The 50yearold was critically injured at the criminal Justice Center back on august 4th when the employee elevator he was on crashed through the ceiling shaft. Hes been roughing from severe head and chest injuries at magee rehabilitation hospital. What are you looking forward to the most . Just being with my family. Its ban long time. Its been almost six months. Reporter sheriff Jewel Williams has anxiously been waiting for this day as well. Its one of the best days for me knowing that ive known paul for many years and now i get the opportunity to see him on his way home so he can be with his family. Reporter owens dr. Brian kuser said the sheriffs deputy made remarkable progress but still has many, many months of intensive therapy ahead. Its really up to paul. Paul has got great work ethic and the sky is the limit for him. Reporter owens now in wheelchair admits it has not been easy. Just trying to get back to regular life. Its hard but, you know, just part of the process. Got a long way to go but i got this far. Reporter sheriff says hes hoping paul owens can return to work in some capacity. Any way that well bring him back we will bring him back. Even if hes in wheelchair well bring him back. Well fine something for him to do. Reporter needless to say lieutenant owens has a whole lot of support. Today he and his wife header filed a lawsuit against u. S. Facilities. The l Elevator Company and philadelphia municipal authority. Their Attorney Says they are seeking what he says is millions of dollars in medical bills and lost wages. The only one to get back to me today was elevator. They said their thoughts are with lieutenant owens but they do not comment lucy on pending litigation. All right, thank you very much, dawn. On to your fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Check this out. This was the scene in Atlantic City this morning outside the trump taj mahal. Look at that. Yesterday storm just battered eroded the beach and well take live look at reading. We do have some good news the sun returns soon and actually weve got some more warmth. Lets get on over to meteorologist kathy orr. You know its hard to get the perspective lucy of how deep that is. Its like a cliff in Atlantic City. It could be about 10 feet, 12 feet it was scowered out from the boardwalk thats just amazing. So were going to get a plan together, replenish those beaches. We have how many months . Five months to go before the Summer Season well say goodbye to this noreaster its off the coast of long island and will continue on northeasterly track. Its bringing snow to new york and new england. We are on the back side of this. So on the back side a few bands of light showers and sprinkles and as the storm moves away tonight that will fall apart as well. Still seeing that persistent northwesterly wind. Winds still gusting to about 30 miles an hour. Its 42 in philadelphia. 41 degrees right now in millville. It is 30 in the poconos and 40 in reading and lancaster. Take look at these wind gusts out of the northwest at 36 miles an hour in the poconos. 35 miles an hour gusts in wilmington. 25 miles an hour gusts in dover. As we look ahead, through this evening, temperatures will stay in the 40s. A few sprinkles this evening at about seven. Mostly cloudy at 9 00. The same at 11 00 oclock with temperatures around 40. We will eventually clear it out for a little bit of sunshine. It will be mild again but by the end of the month, turning wintry. What does that mean for february . Well take look. Ill see you later in the broadcast. Sounds very good, thank you kathy. The cleanup is underway down the shore for that noreaster slammed the coast. Flooding roads and homes and washing away parts of the beach. Fox 29s dave kinchen live in avalon with the aftermath. Dave . Reporter we saw Public Officials and residents take a look at the beaches that have worn away and scratching their heads wondering whats next . Major parts of this North Wildwood beach went south during mondays wicked noreaster which chopped away large pieces of shore line. Its sad. I love this beach. Its my favorite beach, and i hope they can repair it by the summertime. Reporter city Officials Say an engineer and contractor will be on the case much sooner than that for a fix that could cost up to 200,000 and theres much bigger danger ahead with the next shore slicing storm. The ocean is right up to john f. Kennedy boulevard here f we dont fix this the next storm could do serious damage to the streets. The same area was by jonas a year ago much the mayor says the quell goal is saving vital infrastructure. Were not fix ago Bathing Beach right now were putting shore protect measures in place that are literally protect our streets and our sidewalks. Reporter we found similar shore damage in avalon with erosion drop off at least 10 feet. Its not as bad as what ive seen. Its obviously significant, but ive seen worse. Reporter noreaster wiped away lots of beach but deposited plenty of overnight flood waters in return consuming a number of cars like this honda. It was really deep last night, and it hit the battery and all alternate so it stalled out. Reporter trying to get it started up even as some flooding remains around them. Were going to try to get it off the hill, you know, get it on to something drier, try our best to get it started and if it doesnt, you know, call the girl and tell her she probably will are to get a tow truck. Reporter while they worked on that vehicle, local Officials Say that it depends the time really varies on when theyre actually going get the shore line fixed. It varies from town town. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, dave. Remember you can always get up to the minute forecasts and see life ultimate doppler ray day by downloading our fox 29 weather app its free and easy to use. Go to the i Tunes App Store or Google Play Store happening right now in the West Oak Lane second of the city the search is for armed robber loo threatened three employees at a rite aid. Police released very individual from last thursday night on the 7400 block of oh government adversary. They say the guy appeared to have a gun in his pocket. And forced the employees to get back in the get into the back office. And give him money. He did get away with cash. Nobody is hurt though. And tonight, Philadelphia Police have released new sir individual in the hopes of catching two robbers. Take look at this. Police say two men walked into the University Micro center on south 42nd street on january 13th. They held up the stores owner with handgun got away with cash. Any information you know what to do, police would like to hear from you. A homeowner is in the hospital tonight after their home caught fire. Fresco user Nicole Johnson was at the scene at the 12 hun dead block of hessian street in west deptford. The fire broke out right around 11 30 this morning. Firefighter dos tell us the homeowner is burned. We dont know how badly. Investigators are looking into what started that fire. Some young scientists have an amazing opportunity to go to overseas. The only American Students invited but they are facing one major problem. Theyre maybe you can help them. Fox 29s photojournalist bill rohrer explains. Reporter north Penn High SchoolEngineering Academy is running out of time. We came in 6 00 oclock this morning to, yeah, we actually enjoy doing this. Reporter anthony along with his teammates tj and jason are just a few of the students picked to present their projects in london g were going to electro spin pdf which is a material that can generate electricity through pressure. Reporter in other words they are studying Nano Technology and Building Energy harvesting roof shingles. A school in london heard about the work were doing. When they came out and visited they said wow we would like to invite to you our International Science conference. Reporter its pretty big deal. The only students in the United States ever to be invited. Never been out of the count country. Never even been on plane before. Reporter theyre nervous. Representing in foreign nation. On stage. On stage. In front of professors. Going to be an interesting typing. Reporter theres the catch the trim is expensive about 30,000 to send eight students and two teachers. We found out maybe two months ago and were leaving in march. To help with the cost they set up a gofundme account asking for the publics help. Just the research alone at a game changer for these student. Unique opportunity for these students to experience true engineering. This isnt like, oh, you know, what is engineering . This is how to do i develop a material that right now only Cutting Edge Research units are doing . For now every free minute helps prepare the perfect presentation. We were here four hours last saturday. Just working and just trying to get this london presentation rolling. Reporter in lansdale, bill rohrer fox 29 news. So a political fight. Thats not a surprise. But this one also got physical. What one roommate says his roommate did as they fought about president trump. A story you saw first on fox. Business owner helped a little ball boy with Cerebral Palsy and now one Major Company is getting involved. Its a heart warmer. What uber donate donated after g this story. Sean bell. Matt ryan heads to the super bowl we went down to his Old High School to talk to his former coach. Find out what he knew he had Something Special much thats coming up later in sports. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Welcome to 8 and a half maple street. Its half a house. And even though it only has half a kitchen, half the closet space and a half bath, its a full house to the wilsons. 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When ortiz got home one day he claims his roommate who had been drinking confronted him. Thats when ortiz says the guy bit off part of his ear. Ortiz ran to a gas station for help. People found his ear in his apartment. Cops know who the roommate is of course and are now searching for him. The romantic musical la la land looks to clean up during the Academy Awards in hollywood next week. Film picked up a record tying 14 nominations this morning. Many of them for folks with ties to our area. Now bruce gordon is in the studio right now. Bruce, this has philly written all over it. Yeah, absolutely much the executive producer is john legend university of pennsylvania graduate. Producer mark platt a penn guy. Director Damien Chazelle spent part of his youth in haverford and the man behind this musical music well that would be double nominee by the name of ben enj pass second. Audition the fools who dream from la la land. When the Oscar Nominations for best original song nounsed tuesday morning, ardmore leery sift benj pay second heard of two his pieces name. So did his mom face timing with him and the rest of the family. We all screamed at exactly the same time. How exciting is this for you as a mom. I have to tell you it is an out of body experience. Its unbelievable. Reporter Academy Award nominations for city of stars and audition are just the latest triumphs are for the 31 year ott old pasek who won a golden globe for city of scars every stars along with justin paul. He was a 2,000. 