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WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 4a December 26, 2014

What is left of the Holiday Weekend and when you can expect rain coming up in your Weather Authority forecast. All right. Then Services Begin today for one of the ny pd officers killed in the execution style attack in new york, how one company is honoring police around the country with the heart warming offer. Good day, it is friday, december 26th. The the day after christmas. Sue serio, how was your holiday. Terrific. We made a quick trip with baltimore, spent great time at my brothers house with family. You know, that is what it is all about sharing that time together. Hopefully you had a great time too. Lets see what we have in store today. We will start off with satellite radar and in the only do we not have any rain in our part of the country but we cannot find any cloud either. That bodes well for plenty of sunshine for today. Lets start off with the current temperature of 34 degrees. 8 miles an hour wind out of the west southwest, wind chillies 27 degrees, and sunrise time is 7 21, in the morning. So temperatures range from 30 in pottstown to 32 in mount pocono. Thirtyfour in philadelphia good thing there isnt any precipitation or we would be talking about wintry stuff. Thirtyfive in wilmington. 39 degrees in wildwood. Checking the wind, nothing extreme here either, calm wind in some places, 8 miles an hour here in philadelphia out of the southwest and 3mile an hour breeze in wildwood. So, that is actually we will have to go past that because that was an older little thing, when we were counting down to christmas. Things did play out the way they were supposed to. Dry and sunny today with temperatures above average. The lets break down the day by 9 00 oclock it should be about 38 degrees, chilly but sunny. We will zoom up to 47 by lunchtime and probably top off at 52 degrees for a High Temperature for this day after christmas. We will go through the seven day forecast and tell but when we can expect that chance of rain over the weekend, coming up in just a few minutes. So friday morning, bob kelly, hopefully it is a light traffic day for you. I think it will be a light traffic day at least beginning of the morning will be light. Later on once everyone wake up and they load up car and realize kid are off from school, they are driving us crazy what will we he do around lunchtime is when we will start to see the the jams out there probably around some of the shopping malls getting those sales and making returns. A live look, south jersey route 30 no problems at all working your way out of the front door and Early Morning start, quiet roadways, roads are dry. No problems at all here on the the schuylkill expressway coming in or out of downtown philadelphia. I95, looking good as well, in northeast philadelphia, in problems at all. We are not going to see any construction crew is today tying us up. That is good news. A live look at the the blue route right outside of mid county. Using mass transit, a couple curve balls here, Regional Rail lines are running on a regular, weekday schedule, you are good to go there from the suburbs. However, the buses and trolleys are running on a modified schedule. The route ten running with no delays. Buses are looking g keep that in mind. That is an old graphic from the airport. So far so good at philly international. We will keep an eye on that and check bridges. Tacony palmyra bridge opening coming up at 4 25. Chris, back over to you. Lets get to this at the 4 04. A man is recovering after being stabbed in the holmesberg section of philadelphia overnight. Police say the man was stab in the chest over the the 5600 block of ditman street. The man was taken to the hospital in stable condition. In word yet on any possible arrests. Meantime an area couple gets a special present on christmas, and fox 29 is only camera on the scene to catch septa officers in action. Sabina kuriakose will bring us up to date live from center city, hi sabina. Reporter i dont know how a story can get any better. We have a baby delivered by two Septa Police Officers on Christmas Day. Unbelievable. It all happened here at 15th and market, subway station here one of the most unlikely of places around 6 00 oclock yesterday. Lets take a look the at that exclusive video we have been telling but this morning. Fox 29 is the only crew there to capture that baby being rushed out by those officers. Officer daniel cabin and jarel james got a call of the woman in labor and they ran over and found baby was already crowning when they got inside of the train car. It was all happening so fast, they jumped in to action, they put on their gloves and they were able to deliver a healthy baby boy. Baby was breathing. Maintained the head and make sure the cord was not around the neck or anything like that. We got our gloves ready and we delivered the baby. That is all we could do. Reporter quick thinking officers, they know know what they will face on that job but obviously they are very good and heroes. Proud pop, of course, so happy he took pictures with the officers before heading over to meet mom and baby at Hahnemann Hospital and we are told at last check that the family, and baby are doing well, chris . Good that is very good news. What timing, right . All right, thank you. 4 06. Here is your chance to stump out hunger with the cast of International Percussion sensation stump which is currently performing in philadelphia student, fans, theater goers will receive a special lesson from the cast today at Kimmel Center participants are asked to bring canned goods which will then go to philabundance. Great cause. Another hack, yes, another one begins sony, this time affecting play station and microsoft x box, also experienced disruptions. Yesterday, Christmas Day a hacker group called