i think she's happy with us. >> reporter: joyce evans fox 29 news. >> still ahead on this special, fox>> you'll meet a local surgeon who said he learned somome prety tough lessons on the battlefields in afghanistan and iraq. >>> how he's now using his experience to save lives right here in our area. my one word to describe ac would be laid back. relaxing getaway fun unique beautiful serenity shenanigans refreshing shopping surprising happy place you know what i mean? i want to say friendly. exhilarating adventure the boardwalk #nosleep it's a great weekend. there is so much to do here. it's so great to have it so close. it's just a great location, a great place to be. we love atlantic city. ♪ >> we're back to this special fox 29 salutes the military. >>> now we'll tell you about a local surgeon who learned life-saving lessons while on the battlefield. >> now he's using those lessons to help the people of camden. and jenny joyce has his story. >> reporter: wears his military colors with pride through the trauma sent at cooper university hospital. >> i had the honor to care for many men

i think she's happy with us. >> reporter: joyce evans fox 29 news. >> still ahead on this special, foxry. >> you'll meet a local surgeon who said he learned some pretty tough lessons on the battlefields in afghanistan and iraq. >>> how he's now using his experience to save lives right here in our area. zwñw ♪ >> we're back to this special fox 29 salutes the military. >>> now we'll tell you about a local surgeon who learned life-saving lessons while on the battlefield. >> now he's using those lessons to help the people of camden. and jenny joyce has his story. >> reporter: wears his military colors with pride through the trauma sent at cooper university hospital. >> i had the honor to care for many men and women who are incredible heroes. >> reporter: doctor is a trauma surgeon. >> we have adult emergency department, a pediatric emergency department and a trauma center. all at once you can deal with whatever emergency medical situation arises. >> reporter: he also serves as a major in u.s. army reserves medical core. >> i felt as a trauma surgeon how better to really use my skills than

. >>> good evening, everybody, i'm joyce evans. >> i'm karen hepp.onds after this crash this evening in grays ferry. the officer was taken over to hup. our dave kinchen is live in university city. dave, you helped to speak with some of the witnesses who actually rescued this officer? >> reporter: that's right, and one of those witnesses says he couldn't believe what he saw. in fact, we're hear at the hospital where that injured officer and the passenger in the other vehicle are right now, and we saw 17th district officers coming here to check on this colleague. he's recovering tonight. intense flames bursting from a philadelphia police cruiser in this video obtained by fox 29. >> flames was just up there. report roar the fire moments after a police officer from the 17th district crashed with a black pickup truck at 28th and tasker in grays ferry. the officer was on the way to answer a radio call. >> we heard popping, started sounding like an flowing and pretty much the car was wreck. >> reporter: dante johnson says he and some friends rushed over to

fox 29's joyce evans now with details of the latest brutal attack by isis that sent shock waves aroundorld. >> reporter: we are told that the video does not show the actual execution or the moments lead up to the brutal decapitation but that you can see a masked militant standing over a severed head. the white house has confirmed the video is authentic and that the victim is 26 year old peter kasich former army ranger turned humanitarian who went back to the middle east. he was taken hostage last year during one of his missions delivering aid to syrians wounded and displaced. in a statement released by the white house, president barack obama said "kasich was taken from us in an act of pure evil by a terrorist group that the world rightly associates with inhuman in the". also seen in that 16 minute video was a masked beheadin behf about a dozen men identified as syrian military officers and pilots with a warning from that same executioner in the black mask with the british accent vowing that u.s. soldiers would meet the same fate. kasich's parents recently made this video pleading with

. >> a 53 year old local woman in the fight of her life takes our joyce evans on journey from chesterton, d.c. >> grab the apples for me. >> carlene, loves to cook. fresh applesauce homemade the old-fashioned way. a treat her husband steve doesn't mind helping with the prep. >> dining room on the bottom shelf. >> right behind the antique grandfather clock. a family treasure. it will be soft just in time for the arrival of another treasure, ava their biological granddaughter who they recently adopted. >> she knows that she's my ang angel. >> you'll see why in just a bit. so life couldn't be more perfect for the family living in the surrene rolling hillside of spring city, pa. except, food doesn't do anything for me. i don't absorb anything. i don't live like every other human being lives. i have bag. i have a port. >> she has a big problem with her intestinal track and she's running out of time to fix it. >> we've done everything medically and her bowel just won't function. >> why? >> nobody knows. but it has taken quite a toll. >> the first abdominal surgery was in 1986. >> and ever s

