Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20170929 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A September 29, 2017

Course, look at that. Share the coffee love. That is great. Yes. We will be high on caffeine and sugar. Ahh. Yeah. And at fourth and market if you stop by get free coffee from our friends at Dunkin Donuts. Great way to celebrate friday. Notice they have jackets on this morning, because it is cool outside. That is right. And you will put on that jacket and head up to the northeast because jen freds live, is our camera ready to go . Yes, it is, that is ramp football field, it is up in the northeast. It is right across from father judge high school, they will start kicking here in about a few minutes. How far can you kick a ball. People are lining up. We are ready to go. Will be the next jake elliott. That is right. Well, i guess they are warming up for. That you dont need a jacket. It is kind of a shock this morning. It is coolest morning we have seen in a while. It is 10 out of 10 because it is finally seasonal out there and feels like fall. Is there bus stop budd which his cup of joe and his jacket as well. Temperatures in the 40s and 50s and we are off to a cool start on this International Coffee day. 55 degrees in the city, and 6 56 is your sunrise time. Our hi temperature will be around 73 degrees today which is seasonal. Seventytwo in wilmington. We will get to 69 in pottstown sixtythree in mount pocono. Plenty of sunshine. Very squinty day. Bob kelly, you can expect sun glare out there, very, very soon. I got a text from austin to say save within of those doughnuts for me, probably the blue one. We will bring one home for you , buddy. 7 02. Live look at westbound schuylkill at conshohocken off to the side there, headlights are on as we start to see beginning of the morning rush hour, downtown philadelphia, delays on the vine street expressway, accident here on the roosevelt boulevard southbound as you approach the schuylkill and then we will get some sun glare eastbound as we pop with some delays from conshohocken to center city. There is that delay from broad street all the way down through the schuylkill, it looks like they moved that crash out of the way there and university city, the traffic lights are out and that is causing delays for folks leaving university city, trying to work their way over to the schuylkill expressway. Other way mass transit looking good, mike and alex, back over to you. How many years will this guy get. Our viewers hope it is max, formal sentencing is this afternoon around 1 30 for Camden County father who admitted to killing his threeyear old son. He is facing 10 years, max believe it or not. So steve keeley is joining us from the courthouse in camden because even though he is facing 10 and agreed to that he may not serve 10. He has served sometime, steve . Reporter yeah, it is aggravated first degree manslaughter, a plea bargain so 10 years will be the sentence but only has to serve eight abe a half years and next to the courthouse is the jail, and if you have been following this story like likely you have, he has been in that jail since january 2016. So do the math, he will get sentenced for time served already and credited for that, so he is going to be out, in likely seven years, he is only 24. Chances are he will be 30 years old, even though he will admit that he killed his threeyear old son for who knows why. He never admitted anything until august 23rd. We werent in the court. In fact no reporters were in the court. Not even the local paper because be in was given a head up like we were today. So sentencing is at 1 30 this afternoon. Here in new jersey, we are allowed to have cameras in the courtroom. But nobody was present. When he admitted, essentially recklessly causing his sons death, by cutting off his oxygen supply. So we dont know how he dit. But we do know his son and him were in his apartment in westmont and then suddenly his sonnies in the water at cooper river, almost a mile away, with clean socks and he wanted people to believe that the son wandered off or somebody, somehow came in the apartment and then took his son there we now know what everybody always suspected that he killed his son, and for that, he is going to do seven years from this point on max which is probably going to upset a whole lot of people and maybe he will give an explanation or an apology in open court today. We shall see. We shall see. Young man shot dead on the streets of the phoenixville. Police are on the look out for the man who did it. They have this picture. They want to you take a lot at it. Jenny joyce has more. Reporter good morning, guys. Victim 20 yearold Joshua Mitchell and we have been searching all over social media. Aloft people are learning about this awful news, something that happened last night they are posting about mitchell, it happened right here at childrens plaza in downtown phoenixville just before 10 00 p. M. Now police are looking for this man, 21 yearold keyon lesean carpenter, a man believed to be armed and dangerous. Police say multiple witnesses came forward to identify carpenter and believe that they shot mitchell after the two got in the fight on the streets, according to police, mitchell tried to runaway but carpenter chased after when he pulled out a gun and fatally shot the victim in the upper body. Police say carpenter also fired his weapon, at witnesses in the area, but no one else thankfully was reported injured. The shooting happened on the 200 block of bridge street, thinks a main hub of downtown phoenixville with active shops and restaurant still opened at 9 45 when the shooting happened. Investigators later recovered weapon which had been reported stolen. Lets take another look at the suspect. This is carpenter. If you know this man or you think you might necessity where this man is, do not contact him or approach him but simply, call 911. Alex and mike. All right, jenny. Several days after four teens were shot in East Germantown the gun man remains on the loose. The community shattered by the violence, and just trying to make sense of it. Family, friends, neighbors came out yesterday for an emotional vigil. They are remembering 16 yearold jai cussus killed on the 100 block of east pastori us