Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20180209 : compareme

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20180209

Reporter as far as tonnage of trash, it was a record. 60 tons collector more than after the phillies parade or the papal visit. One hiccup. This bus that apparently blocked the view of parade watchers at broad and chestnut. Just as the team passed by. It was apparently a police matter. That was a vehicle that was used to transport officers that needed to be mobilized so i assure you it was not the intent of philly pd to obstruct the view of anybody. Reporter the officers were mobile lied to deal with people who had climbed and broken this jumbotron at city hall. So, what is the parades price tag and how much will be paid by the eagles, how much by the taxpayers . Thats still to be determined. I was the mayor when the phillies won. I got to figure out what the arrangement was with them. But we will have we will be transparent and opened with the number as soon as we have it. Reporter so, understand the actual parade that would be the buses the confetti truck the jumbotrons the sort of hoopla factor estimated cost about two to 3 million to be paid by the eagles for sure. The unknown is the city cost. Think overtime costs, thats still to be calculated and so it will take awhile for everybody to kind of figure out who pays what when. Live above the parkway, john rawlins channel6 action news. All right, party first, figure out the payments later. John, thank you. Sounds like dinner every weekend. All day long crews have been busy cleaning up the trash left behind after the crowd cleared out from south philadelphia to the art museum, sidewalks and streets are covered in litter. Making matters worse much of it is encased in mud and frozen to the ground. Crews are using rakes leaf blowers and heavy duty machinery to clean up as best they can and theyre hoping to have this done later today. Reporter . Jason kelces outfit speech from yesterday will go down in philadelphia history. Next at 4 30 we get a look at the costume he borrowed from the mummers to see how the fans are still celebrating the player who stole the show. A lot of fun and celebrations come with the super bowl but it gets the attention of other teams who are looking to acquire top players or coaches. Sports reporter Jeff Skversky joins us now. We learned today that one of the key coaches is leaving the eagles. And there possibly could be more going forward. This is what happens when you win the super bowl. When youre a champion Everyone Wants a piece of you. Carson wentz and nick foles quarterback coach John Defilippo is that officially hired as the is officially hired as the vikings offensive coordinator. Eagles remain the talk of the town and the world. The world champs continue their victory happen at espn today where theyre recreating that philly special and talking about their first super bowl parade and the unlikely way that they beat the new England Patriots in super bowl lii. The eagles believe this victory tour will continue for years to come with more super bowls. Realistically we walked and ran the parade route rather than have been on the bus the whole time. We were just and it didnt matter like how far it was or how long it was cause we just got that energy from everyone just understanding like we did it. This is the first time in history the music, the kids like theyll remember that growing up as old people being there and like for us to have been a part of it, its extremely special. People are so excited about this team and about jason kelces speech yesterday i saw a thing on twitter where one eagles fan got a tattoo of jason kelce in that mummers outfit. This team has left a lasting impression. Somebody got a tattoo of the philly special the play. I saw. Pretty incredible. Incredible is right. Jeff thank you. A lot of tattoos to be had apparently. Relive the day in sports history on the 6abc app. You can see videos from the biggest moments of the celebration including raw video from the action cam and also chopper6. We also have dozens of photos of eagles players and fans enjoying the championship parade. Well, we may want to relish in the glow of yesterday sometime because we got an accuweather alert in that effect for the weekend. Rain is moving in and that could cause problems. Lets get the latest from meteorologist adam joseph with a first check from accuweather today. Hi, adam. That rain will turn heavy and steady saturday night into the Morning Hours of sunday. Along with it will come some very warm air. You can see it down to the south. Cincinnati raleigh saint louis all in the 50s. 60s from memphis as well as atlanta. Were still chilly at 39 degrees but were going to kick that cold air out of here first thing tomorrow. Storm tracker6 live double scan it does not look impressive right now in the gulf coast states. Theres a little bit of moisture coming from the gulf of mexico but this will be the genesis of a pipeline of moisture that will come in from the south work to the north and east. In fact, you can see here it starts to move in late tomorrow afternoon, 3, 4, 5 oclock. Well see the rain coming in from the south. Light at first but then well continue to pull in that very heavy rainfall hour after Hour Saturday night and especially early on sunday morning at 7 00 a. M. Thats around when we should see the heaviest amount of rain falling at one particular time period. Rain arrives again saturday afternoon. These are the take aways for that accuweather alert. The heaviest will be on sunday morning. Well see one to 2inches of rain. Locally some areas could get up to two and a half inches and the problem here is the ground is solid. Its frozen so the water cant seep in. It has to run off and that means there are flooding concerns on roads and possibly even some streams, creeks