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WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM February 21, 2017

Already as dawn and iain mentioned its one for the record books much this february is on track to be the warmest of all time or the second warmest and consider this. Records have been kept since 1872. So thats a long time. Already going to be in the record books but we also have back to back potential to see records this week. Both thursday and friday. Overnight temperatures will be very mild in the 30s and the 40s. And the warm up begins tomorrow. Well be back with the records and the numbers coming up with your seven day forecast later in the broadcast. Well send it back to you. All right, thank, thanks. Remember your fox 29 Weather Authority is with you 24 7 on the web you can get live forecasts for your neighborhood and looking Live Ultimate Doppler Radar any time you like all there for you on fox29. Com. Happening right now, more problems for septa after a crash on the market frankford line. One septa employee is in Critical Condition tonight after two trains collided at the 69th street terminal in upper darby this morning. Luckily the trains just preparing to go out or it could have been a whole lot worse. The ntsb is now on its way to figure out exactly what went wrong. While septa riders are again left with another headache for the evening rush. Fox 29s dave kinchen joins us live at 69th street terminal in upper darby. Dave . Report roar iain, thats right. Ntsb taking the case tonight we can also tell that you while Train Service is back up and running at 69th street station there will be no ab express Service Tonight were told by septa that you should be ready for some potential delays and overcrowding. In the meantime, questions are being asked tonight. Investigation is under way in upper darby as septa crews try to find out what caused seven cars from two trains to derail during a morning crash at 69th street station. It shut down a chunk of the market frankford line for hours causing headaches for commuters. I work with children. I work at children hospital, differ hospitals. I jump on the train on a regular basis, and i think its going to impact the commuters. The people about to get back and forth to work when i worked in south philly i took this every day and its a major inconvenience. Messed up like this. Reporter septa officials tell us the train crashed into the back of another one that was stopped. The first one then derailed hitting part of a third train along the way. Its not clear if speed was a factor the speed limit at the curve is 10 miles per hour. Several people got hurt. There were four injured. Two operators and two passenge passengers. One operator was transported in Critical Condition and the other three were transported with nonlife threatening injuries. Septa buses covered the ground between 63rd and 69th streets where the market frankford line was temporarily shut down due to the accident. But the scene has commuters thinking about other problems theyve had. Rails lines and then the cracks on the on the frankford el. Something is hay wear somewhere. Reporter Transit Authority pulled several cars that had cracks on the market frankford line earlier this month. However, Officials Say todays crash is not related. Septa has got to do something. Theyve been having a lot of problems with their trains. Reporter septa says its not clear why those two injured passengers were still on the train during the impact. Were told by the Transit Authority that everyone is supposed to get off at the platform before the loop takes place the train can make another route. Thats part of the investigation as well. Back to you. All right, dave, thank you. A workplace accident leaves a man dead in southwest philadelphia. Officials would not confirm what companies are in involved but the fire depth says a 42 year old man was crushed while loading a vehicle into a container along the 2300 block of south 58th street. He died at the hospital. Developing right now out of New Castle County the search continues for whomever police say has been going around kidnapping, robbing and sexually assaulting women. There have been two victims in the past week. The most recent incident happened sunday in it at the arundel apartments in wilmingt wilmington. Police believe its the same man in both cases. Theres now a 20,000 reward for any information leaderring to an arrest and a conviction. In bucks county, two men are charged with two separate child sex assaults in the same park. Solebury Township Police arres arrested sole bar son and nick lace fisher for two separate minutes. Investigators say bar son met 13yearold at pat lies see park and assaulted her earlier this month. Fisher met a teen online and agreed to moat at the same park where the assault happened. Each man is charged with various Sexual Assault charges. Police did not say if the cases are at all linked. New jersey teacher arrested accused of having sex with a teenaged student. Investigators say 32yearold William Jacobs had relationship with the 17yearold from november of last year until this january. State police say once jacobs learned he was under investigation, he allegedly told the teen not to cooperate. Hes now charged with sexual misconduct, endangering the welfare of a child and Sexual Assault. A church the target of one crook who hid inside until everyone was gone before making his move. Police say the guy walked into the saint joan o arc church on willow bend road in marlton, new jersey, last week and then he went into a guest room on the