fox news channel pays for video.s nbc cnn, and every news cop radiation in america. newspapers, too. when you use pictures and gette images you pay for it. splash video, you pay. when a stringer says i have a picture -- >> those are professionals. >> you pay for it. >> no, they're not. >> i see it differently. but harvey is a good debater. ever wonder why interviews with athletes are so boring? michael strahan had insight. on the question of handling the media why is it you see the athlete say, well just taking it one day at a time. we beat a very good football team. i'm trying to keep my focus. in other words, it's almost like they are trying to be boring. >> guys are trying to be boring. no one wants the coach to say, come into my office son. why would you say this, do that? you don't want to be the sound bite guy. you're almost scared into not being yourself. that's the hard part about dealing with the media is to be yourself but not be afraid of that. also being smart enough to know how to craft your answers and

manner, fox news.ek today at the uniforms for the 2015 phillies ball girls. >> the young women donned their outfits to take part in the very first photo session at citizens bank park. this year's roster includes 13 new local athletes and 11 returning members. the ball girls program selects educated and energetic women to serve as role models in professional sports. maybe one of them could play first base for the phillies. >> maybe. >> they can use it. >> they certainly are looking good. still ahead on fox 29 news at 6:00 -- >> a local man wanted to give his home heating business a lift. so he turned to the us postal service. what happened next is hard to believe. fox 29 investigates next. ♪ >> this week we got kevin hart as the wedding ringer. (vo) at jennie-o, we heard of a place in iowa where every thursday people ride ten miles for tacos. we thought we'd show up and surprise them with a better kind of taco, made with jennie-o ground turkey, cooked thoroughly to 165. (mom) i'd feed my kids turkey tac

a fox news alert. posts in all of this heartbreak brand new information about how a 7-year-old little girl walked away from this plane crash which killed her entire family. >> she told me her parents were dead. i asked her how did she knew that? she said i tried to wake them up and i couldn't wake them up. >> how the seoul surole survivor could be key in figuring out the crash. >> how the taliban leader used his twisted skill set. >> long live the king. >> are our family favorites harmless or two harsh for our children? we report you decide. "fox friends and friends first starts right now. ♪ >> matchbox 20 gets you started on this january morning 2016. you are watching "fox & friends first". i am lia gabriel-- leah gabrielle if nor ainsley earhardt. >> -- heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> the child in the crash could be the key in finding out what went wrong. they are moving the wreckage to begin the investigation. >> the ntsb says a preliminary report of the crash could be available in 10

fox news channel pays for video.so does nbc and so does cnn and every news operation in america. newspapers, too, when you use pictures and you use images you pay for it. when you use splash video you pay for it. when a stringer says i have a picture of the fire you pay for it. >> i see it very differently but harvey a is good debater. >> athletes are boring and michael strayhorn turned morning t star has insight. >> on the question of handling the media why is it you see the athletes say well, take it one day at a time, we beat a good football team. in other words, almost like they are trying to be boring. >> gives are trying to be boring because no one wants to have the coach say come to my office why would you say this? why would you do that? you don't want to be the sound bite guy. you are scared into not being yourself. that is the hard part about dealing with the media to be yourself and not be afraid but also being smart enough to know how to craft your happies and not be in trouble. >> bob costas has as nose

in jerusalem, john huddy fox news. >>> and still ahead on "fox 29 news" at 6:00 tonight, fox 29 investigate. >> drivers look to go save a few pennies on gas and end up spending hundreds of dollars more in damage to their car. they tell us they bought bad gas from a local service station. >> i like cried a little bit because i knew as soon as he said that that it won't be under warantee and i would have to pay for it. >> what fox 29 investigation found when we stepped in. >> plus, a 800-pound church bell is stolen and the congregation is crushed. the message they have for the thieves who worked really hard to swipe their cherished antique. >> plus check out these local parents. they are camping out in the middle of a nor'easter. why they braved the element to give their papa:sometimes, in football, you go for 2. sometimes, in pizza, you get 2 without even trying. get a large one topping pizza free when you purchase a large pizza. order now at papajohns.com. papa:better ingredients joe:better pizza. peyton:better football papa:papa john's. >> parent spent the night riding out the storm overni

