lets get out to sabina kuriakose, tank by at police headquarters with the very latest on the investigation, sabina. >> reporter: good morning, thomas and karen. this was an especially brutal slaying. the 17 year-old was shot in the face, and they say his killers left him to die in the the streets. the lets go to video that we have got for you from the scene where it happened around 60th and market, and cobbs creek section of the city, happened around half past midnight witnesses described a man wearing all black, and a mask, as one of the gunman police do not have a motive yet the in this case but they do say that they believe that this teenager was intended target in all, about 11 shots were fired from two different weapons. >> we found eight spent shell casings, of a small caliber, and we found three other spent shell casings, of a larger caliber. so we know two semiautomatic guns were fired. many of the shell casing is very close proximity to where the victim's body collapsed. that is an indication that the shooter was in close proximity to the victim. >> reporter: again, police do beli

sabina kuriakose standing by outside the courthouse. fattah due to appear in just a few hours here, sabina. >> reporter: right around 9:30 thomas and karen. this appears to be end of the road for veteran former u.s. congressman, chaka fattah after fighting prosecutors every step of the way during his corruption trial, thousand the 60 year-old taste -- facing sentencing after being quick of 29 federal crimes including conspiracy to commit racketeering, wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering. many of the charges stem from a loan fattah received during his failed bid for mayor nine years ago. government says he tried to pay it back with federal fund intended for his constituents. prosecutors appear likely to ask the judge for at least two decades in federal prison, fattah's lawyers have signalled that they will likely ask for a maximum of 14 to 15 years. in a statement fattah says the outcome has been difficult, but he highlighted his achievement as a u.s. representative, a move appearing to shift his focus to preserving his legacy as

of years people lining up often starting at midnight for their christmas pastries as fox 29's sabina kuriakosets, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, people from other states make the yearly trip to term mini brothers. ♪ >> reporter: it's not christmas eve in south philly without the decades old tradition of termini brothers bakery. >> every christmas it became a tradition to come here for the canolis and cookies and all the fine pastries we make. >> family legacy that spans generations for so many customers here. lining up despite the cold and rain for the desserts they've had every christmas since their fathers father' came here. >> feel honored to be able to carry it on. >> greg's family drove all the way from maryland. >> everybody has to have a cannoli. >> big seller original that began with mom's side of the family even moving to a different state has not gotten in the way. >> right from baltimore and all the family comes and we have christmas eve dinner. >> reporter: along with the cakes and canolis, friendships are also forged christmas eve brings friendly faces and pals who share

fox 29's sabina kuriakose spoke to the family members who are planning to see them for the holiday. >> they are going to different gas stations just trying to find out whether or not anybody has seen her. >> reporter: frantic search for a south jersey find of five-year-old and great-grandmother. two last seen on their way from mays landing to visit family in north carolina christmas eve. they never made it. that was three days ago. >> it wasn't christmas. >> reporter: we spoke via skype with family members of 71-year-old barbara briley and her great granddaughter. hamilton township police are calling the disappearances suspicious they have not yet found evidence of foul play. detectives have been coordinating ground and aerial searches with virginia state and local authorities. near where the pair were last seen saturday. family friends including her mother are trolling major expressways looking for any sign of barbara's silver toyota rav4 with jersey plates c80els. >> god will turn this around and bring her home. and we're just trying to keep everything together. >> reporter: barbara

sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. >>> after two nights of chaos, calm tonight at philadelphia mills malllice were standing by the mall this evening. four teenagers are facing felony charges aft last night's flash mob the teens ranging from 13 to 17 years old are accused of punching police officers, mall security will not allow groups of kids under the age of 18 inside the mall without parents. >>> tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen from a kohl's department store in bucks county and now police are trying to catch the guy they say broke in overnight and grabbed everything and anything he can get his hands on. >> the value of the merchandise taken could be up to $100,000. fox 29's shawnette wilson has the very latest on the investigation from lower makefield. >> reporter: that's why the door is board up. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: boarded up door caught shoppers off guard when they arrived at this lower makefield kohl's on bic oak road. the surveillance video showing exactly what happened stunned them even more. >> it's pretty shocking. >> reporter: watch as a man breaks thr

sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. >>> after two nights of chaos, calm tonight at philadelphia mills malllice were standing by the mall this evening. four teenagers are facing felony charges aft last night's flash mob the teens ranging from 13 to 17 years old are accused of punching police officers, mall security will not allow groups of kids under the age of 18 inside the mall without parents. >>> tens of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen from a kohl's department store in bucks county and now police are trying to catch the guy they say broke in overnight and grabbed everything and anything he can get his hands on. >> the value of the merchandise taken could be up to $100,000. fox 29's shawnette wilson has the very latest on the investigation from lower makefield. >> reporter: that's why the door is board up. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: boarded up door caught shoppers off guard when they arrived at this lower makefield kohl's on bic oak road. the surveillance video showing exactly what happened stunned them even more. >> it's pretty shocking. >> reporter: watch as a man breaks thr

sabina kuriakose has more on that story. >> reporter: the thrill of victory. >> two hatches. >> agony of defeat >> i'm heart broken at this moment. >> it was shake appear's greatest drama playing out as dozens of parents waited through saturday night in the bitter cold with a chance to buy a hatch mall, the toy topping you many of child's wish list. >> uncle darren will do it >> and uncle darren did it. he got here at 11:30 saturday night. nine hours during the coldest weather we have seen all season, target employees handing out tickets to the early birds just before doors opened sunday morning. and getting even one hatch mall sounds like an impossible feat >> triplets. and that's the number one in the toy for christmas. >> reporter: three 9-year-old little girls she cannot disappoint come christmas morning. moms buzzer beating play? well, it worked. >> i got it. >> uncle darren got one too. >> it was worth it. i can tell my -- >> hatch malls need you to hatch. >> reporter: it halfs from an egg, the latest craze is produced by canadian company spin master. these adults more than the

our sabina kuriakose live outside terrapin i brothers. people are already lined up in the rain waiting for their treats. they got there early this morning. >> yeah, they did. we moved inside because the bakery opened their doors and it is packed. i can tell you it feels like christmas inside. we've got live entertainment. so many families from all over the lays. of course, what's everybody here for in the cannolis. you came from jersey. >> from lawrenceville, new jersey. > what time did you leave this morning. >> about 4:30. > what was the drive? it was raining. >> it was raining, it was fine. it was clear. it was awesome. you know what you're coming for. > and what are you coming for. >> i'm coming for about a dozen and a half cannoli, some of the almond horns, the banana cream by is i amazing, so i got to get some of that. > we're from philly, we get it. but if somebody is like what's the deal with the cannolis? >> they're the best. you have to come out. i've tried many other places but you got to come out for them. > it's christmas. >>

. >>> a woman dropped her whatnot at christmas village, sabina kuriakose is live with cheer. bring it on. >> reporter: first of all this good samaritan told me she thought he was doing a simple act of kindness. >> it was big enough to save christmas. >> it was after thanksgiving all through christmas village. she was gathering the presents that would soon surround her family tree had she made a surprise tree. the she realized she was hold key to someone's life. >> i had my driver's license, atm >>> the trips to the dmy clientv just before chris replace. kathy was find returning the what will to the arrival owner was easier said than done. officers promise she knew that could take weeks and her compassion for her fellow man kick kicked in. kathy and her sister drove to the home. it was a tiny holiday miracle. by the time she got home the wallet was waiting for her? i could cry. >> reporter: two women who have yet to meet have a message for each other. > > >>>. >> reporter: this is proof you never know the difference you can make for anyone else. >> i love it. >> when the found

our sabina kuriakose has the full story full of holiday cheer. >> reporter: it was sunday after thanksgiving and all through christmas village in center city, moms and dads were checking off the names on their naughty and nice list. they were gathering presents that will soon surround their family's tree when she made a surprise discovery. >> she looked around for an owner but crowds was by peeking at skies, kathy realized she was holding keys to some of the life, nicole heller's life in fact. >> i have my driver's license in there, i have, i don't know, credit card, atm card, now what. >> reporter: she recounted headaches that were brewing in her head, trips to the dmv, cancelled credit cards just before christmas. kathy was finding returning the wallet to its rightful owner was easier said then done. >> i took it over and they said they could not take it. >> reporter: officers promised that the post office would be able to return the wallet as kathy put it in the mailbox but she knew that could take weeks and compassion for her fellow man kicked in. >> yeah, if you can help someone you do.

in hamilton, atlantic county, sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >>> montgomery county woman is out on bailonight charged with disappearance of her teenaged daughter. prosecutors have charged 41-year-old sarah packer with child endanger many and obstruction of law last week. she reported her 14 year old daughter missing back in july. hunters stumbled across her remains in late october. packer has not been charged with her murder. >>> patco service is back up and running to night after sources say someone jumped in front of a train. we are working right now on finding out that person's condition for you. that person jumped on the tracks at the broadway station in camden right during the evening rush hour. around 5:00 patco stopped service going over the ben franklin bridge and through camden. service has since been restored. >>> fire ripped through a delaware county farmhouse and now a man is dead. skyfox over the scene this morning in chadds ford. it took crews hours to get those flames under control. >> as our joyce evans explains, the fire started in an apartment that's part of the 13-acr

