right now on fox 29 weekend. troubles for new jersey governor chris chris team sure people hate um for being a cowboys fan but could he be facing even bigger issues our bruce gordon is coming in talk about all that travel to all those football games. plus, it sure feels like sledding weather out there. but some places are actually banning it. why they're saying you need to keep the shred in your garage. we want your opinions on all of these stories and so much more. so grab your devices and join our conversation. ♪ >> your news, your neighborhood, live and interactive this is fox 29's weekend. good morning, it is so cold that we've got our equipment freezing right there.

thank you so much for joining us on this sunday morning and spending some time with us and joining our conversation. it is january 11th, 2015i karen hepp. >> i'm caitlin roth. we have a lot of news to get to obviouslily this morning. >> police are couldn't to go search for that delaware mother a day after she also issued an amber alert for her two children. they have been found alive. >> plus a story that has so many of you talking on social media. the government stepping in after a teen with cancer decides she doesn't want chemotherapy and her mother okays it. >> all right. but first let's start with the weather a lot of you trying to figure out what are you going to do? what's happening. katelyn getting to that. and we'll take a live look outside right now and we'll what our weather conditions are. beautiful sunrise. beautiful day down the shore. deceiving sunshine. caitlin. >> always deceiving sunshine because we have had this cold air mass in place it has brought us a lot of sunshine. we haven't been dealing with any snow but arctic temperatures and yesterday it was tough to be outside. right now though we still got mainly clear skies overhead here

in philadelphia. we're watching get organized down in the texas area a mix of rain and freezing rain. it will move into our area late tonight into early monday morning. that's going to bring a whole mess of wintry weather. not just snow like you'd think with the cold air in place. as a result winter weather advisory is in effect late tonight, 1:00 a.m. through 1:00 p.m. on monday including most of the area. philadelphia interior south injuries he zoo, all of our counties north and west all the way up to the poconos. temperatures right now 15 in the poconos. 18 in allentown. 12 in pottstown. it's 19 in philadelphia. and 15 in wilmington. the good news is winds are calm. not dealing with a wind chill today. let's time this out for with your fox future cast. a lot of sunshine today on sunday. temperatures will be warmer. that warm -- not warm but warmer feel more tolerable out there. by later tonight clouds increase out ahead of that system i just showed you down in the southeast by 6:00 a.m. monday morning, this is the onset of some of this precipitation which the pink shows kind of starts that mix of freezing rain and sleet

for almost all of us. that will continue through the early morning. so the problem with this is it looks like rainfalling from the sky but the ground is very, very cold. it will freeze upon contact and cause icy conditions. right in the heart of the city really. we'll change over to rain probably by noon. but it's that timing just starting to drive in that could be the issue. showers continue mainly south and east of philadelphia. even on the back edge of that we could see a little bit of snow accumulating late monday night into tuesday. so no problems for today. arthritic with sunshine. we'll watch that wintry mix to arrive late with a low of 30 degrees and much more still ahead in your seven day foreca forecast. karen. >> caitlin thanks so much. let's get right to headlin headlines. new this morning overnight shooting in northeast philadelphia has left three people dead. police are trying to sort through all of the evidence on this one. let's get out to the scene. sabina care keys life on the 4600 block of north vista street with the latest. good morning, sabina. >> reporter: just behind me as

you mentioned this is the 4600 block of vista street here in mayfair. here's video we shot for you last night as police swarmed the area. >> we'll having a little bit of difficulty with the audio. >> reporter: inside the home happened just before 11:30 last night. neighbors i spoke with say they heard a bang and then nothing else until emergency crews got to the scene and surrounded the home. police right now say they don't have a motive yet in this crime, but they didn't find any drug paraphernalia inside the home. now police say the girlfriend of one of the men spoke to him by phone and made plans to stop over but when she got here he stopped answering her calls and texts she went over to investigate and here's police describing what happened next. >> eventually she went to the back door which leads into the kitchen and she found it to be open. she hull hal to turn the nobody, she walked in and she found one male victim on the kitchen floor. walk into the living room area which is right neck to the

kitchen to see her boyfriend on the couch and another unknown male also on another couch all three males were shot in the head. >> reporter: just horrible. so again one person found lying on the kitchen floor. two other people sitting on the couch all of them shot in the head. police right now combing through surveillance video trying to figure out any clues as to what may have happened. of course, back here live this morning, we saw police tow away a red car taking it away for evidence in this crime. right now police say they don't know the number of shooters but they do know those people are on the loose armed and dangerous. guys? all right. sabina, thank you so much. we have some more violence to talk about in the logan second of the city. three people were shot outside of a bar right there at 17th and west wingahocken street. there was actually a birthday party going inside the bar. there was a fight that broke out a man and a woman are both in critical condition at this hour.

