Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20160303 : vimarsana.c

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 5 20160303

West. A lot of this moving through sections of maryland. Not making it to the ground because the atmosphere is still relatively dry. However, moving back toward roanoke virginia, charleston West Virginia looking at that snow adding up and that system continues to head in our direction. So take a look at the purple highlighted counties. All of south jersey all of delaware, moving towards sections of chester county, Delaware County, philadelphia county, southern montgomery as well as southern sections of bucks county. You are under that Winter Weather advisory from 10 00 oclock tonight until 1 00 oclock tomorrow. So were tracking this system. Its going to mainly move to the south and most of the moisture will be off to the south as we well. So tracking your commute, this evening looking pretty good. Tomorrow morning, though, a high impact on those roads. Take a live look right now at the Philadelphia International airport. Looking pretty good. Its chilly, temperatures are in the upper 30s but well track this for you hour by hour and you can see by 11 00 oclock. Were watching that snowfall move in. Overnight tonight it starts to fill in across the area and we continue to see pockets of light snow through the first part of the day tomorrow. Were talking a couple of inches. Well detail county by county the amounts and where you could over achieve coming up. Back to you. All right, scott. Thanks. The best way to get prepared before you leave home tomorrow watch fox 29 morning news starting at 4 00 a. M. Followed by good day at 6 00. Sue sorry i dont and bob kelly will have you covered with the latest Weather Information and up to the minute Road Conditions. Stay ahead of the Winter Weather by downloading our fox 29 news app. Get live radar and alerts sent right to your phone. Search for it in the apple and google play stores. The philadelphia mayor has his way the price of sugary drinks could soon be much higher. Our bruce gordon joins us now. Bruce, mayor kenney wants to hike and actually impose taxes on these things because big campaign promises. Thats about right. Yeah. Actually if the mayor gets his way, were going to see some big tax increases basically on these kind of standard sized drinks of non diet sodas and sweetened teas and juices and sports drinks could be about 50 cents a bottle with the money raised supporting some very popular but very expensive promises. Mayor kenney wants to spend a quarter billion dollars over the next five years to expand pre kinder garr tepp programs in philadelphia. 56 million to rebuild the citys parks and recreation centers. And another thirty nine million to create Community Schools that add health and social Service Programs to the basics of education. We can give our citizens all of those things with just one tax. And i know that one tax can make some very wealthy and very powerful people very very upset. The tax a 3cent per ounce levee on non diet sodas, sports drinks and sweetened teas and juices. It would be paid by the distributor of those drinks and no surprise the big distributors and the men and women who make those deliveries are upset. They say their beverages are already hit with the sales tax and this new levee could till jobs. Its punitive to one industry. Its a slippery slope here. Where does this stop . Are you going to tax baked goods next . Any other sweets, candy, where does it end . And were becoming a nanny state. Reporter socalled soda tax would be passed on from distributors to stores and restaurants to you guessed it consumers. They are of a couple of minds. Anything to boost our childrens education to protect our children on the streets im all for it. It is going to some schools and if it is doing some good thing for the children that is good. That is good for the society. I think its horrible idea. The government should not be regulating what we eat, drink. Reporter kenney notes phillys liquor by the drink tax did not kill bars and restaurants and does he not believe Small Businesses will be hurt by philadelphians leaving the city for their soda fix. Small grocers, Convenience Stores all right stocking and selling non sugary beverage. And theyre doing that because customers preference already changing even without attacks. Reporter interesting mayor kenney twice helped kill a soda tax when he was a councilman under mayor michael nutter. Now he says hes come around. There is some Council Support this time around but if this tax falls flat, much of the new mayors agenda could easily disappear. We will see. Iain. Bruce, thanks. Mayor kenney also wants 550,000 annually for five years to help pay for 800 police body cameras. Hes asking for 250 million bonds to cover Energy Efficiency campaign. The mayor wants to trim the wage tax to 3. 3 3 for nonresidents and 3. 7 3 for residents. That will bring the tax to its lowest rate since 1975. The former driver and chief of security for Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane could have prison in his future. Earlier today, Patrick Rocco sentenced to three to six months behind bars for illegally accessing emails to keep tabs on the grand jury investigation in the Kathleen Kane. That investigation led to perjury and other charges against the ag. Rocco right now is free pending an appeal. You decide 2016. A man has it been an interesting day in the race for the white house. Mitt romney urging republicans to stop donald trump as zen to the president ial nomination. Romney calling trauma app liar arc con man even questioning trumps Mental Health during a blistering address in salt lake city. He said those who think trump is a brilliant businessman are wrong. He inherited his business. He didnt create it. And whatever happened to Trump Airlines . How about Trump University . And then theres trump magazine and trump vodka and trump steaks and trump mortgage. A business genius he is not. I backed mitt romney. I backed him. You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I can have said mitt, drop to your knees he would have dropped to his knees. He was begging. Two thou eight president ial candidate john mccain warning of the consequence ifs trump becomes the partys nominee. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who just last weekend toured trump is jumping into defend the billionaire businessman. Karen hepp joins us now with those details. Karen. Reporter you can believe on this one hell be speaking about this one. Has lot to say talking to reporters up at the state house in trenton today. Responding to all of the criticism that he has been receiving in recent days and weeks. After giving some remarks about new jerseys Unemployment Rate which by the way is, he says alltime low since he took office fourpoint 8 the governor welcomed questions from the reporters and not surprisingly whole lot of the questions were about trump and what romney said about him today. The governor says that he and the romneys have been friends for years and that the end of the day they just have a difference of opinion and who should be the neck president. Thats the way it goes in a primary. Republicans differ with each other. But i have Great Respect for governor romney and im sure that theres others in the race who wish he would make an endorsement and get out there and try to help someone but hes chosen not to do that. Reporter that was interesting a lot of people were commenting on that. Seven new jersey papers we talk about this yesterday calling on the governor to resign. Six of them are the give net owned paper. They issued a editor recall claiming christie is negligenting the state of new jersey and putting himself first. He was asked flat out today do you plan on resigning . No, of course not and i am not shocked that the star ledger editorial page or the begin net editorial page none of which have ever supported me, my policies or my existence would call on me now to resign. Theyre trying to find some way to be relevant. As their circulations decline, as their reader ship declines, theyre trying to be relevant and the only way to do that is to set themselves on fire. Reporter in the past the star ledger has actually endorsed christie. Christie says he left the president ial race 22 days ago and has been in new jersey for 19 of them. Aft he finish his term as governor in 218 he plans on ending the private sector. For now guys hes putting to rest those rumors about maybe a vp nomination. Lucy. All right. Thank you very much, dawn. What did i just call you dawn. Im sorry karen. Youre the other blond. So true. Im so sorry. All of this bound to come up tonight during the gop president ial debate on Fox News Channel starting tonight. Of course, at 9 00 p. M. Happening right now, police are looking for a trio of burglars that smashed their way into a highend Clothing Store in rittenhouse square. It happened at vinces on the 1700 block of walnut street. Fox 29s dawn timmeney is outside the store with more on the investigation tonight. Dawn . Reporter well, iain, you can see where the burglars broke in. This is still boarded up. Apparently someone saw it happen, called police, but by the time cops got here the three were gone. The burglar here at this vince Clothing Store at 17th and walnut went down in a matter of minutes at about 5 00 oclock saturday morning. You can see in the Surveillance Video police just released today two men and a woman smashing the side window and quickly grabbing clothes from the racks loading them into a light colored sedan. They came prepared. Its not like someone just walking down the street and deciding hey ill smash this window. Reporter Police Police lieutenant stanford said the trio most likely case the the place before striking. They usually know and pinpoint what theyre going to get. They go in, grab it and get right back out. Reporter the burglary at vince has employees at neighboring stores feeling uneasy. Ashley dill works at the stewart wise man a few doors down. Thats just craziness. Like how did that happen . How did they get away with that so quickly . Reporter the smash and grab at vince is the third highend retailer in the area to be targeted in the last 2. 5 weeks. On february 16th, 9 men wearing ski masks stole several thousand dollars in jeans from the Bloomingdales Outlet at liberty place. Two days later, the century 21 Department Store on Market Street was hit. Burglars breaking two storefront windows stealing two grand worth of merchandise. Investigators dont think their related. They say these thieves are just trying to make a quick buck. They were able to get away with approximately 12,000 in merchandise. Reporter 12,000 worth of highend mens and womens clothing. I spoke to the manager. She didnt want to go on camera. It was actually her first day on the job. She cant believe how bold these burglars were. In you recognize the guys in the video, Philadelphia Police want to hear from you. Lucy. Thank you very much, dawn. On capitol hill today, and at the center of a big congress shaat hearing, mans best friend. What these guys are doing to keep you save that you might not even know about. And i never thought wrestling i can get this. High School Wrestling star says he may never hit the mat again. Not aft this. The infection he thinks he caught