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Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20180117

Clea dropping down to the teens and do be careful areas will be freezing over and from you tired of this cold january, i have good news on the way. Im tracking an exten thaw and i have warm numbers coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Come on inside thank you. Police believe that ice may have caused a crash in the winfield section of philadelphia. Action news was on the scene as redirected traff and two vehicles collided at 7 00 this morning. Both drivers were treated for minor injuries and a salt truck was call out to salt the roadway. Now, to the eagles as the nfc championship game fast approaches. We are all green here and the team held practice indoors as they prepare for the vikings. And quarterback nick followed talked to reporters a little while ago. Jaime apody joins us live in south philadelphia. Then busy transforming that area to the center of what will be the center of the nfc championship world. It had such a different feel it got real. I mean it. I walked i petersons the back fx c championship one. And thehe nfc championship trophy. It birds are 60 minutes away from playing for it all. The pads are back on in practice and the intensity picked up and the mood is light. Confident. Nick foles will once again be in the spotlight. He has the chance to bring the city what it has been desperately looking for. He leads mistake free and the defense gives the team a chance to win. He understands the big picture. Its a crazy journe we are blessed to be in this wild ride this season. And you know we have so many thing goes on and so many guys step up and guys that were injured h done anzing jg and being the heartbeat of thi that thes dna here. T over and over againi focus on that, weapon you step on the field we play for each other. That is the strength for us we play for the team and the guy that got injured and we are playing for the city. Defensive line man is for his home town of minnetonka minnesota outside of minneapolis and swears is not a v fan and neither is anyone associated with him. Talk to beau and his line mate says he is lying about in wont want to misst at im jaime apody, channel 6 action news. It what he thank you. Y ha liv broomall where company is busy with the eagles demand for the want tocheer on what i coined homs. You can exp have rt hi sharrie and brian, here is a look at this pretty awesome shirt. They are a hot commodity, they can make 2,000 of these shirts a day and they made thousands of them. They are working overtime they will continue to turn out these shirts as long as the orders et in. Lowi warehouse in broomalles have their work cut out for them. The excitement is unbelievable. We get calls 24 hours a day for shirts. They are working hand in hand with lane johnson to print the tshirts that read home dogs are going to eat. reference to the Team Underdog status into the championship game against t vikings. We woke up saturday morning and we saw a picture of lane johnson and said that is the tshirt. We got in touchith lane because we clothing line and he said lets go. Highlighted the teams underdog statusin over the falcons w German Shepherd masks the shirt feat wearing the mohn sons websias crashed f it is getting most ord it ever got before. Normally we get 15 to 20 a day and now over 1,000. Or 18 and can be purchased on lane johnsons website and all the proceeds go to the School District of philadelphia and plans are in wor updated shirts if they pull out a win and go to imil n ot tel you have in store. We are ready and excited. We want to focus on the game and gethis done. And everybody believes well get the win, we have idor n run with it. Back out live everyone is excited and those shirts cost 18 and you can buy them tomorrow at chickie and petes from 7 00 until 10 00 at a special pep rally gone to lane johnsons website a at our website at 6abc. Com. Go reporting in channel 6 action news. Nk yo ask onelevision to bring me one of those. But this is my not asking right now. I got you one. Knew it. We have our preview Playoff Party friday 7 00 p. M. On channel 6. E all weekend, with live reports from the linc on action news weekend at 6 00 a. M. And then live post game coverage after the final whistle blows after action news at 11 00. And then action news sports sunday. We have new information this afternoon at 4 00 involving the murder of unive t. Former high school classmate, 20yearold samue officially withrdering 19yearold bze bernstein using a knife. The crime happened while bernstein was at home in Southern California on winter break. Prosecutors are looking into the possible that it was a hate crime. He allegedly buried a park and went back to check on the grave before the body was discovered. Philadelphia police are asking for help trying to find a missing woman that suffers from alzheimers. 