Career, and his connection to philadelphia. And it is time to play ball, in south philadelphia. Citizens bank park all ready lit up this morning ahead of the home opener. We introduce you to one of the new players making his home, day buy. It would be nice. Good day everybody i there is a live look at Citizens Bank park right now, it is opening day. It remind me always of Easter Sunday being raised a catholic what do you think connection is . Im not sure, what is it. Churchs is always filled to the brim on Easter Sunday, and then this may be the only time it is filled to the brim, when your Baseball Team isnt playing very well. I think we will be with 500, 8181. Coming out of the dug out for the first time, on to the field. It is a pack house. Yes. We are dedicating this show today to a hockey puck himsel don rickles who passed away at age of 90. He married a wynfield, pennsylvania young lady, 52 years ago. Boy. Did he love barbara from wynfield. You could tell. And a hollywood marriage to last that long. Very rare. I cannot get over your poor stiff necky will angle my chair. That is okay. It seems worse today. It business the same. It is like a sore throat, every time you swallow. Exactly. You dont realize it until you turn your head. Does anyone have any ben gay. Not on me, no. I should. All right. So what is weather going to be , that is what everybody wants to know at 3 10. It is not great but not add bad as yesterday. We dont have big thunderstorms but a lot of cloud. Buddy has just in case umbrella and warm coat because it will be chilly in the 40s but windy all day long, and there could be a spotty shower or two. There are a few spotty showers moving through lancaster and berks county, it is all wrap around moisture from yesterday s storm which is bringing in some colder air today. So yeah, getting used to this mostly cloudy with the sun trying to get through the cloud every once in a while. 46 degrees, with 16mile an hour wind and mess of our other temperatures in the 40s and we will probably stay that way, all day long. A lot of cloud, a peak of sunshine here and there and High Temperature on this blustery day 49 degrees, and it is almost weekend. It is friday, 7 03. Dress them up in red and make sure it is warm going down to the ballpark. Getting out and red brake lights here crossing town on the vine street expressway, bumper to bumper through the schuylkill. Live look at schuylkill expressway at south street interchange as you work your way in and out of the south philadelphia. 12 00 noon block party opens up with the ferris wheel we will put alex on later on, 12 30 gates open up in the park and first pitch set for 3 05. Keep in mind even if you do in the go to the game feel impact of the traffic. Everybody will be trickling in all day and then bam, instant traffic jam. When that game is over around 6 00, 6 30, concert fans on their way in the to the Wells Fargo Center for a john mayer concert later tonight and expect cancellation and delays at the airport as a result of yesterdays storms, and already some of the airlines have things mixed up down there so check before you head down to the airport. Mike and alex, back to you. The you had takes aim at syria launching a military strike against central syria. Officials claim that at least seven syrian soldiers have been killed, nine others injured. Death toll is expected to arrive. Fiftynine tomorrow hawk miss unless response to the attack on Syrian People. Strike reportedly caused extensive damage to an air base that stored toxic chemical weapons. This is the air base where the sorties were launched that sprayed that chemical on its own citizens, karen. They picked that on purpose , targeted attack to target that to send this message. Images of the children that struck so many people, the horror of what happened there specifically the president , certainly said that is how he felt. He said it was a Vital National security interests of our country to do this attack limited in scope but designed to send that message to the regime there. So the president. The president is calling on all civilized nation to join our country in seeking an end to the carnage there. There was a meeting with the chinese leader that the president had shortly after that chinese leader, xi he came out and made this announcement that they had air strikes that happened in syria in that area. This was as a result of the toxic nerve gas that went out there. These pictures that horrified the world as any parent watching this one, you can see your own face of the children victims there, in those children and certainly struck with the president. He certainly said that, it really pre foundly affected him and greatly shifted his opinions about what was happening in terms of the actions being that he had been a president , all during the campaign who said that he was going to campaign on America First and wasnt going to get involved in these fors fares but yet here we are just weeks into his tenure where he decided to take this very decisive military action. He said this was just something important to our interest to not let these kind of attacks happen on innocent civilians, guys. We will talk about this more, with our terrorism expert ed turzanski because this happened late last night overnight there and we want to know what are the effects. Ed, of course, a terrorism expert. You can talk to us bomb different subjects including world affairs. So when you heard about this response to the chemical attack earlier this week week week by bashar assad im not surprised. I was than the surprised because president had a meeting with the president of egypt and king of jordan and it was abdul a of jordan that spoke about the problem with the refugees saying that the best way to deal with it is to make sure they are not refugees in the first place. Im sure he, President Trump spoke about the use of poison gas. Bottom line is there is only one country in the world that can make you stop using poison gas and it is the United States. Yesterday mike was a 100th anniversary of the u. S. Entry in the first world war. What came out of that war . An absolute prohibition against the use of poison gas. Who used it, Saddam Hussein. Assad you keep on doing this you will meet the same fate. Assad signed that treaty saying he wouldnt use chemical weapons and here he goes testing a new president. Is this just simply the difference between two president s because this is not first time he has used gas or bombed his own people. 500,000 dead syrians over last six or seven years in this civil war. So this is not first time we have seen images of babies being washed down from chemical weapons. But the last president , president obama said he is not going to go. He drew the red line but when they cross that had line he didnt act. Congress wouldnt let him. He didnt seem like he wanted to. Trump didnt go with congress, he did it on his own, just a different mans approach to this. It absolutely is. Donald trump decided to enforce Barack Obamas red line because it wasnt just his, it was red line of the you had, and that of civilization. Also, you mentioned, quite accurately that last night the president was meeting with chinese president. Wow. Dont think that the chinese havent noticed hey, by the way, this is how trump deals with problems that are in trackable. China has got one of those, it is called north korea. Trump will likely say we need to fix north korea. Youve got the ability to do it. If you dont we may have to. A lot of people found that interesting because he is hosting chinese president right now and then this happens . What about russia . We have been talking about it this morning we got a strong response, even though they got a little bit of warning before this happened what do you think russia will do. Alex, got a punch in the nose yesterday. Assad is their client, only reason he is there is because of their protection which is why their military says, owe well, we really werent as effective with their missiles. Yes, we were. Heres the point. They are embarrassed today. Rex tillerson the secretary of state will go to moscow next week. He will talk to Sergei Lavrov and the message will be you need to restrain your client, this cant be happening. The russians dont want to have to pay the price for assads bad behavior and last night they got a demonstration of what this president is willing to do and the capability of the u. S. Military. It is different, you have to make different decisions when you are a president as opposed to a every day citizens. Three years ago donald trump was tweeting out president obama do not go into syria. It will lead to nothing but bad things. We dont have the