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WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A November 17, 2016

Out of here, yes, just a little cloud cover left over. We take a look at ultimate doppler radar. You may end up seeing a little bit of fog this morning, usually when we get it in the wake of some rain it, doesnt show upright away. So we will keep an eye out for foggy conditions, meantime, looks nice here in old city. Looking at 52 degrees, sunrise time is now 6 49. We have west northwest winds at 6 miles an hour. Other temperatures, 43 mount pocono, 47 lancaster, 50 in wrightstown, and atlantic city, and 44 degrees in wilmington, delaware, right now. Winds are coming out of the northwest in the wake of the front. Not too high. At least not yet. After sunrise those breezes may pick up a bit. In the meantime, clouds and some fog this morning, sun returns by lunchtime at the latest, of course, these days are short, it will be mild one for november. With a high of 62 degrees, big changes coming over the weekend, bob kelly, weve got the details coming up. Youve got it, good morning, 4 01 this thursday, and the joint already jumping here because of a tractortrailer that is trying to navigate through the vine street expressway closures. We all know on the overnight, they closed down the vine street expressway, well, not only the cars, but these big rig tractortrailers, just following their gpss probably from out of town. Guy decides to make a sharp turn on the 20th street off of vine, and pull down all of the power lines. Soap, not only is that street blocked, 20th and vine st. Local, the traffic light, and overhead light, are all out, right there in front of the Franklin Institute to kind of i go awe locate or there. In that Construction Zone. And in addition, of course, the vine street expressway, closed overnight, through 5 00 this morning. So there is a lot of construction we need to navigate. Plus they put up all of the metal barriers, and believers, we get ready for the philadelphia marathon this weekend, then theyll keep everything up for the thanksgiving day parade next week. Northbound lanes of 495, an accident, right near the philadelphia pike interchange, thats causing delays for folks coming up from wilmington, and both the market frankford and subway using shuttle buses until 5 00. Thomas, karen, back to you. Bob, thank you so much. Were following this breaking news, from west philadelphia, right now, police are investigating a shooting outside of the fastfood restaurant, the scene, checkers at 52nd and Market Streets, this is just about 2 30 this morning. Officers say there was a man who was shot in the arm. They took him to the hospital. He is in stable condition. And grounded, a 20 year old Drexel University student now under arrest accused of flowing a drone right near a police helicopter. Philadelphia police say they noticed the drone when monitoring protests in center city last night. So officers say they seized the device near 29th and chestnut. The student facing several charges including wreckless endangerment. Antitrump protest haves been going on therefore over a week in philadelphia. Tens of thousands of dollars in merchandise has been swiped once again in another smash and grab from another high end restaurant. Three men from north philadelphia are now charged in this highend robbery, happened at a macys in moorestown. Steve keeley live in headquarters, it happened again, bold move. Steve . Well, i tweeted this story monday night, lets go to those pictures i tweeted goat from the moorestown detective over where i live. Three pictures you notice from the Moorestown Police after guy in a eagles hat grabbing a huge pile of Polo Ralph Lauren clothes, throws each item over his shoulder, and runs out of the store, doesnt get caught. Then notice Dave Schratwiesers story last night, what appears to be the same guy, same hat, same store, same day. Third guy, among three guys, notice, the third guy, the white guy with the black hat, you only see him from behind this time, again at may macys, again in the Ralph Lauren Polo section, grand five grand worth of polo clothes at the macys in moorestown and run out. And the doors, you notice, real close in the mens section to the ralph lauren section, they get into a getaway car and get away. Police are figuring that these guys are the same guys who hit boydes last month, then his macys for the watches at the Roosevelt Mall last month, two cars you recall, the rav4 and the mercedes benz. Once it got so thoroughly reported these guys torched both vehicles, and you see them in the police impounds lot, you can barely even make out whats left of the mercedes as police here at headquarters were telling me they found on the street completely torched unlike the rav4. Authority on the Moorestown Mall case this week traced that new getaway car to a stolen infinity suv. And Dave Schratwieser reported last night it was found in north philadelphias turner street where they staked it out until four guys got in, police with the help of the fbi think it could be the three guys in the Moorestown Mall Surveillance Video plus their get away driver who was in that stole inch infinity out in the parking l. For now here at Police Headquarters in the lock upheld on just stolen vehicle charge, at 20,000 bail and not cooperating, dave reported last night, about the recent string every Designer Clothing heists, but investigators believe they have cracked this case. Un remarkable, they finally got this. Lets back this surprising landing at kensington rec center watch landed on a baseball field right near their home. Where children were playing outside. Lets get right to jenny joyce in kensington with a pretty wild story. Jenny . Reporter it really is, karen, thomas, a lot of people