Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20180220 :

Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20180220

Brave and she issued a statement, following her botched rendition of the National Anthem. What she says that she was trying to accomplish. Plus, who made a surprise visit to cheer her up. Heres bob. We have got some problems. Come on, one of our top stories, an accident involving a septa bus. It happened 5 30 this morning, septa five bus traveling along frankford avenue collided with a tractor trailer right at the intersection of the orthodox street. This is directly under the market frankford line, a busy interchange from the folks coming from frankford in the neighborhood is here. Septa tells me that 15 passengers on that route five bus were taken to the local hospital, there was one driver of the septa bus taken to another hospital. All nonlife threatening injuries but right now accident investigation that is had intersection shut down, so frankford and orthodox a busy stretch there, back in the day you may remember pats music was right on the corner, edco mens store was right there Lauren Johnson is on her way. We will get to her the minute she arrives. Other big problem thinks tanker truck that has been leaking tar on southbound lanes of 295, so it started right here around Commodore Barry bridge interchange exit 13 and then for about 9 miles tar was leaking out of the back of the truck, there is about 30 to 40 cars that are pulled over to the side with tar either all over the car, stuck underneath the wheels, steve keeleys on his way to this situation and we will take to you him in a minute. Would i use new jersey turnpike if i were you heading south and heres an example of the roadways sock in with some fog, headlights on, wipers on, sue, it is going to be a bad hair day a lot of moisture in the air, it that is included on the ground we call fog. Dense fog advisory in effect until 10 00 oclock this morning. This will hang around. We will get 61 degrees by lunchtime, our High Temperature should tie the record of zero seven for today but regardless it will be unusually mild. We will tell how you long this will hang around coming up, guys. 7 03 on this tuesday. Powerful message at a lie in by a High School Student in front of the white house, a sign that read, am i next . With a question mark. President trump says he is now opened to strengthening federal background checks for gun purposes after last weeks attack in florida. But that wont go far enough for many who plan to build political pressure for gun control laws. Dont know if i have ever seen anything like this, doug. Yeah, it was unusual protest, yesterday. Students and these students are pushing for more, and keep up this drum beat in the aftermath of that florida attack. They are taking their message toss state capitols as well as here to washington in front of the white house. Shame on you. Shame on you. Reporter protesters in front of the white house demanding more gun control laws with many on the ground sim about ice victim of the florida attack and in florida a candle light vigil to remember fallen with many hoping that the Political Climate will change. This really does feel like there is a different current in the water, and i think we see evidence that President Trump feels is there Something Different about this time too. Reporter President Trump returned to washington last night after a Holiday Weekend in florida is in fact said to be opened to a strengthening of the federal background check system, make more states participate and this is an ongoing emotional debate as we saw play out right in the middle of pennsylvania avenue. I would rather give up my freedom to have single american child. What do you want to do. Reporter as investigation in the florida gunman continues is there evidence that the system simply break down. Rather then put new laws that are in the followed i think great thing for government to do to make sure that the laws that are on the books, guidance that is on the books is faithfully executed, rather then of another thing that isnt followed. Reporter the accused shooter remains in prison without bail following his Court Appearance yesterday. Lawyers for nikolas cruz said he will seek a guilty plea and life sentence to avoid the death penalty. Judge also ordered the release of state record, they show cruz admitted to feeling depressed months before the shooting but that coupes losser determined that the 19 yearold was in the a threat to himself or others. It brings to us a disturbing incident that happened in our area, when a teen walk up to the doors of the north Philadelphia School with a gun just released video from appears to be a teenager with a gun outside Fredrick Douglas Mastery Charter School. You can see the teen trying to get in the school. He tries to open it. Doors were lock. He left. This happened last thursday which was just one day after the deadly shooting in parkland, florida. I feel as though kids, i think they should ban guns, period, toy guns, take them off the market, change the laws on guns. Ban guns. It is not the school, it is where they get the gun in their hand they feel as though that is one opinion when it comes to the debate but it just shows that people are voicing their opinions after what happened in florida. If you recognize armed teen that we showed you earlier police are urging you to contact them. Lets do an update on our neighbor dont the street here , investigators still dont know what sparked that big fire that gutted buildings along the 200 block of Chestnut Street in old sit, it is very close to third and chestnut. Let me give you the exact address the building will be torn down, it is 239 Chestnut Street, deemed unsafe. They will to have tear it down several other buildings, especially, as you move toward third street had a lot of smoke, water damage, so, Chestnut Street is still shut down. No people were hurt but several pets apparently died in this fire so they have to tear down one building and it looks like two buildings, that moved toward third street will survive, and they will try to keep the front of all of them up, because of the historic nature of the building. Well, a very popular philadelphia radio host is facing Sexual Harassment claims. According to philly. Com a woman says john dibella sexual ly harassed her when she worked for his show on 102. 