another man is in stable condition. so far no arrests. also we are following a developing story a changing involving situation out of france. an intelligent group says it has verified a seven minute long video which shows the gunmen who seized hostages at that paris grocery store pledging allegiance to isis and claiming responsibility for those attacks. also, a prosecutor says there was a shooting of a jogger in paris paris suburb on the same day as that attack on the newspaper massacre. now that has been linked to the very same gunmen. that gunmen along with two brothers who carried out the massacre at the charlie hebdo newspaper were killed by security forces. cover story this morning new jersey governor chris christie not making any friends in our area. as if being a cowboys fan wasn't enough he's going to be going to the game sitting in jerry jones box and cheering a whole lot. come over here bruce. let's talk about what's happening with governor chris christie. i hate seeing his orange

sweater. i shouldn't say hate. other people have tweeted about the orange sweater. twitter blowing up on this one. one of our users writing i have no issue with christie a new jersey governor being a cowboys fan. but i do with the embarrassing pathetic attempt at a hug when they wouldn't. god that angered so many people. we got a lot of tweets on this one. that's first one. let's take a look at another one route now. i kind of want the cowboys to win another game so we can see more christie jube bill laying. get out of here. are you kidding the trentonian, newspaper, came out over the weekend, this is the headline right there. yeah, the word texas with the word we can't quite say on it photo shop the picture of governor christie also as a cowboys cheerleader. so could he be facing trouble on this one? political expert thank you for joining us on sunday. my pleasure. >> we appreciate it. what do you make of all this. three different issues. i'll give them to you in ascen ascending order of importance. the governor will be going to the green bay game today with his son on his own dime and that

suggests they understand that this s has gotten out of control and they got to change things up a little bit. the first of all the ideas of being a cowboys fan i give him credit to that. it's easy to pander and say whatever the home team is that's who i'm for. issues every time he travels around the country watching the cowboys he's out of the state of new jersey. spent the last year as the head of the republican governor's association. during that year he spent roughly a third of his time, that is one day out of every three, out of the state of new jersey, on behalf of that work. this month he's all over the country at swearing in ceremonies. so he's -- add these football games in the mix he's out of the state an awful lot. i get it's the weekend, and you got to have a little down too many, but anyone in elected office will always tell you i'm on the clock 24/7. not so much. the biggest issue by far this is jerry jones a wealthy businessman with business in the state. the nfl obviously has two teams that play the jets and giants in

new jersey. this is also a guy who has part ownership in a company that just got a very lucrative contract from the port authority of new york and new jersey. of course the governor has a major role in all of that kind of business. so here's a businessman giving a huge gift, and we're talking about probably tens of thousands of dollars, when he foots the bill for that trip last week for example to see them play the lions private jet to the game, the luxury box, that is a big gift to an elected official. the ethics may say it's okay he's a personal friend, but the smell does not smell good. >> especially with the larger political stage if he makes a run for president. >> this is a guy who before he was governor gave a speech and said to other elected officials and municipal officials you shouldn't take any kind of gift no matter what it is. even a ham sandwich don't do it. it doesn't look good. this is a multi thousand dollars gift that does not smell right, does not look right and sounds like he's gotten the message again today it sounds like he'll be doing it on his own dime to watch them play in green bay. >> bruce, thank you for coming in. my pleasure. we really it.

you can weigh in on this one use our hash tag fox 29 weekend and and tell us what you think. >> caitlin over to you. >> fourth graders plotting to kill their teacher? coming was that police say they want to do and why they won't face any charges. plus, a teenager diagnosed with cancer is forced to undergo chemotherapy. she said she didn't want it even though it would have given her an 85% chance of recovery. are her rights being violated? that's next on fox 29 weekend. ♪ this is dan rocatto. did you know that 47% of americans say getting in shape is their that you be one new year's resolution? 34% say getting their money in better shape is they are number one resolution but only 8% succeed. it's easy to understand why. budgets, financial planner you'd rather clean your refrigerator than deal with your money.

