Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 5a 20141226 : co

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 5a 20141226

Today, were getting it together. It is definitely a nine because we cannot find any precipitation in the whole northeastern part of the country and hardly any cloud. So that means a chilly morning but it also means a sunny day, whole entire day. You can relax and have some fun outside, the kid got a new bike or a scooter or something for christmas, they can play with that as well. 9 miles an hour win makes 35 feels like 28. Sunrise doesnt happen until 7 21 but we will see sunshine today. Here are some more temperatures. Thirtyfive in philadelphia 36 in trenton and reading. Thirtytwo in lancaster. Thirtyone atlantic city. Thirtynine in wildwood. Wind at 9 miles an hour here in the city and less than that, elsewhere. Heres your planner, for friday, it is clear, cold to start, sunny skies throughout the day, and then a nice day with a High Temperature of 52 degrees. The the days are still pretty short, we have not even been into winter for a week yet so sunset is still pretty early at 4 42 p. M. But there are plenty of Christmas Lights to enjoy and you can do that tonight, without war big rain. Funny you say that. That is what would i love to do tonight or tomorrow. We will go for a little drive through the neighborhood. Check out the lights. Good morning. 5 02 on this friday, tgif, light volume this morning. Kids are all off from school a lot of folks have the day off from work but after lunchtime things will start to pop wants folks head to the mall to make those returns or the kid, start driving your crazy and get out of the house. Live look at 30 and 70. No problems or delays. We are quiet on 309 and 20 two. We have activity on the river. Tacony pal will my use bridge in the middle of of an opening. Traffic stopped on both side of the river at the moment. The betsy ross bridge would be your best bet but then in a half an hour we will have an opening coming to the Burlington Bristol bridge. Watch the clock, and keep that in mind, so some activity on the bridges this morning. Otherwise, mass transit is looking good, with no delays. The chris, back over to you. Time is 5 03. New this morning a man is recovering after being stabbed in the holmesberg section of philadelphia overnight, police say the the man was stabbed in the chest in the 5600 block of ditman street, the man was taken to the hospital in stable condition and in word on any arrests. Another hack attack against zone a affecting play station and microsoft x box also experienced disruptions on Christmas Day much to the shegrin of parents. A hacker group called lizard squad is claiming responsibility for this disruption on its twitter account. The group had previous liz claimed credit for at tax on the play Station Network in august and Sony Pictures was the the target of a map attack involving a series of leak emails from the country. Crowds around the the country turned out for theater premiere for sonys interview. Penn cinema in wilmington delaware is one of 300 theaters that decided to show the the film after sony reversed decision to pull the movie in response to the hack. That is down from 3,000 screenings. Hackers threatened to attack at showing of this film so bomb sniffing dogs were brought in as a precaution but many movie goers say they werent worried about their safety. Spent 12 support free speech. Meanwhile rush ace offering support to north korea the white house blames the sony hack on north korea who denies the allegations and now a Russian Foreign ministry spokesmen says north koreas anger is quote understandable and that u. S. Threats of retaliation are counterproductive. 5 04. It is christmas story one couple and several septa workers will be telling for a very, very long time, in this only on fox, watch as our news camera catch the workers in action, Sabina Kuriakose live in center city to set this up for us, hi sabina. Reporter it was a christmas miracle right here at 15th and market. Now can you imagine taking the the subway and a woman is going in to labor right on your train car. I can tell you these folks were glad that they were very capable Septa Police Officers on hand. Lets take a look at that exclusive video, i mean you can just see the the tension and the adrenaline on those officers faces as they are bringing that baby boy out of that subway. It all happened around 6 00 oclock last night. Daniel capon and darryl james got a call of the woman going in to labor. They sprung into action and ran over. By the the time they got the to the train car the baby was already crowning. They put the on their gloves and delivered a healthy baby boy and even, the father even took a picture with this family, before he helpedded over to the hospital. We talk to the officer, and some bystanders after it all happened and heres what they had to say. It happened so fast we just went right into action. We called for the the medics. They were on point too. So i was happy, they were happy, the the family was happy. The people were in shock. They were excited. They were calling the baby, within lady said he is a cutie pie. Everyone was happy for the mother, for the baby, congratulating the Police Officer, it was just a really, positive moment, good moment. Reporter back here live, yeah what a great christmas, you know, just taking the the subway heading to where ever, going to a family members house and then this little miracle comes in the world and we have brave Septa Police Officers who stepped right into the action. At last check baby mom and dad are doing just well, chris . Thank god for dad. All right, thanks. Heres your chance to stump out hunger with the cast of the International Percussion sensation stump which is currently performing in philadelphia opportunities, fans and theater goers will receive a special lesson from the cast today at the kimmel center. Participants are asked to bring canned goods donation