Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 5A 20180116 :

Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 5A 20180116

Those single digit wind chills we had 24 hours ago. 30 degrees in the city but it feels like 23, and some sunrise time is 7 20. Heres where the snow is, right now, it is a clipper system that is stalling out to or north and west and we will see it on the western edge of the Lancaster County, berks county, little bit of snow up in the pocono mountains and stray squall here that have got reports on those but these counties under a advisory and does not include philadelphia or Delaware County or any of the counties in delaware, or, south jersey, and, everything north and west of there is where we expected to see some snow today, and, tomorrow morning. So, it is, not a big snow maker but it will stick around for a while. Meanwhile we are getting to 42 e freezing. So we cannot even rule out a stray rain shower later on but for all of us, or most of us, we will wait until after dark to see anything. Sunset time not until 5 02. These days are getting longer. You have time to get your ice melt, rock salt and shovel , because take a look here, sue, we talked about some snowflakes. Do you see the flakes. Not the drivers, the snowflakes right here this is 100 near route 113, my penndot guy said they saw some flakes and some and downingtown, and, and, salt brine solution, and north and west of the city, things could be slippery, out there in exton, downingtown, and Chester County. Hello south jersey working your way in toward philadelphia. This fellow pulled over here near the creek road ramp to go south on 42. We will see what is happening here. Septa kicked in a new timetable over weekend so make sure you have new schedule for Regional Rail lines today, laurens on this story ice jams that we talk about yesterday still shutting down a portion of route 29 memorial drive, route one ramps to 29 and calhoun street bridge ramps again all in the trenton side and then on the pennsylvania side in morrisville watch for the closure of, river road, that normal stretch right here between black rock and calhoun street bridge, karen and thomas back to you. Thank you very much. 5 03. Below freezing temperatures creating ice jams, flooding, traffic troubles, lets get out to Lauren Johnson in trenton with the very latest on than that mess and problems there, hi lauren good morning. So yesterday road we are standing on route 29 in trenton was under water, this morning, and, that water has receded but still a threat. Check out daylight video which makes it easier to see ice jam caused when pieces of floating ice with strange current in our case, the delaware and then the accumulation forms, any obstruction to the stream flow is often happening in bridges right where we are. Some people seem to be completely mess more rised by the sight of it all. Im a river rat. I just like to see the river in different conditions, during the summer, it is flowing free. I have seen it low tide when there is nothing, very much to see but rocks. Took some pictures and im going to send them some of my family and friends and tell them to be careful near a river. Careful this could be ao be dangerous situation, similar sight could be seen on the other side of the delaware and morrisville. Jeff cole report that had river red look more like river ton road yesterday and that issue could be worse for two reasons today. More snow coming and that lieutenant a accumulation can make bad situation worse. In addition to that there is a swearing in ceremony phil Murphy States next governor will take his oath of office today at 11 30 which means bigger then usual crowd in and around State Capitol building that is actually happening at that building you see right there road closures and detours it could be a complete headache, trying to get around this area, of course, crews are out here right now trying to clear the streets but karen and thomas we know that could take hours in this weather. That we know. Lets talk more about that ceremony you just mentioned up in trenton for swearing in of new jerseys 56th governor. Democrat phil murphy succeed chris christie. Ceremony set for this morning at 11 30 held at trent than war memorial, first followed by murphys inaugural speech, inaugural ball at 7 00 p. M. At met life stadium. You can watch swearing in right here on fox 29 we will also stream the inauguration speech on fox 29. Com. New jersey now second state in the country to ban controversial bump stocks, bill signing was within have the last acts by outing governor chris christie, bump stocks are devices that allow semiautomatic weapons to fire hundreds of rounds continuously, it is also what the las vegas gunman used in the concert shooting. Owners will have 90 days to surrender or face up to five years in prison, or find up to 15,000. Jury selection will begin today in philadelphia, for mayor of allentown, ed pawlowski facing corruption charges, just one week into his fourth term. Prosecutors say that the mayor ran a pay to play scheme telling convenientors he expect campaign contributions, in return for city contracts. The most serious charges carry a prison term of 20 years each , jury selection here in philadelphia but trial will begin later this week in allentown, many people credit him with the reverse of that community and he maintains his innocence. Man is dead this morning after being shot twice in north philadelphia they found 27 yearold victim unresponsive at 12th and brown street around 12 30 a. M. He was taken right to Hahnemann Hospital where he died. Witnesses tell officers that the shots were fired from a dark car, that fled the scene. Developing this morning out of kensington a store Security Guard shoots a suspect arm with the knife after police say he rob a dollar store and refused to drop his weapon. Police say once officers got to the scene on frankford