. >> lets get the out to sabina kuriakose in norristown right outside the courthouse as we wait for hearings to get underway what can we expect today, sabina. >> reporter: well, thomas and karen this latest hearing could be make or break for cosby defense. the perhaps even the prosecution, the judge is expected to rule on whether prosecutors will be allowed to call up to 13 of cosby's past accusers to testify, in the sex assault case against him. the state needs to convince the court testimony from the 13 other woman is relevant to trial even though the case itself, not just one accuser, former temple university employee andrea constand. the prosecutors hope to show cosby had a pattern of drug ging and molesting woman, defense to, of course, will push back hard against the relevance and credibility of the additional testimony. now last year you'll remember cosby was indicted on charges that he assaulted constand here in the file photo back in 2004. early this month the judge ruled to allow damaging testimony that cosby gave in constand's civil suit against him where he admitted to giving you

sabina kuriakose, "fox 29 news". >>> montgomery county woman is now out on bail.s morning, charged with disappearance of her teenage daughter, prosecutors charge 41 year old sarah packer child endangerment, obstruction of law last week, she reported that her 14 year old daughter was missing in july. and that hunters stumbled across those child's remains in late october. packer has not been charged with her murder. >> lehigh valley mother is speaking out about her incredible story of survival while on the way to the grand canyon. we told you yesterday about her heroic trek to save her stranded family. the family of three was driving when they got stuck on snow covered roads. so right there, 46 year old karen kline hiked 30 miles to get help. she explains how she did it with inside edition. >> twigs from trees, ate the pine twigs, the young seed link pine twigs, as well as putting snow in the sides of my mouth. >> did you drink your urine? >> yes, i did, just one of the ways that i had learned as far as how to survive. >> she was determined, kline says, she kept thi

. >> sabina kuriakose went looking for some answers, in winslow township. >> reporter: rossco the billy goat spent christmas eve on the lamb, breaking out of his home on a south jersey farm, luckily he was spotted by a winslow township police officer as he dodge cars, on a busy road, the concerned officer quickly tossed the eight year-old long haired goat into the back of the squad car, and no doubt rossco thought his time on the run had come to an end. indeed he was heading to the big house. >> he was in good, good shape and seems healthy. >> reporter: happily the homeless farm animal was in good hand. patrolman austin schmidt said fellow officers set ross co in a police dog enclosures. a retired cop came by with hey and feed. maybe rossco was thinking life in the pen wasn't so bad but the policeman wanted to make sure that the wayward goat, got to go home for holidays. >> i put it on facebook saying we have a goat here. does anybody know anything bit >> reporter: it was all in this post. here's a note detectives were quick to make sure, that they check, to make sure that ross co was n

. >> our sabina kuriakose went looking for some answers, in wins low township. >> reporter: ross co the billy goat spent christmas eve on the lamb breaking out of his home on a south jersey farm. luckily he was spotted by a winslow township police officer as he dodged cars on a busy road. concerned officer quickly tossed the eight year-old long haired goat in the back of the squad car. no dot rossco thought his time on the run had come to an end. indeed he was heading to the big house. >> he was in good, good shape and pretty healthy. >> reporter: happily the om homeless farm animal was in good hand. officer schmidt said fellow officers set rossco up in a police dog enclosure. a retired cop came by with hey and feed. maybe he was thinking life in the pen wasn't so bad. but policeman wanted to make sure that the wayward goat, wanted to go home for it. >> reporter: it wasness this post. detectives were quick to make sure for any worried boys and girls that they checked to make sure he was not a rogue reindeer and santa's sleigh was still on track, you know, just in case anybody was worrie

our sabina kuriakose has this heart warming store friday coopersberg. >> reporter: just try to keep up with jillian massey she has places to go and people to see. she will wear you out. behind this big blue eyed girl, there is a fighting spirit. jillian is on a mission to give back to people, who got her through the toughest time of her little life. >> seven whose ago jillian was diagnosis with brain cancer. >> reporter: for most of this past year four year-old with the zazi spirit has underwent chemo at children's hospital of philadelphia. she beat odds and shocked her doctors, gaining strength, fast enough to be back home, under her own tree for the holidays. but that wasn't enough for jillian, with the help of the mom and mom's co-workers she is starting a toy drive to bring christmas to the trees that won't be able to wait for santa by their own chimney. >> originally her goal was 50 toys and within two days that was more than filled. now we will have more than enough this year with all of the kids. >> reporter: 1500 toys, raised through the jillian page you got this girl facebook

