Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20150831 : compa

Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20150831

August 31st, 2015. Start of the week, end of the month. Sue serio off. Scott williams good enough to wake up super early. Good morning. The bright and early on this monday. It will be a steamy one stepping outdoors. The look at the temperatures here in philadelphia. Already 78 degrees. We have due points measure of the moisture in the atmosphere. Anytime they are above 60 it feels uncomfortable. Dew point readings right now at 66 degrees. Look at the temperature area wide. Mild start in allentown. Sixtynine in the lehigh valley. We have 72 in reading. Right now doylestown 72. West chester 72 degrees. The temperatures right now in sections of the dover, 75. We are looking at mid 70s in atlantic city. Temperatures are pretty mild. It will be a pretty muggy day out there. So, near 6 30 we are looking at temperatures won again pretty muggy. Look at the High Temperature later on right around 90degree. We had 91 yesterday. It looks like another potential heat wave brewing as we head into this week and head into september. We will talk about that possible heat wave, rainfall chances and yes, we have another hurricane to talk about, ill tell you where it is located and track all coming up, how is traffic looking on this monday morning, been kelly. Hi, scott good morning. Not that bad at all. 4 02 on a monday. Crew is still out from last night, cones still down, this is a live look at the blue route 476 right here near saint David Villanova interchange pushing down to one lane here. Everybody push off to the left but light volume. That is good. It is also first day for Suburban School district, so we will be join later on by Yellow School buses, teacher, administrators all that will shake it up a little bit for the kid gone back to school. Some unusual traffic patterns in the the neighborhood and we will talk about that as we go through the morning no problems on the becky up and over downtown philadelphia looking good on the speedometer readings on the schuylkill, i95, to and from the airport, no delays getting there and were in good shape at philly international for any flights taking off this early hour. Work crew is still out here on 422. This is a left over from last nights, between 10724, they will take a little break for rush hour and then they will go back after 9 00. Regional rail lines looking good, no problems on the Paoli Thorndale or west trenton. Market frankford line they are still running shuttle buses on the system until 5 00 but otherwise were in good shape, chris, back to you. Officials in new jersey, had to shut down a persian of the the new washing Liberty International airport after police say a man entered a secured hallway inside the terminal. He was stopped by customs and Border Patrol protection agents. Officials and k9 did a security sweep. We are awaiting details. As we get them we will pass it to you. 4 03. A man is in Critical Condition after being shot in West Philadelphia. Police were called to south 52nd and pine just before 11 00 and they found a 23 yearold man who had been shot several times. Nine shell casing where is found at the scene but no witnesses and, in suspects. Philadelphia police mourning the the loss of the officer killed in the crash while offduty. Police say driver responsible, may have been drunk. Jennifer joyce is on this one in northeast philadelphia with more, jennifer, good morning. Reporter at this point that 59 yearold driver is under arrest at this point for leaving the scene of the accident. Charges are still pending. Philadelphia police are mourning the loss of one of their own 19 yearold veteran lemar pool of the 12th district was riding his motorcycle on devereaux just after 4 00 p. M. When investigators say a toy yoel a correspondence role a traveling the option direction on deaf row struck the officer as they met at roosevelt boulevard. Cops say the the kept going a few blocks. A tow truck driver followed that vehicle, called 911 and tracked the car until police arrived. The driver was arrested and Police Suspect he was driving truck. The the four twoyear old officer was taken to aria torresdale hospital where he died. Our heart goes out to the the family. Every day i see a car accident happening in here. The boulevard is dangerous. People dont follow the the signs. They speed. The the car after the impact left the scene north on roosevelt boulevard in the toy yoel a correspondence role a and we had a couple of witness helps followed the vehicle who really helped out big time and followed the car, pinned the car in, called the police and they got there and made the the arrest for leaving the scene of an accident. This is two in one week we have lost one of our own. Everybody is heart broken bit. Are the. Reporter police tell thaws pool was in the wearing a helmet in that crash. He is the the second officer as you heard to be killed in the traffic related incident this week. The last saturday night Philadelphia Police sergeant rafael ali was killed driving on the 6,000 block of henry avenue in roxborough. Investigators say that the three twoyear old hit the median in his 2014 dodge ram pick up and slammed into a tree. Police say speed may have been a factor in that accident. So, this is a tough week for the Philadelphia Police department, chris. Absolutely, too bad he was not wearing a helmet, that may have made a difference but who knows. 