Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 20180102 : comparemel

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 11 20180102

At pennsylvania lanning where temperatures are frigid so its going to be cold enough everywhere for snow. It has been. Its 15 in philadelphia. Four in the poconos. 13 in reading. It feels like its blow zeros in many of these locations. Four below in lancaster. One below in atlantic city. How about 14 degree below zero in the poconos right now. So overnight tonight, temperatures in the single numbers. But for the most part all the wind chills are going below zero even in philadelphia. So this area of low pressure this noreaster develops to the north of the bahamas by tomorr tomorrow. Wednesday, thursday intensifies and moves up the eastern see bore. So theres a good chance we can be seeing some snow out of this. How much its still determined by the track of this storm well know much more tomorrow. Bone chilling cold, bitter wind chills next couple of days for sure and well continue to track that noreaster talk more about the timing of this coming up in just a few minutes. Lucy. Bot too many line it will be even colder than it already is and we could could be dealing with snow . Thats the bottom line. All right. Not surprisingly these bitter cold temperatures are behind some big problems all across our area. In south jersey, for instance, a burst pipe forced the partial evacuation of a Senior Living center. Fox 29s brad sattin is live in viewer hess with more. Brad . Reporter lucy, the good news is, things are getting back to normal. The residents once again back inside. We are here at the brook dale voorhees Senior Living sent a scary seen a few hours ago with lost firefighters here. Let us take to you that scene. Cold weather appears to be the blame here for a pipe to a spring kerr system that was in the ceiling that caused a flood below as a result of that residents were forced to evacuate that area. The initial call came in that there was a ceiling collapse and injuring a firefighter and that was the real concern here, but we quickly learned it sounded much more serious than it actually was. Some good news, the turns out that some of the sheetrock did come down. A firefighter was just slightly hurt. Doing okay d not need medical attention. Residents were just moved to another part of the facility. Pipe burst. Pipes go up in the attic. Obviously its very cold out. Year in arctic blast. Pipes contracted. Water floods down. The the fire protect system. So any time that a building has a fire protect system thats gown down we look to get people out of the affected area for their own safety. Reporter and so the last of the firefighters left just a few minutes ago. Contractors here are still on the scene working on that pipe obviously cold water and pipes cold temperatures and pipes dont often work well. These contractors really busy but again the bottom line here is that all of the residents are back in and no one was hurt. Lucy . And that is key. Thank you very much, brad. Well, the bonechilling cold temps staying wuss and making matters worse back to work and school for most of us tomorrow. So there is no avoiding the weather. We caught people around center city layered up tonight. Most of them dreading strong get out of bed in the morning and back at it in subfreezing tepp hers. Like a mile and a half walk i work over at chop its a long walk. Mile and a half to and mile and a half back. Yup. Reporter in this weather. In this weather, yeah. Whether its raining, snowing, i usually walk. Basically my business is talking to people its so hard to get people to stop. They dont werent to stop in this cold weather. Reporter its too cold good way too cold. I agree with that. Tonight bonus days for students tenches who dont have to report back to school till wednesday much this biting cold couldnt keep the mummers away from broad street on this new years day. Philly long runging known as the mummers parade strutted along south broad. This week we heard quite a bit of talk about whether it would be just too cold for the annual parade of music and dancing and satire but after a vote the parade was on and the city turn out. With at least one mummer not just turning his back on the cold but showing hit his back and front shirt less. One time year to go out and have fun. Cold, rain, snow, we do it. Two street stoppers we fire up, we bring the crowd. Were enjoying ourselves. We cant ask for nothing better. Great new years. So were just out here having fun. Trying to stay warm. So all in good fun. Parade goers made signs mocking city politician. Others poked fun at Chris Christie and that whole vacation on the beach thing. Tragic scene in costa rica after a small plane carrying 12 people crashed into the jungle killing everyone aboard. Families with ties to our area in fact. Ten of the people who died were americans and since six of them have connections to here including the university of pennsylvania which is where we find our chris oconnell. Chris . Reporter lucy, it was a new years tragedy for two families who were just taking their kids on a holiday vacati vacation. Among the dead a university of pennsylvania freshman and two doctors with ties to local hospitals. Inside the burning wreckage of the single engine charter plane that went down outside of san jose costa rica, 12 dead. Including two American Families with philadelphia area ties. Killed the steinberg family of scars dale, new york. Bruce and irene along with their sons, 