Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20170222 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 4PM 20170222

And reality check and let you know where march will stan because march is now on the sevenday forecast. Coming up in just a little bit. Thank you adam. Check in early and often with 6abc. Com weather as our winter warmup continues, youll find constantly updated hourly forecast and so much more there. And rely on our expert meteorologist, by following them on facebook and twitter. Many people are happy about the winter warmup farmers are on the opposite end of the spectrum. The unseasonable temperatures have major implications over the next three months. Nora muchanic is live now in morrisville to explain their concerns. Reporter hi there sharrie. Extremes in weather and temperatures are not a farmers friend and so while lots of us are enjoy the warmup, if it lasts too long it will confuse the peach trees you see here into thinking its spring and that is not necessarily a good thing. After huynh orchards in lawrenceville they are pruning peach trees for spring. It could cause big problems on the farm. This tree has a lot of bud. Especially fruit trees that are coached in blossoming too soon. If it blooms early and there is a frost that can knock them out. Or it can be frozen on the tree. That happened in mullica hill. Farmer milo lost half of his crop when a cold snap followed and killed them and decimated his crop. Pam is not too worried about that happening again. This warm snap in february doesnt seem like the trees have woken up yet. They are still dormant and seem to be fine. Peach and aapple trees are the most vulnerable. Her strawberries winter under a grow cover and seem to be doing well. They dont want to uncover them too soon. And they are growing in a greenhouse to stock the farm store. And the farm has weather stations feeding information to a computer. So who for a farmer is absolutely critical and knowing something about it removes some of the uncertainty. But they are at mother natures mercy. She is the boss thank you. The search is on for a man that tried to pull a woman foo his car. This happened in a gloucester township neighborhood. She was standing outside of her home on monday, and a man approached her asking for directions and then grabbed her arm, the victim screamed and the man let go and he drove off in a newer model white suv with black trim. Philadelphia police gave us video of two men that bound and beat a man in his own home. They got into a garage on neilson street in juniata park. They used electrical tape to tie up the 53yearold resident. The victim was stuck there until sunday night when his brother came over and found him injured. If you recognize these attackers you are asked to contact Philadelphia Police. The septa trains involved in a collision in upper darby have been removed from the scene and now the Railroad Tracks are being thoroughly inspected for any damage they may have received. The National Transportation safety board is now leading the investigation into what happened. Four people were injured including a train operator who is said to be in critical condition. The white house said today that they will revoke guidelines for transgender students. They will not be allowed to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity. They called it confusing and hard to implement but the nations Largest Teachers Union says it endangers children. And they are considering way to overhaul the Affordable Care act but the city cannot afford to lose it. Today dr. Thomas farley and mayor jim kenney laid out the hardships that many philadelphians could feel. One in six residents gained coverage because of the law that provides funding for key Health Service zbrz we are learning new details about the the man accused of fletcher made it all get back at police. Fletcher talked about an earlier robbery where police did not help him enough. He reported the fake incidents monday in order to watch the police work harder. Told officers he was delivering a pizza on north happen ton street when someone stole his car with his nephew inside. Fletcher is now charged with false reporting. A masked man with a gun burst into a north philadelphia home overnight and is said to be still on the run, police say he robbed the two men inside of the home of their cell phones and their laptops. The crime happened on the 1400 block of north 17th street. If you know anything about what happened you are asked to give detectives a call. Also in north philadelphia crews responded to a house fire overnight quickly checked for squatters that may have been inside. The flames broke out at 2 45 this morning. It rapidly spread to neighboring row homes and firefighters say they eventually went inside and found no one there. No word on what sparked this fire. A note for drivers part of 20th street in Center City Philadelphia will be closely closed to traffic. Crews will be repairing that road and is expected to reopen at noon on friday. You can get around the closure by using 18th or 22nd streets. Time now for a check of the action news traffic report. Matt pellman is live now in the traffic center. As we head home getting over the hump on this hump day afternoon. We start way not so great situation along 95. In old city, these are the the northbound lanes by penns landing and its a serious accident, a bunch of emergency crews on the scene here as you can see the ambulance is moving about as we watch. Fire engine is there as well. And traffic is barely squeezing by. Going northbound on 95 on the right side of the roadway, as we watch live northbound side jamming solid from the walt whitman bridge to the accident scene near penns landing and farther north you are looking at 40 Miles Per Hour through the girard after few work zone. A broken down vehicle on the vine that is clear out and over on the schuylkill a normal wednesday afternoon with 