Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20150916 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20150916

Available on your mobile devices and the internet. The pitch is once folks park here they can get to philadelphia, patco, they have 60,000 unsold passes the river ferry or the maligned multimile hike over the ben franklin bridge, that is closed for traffic. Patco had news, they are no longer selling passes online, concerned they cannot mail them in time. They will sell them at the offices. And the new Jersey Transit line is selling tickets prior to the weekend. Think about those weekend, they will not be on sale over the weekend, you need to make an effort to make your plans and buy your tickets today. Reporter so different transit agencies two different theorys on sales, the sale for the special passes have been somewhat slow, patco only sold 20 of their 75,000 passes it has issued they hope that todays opening up of Parking Spaces here in camden will help spur the folks across the river to come see the pope. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. We of course are just nine days and 17 hours away from pope francis arriving in philadelphia, officials are hoping that Major Technology upgrades can help millions of visitors from dropping their calls. David henry is live with the details. Hi sharrie, we are live here at the parkway, the venue is here, the super structure and the festival stage and the alter is going up with the help of a couple of cranes, we are ten days from the popes approachal and its time to make final preparations and get in the spirit. This is about civic pride about using this historic opportunity to tell our story to the world about our unique history and our Exceptional People who call the philadelphia region home. We have heard a lot of complaintses about the inconvenience of the massive undertaking, but mayor nutter says look on the bright side, the prestige and the once in a lifetime opportunity. The mayor has sternly outlined what people cant do, where they cant walk, where they cant drive. Now we need to show our unique stature as a people. He hopes that center city will be impacted but the rest of the city will be open as usual. The only impact is the trash collection around that weekend. The signs of preparations are visible on the parkway but what you may not notice behind the scenes is represented by the none descript poles, this he got a dry run over labor day festival, many complained that they did not get Cell Phone Service during the weekend. Engineers say they have addressed those concerns. There were notes that they performed sub par and we addressed that and we feel confident about the infrastructure and the rf and we expect to have the best that could be designed out there for the folks that are here. Reporter there may be upwards of a million of those folks gathering to see the pope celebrating mass on the alter under construction behind us, the crowd will be ten times the crowd that was here for made in america. Live on the parkway, david henry, channel 6 action news. David, i was down there where you are standing, quite transformation. The coverage of the upcoming papal visit continues on 6abc. Com pope, we have a closer look at the highways and bridge closures while the pope is in town and a closer look how the ben franklin parkway will be transformed to welcome pope francis. Police are looking for the man that assaulted and robbed a woman outside of franklin elementary at 7 00 a. M. , they say that the man pistol whipped the woman and took her purse before children arrived forbe the school day and they are not identifying the victim and staff was on hand to address concerns that parents might have. Police in Newcastle County say they have identified the man that killed a woman, benjamin ralph. Ralph who was his classmate at temple was taken into custody on monday at his home in new york, they found a substantial amount of mar bon in the victims car. The Philadelphia Department of license and inspections is accused of jeopardizing safety. He revealed a special investigation from his office, he says that hundreds of dangerous homes across the city are one brick away from crumbling to the ground, along with illegal emligses, they found that 1900 inspections were done without proper inspections. And ten measures to reform the department including immediate removal of commissioner collins. Now a check of the accuweather forecast, a beautiful day, and the temperatures continue to climb upwards. Lets head outside to adam joseph who has a chance to do that. Its technically summer, and temperatures are 10 yesterday. And as we look at the numbers in new england, 83 now and burlington, vermont, 84 degrees, one of the foliage reports came out and still not much in the way of color, its warm locally and even to the north and Eastern Canada and north new england. We see large High Pressure in control and any cloud cover north of the hudson bay at this point, everyone sun soaked no matter where you are in the eastern half of the country. What is ahead in the accuweather forecast . We have three more warm days before it turns a touch more humid over the weekend and then the clouds move back in and they are stubborn when they do. Well talk about that in the accuweather forecast. Thanks very much. Republican president ial candidates are getting ready to take the stage for the major debate tonight, they are meeting at the reagan president ial library in california. Just like last time, donald trump will stand front and center, he is topping polls, and Carly Fiorina will join the candidates this time. She is the only woman in the republican field, democrat president ial candidate, hillary clinton, is keeping a close eye on what happened tonight as will Vice President joe biden, who is still weighing a president ial run. The refugee crisis overseas has reached a boiling point with riot police confronted refugees coming into hungary, they