Transcripts For WPSG Eyewitness News On The CW Philly 201501

Transcripts For WPSG Eyewitness News On The CW Philly 20150107

Good morning again everyone, now closer to home we are dealing with a brutal blast, of cold weather. Health advisors are advising you to limit your time outside. Eyewitness news; joins us from Pennsauken Camden count which are that code blue has been just lifted, nicole, good morning. Reporter that is right good morning. That is right that code blue has been lifted but it is still pretty darn cold out here. The snow came and went but the cold definitely left behind. Make sure you dress and drive, smart. Some spots are better than others. Some are better than others. You have to be careful. Reporter yesterdays clip are system left behind slick streets and snow covered sidewalks but for folks in new jersey it is all about the bitter cold. I have tights underneath my sweats, i have a tshirt and two jackets. Right now i got some pants, i got three sweaters. I just dont got one sweater. Reporter and in camden count a a code blue went in effect monday night and continued through 7 00 oclock wednesday morning. A warning that is issued anytime temperature or wind chill drops to 20 or below. If that is not bad enough some folks say it is bound to get worse. I dont think we will get what we will going to get yet. Reporter oh, no. I told you im a winter person. Reporter can you believe he is actually waiting for it to get colder. That makes one of us, that is for sure. We are looking live at route 38 in pensauken, new jersey in Camden County. You can see traffic is moving along without any problems, out here. That is the situation on the main road. If lou in and around your neighborhood youll find your most messy commute because many of those side streets are still snow covered. Many of them went untreated. That is very latest live from Camden County Nicole Brewer Eyewitness News at cw philly. Okay, get in the truck, warm thoughts, we will get back to you. All right. Maywood brownies one of many homeowners who heating oil and it comes at the a cost. This year he is getting more for a lot less. Falling fuel prices mean he is paying 2. 59 a gallon a dollar last compared to last year. Home Heating Oil Delivery coast say they are making more money because they are putting more oil in their tanks. 8 04. Lets get traffic and weather together with the temperatures, katie. The the temperatures are definitely cold, for sure ukee but they will get a lot colder as we move forward in this forecast. As we look at my hair it is staying put for a change. That means the win has yet to start cranking but it will, as the the day goes on. As if right on cue the breeze starts to kick n it never fails, does it. We do have a little bit to show you on storm scan of note. We have generally clouds thinning. A few clear skies here, and it the sky deck you can notice souping in a few speckles of purple. If you see handful of snow flakes byebye lake effect wind and a accumulation, all of this section inflation flying around and in the allentown area wind chill advisory is taking effect this evening, and the wind has yet to really start to crank up, and it the is, a tad bit breezy to make it feel colder then thermometer reads right now. These are the temperatures we have to go by. When we walk out the door, you need to dress as though it feels like the single digits, because it does, in allentown in trenton, at philly international, feeling in better than 10 degrees. We will hit 26 today. The those wind chills likely dont break out of the teens, and this my friend is just the beginning as we move forward in the forecast it will bottom out later tonight and then tomorrow, it will end up being our coldest day, variety tore y. Thanks very much, katie. Good morning everyone. Problem still persists during your rush hour commute. And, and rush hour volume, and take a a shot the at this right here. Still in the media. And, in spots and black, snow, and formation. And, a major systems. And, incidents can happen. And, blue route right around the area of route one. We are still trying to recover from that. Residual earlier blocking a lane. Now you that they are on the shoulder again trying to recover from that volume on top of rush hour. We are dealing with a lot. Ninetyfive southbound we are dealing with a a lot out of the northeast down to the vine, rush hour and right now all septa Regional Rail lines are experiencing delays up to 15 minutes. You will need to prepare yourself for that. Traveling area bridges earlier speed retrickses have lifted for everyone except commodore barry. Ukee. More on our breaking news from Montgomery County. Swat team is near a home in upper moreland township. A man has barricaded himself in the house on abby view avenue, and davisville road. They are telling residents to shelter in place, and Eyewitness News will update that, as the morning continues. Winter chill and lack of water supply complicated fighting a fire in bucks county. They got to a large two story home on curly mill road in new britain township. Everyone did get out okay but you home is a a total loss. Fire fighters have two problems lack of hydrants in that area and below freezing temperatures. The main part of it but hose lines freezing up and making it hard on the guys working on the fire. The big thing too is there is a lack of water supply here so we had to truck in water. That made it difficult also to fight the fire. Bucks county fire marshall is trying to determine how that fire started right now. Lakewood Police Charged a driver for hitting a child crossing the street and disregarding a School Bus Stop sign. This happened around 5 30 at the intersection of clifton avenue and