in winslow township, sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >>> all right.ou did your shopping, you wrapped everything and tore open the packages. one retailer says wait a minute, don't throw everything out just yet. who wants those empty boxes. >> it's hank i'm here with frankie and nick were the spruce street video. they're massive fans of george michael. the british icon passed away yesterday. we'll talk about what it all means in just a minute. >> millions of americans are celebrating the start of kwanzaa today. kwanzaa focuses on seven principals. each day holiday honors different one. during the week a light lit. this the 50 many anniversary of the holiday. ♪ ♪ >> in burlington county, new jersey maple shade police need your help finding this pair. investigators say the two tried to use a credit card that had been stolen from someone's car. the surveillance pictures from a wawa on route 73 and police say the two tried to use the card christmas morning n your money you ripped open all the christmas packages but you might want to think twice about throwi

in winslow township, sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >>> all right.ou did your shopping, you wrapped everything and tore open the packages. one retailer says wait a minute, don't throw everything out just yet. who wants those empty boxes. >> it's hank i'm here with frankie and nick were the spruce street video. they're massive fans of george michael. the british icon passed away yesterday. we'll talk about what it all means in just a minute. >> millions of americans are celebrating the start of kwanzaa today. kwanzaa focuses on seven principals. each day holiday honors different one. during the week a light lit. this the 50 many anniversary of the holiday. ♪ fios is not cable. we're wired differently. so we're offering incredibly fast 150 meg internet, just in time for the holidays. hurry, freddy, you're gonna miss it! coming. i can't believe he is doing this. it's so fast that in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, held by gary watson... fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 different versions of the perfe

fox 29's sabina kuriakose is live at the philadelphia art museum. sabina, any runners come out yet?t's like the secret to live tv. usually there are people right behind you right up until you go live. that's exactly what did happen to me. we did have a couple of people shall not too many. you can see intermittent. just people coming up and down. they don't stay too long. earliest we did get some joggers and some runners who were out here on the art museum steps. the diehards coming out and getting in their workouts, albeit in small numbers. and then they head right on back into that warm car. this of course from the coldest temperatures that we have seen all season long. so if you are out, whether you're exercising or just out shopping or walking around, you do have to be careful and dress for the weather. as you mentioned, code blue in the city all throughout the weekend. that means that people are trying to get the homeless and other vulnerable populations off of the street into shelters. we even ran into some folks yesterday who were just taking matters into their own hands. they

buck's friends, family and neighbors gathered to remember her life and that's where fox 29's sabina kuriakose joins us. sabina a very sad night in south philly. >> reporter: absolutely heartbreaking, chris. now for hours tonight there were hundreds of people lined up outside of the funeral home here just waiting to get inside to pay their respects. now i spoke with family members, and they tell me they are grateful and comforted that there has been an arrest. >> i feel relieved that before they bury her at least they got the case solved. >> reporter: outside funeral home where loved ones gathered thursday evening to say goodbye to 81-year-old marie buck her brother-in-law al telling us his family is thankful to hear news just hours earlier philadelphia homicide detectives arrested this man, 31-year-old maurice green, in the christmas eve murder of the beloved south philadelphia shopkeeper. >> my brother, he doesn't want to live. he said i'm married 61 years. she did everything. >> reporter: police 11 the suspect, green, was involved in the drug trade with marie's grandson and wanted revenge a

let's check in with our sabina kuriakose much she's in cherry hill. tell me you found one of these things. >> reporter: not yet, but i'm told there are some in this building here. now, crack the case. i see what did you there. i like it. bill, take look at this line. it has just been growing since we got here about an hour ago. i counted about between 45 to 50 people i think there's at least 60 people in line now look at that another news crew showing up over here, too. it is so cold. can you imagine waiting in line eight hours? well that is what our friend darrin from pennsauken has been doing. what time did you get here? >> about 11:00 p.m. last night. >> reporter: 11:00 p.m. tell us what you're doing. i talk to you a little bit. tell everyone what are you doing here. >> my sister posted on facebook family, friends, how are you handling the hatchimal crisis. >> reporter: crisis. >> i'll go. uncle darrin can camp out and get it. i heard they were going to be here today. so then i heard the line started 8:00 p.m. so i'm like oh, crap, i got to get ther

