Hours making sure those roads are ready. This is why. Take look at the mess right there. This is the same system and thats what it left behind in south dakota. Good evening im lucy noland. Im done timmeney. Iain is off tonight. We start our team cover with Scott Williams tracking whats on your radar. Hi, dawn and lucy. Yes, we are looking at the first snowfall of 2015. Winter weather advisories kick in tomorrow morning area wide. South jersey, delaware, philadelphia, points north and west. We are looking at a accumulating snowfall. That includes you quakertown, Norristown Allentown reading west chester media wilmington into the mullica hill, glassboro glassboro, voorhees and marlton areas. So ultimate doppler is dry right now but heres the system. You can see it circle right now bringing snowfall i round chicago, why into sections of indianapolis as well as cincinnati. Its moving pretty rapidly. So it will arriving by day break tomorrow. But look at the temperatures. Below freezing. So it will start to stick pretty much immediately. Were looking at those flakes arriving toward philadelphia by 8 00 oclock. Continuing through midday. So watch the clock. You can see 6 00 a. M. West of us looking at those snowfall totals starting and adding up as it continues to move toward philadelphia. South jersey this is 8am tomorrow morning. By 10 00 a. M. , pretty much area wide were looking at that snowfall and it will continue to taper off as we move into the afternoon. So by 4 00 oclock, its pretty much out of here but certainly leaving behind a mess and some slippery roadways. So once again, 6 00 a. M. To 8 00 a. M. That snowfall arrives light fluffy snow total accumulations one to 2inches its not so much the amount but the timing impact impacting that Tuesday Morning commute and it tapers as we move toward tomorrow afternoon and evening. Its cold right now but even colder air is on the way. Ill tell when you that arctic blast really settles in, dawn and lucy coming up. Salt piles are ready for the taking and penndot trucks are already out on the roads. All to make sure your morning commute isnt so messy. Fox 29s Shawnette Wilson live in allen up to. With a look how everyone preparing for the storm. Shawnette . Reporter so most people told me tonight that this in the snowfall thats going to change their routine. Theyre not really concerned. Still pep dot has to do its job taking precautions by prepping the roads. Not at all. No. Reporter kristin grober isnt concerned about the snow coming in the morning but she says shes prepared. Yeah, we bought a snowblower a couple like a month ago. So were ready if it comes. Reporter we caught up with kristin her husband and two children leaving lows in whitehall. I heard we might be getting a little bit like maybe an inch or so, but nothing too bad. Reporter but they werent buying anything weather relate related with just 2inches expect. Nothing we cant deal with. Last year we got 3 feet at this time. So 1 inch isnt going to do any damage. Reporter stores is snow blowers front and center and, of course, we found an abundance of salt. Shovels and scrapers easy to find but there was no rush of people buying. Its the first snowfall of the year. Panic hasnt set in. Im just going to do my normal thing. Reporter okay. Just a little bit of snow. Reporter penndot readied its fleet of trucks early monday monday. Well have 182 state trucks ready to move out into the highway when the snow begins falling Tuesday Morning. Reporter roads were being salt blindness evening midnight when the major operations starts. They want the roads ready for the morning rush. Very concerned. This is painful for me because i got to travel, like, all the way up to jersey and then i got to come all the way up here so coming from jersey with the traffic in the snow its going to be hectic. Reporter rough commute ahead. Penndot says the trucks will remain on the roads throughout the snowfall tomorrow. That is until it ends sometime in the afternoon. Dawn most people tonight i talked to were more interested in the cold and the wind. They say that was the bigger problem than the snow. All right shawnette thank you so much. Dont forget to type into fox 29 when you wake up tomorrow morning. Of course, well have you completely covered. Sue serio will have up to the minute forecast information bob kelly will have any problems that are out there to greet you on the roads. The fox 29 Morning News Team starts at 4 00 a. M. Followed by good day philadelphia with mike jerrick and alex holdly from six to 10. Police are hoping Surveillance Video of two men wanted for a violent attack gets them off the street. The pair knocked victim unconscious and left him hospitalized for week with brain injuries. And only fox 29 was there when he returned home. Our Dave Schratwieser is live outside central detectives and dave this was just a brutal attack. Reporter the victim was punched, beaten, knocked to the ground. He struck his head on the concrete and was knocked unconscious. He spent more than a week in the hospital until he was releaseed this evening. Right now i have to be concerned about seizures. Um my memory being affected. Reporter for 34yearold sam sierra the beating allegedly took in center city at the hands of a 6foot two 280pound man is all a blur. I was knocked out and so my brain just between bleeding and sorts of things i really dont remember much if anything. Reporter he spent a week at temple hospital with seizures and bleeding on the brain. Only fox 29 was there as he arrived home monday night just as Surveillance Video of two suspects in the 12th and chestnut attack was released by police. Now, theyre looking for the suspects. Anybody out there that has information were calling on the publics help for that. Im just praying hell recover and hell be able to just be his old self. Reporter police say he and a friend walked past a group of five people on 12th street on december 