A grinch in philadelphia. Who steals a womans mobility scooter park right in front of her own home . Right now im just stuck. Theyve taken away this grandmas freedom. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Heavenly visitor caught on dash cam here on earth in new jersey as a matter of fact and the Police Officer who captured it left amazed thanks for joining us tonight at 10 00. Im iain page. Im lucy noland. Hes seen a lot of things he says but never a meteor. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell fifty five in Hamilton Township, lap county. Chris . Reporter lucy, it was a routine night on the job for a Hamilton TownshipPolice Officer. It turned out to be a night he will never forget. Was eight bird . Was eight plane . No, but it was a meteor lighting up the Atlantic County sky. The nature of this job sometimes you see a lot of unexpected things. Reporter in his career as a Hamilton TownshipPolice Officer, Sergeant Michael verga has seen a lot of things but never seen this. It was 3 00 oclock in the morning. I was driving through one of our neighborhoods. Reporter it was 3am early saturday morning. He was object routine patrol driving down a pitch black road when the streaking light came out of nowhere. Seconds later, the green ball explodes in the sky and disappears. I just see like a blip in the sky and then i saw like a lime green light and streaked across the sky. Reporter the sergeant did what any good cop would do, he collected evidence. His patrol cars dash cam footage captured the moment the fire ball blazed across the new jersey sky. It turns out he wasnt the only one. According to the American Meteor Society which tracks these things, theres been more than 130 reports and several videos of the same fire ball in the sky from 13 states. One guying its the craziest thing i ever seen. For this cop, he says it was just another night on the job. I thought it was interesting. Um, you know middle of the night, you know, Something Like that to come out it was kind of neat to say. Reporter in case you missed this light show, coincidentally, the geminid meteor shower scheduled to be the largest biggest brightest meteor shower of the year comes december 13th. Look up into the night sky if its clear lets hope. Iain. Thanks for the heads up, chris. Breaking tonight. Police say a barricade situation is now ended in bristol bore o it shut down two local schools and ice rink for hours Late Afternoon and early evening. There was a Large Police Presence on pond street as Police Responded right now we are still working on getting details about any arrests. Two people are critical tonight after a shooting in kensington next to where someone was killed just two days ago. You can see Police Responding here to the 32 hun dead block of g street around 7 00 tonight. The victims are 25yearold man and a 31yearold woman. So far there have been no arrests. Its breaking, wildfires in Southern California. Check this out. This is smoke from the thomas fire in Ventura County blocking a perfectly blue sky northwest of los angeles. One of four major fires burning in the los angeles area. Nearly 100,000 acres have burn burned. Firefighters say theyve only got the fires 5 contained. Thats it. Now lets take live look at san diego. Of course this is south of los angeles on down i5 you have to go to get to this as we know the santa ana winds have been whipping lately gusts to 65 miles an hour. When that happens, embers burning to the north can head on down to the south and you see whats going on there. It is tinder dry because theres so much fuel from a very wet winter. So here we go. This is what happens. A lot of fuel, winds whip and you have fires this one near san diego. Check this out as well. On the left video we showed you last night at 10 00. Flames on the 405 freeway near bell air. On the right the same angle a completely different story. Now the States Office of Emergency Services tonight sent a fire alert text to 12 million Southern Californians warning of the dangerous conditions. The seven county alert is the largest ever issue. You saw whats going on in san diego right now. You understand why this is going on. Roads and schools are closed as buildings burn. And thousands of people are under new evacuation orders. Foxs adam housely has more. Reporter were at the front of the thomas fight largest fire burning in Southern California. Roughly 30 miles from where it started as it now threatens the town of, 13,000 people who live here. There are four fires burning in the area in bell air, the creek fire north of burbank, to the northwest near Santa Clarita is the rye fire and to the west the thomas fire which burned toward the Pacific Ocean and Pacific Coast highway. Flames jumped lanes and temporarily closed busy stretch of 101 runway from ventura and santa barbara. 