so, it really, fox theaters was bankrupt in 1932, from the height of prosperity in 1931 fox 0 when fox handed them over. they were both earning more than they had before, and one could say, how do we know the consequences of the depression? but as fox said, he had hired a wrecking company, it would have -- it could not have cost more and it would have taken a longer time to do that. so. tragedy. thad: thank you very much, that was terrific. [applause] >> thank you everybody for coming. >> interested in american history tv? visit our website, c-span.org/history. view our tv schedule, preview upcoming programs, and watch college lectures, museum tours, archival films, and more. american history tv at c-span.org/history. ♪ nextweekend , >> the c-span cities tour takes you to lynchburg, virginia. we will explore the rich literary scene and historic sites. watch next weekend, beginning at 5:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2, and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. each week, american history america" brings you context for today's p

and fox theaters, they put in lots of orders, and so did fox film. he wanted control of the companies and he told the banking firm and at&t that he would play ball with them. he becomes the candidate that they back. chase bank actually gave him the money to buy the stock, the controlling stock from fox. he had never made a movie, he was the utilities man, power and electricity and gas, and he had no idea what he was doing and not only was he incompetent he was basically draining the money out of the company in order to support his other businesses. so, it really, fox theaters was bankrupt. from the height of prosperity in 1931 fox handled them over, they were both earning more than they had before, and whaone could say had we know the consequences of the depression? but as fox said, he had hired a wrecking company, it would have -- it could not have cost more and it would have taken a longer time to do that. so. tragedy. thad: thank you very much, that was terrific. [applause] >> thank you everybody for coming. [chatter] announcer: this weekend on am

there were some and primetime host on fox news and "fox and friends" are much more sympathetic than the other cable news channels. at the same time the president sometimes when he is pushing back against the media, i want examples of this. i think he shouldn't be punching down at individual cable news host. something he doesn't have a strategy to take the spotlight off of something else.te other times it is good politics for him and please write what with his most loyal supporters to beat up on a news that they don't trust any way and the lack of trust, diminishing trust, this beenap happening for decads long before donald trump, i think is what is eroding a business that i love that i grew up in that want to be perceived as they are added think right now it's the cool thing to do is to be against donald trump. to question his ego to survive,, is he mentally able to handle this office? that seems to be at their. >> host: it comes to coverage, what happens to the next president after donald trump's influence on this media? >> guest: right. and beyond that there will be aa time a traversa

now, here is fox future cast. this is actually our ice modeling showing north and west of philadelphia. so as you get into allentown, pottstown, reading, to coatesville these are the areas that we are very concerned with ice secretion and also for the potential of some snow accumulation. we'll talk more about that and up and down and wild seven day forecast that's coming up in just a little bit. guys? >> all right. thank you, mike. >>> a gop memo creating controversy in washington, d.c. trump says it proves he never colluded with the russians. democrats disagree. ♪ >>> firefighters battle a one alarm fire in clip ton heights this afternoon. fire officials say flames broke out at delbuono's auto body shop on church lane about 2:00 o'clock. the fire was quickly contained. no one was hurt. >> is the president free and clear in the russia probe? some people actually think so. and he has insisted his campaign did not collude with russia. now he says the release of a controversial memo alleging intelligence abuses dur

, they don't own fox. they have the balance sheets to bid up sky way beyond 1250 fox in tehemselves, will have t get the calculator out and do math this is opportunistic by comcast, but i would expect fox and disney to come back. they have to fox is a 39% shareholder murdoch has been building this business over 20, 25 years i can't see him waving the white flag and selling his equity to comcast. >> he also predicted another potential buyer could jump in resulting a bidding war for the assets there's a 1$1.5 billion break that fox could have to pay if their own fox/disney deal breaks as well. so fax will have to sharpen their pencils no they'll have to move quickly on that let's listen about what degroot had to say about a bidding war >> they just won the premiere league right force another th e >> they just won the premiere league right force another th fe years. the market has them doing 58 pe of earnings next year. i could see this stock price going way more than 1250 and downer approa counter approaches

fox news ratings are also up. taking a moreat skeptical, aggressive, sometimes negative, sometimes unfair approach to president trump, it has helped the other two. the new york times come a the president called the failing of the quote new york times." hometown paper that is sort of a love-hate relationship. post"ashington subscriptions are up. it is an increasingly ugly battle, but some of them are called mines, -- gold mines. they present a fat target for him. a growing portion of the country does not trust him. change with his television career and how he treated the media? guest: donald trump has had an intuitive feel for how to make news in the new york market. i even covered his divorce from ivana. i remember calling him during that time. i was the out-of-town reporter for "the washington post." you get a few soundbites. donald trump knows a controversy sales. even when he is getting beat up, he knows that negative coverage helps this president. it sounds counterintuitive. who wants to get beat up? or when t