avenue late last evening suspect would not comply so they got the knife out of his hand. Thirtyone yearold is in stable condition at the hospital facing charges. Count down is on as this weekends nfc title game is right around the corner and you could be there, our steve keeley, are watching right now reporter thomas, karen i overlook your shoulders at work, you are never shopping on line looking at family photos, always on our web site or the news websites doing research, doing news things, never straying from that, however, not everybody in philadelphia is like you guys. Many computers in many offices around town may not be logged on to the Company Web Site during regular Business Hours today, but log ton ticket master. Com where at 10 00 a. M. Tickets go on sale for sunday s last eagles home game , this season, at this place where were this morning uyour chance to buy tickets at face value, which is already, in us older eagles fans minds scalper priced, 255 for the best limited ticket available and you are only allowed to buy four. That four puts you over a thousand dollars by the way, even if you are able to get four standing room only tickets 560, yes, i can do math, 560. One of the guys standing all game doug pederson. Anytime you get to this point in the season, you do want more because you are on the door step of being one of those elitems, the word special with really me. This is a really good that playr and they battled through seasong with the injuries and yet still find ways to pull out wins. Reporter by the way there are official Third Party Ticket sellers, among them nfl s own site nfl ticket exchange. Right now if you want to sit in section 118 near mike jer rick, 879 for a ticket on the nfl ticket exchange. My favorite scene and one of my favorite movies fast times at ridge mount high, the ticket seller trying to sell cheap trick tickets when he said rick zander. You didnt see that one. It is a classic. I will have to view it right now. Thanks, steve appreciate it. Sitting next to mike tell him how good he looks this morning. By the way the road to the super bowl goes right through philadelphia nfc championship game airs right here on fox 29 sunday night, our coverage starts at 6 00 p. M. In Burlington County Jacob Garrett has been charged in connection with the deadly crash. Police say he left the scene yesterday after driving off the road and into the Delaware River in burlington sit. His girlfriend 23 yearold stephanie white, stuck inside and later died in the hospital garrett was speed ago long river bank road before he crashed in the parked van sending the car over the river wall and into the water. Officials say his First Court Appearance will be scheduled, shortly. We have an update on the death of two people discovered inside a bucks county home over the weekend. Middletown Township Police say they dont suspect foul play in the death of the 57 yearold woman and 66 yearold man, discovered inside their langhorne homes, saturday night. Police say both had medical issues, that may have contributed to their death. Police are still waiting for toxicology reports but initial reports show that no drugs were found in their system. Beginning today septas in longer, september, Medicare Card which means seniors and people disable will to have begin to use septa key photo id card. Fares for those groups, exactly the same, just need to get a new key card, you can get one at septa headquarters in center city. All right. The n double a outstanding female artist of course went to mary j. Blige, we will look at other winners, coming up. And also, this video we showed it to you before the car wines up stuck up there. Well, how did it get up there, amazingly even more video. Get ready, here it comes, wait for it, this is bus driving down, imagine that, hey bob kelly. Check this out, we have got flurries, this is a live look, creek road right in front of the hanks place in Chester County so portions of chester and Montgomery County getting snow flurries this morning. Lets go to the shore, rehoboth grab your beach towel and that is not rehoboth, that is reading i believe but either way we get somewhere and sue has your forecast when we come before we start, i just want to say if anyone still doesnt have fios, please stay out of the way so your lag doesnt get us all killed, ben. Whats so good about fios anyway . Uh. Whats so great about a 100 fiberoptic network that makes your gaming system actually work awesomely . Hey. Did you take out the trash . Haha, garbage boy dad, i already took out ben. Its not funny. Gaming is best on a 100 fiberoptic network. So get fios. Now, just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. Welcome back. Were dealing with below freezing temperatures. 5 15. Quick shout out bilperes long time viewer good time friend of the show, happy birthday. We love that. Thank you. Always good to have you with us, bill. Lets check the forecast. Snows moving in but when, sue serio. Some places getting a little bit right now and anyplace highlighted under Winter Weather advisory could see snow, today. That is montgomery, bucks, Lancaster County as well. Those are under the winter wet are advisory. Light snow mainly poconos, Lehigh Valley, and then tonight, through wednesday, midday, or maybe earlier, light snow, in philadelphia. The suburbs. How much . One to 2 inches in the city, three to five up in the Lehigh Valley, some places up in the poconos could get 6 inches of snow, hardly anything, at the shore, because there is going to be some rain as we will see momentarily on the future cast , the Flood Warning continues for Delaware River and ice jams, around trenton, morrisville, yardley areas that lauren as been talking about all morning. Here is our clipper system pretty long but not very wide, and it is kind of stalled and we expect it to stay stalled throughout mess of the day to day western berks, lancaster might