>> wicked and wild weather for your commute on friday. we have a definition of a nasty weather day. a nor'easter slamming into our area. what a mess. when is it all going to be out of here? and what can we expect for the weekend. mayor bill de blasio in various because he picked someone to replace the retiring school chancellor in new york city. in a very public way the superintendent said i don't want the job. >> how are you going to get supporters to vote for you if you can't make up your mind. >> bill de blasio has not shown that he has any administrative competence. >> was going to be in charge of the new york city schools? would you clone your dog?

barbra streisand that it not once but twice. >> wait until you hear how much it costs. this is "chasing news." ♪ ♪ >> we have a weather alert for you tonight. as well as chaser coverage of the nor'easter that slammed into our area. checking in with our meteorologist. first, check in with dave rogers who has a report on the ground. what a mess today was and what can we expect going forward. >> it is absolutely impossible to make it to route the day without this layer upon layer. take a look at these overturned trucks. the officials say that high winds caused the accident. state troopers responded to 100 weather-related crashes today. here is another total of power

lines along the new jersey transit. >> it is really cold outside. i would not recommend going outside if you don't have to. >> traffic throughout the city was bumper to bumper and frustrating for drivers. >> if you want to get from one point to the other it is double the time. >> we saw several cars trying to get down water covered roads in rockaway beach. and not everyone was complaining about weather conditions today. we found one guy enjoying these waves on his surf ward. there are also 100,000 power outages here. new jersey cruise will work to restore those services. >> you have the details. the most in important question

is what can we expect for the weekend. >> all day long we were hammered by rain and snow and sometimes a little bit of both. pretty fierce wind gusts as well. one to 2-inch range, sussex county, new jersey, well over a foot on the ground. the top end speed 60 miles per hour along the southern new jersey coast. now we will see snow tapering off through the overnight. there could still be some ice and wet spots for saturday but then we will continue to see improvement. two items of note. number one, it is going to stay a bit windy for saturday and we continue to watch the coastal flooding picture very closely and we will talk more about that coming up in just a little bit. >> positive train control. some say it could have prevented

a death after a train derailed in hoboken. there is a federal guideline out to get the trains equipped with positive train control, and it doesn't look like the mta and the long island railroad and new jersey transit are going to make the december deadline. we have the details. what is going on, mark? >> ahead of amtrak on thursday announced that two train systems are in the most jeopardy of not making the federal deadline in order to meet the deadline for positive train control. those two are new jersey transit and metro-north. they won't even be able to go into the hudson river tunnel if they don't do this, therefore nobody will be able to get into where they should. amtrak says that they have some reserve powers in place, but it's nowhere near enough to fully form the new jersey

transit to be fully safe going ahead. >> this is an opportunity and potentially an avatar for phil murphy and andrew cuomo who have eyes on the white house for 2020. we have to solve this problem first. thank you. >> thank you. >> let's bring in someone who is a bit of an expert on transportation issues. a former compliance officer who was fired. he has been on our show before. he was fired after he says that he exposed some of the flaws at new jersey transit. welcome back. how are you vmax. >> i am well, thank you for having me. >> here is the question. it is not just the mta but now the new jersey transit. you have such a major problem here. it is likely, at this point, according to reports, that new jersey transit is not going to meet this deadline. if that happens is trains will not be able to go through this hudson river crossing.

>> that is likely a possibility. i let them know that we are approaching nearly a year ago now as early as last march that i ring the alarm bells internally with the executive director who said from the information i am finding, we are definitely not going to make that deadline. unfortunately i was punished for doing that. >> let me just ask you this. do you have bitterness towards her old agency or do you have more than you think is at play here? our lives at stake? >> yes, i think that the amtrak statement shows that that is the case. is trains are not readily equipped, they don't want them on their tracks. >> using new jersey transit, given their budget issues, given the state budget issues, do you think that they could meet that

