Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20170815 :

Aisle, its almost that time. Im Thomas Drayton with karen hepp all in favor of kids going back to school, say aye youll miss them when they go back we got a little bit of a different morning than yesterday, there are showers around and clouds and its a lot muggier, so all these these are different. A seven out of ten, this will persist on his national lemon mer rang day, bus stop buddy has an umbrella. You see on radar we do have a few widely scattered light showers moving through the area, just enough for a pass or two on the wipers, while youre driving around. But its a lot milder, 73 degrees, than it was yesterday, sunrise time 6 13. And fog isnt an issue at the moment. But it could be before the morning is through. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s as we said throughout the region, looks like it will stay kind of cloudy day. High temperature around 81 be 82, just of a thunderstorm popping up maybe later on in the day. So not as pretty as we started out yesterday. Bob kelly but at least were preparing you for i you got it. Subie. Its a tuesday, 4 02 as were getting started. There may be a pass on the wipers to get the rain drops off of the windshield, still working on the vine street expressway, got the slickers on working on the schuylkill and broad street, watch coming around the circle in front of the cathedral there, theres a car parked in the left lane around that circle. Why . I have no idea. But it caught me by surprise, i was coming around there this morning, live look at the schuylkill exprssway where theyre still working. Of approaching 476, pretty much all the way into toward belmont, you know the drill that overnight paving thats been going on. Heres a live look at 422 westbound working leaving king of prussia. Heading out towards trooper road, everybody pushed over here into that one lane traffic pattern, fire location, northeast philadelphia, just off of academy avenue right there by northeast philly airport. Lauren is standing by with an update in just a moment. Coming in from new jersey, no problems on the major roadways and mass transit using busses until 5 00 three people rushed to hospital after an Apartment Building catchs on fire Lauren Johnson is there at the scene with what we know. What do we know . Good morning. Reporter karen, good morning, we do know dozens of families are displaced an active scene, Philadelphia Fire Department responding to the fire called in just after midnight, and red cross is on scene as well, much appreciated agency during times like this, the fire under control started on the second floor of this epa building shortly after midnight, by 12 30 and aggressive fire attack was underway with about 80 firefighters on scene, a woman who lived in the epa where that fire started was injured and taken to are ria torresdale in critical condition, another person was also taken to the hospital. We learned a firefighter who suffered a minor injury was also transported. We got call for a fewer in the second floor apartment. Arrived on the scene approximately five minutes later, heavy fire showing from the second floor apartment, approximately ten apartments in each one of these buildings, the fire system was in operation, from our early reports and right now the fire is under investigation, by the fire marshals office. Reporter red cross still on scene as we mentioned, septa helping them with the rescue effort, they have allowed some of those displaced by this fire to sit on an empty septa bus here while we wait on fire crews to continue to wrap up their work and their investigation beginning. We have also learned there was working fire alarm inside that apartment in question, now the fire marshal has his work ct out as he tries to determine how it started. Lauren, thank you. Talk about chaos in clementon, skyfox over the scene where police say a car careened into at least five people happened before 9 00 last nice of east atlantic avenue, medics took five people to the hospital. Driver did stay at the scene man urinates, in a synagogue. Of jenny joyce at the synagogue this morning, with what we need to know. Reporter good morning thomas this is the third act of vandalism against this synagogue in the last year, people come here to the synagogue say they wont feel can comfortable. They feel targeted. Of clear Surveillance Video shows a man flicking off the camera and then urinating on the wall of congregation beth solomon here in northeast philadelphia. Investigators say this was more than a man trying to relieve himself, he was sending a message with Crystal Clear surveillance footage. Police are too sending a message, well find you. With all the a incidents over the weekend, prior incidents at this synagogue, which is why they have a Great Security system and other synagogues in the northeast over the year, we obviously take it seriously 0 sold residence for any kind of hate we feel hate. We feel we just dont feel at home when things like that happen its different times, and era and times are changes and youll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, obviously this will be turned over to the das office for charges and suffer the consequences. Reporter police have no made an arrest in the case of more than 100 head stones toppled in a nearby jewish cemetery, they say an arrest in this case is imminent. The synagogue tell us us investigators know the man and he could face charges related to intimidation and vandalism, thomas and karen thank you. 4 07. Police are searching for a Home Invasion suspect this morning who targeted elderly woman in Queen Village on south front street, a guy in his 30s broke into his womans home, shes 87 and demanded money. She refused to hand over money. Then he forced her into the basement and he tied her up with belts. Then the suspect got away with money her purse, police say she was able to break free untie herself and shes physically ok but obviously very shaken. Authorities undercover a house of weed in university city. This morning, trying to track down the person responsible for growing 100 marijuana plants, police discovering the home grown operation after neighbors complained about a foul strong odor along the 4800 block of cedar avenue yesterday. Smell leading officers to the back door of a house three floors of pot plants and other equipment. They were likely grown for sale and the person or persons faces narcotics charges, risking a catastrophe and reckless endangerment. North korea backing off of the threat to target gam in a missile attack. The dictator kim jongun decided not to fire on gam after visiting his military post according to the north korean state media. However, the communist leader warns he could change his mind if the u. S. Persists in what he calls extremely dangerous reckless actions. Some of the nations top ceos are distancing themselves from the white house in the wake of the deadly violence, new jersey merck ceo ken frazier resigned followed by the ceo of under armor and intel. Three executives say its their responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and hate. Were learning more about the man charged with driving his car into a crowd people. 