Transcripts For WPHL Action News At Ten On PHL17 20140925 :

Transcripts For WPHL Action News At Ten On PHL17 20140925

Brian and shirleen, Storm Tracker six live showing we do have some rain now. This is not a deluge this is light rain, wilmington, baltimore, millville, Atlantic City and all areas to the south report ago this light rain but the actual intense rainfall, with the coastal storm has not made tonight to our region just yet. Storm tracker six live double scan, a wider view. As lou down here off the coast, that is some very heavy rain and that will be pin wheel nothing as we head through the overnight hours. Even wider view showing you that the Actual Center of the storm is off the North Carolina coast and this will be slowly moving up the eastern see game. That rain would be intensifying in the overnight hours, as that storm system gets close to us. Future tracker is showing this is not what we want to see for the morning commute. 8 00 in the morning you can see all that red and orange. That is heavy rain that will be right over, the the Delaware Valley for the morning commute. This is definitely going to be a morning you want to how plenty of extra time. Future tracker showing another problem with the storm system is the intense wind. At 8 00 tomorrow morning that storm will be very close to wildwood, and you can see the stream flows out of the east pushing in the water, win gusts Atlantic City, 45 miles an hour at 8 00 in the morning. When you get that push of water it will cause minor tidal flooding at the shore. So your morning commute forecast, doesnt get much worse than this. It will be rainy, windy, i cannot stress enough to how plenty of extra time. We will be dealing with ponding of water on roads at 6 00, 59 degrees. By 8 60 degrees. We will talk more about details on the storm system when it moves out and have some really good news for your weekend in the accu weather forecast, shirleen. Sound good, thanks. When weather changes stay on top have of it by logging on to the 6a wbc Storm Tracker six app. It is available on your apple and Android Devices freer. Two people remain hospitalized following a shootout that killed one man and it happened in front of the school that was reacts of frighten parents who came running to the Pan American Academy Charter School in north philadelphia today. Police say the driver of that car there got in the shootout with a pedestrian on the sidewalk, the driver died, the pedestrian was injured, a third person was hit by that after i veered out of control. Police dont know what touched off the shootout. All three suspects wanted for the attack on the gay couple in center city of surrendered to philadelphia police. Tonight, arraignments were set for 26 yearold kevin harrigan, 24 yearold Catherine Knott and 24 yearold Philip Williams. As Legal Process plays out we are learning more about one member of the trio and what many are calling a history of questionable behavior. And action News Reporter Kenneth Moton takes us from their life tonight at central detective, kenneth . Reporter hours after Catherine Knott was named as a suspect her twitter account went viral. Tonight she has been suspended from her Montgomery County hospital job and now even her police chief father is under the microscope. All three ara accused of a violent attack on two gay men in center city but as 24 yearold Catherine Knott who is getting most of the attention thanks to her very public twitter feed some tweet where is homophobic. I represent a young woman who has never been in trouble, coming from the wonderful family. She has a Law Enforcement background in her family. Reporter knotts attorney is talking about her father Bucks County Police chief karl knott, a lieutenant in abington township when his daughter tweeted about special treatment from her dad. One tweet claimed she went on a police raid and kick down a door in december of 2012. Abingtons police chief bill kelly says the young woman was on a legitimate ride along but the rest was false. As for the other tweets they also appeared not to be true. There is no allegation against any member of this Police Department that goes unresearch regardless of whether it ace none must or how it comes in we research it because we value the reputation of our Police Department. Reporter kelly spoke with other officers and even chief not the not and exemplary officer he has men for 30 years. He was an outstanding individual and i respected him tremendously and so did all of the members of the department. Reporter is there more trouble in the water for Catherine Knott who works as a er tech at lansdale hospital. Ate percent she also tweeted patients xrays from her job, a possible federal crime. Abington health suspended knott and said it is investigating. As for that attack attorneys for the is suspect say it wasnt gay bashing but a mutual confrontation. With respect to how it escalated that is unfortunate but it only escalated after one of the victims struck one of the young girls in the face out on the street. Reporter knott and other two male suspects are expect to be arraigned sometime tonight. We contacted the Chalfont Boro where in the nots father is a police chief. An administrators say on the advice of legal council, no comment. Reporting live from central detectives in Spring Garden tonight Kenneth Moton for action news at ten on phl17. Shirleen. State police have performed a test on soiled diapers found in the area where they are looking for a killer in the poconos. They believed the diapers and empty packs of serbian