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All right. Good day, it is finally friday february 6th, 2015. You have what, one more day of doing, saturday. And on weekend. Your six day a week stints are almost over and i need you to be sharp in the morning. Yeah, sue and i got the memo. You and would were snoozing. It is, yes. A awareness of Heart Disease. February is american heart month and you heard of go red for women. We will have more later on lets talk about the weather. We dont have cloud cover. There is included to the west of us and cloud off shore because of that temperatures, plunged overnight as we thought they would. Now we have a 16degree actual temperature in philadelphia right now. Six in allentown. Zero in mount pocono. Ten in lancaster. Fifteen in millville. Eighteen in wildwood. Here is what it feels like. Three below in allentown. Wind chill of 15 below in mount pocono. Pretty dangerous there. 6degree wind chill in philadelphia a. Zero is what it feels like in lancaster. It is 16 that feels like six. Sixteen is cold enough. So, be prepared for that this morning. Make sure you really layer it up and a dont have too much skin exposed. 7 04 is our sunrise. These days are getting longer. By 9 00 our frigid start is still with us 16 degrees, even by then and then 27 degrees by lunchtime, and it will be breezy so it will feel colder then. That we will get to around 30 degrees. We may make it to the freezing but probably not on this frigid friday, but things will improve tomorrow, and what about that precipitation sunday night . We will talk about that coming up as well but lets say happy friday to bob kelly good morning, bob. Sue right back at you 4 03, good morning everybody. The it is a cold start. Again, same deal. The it is 16 degrees. Anything that looks wet icy spots out there, the parking lot, the sidewalks but majors right here through philadelphia a, 95 is in good shape out of the northeast, no problems on the schuylkill. The big problem is in wilmington delaware where a jackknife tractor trailer has all lanes of 495 closed right now and most likely will be throughout the morning rush hour. The heres the the deal, the the accident happened, northbound, 495, right here near christiana river bridge. Remember that is the the bridge that was closed, for quite sometime when they found that crack in the support beams. This is to give you an idea but 495 is closed in both directions here through wilmington, with this jackknife tractor trailer so your alternate is i95. Now, for anyone who typically rides this stretch or we will take you flash back to the detoured delays when 495 was closed for that cristina river reconstruction it was a hot mess coming through i95. So a allow some extra time if you want to stick with i95 as your alternate however forget that there is a river there. Lets go over the Commodore Barry bridge. You can come down 295 and back over the delaware memorial bridge. If you can do that configuration that will save you sometime especially when we get in the height of our morning rush hour. Otherwise, coming from the suburbs not bad at all through west chester. Coming out of the downingtown youre looking good along the 30 bypass, market frankford line, broad street subway, they are still using shuttle buses until 5 00 oclock but mass transit is looking good and were off to a good start at the airport chris and lauer than. Bob, thanks very much. An investigation is underway this morning in the deadly shooting death in king sessing. Steve keeley live at Police Headquarters with more on this for us, steve, good morning. Reporter three minutes before midnight, lots of shots, just one victim likely two shooters since there were 17 shots in the tease in the start of the show. Guns dont hold that many. And even though our people back on our an assigned. Desk think it might be a robbery because the wallet was there. The doubtful because you dont usually shoot a robbery victim this many times. A long time detective say however wanted this guy dead really wanted him dead. Based on ballistics evidence we know at least 17 shots were fired from a semiautomatic weapon. We found 17 spent shell casings, most of these shell casings were within feet of where the victim had collapsed. We know 17 shots were fired from a semiautomatic weapon. We also found what appears to be the victims wallet the laying just feet from the victims body. So, there is a possibility that this shooting and homicide is robberyrelated. Reporter well this 51 yearolds wallet the let police know tentatively who he was and he doesnt live this that area . So why was out that area and why was he out in this cold weather . You would think with temperatures this cold be in would be outside unless they had to walk a dog in their backyard or something but for now, police trying to figure out why that guy was there and what was all about. Fiftyone yearold, latest homicide victim in philadelphia despite this cold crime does not stop. No, steve keeley, live for us. We have other breaking news for you this morning. Authorities are working to determine what spark a fire in rittenhouse square. Officials say flames and heavy smoke were scene coming from the second floor of a home on south 17th street. One person was rescued. One seriously hurt. The the fire was under control in about 20 minutes. The red cross animal relief team say it is helping Fire Fighters