the breaking details coming into the fox 29 newsroom. your news starts in 30 seconds. ♪ >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10:00. >>> massive fire tears through several buildings today in old city philadelphia leaving dozens stranded and investigators are looking for clues as to how that fire started. thanks for joining us tonight at 10:00 i'm iain page. >> i'm lucy noland. it happened this morning blocks from our studio here in old city ton night we're learning firefighters are nervous the building could collapse. fox 29's brad sattin live at that scene with the story. brad? >> reporter: yeah, not necessarily the entire building here but portions of it that is the concern. we can tell you it is 19 hours now after this fire started for the most part firefighters those who are left are in cleanup mode just a handful of them. all of the hoses stopped as best we could tell around 8:00 o'clock tonight. we do know at 1.400 firefighters battled this fire and some very tight quarters. two firefighters were hospita

doesn't own as well as continue to buy the proposed fox's stake in sky as well as fox's assets -- fox's u.s. cable assets. >> you guys don't know who is going to prevail, brett? brett? who's going to prevail in your view >> yes who knows. we've got two large well-funded players who want to own sky. it's anybody's guess who wins. >> it's not gulf oil do you remember the old days, sorkin could that happen again? i mean a really great just like step wise fashion where people keep bidding because they want it so badly? could that ever happen >> look, this is -- >> as i -- >> okay. >> go ahead, ayesh >> okay. yeah i mean, look, this is day one. i think what we're going to see is a tremendous sort of don't have the crystal ball, but we're going to see a tremendous change and everything will shift and i think comcast is prepared based on what we understood at the financial times about brian's thinking he's mapped out a number of scenarios and he's really prepared to engage in a battle i don't think the dynamics are the same i think everything is up in the air now and will be crucial and intere

29 from did good day to fox 29 news at 5:00, 6:00, 10:0. we're with you as the eagles head to the super bowl. time now to check in with your fox 29 winter weather authority. let's head down the shore. there's live look at cape may. not really a day to be on the beach. how many months until summer? right now, though, we're tracking snow? kathy? >> oh, yeah. >> iain, love it i know. [ laughter ] >> plenty of it behind police this is blue mountain where the skiers and snowboarder has a great day. they're still out there with temperatures that the 30s. rain in the poconos and quickly over to snow many for the rest of us the showers are coming in philadelphia more like nine, 10:00 o'clock making it totter ground. cold air changing it over to gnome already on the south of erie that will move into the east. right now minneapolis six. chicago 14. detroit 20. a piece of that cold is going to be moving into the delaware valley. so this moves through tonight. if you're going out this evening, expect rain, pack the umbrella. some light rain and hyped i

at police headquarters, dave schratwieser, fox 29 news. ♪ >> fox 29 getting results a woman claims a funeral home lost her sister's ashes. bruce gordon went searching for answers hope to go get the woman some closure. sled. >> dawn, good evening. college basketball alive and doing very well in west philadelphia. why it's a big weekend for the penn quakers and why drexel's 85-83 win last night was more than just a game. that's coming up in sports. this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. so whether you're 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. it's all here. it's only here. fox 29 getting results for grieving family member. a camden woman says her decision to have her sister' reece mains cream mated has left her angry and confused. she says the answer she's getting really just don't add up. bruce gordon joining us in studio. bruce, this is the kind of thing that it's already an emotional process and this just makes it even worse.

fox 29 really does go. we are the only local station that daring to into enemy territory and leave it to our hank flynn to find an eagles fan living in the heart of patriots country. i was told that this is cambridge, massachusetts. what is this eagles country nonsense doing up here. >> the boss is from philly. [ laughter ] >> i'm from philly, too. >> it's hank i'm in cambridge massachusetts with police officer whitey, patriots no surprise there but my take is when the boss bleeds philly green has cunningham and reggie whites jerseys on the door it makes for real interoffice rivalry. come on. >> thin blue line the cambridge police department has a hard edge of eagles green running through it. his name is branville bard he's the commissioner and yeah, he's from philadelphia. >> defense wins championships and -- >> until the third quarter when he gets planned. >> bard took off the department in office after a nationwide talent search and so far he says smooth sailing. but now the patriots are in the super bow

>>host:st does president trump enjoy relations but is fox news a part of that? >> i thought about that but first of all in the campaign he told me fox news was treating him unfairly that there are conservative commentators like national review or the weekly standard who were still pretty critical of him as president so he doesn't enjoy a cheering squad on the right. there were some or prime time news or fox and friends are more sympathetic than other news channels but at the same time sometimes when he pushes back against the media and i give examples sometimes he does that as a strategy to take the spotlight off of something else but other times it is good policy for his loyale supporters so to beat up on those they don't trust anyway this happened long before he was in politics so the business that i love and grew up in and want to be perceived as fair and right now it is the cool thing to do to be against donald trump. will he survive? mentally able to handle the office? and that seems not fair. >> are you concerned what happens to the next president? >> and

