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WTXF FOX 29 News At 5PM March 4, 2015

And purple in and also into snow that white that you see but look at the sharp temperature contrast across the nation. We have 70s out ahead of that front. Single digits once you move a little farther north and west that. Cold air will be moving in changing that rain over to snow. But for 42 degrees right now. The wind is calm but look at that visibility. Watching out for fog out there. So heres the timeline. By 10 00 oclock tonight its still rain but north and west its changing over to wintry mix especially after midnight the pocono mountains the Lehigh Valley it goes all over to snow. In philadelphia, after midnight by 4am were looking at a bonafide snowstorm across our area and those temperatures continue to drop throughout the morning and into the afternoon. Were looking at that snow lingering a little farther to the south. So how much to expect . Area wide, five to 8inches of snow. Some locations could over achieve in central sections of delaware as well as south jersey jersey. So now through 11 00 mostly rain but 11 00 oclock through 3 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning that rain mixes with sleet and then the bulk of the accumulateing snow from 3 00 a. M. Thursday until 11 a. M. Much more on the timing as well as when potentially expect a change in the pattern coming up. Guys back to you. Scott, we all know weve dodged bullet after bullet when it comes to big snowstorms heres something. 16 times so far this season we have seen a tenth of an inch of snow and road crews have felt the bite of everyone. And this next storm is likely to punch pack the biggest punch weve seen so far. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell live in norristown for road crews chris, here we go again. Reporter lucy, this is the 25th snow or ice event penndot crews have had to deal with so far this winter season. So theyre getting a workout. Penndot officials right now as we speak standing in front of dwindling piles of road salt offering us a briefing now on the impending storm. The good news for commuters to night, mainly rain, but its going to be a much different story for the morning commute tomorrow. We did get a chance to look at that salt supply. Take look. 151,000 tons of road salt has been used so far this year. Second highest on record, of course, with all the rain weve been having all of that salt is now washed away. So as soon as the snow begins to fall tonight those trucks will be out on the roads throwing down that salt and plowing away. Were told this is going to be a plow event. Penndot says their equipment its holding up threw these storms. 440 trucks will be on the roads throughout our area over the next 24 hours. Drivers work aig round the clock and they are reminding everyone please steer clear of these trucks and let them do their jobs. Now, from the roads to the air Philadelphia Airport also already canceling flights tonight into tomorrow. So if youre traveling by air be sure to contact your airline he is special physical you are traveling or someone else is. So well get some more information from penndot. But they are expecting a major storm and a big mess for the next 24 hours, of course, well keep updated and bring you back out here live at 6 00 oclock. Guys . All right, chris, see you then thank you. Residents in and city officials getting ready for another round of Winter Weather here in philadelphia. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is live in Chestnut Hill for us tonight. Dawn, how are people getting ready for more snow and ice out there . Reporter well, iain, everyone heads to the Grocery Store to stock up when a storm like this is on the way but the one item that is really hard to come by is salt. A lot of people cant find it. But check this out. Were here in Chestnut Hill the Neighborhood Hardware store and this is the one place that has been hopping all day long. Four bags please. Ill sell you one. I got a newborn baby at home. Right. Big driveway. Report roar desperate for salt. Customers packed killians Hardware Store in Chestnut Hill trying everything they can to buy what is a hot commodity in advance of a cold winter storm due to arrive in matter of hours hours. We sold out of whatever we had from yesterday. We got a delivery in that was sold out. We got a second delivery. That was sold out and were waiting for a third delivery. Reporter Carol Lynn Parker looking where are for salt with no luck. By the time she gets to killians this afternoon gone. Sold out. But thankfully more on the way. Ive been searching for it for two days now. My husband called me and told me that they had it here. When i got here, i think the sign on the door i seen the sign on the door and salesperson told me that it would be here at 1 15. So i waited. Reporter waiting along with plenty of other customers. Right on time more bags of ice melt arriving. A welcomed sight as the delivery is brought in on a forklift and sold right off the sidewalk. Its nuts. Its nuts. This is almost as bad as last year. Last year we had like every week was like this. One bag. Reporter it doesnt take long for customers to scoop up delivery number three gone in a matter of minutes. Did you think it would be this crazy just salt. No, my wife wants to move to florida. Theres none left in the northwest. I went to five play places. Reporter suzanne finally finding it here this afternoon. Talk about lucky. How does it feel to get the last bag of salt. Good. Come back tomorrow it will be fun. Reporter so we will see just how fun it will be tomorrow when we all wake up as you can see these guys unloading bags and bags of salt. Thats what everybody wanted today. Theyre plenty of shovels here to be had nobody seemed to be interested in them but maybe when we see how much snow we get