20yearold james alex fields made his First Court Appearance video video from jail. Charged with Second Degree murder in the death of 32yearold heather heyer, shes known as a hes known as a loaner who dismissed from the army after failing to make it through boot camp and was once charged with beating his mother, meanwhile, Charlottesville Police chief defended his officers tactics on saturday as tensions and violence rose during protests the city and county made a declaration of local emergency. The crowd became increasingly violent with mutually engaged combatants, it meets the definition of domestic terrorism, were pursuing it when the department of justice in every way we can make it. Make a case. Authorities are looking at several more charges against fields junior, hes also charged with three counts of Malicious Wounding and one count of hitandrun. Three days President Trump called out the white supremacist groups behind the riots in the city racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the kkk. Neo nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Those remarks finally coming after wave after wave of bipartisan backlash over his First Response on saturday when the president blamed the violence on many sides, and failed to mention white supremacist groups behind it all in that first statement and then he had another tweet last night. The mother of a woman killed in charlottesville when that guy drove into the crowd. She wants the world to know i admired her courage so often, i would be be cautious, think about how you say this, no, mom, we have to say these things and she did, im proud of the way that she was conducting herself on the day she died. And she wants her daughters death not to be a source for more hatred but love and compassion and call to end injustices as she would have wanted. Meanwhile a judge denied bail to the guy accused of killing her daughter. This one a philadelphia firefighter feeling the heat after a social media post aimed after the clashes that happened this weekend. Still ahead, he said it was a bad joke. Of what about the firefighter he sent the picture to how can you joke about Something Like that . Tigers toxicology report. We now know what was in his system the night he was arrested for driving under the influence and Pain Medicine was not the only thing on that list. It is 4 12. Getting up on tuesday morning, how is the traffic, bob. Getting up, and out on tuesday, center city philadelphia, we still have construction and hello to south jersey where the roads are a little wet as you roll through moorestown, open up the front door and say good morning to downtown philly as we look live at the ben franklin parkway and trying to figure out what the traffic jam to get you bouncing around the bathroom on a tuesday morning. Traffic jambs and well check subie in the forecast when we come 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 . 4 15 on tuesday, we had beautiful last couple of days here. What will your tuesday hold . Sue serio standing by with a look at the forecast not quite as perfect as sunday and yesterday ended up kind of cloudy but still pretty nice, now weve got showers to show you. Heavy rain to our north and heavier rain to the south and west and all of that is moving toward us, we have to keep an eye out for that. Plus the occasional popup thunderstorm like were seeing here off the delmarva coast. Lets zoom in a little bit. Throughout the philadelphia right now. Whatever youre seeing on radar is really not much. But you could run into a little bit of rain around havertown or norristown or abington and maybe in parts of New Castle County. Around the university at newark, delaware. So as we look throughout the forecast, for rest of the heavier rain possible moving in from the south, a whole system moving from south to north and well be letting in more humid air, that makes it a little more unsettled. You see the chance of rain continuing on and off throughout the day. Little sunshine if any, maybe a little before sunset. Of thing clearing out overnight but still humid, so for our chances of rain this week, today, its a 5050 chance youll run into rain, much less hardly a chance at all tomorrow and thursday. By friday, popup thunderstorms are possible. Gert has strengthening into a hurricane, it is still about 445 miles away from bermuda moving due north and expected to maybe strengthen into a category 2 but the best part of this storm is the path continues to be toward the north and east pulling it away from the east coast of the united states. So no threat to land, but maybe some rough surf over the next couple days at the jersey and delaware beaches, 73 in philadelphia, right now, 61 in mount pocono. Of 75 in wildwood. 67 degrees in lancaster. So a little more warmer and a little more humid than yesterday. And we ended up with the cloud cover getting to 82, which is where we expect to be today, but we heat up to 90 tomorrow. That does look like a oneday special. Still be pretty warm and humid thursday, and on friday. And maybe even a little bit of rain early in the day on saturday. So looks like well probably have a halfway decent weekend but well get a little closer and be able to tell you better. Meanwhile, 101. 1 f m is the place to go for your Weather Authority forecast. And my buddy Mark Shepherd got the afternoon gig. Good morning, as a live look downtown philly. If youre coming into the city on the parkway, as youre coming around the circle, theres a disabled just a car parked in what would be the left lane. Not even a parking spot kind of catches you by surprise if your going to be using the detour of the parkway to get around that schuylkill expressway closure, lets go to the map, not bad at all. Again the vine street expressway closed between the schuylkill expressway and broad street, some folks using the loop around there at 30th street stationing were going to zip on to her haddonfield new jersey, near 295, roads may be damp might have to use the wipers once or twice to get the rain drops off. Expect weather delays possible at Philadelphia International airport. Just check ahead to be sure, check with the airline if youre going to be flying today. The fire location we heard from lauren, academy road at morel avenue right here across from northeast philly airport, that whole stretch of apartments right here along academy road, and morel, you got the shopping plaza, the District Police department right there, so just watch for a lot of fire activity along that stretch there. And the great northeast. Heres a live