with several pets displays. Police are looking for two men who held up a a bar in queen village. Two suspects entered irish times bar just before 2 30. They robbed the bartender with cash. One of the robbers armed with the shotgun no one was hurt. Suspects last seen running on bainbridge street. Police in south questions philadelphia are investigating how Young Students got their hand on crack cocaine. Lets get to Sabina Kuriakose live this morning from king zesting with more on this good morning a sabina. Reporter you can bet parents will have questions when school opens up this morning. We are here at Mitchell Elementary school. Police say a 13 yearold student brought packets of crack kentucky cain to the school yesterday. Cops say he gave the drugs to an eight yearold to hold on to and the the plan was to have that child pass the crack back to him after school. They had planned to meet at a corner store around here. Well instead, being an eight yearold he passed around the drugs, to his friend, one of them smelled it. A couple others took a look at it. Four students were rushed to chop. But they are all right. The last night police searched the 13 yearolds eastwick avenue home. His mother came out and she talked to us. She denied her son had anything to do with this and defendedded him. Lets listen to what she had to say. I had a search warrant in my house. They searched my house. It is clear. My sonnies clear. Thank yall very much. Is your son home. Yes, he is home and okay. He a has not touched no drugs. He has not touched anything. They wanted to take him to the hospital to make sure that he was in the the clear. He didnt have anything on him. He is a okay. Didnt have have anything to do with it. Reporter we are glad he is okay but sources did tell fox 29s Dave Schratwieser the at the hospital that the 13 years old appeared to have tested positive for marijuana. Back here live police say that this whole story, the way that the 13 yearold brought the drugs to school and then gave it the to an eight yearold to pass back later, that lead them to think that this kid, may have some experience in the drug trade. It is all part of the investigation right now. That is very latest new back to you guys. Sabina, thank you. Two Philadelphia Police officers face ago salt charges. The District Attorney set attorney say they are Kevin Robinson and Sean Mcknight night. Najee riveria was riding a execute he near north seventh and somerset street in north philadelphia a on may 29th 2013. The the overs claims riveria was resisting arrest. Surveillance video from a nearby store tells a very different story. He didnt resist. He didnt lung at them. He didnt have a weapon. They hit him in the head. They full after his scooter. Then they he again beating him. Charges against riveria were dropped. Officers have been suspendedded and they face possible termination. Happening today philadelphias Fire Fighters union is expect to speak more about the investigation in the an alleged sex scandal. Local will 22 officials will address allegation that is a dozen Fire Fighters had sex with a female paramedic inside fire stations across the the city while on the job. Todays press conference is expected to include more details about the inspector generals current investigation in, to the the fire department. Federal authorities are looking into new claims against new Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his administration. Former Hunterdon County assistant prosecutor, bennet barlen says the Governors Office has him fired after he complained about dropping a case begins a political donor. He says he spoke with the Justice Department investigators with more than an hour about the incident that happened back in 2010. The governor has denied any involvement. 4 10. New proposal could increase security and safety outside of bars in philadelphia councilman curtis jones is hoping to introduce, resolution that would placees that it saw alcohol install camera outside their businesses. The councilman says, it came directly from the mother of shane montgomery, the West Chester University student who went missing after leaving a bar in manayunk early thanksgiving morning. I dont want it mandated but particularly, i have an interest in those establishments, that sell alcohol and whether it is a fine restaurant or fine dining, or a stop and go in the neighborhood there is a a correlation between the consumption of alcohol and other narcotics and the commission of crimes. Councilman jones went on to tell fox 29 that the proposal is being fine tuned and hearings would have to be held, of course. Philadelphia currently a has a Safe Cam Program where they reimburse 50 percent of the Security System and up to 3,000. Still ahead, Health Officials if you can say anywhere to go right now 4 14 friday morning, where would you go. I would go to fourth and market in philadelphia and just hang on you. This is heaven on earth you are just too much. Look at that shot at the a airport. Can you imagine heading out to a fascinating destination im sure. Hopefully warmer ones because as we look at our map of the northern part of the country, northeastern part of the country we will see canadian air coming down and chilling us out. Weve got a 7degree temperatures in pittsburgh. Ten cincinnati. Roanoke, virginia at 20. We are at 16. Albany new york at six below zero. Those are actual temperatures. Here