to know specific things now. it comes from camera my husband has gout what are things that set it out and are there any foods that will prevent it. >> well, gout is one of those things that we see all the time. back in the day, gout was something considered to be a rich person disease. why? because they have a lot of red wine. access to red meat and shellfish. rich folk were able to have that. that can incos risk of gout. it leads to buildup of you'reic

acid. what can you do. avoid red meat, wine, shellfish and decrease risk of having these gouty symptoms what are they usually big swollen big toe hurts not going to kill you but makes you miserable treat with mow trun or -- there's plenty of ways to treat gout not a problem. some like to drink cherry juice it has anti inflammatory affects. >> a lot of people on the show watery eyes irritated or puffy susie tweetsw in why are my eyes watery in the morning i hate it. >> could be allergy. i would -- i wonder and i don't know you i would love to know you but it could be there's some determs nent soap that you wash your pillows or pillow cases in and that's leading to some allergies or it might be the air

quality in your bedroom. get an air purifier and i would change the soap in your clothing detergent there to see if that makes it get better. otherwise there's drugs called patnol anti-histamine eye drop. bottom line is doesn't get better don't mess with your eyes. get it checked out. >> dr. mike thank you so much. we have many more questions. if you have questions dr. mike is here today and tomorrow use hash tag #fax. >> i think they're restricting people going to the hospitals in delaware it's so bad. >> there's a lot of people and delaware in particular it getting very, very, very bad. it's getting a lot of cases for some reason. >> i think and deadly we had terrible cases. >> we worry about ebola but flu kills 0,000 people. you have to be here tomorrow. how to protect yourself and the

flu shot not so that year i'll keep you keking right here fox 29. >> lauren over to you. >> not fairy tale endsing we dreamed off. we have to wait until next season to see if birds make it. behind the scenes big changes in the front office. from 9:39 the fap attic happy new year to you. >> happy new year to you too. >> i'm sorry. >> i was going to say i saw the e-mail i was confused is chip kelly still head coach and player personnel what's going on. >> chip kelly eagles organization right hand man got fired earlier this week and sometime yesterday chip seemsticked off howie roseman fwrent being in part in charge of being in charge of eagles players picks to having no control at all over the organization as far as players. >> soap opera music in the background i'm noticing that now. this is what it taking place in

south philly. chip kelly how much power does he have and how much does he want when he took the job. we know exactly now where we stand. he controls all. draft picks, cutting players in prime. whatever may be. it's all up to chip kelly. >> what can we expect over the next few weeks to happen. any big changes on the field? >> you'll have the draft will come up and free agency before that. this much we know. it's as the eagle turns. eagles being 9-3. wor talking about super bowl. to gm getting fired and chip kelly making power play on top of howie roseman's power play. chip kelly will decide on draft picks and free acts and decide who levers this off season. as the eagles turn ♪ chip kelly fully in charge of the team. >> great music. >> had a blast this new year

looking forward to great 2015. >> we appreciate you guys thank you so much. >> see ya. >> what you think about the changes behind the scenes with eagles use #fox29weekend. >> all right. so many of us making new year's resolutions and apparently so do our pets. coming up, one doggy's journey to lose about half of his weight. lauren. >> and check out our social media comments. melinda enjoying morning coffee #coffee and #fox29weekend and don't worry if drink has bug in it the average person unknowingly eats 8 bugs a year. disgusting and lots of people sending in questions for dr. mike including mike, who has been coughing two weeks what does he do. how do i get oaf a cold while being pregnant. keep them coming and we'll see cold while being pregnant. keep them coming and we'll see if dr.

>> it may be harded to imagine but tiny bundle of energy was overweight. weighed 56 pound when his owner

got him from a relative. they managed to get him down to 29. after nip tuck surgery dennis is able to liver a far more normal life. >> he can go up and down the steps. he didn't ruseed to be able to do that. run even faster he runs throughout the house. >> after surgery before and after pictures. doctors were able to remove loose skin and slim him down to 13 pounds. i need a little nip tuck. >> you do it for people dean it for the dogs now. >> listen to this. >> good morning i'm mike. >> and i'm alex. >> here's the trend. first one of 2015. >> mike as i'm sure you know a lot of men spend a lot of time planning out proposals. especially the guy in the first video this morning. >> this guy spent four years getting celebrities to help with

proposal. >> i hope you're having a nice time. i'm recording this video message to tell you why you should marry jimmy. >> please just marry jim. >> marry jim. >> jim smroyd sophie video at a christmas party and she, of course, said yes. >> you know mike at the end of every year they play the top stations of every year. >> i like when they do sglat one guy had an interesting twist on hit songs on 2014. >> let's hear it ♪ don't think i could forgive you see i was slowly dying ♪ do you think i would believe you ♪ it's going down i'm yelling timber mooung you better move you better dance . >> that guy is good.