street tuesday night we told but it wednesday here on good day. A 13 yearold grazed by the bullet. Two other men were wounded in the shooting. Community members released balloons as a tribute while pleading, for everybody to stop. Stop the nonsense. Just stop the nonsense. Why yall shooting each other. Wake up, understand that the whole no snitching mentality has got to stop. You got to go. So the 19 yearold who was shot, remains in critical condition, and investigators not sure who the shooters intended the target was but they do not believe it was jai , the young man who died. Neighbors, trends and family in woodbury are honoring a murdered woman 26 yearold Shanika Carter was house sitting saturday night when someone beat her to death police say there is no threat to the community, they think but will not elaborate. It seems like it was targeted. South jersey town came together lighting candles, praying, bringing flowers to show support, and there is still no arrest, in that case. Our thoughts are with her family. Yes. 7 08. Outpouring of emotion on the floor of the u. S. House of representatives. This is a great moment, congressman steve scalise, do you remember this name . He returns to the halls of congress, and the First Time Since being shot in the summer , at that g. O. P. Softball practice. He had quite the reception. It whats motional because his doctors told his family several times that he may not make it. So here we are, 15 weeks after he was shot, nearly died, in a mass shooting, heres the response. Cheering. Applause, standing ovation , majority whip still on crutches still limping from being shot during that practice game back in june. Four others were injured including two Capitol Police officer who representative scalise thank for saving his life. Congressman says he was just lying on the field, bleeding, and he turned to god. When i was laying out on that ball field the first thing difficult when i was down and could not move anymore is i just started to pray, and ill tell you it gave meehan unbelievable sense of calm knowing at that point it was in gods hands. After his speech on the house floor congressman scalise posted this picture with his wife with the simple caption im back. Mike and alex, it was a life threatening injury, pretty severe, i. Hes was struck in the hip, bullet for through bones, and internal organs but he is back wow. He is. He said he thought he was dead on that field, for sure. All right. Thomas, thank you for that. 7 10. Hurricane maria leaves puerto rico in debris and devastation and now white house is facing criticism for their slow response with food and water, not getting where it is needed most. Local leaders are even stepping up to call for more government aid and in puerto rico. What we have done is not nearly enough, and that is why were here today to call on the federal government and Trump Administration to continue to step up to the plate and send the american citizen of puerto rico, the aid that they desperately need the Trump Administration is defending its response, even deploying a three Star Army General there to lead Recovery Efforts but critics say more need to be done and that the recovery effort is just coming up short. Doug, all right, bring us up to dayton this. I mean who is to blame. Reporter right, is anyone to blame . The administration got high marks for responses to hurricane, harvey, and irma in texas and florida, respectively but maria has been a different matter. We are seeing criticism beginning to escalate now. The devastation, in puerto rico is difficult to comprehend, communities washed away, island in ruins, many residents struggling to survive. We dont have water, we dont have electricity, we need help. Reporter President Trump regularly taking to twitter to update the response, puerto rico is devastated he writes, phone system, electric grid, many road gone. Fema and First Responders are amazing. Governor said great job. The critics arent so sure. Federal response has been abdominal, have been criminal and has been cruel because we are not texas. We are not florida. We are an island. One of the big issues delivery bottlenecks, trucks and supplies waiting for drivers. White house home land security advisor tom bosser says it is not necessarily a shortage of goods. Is there quite a bit of food and water and fuel but challenge is getting it to the middle of the island, mountainous island and that is a log jam we are breaking regularly. White house did set aside 1920s law to how foreign ships to delivery leave supplies to the island and administration seems sensitive to chris cyst that many this response falls short of the relief effort in texas and florida but it is clear that the scale of this disaster is enormous and lee coverry will likely take years. Take years. The president is probably going to puerto rico next week , come tuesday to see firsthand how this response effort, is moving forward. Mike and alex. It can change your administration the way you handle disasters like this. He will there been on tuesday. Yes, he has had great pretty good remarks for the first couple hurricanes. Remember this last name, price, health and Humane Services secretary tom price, says he well reimburse the u. S. Government for pricey, and, travel he took recently. But he is not paying the full cost. Price is repaying close to 52,000 to cover cost of his seat on chartered planes while on government business, however, those flights reportedly cost taxpayer more than 400,000. Your last name is price, you know, there you go, the price is right. 