thanks sabina a. 6:36. the federal authority are looking into new claims against new jersey governor chris christie and his add perfection. >> bennet barlen says governor's office had him fired after complaining about dropping the case against a political donor. barlen spoke with the justice department investigators for more than an hour about the the incident which happened about 2010. governor has denied any involvement. >>> federal safety officials are trying to get clues together as they investigate that deadly train collision in new york. >> yeah, early findings indicate that the train wasn't speeding and the engineer a applied the emergency brake. it still took met the tro north plane 302nd and more than 900 feet to stop. that was too late to avoid smashing in the suv across the track killing the driver and five people board the train when the train caught fire and all that smoke my goodness. >>> 6:37. kerry washington is on the cover of in style magazine but her fans are in the the so happy about it.

fox 29's sabina kuriakose has the story for us out of chester. >> reporter: neighbors 11 the dog was kept out in the cold for weeks on end. they say he was a loving friendly animal who never stood chance. no answer at door of this chester home where neighbors say the unthinkable happened to a beloved animal. >> we went out back to check on the dog and it froze to death overnight. >> reporter: tyler doesn't want to show his face on camera but says his neighbor's loving pitbull who tyler nicknamed spot was left out for weeks in the cold. >> it was never inside. it was always out back. 24/7 they never brought it in. >> reporter: tyler and his family took pity on the dog. >> well would pet it. it would play with us. we'd feed it. it was great dog. it's a shame it died. >> reporter: now neighbors are calling for justice. after the delco spca confirmed the dog froze to death earlier this month. the spca says police are investigateing a spokesperson says any pets left outside in frigid temperatures must have enclosed shelter, food and water water. spot died the spca says there could be char

our sabina kuriakose is live outside the upper dash plea police department with more. sabina?> reporter: iain we just aired that video last night. the neighbors say the suspect was back in the area this morning. that's when they chased him down down. >> he never thought somebody would recognize him but security cameras are a blessing. >> reporter: those security cameras syma choudhry caught the man who burglarized his upper darby home monday night slipping and sliding and taking a smell on the with out. >> his neighbors recognized the suspect who came back to walk this icy alleyway between their homes. this time daylight gave them a good look at the man's face. the man in his late 40s walked with a limp from that icy fall hadn't a bandaged hand and after he allegedly cut it on glass breaking into his home. the same neighbor later caught up with the suspect when he noticed him standing outside his market street store. >> this guy he was brave. he recognized him and he got arrested. >> reporter: the neighbor called 911 and upper darby police surrounded the alleged thief inside 6

fox 29's sabina kuriakose live outside police headquarters with the very latest on this, a sabina. >> reporter: well, two young men shot in the hail of bullets and police say it happen at close range. they are alive but the the 23 year-old man youngest one he is in critical condition a at hahnemann. had to go in surgery and he was shot three times. he is fighting for his life. other victim a 26 year-old man is in stable condition at einstein and he has # bullet wound. it happened just after 1:00 at intersection of jasper and ontario streets. police say the shooting was likely drug related. they are base ago this ontario location where it happened. they say it is a known open air drug market there police do have witnesses saw what happened. they are combing through surveillance video from a local business, and they are hopeful that will lead to clues to the the shooters who did this, did this rather. chief inspector scott small talk to us from the scene this morning and here's what he describe police found when they got to the scene. >> based on ballistics evidence at the scene we know

a sabina. >> reporter: you can bet parents will have questions when school opens up this morning. we are here at mitchell elementary school. police say a 13 year-old student brought packets of crack kentucky cain to the school yesterday. cops say he gave the drugs to an eight year-old to hold on to and the the plan was to have that child pass the crack back to him after school. they had planned to meet at a corner store around here. well instead, being an eight year-old he passed around the drugs, to his friend, one of them smelled it. a couple others took a look at it. four students were rushed to chop. but they are all right. the last night police searched the 13 year-old's eastwick avenue home. his mother came out and she talked to us. she denied her son had anything to do with this and defendedded him. let's listen to what she had to say. >> i had a search warrant in my house. they searched my house. it is clear. my sonnies clear. thank y'all very much. >> is your son home. >> yes, he is home and okay. he a has not touched no drugs. he has not touched anything. they wanted to

