Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20171006 :

Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20171006

Is clear, opened no overnight construction there, roosevelt boulevard southbound our lanes are block between red lion road and cottman for construction they will pick that backup at 5 00 a. M. Just use inner drive of the boulevard instead, thomas and karen. Sue, thank you. Health concerns for hundreds of students and teachers at a Gloucester County Elementary School after mold forces officials to shut down that school, our jenny joyce is in williamstown with the very latest on this, jenny. Good morning, karen. Holy glenn Elementary School is expect to be closed for the next several weeks and according to some parents that we heard from this should have been done a long time ago. Parents say school has had serious mold issues the last 15 years, and this week the problem has been proven, after investigators tested the school and confirmed mold is present. That is according to published reports, that explained holy glenn students will now be sent to three other schools in the district until the problem is remediated. One woman reached out to us earlier this week saying that the mold issue continues to get worse, students, teachers and support staff have been sick with rashes, coughs, and swollen eyes, finally, they are relieved to get some action on this issue but many at last nights Board Meeting questioned why this was not done a long time ago. According to reports School Superintendent says now all six schools in the district will be check, for mold, karen and thomas. All right, jenny we have another school close to go tell but also in south jersey no classes once again for the pinelands regional school. They have been closed since tuesday because of air quality testing, and they have failed their air quality. Results from this week asbestos air sampling are in the federal and state standard but acting superintendent says that the testing is related to construction and they say it is just precautionary. Time right now 4 02. Schuylkill expressway reopening after a fatal motorcycle crash overnight, second motorcycle fatality in one day, steve keeley joining us from center city this morning. Steve, good morning to you. Reporter when i first heard about this i thought it was one we covered yesterday. After we do one yesterday in the morning in south philadelphia, by the philadelphia zoo. Video number 276, again, motorcycle again, this one more horrific then yesterday which state police still dont have any answers about. This one motorcycling will is going eastbound toward center city. As some kind of a malfunction or something goes out of control and then median is there like 5 feet high as you know, anybody that drives there by the zoo, and he flies over that median and then gets hit by a car going in the opposite direction and that motorcyclist is killed and 76 shut down in both directions because of that accident, until reopening at 2 35 this morning. That happened at 10 30 last night which anybody driving around in the Center City Area knows is still a busy time. That followed up, the yesterday crash, where the schuylkill was shut down between 3 00 and about 8 30 a. M. So the Pennsylvania State police, probably also wondering, what a coincidence where they have two motorcycles, and two motorcycle riders killed within a 23 hour period. When you think bit, something is going on with this warm weather, a lot of people still out there on the road as we come back to the live picture. You can see how busy, it is in the overnight hours and wont be too long until we are standing there telling you how they have salted this road, pretreated this road for coming snow season but for right now why there is no bad weather at all, rains sue predicting Still Holding off until next week but in fine weather in beautiful warm weather we will get fatal accidents, on one of the busiest roadways anywhere around philadelphia guys. Something we dont want to hear Pay Attention to the roadways, steve, thank you. Lets go to Delaware County one person in the hospital following a shooting in lansdowne, this all happened around 9 15 last night on the 200 block of coverly road, police are still investigating that shooting, no word on the victims condition. And chilling details now emerging about Stephen Paddock shooter behind that massacre in las vegas we are learning he may have planned a target other cities, Chicago Police say they believe he book a hotel overlooking lalapooloza where 400,000 people attended including mallia obama and fenway park in boston. Clark county sheriff thinks paddock probably had an accomplice and they are investigating reports he may have had a female companion with him while he gambled in the days leading up to the attack. Officials say paddock most likely planned on surviving the attack. He was doing Everything Possible to figure out how he could escape at that point. His concern was personal concern verse what was occurring down below him. Officials are still working tirelessly to try to figure out why he did this in the first place flying out of his hotel window into that crowd of thousands below enjoying that music festival. He killed 58 people and injured hundreds more. His girlfriend Marilou Danley has been questioned and is cooperating. In the aftermath of the deadly attack many are calling for gun control including one organization that may surprise you the National Rifle association. They are breaking their opposition of gun related laws in support of the regulating bump stops. That is what the las vegas shooter was using to turn a semiautomatic weapon into a full automatic weapon. The association now calling for a federal review of that device. What the nra is fighting for is reciprocity, enforce existing gun laws, protect the americans right to protect themselves. These bad guys go about their business and they could careless what laws are on the books and if good people want to protect themselves. They made it clear their opposition or position is about reenforcing current laws not creating new won. In the past President Trump has signalled he could be opened to a ban on bump stops but need more information first. Casinos are making change toss stay as safe as possible in response to the carnage in vegas. Violence has hotels and casinos all across the nation reexamining their security plans around large scale events. Local gamblers say metal detectors should be standard protocol. 