Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20170216 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20170216

Work will not be penalized. The economy would be pouralized without the working immigrants. And they see this is an increase in raids from Immigration Force in country. More than 600 people were arrested in the raids and Officials Say they are routine and have been happening for years even in sanctuary cities like philadelphia. And the crack down after President Trumps promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. I think that more than ever now they are ready to fight back. All right so back out live we should mention that kids participated in the movement and they skipped school. We reached out and they dont have the attendance numbers yesterday and should have them by tomorrow. Coming up at 6 00 well hear from students about this movement. Live in center city gray hall channel 6 action news. All right thank you. Meanwhile, President Trump launched a vigorous defense and likened his administration to a finally tuned machine. He hosted a News Conference to name alex costa as his new labor secretary. This after yesterdays andrew and the president called his first weeks the most productionive any president ever had and blamed the press for spreading fake news. And the economy as dire. I inherited a mess. Its a mess. At home and abroad. A mess. Now the president was repeatedly asked about allegations that his staff routinely spoke with r intelligence during the campaign and eventually said he had no knowledge that anyone had and took aims at leaks doing his administration and earlier in the day he vowed to find the leakers and make them qu pay a big price. Conference tonight at 5 30. A judge is allowing a criminal complaint against governor Chris Christie to move forward. The complaint says he failed to is associated from creating traffic jams on the George Washington bridge. Oh is due on a criminal summons and he says the evidence in which he based his ruling is Utter Nonsense and the governor has always denied knowing of the scheme in advance. And a fire sent five people to the hospital overnight including throung children. And an action news viewer took this video showing the flames tearing through a home on edding street at 5 00 this morning. Two men remain hospitalized this afternoon and the three children have since beereleased. And 40 crews responded to this blaze and one man jumped from the roof of the home where the fire started and another was able to run out. The action cam was there as medics transported one of the two men in the home to the hospital and he suffered burns to his arms and face. The bless that everybody is safe. You know what im saying and i thank god that everybody is safe. And we didnt lose nobody to this tragedy. And the cause of the fire is still under investigation and fire Officials Say that the damage is overwhelming and both of the men that were still in the hospital are expected to survive. And that little glimpse of good news this afternoon. Theyll take the good news. In may the men that took over the prison in smyrna delaware had a hit list for officers. They had a list of 17 guards they wanted to be fired or retire or else. The or else was interpreted as a threat everyone on the list. And that was one demand while they held workers hostage. Lieutenant steven floyd was killed in the attack and we are told his name was not on the list. Two major heroin busts including one in philadelphia. Josh shapiro says that a man was charged with possession and distribution and they found 125 grams of heroin at the suspects home and investigators in johns sound and allatoona arrested five people and charged them with operating a heroin ring and seized 100,000 worth of heroin in that bust. They took 113,000 doses of heroin off the streets of pennsylvania. It only takes one dose to kill. Now attorney general, shapiro went on to say that her oh oh win addiction is not a crime but a disease. And meteorologist, adam joseph is standing by with a first check of accuweather. The winds and windchills and a lot of cloud cover and now we are starting to lose the peak intensity of the daytime heating the clouds are starting to break apart. 38 in philadelphia today and the same for allentown clocking in at 32 in trenton and near 40 in wilmington and Atlantic City so far 36 Miles Per Hour and its that direction out of the northwest that brought in that very cold winter like air. This is a typical february day, windchill right now 27 in the city of philadelphia and just 6 in binghamton and 17 in pittsburgh, and even down to the south windchills down in the 30s for the state of virginia. If you step out this evening, well lose the cloud cover and the stars take over and temperatures slowly drop from the mid30s to the low 30s at 10 00, 11 00 and clear and cold for the rest of the overnight with the low temperature going down to 26. And everyone is chatting about this weekend because the sunshine comes back and take a look at saturday at 3 30. 