were met with tear gas and water cannons. We didnt really have a choice, the only way to defend such a long border. Which is easy to be crossed is a physical obstacle, manpower you simply cannot do it. The escalation reached new heights as Hungary Armed and took action against the razor wire fence, the images of the children being rescued from the tear gas is gutwrenching, the foreign minister says they have no problem to take in war refugees but not economic mig rantss because they cannot carry the burden. As for the United States we say we can only accept 10,000, and they say the number is inadequate quite. Time for the action news traffic report, matt pellman is standing by on an important week. Oh, yes. Its hump day. Happy hump day brian and sharrie, we started the last few afternoon commutes with major accidents on highways. This afternoon we start with three major accidents on three major highways, one on 42 southbound side its just up ahead involving an overturned vehicle past 255, and that means things are not moving so well, speeds like 10 Miles Per Hour. Coming off the walt whitman bridge and the 240 delays are spilling back to 295, with speeds like 11 and 12 Miles Per Hour. This is delco, 195, should be 8 minutes to the blue routes, three time whats it should be because of the second major accidents in the northbound lanes near 320, are you stuck with the delays here on 95 in delco and the accident is gone. This one almost gone in the eastbound lanes of vine street expressway. Police are on the scene but are you jammed solid coming off the schuylkill expressway, we have problems all day on the regional rails, what is left is the half hour delays on the wilmington newark and media elwin. Lets grab the ipad and do the commuter report, maple shade on 380 eastbound and an opening on the tacony palmyra bridge. Lots going on. Thanks very much. More to come on action news at 4 00 today, first a texas teenager, led out of class in handcuffs. They arrested me and they told me i committed a crime of a hoax bomb. Well have details on that story, but call it a fake bomb but he was simply using the clock that he built. Why this invention got him in so much trouble. And more on Hurricane Sandy victims. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder. Whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. Its the one and only cure thats. One pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Certain patients. Can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. With harvoni, theres no interferon and there are no complex regimens. Tell your doctor if you have other liver or kidney problems, or other medical conditions. And about all the medicines you take including herbal supplements. Harvoni should not be taken with any medicines containing amiodarone, rifampin, or st. Johns wort. It also should not be taken with any other medicine that contains sovaldi. Side effects may include tiredness and headache. I am ready to put hep c behind me. I am ready to be cured. Are you ready . Ask your hep c specialist if harvoni is right for you. This is 14yearold amed muhammad, one of his inventions got the award winner booked by police. Its the first time i brought an invention to school to show the teacher. He rebuilt a digital clock, and proud of it, he packed it up to show his engineering teacher. But later his english teacher got spooked by it and alerted the principal and called police. They arrested me and told me that i committed a crime of a hoax bomb. A fake bomb. We attempted to question the juvenile what it was and he simply said it was a clock, not what it was for or why he created the device and why he brought it to school. Without a satisfactory answer they booked him for a hoax bomb. I think this would not be a question if name was not ahmed muhammad, he likes to create things and share it with his teachers, his family says he was targeted because he is muslim but the Police Department says that is not true. The police did not file formal charges and released him to his parents just in time by the way for ahmed to visit the white house, president obama tweeted today cool clock, want to bring it to the white house, we should inspire for kids like you to like science, i like the ending to this story. What a turn around of events. Alicia thanks. Homes looking to challenge their claims from Hurricane Sandy, can file. They complain that the insurers short changed them and 14,000 people have asked for reviews so far. Rival brews, bud light and miller light could soon be made by the same company. Anheuser busch wants to buy miller in a multimilliondollar deal. It could be a super brewery of sorts, cranking out nine of the stop selling beers by volume. Shares in both companies shot up as soon as that news came out today and speaking of shares, that shot up. Green arrows across the board today as stocks edged higher as everybody waits for the fed to make up its mind as to whether they raise rates or not. The dow up 49 points and the s p up 17 points on the day. September is National Hunger action month, and a grocery change known throughout the Delaware Valley is pitching in to make a different. Shoprite kicked off the help bag hunger day. Local firefighters and politicians helped to bag groceries for customers, the goal is to raise awareness about hunger, shoprite works year round to raise money for local food banks. If we could talk about this weather every day of the year, we would be the happiest people around. Yes, it is absolutely beautiful no matter where you are, are you looking live at the sky 6 hd camera in cape may, some folks reason ott sunday and you can see the sparkling ocean water with hardly a wave. Its so calm. 86 allentown, philadelphia 85 and 83 in dover, a little bit of a sea breeze kicking in there, feels like 80 in cape may and 83 in beach haven and in lancaster, also mimicking that number on Long Beach Island of 83. Comfy as well 56 dew point in allentown un55 in millville