a fox news alert. new deadline for its prisoner swap but you can't compare it to the bowe bergdahl case. don't even try because the taliban apparently aren't terrorists. >> the taliban is an armed insurgency. isil is a terrorist group so we don't make concessions to terrorist groups. >> that explanation had reporters stunned. >> yeah then it's one of the more popular stories on that regional blog "politico" with this catchy headline: mike huckabee complains of trashy women at fox. problem is it's not true. the governor responds in

from the upper east side, liz dallam fox news. >> turning back to your fox 29 winter weather authorityow is moving out but the cold the really cold moving on in. >> today temperatures only in the 20s. feels like temperatures tomorrow night below zero. so if you thought today was cold and you had layers on -- >> all right. >> find extra layers. >> that's right. >> you didn't need that shovel today. that was good news. >> i'm really happy about that. >> i only got a little tiny bit. my cat henry he had never seen snow before. he ran outside and went, whoa, bad mistake and ran right back in. >> so queue. >> didn't like it. >> no. >> let's talk about those temperatures. because right now it's 24 degrees the wind chill not that bad. because it's not that windy. the winds are calm so the wind chill is only 18 degrees. so here's the bottom line tonight. low temperatures teens and 20s. but the big deal on the roadways especially the untreated roads watch out for that black iso it's going to be a little slippery across the area side walks and those back roads. below zero wind chills as we head

in washington, joel waldman fox news. >>> still ahead tonight on fox 29 a tough fight along a busy highway. the stun born fire that left drivers stuck and how firefighters finally got the upper hand. >> and they were so close but this little suite baby didn't care. her dramatic rifle, well, it was really full of drama and it happened on new year's eve. >>> are you feeling lucky. if the answer is yes it could save your life. why your cancer risk may come down to a role of a dice. ♪ >>> inn cell video. check out this truck carrying propane i flipped over catching fire and the highway in arlington text tuck was shut down for at least an hour this morning as firefighters worked to control the flames. the truck was involved in a crash with another car. firefighters used a foam spray to actually put the fire out. >>> still smoldering after a deaddeadly fire sunday a burnt out ferry is now at italian port ton night investigators are looking into exactly what happened last weekend. at least 11 people died in sunday's fire off the coast of greece. authorities believe they'll find more bodies as the

fox 29 news at 6:00.hitney houston's daughter is being treated at a hospital in atlanta after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub. good evening everybody. i'm joyce evans. >> i'm dawn tim money knee. bobby christina brown was found by her husband and friend. police rushing to the home in the suburbs north of atlanta this afternoon much police say that nick gordon brown's husband and a friend performed cpr and that brown was alive when she was transported to the hospital. tmz is reporting that doctors stabilized her breathing. brown is is the only daughter of houston bobby brown. houston was found dead in a hotel bathtub nearly three years ago. of course we'll bring you the latest information as we get it throughout this newscast. >>> and more breaking news tonight. the u.s. is working to confirm online video reportedly showing isis beheading japanese journalist. if the video is found to be legitimate it would end days of on going negotiations to save the man. it all began last week when the militants

fox business aalert.ehind bars for allegedly planning a grizzly attack on the capitol. >> christopher lee cornell was reportedly in the final steps of a devastating terror attack he planned for months. the 20-year-old hoped to set off explosions on capitol hill and shoot any members of congress fleeing the chaos. the ohio man considered the lawmakers enemies. they were tipped off to his desire to create a group aligned with isis. cornell allegedly telling an fbi informant quote i believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks. the informant then met with cornell multiple times until he hatched the plan to attack capitol hill. the 20-year-old mapping out government buildings and be learning to build pipe bombs. taking the quote final steps to travel to washington fbi agents tackled cornell outside of this ohio gun shop. he had just purchased two assault rifles and 600 rounds of ammo. cornell's parents say there is no way their son would carry such an attack. >> he was a good k

we have a fox news alert.a joint press conference later this morning on the fight against islamic extremism and any other questions they will get. >> there they are on the south part of the white house facility. doug mckelway is on the north lawn and joins us live. doug? >> reporter: good morning. another visit by david cameron could not come at a more pivotal time, at a time when europe is ramping up the war on terror in europe, a time when u.s. air strikes against isis are proving not to be as effective as many hoped they would be. and when the administration has been under fire for a certain tone deafness when it comes to the world wide war on terror. in that context cameron is coming here, seeking something very, very specific. he's on record as opposing encription services that many american internet companies offer. even considering banning those american companies that offer encription from doing business in great britain. these services are more popular than ever after revelations about the government