look at 322 95 northbound right near route 322, one of the many overnight work crews that are still out there and both the market frankford and subway using shuttle busses until 5 00. Karen and thomas back to you. To a story youll see only on fox. This is quite something, Facebook Post by philadelphia firefighter went viral for all the wrong reasons. It got social media all lit up. Many calling that post racist. Chris oconnell found that guy, talked to him and the bosses got their on investigation the picture taken is causing a fire storm of controversy. While some are calling that photograph insensitive and racist, the firefighter is apologizing for what he calls a very bad joke. Im very sorry. Very, very sorry john deluisi says he was drunk when he snapped his photo and tagged an africanamerican coworker at the philadelphia department. It shows him with a burning, tiki torch with a hat and saying headed to virginia. It comes days after these images of charlottesville as the city erupted in violence between neo nazi white nationals and protesters. Why would you post Something Like that i was drinking way too much. I was on my back deck and like i said, me and him joke back and forth and it was just a stupid dumb joke. Reporter he tells me the picture was all a bad susan b komen. He said he was responding to another post referencing charlottesville. He also admits it went too far. The post since been taken down. But not before offending many residents who paid deluisis salary. With a confederate hat on . And the torch . Thats what i pay . You pay his paycheck. Thats absurd. I think its a disgrace. Reporter his bosses feel the same. Tonight, philadelphia mayor jim kenney calling the post, quote, deeply disturbing, the Philadelphia Fire Department tell us its launched an investigation that could result in disciplinary action, as for deluisi. Hes afraid the post will affect his nearly 20 years as a career firefighter. Im an idiot. Im thinking about it it was stupid. Reporter i got a chance to speak with the africanamerican coworker who was tagged in that post and even he said it was a joke between friends of the but the top brass here at the Philadelphia Fire Department are certainly not laughing. They have launched an internal investigation. In Spring Garden, Chris Oconnell fox 29 news. 4 22. Lots of parents have been protesting about these one, the standa standardized test your children will be excited about this one. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been to a 500 creditith up to help cover your early termination fee. Dude, yo wait. What . Some. No i said you should buy gold fish, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 25,000. Ooohh. Are there really. . 25,000 of them . Yeah. Want more go to palottery. Com and enter your nonwinning tickets for the goldis because weve got fun for everyone in the family. Magiquesters yep. Nevergrowolders double check. The only thing were missing is you. Great wolf lodge. Everybody in. Good morning, im sean bell, nick foles still isnt ready to go, the backup quarterback will not play in thursdays game against the bills. Foles missed the first with a sore below and still giving him a little bit of problem, hes taking it slow. Yesterday he talked about how hes feeling. Today, i dont know how many i could move but i felt good. It wasnt like which is good, which is good, so, after this im going to continue treatment and continue to stay on this, ive learned a lot through the experience. Any what maintain my arm. Tiger woods still might be in a little bit of trouble. He had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested in may for suspicion of a dui. He pled guilty did a Thomas Drayton<\/a> with karen hepp all in favor of kids going back to school, say aye youll miss them when they go back we got a little bit of a different morning than yesterday, there are showers around and clouds and its a lot muggier, so all these these are different. A seven out of ten, this will persist on his national lemon mer rang day, bus stop buddy has an umbrella. You see on radar we do have a few widely scattered light showers moving through the area, just enough for a pass or two on the wipers, while youre driving around. But its a lot milder, 73 degrees, than it was yesterday, sunrise time 6 13. And fog isnt an issue at the moment. But it could be before the morning is through. Temperatures are in the 60s and 70s as we said throughout the region, looks like it will stay kind of cloudy day. High temperature around 81 be 82, just of a thunderstorm popping up maybe later on in the day. So not as pretty as we started out yesterday. Bob kelly but at least were preparing you for i you got it. Subie. Its a tuesday, 4 02 as were getting started. There may be a pass on the wipers to get the rain drops off of the windshield, still working on the vine street expressway, got the slickers on working on the schuylkill and broad street, watch coming around the circle in front of the cathedral there, theres a car parked in the left lane around that circle. Why . I have no idea. But it caught me by surprise, i was coming around there this morning, live look at the schuylkill exprssway where theyre still working. Of approaching 476, pretty much all the way into toward belmont, you know the drill that overnight paving thats been going on. Heres a live look at 422 westbound working leaving king of prussia. Heading out towards trooper road, everybody pushed over here into that one lane traffic pattern, fire location, northeast philadelphia, just off of academy avenue right there by northeast philly airport. Lauren is standing by with an update in just a moment. Coming in from new jersey, no problems on the major roadways and mass transit using busses until 5 00 three people rushed to hospital after an Apartment Building<\/a> catchs on fire Lauren Johnson<\/a> is there at the scene with what we know. What do we know . Good morning. Reporter karen, good morning, we do know dozens of families are displaced an active scene, Philadelphia Fire Department<\/a> responding to the fire called in just after midnight, and red cross is on scene as well, much appreciated agency during times like this, the fire under control started on the second floor of this epa building shortly after midnight, by 12 30 and aggressive fire attack was underway with about 80 firefighters on scene, a woman who lived in the epa where that fire started was injured and taken to are ria torresdale in critical condition, another person was also taken to the hospital. We learned a firefighter who suffered a minor injury was also transported. We got call for a fewer in the second floor apartment. Arrived on the scene approximately five minutes later, heavy fire showing from the second floor apartment, approximately ten apartments in each one of these buildings, the fire system was in operation, from our early reports and right now the