Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20170731 :

Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20170731

Microphone in place, all ready to go. Check, check, check. Worth the wait . The number of the day. All right. It is going toby 10. Did you feel how cool it was. Felt good. Clear skies, northerly breezes which means, low humidity. Lets talk about the temperature. 66 degrees in philadelphia right now. Sunrise time is 5 59. Almost 6 00 oclock sunrise. So weve got 52 degrees in mount pocono. Fiftyeight in pottstown. Even down in wildwood we are starting out with 58 degrees. So it is on the cool side and that means sunshine, all day, now it will be hotter, but not too humid today, so enjoy 88 degrees, and your sunset time of 8 15, we will talk about the rest of the week and whether the 90s are returns, just ahead. Hopefully you had a good weekend, bob kelly. Good weekend, yeah. Caught some baseball, caught the emoji movie and swimming all kind of good stuff. Good morning, it is 4 01. Live look at tacony palmyra bridge in the middle of the opening. It was set for 3 55. Getting ready to step outside right now maybe grab the jumbo coffee, or head for the betsy ross bridge, we have had frequent openings, the pennsylvania couple weeks on the tacony palmyra as they are river. Otherwise in philadelphia kind of quiet, lots of construction expressway, the paving crews have been out all weekend long and they are morni. Heres a live look at the westbound schuki opened, from city line, pretty much all the way out thocken. Same deal on the in bound, eastbound side so we are looking at just one between 476, and city avenue, on the schuylkill in both directions. Again, hopefully they will be out by five or 5 30. We had an accident on the eastbound schuylkill right in the tunnels at passyunk avenue we have a tow truck there on the scene and a nasty crash up here, between kutztown and allentown, a closing of routes 222 as you work your way in to the northeast extension. So from kutztown to allentown your best bet i78, we will get you into the turnpike and northeast extension. Thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank you. Following breaking news right now on this monday morning a 17 yearold girl shot in the chest in the feltonville section of the city. This Morning Police are searching for her shooter. Our steve keeley in feltonville with the very latest for us, steve . Reporter it is a couple shooters they are looking for, and the good news is that this 17 yearold girl is okay, shes in stable condition, and you can see down this street, b street, it lead right into roosevelt boulevard at this time of the day. We should see some traffic. But there is a light right there but that sign you see in the middle of the street there , that is roosevelt boulevard, so, real close to the boulevard and we will go left here and it happened in this corner home, which is split into two apartments and doors are wide opened. You can see up the steps, Police Likely waiting for a search warrant to go in there. They thought they had these two shooters boor cadeed in there so they were surrounding this house, for the last couple of hours. This happened all just before midnight and there is a lot of bullet shells found in the street here in front of the house and they thought these two guys may have taken off in a silver chevy i am pal a so first thing they were in there they took it safely and then they realized no one was inside the house, so maybe two hispanic males and chevy impala and obviously armed and what the shooting was over, who knows and we dont know if this 17 yearold happened to be outside at the wrong time but were told by our colleagues at breaking news network that the offduty Police Officer got her in his car and got her to the hospital and that is why shes doing pretty good. So within Police Officer will tell you to the next that youre never offduty as a Police Officer, always on duty and we have one, on duty now guarding the scene. Most of the investigators here tell us raced over to the murder on indiana avenue knew youll report about later, thomas but this scene here clear other than this officer guarding the scene until they can get back here with the marking to see if they can find any evidence about who shot this, gun off and why. Of course, we have a number of incident to tell but this morning. That right there being one of them. 4 05. More breaking news in the fair hill section. Man is dead after being shot in the head. Shooting happened at west indiana avenue knew and north Fourth Street at 1 30 this morning. Officers have not identified victim who appears to be in his 20s. They have also made no arrests a fire breaks out in millville, new jersey damaging several businesses, it all started at 1 00 this morning ate strip mall in the 1700 block ofe main street. The fire is now under control and thankfully, no injuries are being reported. A developing story, a man wanted for a Fatal Shooting in Delaware County may be responsible for a shooting just a few miles away in philadelphia. That shooter remains at large this morning. Lets get to Lauren Johnson in the Narberth Police department with more, good morning to you , lauren. Reporter good morning to you, thomas, police say it started with an argument and ended with gunshots and Narberth Police are trying continue on investigate and they are also using the help of Philadelphia Police, trying to track the shooters steps on saturday before this deadly shooting. Lets get a good look at the man police say is responsible for killing 29 yearold john lee. Police say an hour before that killing that man, fired shots at two people at seventh seventh and cherwood in overbrook park. One witness told us that the suspect fired more than a dozen shots after he was confronted about wearing they say he took off in a great volvo and apparently he made his weighed to haverford road where lee was just leaving a pizza shop