50,000 people forked to flee while more than 15,000 homes are in the danger zone. Everything is here. Everything everything is here. Reporter we got out with the dog. Painful part for dozens of others like darlene jordan who came back to pile of rubble and ash. Im just grateful were okay. Now we just have to well start over. Reporter helicopters navigated the winds as they try to couldnt taint fire over la ritzy bell air neighborhood. At least four homes were destroyed and a dozen more damaged. While the smoke from the different blazes closed more than 250 schools in the los angeles area, the fire threat and the winds are expected until saturday. The red flag warnings will continue across Southern California until saturday but the forecasted winds did not come allowing firefighters to make headway even so this fire here is expected to burn for a couple of more weeks. In california, adam housely, fox 29 news. Iain and lucy, back to you. Thanks adam. Those fires are being fueled by the santa ana winds ton explain them meteorologist kathy orr. Remember a couple months ago in october we were talking about santa rose sat napa valley to the north of la. To the north of San Francisco getting hit really hard. Now, these santa ana winds affecting the south la and down towards san diego. High pressure is the reason why and the winds around are clockwise. So you get these strong winds gusting to 65 even 70 miles an hour. You can see that red zone you have descending air low humidity that air is suppressed. It warms and that helps to fuel these fires and as long as the wind continues in this direction out of the north and east and continues to warm and gust youre going to have these flames become infernos and spread very quickly. Those winds are going to continue right through the weekend and the hope is that next week they will begin to calm and the wind will shift. As far as our weather here at home. Much calmer. Old city philadelphia temperatures on the cool side. Pottstown 35. Philadelphia 40. Millville 31. We are going to be seeing colder temperatures overnight in the 20s and the 30s. A cold start to the day tomorrow. A few snow showers well to the north and west. But the Bigger Picture shows a front to the south. And this is what is going to bring us some snow by the weekend. Ill be back with those details and snow amounts coming up later in the forecast. Snow amounts. Thanks kathy. Christmas early 2,000 kids in philadelphia. They got a surprise tonight that will change their lives forever. Shawnette wilson joins us live in penns landing. Shawnette, these kids have no idea what was in store for them. Reporter yeah, but iain, you know to, young kids school is school. But if you talk to any parent, they say worrying about their kids education causes a lot of sleepless nights. But in this case, not so tonight. Not even for the next four yea years. At this time of wonderful Holiday Season i wanted you to know you all won the lottery. [ applause ] tears streaming from the eyes of parents who want nothing more than the best education for their children. A blessing on top of a blessing. Like i couldnt be more thankf thankful. Nicole brown thought she was going to thursday nights event hosted by Program SupporterFs Investments at the navy yard just to talk about her application to the Childrens Scholarship Fund program of philadelphia. Instead, she was surprised with the news. Her son along with her daughter are all getting four year schorl ships to k through eight schools. It changes everything. They get to go to the school that they really want to go to. They get to tap into take non traditional courses. Reporter these four families joined 2,000 families who got phone calls from csf volunteers with the news they all won the lottery for scholarships. Parents at the event like fouryearold logans mommy due Wanda Jackson helped make calls to other women. Your family was selected for partial k through eight scholarship. Shes looking for her son attending a more Diverse School with smaller classes. My son is used to Diverse Economic community. Public schools dont offer that in our neighborhood but private schools do. This is the executive director of the program. We track our children and 98 of our kids graduate High School Prepared and on time. Reporter and the program says it is given out nearly 23,000 scholarships over the past 16 years. Lucy . All right. Thank you very much, shawnette. When we hadding is over, most folks turn to their photos professionally taken to keep all of those wonderful memories alive. But one couple is out of the luck. Their photos are missing and the photographer, the photographer is hoping you can help track them down. Our dave kinchen is live at Philadelphia International airport. Dave . Reporter lucy, if a picture is worth a thousand words, then might be several thousand different ways of saying help lets get this album and these pictures back. Lynn miller sorts through photos of her nieces destination wedding. Recalling the love and togetherness shared in cozumel, mexico. Right on the beach. Almost at sunset. It couldnt have been more perfect. She was absolutely beautiful. He was handsome and just too young kids that are in love starting their life. These were shot on her cell phone. Shes missing the formal pictures she took and thinking about it is unbearable. I was the photographer and so it was on me to capture the moment and theyre gone. So, yeah, im very emotional about it. Reporter miller amateur photographer says she took the high quality wedding pictures on a fugii film fine picks s100fs like this one but lost the camera and sd card somewhere on her way back home. I dont know if, it, travel on the plane for a few more stops. If, um, its in the luggage area. If Somebody Just saw it and picked up and walk away with it. I have no idea where its at. Reporter the familiar physical had move the wedding from st. Maarten because of a hurricane now to have that special day and lose her cherished photos hurts even mo more. I called the airline. I call the hotel. I call the shuttle bus. I call the airport in hopes that i would get good news and not have to tell them. But i finally told them oh and tuesday. So i could start posting on social media and try to maybe hopefully fine it. Reporter if by chance you know where that camera is please bring us our memories back. Its her special day, and i just really would like to have her special day back. Reporter anyone who has been married you can imagine what those