60s invading the midatlantic and well show you how warm the temperatures get saturday and sunday and beyond that with the full accuweather forecast. You can ditch the gloves for sure this weekend. Thank you. A Delaware County wawa may have become the most popular location in the area. The store in Concord Township reopened today serving beer and offering restaurant style seating. John rawlins live at that location at naamans creek road and john you have a good view of the new offering there. Reporter we do its very nice here. What is different about this picture . We are at the wawa in Concord Township. The tables ta is for sure. But the difference is what is in that cooler. Welcome to the only beer in wawa you can now pick up beer at this this concord store. Our first store to have beer in the state of pennsylvania. [ applause ] the wawa sells beer in virginia and florida, the locally based company is just now ditching its toe in pennsylvania beer sales because of pennsylvanias evolveing and archaic licensing. The store is big enough to meet the law. We dont have stores as big as this. The Restaurant License would be challenging to do in existing stores. They have no current plans for a second store but if this rollout is successful that could change as part of opening day craft brewers offered tastings and wawa offering brews from nearby zip codes. 2 sp is a lagger from where wawa is based. And i like it. I could get used to it. Others not in the beer market like the idea of sitting dont. We comb here and usually take it back to the office or sit in the car but its nice to sit and have lunch. Reporter well, wawa has 224 stores in pennsylvania alone, this is the only one with beer in it at this point. Its something of a laboratory and they will see if its popular and i think it will be and then see if it is profitable and then there could be other stores in the future that have beer but for now only one in Concord Township. John rawlins, channel 6 action news. All right john he is off the clock can he have one of those now . Enjoy john. Time for a first check of the action news traffic report today. Lets go live to matt pellman in the Traffic Center. You know the Traffic Center hops at this hour of the afternoon and we start barley i mean barely moving on the roadways. Here on the super highway 1, starting to stack and the pennsylvania turnpike is heavy because of people avoiding the turnpike connecter bring that remains closed because of the structural issues and Montgomery County worchester township we are watching a crash along german town pike close to quarry hall road. And on the big picture a number of accidents as well. One on the main line along 30 at bryn mawr avenue by the library and one in haverford township along route 3, Westchester Pike and glenolden, delco, one at oakley. A fuel spill is associated with that one. And lets go the computer report on this thursday almost friday. Traveling southbound on theelt boulevard there is a crash south of rahn street. Still ahead on action news at 4 00 a popular stroller is facing a recall. The defect that has injured nor dozen babies. The clock is a towneeds your help in a tonights special longhorn favorites. Ibeye, the longhorn salmon, or the parmesan crusted chicken. And for lunch, try our steakhouse burger, or any steakhouse lunch combo. You cant fake steak. Theres one state that has more ski mountains to choose from than any other in the and thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can fiw york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan youaway at iloveny. 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The4. 5 points and the s p down on the day. And brit tax is recalling nearly 37,000 trollers because they can injure infants, the click and go attachment that can attach the car seat. They haveved 26 reports of injured children and the Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging customers to stop using the attachment tpany for repairs. L the tail recall posted on our website at 6abc. Comou can find a link of models affected here and theltroller is among those being recled a Bucks County Community iis close to winning a contest and there is only a few morep Bristol Bureau to help them become the most inspired small town. They are second out of five in the running, second place almost first, the grand prize money would pay for a main streemakeover. Tith 14,000 knoxnominee and bristol is so close to winning. They will be featu series of economic revitalization. And bristol is Holding Strong number one spot to north adams, achusett is a real effort and called raising the bar will decide which businesses will get the money and the much needed boost. They are a small, hard working down and a lot of pride in their mom and pops. R will be revealed next week and the voting closes in seven hours, to help them out head to 6abc. Com. And its veryone on social media is contacting us here saying help Bristol Bureau win this thing. Alicia. And speaking of social media, it has encircled every aspect of our lives, but they predict that 2017 will be a big year for the big three, Facebook Instagram and twitter. And how they are using the sites and a deeper reach into an unlikely community. And tech is becoming great tools and letting people have more access to their physicians. We are taking a social media trends for 2017. What is new and what people are downloading tonight on action news at 11 00. Tickets for the highly demanded garth brooks show went on sale this morning. Today the 40 by 40 foot banner was displayed outside of the wells fargo centn anti march 24th to 26th appearances. His first appearances in philadelphia since 2001 when he came for the wawa america tour and the last pennsylvania tour on the world tour. They are in the business of supplying energy and on this brisk winter day beak oh delivered to people that could really use it. Peco employees went to septa Regional Rail stations and gave away free handrmers. Peco helped riders stay warm in the chilly morning temperatures and shared information about energy and also money saving tips for the winter. Wife and i decided to take a jog this morning. How was that . Illadvised. Time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Adam joseph is standing by. He was nott enough to war his