on foot. Witnesses say they argued and then gunshots rang out. Lee was dead outside an Apartment Building where his friend lived. Very bizarre, just cant believe it actually happened here, you know, you hear about these kind of things in the city all the time but not here on the main line. I heard it was over in overbrook where he was random ly shooting at people and somehow he ended up over here. I dont really know, why orle ss just so bizarre. Hopefully police are on top of things and we will continue to live our lives. Reporter police are on top of things, apparently suspect took lees cell phone and they were able to get a hit from it 30 minutes after the shooting near 40th and market. People are still on edge. Police are saying they hope release being those surveillance on saturday will give someone a good look and identify a man responsible for shooting and killing a 29 yearold man. Understand a major concern there. Lauren, thank you. Clean upset to begin on what some are calling heroin haven a stretch of train tracks that runs through kensington littered with needles and trash. Spokesperson for conrail say they will begin clean up, known as camp. Known to host drug dealers, home less people, drug users, which why is the city and railway signed a deal where conrail will clean up the area removing needles and repair fencing. In exchange the city will provide Police Protection and hall off the trash. If you use nj transits Atlantic City rail line you might to have plan for another way to commute this morning, on friday, garbage truck hit the rail bridge east of the pennsauken transit center. Nj transit says they have to suspend services between philadelphia and cherry hill as they make those repairs. Substitute bus services will be in effect. We will have details on fox 29. Com if you want to check it out. 4 08. To a developing story there may be more tensions between u. S. And russia. Congress stepped in and proposed sanction as begins russia last week. Well, now president putin has responded and announcing that 755 u. S. Diplomats and staff ers in his country must now leave. The house and senate voted almost unanimously to slap new sanctions on russia for its interference in last years lex. A bill, President Trump is expected to sign. President made it very clear that very soon he will sign the sanctions, but at the same time as we make our intentions clear that we expect russian behavior to change. Meanwhile Incoming Trump chief of staff john kelly is expect to start his new job, today. Uncertain future of health care creates a standoff between congressional leaders in the white house. President trump is taking a hard line with congress, he is threatening to not only skip payments to insure companies but cut Health Care Benefits for lawmakers if they dont get a deal done. G. O. P. Leaders say it would be a mistake not to work with democrats to simply fix the Health Care System instead of trying to repeal it. Senator Susan Collins was one of the three republicans to vote against the skinny bill on friday. What we need to do is to go through the normal process, identify the problems, have hearing, hear from the experts , hear from all of the stake holders and produce a series of bills to fix the very real flaws in the Affordable Care act. Over the next few weeks the senate is scheduled to remain in town, there is no word on how hard Mitch Mcconnell will continue to push for repeal on the Health Care Plan or if he plans to move on to the next item on the g. O. P. Agenda. Meantime President Trump says u. S. Will take further action against north korea following its latest missle launch. U. S. Defense Officials Say they are prepared to use wrapped, lethal and overwhelming force if necessary, against north korea u. S. Military ran some of their own missle test this is week, including an alaska based Defense System that can detect and intercept a rocket. This morning the Training Mission is in response to north koreas recent ballistics missle launches which show that the u. S. Main line is in range of the nuclear weapons. Chalk it up to just another bad day at the ballpark for new jersey governor chris christe. This time he is confronting a chicago cubs fan in milwaukee who heckled him. Unaudible. What did he say to you. Secret service right there. What did he say. Big shot. That was the end of the confrontation, as you can see, christie gets up and cubs fans face all while holding a bowl of nachos. He came back from the snack bar. Just a few weeks ago christie was booed after catching a foul ball at a new york mets game. Not again, philadelphia on another list, coming up here on good day philadelphia not only is it not a good thing but it is also costing you some big bucks. We will tell you straight ahead. Plus welcome to margate lake. No, in the a good thing. Why some neighbors are saying we told you so to state officials. Bob kelly, good morning. Good morning, we have the closure of route 222 between kutztown and allentown this morning, all because of a serious accident. We will check the rest of the jam cams and we will say good morning to the ben franklin parkway as we are waking up, still working on the schuylkill. Sue has double digits, when we come right back. Come to sesame place before little kids become, big kids. Before dress up, turns to makeup. And tag becomes hashtag. Before furry hugs, become first loves. Come to the only place, that makes Little Hearts race. Buy your 2018 season pass now, and get the rest of 2017 free all mostly quiet here, time is 4 15. Reading, good morning to you as we look live. Sue, we really saw a mixture of everything over weekend, rain, heat, humidity and now cooler temperatures. That is right, yesterdays sunshine, skies stayed clear and when we have clear skies this early in the morning, pretty much count on sunshine during the day and that is why this forecast for today is pretty easy. We dont see any precipitation around. Were not