14 Miles Per Hour on the eastbound side and 10 Miles Per Hour on the westbound side by south street and coming off the schuylkill, lets check this mess. Its a crash along 26th street southbound as you head toward penrose avenue and the platt bridge now on the shoulder. Both lanes are open and we see congestion off the schuylkill expressway we had major issues on septa once again with the suspension of the broad street line running this afternoon as are all the regional rails and buses and at this point everything is pretty much on time. Well see if that holds true coming up in the next half who. Next on action news a cheaper safer commute. A local University Partners with Ride Sharing Company uber to help students get to campus and save money at the same time. And a big day for Small Businesses in one buck county town. Bristol borough is a finalist in a contest and today they learn the result. The big reveal next. And the closing numbers as the u. S. Stocks close mixed. The dow posing its ninth straight day of record closing up 32 points and the nasdaq and s p 500 are both down today. A former doctor who specialized in treating elite female gymnast including members of the national and olympic teams is charged with sexual assault. Larry ncaa ar is two separate michigan counties. He this a clinic where he treated the athletes. They claim he assaulted them during physical therapy sessions. He denies the allegations but is charged with child pornography and molesting the daughter of family friends. This is what it looked like for most of the day with the Dakota Access pipeline. Today was the deadline to closele camp the deadline was set by the army corps of engineer. Part of the native american ritual. A man was rescued from his burning car just in time after it slammed into a pole in the nations capital. New body camera Video Shows Police breaking a window and pulling the driver out. Washington, d. C. Officer Steven Haines happened to drive by the fire at the end of his shift and instinct told him someone was trapped inside. I tried to look in but there was too much smoke and couldnt see in the vehicle but we broke the window if he had arrived even maybe two to three minutes later, it would have just been too late. The driver was rushed for treatment and is already out of the hospital. American airlines say that operations are back to normal after an internet out outage caused delays at Philadelphia International airport the internet did not come back online following a scheduled airport wide outage but no other airlines with were affected. None of the flights were canceled but just delayed and operations are back to normal at this hour. Big news for a buck county community. Which is now officially americas most inspiring small town. The big revoming right here. Bristol bureau is the big winner and with that comes a 5,000 prize. They are beaming with pride beating out 14,000 nominees from across the country. In the end it was close but they pulled through for the big win. They are a small hard working town with a lot of pride especially with their local mom and pops. Local businesses say the money will pay for a main street makeover along with the cash. The winning town will be featured in a series about economic revitalization. And the host of that seriess one of our mentors from abc shark tank. Coming up on action news at 5 00 and sara bloomquist will have more on that and tell us how they will lose their half Million Dollars prize in this Small Business revolution. This is such exciting stuff. We were on the edge of our seat waiting to see who would win. Well deserves thank you. A local university is partnering with uber to help get its students to from class safely. The rides to and from what Val University will be discounted for students strapped for cash, they can use uber pool at a flat rate at 1. 99 per ride. Its orderly a two mile walk and they will use a designated pickup and dropoff location. This is the First University Ride Sharing Program in philadelphia. Well, the president ial election and the new White House Administration still has everyone talking just about every day and not all of those conversations are going well. People on both sides of the political aisle have strong opinions about the direction of this country under President Trump and many of those perspectally destroying relationships. I unfriended everyone on facebook who was pro hillary. My brother disowned me and myself and mynd forbid us from coming to his homecoming dinner. And now experts say its time to take a political timeout. How do you do it and why it could help your marriage and friendships and sanity. Tonight on action news at 11 00. Tonight for the first time in three months the power ball jackpot climbed over 400 million. Its worth an estimated 403 million big ones. People in wilmington delaware are out buying what they hope is the wing ticket but the odds of winning are one in 292 million. You can see the winning numbers here on 6 abc at 11 00. Well, this man is wanted for a crime of opportunity, involving a Lottery Machine on monday. Surveillance video shows he first bought tickets from the wawa on the 1300 block of east airy avenue and noticed that the keys dangling from the machine were there and swiped them and the suspect even paid for the other items but left with the keys in hand. You were caught on camera. Its time now for a check of the accuweather forecast. Lets check in with adam again with the accuweather forecast. The sun beginning to shine warming the temperatures up and records near the end of the week and slam back down over part of the weekend but we look live at sky 6 hd from Philadelphia International airport that sunshine is going back to work here in our own solar system and from our solar system to another, an amazing discovery by nasa and in conjunction with chili and their telescopes, they have discovered seven earth size planets. 