Transcripts For WPVI Action News Weekend 9AM 20171216 : comp

Transcripts For WPVI Action News Weekend 9AM 20171216

Slush. Take it easy, allow yourself extra time. Look at the morning lows around the area. Got down to 10 in millville. 10 in pottstown. Allentown, 14 degrees for the morning low. Wilmington, 18 degrees and philadelphia right here in the city, dropping all the way down to 21. Factoring in the winds it still feels like the low to mid teens out here right now. 28 in philadelphia, 28 in allentown. 31 in millville. Trenton, 25. Only 20 degrees in the poconos. Factoring in the winds feels like 9 in the mountains. If youre heading into the mountains to do skiing you need to bundle up in layers its going to be cold up there this afternoon. Feels like 17 in philadelphia. And 21 with the wind in wilmington. We have clouds and sun at times, i think its main line cloudy throughout the first part of the day. Youll see more sun as the afternoon wears on. It will be breezy, high of 41. With the wind it never feels close to 41 degrees. Bundle up in layers if youre doing a last minute christmas shopping. Dont forget the wind with the temperatures all day long stuck in the mid 30s. Well focus on the warmer temperatures heading this way in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Pennsylvania state police are investigate a crash that killed a pedestrian in Delaware County that happened on the ramp from southbound i95 highland avenue in chester at 3 00 a. M. State police say the driver of the car that hit the victim did stop. So far no word on charges or why the victim was walk on the ramp. Fire crews in Montgomery County had to call for backup battling an early modern blaze. Flames burned the home in Upper Providence township. Everyone got out of the home safely. Theres no word on what started the fire. A firefighter is recovering from minor injuries suffered at the scene of a different fire in Montgomery County. Whochopper 6 hd was over the sce in bluebell. Heavy smoke and flames broke out in the basement and spread. The cause is under investigation. From our delaware newsroom a state trooper was placed on administrative leave following a deadly shooting in wilmington. The state trooper conducted a traffic stop, the man drove off dragging the trooper with the vehicle, thats when the trooper opened fire killing the suspect. The trooper was treated for nonlife threatening injuries. Delaware state officials have agreed to pay 7. 5 million to settle a prison riot lawsuit. 7 plaintiffs including the family of officer steve floyd will share the money. Officer floyd was killed during the riot at the maximum security lockout. Republicans appear to be on the cusp of passing a huge historic tax bill by the end of the year. Dave wright has the details on the late night progress to get the measure passed. Reporter republican lawmakers believe they have the votes needed to pass the biggest tax overhaul in a generation, the house and Senate Compromise bill more than a thousand pages long. I know everyones lives will be better off under tax reform. Republicans can afford to lose two votes in the senate and still have the measure passed with Vice President mike pence breaking the tie. Bob corker was the only republican to vote no on the initial senate bill insisting he couldnt support anything that adds to the detective city. Now he has deficit. Now he has come around. So has marko rubio and maines susan collins. The final bill is expected to add 1. 5 trillion to the deficit slashing the Corporate Tax rate in half and doubling the standard deduction for those who dont itemize. The caps on some of the deductions will be lower. The tax bill is one of two big items on the president s radar. Next week his lawyers are expected to meet facetoface with special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team a rarity. They hope that the probe into russian meddling and possible collusion by the Trump Campaign is nearing an end, not clear that mueller will oblige. There is absolutely no collusion, i never even made a phone call to russia. Everybody knows. Reporter Jonathan Carl pressed the president on whether he would consider pardoning his National Security advisor who lied to the fbi and cooperating with the special counsel. Michael flynn, would you consider a pardon for Michael Flynn. I dont want to talk about pardon for Michael Flynn yet. Well see what happens. Appears roy moore is not giving up even after he lost the special election for alabamas next senator. Moore told supporters in an email the battle is not over and asked for donations that will go toward an Election Integrity fund. He refused to concede to democrat doug jones. The campaign wants to check voter fraud before he this certify the vote. Hollywood executives have created a new commission to fight Sexual Harassment and sexual misconduct. It will be chaired by anita hill who famously testified that she was harassed by aran ce thomas. Gun safety pledge cards were handed out to children to make them aware of the dangers to firearms. There is much more to come on action news saturday morning. Its a close call for shoppers who witnessed a firebombing inside a grassry store. Well look at the future of self driving cars. One company is predicting they wont just save you from the stress of the road, but save you money, too. Reporter christy if youre sick and of the cold whether the and the snow theres a nice warmup coming in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Stay with us ill have the details up next. Welcome back sky6 live hd taking a live look from our city hall camera, you can see folks enjoying the rothman ice rink at this saturday morning, cold today, beware of slushy, icy secondary roads, a nice warmup heading our way this week. Investigators in new york have released this Surveillance Video the moment a man threw two molotov cocktails into a store. The man runs out of the store and hospitals on the motorcycle hops on a motorcycle with the driver to wisk him away. They say this attack was targeted. Were getting a better look at the damage caused by a strong earthquake that hit indonesia late friday. Two people were killed and seven others injured. A school was badly damaged in the 6. 