fox 29 news in hd brought to you by x finity the future of awesome. >>> breaking news right now on fox 29, an amber alert issued in delaware. state police are searching for four-year-old colette hamilton and four month old core dez hamilton jr. their 35-year-old mother keisha hamilton is also missing. they were last seen at their home in the twin willows development in smyrna, delaware at 10:00 o'clock last night. police say they may be with the children's father. cortez hamilton, senior and investigators believe they may be in danger. for more information about the children and the car they may be traveling in, go to myfoxphilly.com. >>> we are following breaking news. another breaking news story out of south philadelphia. sunoco says there is an operational problem at its girard point refinery. they've lost steam which is causing flares and black smoke to rise from the stacks. here's a live look at the site right now in philadelphia firefighters on the site. there is also a hazmat crew on the scene. sunoco says there's fuel oil burning inside a processor and they say the flaring will

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i'm convinced megyn one of the reasons there's so much venom pointed toward fox is because fox is ther a lot of the people out here in flyover country. >> you spoke of your disdain for women and men for that matter, but singled out women particularly for swearing in the workplace. talking about your time when working in new york politico ran with that saying you were calling fox news trashy which is an assumption that made but then later clarified it and corrected it to say not women at fox news, it says women in new york if you go to that website. so is that an honest mistake? >> no. it was an utterly fabricated lie upon the writer at politico. unless he was just too lazy to read the chapter in the book he was trying to talk about. clearly he had not read it because if he had read it he knew there was no way he could have drawn that conclusion. let me give compliments to folks like the daily caller who themselves did go read the chapter and called out politico, thus they had to go back and correct their story, change their headline and realize they had really messed up. >> do you thi

i'm martha mccallum, fox news. >> coming up on this fox 29 special report 2014 a year in review. >> heate cold snaps, high winds and fires. we have seen it all this year. we'll take look at the wild weather of 2014 plus -- >> what do an elevator, popcorn and sponge bob square pants have in common? i'm jonathan hunt. the answer to tha ♪ >> welcome back to this fox 29 special report 2014 a look back. >>> from fires to floods we saw mother nature's wrath all over the country. fox news meteorologist maria molina looks at the year in weather. >> reporter: a heat wave in the middle of winter hits california. the same experiences warmest winter in more than 100 years. while the west coast bakes the east coast freezes. snow and sleet rattle the midwest and northeast a record 70 total inches of snowfall on chicago with wind chills 20 below zero. >> at the same time high winds in oregon cause he can treatmently rare wildfires to flare up burning hundreds of acres. >>> down under australia continues its record heat wave temperatures as high as 111 degrees for days on end. the heat affects affects w

on fox 29 right after american idol followed by of course fox 29 news at 10:00. ♪ >> we're followinga raging fire check out the flames much this is a live look from san francisco tonight. right now this fire is a three alarms. affiliate reporting there may be a poppy's restaurant we have no other details right now. so we didn't have those flames for you. >> tom, what's up in sports. >> the phillies have new chairman and a new president tonight and maybe a new direction as they get ready to start the 2015 season. david montgomery officially out as president. but what he really thinks of the decision to be reassigned is coming up next in sports. >> and they're dressing to impress 10 young ladies from several pal centers in philadelphia got to go on shopping spree today picking out the perfect outfit at a dress barn on city line avenue in bala cynwyd for an upcoming jobs skills training event at city ♪ >>> changes for the phillies howard eskin first reported on last fall. they became a reality today. at the center of the moves david montgomery who had been the phillies president since j

