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Brandon Dixon, 30, was shot and killed Monday at a busy Philadelphia gas station. PHILADELPHIA - Shocking surveillance video obtained by FOX 29 shows a deadly broad daylight shooting at a busy Philadelphia gas station. According to police, 30-year-old Brandon Dixon was gunned down at the Liberty gas station on the 1000 block of East Mount Airy Avenue around 2 p.m.

Cleaner air in United States and Europe is brewing more Atlantic hurricanes, a new U.S. government study found.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration study links changes in regionalized air pollution across the globe to storm activity going both up and down.

PHILADELPHIA - Researchers are tracking the migration patterns of a half ton great white shark who has been spotted off the New Jersey coast in the last year. Measuring over 12-feet in length, Ironbound most recently pinged near the Outer Banks in North Carolina. Researchers with OCEARCH have followed Ironbound's path over the last year which spans from Canada to the Carolinas. Sharks with GPS trackers, like Ironbound, will ping whenever its fin break the surface of the water.

Two people were rescued by the Coast Gaurd near the Little Egg Inlet on Friday. (Photo: U.S.

An employee wears a protective mask and face shield while overseeing the blackjack table at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S., on Thursday, July 2, 2020.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FL, USA - APRIL 27: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom launches from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 3:52 a.m. EDT on April 27, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

(Photo: US Coast Guard) PHILADELPHIA - The Coast Guard is searching for a 30-year-old man believed to be in the Delaware River in the area of the Central Waterfront, authorities say. According to the U.S. Coast Guard 5th District, the man went missing on Saturday after the Coast Guard received a notice that a crew member from a Singapore-flagged bulk carrier Weco Josefine was no longer on board at 7 a.m. Authorities say the man was last accounted for on the ship between 5:12 a.m.

Montauk Point, N.Y.: The Block Island wind farm, from Montauk Point, on Long Islamd, New York. (Photo by Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images) ((Photo by Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images))ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Hours after Russia cut off natural gas to Poland and Bulgaria, the energy secretaries from the U.S.

The dream of ever owning a home is looking bleak for a majority of Canadians shut out of the housing market, according to new polling from Ipsos.

COVID-19, New Brunswick health authorities are continuing to deal with critical staffing shortages, especially among nurses.Brenda Kinney, Horizon Health Network vice president and chief nursing officer, said the system is challenged.“We’re very challenged at the moment,” she said in an interview on Wednesday. “I would say it’s based on a number of factors.” By 2043, Atlantic provinces will have highest proportion of seniors over 85: census She said with the number of lingering vacancies plus the number of people out sick from COVID-19 and other infections circulating in the province – staff are stretched thin.“We do have a fair number of staff that are out,” she said.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - After several delays due to weather, four private astronauts undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and are en route back to Earth with a planned splashdown off the coast of Florida on Monday. PRESS PLAY ABOVE TO WATCH LIVEKathy Lueders, NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, announced Saturday that NASA had shifted the departure to Sunday evening from the International Space Station. Axiom-1 splashdown courtesy SpaceXMEET THE MEN BEHIND THE ALL-PRIVATE MISSION TO THE ISS"We now are targeting 8:55 p.m. ET Sun., April 24, for [Ax-1] undocking from the Space Station due to high winds at the splashdown site," she said in a tweet. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the ISS just before 9 p.m.

Lotto Max winning ticket worth $60 million was sold online.The unofficial winning numbers for Tuesday night’s Lotto Max draw were 01, 06, 10, 27, 42, 45 and 50 with the bonus number being 43. Regina resident wins record $70 million Lotto Max jackpot A spokesperson for OLG says they know who won the prize, but that they cannot reveal the winner until they have claimed the jackpot.The unofficial winning numbers for Encore were 6454564 with one matching ticket being sold in the Oakville area.Encore winners worth $100,000 apiece were purchased in Thunder Bay and Whitby.