fox 29 news at 11:00 is next. >> your nissan sports wrap on fox 29. ♪ >>> you know what they say. when one streak ends well begin another one. the sixers snapped their seven game winning streak on sunday against washington. tonight they look to make it one in a row in miami. sixers taking on the heat. first half, up ten. amir johnson gets the oop to ben simmons over the shoulder. sixers go up 35-23. in the fourth quarter sixers with the edge. holmes cleaning it down low gets the recovery and hook shot. the sixers go up ten. the heat would make this close though down one, 23 seconds left to play. dwayne wade hits the step back jumper. clock winding down now. ball get tout jj reddick wide open look but the shot hits the front of the rim. doesn't go. sixers barely fall in miami, 102-101. >>> feels like everyone in philadelphia -- philadelphia saw saw those billboard science asking lebron james to come tolling the sixers but lebron claims he hasn't seen them himself. does know about them and says it's pretty flattering. >> i'm sitting here at 33, my 15th, year and teams -- or guys, i

. >>> live from center city in philadelphia, this is fox 29 news at 10:00. >>> gunfire at an eventful of kids sends families running. opportunity man is accused of shooting another man at a local athletic club. thanks for joining us i'm iain >> i'm lucy noland, this happened before a charity boxing match. latest from brad sattin. the latest from falls township bucks county. >> reporter: the good news is at least police know who they're looking for. it was the result of a domestic dispute which started as a charity boxing event, turned into a chaotic scene >> kids were crying and everybody was crying, adults were crying. >> the owner of pens bury react club describing the chaos, moments earlier, a charity boxing event set to begin featuring children as young as eight years old, a well promoted fund-raiser for the bensalem gym gymnastics team. more than 100 people there for fun when suddenly in the hallway outside the gym >> we heard a bank. >> at first i thought it was am am flyer. i had no idea, people started screaming and running and going crazy, and we heard somebody got a didn't a

town fox 29 after the game. we are not sleeping, no err we're pulling all nighter with you right out on the streets of philadelphia right in the middle of all the action. so keep it here and go, birds. >>> to your fox 29 weather authority now. as we take live look down at the shore in ocean city, new jersey, it's a frigid friday as we kick off super bowl weekend. meteorologist scott williams joins us now with a first check of your forecast. brrr, scott. >> i mean, brrr indeed. it's cold stepping outdoors. dawn, look at the feels like temperature right now in philadelphia. it feels like 11 degrees. north and west pottstown it feels like seven. look at mount pocono it feels like 10 degrees below zero there. it feels like seven in wilmington. it feels like the teens in wildwood. overnight low temperatures it's going to be. six mount pocono. een 18 degrees the low in philadelphia. 16 in atlantic city. we're dry to start the weekend. but sunday we're looking at some wet snow changing over to a cold rain. so coming up

we're live tonight in radnor township, i'm joanne pileggi fox 29 news. back to you in the studio, dawn. >> joanne, thank you. >>> more than two dozen school buses up in flames, gone. class is cancel. the big question tonight, what started it all? investigators are now looking into the cause of the early morning fire at the parkland school district bus garage in lehigh county district is hoping to reopen its doors on monday. our jeff cole has more from south whitehall township. >> reporter: firefighters do you say hot spots along the front of the blackened shells of the 16 destroyed school buses. investigators could be seen poke through the rubble. the grim result of a blaze so hot the firefighte firefightersd defense. >> it was just shoot water on it, surround and drown the best you can. >> reporter: 25 buses were destroyed serving the large parkland school district in lehigh county. >> the garage burned up. >> reporter: the garage burned up. it did. are you sad about it? >> yeah. >> and made a big boom. >> reporter: stephanie lives just yards away. she

fox assets? >> it definitely could be. that's certainly not off the table, and i think they clearly wanted that asset. so we can see what happens the flip side is this is an asset that's been talked about in the past. i do think it's the type of expanding distribution that comcast would feel comfortable with, especially going internationally. rather than getting into a bidding war, you can't go after the distribution side. with a lot less regulatory scrutiny. >> who are the other bidders that might come in, one. number two, does this kind of bid from comcast or someone else solve a problem for uk regulators >> i can't comment to the uk regulators in talking with our colleagues, i don't believe there's necessarily anyone in europe on or the uk that would come after us. itled probably by just fox and disney but i do think comcast has a good opportunity if you look at what would ultimately create better value, looking at a company that understands comcast, i think comcast is in a better position to do that >> frank, thanks fo

fox wanted disney's stock. they thought the prospects for disney, frankly, were better than for comcast over time for any number of reasons. you can't force fox to sell you the asset. you may be in a position to s l sell, but murdoch's voting stake, some 39% or so of fox shares, you can't get it you can make life very difficult for rupert murdoch, but if he chooses not to, there's no way to force him to sell the assets, even if it is potentially a higher price we have yet to see the proxy on the disney deal. to sort of understand what exactly went on there, who bid what and how though we have reported on it a lot. and time warner at&t will be the key for decisions beyond today's competing to try to control sky. if that should go to time warner's way, many believe comcast will try to mount yet another offensive, even in the face of a deal already signed. >> i work for comcast, and when you see this decline, it kind of takes your breath away. >> it is picking up, down almost 6% now some shareholders are not parti

