. >> jennifer joyce has more from the memorial service. >> reporter: for two hours people filed intohe gola arena at lasalle to pay their respects to rasual butler. 38-year-old philly native was killed last month in a high-speed one car crash in los angeles. his wife lea labelle known as contestant on american idol also died. >> this is heartbreaking because he was young. >> reporter: omar donaldson says butler was his first cousin. his family was proud of him and enjoyed watching him dominate on the court and like many who knew him, respected his worth ethic. >> that's why pat riley always liked him. that's why all the nba coaches liked him because he was always good on the practice squad you ready to step in any time. >> he was drafted by the miami meet in 2002 and played for several teams in the nba until 2016. at lasalle university, butler was a two-time first team all atlantic ten player. city councilman kenyata johnson grew up with butler in the point breeze section of the city. it's his character that impressed him the most. >> he always would come back and give to the neighbo

our jennifer joyce has the details. >> philadelphia police converged on the grounds of curran-fromhold prison in home berg just after 11:00 fright my. investigators say an off-duty corrections officer shot a just-released inmate in the prison parking lot, after wrestled with the officer and tried to steel his car. >> starting his life of crime over again within minutes of being released. >> police say 26 year old jamal bennett boldly committed the crime before even stepping off of prison grounds a free man. the veteran officer, 66 year old michael maritea who had just finished shies shift pulled out private gun and shot bennett in the chest. police transported the suspect to aria-torresdale hospital where he was admit in the critical condition. >> you tag a law enforcement officer you'll get you what asked nor and that's what happened. >> the president of local 159, which represents corrections officers, says he visited officer maritea last night as he recovered from minor injuries. >> he in good spirit. he got bumps and bruises, but he's okay. >> the officer was released from the hosp

our jennifer joyce went to the coach's hometown where crowds of people came out to honor the winningw and watch our eagles fly ♪ >> bleeding green three weeks after a super bowl win. >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> reporter: this crowd of birds fans is hanging out on the front lawn of the moorestown community house in new jersey to honor two local sports heroes. >> we want did you go! >> reporter: moorestown's own doug pederson angeles sift tan coach eugene chung. >> what's up, moorestown? [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: took the stage to receive township honors for bringinbringing home the lombari trophy. >> here by proclaim february 24th, 2018 to be coach doug pederson day. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: honor for the modest and down to earth championship coach. >> never had a day before. never had a day. >> reporter: while the crowd snapped photos and posted on social media they smiled as they listened to coach peterson's inspiring message about overco overcoming adversity during the 2017 season. >> i kept telling them, week in and week out, it's not about one person. i said

jennifer joyce with the details. >> philadelphia police converged on the grounds of curran-fromhold prison in holmesburg after 11:00 friday night. investigators say an off-duty corrections officer shot adjust released inmate in the prison parking lot after the suspect wrestled with the officer and tried to steel his car. >> starting his life of crime over again within minutes of being released. >> police say 26 year old jamal bennett boldly committed the crime before even stepping off of prison grounds a free man. the veteran officer, 66 year old michael maritea just finished his shift pulled out private gun and shot bennett in the chest. police transported the suspect to aria-torresdale hospital where he was admitted in critical condition. >> you tag a law enforcement officer you'll get you what asked for and that's what happened. >> the president of local 159 which represents corrections officer said he visited the officer last night as he recovered from minor injuries. >> he is in good spirits. he got bumps, bruises, but he's okay. >> the officer was released from the hospital overnight

thank you jennifer joyce. >>> the flu is everywhere.t new numbers are in and the worst of it, man, could it actually be over? >>> and this dog really is man's best friend. his name is rex and he took bullets all to protect a teen during a home invasion. and yes, rex is going to be just fine. ♪ today marks 25 years since the first terror a track at world trade center on february 26 and nino a bomb exploded in parking garage below two world trade center. six people died in the blast and more than a thousand were injured. a nearby church held a mass today to pay tribute. a ceremony at the 9/11 memorial splays will includplease is wilt wee inspects to the late reverend billy graham. the world famous evangelist will lie in repose at the billy graham library in north carolina today and tomorrow. former president george w. bush one of the people to come pay respects. casket will head next to washington, d.c. and us capitol row fun tundra wednesday and thursday. he is only the fourth civilian to receive that honor. graham's funeral is friday ba

let's go to fox 29 jeffrey joyce along the wissahickon creek with more. jennifer >> i'm joyce evans. hey, lucy and iain back there in the studios. we have been chasing the flooding all day. and it comes up fast and goes down very quickly. so we got a little bit but there's been plenty of it out here. we are right off of bells mills road and people have been stopping here all day to check out the wissahickon creek, things of that nature been checking out how the current has been flowing and the plumes of fog that have been coming in here. hard to see it right now because it's upon us, but if you see it rolling in looks something out of a scary movie. i was curious about just how fast the wissahickon creek was flowing as opposed to normal and our expert kathy orr told me it's going ten times as fast. >> that is is wow. i've never seen anything. >> reporter: anything like how the typically trickling tranquil wissahickon creek is raging like angry river >> nearby resident and professional photographer had to capture the crazy current and erie fog rolling in and out. >

merrill reese say a lethal dose of heroin making the rounds, jennifer joyce has more. >> reporter: becausein such a short period of time. evesham township is warning possibly about south jersey, in the neighbors town of voorhees three men died thursday of suspected overdoses. they were found in a hotel roam at the wind gate inn, the prosecutor's office is awaiting toxicology results to confirm which drugs led to those overdoses. evesham township employees are urging possibly to call 911 immediately if you see someone experience an overdose. there's the good samaritan statute. you will not be arrest order charged for drug use or possession. again, that statute clearly is meant to save lives. they want you to take advantage of it. >>> breaking this morning, a man gunned down in southwest philadelphia, employees say man shot in the head on 66th around midnight, police are searching for the shooter. if you have information, your asked to call authorities. >>> breaking, two people are dead after a crash in west chester. the accident happened around midnight at groves street and pottstown pike.