Dumping day - Lobster fishing season opens in southwestern Nova Scotia Sales of live and processed lobster rebounded following the first wave of COVID-19.Prices started to go up with demand and have continued climbing since.Canadian lobster exports reached a staggering $3.26 billion last year, beating the previous record of $2.59 billion, set in 2019, by more than 25 per cent.With many consumers saving money during the pandemic and limited travel or restaurant dining, the crustacean long considered a luxury item for special occasions became a top seller in the U.S.“Americans bought lobster during the pandemic like they never did before and that drove up demand and price,” says Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada.While processed lobster — meat and tails — was in high demand in the U.S., sales of live lobster increased in Asia.“There is unlimited demand in Asia for Canadian lobster,” Sproul says. “It’s a top quality product and we have a good trade relationship.”Strong demand, coupled with smaller catches in winter months, sent shore prices spiralling as high as $19.50 a pound.“The highest wharf price that I’ve ever heard of for lobster in my life was a few weeks ago at $19.50 a pound,” Sproul says.Prices have since dropped to around $14.50 this week and could ease further during the spring lobster fishery.The opening of several lobster fishing areas across Atlantic Canada in the coming weeks is expected to boost supply.Thousands of extra fishing boats will hit the water setting traps.

FORT WORTH, Texas - American Airlines has hired a bus company to carry passengers between Philadelphia and two airports that are only a short hop away by air.The service will start June 3 between Philadelphia International Airport and airports in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, the airline said Thursday with the bus company called Landline.Landline and American pitched the bus service as an easier way to get between the Philadelphia airport and Lehigh International Airport in Allentown 73 miles away, and Atlantic City International Airport, 56 miles away. Brian Znotins, American’s vice president of network planning, said it would help customers connect to the airline’s international flights from Philadelphia.American’s regional affiliate, American Eagle, operates flights from Allentown to Chicago and Charlotte, North Carolina.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Comedian Chris Rock took to the stage in Atlantic City a week after the smack heard around the world and it appears Rock and venues like the Borgata are getting the last laugh as ticket prices skyrocket.Two-hours before show time the cheapest tickets found were around $550, with people telling FOX 29 they couldn’t find anything under $800 in the days after the slap."Afterword, I said, ‘Babe did you see the slap,’ because she was asleep," said Andrew Hackman. "I said oh this is real.

HOLLYWOOD, CA - March 27, 2022. Chris Rock and Will Smith onstage during the show at the 94th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 27, 2022. (Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA - Will Smith’s hometown has been added to the list of stops along Chris Rock’s ‘Ego Death World Tour’ after the ‘Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ actor slapped him in the face at Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony. Rock, 57, will be in Philadelphia performing at The Met on North Broad Street on Friday Sept.

Brian Whitted, 56, plead guilty in connection to the fatal overdose of a 59-year-old in 2018.

will intensify into a powerful "bomb cyclone" as it blasts the East Coast with heavy snow and high winds on Saturday.As a strong upper-level jet stream plunges out of the West, it will spawn the development of a surface low-pressure system along a cold front in the lower Mississippi Valley. That low will then rapidly strengthen as it tracks into the Northeast by Saturday and Atlantic Canada on Sunday.Meteorologists use the term bomb cyclone to describe a low-pressure system that undergoes "bombogenesis" – defined as a rapid pressure drop of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours or less – indicative of a very intense storm system.

winter storm will bring snow from parts of the Plains and Midwest into the South through Friday night, then intensify into a powerful "bomb cyclone" as it blasts the East Coast with heavy snow and high winds on Saturday.As a strong upper-level jet stream plunges out of the West, it will spawn the development of a surface low-pressure system along a cold front in the lower Mississippi Valley. That low will then rapidly strengthen as it tracks into the Northeast by Saturday and Atlantic Canada on Sunday.Meteorologists use the term bomb cyclone to describe a low-pressure system that undergoes "bombogenesis" – defined as a rapid pressure drop of at least 24 millibars in 24 hours or less – indicative of a very intense storm system.

