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WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A June 22, 2024

Oh, so my little was too anything. All about your perspective. Little bit of chill in the air, dave war glenn so what do you do when you walk with a little bit of chill . Do you shiver . I walk out to the car. Take camera two again, ready, if we can. Go ahead. Can we do this . You wear a blanket on your lap here in the studio. It is freezing. What happens under that desk, guys . Not much. All right, good. Well, now, the little bit of chill we are talking about, yes, suburbs, have dropped, they are into the 50s this morning, like yesterday, maybe one, 2 degrees cooler, it is 67 in philadelphia, but when you add the clear skies, light wind, very little, very dry air in place, you get this big difference, 10 degrees difference or more, between the city and the suburbs. So, 50s this morning, in pottstown, in doylestown, upper 50s, allentown, right at 60 degrees, and these numbers dropped the last hour, they may drop the next hour, so we might be little cooler wait to go step outside. Once the sun comes up, they will quickly warm up. There they are in the 50s, south and east, and lewes, delaware at 62, there is a couple of 60s to the south. Sixty to 65. Thats what we will call this when we step outside, buddy, taking the last days of summer hereby the pool today. Plenty of sunshine, grab the sunscreen, sunglasses, hat, youll need it all again. We are at 67, clear nice in center city, maybe some rip countries being there down the shore, and things up across the lehigh valley, and pocono mountains, cool start, 58 degrees. Another nice weather stretch, midway through this nice stretch of weather, so, another nice day today, 82, not much of a change, maybe one, 2 degrees cooler, just the light breeze, but a lot of changes this coming weekends. Look at that in the seven day forecast, for now, we step outside, get you on your way on the roadways with bob kelly. Good morning, bob. Good morning, coming up on 4 03 this thursday morning, live look downtown philly where the crews are still working, both directions, near the broad street interchange, lanes are open, just be ready to hit the brakes as you ride on by into and out of center city on the vine. Also out here along woodhaven road, the stretch of woodhaven road from say Franklin Mills mall heading over toward i95. Speaking of 95, also working northbound 95, in the area of cottman avenue. Theyve been there for most of the overnight, off ramp to cottman closed until about 5 00. And then they are also working outbound on i95 this evening, i should say last night this this morning, between street road and woodhaven road, where they have a downed to one lane. Same deal on 422, penndots taking advantage of these great overnight temperatures, theyre out 422 eastbound, down to one lane, at trooper. Theyre going to take a break during the morning rush hour, and then theyll come back at 9 00, do the same deal, so midday, in and out of king of prussia on the 422 stretch here, expect delays and some brake tapping all part of the active work zone. Good news from septa. They made repairs to the signal. So the west trenton line will be running full service all aboard trains from one end to the other, they had been shuttle bussing for the last couple of days. For the gang coming in from the suburbs, no problems on the 30 bypass, as you work your way out of downingtown, in toward frazier, there is a left over work crew right here, 202 and 401, in malvern. Otherwise, the bridges look fine, and no delays yet at the airport. Chris, lauren, back to you. Bob, of course, starting with this, funeral arrangements are being made for virginia reporter and photographer who were gunned down by a former coworker live on the air. The woman they were interviewing also shot. But she survived. Wdbj reporter allison and her photographer adam, a report on tourism, when former reporter Bryce Williams took aim. Investigators believe williams waited to be sure she was live on air before shooting her and then ward. Wards camera caught glimpse of him. That was at 6 45 a. M. , while on the run, williams, whose real name was vester flannagan, posted video of the murders on his social media sites. Twentythreepage manifesto was also sent out. He was discovered driving on highway 11 30, yesterday morning, drove off the road, shot himself, and died at 1 30 yesterday afternoon. Allison parker was only 24 years old, adam ward, 27. And were learning this morning, more about their personal lives. Each fell in love with someone who had ties to our area. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce in the news room with more on. This jennifer, good morning. Reporter good morning, chris. Last night Fox News Channel megan kelly spoke with victim Allison Parkers farther and boyfriend, chris hurts, from malvern, also, had attended Temple University. Twentyfour year old Allison Parker and photographer 27 year old adam ward shot and killed doing the job they loved. Ward and parker were a team every morning, reporting for wdbj7 in roanoke, virginia, parker had just moved in with hirst, and told they were planning a future together. Hirst told us that he and allison worked opposite shift, so when he got home late at night he made her breakfast, made sure she got to work safely. Yesterday he work up to the horrifying news. She would always text me, we would always be concerned, texting each other when we got to work safely, and she texted me good night sweet boy. That was the last i had ever heard from her, then i was startled awake this morning from phonecalls from the station telling me that there had been a shooting on Live Television, and i needed to come to the station. Allison, she was only 24 years old, she only turned 24 a week ago, and yet she lived a great life. I mean, she did a loft stuff. She excelled in everything she did. And she loved what she did. She loved the people that she worked with. She was happen which her place in life. Photographer adam ward was engage today a producer at the station, melissaott from gibbstown, new jersey, it was her last day on the taking new position in a new market. Instead of celebrating