13yearold matthew, 20yearold zac and 18yearold william. A freshman at the university of pennsylvania. The Student Government posting on facebook, together we mourning the death of a friend, a peer and a promising scholar who would have went on to change the world. The familys long time nanny just finding out the devastating news the family was killed during their holiday vacation. Translator they call me grandma. My boys would call me grandma. I was there everything. They were my everything. Reporter also among the dead two doctors mitchell and leslie weiss from clearwater, florida. Along with their two children. The weisss used to live in montgomery county. Leslie a pediatrician. Mitchell a radiologist. Both once work at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and very active in the jewish community. The neighbor thats a Good Neighbor down the street that you sit and you talk to and you find out about their kids and whats happening in school and work and, um, it is heartbreaking. It really is. Reporter right now the cause of the investigation is still on going by companies at a recant authorities but right to you theyre saying high wind and possible mechanical failure may have led to the crash, lucy. Thank you very much, chris. Investigators in abington township tonight are looking in what star add house fire broke out at a home in 2200 block of pleasant of a just past 4 00 this afternoon. Firefighters got it under control fairly quickly. And no one is hurt. Philadelphia police warn dont do it. Some did anyhow and so tonight those philadelphians who fired off guns into the air during new years eve reveling and got caught now face charges. Police made arrest in west philadelphia, another in south philadelphia. They also arrest add couple of others for weapons violations. Overall though police saw a big reduction in partiers firing up a guns from previous years. Well with homicides up 14 in philadelphia in 2017 a new Gun Task Force in the city will focus on criminals who use guns and illegal gun sales. It hopes to keep the most dangerous gun offenders off the streets. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser is live at Philadelphia Police headquarters breaking it all down. Dave . Reporter lucy, a new year and a new plan to attack gun violence here in philadelphia. The mayor and the Police Department putting in place a new Gun Task Force that will go after violent offenders and illegal gun sales across the city. Theres no question gun violence is a major problem in philadelphia. With 314 murders in over 1200 shootings last year, Philadelphia Police are hoping a new Gun Violence Task force could be part of a solution. This Gun Task Force will allows you to be laser like in our focus and targeting the most prolific offenses. Reporter police are using intelligence information to identify suspects, gang members and violent criminals. District attorney and the courts are expected to join in initiative to will target illegal guns and the criminals into reusse them. He we got to get these guys that have guns and inclined to use them off the street. Reporter the new Gun Task Force will detectives in each di s divisions i was cot the city and focus on gun arrests and the sale of illegal guns. When you arrest someone for a gun, when someone is shot or commits a shooting, right away information starting to be collected and disseminated so we know where then on the operation side to put the boots on the ground. Report roar those boots on the ground will include 370 new Police Officers by september of this year. Many of them will be deployed on bikes. The departments most affective anti crime tool. Because the bike cops can get behind those, um, you know, those alleys and driveways and things like that and get to places that the officer in vehicle cant get to. Reporter new Gun Task Force is expected to work clos closely with state and federal officials theyre also hoping to reduce excuse me increase some of the arrests on homicides. Last year only 45 of the homicidehomicides were solved wn arrest. Luce glee lets hope it all works. Thank you much, day. Levittown police now say the driver who crashed into a home that overdosed and was unconscious when he drove off gun road. He hit a tree stump went airborne. And crashed into the home sliding glass door. A man inside the home was near that door. Part of it hit him in the head. During all of the chaos, his dog got loose and a car driving by hit and killed the pup. So did you go to bed a little too late last night . Well, youre not the om one. And now doctors are warning you might want to crawl into bed just a little earlier in the new year. Bonechilling cold is not just unpleasant it is dangerous. Everyone is trying to escape the numbing temperatures what if you dont have anywhere to go . 