Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170320 : vimars

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170320

To melt across the region. Well maintain sunny skies with clouds to the west popping. Below freezing in allentown and reading and close to that wilmington and lancaster. Everybody on the chilly side this morning. Even though winds are light we have a windchill that is making it feel like the 20s just about everywhere. As we roll through the day, though, its going to be are a snow melter today. Noon, 45 degrees under the sun. This afternoon well get up to 51 at 3 30 p. M. Or 4 00 p. M. And stay on 50 with the sunshine prevalent in the afternoon and into the early evening. This is the arrival of spring as tamala mentioned in 28 minutes 6 29 spring arrives. This is the time of year we expect the increased Daylight Hours and the temperatures start to rise. Karen what you got on the roads . Reporter we have problems that start this morning, first morning commute when you head out to the mid county toll plaza you cannot use the ez pass lanes they are blocked in both directions because of construction. Busy area with the mid cot tolls, express ez pass lanes blocked in both directions. It lasts for three weeks. Live at i95 southbound at the girard point bridge we had a disabled vehicle you can see penndot arrived on the scene blocking the right lane on i95 southbound at girard point bridge right lane blocked with the disabled vehicle. We have an accident in lower providence township popped up at ridge pike and cross keys road watch for that in montgomery county. 42 northbound traffic coming up from deptford or turnersville roads are clear and dry, no problems on 42. We have a problem in Burlington County willingboro, 130 blocking all lanes 130 southbound at cooper street and two lanes northbound. Stick to mlk drive instead of 130. We want to get you to breaking news out of the northeast philadelphia. Theres brand new information on the attack of a Police Officer a teenager is in custody. Jeanette reyes is live on the scene in northeast philadelphia shes been gathering all the details and she has them for you now. Good morning, jeanette. Reporter go to work, tam, minutes ago we got an update from police a teen suspect is in custody after allegedly slamming a Police Officer to the grounds knocking unconscious. Take a like live look where the attack happened. Three 200 yards away from the wawa academy road where police got a call about a man with a gun. An officer was the first to respond. He then saw the suspect who fit the description. When he went to frisk him a struggle ensued, a violent one. Thats when the suspect picked up the officer and slammed him on the grounds injuring his head and knocking him unconscious. The teen fled on foot leading to a manhunt. The suspect was found about 20 minutes later by District Police hiding in the rear of a business in the 12,000 block of academy road. Reporter now, Police Believe the teen may be involved in another robbery, a robbery that happened at a 7eleven not few far away from here, a block away from here, Surveillance Video may confirm or deny that. The officer is at the hospital recovering from injuries to the head, he is in stable condition. Jeanette reyes channel 6 action news. Thank you for that. More breakerring breaks breaks breaking news, a car crashed into a pole after 2 00 a. M. At belmont avenue a person was killed no word on what caused crash. An investigation is underway into a massive fight at a septa subway station in center city. The allout brawl was caught on camera. It happened at race and vine station. Authorities are still not clear yet on what caused all this. New this morning, two men are under arrest in delaware accused of burglarizing a dozen schools. They are arrested over the weekend saying they had just robbed the speedway gas station in new castle. During the burglary spree over the last month they would enter the stores and take cartons of cigarettes. Scary moments for a military cargo plane landing at Atlantic City international airport. There was smoke in the cockpit. Nobody was injured. Authorities are trying to determine where the smoke came from. The form he were president of penn state will be back in court Graham Spannier is accused of concealing facts relating to the sandusky case rather than acting on them to avoid bad publicity. Last week tim curly and gather shultz pleaded guilty to child endangerment. We are about to Welcome Spring in 20 minutes, a seasonal tradition continues today. Thats right, matt, all ritas italian ice Stores Nationwide will kick off the first day of spring by giving away a free italian ice. Guests who visit will get a free ice in a limited first day of spring cup. They will welcome peach italian ice which will be available in select stores on the first day of spring. Ritas expects to give away one mill cups of italian ice. The promotion runs from noon to 9 00 p. M. Today. Elsewhere it was a mixed session for stocks as the dow and s p 500 lost ground, the nasdaq crept higher of we have a full line of economic reports out this week including new home sales and week lie jobless claims. Weekly jobless claims. Thats the latest from business news. My kids already told me they will be in line at ritas today. Will they need sweaters or jackets. Reporter jackets, if it is right after school. Not a bad morning in terms of precipitation, we have none. As we look outside, we have brightening skies, the moon visible with the sun popping up over the horizon. Thats a cool picture, the half moon out there this morning. As we look at tempts its chilly enough for winter coats this morning. 5 in philadelphia. 