rich dennison, fox news. >>> and back to your fox 29 weather authority. as we take live look down at the shore. this is ocean city. chilly and rainy. and yeah, get used to it. meteorologist scott williams has a full check of your forecast in 15 seconds. >>> fog, drizzle stepping outdoors temperatures today only made it into the low 40s. for the upcoming weekend it look like another round of wet weather. so far this month over 5-inches of rainfall for philadelphia will likely end up with about sick inches of rain for the month. so for the upcoming weekend, mid 50s for your saturday. so some milder temperatures. 60 degrees by sunday. not a complete washout. but it looks like the instead yesterday of that rain will occur when you're making your dinner plans headed out maybe to check out that new movie saturday night. then sunday morning we'll keep things kind of damp and then drier as we move toward the end of your sunday. so here's the bottom line. you can see about a 40% chance for some rainfall tomorrow morning. but we ramp things up. saturday afternoon.

for much of the last year when fox was trading, we were trading below the fox price. why are we trading above now the price on the table >> good morning. yes. it's a great gopment for a businebi development for a bizny storusi story. the reason why sky is trading above the price is markets are pricing in and expecting a battle to break out between disney and fox and comcast >> there's been regulatory hurdles for fox when they were trying to take over the 61% of sky that they din odn't own one reason why the price traded below the original fox offer do we think this would be an easier takeover company for u.s. regulators to approve as a buyer of sky >> one thing is clear, the comcast offer is cleaner it's a smoother proposal it's all cash. they don't own much overseas they have 9% of the revenue base internationally. so for comcast to pursue this, it's a much easier thing whereas we discussed multiple times on the show and in "the financial times," murdoch has a long legacyin the uk, and that legacy hung over him since he struck the deal to buy sky in december of 2016

fox 29 won't let you miss a single second of it. back to your fox 29 weather authority now. the weather for the parade it's going to be cold but first tomorrow we got a messy start to the morning commute. snow and rain on the way. so kathy is breaking down the tolls in 15 seconds. >> okay today was the calm before the storm before the parade. we are getting ready, of course, on the parkway. get it all done, guys. because tomorrow is just going to be a mess. it's not like it will be a lot of snow. especially in the delaware valley. but it is going to be sleeting, raining, and pretty windy tomorrow. the temperature is 37 in philadelphia. 26 in the poconos. and arthritic in millville. right now we have that northwesterly wind sustain at 12 in the poconos and reading and those winds will definitely pick up on parade day. we have one-two punch the cold coming in from the north and warmth of the rape coming in from the south. so the two combined are going to give us a mess tomorrow. a wall of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain will be moving in after 5:00 a.m. so sue serio will b

at philadelphia international airport, i'm jeff cole, fox 29 news. >>> of course keep it here. we have more on that deadly shooting coming up tonight on fox 29 news at 10:00 and 11:00. >>> investigators are bust add meth lab in atlantic city's trap tropicana hotel they say that's why a fire started. skyfox was over the scene yesterday morning when the fire broke out on the fourth floor. a hazmat team dismantled that lab and several floors had to be vac weighed. police later arrested two men an woman. prosecutors charged 49-year-old michael pillar in there incident he was also hurt in the fire. >>> in burlington county another person trying to cross route 73 in mt. laurel has died. this is the fourth time something like this has happened in a 1 mile radius on that road just since september. police say early this morning the person was either ride ago bike or walking across route 73 at willow road in mt. laurel driver in maroon hyundai hit and killed the person. the bike had a blinking light on it the back and front to make visible in the dark. no word if prosecutors plan to file

fox's adam housley has more. i am someone who wakes up in a different body every day. >> reporter: the new movie every day follows a 16-year-old girl who falls in love with mysterious spirit who inn habits a different body each day. ♪ >> i'm in love with someone who wakes up in different body every day. always the same age, never the same person twice. >> reporter: film based on the best selling novel of the same name one of its main themes is living in the moment. something star rice is still figuring out. >> just try to live that day for that person. roar report it's something i struggle with being in the present because i travel lot, and i always want to be in contact with my friends and my family back home on my phone. for me being in the present is a lot of about sort of being electronic free, and so sometimes i just like to, you know, turn my phone off and just, you know, not pay attention to it. i have an app that tells me how long i spend on my phone each day which is very like, very telling of the kind