this will be the hot item tomorrow lucy. Tell was dawn, i need to you pick me up some salt. I do. I need salt. You got to haul it back to the station. Reporter i got one for myself, of course. All right. Dawn, good job on that one. Were prepared at least i dont have night salt but other than that were prepared we want to make sure youre prepared. Fox 29 morning news a starting at 3 00 a. M. Your forecast, those roads, we have got you covered. Developing right now in radnor township, Delaware County police say there could be many more victims of a mall peeper in our area. Sean moses was arraigned monday an 86 counts of invasion of privacy and one count of child pornography. Police say he taped women in dressing rooms then put the video on porn web sites. Fox 29s dave kinchen is live at the Radnor Police department tonight. Dave, how many places now do police think he went to secretly record these women . Reporter well, iain radnor detectives believe these recordings took place at five, five area malls throughout the delaware valley, and they say the videos could date back years. Radnor police say they have found evidence of more hidden camera dressing Room Recordings targeting women and have linked them back to 37yearold it specialist and accuseed peeper sean moses of penn valley. We did uncover there are deleted file indexes. What that means video once existed on the computers which are giving us other locations he may have filmed. Reporter investigators say those locations include excess and forever 21 stores. Unisex dressing rooms like these at the king of prussia mall filled with underaged women secretly captured while changing clothes. Police say moses was kneeling down holding the camera. We have some very concerned parents. Some very concerned younger people who dont want their image alter the. Detectives say they got about 50 phone calls and emails with women worried they could be in the videos which moses allegedly shared on porn web sites. Police are interviewing them to identify the victims captured on tape. We primarily had moms come in. Weve had some women themselves come in thinking theyre victims and theyre appalled by what they see. Relieved when when we dont find them. Reporter moses recorded his sexual encounters like this one Radnor Police enter viewed three ex girlfriends but not identified the women in those tapes. Anything you want to say now that youve been charged here . Reporter moses said nothing to fox 29 after he answered 86 counts of invasion of privacy charges in court. Hes being held on half a Million Dollars bail while detectives continue to investigate more possible cases. Im actually surprised how big its gotten. The amount of calls weve had. Reporter Radnor Police are working so hard on this they have moved two detectives off their regular duties and have aside them to this case. Now, if you believe you may have been a victim or you believe you may know other potential victims in this case Radnor Police want to you email them at detectives at radnor. Org. Detectives at radnor. Org. Iain. Dave, thank you. The Us Justice Department will not charge a former ferguson, Missouri Police officer in the shooting death of unarmed black man. Officer Darrin Wilson shot and killed 18yearold Michael Brown back in august. Wilson says brown reached for his gun during a struggle and he feared for his safety when he fired the fatal shots. Federal Officials Say there was no reliable evidence to prove claims that brown had his hands up when he was shot. Wilson was also cleared by a grand jury back in november setting off even more protests in the streets of ferguson. Attorney general eric holder spoke about todays decision by the justice dem. The fact dos not support the filing of criminal charges against officer Darrin Wilson in this case. Michael browns death though at a a tragedy dark not involve prosecutable conduct on the part of officer wilson. While the Justice Department will not file charges against wilson they say theres a pattern of civil Rights Violations in the Ferguson Police depth. Eagles fans are still scratching their heads aft last nights blockbuster trade with the buffalo bills. Not sure how blockbuster it is for us. But howard eskin is live in the newsroom with more on one of the biggest trades eagles have ever made. Howard man. I think it is blockbuster for all of us. Its actually the biggest trade in philadelphia sports in many years. Not just the eagles. Trading lesean mccoy is gigantic gigantic. Hes arguably the best player on the eagles offense. But sports really is about change. Now the one negative and im sure what chip kelly was looking at because hes in all the Sports Science mccoy has had more carries than any running back in the nfl the last two seasons. Thats not a good thing for a back and it short steps careers. Its obvious thats a big reason chip moves on but the player of the eagles got in linebacker alonso is a really good player according to the people that ive spoken with, and Brian Baldinger thinks the eagles won in this deal. We got to see how the eagles spend the money so we dont know yet. Its an incomplete but i would think right now that the eagles got the better deal because i think running backs can be replaced. Its hard to free up money and then how you allocate those resources to get what you really want, what you really need fixed, they now have that opportunity. All right. I think when the Free Agency Opens next tuesday the eagles will be big players in signing players. It will be a free for all next week. Coming up later in the newscast what do the fans think . And more on what the experts think of this deal. Back to you guys. All right. Howard, thanks. See you then. Its the day a lot of people have been waiting for. The trial of the accused Boston Marathon bomber now underway and his lawyers say he did it. Were outside