fire is under investigation, by the fire marshals office. Reporter red cross still on scene as we mentioned, septa helping them with the rescue effort, they have allowed some of those displaced by this fire to sit on an empty septa bus here while we wait on fire crews to continue to wrap up their work and their investigation beginning. We have also learned there was working fire alarm inside that apartment in question, now the fire marshal has his work ct out as he tries to determine how it started. Lauren, thank you. Talk about chaos in clementon, skyfox over the scene where police say a car careened into at least five people happened before 9 00 last nice of east atlantic avenue, medics took five people to the hospital. Driver did stay at the scene man urinates, in a synagogue. Of jenny joyce at the synagogue this morning, with what we need to know. Reporter good morning thomas this is the third act of vandalism against this synagogue in the last year, people come here to the synagogue say they wont feel can comfortable. They feel targeted. Of clear Surveillance Video<\/a> shows a man flicking off the camera and then urinating on the wall of congregation beth solomon here in northeast philadelphia. Investigators say this was more than a man trying to relieve himself, he was sending a message with Crystal Clear<\/a> surveillance footage. Police are too sending a message, well find you. With all the a incidents over the weekend, prior incidents at this synagogue, which is why they have a Great Security<\/a> system and other synagogues in the northeast over the year, we obviously take it seriously 0 sold residence for any kind of hate we feel hate. We feel we just dont feel at home when things like that happen its different times, and era and times are changes and youll be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, obviously this will be turned over to the das office for charges and suffer the consequences. Reporter police have no made an arrest in the case of more than 100 head stones toppled in a nearby jewish cemetery, they say an arrest in this case is imminent. The synagogue tell us us investigators know the man and he could face charges related to intimidation and vandalism, thomas and karen thank you. 4 07. Police are searching for a Home Invasion<\/a> suspect this morning who targeted elderly woman in Queen Village<\/a> on south front street, a guy in his 30s broke into his womans home, shes 87 and demanded money. She refused to hand over money. Then he forced her into the basement and he tied her up with belts. Then the suspect got away with money her purse, police say she was able to break free untie herself and shes physically ok but obviously very shaken. Authorities undercover a house of weed in university city. This morning, trying to track down the person responsible for growing 100 marijuana plants, police discovering the home grown operation after neighbors complained about a foul strong odor along the 4800 block of cedar avenue yesterday. Smell leading officers to the back door of a house three floors of pot plants and other equipment. They were likely grown for sale and the person or persons faces narcotics charges, risking a catastrophe and reckless endangerment. North korea backing off of the threat to target gam in a missile attack. The dictator kim jongun decided not to fire on gam after visiting his military post according to the north korean state media. However, the communist leader warns he could change his mind if the u. S. Persists in what he calls extremely dangerous reckless actions. Some of the nations top ceos are distancing themselves from the white house in the wake of the deadly violence, new jersey merck ceo ken frazier resigned followed by the ceo of under armor and intel. Three executives say its their responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and hate. Were learning more about the man charged with driving his car into a crowd people. 20yearold james alex fields made his First Court Appearance<\/a> video video from jail. Charged with Second Degree<\/a> murder in the death of 32yearold heather heyer, shes known as a hes known as a loaner who dismissed from the army after failing to make it through boot camp and was once charged with beating his mother, meanwhile, Charlottesville Police<\/a> chief defended his officers tactics on saturday as tensions and violence rose during protests the city and county made a declaration of local emergency. The crowd became increasingly violent with mutually engaged combatants, it meets the definition of domestic terrorism, were pursuing it when the department of justice in every way we can make it. Make a case. Authorities are looking at several more charges against fields junior, hes also charged with three counts of Malicious Wounding<\/a> and one count of hitandrun. Three days President Trump<\/a> called out the white supremacist groups behind the riots in the city racism is evil. And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. Including the kkk. Neo nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. Those remarks finally coming after wave after wave of bipartisan backlash over his First Response<\/a> on saturday when the president blamed the violence on many sides, and failed to mention white supremacist groups behind it all in that first statement and then he had another tweet last night. The mother of a woman killed in charlottesville when that guy drove into the crowd. She wants the world to know i admired her courage so often, i would be be cautious, think about how you say this, no, mom, we have to say these things and she did, im proud of the way that she was conducting herself on the day she died. And she wants her daughters death not to be a source for more hatred but love and compassion and call to end injustices as she would have wanted. Meanwhile a judge denied bail to the guy accused of killing her daughter. This one a philadelphia firefighter feeling the heat after a social media post aimed after the clashes that happened this weekend. Still ahead, he said it was a bad joke. Of what about the firefighter he sent the picture to how can you joke about Something Like<\/a> that . Tigers toxicology report. We now know what was in his system the night he was arrested for driving under the influence and Pain Medicine<\/a> was not the only thing on that list. It is 4 12. Getting up on tuesday morning, how is the traffic, bob. Getting up, and out on tuesday, center city philadelphia, we still have construction and hello to south jersey where the roads are a little wet as you roll through moorestown, open up the front door and say good morning to downtown philly as we look live at the ben franklin parkway and trying to figure out what the traffic jam to get you bouncing around the bathroom on a tuesday morning. Traffic jambs and well check subie in the forecast when we come 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<\/a> race. Buy your 2018 season pass now, and get the rest of 2017 free . 