4 07. Southwestern pennsylvania congressman tim murphy says he is resigning on heels of the reports he urged a woman to get an abortion. Murphys a pro life republican who condemns abortion, his resignation comes one day, after he said wow serve out his term and two days after Pittsburgh Post Gazette reports detail at fair and Text Messages with his mistress. Murphys last day on the job will be october 21st. It was a startling wake up when a man finds an intruder inside his mothers house in delaware and his quick actions land that had rob inner jail. His name is Anthony Selby visiting his 79 yearold mother in New Castle County this week. He says he wakes up, hears weird noises on wednesday morning, jumps up, flips on the light and then sees a 17 yearold boy hiding on the floor next to his bed. I know that someone was crawling on my floor in the bedroom that i was in reaching for something on the dresser, and i said who is this . They didnt answer. Then they ducked down on the floor, i grabbed him and told my mother to call the police. As we were fighting. Did he manage to jump up, hold that teen until the police got there, they arrested him, suspect broke in through a kitchen window that 17 yearold is charged and being held in lieu of 9,000 bail. Talk about heart pounding moments that right there a whole lot of heroin 13pounds and three men are new jail after Police Caught them with the 13pounds of raw heroin. That is four milliondollar worth of the drug. Bensalem police pulled over edward torres, sergio lindh lynn anal hand dro on i95 friday night. Officers found that heroin in their pick up. Now torez was supposed to be on house rest when police pulled him over. Investigators say in a panic he ran but they quickly caught and arrested him. These seizure of this 6 kilograms of heroin certainly saved lives and on one simple car shop for illegal t int and officers being heavily trained and very intuitive to what was going on we were able to get these drugs off the street. The three men are in bucks county jail this morning and they are being held on one milliondollar bail each. 4 09. There will be so many october fesses and great fall festivals this weekend. Got news this sue serio it will be enjoyed, because it will be almost summerlike. Temperatures will be in the 80s. We are starting off mild this morning with 69 degrees in philadelphia, 56 in the mountains, and 65 degrees in reading and 63 in wildwood. A couple days ago we had temperatures in the 30s, in the higher elevations, so, definitely an improvement, so where are we now . Average high of 70 degrees for early october, we have been above average, since monday, when we have been in the mid 70s those two perfect days, wednesday wasnt bad and yesterday was a little bit more humid and warmer but still nice and summery with a high of 82. Today 83. Eightyfour tomorrow. A lot of cloud cover today and tomorrow and a chance of some showers on sunday. That is the only fly in the ointment because we actually do need some rain but we dont like it when it happens on the weekend. We head to that 1 00 oclock eagles game just be prepared for shower or two and showers possible on columbus day, monday and mostly cloudy skies on tuesday. We are back in the seasonal 70 s after a cold front on wednesday, and sometime next week we will factor in moisture from Tropical Storm nate, we will factor that into our forecast in just a few minutes. But all right, now lets check traffic at 10 after 4 00 i95 in both directions construction between 476, and Commodore Barry bridge, blocking two right lanes. Route 42 at creek road in new jersey is cleared coming in from deptford or turnersville and pennsylvania turnpike westbound approaching willow grove, left lane is blocked and you know what it is, it is construction, thomas and karen were talking about last weekend for fire fly festival where you can take these little petty cabs in the art museum. Great week toned do so. All quiet this morning. Still ahead on good day philadelphia. There is a south jersey restaurant the talk of the town for a bird brained move. Maybe expect critters on the floor, right. How about exotic bird flying around the kitchen. That is not all. The Health Department is stepping . If you are looking for the job there is the latest company in our area hanging the help wanted sign in time for the holidays. We will tell you where. It is a lot have jobs. Welcome back as we take a live look at ocean city, another week, first week of october biting the dust, a lot of people will be going down the shore because we will have summerlike temperatures so sue will have your full forecast, in a moment. All that haze will clear out. 4 14. Great to have you here. Pennsylvania state Police Say Woman who claimed she was raped at a bucks county park lied about the attack. We told you yesterday about the report she was abduct and assaulted by two men in noxamixon park month. Man admits she made it all up and there is no threat to anyone in the area. Family dispute end with one person dead and another in the hospital and a third in custody. It all happened in lehigh township, and this unfolded yesterday on good day we brought this to you live. Started wednesday evening when melinda called saying she and her husband joseph who had been shot in their home by his first cousin. Police began hunting for the cousin john hann, they discover his truck right there on oakland road, they surrounded it and after a standoff he did finally surrender. Based upon