branded cigarettes were left behind by eric frein. The search for him is in its 12th day, and there has been at least one sighting according to state police but he is still on the loose in rug he had terrain that has helped him remain hidden. Frein is the lone suspect in the killing of the Corporal Brian Dickson and wounding of a second trooper still in the hospital. A pennsylvania woman had the book thrown at her when pulled over in new jersey over the gun that she was licensed to carry. The problem is she was only registered in her home state. Her punishment was heavily criticizedded. But as action News Reporter dann cuellar reports the Atlantic County prosecutor has done an about face and dann, the woman says ray rice case played a role in this. Reporter that is right, shirleen, the the prosecutor consulted with the Attorney Generals Office, to clarify the law on allowing first time offenders to enter a no jail time program. Now the Prosecutor Says it will no longer seek jail for a south philadelphia matter of two for merely carrying her gun across the bridge into new jersey. Her legally owned gun. Mommy is not going to jail. Yeah, wow. Reporter reaction after 27 yearold shanein allen broke the news to her kids that she went go to jail after all for bringing her legally own gun into new jersey. She will now aloud to enter a pretrial Intervention Program. I dont to have wonder what is going to happen to them, now i know they will within me. Reporter after being robbed twice allen got a gun with a run to carry but she was later arrested in Hamilton Township new jersey after telling state trooper she had a gun and a concealed carry permit issued in pennsylvania. She said Atlantic County prosecutor wanted to make an example and have her then in jail for a minute mum on have three years. Scared me very much, telling me my maximum was 11 and a half years. I cried. I wanted to run out of there. Reporter single mother of two went on social media to tell her story. She pointed out that the state prosecutor was letting Football Player ray rice go without jail after being caught on tape punching and knocking out his wife but threatening to send her to jail. They are trying to tell me i had abused and hurt someone to get off and get a second chance, you know, i already did 46 days in jail. Reporter many were outraged, various gun rights groups, also got involved raising 60,000 for her defense. Now the prosecutors, that had a change of heart after the Attorney Generals Office clarified state law. Im looking for this to be over so i can stop being so stressed and the point that hurts the most is not knowing what will happen to my boys. Reporter allen will be back in Court Tomorrow morning where a lawyer says the charges will be either formally dropped or she will aloud to go into the new no jail program, known as a pretile Intervention Program and face no jail time at all. Were live from penns landing, dann cuellar for action news at ten on phl17. All right dann, thank you very much. It is now official the price of cigarettes just went up in philadelphia. That means an additional 38 million per year for cities Public School district. The the superintendent, doctor william hite at his side governor tom corbett signed that cigarette tax bill today adding a 2 a pack sales tax to smokes sold in philadelphia. The 2 hike is in addition to the 1. 60 excise tax leveed by the state of pennsylvania. It was a nice night for an outdoor celebration of the jewish high holidays. That is exactly what several people did in Rittenhouse Square this evening. They enjoyed a live concert and a traditional Rosh Hashanah a service, hosted by death em betties rail a synagogue located on 18th and spruce. The event was free and opened to the public. This full hour of action news continues with the word for apple users tonight. If you didnt get most recent upgrade you might want to be glad about that. A race car ledgend will keep his freedom, a grand jury has spoken about the deadly crash that killed a fellow driver. It is called a fantasy sword but it is behind veryal ts stationness berks county. Reality star known as the situation has a serious situation on his hand, and could face years in prison. Guess what . The money we need to fund our schools lies right underneath your feet. Thats right. Down in the ground, pennsylvania has deep deposits of natural gas. But because of governor corbett, were the only state in the country that doesnt make oil and Gas Companies pay an extraction tax. As governor, ill make the Gas Companies pay up to help fund our schools for a change. Tom wolf for governor. A fresh start for pennsylvania. U. S. Says arab allies carried out more air strikes begins is is target in syria. Pentagon says a dozen sites were hit including an oil refinery that was generating millions of dollars a day for the islamic state. Also hit was staging area used by militant to movie quip. Across the border in to iraq. Todays strikes came as president other bam a will rallied leaders at the United Nation to get behind his military campaign to stamp out isis. Nascar champion tony stewart will not face charges in that deadly tragedy on the race track last in month. A grand jury found there was no basis to change to charge stewart with the crime. D. A. Says that kevin ward, junior, the driver stewart struck on the track was under the influence of marijuana which impaired his judgment. Wards family said late today that they will continue to quote, pursue all remedies. Well, if you were planning to update the ios operating system