the achievement with her friends at the station she had to watch in horror as her fiancee was murdered on live tv. She was in the control room producing the newscast, family friends, reporter at the station, she was posting on facebook all day yesterday that she was with missle an ott and was posting on her behalf, she appreciated all of the texts, emails, phonecalls, but asking for everyones privacy during this time. Ot. It is a graduate of penn state university. She also interned at a television station here in philadelphia. So we do have tyson both parts of the victims in this horrible as you learn each new detail of this story. So horrible, and everyone processes grief in a different way. And i didnt see the megan kelly interview yesterday afternoon, but, that Allison Parkers father and serious boyfriends went on tv just to process and talk about it in front of millions of people, as an interesting way, some would just want to go and isolate, deal with their grief privately. You know what, chris, and her father did speak on air, he did say i did that for her. I knew that thats what she wanted to do. And megan kelly had also started asking father and boyfriend, a little bit more about the killer. He said no, no, no, i am not here to talk about that, i am their focus on my daughter, my daughters achievement, im doing this for her, honoring her life. Thats why he wanted to do that interview for her. Interesting. Jennifer, thank you very much. Speaking of the killer. Yes, investigators describe the shooters note as part suicide, part plan fest taigle said he was gay black man and felt he was mistreated in chilling sometimes rambling note he said he bought his gun two days after the june shooting at this historically black church in charleston where nine people were killed, quote, what sent me over the top with the Church Shooting and my hollow point bullet have the victims initials on them, end quote. He praised mass murderers, mentioning columbine high school, and calling the tech shooter quote my boy. He called himself quota human powder keg that was just waiting to go boom. Officials say police had to be called when Bryce Williams was let go two years ago, station reps say he was angry and filed complaints that were never corroborated. He had a history of being fired. Even filed lawsuit against former employer. Family of the man born vester flan ban spoke briefly. It is with heavy hearts, deep sadness, we express our deepest condolances to the families of salon parker and adam ward. We are also praying for the recovery of vicky gardner. Our thoughts and prayers at this time are the wick tips families and with ddbj television station family. Thank if you. Well, of course, continue to stay to up date with all of the latest developments from this story. When were not on air were updating our website fox 29. Com. Also, happening now, police are investigating a body found in an Apartment Building in north philadelphia. Steve keeley on this for the latest, lets turn to him. Good morning, sir. Yep, a lot of questions still. The first call came in at 1 00. You can see, one of the cars from the 22nd district still here, crime scene unit and the homicide detectives just showed up. And here is the building where it happened. You can see the door open here on the ground floor, there was no sign of any breakin. What happened was two friends of a very large, 24 year old man, came here to see him at 1 00 in the morning. They discovered him shot in the head. They called police. They think immediately. Now go up to the third floor, you can see, crude kind of curtains that cover the windows, but the lights are on. And you can see thats where this man lived. Not a lot of furniture. No ransacking in there. He was found dead in a small room that look like a workroom. Thats how the chief inspector described it to us. He said in the room residue both on the counter top and on the floor and a very strong odor of marijuana. So he thinks this could be a drugrelated murder. They dont have a weapon. They have a bullet casing right next to this man, his body. So they think it was a semiautomatic weapon that spent that shell casing out. But they think this possible that this guy may have a weapon himself. But he was so large that police could not even turn over his body. So they got some help here. Them get forties covary. They thought no way is this a suicide. But they think he was just murdered. They wont be surprised if they dont finds a weapon if the killer shot him and took off, maybe with drug proceeds or drugs themselves. So thats what they have here. Just off girard avenue, not far from Temple University around some very nice brand newtown homes and apartments, even gated parking lot around here. So this is an up and coming area of north philadelphia here in the 1400 block of popular. As we rupp on the third floor, you probably make out even though there are lights on the flashes of crime scene unit taking the still pictures of the murder scene. So the latest homicide here just three hours ago here in philadelphia. And the two friends of this man down at eighth and race at Police Headquarters cooperating with homicide detective, going through interviews thereto find more out about this 24 year old whose name is not being released just yet. Lauren, chris . Well check back, steve, thanks so much. We continue to follow the development from the tragic shooting of two journalists in virginia. Coming up a closer look at the world social media now playing in crimes like these. Wallmark makes the decision to stop ar15s and similar guns, but not bowing to political pressure coming up what they say is behind this change. Tonight theyll rock it with david lie rot. Always a song i dont know, you and dave warren know, and youre both like well, this is from 1978 when were you not even born. Not even born. We were rocking. All right, dave warren, you going to go to the show . Ya, and then ill come right into work. You know what . That would rock, wouldnt it . Just roll right in. Take the boat across. I always catch when theyre in down, but not this year, unfortunately. Look like pretty good day for it, though, headlines looking out live picture, shows nice weather continues. We have