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WTXF Fox 29 News At 6PM January 31, 2015

Ago. Of course well bring you the latest information as we get it throughout this newscast. And more breaking news tonight. The u. S. Is working to confirm online video reportedly showing isis beheading japanese journalist. If the video is found to be legitimate it would end days of on going negotiations to save the man. It all began last week when the militants threatened to kill him and another hostage unless japan paid them 200 million. Isis is said to have killed the other hostage last week. Us officials are still working to authenticate that video as well. On your radar arctic blast. It is cold. Really have to bundle up if youre heading outside. Fox 29 in Chestnut Hill where even dogs are sporting their sweaters and jackets today. Fox 29s caitlin roth here and caitlin, how cold is it going to get tonight because pretty bad out there this afternoon. It is. Its been brutally cold, dawn, actually not as cold tonight. Well see some slightly warmer temperatures ahead of our next system that. Dog in its sweater so adorable. Quiet outside right now. Clear skies and we had so much sunshine today but did very little to warm us up. Those clouds are increaseing to night. Those temperatures are rising rising thanks in part to a winter storm that will move across the northeast this is not going to be a snowstorm for philadelphia. But our northwestern counties will see some accumulation as we go from sunday into monday. Winter storm watch out for northern Chester Montgomery and bucks. That extends into Central Jersey jersey. Becomes a winter storm warning accumulateing snow much more likely for berks lehigh, Northampton County up into the poconos several inches of snow and a Winter Weather advisory for lancaster. Again thats tomorrow night into monday. Today though the big focus has been the bitter cold. These are air temperatures outside right now. 27 in philadelphia. 24 in allentown. 15 in the poconos. 26 in wilmington and 26 in millville. Winds have subsided a bit but were still seeing sustained speeds out of the west around 15 miles an hour. So these wind chills thats wait feels like when you step outside very very cold still it feels like one below in the poconos. Very cold day for anyone who is skiing. 16 in allentown. 16 in philadelphia. You can count on less blustery but very night ahead. Your fox future cast though clear skies and rear looking good as we head into tomorrow morning. Starting off with a bit of sunshine although those clouds roll in and by about 3 00 oclock maybe starting to head out to super bowl parties snow showers start to move in again far north and west of philadelphia. So for tonight clouds on the increase still very cold. 22 in the city. 15 on the suburb. Well talk more about that snow threat for our northwest counties coming up. Joyce and dawn. Thank you caitlin. Bizarre sight in north jersey where the struggle to fight a fire creates icy mess. Take look. This happening in Morristown Morris county. Fire started in a building at elm and morris streets just after 11 00 oclock last night and the flames quickly spread to go other buildings and the wind and the freezing temperatures making firefighters jobs even more difficult than usual. About 25 people were forced out of their homes. The red cross is helping them. Still no word yet on exactly what sparked that fire. And were following a developing story in Burlington County, new jersey tonight. Thats where people have been found dead. Police have been at a home in mt. Holly all day. Fox 29s brad sattin is live near the scene tonight with the very latest. Brad is what is going on there . Reporter certainly a sad story, joyce. This has been long cold investigation that got started after 9 00 oclock with a 911 call this morning. Happening at this house behind me. Its actually a duplex. It is the property on the left hand side just got off the phone short time ago with Burlington County Prosecutors Office telling me that one person who lives in that home came home to find two other people who live there dead. We know an adult man and woman also being told neighbors not in any danger. Neighbors are telling us two other weeble were taken from the home at the time here on 200 block of washington street. One man taken by ambulance. A woman put in a patrol car both of them apparently also live here but important to note from the Prosecutor Office no arrests at this point. Now after more than seven hours on the scene, we know the two bodies were removed by the medical examiner just a little while ago around 4 00 their this afternoon. Theres no word on cause of death right now. Neighbors say this is a high traffic area but its not a high crime area. Now, just a few minutes ago we had a chance to talk to the man who lives on the other side of the duplex where this happened. And to his daughter who rushed over after hearing about what happened this morning. I heard about it said two people got killed. Kind of upset me that close to home. Especially i have my grandkids and my children here. My wife is out of town right luckily shes out of town. So it was just surprising. Very very much so. I talked to lady this morning, and she said they took a young lady out that had, you know short hair in the patrol car and brought the young man out, um, he had on boxer shorts and he was full of blood. And that you it. They put him in the ambulance and handcuffs. Reporter obviously still a lot of questions to night. Prosecutors office not saying a whole lot again investigators some of them are still on the scene wrapping up at least this crime scene here. To sum up two people dead what appears to be double homicide. But neighbors were being told are not in any danger. Ladies, back to you. All right thank you so much, brad. In delaware a father and son are locked up elijah foreman sr. And junior face a long list of charges to night including drug and weapons violations. All started with a home burglary investigation in the ocean view area this past week. Police say they found clues connecting a land gun stolen from that house to foreman junior. Later officers spotted foreman driving and pulled him over. Police say they found the stolen gun, cash and drugs. Then officers went to foremans house in frankford delaware. Thats where they said they found more drug and cash. Thats where they also arrested foremans father, too. Rebuilding the village. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter says he wants to start a series of conversations aimed at helping a group of citizens who face a unique set of challenges. At that first conversation, it happened today. Thats where we find fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose with the details. The ability for him to stay on track and not fall under peer pressure and just to be able to keep his mine right and stay focused. inaudible . Young black males are responsible. That theyre not all engaged in violence or crime that theyre paying attention to whats going on in their communities. Reporter mayor nutter says this is the first in a series of conversations he hopes to have around the city and he says theyre not just going to be talking about healing and wellness but theyll have frank discussions about Current Events that are on the minds of young people. You have to look at issues like tragedies in ferguson or stat didnt island or something that happened here in philadelphia. How do you Heal Community and employees relations . How do you deal with young people who may have seen someone literally laying dead in the street or know a friend who was shot and the trauma that goes with that . And so theres a significant amount of healing that needs to take place. That will only happen with conversation. We need to bring more black men into the economy and more black men into the community and talk about what theyre doing from a positive standpoint as opposed to always highlighting and profiling a typical story of, you know, black men and violence and in crisis. Reporter to do that mission co chair says organizers want to create a way for Community Leaders to talk openly and honestly with young men. Sabina kuriakose fox 29 news. A federal judge puts the sale of Atlantic City former revel casino on hold while the company that ran its nightclub and bars appeals that sale. Revel now has until tuesday to respond to a bid to delay the knife . 4 million sale to developer glenn straub. The Company Filing that appeal idea boardwalk has invested millions of dollars in the property and it wants to keep its rights to the company. Straub wants to buy the property without any obligation to any companies that had leases with revel. Straubs Polo North Country Club was the first to bid on revel which costs 2. 4 billion to build. It closed last september after just two years and never returned a profit. Theres news tonight in the war on terror one of the socalled taliban five who was traded last year for Sergeant Bowe bergdahl has been intercepted making calls to the taliban. The Obama Administration maintains the five have not gone back to the terrorist organization to fight against the u. S. Foxs Molly Henneberg has the latest now from washington. Reporter defense officials insist that five taliban leaders released from the guantonimo bay prison last june to the country of qatar have not rejoined the fight against the u. S. Even though one of them made phone calls to his taliban contacts in afghanistan phone calls that were intercepted. The taliban five as their called were swapped for Army Sergeant bergdahl last year. A deal the white house says it does not regret. But some republicans said then and say now, it was a bad idea to let those guys out of get mow mow. To expect them not to go back and fight and somehow to undergo some conversion is just dammed foolishness. Additional american lives will be threatened because if these people which they most likely will as 30 of the others have been released will pose a direct danger to american men and women who are serving. Reporter qatar yann leader promised president obama his country would keep tabs on the men through the end of may. Then theyll be free to leave qatar. For now, the Obama Administration says there are ways to monitor what the taliban five are doing. We remain confident as we were when we sent them there that the assurances weve received are sufficient enough to help us mitigate any future threat that these individuals might pose. Reporter white house and pentagon stopped short of calling the taliban a foreign terrorist organization. Instead referring to them as an armed insurgency that uses terror tactics. Senator mccain says this is an example president s quote oh belief stressness to the things that are happening in the world. In washington, Molly Henneberg fox news. Still ahead tonight on the fox 29 news at 6 00, some serious Monkey Business on one busy bang. Teller bitten by a money key. It was a terrifying scene. How the animal ended up in the bank in the first place. A drug bust that taking the term dirty job to whole new level for a few police officers. What one deputy had to do to collect a whole lot of pot from a port o potty bust. Local veterinarians can hardly believe their eyes when they look at this guys xrays. What this pooch ate that vets say all dog owners need to see. Keith . Dawn, theres nothing shady about lesean mccoys desire to stay in philly but is he willing to give up some dough and nick foles talks about his look a in Camden County today a big thank you and recognition ceremony for a man whose bravely served our country. The freeholder board awarding the Camden County military Service Medal to ma reply Staff Sergeant daniel wagner. He serve in the military for 13 years including two