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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM February 13, 2018

No. We ended up going to bridge and it happened under a bridge. Reporter that seemed kind of sad in a way. It was raining. Still worked out. She said yes. She said yes. Six months later going strong. Were back and were having fun. Were having a good day. Valentines day. Reporter this being philadelphia it wont surprise to you learn that about 15 minutes after this sculpture was open for photos, angry young man wandered past screaming obscenities at the visitors and arthur work itself. Described the o in love as nothing but a crooked zero. Everybody is a critic. At love park, im Bruce Gordon Fox 29 news. Were in the middle of one of the worst new seasons in decades. Kids are especially vulnerable and they are getting hit hard. This years flu season is making it tough for parents to tell when something is wrong. Our dawn timmy is here with more on the impact the deadly flu season is having, done . More than 60 children have died from the flu this season and the number is climbing. Its extremely frightening for parents. Even our dont dr. Mike who is also a dad had a scare in his family. Well, theres a bunch of viruses floating around. University of pennsylvania physician dr. Mike cirigliano dishes out medical advice regularly on fox 29. A frightening new season a major topic of discussion. And now his own nineyearold son nicholas is experiencing severe complications like many little ones around the country. I was alarmed because he wasnt getting any better. His cough was getting worse. And he was short of breath when he walked up a flight of stairs. The fourth grader was initially feeling better after getting the flu. But dr. Mike noticed over the weekend nicholas who is normally an healthy active child was taking a terrible turn for the worst. A chest xray confirmed he had pneumonia. Not the news this father of two wanted to hear. As a physician, im worried and as a father, im petrified. Because we know that pneumonia can be very very serious, and the flu can be deadly even in healthy people. Sadly a sixyearold little girl from new jersey who seemed fine on friday in her north bergen kindergarten class died yesterday in flulike symptoms according to a school announcement. The new Jersey Health department confirming it is the second pediatric flew associated death this season. For every parent out there listening, number one, watch your children. If they dont look right, if 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. Dr. Mike says the flu should not be taken lightly. My sons fever peaked at about 10. 25. Which really got me service. The flu causes inflammation in the body and compromises the immune system. That can trigger bacterial infections, pneumonia, sepsis, even a heart attack. Pregnant women, the very old, and the very young are most at risk. Now in little children, the way they can sometimes tell you is by the way they look. Theyre not eating. Theyre not drinking. They might have bluish lips because their oxygen is low. Dont wait. Reporter better safe than sorry. Get your child to a doctor immediately. Dr. Mike is also adamant about getting a flu shot. Parents, chirp, the whole fami family. He said its the best protection and will also reduce the symptoms. Iain. Good advice, dawn. Thank you. Now to a developing story out of new jersey. Skyfox over the scene of a heavy Police Presence in Monroe Township earlier tonight. This is happening along the 1800 block of herbert boulevard not lot of details being released yet but residents are being asked to avoid that area and shelter in place. When we license more, of course, well let you know. Happening right now in philadelphia, police and city officials have Just Announced that major drug bust more than 2 million worth of heroin and fentanyl are now off the stree streets. Jeff cole joins us here in studio with details. Jeff . Iain the numbers are unofficial but still stunning. 1200 Overdose Deaths in philadelphia in 2017. The most of all big cities in america. The attorney general says he took a big swipe at the drug problem over the weekend but he does not like a city plan to battle the heroin epidemic. It was a quiet sunday night the dinner hour when a caravan of officers moved on 4345 north fourth investigators with the state attorney general federal immigration and city police had been tracking the two men inside believing they were big players in the heroin trade. Concerned about 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 spread out on a table tuesday a big hall of drugs a gun, packaging and equipment investigators 1124yearold cesar guzman and 30yearold Jeremy Sanchez rosario used to move a deadly mixture of heroin and fentanyl on city streets. These drug dealers were trafficking an extraordinary amount of heroin which they were mixing with fentanyl to make it even deadlier. Reporter shapiro says the drugs are worth over two and a half Million Dollars on the street, and are yet another sign of the advice grip heroin has on city users. He says investigators bought drugs undercover from the pair and watched their movements for a month federal immigration says guzman a dominican is in the u. S. Illegally. What do you think now that all that was going on . Crazy. Didnt even know up till 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 is 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. Roar report along with the drug 6500 in cash was found in the apartment says the ag. Both men are being held in a million and a half dollar bail as for those safe epp joke sites, shapiro says without a change in the law, theyre illegal. Jeff cole, fox 29 news. Breaking news now out of camden county. Firefighters are investigating what started as a house fire in cherry hill. Skyfox over the scene of the 1100 block of liberty bell drive in cherry hill. You can see flames coming from the roof there. Fire broke out just before 4 00 this afternoon. So far no reports of anyone injured. Time now to check in with core fox 29 Weather Authority as we take life located doylestown in bucks county just in time for valentines day. The weather will warm up. Kathy is here now with more on the big warmup. Kathy. Wow, looking at very different conditions than weve seen in the long time around here, iain. Lets take look at whats going on. Now, overnight tonight, temperatures are going to be definitely on the cool side. But not quite as cold as its been. 33 in philadelphia. 