>> listen to this. >> bang bang . >> i know you want it . >> we'll work on that. >> you can probably do that. >> we'll be ahead we're starting 6 a.m. sglon we'll see you then. >> would you like to spoon? ♪. >> what is this about? >> you want to talk about this one i tried this. this is something you can do. buy yourself get a dark plate and envision what they're doing -- get in a dark place. what would you do if you knew you would not be around. this is life changing experiment so many people took part in and you'll want to certainly see laying in a coffin what do you want to change about your life. >> more tunes coming in. want to change about your life. >> more tunes coming in. get your request

>> still dry in old city steady rain around dinner time before the showers taper off tomorrow. it's kind of a wet weekend we'll be looking at.

let's get to it. i want to show you mount pocono forecast. i know a lot of people are out there hanging on to vacation time and getting skiing n here's what you have for today. temperatures will be getting into the 40s. low 40s. and winter weather at vicery posted until 5:00 for poconos and is that the because we're going to see a little bit of wintry mix pop up from this morning through middle part of afternoon before it changes over to rain tonight. so you will get a little bit of winter weather no accumulation with it but it's enough it makes the roads slick. leading edge of this system pushing into lancaster. they're getting a mix. and even through lehigh, berk county, they see some of this move n all rain pretty much from philadelphia on east we're seeing rain because temperatures are mild. here's eye look at winter weather advisory out to the west. it's just west of pike. 36 right now in philadelphia. temperatures pretty mild, 37 in

dover. we'll get up to 44 today. it's a mix to start out to the north and west. rain and clouds for everybody it will be on and off showers through the bulk of day. today falls 41 in city and 38 suburbs and mild evening with rain tapering off a little. we'll be down to mild showers on and off throughout the day on sunday. 62. that's the high. and arctic air comes in as we head to workweek. 2 only on thursday. back to you. >> thank you so much dominica. let's look at headlines now making news. two people we want to show you. take a look at these two suspects there they made off with more than 7,000 in misdemeanor from that nordstrom inside the cherry hill mall it appears they walked out with all that stuff. investigators think the same pair stole 24 michael courses

watches and they're closing in on the area and soon bottom dollar food will close 66 locations in philadelphia and pittsburgh. that's more than 40 just in our area. on january 15. >> lauren. >> time now for one of our newest segments on "fox" 9 weekend we call let it rip. here's how it works. tackle three big stories of the week and get your opinions and our guests have 30 seconds to respond to what you say. >> host wurd solomon first up deadly police involve shooting causing outrage across the country this week investigators released autopsy details ofiesle ford unarmed black man shot and killed in august the report

shows he was shot three times once close range in the back. they were questioning ford about suspicious actions when he tried to grab and officer's gun. witnesses say ford never reached for a gun. a lot reacting. black lives the matter, fire officers that killed him and file murder. and then this tweet if black lives matter stop breaking law. you heard viewers let it rip. >> last time i heard ford was mentally ill unarmed black many didn't know it was against the law to be mentally ill, black or unarmed. this has nothing to do with him breaking law it has to do with police holding on to autopsy report supposedly to get witness who's will corroborate what the police officer said which sounds absurd he reached around his back and he threw it back even though the bullet might have hit

himself deposit sound right. >> crews are searching for more bodies and wreckage from the airasia flight. it took off sunday morning bound for singapore, 35 minutes in pilot asked air traffic control for permission to climb to higher altitude because of bad weather. minutes later it disappeared. heartbreaking, may they rest in peace and families find streping toj carry on and there is debris and finding bodies how come none of this stuff is found with the plane missing in march. i believe that plane never crashed but was high jacked. solomon your thoughts. >> i don't think it's about conspiracy theories this is safety in asian countries like malaysia. we saw mh 70 we have not found that yet and a plane shot down

over war zone between russia and ukraine and this plane bad weather all three planes from either malaysia or another small asian country we have to come together as world community in order to increase air saferty in that part of the world. there's no way in the world all these planes should be going down. >> time up on that one finally we cannot forgive this hometown hero monet davis first girl to win little league world series named ap athlete of the world. she gave the term throw like girl annen tirely new meaning. what an achievement congratulations on well sdevb add ward and tim says she did a good job pitching but needs work on sportsmanship. you have to lose with class as well as win with it. not entirely her fault my two cents. you heard our viewers let it rip. >> i think we get all off the sportsmanship thing. mop a davis broke records and