9wm gk. She filed a lawsuit listing 30 instances of improper verbal and physical conduct, the suit says that dibella described his allege behavior as jokes that were mutual. Wmgks parent company, beasley broadcast group, issued a brief statement saying they take the allegations seriously but they are not ready to make a comment. Wow. Fbi, and Philadelphia Police are still looking for a couple who went missing 13 years ago. You know this story. They left a baron the 400 block of south street. This is in february. In fact it was february 19th, 2005. Authorities renewed their call for information yesterday, on the 13th anniversary of their disappearance, there is a 50,000 reward, still stands for information, and leading to them, or an arrest of, whoever is responsible for their disappearance where did they go. Coming up at 7 09. Chinese agencies are condemning the Franklin Institute. This is embarrassing. Earlier this month we told but the fact that fbi agents arrested a delaware man for allegedly breaking off and stealing the thumb of the ter cota warrior statue because is their exhibit they have going right now. 2,000 yearold statue was on loan from chine, chinese official is accusing the institute of being quote careless with the artifact n an interview that air yesterday on chinese tv network, that is when that comment came out. Yeah. You knew they wouldnt be happy. But i guess they wanted like ropes where you could not reach in and touch the statue. Right. Someone reached in and broke off his thumb. I guess Franklin Institute had more faith in the people in the area. This is a guy who lives in bear, delaware. Yeah. They got him. They found him. Police go to his house, and said do you have anything you want to tell us. He goes, yeah, i got a thumb. I have a thumb, yeah. There is a thumb in his drawer of his desk what was he go to go do it. Hitchhike to maryland. Earlier we reported he wanted to take a selfie so we will see, what happens with that. How long will this exhibit be here . I dont know. I didnt get the thumbs up on that, i dont know. 7 10. Pennsylvania state Supreme Court has released its version of that old, do you see that old map. That is from 2011. Some people said it was unfair too red so to speak. Okay here comes a new map, among the change is here philadelphia new has two districts instead of three, and the suburbs, political analyst say the districtness chester, bucks, and delaware counties all become more blue in this revised map, so how would that fair . Republicans are expected to challenge this new map in federal court. As it stands right now it looks like it will be in play for the may 15th primary. Lets get to breaking news a september bus collided with a big rig, leaving more than a dozen people hurt. Lauren, what is going than. Reporter hey there we just jumped out of the van, lets show you the scene, at intersection of frankford and orthodox, pretty nasty accident. You can see that septa five bus was traveling on frankford and slammed in the side of this sysco big rig, causing an accident scene here, blocking the roads off for people. Hard to get around this area. We do understand now as alex mentioned that several people were transported to a local hospital to be treated for injuries. Surely the impact had some people shaken up, rattled or injured on that septa bus, we are in the quite sure about the driver have the big rig but this is a pretty bad accident right here, in this area, in this neighborhood right below the septa line there. Bob kellys scening an eye on it. We tiehl tie get more information as we just arrived on the scene and bring you very latest as soon as we get it. Back to you guys. So bob, do you see that front window, of the bus shattered. I talked to septa. They said driver of the bus and 15 passengers were taken to the local hospital, and the driver of the tractor trailer, that bus was a route five bus traveling down frankford avenue, underneath the frankford frankford line and that is the intersection that is frankford and orthodox. The route three bus, the five bus and j bus. So where our camera is right now is orthodox street and the bus, j bus works go down orthodox from frankford heading in toward brideberg and then picking up passenger and moving you around. He would have been going the wrong way on orthodox street, if he he was feying that way. Bus was traveling down frankford avenue. It is all speculation. That is why officers there are on the scene. It is frankford and orthodox, j, three, five bus all on a detour. Lauren has rest of the scoop. We will get back to her in just a minute. Tanker truck leaking tar on the southbound side of 295. This truck traveled from the Commodore Barry bridge area 9 miles leaving a trail of tar and about 30 to 40 cars, that are off to the side, a combination of the black, racing stripe down the side, tar all over the tires and i dont know about you but reminds me when you are behind the penndot pothole trucks that stuff is tough to get off your vehicle. But steve keeleys on his way and will take us when we arrive. Heading south this morning use the new jersey turnpike you dont want that stuff all over your car. North on the 42 freeway headlights great example what we are dealing with this morning slow go into the city. Rain drops on our camera lens here sue i think you need new wiper blades. I think so, yes, worth the investment. Just take your time this morning, look at visibility in lancaster, zero, really foggy, Lancaster County Chester County a mile visibility at the airport. It is bad many places. Witt slow down. Dense fog advisory stays in effect until 10, there could be persistent fog in the future cast, we kent see includeds really