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welcome back 8:14 right now on your sunday morning. taking a look at your news now. delaware state police are searching for a missing smyrna woman this morning. a day after they issued an amber alert for her two children. last night, they did find those two children four-year-old colette hamilton and also four month old cortez hamilton, jr. they were found safe and they were with their father. but 35-year-old keisha hamilton the mother is still missing. neighbors say there had been a lot of problems between the couple with police being called

to that home on east cahill lane several times in the past. police are not saying what role, if any, that child's father cortez hamilton, sr., may have played in his wife's disappearance. officials in upstate new york how about this one say there was a group of fourth graders who planned to kill their teacher. this happened near buffalo. they say the girls wanted to put hand sanitizer on different items the teacher would be touching knowing she's highly allergic to that. one mother contacted the school as soon as she learn of this plot. the students won't be facing any charges because the plot was never carried out. tragedy in texas. two people scrambled by a camel and killed. police say when the sheriff's deputees arrive at camels kisses camel farm they found a very aggressive camel with blood on his chest and his mouth. they found two bodies on the ground. one person was in that coral breaking iso a female camel could have some water and that aggressive male apparently attacked that person.

she tried to shut the camel. that camel has been put down. >> let's get a check of our weather. we'll have dodging weather as we're heading into tomorrow morning. caitlin and my mother-in-law is flying out. do you think that people will be flying will be affect justin drabick. probably. i think this is more of an issue on the roads we're talking about freezing rain, but with that being said with the rain and the fog and the low ceiling that is seems to cause delays especially on a busy monday morning at philadelphia international airport. all our business travelers go out and if you do have a flight tomorrow morning make sure you check ahead of time because this is what's headed our way. it's still a massive system back in the ark-tex area. move northeast ward throughout the day. we have a really nice looking sunday. it will be a little bit warmer, too. but in advance of the system, we already see winter weather advisory posted 1:00 a.m. late tonight through 1:00 p.m. monday almost all of the area with the exception being extreme south jersey and delaware. you guys will see just rain. the rest of us it's a mix of

sleet and freezing rain at the onset before we change over to rain by monday afternoon. temperatures right now will only support snow. we have all the cold air in place. you think we'd be getting snow but that's not the case. warmer air moving in throughout today. 18 in allentown. 19 philadelphia. nine in millville, new jersey much always a cold spot. same as atlantic city 10 degrees at the airport which is a little bit further inland than the coast. fox future cast shows lot of sunshine outside today. it's a pretty decent one. not as brutal as yesterday. clouds increase by evening burt we get through the weekend dry. now it's late tonight maybe even closer to the morning drive when we start to see the onset of some light rain and freezing rain. if you're out very early around 5am you'll probably beat it be okay but that freezing rain will continue that pink line through the morning drive and that's when it's raining but it freezes upon contact you can imagine the ground is so cold that will ice up your cars, cause slow delays be very careful give yours extra time. we change overtrain but that rain will stick around especiallily south of

philadelphia through early tuesday morning maybe even seeing a bit of snow on the back side of that because cold air comes rushing right back on through after the system. so 36 and less harsh today. messy monday morning 35 monday. 31 on tuesday. looks like we stay dry through the rest of the week but temperatures cold in the 30s. in your health this morning, we're a little over week into the new year already. how are your new year's resolutions going? you've probably seen so many people posting their 2015 goals on twitter and facebook. off to the gym for a much needed run. new year's resolution to lose excess baggage. well, at least try. we're all trying. emma writes starting 2015 by writing good things i've done or achieved each day in my diary to counteract negative things i focus on that's a great idea. this one from chuckie new year's resolution to finally skype like nobody has ever skypeed before. research shows only about 8% of us ever succeeded at any of

