102. 5. Which really got me nervous. As any parent knows, who has a sick child,it is a heart wrenching proposition. Nicholas is normally a healthy and active fourth grader who enjoys doing projects with his dad and loves baseball. Now, he was having shortness of breath. His cough worsening. A chest xray at an urgent care confirmed nicholas had pneumon pneumonia. A dangerous complication children across the country are experiencing. In a flu season considered to be the worst in nearly a decade. Not the news this doting father of two wanted to hear. I live for my children and the bottom line is that i i cherish them and when theyre not well, it just drives me insane. It really does. Reporter dr. Mike says the flu causes inflammation in your body. Taking a toll on your immune system. And that makes you more susceptible to bacterial infections and pneumonia. As father, im petrified, because we know that new known ya can be very very serious, and the flu can be deadly even in healthy people. Reporter making matters worse, nicholas wasnt getting better. Even after taking antibiotics over the weekend. He was back to chop in Center City Yesterday for another chest xray. Doctors prescribing a more potent treatment. Dr. Mike says the flu is nothing to mess with, and parents need to be very vigilant. If they don look right f theyre short of breath, they just had the flu if they have a fever that wont go away you need to get them checked out and get them checked out early before it gets too late. Reporter the good news today is the first day nicholas temperature has finally dropped. So dr. Mike is hopeful the antibiotics are doing the trick. But he says they are taking it one day at a time. Dr. Mike also adamant if you have not gotten a flu shot get one. Get one for your children it is the best protection against the flu and minimizing the symptoms. Dawn timmeney, fox 29 news. Thank you much, dawn. Breaking news out of the camden county. Firefighters are investigating a what started house fire in cherry hill. Sky fox over the scene left hundred block of liberty bell drive in cherry hill. You can see flames coming through the roof right there. It broke out right around 4 00 this afternoon. Nobody is hurt. Love is officially back in philadelphia. Our bruce gordon is live at loves home which is love park. What a welcome back, bruce, it looks mighty fine behind through. Reporter yeah. Actually kind of quiet right now. But there has been a steady stream of camera phone toting visitors here all afternoon and hey, why not . What is the city of brotherly love without, well, love . Heres your proof. Real love always comes back to you. Robert indianas simple but powerful sculpture a centerpiece in the city since 1976 arrived back at its name sake park late tuesday morning. After a year at Dilworth Plaza and a year in the shop to clean it up and tweak the colors on its outer edge. Visitors from near and far were awaiting to welcome it home. Love it. Love it. Yes. Miss it. Miss it for a long time. Wonderful to see it back. I wonder what happened to it when it was taken a way. Where did it go . I thought it was brand new sign. You know it looks nice. It really, you know, stands out. This is one of the reasons why we came here to philadelphia to see this its iconic. People come from all over the world to take a picture at that love statue, its always been that way. Reporter love sculpture 830 pounds of painted aluminum, 108 cubic feet of row tan mack back drop generates a different story for every visitor. Nicholas and meghan came to philly from baltimore last february so he could surprise her with a proposal. It didnt quite work out as planned. We were trying to find the love park sign. We were trying to find rocky steps. Couldnt find any of it. Reporter all to do the proposal right there . All to propose. What went wrong . What happened . We couldnt find the love sign. We didnt know where it was. We were looking all over philly for it. Tried to propose in frist. Didnt work out. Reporter never could fine it . No. Then we ended up going to bridge and it happened under a bridge. Reporter [ laughter ] that seemed kind of sad in a way. It was raining. Still work out. She said yes. She said yes. Six months later going strong. Reporter what i love about that story is that depending on the exact date when they were here last february, nicholas and meghan probably could have figured this all out. The sculpture was either in the shop or right across the street next to city hall. All he had to do was ask. But lucy guys dont do that. [ laughter ] thats so fun theme all right, thank you very much, bruce gordon. Happening right now, in philadelphia, police and city officials have Just Announced major drug bust. More than 2 million worth of heroin and fentanyl are now off the streets. Jeff cole joins us in studio with the details. Jeff . Reporter lucy, philadelphia leads the nations big cities in overdose death. Likely 1200 in 2017. Today the attorney general came to town with more proof of phillys struggle with drugs while throwing cold water on a plan to battle the problem. Residents say it was sunday night around 6 00 along north fourth officers moved in investigators with the Pennsylvania Attorney general federal immigration and police have been watching the two men living at 4345 north fourth believing they were moving a deadly form of street drugs. Fearing trouble, this man asked we not show his face or report his name. What did you see sunday night, sir . I seen a lot of police cars, um, vans and everything. But i didnt know what my neighbors was doing. They were quiet. So i dont Pay Attention to none of that. Reporter did he say played on table tuesday, drugs, a gun, packaging