leadership to win wars or even strategies , that is the wrong tweet there. He really insisted president obama do not go into syria. Now three and a half years later he went in syria. Yeah mike because National Interests are what count. You can put aside, Campaign Campaign rhetoric, what are the key interest of the you had, stop the use of poison chemicals. It is certainly at the top of the list. That is why candidate trump might be very critical of president trum top day but donald trump is the president , he acted like within last night. Real quickly what about u. S. Forces, we have there it is north and they are fighting isis, could we see some things happening to them, retaliation alex, this is the difficult thing because this is a very conflicted region. Heres the metaphor if you had a basket and put a jewel in the bottom and filled it with snakes and you had to try to get it out with your bear hand , how much fun would that be. This is a very difficult situation, and that is why this was intended as a message we didnt destroy his capability entirely, so that it would shift the order of battle, we just got the message across dont use these kind of weapons. Real quickly here, before President Trumps detractors they say he doesnt have a defined Foreign Policy, he seems like a guy that just reacts immediately to things with his tweets, that he might go off half cocked and we dont want him with the nuclear code even though he has them and we dont want him pressing military buttons what do you say that. I say he has got general mattis, general kelly, he has got mcmaster, he has rex tillerson, and nikki haley has been a very strong player. Very strong. And he is also, pushed steve ban on out of the way. So i think youve got very serious, deep thinkers on Foreign Policy and on defense matters, and so far he has deferred to them, although now he does have to articulate a consistent coherent policy so that isnt quite as unpredictable as last night. I was impressed by nikki haley, boy, did she stair down the Russian Ambassador when she made her statement. Try to have a good weekend, what do ou say. Mike, you dot same, go phillies. Thanks, ed, we appreciate it. 7 13. Supreme Court Nominee neil gorsuch will be confirmed this morning. Republican senators invoked the socalled, Nuclear Option, which changed the rules so that they can stop filibusters with just 51 votes rather than 60. Three democrats voted with republicans to advance gorsuch nomination. Donnelly of indian, high camp of north dakota and mansion of west virginia, all three are from conservative states facing competitive reelection races next year. Do you remember this, were learning that a fifth person has now died, in london , during that terrorist attack. The 31 yearold woman who was basically bounced off of the bridge there west minister bridge there leading to parliament and big ben, she was bounced into the river, she was from romania just visiting as a tourist, and her boyfriend planned to propose to her. She fell in the river, when suspect drove his vehicle into a crowd on the bridge, hit her , she was lawn inched to the river. The attacker was shot and killed by police but they fished her out and then she died later on and back last night. Coming up at 7 15 alex. Back here at home police they are looking for a man that they say abducted a four yearold girl around 7 00 yesterday evening. According to a police, a driver approached the girl while she was playing outside, of her home there. This is in the village of plum run, i think, plum run is the name of the street, so there is a little complex there where people go. That is where Bill Anderson is is right now with the an date. Hey alex and mike we have more information this morning from neighbors who are coming by. Good news is that the little girl is home, safely. Bad news or the concern is that police are still searching for the man who may have abducted her. It happened last night around 7 00, four yearold was playing outside of her home, 4800 block of Sugar Plum Court , right outside wilmington delaware. I did speak to a couple neighbors. They did not wanting to on camera but they said there were several other children outside at the same time as is normally the case. That is just kind of neighborhood it is. They described the neighborhood as quiet, friendly where ever knows everybody and looks out for each other. So they are shocked that this happened. Police are actually here this morning moving around as children make their way to school making sure they are safe and asking questions. Witnesses say a white male with dark hair, driving a dark colored sedan, we found out this morning that may be a nissan versea some are saying, it has tinted windows and he approached the little girl, put her in the vehicle and then took off. Thankfully a passerby spotted the child near banning park which is about a 20 minute drive from here and again shes home safe and sound. So the good news is that shes safe. Police believe that shes okay but they are concerned about other children in the neighborhood, they are establishing a presence here and they want your help. They believe that there are surveillance cameras both in this area and around banning park so anybody who has access to those surveillance camera or may know anything, mike and alex, they want them to cat New Castle County police. Hopefully they will. We dont want that suspect coming back there. Not at all. We have had so many cases lately. Investigators are looking for answers in the death of the paulsboro woman inside of her own home. Gloucester county Prosecutors Office said Police Received a 911 call wednesday from 61 capitol street. Paulsboro Police Arrived to find 56 yearold alycia burns dead from several stab wound. They say the adult who called them was there with three children and in of them were hurt. Police have not said whether they have suspects or motive for murder. Well, he was the man who turned insults in legendary art, that is why we have a hockey puck, he would called people you hockey puck. So don rickles, i was so sad when i heard about this. He died at 90 yesterday. He died of kidney failure. And like you said lets hear it. Okay, hockey puck. Thinks don rickles give me the president of russia. Hello, listen, quit making your right guard anti perspirant with super dry anti stain formula, listen you hockey puck im an entertainer hockey puck line got him that commercial. Wow. So don was men for his stand up comedy, of course, and his frequent appearances on the tonight show with Johnny Carson. He was on there all the time. He starred in several motion pictures, younger generations, hey kid, may know him as voice behind mr. Potato head. That is in the toy story movies. Don died in his California Home yesterday. I met barbara his wife. He loved so much. She was by his side. For sure. They have been by each other side for more than 50 years. He got married in 1965 i think and, of course, shes a philadelphia girl, in wynfield , pennsylvania. That is where they met. How with that. They had a lasting love. They sure did. And we will have jerry blavat in. Jerry blavat, spent a lot of times with don rickles. Don rickles wrote him letters and he will share them with us. How about that, sue. I cant wait to hear about that. Now we will talk about the phillies game, today, it is home opener, we have been warning you all week it wasnt perfect weather, is it ever for home opener . How many times have you worn a parka to the home opener, it is Washington Nationals in town. Starts at 3 05. Party starts a lot earlier then that but whole time temperatures will be in the 40 s, wind 15 to 20 miles an hour, blustery day and maybe a stray shower. Heres yesterdays storm that caused the thunder, lightening , downpours and the wind. That has moved up toward canada, but it is still bringing down some colder air, from canada and a little bit of precipitation as well. We have showed you earlier what is happening outside in the western part of the state, it has been snowing all morning out in pittsburgh. They have their home opener today for pirates but it is rain down around washington d. C. But as we zoom in closer to home, it is a little bit of a precipitation around pottsville and little bit of rain, in lancaster county, so, if you see a stray shower or two dont be surprised. Temperatures in the 40s, wind are a factor today. Sustained wind in the teens like 16 miles an hour here in philadelphia, so that is what makes it feel chillier then it is, 49 degrees today but tomorrow, 59, still breezy but sun will be out and the perfect day or close to it, on sunday with a high of 67 degrees, and a milder to the point of 80 degrees by tuesday, cooling off again, wednesday and thursday, bob kelly. Sue, good morning. 