235 trillion miles away, called traffic one system resolve around one star like our sun and three of those seven planets are in a zone with fresh water so who knows, there could be another sharrie or brian or me out there or you. What is pretty scary. Cool and amazing discovery by nasa and announced today. Looking at the temperatures back at home, warmer to the north and west. 61 allentown and 63 in lancaster and 58 in philadelphia and 59 in millville and cooler at the shore southsoutheast at times bringing in the cooler air off the ocean. As we take a look at satellite and radar, you can see cloud cover today as expected and the sunshine breaking out this afternoon and showers away to the north and south. And tonight partly cloudy and areas of fog will develop and patchy in nature by tomorrow morning. 42 in reading and 48 in philadelphia and 48 in and we start on the cloudy side with fog in the morning but it breaks into afternoon sunshine pushing the temperatures up and moving the front well off to the north, we are taking a look at the forecast high and then your record highs, well be off of it by a few degrees many most locations in philadelphia. Ill be off by 5 degrees and the old record in 1874 warmer than what we are forecasting for tomorrow. The closest will be wilmington within a degree and a record tied or broken and unseasonably warm and the four day at 4 00 we go up even more on friday with records to be broken at 75 degrees with sun and clouds and another balmy saturday, 74 degrees and dry most of the day. And very late in the afternoon and evening we have a line of downpours and even a gusty thunderstorm that is going to usher in quite the change on sunday a chilly wind but sunshine a high of just 46 degrees, windchills will be much colder than that. But well turn the temperatures around as we turn towards march. Keeping our heads spinning. Adam thank you. Up next on action news today a local School District is giving parents a new way to keep tabs on their kids hoping to alleviate fears and stress. And two words, wawa and hoagie. Coming up in big talkers, well show you the viral video of one local rappers love affair with both. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. So we wired the wagners house with 150 meg internet. Which means that in the time it takes mr. Wagner to pour a 20oz. Cup of coffee, tommy can download 40 songs, and jan can upload 180 photos. 12 seconds. Thats the power of fiber optics. Get 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month for the first year. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Cable cant offer internet speeds this fast at a price this good. That has more ski mountains to choose from than any other in the country. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all, only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com a number of Philadelphia Police officers were recognized today for their Outstanding Service to the city of brotherly love. The 17th District Council is hosting their blue ribbon awards ceremony in south philadelphia. And they were nominated by their supervisors to be officer of the month and Jordan Harris were among the dignitaries at the ceremony. Today chickies and petes delivered dinners to the Army National guard in woodbury, the crab fries express came in honor of their service. Crab fries for heroes fundraising event kicked off and the money is used for survivors of Fallen Heroes and veterans connect with the youth. We are connecting veterans and youth together. To help redefine Americas National character. This morning between 11 00 and noon 100 of the proceeds of crab fries and select pitchers of beers were donated to the foundation. Really want a crab fry. A new app is aimed at giving parents a new and the first School System in delaware to use the technology and the response from parents is overwhelming, the app pinpoints where the bus is and when it will arrive at the stop. It tells you whether its on time or late and where it is. Often times if you have a substitute bus it will show you the number of the bus so you know what to look for. All red clay buses are outfitted with technology that works with the app and it uses the data to keep track of the buses to rely on drivers talking over the old fashion radio. Still ahead, police in delaware say that a would be Good Samaritan out helping a search party ended up accidentally killing the man he was looking for and one of the lifestyle trends of 2017, plant based diets. How they are putting philadelphia on the map for their passion for vegan cus even. Fios in the house dave this fios party is da bomb fo shizzle its tv totally ahead of its time. Yo, let me check that. Oh snap. That x1 voice remote is crunk and it lets me search with the sound of my voice. What should i watch . Things have come a long way since you got fios. [nervously laughs] whats fios . Fios has fallen behind. Dont fall with it. Xfinity x1 will change the way you experience tv. Turning his love of wawa into a viral video across social media. And she is known as a micro preemie born four months early and after 140 days the smallest patient to survive at a chicago hospital is going home. First at 4 30 a man that grabbed a womans arm and tried to pull her into a car. Only her screams scared her off. Vernon odom is live fow with more. Reporter well, what a horrific situation for the victim involved in this case. Tonight this neighborhood is on high alert and they are hoping for a quick arrest. I would say scary. We dont have it, its everywhere but we never anything like that here. People liveing along maple road are on high alert after an attempted abduction. Security i have been i have a dog. I have a big dog. Police say it happened monday night a woman called 911 claiming a man tried to pull her into his car. She was out smoking a cigarette when things turned frightening. She with an approached b

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