lizard squad is claiming responsibility for the disruptions on its twitter accounts. The group that claimed credit for the attacks on the play Station Network in august and Sony Pictures was target of the massive hack attack involving a series of leaked emails from the company which, of course, we and everyone else has been reporting on quite a bit. The crowd around the country, that said turnout for premiere of sonys the interview. Penn cinema is one of 300 theaters that decided to show the the film after sony reversed the the decision to pull the move any response to that hack. Now that is down from 3,000 screens. Hackers had threatened to attack at showings of the film so bomb sniffing dogs were brought in as a precaution to wilmington but many movie goers say they werent worried about their savety. Unaudible. Meanwhile russia is offering support to north korea. The the white house blames the sony hack on north korea who denied the allegations. Now a russian spokesperson says north koreas anger is understandable and u. S. Threats of retaliation are counterproductive. Police arrested a with man for running down a will valet the outside mainland restaurant and then taking off. Michelle simmons pulled up to the valet stand at seasons 52 in upper merion wednesday afternoon. They say she grabbed one valet thes cell phone, a second valet as it was going on. That is when police say simmons hit the gas, evidently that second valet was standing in front of the car at the time and he was thrown on to the hood for quite a while, right there by the windshield and then fell a short time later. And, several apartments tried to pull simmons over before they say she crashed in the parking lot in whitpain township. That woman is now in custody. We will keep an eye on that. At 4 08. The christmas celebrations are put on hole in sierra leone as officials deal with the ebola up dep i can. They are affect more than any other nation. The epidemic has put a strain on Holiday Shopping and travel. Sierra leone has more than 9,000 ebola cases. Office Party Contest in Salt Lake City takes a wrong turn and coworkers end up in the hospital. It all happened when a worker accepted the alcohol free eggnog chugging contest invitation. We dont have that here at fox 29. Participants said everything was going well when he was declared the winner. But 12 seconds later after, downing the quart of eggnog he could in the breathe. He was rush to the hospital. He had eggnog in his lungs and oh, yeah, it took the man a week to recover. Former president George Hw Bush did not getting to home for the holidays. He haded to spend christmas at a houston hospital after experiencing shortness of breath earlier this week. Family expects men says the 90 yearold had a terrific day and is in great spirit. A big cat grabbed on i a hong kong street after two milliondollar falls off an armored truck. Poem were scrambling to collect money before Police Showed up. Police believe money was secured in three cash boxes before it became undone. Police are urging anyone who pick up the money to hand it over or risk being arrested. President obama and the the first lady are marking the even to the war in afghanistan in good morning, welcome back on this day after christmas and Christmas Day lunch for those, less fortunate. Second Pilgrim Baptist Church in fairmount has been offering christmas meals, for the last 20 years now. Organizers of the lunch say helping their neighbors is what the holiday is all about. That is what we do, we just love everybody. We all need some help, that is all it is about helping someone else. We love what we do we love it. I wouldnt change my place for nobody. In addition to the lunch the church also gifted clothing and shoes to those who attended. Sun, surf and sand for christmas a record breaking turnout for annual surf and santa event, this is in cocoa beach, santa one man started this five years ago and look at what this has turned in to part of the proceed will go to the Cocoa Beach Surf Museum and another partings to the Organization Called grind for life, a cancer survival and recovery organization. The pretty cool stuff there, sue serio. I could see you doing that totally. I think im the the only native californiaan who has never tried surfing ever, once. The it was always all about baseball. That is all right. We all have our thing. Heres the thing, we dont have anything to where bye weatherwise, visibility is good. We dont have any fog to tell you about. We dont have any rain. At this time yesterday it was still raining, if you were up really really early but that went away and we had plenty of sunshine for Christmas Day and all kind of played out just as predicted and we told you friday would be a nice day and we cannot find anything even nearby to show you, on ultimate doppler radar. So, we will take a look at what is happening after that, except that were, okay, i thought we were frozen. Let it go. All right. Now we have a closer view of nothing on ultimate doppler radar. Now we will jump ahead to our future cast to 4 00 in the morning on saturday, again, nothing going on there, weatherwise, it really isnt until sunday that we will start to see the the clouds and by 8 00 in the morning we have rain around. So if you have outdoor Holiday Weekend things you want to do, today is the day, tomorrow is the day, sunday is your indoor, go to the movies or museum or maybe just all kind of fun indoor things to do on sunday because that rain is on and off throughout the day and wont be gone until after sunset on sunday. So temperatures right now are pretty chilly thanks to those clear skies. Weve got 30 degrees in pottstown. Thirtyfour in philadelphia 29 in millville. 