which is cool. >> ♪ >> reporter: in hollywood adam housely fox news. >> big night here on fox.atest search for a super star starts at 8:00 and then as you just saw tv's hottest new show empire comes your way at 9:00. a full wrap up of the days news news weather and sports on the fox 29 news at 10:00. >> a woman is homeless and her husband is jail accused of of tearing down their home with a bulldozer. she came home to an empty lot. why did he do it? she says she still hasn't gotten any answers from her husband of nine years. police say he rented an ex have a indicator and knocked down the home without a perm. everything inside that house is destroyed. >> we weren't fighting. we weren't arguing. i don't know what happened. i don't know anything. >> i asked him just kidding around if he was going to knock the house down with a bulldozer? and he said yeah. but i thought he was just kidding. >> he wasn't kidding. the man told police he bulldozed the home because it was in such bad shape it was beyond fixing. >> touching moment caught on camera ohio swat officer doing his best to ke

i'm martha mccallum, fox news. >> coming up on this fox 29 special report 2014 a year in review. >> heat and fires. we have seen it all this year. we'll take look at the wild weather of 2014 plus -- >> what do an elevator, popcorn and sponge bob square pants have in common? i'm jonathan hunt. the answer to tha ♪ >> welcome back to this fox 29 special report 2014 a look back. >>> from fires to floods we saw mother nature's wrath all over the country. fox news meteorologist maria molina looks at the year in weather. >> reporter: a heat wave in the middle of winter hits california. the same experiences warmest winter in more than 100 years. while the west coast bakes the east coast freezes. snow and sleet rattle the midwest and northeast a record 70 total inches of snowfall on chicago with wind chills 20 below zero. >> at the same time high winds in oregon cause he can treatmently rare wildfires to flare up burning hundreds of acres. >>> down under australia continues its record heat wave temperatures as high as 111 degrees for days on end. the heat affects affects wildlife causing dehydrat

then it's fox 29 news at 6:00. in just a little bit. ♪ >> good evening welcome to this fox 29 special report 2014, a year in review. i'm lucy noland. >> i'm he yann page. 2014 comeing to close and what a 12 months it was. >> fox's shepherd smith takes a look at this year's top stories. >> reporter: 2014 brought more gridlock in congress, tension at home and around the globe, a deadly outbreak and a historic election. the year started with a pay raise for local income workers. higher minimum wages took effect in 13 states and president obama signed an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers. gay rights also took major steps forward. same sex marriage now legal in 35 states and the district after series of federal court rulings throughout the year. 2014 saw the start of the worst ebola outbreak in history. the virus has killed more than 5,000 people in west africa. thomas duncan was the first patient diagnose in the united states. doctors say he came down with the disease in liberia and

tollefson work right here at fox 29. i'm jeff cole. lucy. >> thank you very much, jeff. >>> no word on how college student shane montgomery died. volunteer dive team found the body of the 21-year-old saturday in the schuylkill river. the diver found him less than a mile from where he was last seen. montgomery and some friends were hanging out in the early morning hours of thanksgiving at a manayunk bar and employees there asked him to leave right around 2:00 in the morning. he never did make it home. family and friends are remembering the life of shane montgomery this week. a viewing is thursday from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. at saint john the baptist in manayunk. a funeral mass is friday at 10am at the very same church. big step forward for the revel casino a bankruptcy judge approving deal to sell the shuddered casino for $95 million. now the potential buyer is a florida investor who actually wanted the price cut to $87 million. the deal is expected to close in 30 days if there are not any more legal challenges. as you probably know revel cl

the fox 29 morning news team starts at 4:00 a.m.ollowed by "good day philadelphia" with mike jerrick and alex holdly from six to 10. >> police are hoping surveillance video of two men wanted for a violent attack gets them off the street. the pair knocked victim unconscious and left him hospitalized for week with brain injuries. and only fox 29 was there when he returned home. our dave schratwieser is live outside central detectives and dave this was just a brutal attack. >> reporter: the victim was punched, beaten, knocked to the ground. he struck his head on the concrete and was knocked unconscious. he spent more than a week in the hospital until he was releaseed this evening. >> right now i have to be concerned about seizures. um my memory being affected. >> reporter: for 34-year-old sam sierra the beating allegedly took in center city at the hands of a 6-foot two 280-pound man is all a blur. >> i was knocked out and so my brain just between bleeding and sorts of things i really don't remember much if anything. >> reporter: he spe