in washington, caroline shively, fox 29 news. >> back here at home sky fox over the scene avenue deadly fire in philadelphia. it started just past 9:00 this morning. this house on the 2500 block of newkirk street in north philadelphia. police say a 71-year-old woman died inside that home. three other people are injured. two of them a 69-year-old man an 70-year-old woman are at the hospital. they're stable we don't know what started the fire. you saw it here as breaking news yesterday. a philadelphia police officer found dead in her home along with a man. tonight investigators are staying tight lipped about what they may or may not know. the pair's bodies were a home on mercer street in port richmond discovered around noon yesterd yesterday. the officer was a 14 year veteran of the force and she was off duty at the time. we're not sure how they died or even they're relationship to one another. >>> you get what you pay for. except a fox 29 viewer says that was not the case when he bought a 65-inch tv from local walmart. so what happened? our fox 29's jeff cole is life in northeast philade

iain page has you covered other other side of the break with fox 29 us in at 11:00. so much more to talk about tonight. don't you go >> live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. >>> can you believe it's all over as we take live look at ben franklin parkway? feels like a dream. but it happened. we got our parade and this year's eagles will forever be remembered as the guys who fin finally brought that vince philadelphia. >>> today truly a moment we will all remember forever. thank for staying up late with us. what's been a very long day for many people. i'm iain page but wow, it was worth it. you probably are still a little too amend to sleep. lucky for you we've got team coverage to wrap up your day. let's start with our chris o'connell. >> reporter: confetti has fallen. the cleanup crews have started to move in, and things are starting to get back to normal after history is made in center city. ♪ today was amazing. i'm 35 years old. it

fox news. >>> let's go back to your fox 29 weather authority as we take a look at allentown and lehigh county. it's been a rainy mess >> a lot of people wondering when will we dry out? kathy orr got the answer. hello >> good evening, we do have a flood watch but the rain fortunately is slowly wayning here. periods of rain expected right through the late night hours and some heavier rain moving back no south jersey tomorrow morning. we do have an area of flood warning through about 9:00 and this does include kent county delaware. we've had about two to three inches of rainfall already in most of the region. especially south and east and you can see more spotty showers moving through. roads are wet but it is warm out there in philadelphia the high 64. that's the current temperature, winds out of the south and west at 14 miles an hour, 49 in the poconos, 64 in philadelphia. 60 in millville and 44 in reading where we do have areas of fog. you can see the colder air coming, 19 in chicago, minneapolis the same, omaha nine in billings, here is the cold front, pittsburgh 52, philadelphia 64. s

another fox news alert. targeting homeless people in las vegas, hunting surveillance video showing the man walking up and shooting him in cold blood. the series of attacks killing two and wanting two others for a 5 day span beginning january 29th. three of the victims were homeless and forensics prove the same gun was used in all four attacks. police have no suspects though they believe the gunman's vehicle has been spotted. carly: we are learning the identity of the officer shot and killed in the line of duty, david shepard, a 30-year-old veteran of the police department is remembered as a devout christian father and jokester. the department setting up a donation page for his wife and their two young daughters. responders from several debarment escorted the 37-year-old body to dallas funeral home overnight, his sister saying shepard felt being a police officer with god's calling. rob: assuring unlisted dreamers they don't have to worry about immigration status, they are protected from deportation. jim matti

there is a separate bid from disney for fox. the reason all these bids are happening is because there is a frenzy of deal making an consolidation going on in international media where basically the owners of great content, the programmes, the ideas and the stories, arejoining programmes, the ideas and the stories, are joining forces with the

fox 29 is all over this parade. our coverage kicks off tomorrow with our "good day philadelphia" team. we are not stopping down all d day. not one moment. because it's one big party. so if you're heading down to the parkway or broad street, watch with us for the 411 on all things parade head to fox 29.com for everything you need to know. >>> and while most of us just saw rain up northerly along the hudson riff it's a totally different story. snow behind major pile up on heavily traveled bridge. >>> and a million dollars gift. it's going help a local museum. and it's all thanks to a well well-known shoe designer. ♪ this winter in the state with more ski mountains than any other, family fun reaches a new peak. so whether you're 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. it's all here. it's only here. >>> pileup in terry town, new york shut down a bridge with one lane still closed right now. just look at that. cars piled

"fox news @ night." in the meantime, most-watched, most trusted, and was grateful you spent the evening with us. good night from >> i signed the memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn illegal weapons into machine guns. >> the president has said no american child should ever feel unsafe in their school. >> the president said russia didn't metal, that it didn't have an impact and it certainly wasn't with help from the trump campaign. >> we are not talking about that. in any event. ♪ rob: today's addition of "fox and friends" first is a party in the usa. you are watching "fox and friends" first. today, donald trump will welcome the florida community grieving after the deadly school shooting the commander-in-chief holding a listening session at the white house for those impacted by mass shootings and pushing for ban on bump stocks and tougher background checks for gun buyers. griff jenkins joins us with what we can expect today. >> from bump stocks the

