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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A May 23, 2016

Delaware and southern new jersey this morning thanks to that pesky off shore low pressure system that bothered us all weekend long. It the is still here. For us it is included cover, 57 degrees at the moment and we will get to a high later on of 73 with sun and included and yes, pop up showers and thunderstorms later on in the day after 3 00 p. M. Then 56 degrees tonight, we will talk about the weekend, it is a local Holiday Weekend coming up. Oh, boy bob kelly. Get true a couple workdays first, right, sue. 7 01. An accident north bound lanes of 202, right at route 401 in, Chester County. So were bumper to bumper here from pretty much approaching boot road up in the Construction Zone emergency crews and Fire Fighters just pulled on to the scene there. If you are leaving say west chester, backup on the bypass, 202, northbound in toward 401. Live look at i95, fog is lifted and we can see delays there. Emergency track work on patco lets role video news van on the scene went overnight a piece of equipment jump the rails. They have been doing track work overnight, that work train, jumped the rails. Nobody hurt. Nobody injured. But obviously they need to get this off of the tracks in order to have full operation this morning. So lets go back to my maps. Heres video for the next hour they will be running on a special schedule, with two less trains. If you can delay your trip until after 8 00 a. M. That is what will be advisable but pack your patients and grab an extra pop tart there and expect delays on patco in and out of the city this morning. The disable tractor trailer, south on 295, heading in toward that delaware memorial bridge, otherwise, septaing looking good this morning, mike and alex, back over to you. 7 03. Chester family is looking for answers this morning, after gunfire killed a 14 yearold boy, and also, wound his two cousins. Yeah, daves on this story, dave . Reporter family members say that these two victims, one of them killed, were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time here when 30 bullets rang out in the middle will of the rain storm. Zenas nichols was killed. He is pictured here heading to his eighth grade dance just three days ago all decked out in a blue you dress shirt and tie, next to him is 16 yearold cousin kwamar, he is in the hospital now currently after being shot. Police say bullets started flying just after 8 00 p. M. Saturday outside a corner store near where we are right now, 1100 block of pine lane, in chester, and the family, the workers, there started scrambling for cover. Family members say that the teens, thought they saw a suspicious vehicle approach when gunfire started. Zenas died before he could get to the hospital. The other shot in the chest. Jean shiply was also hit by a bullet. She was coming from every where, bullets every where. You know what was so crazy, he knew that there were kid out there. There was kids out there. Like no remorse, no nothing, they didnt care. Im a mother of three boys. There is somebodys child that they just buried. Everybody has to talk, your friend just told you they just shot up, the street or anything, you have to tell on them. They just. Unaudible. It aint fair. To top it off, you can see where a bullet went into her shoulder and she says it is still in there and has in the been removed. Were told shes cousin of the two teens shot. Kwamar the 16 yearold is shot in the chest and in Critical Condition. Mayors a office and police are asking any one with information to come forward with the five you this dollars reward for information, leading to, an arrest, and a convictions, and, of course, the family desperately searching for answers at this time. Back to you mike and alex. That is tough. To hear that mom. And, to hear that mom. We have another situation here, a teen is struck and killed in burlington city. Close to a wawa and a school. Reporter yeah, he was a 17 yearold junior and this are he went to high school. He was familiar with the place he was killed because look where he goes to high school and we are in the parking lot right across from the high school, where antoine timbers got killed. Chris, pan the two left if you can. He was coming from that wawa with a friend and look there are School Crossing guards. Right next to the guard you can see a huge sign that was just torn down, and you can the not make it out but two orange painted lines by the accident recreators, here who show the path of this suv. It was supposed to go straight on 130 where it curves but he kept going, not serving, but going on to the grass, knocking down that sign and then in that utility pole, he cut that in half and in the parking lot. Antoine timbers and his friend were way off the road. You can see where the sidewalk is smartly put way off the road. They were further off the road then that. That didnt stop a suv from coming out of control and killing antoine here saturday night. It was raining hard last night, so, when the the truck came, i was about to approach the light. He came over. He went over the curve. He hit the pole and went in the Check Cashing place. It didnt look good. It didnt look good. Me and my mother were praying saying plead whoever was involved in this to survive. They had no chance. The car was swerving. It came at them. Antoine was struck. And the friend that he was with witnessed it as well. He was taking it pretty tough. Reporter the suv, made like an armed or car because the driver doesnt need to be in the hospital. He is not even in jail. He got out because so far he has only been charged with Motor Vehicle citations, dui and reckless driving, his name Ricardo Paterson. He lived nearby in willingboro, he is 42 and will likely face more serious charges. The reason why not yet . Burlington county prosecutor is waiting for blood test toxicology results before filing homicide by vehicle charges. We will