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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 March 9, 2017

45 degrees. Still seeing gusty winds. Winds gusting to 33 miles an hour in philadelphia. Gusting to 31 in trenton. And that wind will be a factor in our forecast over the next several days. Well watch this area of low pressure in the lower midwest move to our south but that plume of moisture will expand and it will be cold enough with an arctic front moving through to see rain rapidly change to snow during the Early Morning hours. As we go hour by hour you can see the clear skies with clouds building to the west. The clouds move in late tonight. Rain moves in and then changes over to snow very rapidly. All snow in the poconos Lehigh Valley and reading by 5 00 a. M. Right along i9 i95 corridor rn changing to snow even in Philadelphia National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather advisory to the north and west of the city into the poconos for accumulating snow and it will begin to stick once again during the morning and maybe some snow squalls even in the afternoon. Coming up well talk about the snow amounts for where you live, the biting wind chills that will follow, and then watching a coastal storm for next week, lucy, it could be even more significant weevil talk about that later in the broadcast. Our crazy year continues. Thank you very much, kathy. Live look at the pocono mountains. Its gorgeous it will have fresh powder real soon. You can get the latest conditions and live look at the ultimate Doppler Radar on fox29. Com. News is breaking to germany we go. Police say that people are injured at an a ax attack train city. Duesseldorf is where it happen. Police say they have arrested to people looking for more, though. They say five people are injured. We do not know how seriously. Its all coming in right now, of course, were staying on top of it bring you more as it comes in. Happening right now jury selection for the man accused of ambushing two Pennsylvania State troopers killing one of them. Though it happened in pike county jury selection is in west chester. Prosecutors say 33yearold eric frein killed Corporal Byron dixon seriously hurt trooper alex douglas outside the bloo bm Blooming Grove barracks in accept of 2014. Lead police on a manhunt through the pocono mountains. The jury will come from Chester County with a trial set to begin on april 3rd forty nine could face the death sentence if connell vicked. If old City Construction crews uncovered human remains as old as three centuries and it has capture the attention of folks walking on by archeologically experts alike. Our bruce gordon is standing by and bruce, this most definitely puts the old in old city. Reporter it sure d this is 218 arch street right behind me, and if all goes according to plan in year or so it will be chock full of apartment dwellers tonight its the centerpiece of subterranean history mystery. Human bones had already been found last november at the at this construction site for an old city apartment tower and several 300yearold coffins unearthed february 21st. But Tuesday Morning came the mother load. More than 30 coffins dating back to colonial philadelphia were discovered as neighbors looked on in amusement. Surprising but im not really for this neighborhood. Theres so much history and who knows what was there prior. Probably was a cemetery. Reporter in fact this was a Baptist Church cemetery dating to 1707. 1859, the cemetery was moved but clearly not all the bodies made the trip. Now remains of more than 50 men, women and children are painstakingly being dug up by archaeologists and anthropologists from the Mutter Institute and rutgers camden. The goal oh s to learn something. This is a wonderful opportunity to really have a window into some of the earliest citizens of philadelphia who they were, what their lives were like. Reporter among the most heartbreaking finds, this tiny coffin. No doubt built for toddler or even an infant. Its sad certainly, but its also cool just to think about all the people that have been in old city for such a long time. And lived and literally died here. Reporter by law the owner of this site pms properties is not a bleached to do anything special with these remains the company pledged to allow experts at rutgers and mutter to analyze them. Theyll pay to have the burns reinterred at another locate. Kind of fascinating to realize whats beneath us right around here. You dont think too much about whats under your fetal. Theres another world down there waiting to be unearthed. Reporter pretty mazing stuff. Experts want to get these remains out of the elements especially with that forecast you heard and into their laboratory just as soon as possible. Both the construction schedule out here. Look these kinds of burial sites often produce artifacts of all kinds, lucy. So the stories being told here are just beginning to be writt written. All right. Well wait for the next chapter. Thank you so much, bruce gordon. Wakeup call 1n family was not looking for. Penns grove police say a drive lot of control during a chase. They say he ran a stop sign then took off and police tried to stop him. The chase only lasted three blocks before the driver hit the house leaving behind two adults and two children in the car. All of them are injured but not seriously. Police have yet to find the driver. No one in the home is hurt. North Philadelphia Residents finally have their power back on after a fire at a peco substation led to massive outages. Peco crews worked through the night to get power restored and remaining customers at one pintle 30,000 people were in the dark but 22 philadelphia schools an building at temple reopened and investigators are looking into what rt sad the fire tuesday on westmoreland street. No one is hurt. To a story now of one womans medical miracle. The 71yearold kept mysteriou mysteriously gaining weight and had no idea why. Her body size doubled and doctors made truly this is a word i did not use often shocking discovery. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live at Lehigh Valley hospital cedar crest in allentown. It is just one incredible story, dawn. Reporter lucy, incredible is an understatement. This grandmother of two just thought she was overweight. She tried everything and finally just gave up. But what doctors found even stunned them. I thought i was becoming a short fat little round little old lady. Reporter 71yearold mary clancy of saint claire has struggled with her weight for years. She says as she got older she thought genetic card she was dealt. I kept trying all kinds of diet things, and i kept just going out. Reporter mary who work at the touchdown tee at boscov where is retiring says she always resisted the sweets and wondered what was going on. I made the fudge and i refused to eat the candy. I would not do it. I cant get any big we are. Her belly continued to grow. Mary weighing 365 pounds when she went to the hospital last year for a blood clot in her leg. When i got there they did the cat scan and said surprise,. I was surprised because i thought it was fat. Doctors discovered a huge mass the size of a boulder and referred her to Lehigh Valley hospital cedar crest. Thats where gainly oncologist doctor by lay discovered mary had a 140pound malignant ovarian tumor. It was slowly killing her. What was happening is the mass was pushing up on the diagram muscle pushing the bowel was just all the way toward her ba back. Nothing was functioning proper properly. The blood supplies to her legs were cut off. And clotted. Mack us willy the doctor and a team of doctors and nurses were able to remove the extraordinarily large tumor last november. Plastic surgeon randy woe psychiatric removed another 40 pounds of excess skin and tissue. It was slow growing so it stretched out her abdominal wall and skin. Mary losing half of her body weight in a fivehour surgery. She spent 26 days in the hospital and is now a new woman weighing 147 pounds. Im alive and im well and im happy. Reporter well mary is still getting used to her new look. She hasnt gotten herself a new wardrobe yet. Shes planning a big yard sale in the spring. Shes looking forward to gardening and spending time with her two grandsons and lucy, she did indulge in that box of chocolates finally. She says she thought she deserved it. Yes. She definitely does. We ought to take her out for a shopping trip, dawn. Thats what im thinking. All right. Thank you so much. Busy sports day in philadelphia. Off the field and on the court Free Agency Starts in the nfl an popular have very popular player in the eagles locker room and the Philadelphia Community is gone. Im sad about this tom srendenschek. Hes here now with the eagles story and a record setting day for the villanova wildcats. Busy thursday afternoon here in the month of march, lucy. Started early today with the release of Connor Barwin very popular player as you said a real leader in that eagles locker room. But this is a business. We know that. And letting go of Connor Barwin saved the eagles about 7. 75 million in cap space. Merry Christmas Eagles fans they went didnt shopping. Wide receiver Al Sean Jeffrey youve heard the name off season. For one year, only one year reportedly 14 million. Grieve is a talented refer he had a four game suspension this past season for using performance enhancing drugs. They added former wide receiver tori smith from the 49ers. He gets three years, 15 million. Eagles were spending money. Hes a deep threat and a speedster who one time was a second round draft pick but the numbers have dropped off big time the last two years in frisco only 20 catches last ye year. We talked College Basketball lucy how about so much for a National Championship let down. Villanova with a record day in new york at the big east beat saint johns 10867. Ouch. 41point margin matches the largest in big east tournament history. Wildcats couldnt miss and neither could sean bell. Another easy win forville notify v saint johns tired from last night plus they dont have the talent to hang with nova. Regardless of all of that, villanova says this may be their best win of the year. Weve been going in the right direction. As of recently and we just we were able to make shots tonight. It wasnt one certain thing. We all we played for each other and we dont care who gets to shine. I think that really showed tod today. Usually your seniors get it. You know, they whatever they did during the regular season our guys did a great job, but tournament time the seniors know how important this is. I just thought josh and chris were just outstanding right from the get go. Its on to the semi finals eye they hope they can play as well tomorrow as they did today. At Madison Square garden. Sean bell, fox 29 news. All right. Sean, villanova will play seton hall tomorrow night at 6 30. More on the wildcats and other moves by the eagles. Oh by the way they added another offensive lineman, luce seem thats coming up in sports. Big day in sports. Thank you very much, tom srendenschek. A woman strolled into this local 7eleven demanded cash. The clerk thought it was all a joke. What that woman did next to prove it was not kidding around. Doctors in japan say a Nuclear Catastrophe is not to blame for health problems. Why they say some people who live in the area are still suffering. A man kicked off a flight over a blanket. What the Flight Attendant told him that made him so mad he ended up getting he is cored off the flight. Why are you deleting these photos . Because my teeth are