7 20. Sun going down on 295 a live look fully engulfed car fire here at 295 southboundat route 73, mount laurel, Fire Fighters just pulled up to the scene. You can see white smoke here we are getting some water and foam on there. Thinks southbound approaching route 73, which that is mount laurel interchange, it looks like everybody pushed off not even in the lane off to what would be the shoulder. This is southboun. It looks like smokes going over in the north bound lanes. So keep that in mind in mount laurel. Heres picture of the crews repairing tracks at penn station, amtrak says all but one track has been repaired, and opened up for the morning rush hour, so, expect delays in and out of pen station, probably until the as big of a delay as we have had the past couple days budd amtrak and new Jersey Transit still will sort things out there in and out of new york today. All that rain we had, yesterday, ton of flights cancelled, expect delays, today check ahead with the airline, and, bryn mawr road closed at county line road. Mike and alex, back to you. How one local daddies using death of his daughter to keep distracted drivers, off of the road. 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Colgate total for whole mouth health. Ready lauren. Well, thanks, for wearing phillies red today on opening day, we appreciate it. Youre welcome. Sure, okay. Off the top of your head, this Breakfast Cereals called fruit loops how do you spell fruit loops. Fruit, new word loops. Wrong. No. No. How do you spell fruit loops. Froot loops. Get out. I never noticed that. Been that way forever. Google a box in a second. You have to google it. It has been a while. I looked it up yesterday and was like wow, they have been spelling it wrong all this time. They are better with milk, sometimes you eat cereals dry. How bay milk shake. How about this, in a milk shake. Burger king starting to sell it for three bucks, the 17th of april for a limited time if you are interested. It sound like a cavity. You got vanilla ice cream, fruit loops, whipped cream on top and sweet cream sauce as well. Give it a whirl. Is there an obsession with doing things with cereals lately. Why did they pick fruit loops and not fruity pebbles or cinnamon toast crunch. It is colorful. Okay. You are a baseball fan of which team. I have to say the mets but answer is really the yankees. Yankees, which is fine. It is better for the mets because they are in our division. But i have to say mets. Mets suck. Is your opening day to day. Yes, it is our home opener. Home opener. Were very excited bit. Have a great weekend, we will see you monday. Happy weekend. So lets go to Citizens Bank park. I want an update. Sun should be all the way up now. Jen, of course, game happening but what else. We have a lot of stuff happening but it is annual day i dont know if you have ever seen me do this were not supposed to touch the grass. I a rebel. Be cool. Dont tell anyone. Alright gus, youre next. [giggle] ready . Ok. Go . Seahorse. No. Giant snail. Flamingo. The water. Under the. Pony no. Bow and arrow . Oh oh. Uhhuh. Yeah. The Leaning Tower of pisa. Ahoh. [giggle] really . [ding] ohhhh. What was it . Bank on it. Ohh, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 300 grand oh, i knew what it was the entire time. [laughter] keep on scratchin. Good a deto take the advice about wearing a coat but bringing the umbrella and, of course, wear your phillies gear. Weve got precipitation that is swinging around that low pressure system that came through yesterday with all those dramatic thunderstorms, bringing colder air and chilly rain to some parts of lancaster county, we will zoom in closer, parts of the Chester County might be getting rain. Not all making it to the ground but could see a spotty shower or two, throughout the daytoday. We have mostly cloudy skies, already in 46 degrees in philadelphia, it will look like this all day, every once in a while sun will peak through those cloud but 16 miles an hour wind means a blustery day, temperatures in the 40s rate now and that is where we expect them to stay for the rest of the day. Maybe hitting 50 but were thinking around 49 or so. Just make sure bob kelly, you have a lot of layers on at the ballpark this afternoon. Red layers, for the phillies home opener. Good morning, everybody. We have red brake lights here 295 southbound, approaching route 73 in mount laurel, new jersey because of an earlier vehicle fire. Everybody all off to what would be the right lane but we are bumper to bumper to bumper heading southbound, again, into route 73, which is mount laurel, new jersey. There is a gaper delay on the northbound side down tree in radnor, bryn mawr avenue at county line road 12 00 noon block party kicks off, gates open up at 12 30, 3,051st pitch, we will see volume heading in the stay yum area and instant traffic jam when that games over. As phillies fans are leaving, concert fans are trying to get in the same parking lot with the john mayer concerts across the street at 7 30. Live look at 422, slow go working your way in toward king of prussia. We are getting damage reports out of syria now. Syrian airfield that was target of the 59 missiles, man , it is gone, it is destroyed, serial yan military says the attack has killed seven soldiers, wounded nine others. President trump ordered you had assault in response to the deadly nerve gaza tack on civilianness syria. Syria is calling the strike an act of aggression. Meanwhile supreme Court Nominee judge neil gorsuch will be confirmed this morning republican senators invoked socalled Nuclear Option which changed rules so they could stop filibusters with 51 votes rather than 60. Police are looking for a man they say abducted a four yearold girl last night. According to police a driver approached the girl while playing outside, in the village of the plum run, that is apartment complex, and he took her in his car, and drove away. Young girl was later found in the area of banning park, and so we will give you more updates on this but it goodies that she is safe at home but they are trying to look for the suspect, for children in the area. April is distract driving awareness month. Yes, you have probably surely seen on the roadways, and if youre honest with your self there is a probably good chance that maybe you have been texting while driving. At some point in your life. Hopefully you have stopped this. Is there a new initiative in new jersey, aimed at keeping drivers off the road, that are distract. New jersey officials noted a spike last year, that compelled them to lead to the expansion of the alert system. If you see, anyone, fired in anyway, authorities want to you pull over and hit pound 77 give them the vehicle description, and its last location. She was in the back seat of the the car and went through a stop sign and collided with another vehicle, five years ago. Her parents started pad. Org, people against distract driving, and they both were big supporters of this new initiative. Mike ren i, nickis dad joins us here. Good to see you how many years since nicki died. It will be five years april. April 15th. I hate to take you back but i want to make sure Everybody Knows what distract driving is all about. She was in the back seat of the car. Back seat of the friends car driving around town and the driver didnt see two stop signs, ran through intersection and pickup truck collided. Driver of the young lady. Was texting whom. Her boyfriend, pretty much. You say that there were six minutes recording on his phone of the accident. Yeah, right after, six minutes of void recording where you heard my daughter, help me, help me, passenger got ejected. Everything. It was pretty tough to hear. We have done a lot since then to actually raise awareness to the cause, were totally behind the star 77. We have passed nickis law in new jersey which brings up dot to use signs and message board to bring People Awareness of distract driving. Real quickly here because i want to make sure we have it right, star 77. Im sorry, pound 77. Yes. It is this right new but it makes it different. So what happens. It is for family or people in the car. When you sigh someone driving distracted, hit pound 77. It is in the for driver to do. You pull over or you have passenger do it right then and there. That is what we want people to know. Not to get you distract. It can get so far as get license plate number, police can send a letter. They can send a ticket, warning whatever it is, thaw were driving distract so they know bit. Pretty crazy to necessity that people can do that. We like that. I see her picture, and actually