your new fox 29 news in hd brought to you by x finity the future of awesome. >> right now on fox 29, a flash freeze across the area and the out come is deadly. >> all of a sudden all the cars in front of starred of started running into the side of the tractor trailers. >> huge pileups on the blue route, the schuylkill and i-95 leaves three dead and dozens injured and tonight another ice threat. >> looking live at the schuylkill expressway at gulph mills. all lanes are open and traffic is moving again. this is a streaming shot. it is a far different scene from this morning. 60 cars and trucks crashed on i-76. drivers started losing control right around 7:00 this morning closing the schuylkill expressway for hours. and one person did die. good evening i'm lucy noland. >>> i'm iain page. penndot says it had 150 salt trucks this morning but the rain was freezing on contact and the schuylkill was not the only problem. on i-476 in delaware county a tractor trailer jackknifed and several cars could not stop in time. two people were killed. around the same time this morning on i-95 another p

fox's dina joins us this morning. dina let's talk about who we need to watch out for this morning, good morning. >> yes, chris, good morning, they're bringing us down. we always want to blame other people right. scientists helping us with that. there are statistics that who you hang out with may be causing problem for weight loss. problem you can't get rid of these people. here they are. four groups of people to watch out for. first is your partner. significant other. spouse, if that person is obese you know that person is indulging a lot and ice cream and good creates and that's a problem for you. that's shared environment you know bringing all that food into the house and the next group and health.com. >> and you pack lunches and you're good with dinner all those associations with food you eat more. tricky one. >> all they crave when they come off the bus is things like bagels, chips, and of course they're sitting on the counter. >> high cashes. >> and then you'll seat some too you cannot help it. >> i cannot let th

over fox.o i'm still doubtful. >> does fox news channel -- this is an american of based broadcast. does it air in france? >> it is accessible in countries all around the world. and there is a little bit of precedent for this. cnn was sued by a small town in brazil. they said a report we aired was inaccurate involving terrorism. cnn won on appeal. but it's not unprecedented. >> is there anything that fox news could actually do to counter the damage the french mayor -- just the notion that this is all broadcast on all the competing networks is damaging enough to their brand. could they actually turn this around and go right back at her for defamation or libel? >> that's an interesting concept. i would think they wanted less litigation instead of more litigation. defamation is an issue from corporations down to individuals. if you want to defend a defamation lawsuit, it's pricey, costly. a lot of times, you want those things to go away. if they want to avoid litigation, the best way to avoid litig

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 aler

use our hashtag, fox 29.cat caught inside the grill of a car, the animal's wild ride and how he ended up there in the first place. we love taking a look at what you're requesting. we're going to try to get to them. there's a welcome dominica. good morning to all the girls there. keep your questions or comments. we have to love this conversation that we all share on saturday or sunday mornings. do you remember the song. >> mr. hildebrand: by destiny child. he wanted to hear this one. use the hashtag, fox 9 weekend. (song playing. i'm anthony mount russia owe and thinks your pet from the pet tank. are these mobile devices all just fun and games or can they help you train your brain. >> ? guess what. apple has one competing with apps such as brain loss think. we're going to see if we could articulate more clearly, retaining more information or process more information just by taking some pets. right here as you can see i'm going to how to read and right a little bit better. it's called brevity. after i take this

in new york, bryan llenas, fox news. >>> turning now to your fox 29 weather authority.in gear out chief meteorologist scott williams is here. you've got some details. i'm glad it's not snow. >> temperatures will be warping up overnight. so that's going to prevent it from being a wintry scenario across our area. but -- >> still a mess. >>> still a mess. once that rain gets started it will be hard to stop especially tomorrow afternoon. as we take a look at those weather headlines overnight it's dry, it's cold the cloud cover continues to increase. but that rain it's going to arrive sunday mid to late morning from south to north. and look at the heaviest. it's going to be south and east of i-95. we're talking an inch or more of rainfall expected especially in parts of south jersey and central and southern delaware. but look at the temperatures right now it's still cold upper 20s. you factor in that wind the wind makes it feel like it's in the low 20s but look at that wind direct out of the south southeast at about 7 miles per hour. so that southerly wind component will hel