3 graduate of friends central. Musical director jim davis says the signs of success were there as early as sixth grade. First of all he had the confidence to do it which is asking a lot of an 11yearold. And he had the, you know, he had the skill to pull it off. So pretty impressive. Davis says pay second was in just about every show. Shakespeare or contemporary, comedy, musical, drama and with the talent came a passion for what he was doing. He had just this joy, you know, and this i think of him when i think of him in middle school i think of the smiling kid. He had this infectious energy. Benj pay second from friends central includes among the kiddie photos a quote from expose sergi son robert brown. You dont know me, but you will mission accomplish. Just like in la la land the fools who dream its really true that these dreams can come true. And i think benj is an example for all of those kids. Reporter kathy and her son are very close. In fact he surprised her by coming down from new york to join her saturday for the big womens march in washington. Shell return the favor shell be in hollywood february 26th when the oscars handed out. Great story, lucy. I tell was as mom shes there and shes so excited. Oh yeah. Thank you very much, bruce. Full list of oscar nominees you can go to our website fox29. Com. Weve got them all posted in the scene on tv second. So often good deeds generate even more good deeds. Last week we told you about a Business Owner in south jersey who donated the money for a device that helps a fouryearold with Cerebral Palsy walk. Well jim burke paid for the device for little luis after hearing about his plight from a talkative and helpful uber driver. Uber heard about our story and now donated 100 to the driver brown. The company is also set up a 400 uber gift card to louis family and 500 donations to Childrens Hospital of philadelphia where he receives treatment and to the united Cerebral Palsy foundation. So there you go. Good stuff. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look at allentown. Sunshine, warm temperatures come back tomorrow. So lets get to meteorologist kathy orr. Yes its all relative, isnt it, lucy. Yes. That warm. Tell was. Its been cold. And then it will get cold again. Just, you know, nature seeks a balance. Especially in the month of january. When its supposed to be cold and were seeing temperatures that will be rising again about 10 degrees above normal by tomorrow afternoon. In old city philadelphia its 42. The high for the day 46. Winds out of the northwest at 17 gusting to about 30. Well say goodbye to our noreaster the circulation is counterclockwise as it pulls away we get this flow out of the north northwest still moisture associated with this pulling through the region. Even a few snow showers in the Higher Elevations of the pocon poconos. Right now its 30 in the poconos with that northwesterly wind. Pottstown 39. Philadelphia and wilmington checking in at 42. 41 in millville. Ac and wildwood. Heres look at your current wind gusts out of the north northwest at 36 miles an hour in the poconos. 35 miles an hour gust in wilmington. Yesterday wilmington had gust of 52 miles an hour so this an improve many but still windy out there and in millville we have a 28 miles an hour gust. Storm pulls away well see some drier air move from the north northwest a clearing sky and sunshine during the day tomorrow with temperatures boosting back up as i mentioned into the 50s. Future cast shows any lingering showers lifting toward the north and east over the next couple of hours. Skies clear overnight. It will be chilly tomorrow morning in the 30s boy the afternoon plenty of sun and then by thursday, more clouds roll in with a few showers in the morning. But that will open up the opportunity for milder flow with temperatures even milder for your thursday before the tide turns we end the month and it gets colder once more. So in the city overnight 35. In the suburbs 32. Clearing with gusty winds. Gusting to about 30. During the day tomorrow, just a breeze out of the west. Mostly sunny the high 53. Just a really nice day to be outdoors. Tomorrow the best day because of the clear skies and of course mild temperatures. Get more clouds an few showers thursday the will he warmer. Friday 47. Turning colder saturday and sunday. Monday 38 with mostly sunny skies. Tuesday as we end the month of january the high 41. The morning low 27. Long range outlook calls for a colder february. Its got to get colder, right . Better chance of snow. Well talk more about that coming up to it in at 10 00. Well see you then. Thank you very much, kathy. Got to say that ive always like matt ryan. Who doesnt . Right. Hes a great guy. Im telling you. Nice. I never heard anything wrong about him. Its beautiful to hear and since the eagles arent in the assume per bowl, why wouldnt you cheer for that guy . We went back to matt ryans high school to talk talk to his former coach and teacher about their time with him and when they knew ryan was someone special coming up in sports. Matty ice. Matty ice. Matty ice. Matty ice. Look at the love thats the kids at penn charter rooting their guy Matt Ryan Matty ice. If you cant cheer for the eagles next best thing to cheer for the guy from philadelphia. Right . Ryan going to the big game hes probab