her photographs all over country. Not only traveling on the back of tractor trailers all over but it is known throughout. Were one of the Biggest Charities now in america. We do 24 7 victim support. We just served our 1,000th victim of people affected by distract driving. Nickis making a difference in the world right now. As far as signs that say dont drive distract these are all over the place too. We have them in 23 states right now, and, canada and europe. Donate to anybody that wants to help the cause. On saturday this coming saturday, Washington Township. No, this time next saturday yes, Washington Township lake part and muscle man apple sauce is helping us, sponsor the whole thing and Philadelphia Union will come out, with their whole campaign and everything, because they are behind us, there is a big soccer tonment. Big day for you because that is the day thaw lost her. It is sadest memorial, anniversary anyone could have is Something Like this. Yes. You choose to do something good though. Yes, it is good. Her life is helping so many people and saving so many lives. Lets remind us who she was nicki was a beautiful girl just like every dad would want we loved her. You have another daughter. Yes, kristin. Shes our angel on earth, and my other beautiful daughter. That is what keeps us going, our family but it is tough to sit at the table when is there an empty chair and that is what distract driving is. Hopefully star 77 will help us and anybody who wants to do it , they can sign up at www pad. Org for a walk or donate. Pound 77. Every single day in an uber car or whatever, you look over , people are still texting and driving. What do you do when you see that. I videotape them. I have it and powe them on facebook and twitter, and try to bring awareness so people see it. What he try not to tell people get too crazy and honk because that is distracting. Just dial star 77, and report the incident. Good to see you man. Thank you so much. Hang in there. Thank you so much. Thank you guys for having us all the time. Anytime, whatever you need. 7 38. 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Batter made to it first base because dropped third strike and they could not throw him out and cubs won six four. That is crazy. Where is it . Oh, wait, right there. It is on my belly. Where are my glasses, mike. Mike, you are wearing them. Like this, i will do this and alex wont tell me. Did you see my glasses. Look over there. Can you see my glasses. She will just sit there. That is in the true. I tell you. Eventually. Im confused. Wait, is there another pair. I one time walked around a lake one time with my goggles on my head like that, and my sisters, i have four sisters, this is when i was a little kid. I cant find my goggles. I want to go in the lake. They are like for an hour i was looking for my goggles. How old were you. I cant find my goggles. Just checking. I cant find my goggles. All right. Jerks. You are calling your sisters that. They were jerks. I got them back, many, many times. I had to use their bicycle, talk about hand me downs, we had six kid. Four of the kid were sisters, my sisters. So i had to ride, on a powder blue bike as the fifth kid out of six. My parents never bought another boys bike. It was blue. Little basket on the front. There was a basket. Streamers on the side coming out. Yes, little bell on it. I love the bike with little streamers hanging out. Yeah. I had a powdered blue bike. This is why i had to go away. No. It is home opener, be there by three. I cannot look that far back going that far back. Stiff neck city here. Citizens bank park that is where jen is, boy, one of our photographers jared vol, posted on that instagram picture. He is so excited. He is very excited. They are putting finishing touches on the opening day sign. There are four new phillies that you need to hear all about, who will tell us . Director of fun and games will tell us everything we need to know about the guys, fun and games. We will be right back. I have my red super man cuff links on, super season, hopefully. For the phillies. Bundle up here. Southbound 295 approaching route 73, which is mount laurel, new jersey. A vehicle fire taking out what is the right lane. It is causing that gaper delay give yourself extra time, southbound heading in to route 73. Rest of the travel time schuylkill no sun glare yet, half hour delay south bound i95 through Construction Zone radnor bryn mawr avenue closed at county line road from a down tree. Expect minor delays on amtrak, new Jersey Transit heading in and out of new yorks pen station. Amtrak says they have repaired all but one of the tracks, so that will be good news but still expect delays also at airport, a lot of cancellations and delays from the rain we had yesterday, make sure check with the airline and your plane is there before you head down to the airport and no parking around art museum be careful of the signs heading down this weekend for events taking place along the river drives. We have a couple regattas in town this weekend, forecast for opening day and regattas, sueby has got tonight 15 seconds. Weekend wendy is here to help us with the shameless plug of the media film festival. I will be helping with my husband welcome everybody tonight at 7 00 at media theater. Then at 10 00 oclock is there a horror fest if you like scary movies. Tomorrow at 1 00. 7 00 oclock showing from not only local directors from all over the world but at 3 30 a live reading of the screen play of when harry met sally. All at media film festival. Org , thanks, weekend wendy. We will see you this weekend on good day philadelphia weekend. Home opener is today. It is not great, windy, cool, 48 degrees. This is still left over from yesterday. Left over from the green room if you want to eat peeps pizza. I dont know if i could ever be that hungry. Im save it for you. Maybe if they warm it up. We have showers heading in our area, lancaster, chester counties, New Castle County delaware you may see a sprinkle or two this morning and that could happen again this afternoon. Temperatures in the 40s right now and wind are a factor all day long, so it is not only these chilly temperature but 16 miles an hour wind, we could see higher gusts at 28 miles an hour, 25 miles an hour, you get the idea, windy, cloud, possible shower today, high of only 49 but warms up nicely we will gain 10 tomorrow and almost 10 more on sunday and then up to 80 degrees by tuesday, back to the 60s by wednesday and thursday of next week. Once were through with today it gets better, just unfortunate that today, it is opening day. We are not letting that stop our sign. Umhmm. A lot of people are still wanting to go to the home opener and jens so excited shes already at the ballpark. Im here with john frazier, director of fun, games. We want somebody who studied opening day of the phillies is always cold days any april every year. You are right, always day before, day after is beautiful but it will be a nice day, opening day and as progressively as we can endings we have a few home stand here. Tan guy, not everybody gets to go to spring training and see these guys in person developing becoming a member of this amazing team. There is no ryan howard. There is no chase utley. We have to invest in the new guys. Exactly right. First of all, i love this guy. I will say name, show his picture. I will say what i know and love and you will add some comment. How howie kendrick. He knows chase, couple of guys out there. What i like about him is arms, he is jacked but cameron rupp, he has a favorite pitcher now this guy can say it is a job. He has become a member of the team getting in there we need veteran leadership. Twelve years, mlb veteran. He is going to be very valuable addition to our team he is in there having fun. Great time. He got a preview from chase, and j roll. Michael saunders. Michael. Of course. Blue jays, initially he didnt want to be here. He is ready to investy heard he didnt want to get traded, stay in toronto. He was an allstar. Twentyfour home runs. We are hoping to get that power in Citizens Bank park. We need veteran leadership to bring along young guys. We have a guy brooke stasi. He has a name you read in romance, novels, or 760s detective. We love him. Showed emotion. Twentyseven years old. He is 33rd round draft pick. Good to see someone persevered waiting for his shot. He has his shot. Right out of bull durham. I love this story. We will talk in the 9 00 oclock hour. Andrew knap his dad went through this before he never got called up. Same position, catcher. He will backup cameron rupp. His dad played against john kruk. Great second round draft pick out of calloy berkley. I love guys