Higher power to watch over the eagles. The eagles just need a prayer to just Stay Together as a team. I think that they have been a great exhibition of faith because even when their leader went down, the team said we are not going to stop. We are going to keep going forward. Were going to believe. Going forward. The faith is strong. The prayer wasnt just about the birds. People at the event also addressed the opioid crisis, homicide and poverty. Eagles fans are also history buffs if you you are then you know super bowl lii is a many years later rematch with the patriots. Our bruce gordon joining me in studio. So the original game back supe r bowl 39 didnt end well for the birds. It is one of those loss that is feels a whole lot worse than blow out. So many factors had eagles fans even years later thinking, if only. 13 years later lots of frustrated philadelphians still remember the heartbreaking loss to new england as it if were yesterday. They performed great. Andy reid doesnt know how to manage the clock, right. I think we were cheated out of that game. You do . Yeah. Well get pay back this time to the patriots. New england entered super bowl 39 as a sevenpoint favorite in the early days of what would become a grid iron dynasty. Football historian ray didinger says this was a clash of titans. Yes, it was a great patriot team. They were defend super bowl champions and really just hitting their stride as a team. But the eagles were very good. I mean they were very good. Reporter led by their talented but tightly wound wide receiver terrell owens. Who limped into the game on a dadly injured right ankle only to record nine catches for 122 yards. What he did in that game was just amazing. I mean he clearly wasnt a hundred sent he willed himself to play. Reporter by the Fourth Quarter tom brady yeah hes still around led the patriots to pair of scoring drives and tenpoint cushion then with less than six minutes to go, the eagles mounted the most frustrating touchdown drive ev ever. Donovan mcnabb led the birds on 13 play, 79yard scoring drive that pulled his team to win three points but the drive seemed to take place in slow motion. What i was thinking was what i think most of the people at home watching on television and the people in the stadium were thinking was, this is taking too long. Reporter eagles ran out of time and the patriots won the super bowl 2421. Long after the game new england would be caught up in a years long scheme video taping the opposing coaches on the side lines presumably stealing plays. Did spy gate cost phil until super bowl. Probably not says didinger. The patriots have been a good football part for the better part of two decades. I think they were the better team that day. Thats always how i viewed it. Long after that game end add story line would develop a nervous Donovan Mcnabb threw up in the huddle on that last scoring game. Ray watched rewatch it from every conceivable angle. He says mcnabb was breathing heavily from a vicious hit earlier that the drive but says he never through up. Thomas, good to know. Now you know. Bruce gordon our own history above. Appreciate it. Keep it right here on fox 29 news. Well have much more on the super bowl bound birds over the next 30 minutes. Philadelphia police tonight say a man beat his 49yearold mother to death in her own home. Officials say they found tammy blunts body this afternoon on wissahickon avenue in the citys east falls neighborhood. The windows in the home all op open. The dog locked in the bathroom. Police say it all started when family members got concerned after not hearing from blunt in a few days. Stab wounds and Blunt Force Trauma taken into custody was maliki white 27yearold who miss blunts son, um, he has some Mental Health issues, um, and our understanding at this point he was not taking head of his medication. Police say murder charges will be filed against white later this evening. Students shaken at an East Germantown high school after police say a teen brought a beebee gun to School Forcing a lock down. Police say they got the call around 10 30 this morning and headed to parkway northwest high school. They found beebee gun and in locker and arrested one teenag teenager. Students say with all the violence around the country, situations like this certainly make them nervous. My sister is in school and when this happens it kind of like scares the whole family because there havent been threats forty one people in other states that we heard that there have been a lot of shootings, threats and things like that. It scares us. But to experience it is a different level. The school does have metal detectors so its not yet clear how the student got the beebee gun inside the school. Tonight police are still on the hunt for whoever shot four people last night in north philadelphia at about 9 30 on ridge avenue. Police arrived on scene to find a man shot in his back. Hes in critical condition. Another man ended up at the emergency room shot in his back, leg and shoulder. Then two 13yearold boys both shot in the leg showed up at the hospital. Theyre both in stable condition. Police are hoping Surveillance Video will help them track down the shooter. A man shot dead right in front of his Apartment Building and now police are on the hunt for the killer. Investigatoinvestigators say 28d hendricks was shot several times outside his Apartment Building on the 800 block of vernon road. Police rushed him to the hospital where he died. Happening right now, pennsylvania congressman Patrick Meehan says he regrets not going to court to clear up his name. Of course the congressman is under fire for using tax paying dollars to settle a Sexual Harassment case. Our jeff cole sat down with meehan, i know, jeff, you mentioned this earlier he regrets signing that confident loll agreement as well. Reporter does he. Representative Patrick Meehan is 62yearold father of three who says a decades younger female aid became his soulmate who opened the door to an emotional closeness. Are you trying to retaliate against her, hurt her now. Not in the least not in one shape or other. This is a person i care about deeply. Reporter in peril of losing his public career he claims hes been falsely accused of Sexual Harassment facing claims he made unwanted