are more numbers. Twelve in trenton. Ten in lancaster. Zero in mount pocono. Eighteen in wildwood. Fourteen in wilmington delaware. Factor in the wind which are not that strong seven, nine 6 miles an hour 10 miles an hour in wildwood. We have wind chills much colder then that. Single digit wind chills for the most part. Nothing on ultimate doppler. So lets get the to the future cast and talk saturday. Tomorrow looks like a decent day. Youll see cloud around but temperatures will be milder then today. So, then we will move into sunday and we will Start Talking about that sunday night into that monday situation, some computer models are now slowing down this storm for monday and may not get here until really late sunday night into monday morning. The key is what will the temperature be when this precipitation moves in and will it be the wintry mix, will it be snow. The it is really still up in the air about that. We will talk about today first of all in the seven day forecast with 29 degrees and jump up to 46 tomorrow and then 47 degrees on sunday and now balances of the day on sunday may end up being dry with the delayed start of the storm system. And then it is sunday night into monday we will Start Talking about precipitation rain and or snow and it just depend on the temperature whether we get that wintry mix or not. We could have a messy machine morning commute and maybe flurries lingering into tuesday, but temperatures at least, starting tomorrow in the 40s for a couple of days, and this time of the year were grateful for the the 40s, bob kelly. Get rid of the ice out there. 4 17. A live look at this tractor trailer accident that has i495 closed in wilmington delaware. This is our news van on the scene of the accident that happened shortly after 2 00 oclock this morning. This is the stretch of 495, right here near the cristina river bridge if you remember, back about a year ago that was closed for quite sometime when they found that structural damage. Just to give you a locater. Delaware tait police have both directions of 495, closed in this area. Lets come back and go to my maps here, 495, right over the the river here. With 495 blocked through wilmington, that is going to be a mess as we get in the height of the rush hour. We will flash back to when we had that closure licensing term a lot of folks were using i95 as we rolled through wilmington and that caused grid lock up and down i95, as we head into or out of wilmington. As we get into rush hour lets think outside the box. Sure, stick with 95 sticking to the pennsylvania side but lets be daring on a friday. Lets forget there is a river there. Throw five bucks out and lets come over the Commodore Barry you can come down 295, right back over that delaware memorial bridge. This will save you sometime, once that backup starts to build. So, it is not there at the the moment but as you get dressed and Packing Lunch for kid and we will get in the next hour we will see some grid lock there at 495 remains closed for the morning through wilmington. Otherwise were in good shape nice and quiet on the new jersey side, no problems down 295 with the 42 freeway. Market frankford the the subway still using shuttle buses until 5 00 and were in good shape at the airport. Chris and lauren back to you. Back in new jersey where they are investigating the first case of measles. State department of Health Officials in jersey city say that the case involves a one yearold baby who had not been vaccinated. The baby has recovered but Authorities Say others may have been exposed to the virus. It is unclear if this potential case is connected to the nationwide measles out break. Health officials a a at this point do not recommend vaccinating children under one year of age. Five infants out of a Chicago Day Care Center have been diagnosed with measles. Officials say as many as ten more kid may have been exposed. Parents and staff workers in the care facility have been notified and those who have not the been vaccinated were ordered to stay home for three weeks as a precaution. Health Officials Say there is in link between infants measles and out break in disney land in california. Nationwide at this point there have been more than 100 confirmed cases in 14 states. Police are investigating a murder suicide on a College Campus this happened at the university of South Carolina the the incident leading to frightening moment for students and staff. Foxs Patricia Starks reports. Reporter scary moment for students and faculty at the the university of South Carolina where Police Responded to a shooting on the sprawling campus in columbia. The incident happening thursday afternoon as students were changing classes. The the victims found inside a room at the school of Public Health research building. I do want to add that this has every indication of being a very isolated incident which appears to be a at this time a murder suicide. Reporter police are not releasing names of those involved but reports indicate that the victim was a professor at the university. Crime scene work is still working inside the building at this time. This is a process that will take sometime. It is a very slow very methodical work because we want to make absolutely sure that it is done right. Reporter following the shooting the school texted alerts to warn students and others to stay inside. Within that happening we had our dean of college