sabina is on the way. we will take through when they arrive but septa says bus route one and 14 also being detoured again, it is just southbound lanes, that are being impact for at least right now, so bustleton avenue would be your best bet. here's a pick sent to me here what looks like from maybe behind your windshield here. is there rear-view mirror and brake lights of the car in front of tanya jackson, an example, you need some extra time, that light coating of freezing rain kind of coated windshield, maybe prevent from you getting a key in the car door handle there this morning. in some area a light dusting have of snow laid on top of that ice. that is where we are dealing with north and west of the city, the major roadways have been treated, salties down but on and off ramps are still tricky, down in delaware, route 896 is block at four seasons parkway, an accident caused by ice. here's an exam have the of the 30 bypass coming in from say downingtown where majors are okay but less traveled on and off

. >> fox 29's sabina kuriakose shows us this isn't so much about easing hunger pains about making lifeittle easier for local families. >> reporter: in a sea of beaming faces -- >> thank you. a billion times. >> reporter: her bright smile and -- >> she's a sweetheart. >> reporter: 12-year-old is a sixth greater in the clear view regional school district. she was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy just two years ago and is upbeat as she is, lately she's been start tolling worry. >> yeah. i was because my dad he's in a wheelchair and my home is not working right now to help us. so we were sort of worrying about that. >> reporter: her months had to leave her job to care for her daughter and husband. bills were piling up. clear view regional high school hoagie for hope super bowl fundraiser sponsored by student council. >> it was awesome to see everyone come out from the community and thinking if it was me i would want someone to help us. that courage to start it here. >> worry so proud of our school today. it's a good day to be a pioneer. good tee to be a pioneer. if you look around this is

sabina kuriakose is live at the warminster station tonight with an update for us. sabina. >> reporter: take live look behind me one of the first trains to arrive here at the warminster station after all of this happened. this train is on time. again the trains just started running within the last hour. let's take look at some of that incredible sky fox video we captured for you this morning. septa now confirming that cold weather brought live wires down on a train headed into philly from the warminster station. 500 people on board were trapped for an hour and a half. as septa crews cut power to the wires then lined up a rescue train alongside the disabled car to get people off. it all happened just after 8:00 o'clock this morning at the height of the morning rush. septa tells us all of those passengers were in philly by 9:40 this morning. let's take a look at some video that we got for you just as this line began running again. initially they had buses running from the glenside station to warminster and then again as i mentioned the trains started running but that

fox 29's sabina kuriakose has what happened next. >> got me worried.eft work to see if he was okay. so obviously i am little bit worried. >> reporter: anxious friends and family checking on the victims of an early morning home invasion along dana avenue at the berkshire tries apartments in northeast philadelphia. >> somebody on his knees with his hands behind his back. here they got the guy with gun. >> reporter: busted window and three tossed out cell phones marked the escape route of three armed gunmen who police say kick in the door of this home just after 2:30 sunday morning. police say the masked men asked for role leck watches and jewelry that they saw pictured on one of the victims social media accounts of the investigators say the gunmen saw the posts on instagram. they stole a rolex and two gold chains before smashing their way through that back window. fortunately the five teenaged victims unside all between 17 and 19 years old were okay. >> i heard a bank. >> reporter: when neighbor jerry conte look out the window he couldn't believe what he

our sabina is getting to that scene. we'll have a live report coming from her in a matter of moments. taking a look at some other headlines. we know that a man is dead after a house fire in the kensington. a kerosene heater sparked the blaze. the smoke alarm inside the home was not working the 8:04. a philadelphia police officer was involved in a crash. this happened just around third and market streets in old city. nobody was injured. in our cover story this this morning there's excitement in the city of brotherly love. the democratic national committee announces it will bring it's convention to philly next year and as soon the news was announced this week social media blew up. you can see a lot of those tweets and comments scrolling across the bottom of your screen. jodi wrote on twitter so excited philly was chosen for dmc2016 and matt said i think the democrats made a great choice putting the 2016 convention in filly and finally this tweet, philly final bet new york city at something. congrats to my beloved philly on