romantic overtures to an aide he paid hearths sans of dollars in taxpayer funds and severance, not a settlement. You ever paid severance before for anybody in your office. Short ones. Reporter short ones . Whats that mean . Advice was given and i took the advice. Reporter days after the story broke, the former top prosecutor sat for interviews tuesday saying the much younger aid had become his soulmate. I have feelings that were generated in that ive said an attraction. So did you have romantic feelings for this woman . I did not have romantic feelings. I was it was a relationship that was a very professional relationship. Reporter meehan released a letter he wrote to the woman after hed learn shed begun a relationship with someone outside his Office Writing i thank god for putting you into my live signing it with all my heart patrick. You did not turn hostile to her when he found out that she had an outside boyfriend . Thats the claim. Thats the claim. I do not agree that that is substantiated much thats why im here making sure that people know. I wasnt hostile to her. Reporter meehan said he did sign an agreement not to talk about the case but claims the womans attorney broke it and claims there was a request for money. Somebody came and asked for money for the young woman. Reporter and then what happened . Did you give them the money . No. Reporter what happened then . They went to they went through the process that evolved through the office of compliance counsel. Reporter and the payment came later. The former aids washington lawyer says meehan has violated the agreement not to talk and shes considering all Legal Options she says her client will cooperate with the House Ethics Committee investigation. Im jeff cole, fox 29 news. More to come, jeff. Thank you family of new jersey state trooper killed after being hit by a car will receive nearly 2. 4 million to settle lawsuits related to his death. It was back in march of 2016 when sean cullen was hit by a car in Deptford Township while responding to a car fire. Officials say the 31yearold trooper was trying to cross the southbound lanes of 295 to get to a burning vehicle when he was struck. He died the next day. The settlement will be paid by the Insurance Companies of the drivers involved in the crash. Cullen left behind a fiance and two young sons. A former usa gymnastics dr. Spend 40 to 175 years behind bars. Larry nassar sentenced today after seven days of testimony from 150 different accusers including former olympians. All coming forward sharing their stories of sexual abuse. Nassar spoke directly to his victims in court. Acceptable apology to all of you its impossible to write and convey. I will carry your words with me for the rest of my days. You do not deserve to walk outside of a prison ever again. That was the judge speaking there. Usa gymnastics also coming under fire over their mismanagement of the scandal with three of the organizations Board Members stepping down earlier this week. Well have much more coming up tonight at 10 00. Kathy is watching our weather forecast. The he have changing forecast. Kathy . Absolutely. Were talking about more cold air, thomas, is moving our way. More cold coming for at least a couple of days but its not going to stay that welcome back. Surge in new patient Social Security causing hospitals to take action here. Lehigh Valley Hospital have set up tents right outside at cedar crest and their muhlenberg emergency rooms. All due to the flu patients. Majority of the United States has a widespread outbreak of the virus. In fact, the center for Disease Control says so far 47 possible have died from the flu season. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Taking a live look at doylestown, bucks county, a chilly night out there. Compared to what weve seen the last couple of days. So how cold will it get . Kathys forecast in 15 seconds. In weather tonight temperatures are only going get colder. Out there in Center City Philadelphia its looking pretty good on the parkway a lot of traffic. Temperatures are pretty cold. 39 degrees the winds are out of the northwest at 16 miles an hour. Putting that wind chill or feel like reading in the 20s. Its 33 in pottstown and 22 in the poconos. In wilmington its 36 degrees. In dover it is 40. So temperatures are falling fa fast. We have those northwesterly winds in a few snow showers that was central pa, a few in the northern part of new jersey you could you could see a few flurries especially to the north and west of philadelphia. Cloudy tonight with cold temperatures. Chicago at 29. Detroit at 27. That is a piece of the cold air thats moving toward the delaware valley. As we look ahead more cold coming our way that chilly air will be settling in and really bottom out tomorrow morning. So a cold start to the day but temperatures will be warming into the afternoon to seasonal levels but nothing like weve seen over the past couple of days. 27 overnight in the city. 15 in the poconos. 24 in reading and 25 in wilmington and wildwood waking up to 27. Its going feel colder. We have a northwest wind about ten to 15 miles an hour. It will feel like 19 in philadelphia. Wrightstown 16. Waking up to a feel like reading of 2 degrees in the poconos tomorrow morning. But it is going to get better. Lots of sun during the afterno afternoon. Less wind. The temperature around 40 degrees. Mostly sunny and seasonal. But the wind is going to be the key. It will feel very comfortable. We have this trough in the jet stream that will be lifting north by saturday and even during the day on sunday bringing us some warmer air. Temperatures in the 50s and some spots possibly pushing 60 degrees. Not going to last long. But its going to be pretty sweet. Take a look at your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority. Friday a cold start to the day the morning low 24. The afternoon high 43. Then we jump to 56 on saturday. A great day to be outside. Showers and mild for your sund sunday. Cooling monday and then tuesday mostly sunny. The High Temperature 10 degrees cooler. Only 36. Wednesday mostly sunny, 44 degrees. The extended out hook does call for above average temperatures and the eight to 14 day outlook very good chance of above normal in philadelphia into the first