these new year's resolutions. what can we do to stay on track we decided to bring our medical team beth galvin. good morning, beth. >> reporter: good morning, karen. i lawyer love the skypeing idea. i could stick with that resolution. >> something we got to work on. new technology so many of us -- exactly. >> war the other things we do to stay on track that can help us got to our goals? one thing i think that's really important is look at where you've gotten tripped up in the past. so take a look at last year and maybe the year before that. what were your obstacles? because once you identify your obstacles, you can kind of create a plan to move around those obstacles and get around them and succeed. you're basically really setting yourself up to do better this time by learning by what tripped you up in the past. if you can identify that, if you know better, you can do better, karen. >> here's one thing i see. say it outloud, tell a friend. i always try to do this when i used to come in on the morning show. tell everybody in the show i'm trying to lose weight. when i say it outloud whether i'm succeeding or failing.

>> yes. there's two good things about that. one you're getting accountability you're putting it out there and saying i'm going to do this and now you got to do it because everybody else is watching. but you're also turning to your friends and maybe all your hundreds of facebook friends and you're kind of building a support network around yourself so you not only have people holding you accountable but mayor they're cheering you on. maybe they've been through what you're trying to do and can offer you some advice and help. so by going a little bit public with it, you may have a better chance at succeeding, karen. >> one of the tips is think small. what is that? >> okay. i love the mini goal. mini goal is basically setting a really small goal instead of some huge goal. so if you are, have never run before, you don't want to set a goal i'll run a marathon this year. you want to set goal i'll try to run two or three times week and build up from there. because when you set these small goals and you meet that goal you can move on to the next goal and you're setting yourself up to succeed and get this taste of what you really want for this year and baby steps so that you

don't set your sites too big and then feel frustrated when you can't meet those goals because they're not realistic. karen. >> i think it's a great idea. put everything on list and they have exactly the same weight whether that was big or small. your who are cut looks adorable women. absolutely love it. >> thank you, karen. >> what's your new year's resolution for this year? >> i always have a million of them it's actually this is kind of blame but it's just to walk my dogs more and get exercise. get more exercise. >> i love that one. >> it's achievable and you will succeed. you'll be in that 8%. beth, thank you so much. >> hopefully. thank you. >> let us now how you're doing on your new year resolution if you made one if you were keeping to your goal now that we're a week in use our hash tag fox 29 weekend. thanks are canny ren. oh the struggle of the selfie. sometimes it's just too hard to take that picture. but have no fear, technology to the rescue. the invention that's making selfies so much easier and it's also making people look pretty ridiculous.

we'll experiment with that but also we love when you join our conversation. look at some of the cute pictures whereat gooding in. we also ask you what's your hash tag, how about this one? has what's your hash tag. >> my is frenchy phanatic. we love that picture. this is a comment to our story christie cheering on the cowboys. how would we feel if obama was cheering on let's say italy usa in soccer game. this is how easy it is. they have an event comin comingn february. they want to promote that. these -- look at these kid models. how cute are these girls? practicing getting ready for their even. show us your video. show us people you want to brag on in your life. we would love to put it out on tv. caitlin what are we listening to. >> lovely day by bill withers. it is a lovely day. it's not as cold out there. a lot of sunshine. this is requested by joe and of course we love getting your requests. hash tag fox 29 weekend. keep them coming. ♪

>> sometimes taking a selfie it's not the easiest thing to do. >> no. >> he is special physical you've got a lot of people. have no fear technology to the rescue. introducing the selfie stick. >> show us the picture. i have to see an example. there we go right there. what happens with this one, caitlin. >> you put the on your phone. it is actually a stick. you hold it out gives that you distance that allows you to take selfies to include everyone in the picture. you're not seeing someone's eyes and another person's knows. these are some of the examples courtesy of fox cleveland

reporter melissa reid. she posted on facebook selfie stick is everything. it's in charge now. >> let's see if you think it's in charge. here's what you're saying on twitter right now. i decided that a selfie stick is something i need to buy. you may need one for our staff most certainly we take so many. >> we do a lot. >> other mike just order add selfie stick as i really need to get into this self flatulation trend. oh, no. let's try the out. aaron you come up with our own. >> he's made one. >> alexis can we come back out to the pod here. >> we have an expensive budget here. >> yes. we went all out for this. >> i have a huge budget on fox 29 weekend. i've got a cardboard tube and i've got iphone taped to the top. it's going break. i don't know -- will this work? >> you get the idea. gives us that distance. i do believe sue serio has real selfie stick. all right. we'll have to find -- hold that up again.