which will go toward philabundance. Police arrested a woman for running down a valet outside a main line restaurant and then taking off. Police say Michelle Simmons pulled up to the valet stand in upper merion yesterday afternoon. She grabbed one of valets phone and second was just kind of of standing in front of the car asking what is going on . That is when simmons hit the gas hitting the second rally with it throwing him on to the hood of the car. He hung on for a short distance and then he fell. Several departments tried to pull simmons over before she finally crash in the parking lot in whitpain township. Shes now in custody. Christmas celebrations put on hold in sierra leone as officials there deal with the ebola epidemic. Sierra leone has more people infect with ebola then any other nation. It has put a strain on holiday hopping and travel. Sierra leone has reportedly more than 9,000 ebola cases. They are still trying to deal with. An office Party Contest in Salt Lake City takes a wrong turn and coworker and several of them end up in the hospital this all happened when a worker accepted the alcohol free eggnog challenge contest invitation. You can hear them go chug, chug, chug. The participants said everything was going okay, when he was declared the winner, but just 12 seconds later, oh, yeah, he could not breathe. He was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered he had eggnog actually in his lungs. It took the man a week to recover and again, it is not even alcohol involved. Former president George Hw Bush unfortunately did not getting to home for the holidays. He had to spent christmas take in the hospital experiencing shortness of breath earlier this week. A family spokesperson said the nine yearold had a terrific day and is in terrific spirits. Big cash grab a along a hong kong street after nearly two milliondollar falls off an affirm ordinary truck. People were scrambling to collect some of the money before police armed with shotguns and bulletproof vest 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. Food and Drug Administration is reminding consumers not to eat happy apple brand carmel apples, missouri based Company Announce aid possible connection between a listeria out break and its apples. Three people have actually died and at least 29 illnesses have been link to that out break. New York City Police on high alert ahead of the funerals for two slain officers, and a wake is scheduled for rafael ramos, who will be laid to rest tomorrow. Ramos was killed alongside his partner on the ride, wenjian liu. Funeral services have have not been announce budd six people have been arrested amid more threats begins police. Jet blue is planning to offer free flights to Police Offices cross the country, who want to attend the funerals of the fallen nypd officer ramos this weekend. Cops from each Department Nationwide will be allowed to fly for free. Jet blue is working to bring officer lius family from china to new york and no charge for the wake today and funeral tomorrow, for lius partner. One little will girl gets quite the the unique christmas gift, it is a moment her parents will never forget and one she will be grateful for forever. How her baby brother gave her, one of a kind gift that saved her life. Huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know you that former pro Football Player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything . Unhuh. Number 44. Whoooo fortyfour, thats me get some cold cuts. Get some cold cuts. Get some cold cuts whooo gimme some geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. Whoo fortyfour ladies, thats me whoo. Gonna get some cold cuts today itll come from my kitchen. The Biggest Surprise this season wont come from an upset, try our new philly cheesesteak pizza. A large for 12. Add a red kettle cookie for 6 and a portion of the proceeds go to the salvation army. Better ingredients. Better pizza papa johns. For a change we dont have anything to show you on ultimate doppler radar. We usually still have rain around but that is long gone and not only do we have no rain but we have no cloud and that means temperatures are, on the chilly side but lets jump april head as we look forward to the rest of the weekend, todays friday, tomorrow is saturday, and it looks like the day of saturday will be delightful, weatherwise, anyway, plenty of sunshine, temperatures above average. Sunday is when cloud roll in first. Here comes the rain by 8 00 in the morning. It is not impressive rainfall but more annoying then anything else, and it will be cloudy when it is in the raining and with us for most of the day. We dont see it clearing out until nighttime, perhaps lingering into the early part of monday morning but you that is doubtful as well, with about a tenth of an inch of rain predicted, in philadelphia. Lets check out some temperatures, elsewhere, in the country, and it looks like the coldest spots are in the rocky mountains, colorado springs, 19 degrees, 15 in billings, montana, 37 degrees in chicago. Thirty atlanta. Eastern part of the country were in the seeing anymore storms not like the mess we had Christmas Eve and so many other places. 42 degrees in new york it i. We are checking temperatures around here. Thirtythree allentown. Here in the city, it is 35. Thirtyone limerick. Thirtythree in doylestown. At the shore we have 42 degrees in cape may but these are wind chills what it feels like outside. 24 degrees up in mount pocono. Feels like 28 here. Be sure to be bundled up heading out early for those day after christmas sales because stores are still opening pretty early. Thirtyone in atlantic city. Half price ribbon, wrapping paper, this is the day. It was a sunny christmas but high of 65 came at 2 00 in the morning while it was still raining and really warm air from Christmas Eve was still with us and temperatures got chilly throughout the day. So, here is the first day of kwanzaa and it will be really nice outside 52 degrees. We have a kwanzaa segment coming up in the 9 00 oclock hour of good day and we will talk about the meaning of that holiday. 