pictures mean to you. Now, lynn reached out on facebook and shes hoping anyone who has any information can find her there. So if you mitt know where that camera is or you think you know someone who may, go to our website fox29. Com. We have our article there and then you can find a way to message her via facebook on that arm. Back to you. Lets hope it happens, dave. Thank you. Still to come, come on. A local grandma needs her scooter just so she can get out of the house. Someone swiped it right holiday spirit turned sour when thieves steal a disable womans motorized scooter to from right in front of her hou house. Who would do that . Bruce gordon reminds theres always facing something tougher. Today is a really nice day out there. Reporter dorothy cant spend much time enjoying that nice day. Right now im just stuck. Im glued in the house. Reporter she lost her right leg to diabetes in 2015. Several weeks ago, her left big toe was surgically removed. I can walk but not far. Reporter which is why this Battery Powered scooter was such a god stepped. Took her months to get it but it gave dorothy the freedom to live her lie. Anywhere i want to go i can get on the scooter. If i want to catch the bus i have the scooter. Me and my grandkids. Reporter now . Oh no, i cant go anywhere. Report roar sometime sunday night dorothy says a thief or thieves made off with her scooter from its parking spot right in front of her lawn crest row home. When you first realized the scooter was gone, what was your first reaction . Who would want to take a scooter . Are you serious . Reporter hers has been hard life. Bank 2015, dorothys 23yearold son jeremiah was murdered. I still think about my son. Right around the corner from her home. Show me if you would came the amputations and loss of mobility which is why the scooter brought such joy. Its theft such pain. All thats left is a battery and charger sitting worthless on the window sill. You take the key and you put it right here. Reporter dorothy stairs at online image of her ride as she waits for news from her medical provider about when she might expect a replacement. Her threeyearold grandson chase came by as we were leaving. Hes broken up as well. When he found out the scooter was gone, he said, who would take your scooter . Im going get them guys. Reporter theyre out there with this stolen burgundy and black scooter in their possession. As for dorothy just sitting here. I cant go nowhere. Reporter dorothy says she has reported the theft to police. She told us her story not to solicit donations. She has reason to believe her scooter will be replaced. Eventually but her story remind us somewhere on our block our neighborhood our town there lives a person going through tough times. We may not know who that person is, so why not treat everyone with a little extra kindsness. Just to be safe. Im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. The governments not shutting down at least for now. The Senate Approved spending bill to keep the government open for the next two weeks. And earlier today, President Trump welcomed house nancy pell lows scene and Chuck Schumer to the white house. The white house called the mee meeting constructive with both sides of the aisle agreeing on the need to eliminate mandatory defense spending caps. Were all here as a very friendly well unified group. Its a well it in together group of people, and we hope that were going to make great progress for our country. I think that will happen. Todays meeting comes after pelosi and shimmer canceled an invite by the president last month after the president tweeted before the meeting that he didnt think the sides could reach a deal. Minnesota senator al frankens time in office is coming to an end. Franken maintains the allegations of Sexual Harassment against him are not true. But he gave in to pressure to step down today from almost all of his fellow democrats. Foxs Mike Emmanuel has more. Today i am announcing that in the com coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the United States senate. Reporter under up steps pressure from fellow democrats, minnesota senator al franken gave in. But not without taking a few partying shots at two left favorite targets President Trump and roy moore. There are some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office. An man who has repeated preyed on young girls campaigns for the senate with a full support of his party. Reporter frankens fate was sealed when minority leader Chuck Schumer said it was time for him to go. Senator amy said about frankens resignation as he and i discussed yesterday, this is the right decision. He did the right thing. Did the honorable thing. He spoke very strongly, very pointeedly, very emotionally. I had in detail conversation with him yesterday, and offered him my thoughts about what he needed to do and he did what i suggested, and did he the right thing. So im just going to leave it there. The ball back in the Republican Court how theyll deal with potential roy moore win. Theres a big difference. Roy moore has did he need these things. Theres not evidence. In fact the people in alabama apparently most of them are agreeing with him. On capitol him, mike emmanu emmanuel, fox news. More fall out from another member of congress. Republican congressman eight term congressman trent franks from arizona says hes resigning the House Ethics Committee announced it was opening an investigation into possible sexual misconduct. Franks says he did talk about surrogacy with two female staffers after he and his wife had struggled with infertility. Happening right now grand jury has updated a former wilmington fire chief on rac