like that. Great store that is make their mlb debut. So sold out. Sold out it is sold out. If you dont have a ticket you can come and do this. Budweiser block party. We have a ferris wheel, fun house, budweiser collide dale, big opened party free for anybody. Gates opened up at 12 30. Get that great knit hat on. Sea of red. Fans may want to get those in their seats because 2 30 we will do lead off walk where players will come through right field gate, coming down field, we will have a giant American Flag where the military, american philadelphia boys choir singing, and kaine kalas will be singing the National Anthem at harry the k statue, weather permitting we will have the u. S. Navy leap frogs and then first pitch we will have sylvia green and fred oliver. Sylvia, wife of dallas green. Fun day, pageantry, tradition, excitement, and jen fredrick. Yes. Wow. How did i do on the guys. Mike, you have to see howie kendricks, muscles they are so big. Yeah. I know nothing about that kind of stuff. Alex. Im so excited. Did you notice that ryan howard was picked up by the braves. Minor leagues. Mine other leagues. Can you imagine if they call him up and bats against the phillies. Wouldnt that be something. Hopefully he will strike out. Look at you. Making still 25 milliondollar. No American League picked him up. I thought an American League team would have him be a dh. I think Jimmy Rollins is in the minors tooy dont know if he still was. Yeah. How things have changed since 2008. It is 2017. Yes. Nine years ago. All right. Are you pregnant . Are you itchy at all i dont want to be flip here because this woman believes that a Facebook Post may have saved her life. Doctor mike is here, itchy, pregnant, pregnant. Vanessa i got hurt and was given painkillers. By the time the drugs ran out, i was addicted. It happened so fast. I ended up on the streets, where the drugs are cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. This is governor chris christie. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. A pregnant womans Facebook Post may have saved her babys life. She was complaining about being, well, kind of itchy, all over her body and her friend warned her it is something that she should not ignore. So they talked bit on facebook , other people said on facebook, you better see a doctor. Doctor mike, why would a pregnant women be itchy. It happens that in your third trimester as you get furthers long in your pregnant i you can get coal stasis of pregnant i. That means that the bile acids from the gallbladder dont really progress through the bile ducts the way they should it is thought to be a hormonal problems, but when you are pregnant, you have a all kind of hormonal changes. So the bile acids build up and that can lead to itching in the skin. Mainly in the palms, souls of your feet it is harmless to mom and as way after pregnancy but it can be dangerous to the child. Many obstetricians will opt to deliver the baby around 37th week to avoid problems because you can build up of of breathing problems when baby was born, put stress on the liver of the child, all of these things. If you have a symptom like itching in your third trimester, get it checked out. Because for some women they are itchy, isnt that within of the symptoms of pregnant i. Thinks fairly significant itchiness getting her up at night so be careful of that. That belly remind me i have put on weight over last month, and typical of a man it will all ther my love handles. You are not alone, you have a metabolic syndrome. Do we have a picture. It is what we call the apple. There you go. Now, the apple, it is where you have a lot of, fat, deposition, on your belly, there you go. Do you see the pair, it is the button. That is where people have a big old button and they will get a lot of fat there, that is not dangerous, and, and, it causes insulin resistance and increases your risk of heart attack, diabetes, stroke, and it is an epidemic in this country. That is a shot of alex and me. Im the apple and you are the pair. I dont want, you are both my patients, but thing is you dont have a pair. She dont have no pair. No. Are you sure. Well, i mean, just from the observations over here. You are not that bad. Michael, you just need a little toning. We need to tone you up. What im doggies using artificial sweeteners. Dont do that. In my professional opinion they took stem cells, fat cells and they exposed them to artificial sweetener. New that looks like real sugar artificial sweeteners were noted in these cells, to increase inflammation and increase fat production in the cells. Now, in my humble opinion and i live, and walk the walk, talk the talk, my kid have not been exposed to any kind of soda. They drink naturally flavore seltzer water. Im telling with you all this stuff about the soda tax and all that stuff. Look guys, come up with naturally flavored products. It will improve the health of our city and everybody will be happy. People will buy it. My son when he to the restaurant will say, sir, you are the server. Yes. What would you like. Would i like some perry a, would i like some pull guarino , and they drop their plate because he is an eight yearold kid. Who is this little punk. Bottom line he has in the had sugary drinks. Have you had sugary drinks. Im always excited. Yes. Riled up. Im coming by for an appointment. Ill calm down by then. Please. Thanks, doctor mike we love you start warming up you continues also too that you use. I will, it is chilly. Including your finger. Yes. Thanks, doctor mike have a great weekend. Friday, it is april 7th. April 7th. It is 4 07 17. That is right. Striking syria. The United States military launches missle strikes against a syrian air base, following a chemical attack on its civilians. How world is reacting right now and how local legislators are as well. Remembering the roast master. Is that your wife. Yes. Legendary comedian don rickles has passed away his connection to our area and first look at the letters that he wrote to our friend, jerry blavat. Im leader of the smurps. Do you see the new movie opens up in theaters, should you take your kid do they know what that is at this point. In why our movie critic says it is good but may in the be worth full ticket price. Out shining the bride . Pip amid will ton may have been talk at her sisters wedding but now shes preparing for her own nuptials , who she is reportedly banning from her big day. The you had takes aim at syria launching a missle strike, Syrian Military officials claim at least seven soldiers are dead and nine others are injured. U. S. Firing dozens, well, 59 to be exact tomahawk missiles in response to the deadly gaza tack on the Syrian People. Strike reportedly caused extensive damage to the air base, the strike by 59 missiles. By the way they were storing apparently, word is, toxic chemical weapons at that air base and that is where sorties were flown from to administer spray if you will these chemicals on the Syrian People , by the serial leader bashar alassad. Is there karen hepp. It is very important we do this attack, it was vital to our National Security and clearly designed to send a message to that regime. President trump said this attack was in the Vital National security interets of the you had. It was limited in scope but designed to send a clear message to the regime, and a barrage of tomahawk cruise missiles, five dozen launched from two warships in the eastern mediterranean, in the airfield believed to be launching pad for chemical weapons attacks earlier in the week, that killed syrian civilians including children in a rebel controlled area President Trump emerged from his home in florida to announce the strikes. No child of god should ever suffer such horror. Tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. It was a big turnaround for president who campaign on a America First platform that was war i of foreign even dank ment meant but images of the chemical attack that seemed to resonate with trump. President had Legal Authority act, moral authority and quite frankly military strategy to be successful at it. It was the right decision that he made. There was measure of bipartisan support for move but also questions about what comes next. Whether Congress Need to sign off on anyes lacing. The attack has been condemned by rush, which had been a potential partner in dealing with assad and while rebel groups in syria cheered the move, the loss of the relatively small airfield could have a limited impact but this could be just a start send message toss other actors as well. It establishes a certain principal, the principal is, you cannot use chemical weapons with impunity. So the president is calling on all