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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 November 19, 2015

Inch. Northeast philadelphia three tenths of an inch. Lower accumulation in philadelphia and trenton checking close to a quarter of an inch of rain. As we look at the timing of the rain, well watch the heavy rain move through during the evening. And then slowly end from west to east during the late night hours. By midnight, this clears the coast and look at the cloud shield. Not far behind. So skies will clear very quickly in the wake of this cold front and that means tomorrow morning expect sunshine. The rain ends between 8 00 p. M. To the north and west and 11 00 p. M. Toward the jersey shore. Winds shifting to the northwest gusting to 25 miles an hour late tonight. It stays windy during the day tomorrow and temperatures will be cooler falling into the 50s. Yes, get ready for the coldest air of the fall season. That comes this weekend. Ill have more on that with your seven day forecast. All right, kathy. Thank you. You can track the rain and be prepared for tomorrows Cool Temperatures by downloading the fox 29 weather app. Take a look at live radar images and get alerts sent to your phone head to the apple or Google Play Store and search fox 29. Some relief growing concerns and new details from the paris attacks. The man believed to be the mastermind behind the attacks that killed 129 people Social Security s now dead. Security around the world continues to tighten. Militarys are ramping up the fight against isis. Today we got new information and chilling new images from the night that signalled the start of a new chapter in the war on terror. The manhunt for the suspected mastermind behind fridays deadly terror attacks in paris now over. French Officials Say ab dem ham mid abboud was killed during a seven hour raid wednesday. His cousin blowing herself up way suicide vest following this interaction with police. Eight other suspects were arrested during the siege . The French Interior minister says officials were unaware abboud a native of belgium was in the country. We did not receive any prior information from any european country where he could have gone through before reaching france that would have suggested he had arrived in europe and was traveling to france. Chilling exclusive video from the daily male. Com showing part of the attacks abboud is said to have planned. People rushed to hide as shots are fired at a cafe. The life of one customer spared 11 a gunmans weapon jams. Others increased security throughout europe. France is hunting down isis in syria dropping dozens of bombs on militant targets there. The French Military intensifying its attacks in the wake of fridays massacre. We have hit command centers as well as Training Centers and you see when we analyze the system you want to destroy, you need to begin targeting ahead to diss organize it. President obama discussed the attacks over the phone with french president holland today. The two expected to meet in person at the white house next week. In all of these stories changing moment by moment. So you can stay up to date on our website at fox 29. Com. Were posting all the latest information on our home page. Meanwhile the u. S. House is just approved republican sponsored bill tightening restrictions for syrian and iraqi refugees trying to enter the United States. In rebuke to the white house large contingent of democrats voted for the bill that Top Administration officials lobbied against in a last minute visit to capitol hill. White house argues legislation would serve as a recruitment tool for isis. But because of the ground swell of support for the bill the Administration Says it is leaving open the possibility of a compromise that addresses concerns about the vetting process of refugees. A developing story out of northeast philadelphia tonight. Police are trying to track down the masked gunmen they say held up a post office in Oxford Circle today. Its not the first time criminals have targeted the place this year. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose live at the post office on castor avenue. Sabina . Reporter lucy, authorities remain inside that post office. Investigating the second Armed Robbery in three months. We use that post office a l lot. Its very convenient. It is a busy post Office Report roar tom powers has work at castor printing next door to the post office on the 6300 block of castor avenue for more than 20 years. He was on the job in august the first time an armed robber targeted the federal office. He cant believe it happened again around noon today. Its kind of scary. I mean all these businesses along here. Are we going to be next . At this point in the investigation, we cant tell if its linked. If this robbery is linked to the other one, um, active investigation. Were in the process of developing suspects. Gathering our evidence. Reporter United States postal inspector says the masked gunmen held up post Office Employees for an undisclosed amount of cash while customers looked on. The suspect is a man around 5foot 10 wearing a green hooded sweatshirt. Blocks up the road police swarmed neighborhoods just after the robbery. Detectives appearing to search a home. Officials would not comment on that scene citing an active police investigation. Highest priority investigation because it compromises safety and security of our employees and our customers. Meantime suspect scene here on surveillance is still wanted in connection with the initial robbery over the summer. Neighbor tom says postal employees were so shaken the first time around some never returned. Two older women they were scared to death after that. Reporter again, the post office is federal facility meaning whoever did this committed a federal crime. Iain . All right, sabina, thank you. Happening now a former subway spokesman is getting ready to spend a long time in prison. Judge just sentenced jared fogle to 15 years in prison for trading in child pornography and having sex with underaged prostitutes. That judge actually ignored the prosecutes recommendation that fogle get 12. 