on your i pad or iphone you can. Complaint prompted april toll make it unavailable to solve some major issues. Action News Reporter Sharrie Williams has details with that tonight live at the big board, hi sharrie. Reporter this has been a big talker today, update is meant to fix problems but today it caused problems. Of course, users took to social media to share their experiences. This operating system just came out last week and today was its first update to sort out some of the problems. Instead some users say that things got worse. A number of people in the repair center. Reporter apple store in center city buzzing tonight, many are buyers, anxious for the new iphone six. Others though are seeking help after their iphone or tablet started acting weird. Im not getting Text Messages from everyone. Im having so many problems. I need to order a new phone and i have to wait for that to come in. Reporter customers around the country says issues started after they down loaded ios update or ios8. 0. 1 which apple released to day. Users complained that the new software shut their Cell Services down or fingerprint touch id feature was in the working so apple pulled the update. That is not what you want. Reporter she said she knew something was wrong as soon as she started to down load. It says 15 hearst for an update. I said that doesnt sound right. If i send Text Messages it says im receiving one. It is just doing weird stuff. Reporter apple issued a statement saying we are actively investigating these reports and will provide information as quickly as we continue, so stay tune, there will undoubted be another update to the update. Meanwhile on another apple note, have you seen this piece of video. It is being called iphone been test. This was posted after a few report posted of their iphone six plus was bending after they left it in their front or back pockets during the day. Iphonies made out of aluminum which is a soft metal but despite this bending the iphone six and six plus both received high ratings in a recent breakability test by square trade but apple has yet to comment on the bending situation as of yet. People who still have black berries will say we dont have those problems. Thanks, sharrie. The company has just unveiled a new smart phone call the passport, yes, black berry has a passport. It is square and has a large screen and remains to be seen whether the phone will help black berry regain the prominence after apple and android phones were introduced. Passport will be available to at t customers by the the end of the year and 599 on amazon for a limited time. Drexel university in west catholic has a brand new place to practice tonight. They will share a new synthetic feel located at drexels Athletic Complex in west philadelphia. Maguire field will give the universitys athletic teams another weather resistant location. The west Catholic High Schools Football Team will also use that space. This is a dream of 24 years, since 1989, west Catholic High School has been without a permanent practice site for our games. The field was made possible by 1. 5 milliondollar gift from the maguire foundation. New to the accu weather forecast. The as we await the arrival of some rain. A lot of rain, and coming with wind. Meteorologist cecily tynan has latest on the the track and timing tonight, hi cecily. I will tell you, all this fall it has been dry, comfortable. Of course, fall only started monday night but now things will change. Satellite six with action radar showing we are seeing the clouds, light rain generally south philadelphia but the the Actual Center of this low pressure is well to the south. You can see we do have some heavier rain developing off the coast and this will be moving in the overnight hours. It is not the amount of rain were getting but the timing during the the morning commute. Win speeds right now are sustain wind out of the east 15 miles an hour at the Atlantic City airport. Wildwood 17. Philadelphia 12. Wind are intensifying as storm system gets closer. We will get wind off the ocean, from the east, the and piling up the water on the coast. Because of that Coastal Flood Advisory posted for high tides between 9 00 and 11 00 in the morning for Atlantic County and areas up in the north. We are not talking about major flooding but minor flooding. If you are in these area and you live near a place that typically floods when we have storm systems good idea to move your car to a place that doesnt flood because this will be problems for the morning. Future tracker showing early part of the morning commute we will deal with heavy rain south of philadelphia, as we head to about 8 00 oclock you can see this really fills in. So the the morning commute is going to be a wet, windy one. The good news is by lunchtime heavier rain will be north of philadelphia and all dissipates, lingering showers in the afternoon. So the evening commute on thursday will not be nearly as difficult as the morning commute. So the first storm of fall, heavier rain occurring between 1 00 oclock and 10 00 oclock in the morning. How many times have i said this now . A slow morning commute. Dont be surprised by this. Good idea to get out on the roads earlier and be very patient. Good news it all tapers off in the afternoon. Although a lot of people dont like rainy days, we could use the rain. We are coming off a very dry summer. We are looking at one to 2 inches of rain, not enough to cause any river or stream flooding, locally up to 3 inches. Much need

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