inform us what was going on, we lock the doors and barricaded ourselves in there. I was freaking out and i was hoping my professor would address it. He just kept teaching. He wanted to distract us. Reporter the the president of the university releasing a statement after the the shooting that read quote the u. S. C. Family experienced a great tragedy, our thoughts and prayers of our entire community are with the families of the deceased. People using social media to show their solidarity for the university, hash tag pray for u. S. C. Is trending on twitter. In new york Patricia Starks fox news. People magazine reporting that a Family Member of Bobbi Kristina says everyone is coming to the hospital to say their final goodbyes after after that source told them that nothing more could be done. That source also said that the news was especially devastate to go her father, bobby brown who was celebrating a birthday yesterday. Daughter of Whitney Houston was found unconscious in the bathtub last saturday. Head of the Sony Pictures is stepping down amid email hacking scandal. Amy pascal is leaving as cochairman after fall out from the sony hack and controversy over the movie the interview. Hackers we saw all kind of emails including a racially email concerning barack obama. She later apologized. Shes not leaving all together, she will just launch a new production venture at the the studio. Coming up a flyer that has been out all season will be back real soon, when to expect his first step back on the ice next. Lifes morning multitasking. Its multiple ideas for growing families and drawers with many layers to show exactly what you need. Lifes the food that brings us together. And kitchens where every meal is the most important of the day. Good morning. Im howard eskin. Flyers defenseman Kimmo Timonen out all season, in his cast said he will skate today and try to come back. The as far as the game flyers blew a two to nothing lead and lost in the shootout. The lets get to the Wells Fargo Center chris vandervelde give the flyers a two to nothing lead. You figure they have it in the bag, right. Umhmm. Islanders tie it up. We get to the seventh shooter in the shootout, Sean Couturier needed to score. He did not. Flyers lose threetwo. So what about the shootout loss . It should never have got there. We have a two to nothing lead. We have to pick our game up and we didnt. We didnt execute with the puck good enough. You know, that i big thing for me. Not a good day for tiger woods. Eleventh hole tiger had a double bogey then he decides his back hurts on 12. After the double bogey he withdrawals. He is not in the top 50. Ahh, my back. Coming up, a little will girl out selling her Girl Scout Cookies when shes hit the by a stray bullet. How her mom knew something was wrong. Good morning. 4 30. A big mess this morning on 495, through delaware, an overturn tractor trailer causing backups in both directions, bob kelly is on this and will tell you how to get around it. Young children caught with crack cocaine at a Elementary School. One of them was promised to hold the drugs. Good day everybody. It is friday, february 6th 2015. Welcome to winter. Were you supposed to text maine last night before you went to bed to remind me to wear red. Right. Remind me again. National wear red day. For. Go red for woman. There we go. Yes, american heart association, reminder about Heart Disease. That is right. And things you can do to prevent it. One in three women will be diagnosed with Heart Disease in their lifetime. So this is a scary statistic. Yes. So, you know some of us are trying. Love you, chris. Yeah. You know what, we will fix your situation momentary there ily. Satellite and radar shows clear skies. That means a sunny day but at night it also means we will be called radiational cooling and how temperatures plunge, and they sure did last night. It is 0 degrees in mount pocono. It is 16 fahrenheit in philadelphia. Fifteen in millville. Eighteen in wildwood. But these are the important numbers. This is what it feels like outside, three below in allentown and 15 below, dangerous wind chill in mount pocono. Six is wind chill in philadelphia a wildwood and dover. So prepare for single digit wind chills out there this morning. There we are with our clear skies the at the a airport. It looks great. All of your flights will probably get out on time but the weather is really cold. 7 04 is your sunrise time and here is your fox cast for today. Expect plenty of sunshine, high of about 29 or 30 degrees and some light breezes out there to make it feel a little bit more chilly. We will have improvement tomorrow. We have cloud rolling in tonight. We went be quite as cold tonight a as we were last night. You may not be up as early as tomorrow as well because it is saturday but overnight low is 24 degrees. We will take you through a lot of changes in the seven day forecast and potentially messy weather next week but at least it is tranquil, bob kelly but not so much in delaware, what is going on. It will be a hot mess for first half of the rush hour. Heres a live look at news van on the scene. This accident has 495 closed in both directionness wilmington delaware. Heres the deal. The the tractor trailer was traveling northbound on 495 ape with the crash it separated. The the tractor portion went across into the the northbound lanes, a as we pull out, do you see it right the there the on