and rivers. Well chat more about this show you a closer look at future tracker guys in that sevenday forecast in a little while. Adam thank you. Now to an issue thats plaguing drivers all over the area. Potholes seem to be never ending and repair crews they feel the same way. The damage to roadways gets even worse when will temperatures keep changing dramatically like this. Action newss gray hall now live outside one repair center in south philadelphia. Gray, theyre seeing a lot of damaged cars come into their garage today. Reporter absolutely right, brian. Mechanics tell me this is the season for those potholes. They tell me they cause a whole lot of problems and hundreds of dollars in repair bills. There is a war right now between the weather and the pavement. Mother nature is winning. Megan says if your car has been the recent victim of a pothole she feels your pain. Wednesday night it happened to her car. My car started shaking and i pulled off and i had a flat tire and a broken cd joint in my axle so when penndot arrived they were very kind. I was the tenth person since the gentlemans shift started. Reporter she says the damage happened while driving on the schuylkill near city avenue. The repairs will cost her hundreds of dollars. She says the experience was frustrating and shes hoping that pothole is filled soon. When i saw the estimate i felt like tom brady on super bowl. It hit me hard. Reporter brad rudolph with penndot says drivers can blame the weather for the majority of those potholes. This has been, you know, a severe outbreak, its been a season like 2015 where we saw a lot of freezethaw cycles so it gets cold, gets warm, precipitation mixed in which is causing a lot of deterioration to the pavement. Reporter penndot says crews are patching about of 60 to 70 highways a week to keep up demand. Rudolph says the best thing to do is watch your speed and try to avoid those potholes safely. We expect it to get worse before it gets better but were going to be out there every day when year not providing Winter Services patching these roads. Reporter mechanics always see an uptick in business this time of year to repair cars damaged by potholes. Tire damage is number one. I believe our tire calls have gone up significantly in the last two months. Reporter heres some advice from an expert. Youre going to hit potholes, its just the nature of living in philadelphia and driving on the roads and in this cold weather climate. So just try not to swerve too far out of the way and just take the damage and have your car serviced regularly and checked up. Reporter all right, good information. Back out live like to remind you if you would like to report a pothole and youre in the city dial 31. If its a state road, you can dial one800fixroad and you can also file a claim if your vehicle is damaged. Reporting live in south philadelphia, gray hall, channel6 action news. Sharrie. All right, gray, thank you. Frontier airlines is adding four new nonstop routes out of the Trenton Mercer county airport. Starting in april and may you will be able to fly direct to jacksonville, florida and nashville, tennessee along with charleston and myrtle beach in south carolina. Officials made that announcement this afternoon. While the flights do not take off for a few more months you can still book the tickets now. Frontier is offering fares as low as 39 each way by. By the end of the year the airline is hoping to hire around 100 flight attendants who will be based in trenton. Time for a first check on the action news traffic report today. All right. Its friday. Lets check in with matt pelman in the action news traffic center. Hey, matt. Ill tell you guys in comparison to yesterday it feels like the open frontier out here this afternoon. I almost want to take my horse drawn carriage down the middle of the Benjamin Franklin parkway. Compared to the sea of people we had yesterday this afternoon its relatively quiet. Just a few cars trying to use the ben franklin parkway here by 20th street and the free library. Everything is reopened after all of the events yesterday. You might still find a few port a potties around eakins oval. Overall the cleanup is finished and roads back in business. Underneath on the vine street expressway its getting busy as it usually does on a friday afternoon westbound backing up heading towards the schuylkill. Eastbound busy from the parkway out towards 95. On the big picture speeds are starting to drop on 95 itself and the schuylkill expressway. Westbound by south street just 6 miles per hour. Had a crash thats in the process of clearing by the Drexel Line Shopping Center there in drexel hill. Township line near state. There was also one in Gloucester City at market and sixth but that, too, has been pushed out of the way. Had some debris here, its 422 westbound side past 202. Also cleared out of the way. But were starting to back up with normal friday afternoon volume passing 23 and heading out toward oaks. And in pemberton Burlington County watch out for a bad crash this afternoon along 70 at lakehurst road. Lets grab the ipad check your ways home with the waze app on this friday afternoon chester pike route 13 in ridley park red because of a major accident just off stuart avenue and i95. If youre bailing there for ridley park watch out for that crash in the way along 13. Well check it again brian and sharrie in the next half hour. Matt. Thanks for your help getting everybody home yesterday. A look at how the stock market ended this rollercoaster week. Plus, keeping the government opened. We look at what the new budget deal does and not do for america. As the flu continues to sicken people across the country we have a new update on the outbreak. Do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or. One thats good for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. Its our best whitening technology. Plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. My shoulders carry more they carry my communitys pride my familys pride and pride in myself because shoulders were made for greatness not dandruff aah . I would have said you were crazy. But so began the year of me. I discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts. 