Show cohost matt lauer. She read a statement from andy lack saying in part on monday night we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by matt lauer. Lack went on to say, while it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years hes been at nbc news, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been isolated incident. And so in fewer than 35 hours after the complaint, lauer went from a National Morning show fixture to fired. His colleagues at the today show could not contain their shock. For the moment all we can say is that we are heart broken. Im heart broken for matt he is hes my dear dear friend and my partner and hes beloved by many, many people im heart broken for the brave colleague who came forward to tell her story and any other women who have their own stories to tell. And we are grappling with a dilemma that so many people have passed these past few weeks how do you reconcile your love with someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly . I dont know the answer to that. Lauer joined today in 1994 rapidly becoming a key part of nbc. From olympic coverage to the macys thanksgiving day parade to the rock Feller Center Christmas Tree lighting and by his side through that more than two decade run al roker who on air this morning was clearly stunned. Turn to al. Good morning. Still dealing with the news of a friend of 30 years and were all trying to process it. Well deal along with you along with you folks as well. According to page six, lauers firing comes a mid rumors that several news outlets have been working for weeks on stories about allegations of Sexual Misconduct by him. In fact published late today variety reported an exclusive story detailing allegations of Sexual Misconduct by several women who told the magazine they had complained to nbc executives about lauers behavior in the past but that those complaints fell on deaf ears at least at that time. Variety says nbc has declined to comment so far and at this point so has lauer. Lauer allegations in the firing just the latest lucy in growing list of rich, powerful or famous men brought down by their own alleged Sexual Misconduct. So we asked our bruce gordon what all of this means. Broadly and in connection with a public criminal trial here in our area. Bruce . Reporter forget about bc and ad we might just as well mark todays calendars a pw, post weinstein. The flood of that accusations has created a sea change in atmosphere surrounding Sexual Misconduct and in the lauer case in particular shows again that this behavior comes in lots of variations. Not so long ago Popular Culture often depicted Sexual Misconduct in the workplace as coming from loud mouths check out this youtube clip from the offices notorious to do packer. Then studly for no reason this bimbo belows the whistle on the whole thing just to be beat him. Their behavior was obvious to anyone another room nbc matt lauer seemed so professional which may explain this colleagues shock. Its hard to reconcile what we are hearing with the man who we know who walks in this building every single day. Reporter cbs charlie rose left his coworkers feeling the same way. This professional, this seeming gentleman did what . He doesnt get a pass because i cant stop thinking about the anguish of these women. For me im always thinking you too. Dr. Monique howard is executive director of women organized against rape. How common is this behind closed doors mo . I think its very common. Thats exactly what were seeing right now. Reporter dr. Howard says the allegations against movie mogul Harry Weinstein let led to a light bulb moment among the many woman victim might have and silent. Whats happening the support group phenomenon. Im not the only one this hasped to or happening to every day and i will now tell my story because there is safety in numbers. Reporter sex assault allegations against Comedian Bill Cosby were for years treated with scepticism by many. Cosbys first and so far only criminal trial resulted in a hung jury last summer. But recent events may make his retrial next spring an even tougher fight for the defense. This post weinstein mentality is going to grow. Veteran criminal defense attorney brill brennan. Theres been an overnight sea change in the way entities, organizations and basically the public are handling and viewing allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Im speaking in Broad Strokes here but it went from come on, you know, why would you tell that ridiculous story to, oh, whoa something must have happened here. Reporter this issue only growing in intensity. Dr. Howard is as we speak working with a state lawmaker to combat socalled street harassment those abusive cat calls from men at work sites that in cases literally cause women to have to alter their travel routes to avoid the intimidating behavior. Iain. Bruce, thank you. Coming up later in our newscast, we are talking to a Senior Reporter for page six with breaking details about the lauer investigation. You can also head of Course Online to fox 29 its as this stories cons to develop. Another notable media figure garrison keeler fired. His duties as host a prairie home companion ended last year when he retire. Minnesota pokily radio now confirms it fired keeler effective immediately. After the station received the allegation. The 75yearold