24 in the poconos. 30 in pottstown. 32 in wilmington and dover 32. 31 in reading and lancaster. Now coming up well be be talking about some snow possibly in the forecast some rain and temperatures that will be well into the 60s. A wild web of weather as we head toward the end of the month. Iain ill be back with that in just a few minutes. Crazy, thanks, kathy. Police are looking for these people who decided it might be a good idea to watch the eagles super bowl parade on top of someone elses car. The woman who owns the car park it near judson street and pennsylvania avenue to watch the parade herself. When she got back, the damage was done. You recognize these two People Police are after them for stealing some traffic lights after the eagles big super bowl win video shows them saying at the city has enough lights. So thats why they decided to steal them. Police believe the lights are from juniper and mark streets. A princeton professor has canceled his class about cultural freedoms and hate speech after some students walked out when he used a racial slur. Lawrence rosen reportedly used the n word three times during a lecture last week and refused to apologize to some of his students. Two students later filed a complaint. Rosen is not facing any discipline at least not right now. Man walks up to Dunkin Donuts drive through window but instead of taking something out, watch this. It throws a rock and dives in. Cameras show at the 8100 block of stenton avenue they catch the guy throwing a rock through the window. He crawls across the floor towards the office and then when he dont couldnt get inside he makes his way out the back window. And he took off. You know anything about this, you see the guy crawling around there, call police. Coming up, a new tool that could save your life during an emergency and you already have it in your pocket. Kristen. Iain the eagles have a few coaching wrinkles to iron out. Coming up the latest hahn could take over as the eagles offensive coordinator plus frank reich is introduced in indy. Thats still ahead, iain. First lets take look at todays moment in black history as we remember colin powell achievement in january of 2001 when he became the nations first africanamerican secretary of state under president george w. Bus this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. So whether youre a speed demon or more of a snow angel, your winter chariot awaits. Pick the best peak for your family getaway at iloveny. Com new york state. Its all here. Its only here. Happening right now new feature on your iphone that could potentially save your li life. You find yourself in a situation where you cant dial 911 by holding down a few buttons the new sos feature can Dial Emergency Services for you. Our joyce evans has the details on how it work. Reporter the call will still come in as a regular 911 call. There is no distinction but apples claim is, in many cases you will no longer need a special app that make cost you money to secret dial for help without anybody seeing you did it or knowing that you ever did it. 911 where is your emergency. Reporter camden countys 911 center takes about 1. 7 million calls every year. And authorities are constantly developing and looking for better ways to get help to people quicker. Particularly in cases of abductions, home invasions, or terrorist attack. Tap five times and, there you go, and what i would suggest if youre in a situation just keep tapping. Because sometimes it might not register the tap quick enough. Five quick clicks and then a swipe. Some point you have to full the phone out. Not if you have the iphone x. You squeeze the power and volume buttons at the same time to activate the emergency sos. We hold these two buttons i can feel the phone vibrating with the countdown, there you go. Well stop right there at two. Reporter you can turn off the siren. Just a secret way of you calling 911 at that point if we dont hear any sounds or anything well listen for couple minutes. If its a hang up call we can call back and we can try to figure out whats going on. Well listen again. 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. But i can tell was. Any tool that we can use to save a life it shaves off time. If it shaves off a couple seconds, thats better than what we had. Reporter now officials dont think it will stop any prank calls. People will still do that, but pocket dialing theyre not worried about that. Because you have to do too many things at the same time for that to happen in your pocket. In camden county, joyce evans, fox 29 news. The Academy Natural sciences at Drexel University getting major facelift. Well at least for two of its classic dioramas the glass was taken a you off the gorilla and chinese antelope. Exhibits today for the First Time Since they were installed back in the 30s. Conservatories and artists will clean and renovate every inch of the wildlife scenes and new lighting and labels will be installed. Peels and cracks in the background painting will be repaired and more. These die rom mass have been workly really hard for long ti time. Some 80 odd years, and its really time for them to get a good thorough cleaning and a refresh. And thats not something we can really do easily the in the museum we have to get all this glass off in order to fully access them and so its not a project that we take on on a regular basis. The renovations will be going on through the month of april. Lets get back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now as we take live look at reading in berks county. It was chilly day out there but we did see some sun and good news. We are in for a big warmup t going to last through the weekend . Kathy has got your forecast in 15 seconds. All right. Temperatures in the 40s today. Right around normal which is around 43 degrees. Now we are on our way up. You can see at Blue Mountain just great night to be on the slopes. Temperatures pretty much in the upper their toss lower 40 todays which is near average of 43 degrees. Right now in the poconos we have a temperature in the lower 30s. Its 37 in allentown and pottstown. 