get from the superintendent in robbinsville, just north of here, then two Howard High School students kill in wilmington, how about the two Bridgeton High School girls killed last weekend after their mom, and then this weekend the story dave just reported in chester and this awful crash, many fear that the terrible teenage incident this spring, wont end until this sad school year does. My goodness, it has been a rough, rough spring. It really has. Hearing steve, hard to believe. It has been eight minutes of really bad news here. So lauren, do you have anything good. No, still sad news this morning, mike. We have to tell but. Police investigating a deadly shooting in West Philadelphia medics responded to a call in the man lying in the road in the 4100 block of cambridge street. He was rush to the hospital where it was discovered he had a gunshot wound to the chest. Right new police say there is very little to go on in the investigation. Police searching for a person who shot a man in his led last night this happened at 4200 block of fair hill street. Police say they received several 911 calls about the shooting when offices lived there on the scene, and they found a 38 yearold victim shot in the back of his head. Paramedics rushed him to temple hospital, in extremely Critical Condition. Police say they are looking at several surveillance cameras in that area to try to track down that shooter. A fire breaks out atwood land crossing apartments in edge water park in new jersey overnight. Fire crews raced to the area around midnight, put out a flames in less than an hour. We have in word on injuries, at this time. Bill cosby will be back in a Montgomery County courtroom this week. Comedians preliminary hearing slated for tomorrow morning in norristown. Prosecutors say he drugged and molested a Temple University employee in his Montgomery County home in 2004. Cost which claims that the encounter was consensual. A Community Comes together to support a little boy who was hit by an alleged drunk driver, ten yearold Garrett Rodgers is in critical but stable condition, after he was hit, south millsboro delaware. His baseball coach called on Community Members donate gift card. In addition a stories creating t shirts with garretts number on them. All proceeds will get to that family. Coming up at 7 30 the man behind that divine on the tshirts joins us here in the studio. All proceeds go to his mom. The little boys died died in november. So, they are suffering tough times. 7 10. Well, a shortened for a problem hospital that was soaring over fishtown just a few days ago. Remember mike we saw this on good day. It was thursday morning we had never seen this blimp before. So we got a shot of it coming out of the commercial. There it the is. Taking a live shot from the fox blimp. We decided to trade in the chopper, for a blimp. Now it will be slower to get to the zoo story. But still, steady shot. Yes. That is actually, bostic. They make tape. That was thursday morning. And then, it came down in fishtown on friday night. Watch this. Oh, man. Look at the this. This guy is up close and personal with this blimp. This is on Delaware Avenue. He probably saw it coming and stopped. This is fishtown, right. Yes. Pilot ape passenger they bounced down in that Construction Zone. They are okay but the pilot says the engine was overheating and they think that brought the blimp down. Thank goodness they were not hurt. I know. They took a long time to come down too. There is other footage i saw on you tube it takes ten or 15 minutes to slowly come down. Yeah. That is good because it was coming across Delaware Avenue and traffic had time to stop. Well, yeah. Just like that, mike. Yes, just like that. Thank you for that. Sure. Eleven past seven on this monday. Verdict is expect today in the trial of a officer facing charges in connection with the death of freddie gray. Officer edward nero is charged with assault, misconduct and in office and Reckless Endangerment. He fridays our area, washington township. He is a a volunteer fire fighter in new jersey. So for more we will go to foxs bob barner to talk about this verdict expected in about three hours from now you. That is right, three hours from now, alex. It will be handed down at 10 30 here at Baltimore Circuit Court by the judge. This was not a jury trial calling it a bench trial. Judge barry williams, who in the past worked for the Justice Department and investigated and tried Police Misconduct case is a cross the country, so he is very familiar with these cases. He will issue his verdict. There will be a verdict at ten there 30 this morning. The officer nero is facing only misdemeanor charges, Second Degree assault, Reckless Endangerment and official misconduct. He was within of the three bicycle officers who arrested freddie gray in april of last year here in baltimore, and, basically, the reckless up danger. Charge stems from the fact that freddie gray was in the harnessed in the police van that took him to jail in that van where he suffered that ultimately fatal spinal cord injury. The his defense says that officer nero wasnt responsible for strapping freddie gray in that police van. We will see. He is facing ten years in prison. If there is an acquittal, will there be a reaction on the streets here . Baltimore police say they are ready. The sheriffs office, they have got mutual aid after some of the nearby jurisdictions having officers on stand bay just in case. The feeling here is that this isnt the guy. This officer isnt the one at the least in the community directly responsible for freddie grays death. If there is an acquittal will there been unrest on the streets . We just dont know. Many people dont think so but police are not taking any chances. We will find out at 10 30 this morning. Even if they dont know they are expecting they will have more officers out there. Reporter yeah, there will be a police presence, physical and otherwise, and not only police but sheriff officials around