was Still Producing the sinned indicated show the riders almanac. Developing right now, skyfox over the scene of an overturned tractor trailer snarling traff traffic. The accident happened around 2 00 this afternoon on i276 in bensalem. The crash shut down all the westbound lanes. Traffic is being diverted off the highway to exit 351. The driver was taken to the hospital is expected to be okay. Right now the crash is under investigation. A fight outside a University City pizza shop ends with a local College Student dead tonight police say the shooter may have been trying to protect a woman when he fired. Our jeff cole has details and joins us live in west philadelphia. Jeff . Iain a 24yearold graduate of Drexel University is in the round House Police Headquarters behind me awaiting his fate. Will he be charged in many shooting or walk away a free man who came to the aid of a female drexel student . Cell phone video captures the moments after the gunplay on lancaster of a just before midnight near the drexel campus. Thats the voice of the victims girlfriend shrieking say witnesses drexel students living on third floor apartment heard the gunfire. And we heard three consecutive gunshots, and then afterwards, um, we heard the woman screaming what did you do and um she was screaming a lot. Police say a female direct system student was having allowed argument with her 21yearold boyfriend. The boyfriend walks i was way. Thats when a 24yearold drexel graduate with a nine mill neither glock pistol an license to carry approaches the woman. He walked up to see if the woman was okay. Boyfriend returned and assaulted the 24yearold. Who the permit to carry. Reporter police say after being punched the gun owner fires into the chest of his attacker killing him. We just her people screaming and running in every direction and we heard like car horns and stuff and then the police were here within like a few minutes. Reporter detectives were seen moving in and out of Small Businesses along the block late this morning. The shooter is being held by police while the District Attorney decides whether to charge him. At midday drexel students complained they hadnt heard from the university. Nothing from drexel. No not a text, not an email, nothing about it which we its weird. Upsetting to you . Yeah. I mean you want to feel safe on campus. Reporter drexel says it uses its alert system in on going threat to the University Community in a statement its president wrote, safety is always our top priority. Tonight some of its students are stunned. We hear like muggings and drunk people out here all the time. But never Something Like this. Reporter so two drexel students were involved here. A 21yearold drexel female student currently at the campus and the alleged shooter is a man who graduated from Drexel University but not the man he shot. Will he be charged . Police say it could be a close call. No word yet from the da. Live at the round house more at 6 00. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Folks . Well check back in with you at 6 00 oclock. Thank you jeff isnt about an hour people will gather for a vigil for the homeless man who Police Believe a group of teens beat to death in northeast philadelphia. Officers found 57yearold kevin cullen sunday lying on the ground with his pockets turned inside out. Authorities are still working to identify and fine the teens involved. Lower southampton, police are working to fine the driver who hit and killed a 19yearold woman. She had just graduated from high school. It happened on street road monday night. Police say the young woman and a friend were trying to cross the street when the pick up hit them. At first a driver stopped to help but then took off. Now Authorities Say the truck is an early to mid 90s forward for f250 kind of looks like that red with white or silver siding. Passenger mirror is ripped off and front light is probably still out. Septa Police Say Surveillance video shows what happened to a 15yearold found electrocuted on top of a Regional Rail train last week. Investigators say security cameras show jones at suburban station late that is thanksgiving night disappearing on the platform. Officers say after he disappeared, electrical surge happened. Knocking out power. Police found his body friday morning on the roof of a train. Jefferson station in center city. He was lying on the rear part of that train near the train power lines. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Lets take live look Lehigh County and allentown right now. Very few complaints about the weather. Meteorologist kathy orr is here and kathy, um, its just so ni nice. Its beautiful out there. Yeah the high temperature, lucy, 64 degrees. Still looking very nice in center city philadelphia. 61 in philadelphia. 