Dozen people who have taken up residence on the corner of cumberland and american streets for the past four days. But that offer came with a resounding no. Were not taking that offer. Homeless advocate sherri, organized the tent city to show awareness for the citys homeless problem. For days theyve been taking in gifts of food and water. Some even handing over cash donations. But why not take the offer a emergency housing . These people are being offered shelters and youre encouraging them not to take it. Okay. Thats such a fox 29 question. Its legitimate question, though. Wait, wait, wait. Why do you set up land mines and you walk night. We did talk to searer brooks who says she was kick out of the shelter along with her one month old and two other children. I got laid off from my job. I lost my apartment, and i tried to go for help but nobody would help me. Reporter shes not taking shelter tonight. Instead she wants a permanent home. The very public protest not coincidentally comes j
Successful and safe visit for the pope and for the public. Reporter Security Officials are defending the order toss close down the ben franklin bridge stretches of highway and restrict movement in a three square mile swath of center city. Outdoor event such as we see here to the burlingtonbristol parkway in philadelphia, it creates enormous challenges bust we have to adapt to that and we have. Reporter joe clancy director of u. S. Secret service. He says plans must be in place to evacuate the pope and visitors in case of an emergen emergency. You have to have structure. If you dont have structure, you have mayhem. Reporter meanwhile city officials are still pushing back against claims that philadelphia has overreacted to the popes visit. Adopting security measures that go far beyond what will be experienced by those in new york and washington when the pontiff visits those cities. There are any number of events in both new york and washington, d. C. All ticked much smaller venues and no
Fox 29 news in hd brought to you by xfinity the future of awesome. Right now a bizarre standoff for a group of families without a home. Now take a look. Some with children. Only weeks old. Set up tents in this abandoned lottery fusing an offer from the city for a roof over their heads tonight. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. They say its part of a much bigger problem. Our fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live at this socall tent city in fair hill tonight. Chris . Reporter thats right, iain. At least seven homeless families will be staying yet another night in this make shift tent city here in north philadelphia. These families some of them as you said with infant babies rejected the citys offer for Emergency Shelters tonight. Instead this will be their home they say to prove a point. We do have space for up to six families tonight. Reporter the citys top two housing officials arrived to fair hills tent city offering Emergency Shelter to the two dozen people who have taken up resid
Beautiful february afternoon where we hit 50 degrees. The that being said, where the the snow is is along a arctic front that will flip southward and bring some conditions, some conditions to our area, mainly north and west of the city. Winter weather advisory from 6 00 a. M. Monday through 6 00 a. M. Tuesday, all of the northwestern suburbs exceptions along i the five including philadelphia and delaware county. The south jersey and delaware not seeing much, maybe a little bit of rain out of this lets recap today. What a beautiful afternoon. Fiftyone in philadelphia we made it to 61 in millville, new jersey. Fiftyeight in atlantic city. Fiftyseven in dover. There the was a huge disparities where clouds hung and cold air from the front seeped in it was only in the upper 30s. You can track that with the 50s and 60s right in the middle here with philadelphia 43 in philadelphia. Thirtyeight in pottstown. Fortyfive wilmington. Fortyfour in millville. Your fox future cast as we go through to
Its head coach records 1,000 wins in his career and he does it in front of a home crowd. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im dawn timmeney. Herb magee is in his 48th season as head coach. Fox 29s brad sattin was there asthma guy made history. Reporter easy to see right off the bat herb magee doesnt seek out attention n fact he may even ab little embarrassed by it. But on the day hes trying for win number 1,000 theres no way around it. Hes worth take your shirt off for. Hes the idol. Its all about basketball. What does that tell you about him. I dont think i dont know. Hes a really awesome guy. Reporter surrounded by a team an game hes devoted his live to. Former players and College Buddies wouldnt miss this one remembering his old playing days. Threepoint play were alive when he was there hed have scored 4,000 points. I mean he could he just could shoot the eyes out of a basket. Reporter and you could see it in his players actions this win would be for him. Close first half agai