72yearold geneva was last seen friday on the 4 thousand blackinson street. If you know where she is ask you are asked to call police immediately. The first full day as knowledges governor new jerseys Governor Phil Murphy signed his first bill. It includes eight women in his cabinet and new jerseys first ever muslim and shaikh. And now gina gannon is in the Traffic Center today. You know what im surprised how light traffic is i think maybe the snow scared people off. Let look at the big picture behind me we see a lot of green out there. Well take that any day of the week except on the schuylkill expressway. That westbound side is heavy 9 Miles Per Hour from city avenue to gladwyne but around the conshohocken area to be crowded well. The vine street expressway crowded on thee and roosevelt boulevard seeing a delay. But speed restrictions because of the snow the walt whitman bridge has speed restrictions now at the mid span 35 Miles Per Hour so definitely something to watch out for i on the walt. The rest of the area bridges are fine. That is the only one i see an issue on. This is the schuylkill expressway the the only deleif. City avenue we are definitely slow jamming up here merge from four lane its down to two this typically always happens and now 24 minutes between the vine out through to the blue route a little more time there. An accident on villanova at stone ridge lane and a heads up fow there. Overall not so bad. Thank you. Still ahead on action news at 4 00 the mornings Winter Weather was not much for us. But it brought life to a halt and other parts of the country. The s coping. And find out and why thet body was cheering him on. 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And get to the heart of what matters. We have breaking news from wall street today and just a huge day for all three markets 323 to close above 26,000 for the first time. That is a gain of 1. 2 . This all coming on better than expected results from the Biggest Companies and the dow at a record high today up 74. 5 rounding it record close u 62 points on the the marrs and there is a looming problem in d. C. House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to pressure the democrats into a spending bill to stop a government shut down. It would temporarily finance federal agencies without touching immigration until later. Democrats want protections for young immigrants tied into the bill. We are say give us a vote on the dreamer fix that the president says he wants and a majority of the Congress Wants and give us a vote on the narrow fix and we movethings. To hold up funding for the military and other things for this makes no sense to me. Speaker ryan has not said if he has a and steve bannon is set to sit for an interview with counsel robert mueller. He will answer questions as they probe the Trump Campaign and russia. That comes one day after bannon refused to answer several questions put to him by the house intelligence committee. We learned today that bannons lawyer relayed questions if real time to the white house who then advised whether or not bannon should answer and the committee irish youed a subpoena. Former senator bob dole is receiving high honor at this hour. The 94yearold is getting the congressional gold medal in washington. Congress voted to bestow the honor on dole. He received the congressional medal of freedom from president bill clinton after losing the election to him. North and south korea have agreed to complete in the olympics as a joint team them will have their athletes march together during the opening ceremony. The Officials Say they reached the agreement today during talks from leaders of both countries and they have to approve of course the agreement. The deep freeze spawned by the winter storm. Some 90 Million People were in the path of the ice and snow that paralyzed the deep south all the way to the east coast. Maggie ruly has the latest. Reporter record cold hads frozen the deep south. As much as the region declares a state of emergency. Schools and roads across the south remain closed. Want to urge residents as i usually do in these types of events. I want them to be ready and stay off the roads unless absolutely necessary. The deep freeze icing over roads from texas to South Carolina to atlanta. Its been slippery road down here. Houston is seeing such bad traffic jams some drivers are going back i dont know where i am at the moment. Other highways in texas look more like bum our station reporting one crash. When another truck careens down the same road. Please stay off the roads. The icy roads are littered with accidents. More than 400 crashes in houston alone and to the northern ice jammed rivers are overflowing and flooding entire neighborhoods. And the temperatures are wreaking havoc on air travel. More than 1500 flights are canceled. When it comes to deidentification texans are turning to creative solutions. We are getting hit with the rm snow here in the northeast. But its not over yet in the wake the storm is is expected to leave behind another blast of cold arctic air. Channel 6 action news. On that note time to bring in meteorologist cecily tynan with a check of the accuweather the carolinas are up to a foot of snow. They got more snow here than we got here. We got a coat at Philadelphia International airport. We can handle that. Lets head to the Action News Weather Center speaking of the airport we are live on sky 6 hd all systems are go. If you look at sky 6 closely that shaking going on that is with the wds and that pulls down cold air tonight and tomorrow. And then temperatures will be climbing out of the deep freeze right now though its cold out there. Temperatures are dropping through the day. 26 degrees in philadelphia. And allentown 25. And reading 23 and beach haven 28 and lancaster 22. Temperatures dont dropping to the teens for everyone. And despite sunshine we only manage to make tup to the mid30s. Very cold tomorrow and not a lot of melting but big changes toward the weekend. Satellite 6 along with action radar showing that we have cloud cover left over from the moisture and the snow is history and still snowing in parts of virginia and north carolina. They are getting hit a lot harder than we did. As far as the amounts depends on where you are. Delaware modest. Dover, 1. 