55 degrees on saturday and then sunday is when we will get those scattered showers possibility of maybe a mix or a flurry in the morning on monday but that is looking less likely, and what we can promise you is a cold new years eve, and a chilly new years day as well with temperatures during the day, not making it out in the 30s, happy new year, bob kelly. Right back at you 5 15. Those feathers and long johns will be in full force there on new years day. Good morning, everybody. Tgif, we are off to a great start n problems or delays at all. We are looking live at 295 in south jersey where light volume so far this morning. No major jams at all on our major roadways like here a live look at i95 near the stadium area good to go heading down toward the airport. 202 north working up through Construction Zone, again you have the pattern shuffle is, no problems at all on 202. The Burlington Bristol bridge, heads up on our sites here, 5 30 they have a scheduled opening. If you are heading out, grabbing your coffee and keys be prepared for. That maybe head for that tacony palmyra who had a opening the attack pal earlier this morning. If you are using mass transit today here are some change up. Regional rails are running on a regular schedule, no problems or delays at the moment. Buses and trolleys are running on a modified weekday schedule like route ten trolley no problems though on the buses, trains or trolleys, busy daze in south philadelphia, frozen on ice, down here at the the wells fargo center. We will see three different shows today and that will have them, the changeover, we will have the crowd going in and then we will have a change over in the parking lot, between 11 00 and 3 00 and then from 3 00 to 7 00. Expect delays in and out of school south philadelphia on the schuylkill and i95 corridor in and out of the stadium complex today. They can do that because flyers dont play again until tomorrow and they are out of town. Some christmas history in new jersey. A group reinacting George Washingtons famous crossing of the delaware on christmas morning. Obviously our weather was much better than the freezing temperatures general washington and his troops faced in 1776. During the original crossing, boats ferried about 2400 solds cross the delaware. A connecticut boy gives his big sister a one of a kind christmas gift, the family is spending this chris nasa the yale new haven childrens hospital. Doctors diagnosed eight yearold madeline with leukemia they told her family the little will girl need aid bone marrow transplant. Her best bet her 19 in monthold brother, anthony. Ten minutes in, markers, they could not find a better match then my son. Madelines parents went on to say the eight yearolds holiday wish is for everyone to participate in a bone marrow drive. A remarkable rescue in india the incredible scene unfold as a monkey saved his friends life. The animal got electrocuted by train wires and fell unconscious on to the track. Then his hero tried to shake his friend and dip him in the the what the tore revive him. Minutes later the unconscious animal is seen covered in mud opening up his eyes and moving. Is that amazing. Wow. I can watch that all morning. A tree is helping build a new sense of community for one california neighborhood this holiday but not a christmas tree. David stevenson spoke with the woman who started this very special project. In san franciscos valley neighborhood is in bloom. Really nice touch to the neighborhood. The wishing tree bears the hopes, dreams and wishes of hundreds of strangers and friends, young and old. Im thinking it will help so many people do it the. Reporter three years ago during an unhappy time in her life, therapy piss vanessa, became posting her wishes on the tree outside her home. She invited others to do so as well. I thought would i get some joke wishes and people wouldnt take it seriously but people did take it seriously. I think it is a place for people to just be within themselves and listen to them selves. Reporter for neighborhood children the the tree is a place to request something as simple as a new toy for christmas or share their anxieties about the the world. To be happy and not having a world war three. To have a good year. Reporter fire years 200 wishes were posted to the tree. So far this Holiday Season there have been 650 and she expects even more over the next few days. She says that the project has helped her heel and opened up her heart to strangers and neighbors around her. I had closed my heart for many years and every year it breaks open more. Reporter she usually posts wishes from november through january 1st but often leaves them up as much as a month longer. She find it difficult to take all of the wishes down after the holidays n san francisco, david stevenson. Fox news. A special family, a philadelphia, i should say a pennsylvania family at that, gets three special gifts this christmas. The heres is what going on, triplets. Courtney went into labor last saturday two months ahead of schedule. Yesterday she delivered. Yes, it was on Christmas Day babys two girls and one boy are healthy. The parents say that they are looking forward to bringing them back home to their Lebanon County home. Kids get up early and come in the firehouse. And then they wake up. A big task for a little boy, all he wants to do is be a firemen. How one company came through to help him live his dream and why. At 5 00 21a south jersey christmas dinner is doing more than helping people in need. How one man is giving back to the same group that got him welcome back at 5 24, stocks reopened today have after being closed, of course, for Christmas Day. If you missed wednesdays trading day the dow jones gained sixpoint closing at 18,030. S and p500 slipped a point happening at 2081. Nasdaq ended up eight points to 4773,

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