Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20160407 : vimar

Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20160407

Sue serio, were going to have a rainy nurse. Looks like it. The rain isnt here yet. So were warning you now youll need your umbrella later on, see it in the central part of the state, out through ohio, but eventually all that is going to maurice ward and get here, we do have cloud cover. And the temperatures arent that cold. Not like the last couple of mornings. But we will indeed not only have rain, but as i tweeted, get ready for rain and wind this morning. In fact, we have a wind advisory in effect for southern new jersey, and all of delaware t starts at 7 00. And goes until 6 00. We could see wind gusts as high as 45 miles an hour, in these areas, it is mostly a coastal event, but some of those high winds will spread inland, and will probably see some decent breezes around the philadelphia area, as well. Right now, it is 55 degrees. What a difference from the past couple of frigid mornings. 16mile per hour winds, and really dont need to talk about windchill today. Sunrise is 6 35 this morning. Were looking at 41 degrees in mount pocono, 46 in trenton, 54 Atlantic City and wilmington, 56 in dover, so much different than it was the past two mornings, and thats because the winds direction has changed. So now we have the southerly winds, 14 miles an hour mount pocono, 16 miles an hour wilmington, 18 miles an hour wildwood. And few notable wind gusts including philadelphia with 24mile per hour wind gusts and it will be windier as we said at the shore today. So, it was a chilly wednesday, with a high of 54 degrees. Not as cold as the day before. But not up to average, which is 60. I think well get to 60 degrees today, probably early high of 60. Possibility after thunderstorm popping up later on. As we said, windy specially south and east of the city. So, that will take care of your thursday, can we clear this out in time for the parade . Well let you know coming up in just a few, bob kelly. Get the wind blowing that way to keep it moving. 4 02, on this thursday, thank you, thursday morning, live look here, northbound lanes of 95. Hold on tohold on to your coffe, were shaking from the winds. The crews are still working. This is 95 northbound, between girard and allegheny avenue. As you work your way up into northeast philadelphia. Only two lanes are open. We got light volume so far this morning, so theyre really not bothering anybody. Good news for anybody headed out this morning, the vine street expressway is open. Crews did not work last night. So were opening from end to end. Hardly a soul out here this morning coming into downtown, we go for a ride, 422, eastbound, they are working, between trooper road and the king of prussia interchange, again, they are pecking the cones up any minute, theyre also still working on the pennsylvania turnpike, eastbound, from willow grove into philadelphia, and then again, over near the Delaware Valley interchange. So, again, Early Morning crews still left over from last night. That kelly drive repaving project continues for the next month actually. But just watch for the uneven pavement, if you are coming into or out of the city and try to avoid those raised manhole covers. That will set you back couple of hundred bucks forefront end alignment if you winds up hit that at too fast after speed here on the kelly into and out of the city. No delays at the moment, at the airport, but the rain, and the winds; on the way. Could leave us with delays throughout the day. And mass transit off to a good start, as well. Chris, lauren, back to you. Thanks so. 76ers general manager sam hinge i steps down after one of the worse tenures in nba history. That decision spells out in a 13 page Resignation Letter. Steve keeley on this from center city. Steve, good morning. Reporter well, the sixers put the three sentence statement, that short it, fits on a little tablet t says this evening sam hinge i notified the org says he has elect today step down as basketball operations and general manager. While we are disappointed in sams decision, we would like to sincerely thank him for his contributions over the past three seasons, there cents no question that sams work has put us in a very strong position to take advantage of numerous opportunities for an exciting future. Here is sams thing, i cant put that on a tab lot. I would need 13 laptops, 13 pages, good luck reading through it. By the way, chris, lauren, did you notice this came out, these long, sometimes, odd writings, dom out, and theyre call manifestos. We just had the anniversary, 20 years, since they caught the unabomber, because he wrote that manifesto and the Washington Post published it. Just something that struck me, but here is sam, his record, 47, and 195. And a lot of people dont probably know who he is because they havent been following the sixers because theyve been so bad. But his idea was to just acquire a whole bunch of draft choices, and the problem was they would draft people and then trade people t didnt make sense. His line that howard eskin constantly ripped him on, especially on the radio, trust the process. And howards saturday morning nickname was sam scam hingei. I dont know what howard is going to have to talk about now that he doesnt have him to kick around any more. We are outside howard home, wip, and well get the morning crew shows reaction