joyce evans, fox 29 news. >> all right.al media attention wanted to know who alex it appears we have all been duped. a marking company has taken responsibility. the company breaker says it was behind the social media blitz a rep says the harness -- harnessed the power of fan girl pace to make alex an actual target worker a viral sensation much the company got a member of its team to get alex's permission for the picture and the rest is well twitter history. alec quickly rocketed to half a million followers from that one pun chick in 24 hours. taped an appearance on the ellen show today. target hasn't commented on breakers revelation. some of us knew it was too good to be true. >> i have a correction to make. i was absolutely wrong on air and i admit i wasn't wrong. it wasn't just iain knew what was going on. so did this one over here scott william. chief meteorologist. i'm sorry. >> i was just theoretically saying yesterday if you do tap into a fan girl thing i is have a 1484 old, it can be real. anyhow we move on. >> it's

it's not up to us. >> report roar joyce evans, fox 29 news. >> what an incredible journey.s journey. she remains on transplant list. >> her surgeon at georgetown says he's confident they will find another match, of course, we'll let you know how that journey progresses. saying prayers for her. >> little puppy is a living tribute to a fallen hero in indianapolis. it's a three month yellow golden retriever labrador mix. she's training with the indiana k9 assistance network to become a service dog. the pup month is named after slain officer perry r he will nd in the police department. a gunman killed him in july. >> officer re envelope d was an avid dog lover. in addition to the k9 to the team will be a powerful reminder of the work he did throughout his career. >> prosecutors want the death penalty accused for the man -- the man accused of killing the officer. >> lift up your head. >> he says using your smart phone so much can hurt your ba back. he studies found when you tilt your head forward to look at your phone you're actually pu putting about 60 pounds of treasure on you

joyce evans, fox 29 news. >> very interesting. >> um hup.e family in minneapolis is thanking a local high school for giving their son a new hand. >> seven-year-old johnny was born with only a thumb on his right hand. technology and engineering teacher mark vander march and his students created a robotic hand for johnny this year. robotic. talk about a class project. my goodness. johnny's aunt proved the teacher with that idea last december. they took it on. they jump at the challenge. spent nine months on the proje project. the school's 3d printer made it reality. >> it gives him something it just an idea and strength to move toward any time you can give that to anybody that's messing something that's huge. >> the family says johnny is till getting used to his robo hasn't but has already started to impact his live in really good way. >>> good for him. >> um-hmm. >>> all right. shredder is here with a look at sports. >> us will see and iain for the eagles and cowboys all you fans out there, your wait is almost over. less than 24 hours until k

joyce evans fox 29 news. >> a cookie caper is solved in maryland. arrest after police say they tried to make off with a wagonful of girl scout cookies it happened saturday in anne arrundel coun county. two young scouts were selling the cookies. they turned their backs and noticed suspect taking off with their goods and heading to a get away car. a couple of the neighbors jumped into action tracked the guys down. the police were able to arrest the suspects not far away. >> good. >>> police and firefighters in ohio make quite a rescue. >> a dog very thirsty, very hungry, very scared was stuck on the roof of a house. on the roof of a house. it's hard to imagine but here it is. police say the dog's owner had a break in and thought his rotweiler was stolen or had escape. the man was staying at a friend' house and didn't know his dog had climbed through a hole in his attic and got on the roof and got trapped. the dog was up there for three days with no food nor water until somebody spotted her and called for help. >> i'm sure he's hungry. >> the dog was f

joyce evans fox 29 news. >> thank goodness dana finally found the right doctor. >>> tonight slaying aiends and a whole lot of courage. i'd like to you meet a south jersey teenager i had the pleasure of hanging out with. a high school girl who has doctors turning to her for help and schools asking for her to speak. but these days began in a very dark place. >> seventh, eighth grade that was going to be the end for me. i was going to have an eating disorder, dead by the time i was out of high school. like i wouldn't be here any mo more. >> that was no easy battle either that courtney and her family faced. look at her now. she's dedicated to helping oth others face down the same fears and the problem is much bigger than you might imagine. >> it's getting worse. patients are getting younger. they're -- we're seeing younger and younger patients. we're seeing older women come in with the diss or. we're seeing men. >> tonight at 10:00 we take you on courtney's amazing journey. we'll show you just how big of an impact she's making and share what to do if you're struggling or no somebody who d