it's so pathetic. the way it flops over. >> this is not what a real self tee stick looks like. this is our homemade representation. >> we'll have a lot of fun. let us know what you think about that and use our hash tag fox 29 weekend. ♪ time now for knocking the king. howard i heard what you had to say about chip kelly. >> the power play in the eagles front office appeared to be first one by howard roseman but then chip kelly took on the fight and he took it off the field. and after only two years as the eagles head coach, he wins the power play. chip kelly terrific head coach, but does a guy that's only got two years as a pro head coach have too much power? >> he hasn't proved anything yet. he's got to win a playoff game an super bowl. if he brings his own players he wants to his system, then we'll see if he's that good of a coach. >> is that right casey? well

that's what i said. we don't know if he's got too much power. you got to tell me what you think, all right? that's what you got to do. because the reality is, he's been here only two years. we know he's got to win a super bowl. i mean that's pretty obvious. and it's only two years. so that's what i'm trying to get from you guys. is two years too short a time to have all that power? all right. want your chance to knock the king send me your video. give me your best shot and i'll talk to you next week. ♪ of course, now is your chance to knock the king. it is simple. howard said just record a video post the on facebook, twitter or instagram using the hash tag fox 29 weekend or you can call 800 800-292-9369. go ahead knock the king. >> we have a comment from margaret. she wrote in on our facebook page and we do read everything

you write. people that were commenting on a story yesterday may not be able to tweet she said you should have phone number to call. it's that same phone number. we have that on our website. we'll put it out there. i will tweet it out there even if you're not on twitter we'll facebook it out there for you to find. we appreciate your comments. >> some of us not all on twitter. we want to make the old-fashioned phone call too. >> winter is fun playing in the snow and sledding much kids love it. >> a lot of people will try to get out and do it today. the temperatures will be cooperating this afternoon. some towns are banning sledding seriously? what they're saying every why they're saying no more sledding. ♪

welcome back. we come back with breaking news that is coming in right now. and that is they are reporting that they have indeed found the black box from that plane that crashed the air asia plane. divers from indonesia have found that black box that crashed -- the plane in the java sea with 162 people on board according to ministry officials. they have not in fact retrieved that black box because they are saying it is stuck under debris from the main body of the plane. but the navy divers there are on it. they've located very, very crucial peace of information in connection. we'll stay on top of that developing story. also, in the news 8:32,

george zimmerman was in court to answer charges of aggravated assault this was a story we first told you on fox 29 weekend yesterday morning. officials say he threw a wine bottle at his girlfriend now he's already been released from jail he's out on $5,000 bond much he has been ordered to stay away from women. he's not allowed to enter the county where she lives. caitlin? well it dozen citizens soldiers will be welcomed home today. a small unit of pilots and crew members from the new jersey army national guard will arrive at the joint military and family assistance center at bordentown, burlington county in about 30 minutes. they flew aircrafts around central asia. it's a great weekend to take the kids out sledding or tubing. can you believe this? there are some communities that are actually banning sledding. they're worried about lawsuits and safety.

this is even happening in our area of new jersey and montville they've done it there. other towns around the country have already done it as well. on facebook so many are complaining. what are we becoming a nanny state? walt writes government and schools have way too much to say on what we do. michael says, you have to take all the fun out of everything people? jeez, we can't do anything fun any more. but this one comes from jenny. she says hyped up headline, i don't know if you can blame the nanny state so much as our culture. townships need to protect their finances. good reason. joining us right now by skype greg troutman. thank you so much for joining us this morning. my pleasure. what do you think of this trend we're seeing so many more of our communities are saying these sledding hills are too dangerous we've got to start shutting them down? >> well, they're not dangerous. kids have been doing this for ages and ages. it's just that they're getting tired of these lawsuits. these fridge us will lawsuits and the insurance companies have reversed things. it's like the public is now insuring the insurance compan