3 and glasgow a half inch and newcastle. 75 inch. And mantua 1. 5, mount laurel 1. 2 and vineland under an inch you had to go to the poconos. Palmer ton 7 inches and blakesly 9 inches. And reading 2. 5 and landsdale 1. 5. A nuisance event and the problem was the timing happening during the morning commute. Tonight its about the temperatures dropping down to 17 if philadelphia and 12 in allentown and 21 in cape may. Any slushy areas and any puddles will be freezing solid tomorrow morning. The morning commute is not quite as dicey as this morning. You want to allow extra time some black ice out there. Future tracker 6 showing at 7 00 in the teens and 20s and into the afternoon again we are stuck in the 30s despite loads of sunshine and factor in the winds and windchill tracker showing in the afternoon windchills will be stuck in the mid20s. And definitely feeling like the middle of with winter and then we get a pattern change. The four day at 4 00 mostly sunny and 35 degrees and climb out of it on friday 42 degrees and saturday it gets mild. 53 degrees and sunday great weather for tailgating and great weather for the eagles game 53. Get used to the mil temperatures, ill talk about that coming up in the full exclusive accuweather forecast. Thanks cecily. Still ahead here on action news a big surprise at a local school. Disguised as an eagles pep rally. What the students were really celebrating when action news comes back. Before we start, i just want to save fios please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. A Bucks County School showed the philly pride for a worker about to embark on a tough battle of his life. Marine boot camp. Got to love students faculty and staff at saint Drexel Catholic school held the pep rally for owe ethan haines. He has been working with the maintenanceance department and has made a huge impact on the student body and it was a student that came up with the idea to throw the send off for haines and that melted his heart. Cant believe its the students idea and that means more to me. They look up to him and think of him as a role model. He leaved on sunday for the marine we wish him the best. Pizza shops around the tristate have been busy taking oshd orders during the eagles bigplayoff run. Dy again on sundaor the playoff game. Little italy says that the pizza shaped like a helmet is a favorite. We caught up with David Clausen and he says go birds. We want to see howou bleeding green. We get new pictures every day and this is a unique version of the fight song from third graders. They learned sign language with their classmates that are hearing impaired. Keep going we dont have it. I guess not. Well have it later i promise. If you want to share your creative cheer tag 6abcaction and post it to our febook page. And i promise well show them as long as its birds keep their season alive. So much more ahead in the next half hour of action news at 4 00 including a tour of the first medical marijuana facility. Im nydia han, asking a retailer for a lower price can feel awkward. Consumer reports has tipped to get of the hurdle and start haggling. Small business, internet providers promise you a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. Verizon doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. Verizon, no way. We offer 35 voice features and solutions that grow with your business. Verizon, not so much. Get internet on our gigspeed network and add voice and tv for 34. 90 more per month. Call 18005016000. Action news continues. Its 4 30 and action news continues with the controversial contract that one mom has with her daughter asking her to pay rent. The reason it is upsetting many is she is only 5 years old. And a bagel shop went out of their way to make a man with alzheimers feel good is feeling an outpouring of support from the community. And how a utah girl used the power of music to teach her disabled little brother to not only speak but to sing. Well begin here at 4 30 with a medical milestone in pennsylvania. Today action news was invited insized the state of the first medical Marijuana Dispensary located in the Lehigh Valley. Walter perez is live in bethlehem with more on the facility and who is hoping to help. Reporter brian, the state law legalizing medical marijuana was signed in 2016 and now here we are. Its something that medical marijuana proponents say they never would have thought possible. Former flyers reilly coaty says his body took a beating during the eightyears playing hockey an that helps him manage his pain quite like medical marijuana. Its the alternative to opioids and alcohol. It has been a god send for me. That is why he plans on being the first customers in bethlehem. The first Marijuana Dispensary in pennsylvania and officially opened today

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