week of february. You cant ask for more than th that. Well sent it over to you. Overall very nice. It will be a nice weekend, kathy. Thank you. You bet. Governor murphy ordering review of new jerseys medical l medical marijuana program. He believes its difficult for people to get the care they need theres one familiar until south jersey that uppeds the struggle all too well. Joyce evans joining us from camden counsel tie. Joyce, this is program that is truly made a difference for this family. Reporter well, it really has. But it could do so much more. This is one of many family whos have been trying and trying to get new jerseys medical Marijuana Law to deliver just the way other states that have it do. This is ricardo rivera. You met him a couple of years ago much hes been risking everything, fighting for years to get more Affordable Medical marijuana for his daughter tatiana and for others. She suffers severe seizures as we saw earlier tonight and he hopes governor murphy will deliver those major reforms to the law in the next few months. The road blocks put in place by the past administration mean that the laws spirit has been stifled quite simply politics replace compassionate care. So far so good. Reporter youre not going to take your eye him, though. Absolutely not. My daughter is my number one priority i have to stay on it. If he doesnt keep those promises, as you know, lie go to a town hall meeting and call him out. Reporter and yes, he will. Ricardo showed us and we saw for ourselves the great improvement in tatianas quality of life since shes been on just two meds other than his cannabis treatment and they will keep on doing it and they hope to make it more affordable and more accessible. Thomas. Family struggle. Theyll keep on fighting. Joyce evans tonight. Joyce, thank you. They are gearing up for the 117th philadelphia auto show. The celebrations kicked off today with a chairmans drive in of three very cool vehicles. More than 700 vehicles from manufacturers worldwide theyre going to be at the event. Of course at the Pennsylvania Convention center. They also be able to experience the best and broadest super cars and ex yacht tick vehicles displayed in the country. Two dollars from every ticket sold gets donated to the auto dealer caring for kids foundation. The auto show opens this saturday and runs until februar. Back to super bowl mania now. Get this. Pizza hut telling us that if a player scores a touchdown within the first 14 seconds of the game it will give everyone enrolled in its Pizza Hut Rewards Program a free pizza. Of course 14 seconds is the record for quickest touchdown in super bowl history it was set by the bears devon hester who returned the kick off in super bowl 41. Get this. Amazons alexa is apparently an eagles fan. When you ask alexa who she thinks wilthinks will win supere responds im rooting for the goals they never won a super bowl and i like a good underdog story. Night eagles fly. Kristen, its official. Im going to have ask my alexa later tonight. Thats pretty awesome. Sports world cannot stop talking about nick foles and for good reason. Coming up hear nick foles talk about how hes blocking out the noise and the haters. Theres still some out there as he gets set for the your daughter wants to stay organic. Your husband wants to stay free from artificial ingredients. You want to stay free from artificial preservatives. And your debit card wants to stay on a diet. Fill your cart with Small Victories like giants natures promise brand. Great prices on over 1,300 items. Eat well for less. Only at my giant. Carson wentz was the starter for the eagles now nick foles is a closer. Everyone is talking about foles right now. Embodies his underdog story like no other. Hes a backup quarterback who considered retiring now head to do super bowl. Its nice bedtime story. The eagles are convinced foles can give them great ending. Hes looked increasely better in each game here in the post season now with even more time and momentum in his favor, the birds are liking their chances. Nick has played unbelievable the past couple of games. Last game was probably the best game ive ever seen him play. Um but thats the nick we expect. Hes very good quarterback. We got all the confidence in the world in him. You just stay in the moment. Um, this is a big moment. Its super bowl. Something you dream about as a kid, but at the same time, you know, were going into this game its a game. Once i step on to the grid iron im playing like playing against the patriots. Thats where go back to trust your preparation working every single day and living in that moment. Despite so many cars sons between the quarterbacks and the super bowl nick foles has made it clear hes only playing the patriots defense. But of course hes heard of tom brady and how to only high praise and respect for him since he grew up watching him play. Hes probably the greatest quarterback play the game. Um he approaches it the right way. He knows thou eliminate distractions. He knows how to prepare and take care of his body and he knows how to go out there and play at high speed and make players around him better. I think as a young quarterback or any quarterback, you can look at that and you can respect that. I mean i respect great players. I respect players that do it the right way end does it the right way. Tough break for villanova red shirt junior guard phil booth out indefinitely after fracturing his shooting hand in the wildcats win over providence last night. Booth was out for all of last season saved three games due to a knee injury. Well, phillys legend jim thome headed to cooperstown. Tomorrow may named to Baseball Hall of fame tonight. It is the first time hes been on the ballot hes eighth on the alltime homerun list with 612 homeruns. Joining him Chipper Jones vladmir guerara and trevor hoffman. Very well deserved. Spring training around the corner but of course we got to go up north more north. I feel warmer already. [ laughter ] coming up tonight after you watch the new hit drama 911 hear from the stars about the new found respect they have for the real life First Responders they portray. Thats tonight at 10 00. For kathy orr, kristen rodgers, im thomas drayton. 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