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WTXF Fox 29 News At 10 November 3, 2014

Gusts brought down trees around our area and check this out. An suv destroyed in west chest chester. Good evening everybody. Im joyce evans. Im karen hepp. Those cold winds came pretty much a shock to anybody stepping outside today. Lets get right over to katelyn roth with a check of what we have now. Its a shock to the system the first time we feel like we are entering a new season and we are actually enter agnew month. November began yesterday. It did come in with a vengeance luckily all the wet weather we saw on saturday long gone. Storm system now wrapped up across portions of Eastern Maine and the canadian maritime. A lot of snow here. This is of course for central and eastern sections of maine far away from us, but on the back side of that storm system, tight Pressure Gradient delivering very gusty winds all day long. Breezy outside right now. Temperatures in the mid 40s here in philadelphia. 43, 39 in pottstown. 39 in allentown. Already at the freezing mark up in mount pocono. We still have a steady breeze sustained winds outdoors you feel consistently between 15 to 20 miles an hour thats enough to keep our temperatures up at night but its also enough to create wind chills that are about 10 degrees cooler. So what it feels like when you step outside and what it felt like mainly all day is temperatures in the low to mid 30s feels like 34 here in philadelphia. So the forecast as we go through the rest of tonight clear skies out there. The winds should subside a little bit. I think well see winds around 10 miles an hour by sunrise. 39 in the city. The overnight low temperature. 32 in the suburbs. A cold start to your monday morning but thankfully we are going to see some thawing. All of that still ahead in your wake up Weather Forecast. Karen and joyce. Thank you caitlin. Runners in Fairmount Park found this rude surprise when they came back to their cars after their run several drivers had to dig their cars out from under fallen trees and branches. Some had to find another way home. At least its not snowing. This is a picture taken today in somerset county, pennsylvania. Its about 50 miles east of pittsburgh. As you can see it stuck. Hopefully we wont be seeing anything like this around these parts any time soon. And you can track the temperatures and wind gusts any time you want at myfoxphilly. C myfoxphilly. Com. Just click on the weather tab. We are learning this evening that Britney Maynard that young woman advocate death with dignity has ended her own life. According to a spokesman. Confirmation of her death was just posted a short time ago on the web compassionate choices. The 29 year old had terminal cancer. Chris oconnell joining us right now in the newsroom with the latest oh and what were hearing right knowledge chris. Reporter karen. Terminally ill woman who sparked intense debate assisted suicide did in fact carry with her through her promise to end her own life on own terms yesterday. According to that group the death with Dignity Group compassionate and choices 29 year old Britney Maynard died under her doctors care in her bedroom surrounded by familiarly. I hope my family is still proud of me Britney Maynard was thrown in the National Spotlight making the controversial decision to end her life. Planning the date for her own death on november 1st days ago appearing in this online video explaining her decision. Im getting worse. Thats when happens when youre terminally ill you get sicker and sicker. Reporter she moved to oregon to die under the states death with dignity act. Shortly after being diagnosed with highly malignant and aggressive form of brain cancer in january, doctors only gave maynard six months to live. She has since sparked a National Debate and has become a lightning rod in the issue over assisted suicide. My goal, of course, is to influence this policy for positive change and i would like to see all americans have access to the same health care rights. Reporter in a final message posted on facebook, maynard wrote goodbye to all my dear friends and family that i love. Today is the day i have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness. This terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me would have taken so much more. Social media flooded with reaction including a Facebook Post from her sister. Her sisterinlaw saying, fly with the angels, britney. I know youll watch over all of us. Karen. Thank you very much, chris. Our coverage continues and you can join our conversation in the discussion on this issue dying with dignity by coming to our Facebook Page myfoxphilly. Com. Candidates get a big push from big names in the final days of the race for the pennsylvania governors office. Our commander in chief touched down in philadelphia tonight. President obama walked off air force one as you see there before heading over to Temple University to cam page for tom wolf. Meantime, republican incumbent governor tom corbett also got help from a famous friend. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie campaigning with corbett at a at an event tonight in ivyland, bucks county. Fox 29s dave kinchen on top all of this life on Temple Universitys campus in north philadelphia tonight. Dave how did it go out there . Reporter well it was certainly a big night for tom the democratic candidate for governor here in pennsylvania. President barack obama throwing his support behind the wolf campaign, and of course this is the final push, final weekend push before tuesdays election. Lets go to video right now both men shaking hands and embracing each other at times on stage before hundreds of supporters at the lea cower rays center at Temple University tonight. Obama calls wolf a practical guy who has been successful in the Business World even sharing profits with his employees. Wolf has the right understanding of the economy by focusing the expansion of the economy around the middle class. The president also said wolf notice how critical education is and painted a contrast with incumbent republican governor corbett and cuts to School Funding that happened under his watch. Listen. Heres the thing you know about tom. He doesnt care whether the idea is republican or democrat as long as it work. Yes hes a practical person who just wants to make it work for the people of pennsylvania. Yes so he knows, for example, that education is the key not to Economic Growth but also to personal advancement in a modern economy. So hes not going to run on agenda of splashing slashing budgets for schools or laying off thousands of teachers. He knows teachers matter. Reporter meanwhile governor corbett making a big sunday night push to keep his job calling up new jerseys chief executive governor Chris Christie also a possible 2016 president ial contender. The two rally supporters that stopped across bucks county today. Their event in ivyland happening at the same time obama backed wolf. Christie says corbett is the right choice for the next four years. Having made tough decisions ne needed to keep pennsylvania moving. For four years, hes worked on lowering taxes, increasing jobs and opportunity. Making pennsylvania a more prosperous place improving Education System that needed improvement. Hes worked on all that. Youve been able to count on him every day to do that for the last four years. And now, in these last two days, im asking you, im asking you, to let him count on you. To let him count on you to do what needs to be done. Reporter meanwhile the website real clear politics has an average of several polls across the state giving wolf the edge by 11 points. But both campaigns of course will tell you the only poll their concerned about is the one on election night. Karen . Always, thank you, dave. Hunting park tonight the search for a shooter who opened fire on a car hitting at least one person in the head, two men both 18 creatures old sitting inside a vehicle on the 1,000 mock of west tioga street this morning. One of them says somebody drove by a dark colored car and started firing. A bullet hit one of those men in the head but the victim was apparently still able to speak. He got to the hospital. He did have surgery. The other man was not injured. So far no arres arrest or suspen this case. Charges have been upgraded for a delaware man beating a delaware man to death. Fernando flores is charged with manslaughter. Assault happened back on october 19th at a home on the 800 block of samantha circle in bare delaware. The victim 21 year old unconscious. She was raced to the hospital where she was held for 10 days but she died on wednesday. Her baby was delivered and right now is in critical condition. The state police are testing a arrival recovered at an abandoned airport hangar to see if its the weapon used to kill a fellow trooper. Eric free was captured on thursday near the hangar following a sevenweek manhunt hes accused of of ambushing two state troopers outside a Pike County Police barracks one of them was killed. The other wounded. Hes charged with first degree murder. Prosecutors plan to seek the Death Penalty in this case. A Football Player from a western Pennsylvania College is now under arrest. Accused of of brutally beating a west chester man. Police say the freshman linebacker at California University of pennsylvania turned himself in yesterday. Five of his teammates were arrested on friday. Police say they attacked the victim as he tried to stop an argument between his girlfriend and one of the players. It happened outside a restaurant near the Washington County campus on thursday in the Early Morning hours. The victim is in intensive care suffering from severe drain trauma. More injuries for the birds. Their game witness texans today but when it was all over the eagles had had their sixth win of the seasons. Nick foles injured his collarbone on the final play of the first quarter. So in came mark sanchez. He threw two touchdown passes. Eagles beat the texans 3121. Theres no official word on how long foles will be out but it did look like a couple of weeks. Howard isocline have the complete coverage of our birds later on sports sunday. Fishtown man handing out candy to trick or treaters has his wheelchair swiped. But we have a very happy update to tell you about tonight. How fox 29 viewers stepped in and got him new wheels its ne neck. Plus its one of the most popular chat online sites out there right now. It is one of the most dangerous. Why you will want to keep your kids away from this one. Welcome back. We introduced to this fishtown man last night after the game. He was simply handing out halloween candy turned his back for a couple of moments and thats when somebody swiped his wheelchair. The man is mike, devastated because he has no way to get around. Thanks to fox 29 viewers, this story has a very happy ending. Our Sabina Kuriakose explains how one local family is paying it forward tonight. Better than the one i had. Thank you so much. Reporter this is the moment when mike mower got this mobility back. I didnt know there was still good people in the world. Reporter you can understand why he might be skeptical. We first met mike the day after halloween when his wheelchair was heartlessly stolen from his fishtown home front stoop as he handed out candy to trick or treaters. Handing out candy and came out and there was people here. My chair was here. Mike was heart broken and unable to get around. I have no legs. No way to get around. Amazing fox 29 viewers. After this story aired we had nearly a dozen people get in touch with us wanting to help him out. One of those people the subject of another getting results story from a few years ago. She says she wants to pay it forward. That was a perfect opportunity to give back. Reporter Heather