4 06. Bulletproof vest may have saved a Delaware County Police Officer after he was shot on the job. This happened in norwood just after 1 00 sunday morning. Ridley Pennsylvania Park Police Officer mark hammond was shot in the chest and leg responding to a call about a suicidal man. They say the man shot officer handily through the door, before police fired back hitting the the man in the elbow. The hour long standoff ended with gunman surrendering to police before being taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. There is in doubt without that vest, the the officer would not be here today. He was hit in the chest and he is lucky to be alive. Police say officer handily is recovering at home and is expected to be okay. The the gun man is face ago tempted murder charges and other things. Coming up 4 59 07 members of the the chester up land School District will meet with two unions representing teachers and support staff. Unions have agreed to work, without pay, so school can start on time, wednesday. The problem, well, it the is the state budget. The schools dont have money to operate. Karen hepp is on this one. Karen, good morning. Reporter it is a frustrating situation. Basically chester up landis one of the poorer School District in the entire state. They have been having problems for 25 years. This is not a new problem where they have over spent or under funded. This is second time in a number of years that the teachers and support staff have to work without pay. They had a huge meeting last week. So many people attended. It cuts to the core when you are worried about are teachers going to be able to come, janitors, bus drivers, administrators. They say they will work, now without pay. Parents are very excited about the situation, about 3,000 kid here, and it is exactly that issue. We dont i have state budget. If you dont after i state budget the School District doesnt get money that it need. Reason why they are so in the the hole right now, we know situation with the charters. For some reason the the reimbursement rate for special education students is so much higher in this district. Up to 40,000 per kid. Much lower in other areas. It is just not getting enough money. Heres what some people were saying. The schools have a right to an education. Unaudible. It is just a big mess. Frustrating . It is because our childrens future is in play here. Reporter very, very frustrating. Schools start this wednesday and everyone has promised that they will be here. All of those bus drivers, picking up the kid and administrators, janitors, teachers, they will work without pay. First payroll day is september t have a state budget. Were not sure when this will end but there will be that meeting this morning and we will update you on all of this, chris, back to you. Thanks very much. Coming up at 4 09. Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin will join mayor Michael Nutter as they celebrate new and improved ralph brooks part in south philadelphia. His make the World Better Foundation to help finance the renovations which included a, vision for a lot catering to the youngest member of the community. Connor barwin always helping out. Thousands spending the night in Connor Barwins home away from home in south fail to see one of the most popular comedians of our town and proud philadelphia native. Comedian and actor kevin h theart performed at lincoln financial feel. Brad satan was here. Calm before the storm, you see it, im in my sound check. Im in a football stayed yum. Reporter kevin hart speaking to his 21 million twitter followers showing his home town some love and it is loving him right back, by making history. Tonight bee copping first comedian to ever sellout a nfl football stairs. I put flyers out, made sure everybody was coming. All thanks to you. Yes, kevin harty love you man. Reporter sold out which meaning the belly laughing will be coming from the nose bleeds. Were not even going to be able to see him, we will to have see him on screen but as long as we can hear him. It will be funny down low and funny up high, so why not the. Reporter movies, tvs, concerts this north philadelphia guy is on quite a run. Speaking of run we caught up with him on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum saturday never afraid to get up close and personal for fans with a 5k inspirational run. Im doing this to simply motivate people, to simply make people adapt a successful mind set to understand it is easy to be the best version of yourself as long as you push yourself. Reporter giving back to his community through donations of computers, known for always finding time to snap a photo. With his infectious personality message of success through hardware and stylish humor it is not surprising he filled these seats with 53,000 fans and chose philadelphia as a place to wrap up his national tour. Glad you are doing this for philly. Philly, lets go, baby. 4 11 is the time. Hundreds of people taking to the streets in houston in memory of a fallen county deputy, hear what officials are saying about the recent violence begins police around the country. From family and friend to faith leaders and station executives we will take you inside vigil remembering lives of the wdbj reporter Allison Parker wayne cameraman, adam ward. Welcome back. Hundreds of runner took advantage of the nice weather in south philadelphia. Philly 10k started early sunday at eighth and south street and ending at fifth and pine. Finish line was pretty sweet with some federal doughnuts waiting for those runners. You dot right thing by running, scott, and then you ruin witt doughnuts. Yeah, you have to get those carbs again and you have to get some sugar with those doughnuts. It heated up yesterday as well. High made it up to 91 degrees. We could be entering another stretch of the 90 or better days, and also another heat wave. As we look at what is happening right now on ultimate doppler it the looks like it is raining. This is not making it to the ground, it is just an indication of the moisture level starting to increase across the area we are looking at temperatures already. We are at 78 degrees. Look at those dew points in the mid 60s. Anytime we have dew point is above 60 it the feels sticky. The as we look at bus stop buddy, it will be a pretty steamy start this morning. Temperatures in the 70s, to near 80 degrees. Some kid are back to school but some still have vacation, so, it will be a nice day to head to the pool a little later on today. Look at the temperatures right now, upper 60s moving toward lehigh valley, sections of the pocono mountains. Seventyone in doylestown. 