27th. Words were exchanged. Sierra and his friend kept going but two men in the larger group decided to go back after them. Even taking off their coats as if ready for a fight. Some individuals just looking for a fight. Looking to bring harm to someone and in this case thats what happened. Its sad. That you cant even walk the street. My son is a hard worker. He does nothing but go to work. Hes never ever had a fight in his life. Searer is on three medications to deal with seizures and pain. He needs rehabilitation to help regain brain function. He and his mother are hoping someone will recognize the two attackers and call police. If they did this to my son you know theyre cowards. Who knows who else they can do this to. I can only take one step at a time. Reporter the victim will have to return to the hospital for more tests and treatment. If you want to get another look at these suspects go to our website at myfoxphilly. Com. If you recognize them, or the people they were with police would like to you give them a call at central detectives. Lucy. All right dave. We dont know how Shane Montgomery died. Volunteer dive team found the 21yearolds body saturday in a schuylkill river. The divers found him less than a mile where he was last seen. Montgomery and some friends were hanging out in the Early Morning hours of thanksgiving at a bar in manayunk. Employees asked him to leave right around 2 00 in the morning and he never did make it home. Family and friends are remembering the life of Shane Montgomery this week. A viewing is thursday from 5 00 to 9 00 p. M. At saint john the baptist in manayunk. Funeral mass friday at 10am at the same church. Cameras caught eric 14 arriving at court this morning for his preliminary hearing. Hes accused of ambushing and killing a state Police Trooper and injuring another outside their Blooming Grove barrack in the poconos back in september. This afternoon a judge ruling prosecutors prosecutors have enough evidence to move forward with a trial. Fox 29s jeff cole explains what exactly happened inside that courtroom today. Reporter observers in a milford Pennsylvania Court watched as eric freins alleged ambush of two state Police Troopers played out in front of them. Prosecutors played the video in court as frein shackled watched. It was enough for a judge to send the 31yearold to trial. Heres video of alleged shooter eric 14 arriving at court this morning. Frein sat quietly as the images of the september 12th ambush rolled. The video shows Corporal Brian Dixon mortally wounded crumbling to the ground. He died. Trooper alex douglas being struck by gunfire as he attempted to help dixon. Hes also seen crawling away to escape the gun blasts. He survived. Corporal dixons family attended the hearing. Authorities say frein confessed to the attack. Prosecutors want to put him to death. Again, the ruling came at mid afternoon on monday. There was enough evidence says a judge to try eric frein for homicide and other crimes. In the newsroom, jeff cole, fox 29 news. A jury is set for the trial against former tv ports personality don tollefson. Prosecutors say he ripped off at least 200 people stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in sports related charity schemes. The 62yearold withdrew his previous guilty plea last month. He rejected a plea deal again today. Tonight, our fox 29 news photographer asked him if he had any second thoughts. Were you thinking about taking the plea the last minute or anything this morning . I really wanted to go to trial. Thats all i can say about that. I really look forward to starting the trial tomorrow and again as i said tell my side of the story. Tollefson is a former fox 29 employee. He is representing himself with the help of a Court Appointed attorney. Jury selection is underway in one of most closely watched terror cases the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Tsarnaev sat in court today watching as attorneys began screening 1200 potential jurors. Prosecutors say the 21yearold planned and carried out the bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260 near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in april of 2013. According to defense attorney Heather Hanson the jury selection in a case like this is very critical. Any time theres a Death Penalty case, you have to really be very careful that you get people who are not either pre disposed to it or completely against it. So that is the most difficult thing in any Death Penalty trial trial. The prosecution says the jury selection is expected to continue at least through wednesday. Another strange chapter in the story of the revel casino. The only bitter left for the closed casino now wants the judge to stop the sale to himself. The florida developer won the right to buy revel with knife . 5 million bid but now the buyer wants the price dropped to 87 million. The bankruptcy judge seize no grounds to void the original deal. The future of revel is up in the air. It is one of four Atlantic City casinos that closed in 2014. A woman home alone when police say this guy broke into her home. Naked. It wasnt even the first time that night. What police say he did inside another house before he was caught. And take a good look. Someone finally catch a picture of big foot . The one reason even experts say you my might want to give this picture a chance. Plus a beloved family pet cheats death twice. First saved in another country. Were all here. Then he disappears for two years until today. The incredible reunion youll only see here. Watch out wawa. New competition is in town. And customers say its a definite threat. Why some say you could soon tr this happened just before 6 30 in the toys r us in port riff mon. Investigators say an armed suspect surprised employees as they were about open the store. When they refused to let the guy in he fired a shot and then took off. Fortunately no one was hurt. Developing right now Philadelphia Police believe they have caught the man who shot and killed a limo driver. 