51 in allentown. Cooler in the poconos at 42 degrees and clear skies for Perfect Vision of the International Space station going over philadelphia at about 5 35. It will be moving 17,500 miles an hour. It will appear as plane or a bright star moving across the sky. So you have time after the weather cast go outside and take a peek. It should be spectacular. Ill be back with your seven day coming up. All right, kathy, thanks. Still ahead of us more on matt lauers firing from the today show. Well talk with page 6tv about the allegations and details theyre uncovering. He desperately needed help after Hurricane Maria rash scratch his famili home and our viewers stepped up to the plate as you so often do. Our joyce evans has his heart michael im thankful that im alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This Holiday Season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Family starting over here in philadelphia after Hurricane Maria destroyed their home in puerto rico. You may remember last week when we first told you about gene. Gene and his pregnant wife three kids and grandma came here to start new chapter. He desperately need add job and you our viewers stepped up. No surprise really. Joyce evans first spoke to him. Joyce after your story aired, he got so many job offers he actually had to turn some down. Reporter did he. I love this story. He had to fun them down only because he doesnt have car and the offers came from all over the region. Jersey, delaware, lehigh valley. We found him to be a determined disciplined young man hes only 26 years old. Who simply wanted to be back on his feet to take care of his own family. Ready for the big day report roar crisp new button down and black slacks all brand new, clean, comfortable new shoes. Perfect for hours of standing and walking. Thats it. Reporter genes loved ones couldnt be more proud. And gene, he couldnt be more nervous. Yes. A lot. Reporter a lot has happened in just a few days. Im starting from scratch over here. Really. From zero yes. Reporter we first met jean gene at philadelphia Disaster Assistance Service Center a week ago. Just for help, you know. Reporter they lost practically everything when Hurricane Maria slammed into the island of puerto rico. The proud young husband, father of three with another on the way stuck it out for as long as he can until he was forced to gather his wife, kids and grandmother and head to family in philadelphia. I was really nervous to be honest and i was i was heart broken i left puerto rico to be honest. I was crying on the plane and everything. Reporter life became even more stressful. Were just trying to find a job. Its really hard. Reporter fox 29 viewers responded to genes plea for work saying, he would take any job at all. I knew i was going get a job and thanks to you guys, that really helped me out a lot to be honest. The same exact day the news went up i had a bunch of calls. Reporter gene went on back to back interviews. Custodian, there was a truck driver position and the chickfila. Reporter he really impressed one of them. Can you believe it . No. To be honest, no. Im shocked. Especially at this position. Good morning. Reporter hes assistant manager at the cheltenham chickfila. Clock in. Reporter says he feels at home here already. And hell take all the overtime he can get. Things are coming together kind of fast. Yes. Thank god. Reporter we did say assistant manager but he did entertain all of those possibilities. Gene says he keeps his mind open to all possibilities. He just never gives up hope. Hes got his fiveyearold in kindergarten, prenatal care for his wife and next week he says hes going to be checking out what housing may be available to him and his growing family. Just a hardworking lovely family. Iain. Yeah he is. Feel great for him, joy. Thanks to our viewers as well. Clear skies may take on whole new meaning this christm christmas. Thousands of American Airlines flights schedule for december have gotten no pilots scheduled to fly them because a glitch in the schedule link system. Let aisle pilots dropped scheduled flights to take vacation at christmas for example even when there were no other pilots available for the flight. Dont worry American Airlines is working and going to take pilots and get customers where they need to go. Sure hope so. All right. Central high school in philadelphia logan neighborhood announced today a 42 milliondollar renovation plan. Its a big deal. This renovation is fueled by a 10 million gift from Central High School alumnus joseph field founder of intercom communications. Phase one of the project is a Performing Arts Center and new outdoor spaces for academics and athletics including outdoor classroom, dedicated to science and Technology Engineering and math. Groundbreaking is in january of 2019. Everyone in the nfl looking up at the ten and one eagles. Best team in the nfl about to start threegame road stretch that probably going say about how far they can go in the playoffs. Kristen rodgers here now with more on step one of that threegame journey. Kristen. Iain, eagles can clinch the nfc as early as thursday with a loss for daals the first time theyve won the Division Since 2013. Checks their box. But they arent done yet. Eagles current focus is just on seattle like they said all season, theyre taking it one game at a time. Bigger picture, though, they want to play in minnesota in february. So this is just step one. Theres a lot of things that youre still playing for, um, even though youve check the box for your first goal, um, its great, love it, but eagles also won a bunch of nfc titles here, too, were proud of it, you know, tribute to the players but theres something bigger out there we strive for. The odds of carson wentz winning the nflmvp are pretty high right now for good reason leading the league in touchdown passes and is having unreal satisfy more season