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The allegations have rocked the white house. Speaking of which President Donald Trump signed a 400 billion budget deal ending a brief federal Government Shutdown overnight. Both the house and Senate Approved the bill to keep the government funded at least through march 23rd. For nearly nine hours the government was closed because of resistance from one senator. Rand paul objected because he says this bill increases the deficit and sharply boosts spending. House Speaker Paul Ryan called it a true measure. In the house Many Democrats were upset that this plan does nothing to protect the undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as children known as dreamers. If another country said that they were going to deport 800,000 people or place in jeopardy their protections under the law, we would be appalled. This agreement will also allow us to step off this carousel of short term funding bills that do nothing but hurt our military and stymie our ability to focus on other important agenda items. After he signed the bill President Trump tweeted the bill is a big victory for our military and also for jobs. Now theres one thing, of course, that is still to be addressed. That is daca. The dreamers, the president also by the way tweeting, that that conversation will be forthcoming and he said it will be happening soon. Back to you guys. All right, alicia. Thank you. A Police Officer is dead and two deputies are wounded following a shooting in georgia. Law enforcement members were serving a warrant this morning at a home in locust grove which is southeast of atlanta. Police say the suspect in all of this is also dead. One of the deputies is in serious condition. The other is said to be in fair condition. Both were wearing bulletproof vests at the time. Details about the deceased local Police Officer have not been released. There is more bad news today surround, the seasons flu outbreak. The centers for Disease Control says cases are still on the rise and this season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic back in 2009. The newest report says one of every 13 doctor visits last week was for flu symptoms. Experts are still trying to sort out why this years strain has been so intense and lasted so long. Uber and google fight over selfdriving Car Technology came to a halt today. In a rare move, the two companies settled a lawsuit that accused uber of ripping off ideas from a branch of google called way mow. Google agreed to pay 245 million and change the way its research is conducted. The stays stems from an engineering who allegedly took googles trade secrets with him when he went to work for uber. All right. Meteorologist adam joseph joining us once again as we talk about an accuweather alert for the weekend. Yeah, not what you want when you head into the weekend. Just find indoor activities where you can. As we take a look at the Weather Center here live on sky6 the clouds have moved in as expected here during the mid to late Morning Hours. And clouds still very heavy this afternoon but as that warmth comes in along with the rain, not only are you going to deal with the rain but were going to deal with a lot of fog as well especially saturday night into sunday morning. Whats going to happen here is that the ground very cold and also rock solid at this point. Its frozen in spots and then as you get that warm moist air to kind of filter in over that very cold ground the two dont mix very well so it actually creates a cloud at the surface where that air temperature meets the dewpoint and fog basically forms as you condense the air with that warmth and the cold mixing with one another so watch that saturday night going into sunday morning on top of that heavy rain falling. As we look at temperatures right now 35 allentown, 36 in reading, 38 in millville as well as dover. Winds right now coming in out of the southeast but will switch more out of the south during the overnight hours tonight and thats going to move those temperatures up rather than going down. Satellite and radar, you can see the stream of clouds that have pulling in from the midwest. Thats not the system that is going to bring us the rain. That is to the south. You can start to see some of the showers coming together in the gulf coast states. For tonight it does stay dry. A lot of clouds dominating and then temperatures will fall back to 29 allentown early tonight, 36 philadelphia, 35 millville and then start to rise to near 40 in the predawn hours. In fact at 7 30 a. M. , 40 philadelphia, 29 in allentown being replaced by 361st thing in the morning. Maybe a few spitting showers in south jersey along the coast but the steadier rain does not come in until mid to Late Afternoon hours tomorrow and notice temperatures into the 50s and then theres that soaking rain midnight on saturday, 54 in dover, temperatures dont fall saturday night and that train of rain will continue right into sunday morning lasting through sunday lunchtime but by sunday afternoon, well start to shut off that heavy rain as it lifts to the north and east but temperatures in the wake of that rain even sunday afternoon in the mid and upper 50s to near 60 after one to 2inches of rainfall. If youre heading to the poconos, its going to be a little sloppy this weekend. Saturday 42 degrees, cloudy with some late rain developing and a soaker on sunday especially the first twothirds of the

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