Heard what they thought that was was an earthquake a series of up to nine startling booms. Shaking windows, scaring people and flooding 911 call centers. The military says it was not supposed to break the sound barrier and just minutes ago, gave us an explanation of how it could happen. Would you try we do try and minimize the possibility for sonic booms to propagate to the shore but occasionally the direction aircraft are traveling or due to weather conditions those noises do helped up propaganda farther or differently than we intend. Reporter now the navy cannot say which kind of aircraft were flying over the skies and they tell us those pilots flying that if they havent been notified already they will be notified by the naval air stations noise management team. This is not something they make a regular practice of. Typically when this kind of stuff happenings it is frankly a mistake. But no confirmation yet exactly how it happened. But it is those two super sonic jets on test flight over the skies of new jersey today. Lucy. All right, well mystery solved. Chris oconnell thank you so much. Rye after the boom our social media was flooded with people telling us what they heard. Asking about what a sonic boom is. Lets zen it over to chief meteorologist scott williams. Exactly, lucy. A pretty quiet weather day and you hear a loud boom in the atmosphere. In particular parts of south jersey, between the time of 1 30 and 2 30, we were tracking the noises as well as those tremors basic until military aircraft is moving faster than the speed of sound. So were talking over 700 miles per hour. It creates a shock wave. At the nose of the plane it then kind of under lays behind the plane and you hear that sound as it goes from the atmosphere. The al toy to you of the plane all the way to the ground. Take look at some of the areas of the reports. Pretty much the entire jersey shore we saw some reports and also in around the hammonton area u. S. Gs confirmed they were reporting that sonic boom. So basically when you have that plane it tax off, the altitude impacts the sound, also, the size of the plane. So to the observer on the ground, it can be delayed as far as hearing that sound but the colder air is denser at the surface and also a little bit of an inversion that can lag the times that the observer on the ground can hear that sun. So a lot of activity in parts of south jersey today. Coming up, well talk about a clipper off to the north and west. That could bring some more snow chances our way. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, scott. Happening now, in delaware county, one police force is doing something its never done before all because of a spike in crime. Some violent. Fox 29s karen hepp is in chester tonight to explain. Karen. Reporter all right no secret they have big issues with Violent Crime here. Two murders last night. So now what theyre doing, theyre changing their entire outlook on how they attack crime. Theyre getting proactive. Broken windows theory if you fix a broken windows it change the entire mindset and make things safer. Every night red and blue lights flash in chester. 31yearold man was murdered here in upland last night and an hur later a few blocks away three more people were shot on morton avenue. One of them died. Today, big changes. The police force is going proactive attacking the small stuff for the First Time Ever theres though now 5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest on every murder. Theyre going to start cracking down on quality of live issues enforcing laws and ordinances to make chester safer. Abandoned cars, get rid of them. Why . Because we know more times than none those abandoned vehicles are probably place that is are hiding places for criminals where they place drugs and or weapons. So were going to begin to enforce those these laws when it comes to tagging and towing report roar businesses take down all those extra signs. No more coverin covering up shay transactions. We know why that signage is there especially in this community. That signage is there so that you cannot see the illegal activities going on inside of businesses. Reporter living in Public Housing is a privilege. Commit a crime, lose your home. Theyll kick you out. Criminals arent wanted and will be evicted. Our goal is to live in effective life here in chester. Our goal is to be able to get back on the porch in the summertime and watch our young people may. Reporter now all of this is not really lip service these are changes we actually know work. This is a theory to came out about 40 years ago. So many departments have already adopted some of these changes. We do a lot of this already in philadelphia certainly up in new york and these are the kind of quality of live issues that can change the nature of the city. So they are digging whole hearteheartedly into these. The reward money will come from forfeiture from drug dealers and other crimes. Thats how theyll have the money to give 5,000 out. Back to you guys. Thank you very much, karen. One woman is dead after this house fire in cherry hill, new jersey. Skyfox was over the scene as smoke poured from the home on sheffield drive it broke out around 10 00 this morning. The woman who died was 25 years old. We dont yet know her identity or what started the fire. Philadelphia police are trying to track down the man they say a rages meeting to buy peoples phones and shows gun and robs them. Police say this Surveillance Video shows a man theyre looking for. On two occasions in olney they say this guy a ranged to meet up with people through a website to buy their phones. Police say both times he showed a gun and stole their phones. Benefit underway for injured philadelphia officer jesse hartnett. Man ambush hartnett while he was in his police car on the night of january 7th he shot him three times in his arm but hartnett was still able to get off a shot that took down the man. Doctors released him from the hospital friday but he still has a long road to recovery. Benefit runs until 10 00 tonight at the fraternal order of police lodge