this is fox 29 weekend. and right now on fox 29 weekend you can take a life look outside out of one of or windows. we told it was happening. it is here. we have winter storm that dump ped some snow april some sleet. it may not be done yet. we have live team coverage today. our crews are all over the delaware valley scouring and checking the conditions so you know what it is like before you head the door. bob kelly we brought him in to keep you up to date with what's going on with the roads. welcome back. >> we missed you last week and some of the viewers were tweeting us saying where is karen. >> it's nice to be back. > of course we want to know what it looks like in your neighborhood. we've been asking on twitter, facebook, take a picture. upload it, use that hashtag fox 29 weekend and then we're going to share the pictures. we're going to get to caitlyn ross. good morning to you both. we have low visibilities that have actually caused some delays at the airports this morning. i've heard some arrivals and d

holly burlington county, chris o'connell fox 29 news. >> you saw it first on fox.er philly state rep who was the subject of a fox 29 investigation has plead guilty to a felony charge. the plea comes after the philly da brings corruption charges. jp miranda represented a north philadelphia district in the spring of 2013 jeff cole and fox 29 investigates broke the story that miranda had a ghost employee on his staff. a guy on the clock but off the job. the da's public corruption unit opened a probe and charged him with using the ghost worker to funnel money to his sister michelle wilson. both miranda and wilson were hit with felony corruption charges. today a day before their trial miranda plead guilty to one felony count of conflict of interest and lesser charge of making false statement. his sister michelle wilson plead guilty to the lesser charge of making false statements. they will both be sentenced in march. >> berks county a man arrested for dism. has a whole lot more trouble on his hands. an investigation by the police department and da drug task force turned

thanks. >> reporter: lauren dimarco "fox news". >>> and straight ahead on fox 29 news at 6:00 we are bracing for a major winter storm. live coverage of the preparations. >>> plus a veteran with the troubled past battling ptsd and bi polar disorder until he found martial arts. his inspiring turn around that he hopes can papa:sometimes, in football, you go for 2. sometimes, in pizza, you get 2 without even trying. get a large one topping pizza free when you purchase a large pizza. order now at papajohns.com. papa:better ingredients joe:better pizza. peyton:better football papa:papa john's. >>> we were talking about this since the beginning of the newscast major winter storm heading this way. >> you better start getting prepared, don't wait for that snow to start falling. fox 29's dave kinchin is live at penndot yard in norristown, dave. >> reporter: you said it. right now penndot crews are getting ready to load hundreds of truck full of salt. there is a big dome behind me. and across the penndot facilities we're talking about thousands, of tons of salt. just a lot. i'll tell thaw much.

>>> breaking news right now on fox 29. the desperate five-week search for missing college student comes to a bitter end. the body of 21 year old shane montgomery is pulled from the schuylkill schuylkill river just before noon. good evening everybody i'm joyce evans. i'm karen hepp, shane's body found just before noon right near sheers lane in manayunk, our dave kinchen following the story ever since the beginning. he's live there right now dave? >> reporter: karen, i spoke to the mother of shane montgomery. she was absolutely devastated as you can imagine. it was one of the most difficult conversations i've ever had in a story like this. shane's body was found by a group of volunteer divers, now, the family is trying to process this all. a heart wrenching embrace by the family of shane montgomery after learning from investigators the body of the missing 21 year old was found in the schuylkill river behind the manayunk brew club. the discovery made by the garden state under water recovery team. >> where he was about waist d

you have to show every saturday and sunday on fox and a lot of republicans watch fox. helps huckabee. it doesn't solve all his problems in terms of his record in arkansas and how much money can he raise but it sure doesn't hurt. >> as an objective news channel it's interesting. he said continued chatter put fox news in a position that is not fair to them so it certainly is interesting when you have this type of dynamic and i got to tell you, he's got a book coming out? god, guns, grits and gravy. that's a lot more exciting. >> the continued speculation is that huckabee was hiring operatives and looking for office space so he's been slowly moving in this direction for a while. >> i ain't going to ever run for anything. thanks howie. >> did someone mention grits and gravy? i'm ready for that. >>> the president's affordable care act facing opposition in the new republican congress and also the supreme court. can obamacare make it out of 2015 unscathed and pope francis adding new faces and why they may be the most diverse group yet. . . >>> pope francis naming 15 new cardi