here. So we will see, guys. They are waiting just in case, but what will happen we just dont know good all right. Thanks, so much bob. We will keep you guys updated, thank you. It will happened at 10 30. Coming up on 7 14. Sue . We are looking at some sunshine out there this morning, but it is really in battle with clouds and with some rain thanks to this off shore low pressure system. One that moved through saturday that gave us rain and continued to bother us on sunday and today, High Pressure is eventually going to take over but it is a bit unsettled today but with the mix of sun and included and a high of 73 degrees but also pop up showers and thunderstorms later on as we head toward end of the week it does look like we will be warming up, lets say appropriately for the unofficial start of summer, this coming weekend, it is memorial day weekend. Looking at live radar where it shows where the rain is, it is in this line from Burlington County to kent county delaware but when were watching rain we are watching it move from west to east. It is an off shore storm so it is bringing in moisture from the atlantic ocean. So as we zoom in we are seeing lighter rain down here in cumberland county, just north of dover delaware and kent county, heavier downpour there and for the rest of us, even though we will see sunshine and get it in the 07s today around 3 00 in the afternoon we are seeing very isolated pop up thunderstorms, and that will be the case for the rest of the evening. So 73 degrees today. Seventyeight tomorrow and then wham, we are so much warmer in the 80s on wednesday. I think wednesday is in the so humid day. Humidity comes back. It is not the heat but the humidity. Yes. 7 15. Good morning, sue. Good morning everybody. Come on kick covers off lets getting. North on 202 an accident in the Construction Zone, this is a live look at route 401, we have got Chester County Fire Fighters, out here, now northbound lanes of 202, bumper to bumper from the bypass even back to boot road all heading north into what is usually a jammo to begin w were down to 8 miles an hour. Once you make it past 401 and 29 things opened up. Problems on patco. Lets role video from the news van on the scene this morning. One of the work trains working overnight, they call it the knuckle will boomer, okay, the train that picks up the Railroad Ties, and then moves them. It derailed this morning. Two of the guys on the train, taken to local hospital. They have been released. Theyre okay. Now they have to get the knuckle boomer off the track. It went boom. Boom. Heres the deal emergency track work and special scheduled through 8 00 oclock this morning. Patco running with delays into and out of the city, for the morning rush hour, and otherwise, bennie and airport looking good, mike, back over to you. After losing friday and saturday the phillies shut out braves five to nothing yesterday. Their major League Leading seventh shut out this year. Widest margin of victory. Also, of note, rookie first base man tommy joseph into start against a righthanded pitcher. Maybe a sign ryan howard could be seeing more of the bench. So we want to know is it time for ryan hurt to take a seat for a few weeks . To answer that question, joe decamera is here in the middle. Sean brace is here. With his own microphone as a matter of fact. Love is in the air. And for the first time on television, jon sonnies here. Hey. Is this your debut. Yes, a absolutely. You have been on other stations. I have, i have. This will be the best experience of your life. Sean, lets start with you. Please. First of all, let me show you you the paper, newspaper where do you want to get this, over here. Look at this, the only flipin bat, the only power we have. Is it time that 25 milliondollar a year player sits. I want to squeeze in that and let you know we have been, you know, reading this story for the last four and a half years, mike. Yes good ryan howard hasnt had a productive year since 2011. It is time to let go. Lets have the big piece stay at the ballpark everybody comes in, 2008 paraphernalia and it is time to let him go. And eat the 25 million. You have to do what you have to do good they will not eat the that yet with you we will see if they do soon. I mean look there is surprisingly in contention. So it heightens the sense of urgency to try to improve the position f they were heading to 62 behind 100, what difference does it make. But now they have a shot. They are competing. If playoffs were to end they would be in the playoffs, and just a couple games back of the division lead. As this thing goes toward june and july if he is still struggling and they are still playing well, that is where the issue has been. John . Before the season started there, was no expectations for this year. They are rebuilding. We know this is ryan howards last year. Just dont, no, you know, this is his curtain call. Lets enjoy the ride. He is one of of the most under appreciated a athletes in the last 30 years in philadelphia sports. But surprisingly they are in contention. They are six games above 500 and he is batting. 161. Answer the question, john. It is time. It is time now. I heard you ranting bit over the weekend over the weekend. He have is the big piece. Yes. He is so under a appreciated. But, it is well overdue. He cannot hit obviously. He cant run. He cannot stretch out at first base. Other than that though. Other than that he is fine. I mean, really lake this guy. I hate to bring up this subject. That is where my problem comes in if we cut him in 2015 does that mean we are not appreciative of 2009, 2008. The guy had the best four seesbaseball has ever seen. Were talking about babe ruth in those four year stretch the at six year he had over 30 bombs and 100 rbis. Incredible. But it is time to let him go. It is 2016, mike. All right, sean. You know this is all about the money. Everybody knows. Nobody will take him. Not the right now. Y

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