expecting any later on. We will take you down to florida we are watching this low pressure system here off west coast of florida brings lots of rain to tampa and other parts of the peninsula, and were watching that for possible tropical development, is there decent chance that could happen, and just refresher because we have not had any activity for a while, next name on the list is don. We have had arlene, brett and cindy. We will see what happens with that. In the meantime walking out the door right now almost sweater weather to the north of us with 58 in pottstown. Fiftynine in allentown. Fiftytwo in mount pocono. Sixtytwo in lancaster. Sixtyone in trenton. Head down the shore we are in the 50s in Atlantic City and wildwood and we are expect ago this sea breeze. See arrows the wind direction and that is showing breeze blowing on shore, ocean water temperature 73 degrees. It should be nice day if this is your vacation week at the shore. 66 degrees there with 6 miles an hour wind but not too much breeze at all, in most places this morning. Lets recap that week even. Average high 87, right where we were on friday, it was cooler, with all those cloud and some rain, especially in the morning on saturday or soaking rain friday into saturday as predicted and then 83 degrees was our high yesterday. Today we will expect to get warmer with a high of 88 but not too much humidity. By tomorrow were in the 90s. We could hit 90 on wednesday, and if we see somehow make it to 90 today or thursday we could string together a little old heat wave there but by week end it looks like were back in the lower 80s. Do you remember our partnership bob kill which 101. 1 more fm. Got you covered, sueby. Good morning on a monday. We are off to a good start. But if you use the Atlantic City rail line, we will be using buses itrains. Heres the deal as we mentioned earlier a truck hit friday, so right now, crews say at lee another the Atlantic City rail line philadelphias 30thbusts street station and cherry hill , new jersey. So allow some extra time if yo typically between knows two points. Patco, r Jersey Transit buses are cross honoring the tickets and new Jersey Transit has the whole scoop and details on their web site at njt. Com. Now keep in mind shuttle buses until five on market frankford and broad street subway, your normal overnight set up here in philadelphia. They are still paving on the schuylkill expressway, boy, they have a lot done over the weekend. Basically right now only one lane opened in both directions heres a live look at this truck heading westbound on the schuylkill past our camera at city ave. So between city avenue and conshohocken down to only one lane and it is a whole slew of cones from that whole stretch there. Again, they are allowing asphalt to dry, guys are out there with the paving equipment. Just be careful coming east or west on the schuylkill expressway. For the gang in allentown route 222 is closed on the eastbound side all traffic forced off here, at route 100, your best bet this morning, trying to get from kutztown into allentown is to use i78, that will get you in the northeast extension, in allentown, thomas, back over to you. 4 19. Montana congressman caught on tape body slamming a reporter willful fill his sentence by working with the nonprofit. Greg gianforte, upper merion native, says he will work off his sentence by volunteering for an organization, that builds custom wheelchairs for children. He was ordered to perform 40 hours of Community Service for attack guardian reporter ben jacobs. Gianforte must complete 20 hours of anger management counseling. Neighbors in margate, new jersey are demanding change, about a project worth 10s of millions of dollars that the community has taken to court. Of course weekend rainfall flooded a dune area in the region and that is exactly what experts representing the community warned would happened. Our own joyce evans breaks it down from margate. Reporter youve got one of the best Oceanfront Properties , on one of the best beaches inside south jersey until the rains came, and you ended up with a lake front property between you and the ocean. We dont need this. Reporter not exactly the body of water vacationing beach goers came to margate to weighed through. It totally sucks, entire street of Douglas Avenue is a flood. I come up here to visit once a summer. It is a disaster. Reporter it was part of the plan for what the tore collect here to protect beaches and homeowners after the disastrous flooding of super storm sandy. Just wasnt expected to rise this high and stan, for this long, without draining. It started at 15 and now it is down to 12 inches. It has gone down 2 inches over that period of time. As people walk their dogs on the beach, it has dog feces , seeingal feces, debris not a place to be walking through it is not safe. We have got handicapped People Living on the street how can they get through it. Reporter surfers say ocean conditions are just as nasty as the socalled, lake christie, referencing the new jersey governor, of course. You can see it you said. You can see it when you walk up to the beach, right there on the sand, all of the sand is real black. Reporter no swimming signs were just put up by local authorities. It is not physically possible for life guard to watch from the other side of the dunes. They dont have manpower to police this area and make sure kid are safe. Thinks a huge Public Safety hazard not justin convenience. We are hoping that they stop the construction of the dunes and reevaluate their plans because no one was willing to admit that the conditions that currently exist would ever happen. Reporter neighbors expect to be communicating with that judge first thing. Joyce evans, fox 29 news. We should point out fox 29 has reached out to the u. S. Army core of engineers and new jersey state officials and we are still awaiting a response. Spe

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