4 15 on tuesday, we had beautiful last couple of days here. What will your tuesday hold . Sue serio standing by with a look at the forecast not quite as perfect as sunday and yesterday ended up kind of cloudy but still pretty nice, now weve got showers to show you. Heavy rain to our north and heavier rain to the south and west and all of that is moving toward us, we have to keep an eye out for that. Plus the occasional popup thunderstorm like were seeing here off the delmarva coast. Lets zoom in a little bit. Throughout the philadelphia right now. Whatever youre seeing on radar is really not much. But you could run into a little bit of rain around havertown or norristown or abington and maybe in parts of New Castle County<\/a>. Around the university at newark, delaware. So as we look throughout the forecast, for rest of the heavier rain possible moving in from the south, a whole system moving from south to north and well be letting in more humid air, that makes it a little more unsettled. You see the chance of rain continuing on and off throughout the day. Little sunshine if any, maybe a little before sunset. Of thing clearing out overnight but still humid, so for our chances of rain this week, today, its a 5050 chance youll run into rain, much less hardly a chance at all tomorrow and thursday. By friday, popup thunderstorms are possible. Gert has strengthening into a hurricane, it is still about 445 miles away from bermuda moving due north and expected to maybe strengthen into a category 2 but the best part of this storm is the path continues to be toward the north and east pulling it away from the east coast of the united states. So no threat to land, but maybe some rough surf over the next couple days at the jersey and delaware beaches, 73 in philadelphia, right now, 61 in mount pocono. Of 75 in wildwood. 67 degrees in lancaster. So a little more warmer and a little more humid than yesterday. And we ended up with the cloud cover getting to 82, which is where we expect to be today, but we heat up to 90 tomorrow. That does look like a oneday special. Still be pretty warm and humid thursday, and on friday. And maybe even a little bit of rain early in the day on saturday. So looks like well probably have a halfway decent weekend but well get a little closer and be able to tell you better. Meanwhile, 101. 1 f m is the place to go for your Weather Authority<\/a> forecast. And my buddy Mark Shepherd<\/a> got the afternoon gig. Good morning, as a live look downtown philly. If youre coming into the city on the parkway, as youre coming around the circle, theres a disabled just a car parked in what would be the left lane. Not even a parking spot kind of catches you by surprise if your going to be using the detour of the parkway to get around that schuylkill expressway closure, lets go to the map, not bad at all. Again the vine street expressway closed between the schuylkill expressway and broad street, some folks using the loop around there at 30th street stationing were going to zip on to her haddonfield new jersey, near 295, roads may be damp might have to use the wipers once or twice to get the rain drops off. Expect weather delays possible at Philadelphia International<\/a> airport. Just check ahead to be sure, check with the airline if youre going to be flying today. The fire location we heard from lauren, academy road at morel avenue right here across from northeast philly airport, that whole stretch of apartments right here along academy road, and morel, you got the shopping plaza, the District Police<\/a> department right there, so just watch for a lot of fire activity along that stretch there. And the great northeast. Heres a live look at 322 95 northbound right near route 322, one of the many overnight work crews that are still out there and both the market frankford and subway using shuttle busses until 5 00. Karen and thomas back to you. To a story youll see only on fox. This is quite something, Facebook Post<\/a> by philadelphia firefighter went viral for all the wrong reasons. It got social media all lit up. Many calling that post racist. Chris oconnell found that guy, talked to him and the bosses got their on investigation the picture taken is causing a fire storm of controversy. While some are calling that photograph insensitive and racist, the firefighter is apologizing for what he calls a very bad joke. Im very sorry. Very, very sorry john deluisi says he was drunk when he snapped his photo and tagged an africanamerican coworker at the philadelphia department. It shows him with a burning, tiki torch with a hat and saying headed to virginia. It comes days after these images of charlottesville as the city erupted in violence between neo nazi white nationals and protesters. Why would you post Something Like<\/a> that i was drinking way too much. I was on my back deck and like i said, me and him joke back and forth and it was just a stupid dumb joke. Reporter he tells me the picture was all a bad susan b komen. He said he was responding to another post referencing charlottesville. He also admits it went too far. The post since been taken down. But not before offending many residents who paid deluisis salary. With a confederate hat on . And the torch . Thats what i pay . You pay his paycheck. Thats absurd. I think its a disgrace. Reporter his bosses feel the same. Tonight, philadelphia mayor jim kenney calling the post, quote, deeply disturbing, the Philadelphia Fire Department<\/a> tell us its launched an investigation that could result in disciplinary action, as for deluisi. Hes afraid the post will affect his nearly 20 years as a career firefighter. Im an idiot. Im thinking about it it was stupid. Reporter i got a chance to speak with the africanamerican coworker who was tagged in that post and even he said it was a joke between friends of the but the top brass here at the Philadelphia Fire Department<\/a> are certainly not laughing. They have launched an internal investigation. In Spring Garden<\/a>, Chris Oconnell<\/a> fox 29 news. 4 22. Lots of parents have been protesting about these one, the standa standardized test your children will be excited about this one. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been to a 500 creditith up to help cover your early termination fee. Dude, yo wait. What . Some. No i said you should buy gold fish, the new scratchoff from the pennsylvania lottery. With top prizes of 25,000. Ooohh. Are there really. . 