70 degrees, as we move toward pottstown area, and you can see close to 80 in philadelphia the mid 07s in sections of the south jersey as well as delaware. We will take to you delaware. 75 degrees right now. We are going to entering this this pattern, hazy hot and humid, humidity levels will increase throughout the week and we will add on to the 90degree or better days. So far this year take a look at this, 29. If we hit 90 today that would make it 30. That High Temperature today is looking at about 90 degrees. It will be steamy. A few isolated showers in the forecast. Take a look at this we already have another hurricane to talk about near the cape verde island, hurricane fred, it is a minimal category one storm, 75 miles an hour wind. Movement northwest. As we look at freds projected path it will stay well away from land in the open waters of the atlantic, likely weakening toward latter part of the week. Looking at that seven day forecast we are going to talk about temperatures right around 90 degrees for today. Ninetytwo on tuesday and then take a look as we move toward wednesday, and thursday, 94 degrees. Feels like temperatures could approach triple digits by middle and later part of the week and then we will get a break in that heat, 89 degrees by friday and then by upcoming weekend it stays warm near average as we near dovered sunday of next week. A hard to believe this is last day of august, bob, what is traffic looking like . Actually not bad at all but overnight crews are loving construction weather we will call it, a little muggy stepping outside that front door. They are still working on the vine street expressway, westbound, as you work your way from 95, over to broad street, the right lane taken out. But at this hour light volume, but no big backups, be ready to slow her down towards about 30 miles an hour rolling through construction zones. Northbound lanes of i95 same deal, construction up this near cottman avenuer with off ramp to cottman avenue closed until 5 00 this morning. This set up will be in place all this week. So for those heading northbound, jump off at Bridge Street or go up to academy or flip that u turn laverne. The Spring Garden on and off ramps are closed all this week overnight until 5 00. So use either 30th or the south street interchanges, to gain access to center city. Coming southbound on the northeast extension right at lansdale is there a disable in one of the lanes just south of that lansdale interchange. Three of the septa a trolley routes using shuttle buses due to track work for the next week or so. Speedometer readings from the suburbs not bad at all. Turnpike route 30 working your way through malvern but a lot of the Suburban School district, opened up the doors to the yellow buses will be joining us this morning, and that of course also means the little ones will be waiting on the bus corners. Keep that in mind rolling out of the driveway this morning. No problems coming on the schuylkill looking good on the blue route, mass transit running with no delays. The chris, back over to you. 4 18 is the time. Outpouring of the support for the grieving family of the the texas deputy killed while putting gas in his patrol car. Hubs joined in the prayer walk through the streets of houston in memory of harris county, deputy darrenvilleforth. He was shot and killed friday night. Officials say he was struck several times in the head. Police do not know the motive for this attack. The best guess is he was shot because he was in uniform. The shanon miles, the suspect, is due in court this morning. There is in evidence he knew his alleged victim. The deputy was the 23rd member of the the Law Enforcement in the country to be shot and killed this year. We have heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Cops lives matter too. Why dont we just drop the the qualifier and just say lives matter and take that to the bank. The the deputy was a ten year veteran. He leaves behind a wife and two children. Charities are being established to help finance their education. This week, two journalist shot to death on Live Television will be laid to rest. Yesterday a Memorial Service was held in roanoke, virginia for 24 yearold reporter Allison Parker and 27 yearold photographer adam ward. Photo owes were shown to the screen for 500 people who turned out for that service. The general manager of wdbj remembered the journalist as good workers and talked about coping in the aftermath of this. A few hours into wednesday reporter i think it was one of mine asked me if i was angry. I thought about it for a moment and i said yes, of course, i was angry at the Mental Health system, i was angry over the easy access to weapons, i was angry about, well, the being angry. I try not to be angry at god. Last week ward and parker were doing a live interview for the the station when vester flannigan walk up and shot them. Would the man being interviewed was also being shot, she survived. Flannigan was later found dead in his car. Police say he shot himself. 4 20. With oregon senator jeff merckly to become 31st moment for his support, momentum is picking up for president obamaes iran nuclear deal. But mercklys support puts supporters within reach of a 34 votes needed. Last week 200 generals wrote letters to congress urging them to reject the deal. Yesterday, 75 former members of the congress including a few republicans, did the opposite asking congress to up hold the deal. The Congress Returns from recess, they have until september 17th to vote. We will keep an eye on. That coming up fast. For the the first time turkish jets took part in the u. S. Led air strikes against isis on friday. Turkish Foreign Ministry said the country agreed to open up the air bases to the coalition before that they were afraid fight ago b

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