but being the team guy that he is, isnt having any of this mvp talk right now. Im not really focused thon stuff. Focused on seattle and this week and the road stretch that we have ahead of us. We got to take care of business on the feel. Those things will all come down the road im not really worried about those. The goal is to win the week. Even at ten and one eagles road trip to seattle will be good test of where they stack up against experienced play off teams. Coming up at 6 00 why Doug Peterson says the birds need to clean things up. Lucy. Talk to you then. Thank you much kristen all about going above and beyond the Philadelphia Police department honored some of its officers today at a merit commendation ceremony the top brass recognized 82 Police Officers for going above and beyond in their service to the people of philadelphia. Sesame street made special appearance today at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. Characters like cookie monster, elmo, bert and ernie there to bring smiles to patients part of the annual holiday show for patients at chop thanks to the the joshua kay hasnt fund the program was created nearly 20 years ago after twoyearold josh died from leukemia in 1997. Every year the nonprofit raises money and awareness for pediatric leukemia research. After todays show, characters went to visit every child in the hospital bringing toys and taking pictures. Still ahead high speed chase sends in fiery crash all caught on camera. And tis the season for holiday scams. What to know so you dont get taken advantage of during this Holiday Season. My digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. It traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. Try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea heres pepto bismol ah. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea high speed chase in california ended like that. And killed one woman. It started this morning around 8 00 a. M. At the Pacific Coast highway in malibu. Los angeles county sherif deputies were chasing a stolen car when the driver lost control and slammed into three parked cars. But she also hit a woman who was walk at the scene. That woman died. The driver deputies were after went to the hospital. Condition unknown. They took a passenger in that car in to custody for questioning. Florida Police Make Arrest in string of four murders in month and a half in tampa, florida now 24yearold Howell Donaldson the third is in jail charged with four counts of first degree murder. Police got a tip from an employee at the mcdonalds where donaldson worked. Worker says donaldson hasnted him were airbag with a gun inside. Reports show the clothing found inside donaldson cars, the gun and his cell phone all connect to the location and time of the murders. Right now, they dont have a motive. Holiday season is here and that for some means a whole lot of shopping but the irs is warning all of to us stay cautious when it comes to our wallets. It says a number of data breaches so far in 2017 has hit nearly 145 million americans but it says you can prevent it from happening to you in three very simple ways first protect your computer with Anti Virus Software and fire walls. Second, dont use unprotected wifi. Last you got to learn to recognize scams. While youre shopping for gifts criminals are shopping for your credit cards. Your financial account information. Your Social Security number and other important personal identifying information. As the holidays approach, people should be making sure their family, friends are well aware of these types of activities. Financial experts say the most common way hacker get your information is through fishing emails. Students from philadelphias performing arts school celebra celebrating as banners they designed get hung in center ci city. String theory students from the Center City Charter School designed the 12 banners as part of the holiday flag project. Each students banner is a philadelphia neighborhood that means something to them. After the banners were hung on the parkway the teens celebrated recognized by the principal and cafe credit for their hard work. They had to go and do research about decide what neighborhoods they were going to use. What are the typical celebrations that happen in those neighborhoods and then how do they as artists illustrate that . The banner project part of a community out Reach Program that brings students at string theory and the Business Community together. Still ahead, well have more on matt lauers firing, page sick tv Senior Reporter carlos greer joins us with the latest. Boys given back to his community how hes helping the homeless and his adopted count country. Kathy orr broadcast bombshell. Today show cohost matt lauer fired from nbc after accusations of Sexual Misconduct. Nbc news president andy lack released a statement this morning saying the complaint came from colleague at nbc. Lack went on to say this is the first complaint against lauer in his career with the company but there was reason to believe this was not an isolated snip. The news rocking the industry even his cohosts. We just learned this momentsing a just this morning. As im sure you can imagine, we are devastated and we are still processing all of this. Lauer joined today back in nino 94 and became a fixture in coverage across the