second floor where members of the church live to hide. Police say hours later, he began Walking Around the building stealing cash and gift cards. Investigators think he called a cab to get away so if you know anything about this, please call police. In President Trumps first 100 days in the white house, his administration is rolling out its much anticipated immigration reform. Revealing for the first time what guidelines will be includ included. The department of Homeland Security says it will start by enforcing laws that are already on the books. It will also make moves to prioritize the removal of any illegal immigrant who has been convicted of a crime. Also today President Trump commented for the first time about a growing number of antisemitic incidents happening across the country. Its terrible. I think its horrible. Whether its anti semitism or racism or any anything you want to think about having to do with the divide anti semitism is likewise its just terrible. Hillary clinton also weighed in on the growing antisemitic threats tweeting that they are troubling urging everyone to speak out including the president himself. A war on trash along the blue route. The garbage keeps piling up and the nasty mess has many people mad and frustrated. Some want to know why it always seems to be there. Bruce gordon is live along the blue route tonight and penndot may not have the answer people are looking for. Bruce . Reporter yeah, this is all about priorities were you talk about this stuff out here. Look theres nothing you can do about snowfalling its got to be plowed. Nothing you can do about potholes forming theyve got to be filled, and the road repaved. But when you have to add trash pickup to the equation simply because lets face it some motorists are slobs, thats a problem. Turns out laziness, slob beeness can actually spread like a disease. Even though Traffic Volume on the blue route, 476, from the lima exit down to i95 is actually down by more than 10 over the past five years, the amount of trash lining this once squeak ski clean highway is up. Way up. What do you think when you see all that all over the place it used to be pretty clean highway. Just a hab. People just lazy. It just doesnt look nice, you know, just something that people are just have no regard for cleanliness it seems to me. Ive seen some trucks who hauling trash and it was falling out and so i guess they just really just dont care. Our trip up and down the blue route turned up all manner of mess along the embankments and center median. There was the typical stuff, beverage cups and packagelying materials. Car repair products. Discarded clothing. Even a porno dvd. Got to be kidding . Drivers we talked to wondered where their tax dollars are going. I thought they that clean up people that came and cleaned up the roadways much thats what i thought. You barely see them. I see them on 95 most of the time but i never see them on 476. Reporter penn dollars Officials Say they spend more than and a half Million Dollars year picking up trash along their vast network of highways. But they admit picking trash takes a back seat to road repairs and repaving. The winter months, snow removal is the priority. Along an 11mile stretch of the blue route businesses can pay a company to pick up trash. Exchange for their signage rights. But that program operates only from march through objection. Lazy motorists well theyre not helping. Litter has been on hoy going increasing problem throughout this whole region over the last several years. It gets to the point where we can go out and we clean up sections of the roadway, and win a week to two weeks it look likes we werent even there. Reporter the result a once pristine highway is get trashed so badly some motorists simply accept it as a fact of life. Youre used to it after while. Really you just get used to seeing it. Yeah. Watch the traffic and you just dont even notice it any more. Reporter its gotten that bad. Exactly. Reporter yeah, unfortunately nothing to laugh about. With the month of march and warmer temperatures right around the corner we would hope and expect to see some clean up crews out here soon. But none of that matters unless behaviors change. Folks, heres a reminder. The side of the road is not your trash can. Iain . Good advice, bruce. Well a care package from mother to son or so he thought. What was really inside the box that one mom sent to her child in college. And former second Lady Jill Biden has new job. How shes spending her time outside of washington. Sean . Dawn the sixers are still trying to get rid of Jahlil Okafor before the trade deadline in you knew team is stepping into the conversation. Find out where okafor may land now later in sports. Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. A College Student is thrilled when his mom sends him a care package much that is, until he opened it up. Wait until you hear this one. Connor cox posted a photo on twitter saying he thought his mom sent him a care package like she often does instead she sent him a box of trash. His mother sent him the trash package because he was too lazy to take it out when he was home for holiday break. I guess hell remember to take the garbage out. Lets hope so. Got shamed on social immediate y medical marijuana could treat more illnesses and conditions in new jersey. The state will hold a meeting tomorrow to hear arguments. It would be the first potential expansion of the medical Marijuana Program since it became law in 2010. Critics say the states list of ailments is too limited and that things like chronic pain, lupus and