>> joyce evans, fox 29 news. >> wang what length my telomeres are. got to cut down that stress. >> that is true. >> how about this a beefburger on the run in pennsylvania. police say the crook stole 800 pounds of meat. >> you know and when you hear where he stole it from, that crime goes from weird to just plain old maddening. >>> a man jumps into the ocean to swim with a hammer head shark. not surprisingly things get scary quicking. what he says sent that shark into a frenzy. >> why would he do that? >> i don't know. crazy. >> coming up all new at 6:00 an african parrot missing from a local zoo. the zoo says the bird cage wasn't lock. where the bird just turned up. scott? >> iain, coming up find out when it will feel more like january with a big drop in temperatures. ♪ ♪ >> a beef burglar on the run in pennsylvania and now hundreds of people are left hungry. police say someone stole 800 pounds of ground beef from a food bank in saint thomas franklin county. investigators say the meat was taken from the freezers at the saint thomas united methodist c

good evening, everybody, i'm joyce evans. >> i'm karen hepp. that officer is in stable condition. let's get right out to the scene, we have dave kinchen there. dave, what do we know? >> reporter: what we know from police, that officer was involved in a situation out here when he was run down by a suspect. and we under stands that the officer is in stable condition, with injuries to his torso. we understand he will be okay. investigators are working the scene here, the 2300 block of fairhill. >> this also involved a shooting, we're told by witnesses, who heard gunshots, they heard about four gunshots, then a break, then about five gunshots, then another break. then another shot. now, i want to go this way. we understanded police tell us a gun is down this way so they are looking at a weapon on this corner right here. we understand police tell us they did get the vehicle involved in this case. we understand an arrest has been made, as well. but officers are still arriving at this location, they're trying to secure several different scenes here, several different corners, i should sa

. >> fox 29's joyce evans joins us live from our satellite center more on this incredible feat, joyce. >> incredible indeed. what the they get the credit for mission accomplished on 300 million-mile, ten year project, all of us earth links can say how cool is that? well, they landed that spacecraft, the size after washing machine, on a comet wizzing and spinning through space. until now, scientists say they could only stud think casino of activity from a far. now, the whole world can benefit from what the european space agency has accomplished. >>> and the cool thing is, that the surface of the comet is a pristine refrigerator or pristine museum of the early history of the solar system. so, we can look at this pristine material and learn so much more about how our solar system came into existence, and its early development, right up through the development of planets like earth and the others, and we also get to learn a little bit where water in our solar system may have come from, and if there are enough organic materials in the early history of the solar system, to possibly make som

good evening, everybody, i'm joyce evans. >> and i'm karen hepp. so if you are headed out this evening, you may want to bundle up. let's get right over to meteorologist, caitlin roth. the big question everyone wants to know, is the whole weekend a wash? >> definitely not. in fact, the rain's mostly over for everyone, karen, we should be seeing some clearing overnight, see a lot of sunshine tomorrow. so right now, ultimate doppler looking at least little better than this morning, a lot of rain still moving across portions of new england, north jersey, broken up over the delaware valley over the past hour or so. spotty shower here or there, otherwise, a loft just seen the rain come to an end, the exception being down along the shore, still see little bit more green there, steadier showers, where coastal flood advisory remains in effect through 7:00 p.m. because high tides about to happen. the temperatures, they've not improved. still just 48 degrees outside here in philadelphia, 48 as well in pottstown, 49 in allentown, 46 in millville. we lited errl

i'm joyce evans. >> i'm karen hepp. school leaders spent the day leaning up a really big mess. our dave kinchen life eau now in olney witness latest on all of this. dave, pretty horrifying what these administrators found. >> reporter: it really is. it's horrifying what they found. they say that criminals actually broke in, defecated in the school, urinated in the school and stole several computers. staff members here at the charter school actually noticed all of the damage when they came in to set up for symposium this morning now police are actively looking for three men. >> take a look at these surveillance pictures they show three men dressed in black. police say they were able to get through the locked front doors of the charter school campus and raided the building. investigators say they stole four computers like these from classrooms and also swiped a laptop. those items valued at $8,400. the central office was also ransacked. police say the men stole about $600 in money held aside for school charities. the cafeteria also had food taken from it. if that's not bad enough,

joyce evans has the details avenue new approach to saves of lives of babies and prevent serious long fe health problems much joyce. >> this is huge and proof we live in a region in the cutting edge of medicine and science in this country. surprisingly this time we're way behind on the world stage. unfortunately s ranks among the worst in so-called high resource countries in numbers of premature baby. just in pennsylvania alone, 16,000 babies are born too soon every year. >> one in eight babies are born prematurely at the hospital of the university of pennsylvania every day. >> reporter: but that's going to change according a diverse team of penn doctors scientists -- >> i love it. >> retired eagle and fox 29 game day regular a famous baby photographer, a world famous non-profit and $10 million. >> their primary mission is to find the cause of pre term births. >> reporter: under the umbrella of a brand new premature are the research center, coming to chop, and that's not all they'll offer. >> we need to be able to identify women at risk for pre term births. so that we can offer them pe