weekend showers, the latest on erika. We are looking at that Tropical Storm slowly moving through the caribbean, not much developing here, expected, but it could be impacting the southeast, in the next five days. Five day from news, temperatures in the upper 50s, lower 60s again. Little chill, north and western suburbs, philadelphia dropped down to 67 degrees, 56 in millville, expecting a land breeze today, at will warm the temperatures up down the shore upper 70s, but maybe not the best day when you get that wind coming in off the land as opposed to the sea breeze developing. Quick warm up again, look at the numbers climb. Now, weaver been a degree or two lower here. We talk about this yesterday as the forecasted computer, forecasting high of 80, might be little warmer than, that because it is so dry, could see that again today. Maybe into the mid to low 80s, with bright sunshine, forecasting high of about 79, but maybe push that up a degree or two because just so dry, plenty of sunshine to forecast. 70s in the north and western suburbs, upper 70s, maybe touching 8o certainly be there in philadelphia, and we have mid to low 70s down the shore. The future cast shows just few clouds again today, no rain expected both either today or tomorrow but that changes this weekend, the moisture coming back, heat and humidity build, and that may lead to a few showers. Heres the seven day forecast, sunny, nice. Beautiful weather then gets complicated here saturday, clouds increase, maybe few showers, mix of sun, clouds, on sunday, high of 89. We hit 09 monday, hot and humid. This is where were watching erika to the south. Expected to stay to the south here the next seven days. But, some of the moisture may slowly start to creep up our way, by tuesday and wednesday in the form of clouds. Thats a look at the seven day forecast, just some heat returning next week, look at the roadways right now, for that, we head it over to bob kelly. Hey, morning, everybody. 4 18 thursday, one day closer to the weekends, looking good here on the ben franklin bridge. No problems at all, coming over the span. That right lane still block, as you come out of the toll plaza, but light volume, so far, at this hour. Live look at i95. This is 95, from wood half ten, down to academy, still got left over work crew with the cones down. Otherwise, 95 at the moment, not bad at all, only 14 minute, to make it from wood half mean center city. A third of the amount of time it will take later on this morning. South, i should say, east on the schuylkill expressway, looking good from conshohocken, into downtown, septas Regional Rail lines, all running with no delays. The big news, the west trenton line back to normal, full Train Service from one end to the other. There is three trolley lines, that are using some shuttle buses throughout the day, along a portion of the routes. All due to track work. And it is baseball and rockandroll. Phillies tonight at 7 05, chris will be front row from a. M. Bumm cover from is the many, the van halen concert over at the Susquehanna Bank center. That will will throw a loft extra volume for the concert up and over that ben franklin bridge. And we can ask one lauren dawn johnson how difficult it is to get up and over that ben when we have a concert. So, just deep breath, with your albumn cover, take your time, and just be ready for some delays up and over that benny. Lauren, back to you. Scratched albumn from four yearsing. What . Exactly. We do have to turn to this serious story, of course more on the tragic killings every two journalists in virginia, tragedy carried out on Live Television yesterday morning. We are learning new details about the gunman, investigators say he left behind a manifesto claiming the violence was retaliation for the charleston Church Shooting, sister lee flannagan, who went by Bryce Williams on tv, ambushed the crew, at a Shopping Center in virginia. He called Allison Parker, and photographer, adam ward, and injured the woman who parker was interviewingment williams was former reporter for that station. Police chased him on a virginia highway where they say he turned the gun on himself. He later died at a hospital. Social media played a big part in this horrific attack. The gunman documented all of it then posted it on line after fleeing the scene. That was the most chilling part of there is i found. In fact, it is a disturbing trends, some say, is quickly becoming the norm with these types of attacks. Experts warn we could see more incidents just like this. Somebody else might copy. This and you know the media is pretty ready target. You know, i mean, there are injuries going on all the time, media people traveling all the time, moving around, it can often become a focus of anger. The gunman allege that other employees made racially tinged comment, to him, and he even filed an eeoc claim. Though claims, however, were dismissed but expert call the frustration aggression theory, say the frustration builds until it comes out in a very unhealthy way eventually. Colorado judge formally sentenced james holmes to multiple life terms and thousands of years behind bars. Holmes received one life term for each person he killed and why the gave him the maximum possible 3,318 years in prison for the attempted murders every those he hurt. He is not eligible for parole. Family members and friends of the victims cheered, clapped and cried after the sentencing. Holmes parent showed no emotion, four members of the jury could be seen crying. Holmes defense team say they will not try to appeal. Perhaps with all of that is the backdrop, walmart says it, will no longer sell military style semiautomatic rifles. The move is not political. It is commercial. Walmart Officials Say weapons such as the ar15 arent big sellers. They say the focus will be on firearms and ammunition used by hunters and other outdoors men. Another rough night for the phillies, brought the headlines this morning, have less to do about baseball. What happened before the game between the padres and nationals, well explain, straight ahead. Again, well take a look at the phillies highlights if you want to call them. Coming up in sports.

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