companies. why do we have insurance if they're not to protect us for this? >> we've seen a lot of these big payouts. five-year-old little girl and she wound up getting paralyzed and got a huge settlement and people that hit trees. obviously people know that they're out there and they're doing this activity and it could be dangerous. but people are winning big money and that has a very chilling effect on many of these small communities that say we can't pay theaceae are in muss premiums and pay these payouts. >> there are certainly ways for the government to limit liability and one of those would be do it at your own risk type thing. you can put up signs that say that. if the government becomes aware of the problem the little girl got that got the 2.5 million they put up trees to stop people from doing the sledding and then the little girl hit the tree. they subsequently took them down. so that was the problem there. the town knows about the problem and ignores it, that's a probl problem. but to have a park that people can't use is outrageous. >> unfortunately it's a trend we're seeing around this count country. greg, thank you so much for your time. we really appreciate it.

>> sure. thank you. and what do you think about this issue? so many of you will be shredding this season. use our #fox29weekend. >> coming up, chip kelly he's already a big wig in the nfl being a head coach and all. but he says he wants more. the nfl job chip kelly now says he wants. karen? also, it is a sunday. the start of a great week. we're talking about -- what are we playing for you? we're playing sam smith quested by liz. thank you for sending your weekend jukebox requests in. easy for me to say. all right. keep them coming. we'll be right back. ♪

welcome back. we love your comments and what you send us so many different things and join our conversation. we want to show you this one. the comment says kids love sledding. it's part of the growing up. if they do get hurt, it's their parent's responsibility and response to our story about the banning sledding in some locations. >> how about this? >> karen, tow feet dough signed a sponsorship deal to be the official chip of the nfl. that isn't sitting too well with our own head coach chip. >> if you are so much fun not chip kelly the other one. they look so good and taste so swell the official chip of the nfl. totitos is the official chip of

the nfl. >> okay. >> catchy. one of 10 commercials featuring the eagles head coach. new ads are getting a lot of play on social media here's what some of you think. for real i wasn't eagles fan before today but chip kelly in that commercial may have converted me. and brent said they really need to change the commercial where it shows chip kelly and eagles being a success so far. hash tag -- >> aww. >> hurtful. >> i think it's so much fun and so clever. >> it is. >> it's like having a good sense of humor about the whole thing. >> i love the cheesy throw back it is so swell is the official chip of the nfl. like the '50's you're swell. >> what does swell word mean? what do you mean? it's good. >> i know. >> this is nice. >> whatever. >> back in leave it to beaver era. >> gotcha. we want to tell you would you a teenager diagnosed with cancer this is generating a lot of conversation. forced to undergo chemotherapy.

she said she didn't want to have chemotherapy even though it would give you an 85% chance of recovery. so the question on this one is, are her rights being violated? fox 29 weekend show always playing your songs all morning long. that's what i love about sunday. this is by craig morgan quested by jason. have a great week hash tag fox 29 he says.

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your news now. icy emergency on a pond in colorado. rescue crews jumping to rescue a dog that fell through the ice. firefighters say the dog was on some thin ice and fell through. officials risked their lives and up? in the water. there's video right there. after few minutes in the frozen pond, the terrified dog was coaxed to shore. but not before putting up a fight. how for the dog got out there in the first place her owner says someone must have have get left of the gate in their yard open. >> talk about a lucky dog. a 384 old chihuahua that died on tuesday is brought back to life. julie is a miracle. the pup was brought to the hospital with no heartbeat an broken leg. the vet did cpr and after two minutes the chihuahua was showing signs of life. >> awesome because that rarely happens. we started heat support put her on heating blanket.