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No surprise subfreezing temperatures are behind some big problems especially in one northeast philadelphia neighborhood. A water main break yesterday was just the beginning. Now a number of neighbors are having all kinds of issues with their utilities from water to power. But when it comes to that water main, the Philadelphia Water Department says though it did shut it off, the day before when it was leaking that water all the water in the area in behind site that wasnt necessarily warranted especially since hundreds of homes ended up without water. We had planned a party up here and whatnot. We to call up the people and let them know not to come because we couldnt do anything in there. City Officials Say the homeowners will still have to contact their owns Insurance Companies while they work out all of those repairs. The biting temperatures are enough to make pretty much anyone rush indoors but some folks just dont have that option. And with bitter wind chills and machinery so low, its dangerous but our Bill Anderson found a safe mace to escape the bitter cold for goodness sake. People are coming in to heed the call to help people survive through these frigid temperatures. Reporter hearing an out reach worker speak bow how getting inside could dave your life should hammer home how dangerous the weather were facing is. People who are unthe influence are at grave risk. They dont feel the cold the same way that anyone else. Reporter everyone was talking about stay inside, try to stay warm, its a code blue. But what happens if you dont have anywhere to go. Telling people come inside or you can pass away. Yeah. You would have stayed outsi outside. I slept outside last night. Reporter paul is one of the far too many who live on the streets of zen ting ton and one of the people that the city is trying to help when they decided to open a local rec center as an emergency warming sent. I been sick, and i came here to stay warm. Reporter it was obvious talking to paul that if the Warming Center wasnt available, he would have just tried to tough it out but sips it was i came here this morning. Got something to eat and i laid down and just beg warm, i went right to sleep. Reporter there are mats and blankets, food and warm drinks this is a safe mace to come. During this bitter cold weather. Everyone is welcomed. Come as you are. We just want to save your life and make sure you are going to be okay. Reporter the sent has been open for week and scheduled to stay open another day. The challenge theyre facing the rec center cant be a Permanent Location because childrens classes there a few days ago week. Carol says theyll figure out. Our role is just call if we see someone in need. We need the public. We need concerned citizens. We need people to really step up and call. Reporter city open the doors to the rec center and saved lives for week. Hopefully that expanse to them and all of us thinking how to save them for the remaining week for goodness sake. Im bill ant son. You know what, bill wont tell you is that he was so worried about them he gave everybody a hat that he had made himself and i thought he was really cool. Dropped them all off for them. Live look at reading berk coun county. The arctic blast is so intense the streets are nearly empty and i can barely talk. Kathy, talking about, um, when you say noreaster and snow and youre still working the numbers and its coming up from the ocean. Its all very hmm to me. It is hmm. Yeah. This is a coastal storm its a noreaster. Were watching the track its always determined by the track of the storm. Were still a couple days out. It would be hitting on thursday. Well talk more about that. First lets talk about the cold because theres no doubt if any precipitation falls its going to be snow. 15 in philadelphia much the wind chill is one. Winds out of the west at 13 and temperatures are going to continue to fall witness clear skies in the teens and single numbers route in you but when you have any kind of wind you dont Pay Attention to the temperature. You just Pay Attention to the wind chill it feels like 14 below in the poconos. This morning it felt hike twenty seven below the same tomorrow morning. Sore zero in pottstown. One in philadelphia. Four below in lancaster. Its going stick. Theres more arctic air thats going to be spilling in to reinforce whats already here and that means temperatures staying in the freezer. Right through saturday. Maybe by sunday january 7th we will see those colder temperatures retreat. Now overnight, three in the poconos. Eight in pottstown. Millville ten. Wildwood four. Wind chills between zero and ten below zero tomorrow morning. By the afternoon the temperature is 21. So still below freezing. Its been over week. And it will feel like its 200 to four below during the morning and wind chills in the teens and single numbers but it doesnt take much winter to get those wind chills down and tomorrow were out of the west about ten to 15 miles an hour. Then were watching this area of low pressure. It starts just to the north of the bahamas interesting to me. Usually you see the storms form over the gulf, cross across the panhandle of in order and then move up the coast of the this is what a miller a storm. Its a textbook example of a noreaster that has that whole coastline to strengthen and pull in moisture so watching the track of the storm. The winds are going to be incredible with this. Thats going to be probably the biggest story with the storm and its going to move toward the northeast. How much snow still to be determined. We have to nail down get better idea about the track of the storm but the snow would begin wednesday night into thursday best chance of seeing accumula accumulating snow and heaviest snow closer to the shore. The least in the pennsylvania suburb. If that storm shifts westward which tends to be the trend, heavy snow would be pushing inn land we have to key an eye on that for tomorrow. The snow would be ending thursday night. By friday wind chills would be brutal. Well below zero for everybody. Take a look at your seven day forecast. Wednesday, 31. Tracking the noreaster for thursd

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