the right where the the police carries. Yeah. That is the trailer portion and then we have the tractor up on the tow truck. So you can see how this crash is causing the shut down of both, north and the southbound lanes. We are being told one person being taken to the will local hospital. That is all we know at this point as far as injuries. This could have been a a lot worse. Anytime a vehicle or a tractor trailer, crosses into the on coming traffic, thank goodness we had light volume, at around 2 00, 2 30 this morning when that accident happened heres the deal, 495 closed at 12th street. Now flash back it is in that same area where the bridge was taken out over cristina river there where they had structural damage. Give you an idea where in wilmington this location of the accident is set. It is right here at 12th street. So for the the first half of our morning rush hour right now youre leaving the house, i95 is okay, we have light volume, you can use i95 here and stay on the pennsylvania side delaware side, but once we get into that rush hour and this investigation starts to cause backups, big time, on i95, i want to you think outside the box here. Forget there is a river here go over Commodore Barry bridge come right down 295 and back in over the the delaware memorial bridge. If you are trying to get a flight out of philly international and coming from the south you will to have sit in that backup or use the the alternate of i95. Same deal. Go over to delaware memorial up 295, coming back to Commodore Barry bam in good shape to get up toward airport. We have our camera down there. Steve keeley is on his way. We will go live when he a arrives. He always gets a chance to talk to the Police Officer and croups down there and maybe be able to add more information there. Heres a live look at the schuylkill expressway. Come on down no problems coming into or out of philadelphia ben franklin looking good coming into downtown and mass transit running with no delays. Chris and lauren, back to you. Time 4 34. No one was seriously injured after an Early Morning fire in writ even house square. Flames and smoke were seen coming from the home on south 17th street around 1 30. Fire fighters had flames under control in about 20 minutes. One person was rescued from that building with minor injuries. Fire officials are getting assistance from the red paw animal relief team with several pets that were displaced. Police say two mask men robbed a bar this morning in queen village. Suspects entered the irish times bar around 2 30 and held up bartender before grabbing money from the register. One of the men was carrying a shotgun. No injuries were reported. Robbers were last seen on bainbridge street no word on how much they got away with. Authorities are trying to figure out how crack cocaine got in the hand of Elementary School students. Police say a 13 yearold boy brought the drugs to school and then passed them off to a eight yearold. That eight year old was supposed to deliver drugs bag to him after school but instead showed them off to his classmates. Four students were taken to the hospital have after coming in contact with the drugs and investigators later search the 13 yearold boys home and sources say he tested positive for marijuana at the hospital. No word on what charges could be file. Two philadelphia a Police Officers are face ago salt charges. The District Attorney Seth Williams says officers involved are Kevin Robinson and Sean Mcknight night the victim, 23 year old najee riveria. Riveria was riding a scooter in north philadelphia on may 29th, 2013 when the officers pulled him over. Well, they claimed he was resisting arrest but Surveillance Video from a nearby store tells a very different story. He didnt resist he didnt lung a at them, he didnt have a weapon, they hit him in the the head he fell off his scooter. He was in pain. They began beating him. The charges against riveria were dropped. The officers have been suspended, both facing possible termination. Still ahead a little girl out selling Girl Scout Cookies when hit by a stray bullet where her troop is new doing to help her. And later a giant hole creating problems on a busy street in West Philadelphia a a, so, why isnt anything happening to fix it . Fox 29 working to get results. Time check, 4 38. This is a tractor trailer accident on 495 in delaware. Both lanes are closed right now. Bob kelly telling us how to get around using alternates. In that area, steve keeley is on the the the way to the scene there and he will update on exactly what happened but it looks like they are trying to toe that truck away. Hopefully it will be cleared up before the streets get too busy for your morning commute. We will see steve and bob on this in a minute. 