7 13. Sports illustrated magazine has been attacked over latest cover of the National Anthem protest. We showed you when it first came out. Title titled nation divided sports united features 10 People Associated with the demonstrations. Two have come out against this cover, and the problem that people have with it is it didnt have former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and he is the one who started the protest more than a year ago now. Nba star steph curry told reporters that the cover is terrible. The real people that understand exactly what has been going on and who has been active, vocal and truly making a difference, you know, you dont have kaepernick front and center on that then something is wrong. They have steph front and center. That is yes said that because he is in the middle there. Well, his coach steve kerr joined steph in attacking the Sports Illustrated cover. Well, lets talk about football, what do you say. Eagles will face a win less opponent and this time it is lost angeles chargers. Weird to say that Los Angeles Chargers it is weird. Do you think there will be people in the stands. Yeah, yeah. It is the other won. Who, what. The other team in los angeles. The rams. They are the won with the struggle. I have seen some pictures. I think it was rams. They both have empty seats, there is no question about it. Is there eagles fans in l. A. Im sure. Los angeles people dont like football. They gave them two teams. So the chargers, first loss this season were very close. Both were last second field goals which they missed despite their slow start. They dont have jake elliott. They do not have jake elliott. Chargers can be a dangerous team. They have philip rivers, alex. A quarterback. Yeah. We will be rolling on the rivers, hopefully. Rolling. Rolling on the river. Rolling on the river. Yes, and crush him. Yes. Joey bosa, does he have a b osa ball . He is going to come after carson wentz. The eagles now, they cannot under estimate this chargers team, even though they have not won. So, another one of their games, when they played with the chiefs last week until the very end. Theyre a good team. Long flight. We are looking forward to going on the road again and hopefully another road victory he does sound like a robot but i like him. He ace football robot, he is a machine. I am i fat ball robot. This is what it is, this is what we will tell you on sunday. He is always way out in los angeles and he wont hear. They do watch us. We didnt mean it oh, they are leaving tomorrow. They will hate us. Yes. We love the eagles. All in good fun. He has a beautiful new wife yeah, really. Shes brand new. Yes, she smells fresh. 61yard field goal. So how narcan you kick a ball, jen fred wants to know. This is a live shot from ramp football field across from father judge high school. We have a lot of people lined up who said they can kick, a long field goal. They look like they know what they are doing. Sue, we have some ringers out there. Yes. Soccer players, they are good at that kicking thing it is called soccer style kicking in foot ball. There is another one. We have tried this during draft experience and it didnt go so well. No, i pulled and acl. Will they back them up. We will back that thing up, to the 49yard. Back that thing up. Yeah. Harry connnick junior says back it up. Sue why dont you drop down and get your eagle on. Yeah. You know where i am going on sunday though . The scleroderma walk is at boat house row, weekend when i is helping us out lloyd hall, kelly drive, i have done this pennsylvania couple weeks. Is there weekend wendy. Registration 8 15. Walk time at 9 15. We are promised gooding weather. If you want more details on how you can sign up or just show up, scleroderma i know it is hard work but it is even worse to have it. So, auto immune disease, lot of people every suffering. Scleroderma. Org. That is on sunday. As far as we are concern, we have still got maria out there in the motion. 60 miles an hour winds, tropical storm, moving in the direction we want it to move away. It is moving away from the east coast. We have 55 in the city. Even chillier up in pottstown where it is 46, we are at 42 in mount pocono. 49 degrees in millville and in wilmington delaware. Bethlehem pennsylvania, 45. Plymouth meeting starting date with 49 degrees even with the sunshine, real quick look at the future cast shows good weather, maybe some cloud tomorrow, cooler tomorrow then today, and then, slight chance of a shower with reenforcing cold front coming through but it looks like a fantastic autumn weekend. Sixtyseven tomorrow. Seventy on sunday. And then it looks pretty nice for rest of the week n fact dry weather all the way through and then back to the 80s, by thursday. Bob kelly. Sound good sueby. 7 19. Tgif. Good morning everybody. Getting ready to head out the front door. Live lot at freeway. Three cheers to the bus drivers. They have soda trucks out there but headlights heading in toward philadelphia, and a little slower than normal as you approach 295 and work zone traffic lights out in university city, University Avenue right atwood land avenue, so it will cause delays for everybody, leaving the neighborhood, trying to get over to the schuylkill expressway and a accident out here in kennett square, cypress and union. They are just clearing that out, but you can see the sensor picking up the delays as folks try to roll roll out of the neighborhood and even the school buses are delayed. Almost a half an hour delay southbound on i95 out of the great northeast into downtown, west on the schuylkill, running slow, from 676, on out to city line. Westbound off ramp to the schuylkill expressway an accident at city avenue, just cleared out of the way but that backup, quickly mounted and then further west, watch for delays as you head on out from bala cynwyd toward conshohocken. There that is delay. This is blue route northbound the slow ramp to try to get on to the schuylkill and that is where that unem pavement come into play from the crews out there all week long, back over to you. A local 18 yearold may have changed how schools are funded in pennsylvania. She was on our show earlier this week. We have an update on her battle coming up plus what this could mean for schools across the state including in our area. Would you pay six figures for a pickup truck. What . Ford wants close to that for its new model, special features that make it so expensive. Good lord. [rooster crow] honey, what are you doing . Watching a cow. . Whats it doing . Impressions. This september, get one of three breakfast items free when you order with the chickfila one app. I have always wanted to own a truck growing up in kansas. Growing up in texas what do you mean, yes. Oh, man. A pickup truck. Would it make me look more manly lauren simoneti but i have always loved the f100. F150. You call it f150. Not 100. F150. Yes. Pickup trucks are boo

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