yellow. Why dont you use a whitening toothpaste . Im afraid its bad for my teeth. Try crest 3d white. Crest 3d White Diamond strong toothpaste and rinse. Gently whiten. And fortify weak spots. Use together for 2 times stronger enamel. Crest 3d white. This woman is not at the 7eleven in north hills Montgomery County to buy a slurpee. What she did was no joke. But the clerk thought it was until she pulled out 95. Police say she demanded he open the register at the store on lime kiln pike last night. But the clerk thought it was all a big joke because he doesnt speak english that well and couldnt understand her. She ended up leaving without taking anything. Within 24 hours of this video airing on fox 29 last night, police now have both these guys in custody. Last night we showed you them on swings right before they assaulted the man in Port Richmond last month. Well after dave schratwiesers report one of them gave himself up today. We just learned officers also arrested the second person tod today. Police say the two attacked and robbed 67yearold man near the stokely playground. He spoke to dave last night and he is recovering from his injuries. Probably very happy about what happened here. President trump almost halfway threw his first 100 days in office and lawmakers pulled an all nighter working on amendments to the new Gop Health Care bill. Speaker of the house guaranteed the votes to pass the bill but right now its looking pretty tight. Joel waldman has more from washington. Reporter the house energy and Commerce Committee debating the American Health care act for more than 27 straight hours. Democrats marking up the bill adding amendments and dragging out the process of looking at the gop backed measure. I think it also set a record 27 hours nonstop so congratulations to all of you and oh tower staff p. Reporter after another all night session a small victory for the bill the house weighs and Means Committee passed the measure. This afternoon House Speaker paul ryan rolling up his sleeves trying to sell the plan to the American People through a power point presentation. This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing obama care. The time is here. The time is now. This is the moment. Reporter speaker look morgue like a professor laying out a three pronged approach to repealing and replacing obama care. Including more intense Committee Debates action by the president threw regulations and additional bills which would create new benefits like buying insurance across state lines. But democrats still warn the new bill helps the rich while hurting the poor. The republican bill is one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the rich chest people in our count country. Robin hood in reverse. Reporter as speaker ryan was delivering his presentation, President Trump tweeted out the Health Care Plan was coming along great and would end in quote a beautiful picture. In washington, joel waldman, fox news. Is there a connection between the Fukushima Nuclear power plant disaster and health of people who live in the area. Japanese Health Experts say they can find no evidence the melt down directly caused health problems. In 2011 earthquake and tsunami triggered melt counts at three quacks at the fukushima power plant, however, those same experts do say stress and changes lifestyle for those evacuees prompted obesity and diabetes increasing the risk of strokes and heart problems. Our Bill Anderson is always finding people committed to improving our city. Bill went to a local business forced to close after financial challengings but the owners refocused, reopened and found a way to better serve not only the community but our fur babies as well for goodness sake. In the end it came down to money. It all came down to the development and big business. Small Business Owner was just not as valued in that area. Reporter several years ago i did a story about philly cupcakes and owner johnny columbo and michael lewis. They opened at 12th and chestnut before it was popular. The business was a success but as the area grew, Mass Construction killed their foot traffic and ultimately their business closed. A number of businesses had to leave that area basically because the city allowed way too Much Development to happen in a small area. Reporter but now years later, the closing of their business inspired them to refocus their new business now is not only successful but is funding the nonprofit they dreamed of from the beginning. Even though we were, um, frustrated and disgusted with what happened there, and wanted to leave, we decided to regroup, look at our plan b which was to work with animals. Reporter their desire to work with animals plus their history as philly cupcake bakery combined and the philly pup cake was born. We took that passion and we reinvent the our business in another place northern liberti liberties. Philly pup cake itself as human grade dog kitchen with food and treats from dogs made from healthy ingredients worthy of our dinner table and, yes, i did test it to see if it was in fact human grade. This one called our puppy christie treat. It has peanut butter, Rice Krispies in it car rob in it. Its for dogs. Made with dogs in mind but its completely all human grade food. Thats really good. Its good, senate. Reporter for what its worth the food tastes good to humans but to me the biggest bright spot their success is also helping to fund a no nonprofit for dogs who may never get to their store. Nonprofit we started is called hold your paw, the idea behind hold your paw we provide shortterm relief to families and individuals who would otherwise have to give up their animals. u reporter they want to help large numbers of people who surrender their pets to shelter

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