sabina, thank you. there was another home invasion also in northeast philadelphia overnight and this happened just before 1:00 this is 6,000 block of ed monday street in tacony a man with a gun got way with more than 5,000 dollars. >> our cover story this morning anchor brian williams is immediately taking a leave of absence he made that announcement in a statement today. criticism around miss remembering of story is continuing to grow. williams told a story multiple times about being in a helicopter shot down it turns out he was in another helicopter an hour behind the one struck. now they're questioning his reporting on hurricane katrina. writing is inexcusable in journalism and i think brian williams should lose his job. and this person says society is so quick to jump. #brian wul yumz and #not a big deal. >> in a midst of a career covering news it's become painfully aware i'm too much a part of the news due to my actions as managing editor of nbc nightly news i decided to take myself off the daily b

fox 29's sabina kuriakose has details. >> the ability for them to be able to stay on track and to trynot fall under peer pressure, and just to be able to keep his mine right and stay focused. >> dana what's all the best things for eight-year-old son justin. the two worry about the world that he's growing up in. she brought him here to the launch of mayor nutter's commission on african-american males rebuilding the village program. >> young black males are responsible, that they're not all engaged in violence or crime crime. that they're paying attention to what's going on in their community. >> reporter: mayor nutter says this is just the first in a series of conversations he hopes to have around the city and he says they're not just going to be talking about healing and wellness but frank discussions about current events that are on the minds of young people. >> you have to look at issues like tragedies in ferguson or staten island are even something that may have happened here in philadelphia and so how do you heal community and police relations? how do you deal with young people wh

sabina kuriakose has more from morrisville. >> it is a tragedy. it has come to an officer getting hurt, especially in small little town like this. >> morrisville borough reacts to news one of it officers is injured in a police-involved shooting early saturday morning. >> when you're woken up at 5:30 in the morning by police radio, officer involved in a shooting your symptom just rolls. >> police say veteran officer on routine patrol notice add car running in the parking lot of this 7-eleven, along bridge street around 5:30 a.m. a check of the plates revealed the vehicle had been stolen four days ago from bristol township. the uniformed corporal approached the suspect who allegedly through the vehicle in reverse striking the officer and pinning him to his patrol car. >> the car hits the officer. the officer fires two shots into the side of the drivers vehicle, striking the defendant, who was the only person in the vehicle at that time. >> reporter: but it didn't end there. the injured suspect took off from the 7-eleven parking lot. he headed down t

sabina shreshda acknowledge are al jazeera nepal. >> in the next parse of the series we travel to be to bangladesh. >>> venezuela's government is accusing a fod chain of food chain of squirreling away are food supplies. andy gallagher reports. >> in caracas shoppers line unearly, if staples like butter and flour would all of a sudden become available. >> when i come during week to shop they say no, shopping by i.d. card. what i.d. card? i go over there and see the piece of paper and say monday is my day to shop. how do we know if there's going to be a shipment? >> the madoro government, says shortages are caused by private business owners. ricardo says it is a deliberate attempt to undermine authorities. >> this is yet another phase of the economic war aimed at toppling president mad maduro's government. >> supplies seized and serl owners jailed on charges of harming the economy. later though, same business ves little or nothing on the shelves and some shoppers aren't convinced the government is helping. >> i want them to explain how the measures will improve anything. everything the

. >> as fox 29's sabina kuriakose shows us it, wasn't to ease hunger pannings but to help local families. >> in a sea of booming faces a billion times. >> she is a sweetheart. >> a sixth grader, in the clearview regional school district. upbeat as she; lately, starting to wore. >> i yes i was because my dad, he is in a wheelchair, and my mom's not working right now to help us. so we were sort of worrying about that. >> her mom had to leave her job to care for her daughter and husband. bills were piling up. the high school started this go fundraiser. >> awesome to see everyone come out from the community just thinking like, if it was me, i would want someone to help us. >> yes. >> just taking the courage really starting here. >> so proud of our school today. good day to be a pioneer. good to be to be a pioneer, if you look around, it is amazing. >> nearly 300 volunteers it, rolling out the rolls with meat raising money for kids with serious illnesses. >> not just sending out to some organization where you never know where the money goes. these kids are here and the direct benefactors of t

sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. rosie o'donnell is leaving the view again.his time just after six months. next week will be her last week on the talk show. her publicist also announcing o'donnell and her wife of three years broke up in november and that leaving the show will allow her to focus on her five children. o'donnell you may recall return to the view in september back in 2007. she left the show after a rocky one year stint. >>> tragedy at a busy restaurant restaurant. a van plows right into the building. witnesses describe the scary scene next. >>> and a pilot and his wife say they owe their lives to their i-pad. how they used it to land a badly damaged plane. >> it's time for ticket or skip it. today we talked about june piper ascendents. same people responsible for the matrix trilogy. they make movies complex. we went to the red carpet premier to ask some of the people what the movie was about. here's what they said. >> it's about human consumption and the desire to want and need and how we as a civilization just consume and what's our worth with t

sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >>> and for continuing storm coverage go to myfoxphilly.com.ou can track all the snowfall amounts in your neighborhood and everywhere else and we're getting a lot of pictures in from viewers. we would like to see yours. just go there and check out all the ones that we have on our home page. send us yours. it will be there too two dozen people forced oh it into the cold after a fire destroys an apartment building. firefighters really had difficult time getting the blaze under control at the emerald ridge apartments in lindenwold new jersey. they say snow and ice made their jobs even harder. in all four units went up in flames. 24 people displaced. still no word on what caused the fire. the red cross is helping everyone that was affected. about 10 miles away firefighters dealing with similar problems trying to get this house fire under control in audubon inform. the bitter cold temperature and fierce winds making this situation particularly tough. it was so cold that a nearby fire hydrant froze. two families were forced out. >> ton developing sto

sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >> and for continuing storm coverage go to myfoxphilly.com.ou can track snowfall amounts in your neighborhood also we're getting a whole lost pictures from our viewers. you can check them out on our home page and send us yours. we may just show them on tv. >>> meantime two dozen people are forced out into the cold this morning after fire destroys an apartment building. firefighters had a difficult time getting that fire under control at the emerald ridge apartments in lindenwold, new jersey. they say snow and ice made the firefighters job particularly difficult. in all, four units went up in flames. 24 people displaced. there's still no word on exactly what caused the fire. the red cross is helping everyone who was affected. >>> about 10 miles away firefighters dealing with similar problems trying to get this house fire under control in audubon new jersey. bitter cold temperatures and some fierce winds making that situation really tough. it was so cold that nearby fire hydrant actually froze. two families were forced out. >>> and still ahead o

fox 29's sabina kuriakose live outside police headquarters for us, sabina, good morning. >> police found 13 spent shell casings, that is 13, bullets fired from two different semiautomatic weapons at this scene. it happened just after 1:00 in the kensington section of the city along jasper and ontario streets. a 23 year-old man was shot twice in his upper body and once in the leg. he is fighting for his life at hahnemann hospital where he is in critical condition. the other victim a 26 year-old man was wounded twice once in the torso and then again in the leg. he is a lucky one. he is in stable condition at einstein. both men were shot at close range. police are investigating what led to the a attack but they think they have a good idea. >> we don't have a a motive at this time however this intersection of jasper and ontario is a well known intersection for open air street level drug dealing. we're not certain but that is the motive at this time but it is a very good possibility. >> reporter: there were two shooters both were wearing ski masks to cover their faces. witnesses described a w

fox 29's sabina kuriakose is live in king sessing with more, hi sabina. >> reporter: we're talking about bags of crack cocaine passed out among grade schoolers here's at mitchell elementary school. it happened yesterday just before noon time. that is when four kid, the youngest of them eight years old, were rushed to chop for exposure to the crack. police say a 13 year-old boy, brought the drugs to school. they say he then paid an eight year-old $7 to keep the crack in his book bags until the end of the school day. well the eight year-old passed around the crack, so sauce classmates within of whom smelled it and they were taken to chop after another student saw what was going on he did the right thing and alerted staff who then took action. now parents are shock outraged that suggest like this happened while their kid were going to will school. we did talk to some of them and we have talk to the mother of the 13 year-old boy whom police are investigating and listen to what they told us. >> they could have died from them drugs that is crazy. it is bad. for them to be that age and dragging