>> fox news. >> see? on fox news. give it up right now. >> what do you think about that? we've got it all here. nashville is one of the best new year's eve parties in the country. there is probably a hundred thousand people everywhere. >> that is right. and give it up. >> boy. we're going to get this party started again for you guys you wish you were here right now. >> okay. griff i want to see him dancing a little bit more. >> he's uncomfortable. >> there you go. >> and there you go. >> right. >> oh, my god. yes. >> is he working? >> that is what you call country twerk right there. >> is this a special? is this reporters gone wild? >> it's not dancing but i love it. on fire, everybody. that is why they call it nash bacon. let's go back down to joanna in times square. what do you have down there? >> i love more is a selfie. we're about to take the first selfie of 2515. are you ready? let's get those smiles on. hey, hey girl. i like a sepia tone filter. if you can do something about my jaw line? >> okay. >> crop it. >> so, joanne? >> the ball drop, big 2515? >> there is no

fox news, new york city. i'm saving mine for my girlfriend. >> it's too late. yes. yes. yes. just have to get people -- yes. >> get her >> there you go. is everybody warm out there? >> yes. >> i mean, this is just, well here is the thing. about new year's eve is free stuff. i'm kind of a hoarder. i've just been collecting stuff off the ground. i see nothing wrong with that. our streets are clean. >> is that a yoga ball? >> it's a balloon. here is the thing that is nice about me having this stuff. i can bartter for other things. >> there is two nice girls here. they have tiaras on their heads i will give you all of this stuff. it's great stuff off the floor. is that a yes? or no? i didn't think so. i'm giving free air time. quick. >> so i'm sorry. >> i don't know if we have service. >> we like those women. >> thank you. >> and the crowd is getting bigger with times square. nypd is not in full force and security is tight. is it safe? >> one of the reasons why times square is secure is that it isn't just about t

fox's antoine lewis have more on what some have dubbed healthy booze. >> next on fox 29 news at 6:00ing a nor'easter. a winter storm taking shape in the south. new data is coming right now. what it means for your weekend. >>> plus a teenager attacked and punched in the face on a philadelphia trolley. how the vicious beating may have started over a backpack. >> we apologize for that. meantime, a text texas car goes back to the future. the famous wheels driven by michael j. fox in back to the future is being recreated here in the dough lori yann motor company. the car is detailed to the one flown by fox. mechanic wanted to recreate the iconic dee lore yann in in celebration of the anniversary. >> we have to get one important gig good what's to power it up. >> you have to watch the movie. >> it will cost 50 thus san dollars to make the car as it appeared in the film much this car will not come with time travel accessibility. >> it had hiccups here and there. technology kind of like what just happened here a little bit ago. we apologize for that. however, we're back on that healthy brew

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he has done that to fox news several times saying fox news says this or that as if he doesn't think of anything but fox news. >> at msnbc chris matthews responded to the passage saying, he made a mistake about cable television and a lot of people who have hoped and shared his hope for ending racial division and malala yousafzai. >> the networks support president obama, is that breaking news? >> so, let me turn now to half of the speech with politicians coming out and giving their take on it so joe biden came out on a couple of shows and he was asked, are you running in 2016 and he is looking at it. at the conservative cattle call in iowa, sarah palin toll the "washington post" reporter she is seriously considering a run in 2016. >> yes. >> my question, how seriously should the media take that? >> as seriously as -- look, if she decided to run, she would get considerable share of votes in places like iowa and not so much in new hampshire, probably do okay in south carolina if she had a good team and well organized and taking it seriously. sarah palin creates some of her own problems to

bruce gordon fox 29 news. >> their smiles say it all. >>> um-hmm. >> still ahead on fox 29 news at 6: gas prices plumetting. >> even drivers in pennsylvania are paying less than two bucks a gallon. where you can find the cheapest gas next. >>> plus local students put their money to make some ideas and put them to the test next. >> you know nick foles gives his thoughts on his career as eagle possibly coming to an end. another player at the super bowl adds new meaning to the term hasn't out. that's coming up later in sports. >> and coming up in weather still monitor ultimate doppler with those snow squalls across the area. when another storm system will impact our area for a part of the weekend next. >> and watch this. a guy gets tased in front of a packed gym. that's no criminal. it's a police chief and he says he's going to keep on happening. tonight at 10:00 why he says it could save the police department. now, more and more americans are discovering that... shred after shred... dish after dish... day after delicious day... shredding galbani mozzarella yourself inspires meals, and m