jeff cole, fox 29 news. >>> sky fox over the scene avenue deadly fire in philadelphia. it started just past 9:00 this morning in a house on the 2600 -- 2500 block of newkirk street in north philadelphia. police say a 71 year old woman died inside the home. three other people were hurt. two of them a 69-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman are at the hospital in stable condition we don't know yet what started that fire. students at cherry hill east high school walking out this morning in support of their teacher. that teacher suspended after comments that he made to a class about that florida school shooting. our shawnette wilson has the story from cherry hill, new jersey. >> reporter: the issue has spilled over on to social media. parents and students are posting that they plan to attend tonight's meeting. they want to talk about reinstating their teacher and possible security concerns at their school. today was day two of student protests at cherry hill high school east. skyfox flew over the school when students walk out in support of ap history tee which are tim moth

in voorhees, i'm jeff cole, fox 29 news. >> u.s. senator pat toomey says that he'll probably reintroduce legislation to expand background checks on gun purchases but it may require some changes to make it happen. the republican senator says he wants to see how many senators support it when the senate returns to session. the bill first emerged after the 2012 slaying of 26 children and adults in connecticut's sandy hook elementary school. it failed then and at least one more time since then. >>> with beer and wine sales now becoming the norm in pennsylvania super markets, a document for a delaware county community may put the cork back on those beverages. our bruce gordon has the story from nether providence township. >> reporter: bill levin spent part of this springlike day hosing down his nearly new corvette in the drive way of his surrey road home. the vet packs a whole lot of power but not as much as levin's. you hold an awful lot of sway in this matter don't you. >> well, we could but we hope it can be settled on a friendly basis

"fox & friends" starts right now. have a great one, everybody. >> investigators on the scene of a deadly train derailment carrying republican lawmakers when it slammed into a garbage truck. >> train accident was a tough one. tremendous jolt. we'll have a full report as to what it looks like the driver of the truck was killed. >> we have massive developments regarding the release of the four page memo moment. >> john kelly implied its release was potentially imnegligent. >> did you see it. >> i did. >> what do you think? >> it will be released here pretty quick i think and the whole world will see it. >> the fbi is fighting back against the release claiming omissions attack the memo's

fox 29's dave stratt wise sr. you see him now live in trenton with how they're pulling out all the stops to get these birds to move along. dave? >> reporter: lucy, those crows have been landing in the trees here around the capitol building for the past five months. well now the usda says it has unique way to deal with them. >> this was the scene tuesday evening as thousands of crows descended on downtown trenton. coming to rest in the trees outside several state office buildings. >> our estimates are roughly 20 to 30,000 birds, um, that have been coming in each night. >> reporter: huge flocks of crows have been coming here since october to roost as the crows arrived just after sunset tuesday, usda experts were waiting. they have a plan to try and disperse them. >> our goal is to not allow them to settle into the roost, um, but to harass them out before they get into the area. >> reporter: the crows leave behind lots of waste on bus stops, sidewalks, cars and the parking lots here. there's a concern about a number

fox's greg palkot has more seo seoul. winter olympics kicking off with an official greeting from the north korea randell geishan ahead of the opening ceremony. north sending 500 people to the games including officials, athletes, artists and the sister of kim jong-un who made history on friday by shaking south korean president moon's hand in public during the opening ceremony. >> this is a first time kim jong-un or the kim family sent someone to south korea in decades and they're doing it to reemphasize the north korean and south korean relationship. >> reporter: it's a stark contrast to the massive military display held yesterday in north korea. move highlighted by vice-president mike pence as he heads to u.s. sell geishan to the opening ceremony. while trying to keep the focus on the military threat posed by the north. >> one more military parade. with soldiers marching in line and ballistic missiles being proudly displayed. >> reporter: domestic politics also in the spotlight in pyeongchang. the head of the u.s. olympic

so, an awful lot for liam fox to get his teeth into when we hear from liam fox to get his teeth into when we hearfrom him shortly, and you have to say, with the best will in the world, this is not the sort of build—up he would have wanted for the speech. because this is a speech that was designed as one of those keynote speeches set up by the government for what they have called the road to brexit. so we have already had last week the speech from borisjohnson already had last week the speech from boris johnson and already had last week the speech from borisjohnson and then we had davis davis over in vienna. liam fox's speech was made to be a key plank in the government's roads to brexit, setting up the keys were leaving the customs union and striking those free trade deals. now there is all sorts of noises being made where the dr fox will have to deal with. ok, norman, made where the dr fox will have to dealwith. 0k, norman, many thanks. we will bring you that speech by the trade secretary, liam fox, as soon as it happens. now the headlines... heavy snowfall hits parts of the uk ca

fox news a letter -- alert. commercial jet packed with people falling apart, seen 30,000 feet in the air. jillian: horrifying scene playing out in the pacific ocean for 40 minutes as passengers feared for their lives. kelly wright with details. good morning, kelly. kelly: terrifying moments one passenger tweeted, this was the most scariest flight of my life, first they heard a loud boom and the plane started shaking violently. the passengers experience on united airlines flight 1175 during trip from san francisco to honolulu, they were well into that flight, 40 minutes away from destination when the unthinkable happened. >> a really loud bang with the right engine wing. >> the engine right where we were sitting would been on the right -- right side of the plane was completely blown. kelly: not something that you see on a flight. some passengers used smartphones to post photos of the exposed engine. one passenger fearing that it would be the last message to send to family members. >> i turned on my phone and took