kerry street. Authorities say the eight yearold boy was pinned under the car and dragged 80 feet before the driver stopped. Investigators charged Michael Adler with reckless driving and illegally passing a school bus. Developing right now a major break, in the search for missing air asia flight 8501. Indonesias a search and rescue chief says divers and unmanned under the water vehicle did spot a section of the planes tail in the java a sea. That find is an important one for investigators since the planes voice and data recorders are stored there. So far, 40 bodies have been recovered since that plane went down december 28th, with 162 people on board. A suicide bomber had has targeted cadets waiting to enroll in a Police Academy in yemen. Mini bus full of explosives, blew up killing at least 30 people and injuring 40 others. So far no one has claimed responsibility, however, a branch of al qaeda has carried out similar attacks in the past. Fbi the is looking for a man who may have information about a explosion near the Colorado Springs chapter of the naacp. Blast happened outside a barber shop next to the groups building. No one was hurt. There was only mine offer damage. Fbi spokeswoman says someone placed a gasoline canister next to the device but it did not ignite. Nationwide flu out break is getting worse, we will have the latest a as illness spreads in our area. Cowboy controversy it continues for governor christie the the new trouble he could soon find himself in. We are not only once in the bit of the british blast we will feel down read balmy in some parts of the country. Looking live outside right now, so cold, as you two said you may just feel numb. We are doing traffic and weather together after the break but dont be fooled just because snow is not on the roadways anymore, it is still freezing. Take care of your pets as well. Bring them inside if they are not already. Got that right. 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Twelve people are reportedly dead including two Police Officers after gunman opened fire at the officers of the satyrical newspaper. This ace live lot the a the scene. Police and eyewitnesses say gunman stormed the building with automatic weapons this morning. Frances president has condemned the attack calling it terrorism. The country has raised its terror alert level. Officials will meet in emergency session security has been increased all over the city of paris. We will continue to follow this breaking story and we will bring you another update later in this broadcast. Well, the bitter blast continues to hold a grip of much of the country. Crashes are tying up highways, school are closed and crops are in danger. The a as brian web reports are, another round of freezing arctic air will head toward the east coast. Reporter school kids in and around chicago are getting a day off thanks to old man winter. Chicago Public Schools and 125 other nearby districts are closed to day because of the a dangerous drop in temperature. Forecasters say it will be negative six when students would have been waiting for the cool bus. Chicagos mayor says canceling classes was a matter of safety the health and safety of the children. Reporter first winter blast of the the new year is forcing much of midwest and northeast into survival mode. In chicago, the temperature may not reach zero on wednesday, with wind chills dropping down to 30 below. Really cold air core of it coming down as we head through wednesday, across midwest and down to the deep south. It is another one lined up into friday into saturday. More arctic air coming down. Reporter some bundled up commuters have already had enough of braving the bitter cold. Tomorrow we will take the the car to work so i wont freeze waiting for the bus to get the train. Reporter with wind gusts expected at 40 miles an hour in some places and more black ice expected on the roads emergency officials are asking drivers to stay at home, and only travel if necessary. In insuring brian web for Eyewitness News at cw philly. Lets check our weather right now. The heres k fell. Our weather is looking like the same. The cold air out break is here and it will be reenforced as we heard from eric fischer in the story there it will get reenforced by the weekend. We will go on a modest ebb and flow with these temperatures readings but very cold air already here and we actually are set to bottom out tomorrow. Heres is what going on. We have lake effect snow out there. It is not a storm system necessarily but rather just a trough of cold air. You can see the leading edge of it. You can trace it very well. Down into the the central plains. Basically where ohio river meets the mississippi. But everybody gets in on this. This is something that is really affecting the eastern half of the you had, and when we go next to the wind chill watches, advisories, warning, 30 out there because it spans half of the country. The it is january. We will see this every single winter usually but this is pretty much the first out break like this that we have had. Certainly we got through with a pretty dame december. So, it is going to hit you like a rude, awakening for sure. The lets look at these future feels like values. The heres your time. By noon today it is highest feels like temperature i could find for philadelphia basically at noon hour. Thirteen. That is best that it will feel. Late are tonight as early as 8 00p in m look at how cold it feels. Already feeling like zero in the city. Rough stuff. Make hure you are ready for the. Dangerous wind chill values. We will be in that wind chill advisory by the way. We will be bottom out the with the worse of the wind chill at least overnight. So as you are hitting the road around