to a fox news alert.ffiliate taking responsibility for the attack at a luxury hotel in libya that killed one american and left at least 8 others dead. peter doocy is live for us in washington as isis releases a brand new beheading video with a direct threat against president obama. peter? >> heather, the american citizen killed in that luxury hotel attack was named david barry. he was a security contractor based in virginia a former marine and isis claims to be responsible for sending the mass gunman who carried out the brutal assault. now lawmakers here in the united states are saying it was smart a few years ago to get rid of qaddafi in libya but not smart to start up with a foreign policy in the from aingagile days after the dictator's threat. >> the vacuum created in libya you have to stay with it mr. president. when the military tells you something general obama has a bad track record when it comes to making military decisions. >> isis continues to demand the release of a prisoner held in jordan or e

thanks for watching "fox & friends first". i am heather childers. >> i am ainsley earhardt. >> millions of people in the northeast are preparing for the first major storm of the year. >> in new mexico heavy snow causing white out conditions snarling traffic on major highways. >> check out the time lapse of record breaking snow. that storm on the move now with the sites on the northeast. >> let's check to see what her weekend looks like. >> about 11 inches across the amarillo area. they updated that number and now they are looking at totals of a feet across that start of the storm system. it has packed a punch across parts of the plains and in the southwest. we have winter weather advisories and the snow is coming down especially across the san angelo area. it will continue to move eastward and track up the east coast as we head into the weekend. because of that we have had winter storm watches across eastern parts of main southeastern parts of new hampshire and northeastern connecticut. we are looking at the narrow area that c

it's a full night here on fox.rican idol pot latest search for a super starts at 8:00tv's hottest new show empire at 9:00. get a wrap of all the days news, weather and sports right here on the fox 29 news at 10:00. ♪ >> straight ahead at 6:00 a special ed student and security guards battle inside a camden high school. why the mother says her son never should have been hauled off to juvenile court. >>> plus a local fire department answers the call to action and ends up with costly damage to its equipment. tonight there are even health concerns for the firefighters. >>> our latest round of snow moves on out. but the weather changes will continue. why this is finally good news. deciding between buying food and health care is no longer a problem. healthy pa offers name-brand health insurance for the cost of a few basic groceries. if you're uninsured, call or apply online today. >> camden high school has a parent really up in arms tonight tonight. you can see a student and guards going at it. good evening lucy noland. >

fox 29's dr.says this puts museum visitor who's have not been vaccinated at risk and the timing here is very important. >> well, if that person came across someone that is susceptible doesn't have immunity to the measles virus there is a 90% chance that you will get that virus if you were in the same location around the same time. you have to be aware that measles can remain active on objects for up to two hours after that virus was there. >> dr. mike also adds it's important that everyone get vaccinateed against measles. >>> what do you think? is there ever really a coincidence a chance meet tag costco ended up saving one man's live. on this new year's day fox's brian mcmillan has a story of a new chance at life. >> reporter: michael is remodeling his kitchen hoping to get it all done by monday. >> i was hoping but it's not going to happen. >> reporter: you see monday is a big day. a huge day. not just for michael. >> i don't know how i'm ever going to repay him. >> reporter: this is advance fath

how much has the fox gig boosted his chances?n cuba and an improving economy that is called "the obama boom." >> there has been so much effort put forward by the republicans to trash th

right after american idol here on fox 29.side a daycare shows the worker kicking a one-year-old girl in the head. what police say she wanted the little girl to do. >>> and drivers looking to safe few pennness on gas end up spending hundreds of bucks in damage. they tell us they bought some bad gas from a local service station. what fox 29 investigates found when we stepped in. >>> bacon jock pot a new ♪ >>> florida daycare worker arrestedarrested for surveillance video shows. police say it shows 48 linda clem kicking a 15 month old girl in the head to wake her up from her nap. the girl does wake up crying then falls back asleep. 10 minutes later cops say she comes back and kick the girl on the back side. police say that she later apologized for hurting the baby but never admitted to kicking her in the head. daycare fired her and she now faces child abuse charges. that baby is bruised but okay. >>> on to your money news tonight. new iphone case that solves problem. you know when your battery dies because you switch your screen