could not believe it. They rushed here concerned as this hot air balloon was descending on these baseball fields here in kensington. The hot air balloon, it happened just after 4 00 yesterday. Here it is, the balloon reaching the ground in a field at c and wigs moore lands street. Local rick rose pulled out his cellphone and click to record, posted the video live on facebook, some neighbors say they saw flames and called 911 but the four people who emerged from the basket were okay. It landed after heavy winds, the pilot said it was a planned landing but surprise to neighbors nonetheless. I thought it was about going to crash into the street. I was like oh, man, it is about to blow up. Thats what i thought. When they landed who ever was in it fell out. Then everybody just started running over there. They were doing some sort of fuel consumption test. They were the height of about 17,000 feet. They encountered some heavy winds and they decided to land at this location, they saw the recreation center, and they determined that it was a safe place to land and thats why they landed here. It is a beautiful place to land. And there is no power lines. And it was just absolutely perfect conditions. Planned landing, no problem . Right. There is no problem. It was a planned landing. Reporter police say the faa was aware of the landing. It is still unclear why the group was flying in the area. And the real reason they landed here so the faa, as well as east detective, are investigating. Karen, thomas . We will be talking about that one for quite some time. Jenny, thank you. 4 08. President elect donald trump hoses first molding with the World Leaders since winning the election. Meeting in new york city today. Expected to discuss trade and the long Standing Alliance between the two nations. This comes as trump prepares to announce more members of his counsel. Steady stream of possible appointees have been spotted leaving trump tower, among his top choices, lieutenant michael flynn, as for secretary of defense, arkansas senator tom cotton is possible pick, for secretary of state, former new york mayor, Rudy Giuliani has been mentioned as potential candidate. The president elect is pushing back against his critics who claim there is turmoil on his transition team. In fact, in a tweet, you see it there, trump says the transition is a very organized, in fact, going smoothly. On this final foreign tour, president obama renewed his commitment to a smooth and peaceful transition at power. During a speech in athens, he spoke in the toughest terms about the president elect and the meaning of his victory. You may have noticed the next american president , and i, could not be more different. Faced with this new reality, where cultures clash, it is inevitable that some will seek a comfort inn national i am, or tribe, or ethnicity, or secretary. Oh, bamm al is in germany, tonight will attend private dinner with the chance len american he will. Tomorrow he meets with united france, italy, spain. And there is new pole out that shows that most americans want trump to compromise once he assumes the presidency. The Washington Post shows 59 say he should compromise with democrats on the issues where they strongly disagree. Meantime, Hillary Clinton makes her first public appearance since making her concession speech, during a talk in washington last evening, the former secretary of state says the past week, its been tough. There have been a few times this past week when all i wanted to do is just to curl up with a good book or our dogs and never leave the house again. Our campaign was never about one person or even one election. It was about the country we love. The former secretary of state was honored by the Childrens Defense Fund for her advocacy work with children. She says those determined young people represent a rising generation that should give us all much hope for the future. You can still hear it in the background there. Eagles all time named to the hall of fame semifinal list. Coming up well tell you which nfl ledge sends one step closer to canton. Plus, why super model kate upton is defending her boyfriend, justin, in calling out red fox player rick vercello. Some well tell you more about that, good morning, bob. Kate is not the only one upset. Folks that typically use downtown here the vine st. Local upset this morning because of tractortrailer, as tried to navigate through the Construction Zone, pulled down some over headlines at 20th and vine st. Local. Here is a picture from our news van, there is the Traffic Signals that are down. It is flight in front of the Franklin Institute, causing havoc for Early Morning commuters in center city. Well have the rest of the jam cams. Sue has the forecast when we come right back. Welcome back everybody. 4 14, updating breaking news here in center city, philadelphia, this morning this tractortrailer trying to navigate through the Construction Zone of the vine expressway pulled down the Traffic Signals at 20th and vine st. Local, the ben franklin parkway. Now, this is a typical example what happens here on the overnight. They shut down the vine, all of the tractortrailers problem be bridge from out of state, not familiar with our road system, how small these intersections are, as you can see, right there, trying to navigate through the detours, pulled down the power lines. So vine st. Local is closed, 20th is closed, at the parkway, and also all of the overhead Traffic Signals are out. All right there, smack dab in the middle of the Construction Zone here in center city philadelphia. So, thats how were going to begin our thursday morning here at 4 15, vine st. Local blocked at 20th, right across from the Franklin Institute. So just watch for some local detours, i came through here this morning, and passed it, and