38 in philadelphia. And 35 in Atlantic City millville and in wildwood. You can see theres not a lot of super cold air out there. Chicago, detroit and minneapolis were in the teens yesterday. A surge of warm and coming up from the south. Nashville at 59 degrees and our winds will become southwesterly tomorrow that will do the trick. Well go hour by hour. Mainly clear skies tonight. Some clouds coming in during the overnight. Tomorrow well see a mix of clouds and sun. And pretty decent temperatures for your valentine. Highs about 10 degrees above normal in the 50s. Then we see the rain move in. But its not until late on thursday. Thursday temperatures well into the 60s. Still clouds and some breaks in the overcast. Its after 5 00 oclock that this wall of rain comes in and it rains heavy at times. Where you see the orange and yellow through philadelphia, i95 corridor this is eight, 9 00 oclock on thursday night. And then it slowly moves out by late thursday night but additional showers moving in for friday. So staying unsettled but still staying even warm right through friday. Well see that lift to the jet stream with that real cold air staying to the north there is a chance though some of our computer models are indicating a coastal low that could provide rain changing over to wet snow by sunday morning. Well continue to keep an eye on that. More on that with new models coming in tonight at 10 00 oclock. Overnight, 34 in philadelphia. 24 in the poconos. 33 in wilmington and 33 in dover. During the day tomorrow, its going to be very decent day for valentines day. The high 52 degrees. Definitely on the warm side. Morning clouds. Some sunshine winds out of the south west at about five to 10 miles an hour. On your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority we jump 1. Tomorrow. Then we jump another 13 degrees warmer on thursday. Looking pretty good and friday still 60 with a chance of morning rain. Saturday an afternoon chance that will go into the evening but look at sunday mornings low. Its only 29. So overnight saturday into sunday there could be a little bit of wintry precipitation. The sun comes back out sunday more clouds monday. Look at tuesday. Mostly cloudy the temperature 6. What a day. Look at that. What if the parade were this thursday, friss ten. It would be 65. It would have been very different. But probably not with the fans. They loved that parade. That was amazing. One offensive coordinator officially says goodbye the eagles still looking to say hello to his replacement. Coming up hear what frank reich had to say about his time with the eagles as he was introduced as colts new head coach plus the latest on who will take over for well sometimes no news is the news. Right now were state still wait to go hear who the eagles will have step in offensive coordinator finally it looks like we may be getting closer nfl networks Iain Rappaport the eagles have no immediate plans to hire an offensive coordinator a sign duce staley and receivers coach mike grow could be bumped up. The giants hired mike shula as offensive coordinator today taking him off the potential candidates list. So it looks like right now the money is on staley and grow. Meanwhile today frank reich introduced as the new head coach for the Indianapolis Colts Doug Pederson said on sunday that he knows reich has all of the tools to be successful at this level and today reich saying after his journey with the eagles most recently its finally a dream realized. I always believed in and wanted to be an nfl head coach. I grew up that in a family coaches. My dad was a football coach. My mom was a coach. My brother is a head coach of division two school. Ive always envisioned myself . Why because i love the comrade comradery. I love the people. I love the competition. Great for him. The biggest result of the eagles super bowl run spring training came at us a lot faster. Phillies down in clearwater florida right now. New head coach gabe kapler said after watching what the eagles just did they may take a few pages out of their playbook. We would be foolish to not take cues from what the eagles accomplished. Um, not just over the last couple of weeks, but since the summer when coach pederson addressed his team and said you know, this is what the world thinks and this is who we think you are and what we think you are is really special. Update from the flyers on goaltender brian elliot. They say he had successful core muscle surgery this morning hes expected to be out five to six weeks. Elliot went down saturday in a shootout against the coyotes. Well talk about hands off coaching the warriors win over the suns last night. Steve kerr gives andre egg gal daal la and let him run the huddle. He talk with the suns head coach wasnt any disrespect. He wanted to have a new voice in the huddle and reach his guys in different way and it work. I like it. Suns arent have very good. If you think its disrespectful we got to do better and not get beat by 50. It was funny. To see those guys in the huddle running play glass shootly ball. Join us tonight for fox 29 news at 10 00. Tomorrow is valentines day. It comes on february 14th. Yes. Every year. Every

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