Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170418 : vimars

Transcripts For WPVI Action News At 600 AM 20170418

Reason thinning out a little bit but and thinning out a little bit. Overhead were looking at clear skies in philadelphia and there go those clouds moving southward. Overall were expecting a lot of sunshine across most of the region. 51 degrees currently. It is cooler this morning and some of our northern suburbs have dipped into the upper 40s so a jacket probably not a bad idea. The winds arent all that strong. In fact theyve turned to calm up in allentown and reading but still running at mini philadelphia. As we roll through the day cooler than yesterday but still pretty nice. Lots of sun. By noon up to 61 and a high of 67 at about 4 oclock this afternoon. Notice how we are back down into the upper 50s as soon as 7 oclock tonight and if your pollen count is still running pretty darn high between now and the the rest of the work week so keep in mind allergy sufferers. Karen were looking at a warmup towards the end of the work week. Ill have that coming up in the accuweather 7day. What you got out there. I got a live look at the schuylkill expressway. So far so good. No big accidents on the schuylkill. This is at girard. Westbound traffic headed towards king of prussia looking like pretty light volume for now. Well see that build momentarily. On the big picture speeds in the 40s and 50s on the schuylkill and i95 but we do have this problem we have been talking about in cobbs creek you want to watch for an accident, a hitandrun involving a motorcyclist on 58th street at walnut street. Weve got crews responding to the scene right now so watch for that one on 58th street in cobbs creek t outside live on the roosevelt boulevard extension thats your southbound traffic as you head towards the schuylkill. Still moving pretty nicely here. In new jersey, though, weve got a big accident involving an overturned tractortrailer and theyve had to do emergency guardrail repair work. Crews are out there right now blocking the right lane. Its on the new jersey turnpike as you head northbound past 206, thats bordentown Burlington County watch inner loop right lane being blocked for now, nydia. All right, karen, thank you. We have breaking news out of we feel philadelphia. Police are looking for the minivan driver who hit a motorcycle and then ran off. The action cam is live at the intersection of 59th street and walnut. You can see the motorcycle still there. Police say two people on that motorcycle were injured. The driver of the motorcycle is said to be in critical condition. Police say the driver left the minivan behind. New this morning, the coroner was called to the scene of a serious crash in culpsville Montgomery County. The happened just past 1 00 this morning at forty foot road and sumneytown pike. Authorities have not released an official word on injuries but again the coroner was called to the scene. The multi state manhunt continues this morning for the suspect in a random killing in cleveland recorded and posted to facebook. Authorities say a ping from the killers cell phone was last tracked in erie, pennsylvania. Action News Reporter Katherine Scott is live at the Satellite Center with the latest on this manhunt. Katherine. Reporter ping in erie does suggest some Steve Stephens left ohio put investigators dont know for sure and they vowed to look into every lead. Reporter a vigil was held last night in cleveland for 74yearold Robert Godwin sr. His family stood on the spot where the father of 10 was shot to death easter sunday. Killed my daddy for no reason. He always loved me. We trying. We trying. Im trying to stop crying. But its hard. He was a good man. Find me somebody im about to. Reporter a chilling video shows 37yearold Steve Stephens getting out of his car and approaching godwin the murder recorded and post to do facebook. Godwin had been out collecting cans with his family before this senseless violence. One of our citizens minding his business going about his day on easter. Reporter investigators pinged his cell phone in erie, pennsylvania. He was last seen trying this vehicle. 911 calls came in yesterday afternoon to Philadelphia Police for reports a possible sighting in Belmont Platt tomorrow. The tips were unfounded. 30 schools in West Philadelphia were placed on lockdown for several hours while police searched fairmount park. We need him to turn himself in. You already took one life. You done took our family. You done turned it upside down. And you need to turn yourself in. Nobody else need to get hurt. Reporter stephens did name a woman in that video and she is cooperating with police. Theres a reward of up to 50,000 for information leading to an arrest. Live in the Satellite Center Katherine Scott, channel6 action news. Nydia. Katherine thank you. Happening today, philadelphias fire commissioner will address a scathing new report detailing what led to a firefighters death two years ago. Lieutenant joyce craig ran into a burning nome west oak we home in West Oak Lane and never made it out report. The federal report says broken equipment bad planning and seven unanswered distress calls all contributed to her death. We will have more in a live report coming up at 5 30. Construction workers made a gruesome discovery in a. M. Boarded up restaurant in northeast philadelphia. They found a badly burned body while renovating the former sushi kingdom in the 400 block of Franklin Mills circle yesterday afternoon. Police swarmed the scene documenting evidence. We dont yet know the age of the victim or how long he had been dead. The restaurant had been shut down since late 2015. Police say the man may have been looking for copper wire or may have been a squatter who accidentally set