4 39. Pope francis owes set to make history when he visit the the u. S. In september. U. S. , means us. In philadelphia, House Speaker john boehner announced the pope will address the joint session of congress, by the the way this will mark the first time, the the pope will speak in front of the congress. September trip coincide with the planned visit for world meeting of families. Pope frances is stopping in the new york city toy address the u. N. White house says president will ask congress for authority to use the u. S. Militarys force begins Islamic State militant in iraq and syria. The president is expected to make his appeal to congress in the coming days. Now House Speaker john boehner is warning it wont be easy to pass this measure. He says that the president will have to rally support from lawmakers and the the public. Dozens of jordanian fighter jets bombed Islamic State Training Centers and weapons storage sites yesterday. Officials say more than 50 in members of the Islamic State were killed. Senior u. S. Defense official say strikes were conduct around the same time King Abdullah was visiting the family of the pilot tortured by the extremist terrorist group. Federal safety officials are trying to assemble clues as they investigate that deadly train collision in new york. Early fine goes indicate that the train was not speeding and the engineer applied the emergency break. That took the the met try north trains 30 seconds abe more than 900 feet to stop. It was too late to a roid smashing in the suv killing a driver and five people aboard the train. Nine yearold girl in indianapolis shot in the leg as she was heading to her weekly girl scout meet to go pick up cookies is racking up sales thanks to an on line drive. She was standing outside her familys apartment on tuesday when gunshots rang out. She had been hit in the leg which stray bullet. Miller was released from the hospital that night but she said, it all happened so fast. I had three gunshots and one of them hit me in the leg. She was saying mommy mommy, it hurt. I said what hurt. The what is wrong. When i pulled her pant leg up i discovered that she was shot. Police right now are looking for that gunman but miller is receiving a a lot of support from the girl scouts, the girl scouts of Central Indiana has responded by launching an on line cookie drive to raise money to send miller and her troop on a trip. How cool is that. For a speedy recovery for that poor kid. Watch where you drivein one part of the philadelphia construction left a large hole in the busy street and drivers are switching to avoid it. We however at fox 29 are getting results next. One part of the philly. There. Cruise ship, cocktail in hand. Speaking of cocktails, tommy will be at mcfaddens three to six. Mike jerrick and i and other folks. It is a fundraiser. Yeah. 97. 5 the fanatic jon and sean. Dont leave town on a air plan. Tip your bartenders because money goes to help kid at chop. That is right Pediatric Cancer Research and that is a fabulous thing. Now northwesterly wind not so fabulous because it is freezing or, in the case of all of our temperatures here below freezing. 16 degrees here but only seven in pittsburgh and six below in albany new york. Detroit has 11, cincinnati had has ten, thanks to the clipper system, these are really cold temperatures. Luckily this will be a one day special and things will get better tomorrow but as you walk out the door soon you are facing these temperatures, six in allentown, ten lancaster 12 atlantic city. These wind which arent extreme thank goodness but they are out there 7 00 miles an hour in philadelphia and these wind chills Single Digits in philly, pottstown, trenton, feels like one around fort dix, three below zero wind chill in allentown and it feels like 15 below in mount pocono. More single digit wind chills in south jersey. This is why we have our wind chill advisory for carbon and monroe count business dangerous wind chills. Once we get to these ten to 15degree below zero wind chills very little exposure of skin will cause frostbites. Were thinking 30 minutes or less outside you could start to be experiencing, frostbite. Ultimate doppler nothing to show you there so lets look at a couple computer models about sunday into monday and chance of some snow rolling n we will start off with rain and change over to snow sunday night into monday. This particular model the european model has a little bit of snow in the philadelphia area for monday into tuesday potentially but there is another one that doesnt have any snow at all for our area and lighter snow to the north and west of us. The as we get into that situation watch fox 29 weekend, caitlin roth will keep you updated on what were putting together for sunday. Were thinking sunday night into monday rain over to snow and then with the 39 degrees back over to rain and wintry mix in between and then some left over flurries possible on Tuesday Morning that is how it is playing out right now but make sure you notice these temperatures saturday and sunday much better then today. Mid 40s both days and it looks like a good part of the sunday could be dry, just cloudy, and so we will take that because it is the weekend and we will take whatever we can get but definitely Better Weather day out of the two is saturday. Now what is not so goodies what is going on down on 495 in delaware, bob kelly. Good morning, everybody. 