In the news a Philadelphia Police officer is off the job and facing charges for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, and a former firefighter that responded to the twin towers on 9 11 is new yorks newest lottery winner. But the big story on action news is the excitement building for the 4th of July Celebrations, from the shore to the city there is no shortage of parties and fireworks tomorrow. Preparations are well underway. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott with the latest from the ben franklin parkway. The setup is well underway here, the setup is here for the concert and people are ready to celebrate. Today the rivera family is out for a skate near the art museum and ben franklin parkway will be packed but like many they just find their spot and gaze upward. People for some reason thought there was nothing going on no pushing and no shoving everybody is getting along. Crews are out building the stage for the 4 and of july jam and there is still work to be done for the concert. Be
Concerns. It would be hard to pinpoint. Theres generalities and theyre related to the point in which they ran their meetings and how i think u. S. Soccer would be like to have a greater influence but being one of 35 voting nations and mind you mr. Warner came from the caribbean and 25 of those 35 votes are from the caribbean. It gave me a level of discomfort that we werent going to make progress in terms of transparency and some things i would have preferred as to how u. S. Soccer operates. Did you express those concerns to mr. Blazer . I did not. Any reason you might not have confronted him or asked why hes doing what hes doing . Generally speaking we have the potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would
The potential to opt out and with mr. Blazer i just felt we had other things to do that could help build our sport as well and there was some concern that if i brought it to mr. Blazers attention i may feel a level of discomfort in other ways. Did you see peers feel discomfort in other ways in order to confront mr. Blazer . It would be hard to categorize it that way. When we reached out to talk to other National Associations, other federations once again we were one of 41 or 35 voting members and there wasnt anybody else that had the same level i did as an organization. Once again were in concacaf by virtue of being a member of fifa. We felt we had to find a way to participate and work our way through. Fortunately by a close vote, 18 to 17 he was elected to the seat in april of 2013 and we think that was a step in the right direction and a step ward reform. And that is the model that we felt was in the best interest of moving our sport forward in a very difficult and tricky environment
This morning i could use a pair of gloves. Winds whipping around. You can see the heavy rains indicate bide the yellows from philadelphia south to greenwich township, mikellton and clarksboro. You look lefthand side of the screen, chadds ford, its clear, were seeing patchy left overdrizzle, but the steady rain has pulled away. Thats the last of it. Steady rain north of the pennsylvania turnpike and north of the Atlantic City expressway and theres that batch in gloucester county. Thats all she wrote. Once that pulls through the rest of the afternoon is cloudy and damp and gusty breeze and leftover drizzle. These are stained winds out of the northwest chilly breeze, reading 18 Miles Per Hour. 23 Miles Per Hour in lancaster. 16 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. With a gust up to 25. And millville about 14 Miles Per Hour. So heres the dramatic change no more bermuda type High Pressure systems, this is a canadian high. Windchills were talking this afternoon only in the low to mid 40s as the a
The teens neighborhood in fairfax. Roz . Roz that 18yearold young man is connor golden. Ocno one answered the door at hs home, presumably his family already in new york city. We spoke to a woman who said she was with him. Thomas hinds from herndon said a group of friends were headed to upstate new york so they could go camping, but they stopped in new york city for the fourth of july. All of this happened in central park at around 11 00 this morning. Hinds said Three Friends were climbing down the rocks when golden stepped on something and it exploded. Hinds said he and his friends did not have any fireworks. Say the device is not linked to terrorism but called it experimental and said it was placed like it was intended to be hidden but not stepped on. Witn for help. Heres how they describe the scene. I have no idea what it was. It sounded like a cannon. Thats why i thought it was a fourth of july thing. Ran up the hill and found the young man lying on the rocks. Roz hinds said it appe