the courthouse with the very latest. Plus headway in the fight against isis. Iraq says its makeing progress and theyve got the video to prove it. Later unbelievable video. A woman trapped in a burning home puts her dog fir happening right now in boston the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev underway. He faces 30 federal charges and could get the Death Penalty if convictedconvicted. Joel waldman is in boston. We will get to him in little bit. I will tell you this happened today at the trial. The defense said thats not going to side step tsarnaevs role in what happened. So the question is, how are they going to defend him . Hopefully have that later in the newscast. Police in new Jersey Community have an internal investigation of one of their own Facebook Comments that appear about the death avenue dog that. Dog was inside a pick up that plunged in a into a frozen river in seaside this past weekend this is a picture from that scene. Seaside Heights Police say Sergeant Thomas was off duty when he allegedly made the facebook posts. One of the posts said that truck plunging through ice with a dog inside brings a whole new meaning to frozen weiner or dirty water dog. What too soon, calm down you animal loving freak. He will remain working during the investigation. The dogs owner has been charged with criminal mischief for driving the truck on the ice. May also face animal cruelty charges. Hundreds of philadelphias low wage workers packed city hall demanding 15 an hour. Fast food workers some Business Owners and others spoke to the city council during this mornings hearing. Theyre all part of 15 now philly a movement to raise the citys minimum wage and overturn a ban on municipal minimum wage hikes in pennsylvania. Now others worry that type of mandatory wage hike would put some businesses out of business and actually stifle economic recovery. It was supporter whos had the floor today. We have to raise the minimum wage in order for people to be able to feed, clothe and house themselves and their families. And make all of philadelphia prosper. Somebody pulled the fire alarm just before the hearing evacuating the building and that had everyone standing in the rain. But the meeting went on nonetheless. Someone finally gets to take a gamble on the former revel casino hotel. A Camden County bankruptcy judge considers a third deal on the property today. The latest bid has 82 million price tag a florida developer is hoping to get his hands on it after two previous deals fell through. The revel shut its doors last september after being open for just two years. Stormy for revels from the get go. The question were all asking about this incoming storm as in the weather storm is this it . With spring around the corner who is counting only 18 days i way i am. How much more winter will we have to endure. Chief meteorologist Scott Williams is a little bit fed up life outside in old city tonight tonight. Scott. Weve all hit with this winter. Its been bitterly cold and dealing with the snowstorms aft snowstorm. Right now in old city, its actually not that bad. It kind of feels like spring showers considering whats head our way. Temperatures in the low 40s were dealing with rain now. But there is some hope on the way. In fact as early as this weekend take look at that. We actually springford so, yeah, well have to turn our clocks ahead one hour beginning on sunday morning. And also, to go along with that it look like the temperatures are going to be warming up as we move into next week. Also iain talked about that countdown to spring. 16 days until we are looking at the start of spring but it does look like a pattern change will take place as early as next week. Some of that arctic air will retreat into canada and that will allow for a southerly wind to hit us meaning temperatures will be warming up. In fact that snow will be melting and iain will be hitting the golf courses pretty soon across our area. Iain and lucy back to you. I might go out tuesday. 18th hole. Nice little green there. It wont come soon enough for me. The 19th hole i like personally. Not a bad hole. Im looking forward golf. It was a mix of good and bad luck for a california woman. Hiker hoisted to safety. The rescue captured. Of course, on camera. Why she needed help and the two strokes of good luck that made one big difference. A florida man calls 911 with some sinister intentions. The gun battle that erupted when the cops got there. And a convenience confession. How you can get what you have done off your chest without stepping foot in a church apparently all you need is a smart phone. I am never getting married. Never. Psssssh. Guaranteed. You picked a beautiful ring. Thank you. Were never having kids. Mmmmmm. Breathe. I love it here. We are never moving to the suburbs. We are never getting one of those. We are never having another kid. Im pregnant. I am never letting go. For all the nevers in life state farm is there. Happening right now in boston the trial of Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev underway he does face 30 federal charges for the 2013 attack. Now take two on talking with foxs joel waldman indeed live in boston tonight. Joel we mentioned a few moments ago. The defense right off the bat said its not going to side step tsarnaevs guilt so whats the strategy here . Reporter well lucy good point. I should say lot of graphic and emotional testimony that was happening at late this this afternoon court recessed at 4 30. Something you tony a lot of high profile criminal trials or any criminal trials for that matter the defense and prosecution in their Opening Statements agreeing on who did this and how they did this and the defense really coming out and admitting the guilt of their client Dzhokar Tsarnaev n fact i quote here the defense att

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