and the dew points being that low is what is giving us these cool nights and these really spectacular afternoons. As you look at the playground forecast, its one of the days you wants to take the kids out before or after dinner, only dipping to 81 at 7 00, very warm and very pleasant, as we look at satellite and radar, there are high clouds to the south trying to puncture to the north where the High Pressure is, High Pressure is so firm in our region, a lot of these clouds fall apart as they push into the very dry air. Overnight we expect a clear sky and a little bit of a Crescent Moon there. Patchy fog develops tonight and tomorrow morning, wilmington 59 and 63 in philadelphia and pretty much the same at the shore between 62 and 63 degrees, as we look at the day planner, 66 at 8 00 in the morning and once again full sunshine in the afternoon, jumping into the 80s by the lunch time hour and as we get into that 2 00, 3 00, 4 00, looking at the 35 to 36 degrees, tomorrow evening though its beautiful there is a calm wind, we have an air quality alert day and ozone action day, the ground is about to go high, so sensitive groups on thursday. Sunny and warm tomorrow and 87 degrees, we do it again here on friday, 10 degrees above normal at 87, mimic it again on saturday and the exception on saturday it turn a touch more humid and 87, a lot of clouds with a fronts on sunday and a little bit of sunshine and 81 degrees, we are going back to school, im bringing you in the classroom again and remember do not pull out the answer here. What type of fall foliage can we expect this year . Great, terrible or patchy . Tweet me your answer. Ill retweet the first correct answer, and that person get a shoutout at the 4 50 weather in the next half hour. Still ahead here on action news, an Old Office Building in camden has a new purpose as a high tech school. And its more than just the students benefiting from the makeover, find out how the entire community can take advantage. And a town considering a dress code they say is all about respect. Male and female they dont want to see your underpants, people seeing short shirts or saggy pants. Coming up. Okay. So everyone is saying, hey you gotta get fios but why . Why fios . Well, fios is a 100 Percent Fiber Optic Network to the home, so you can get 100 out of all your devices. And access to the Fastest Internet and in home wifi available. With big capacity too, so everyone in the house can be online all at once. Only fios has 500 meg download speeds, with equal upload speeds. So you can upload your favorite videos up to 5x faster than cable. And with the fios mobile app, you can view your entertainment at home, or on the go. But the main reason to get fios . Were rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. Why fios . Ultimately, thats why. Right now, get 25 meg fios internet, tv phone starting at 79. 99 a month, guaranteed for two years. Plus get 350 back with a two year agreement. Call or go online today, hurry this offer ends september 19th. Get out of the past. Get fios. Firefighters battled a house fire in north philadelphia early this morning, crews say that heavy smoke was pouring out a bedroom when they arrived. Can you see the damage to the windows and awnings, the fire broke out at 5 45 this morning on the 2200 block of north 18th street, investigators have not said what sparked the fire but nobody was hurt. A Charter School in camden new jersey is breathing new life into an old building, they got to check out the santiago campus today, the socalled steam school. They focus on science, technology, engineering arts and math. Leap academy build a cafe and health and Wellness Center all of which are open to the public there. All of this is inside of the 12 story wilson building, the citys first skyscraper. Still to come at 4 00, grounded why one National Airliner told some of their employees they cannot fly until they slim down. And plans to redevelop the divine lorraine and bring back the north corridor as a whole. And the sole survivor of that ambush of that shooting on television. How she stayed alive. I was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. I had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it. When i got out it was almost closing time. Traffic was bad. I knew i was cutting it close. But it was ok. I use td bank. Its got the longest hours and stays open an extra ten minutes every day. Im sid. And i bank human at td bank. Action news continues. Well, its 4 30 and action news continues with a designer deal that sounds too good to be true, where you can find a 675 pair of louboutins for less than 100, and the steals dont stop there. We have heard of lawmakers trying to ban baggy pans but one town is taking it farther what they want to stop women from wearing. And a question that is stirring up the debate, at what age is a child the most fun and loveable and how about the mo most we begin with the rebirth of north street, this is the divine lorraine, it stood as a billboard for on lance and quality, and now its a billboard of blight that is until today. Vernon odom is live in Spring Garden with more on how the divine lorraine will rise and reclaim its glory once again. Reporter hi brian, the legendry Divine Lorraine Hotel is coming back, going back to its original state and be refurbished at broad. A Ground Breaking today on north broad, a divine moment, the politicians and the big money players, officially kicked off the redevelopment and rejuvenation of the landmark, the Divine Lorraine Hotel, since 1999 an abandoned neglected shell and now the deal is done, private and government money to refurbish the building as a gateway as the north corridor. When completed it will have over 100 high End Apartments and retail and restaurant space. This is the most complicated building of my 35 year career, there was no way to make it work, we needed some government help. The building

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