>> now, fox 29 news at 10:00. it has been 48 hours since the eagles super bowl win and the energy still charging up the city. we just cannot wait for a para parade. but those crews setting up for thursday's big event better hur reach nasty weather is moving into our a. rain, sleet even snow going to be the story of the day tomorrow. the good news though it should all be gone by thursday that means it will be dry along broad street and the ben franklin parkway but cold and windy and kathy orr some schools already have delays tomorrow. we've got those posted by the way on fox 29.cot com. >> lucy i'm not surprised. i mean this is moving into reallreally quickly. cold air to the north that's the snow component warm air to the south that's the ice and the rain. it's coming together right in time for the morning rush. of course, terrible timing. even if we don't see significant snow in philadelphia. winter weather advisory for most of the region and look at the timing between 4:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. when the kids are ty

it looks like he's quoting fox news. actually, that quote is from congressman schiff talking about the republicans. let's put schiff's tweet on screen. he said, some time ago republicans on our committee released aid declassified memo that omitted and distorted key facts. someone fox news read that tweet, president trump heard and did a 180. i'm rubber your glue, anything you throw at me bounces off me and sticks to t. he loves to turn the critiques on his enemy around and thrown them back at those people. >> we appreciate it so much. thank you. >> thanks. >>> be sure to catch brian on reliable sources today at 11:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. >>> don't miss an all new episode of the cnn original series the radical story of patty hearst. >> at some point i think in that year, patty hearst but on tonia enliked it better than anything she liked before. >> she was indoctrinated into those beliefs and now regrets it and denies it because once you take on those beliefs, those radical beliefs, you have to take a certain a

there offer is superior on paper to the fox offer. the question to the shareholders of scott right now is do they go with the comcast offer, -- sky right now is do they go with the comcast offer, side with them? really comcast has very little margin for error in terms of getting this right and getting the shareholders on board. julia: and what about bob iger? he is sitting here -- he called sky the crown jewel of fox's assets. with the be happy with fox's assets minus sky, or does he turn around and say we have to pay a little more? ed: it is fascinating. basis he fox on the would have at least 39% of sky. there are two options. one, they could end up owning the current fox share. that would not be ideal for them, particularly if the remaining 69% was owned by comcast, a huge rival for them. the other could do is somehow launch their own bid for the remaining piece and see if that is something that could win shareholders over the comcast bid. another option as fox coming back over the top of comcast, offer a higher number, and then di

in washington, i'm allison barber, fox news. >> back to your fox 29 weather authority now as we take a look at the ben franklin parkway another beautiful day out there but don't get used to it 'cause of course it's february. things are changing. kathy and scott have more in just 15 seconds. >> today philadelphia made it 32 degrees above normal. wilmington, pretty similar day, temperatures soaring through the 70's. what a beautiful afternoon in wilmington and everywhere. we have some all-time february records, meaning it has never been this warm in february ever. no matter what date. and one of those places, reading with a high of 82 today. allentown 81. wilmington 78. trenton 78 and philadelphia 77. it's never been this warm during any day of the month. pretty significant weather today indeed. 58 degrees in the poconos right now. 79 in reading and lancaster. 76 in wilmington. 76 in dover and 75 degrees still in trenton. as we look throughout the northeast you can see the cold is coming cooling down with rain through the central parts of pa and behind a front look at pittsburgh, only

their story ahead on fox 29. your news starts in 30 seconds. ♪ >>> terrifying. a hollywood director survives a widow maker, not many people do. ♪ >>> a south jersey school in an uproar. one of their teachers worried about a school shooting and you now he's suspended his students& may be banned from prom. ♪ >>> it's your chance to show your inner jason kelce. no need to dress up like a mummer. just grab a beer. it's for a good cause, seriou seriously, it is. >> now fox 29 news at 10:00. >> ♪ >>> developing right now a mystery in philadelphia's port richmond neighborhood. a city police officer found dead inside a home and tonight fellow officers are working to determine how she died. i'm lucy noland. her body found right around noon. fox 29's dave kinchen life at philadelphia police headquarters. dave? >> reporter: lucy, this story still developing even at this late hour with investigators working this case trying to answer many questions tonight. >> she was nice. she was friendly. you know, relative outgoing. she would talk to you. >> reporter: richard you'