4 47. We are looking live from the news van on the scene here this accident that happened at 2 00 with i495 shut down in both directions. The now there is half of the tractor trailer. Heres the deal the tractor trailer was traveling southbound in the southbound lanes when the accident owe kurd the tractor crossedded over into the northbound lanes. The front end of the truck is in the north bound lanes the trailer, that he was hauling is still in the southbound lane. So both directions i95, thank goodness, that traffic was light around two or 2 30 this morning when this accident happened. I dont even want to begin to imagine what could have have happened when we see it all the time when cars cross into the opposite direction of on coming traffic not to mention a tractor trailer there. Heres the the deal, 495 closed through wilmington. We have a couple options. You can use i95 through wilmington but if you want to get to the airporton time and avoid the backup we will go for a detour, ready. We will go over Commodore Barry bridge, down 295 and come back in over delaware memorial, coming from the south and trying to get to philly international make sure you get your flight out on time do the reverse get over delaware memorial, go up 295 and come back over the Commodore Barry. This will get jammed once we get in the height of the rush hour which is probably going to start, your saw our live shot in the background, traffic was slow exiting there at 12th street. So either 95 and some extra time or we will go for a ride there on 295. Otherwise were in good shape nice and quiet for gang coming in from royersford, collegeville in, problems curb side here on 42 freeway heading in toward philadelphia and a 202 cut off from west chester looking good from 30 up through king of prussia kiss and lauren back over to you. This is travel related fox 29 working to get result on this big issue. Oh yeah, this crater, popped up near 63rd and market creating a bit of the had headache for drivers in West Philadelphia you can say. Yes, in the just drivers getting out of the way but people walking in that area. With all of the traffic why isnt anything being done to fix it. Our bruce gordon went to get results. Reporter even our fox 29 news van shutters at the thought of passing through the the intersection of 63rd and market. It is a tire crashing, rim rocking, frame fracturing rear landscape that has everybody around here complaining. You go up and down, it is very very very dangerous spot. Reporter you have driven through that. Yes. Reporter what is it like. It is terrible. Reporter it is not a pothole per se, instead it appears that a 10foot by 10foot section of asphalt was patched, perhaps after underground utility work. The ground below may not have been exacted properly resulting in sinking spots that caused those in the necessity to veer around the danger so. I kind of avoid it like my life depend on it so car doesnt fall apart. Yes. Lift me up and pick me up over it. Reporter no but i can go one better. I snapped a quick picture of the crater, e mailed it to my buddies at the streets department. Exactly three hours later a repair crew was on the scene. This temporary fix involving filling the the area with a product called cold patch. When weather gets warmer, they will come back, dig out the area, pour concrete and asphalt overton. For now the intersection is at least safe. It shouldnt have taken them that licensing to fix it. It is fix now. It is good yall came out and called them. Reporter smoother ride now. Oh, yeah. Reporter those temporary repairs were wrapped up at 3 30 and we are seeing a difference. Instead of these drivers anticipate ago this mind field and slamming on their breaks or veer out of their land they are heading to the intersection at a normal speed and staying in their lane h no thing of beauty but definitely safer. Fox 29 getting results. In West Philadelphia im brought gordon fox 29 news. My car thanks you bruce. Coming up, tom hanks reunite with a old friend and costar but it is probably who you think. Xnao5n time for some entertainment news, congratulationness order for host of fox news the rule you know that show. She was in our studio. Was she. How do you say her last name . I dont know. She made the announcement of getting married during taping that will air on monday, of course. She told her girls her guy took her and her family out to dinner where he pop the question with a huge rock. Thirtyone yearold has been dating lenny santiago for six years. It Business Time he popped the question. If you have been dating more than five years exclusively, the family puts pressure on you and everything else. Then in your 30s it is time for kids they say youre like leave me alone. It is your decision and personal choice. Life me alone. Actor tom hanks reunited with an old cast man mate. Hangs attended a insuring rangers game on wednesday, when the Madison Square garden crew surprised him with an old friend, wilson, there he is. It is from the movie cast away the two starred to go in the 1999 movie, neither of them have barely aged. Wilson. Remember that. And rihanna, shes serving up some fashion in the the new issue of harpers bizarre. Check out this amazing cover. She said it was about being fearless in life and swimming with the sharks in every day life. My goodness. Sheehanled shark a accordingly. The cover also an ode to her killer looks on the red carpet. Wow. Wow. It ace luring, that is for sure. It is bizarre. Yes that too. Coming up, we are warning students to put their phones away how colleges are bribing adults to Pay Attention in class. What do you think of disciplining a child by expanding spagging do you spank your kid. No. Big debate. The pope is now saying it is okay. Do you agree . We want to hear from you. Tweet us. 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Would i say that 16 degrees would qualification will file as frigid, sue. Umhmm, and wind chillies even lower. What is it really like out ther

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