. >> i'm joyce evans, the officer was investigating a shooting when he was run over. fox 29's dave chin chen live outside hahnemann hospital tonight in center city, dave, what exactly happened here? >> well, joyce, the officer is resting here at hahnemann university hospital. he's in stable condition, and police tell us, this all started moments after a gunfire. >> several investigators search for evidence on the 2300 block of north fairhill in philadelphia, after officer was run over while trying to catch a gunman suspected of shooting 25 year old man. >> i was inside. i just heard the shots, i was taking a shower, and -- >> neighbors tell fox 29 they heard around ten shots before seeing the shooting victim on the grounds, barely able to move. >> shot couple of times. he shot couple of times. >> they had a viewing today, so the block was packed, a lot of kids, a lot of kids. >> police say they tried to stop the suspect as he took off in a car, when he allegedly ran over the officer. the officer was taken to hahnemann university hospital with injuries to his torso whil

good evening everybody, i'm joyce evans. >> i'm karen hepp. tonight police are warning all parent please check your children's halloween bag. really scary find. >> reporter: towamenson township police say the danger came from a house somewhere in the area of woodlawn drive and walnut lane. that will danger a razor blade packed into small candy bar just like this one. it is the kind of halloween scare jennifer gauge wasn't expecting. >> i'm just very surprised in my own neighborhood, right in the vicinity of my neighborhood, that something like this would happen. i've never seen it in my life. >> the 13 year old son sorting through his pillow case of trick-or-treat goodies when he made the horrifying discovery. >> and he was picking up little piece of candy like every other child does, the morning after halloween, and finds a razor blade. and he goes: mom, a good thing you tell knee check my candy, look at this. >> she said that razor blade was found in a snack size nestle crunch bar just like this one. >> it looked rusty, like someone had it l

. >> i'm joyce evans. let's get over to meteorologist caitlin roth. you've got a lot to talk about here. >> we've got just about everything in the forecast, joyce. all along a very busy week. let's starter with the first weather headline. lifting northward into pennsylvania right now. the heaviest stuff still back towards our southwest and the leading edge of the rain hasn't even made it into philadelphia quite yet. this warm front will eventually bring very mild monday which we'll challenge and probably break a few records around the area. but first the showers starting to hone in on the delaware area. you can see around dover a little bit of light rain for the rest of us we'll wait until overnight. fox future cast shows after midnight around 2:00 a.m. some of the heavier rain starts to lift into philadelphia and that could be pretty heavy even a rumble of thunder is possible into the overnight hours. by 7am when we hit early morning commute just leftover showers. temperatures very mild right now we're in the 40s and 50s and actually ride rise overnig

. >>> i'm joyce evans. >> teenager and another put their own lives at risk to pull that officer to safety. fox 29's is live at the 17th police district. dave what a story. >> really is. it was absolutely chaotic. flames were just bursting shooting out of that police car but this teenage hero says he was just doing what came natur naturally. >> chambers looks like your every day 17 year old but right now he's a hero. >> as soon as he got the cop out it was already fire. >>> he's credited with pulling a philadelphia police officer from this burning squad car moments after colliding with a black pick up at traitt trait 28th an. >> he was in shock. he couldn't feel this legs or move. >> it was door was lock shut and it wouldn't open. there was people standing by watching and i yelled over for somebody to come help me because we had get him out through the window. >> reporter: fierce flames growing by the second. >> at the bottom the car was like on fire a little bit and once we got like him halfway out the window the whole engine blue and starred to catch really started to catch fire. >> dant

i'm joyce evans. >> and i'm karen hepp. so many travel letters that are on the grounds that are having pretty easy time, also in the air, as well. let's go to our meteorologist, dom kane davis in for caitlin roth. so how is it looking for people headed home right now? we had real nice day, our temperatures are already much milder, than we have seen over the last couple of days. >> decent weather, no rain. not too cold. >> temperatures in the 50's, you know, good weather to travel in right now. >> all right, well, check back with dom cane in just a movement she is getting herself together. of course you can track the temperatures any time our radar, and any time you would like, just come to myfoxphilly.com, there is dom cane right now, joining us this moment. good evening. hello, dominica? >> all right, we'll check back with her. developing story happening right now, the fbi has joined the search for west chester university student who disappeared after a night out in manayunk, and police searched the very cold waters off th