network including the olympic, the macys ranks giving day parade and rock Feller Center Christmas Tree it willing which of course happens to be tonight. Many people shock by the firing of matt lauer. Closer look now at what is going on. Joining from new york city is page 6tv Senior Reporter carlos greer. Carlos, what can you tell us can you give us any insight about what happened today . Reporter we broke the news this morning about the woman who initially sources told us that she claimed that he sexually assaulted her and sochi oh limb fix in 2014. But sources back pedaled and said it wasnt Sexual Assault it was an up appropriate sexual relationship. So its unclear what the actual details are and what that means. But you know she went to hr on monday and apparently she had enough evidence to get matt lauer fired from the today show. Well, inappropriate sexual relationship couldnt notes that it was consensual. Versus sexual allegations of misconduct and abuse and assault and the rest of that. So that sounds very distinctly different. You know, one of the things thats kind of circulating out there right now, and really blowing up, is a variety exclusive and i know that you were aware of whats going on there. I mean its talking about not just one woman here, carlos. Im very aware. My cohost Elizabeth Wagmeister she worked on that story that they release dad. They worked on it for at least two months. And whats in it is completely shocking. You know theres allegations that he bought sex toys for colleagues. He would drop his pants in front of women when he invited them to his office. He also had a button apparently under his desk that he would he can hit to lock the door to make sure that he can keep people out of it. He could be as private as he wanted in his office. Carlos, also allegations in that article that, you know, management had protected him for many years. Weve heard that for very long time. I talk about it on tonights show. That whenever we would get the scoop or any stories pertaining to nbc news or the today show they went to the epp of the earth to protect matt lauer regardless of what it was. They went above and beyond to make sure that he was protected, top execs at nbc. Well, he is and will i i was the crown jewel of that network on the morning sides of thing. Carlos i know youve got lot more to talk about with this one. Thank you very much for your time right now. Its busy day for you. Carlos and page 6tv. Much more tonight at 6 30 right here on fox 29. Lets get a check of your weather right now. As we take live look at the ben franklin parkway on this mild late november night. Scott and kathy have got your forecast in 15 seconds. It is beautiful evening from the city to the shore. Heres live look down the shore in ocean city, of course, at the music peer deck out for the holidays. You can see a wreath and a got of garland hanging from the music peer this evening way land breeze and temperatures in the 50s. Right now it is 61 in philadelphia. The high today 64 with a northwesterly win at 8 miles an hour. Pretty mild everywhere. Chicago 44. Wichita 52. Denver 62. And las vegas sketch with fours well to the north and where you see that purple contour thats the cold air. So its not really close its not going to be for while. Um mat doppler shows those clear skies looking really good tonight. With temperatures that will stay in the 40s overnight. As we go hour by hour, its dry overnight. Some clouds rolling in tomorrow. And then tomorrow night after nine, 10 00 oclock in the evening, thats when well see some rain make its way from the northwest toward the southeast across the Delaware Valley over philadelphia when most of us are sleeping, 2am, 3 00 a. M. , then it swings offshore and by friday morning, were looking at dry conditions. Now, thats going to bring somewhat cooler air to the region. So yesterday 61. Today 64. Thursday and friday both above normal. But the trend is downward as we go through friday which is the first of december. So what happens after that . Well, scott has got the skinny on that. Hey, scott. Hi, kathy. A little bit of roller coaster ride ahead. Of course as we take a look at the nation not a whole lot of snow showing up on the map. A few flurries moving through sections of north dakota and maine but thats about it. In fact only eightpoint 3 of the nation right now dealing with that snow cover. Temperatures have been well above average for this time of year. So the bottom line, over the next several days, through early next week, expect above average temperatures for the philadelphia area. So saving a bit on those heating bills so far this ladder part of the fall but watch what happens the latter part of next week into the weekend that follows. Arctic blast some of the coldest air all the way to the gulf coast. So just to put things in to perspective this weekend high temperatures in the 50s. Then behind that cold blast by next weekend high temperatures kathy in the 30s and y, if the moisture links up with that cold air there could be a little bit of some frozen precipitation. Utoh. The s word. Yeah. On the parkway right now its looking really pleasant out there with no weather issues at all, and temperatures that are fairly mild. We are looking at temperatures in the 50s this evening and then theyll be falling to the 40s. International space station passing over physical as we speak from the southwest toward the northeast. It will appear as a plane moving across the sky or bright star. You got to run out there only have about a minute tour left. Overnight tonight lows in the 30s and the 20s. During the day tomorrow, going for high temperatures in the 50s. Not quite as warm as today, but still above average. Clouds will be increasing during the day and the winds become southerly. Then the rain moves in tomorrow night. Its gone by friday morning. The skies will will become sunny temperatures in the 50s for december 1st. The weekend looks good. 51 saturday. 