a as fox 29's sabina kuriakose said they took down trees and rattled nerves. >> it is a dangerous hazard, situation with that tree. >> reporter: wind clocking in at 50 miles per her causing a headache in the east falls section of the city, early sunday morning. bringing a large section of this massive tree, down on an apartment unit just after 5:00 o'clock. the the resident inside, shaken but uninjured. >> absolutely crazy wind. wind and cold. >> he said it sounded like an avalanche through the house. >> reporter: terrifyingly close call for a delaware county family. how long wind brought this tree through their newtown square home amazingly. >> i thought the they were all gone. the that is how bad. it just missed his bed by inches. >> reporter: no one was hurt. temperatures at record lows. >> it was like what. >> freezing cold. >> reporter: even standing at the bus stop was hazardous. >> there is no reason to go outside right now. >> reporter: except you have to travel. >> exactly. even then try to make other plans. >> reporter: whether it is waiting at the bus stop or shoveling snow, h

fox 29's sabina kuriakose has the disturbing details from chester. >> very sad. it's horrible. for any cat dog even a mouse right about now it's too cold for. >> reporter: horrified neighbor martin reacts to hearing that her neighbor's dog froze to death. allegedly left out in the cold as temperatures plungeed. this is the spot where neighbors say the dog described as a white pitbull was left out day and night for several weeks. neighbor tyler who didn't want to show his face says the dog was playful and friendly. he says people who live around here felt sorry for it. >> we would put blankets out for it in its cage and the neighbors would never bring it in. >> reporter: martin says when the barking stopped a few weeks ago, she hoped for the best. >> i thought because it stopped that they took it in, you know, being as though it's so cold report roar the delaware county spca said it was notified of the talk's blight after it was dead a humane visited and determined the dog froze to death prompting chester police to take over the investigation. according to the spca any pets left

as our sabina kuriakose reports, that officers pulled his gun and fired. >> it is a tragedy that it has come to an officer getting hurt especially in small little town like there. >> morrisville borough reacts to news one of it officers is injured in a police-involved shooting early saturday morning. >> when you're woken up at 5:30 in the morning by police radio, your officers are involved in a shooting, your stomach just rolls. >> police say veteran officer on routine patrol notice add car running in the parking lot of this 7-eleven, along bridge street around 5:30 a.m. a check of the plates revealed the vehicle had been stolen four days ago from bristol township. the uniformed corporal approached the suspect who allegedly through the vehicle in reverse striking the officer, and pink him to his patrol car. >> the car hits the officer the officer fired two shots into the side of the drivers vehicle, striking the defendant, who was the only person in the vehicle at that time. >> but it didn't ends there. the injured suspect took off from the 7-eleven parking lot. he headed down toward fa

people must have scanned it to find out, you you know,. >> reporter: sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. >>> another home invasion also in northeast philadelphia overnight this one happened just before 1:00 a.m. in the 6,000 block of edmonds street in tacony. a man with the gun got away with more than $5,000. >>> north carolina basketball coaching great dean smith has passed away. the hall of fame coach died at his home last night. smith coached tar heels from 1961 to 1997. he went to 11 final four's, won two ncaa players and coached michael jordan and james worthy. dean smith was 83 years of age. president obama releasing a statement praising smith for his work on and off the court. he says in part, dean smith pushed forward the civil rights movement recruiting the first black scholarship athlete to north the carolina and helping integrate a restaurant in a neighborhood in chapel hill. in his final years, coach smith showed us how to fight an illness with courage and dignity and for all of that i could not have have been more proud to honor coach smith with the medal of freedom in 2013. >

. >> sabina is trying to figure out how people are dealing with this in the treacherous areas with allhe hills in manayunk. what's going on out there? >> reporter: hey, good morning, guys. a rough ride into work. i don't know how you guys were doing but i saw two accidents on my way in. we're in manayunk right now. if you guys have ever spent a winter in philly you've seen the streets here in manayunk where cars are slipping and sliding down the hills. look at it right now. it is just rough. it is covered with snow and slush and ice. so messy. look at us, we're taking a turn right now v to make eight really wide turn and be careful on these streets. how did you guys do coming in to work this morning? >> it was treacherous in the neighborhood. once you got main streets, it was okay. but a lot of stuff as it looked wet like i said before, it was ice. >> i thought i was going to fall on my tush coming out the door. >> reporter: we're trying to get to the highway, get out the drive way, get that icy slushy mess off of your cars. when these guys come out they're going have to pick at that s