. >> brutal indeed aim joyce evans. wind chill factor making it feel like winter. lets go over to fox 29 meteorologist caitlin roth, pretty nippy, caitlin. >> it is, joyce and karen, big change. lets look at peak wind gusts which occurred earlier this morning. high wind that we saw at least reports of them in cape may 50 miles an hour wind gusts, same thing in the lehigh valley and bushkill township in northampton county. 50 miles an her there wind. philadelphia at airport in south philadelphia 48 miles an hour wind gust around 9:00 a.m. this morning and mount pocono 47. you heard it, felt it, and you saw those leaves blowing around like crazy. concerned wind gusts they have subsided. we will see that. that is typical after sunset. win gusts though still close to 30 miles an hour in pottstown. 25 miles an hour in wilmington. 24 miles an her in atlantic city. temperatures have been chilly all day. we did not even hit 50-degree mark. right now 42 allentown. forty-seven in philadelphia a. forty-five in dover. it is about how it feels. it does feel cooler. most of the d

joyce evans is off this evening. >> 21-year-old shane montgomery left a bar the night before thanksgiving. no one has seen him since. our dave kinchen reports from manayunk. >> reporter: tears and reflect at canal view park in manayunk. dozen people holding candles before placing them alongside the cam and a sign of love for 21-year-old shane montgomery. the man many of these family members, friends and neighbors are tirelessly searching for. >> he's our son and i won't ever stop looking for shane, ever. >> there's just so much help, so much support, but you just keep praying. >> reporter: his parents humbled by the support. >> what keeps you going? >> that's what keeps going. >> vigil held across the street from kildare's irish pub where shane was last seen on the night of thanksgiving eve. separated from friends during a night on the town. >> i want to tell shane that no matter what, we love him. if he can find his way to -- to find his way to a phone, to a place, a police station he needs to find somebody who can help him get home. >> reporter: hours earlier the philadelphia police mar

fox 29's joyce evans is in the newsroom tonight with that update the story you saw first on fox. joyce. >> iain 56-year-old attorney brian meehan facing a slew of charges and philadelphia da seth williams could not hold back his disgust. as he outlined the horrific allegations. williams described meehan as a john snagged in the net of a federal human trafficking investigation. a man an woman are accused of of running a prostitution ring out of their germantown home. williams said the couple admitted the 14-year-old victim was one of five young girls in that ring and they confirmed her allegations that she was delivered to meehan's office several times for sex that he paid for and that she was not his youngest victim. da got a bit emotional talking about it thinking of his three daughters. his promise to up hold the law and his faith in god. >> i believe there's a very special place in hell for men like brian meehan that rape 12 and 14-year-old girls. >> he practiced law by day and bought an underaged girl by night. this arrest shows that the underground world of human trafficking

i'm joyce evans. >> i'm karen hepp. >>> those cold winds came pretty much a shock to anybody stepping outside today. let's get right over to katelyn roth with a check of what we have now. >>> it's a shock to the system the first time we feel like we are entering a new season and we are actually enter agnew month. november began yesterday. it did come in with a vengeance luckily all the wet weather we saw on saturday long gone. storm system now wrapped up across portions of eastern maine and the canadian maritime. a lot of snow here. this is of course for central and eastern sections of maine far away from us, but on the back side of that storm system, tight pressure gradient delivering very gusty winds all day long. breezy outside right now. temperatures in the mid 40s here in philadelphia. 43, 39 in pottstown. 39 in allentown. already at the freezing mark up in mount pocono. we still have a steady breeze sustained winds outdoors you feel consistently between 15 to 20 miles an hour that's enough to keep our temperatures up at night but it's also enough to create wind chills that are a

joyce evans here with a preview of her special report on age.hought age was all in your mind. >> for you, positive thinking helps and three triplet boys. >> that can help you. >> but you guys know we can lie about it all we want. we can try to all kinds of ways to consist up on the outside, but the proof is right up under your skin. you might be shocked to find out what your real age is and it doesn't have to always be a bad thing for everybody. so can you handle the truth? well, it was really tough for lindsay baker. she was floored to find out how much older her fitness age was than the years she's been alive. >> my fitness age starting out was 47 which was crazy to me. she wasn't married yet. she didn't even have children yet. >> do you have to allow time for your health or it will catch up to you. >> well, lindsay got to work and you may want to as well. when you hear some of the science behind your fitness age and it's more than working out and eating right. fascinating stuff that may actually hold the answer to how long you're actually goi