35 magnitude earthquake, part of the buildings walls fell. It was felt 190 miles away in the capitol of jakarta. The thomas fire near los angeles is out of control and growing larger. It is the 4th largest in california history and scorched 340 square miles. It caused damage to homes and crops. Four fires lost their entire orchards of avacado trees. They estimate 100 acres of farm loonld was damaged by land was damaged by the lilac fire. Deputies have created a calendar featuring their k9s, the money raised will be help pay for the k9s protective gear. Looks like little murphy. Reporter i need to get that. Cape may beach picked up a couple of inches of most of south jersey received 3 to 2 1 2 inches of snow. North and west it was one to two. It wasnt a huge event, unfortunately, the timing was lousy came in time for the evening commute. We remember what happened yesterday with traffic. As we take a look temperatures here around the region, this is what were looking at, we put the camera back on me, there we go, heres what were looking at, temperature wise. 28 degrees in allentown. Reading, 27 degrees. Icy cold, north and west, philadelphia 28. Millville, 31. Cape may, 37 degrees. Trenton, 25, and wilmington, 28 degrees. Some locations got as cold as ten degrees this morning with the snow pack out there. High pressure starting to settle in from the northwest, windchill values this is what is going to hit you as you step out the door. Feels like 9 in the poconos, 19 in reading. 17 in philadelphia. 25 in millville. 21 in wilmington. Well be dealing with the icycold windchills all day long. Now, were not expecting any weather like any falling precipitation or anything like that, but the winds will be cold. 27 is what it will feel like in philadelphia, 15 in the poconos, 25 in reading. Later this afternoon were looking at upper 20s to low 30s, with high temperatures topping out in the upper 30s across the area. We get into the first part of tomorrow morning. Its a little bit better but fairly chilly with low windchill values of 38 degrees. Thats the big story over the next 24, 36 hours. As we look at the radar theres a small little system over the great lake states, the snow machines will turn on erie and on ontario, and houron and maybe the poconos pick up a snow shower this afternoon, thats about it. 11 00 a. M. , were looking at a combination of sun and clouds or more clouds than sun. Overnight tonight well go partly cloudy to clear across the area. As we get into sunday well start out with sunshine and increase the clouds as the days wears on. This is not a system were watching, its a warm front that will be punching through, once the front lifts through, temperatures off to the races with high in the upper 40s to the mid 50s. For this weekend we have the arctic highs attacking to the north, all that lifts to the north back up into canada. The wind shift out of the southwest we get the southern highs, almost like a bermuda high that warms everybody up from atlanta, department of o southern youll. Today, clouds and southern new england. Overnight tonight, partly cloudy skies. Ten degrees this morning in millville. 27 tomorrow morning. Thats a lot better there. Allentown, 23. Lancaster, 26. Philadelphia bottoming out at 29. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, things will quiet down over the next few days, as well. It stays chilly this weekend, clouds and sun, 41. Windchills in the low to mid 30s. Increasing clouds tomorrow, 40. Monday we start to warm up. 56 tuesday, wednesday, had a, thursday, 42. Warmer friday, wet weather and 52 degrees. Thank you chris. Action news viewers are sending in pictures and videos of the recent snowfall. We want to see your photos share them on the action News Facebook page use the 6abc action or email us at join the action at 6abc. Com. Heres a look at whats happening in and around the area this weekend. Join the Animal Rescue for the very merry howell a day party is at the animal refuse rescue. Tie up the Running Shoes in new jersey, the 5k run and one mile walk takes place tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. Its 30 per person, but 15 if you donate a toy. Its for the toy coat and food drive. Theater company will host the princess concert that includes princesses from popular musicals and television shows, kids are encouraged to dress as their favorite princess or prince. Tickets are 35 and its starts at 315. Well be right back. Spread some cheer with a dozen Dunkin Donuts for 6. 99. 12 tasty treats with with holiday flavors sprinkled in. Grab a dozen holiday donuts or any classic donuts for 6. 99 and make some merry out there. The holidays run on dunkin. In this mornings technically speaking uber and lyfte could be seeing competition from self driving cars. Reporter they have no logos or markings, but a lot of electronics. They spend time stopped between neatly araged cones they make a complete stop. Mark is the former head of the National Traffic Safety Administration and chief Safety Officer is at the start up called zooks. The awe autonomous Autonomous Vehicles need to know how to drive. Its called a black diamond. Its complicated to drive in San Francisco. How many miles are enough . Well thats an openended question, you see the cars can drive the same streets 1,000 times, but Little Things that are different each time are what matter. Learning what cars bikes and trucks and people look like in all different kinds of light how they behave with a safety driver at the wheel for teachable motors. Those are the extreme one off things that happen. Reporter they plan to build their own cars and offer them as a service or oosh uber. It will change society. Reporter the economic implications are huge. My father is a San Francisco Police Officer who was killed in the line the duty when someone