PHILADELPHIA - The ocean is now rising much faster and in the next 30 years, the ocean will rise about a foot, according to a recently released report from NOAA. For scale, it took the last 100 years for the ocean to rise a foot. The rising ocean is already costing New Jersey millions, as FOX29’s Chris O’Connell recently explained. It turns out the ocean is rising more along New Jersey and Delaware than the rest of the United States for a unique reason: the Earth’s icy past.Thousands of years ago, ice covered Canada, New England, and even northern PA and northern NJ. The weight of all that ice pushed down the ground in those regions. Once the ice melted, the ground there started rising back up.  As this happens, nearby spots, like the Mid-Atlantic states, sink.

The burning cargo ship Felicity Ace was floating south of the Azores off the coast of Portugal, as seen in footage posted by the Portuguese Navy on February 18.

COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations across Canada has led many provinces to aggressively lift public health restrictions — yet data shows those declines have begun to plateau.Ontario, Alberta and Manitoba ended several measures on Tuesday, including vaccination requirements for businesses and capacity limits. Other provinces, including Quebec, and Atlantic Canada, eased restrictions a day earlier, with Saskatchewan ending them entirely on Monday.Officials have pointed to falling hospitalizations and deaths as the reason for returning to a pre-pandemic version of normal — and those numbers have, indeed, been cut in half from their peaks in January, which were fuelled by the highly transmissible Omicron variant.

ATLANTIC CITY - A development company has its sights set on Atlantic City's Bader Field for a flashy new multi-million dollar project that local leadership believes could be a shot in the arm to its economy. Bader Field, once the site of one of the nation's first airports, has been deserted since 2006. Atlantic City Mayor called the plot of land "our last asset" and said local leadership needs to manage the property responsibly to "get a win-win-win for the taxpayers."The latest proposal from DEEM Enterprises has the Small and others excited: a $2.7M project that features hundreds of condos, surrounding a Motorsports facility and a technology hub.

PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. - An Atlantic County town council on Wednesday voted to shut down a nightclub where a young man was assaulted before his body was found days later. Protesters marched through the streets of Pleasantville to the city hall where Pleasantville City Councilmembers voted to revoke Centerfolds Cabaret's Mercantile license.According to police, 19-year-old Irving Mayren-Guzman was assaulted in the parking lot of Centerfolds during the early morning hours of Jan.

Rye Jr. High School students launched a mini boat in 2020 that landed in Norway last week. (Photo courtesy of Rye Jr.

NEWARK, N.J. - A former corrections officer who accepted bribes to deliver drugs to inmates at a federal prison in New Jersey has been sentenced to more than two years in prison. Paul Anton Wright will also have to forfeit the $50,000 he received in bribes as part of the 26-month sentence imposed Thursday. The 36-year-old Cinnaminson man had pleaded guilty to a bribery charge in November 2019. Federal prosecutors have said Wright received drugs and cash from people outside the Fort Dix federal prison who had ties to separate inmates. He smuggled in tobacco, synthetic marijuana and suboxone, a drug used to treat opioid addiction. He used some of the cash he received to gamble in Atlantic City.___DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APPSUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTubeAdvertisementFOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

cargo ship carrying vehicles from Germany to the U.S caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and remains adrift near the Azores Islands.The Portuguese navy rescued all the 22 crew members from the ship, named the Felicity Ace, which was scheduled to arrive in the Port of Davisville, Rhode Island, on Feb. 23.No one was injured, but the Felicity Ace was carrying an unknown number of Volkswagen Group vehicles, including Porsches, in its hold, which has a capacity of 4,000 vehicles."Our immediate thoughts are of relief that the 22 crew of the merchant ship 'Felicity Ace' are safe and well," Porsche said in a statement to Fox News Autos."A number of our cars are among the cargo.

new whip might be on fire in the middle of the ocean right now.The Portuguese Navy has confirmed it has come to the aid of the Felicity Ace, a ship carrying cars across the Atlantic Ocean, after a fire broke out on one of their cargo decks and quickly spread.BREAKING: A giant cargo ship "Felicity Ace" is on fire in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.It's carrying a cargo of Porsche and VW automobiles.The crew safely abandoned ship in lifeboats. Under maritime law the ship is now "finders keepers." pic.twitter.com/gHLqHncrOi— Retro Tech Noir (@RetroTechNoir) February 17, 2022The 22 crew members managed to escape on lifeboats and flee to a nearby Greek tanker ship, reports The Associated Press.