body up. Jusaying. Get out and get the fresh air you will want to do that during its upcoming weekend. The ben franklin bridge looking a little dark in spots and overall the sky is going to brighten up with patches of blue as the clouds begin to erode than will be the case as we go into the evening and overnight hours. The clouds are dominant today as well as the northwesterly wind and clock information at 30 Miles Per Hour and reading gusting to 31 in philadelphia and 36 in millville and lancaster and just over that 30 degree threshold. And we talk about the windchill and it feels like the 20s area wide and when we didnt have the sun and the clouds and the wind felt it today on exposed skin and this is the last day well chat about windchills possibly for the next seven to 10 days as we look at satellite and radar, and clouds coming down off the great lakes and the spin over new england where they got whacked with snow once again in maine, its a pretty quiet picture here in the eastern half of the country, in addition to it being quiet. Its exceptionally warm in st. Louis right now and 70 in witch to and4 in omaha, and 37 here and all of this warmth to the south is moving our way. Nd it is again very unusual to see that kind of warmth spread out across a good chunk of the country in fact. Spring has sprung three weeks early with every area you see in read from virginia down into the deep south all the way back to texas. Trees are already budding again way ahead of schedule. We are not talking about winter we are talking about early spring. What does the groundhog say . Six more weeks of winter. As we look at the forecast mostly clear and brisk and cold. 26 in philadelphia and 25 in dover. As we take a look at the forecast tomorrow. Lots of sunshine and we are back up to normal a happy friday and take a look at this four day at 4 00 forecast that someone just tell me on twitter, hey i cant have a foot of snow on the ground in february i may as well have 60s over a weekend. Youll get it. 46 tomorrow and on saturday 19 degrees above average and sunday 65 degrees. And 60 on monday 10 degrees above average. And it returns in the sevenday forecast ill have that in the next half hour. You are always throwing shade at the groundhog. I do it for fun. It is funny too. It is. The countdown to thon at penn state. Action news is there as local dancers pack their bags for the experience of a lifetime. A new program to keep students busy after school is in the works in philadelphia. The goal is to create a list of after School Programming hoping to improve literacy and academic performance and health among the students. Today the Chester Community Charter School was parked with sized grandmas and grandpas. Kindergartners dressed up as 100yearolds. And da of wallythe celebration because he recently turned 100 and shared his with the younger students. Ion is building as penn state students are getting ready for their massive yearly fundraiser thon begins tomorrow evening. Three dancers packed up their cars to drive to universit park. Now, they got a special sendoff from their classmates and a Police Escort to thepennsylvania turnpike. Dancing at thon is known as a privilege. Only 308 students are chosen out of thousands. Its the largest student run philanthropy in the world. To data has raised more than 136 million for the fight against childhood cancer. 6 abc is your thon headquarters, action news will be at penn state for thon all weekend long and our live reports start tomorrow at 4 00 and you can also watch the entire dance marathon live 6abc. Com. It is so much fun to watch. So insp great job. Still ahead here thieves taet a other done donetist Office Making off with electronics. Im nydia han with clothing 70 off and a way to buy high end kids clothed for 80 off and make money too. Afoot and lighthearted i take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. The east and the west are mine. The north and the south are mine. Ems beautiful to me. To take advantage of this offer on a volvo s90, visit your local dealer. Action news continues. Hello again 4 30 and action news continues now with what sounds like an outrageous order from a judge to a mom. Stop getting pregnant. Why her reasoning may change your mind. And fighting reasoning may fight filth. Hey are an a team and thy fan base. He is talking about philadelphia. And what said about the brotherly love Baseball Team and its fans. Listen up researchers may have found a way to predict autism before the age of 1. Now we begin with breaking news chopper 6 hd flying over the concord mall in the 4700 block of concord pike in talliville. This is where firefighters were dispatched to a fire this is about 3 40 this afternoon just about an hour ago. There was apparently a fire inside of that macys they did manage to cut a hole in the roof and appeared to have gotten the upper hand on this. Once we regain that picture well bring you the latest. Now to Delaware County where three computers were stolen from an upper darby doctors office. Computers containing personal information for thousands of patients. Vernon odom has more now. Reporter good evening sharrie police here tonight continue their hunt for a pair of computer thieves that remain at large this hour. And they struck early, before rush hour on tuesday morning. And they got away clean. But after this story runs it may not be the case for long. This is video of a burglary in progress and quickly the picture goes out because the hooded thieves pulled the wires on three wifi computers that were their targets. One of the suspects actually removes his hood. And both

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