himself on fire. Prosecutors plan to rest their case today in the trial of a man accused of killing a Pennsylvania State trooper and wounding another. Trooper Alex Douglass arrived at court in milford yesterday to testify against eric frein. Douglass described the deadly ambush at the emergency rooming grove barracks in pike county in 2014. He says he tried to help Corporal Bryan dickson who was mortally wounded when douglass was shot himself. Douglass choked up in court describing his painful road to recovery that has included 18 surgeries. Frein has pleaded not guilty. Septa riders in Montgomery County have a new place to park. The lansdale parking garage opened yesterday adding 305 spaces. It took crews 42 million and nearly two years to my complete the project to complete the project. The supplemental parking lot at the ninth street station a as a result will close on friday. 6 07. Hundreds of layoff notices are going out to engineers at boeing this week p marple aber is live at the nasdaq in times square with power market watch report. Good morning, maribel. Reporter hey, good morning, nydia. Indeed boeing is laying off hundreds of engineers due to slow aircraft sales. The job cuts will hit engineers at facilities in Washington State and other locations. The layoffs will take effect at the end of june and poe wing is dealing with a drop in demand for new planes and says it may have to make additional cuts. Already about 1500 mechanics left the company voluntarily earlier this year. Stocks optimism over upcoming corporate earnings reports helped push stocks higher yesterday. Right now futures are pointing to a lower open. A report on Housing Starts is due out later today. A College Professor in montana is suing walmart after having his occupation listed as a toilet cleaner on his fishing license. The Montana State University Professor went to a walmart to obtain the license. He showed the clerk his work id. The clerk listed clean toilets under his occupation. The lawsuit claims the move was done expose the professor to hatred contempt and ridicule. Thats the latest in business. Back to you guys. Marple value nice day. David joins us now. Pretty nice day. Double scan shows you we are dry unlike yesterday when we were watching showers move in from the west. Sunshine building over the Commodore Barry bridge and there are some clouds still lingering over by the coast but they are shifting closer and closer to the coast and everybodys going to see plenty of sunshine today. 51 degrees in philadelphia. The number keeps dropping over the last couple of hours. Were now down into the 40s in Trenton Allentown reading and lancaster. 51 in millville. 54 in cape may. So a little bit cooler this morning out there on the bus stop but not all that windy and again, the cloud cover you can see just continuing to float farther and farther to the south as dry air comes in, eats weigh at those clouds and that system continues to push away from us. Up in allentown were looking at a nice one. Lots of sun today. Cooler but still pretty pleasant with a high of 68 degrees. Down the shore clouds very early but theyre going break up pretty quickly. Youll wind up mostly sunny at the shore cooler there today as well with a high of 60 degrees and in philadelphia well go for 67. Thats about five or 6 degrees below where we were yesterday afternoon but still seasonable, still very comfortable. Winds not all that strong. And plenty of sunshine today. Overnight tonight clouds will increase. At the same time cooler air will begin to march in out of the southeast and well wind up with a low of 44 degrees so tomorrow morning it will be even cooler on the bus stop. And tomorrow afternoon stays cool. It will be cloudy with a high of 61 degrees. If youre at the shore that flow coming in offer the ocean around this area of High Pressure will cool you down closer to 50 for a high but that wont last. This warm front gets past us and by thursday and friday, were back into the warm sector of this next system and this just seems to be the way this spring has gone. Every now and then we get these warm surges and it does look like well be well into the 70s thursday and friday, one or two of those days we might be up close to the 80degree mark. Your exclusive accuweather 7day, todays high 67 degrees, lots of sun. Not all that windy. Really nice. Tomorrow cloudy and cool, a high of 61, chillier at the coast. Cant rule out a spotty shower tomorrow but it looks mainly dry and then on thursday, we start to warm up again. That warm front kicks some clouds and maybe a shower or thunderstorm into play at some point but a high of 76 and it now looks like friday could be even warmer. Were going to go 79 degrees. A mix of clouds and sun, a spotty shower. For the weekend we start dropping a bit. 65 is the high. It will still be pleasant enough with a mix of clouds and some sunny breaks. Nice weather for the union at Talon Energy Stadium for that 1 oclock faceoff against montreal which is actual a beatable team. Monday cloudy with a few lingering showers. 