>> have you ever done this before. >> i've done -- >> successfully? >> no. -- to a loving family. >> this is a story people are talking about all across the country. that connecticut teenager is battling cancer now being forced to have chemotherapy. she's 17-year-old her name a cassandra back in september she got the diagnosis of hodgkin's lymphoma. well she made it clear to her mother she did not wanting to through chemotherapy. she wanted to look into alternative treatments as a result she missed several doctors appointments so the state stepped in and forced her to have chemotherapy. this is what her mother had to say. >> my daughter doesn't want to die. i don't want her to die. so people out there think that i'm letting her do a death sentence and i'm not. neither is she. we are saying, these are her rights. these are her constitutional

rights that have been taken aw away. >> the state officials violating cassandra's rights? on thursday, the connecticut supreme court ruled in on this one and said no. joining us by skype to give us a legal perspective on all of this one attorney heather hanson. heather g morning. good morning, karen. >> let's break this down. why did the supreme court say no? why are her rights not being violated? well, you know, as you know, children are to be protected by the state. if parents are abusing their children or children are in need of protection the state often steps in. here the state was concerned that this child was not being protected. they held two separate hearings to determine whether or not cassandra was competent to make these decisions on her own. as a result of those hearings, they decided that she was not competent to reject the chemotherapy and that's when they decided they were going to force her to have it. >> what did they base it on? was it her age solely or was it maturity decision? how did it come down? it is not -- it's a case by case basis in connecticut. there are some states that are

different but in connecticut it really came down to her maturi maturity. she did not -- she had run away twice. she did not seem to have a good grasp according to the judge of what was happening and they felt as though she was sort of -- in the judge's words sort of mirroring her mother's pins so all of that put together in addition to the expert the medical expert who's said she had an 85% chance of surviving if she had this chemotherapy non chance if she did not, all of those things in couldn't junk led the court to this decision. >> what's her reasoning when she came forth and said i wanted to try alternative therapists first? a lot of people when you get a diagnosis do want to try something that may not be chemicals per se. but what was her reasoning? >> it was a similar argument that this is poison and the thing with chemotherapy we know that it is poison it's killing good parts and bad parts of your body. so that was her argument. i think that, you know, compare this to case that happened in virginia some time ago where another teenager didn't want to

take chemotherapy for a similar disease. that teenager had done a number of different researches he had looked into different types of alternative therapists and ultimately he and the state came to an agreement that he could use some sort of an alternative doctor. here i don't think the cassandra had done the same amount of research that left the court to think she was really making an informed decision and i think that that also influenced why they decided to make her have the chemo. >> heather, let me get to some of the comments on facebook. kim writes i don't think the government has any right to tell anyone what they have to do with their own body. she's 17. not seven. she's almost a legal adult and if she knows what the risk are and doesn't want it why force it? shaking my head. >> almost is not good enough to get a driver's license almost is not good enough to consume alcohol. she she is still a child. >> i'm fighting cancer right now for the second time i have a very deadly form of cancer. and it will eventually kill me. when the time comes and chemo is

no longer an option and it will come, i will decide my fate i im46. so the final word on this one heather? >> you know, there's so many issues that come into play and all of those opinions are good ones. ultimately it's got to be decided on case by case basis. there's no one age. there's no one drug. no one right decision and so people have to make that decision with their parents, with their doctors, and ultimately unfortunately sometimes with judges, too. >> heather, thank you so much. we appreciate your time. >> thank you, karen. have a great day. >> you as well. what do you think about this decision from the state of connecticut and the judges up there and the way the courts weighed in on this one. let us know use our #fox29weekend. and let's get one last look of your interactive forecast live look outside. that's from our camera right a top of our studios the fourth and mark in old city. plenty of sunshine again. it is cold still. but it will be less harsh as we head into the afternoon. that's because we've got warmer air moving in ahead of our neck

system. far towards our south places like memphis seeing a wintry mix of the rain and freezing rain and sleet that extends down into eastern texas. but that will arrive late late tonight. early monday morning. in advance of that a winter weather advisory out for philadelphia interior south jersey, new castle county in delaware all of our northwestern counties and this is for that icy mix of some sleet and freezing rain just in time for the monday morning commute. temperatures right now, very cold. you would think we'd have snow moving in. that won't be the case for many of us. it may initially slow in the mountains. 15 in mount pocono. 19 philadelphia just nine in millville and 19 in wildwood. fox future cast shows lot of sunshine today. we get through the weekend dry. it's late tonight, towards the rush early tomorrow morning that's when we see the beginning of some rain mixing with freezing rain coming in. just rain you won't see the impacts on the road but freezing rain looks likely for a period of time early monday morning. cause something icy and slow conditions. that does change over to rain through the rest of the afternoon and just a soggy gray day. maybe even a little snow on the

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