five on caroline road with food, beer, prices and t shirts for sale. The lodge is also accepting donations for overhair net at the door. The political clock is ticking exactly six months from tonight the democratic president ial nominee will address delegates at the pears convention here in philadelphia. Bruce gordon live in the newsroom tonight. Bruce, convention officials were in town today to assure us theyll be ready for their moment in the spotlight. Reporter city officials are making that very same promise all of this though as Philadelphia Business owners try and shake off their sense of disappointment from the last huge event hosted by the city. Reporter its a fourday political pep rally designed to rev up the base for the general election that lies ahead. But for the most city Charlotte North Carolina here in 2012 and philadelphia this july, its a potential economic bonanza. Dnc officials are promising this years event will shine in the national spotlight. We are working even harder than we have been to ensure that the 2016 Democratic Convention is the most diverse, the most inclusive, the most engaging innovative forward looking convention ever. And as ceo of the convention i am pleased to share that we are on time, on task and on budget. Pope francis visit to philadelphia last september was a once in a lifetime experience for hundreds of thousands of papal pilgrims. But airtight security at multiple venues made it a nightmare for businesses that had hoped to kearn in on the pontiffs visit. Political convention nears are far more likely to spend money. Mayor kenney says there will be ample opportunity to do so. We have one venue the wells fargo. We have our hotels and well have all our restaurants, bars, brewpubs and Everything Else open in between. So have no fear, theyll be lots of places to have fun. Reporter days at the convention will play out at the Pennsylvania Convention sent. With caucus meetings galore but plenty of time for thousand of delegates to eat out and shop. 15,000 hotel rooms have already been booked at 88 hotels in philadelphia and valley forge. At night the action will shift to the wells fargo sent. Where tv networks and corporate sponsors will at the time set up shop for the nationally broadcast festivities and Convention Begins theyll need food and flowers, staging and soft drinks, a lengthy Shopping List to be filled by local businesses. It is more Cost Effective and more cost efficient for them to fine those things here in the city of philadelphia than shipping them in from their headquarters in atlanta or new york. Reporter of course the convention will run from july 25th through the 28th. Convention officials predicting the dnc will pump some 350 million into the local economy were you there is a limit to their spending. They said today theres been no talk of moving the festivities to lincoln financial field for the nominees acceptance speech on the thursday night the 28t 28th. Its logistical challenge to move from the Wells Fargo Center and expensive. Iain. Bruce, thank you. Coming up at 6 00 the local woman rushes to florida to search for her missing grandson. I love you, daddy. I love you, daddy. Authorities believe the child is with his mom but theyre still worried about his safety. We go inside the desperate search. Phillys famous and infamous tribute to glutiny. There will be celebrity guest at the wing bowl and you may wonder what took him so long to show up, howard. Ive seen him before. It was not pretty sight last night a player in the National Hockey league went after an official. Eagles conducting interview tomorrow for their personnel position. Thats all coming up in sports. Montgomery county woman asking for your help tonight. Her threeyearold grandson is missing and shes desperate to find her. Her search has taken her hundreds of miles away to florida. Police believe the little boy is with his mother on the run with a man who escaped from prison. Hes so loveable and i mean, if you his little face i love him i want him home. Thank you. If you see anything police call isnt tammy and her son are passing out flyers desperate to find her grandson threeyearold Sander Quigley who is missing and in danger. We wanted to come to daytona to pass out flyers and bring awareness to bring my grandson home. We stopped at every rest area we can. Posted them on the walls in the bathrooms. Gas stations we stop. When were walking to the car well hasnt it to them. Tammy traveled to florida from philadelphia concern for the whereabouts of her grandson little sander. Deputes told her her former daughterinlaw natasha quigg system on the run with her boyfriend gary bullock sr. Who escaped from his Work Release Program last week. Deputes say he cut off his ankle monitor. The reason hes listed as missing because of the circumstances of the escape and the fact that hes in the company of an escaped prisoner whose on the run alluding capture right now is cause for concern. Bullock was serving eight year sentence for robbery and grand theft. Deputes now are after natasha who they say helped bullock escape and say she also stole cash, checks and a gun from her parents. We spoke with her father over the phone. I never known her to do anything like this. To, you know, she loves her son but she puts him in jeopardy. Shes just making so many bad decisions. I just dont understand why decision are being made this w way. If you want to support tammy search for her grandson she has Facebook Page called bring sander home all one word and you can write a message to the family as they search for the little boy to bring him home safely. It is the philadelphia event that gets engineers, cheers and a whole lot of people talking. This years wing bowl guest star is using those same types of reactions. The announce many came this morning a local radio former nba star Dennis Rodman will appear at philadelphias body wing bowl eating contest. Pass the wing dole attendees include snooki, jazz, and adult movie star john jeremy. 