civilized nation toss join with us in seeking an toned that carnage there in syria. And to end the violence with the chemical weapons, certainly, guys. Well, certainly kremlin responded. Condemning it calling it an aggression against sovereign state and violation of international law. Because of the strike russia says it is suspending a deal with the u. S. To prevent midair incidents overseer use. Lets check out the newspaper here, the daily news , always with their headlines, how about that one, kick in the assad, after those chemical weapons strikes at his own people from bashar alassad. Congressman brendan boyle, now everybody has an opinion, i dont know, there air lot of people in the you had that kind of agree with this head line, way to go. Well, pictures that we saw, over the last 48 hours yet another chemical attack, it lies like serin gas it is stomach churning and it is hard not to get choked up seeing those pictures. So, look there are a couple things we need to keep in mind other president s have done limited strikes. President reagan dit against Moammar Gadhafi in the late 1980s. President clinton did it against Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s when it was found out he attempted to assassinate, former president George Herbert walker bush. These limited strikes have happened. What we need to do now before any further action may take place is time for congress to finally do its job. We have not debated or voted on syria policy, we should be back, instead of the taking a two week break around eag easter, i called late last night for speaker ryan to bring us back into emergency session tomorrow so we can debate and vote per the u. S. Constitution on what exactly our syria policy should be. Have you heard. Im note was first. I have been joined, i noticed by a number of collogues, because fact of the matter is once you get beyond limited strike time frame and you are talking about out right war, that that is the responsibility of congress. Because even though the pictures we saw are stomac churning and i think we should have acted four years ago, establishing safe zones we wouldnt have refugees crisis we have had that happened, but we want to make sure we do this in a careful way because of the russian involvement. And that is interesting part here because we have been reading the russians and response to this, what are your thoughts. Couple things, first remember the agreement that the you had made with russia was that all chemical weapons were removed. That is what was guarantied. That didnt happen. So obviously russia is explicit to what assad did, number one. Statement that putin just released calling it an act of aggression, give me a break. For anyone, for vladamire putin to accuse anybody else as an act of aggression after what he has done in ukraine, syria is absurd. I hope finally though that the secretary of state and President Trump have now finally woken up to the true intentions of vladamire put even and russia to the extent they have been trying to have a friendly relationship. Hopefully a lot of people think trump and putin. This is a slap in the face to putin for sure. But the russia trump investigation in terms of the election. That is a different story. But that investigation still need to happen. So distract by people in my ear i forgot next thing i have to say but we appreciate you coming in. Happier note, phillies win the home opener. Is that it. Hopefully better than my usual sports predictions. On a happier note but this is a serious issue and time for congress to do its job. I mean, this is what it was , we have seen pictures of syrian citizens, 500,000 syrian citizens have been dead , half million people, we have seen these images before. This is a president that sees an image and strikes where before we had a president who drew a red line and said, if he crosses that line i will attack. Well, he crossed the red line and president obama didnt attack. Lets not forget in fall 2013, president obama said he would attack but he wanted congressional approval. Congress refused to even vote on the issue, including those members of the congress that were saying president obama you need to act. He said we will vote on it. Frankly there was a bipartisan lack of courage for four years ago. You wanted it. I think congress should do its job. Look right new we dont have an authorization to use military force against isis but yet we are doing so anyway it is incredible. Too many members of the congress, frankly have been too afraid to put up a tough vote and figure out exactly what the parameters of our use of force should be. Heres finally the real danger that if we strike in such a way that unintended consequences happened then we could end up in a much larger war then we envisioned. We will stay in touch. Okay. Let us know if you get yes. 8 11 now. Remembering the roast master himself don rickles died at age of 90. His connection to our area and first look at letters that he wrote to our friend jerry blavat, we have jerry live in the studio. If youre looking frien. 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We are happy to report that the girl is back with her family and shes safe plus a scary situation and they are still searching for the suspects. Thank god shes found safe. Exactly 8 15. Before we get to jerry blavat we have to get to bob. Yes, good morning. 8 16 on this friday morning. Jammo schuylkill expressway bumper to bumper from city line on in. It is about a half an hour there southbound i95 half an hour, wood have men to downtown. Of course, opening day grabbing kid outfits make sure you go for the red, 12 noon block party kicks off at Citizens Bank parkway, 12 30 gates opened, first pitch 3 05 and then instant traffic jam when games over and check this out somebody decided to plan a concerts across the street. As phillies fans are leaving, concert fans coming in, jammo today, all day in south philadelphia. Is what forecast looking like for baseball and concerts . Sue has tonight 15 seconds it is he cakessal sunshine but whole lot of cloud cover but play ball, 48 degrees, wear layers, be ready for a stray shower, to be windy all day long as well. Factor in the wind and the cloud, and the chilly temperatures, along with your plans. New look at this we have got rain moving through the area. Light rain but it is falling in Chester County, pennsylvania, around wilmington delaware and north and west of philadelphia. There could even be in some places a couple of snowflakes mixed in. It is just light rain in malvern at the moment. Lets get to the seven day forecast, did you know it will be 49 today and cloudy but much better over weekend, 59 on saturday. Sixtyseven on sunday. By tuesday 80 degrees. You know ball don rickles, dont you. It made me so sad. Legendary comedian. He was known, well, for his insults really. Yes. He passed away at age of 90 it was his insulting style. They called him mr. Warmth because he was the opposite. Yeah. Is that your wife. Yes. Not many comedians can deliver that line and getaway witt. But don rickles was in the class of comedians all his own , his style was insult but butt of his jokes always walked away feeling nice. Donald j rickles was born may eighth, 1926, growing up in queens, new york. After graduating high school he went straight in the navy during world war two. He served two and a half years in the philippines, returned home with dreams of being an anchor but jobs were hard to come by. He started appearing in the nightclubs. I was warm up guy. I didnt have a performance. I talk to the people made fun of them. Reporter his lucky break came in 1957 when Frank Sinatra sat in the front row of one of his shows but tonight show with Johnny Carson where they all got to know don rickles. John would i introduce him to know that something dangerous was coming on the stage. Would you welcome this years poster child for rabies don rickles. Rickles appeared in the a number of films playing opposite of the hollywoods biggest stars. A new generation got to know him in the toy story, series. My little sweet potato. Oh, you found it. Yes. Reporter despite all of his success on screen and on stage, it all bowled down to one thing for rickles make them laugh. I knew him for sure. I knew him quite well. Let me tell you something, i was telling you guys, his first appearance was in philadelphia. At a place call the celebrity room, which was a comedy club. Where was that. Juniper and locust, very famous club. All of the jewish comedian is a period there. He is first guy that appeared there and insulted everybody. He became legendary at the celebrity room, that is when i met him. I was 17 years of age. He needed somebody