tours in iraq and one in afghanistan. Throughout the years he says his focus remained the same. When they put that around me the only thing i ever received some promotion everything else, i think about my family, my friends. Everyone waiting for me at home. So most of the time i think about them when im doing it. The freeholder board created the Camden County military Service Medal to honor the men and women who have made Camden County proud with their military service. Well really bizarre and terrifying moment for a Bank Employee after shes bitten by of all things a monkey. And it happened in texas. After that attack police say the monkeys owner took off. It didnt take long for officers to catch up with the both of them, and tonight the monkey is in quarantine. Investigators say the animals owner had brought the monkey into the bang last thursday claiming it was a Service Animal animal. Soon after that, that monkey bit an employee. And while it was scary Officials Say it could have been much worse. It was not a severe injury fortunately. He did bite in a location where she had several layers of clothing so, um, she was certainly prevented from having a much more serious injury. Still pretty scary. The employee is going to be okay. The monkeys opener is in trouble. Police cited him for keeping a prohibited animal within city limits. Empire the show that everybody is is watching and in fact people are tuning in in record numbers. Everyone loves this show. What do you think about what youre seeing especially how the show portrays africanamericans . Fox 29s Quincy Harris takes closer look. We want to thank you for the most pressures blessing jamal. You guys have all seen the show empire on fox 29. Everyone is talking about it. Whats your initial thoughts of seeing the show what do you think guys think about. I think its interesting it actually goes behind the scenes of the music business. Some people its entertainment but to some other people this is life. Is the got and the bad and the ugly. I ended up where i ended up for you and your brother. You want a medal. How talking to his momma showing how you dad let you live. I guess this is the lifestyle youre used to. Sadly its a scene showing out in families every day. I think its entertainment its dine nass and dallas just the black version of it. What ive seen so far i think its really complicated. I think the producer or whoever director put it together taking on lot of issues. On purpose. Empire co creator and exec tough pro douser lee daniels says he wanted to shed light on matter that is playing the africanamerican community. I think a lot of people want to keep it quiet. Theyre uncomfortable. Showing anything like that. Showing us in such a negative light. We may not want to talk about but reality is in your face. I like the Current Events that they keep bringing up. The Barack Obamas and the trayvon martins. Barack obama aint nothing but a sell out. The second one almost shut me down completely when he started talking about the president. When he showed his private parts in a restaurant. Really turned me off. A lot. I had to go back in my head and understand this is whats going on in the world today. What are you doing in public place . People are in a restaurant. Empire has also struck a cord with women viewers as well. I like empire a lot. Kind of what we talk about all the time. Like wednesday night thursday mornings that is what were talk bowing. We feel like we have to guard our image. But sometimes it also helps us as far as being creative and going that extra mile. Now the other off side of it is, a lot of us feel like okay that image is cool but we need to balance it with other ones. Given all theyve seen and heard, will people keep watching . I think its realistic. I like it. I dont know about the Music Industry because im not behind the scenes but business wise im just saying the streets theyre tying it together really well. Will you continue to watch the show . Yeah. Quincy harris, fox 29 news. Of course, you can watch empire every wednesday night right here on fox 29 right after american idol. Physicalled by of course fox 29 news at 10 00. Still ahead on fox 29 news at 6 00 a dreameries can you caught on tape. A firefighter puts his life at risk to pull a dog from a fast moving river. How this nerve racking ordeal ended. Thats next. A wal mart greeter is reprimanded for saying have a blessed day. But its welcome back everybody. A nasa satellite launched in space this morning. Its mission to track the amount of water locked in soil. Scientists say the data it collects will help People Living in lowlying region prepare for floods. It will also warn farmers of possible drought conditions. Nearly 1 billion mission is expected to last three years. A man is arrested in connection with a gruesome murder in san francisco. A suitcase stuffed with dismembered human remains is found on a downtown street wednesday afternoon. Yesterday police releaseing surveillance photos of a suspect just hours later a tip call leads them to 59yearold mark andres much hes been booked on suspicious of murder. The victim has not yet been identified. Investigators say the killing may be connected to organized crime or a gang. Los angeles firefighters go to Great Lengths to rescue a dog from a river. They sure did. Take look at this. One of the firefighters lowered into the water by a helicopter. He swam to the dog and grabbed him up. The dog is reported to be okay, though just very scared. The two of them were flown to safety. The yellow lab is believed to have an owner because he was wearing a collar with a leash. Hopefully they can be reunited. Family, fans and friends of ernie banks may trick to the legendary chicago slugger hall of Famers Williams and lou brock attending attending a service. Banks would have been 84 years old tomorro

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