clearing until, maybe two or 3 00 in the afternoon and that happens we may not make it, as far into the 70s as we thought but we are still going to 70 for our high today and 74 tomorrow this would tie the record for tomorrow. Back to chillier temperatures tomorrow when cold front comes through on thursday, we will get that rain in the morning and then cold front lingers, all the way through weekend, it stays close enough that we at lee have a chance of showers, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, but milder temperatures, as we head into the week. Ore of the land of the free, and home of the brave yeah. Just keep playing this over and over again. People are still talking about fergies rendition of the National Anthem from sunday nights nba allstar game. What are you doing over there. I like slow jazz and smooth jazz. Do you. Yes, slow things down. Slow jamming in the news. Oh, slow jam that National Anthem. Singer received so much backlash about this she actually apologized yesterday, for her performance, but i think that when she finish, that she was kind of proud of herself. I dont think she thought it was bad. The apology is based on the reaction that she has receive. Tmz showed up with her, she tried to do her best but then people started tweeting out, something about it was slow jazz, i saw your reaction. I said up, something up. Internet had a ton to say about her jazz version, slow version, there were meme, gifs , screen shots and the players, some of them are chuckling, and so this was all over the place, there was enough reaction that the she sent out a statement explaining herself im always honored and proud to perform the National Anthem. I wanted to try Something Special for the nba. Im a risk taker but this rendition did not strike the intended tone. I love this country and i honestly tried my best. Her ex, he felt bad, he showed up with flowers, trying to cheer her up, and file video back when they were together back in the day. They have broken up since then he is still in their life and good enough friend that is everyone is talking about her. I know shes hurting leave. Bring her some flowers. Tmz spotted them to bring them to her and her son. It is just in september they split up after being married for eight years. So you are licking your wounds you try your best. It does in the go overy will say two things that are shocking. Then i want to say something. Okay. I didnt think it was that horrific. I agree. I know it is bad, it was a different take, i happen to it is the way she sang it though. Yeah. The vocal ability, vocal prowess. Prowess. Yes. It was lacking. Yes. I have heard a lot worse. What are three things i said never do. We mentioned this yesterday never sing National Anthem, never take naked pictures of yourself and never throw out first pitch of the baseball game. Never goes well. I have done all three at once, very weird. Shout out to her exhusband josh, he is best, ever. Fact that he showed up with flowers. Im not shock by this at all, would i do very same thing for an x, who is humiliated in front of the national audience. I would say would i call her and say, oh, god, it is fine dont jump off a bridge. Would your x do it for you . Then. I have posted this on my instagram yesterday, and not everyone would do that. If your x is having an embarrassing moment, show up with flowers to console them. You dont to have do that. Same thing happened to me yesterday i got a wonderful text message from an x saying, you know, i mark an anniversary and she was very supportive. That is lovely. Yes. If i knew something bad happened like somebodys mother dies or something. That is another level. This is not like your mother, or someone else passing in this world. That anthem was worse than my mother dying. We will discuss this later. Get on instagram, weigh in, your comment, because i do want to hear because mike seems to think that is normal and i think he should be praised for that. Yeah. Okay. We will settle this debate then. All of my xs. Live in texas. Yes. Did you have trouble with your iphone. I always have trouble with my iphone, yes. Some iphone users are sick of hearing this another bug causing Serious Problems how a text message could crash your even if we will tell what you to do. When i text my x yesterday it crashed. Is that a nice thing to do. Lets go back to the break ing news, september bus and semi colliding at frankford and orthodox in northeast philadelphia. We are working to get more information. We just got on the scene. When we come back because multiple people were taken to the hospital. Look at how the front of the trailer, i mean look where it ended up, you know, american a jackknife this is a mess. Okay. We want to get to this break ing news here. This is a tractor trailer accident separate from a september bus situation we were first telling you about. Tractor trailer accident on 295 near Commodore Barry bridge. Steve keeley just got to the scene. Steve, what are you seeing here. Reporter were in penn grove and we pulled off an exit because we werent seeing anything on the highway. We found one of the 100 victims according to this guy, look at this bob kelly. This is how people in the dark knew that they had hit tar because carries out of what. Can you switch places and get on a knee, look at this, this is on his front passenger side tire, and it is coated, like icing, and and you can see why this is on all of his tires this gooey tar. We have the driver here. How did you manage to go 60 miles an hour and come to a stop with all that stuff, on your car. Well, i could not, i got off at nearest exit here and, that is where you guys found me waiting on a tow truck. Reporter were right off 295. This is a busy highway, you work in the middle of the night on your job. You are working. How many people were you seeing driving through this. It seemed like countless every few minutes cars were going by in droves. Reporter even state troopers down here in woodstown they were ge

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