54 sunday. And then heres a wee warm up monday 56. Tuesday 58. And then by wednesday, turning cooler with a chance of a show shower. The high 51. Up and down as we begin december. Well send it over to you. All right, sounds good, thank you very much, kathy. Coming up, researchers giving us another excuse to fill up on chocolate and l almonds . Well take closer taking look at your health right now. Those aches and pains may not be a sign that youre getting old. Study in the journal arthritis and rumor ma tolling finds that one third of arthritis sufferers in the United States are between the ages of 18 and 64. Study authors say the number is much higher than originally thought and most likely because younger people dont go to the doctor for a diagnosis. They add doctors often miss these symptoms in younger patients because they just dont expect to see them. There may be a delicious way to reduce a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Study in the Journal American Heart Association found that combining roll almonds, dark chocolate and cocoa significantly reduced the number of bad cholesterol in your blood of overweight or obese people. Now the studys authors say hold on we got to do more research before any definitive findings can be made. Ill be part of that resear research. Exactly. Well follow up on that. Yeah. Before heading out to shop this holiday you want to get ready for thom those a item ago roam mass that might lure knew a fast food restaurants. They conducted Lab Experiments food related scents like burger or eye catching menu display stimulate brain activity that tempts to eat more. The results show people need to be careful an it wear few cues can increase how much you eat. Still ahead, hes not even in high school and yet hes already making a difference in the world. What one boy is doing to make his community a really . Really . Really . Really . Really . Really . See zero in a whole new way. Get zero down, zero deposit, zero first months payment, and zero due at signing on select volkswagen models. Now with the people first warranty. Miim alive and have a second chance. James im thankful for the help and the opportunity that i received. Darlene im thankful to be able to help people in crisis. Vanessa im thankful that addiction is treatable, and that help is available. Christie new jersey is experiencing a heroin epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. But if you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, i want you to know we are here for you. This Holiday Season, choose help. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. The uncertainties of hep c. Wondering, what if . I let go of all those feelings. Because i am cured with harvoni. Harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Its been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. And is proven to cure up to 99 of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. Certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if youve ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during and after harvoni treatment. Tell your doctor if youve ever had hepatitis b, a liver transplant, other liver or kidney problems, hiv or any other medical conditions and about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Taking amiodarone with harvoni can cause a serious slowing of your heart rate. Common side effects of harvoni include tiredness, headache and weakness. Ready to let go of hep c . Ask your hep c specialist about harvoni. Hes seven years old but already on a mission to help others. American family adopted jake from russia when he was a baby. And now hes giving back to some of the most vulnerable the homeless. Am lex boyer has his story. Water bottles, blankets. Um, deodorant. Reporter jake mccann has taken over his parents garage. The sevenyearold adopted frisco boy is fullsecond grader who spends his weekends and evenings helping the homeless. I just felt like they needed help. So i thought i should start helping them. Reporter what is it about helping other people that you like . It make me feel happy. Reporter jake was just three years old when the issue got his attention. He and his two moms were approached by homeless man while vacationing in austin. We tried to explain the best we could to a 384 old what a homeless person is. And it really struck him. They told us what they wanted and what they needed. Reporter since that day jake has become their Biggest Little advocate. First year he collected 2100 pairs of socks. And with help from the community, this Holiday Season jake plans on handing out 1,000 care packages to the homeless. When they feel sad i feel s sad. When they feel happy, im happy. I just like helping