in new york, brian maness, fox news. ws. >>> and new at 10:00, a tribute withheld during the ucla- oklahoma gymnastics meet in honor of the sexual assault survivors of disgraced usa gymnastics larry nasser. a 3 minute video was at the center of today's tribute. larry nasser was sentenced up to 175 years in prison for 10 counts of first-degree criminal sexual misconduct. the new york times reports larry nasser first came under scrutiny back in 2015 but it took the fbi a year to interview two of the three victims who first came forward. >>> the man accused of trying to kidnap lana delray made his first court appearance today. michael hunt is charged with aggravated stalking. the judge dismissed an original charge of kidnapping with a weapon. hunt told his story saying he traveled from tampa to orlando to bring her some paintings he made. he declined a lawyer saying he thinks the truth will exonerate him. >>> we have been talking about how bad this year's flu season is and just last week in california we saw 30 deaths from

we're live on fox news channel and on fox televisions stations my network television stations from coast to coast. another tragic school shooting has happened this time in south florida in broward county. happened about 2:30 this afternoon. we now know that the suspect is

turn to fox 29 after the game. we're not sleeping though we're pulling an all nighter believe it or not with you. we're out on the streets of philadelphia right in the middle of all the action. so night eagles fly. >>> to your fox 29 weather authority now. as we take live look over the philadelphia art museum. displaying eagles pride there. a chilly start to the weekend with wind chills that felt like they were in the single digits in spots. meteorologist cot williams joining us now with first check of the forecast much it's really cold out there. i didn't realize until i stepped outside, scott. >> bitterly cold air over top of the philadelphia area right now. we're dry but we're tracking a super bowl sunday storm. it looks like it will arrive during the day on sunday. but look at the weekend. 32 degrees for the high temperature tomorrow. low 40s as we move toward sund sunday. so coming up, much more on wet snow and rain, the timing, the temperatures and what it will mean for traveling to your super bowl celebratio

stay with fox 29 for more details. >>> time now to check in with your fox 29 winter weather authority. as we take live look down at the shore cape may an overcast and rainy day today. temperatures still really mild. but get ready just in time for the weekend, yeah, snow is on the way. meteorologist scott williams is life outside our studios in old city with first look at the forecast. so when will we see the first flakes fly? >> about 24 hours from now, dawn. that's when conditions will deteriorate across the delaware valley. but it's been kind of gloomy today with the clouds and the showers. the rain is moving out but the temperatures will be dropping this evening. in fact, north and west we have winter storm watches posted for the potential of heavy wet snow tomorrow evening. ultimate doppler showing you the lingering showers skiting the shore, but as we go hour by hour, you can see by this time saturday afternoon and evening that snow will be approaching from the south and west. five, 6:00 o'clock we're looking at a pretty good dumping of snow across southeastern pennsylvania. the

this year's host right there our own fox 29's chris o'connell. that's where he is tonight if you were wondering. the foundation's goal is to raise money and awareness to find a cure and overcome challenges created by epilepsy. ♪ >>> the shooting that killed a woman driving down broad street y identity or road rage according to police. timmons was hit by gunfire driving her van with sick family memberss was wednesday night. fox 29 has new surveillance video thatonds after the shots rang out. you can see the van crosses over the median, barelefe then crashg into a building. occupants of the car didn't bring this upon themselves. our hearts go out to the terribe what happened to this young lady. it shouldn't happen to anybody. >> as is responsible, a memorial has been set up at the site of the accident near old york road in honor of timmons. >>> the search is on tonight for a man police say is exposing himself to people in delaware. police hoping someone recognizes him. this september of the man new castle county police say is exposing himself. po

fox 29 really does go there. we fully invaded enemy territory in this case that means hanging out new england. though our hank flynn found eagles fan in the heart of patriots country. here's hank. >> i was told this is cambridge, massachusetts. what is this eagles country nonsense doing up here. >> the boss is from philly you know. [ laughter ] >> i'm from philly too. [ laughter ] >> it's hank i'm in cambridge massachusetts with police officer whitey, patriots fan no surprise there but my take is, when the boss bleeds philly green has cunningham and reggie white jerseys on the door, it makes for a real inner office rivalry. come on. thin blue line cambridge brees department has a hard edge of eagles green running through it. his name is branville bart he's the commissioner and, yeah, he's from philadelphia. >> defense wins championships and they were -- we got brady. >> until about the mid third quarter when he gets planned. >> um-hmm. >> he took over the department in august after nationwide talent search and so

shawnette wilson, fox 29 news. news. shawnette tull us prices could level off as we moved move through the summer but the other wild card is hurricane season that starts in late june. we all remember how active this past hurricane season was. >>> well, we may be getting a taste of spring here at home but some baseball fans from new jersey who headed west for spring training are little disappointed by the chilly temperatures. the menzel familiarly from bergen county pack their flip-flops and shorts and headed to arizona but the 85-degree weather they were hoping for turn out to be a bust. >> i am a little bumped because when i spoke to some people last week it was 85 and sunny. so we packed for 85 and sunny. we were going to hit pool. >> the mild scottsdale weather didn't put a hold on spring training. plus you can get out and play golf. put sweater sweater op. 11-year-old boy and his family getting a surprise in the mail. the child was called for jury duty. ♪ happening now, a local boy and his family got quite the surp