25,000 of them . Yeah. Want more go to palottery. Com and enter your nonwinning tickets for the goldis because weve got fun for everyone in the family. Magiquesters yep. Nevergrowolders double check. The only thing were missing is you. Great wolf lodge. Everybody in. Good morning, im sean bell, nick foles still isnt ready to go, the backup quarterback will not play in thursdays game against the bills. Foles missed the first with a sore below and still giving him a little bit of problem, hes taking it slow. Yesterday he talked about how hes feeling. Today, i dont know how many i could move but i felt good. It wasnt like which is good, which is good, so, after this im going to continue treatment and continue to stay on this, ive learned a lot through the experience. Any what maintain my arm. Tiger woods still might be in a little bit of trouble. He had five different drugs in his system when he was arrested in may for suspicion of a dui. He pled guilty did a Drug Rehab Program<\/a> but still troublesome to hear. A little bit of baseball. Aaron judge is killing it crushing this homer, thats his sixth of the season, thats the most in the al. The yanks won 42, sports in a minute, im sean bell rookie reese hose kins hit his two major league homers last night. The phillies lost 74 in the first game of the sevengame west coast trips the padres who have the worse offense rallied for four runs to a 32 deficit and the phillies have the worse record in 43 in 73. Come on, guys. 4 26 is the time. Coming up at 4 30 be lots of breaking news overnight three people taken to the hospital after an Apartment Fire<\/a> were going to have the latest coming up in a live report. Breaking overnight. Three people hurt during an Apartment Fire<\/a>, some of the people in the complex forced out. We got the latest on this coming up in a live report. Also ahead on good day philadelphia, a car runs over five people. What police say the driver did moments after the crash. A woman from our area said she found a mouse in her sandwich. Ew, s tra protein. That is gross. Great to have you with us on this tue Thomas Drayton<\/a>,snt well done like i ordered. Something i w put a little Peanut Butter<\/a> on that. Lets get its not going to be a ten. At seven today. At best. G clouds around and the chance of showers, how about a piece of lemon meringue my . Bus stop buddy has some in the backyard hanging out and ready for some rain be because you could s is through. Theres quite a bit on radar in the as you zoom in to our area, not too much. A lot of cloud cover, i ysou ma 73 degrees ure traveling right now. 13 as sunrise and by lunch time we should be chance but mostly cloudy with occasional showers, well tell you what our oneday specialre, up in the sevenday forecast. Bob kelly. Ybody. Heres a live look, up in the control room, zoomed o this dis car parked here onf t the cathe. A lot of folks coming off of th circle here, caught me by surprise. Because you got the green lights, its a dark car in a dark area. I alerted one of the Police Officers<\/a> there at 4th and arch when i came in. Hopefully well get somebody out there and get the vehicle out before somebody rear ends him here. Before daylight. Obviously these guys are stopped at a traffic light but i had the he want green light. A lot of folks as we go to the next camera using the detour because of the closure, the vine street expressway this morning between the schuylkill expressway and broad. Here ap live look at i95 in delaware county. The crews have been working just about ready to fully pull the cones out there. The vine closed till about 5 00 between the schuylkill and broad street over in cherry hill, new jersey, a live look at route 70 off of the ramps for 295, everything is damp and wet from the rain on overnight. We could have weather delays. And lauren is coming up with an update on the fire location in the northeast philadelphia, watch for a lot of activity along academy right at morel avenue across from northeast philly airport. Karen and thomas back over to you. Breaking news in northeast philadelphia three i believe in the hospital an Apartment Building<\/a> goes up in flames. Reporter as bob mentioned were right across the street from Northeast Philadelphia Airport<\/a> and we understand that its right in the flight path this apartment complex, but the fire did not affect air traffic. What it has affected are the lives of the people who live here right at the corner of academy and morel avenue. They are now sitting on that septa bus waiting to be helped by red cross. Deputy fire chief said several things did work in their favor here at the fire. If there is such a thing, first the time of the fire, meant traffic was light on the roads, only took crews five minutes to respond to the scene. They arrived around 12 30 and started the aggressive fire fight. He mentioned several Fire Companies<\/a> in this area making it helpful to get many crews on scene quickly. Narly 80 firefighters joined the battle helping to get under control around 1 00 a. M. They know fully fighter didnt spread too quickly where it started and that could be because the fire alarm was working. One building thats acted and one apartment actually had the fire in it but however, we do have smoke damage throughout the building and water damage. Thats why we have such a high number. The apartment complex we had a lot of occupants coming out as we were going in. Reporter three people were taken to the hospital. Two of them lived here at this apartment complex. The other was a firefighter taken for minor injuries, there are ten apartments in each building, which is why there are so many displaced people. Having to get them you all out as a safety precaution, nearly 50 people displaced all of those affected are being held by not only red cross but also the office of emergency management. All of that happening while the fire marshal investigates the cause firefighters doing an amazing job. Chaos in clementon, skyfox over the scene where a car careened into at least five people before 9 00 last night on the unit block of east atlantic avenue. Medics took five people to the hospital. They say the driver who hit the people did stay at the scene. A northeast philadelphia synagogue is the target of vandalism for the third time less than a year, a man urinated on the building in front of surveillance cameras. Jenny joyce at the synagogue with the latest. Jenny . Reporter good morning, thomas, police tell us that this man targeted the synagogue and now they are targeting him. Investigators say they know who this person is and looking for him. Crystal clear video shows the man offering an obscene gesture to a Security Camera<\/a> outside of con beth solomon. He took off in a white bmw. That was someone else in the car, members of the synagogue dont feel comfortable. They feel targeted they pulled the car out. The guy gets out. Theres obviously someone else driving the car also. So obviously, his intention was to go there, he could have went area else. He chose the synagogue a lot of disrespect in that, maybe we should get security because it could be a lot worse, someone can come in during the day and make a lot of apartment semitism going around it wakes me up, something to wonder, you know, i feel like returning to my home, israel. Reporter police say this is the third act of vandalism against the congregation in the last year, police still not made any arrest in the case of more than 100 toppled head stones in a nearby jewish cemetery, in this case, investigators say they believe and the rest is imminent again be they know who this person is, and they are looking for him. Karen and thomas . Thank you. It is 4 36. Its now up to three of our nations top chief executives who decided to quit. On the left. Merck ceo can he have frazier was the first to resign be frazier was the only black member of the president ial manufacturing council, originally from north philly and a penn state grad. Intel ceo brian seen in the middle and under armor ceo kevin plank on the right. The three excessive say its their responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and hate. Were learning more about the suspect driving his vehicle into the crowd of people in charlottesville. 