people. Super proud mama. I mean its amazing to see him, the curiosity, the kindness, the love, the laughter he has every day. Reporter and its his kind soul and infectious smile that caught attention of Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant. So this guy does amazing work at dallas. They have a big truck that collect splice. Family was coming back from thanksgiving in orlando when he noticed one of jake moms wearing his foundation shirt. Move by jakes selfish story the Flight Attendant got on the intercom and told the packed plane all that jakes heart does to help others. So why dont you give him a huge round of applause. [ applause ] thats a great Flight Attendant too. Shine the spotlight on something good like that. Good kid doing good thing. Indeed. Keep it up. Taking a look at your money now. You want to be warned here. New report offers a warning if youre in the global work force most of us are. Stay flexible and be relevant and according to new study as many as 375 million jobs could be automated by as early as 2030. Mckenzie Global Institute fining physical jobs like fast food or operating machinery, of course, are more at risk but jobs in Data Collection and processing are also in the crosshairs of all that technology. Experts say workers have to embrace retraining in different fields so they can remain relevant. Flexible i thought you meant we need to do stretch before we go n wasnt sure. Dominos pizza expand its brand announcing it will open its very own baby registry. Dominos pizza. A baby registry. Umhmm. Pizza chain is teaming up with googoo guru so parents can create wish list but instead of buying typical things like strollers and diapers youll be able to buy food for special occasions like gender reveals and baby showers from dominos. Soda stream users will now be able to make much more than carbonated drinks. The company is releasing limited edition sparkling gold. A version of fruity white wine. Youll have to good to germany to get it because its not being sold in the United States. Bringing the arts back to our schools is a goal for a group in philadelphia. Heres the deal. Their instruments dont theyre not actually functional. Thats the point for goodness sake. Back in 2007 the support for the arts across the entire School District of philadelphia was 1. 3 million. Fast forward ten years, instrumental music in School District of philadelphia had a budget of 50,000 total. Reporter 50,000 for hundreds of schools. When you hear that, its easy to understand why so many students are doing without learning to play instruments and the impact it has. We walked into this, you know, this beautiful Old Gymnasium that was just stuffed with broken pianos. And so i started reaching out to the district and saying how many broken instruments there are . They started to compile lists for us and thats when we saw the list grow to over thousand broken instruments. Reporter the point is to get all of to us recognize the importance of music in the schools. In a really unique way. Theyre trying oh get all of to us care maybe even help repair these instruments and theyre doing it with an orchestra of broken instruments. Can you give us a solo . Yes. Um, its broken so all i can do is like like, rolanda, teyonaa barely playable clarinet. And john with one string are joining hundreds playing a symphony at the 23rd street armory to raise awareness. This is great opportunity to help the Music Program get started back into the schools. I love the project. I love that helps the schools and brings all these different people together. Do you have any musical background. Absolutely not. Reporter symphony made up of volunteers, parents, students, and professional musicians and listening to them practice clearly made their point. Broken instruments played alone, not great. Reporter but when the Community Works together, things improve quickly. The symphony of broken instruments come up with numerous ways that all of us can help. They can adopt an instrument by going to our website. They can play in the or kess traffic light they can volunteer. They can show up for the concert and all those different ways are ways in which people can activ actively see their engage the and their involve many making a difference. Reporter this is another example of a problem that many of us are aware of and a possible solution that all of cuss participate in for goodness sake. Im bill anderson. Holiday season in full swing and unique frosty the snowman greeting drivers along a highway this is albuquerque new mexico not made of snow. This frosty comes from steadier stock is in tumble wed along with a b of other not so typical thing. His hat is an old 55gallon drum we werent able to use. His nose is an ax handle that broke from some of the work we were doing we recycled that along with other scrap metal and other things make up his eyes, buttons and the parts of him. He looks great. Tumble wed snowman will watch over i4 from now until the first week of january. Hopefully he doesnt tumble away. Coming up a fascinating find that is nearly a century in the making. What popped up in a desert. The romance novel industry booming why some people just cant seem to my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. It traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. Try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea heres pepto bismol ah. Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea some movie history unearthed for the first time in nearly a century. Its a 300pound sphinx from cecil b. Did he mills 1923 epic the Ten Commandments discovered in dunes along californias central coast. Where dee mill phlegm the original movie. The sand preserved the sphinx hard tour me to say along with prohibition era liquor bottles and make up cast and crew would have used. All this will go on display next year. Veteran gets more than just a warm jacket to his visit to a Community Kit kell. Arthur lives in chat into goo tennessee he went to local Community Kitchen for thanksgiving. The center was offering jackets to those who needed them and because he loved the university of georgia he took a red and black one. That night he slept on the jacket. Noticed something lumpy in the pocket. When he looked inside he found 1900 bucks in cash. He turned in that money thinking someone loft it but it turns out a Charity Group slipped that money into the jacket hoping to help someone in need this Holiday Season. Oh, i havent seen this kind of money in 30 years, and i said, it couldnt come at a better time. Thats great. Arthur plans to save most of the money but he does want to use a little to help someone else in need. Thats great. Pay it forward. Yup. You may not realize this but wrote mans novel industry is booming. I didnt realize that. I didnt either. Billion dollar business. What is behind the success. Foxs linda, explains. Reporter Arthur Barbara devlin part of a panel at the National Romance riders of america couldnt friend. The topic, characters with dissables. As a former Police Officer barbara suffered a life altering injury follow beside a life long dissable. The lowest point was not being able to walk. Reporter that accident ended barbaras career. As a cop but opened the door to a new career while going through physical rehab. The book mobile had dropped off books and i found this pile of romance novels sitting on my bed and im thinking, why did you give me these books is it because im a woman . I was a little irritated at first and then i just picked one up and started reading and then i couldnt stop reading. They gave you hope, definitely, but they looked to the future to Something Better than even what you had in the book. Reporter romance novels became a huge part of barbaras recovery. I read a lot of books and thought, i could do this. And maybe somebody would read something of mine and maybe i would give them hope. And i would do this my way and thats what i do. Romance has been proven to have the same effect on the brain as heroin. Reporter liz founded entangle boutique publisher that releases 30 to 50 romance books each month. Almost has an dick tiff quality to it. You want to read more. Why the sexy covers don they really make a difference . When we first launched we didnt have really sexy covers. All right. Lets try a set of abs on cover. Okay, all right. So it sells. Umhmm. When times are really hard, you can turn to a romance novel and feel hope. Former Trial Attorney now best selling author alyssa day says the market is also driven by whats going on in our country during divisive times she says sales go up because in a romance novel you know the good guys are going to witch you know the happy ever after is going to be there. And now that Barbara Devlin has found her happily every after, she makes it a point to help other aspiring writers find theirs. Interesting stuff. Umhmm. Fox 29 news at 6 00 starts right now. A morning show shocker. Nbc shows matt lauer the door after allegations of Sexual Misconduct come to light. His former coancho coanchor sh choking back tears as she delivers the news. For the moment all we can say we are heart broken. We have Team Coverage ahead. He came to philadelphia wis his family after their home to puerto rico was destroyed by Hurricane Maria. Thanks to fox 29 viewer hes got a job just in time for the holidays. Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 6 00. Simply stunned. Matt lauer is out at the today show, nbc has fired the lon longtime anchor after allegations of sexual miscondu misconduct. A complaint filed monday dates back to the 2014 sochi olympic but reportedly the behavior continued in the workplace. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Late this afternoon variety publish a report saying several women said that they complained to nbc executives about lauer but nothing ever happened. Lets get more now from foxs rick leventhal. Im totally shocked. Reporter two Popular American media figures fired wednesday. Nbc matt lauer terminated from the today show for inappropriate sexual behavior. Its getting out of control. Its becoming a gender world. It seems like everyone these days. Unfortunately. Reporter lauer axed hours after his allege victim told nbc executives her story of inappropriate behavior reporte reportedly taking place at the 2014 sochi olympics. As im sure you can imagine we are devastated. In a statement nbc news president andy lack said in part, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by matt lauer. Lack noted this was the first complaint against lauer but there was reason to believe it was not an isolated incident. 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