33 in wilmington, and in trenton, below freezing in allentown and reading at this hour, 38 thats the hot spot in cape may. Theres just a little bit of a breeze giving you windchills around the freezing mark, too in spots where the testers is not already there. You can see well have pleasant of sunshine and get the shades ready on the highways and by ways, the clouds to the west might filter in later in the day, otherwise were looking at a pretty bright one. In the Lehigh Valley, sun, not too bad. 49 is the high on the they remember down the shore. Sun and clouds, in philadelphia, Cool Conditions a couple of degrees below average. Winds out of the northwest 6 to 12 Miles Per Hour, thats hardly enough to get your shoulders hunching. In the overnight hours, midnight you might see stars out a bit. But clouds will overtake us. There could spotty showers tomorrow morning you might be running the windshield wipers because of drizzle drops and leftover rain drops on the windshield. Tomorrow, were looking at clouds and spotty nuisance showers, nothing big tomorrow. In fact later in the afternoon theres a chance we break the clouds up and get sunshine back in. Were looking at a milder afternoon. Overnight tonight tomorrow morning, 40 degrees, not as cold as this morning, winds light overnight. In the afternoon well bounce up to 59 degrees for the high, clouds and sunshine tomorrow, maybe that early sprinkle, but in the afternoon looking good with the high close to 60. The exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast, todays high, is 51 degrees. Not too far below average as we usher in spring at 6 29. Coming up in a few minutes. Clouds to sun tomorrow, milder, 59 degrees the high, a front gets through and were cooler on wednesday and thursday with highs in the low to mid 40s. Back up to 55 on friday with a warm front passing to the north. That could trigger a shower in the northern and western suburbs on friday, the rest of us are looking at clouds an sun. Ahead of an approaching cold front we zoom, 67 is the high, sun and clouds. Sunday, 55 degrees with the cold front coming in well see clouds and perhaps periods of rain. 67 up next, firefighters make progress on a wildfire that forced hundreds from their home. Man takes his best swing saving a driver trapped in a smoky suv. Reporter looking live on the roads, woodhaven at millbrook road. Traffic is moving nicely. I got off the phone with the police in Burlington County, an accident there, ill help you get around that coming up. Welcome back one of the prettiest pictures in our region, of course, the Commodore Barry bridge, we have dawn on the horizon. 6 13, 35 degrees, you got to take a jacket, still. Reporter karen what you got on roads . Reporter ive got a couple of issues, 42 at College Drive we have an accident causing slowing route 42 northbound near College Drive watch for that accident in new jersey that just came in. Police just updated this accident in Burlington County new jersey willingboro, a singlevehicle accident he crashed into the traffic light and brought it down. The traffic light is on the ground. It happened at 3 30 a. M. For a while 130 southbound was completely blocked. Now they have two lanes blocked in each direction. If you know 130 in that area its a busy area. It will continue to be a problem looks like it will because its a downed traffic light. Stick to mlk drive as the alternate for that one. The boulevard is getting heavier look at the southbound traffic a few more people out and about as you head toward the schuylkill expressway right now. This is are a look right now at the schuylkill expressway near girard. Were seeing the schuylkill expressway looking good with no big delays currently. We found yankie frankie on the waze app Springfield Montgomery county right near the middle school. Watch for that if youre heading out. Weather wise were clear and dry, 24 its cold in martins creek, first day of spring, its a transition period. 30 in center city. 30 in browns mills. 31 smyrna, delaware. Sunshine, dry, high of 51. Watch as a driver comes to the rescue after a serious crash in south florida. You can see the mantua man with a baseball bat use it to get to the driver. Hundreds of people hoping to return home later today as firefighters gain control of a wildfire burning in colorado. More than 400 homes evacuated near bolder yesterday morning. Firefighters have worked through the night to contain the socalled sunshine wildfire. 62 acres and 50 contained. There are new reports of property loss or injuries. Authorities do not know how the fire started. Horrifying discovery for a family in georgia a look at a home surveillance camera shows a man spraying something on the slide in the yard. It turns out the substance is poisonness. You can see in the n. This happened early thursday morning, they said it was weed killer because of the dead spots on the lawn because of where the suspect walked. Its something to burn or kill the grass it would have to be some sort of poisonous substance. They gave the video to police, no other neighbors reported anything like this, but they, too, are going to install security farms. Farms security cameras. Girl scouts cooksies are nt all Girl Scout Cookies are not all created equally. Reporter dressing the kids warmly. Reporter tech bytes, gallonly s8 reports say it may come in flat gray and silver between 900 and 950. Netflix binge watchers, the day of seeing introa over and over intro over and over again, theres a button that may take that away. Nintendo plans to double production the console retails for 300 has been out of stock or marked up. Some are selling on ebay for 4,000. No thank you. Those are tech bytes. Let life in with new herbal essences bursting with argan oil of morocco and notes of jasmine to put more life in your head. And now with the power of bio renew to put more life in your hair. Try new herbal essences and let life in only abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. It penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. Dont tough it out, knock it out, fast. Abreva. My doctor says i havey, whats skittles pox. Are they contagious . I dont think so. Contract the rainbow taste the rainbow nurse ali gorman this is your Action News Health tip. The Environmental Working Group released their dirt dozen list, the produce with the most