HAMMONTON, N.J. - Multiple people have been hurt after a New Jersey Transit bus veered off the Atlantic City Expressway and into the woods, stopping after it hit a tree. The incident happened shortly after 4 a.m.

Sketch provided by police. MULLICA TOWNSHIP, N.J. - Police in Atlantic County say they are investigating an attempted abduction involving a teenage girl.Mullica Township police say the incident occurred on Jan.

nor'easter will become a blizzard for parts of the East Coast this weekend as heavy snow and high winds pound areas from New England to North Carolina beginning Friday evening.The National Weather Service has issued Blizzard Warnings along the coasts of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey and the southern Delmarva Peninsula. This includes the cities of Boston; Portland, Maine; Atlantic City, New Jersey; and Ocean City, Maryland.It has been four years since Boston was last under a Blizzard Warning – in March 2018.Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for a larger area of the Northeast from Maine to North Carolina, including New York City, Philadelphia and Norfolk, Virginia.

A rescue boat is pictured after two young men were rescued in Spain in 2021. (Photo By Antonio Sempere/Europa Press via Getty Images) Emergency services on Spain's Canary Islands say 319 people, including 59 women and 24 children, were rescued from seven different boats trying to reach the archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, while activists say at least 18 migrants have died.Spanish rescue vessels reached the boats in different locations late Tuesday and early Wednesday, a Maritime Rescue Service spokeswoman told The Associated Press, adding that rescuers didn't find any bodies on or near the boats.Walking Borders, a non-governmental organization working with migrants in the region that is often contacted by people in distress or their relatives, said at least 18 people traveling on one of the boats had died."Rescue means were activated too late, despite having the boat's location," Helena Maleno, the NGO's founder, wrote in a tweet.The maritime rescue service spokeswoman, who was not authorized to be named in media reports, said during one of the operations late Tuesday, rescuers found nine people clinging to a capsized boat 45 nautical miles off the island of Lanzarote, but that no bodies or people adrift were found.

Irving Mayren Guzman (Pleasantville Police Department) PLEASANTVILLE, N.J. - Authorities in Atlantic County, New Jersey say they have located a body during their search for a young man who was reported last seen on Saturday. Police tell FOX 29 the body of Irving Mayren-Guzman, 19, was discovered on Tuesday, after days of searching. Mayren-Guzman was last seen in near Centerfolds, in the area of Delilah Road and Atlantic Avenue in Pleasantville on Saturday night, according to authorities.Police tell FOX 29 the body had been positively identified by family as Mayren-Guzman. The cause of death remains under investigation, authorities say. This is a developing story. Check back for updates. ___DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APPSUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTubeAdvertisementFOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

heavy snow and ice over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.The setup involves an arctic high-pressure system pushing a cold front through the South and East over the next few days, ushering in another blast of frigid temperatures in the wake of the front.Moisture will be fed into the southern and eastern periphery of the cold air mass, and where temperatures are below freezing, there is an increasing threat of heavy snow and/or ice from the Southeast to the mid-Atlantic states into Friday.(FOX Weather) ((FOX Weather))Another piece of the puzzle includes the potential for a coastal low to develop along the cold front, which would enhance the threat of heavy snow for the mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Saturday.However, uncertainty remains high with respect to this potential coastal storm.

As COVID-19 cases reach record highs in Atlantic Canada, provinces are facing difficult decisions to prevent their health systems from being swamped.

Anthony Carfagno, 58, died of COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to the Atlantic City Fire Dept.

Caesars in Atlantic City, N.J.

Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus has reached all four Atlantic provinces, after Newfoundland and Labrador on Wednesday confirmed its first case of the mutation believed to be more infectious than Delta.But unlike the other three provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador did not make a link between its case of Omicron and the COVID-19 outbreak at a university in Nova Scotia. Dr.

Omicron cases are surging across Canada, prompting Nova Scotia to reimpose restrictions. Ross Lord explains how a spike in Atlantic Canada is being traced to an outbreak at one university, and how some schools are taking action to control the spread of the virus.