this same time tomorrow, it the is not much better but it will likely have already been a at its worse. Meanwhile, these temperatures wont break out of the teens right through friday. It does appear we do start to see the temperatures rebounding a little bit by friday but they will get knocked down again. Twentytwo is the current temperature at the the airport. Ten at mount pocono. Off to the cold start obviously. Clouds are still thick outside Middletown Shin high school. We can see blanket of snow here. It is 24 degrees. Win is beginning to pick up a little bit but heres the thing, go go by these values. You have to factor in the win. You will be just fine. Black ice is a bit of a concern and will be for a few days right vittoria. Black ice today is causing a few accidents or has caused a few accidents and we have another accident to add to the roster. The eastbound on the 30 bypass approaching business route 30. Notice an accident compromising the righthand lane here. Traffic is getting by but ever so slowly as they do some maneuvering. It is not so much black ice that we are seeing but it is snow on the roadway in this area. This crunch of snow thaw have you know that feeling when your boots hit and it crunches. But this crunch of snow is making it a very dangerous traffic situation. You will need to give yourself some more time. It is in the only areas like the the 30 bypass that were seeing those major delays caused by an accident, but take a look at 476. This shot here not too far from route one. If you are traveling in either direction northbound or southbound you will notice activity on the shoulder and also a disabled vehicle that we have on the shoulder on the the southbound side as well. Delays in both directions, rush hour 95, schuylkill Regional Rails are a experiencing delays. New jersey lawmakers looker nothing to governor Chris Christies travel to Dallas Cowboys games. John wisnieski and and Loretta A Weinberg suggested probing whether governor violated ethic rules by accepting travel and ticket from do you boys owner jerry jones. Governors office says he is a allowed to accept gifts from friends and that the governor has fully complied with state rules. The jones called christie as visit good alarm charm and want him in sundays playoff game at green bay against the packers. New this morning football is coming back to Sayreville High School this fall after a hazing scandal ended this past season. The school shut down, the Football Program last september, when the scandal first broke. Several players claimed that the older teammates, sexually assaulted them and inappropriately touched them. The superintendent a announce that had last nights School Board Meeting that the team will play again this fall. I believe very strongly after the past several months that football is a very, very important part have of our athletic programs and of our community. Seven Football Players are charged as juveniles as for the the hazing accusations. An your healthwatch this morning, new information about the the growing number of people, suffered with the flu in our area. There are now more than a thousand confirmed cases in delaware. Last year at this time, there were only a hundred. The the Pennsylvania Department of health, says that there are now nearly 1,000 confirmed flu cases just in Montgomery County. Abington hospital, they are reportedly in the middle of the hot zone. Now you can get all of the information you need on the flu on our web site, there is an overview risk of symptoms and risk factors. There are tips to prevent the flu. Go to cbs philly. Com, click on health and then flu. Youngest mayor in the history of moorestown, Burlington County is now in office. Eyewitness news was there in the building for the swearing n26 yearold council would man Vittoria Napolitano took the oath of office last night. Her husband held the bible during the the oath. Township council is four to one republican and represents had majority rotate holding the mayors seat. Mayor napolitano is in her first term and says it is an honor to serve. It is very exciting for for me. To have more women in pol tics especially young with man is really important to me and it is something i hope i can be a role model for other young woman who are considering stepping in the political arena. The mayor says that her number one priority is passing this years budget, without an increase in taxes. Congratulations. We are meeting the volunteer members of a very special Group Responsible for finding the body of Shane Montgomery. We will tell you why the discovery was incredibly personal for one man coming up. But right now as we go to break we will show you is what coming u up tonight on the cw philly. Watching everybody eating what they want all day oh this tasteless cardboard brings me nothing but more shame turning every turn until i find something right and it. Takes my breath away it is weigh in date for one of the most scary creatures in australia. This is the awe tomorrow i can betty. That is australian for snake. Right, right. Do you see that. Do i. Fifteen yearold python from southeast asia. The it is more than 8yard long, and people take to hold her and tips the scales at the 240pound. Now, pythons they are known as the only snake considered to be a true man either and there you go do you see those teeth inside, razor sharp teeth but she suffocates her victims first. You have to hold the snake. I dont want anywhere near that snake. Atomic betty, you know let betty go do her thing somewhere. I dont want her out in the wild. I dont want her to sneak up on me. Dont get atomic betty upset. You you can see what happens. Right

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