doing his favorite sport and what his family is trying to do to protect other young residents of a local Community Say when backhoes dig through new homes their neighborhood smells like a gas staying. My wife has been having migraines. Other neighbors have been sick. And its like standing in front of an open can of kerosene. Neighbors are worried and others arent talking. Fox 29 investigates. And cops not welcome. The jarring message that appeared on the door avenue skating ring much the ring did not post the sticker. Who investigators think did. A horrific crash left five people dead. It happened yesterday afternoon on route 222 in lehigh county. Investigators say a headed north crossed the median and hit a tractor trailer head on. The two vehicles burst into flames. All five people who have died were in the car. They were all coworkers on their way home from work. The driver of the truck has minor injuries. The coroner has yet identified any of the victims. Firefighters in cumberland county, new jersey fighting this house fire earlier today. Crews responding to this home along lee avenue in millville around noon. Firefighters got things under control pretty quickly. Theres still no word on what starred that fire or if anyone was injured. The family of a man in wheelchair shot and killed by Wilmington Police is now suing the Police Department and the city. The civil rights lawsuit filed today in superior court claims that officers involved september shooting of Jeremy Mcdole violated use of force policyies. Officers end countered him after a 911 call came in about a man who had shot himself and was still armed. A bystanders phone footage showed police repeatedly telling mcdole to drop his weapon and raise his hands. It also shows mcdole reaching toward his waist before shots erupted. Authorities say they recovered a handgun near mcdoles body but the lawsuit claims he was not arm. All right. Eagles took care of some business earlier this week they signed sam bradford the quarterback to new twoyear contract. Well today it was bradfords turn to answer questions on why he wanted to come back. Sean bell is in the newsroom with more. Sean . Iain, its probably a situation where these two sides had nowhere else to go. Eagles didnt have better option, bradford wasnt going to get 22 mill guaranteed anywhere else. So bradford and the eagles stuck with each other for at least two more years. Bradford was never a lock to come back to philly for a second season. With the stats he was pretty okay. They have hundred yards, 19tds but the eagles didnt go anywhere and he wasnt a star. Now, bradford is a twoyear crack, certainly not a contract that says hes your franchise quarterback. Today he talked about what that new deal is. Every year is a new year. I think youre always trying to prove yourself. Whether this deal 212 years, five years, tepp years i think you approach or i approach each year the same. I think if i go out there and continue to play the way i know i can, build on the way that i finished last year, then i think the contract thing will take care of itself. So im not really concerned with the length of the deal. Just because they have sam bradford under contract doesnt mean the quarterback situation is settled. Later in sports, well talk about whether or not the eagles still draft a quarterback. Iain. Sean, thank you. Happening now, u. S. Lawmakers talking about dogs. The Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on thursday focused on the dogs of dhs. Theyre examining ways in which the k nip programs helps Homeland Security tsa and on the agencies do their jobs. Foxs Garrett Tenney has more from washington, d. C. Reporter theyre call the dogs of dhs and today theyre in the spotlight on capitol hill. The Senate Homeland Security Committee holding a hearing dogs included on the departments use of k9 officers. A number of highranking dhs officials testifying on behalf of the their four legged friends. Describing how the dogs protect americans every day. The Government Accountability office dhs Inspector General and other independent testers have proven k9 teams to be one of the most effective means of detec detecting explosives. Big focus of the hearing border and airport security. K nip officers wowing senators with a life demonstration of their skills. Sniffing out mock explosives and drugs just like they do at real airports and border crossings. The program can be accredited with training some of the best k9 teams that work at any of our International Border crossings. Ive always been impressed by the use of many force multipliers to help our Border Security officers maximize their effectiveness. There are now more than 1500k9 teams helping customs and Border Patrol and hundreds of others assign to the tsa. But Homeland Security officials would like to see even more dogs in the field. An idea that seems to be finding support among lawmakers. K9 units can be one of those layers in very effective layer in keeping this nation and keeping our air traffic safe. Reporter tomorrow the tsa is scheduled to cut ribbon oh a new 25,000 square foot facility designed to train hundreds of new k9 teams. In washington, Garrett Tenney, fox news. People in one neighborhood furious over what police say was happening inside one house. The demore rabble conditions Authorities Say a man was forcing his girlfriend to live in for months. Plus it was coming straight at me. If it wasnt for the Steering Wheel i probably would have lost my life. One couple says they are so lucky to be around after a tire from semi truck crashed their windshield. The explanation they got from the truck driver.

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