the investigation at the present time it is my understanding and this will have to be persued in more detail that this was a personal dispute that was going on, family related between the two cousins, and it may have involved financial issues. Police say that the suspect was still armed, during that standoff, officers put some local schools on lock down, three of them, until he was captured. He faces homicide and attempted homicide charges. Melinda is still in the hospital in serious condition. Search is on for bandit who robbed Wells Fargo Bank on 6600 block of castor avenue yesterday afternoon. Police say at 1 30 the man walk in the bank gave the teller a threatening note, teller handed over cash and then that man bolted out the door. Authorities believe he is armed and dangerous. If you know anything call 911. Hunt is also on foreman who put a skimming device on a atm in crescentville. Surveillance cameras inside this 7eleven on the 5600 block of rising skin avenue caught that man last week. A person about to use the atm noticed the skimmer, told the staff, man police are after, about 6 feet tall, has a thin build and black hair. Is there a south jersey restaurant under fire after police found, that, exotic bird flying around the kitchen , that is not all they found, take a look at these picture, this is kitchen prep area of ejs cafe, in galloway township. Two bird perched on plates and there is a cat. Police happened to be in the area when they saw the animals in the restaurant. There is the cat. Health department has shut it down. Than customer said shes never going back again. We ate there. Terrible. Disgusting. Yes. I am so glad, i hope they are closed down and cant reopen because how they thought they could getaway with that, i dont know. Heres what they have to say restaurant posted that the bird do occasionally come to work but they are locked in the cage and office and will no longer be visiting. The restaurant is closed at lee until board of Health Safety and sanitary standard. Should have ordered the plate without the feathers. Just about 4 18. Cdc warning about an out break that has sickened several employees of stores in eastern u. S. Centers for Disease Control say seven states, including pennsylvania have reported cases of the intestinal bacterial infections. There have been about 39 cases so far, 12 are petland employees. Now the rest of the people who recently purchased a puppy at pet land or visited the pet store also became ill. O. J. Simpson well, he is now registered with the Las Vegas Police department as he was required to do as a condition of his release from jail over the weekend. He was granted parole in july after serving nine years forearmed robbery. He is also required to report to his parole officer every month and receive permission for each time he wants to change his residence. We told but this before the break there is good news for any within looking foresees nal work, fedex is hiring more than 50,000 people , just in time for the holidays. Fedex say majority of the workers will be package handlers at fedex ground facilities and more posts could open up throughout the year. 700 of these hires will be based in allentown. 4 18. Lets check our forecast for this day and we are here at the weekend. It is true but guess what we have another Tropical Storm to watch and nate, we told you about it yesterday, it strengthened a little bit since yesterday, 45 miles an hour winds and moving more quickly then past storms we have been watching, 12 miles an hour, it is off the coast of honduras right now. You see projected path of the storm strengthening to a category one hurricane as it head in the gulf of mexico and making land fall projection now is maybe saturday night, right around the Southern Coast of louisiana, maybe right into new orleans so they are making preparations right now for nate to make land fall over the weekend. After that we will watch the path of the storm, big cone of uncertainty but could bring remnants of that storm into our area early next week monday and or tuesday. If you want to go outside right now it vice bright. Sunrise time 7 02, partly cloudy skies. We have the harvest moon full full moon after autumnal equinox and First Time Since 2008 or nine that we had this happen in october but it is really right up there. We have had cloud as well. That is what we have as well, cloud around but decent sunshine just that there will be times like yesterday when there are more cloud, then sun but it should stay rain free today, and tomorrow, but then we will head into sunday morning, and we will see some showers rolling in, and they come back throughout the afternoon and evening and by sunday evening we are starting to see heavier rain perhaps these will be remnants of nate , heading in to our area we could be dealing with them as early as machine depending on how quickly remnants of that storm move. 64 degrees in lancaster. Sixtysix in west chester. Sixtyfour in kutztown. We are in the 60s just about every where this morning and we should head to a high of around 83 degrees today. Eighty the a the shore. Breezy. Cloud around. Still no bad. Feeling like summer in the Lehigh Valley too with partly sunny skies. Remember our radio partner, 101. 1 more fm after you get in the car that is Radio Station you turn to to get the great music and your Weather Authority forecast. All right. 4 21. We will check traffic and you know this time of the day all about construction we are going to route 422 eastbound between oaks and route 23, construction, blocking the left lane there, roosevelt boulevard approaching the schuylkill, it is all cleared this morning, and 295 southbound between black horse pike and route 42, construction is blocking one lane this morning, thomas and karen. Another reason to get up this early, beside making that money, the full moon. It was gorgeous. Monte g says can you please give a shout out to his sister helena fo

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