5 years in jail and hit him with the stiffer term. Fogle will have to submit to lifetime of supervision after prison and pay a 175,000 fine. Fogle has admitted to paying for sex with girls as young as 16 and getting child pornography from the former executive director of his nonprofit. Fogle apologized in court today and promised to become a better person. Pennsylvania court has ruled pornographic emails on computers in the Attorney Generals Office are not public record. But the judges are not stopping attorney general Kathleen Kane from releasing them. Common wealth court ruled against request by the Philadelphia Inquirer to release the emails. A kane Spokesman Says shes reviewing the decision and will announce her plans at a later date. The newspaper made a formal request in august of 2014 for copies of all emails that are of a personal nature and involve pornographic or otherwise inappropriate material. It covered all employees since 2005. Kane already released dozens of emails with content that ranges from juvenile humor to sexually explicit images. Rt. Baggage handlers and other Passengers Service workers now on strike at Philadelphia International airport. These Service Employees are picketing here at five more of the nations business guest airports. Their teaming up with the Service Employees International Union protesting what they call unfair working conditions. Theyre also demanding higher hourly wages. Philadelphias mayor elect standing with the picketers say he supports their right to strike. We get up every morning just like i do. Get ready for work. Put your clothes on. Take carry of your kids. Start moving through and get your stuff done. Youre no different than us. The people in elected office have to understand that we are you and you are us and well have your back. These Service Workers are employed by the airlines themselves. Not Philadelphia International airport. American airlines which has the most flights at phl does not expect the strike to interfere with any flights. Gender neutral bathrooms becoming easier to find in philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter signed some groundbreaking legislation this afternoon that requires businesses that serve the public to hang these signs on single occupancy bathrooms. Gender neutral signage is now a law. Supporters explain why what seems like a minor change is anything but. Providing access to a private, non gendered all inclusive bathroom can simply reduce the stress of using the restroom, eliminate the burden of being afraid to leave your house and take away moments of potential violence and danger. Businesses have until january 20th of next year to have these new signs up. A man hop as fence in a local neighbor. Police say hes on his way to commit a crime. What a child should soon discovered that set off the push for an arrest. A local woman says shes a hostage in her own home. My house has been shot up so many times that i cant even count. More than 30 bullet holes in her home and whats seeping in through her vents has her begging for help. Why no one is answering. Bookstore vandalized because it shares a name with terrorist Group Striking fear and hearts around the world. Owner says shes not changing the name and is inviting peopled to Something Else instead. Monkey escapes in texas but theres no monkeying around who are. This guy meant business. What he did next that drew blood. One parent out of work and then the unthinkable happens. A local familys house burns to the ground taking with it the familys only other source of income. Tonight at 6 00 how with nothing left but the clothes on their back this family did he say spyer turns into hope. Well cup back with a live look the ultimate doppler rain. You know what that green, a whole lot of wet not letting up for quite awhile. Were tracking it for you. Well update you throughout the evening. Happening now, the search for a burg la who got away way big haul. Surveillance cameras cause the suspect outside a home in olney on tuesday. Police say after he jumped a fence he got inside and went to work. The thief managed to get his hands on expensive stuff. The burglary happened in the middle of the day on negro avenue. Fox 29s dawn timmeney live tonight outside northwest detectives. Dawn . Reporter well, lucy and iain, i spoke to the homeowner who did not want to go on camera. He says the whole thing is so scary for his family and for h him. His 12yearold son is the one who actually discovered that the home had been ransacked much his grandfather picked him up from school and he got home and thats what he discovered. Now, police say the one thing really working in their favor is some very good surveillance. This is the guy police say broke into a home on the 200 block of needy street in olney in broad daylight. The homeowner surveillance cameras catching him casing the place sometime between 11 00 in the morning and 3 00 in the afternoon on tuesday. The video you can see that hes clearly gathering up the courage pacing back and forth in the rear of the property. Finally he climbs the fence. Reporter police say he then breaks in through a back window spending about 20 minutes inside the home. Gathers up what he wanted to steal which was two laptops, two high end watches a purse, some other valuables, sticks them in a Laundry Basket. Reporter again on another surveillance camera walking right out the front door with that Laundry Basket filled with all the stolen items. Police say the home was definitely targeted. We think that he knew whos house he was breaking into and we think he knew what he was looking for. Expensive amount of items that were taken. Reporter expensive indeed. 