24th annual pig out is set for february 5th at the Wells Fargo Center. The wing bowl started in 1993 as way for philadelphias long suffering sports fans to blow off steam before the super bowl. Saying goodbye and good luck today to someone we hear at fox 29 see every day. In fact anyone who work at fox 29 the last 30 years has work alongside our joel sanders. Hes our senior engineering manager does kind of everything here and after three decades, 30 years joel retiring to north carolina. Got a house on golf course the there. Yup, does he. Our fox 29 family had big luncheon for him today at our station to wish joel the happiest of retirements. We also call him big game. Big game to look forward to now. Isnt i tell was i love joel. One of the smart test guys around. He can expound on any type of subject matter whatsoever. Hes wonderful man. Yeah he is. Back to your fox 29 Winter Weather authority. Woe wont have to worry about Winter Weather, scott. They get a little bit winter precipitation in north carolina. This much. Exactly. I mean, did you guys Step Outdoors today . I mean, the sun was out. More melting hard to believe we melted pretty much all of that snow we saw over the past weekend. Take a look at ultimate doppler right now. Its dry, its quiet but off to the north and west there is a little bit of a clipper system moving across parts of the great lakes. That will bring maybe a rain shower or some snow flurries our way tomorrow. But also, the wind. It will be bicing blustery for tomorrow. 40 degrees right now. So, yes, more melting across the area today. The average high for this time of year is now up to 41 degrees. Winds right now out of the west southwest at about 5 miles per hour. So look at the snow melt in philadelphia. Saturday we saw 22. 4inches. Today only about 6inches of snow left so were melting over 3inches per day so the blizzard of 2016 about to be history as far as the snow cover on the ground. Temperatures right now, pretty much above freezing area wide. 37 in wilmington as well as dover. 41 degrees right now in atlantic city. Upper 30s currently in trenton. So heres whats happening with the pattern. We have that clipper off to the north and west. Clouds, showers, continuing to linger in the sunshine state. So that system is going to head out to sea. That clipper tomorrow once again could bring a few flurries mainly north and west. It shouldnt be a big deal. But were going to see very tight Pressure Gradient so that means the wind is going to be up for tomorrow. So as we go hour by hour, dry, quiet conditions tonight, tomorrow morning its cold to start. But look at the afternoon. Were watching a little disturbance that clipper rotating through. So temperatures will be above freezing. So maybe some flurries, maybe a rain shower moving through during the afternoon time frame. But heres the bigger story. Those future wind gusts take a look how they really ramp up by 3 00 p. M. On your fry gusting up to 30 miles an hour out at the north and west. High temperatures tomorrow will be in the upper 30s. So, yes, there will be a wind chill factor for tomorrow. Tonight low temperatures 21 in the burbs upper 20s in the city. Watch out for some black ice and then tomorrow upper 30s for highs. It is blustery. The seven day forecast showing shows 40 degrees saturday. 50 on sunday. Low 50s early next week. And then it looks unsettled for tuesday into wednesday. But look at the High Temperature wednesday. 60 degrees how about that . Thats crazy. Love it. Ill take it. Thank you scott. I guess you will. You have no choice. I know. The eagles they do have choice. Interviewing another personnel person for that job whatever that may be with the eagles. And ugly hit in hockey on an official. Villanova coming off their third loss of the season they prepare a team that needs to keep itself together. Thats coming up in sports. Okay. Everybody from the Eagles Front Office and the coaches are back from the scene your bowl and there is word that the goals will be interviewing the Pittsburgh Steelers pro scouting director brandon hunt tomorrow for whatever that position may be with the eagles and thats still kind of undetermined how high a level that position is. Now the eagles need a real general manager. Villanova Basketball Team coming off their third loss of the season on sunday. They still only dropped two spots in the polls to number six in the country. They play what should be an easy game on sunday against saint johns add madison care garden. Giant johns has not won a game since december 13th. Its all about how you approach the next day. The game how you approach the next play. You know, and i do think they come in and we talked about that the first thing we talk about when we came in for practice today. You know, this is an attitude day. Man. We got a choice after we go aft it did. Still stinking from the loss but we got to control our attitude at practice. After loss naturally going to be just more intense because were not trying to lose again. We lost the game before. We just losing is a big deal in this program. Were not play accept with just coming in and doing being regular aft loss. My attitude is, they should crush them. Weve got villanova and saint johns sunday right her on fox 29. Coverage from Madison Square garden begins at 12 than. Australian open had two legends on center court. Roger federer in the near court. And thats djokovic. Believe it or not they played 44 matches and they were tied at 22. Djokovic wins in five sets he won the first two. Then loses the third and wins the last he goes on to the finals on saturday. Hockey very tough and physical sport but in any sport dont ever attack the officials. Never. Lets go to calgary. Dennis wood man you see in the red jersey for calgary gets check into the boards. You can see hes woods see tell me he doesnt think he knows this is an official. Are you kidding me . Thats a minimum 20 game suspension. Now hes suspended until a hearing on tuesday. Its either zero or 20 the only way to deal with that. Is he woozy he doesnt know thats an official. I dont think so. Right. Definitely not. Angry. Exactly. All right. That does it for us here at