20 years old, james alex fields. He was in making his First Court Appearance<\/a> by video from jail. Charged with Second Degree<\/a> murder in the death of 32yearold heather heyer. Federal authorities are looking at more charge, people who knew him said he was a loaner dismissed from the army because he couldnt make it through boot camp and once charged with beating his own mother. Are you tired of the amount of times Pennsylvania School<\/a> spend on standardized tests, the amount of time will be reduced known as the pennsylvania system of school exactses or the pssa. Wolf said cutting the number by 20 in grades three through eight. The governor made the announcement yesterday. The requirements that our teachers and students and parents have been requesting for a long time. This is longer overdue. The problem with how much classroom time was being taken to teach to those tests. I listened. All of us listened in the commonwealth. The goal, my goal is to the governor said this has been in the works nearly a year. Apologize in advance, chick filas motto eat more chicken, a woman said she found a lot more than that in her sandwich according her lawsuit. She said she found a rodent backache i do not her chicken sandwich that she bought at langhorne branch. Shes suing for 50,000 in physical and psychological damage. They will not comment on the ongoing alleged investigation into this sometime you got to sit down and see what youre eating. 4 39. Swift justice for taylor swift. Details on the verdict and a groping case involving a former radio dj. Is from the 5 a. M. Light blinkers to the wobbling yogis. To the stationary race winners, we all need lean protein. And it comes in a jimmy deans delights breakfast sandwich. Stacked with 17 grams of protein. Lean into a great day. Shine on. 4 42. Taylor swift gets a more likely moral victory victory the singer after a jury decides she was groped by denver radio host four years ago, is he had sued to the tune of 3 million saying they ruined his radio career, the judge dismissed taylor swift from lawsuit. She said she wanted a dollar payment citing the it at symbolic. Your favorite snack food in College Getting<\/a> healthier they were so cheap and you could stack them. Theyre changing it up and well have you maybe seeing green. A little healthier . Have you maybe seeing green. A little healthier . How did we test our improved dixie ultra plates . Have you maybe seeing green. A little healthier . With two pounds of steak. In each hand. Dixie ultra. Stress tested so you can stress less at dinner. Im about to pop a cap of mmm fresh in that washer with unstopables inwash scent boosters by downy. Because this scent lasts up to 12 weeks, which is longer than any relationship ive ever been in. Freshness for weeks tand, our adulte children are here. So, we save by using tide. Which means we use less. Three generations of clothes cleaned in one wash. Those are moms. Anybody seen my pants . Nothing cleans better. Put those on dad its got to be tide. Good morning, it is 4 45 anne tuesday, theyre still working downtown by vine street expressway between the schuylkill expressway and broad street. Coming down Market Street<\/a> into center city. You can also jump off at 30th street, jump off at Spring Garden<\/a> or go to south street, closed till about 5 00. Part of that overnight construction, same deal here on the schuylkill expressway, still working. One lane open as you approach 476 pretty much all the way down past conshy, its part of that paving operation. So at this point, its light volume and these guys are usually out by 5 00, 5 15 or so for the gang in allentown, good morning to you. Just off of the allentown interchange. The pennsylvania turnpike, no problems or delays at all. Maybe a little patch of fog here or there, wet roads depending upon where youre waking up from the overnight showers and fire location where lauren has been set up this morning along academy road. Right at morel academy. Its the apartment complex directly across from Northeast Philadelphia Airport<\/a>. Right now, traffic getting through. Thats a busy stretch here for the morning rush hour. Just be ready, probably only down to one lane here. Right in front of the airport. As you roll north of grant avenue heading up in toward woodhaven, heres a live look at the schuylkill expressway in the area doing the construction, be careful till about 5 00. Mass transit in delays, forecast for tuesday, subie got it 15 seconds. Matss transit radar looks a lot different than yesterday, quite a bit of rain to the north and heavy rain to the south. Here at home in our area, few places where we got rain, well just zoom in on couple of them. Looks like around montgomery and bucks county. We have a little bit of, like this area in North Hampton<\/a> and few areas in New Castle County<\/a> right there there at the mall. Christiana, northern New Castle County<\/a>. The showers will be out there and it wouldnt be a bad idea to grab the umbrella. A lot of cloud cover, you dont see much sunshine if any at all and the showers on and off throughout the day a maybe just before sunset. By 8 00, 9 00, should be out of here, we clear up overnight and stay humid and we get enough sunshine tomorrow to take us to around 90 degrees. Then things get a bit unsettled as we head to thursday, friday and probably early saturday with a couple of systems coming through. Giving us occasional showers, including the eagles game, gert we showed you yesterday a Tropical Storm<\/a> strengthened to 75 miles an hour winds, a category 1 hurricane. The good news it will stay a category 1 at this point but stay far away from the east coast of the u. S. Of a. 72 philadelphia right now, muggy out there. 73 in wildwood. 61 in mount pocono. 