be getting a few flurries. We have seen a few stray squalls out there that we have reports of, as well. Heres 1 00 this afternoon snowing in the poconos, accumulating a little bit out to the north and west and gets on the move around 11 00 oclock and then continues to snow, north and west and then we will get influence from the coastal storm with some rain mixing in , about three or 4 00 in the morning and then in between area where we could see freezing rain or sleet and then cold air takes over, and heres at 5 00 oclock where it is snow in the middle of the morning rush hour it takes up the whole rush hour and then by 10 or 11 00 at least this computer model has it out of here. It can be inconvenient timing for sure. Yesterdays high was above freezing but still below average and today we will be around average, 42 for a high, and with a precipitation starting after dark that is why were expecting mostly snow in philadelphia, through the morning on wednesday, and then we are finished precipitation through the weekend and we have warming trend so that by sunday we have highs in the 50s, before the eagles game and i think by the time game starts it will be in the 40s chance of rain, on monday, and of next week. So that warming, all they we have to get through is this messy period today and tomorrow morning, bob kelly, and then it is smooth sailing through weekend. The next two days will be dicey. It is already starting for gang in Chester County heres a live look at creek road off of route one hanks place a great spot for breakfast by the way. If you look real close you can see snow flurries, squals, whatever you want to call it kind of dropping down on the road surface, penndot has been out all night putting down that salt brine solution, we have had reports of slippery going in avondale where there is an accident at glenn willow just off of route 41. Again, none of the road have been treated yet so penndot is throughout today putting down that salt bri. Ne, solution, any areas getting snow squals or light flurries you are on your own driving along road surfaces that have in the been treated with salt, they are putting down brine getting ready forstrom on the way later today into to tomorrow. Heres the closures because of the ice jams flooding on both side of the Delaware River n trenton portions of route 29, memorial drive, ramps from route one to 29 and calhoun street bridge ramps are closed causing some grid lock and traffic jams for everybody going to the inauguration later today at the capitol and on the pennsylvania side, river road shut down between black rock and calhoun street bridge, Somebody Just said what do you think of taking a flight out tomorrow morning at 5 00. Already midwest travel mess the storm coming our way coming through texas right now so check with the airline this afternoon, tomorrow, it is going to be a messy one, karen and thomas back to you. We will have to head south there bob. Developing story we are following right now just a terrifying discovery inside a california home, 12 brothers and sisters chained in filthy conditions, david and Louise Turpin are held on charges of torture and child abuse. Within of the children escaped , a 17 yearold was found so malnourished by police they thought she was 10 years old. Half of the children found chained inside the house were severely malnourished. Everybody was super skinny and not athletic skinny like mal nourish skinny. They all came out and they would have to mow lawns together and then they would all go in. Once again the parents are being held this morning, some of the children found are adults their age range from two to 29 years old. Developing this morning more accusations of Sexual Assault against team u. S. A. Gymnastics doctor larry nassar , from a 20 yearold olympic star simon biles. Gymnast released a statement yesterday on twitter pretty heart broking that she is also a survivor of his abuse. Revelation comes as he goes back to court today. More than 100 of his victims are expect to speak out as part of his criminal sentencing. He pled guilty to criminal Sexual Conduct back in november and already been sentenced to prison for 60 years on child pornography charges. His victim also include Gabby Douglas anal i rise man. A Police Officer nearly run over as he dry is to flag down a speeding car in times square. Video shows the officer walking toward mercedes sedan which stopped at a red light, and the officers got within inches of that car and then you saw it a moment ago, the car, took off nearly hitting that officer. There is the officer, wow, put his hands on the hood and the car took off, obviously endangering the officers life there. A car hit other cars along the street during that chase. Police by the way are still looking for the driver this morning. Yesterday we showed you this dramatic video out in california, that is a car sticking out of the side of the building. New we are seeing dash cam video of exactly how this happened. The car was speeding and then launched accredits three lanes before hitting a center divid er and then airborne, 60 feet in the air, two people have been rescued from inside and they are doing fine this morning amazingly, of course, driver admits took under the influence of drugs. It is 5 21, no filters allowed. There is a huge change coming to a major pharmacy what they are doing and why, can you see the difference between these two photos. We will explain. [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like. Cliche foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason . Nah. So, why dont we like flo . She has the name your price tool, and we want it. But why . Why dont we actually do any work . Why do you only own one suit . Its just the way it is, underdeveloped office character. Youre right. Thanks, bill. No, youre bill. Im tom. You know what . No one cares. 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