she broke the mold and i think she has opened doors for girls to do all kind ever things. that's why she's female athlete of year. serena williams did not win though she could have been aming least of the year. monet davis is a star. she starred in spike lee car commercial and getting book written about her by hillary beard and movie coming out soon monday a dave sis a star. >> she is and macking philly proud. thank you. happy new year to you. >> and to you too. >> you can catch him monday through friday 00 a.m. from 7 blg h:00 until 10 a.m. >> wherever something is involved there's couldn't versusy that involves her son and family dog. what do you think about this picture of her son standing open the dog? >> yikes. >> and loving your favorite tunes this morning. twitter archie requested that tunes this morning. twitter archie requested that one and

>> she's back in headlines. people have to find a reason to pick on former alaska governor sarah pallin for a photo she decided to post on facebook it shows her 6-year-old son standing on back of family dog that black lab there trying to reach kitchen counter.

since they were posted thursday the pictures received thousands of comments from people calling it animal abuse and disgusting despite the back lash intentions were good she wanted to show her son trig was resourceful. >> let's look at comments. clearly the dog was not minding being a step stool if he had he would have let trig know he could not do that and this comes from chris the dog doesn't mind are you kidding me thinking of equivalent weight and size standing on your back the dog is dealing with it because it's loyal and good dog that loves family a good dog takes a lot of unfair abuse and pain. >> speaking of abuse and pain, karen says family. >> you said it like family. >> family. >> there's certain words she says you can hear her accent it comes out. >> the dog thing makes me think

i grew one labs they'll put up with anything i think trig is 45 pounds and dog is probably more than that and you know dog will let you know and labs will put up with anything you can steal their food and put hand in their mouth they're calm if they're annoyed the dog would get up. so i don't know you can receipt us know what you think about it use the #fox29weekend. >> this story is talker casket is not anywhere you would want to spend time at least while still alive. there are some people who recently laid down in one. takes life-changing experience for them they say. tell us what you think and why they did this coming up. >> and taking a look at comments right now. you've been sending us selfie saturdays things that happened this week. we love mummer's parade so much fun thanks for sending this in it's a great wonderful tradition chilllaxing watching our fox team and especially to you

lauren. >> and another musical request blank space by taylor swift. thanks for that one. >> i am going to break it down. >> all right. >> i wonder

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>> you may have seen this on facebook or twitter it's called a casket experience. eight unexpecting people were called it a station in florida and when they got there they were asked to spend ten minutes inside a close the cover in. while inside they watched a video of life and how short our time on this earth is. here's a clip of what they saw. >> some people can't go back. and if they had your time they would cherish every last moment. >> i'm debbie fighting stage four breast cancer and some day i'll be where you are now. i called my husband and he was on a trip. and i told him he needed to come

home. and we found out sorry we found out the following week it was breast cancer. >> i just lost it. and i remember him taking my hand and and saying whatever happens is god's will. and we need to accept that. >> but i said i don't want you to die i don't want to lose you this is not fair. and he just said whatever happens, we're going to be okay. wli live or die. so joining us now to talk about this pretty powerful stuff is that talk show host we saw that introduced us up there jada jackson and dr. rami who participated in the experience. thank you for joining us we appreciated both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you good morning. >> good morning. >> i'll start with you. dr. rami you got in the casket

and watched this video. what was that like. >> you know it's absolutely a shocking experience. i thought i was being called to tv studio to give a regular interview the host watched my tech talk to walk into the studio and instead see a coffin to be honest was a little creepy. then i took a breath and realized that i was there in that moment in that tv studio for a reason and something propelled me to move forward. >> what will you do different from this experience anything? >> absolutely. since that experiment which was about three weeks ago it really woke me up. i was waking up every day in a state of fear and panic and worry over whether my new business would succeed. i made a promise to stop living a life in fear and instead get up every day and see how i could live a life of service. >> let's talk about -- jada you're fronting this, this is something you worked on.