team and one of those watch parties at the field house in center city and that's where we find sabina kuriakose. lots of blue and white there, sabina. >> reporter: a lot of blue and white and we are still getting more and more coming in. people here are so excited for this game. i have my very own penn state alum and fan here cody i grabbed him earlier because i wanted to talk to him about why this game is so important. tell me why. >> you know this season itself has really been a huge testament to james franklin coaching ability and he's really rebuilt this program ever since the sanctions and we're finally ge getting to see his work and what he's done with it and what this team can be in the future. >> really well said. can we call eight come back. >> i wouldn't call eight come back a rebuilding and fundamental redoing of what penn state was but it's still the same old penn state that wins and pride full of itself. >> you sound like such a great fan. so well said. we'll let you go, can i get a we are chant. >> here we go. >> let's go. >> hey, everyone. we are -- >> penn state. >> we are -- >>

in winslow township, sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. >>> this story is like a bad relationship to me.e owner doesn't want it much this why you always have to believe that the grass is sometimes greener. >> that's good. all right. [ laughter ] >> your fox 29 news at six -- >> your news at 6:00 starts right now. >> right now at 6:00 the christmas eve shooting that left a south philadelphia community heart broken and confused. a pillar of her community four decades hurted in cold blood. what even police say they don't understand tonight. >>> it's expense no one wanted during the holiday season. someone slashed a bunch of tir tires. now, an incredible act of generosity. the good surprise for a group of local drivers targeted by vandals. >>> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6:00. >>> back to that breaking news we tried to bring you here. skyfox live over raging fire in riverside, burlington county. we have seen flames just shooting out the home. you can still see smoke pouring out of that house. this is along the 700 block of street. this fire is at two alarms.

fox 29's sabina kuriakose went looking for answers in winslow township. >> reporter: rosco the billy goat spent christmas eve on the lamb. breaking out of his home on south jersey farm. luckily he was spotted by a winslow township police officer as he dodged cars on busy road. the concerned officer quickly tossed the eight-year-old long haired goat into the back of a squad car. no doubt rosco thought his time on the run had come to an end. indeed he was headed to the big house. he was good shape. and seems pretty happily. >> the homeless farm animal was in good hasn't. patrolman austin schmidt says fellow officer set rosco up in police dog enclosure retired cop came by way hey and feed. maybe rosco was thinking live in the pen wasn't so bad. but the policeman wanted to make sure the wayward goat going to home for the holidays. >> put it on facebook. listen we got a goat here. does anybody know anything about it. >> reporter: here's a note detectives were quick to make sure for any worried poise boys and girls they checked to make sure rosco was not a rogue reindeer and santa's sleigh

sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. >> i've fallen head over heels in love witness whole family d a fake newstory lead to gunfire in the nation's capitol. what police are saying about the accused gunman and his motive. >>> it's like the holy grail for some women. perfect lip without the need for touch ups throughout the day. a new product that promises to end your request we're putting it to the deal or dud test. >> i thought she was peeling off her lip for second. goodness. ♪ >>> now with tomorrow's traffic here's bob kelly. >>> good evening, everybody. hopefully we'll drive out on the overnight before another round of rain hits us tomorrow. crews will be working tonight in through tomorrow along 422. just outside of pottstown. if you're coming into or out of the city a brand new traffic pattern on the ben franklin parkway right if front of the franklin institute. keep that in mind foo if you're going down to see jurassic park if you come in on the drives and working tomorrow during the day shuffling barriers around 95 between cottman avenue and girard avenue. we'll check the jam cams. sue h

fox 29's is a bone in a kuriakose is in south philadelphia tonight with more on the story. so sad, sabina>> reporter: absolutely, dawn. that viewing just wrapped up a short time ago. as you mentioned hundreds of people gathered here to pay their last wee inspects to marie. now i did speak with family members. they told me that news of the arrest earlier in the day did bring them some measure of comfort and they also told me that they are standing by marie's grandson. it was an act philadelphia philadelphia police chris richard ross describes as pure evil. the reaction to it was swift. love pouring down the sidewalk across an entire city block. as hundreds of people came together to pay their respects to 81-year-old shopkeeper marie buck gunned down in her south sixth street grocery store allegedly by this man, 31-year-old maurice green. homicide detectives say green shot marie 11 times at point blank range. its morning of christmas eve as revenge over a piece of jewelry he believed her grandson had taken. >> i feel relieved that before they bury her at least they got the case solved. i fe