and equipment all used by 24yearold cesar guzman and 30yearold Jeremy Sanchez rosario says the attorney general to sell heroin and fentanyl on city streets. The amount of drugs we seized would have created 250,000 doses of heroin and fentanyl. Reporter investigators say the drugs have a street value of over two and a half Million Dollars and are further sign of the iron grip the deadly pairing of heroin and fentanyl have on the addicted here. Shapiro says investigators made undercover buys from the pair and watched them for a month federal immigration says guzman a dominican is here illegally. What do you think now that all that was going on . Its crazy. We didnt even know it up until now. I was like wow. Didnt even know our neighbors was like that. Reporter philadelphia wants to combat Overdose Deaths with Safe Injection Sites places addicts can use heroin and get medical help. Shapiro was opposed. A city spokesperson says, its talked to shapiro about this and respects his opinion which today he expressed aggressively. Theres no safe way to inject yourself with this kind of a poison. And i think our focus needs to be on getting people into treatment. Reporter shapiro says there will need to be a change in state and federal laws to set up Safe Injection Centers while pledging to return to the north philly neighborhood to continue the battle and sale of heroin in this city. Im Jeff Cole Fox 29 news. Lucy. Speak of drugs, jeff, in mercer county, new jersey a2 month undercover drug investigation ended up catching those people. Reginald jackson, jade law and, ryan poland and anthony hernia now all face various drugs and weapons charges related to selling and possessing crack, cocaine and heroin. Police searched a stash house in trenton and say they found the drugs, a gun and some cash. The question is why . Why you doing that . Police are searching for those people who decided it was somehow a good idea to watch the eagles parade on top of somebody elses car. Well, the woman who owns the car park it near judson street and pennsylvania avenue to watch the parade herself. When she got back, well, the damage was done. Im feeling it. Im feeling it. And then theres that. Yeah you can go ahead keep on saying that. Recognize these two people. Police are after them for stealing traffic lights after the eagles super bowl win. The video shows them as you heard them saying that theyre stealing all of that. Apparently they thought the city has enough lights they decided to take those. Police believe the lights are from juniper and mark streets and, yes, police are after all these people. Sexual harassment training could soon become a requirement for all City Employees in philadelphia. Every single year. Its part of a bill proposed by several City Council Members today. And today they held a public hearing right now its up to each department to make sure all supervisors are trained on enforcing the sexual harass many policy. Under the new bill, that would change making annual training mandatory for every city of philadelphia employee. All employees deserve to feel safe and support the at work. Employees deserve to not be sexually harassed at work or at least not fear retribution if abuse is reported. The city says it has certain departments where annual training is not necessary and those cases the city would require training every three years. Fox 29 Weather Authority right now. Live look down the shore at cape may with temperatures on the rise. Nice break from the bitter cold this past february. Kathy joining us now with a first look at the forecast. Man, its warming up kathy. It is. I mean today the coldest day and from here on in i think its going to be very, um, pleasant for many of your valentines. We are outside, of course, at rehoboth beach, delaware, we have on shore flow. 40 in philadelphia. 35 right now in millville and wildwood its 35 and in dover it is 35 degrees. Ultimate doppler precipitation moving up from the south. There is a chance of some light freezing rain around here overnight tonight. Most of this not making it to the ground just yet. But well keep an eye on that. Otherwise were talking about a partly cloudy sky. They in philadelphia overnight. 30 in millville. 24 in the poconos. 30 in pottstown and 32 in dover. So a much warmer start to the day. I should say moderate start to the day tomorrow than it was today. Today we were in the teens and 20s. Tomorrow mainly in the 30s. Get ready a huge warmup for your valentines and beyond. Very unusual end to the month of february. I say end its from here on in, lucy, some big surprises. Ill be back with that seven day in a few minutes. Well talk then, thank you very much, kathy. The Opioid Epidemic hits home for so many families, and for one in particular, after getting nearly torn apart by at diction, theyre now helping save lives across our area. And its mardi gras new orleans of course the place to be a look at the celebrations ahead. Happening right now, iphone have a new feature that could save your life. The new sos system on the phone will Call Emergency Services without you having to say a word. Our joyce evans joins us live from lindenwold, new jersey, with how all of this works. Joyce . Reporter well, lucy, the calls still come in just like a regular 911 call here at the call center. Theres no distinction. But apples claim is that you will no longer have to buy in many cases a separate app that will allow you to make that emergency call without anybody seeing you do it or knowing you did it. 911 where is your emergency . Reporter camden countys 911 center takes about 1. 