karen smith arrives at work early in the morning at the sunoco gas station and convenience store. as manager, it's her job to get the store ready for the day's business. >> he came in and i looked at him. >> smith sits behind the counter waiting for the man to speak. >> he stuck his hands in his pocket and he leaned on the counter, and he had his fist on the counter, and says, you know what i'm here for. >> unfortunately, smith knows exactly what he means. the store has been held up many times, but this frightening experience is caught on the store's surveillance camera. >> the last ten years i was getting robbed like every month. they would come in and stick me up. i'd give them the money and they'd run out. >> smith is surprisingly calm. although she's not 100% sure the man has a gun, she doesn't take any chances. >> so he gave him everything out of the drawer. >> but this robbery isn't like the other hit and run stickups that she's experienced. this guy wants more. >> he wouldn't leave. and he asked me to come from behind the counter. i said, what for? you already got all the m

the africa subcommittee chairman, chris smith, and ranking member of that committee, karen bass, have also done in depth work on nigeria and on boko haram in particular. i appreciate their travels to nigeria. and, mr. speaker nigeria hold as critical presidential election this weekend. it's expected to be the continent's most consequentialal political event in years -- consequential political event in years. africa's most pop us will nation has -- populous nation has 100,000 polling stations. i had the opportunity with don payne to lead a delegation years ago for an election observer responsibility there for one of these national elections in nigeria and along with general colin powell at the time. let me tell you, the political environment is always tense, but it's especially tense now. and the leading candidates,

karen hess. >> and i'm bill anderson coming up on next "fox29 weekend" steven s. smithtroversy again telling african americans just vote republican. >> and beginning of wine >> a south jersey boy is having a tough couple years as he cop continues to battle unreleapting epilepsy. it's gotten to the point his medication is no longer effective at controlling his seizures. >> in two days he's going to have surgery in effort to stop seizures. joanne pelegi with more on how emergency workers are stepping up to help the 10-year-old. >> it tells me how can i do activities like riding my bike or playing football. >> when you were 10 like riley carte those things are important. but riley who aspires to be a police officer some day have suffered from epileptic sees sewers since 7. >> it can be scary. >> why? because you don't know whether the kid is going to come out of it or not. >> on monday riley heads for chop for right temporal lobe surgery where doctors will remove the part of the brain that causes seizuresch the delicate surgery was family's last option when multiple daily

karen hem. >> i'm bill anderson. coming up on the next fox 29 weekend steven a. smithrsy again telling african-americans just vote republican. >> and also, it is the beginning of wine week so we'll be drinking some wine tomorrow. join us tomorrow at 8am ♪ >>> welcome back. old school street dancers it turns out children today can learn a lot from them. performing arting advocacy group is funding a program for some philadelphia schools hopeing to bring back dance poetry and cultural expression. they also hope to teach some life-changing lessons to point children in the right direction. ♪ >> therapists for troubled teens. >> i was very shy. i did not dance at all. like i was the classic white guy. didn't know had you to move at all, so it's taken me many years but i found my rhythm. ♪ >> mark. a classical musician and artist. >> i didn't know what hiphop was at all until i came to the states for sool school when i was 18. ♪ >> it became this hobby that very slowly took over my life. ♪ >> tarrell studying graphic design and web development. >> learning more about the danc

karen's, sean mcbride strategic indications and consulting. >> now that a given ball of the hard names i would like to thank six more people, andy polansky, joanna snyder, andrew schwartz jeffrey smith, greg with the u.s. travel rob starter. rob has a fan base here. sal e. squires, susan with c-span john with "bloomberg news" and agility with the yahoo!. i would also like to give a shout out to julie who made a really big contribution this year and three weeks ago welcomed a new child into this world and made the dinner tonight. julie, thank you. may have a bob and i thank you to everyone on the dinner committee of thank you to all of us are answering our calls. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. the fruit of the dinner committee's work provides the largest source of unrestricted funds for training for journalists. this year we're going to abu dhabi to look at tobacco regulation and health issues. and assembly will take journalists to south africa to learn the latest on tv and diabetes. thanks in part to eli lilly. will also educate journalists on retirement issues in our 11th retirement program funded by prudential. and everything be a programmer adding an element of digital story

smith's transformation. >> hi, everyone, i'm matt o'donnell, 7:56 thursday, we've had problems with trucks carrying produce. let's go over to karenis tractor-trailer filmed over its side -- flipped on its side at the base of the ben franklin bridge. it's still on its side. it's creating a mess, i think they are waiting until after the morning rush. we've got a live picture of the ben franklin bridge. everybody is jammed trying to come into the city at this point. because traffic is restricted. it's getting by and blocking one lane off to the side, but creating a jamup. another tractor-trailer caught on fire and chopper 6 is over ahead showing you the scene this is the action cam video where you can see the flames shooting out of here. this was carrying potatoes for a while in newscastle delaware, they had all 295 was blocked. 295 is backed up and route 1 coming out of delaware. >> looking live at center city, soaked in sun on this last fuel day of winter. david murphy has the forecast. >> reporter: socked in with cold, 26 in allentown. 25 in millville. not a lot of wind around this morning. this afternoon, sun and clouds, high of