to show him around town. So my manager was matt segal who booked the celebrity room. I became dons valet. His protecter. At the end of the show wow say anybody out there looking for me. Go out first, go out first make sure im okay to get outside door. He was such a lovely guy. He was nothing like what would you see with the insults. Absolutely the opposite, sweet hard and he loved romance and fell in love with a philadelphia girl. Barbaras family owned a very big stake house called mitchells, which was on juniper street. So when he would appear in philadelphia, they would go to mitchells and he married barbara. Yeah. They have been married all of those years. Fiftytwo. Fiftytwo years. We noticed his final tweet was about his wife barbara on their anniversary. You know, it is very funny, i do a show at the hard rock every year in march, called philly jersey reunion in hollywood. He was booked to do the show with regis. I was to do the show outside the dance party. So i got a call from him. He said hockey puck, i want to see you in a couple weeks. Make sure you got my underwear straight and my pants right. Then i get a call, five days before and they say he cancelled. He was not in good health. I knew then in march that there was something wrong. I was going to try to make to it that to see regis, and don together. I saw them in vegas when i was in my 20s. So funny, you hockey puck. Do you want to hear him say it. We have a clip, hold on. Thinks don rickles. Give me the president. Hello, are you the under arm. Quit making your right guard anti perspirant with the super dry anti stain formula. Why, listen you hockey puck im an entertainer. I know where that line started. It started in philadelphia. He used to call me you hockey puck, where are you. Where are you . But greatest store wits sinatra thing. Frank was book at slate brothers, first engagement in l. A. , killed it. Lauren bacall came in, sinatra , gregory peck, they loved him. So he is a star. He is in vegas. Franks appearing there. They go to see the show. Don says listen im with a very pretty girl. Please do me a favor. I will be at the table. Come over and say hello to me. I know this story. So frank says dont worry bit. Frank goes over and dons there with the girl and frank says, don, how are you. Don says, frank, cant you see im with a girl what are you bothering me for. That was rickles. Well, frank discovered him, and Frank Sinatra, for you young folks out there was the star of all stars. Yes. So watch this, tonight show with Johnny Carson, don rickles comes out and frank never appeared on talk show but would be on johnnys because he like johnny. Here it is. You are a powerhouse and frank, i love you,. Unaudible. I miss these days, johnny, the tonight show and all that. Listen, see, what you guys do is show biz. In the morning you do your thing, that is rickles. Rickles had in set plan. When he got out on stage, that was the act. The audience, difference today with comedian they have a whole thing. Rickles, the audience was his whole thing. He made people laugh. He didnt i have set script nothing. Like stand ups do. I got my 30 minutes ready to go. He could do an hour or he could do 15 minutes depending upon the audience. Hold on, jerry, does he saying that we dont have anything planned. Does it seem like this isnt planned. No, it is never planned with you. You never know, what to expect that is why i love you too. Folks, you never know what they will do. It is the best. It innings like me, i never know what they will do. We do know personal notes for don would you mind sharing them with us when we come back absolutely. It shows a different side to them. Lovely man. Those personal letters from don rickles to the beater after the break. Were continuing to remember life of the don rickles. So jerry blavat we are so glad you are here, sharing personal letters that he wrote to you, you would send him gifts every year. Every christmas people that i love, i send wine or macaroni. But the last time he said, send me a case of vodka. He loved vodka. Wow. Every year i would send gifts, mack roane toy sinatra, to him, to frankie valley, to all of my friend. This notice about the pasta it says dear beater. Some kind of guy from the time i carried my clothes to the job barbara and i think a great deal of you and thank you for pasta. Next year please, a car would be nice. Dear jerry, whatever they call you, you have been a good friend. So lucky to receive your great gifts of wines for the holidays. You and i have something special, you helped me dress while matt was out front trying to explain to the audience hoy was, barbara and i send our warmest wishes for happy, healthy joyful 2016. As ever, don. Nat. No, nat segal was his booking agent. That is what you said. He managed me and put me in the celebrity room. They were all comedians, jewish comedians who had a stand up act. He came in, he was jewish, but the whole town went crazy. When they saw don rickles for the first time. This is before the movie, run silent, run deep. Yes. His last one really coming out. Dear jerry just received your book with the story of the kid who lived a boring life. I notessed i was mentioned on a few pages. I put in the the drawer of my desk and forgot bet. Honestly, wish you best of the luck and with your personal pushing it how can i miss. Take care and always remember you are the best valet ever, love you, don. He was the best. He is up there, he with frank, sammy, you know, show biz people are very, very special. They are not what you see when you are on stage. They are very warm. If they love you, embrace you for a lifetime and even after death they are still embracing you speaking of embracing. I want to say thank you to the gigantic gift basket. It deserves your home, back where you blank. My man. Look at the size of that thing. Beautiful. It is all gone devoured by the news team upstairs. That is good. Thanks so much for sharing some of these letters. Always a. All right you hockey publishing we will be rate back. 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They have been around for so long but i feel like with the new movies that came out, previously the past couple years, Neil Patrick Harris and katie perry, the kid up to the smurfs but this movie thaw played a clip for has nothing to do with those previous 2smu rf films. This is a reboot. First two were live action and cgi mixed together. Thinks all Computer Generated characters. Demi lovato is playing smurfit it is nothing special but way better than first two but that is in the saying much but i gave it three out of five. It is decent for families. I like idea they find female s murps and it is cool. We are always seeing the male smufs and it is a fun idea, three out of five. I like more ladies in it. Yes. I think the one i want to see this weekend is going in style. Yes, mike, this movie is fun, remake of the 1979 george burns film and it really dread ed by zach braf, three life licensing friend, more nan freeman, Michael Kaine allen arkin decide to rob a back somehow involved the loss of their pensions. It was like a oceans 11, hell or high water hybrid. It is really clever. Funny at time. Heist scenes work. It is long at times. Ann margaret is great. If you go to the move thinks weekend you should see that or get out or logan those are three best films out right now i like it, looks good. Thanks, kevin. Great talking to you have a wonderful weekend. Love you guys. Love you too, kevin. It is 5 37 out there. I love that he does this. Full of energy. I know what to see. Real quickly i just remembered something have you been seeing this Netflix Series called chewing gum. No i havent. Check it out. Chewing gum. Okay. Yeah. Speaking of things to watch all weekend. It is almost time for alex around town. 