i sat there and watched that video just yesterday. and it makes you stop. push the hold button and take stock of your life. why did you want to do this. what did people say? >> well, of course, i think just like you said it was creepy and originally when our boss came to us and said hey i have this great idea and you know troy told us we'll put people in a casket and i said living people that's insane. but honestly the reason we did it is because we wanted to give p.m. a wake-up call. >> i want to get to some of the comments because so many of you are moved by this one in all different ways. tina writes this is ridiculous, take a badge, relax, find yoga classes and joseph said doing that would scare of life out of me and if you all would watch the video you would understand why they did the experiment. i personally enjoyed the video and see how it could potentially change your life. >> so karen as a physician who

is also certified yoga teacher i do all those things to help me relax on daily basis and teach my clients how to do it. but we really do need a wake-up call and i think if you watch that video on youtube it's easy to forget. but when you are in a place making you reexamine what life and death really means that's when the message really hits home. >> jada finalal words what were people saying you to that went through this experience in your studio. >> absolutely i am glad to get a chance to talk to everyone sing of one of them when they got out of the casket and one thing they said was wow i'll make a commitment to do something different today and most were saying i'm going to go and live my unlived life. and that's exactly what we wanted to do. >> yes. it's a good message as we begin this new year make a promise to ourselves to do the things we put off and we can do and tackle thank you ladies we appreciate your time. >> thank you, karen.

>> all of you out there you can share what is it you would want to do. if you know that the clock is counting down as it is for us all we're all moving in one direction what do you want to do. use the #fox29weekend. >> i'm help ronald bennett of classic cake and this is fox foot bite. >> today we're making apple crisp. this is quick and easy recipe to throw together in morning sliced apples, cinnamon and sugar and strusle to put on top of it. today i'm using golden tlish us. when you purchase apples look for flexible stem that guarantees it's good, fresh apple. right now peeling apple. this recipe calls for two and a half pound of apples six large apples and cut it in half. core it using mellon baller.

okay get rid of that. and at this point chop it you can do it thick or thin. i like to keep it on the thick side i don't want it apple sauce. being golden delicious or granny smith. and add sugar and cinnamon and toss with apples. now this will sit and soak a little. the sugar will pull moisture out of the apples and that syrup will enhance the apple crisp. four table spoons unsalted butter. my one third cup all purpose flour. half cup light browning is ar. eighth of tea spoon of salt and

half a cup of up soaked rolled oates. it's called a pastery blender helps cut the fat into the strusle. this is used for making pie doughs and it cuts the fat into the dry inyesterday from yents and deeps nice and crumbly and keeps it from over mixing we don't want any unmixed flower or sugar it will have hospital only us in look to it and the fact it will all be the same color. see, very, very simple you can do this in food processor by pulsing. it nice and crumbly. we're ready to put it together and put it in oven. uses 8 by 8 pan non-sticky don't have to treat it. i'll take apples. and then strusle goes on. often to 350 fahrenheit and if

conduction 325. smells good with cinnamon. nice little crust on outside hot apples and here at classic cake i like vanilla beaten gelato on it. that's good. it. that's good. i'm chef robert bennett classic

>> welcome back look that cute picture it is a happy saturday. wish the family would have stuck by me like grand dad is nana sophia never struggle or give up 106 year and older rollover to 16 years happy birthday joseph g. >> okay last hour we talked about new words in oxford english dictionary and this hour talking about words that should be banned according to lake superior state university first one craycray. >> it's about time that needs to go. it's about 7 years older than 7. >> my niece just said that to me. >> if you're under 10 you can still say it. >> that's true. >> kids don't know it's been around a long time. >> feel like next should be under 10.

>> bae. >> people under ten should not be saying bae. >> they clearly should not. >> over 10 should not. >> let me school karen. all the people out there that don't know. >> bae is like your boo so your boo you would call him hey bae when you get home it's so over used. >> now you can use almost anything i love my bae with my bae and. >> yes you and your bae. >> it's too much. >> what else we got on the list? >> swag. >> swag i still like swag. >> i don't think it's over used because we wish we could get more about it. movie stars go to big parties and get to take home swag bags. >> and once a year we go to a party maybe. >> maybe. >> and what is different definition. >> guy. >> swag is like a guy that has -- >> and that's short for swag. >> that's the other -- >> not necessarily swag bag.

>> clueless. >> not necessarily swag bag. >> clueless. >> next one polar vortex

(upbeat music) - [philippe] in this episode tornadoes twist through open plains and hurricanes wreck havoc on coastal communities. you've got hurricane force winds. you're literally risking your life. join me, philippe cousteau, as we explore extreme weather on "awesome planet". (upbeat music) as the sun heats planet earth the air closest to the surface rises. as warm air rises, cooler air rushes in to fill the space. this creates what we call wind. in extreme cases high winds can create hurricanes and tornadoes.