thank you very much, sabina. now this is what the ice house in west philly looks like tonight.nly one story left. it's a big project completely taking down the fire damaged ice covered building. but this morning the crane operator started in. last week firefighters battled flames there and in the extreme cold and all of that water encased the building in ice. all kinds of folks gathered to take pictures and stuff. authorities have blocked off streets around it until the demolition project is done. >>> in new jersey, students may have one less stan tar dived to take if bill now in the assembly becomes bill. the add bill addresses parents concerns for arc test it would bar the state from using it to place a student advanced or gifted programs. critics of the test argue the teachers spend too much time preparing for it why support the say the deserves a chance to you can seed now. >> someone takes off with one man's entire business. tens of thousands of dollars in equipment just gone. tonight he's getting it back. who is blowing the whistle on the alleged thief. >> a dose of disci

>> sabina? you're 14? so you started working when you were 13 years old? >> so what's the average age of your workers? >> but we just spoke to a girl who said she's 14. >> walmart told us they don't tolerate child labor in their supply chain - and they're investigating whether this finishing center did any work on walmart products. once we found one finishing house, it wasn't hard to find others. >> what are you making? >> how many buttons do you put on everyday? >> how old are you? >> how long have you been working here? >> shewli, how old are you? >> shewli, do you go to school? >> how much money do you make here, shewli? >> 2,500 take is just 32 dollars a month. >> shewli, you're putting the elastic band into old navy pants? >> it says "old navy" >> old navy >> old navy is owned by gap inc, one of the largest clothing companies in the world. this is where a lot of america's clothes come from - and it's a reality many companies don't want us to see. this is one of very many subcontracting factories at the bottom of the supply chain in bangladesh. it seem

sabina is in cherry hill seeing how people are preparing for this. are people getting ready for the snow coming? >> reporter: oh, bill, people are here at wegmans, it's pretty happening out here. we found the cutest little shopper. good morning, guys. >> good morning. how is everyone doing this morning. >> how are you getting ready for the snow? >> you know the standards, bread, milk, what do we need? >> oatmeal. >> what are you worried right now, cold or snow? >> i'm most worried about cabin fever. as you can tell this kid is going to go crazy if we don't keep him busy. >> bread, milk. >> that's right. >> you got your shovels? >> yeah. >> that's good. this is the shovel situation going on right now here at wegmans. but don't worry, i asked around and when i saw this and i said is there a run on shovels, it's late in the season. it is colder here than it is in alaska right now. can you believe it? >> i see there are shovels that are still left there. so there's a run on shovels. people are getting the bread and milling, everybody wants to make french

. >> sabina, thank you. happening right now, police searching for the man who robbed a local laundromats. surveillance video from early monday morning shows the suspect breaking into a tanning salon at the strip mall on oregon avenue in packer park. he then used a common hallway unside the mall to break into the back door of the oregon laundromat. he's seen stacking up differ things before losing with them threw a side door. authorities have not said what was taken. anyone with any information is asked to call police. >>> developing now search for suspects after very violent overnight here in philadelphia. three people killed in separate shootings fall a master hours and a fourth shooting victim lucky enough to get away from two men who want his car. early morning violence has brought the homicide total to 40 here in philadelphia. not even two full months into the year. fox 29's dave kinchen has the latest on the investigation and is live outside police headquarters in philadelphia tonight. dave. >> reporter

sabina? >> reporter: karen, the burlington county prosecutor's office is handling this investigation and we don't have a lot of information right now. but here is what we do know. a man and a woman were killed inside their home along the 200 block of washington street. it's actually not too far from the police station. in fact it's just up the road from where we're standing. and the bodies of two adults were found by a third person who lives in the house with the victim. that person called police just after 9:00 yesterday morning after apparently coming home and making the grusome discovery. police are not saying exactly how the man and the woman were killed or how long they were dead, and they haven't arrested anyone. but authorities say the community is not at risk. published reports indicate the victims were relatives and a neighbor's daughter tells us the male victim was rushed out of the home and he was placed in an ambulance with handcuffs on. but authorities are not confirming that. th