deadline with different leadership? >> the further we go along with the same leadership in place, the less likely it becomes. i would not say that it would require all of the miracle but it would be something really close. and so we need to get rid of them. we were supposed to get rid of them and put in new leadership. >> hang in there. >> thank you, bill. >> mayor bill de blasio back in the news. this is the front page of the daily news and the "new york post." he offers a job as superintendent at the miami-dade schools. he said sure, i will take that job and then during school board meeting apparently he walked out

of the room and said no, i don't want the job. john has the details. >> what an embarrassing moment. >> the cork was flying out of the champagne bottle. it is a bizarre scene that played out in front of school kids in miami. mayor bill de blasio had reached an agreement to pay him some $350,000 a year. he was paid $120,000 less. instead of saying goodbye at the school board meeting the members of the community who are crying out convinced him to stay on he broke the news to bill de blasio and then broke the news to the

school kids. it blindsided the mayor who thought that he had lured one of the most successful educators in america to new york city. >> like many of you, i was surprised by his decision. >> making matters worse is the spokesperson recently took to twitter and blasted the man just moments before. and he said who would ever hire this guy again, who would ever vote for him. and he said let's dodged. >> a nationwide search to replace the chancellor is ongoing, she will stay on as the current chancellor until they find someone. >> are you surprised?

>> the mayor is getting beat up because he did not have a data plan. it should have been a more thorough search. and the mayor says he had no backup plan in the process was not transparent. >> let's bring in the panel to break this down. matt is with us. he is an editor of a jersey log and lisa is here and she is a pop-culture expert. and jacqueline also joins us. her first time on the panel, but we have talked to her before. welcome. >> thank you. >> i want to start with you. it seems that this mayor cannot get out of his own way. how do you not have a backup plan and get embarrassed so publicly? >> new york and new jersey have a lot in common.

they have been electing people based on ideology. bill de blasio has not shown from day one that he has any administrative competence. >> so many people are elected because of their political affiliation as opposed to competency. >> this man i'm going to clap for him, the guy from florida. because you want to make sure that you don't quit children. >> do you think that they offered him a ton of money to stay enact. >> i don't understand whole situation. how do you pull out last-minute publicly and change your mind? whoever is going to hire this guy again? i agree with that comment. how are you going to get

supporters to vote for you if you can't make up your mind. >> stay right there, we have a lot more show coming up after the break. donald trump talking about what to do to keep our schools safe. and would you clone your dog? barbra streisand did it not once but twice. plus, all of your weather. we had a wild one today. what can we expect for the weekend. >> nor'easter is pulling away and the weather will improve. we have some

>> welcome back to "chasing news." in a little bit we are going to have a story about cloning your dog. barbra streisand did it not once but twice. first let's check in with our meteorologist. we had a wild weather day today. what can we expect for the weekend? >> nice and dry and warm. what a storm. over a foot of snow in the mountains. several feet of storm surge and then the horizontal rain and snow with the wind gusts all day long. storm systems are moving away. everything getting call mayer. then we have some weather

concerns to look out for. the wind speeds will be blustery on saturday. gusts up to 30 miles per hour. the air will still be moving around. it will also draw a lot of water back towards the coast. we have to watch for the rough surf and the coastal flooding along. saturday morning will be the big one. we will see the moderate to spotty nature of flooding. we will hold our breath and see the high tide. the other high tides will probably be a bit high as well. then more snow showers. starting off the day in the '30s and hopping in the 40s. maybe a few peeks at sun on sunday. the wind speed continues to diminish through the rest of the weekend. >> president trump continue is to talk about what to do to keep

our schools safe. arming teachers. the question is a lot of people are starting to say that he is on all different sides of the issue. ashley johnson has the full story. >> governor phil murphy returns to new jersey after giving a sneak peek at the new jersey chamber of commerce at the nations capital event. >> late thursday he said that he had had a good time with the nra. >> took a brief minute to speak on the weather. >> things that we are worried about and focus on are obviously a pretty nasty curtail of high winds, we have high winds early