pesticides and other chemicals. Topping the list my favorite, strawberries and spinach apples and pears. That doesnt mean dont eat it. The benefits outweighs the risk of pest tights. If youre pesticides. If youre concerned by organic and rinse all produce before eating it. Reporter strawberries are always at the top of the list. I dont think about spinach. We have an accident coming in on the vine street expressway, eastbound the onramp to 23rd street. You see the truck involved with the accident, the right lane is blocked, vine street expressway, new accident eastbound onramp to 23rd street. You want to watch for an accident. Mass transit, a couple of delays, we have a 33 minute delay with the train on the doylestown line and 15minute delay with the train on the west trenton. On the big board were starting out chilly with most of us in the 30s, 35 degrees at 7 00 a. M. 45 degrees by noon, 3 00 p. M. , 50. Going for a high of 51 degrees at 3 30 p. M. Or 4 00 p. M. Upper 40s at 7 00 p. M. Thats a few degrees below average. At the airport, all green aircraft means no major delays and clear skies in our major travel destinations and no sign of precipitation. Theres a secret you may not know about Girl Scout Cookies, they do not all taste the same, theres a good reason for it, they are made by two different the next time youre conservativing cookies, you might want craving a cookie you might want to shop around and make sure its one you like from that bakery. Sixers start a orlando road trip. Flyers are had a rapid rally against the hurricanes last night. 42 had not 9 42. 9 seconds left and Brayden Shenn scored, flyers win 43. The brackets are busted who do you think is going to win . Hope kentucky is the only one that is left. A search continues for a teen who might have been kidnapped by her teacher. Drivers at the busy mid county toll lanes are going to be delayed, Katherine Scott knows why. Reporter thats right, matt, youll see busy roads at the mid county tolls for the next three weeks, well tell you about it at 3 30 a. M. The search is intensifying for a missing teenager from tennessee and her former teacher who is accused of kidnapping her. Tad crsm comens is accused of kidnapping her. Authorities consider her to be in immanent danger. A vietnam veteran who was told he would never walk again is doing it with a donated device. The spinal Cord Injury Center received 150,000dollar exo skeleton. Wraps around the leg and retrains the muscles in the brain. A car struck him back in 1984. He never dreamed he would walk again. You remember iron man the movie, yeah, it feels like that. Two organizations made the therapy possible, soldiers strong. Philadelphia Police Arrest a young suspect who injured one of their own. Female hockey policer are fighting for woman soccer who are fighting for better wages. This battle could lead to are a boycott. Breaking now on action news, a philadelphia Police Officer is assaulted while investigating a reports of a robbery we have live reports on the scene. Breaking overnight, a man is gunned down on a philadelphia street. The search for the suspect is going on right now. Spring arrived one minute ago, accuweather is tracking more sun to melt away the snow and the snert. It is getting bad at this point. Im not a fan. Good morning, 6 30, march 20th. Its technically spring, no, dont go to work in shorts. David murphy will have more on why. Karen rogers has traffic. Reporter were chilly to start out, theres barely a cloud in sight. More clouds to the west might try to make a run at us today, but generally speaking were expecting mostly sunny skies, 35 degrees in philadelphia. Below freezing in allentown and reading and not much better in wilmington, lancaster and trenton. Even though the winds are not that strong, we have windchills in the 20 across the region. So winter coats to start out, this afternoon you can start to shed the layers. 35 degrees by 7 00. Noon, 45. And then well spend a couple of hours on or about 50 with a high of 51 around 3 30 p. M. Or 4 00 p. M. 7 00 p. M. , 48. You guys mentioned it spring has just sprung at 6 29 a few minutes ago. The season officially changed. Of course, this is the time of year we see the increase of daylight and the temperatures start to rise up. Karen when i step inside well see if we can get those numbers a couple of days in the sevenday forecast. Reporter i guess its too early to drive to ritas for our water ice. We have an accident with a truck that left the scene, traffic is moving better currently on the vine street expressway eastbound. We have an accident Mar Mar Mar Mar borough township gravel pike. Looking at the big picture, schuylkill expressway is in good shape. Heres a live look at i95 at girard, southbound traffic is starting to get busy, already a 20 minute ride from woodhaven to the vine starting to slow down. Not a horrible jam just yet. The boulevard is starting to get slow, thats southbound traffic backing up a bit heading toward the schuylkill expressway. Roads are clear and dry no problems on the majors. A philadelphia Police Officer is responding to a crime and comes under attack. Police make a quick arrest. Jeanette reyes has the details live in northeast philadelphia, jeanette . Reporter plat, there was a violent attack matt, this was a violent attack, a teen suspect is in custody after slamming a Police Officer to the ground knocking him unconscious. Take a look behind me we have a Police Presence where the this happened the attack occurred. This is 200 yards away from the wawa 12,400 block of academy road police were responding to a call about a man with a gun. An officer was the first to respond. He saw the suspect who fit the description and went to frisk him thats when the struggle ensued and the suspect picked up the officer and slammed him to the ground and injured his head and left him unconscious. The teen ran off leading police on a manhunt. The officer noticed Something Else about the suspe

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