lyme disease should be eligible. Residents who qualify for the program need a doctors recommendation and they have to be affected by an approved condition. Former second Lady Jill Biden got a new job. Named board chair of save the children. Group that works in 120 countries and focuses on health, education and safety of kids. Dr. Biden also still teaching english at Northern Virginia community college. Well three Philadelphia Police officers hailed heroes tonight after saving a oneyearold babys life. Not to tell you it did not look good at all when the officers arrived on the scene on sunday these men in blue immediately got to work when seconds absolutely counted. Yasmin smith says her baby jason suddenly started choking and was losing consciousness about 9 30 in the morning. She called 911. Officers with the 39th Police District were there in minutes. They immediately jumped in to action, giving little jason cpr for ten minutes eventual the child regained consciousness was rushed to saint christophers hospital. If it wasnt for them, i probably would not be sitting right here. Thats how bad he was. He was almost blue. It was bad. It was really really bad. Jason had visit celebrate the his first birthday and a big party on saturday is feeling a whole lot better now. Officers elliot and williams actually stopped by saint christophers this morning for toys for the little guy who gave everyone a big scare but happy ending here. Absolutely. 58 people are among the newest american citizens. Fresco user Colleen Christian center us this video five dozen new citizens took the oath of allegiance at Washington Crossing historic park in buck county. They are originally from 35 different countries. Congratulations to them. A very special gift for philadelphias hardworking k9 officers. The dogs and their handlers received dog beds courtesy of the local company big barker. The donation will make sure all of the Police Departments k come nine officers have somewhere very comfy to sleep police k9 are among the most active working dogs around. They have a greater risk of joint problems and other diseases that can often be prevented with the right beddi bedding. That dog looks pretty darn comfy there. Back to your fox 29 Weather Authority. Live look at allentown as we prepare for some very mild temperatures by the end of the week. Were talking 70s in february. I could be golfing in shorts, kathy. You can be playing tennis outside. I could be. Yeah, you can be golfing outsi outside. Thats right. In shorts. Lets do it. I looked at the boots in the garage the other day and i thought, hmm, shall i put them away . Then i thought, i never trust march. But as far as february is concerned, we are in the clear as far as any cold temperatures are concerned. Take look at old city philadelphia. Last night, there were crowds it was just a beautiful night to be outdoors. Tonight will be the same. The temperature is 48. The high today 51. The normal low is 29. We are going to be so far above that. Its not even funny. Temperatures this afternoon made it into the lower 50s. 4 00 oclock, 50 degrees. By 5 00 oclock hour, down to 51. So 49 rather so very comfortable indeed. Winds out of the south right now at 10 miles an hour. Thats a mild wind for us. That will continue into the overnight. Right now, 48 in philadelphia. 44 in wrightstown. Atlantic city reporting in at 4. So after today, we are going to watch an extreme warmup. For your wednesday, temperatures in the 60s. By thursday and friday chasing record warmth normal high temperatures are in the mid 40s so we will go about 25 to 30 degrees above normal for the end of the week. This huge ridge builds in the east and you can see the cold air really bolted up to the north. And thats the way its going to stay to the west a break down in that ridge and you can see that troughing thats where youll see the snow and see the rain to the west. But once again, as for most of this month, hayes been dry and it has been warm. Overnight tonight temperatures will fall into the 40s. Well above that normal of the upper 20s. Mostly cloudy with a southwest wind. During the day tomorrow, warming up into the 60s. Its going to be beautiful morning clouds a few sprinkles. But by the afternoon the sun break out and temperatures warm very quickly. On your seven day forecast from the Weather Authority, thursday near record warmth the temperature 73. Well go 75 for friday. That will be a record breaker. Saturday still in the 70s. Sunday colder, back to reality. 48. 50 for monday and a shower or two on tuesday. With a temperature of 52. Now quickly on friday i want to show you these records. The record is 74 degrees so we should be breaking that. Thursdays record 75. That is going to be very close. That record set back in 1874. There you have it. A huge warmup and then by tuesday, we end the month. Well zen it back to you. Three, tens coming up. I love that. I do, too. Love it, love it. We got a little racing. Dale earnhardt, jr. S back in the saddle. Severing ready and the daytona 500 is coming up this sunday and we talked to a nascar historian who really refuses to miss a race. You got to see this plus Jahlil Okafor situation takes another turn. See what Eastern Conference Team is interested now. Thats coming up next in sports. avo this holiday. Get the president ial treatment. With a special tradein offer. February sixteenth through the twentyeighth. And let enterprise car sales. Flip your thinking about buying your next vehicle. 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. 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