37,000 worth of stolen items just carried away in Laundry Basket. No one seeming to notice at the time. Police now hoping someone recognizes this guy who doesnt make any attempt to hide his face. Im confident that in that specific area people in the area know him. May know him or devil recognize him. Were asking for anybody that knows him to call 911. Reporter now, the homeowner tells me did he not recognize the guy from the surveillance video. He has no idea who he is. Hes just glad that no one was at home at the time and that no one was hurt. Coming up tonight at 6 00 oclock, the strange items that the burglar stole in this break in. Lucy . All right, well talk to you then, dawn. All clear at a philadelphia recycling facility tonight after the discovery of a suspicious object that prompted an evacuation. Police say workers at the building on the 2900 block of west elsworth street in grays ferry found the device after it fell off a Conveyor Belt this morning. Well the bomb squad arrived. Investigated then eventually gave the all clear. Police say it was a replica of a rocket propelled grenade. Now you understand why the workers were going whoa, whats going on here. With the heightened security over the past week police say they were not taking any chances. Especial until light of what recently happened in paris this is taken very very serious. Police department handled this type of incident very very seriously. So the way we respond the way we did. Investigators say someone likely recycled it as scrap metal. The facility handle as lot of citys can be side recycling items. Saw lawmakers talking new proposal to give private companies a shot at selling liquor in pennsylvania. Beer distributors would get the first opportunity to buy the permits and whats left would be auctioned off. This isnt a whole lot different from republican plan that Governor Tom Wolf vetoed in june. Some form of liquor privatization could pass legislature as part of a deal to resolve the states budget stalemate which is currently in its fifth month. Parking in philadelphia is getting easier. Meter up pay by phone parking app launched today now the app lets you pay for parking with a smart phone and add more time while youre away from your car. That sounds like a plan. This is a sixmonth Pilot Program only. About 300 of the citys 16,000 Parking Spaces are part of a four zone test area, and it comes with built in perks. There will be many people will get few parking sessions of day totally at random when you go up, you use the app. It will say your section is free and that was one of the jim can he kennys ideas. Well build it as we go out. Well announce it when it comes. The first 5,000 people who download the app get an hour of free parking. Philadelphia Radio Station helping local smokers kick the habit and then unconventional way. 93. 33wmmr commemorating the citys 29th Great American smoke out by inviting a special guest into their balance will cynwyd studios. Doctor steven rose September Berg joined preston and steve on the air to help a room full of volunteers ready to quit. Hypnosis technique has helped thousands stop smoking over the years. I make cigarettes taste like vomit, and so that a version will stick with these people today. Ive asked them to record the session on their smart phones and they will continue to listen to the program today and for the next month, and that will sing right into their subconscious mind and they will never ever ever smoke again. Hmm. Dr. Rosenberg helped pioneer the Great American smoke out decades ago. Its a day for smokers across the country to quit or make a plan to kick the habit. New chapters unfolding in the lives of local veterans and this all began today at a special career fair at lincoln financial field. It brought together veterans and employers looking to hire them. Ohio based called recruit military put it together. Several businesses including home depot and merck and company were there to explain the opportunities they have to off offer. Days after the deadly terror attacks in paris and survivors are returning home. One man who was at the soccer stadium at the time of the attack nearly decided to stay in france. The Big Development that finally made him decide to come back to the us. And some experts say it affects africanamericans more than anyone else. Sinus problems, allergies, asthma. We found the cheap alternative some say works every time without side effects. Take look at the chihuahua that just led police on a long chase. It was fun at first but something soon happened that stop the laughter. Well explain. Heres live look at allentown. Rainy day turns into a rainy night. It was a wet grim day. Big time cold come fog the weekend in your fox 29 Weather Authority. Meantime, people down south having a lot harder time than us. Line of thunderstorms moving through north and sentra georgia yesterday do you know trees and power lines. Causing flooding like this. The National Weather service confirmed sightings of tornado south of atlanta and warned of damaging winds and floods. Thankfully there are no reports of any serious injuries. U. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch and f2i director James Company me meeting behind doors discussing how to keep america saturday. Comb me said they have no large scale credible terroristic threats against america right now. And lynch said at this afternoon News Conference authorities are making efforts to protect all americans especially in light of the terrorist attacks in paris. Now, of course, our highest pri

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