SAVANNAH, Ga. - Scientists spotted an endangered right whale dragging a length of fishing rope caught in its mouth as it swam with a newborn calf off the Georgia coast, a rare confirmation of a birth by an entangled whale that experts determined they can't safely attempt to help.The baby whale appeared healthy and uninjured when an aerial survey team spotted it Thursday alongside its ensnared mother near Cumberland Island, Georgia, said Clay George, a wildlife biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.It was the second newborn right whale confirmed in the Atlantic waters of the Southeastern U.S.

ALAMEDA, Calif. - A company in Alameda is giving scientists a rare look at the surface of the Atlantic Ocean during a Category 4 hurricane with "explorer drones."For example, in September, Saildrone was able to capture video of Hurricane Sam in the Atlantic.Explorer drones are providing scientists with important information to help them improve their hurricane forecasts. "Data that we collect to improve the intensity forecasting and that's really what we're shooting for here," Saildrone Vice President Brian Connon said. "We're pretty good with tracks.

Gas prices are expected to drop by at least 10 cents per litre in most of Canada this weekend after the price of oil plunged Friday, one analyst says.Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, said prices will drop by either 10 or 11 cents by Sunday depending on a province’s tax system.“This is right across the country, with the exception of the Maritime provinces — Atlantic Canada — which have a regulated system, so they may have to wait unfortunately until next week,” he told Global News. New COVID-19 variant scare triggers global alarm, rattles stock markets McTeague said provinces with an HST system will see a net drop of 11 cents per litre at the pumps come Sunday.

Bally's Casino in Atlantic City, N.J. (FOX 5 NY File Photo) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Perhaps nothing symbolized the spotty performance of Bally's casino in Atlantic City in recent years better than the mismatched replacement windows in its glass facade, spots of blue that stood out amid the rest of the rose-colored glass.Fixing that was one of the first things Phil Juliano, executive vice president of the Rhode Island-based company that bought the casino a year ago, set out to do.In recent months, the out-of-place windows have been replaced, and the facade is now uniformly rosy.Executives with Bally's Corp.

ATLANTIC COUNTY, N.J. - A dump truck crashed into a home in Egg Harbor City, New Jersey on Monday morning.Police responded to reports of motor vehicle accidents on the White Horse Pike in the areas of Bremen Avenue and Antwerp Avenue. According to police, a man was driving west on the White Horse Pike in the area of Bremen Avenue when his Honda was struck from behind by a commercial dump truck.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Authorities say a New Jersey man set himself on fire and then entered a gas station convenience store, starting small fires before he was taken to a hospital with serious injuries. Atlantic City police said the 24-year-old Somers Point man doused himself with rubbing alcohol and used a lighter to set himself on fire before going into the store at the Gulf Gas Station just after midnight Friday. Police said "multiple small fires" were started before the man went out. An attendant from the gas station used a fire extinguisher to put the flames out.

Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, N.J. (Courtesy of Ocean Casino Resort) (Courtesy of Ocean Casino Resort)ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - New Jersey lawmakers are proposing financial relief for Atlantic City's casinos to help them continue to recover from the coronavirus pandemic by exempting two of the industry's fastest-growing revenue streams from calculations on how much the casinos should pay the city.It would reduce payments for some casinos, including the Borgata, while imposing higher payments onto others, including Hard Rock.The bill, which was advanced Monday morning by a state Senate committee, is a renewal of a measure requiring the casinos to make payments in lieu of taxes to Atlantic City that was first enacted five years ago,

"American Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry abruptly flew home to Nashville on Friday after learning his 25-year-old stepdaughter Hannah Daughtry had been found dead, according to reports.Daughtry and his band had been scheduled to perform Friday night in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but the show was canceled, the New York Post reported. Other shows in the near future have been postponed as well.No cause of death for Hannah Daughtry was immediately disclosed.

Caesars in Atlantic City, N.J. (FOX 5 NY File Photo) ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - The nation's commercial casinos won nearly $14 billion in the third quarter of this year, marking the industry's best quarter ever, and pushing U.S.