mother is facing charges tonight for allegedly abandoning her son in the woods near joint base mcguire lakehurst. on thursday, police say whistler abandoned her 10-year-old son near the base leaving him with just luggage. a passerby notified military personnel that took the buy to the visitor's center on base. cleve ryan came face to face with whistler today. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> you have been charged with that why would they charm you with that. >> you can please leave. >> he's now in a temporary home. >> a man admitted to shooting his neighbor to death. clayton carpenter had longstanding dispute with several neighbors or box elder drive including victim jennings, carter claimed jennings shined a light in his eyes 1 a.m. when carter says he shined high beams at the victim's yard and grabbed the gun and shot jennings killing him. he says he was threatened with the knife. >> they recovered a knife, gun and two shell casings at the scene. >> and a standoff with plymouth police before 8:0 this morning a woman told 911 she s

mother is facing charges tonight for allegedly abandoning her son in the woods near joint base mcguire lakehurst. on thursday, police say whistler abandoned her 10-year-old son near the base leaving him with just luggage. a passerby notified military personnel that took the buy to the visitor's center on base. cleve ryan came face to face with whistler today. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> did you leave your son in the woods. >> no. >> you have been charged with that why would they charm you with that. >> you can please leave. >> he's now in a temporary home. >> a man admitted to shooting his neighbor to death. clayton carpenter had longstanding dispute with several neighbors or box elder drive including victim jennings, carter claimed jennings shined a light in his eyes 1 a.m. when carter says he shined high beams at the victim's yard and grabbed the gun and shot jennings killing him. he says he was threatened with the knife. >> they recovered a knife, gun and two shell casings at the scene. >> and a standoff with plymouth police before 8:0 this morning a woman told 911 she s

the alleged incident happened last week near the visitor's center at joint base dix mcguire lakehurst a passerby called police. the boy told authorities -- was able to give police his mom's name and phone number. detectives said wisler was trying to get her son into a child program at the base but he wasn't eligible. wisler was charged and released pending a court date. >>> turning now to the forecast. the heavy rain that fell all day long yesterday is finally gone. we've got clouds hanging around right now and feeling a little cooler outside at lunchtime. as we look live outside sky6 hd showing you penn's landing, pretty picture there. accuweather says we'll be dry for a few days. the sun will finally make a return. meteorologist karen rogers outside on the terrace with those details. karen. >> literally as you said the fun will finally make a return i just got a peak of it through the cloud right now. we've been seeing peaks of cloud and sun here or there, not full on sunshine just yet but we'll take it. it's better than yesterday. a lot of people on social media were saying to me i

they left from joint base mcguire dix lakehurst this morning. >> we have capabilities just down to moving food and water supplies, it doesn't necessarily have to be picking people off rooftops. >> the helicopters are arriving on friday, they will join new jersey task force one already on scene. >> all week we talked about the outpouring of support from around the country and here in the lehigh and delaware valleys. one group saw such a large response they had to franticly change their plans. we are live at the elks lodge in marlton with more on the efforts there. >> reporter: this has been an ongoing effort for a couple of days now. you see behind me this is the truck they are filling up and i tell you it doesn't look fill now but that is because items are still within the elks lodge and tonight they expect elks lodges from across south jersey to come over and bring their donations as well. all of this is headed to texas on friday. >> it's what the elk dozen the elks care and they share. >> they got the call from the texas elks on monday. and knew they needed something bigger than an rv b

of abandoning her 10-year-old son who has special needs in this wooded area near joint base mcguire dix lakehurst nearly 70 miles family home in millville. someone sop the youngster emerge and contacted authorities. the youngster has been taken into proem ticket tiff custody. new jersey stays police contacted miss wisler the next day after the 10-year-old provided them with her name and address. the detectives from the bordentown station say that when she was questioned about the case, investigators determined that wisler allegedly left the youngster in the woods with only his luggage after finding out he was not eligible for a youth program at the base nearby. barbara tot says she was the younger's teacher's aide in kindergarten and first grade and she is floored by the accusation. >> i was just so shocked because mom adores him. he was her life and i -- i just can't believe it. i can't believe she would do that. >> reporter: we also spoke with people who live near pie who say they cannot come to grips with what the suspect is accused of doing. >> if it's true it's pretty sad. it's pathetic. >>

thank goodness a driver spotted him in those woods by joint base mcguire dicks lakehurst near trentonthe she found out her son was not eligible for a children's program at the base. so they say she then abandoned her little boy. prosecutors have charged her with endangering the welfare of a child. n washington, d.c. white house officials urging president trump to declare a national public health emergency over the opioid epidemic. now the crisis is front and center tonight as president trump addresses the growing opioid problem plaguing millions of americans. >> fox's joel waldman in washington with what the president said at this afterno afternoon's briefing in new jersey. >> reporter: president trump holding a major briefing on a major problem. the opioid epidemic. >> during my campaign i promised to fight this battle. >> reporter: president trump along with first lady melania trump and health and human services secretary tom price lead ago white house panel on our nation's growing opioid epidemic. >> more than one third of u.s. adults were prescribed the medications in two to us 15

of abandoning her 10-year-old son who has special needs in this wooded area near joint base mcguire dix lakehurstin

millville mother dipped her ten-year-old son with special needs in the woods near joint base mcguire dix lakehur lakehurst>> can you explain how this happened? >> police say a driver saw the boy in wooded area near the visitor's sent of fort dix last thursday. the driver alerted military staff who checked out the boy, fed him and gave him water. we're told he had minor injuries. neighbors in millville are floored. >> i really can't believe it. i mean, you be surprised what happens behind closed doors. or what people go through. you never know what, you know, goes through someone's mind. >> reporter: new jersey state police say the ten-year-old told staff his mom walked him into the woods and left him with his luggage. he said he fell asleep, woke up and was hungry but was able to give staff his mother's name and number. >> that's a little odd. i mean i -- like, it's weird. >> reporter: anthony miller says he has a kid with special needs. for him it hits close to home. >> there's no way possible i could ever do that to them. >> reporter: state police say they took custody of the boy and spoke to the mother