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It is head line, on almost every newspaper around the world and certainly here in philadelphia Philadelphia Daily News with the a head line here kick in the assad and then the Philadelphia Inquirer above the fold, of course, u. S. Missiles hit syrian base. Lets get down to d. C. , chris wallace. Well, i guess you are scrambling a little bit to get extra guests on. It did not surprise me about the quick action from donald trump. What say you . Well, let me just say first of all very quickly so great to have you back, mike, i am delighted to see you. You are back at work. All right. This is a dramatic shift for donald trump, because of the fact that during the campaign, before that he had very much opposed the idea of willing after assad. He said we have to keep our focus on isis not get involved in the civil war there. You could argue were still not involved in the civil war but sending a clear message to assad, in this war against and frankly the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of civilians you cannot break the rule against convention against the war crime of using chemical weapons. That is a message. As long as it stays at that level, i think it will send a powerful message. If he gets more deeply involved that raises more questions in terms of the russia, iran, creating a vacuum in syria and what would follow if assad were to leave but in terms of the saying chemical weapons is over the line seems to me sent a powerful message. This is happening while he is at a summit with the chinese president in maralogo he is talking to them about north cover reand i would think president xi the president of china whatever rhetoric President Trump is using, i think that got a little bit more weightier she left her dish and found out 59 cruise missiles slammed into an air base in syria. And pass the potatoes. So who do you have plan for the show on sunday. We have a top National Security official that Everybody Knows, on from the white house, we cannot officially announce it yet but that is booked, exclusive interview and we will talk to top Senate Leaders both about this and also, about the other big news, that is happening today, which is the Nuclear Option, and the confirmation of the neil gorsuch to be the ninth Supreme Court justice. Then difficult a fascinating interview on wednesday, with a fellow named big mcraven but they know what he has done. He was head of the u. S. Special command all special operators all around the world and he commanded mission to rescue captain phillips to capture Saddam Hussein and to kill bin laden. He has written a fascinating book if you want to change the world make your bed. He was a seal for 37 years. These are life lessons from time as a seal and actually we talk because it was right after the chemical attack about what could happen. It is very interesting to go hear what he thought the president should do. People be watching sunday, chris, thanks for sweet message thaw sent me, good to be back. Good to have you back. Thanks, chris. Yall watched Kate Middletons wedding right. Only thing i took away from that wedding was pip amid will ton, sister, she stole the show. Now pip a will get married and she doesnt want that to get married to her. She has banned somebody from coming to her own wedding wait until you hear who it is. In the middle of a storm destiny struck. Did may imagine april showers bringing her fashionable, flowers at such a sunny price . Never but thats the beauty of a store full of surprises. You never know what youre gonna find, but you know youre gonna love it. Well, all right, it is a chilly morning in shawn ee in the golf resort in pocono mountains. They can see a snowflakes or two, heres ballpark forecast, for all of us, 48 degrees, windy, already windy out there , cool, cant rule out a stray shower we are watching showers moving through our area right now, and it is all very light rainy saw an umbrella up there in olde city , north and west of the city, you could get a snowflakes or two. You can see just a little bit mixed in the Higher Elevations so for today 49 degrees, blustery day and cloud cover, sunshine for both days of the weekend we have gained 10 degrees tomorrow and it is in the upper 60s by sunday. A really nice weekend and sunny, milder on monday, with a high of 78, by tuesday, bob kelly 80 degrees. Got to love it. Good morning. 8 48. You mentioned some showers, moving through the area, bam just like that we have got rain drop on your camera lens here coming up and over old ben franklin down tree, radnor written more roadblocked at county line road. Travel times major roadways, sort of the light rush hour so far which means folks will be on the move heading to the phillies game i think, no parking remember this weekend around art museum as they get ready for draft we have a come races in town closing mlk and kelly drive this weekend and all eyes on south Philadelphia Block Party gates opened up at 12 30 but once game is over bam instant traffic jam and as phillies fans are leaving, john mayer cans earth fans are coming in so lets go down to south philadelphia, jens been down there since first thing this morning getting ready for opening day. Let me tell you something, i think it is 32 degrees below zero with the wind chill but they are making it happen. You have heard about this. Players will walk in through this and crowd will be able to say yes, we love it. I love it. And all right, we have lots of people, wait a minute, it is not an opening day, without a green guy. That is the guy, that is the green guy come on back. Lilly. She pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress. But once a week i let her play sheriff so i can wash it. I use tide to get out those week old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. You are free to go. Tide and downy together. You and write talking earlier is there anybody left on the Phillies Team from 2008 no. Oh, goes, it is a new star. Fresh start. Fresh start. We have got people we have to get to know so we can go to the games. Lets watch them parade in, hi there, jen. That is one of the things. You just saw guys will parade in. I am convinced greg the bull has them parade nothing right by his barbecue. Why wouldnt he, perfect thing to do. So people will be able to do that. You have new items. The first time in a long time you have ton anything new. This is first time in a long time that we have actually added something to bulls menu. Okay. One of the things we added is barbecue pulled chicken. It is made, in house, it is just plays well with the rest of the bulls menu. Yes. Easier to eat. These things are amazing. Easier to eat, sandwich, you can have it Walking Around it makes for the ballpark. I know that the bulls a baby and could not wake up. There is a green guy. Does he like barbecue. Why wouldnt he, look at him. Can we go play some games. We have got the ballpark bakers. Obviously these are the guys that get you around these different things. There will be a speed pitch thing, is that right fanatic . They were worried about the rain and wind just to tell you how cold, windy it is down here but they will maybe set up up later. How are you good morning. Good morning. We love ballpark bankers. Thank you very much. They are supposed to be helping people but we will show people what they are made of, fair. Im not going but these guys are ready. Ill go. Turf say i ran into him at a restaurant, our kid were well behaved. Landry wasnt there, he didnt have anyone to hit. Tell me where im going. Right off to the left. Yes, maam. It is a one, two. Okay. Little bit over. One more back to the left. It is a one, it is a two. Yeah. Okay. Whatever. Pick your caddy. You have it all by yourself. This is the boss, shame, shame. Shame, shame, shame, shame. He is the boss, right. Right. Whatever. You showed him, jen. Fanatic you are sexy. What is that mike. You showed him and brody, attracting the ladies already. Yeah, what does that mean. Yeah, borrowedy not even a teenager yet. Oh, no. Tell me, the Cherry Blossom trees. They are in bloom, man. This is one of the best years alex. An amazing year. So you know people like this go to Cherry Blossoms, lovely pictures, family pictures i will tell you top spots to take your Cherry Blossom pictures in our area, so can you guess, some of the top spots . Can you guess number one spot. Are you in the top spot right there. Im near it, but not necessarily in it. My god, all right. It is not kelly drive. Not kelly drive and not plateau. Montgomery drive . Vanessa i got hurt and was given painkillers. By the time the drugs ran out, i was addicted. It happened so fast. I ended up on the streets, where the drugs are cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. The road to recovery starts now. Its now open in the poconos americas largest indoor waterpark is making waves. Kalahari resorts conventions in the poconos. Book your african adventure now it is friday, it is the 9 00 hour, that means anything could happen. Because were loose, as a goose. Yes. Alex, explain what this song means, dont go chasing waterfalls. Hi, good morning. False dreams. What did you think, al next. I dont know, i just remember the movement, trying to do them, the music video, i thought it was so cooled they turned to water, i thought that was the coolest thing ever. So for all of the tlc fans, the wait is finally over, iconic group set to release new albumn june 30th. Hell always dance whenever he hears the song, his go to. Nice. Well break it out as we go into break. Whats the one