24yearold Miguel Rodriguez died while on the job saturday night. Police are still looking for at least two others involved in that shooting the motive is robbery. Our dave kin help has more on the life of the hardworking father. Reporter this is the man philadelphia homicide detective took the life avenue hardworking man trying to support his young family charged with murder after allegedly shooting 24yearold rodriguez at the head after a end of a cab ride in West Philadelphia saturday night. All he wanted to do is take care of his family and work. His sisterinlaw says the family lost a goodman who died with his fiance watching everything in the front passenger seat. His five month old daughter henness see now father less. It hurts upping, because i know that ill never see him again. Reporter investigators say the victim picked up three men on seventh street in north philadelphia. The men were trying to get to yeadon but police say they requested to be dropped off at a car on the 5400 block of delancey in west philly. Once there one of the males pulled out a gun and pointed it at his fiance and stateed to the driver, give me everything or i will kill her. Reporter police say he followed the gunmans orders giving over 30. But it does not end there. As the gunman exited the vehicle, he shot him one time in the head killing him instantly. The three men then fled on foot. Reporter family now trying to figure out how to raise his daughter and how to carry on themselves. The family is hurting, you know,. They need closure. Reporter police questioned and released a 21yearold man they are looking for others and the Transportation Company is retraining the dispatchers and they plan to add cameras to their fleet to better protect their drivers. At Police Headquarters dave kinchen fox 29 news. Mayor Michael Nutter starting the new year looking back on this past year. Among the issues, he addressed at city hall population growth, state of Public Schools and safety. Philadelphia has seen a decrease in homicides and shootings. 2414 saw 247 homicides and that is a 36 decrease sin the mayor took office back in 2007. Big news this year is a drop in shooting victims as well. 34 decrease since 2007 to a low of 1,047. The mayor crediting police for the drop and also First Responders and Community Crime fighting organizations. Meet kara the retriever mix at the center of a mack us will story of love and perseverance. A university of pennsylvania archeologist and her husband rescued the abandoned dog while on a dig in turkey. They brought him home to West Philadelphia in the fall of 2012. But in december of that year, kara ran off disappeared and hadnt been seen since. Until now. Our bruce gordon is in radnor with one amazing reunion. Looking around. Kara . . Do you recognize me . Reporter what do you think . Is that your dog . That is my dog. I know that. Reporter he was tentative a bit frightened but solzman was certain her beloved talk kara was back. I cant believe what is happening right now. Reporter he had run off in december 2012. Vanished. But last november a volunteer at the francisville home for smaller animals is century old no kill shelter in radnor noticed the pooch roaming the streets several miles away. The dog at francis veil track the dog and safely trapped. Started going online and found him on a we website lost my doggie dot. Com. I just i was speechless and i started to cry. Speechless. Reporter site gave them a picture and the name kara. And then google lost dog kara the fox story comes up first. Reporter our coverage of the lost pooch provided the back story. And with the images online i could print it and i can take it and stare at him and match all this little spots and markings on his body. Reporter they were sure they had her dog. Phone call later and the reunion was set up. You have grown so much. Reporter with the folks from francis veil looking on and her husband lawrence filming the emotional scene what kind of an adventure did you have . For two years. Reporter isa got requainted the dog she brought home from turkey and feared she would never see again. We have a miracle right now. I am just so happy. I dont know. I am thanking fox news forever and ever. Reporter veterinarian at francis veil will micro chip and neuter kara. For more information on the good work done by this no kill shelter, go to myfoxphilly. Com click seen on tv. Well link to you the information you need. In the newsroom, Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Love that all the way around and then theres this. Who would target a 200yearold cemetery and ruin hitter i didnt say headstones and markers. I cant even begin to think what kind of mind set it takes to do anything that despicable. Why the Police Department building may be the key to catching the vandal. And a blast so powerful it knocks this photographer off his feet. The mystery surrounding the flames at this fireworks factory. A deputys first day on the job puts him to the test. How he saved the life of a child and hemmed that mom out. Now your Traffic Authority with bob kelly. Good evening everybody. Weve seen delays all day today on the pennsylvania turnpike. All because of that new fare hike that went into effect over the weekend. Most of the delays have come at the cash toll lanes. Ez pass lanes youll get the bill in the male at the end of the month. Working 95 northbound between girard and allegheny avenue expect delays through the overnight into early tomorrow morning. Again thats all on that northbound side and then theyre also working north along route route 202 between the bypass heading into route 401. Snow is going to join us for the morning rush hour tomorrow. Sue will have the forecast. Ill check the jam deciding what to buy is one thing. Deciding between buying food and health care is something else. Healthy pa is now