. >> lets get to sabina kuriakose. a sabina, this is hard to believe, at an elementary school. >> reporter: youngest student who came in contact with this crack is eight years old. they are in the safe place where they are supposed to be at a mitchell elementary school. that is where parents send their kid. during the school day they don't expect baggies of crack cocaine to be passed around a among the grade schoolers. police say it happened just before noon time yesterday. that is when four students had to be rushed to chop after staff realized they had been exposed to these bags of crack. now police say a a 13 year-old boy a sixth grader brought drugs to school. they say he then paid an eight year-old boy $7 to keep the crack in his book bag until the end of the school day. they were supposed to meet up afterward. he was supposed to get that crack cocaine back. the eight year-old passed around crack cocaine to his classmates, one of them smelled it. they were all rush to chop after another student did the right thing

. >> right now sabina is live in east falls where a tree fell on apartment building. dangerous situation. do we know if anyone was hurt so far, sab each a. >> lucky, we know nobody was hurt part of this massive tree was brought down on to this building at the apartment complex here. you can see at least extensive damage to the roof of the top unit there. lucky again as i said nobody was hurt and nobody was evacuated from the building. you can see crews put up caution tape around the scene. it's not standing up well against the high winds. this happened 5:00 this morning when the winds were getting up to 50 miles per hour. the strong enough winds to bring down trees and bring down power lines. we talked to folks around here who described hearing that wind as howling overnight. i know we heard it i heard it at home. here's what somebody on the scene earlier this morning told us he thought about all this. >> when you get this kind of weather these strong winds and trees are really brittal this time of year because of the cold. everything is frozen inside them and it spli

. >> sabina kuriakose, "fox 29 news". >>> and we have breaking news coming into the "fox 29 news" room right now out every center city. fire and peco crews are on the scene whatever appears to be an underground fire. this is near 15th and locust streets. now, authorities are still trying to figure out what's going on exactly. witnesses tell us they heard an explosion. now, at this point we don't have any report of injuries. but authorities have evacuated some buildings, in the immediate vicinity, and we are on top of. >> this of course we will bring you more as the news warrants. >>> the red cross is helping people tonight after a quick moving fire in philadelphia's allegheny west neighborhood. firefighters were called to the 2700 block of north newkirk street shortly before 8:00 this morning. they say flames ripped through two homes, one woman was taken to the hospital. we don't yet know her condition. and firefighters say two cats in the homes in one of the homes died. the cause still under investigation. >>> a fire at a delaware college in delaware county is forcing students out of

i know sabina is on the way. we will take you their life when they arrive. here's an example of five-point, 309 and 202. road are wet, last night we had that freezing rain and then on top of that in some areas, they received like a light coating of snow. so really an icy mess this morning, no matter where you you step out of the front door. i think best thing for school kiddies what the the schools are doing and that is delaying the opening for about two hours, we are scrolling at the bottom of the screen there southbound on the new jersey turnpike outer drive remains block from exit 8a down to eight. there is a a speed restriction in play for the entire stretch of the new jersey turnpike and septa says that norristown high speed line just got an update they will change that to at least 8:00 before the trains will be ready to roll again on the high speed line. mike and alex back over to you. >>> 6:47. gunman driving a suspect stolen car, now he is out of that car, led police on a wild chase in los angeles. nothing new, right. commandeered another vehicle her

today christians are celebrating ash wednesday, pope francis will preside over mass at basilica of sabinarome. his message to catholics this year fine concrete ways to overcome indifferencees. ash wednesday marks the beginning of the 40 day lent season and serves as a time of fasting and sacrifice in preparation for easter. four ash wednesday masses will be held at cathedral of basilica of saints peter a and paul in philadelphia a services are scheduled for 7:15 a.m., 12:05 p.m. 12:35 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. in northeast philadelphia all saints torresdale episcopal church is offering ashes to go if you are in the hurry and cannot attend services, head over to 9601 frankford avenue. you have between 7:00 and 8:00 or 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. tonight. >>> our time 6:23. here's traffic and weather together. >> hi everyone. it is a quiet start to the day here, we have just a couple cloud shrouding our live neighborhood network. we have a quick check. we have cold air for sure. very picturesque wintry scene here outside cape may courthouse. how do we stack up? we have surpassed 10-inch mark foresees nal s