you could see this Traffic Signals are out, police are on the scene. All of that in addition to the typical construction delay that we have here, as the vine street expressway shutdown until 5 00. So it has been a crazy Early Morning, northbound lanes of 495, an accident at the philadelphia pike for the gang coming up from wilmington, in toward philadelphia, and we still have construction crews out here. This is 95 northbound at academy, only one lane open, as you head into northeast philadelphia. And sue, you mentioned something about maybe some fog during our morning rush hour . Yes, we are going to keep an eye out for. That will little bit every moisture left over from the cold front that is going to actually be making it way through today. But i want to show you a difference in temperature between the northeast and north of there, where we had 53 degrees right now in new york, and 36 in detroit. The reason were showing that to you is because of the colder air, that will be moving in over the weekend. Cold front in the center of the country right now. Some wintery precipitation behind it. And yes, some that far could come our way in time for the weekends, but nothing on radar at the moment. So, the showers from yesterday, are out of here. Heres a future cast. No more rain today. Friday will be a dry day. Saturday, there is friday night, saturday pretty dry day, as well, see the clouds increase at night, some showers move in. Along with these showers, some very cold air. And look what happens by early sunday morning, possibility of some wintery precipitation s just saying. 62 degrees today, 67 tomorrow, 68 on saturday, then we lose 20 degrees on sunday. A cold wind on monday. Feeling like winter as we head into the prethanksgiving time. How about that . Bound to happen, sue, thank you. Time 4 17. We want to get it a developing story out of north philadelphia. Philadelphia police are searching for a kill they are morning. Skyfox over the 3600 block of north marvin street last night. Police sources tell us someone shot a man while he was in a car. Police rushed him to temple university, but just could not save him. And a former Chester County teachers aid is under arrest after she was accused of having sexual contact with two boys who were student. Fortytwo year old sherrie muscle forward. Mulford working, and says both of these events were off campus, the unionville chad forwards superintendent says in a statement the incidents were immediately report today law enforcement, once they were aware. It is 4 18. Charges now, Minnesota Police officer, due to make his First Court Appearance tomorrow in the shooting death of castile, yesterday officials found officer was not justified in the shooting of the 32 year old. He now faces a second agree manslaughter charge. Investigators say the officer had asked castile to show his drivers license, and proof of insurance during that summer traffic stop. Investigators say castile told the offers their he had a gun on him, but he was reaching for his license. And thats when the officer opened fire. The victims girlfriends streamed the months after he fired the seven shots live on facebook. It is my conclusion that the use of deadly force by officer yanez was not justified. That sufficient fact exist to prove this to be true. It is necessary for everyone to understanded that we want peace, we dont want any protest to get outrageous. Officer yanez due to make his First Court Appearance. Coming up well have an attorney to be weighing in on this case. Controversy surrounding Rutgers University professor. Authorities say kevin allred taken to New York City Hall for psych add trick evaluation after he was accused of threatening to kill white people. But says the comment he made in class and on twitter with rhetorical political statement. In fact, you are looking at some of those tweets. New york city say they were contacted by rutgers campus about the alleged threats, allred, who was white, taken to the hospital tuesday night and released later that evening. Hundreds of student at Swarthmore College stationed a wage out yesterday. They want their school to become a sanctuary campus. Student say they fear undocumented student and staff will be deported under trumps imposed immigration policies. Swarthmore student joined 80 other colleges and schools in this National Push to keep student and staff protected. I have a loft friends either not citizens or sons of immigrants who arent citizens. So separation of families is a big issue im concerned about. Right now the college says it is investigating what providing sanctuary would mean for undocumented students and the legal process. 4 20, more top stories, new developments regarding the new jersey transit. We have now learned the engineer diagnosed with sleep apnea after the accident. Thomas gallagher told investigators he had no memory of the crash. But did remember waking up on the floor. This crash happened on september 29th when the train slammed into the station going double the speed limit. One person died, more than 100 injured. Well, democratic lead verse decided not to try to impeach governor Chris Christie over the George Washington bridge scandal. Many say it is time to move forward. Federal jury handed down convictions for two former allies, republican governor Chris Christie, thirds appointee pleaded guilty in the 2013 political pay back scheme. Assembly speaker says hes reviewing trial transcripts to determine whether a new inquire my the scandal is needed. But he called it due diligence. Christie wasnt charged in the matter and denies any wrongdoing. Bill cosby definitely going to trial in june. Yesterday a judge denied his latest attempt to ends his Sexual Assault case. The judge also reje

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