Peco A Sun gesingle mom. Her sons wheelchair was stolen a few years ago along with christmas presents. She called us and bruce gordon got the story. Seventh street medical donated the wheelchair for us and we use it all the time. Reporter this time even dominic wanted to give back. Are you happy . Yeah. The moment heather delivers dominics extra wheelchair to mike, pure goodness. Two strangers bonding over one simple act of kindness. It seems like you have tears in your eyes. I do. Im trying to hold them in. I didnt expect the response like this. I really didnt. Mike and heather not the only ones to be moved. We were pretty blown away by this moment, too. Oh, my gosh. Thank you for calling us. For offering to do this. I feel great thanks to his perfect stranger. I expect thanks for fox 29. You did me something i couldnt do for myself right now. Thank you to our viewers for always making a difference. Sabina kuriakose, fox 29 news. Well somebody did find mikes wheelchair and they got it back to him this evening. Unfortunately, were told it was heavily damaged. Were not sure how. Mike says hes so grateful for heathers donation. Its happened again for the second time in just two days. Police Say Something dangerous has been found in a local childs halloween candy. This time it happened in lower macungie township. Police say teenager found a pin in her candy bar. She was out trick or treating. No word on who gave her that candy. The lower Macungie Police are warning parents to be on the look out for the same thing meanwhile police in buck county they are trying to pig out who razor blade in a 13 year olds candy bar. The 13 year old says he found the blade in his bag after he was trick or treating in towamenson township. He says he found it in a snack sized nestle crunch bar. Police are warning parents there to check their childrens candy. A woman in central pennsylvania is killed after she was run over by her own car. Police in york county say the accident happened friday night on the 600 block of Silver Spring road in dillsburg. Now investigators believe 62 year old Patricia Thomas put her car in reverse then got out of it and when she realized it was drifting backwards police say she probably tried to stop it by leaning into the back of the car but the car ended up running her right over. Her death has been ruled an accident. Tensions start to go ease in the latest e bowl lie controversy. She squared off against the governors of maine and new jersey and now tonight nurse casey hicks ox says we can all learn something from her story. When she first came back from the u. S. Last month hicks ox was forcforceed into quarantine in w jersey despite not showing any ebola symptoms. After getting pushed back from the public and the white house governor christie allowed hickox to go home to maine where authorities there also tried to force her into honoring a 21day quarantine. Then a judge ruled on friday that hickox can come and go as she pleases. But she still has to monitor her health daily. On nbc meet the press this morning, hickox says everybody is just relax. We know a lot about ebola. We have have been researching this disease for 38 years since its first appearance in africa and we know how it the infection is transmitted from person to person, and we know that its not transmitted from someone who eye a stott mat tick as i have and only aid workers when they return. After everything has gone on hickox says she will respect the wishes of down residents and avoid going into town for the rest of the incubation period which for her ends on november 10th. A teenager and her dad help bring a missing baby home after they hear an amber alert. Police in Washington State say Cassandra Wilhelm assaulted her husband and then drove off with her 18 month old son and she does not have custody of that child. So police put out an amber ale alert. There happens to be a 15 year old teenager very alert cameron woods she was with her dad saw ththe alert while driving their car. They followed the car to the hotel. And thats where police come and get the baby. 21 years in the army. Youre always looking around. If theres somebody that needs our help and we have the opportunity to help then were going to take that. I would not have got that if he would not have got that where we that kid be . That suspect mother is now facing several charges this evening. Were told the baby was not hu hurt. Checkups for kids in the ed snider youth hockey program. Doctors from Temple Health gave physicals to more than 100 boys and girls in the schneider hockey program. The exams were all done down at the Wells Fargo Center in south philly today. Temple health has teamed up with schneiders organization for the past several years. Meteorologist caitlin roth is back now with a look at your wake up weather. Were hoping to shake the chill off. We should. It will be cold tomorrow morning but once we get into the afternoon many improved. Not gusty winds like today. Recapping some of that the highest wind gusts reported cape may and bush kill township in north lamb ton county pennsylvania 50 miles an hour. So i saw a couple of sweets out there. Comparable to having a Tropical Storm bring the winds on shore. Smyrna, dare, 49 miles an hour. Philadelphia 48 miles an hour wind gusts at the airport and mount pocono 47. Gusts right now still out of the northwest occasionally over 25 to 30 miles an hour. The gusts should subside but breezy as we head into the overnight. Temperatures in the 40s now. Your seven day wake up Weather Forecast 39 in the city. 32 in the suburbs. Lighter earlier sunrise at 6 32 a. M. Tomorrow. Warming trend still a head in your seven day forecast. Thank you so much, caitlin. A mom accused of of forcing her small children to drink toilet bowl cleaner . Now the children are okay. But coming up the shocking thing children

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