6 11 now. To the rescue a 12yearold girl explains how she stopped a carjacker from abducting her younger sister. Plus its a day not everybody loves, tax day but find out about the freebies that could make your day just a little better. Karen. We have a vehicle fire on i95 southbound past the betsy ross bridge. I was seeing a lot of smoke. Still seeing crews. In fact one more responding to the scene right now, really backing up traffic. Were have the latest on this and yet another accident in new jersey involving a tractortrailer. All the details coming up. Z1we5z zi0z y1we5y yi0y time is now 6 14 and we are exactly four minutes away from the moment the sun officially rises over on the skies of south jersey, southeastern pennsylvania and northern delaware. Lets go to karen for your tuesday traffic. A number of problems out there, karen. Yeah, this one popped up just a couple minutes ago. An accident involving a vehicle fire. I was seeing a lot of smoke earlier. Not really the case now but were seeing a lot of emergency workers here blocking the two right lanes in a bad spot. A spot that would first be busy anyway. I95 southbound past the betsy ross bridge and you can see how jammed traffic is. Its really slowing past cottman now to the betsy ross bridge with the two right lanes blocked, penndot, fire crews all on the scene but not seeing as much smoke as we testimony about five as we dd about five minutes ago. Vehicle fire blocking two price on i95 southbound. Watch for a slow go there. We have been talking about this hitandrun accident involving a motorcyclist with crews responding to the scene in cobbs creek on 58th street at walnut street. Give a little extra time if youre headed to that intersection because theyre blocking the intersection. Police are on the scene and theyre directing you around it. Atlantic city expressway we have a new accident involving a tractortrailer just drove off the roadway here into the woods eastbound near winslow so watch for that one with crews responding to the scene. They may to block a lane even though the tractortrailer is off the roadway. Pretty clear on the vine street expressway i would say unexpectedly so. Normally we would see a jam at this hour at least westbound on the vine but not really happening just yet. Lets look at the travel times. Still pretty light volume through the region. I95 southbound a 17 minute ride, even with that vehicle if i remember from oh, we watched live right now it just goes from green to yellow. Now a 19 minute ride because of that vehicle fire affecting it. Schuylkill eastbound 18 minutes. Schuylkill westbound 14 minutes. Not bad yet. Even 42 is looking pretty good. We do have an accident limekiln pike in warrington bucks county being reported on the waze app. 51 degrees right now headed up to 67 so cooler than yesterday, nydia. Karen, thank you. New information, the u. S. Supreme court spared the life of an arkansas inmate just minutes before his death warrant was set to expire. Cut ling efforts to resume the Death Penalty after nearly 12 years in the state. The courts decision marks the second time for convicted killer don davis to be granted a reprieve. The state of arkansas next two executions are scheduled for thursday night. The state wants to carry out six executions before the end of the month. Thats when one of the drugs used in the executions will expire. New on action news a 12yearold virginia girl stopped a would be carjacker from kidnapping her and her little sister. Mattie wheeler and her sevenyearold sister molly were on their way top Busch Gardens in williamsburg on saturday when they saw an x matties mom pulled over to help. While her mom wall on was on the phone with 911 mattie says the man who caused the accident climbed in their van and tried to drive off but mattie was ready for a fight. I put the char drive because in the a safety feature on the van i put it in drive and held it there and started punching him and screaming as loud as i could. Mattie fractured her wrist but will be okay. Police arrested the suspect. Wow. Give there girl. Burning coffee. Why police think there could be an arsonist on the loose. Could it all be an act . New Legal Proceedings call into question if conservative radio host alex jones believes in his wild conspiracy laced rants. In todays tech bytes netflix showing just how popular it is. Its on the verge of having 100 million subscribers. Most pay 10 bucks a month but as production costs rise could netflix raise prices. The company not saying. Uber may soon start taking tips at least in new york city. The city is moving to require uber and other Ride Sharing Services to add a tipping option to their apps. Welcome news for the drivers, not so much for the customers. Ythe rule goes through companies are likely to expand the feature to the rest of the country. And you could call this a first world world record. Two men now have the guinness mark for watching nonstop virtual reality. So they binge watched 50 hours of content both were checked by doctors before and after to guard against any harmful effects like actually socializing with people. Like integrating into society. Yes. Those are your tech bytes. Have a great day. You has got this its just an open house. [yelling] yeah, thats not gonna work. 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Come down on the floor with me and get a ball if you have one place it between the feats extend texas the legs engaging that left oblique. Left arm up lift and lower. Keep those legs straight. 15 lifts at that last 15 youre going to drop the arm parallel to the legs. Reach for the foot. Getting it even deeper into that oblique. Dont forget to do it on the other side. Do this three times a week and you will see a difference in that waistline. Shes so inspiring. Im going to do it later. She does make you feel like you want to go give it a try, right. I dont have a ball like that. Ill get you one. [laughter] lets take a look outside right now. This is 422 at trooper. Thats your eastbound traffic on your right heading towards king of prussia. Starting to get slow right now on 422 eastbound at trooper as you head towards king of prussia. Weve got a new accident coming in. This is a big one in Gloucester County new jersey. Its an accident involving an overturned truck and downed wires blocking all lanes. Both directions of 322 near tuckahoe road. Thats a very busy area. You have to stick to the black hors

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