and then late snow beginning in more places than that. >> they are working in the office of emergency management. widespread power outages were reported. >> big concerns would be downed power lines. if you are in a car or more importantly on foot, be very careful driving. >> he is a father and shows a soft side. he read the lorax the children and he said one of the biggest takes a take away of the book is protecting the environment. >> let's bring back our panel. guys. and i think media is taking

things so far outf context that they have created a conflict for the president. i do n on any specific policy it. >> yes, the president is a liar. agree completely. >> this is off the rail already. i am right to their arms. ile people keep trying say l people. >> i think we are going with a dozen school shooters and there is a liantipsychotic drugd antidepressants. clearly there is some issue. is this a guy that was out there for seven years with law enforcement visiting with him? >> first of all, we need lunatic

control and as you correctly pointed out. every single time this happens, the police, local authorities, the teachers, they knew that they were crazy and a ticking timebomb. why are we even talking about gun control and the government has utterly failed to protect these kids? including 39 visits to these kids houses. >> what about identifying these kids. >> i also agree. >> do not enable them with a semi-automatic rifle. but let's talk about what the

constitution was actually meant for in the day. which is one musket. okay, if you want to bear arms, here is a musket. >> one of these shootings that we have talked about is partners >> there is something to be said. most of the states are not cooperating. and you don't know. >> dental health issues and gun control do not go together. >> maybe that is the problem. thank you. >> barbra streisand called her dog not once but twice. it is all over the internet and social media. of course that is what has

stuck. welcome, how are you? >> when i first heard this story i thought okay maybe she is joking. how realistic and possible is the cloning of dogs? >> it is very real. they have successfully done it. >> how expensive is this? >> well, the costs have come down to $60,000 per dog or $50,000 per dog. >> obviously it is cheaper to buy a new dog. is there some practical application here thinking about the food supply? >> i think that it is better to put that money towards the legacy and then help countless numbers of dogs that are normally going to be euthanized.

>> are people coming in and saying hey, my dog is at the end of the road? >> actually, you know, i was the first one to use stem cells therapy. >> according to barbra streisand, the two clones have different personalities. what carries over with cloning? do memories carryover? personality? >> the dna is identical but there are differences in the personality and behavior. so it's impossible to have an identical dog. >> you think that there is some moral issue here? does it not matter? >> it is interesting to consider this with the pet industry, it's

more important to take care of the dogs. it's money better send spent. >> thank you. we have more news coming up after the break. all of your headlines that we are chasing in courting the

>> welcome back "chasing news." here's a look at all of the headlines including the latest developments in the central michigan school shooting. >> a 19-year-old student killed his parents on the central michigan campus as they arrived to pick him up the day after he was treated for drug related medical issues. the police are still looking for him, set said to be armed and dangerous on friday night after surveillance showed him fleeing on foot. health officials saying they can finally breathe easier is the

worst of this flu season is over. the season peaked for fewer people getting the flu. the seaeason is not finished and it remains widespread. in the new study reveals that residents in the big apple consumed more marijuana than anybody. using 77 tons of marijuana in 2017 alone. that is equivalent to 13 average sized elephants are 156 grand pianos. those are some of the headlines that we are chasing tonight. >> thank you for watching "chasing news" with us. we hope you enjoyed the show and the show all week. i want you to have an outstanding weekend and remember the conversation continues after the show and through the weekend. follow me and follow the show. do not forget to chime in. i am sure that you didn't agree with everything. i would love to hear from you on rttest text1 plain

♪ live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11:00. powerful winter storm hammering the area. wick winds so fierce gusts ripping off street signs in south philadelphia and we're seeing a whole lot of this. downed trees tumbling on power lines. in delaware county, a transformer blew take look. you can see the flames lighting up the sky there. and no, we're not out of the woods just yet. still to come, flooding. ready to batter our beaches. good evening and thanks for joining us at 11:00. i'm dawn timmeney this storm has now turned deadly. >> police say a 57-year-old man was driving north on south gulph road when all of a sudden a large tree came crashing down on to his car. police say the tragic accident happened about 7:00 tonight between arden and upper gul