67 degrees in lancaster. We told you yesterday the humidity was going to come back, and highest wasnt bad even with the clouds in the afternoon, but today, possibility of showers and maybe a popup thunderstorm heating up to around 90 tomorrow, mid 80s thursday and friday with a chance of popup showers and thunderstorms and kind of humid, the showers linger perhaps into saturday morning, looks like it may dry out pretty nicely for the rest of the weekend. Thomas and karen looks like we have a special wednesday for a special person. Happy birthday, sue. Happy birthday. Time now 4 49. We have a big celebration planned. We got bands. Spectacular air show. Well make cake its coming. Do you need a little help jump starting your creative juice. Im working so hard on being creative. I try over and over. They say you should be drinking a glass of wine or pint of beer to be helpful in this, theres a new study coming out austria, small amounts of alcohol could enhance your ability to do better work, researchers found participants who had a small pint of beer scored higher on a test of creative problem solving than those who had nonalcoholic drinks, looks like a little bit and i think thats the important part here, of wine or beer can help with your Writers Block<\/a> youre the smartest person i know karen. Consumers asked and cup of noodles, cup noodles answered. Yes, i used to call cup of noodles tomato, we all had them in college because they were so cheap you could get them like ten for i was dollar. Now theyre making they will healthier the key debuted its new cup noodles, the new recipe concern as full serving of vegetables, 20 less sodium, no added msg and no artificial flavor, for for now its still the classic beef and chicken flavors but 57 gees only are down the road it is back to school time. Its hard to get them for each different kid and they have some of these odd requests out there. Were going to go through some requests on the list for this year. Were going to spend 500 by time we get done with buying the notepads and clothes which is 20 bucks more than last year, the cost could vary. Lets go through some of the supply list, you know, this one, disinfectant wipes, so we dont spread germs, hand sanitizer, large pencil power outages, ear buds has become everybody got all the computers and some of those special calculators can run you 13 bucks for the darn calculator. Lets go Grocery Shopping<\/a> to get the snacks for the kids, al de, the latest to break into the Home Delivery<\/a> market theyre going to deliver theyve partnered with insta cart to deliver groceries to your home, you can select the groceries from the different supermarkets he then personal shoppers will deliver them to your home. This service will start off in la, atlanta and dallas later this month and hope to expand be i wonder how much it will cost, the thing about al de, the prices are so good. Get ready for a little vegas in allentown. Youre be able to one of circ, performances. I love you so much, thats why i bought six of you for when you stretch out. I want you to stay this bright blue forever, thats why youll stay in this drawer forever. I cant live without you, and thats why ill never ever wash you. Protect your clothes from stretching, fading and fuzz with downy fabric conditioner. Fading and fuzz with downy fabric conditioner. It smooths and strengthens fibers to protect clothes from the damage of the wash. So your favorite clothes stay your favorite clothes. Downy fabric conditioner. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our fastest. Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of your contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com. Time is 4 55. Allentown a very good morning if youre living in allentown. Waking up with a smile this morning. Got a check in your forecast coming up in a moment on this tuesday, youre going to want to mark calendars and get your tickets i remember mentioning allentown because Cirque Du Soleil<\/a> is come back to allentown this fall. This production tells from the he forest is going to perform seven shows at the ppl center and this follows the greek methodology story playing too close to the sun, tickets go on sale 10 00 a. M. On august 25th. They will range from 23 bucks to 138. If youre think about rescuing a homeless pet. The Animal Rescue<\/a> league is having a major adoption 18 this weekend. Get this, all cat and dog adoptions absolutely free saturday and sunday. The shelters executive director said this is a great opportunity for hundreds of homeless dogs and cats to find the right forever family. If you have room, little extra love to give. You know where to go. It is 4 56, we got a lot of big stories that are developing right now, jenny . Reporter good morning, karen, this northeast philadelphia synagogue vandalized over the weekend by man who decides to flick off the Security Camera<\/a> and go to the bathroom on the property with such clear video. It should be long before police make an arrest. The moments that connect us dont happen overnight. They happen one morning at a time, and one cup at a time. Folgers, the best part of wakin up. For 100 years, heritage and innovation have made gillette the 1 shave in america. Now get gillette quality at lower prices every day. Brought to you by 1200 workers in boston were proud of giving you our best. Gillette. The best a man can get. From the fox 29 studio, this is good day philadelphia. Happening on good day philadelphia, breaking overnight. A fast moving fire generous three people including a firefighter. This is scary, an older woman and bound with belts, the search is on right now for a guy that did this to her. Of she was robbed but she was able to say break free. And talk about a despicable act hate here. Where this man was caught on camera, did he say creating a synagogue we need all kinds of thing to get our kids ready. Were going to break down some unusual items that we have to buy. I cant believe it were think about halloween already. Theres a company that will be scaring up jobs and opportunities for folks we still got time. Lets pace ourselves, good morning to you and relax and enjoy the summer, clock is ticking. We still have time. Good morning, karen hepp, im Thomas Drayton<\/a> what do you say we get a check on the forecast i saw jenny with an umbrella earlier i think you need to have it nearby, even though its not going to be a deluge there will be time youll encounter a shower or two, maybe a popup thunderstorm, National Lemon Meringue Pie<\/a> day ought to be a fun","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"archive.org","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","width":"800","height":"600","url":"\/\/ia802708.us.archive.org\/27\/items\/WTXF_20170815_080000_Good_Day_Philadelphia_at_4A\/WTXF_20170815_080000_Good_Day_Philadelphia_at_4A.thumbs\/WTXF_20170815_080000_Good_Day_Philadelphia_at_4A_000001.jpg"}},"autauthor":{"@type":"Organization"},"author":{"sameAs":"archive.org","name":"archive.org"}}],"coverageEndTime":"20240628T12:35:10+00:00"}