ran a red light. That could get us to zero lives loss on the roadways. The force is strong for star wars, the last jedi made 45 million during thursdays early showing. Those numbers are second to the last star wars movies, the force awakens made 67 million opening in 2015. Hollywood analysts predict this 8th episode will blast its way to 200 million through the weekend. All right welcome back, 9 24 a. M. , saturday morning, this is a live look from our sky6 live hd overlooking Spring Mountain in Montgomery County. You can see skiers have already hit the slopes enjoying yesterdays snowfall. Aation lawsuit was filed by pete rose was dismissed. He claimed john dowd defamed him saying he raped crowning he raped a young team girl during training. Sixers battle it out with the thunder during three overtime larcht. Joel embiid, ignited a overtime, ben simmons forced overtime, but the sixers would fall 119 to 117 points. The eagles play the giants for right for the first round bye. Nick foles will show how he will lead the team in the absence of the carson wentz. Doug peterson likes what he sees. The guys have responded well offenseively around nick. He is a veteran playing. He played with the guys a lot of guys on the team. I dont think the team is made of one person, this is a team, nick will step in and do a really good job, nobody want to see anybody in the league get hurt. To lose our quarterback, its a lot. Dont forget, nick is a really good player, too. Dont forget, temple football playbook is coming up in the next halfhour. Ducis rogers and temple head coach jeff collins did you ds all things owls. They face the Florida Panthers on thursday. With snow on the ground theres no better time to get into the holiday spirit. Melissa magee takes us to the most festive spots in the burbs. If youre a person who lets old parking tickets pile up, youll be getting a free pass, almost free, well tell you about the proposal by city council. Well have the the exclusive accuweather fiveday forecast with meteorologist chris sowers when action news saturday at 9 00 a. M. Continues. Happening now on action news, saturday at 9 00 a. M. , its another cold morning. Meaning the snowcovered side streets wont be melting just yet. Well tell you when you can expect a thaw. A garbage collector was accused of taking out more than the trash. Lets go outside to meteorologist chris sowers and the accuweather forecast, cold out there, chris. Reporter especially when the wind starts blowing. We have windchills in the teens and 20s and, of course, lots of snow on the ground, so we have slick spots you need to to take it easy this morning. Going around the region, final snowfall totals from our third snow event in the last two weeks. Good morning, everybody, everybody is happy out here this morning. Levittown, 3. 2. Wynnewood, 2. 6. Philadelphia the official number was 2. 2 week. For the week, philadelphia pick up 7 1 2 inches which is half of the entire snowfall total of all of last season. Winter got off to a quick start in philadelphia area. Berlin, new jersey, 3. 6. Columbus in burlington county, 3. 5. Toms river, 3 1 2, monroeville 2 1 2 inches. Middletown, 2. 3. Claymont, 1. 9 and smyrna, 1. 3. Now that the snow is gone, the colder air is settling in. Overnight lows dropping into the teens in most locations, now were rebounding we have mostly cloudy skies, 28 in reading, allentown, 28. Same number for philadelphia. Millville, 31. Dover, 29. With the wind it feels like 22 in dover, teens to the north, you get north of the pennsylvania turnpike its bitter cold with the wind 19 degrees presently in reading, 18 in allentown. 17 in trenton. Philadelphia youre windchill reading at this hour, 17 degrees. Forecast for today, clouds limited sun and there will be a cold breeze blowing throughout the day, were forecasting a high of 41. Wipt to point out, the i want to point out, the more clouds well see, the more likely the temperatures will be cooler than what youre seeing in front ever you. Noontime, 32. 2 00 p. M. , 37. 4 00 p. M. , 39 degrees. There you have it, thats a quick check of the forecast for now. When i come back, the pattern will quiet down over the next several days, well focus on that. Theres couple of days next week where we could hit 50 degrees or higher. Details in ten minutes. The cold bluster conditions have led one part of new jersey to declare a code blue. Officials will help the homeless find shelter in Cumberland County through tomorrow morning. The frigid air is not helping the melting process from last evenings snow. Overnight we found packed snow and ice on the 16th street in south philadelphia. Workers were busy shovel egg sidewalks from the new snow shoveling sidewalks from the new snow stay ahead of the changes by visiting 6abc. Com weather or by downloading the free 6abc app. A community in Montgomery County has come together following a deadly fire that killed two brothers earlier this week. 11yearold brian lukens junior known as l. J. And 6yearold parker were killed in a blaze . Schwenksville wednesday morning. As the donations came pouring in, three uncles of the two young victims watched with gratitude. Its overwhelming, its unbelievable. Words cant compress what everybody is express what everybody is doing. Im happy that the community is here for them. Reporter the fire was ruled accidental cause bide an electrical failure of an extension cord plugged into a space heater on the porch. Fire forced residents of a Delaware County nursing home to relocate. Smoke was coming out of the dunn woody village located on west chester pike in knew newtown square. The residents were moved to another building, no injuries were reported. A babysitter in berks county is facing sex charges. He is accuse of assaulting two children in his care. The acts happened inside the family home in reading. At the time the girl was around the age of 7 or 8. Her younger brother was 5 or 6 years old. The reading man was arraigned on sexual c

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