39 degrees in wildwood. But the wind are not making it feel much colder then that. 8 miles an hour out of the southwest so maybe a little bit of the wind chill but nothing dramatic, temperature trend over the past five days, has been going up. Now this 65 degrees we got to on Christmas Day was an early high while the rain was still here and then temperatures did drop after this sun came out and we averaged in the 50s during the day which is what we shall do today. 52 degrees is our High Temperature. We wont have significant wind chills. Get outside and enjoy that one and tomorrow with the high of 55. Scattered showers around on sunday and then really cold temperatures after that because those showers are coming, with a cold front so the high, on monies for 42 degrees. Get ready for a cold new years eve. The day time high is 35. So at night it will be down there in the 20s at midnight and it stays cold for the first day of the year and for the mummers parade, on thursday, new years day. So, the at least, the mummers are happy when it is dry bob kelly. Exactly. Im sure they will take the cold over the rain. I will wearing my fox 29 long johns for part raid there next week. Live look at 295 in south jersey, quite it this morning, we will stay that because through most of the morning rush hour. Later part of the rush hour will start to see some volume pop, live look here at i95 near philadelphia international, no problems or delays at all at the airport and no problems getting there. Heres a live look at route 202 through Construction Zone working your waste up to route 29. Tacony palmyra is expecting an opening at any minute at 4 25. Heading out the front door, be ready for a stoppage. Mass transit running with no delays. Chris, back over to you. At 4 17, a prankster had a little fun on the garden state parkway turning the clark and westfield exit into clark gris world, the father in the christmas vacation series, taped on sign, has been since reviewed, well, reviewed and removed by the Turnpike Authority as you can well imagine and alex holley was great to be dressed up for christmas. Food and Drug Administration is reminding consumers not to eat happy apple brand carmel apples. They announced a possible connection between a listeria out break and it apples. Three people have died, 29 illnesses have been link to that out break. 4 18. World leaders are relaying a message of hope and peace on Christmas Day in bethlehem, the bible town where christians believe jesus was born, tourist from around the globe traveled for mass and vatican city pope francis delivered his christmas message and blessing for those caught in conflict. President obama spending the holiday with his family in hawaii and asked americans to celebrate and honor u. S. Troops, veterans and their families. In just a few days our combat mission in afghanistan will be over. Our longest war will come to a responsible end. In afghanistan american soldiers are looking forward to a home coming of course but they still got to celebrate christmas, even if it was from very far away. Foxs Leland Vetter reports. Pretty Important Mission here. It is an honor to be part of that but at the same time it is difficult. Reporter american and nato troops are celebrating christmas at the International Security Assistance Forces headquarters in afghanistan. This is expected to be the the last time, most of them spend the holiday in the country. Many of them are expect to leave afghanistan by december 31st. In cuba, catholics are not only celebrating the birth of jesus christ but they are celebrating the news that the you had and cuba will resume diplomatic ties. Now we can be united and love each other like brothers, united, and peaceful. Reporter meantime across the atlantic and united kingdom. For me the life have of jesus christ, prince of peace whose birth we celebrate today, is an inspiration and a anchor in my life. Reporter Queen Elizabeth the the second taking part in her christmas broadcast, the queen calling for reconciliation across the world and taking time to praise medical workers fighting ebola in africa. I have been deeply touched this year by the self lessness of aid a workers, medical volunteers, who have gonna broad to help victims of conflict, or of diseases like ebola are the report are queen made her first christmas broadcast all the way back in 1952, and then it was on radio. In new york, Leland Vetter, fox news. Services begin today for one of the officers killed in an attack in new york city, how one company is stepping up to make sure that the officers brothers in blue can be there to show their support. Final game of the season in sunday in new york. Not a great Christmas Gift for eagles fans. I asked players to remember back to their favorite memories and gifts on christmas. Nintendo 64. A train. I got the a train that blew out smoke and things like that. That was best for me. It was a radio that i wanted, you know, on the radio and i just remember recording tape and all kind of stuff on there. I mean it was someplace you could do it. That was my best gift. My first bike. It was like a harley davidson, and it was making a met or cycle, and yeah, that was my favorite one, i rode the wheels off of that thing. All right. At 4 25. New York City Police are on alert ahead of funerals for two slain officers awake is scheduled for rafael ramos will be laid to rest tomorrow. Ramos shown the on the left was killed along with his partner, wenjian liu in an ambush last week even. Funeral services have not been announced but six people have been arrested amid more threats with police. Jet blue is planning to offer free flights to Police Officers across the country, who attend the funerals of fallen nypd officer this weekend. New york post reports two officers from each Department Nationwide will be allowed to fly for free. Jet blue is working to bring liu family from china to new york at no charge for the wake today and their funeral tomorrow for l

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