"action news" reporter, jennifer joyce is live outside norristown police with the details. jennette? >> reporter: good morning, matt, that second victim died at the hospital after being listed in critical condition. this is video of the scene, police towed away the car after inspecting it and resteving and checking the evidence they were able to find happened around 1:15 at chain street near west oaks in norristown, one person was shot dead and pronounced dead in the car. the car left in the middle of the road. the second person was rushed to the hospital again in extremely critical condition. that person ultimately did die. no word on a shooter or motive. in fact the shooter is on the run. detectives are looking over the evidence hope it leads to an arrest. as soon as we get information we'll pass it along. tam. >> fire broke out at a waste management facility in philadelphia. crews contained the flames to the garage area and clearing smoke from the rest of the site. there's no word on the cause. >>> classes resume for the parkland school district in the lehigh valley. a m

. >> reporter: in north philadelphia jennifer joyce fox 29 news. >> thanks, jenny joyce.his is what he looked look, that was a packed lasalle university over there butler was speeding when he lost control and slammed into a wall. lets get to a case that people have been talking about a lot of parents talking about vermont, police, have busted 55 teenagers from new jersey for having way too much fun on their winter break illegally. troopers broke up a party involving vast quantities of the alcohol and jamaica, vermont early on sunday morning. they were responding to separate vandalism reports and when they got there they found 55 under age high school seniors along with alcohol and marijuana which they then collected. the teens were not supervised at the time and their parents were called. >>> all right. a lot of people seem to find religion when they go to jail. still ahead, why a guy, that one, broke into a police station, he said, looking for the messiah my sinuses. i mean, could you be any more dramatic? i've had it. i'm taking mucinex sinus-max. it's got a triple acti

jennifer joyce was there and spoke to corey' brother about the big game. >> reporter: we're at glassboronew jersey. this is where eagles rookie corey clement went to high school. so we got a pep rally going on. cheerleaders show us what you got. >> ready! >> e-a-g-l-e-s, eagles! >> eagles hi, eagles! >> whoo! >> reporter: i want to introduce this is steven cleme clement. >> how you doing. >> you're corey's brother talk about how you're feeling. how is your family feeling, this is a huge opportunity. >> we're ready. we're ready. >> did you give your brother any advice. i understand you were a quarterback here at the high school. what did you tell him going into this weekend? >> i haven't said anything to him. he's pro now. it's kind of hard to, you know, tell a pro what to do. even though you're the older brother, too, sometimes you try to, like, you know you need to pass block and get your head around again the ball you sound silly he made it to the pros i know he knows what he's doing. i know he got it i believe we'll take home the w haven't parade and all that good stuff. >> you said t

our jennifer joyce was at holy redeemer hospital in montgomery county for a very special pep rally. >porter: we are here at holy redeemer hospital in meadow brook, pa. this is an eagles pep rally that i was excited to come to. yes. >> let's here some cheers. [ applause ] >> this is the maternity unit we have all of these babies in these homemade eagles caps and onsies here. they're excited for the game. now, one thing i do have to point out i'm not really sure hoe how we feel about this we have a little patriots fan born a couple weeks ago. what happened here? >> we are very good sports about our teams, and we have to recognize that there are patriots fans here. here is our one patriots fan in the building. [ laughter ] >> and next to the patriots fan we have a nice looking eagles fan. tell us -- what's your prediction. what are your thoughts. >> if we're going by the size of the fans here that i have hol holding i think eagles are the bigger team. no offense. but yeah. >> you're to the offensed, are you. >> no. >> we're going for the eagles on our predictions of size. all of the nurs

i'm jennifer joyce, fox 29 news. >> got to get me some swag still.ll was interviewing some eagles fans when he got a surprise visit from a very big eagles fan. >> now officially bananas. outside -- oh, joel embiid! joe joe. joe joe! >> eagles, go eagles. >> what do you think about this? >> how crazy is this. >> that was amazing. i'm happy for the whole city of philadelphia. we going to have a lot of fun now. we up next and i'm going to do my best to do it. >> for a super bowl? >> yeah. different when i go to the games i must be lucky. >> you're next? >> trust the process. >> there you go. joel embiid. >> joel embiid. the look in chris' eyes wee realized it's you. fantastic stuff. can't make it up a part from the eagles huge win folks also are cheering and engineerings the super bowl commercials. we've got a closer look new tv, new speakers, netflix. this is going to be the place for binge watching, ladies. is it, ladies? don't get me wrong, you have killer tech mrs. d, but you still don't have fios. ok? fios is a 100% fiber-optic network, literally e

jennifer joyce live in south philadelphia with this breaking story.ny, i cannot imagine. >> reporter: no, me neither a lot of people are not awake yet here in south philly. i can imagine they did have a late 90 all of this happening after 11:00 clock. they ran outside to see what the heck was going on and then they found this. a number of cars damaged. a number of side mirrors ripped off this car getting a little bit worse damage than others. i know you just saw some of that viewer video we'll show it to you again. his engine and then just crashing into cars. >> my god! >> reporter: so several people on the block came running outside after hearing the car crashing into parked vehicles here on third street. it happened around 11:00 ultimately the driver pulled over, got out of his car and what appears to be neighbors on the block held the man down until police arrived. the third police district tells us the driver was taken into custody for suspicious of dui. what happens now? a lot of people in south philly will be calling their insurance companies to