7 million calls every year. Authorities are constantly developing and looking for better ways to get help to people quicker. Particularly in cases of abductions, home invasions, or terrorist attacks. Tap five times and, um, two, three, four, there you go. And what i would suggest if youre in a situation just keep tapping because sometimes it might not register the one tap quick enough. Five quick clicks and then a swipe. At some point you got to pull that phone out. Not if you had the iphone x. The x is roman numeral ten. You squeeze the power and the volume buttons at the same time to activate the emergency sos. We hold these two burt butt tons i can actually feel the phone vibrating in the countdown l you go well stop right there at two. Reporter you can turn off the siren. Its just secret way of you calling 911 at that point if we dope hear any sounds or anything well listen for couple of minutes. If its a hang up call, we can call back and we can try to figure out whats going on. Well listen again for i at that point we can actually hone in on between probably about 50meters or so of where that phone call was coming from. Reporter any way to tell how much time it may save. No i can tell was. Any tool that we can use to save a live shades shaves off time. Seconds better than what we had. Reporter and that is the truth. Right. Theyre still going to get prank calls. They expect that. But we have our old phones here at fox 29. We could use an iphone x. What we would have to do no case we were going get pocket dial because if you got the new phone you got to hold both of them down for five seconds at the same time. Ours you have to tap it. So youre to the going to mistakenly dial it in your purse or somewhere, lucy. Thats good to know. Looks like you need a charge on your phone. Youre almost dead there, joyce. That is correct. Reporter yeah. Umhmm. Go find an outlet. All right. Thank you, joyce. In washington, d. C. , the nations intelligence chief had a big day testified before Senate Leader toss lay out our grave vest security threats. Foxs Lauren Blanchard reports. Reporter white house claims the background check into one of its former staffs accused of hitting his exwifes had been on going. However today the fbi director appeared to contradict that timeline. My understanding is any information would have gone to the personnel security office. That office had not completed their process in order to make recommendation for adjudication to the white house. Fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. And then a completed Background Investigation in late july. Reporter director Christopher Wray as well as the other chiefs of the Intelligence Community spoke before the Senate Intel Committee to give updates on Global Threats from north korea to china and russia. The United States is threatened by Cyber Attacks every day. Reporter chiefs unanimou unanimously said they believed russia had meddled in the 2016 election and would try again. Russia perceived that its past efforts has successfully and views the 2018 u. S. Mid term elections as potential target for russian influence operations. Reporter as the white house and congress are grappling with the task of trying to pass a budget, the top intelligence officials also noted the risk posed by the soaring u. S. Debt. This situation is unsustainable. As i think we all know and represents a dire threat to our economic and national security. Reporter the officials also said despite the olympics and see seeming goodwill betweee south and North Koreans theres been no change to the u. S. strategy when it comes to dealing with pang yank. In washington, Lauren Blanchard, fox 29 news. Today fat tuesday otherwise known as mardi gras. Its time for people to celebrate before the solemn lenten season. The party is already underway as you can see in new orleans. Fat tuesday is the end of the twoweek long season of partyi partying. Which brings around 840 million into the city. This years events even more special spectacular than usual. With new orleans also celebrating its 300th anniversary. My first mardi gras. Loving it whoo trance tans to come out of the carnival with a little scratch. Nothing serious but a scratch is like a trophy. It says i was there and i did my part. Around the world people marked the occasion in unique ways including this town of italy hosts a battle of the oranges tradition dating back to the middle ages. These folks dress up in medieval costumes you see what theyre doing, throw fruit at each other. Here at home people are marking the day before Ash Wednesday as well. This morning jenn fred stopped by haaglys bakery in mayfair people lined up to get their hands ionophose naughts doughnuts traditionally eaten before lent begins. Can we see a for naught. We want to know what they look like. Thats a powdered one. We make a Cinnamon Sugar. Thats taken off. Probably three to one Cinnamon Sugar now. Three to one. Three to one the diehards still want the way the traditional. Im german. Why do not have any of these here at station. Bring them on over. They look delicious. Youve got a little more than half hour to get your hands on them. Haaglys closes at 6 00. The man who attacked new york city and the jersey shore with Pressure Cooker bombs has learned his fate in a courtroom. And save injection sites, you know its controversial. It lets heroin users shoot up while supervised by a doctor. One local neighborhood says, umum, not in our community. [narrator] look around. If our world isnt stuck in the past, why is Higher Education . We say, if theres a better path, you should take it. And when there isnt, well, you know where im going with that. Dont do things by the book if the book cant keep up. Take your page from one that hasnt been written. 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