to this, see if they even care about this, but it has been a great basketball week in philadelphia history. You have villanova winning their second title. You have allen iverson, in peoples minds the greatest sixer of all time getting into the hall of fame. Now the sam hingee footnote which wont be remembered as long with the other two things, third thing coming up the villanova parade. By the way, how cool was it villanova put out that video clip of president obama in the oval office calling jay wright and congratulating him. And theyll get a trip to the white house just like the eight a team did, too. Another thing to look forward to. And villanova has canceled classes for tomorrow. So student and athlete can go to the parade. By the way it was fun seeing the villanova players back in class. One of them in a khaki less class. No way i would be in a calculus class. What about you guys . Never. Didnt want to sign up for that. Steve keeley, thanks so much. Senator Bernie Sanders continues to work philadelphia and in the pennsylvania area where he Hillary Clinton statewide. Will address the media at the hilton at penns landing regarding labor issues before addressing aflcio at the sheridan in center city. Drew massive crowds last evening, talked about making College Tuition free for public colleges and universities along with climate change. But the headline grabber was a political shot heard all around the country targeting his rival, secretary clinton. Qualified if your supported virtually every disastrous trade agreement, which has cost us millions of decent paying jobs. Sanders spoke at a Philadelphia Church earlier in the day in an effort to grow support with black voters, three weeks before the primary , trails in double digits. Hillary clinton was also in our area campaigning yesterday of course, holds substantial lead in the delegate count. Sanders has string of recent victories that keeps this contest relatively close. Clinton made 30 minute speech to the state labor leaders at an aflcio meeting. She quickly turned her attention to sanders. Clinton says they agree on a lot of issues, but says sanders solution also often unworkable, impractical, lacking specifics. It would be like negotiate ago contract, and you walk in, and you say to the employer, we want a really good deal, so do it. Thats the the way ive ever seen it work. Both candidates have turned their attention not next round of primaries, new york primary, april 19th. The pennsylvania one is a week later. The search is on this morning for the man who sucker punched a trolley driver behind the wheel. Surveillance cameras show the attack. Trolley stopped at springfield mall headed to media. Watch as passenger is about to get off, when he leans in, and hit the driver in the head. Video shows the suspect running away toward the mall, the trolley driver says he was stunned, but shook it off and called septa police. Im fine. Un provoke attack, unnecessary, appears to be irate passenger in dis agreement with the trolley operator. Authority say the passenger was upset because he fell asleep and missed his stop. Well, it is supposed to be a place where neighborhood children can play and learn safely. People in West Philadelphia say the Recreation Center is just falling apart. The president says West Mill Creek rec center, the center in desperate need of repairs along with the playgrounds, athletic field. So he took us inside to show us the cracks in the walls, the floors, along with empty room. He said they had to remove computers for the kids because of leaks in the sealing when it rains. Outside things get even worse. Ripped fencing on the field, and a playground official says can barely be used. We had no swings for the bigger kids to play on. No swings. They got the polls and everything and the make up, just put this Sprinkler System in two years ago, the Sprinkler System dont even work. Have had, you know, band aid approach to fixing things, we fix them as best as we can. So parks and rec say that the mayor, mayor kenneys 2017 budget, invest in parks and libraries around the sit coy help centers including West Mill Creek. That budget with controversial soda tax still has to get through city council. Uber pass inning here took the wheel from a driver facing charges after crashing that car after police chase. The wild ride started in philadelphia, police say 20 year old juan carlos hired an uber driver to take him to new york. On the way, the driver asked carlos to take the wheel, so he could nap. Well, police started chasing carlos for speeding and eventually crashed. Authority say both men suffered minor injuries. Temple University Says it is cracking down on under age drinking annex he is i have partying around the north philadelphia campus, starting tonight, new student conduct rules are stepped up with patrols going a full force. Teams of graduate student will be scouring off Campus Housing looking for violators, trash, loud music, and drinking, just some of the complaints from local resident. And they say weekends at temple have become a huge frat party. They are hanging on roofs, theyre out in the middle of the street. Then when they go inside all of the beer cans and beer bottles is outside. It is pretty loud, and it is like filled with whole bunch of people, like it is like everybody from around the neighborhood, like everybody, they go to temple. So University Officials of course hope to turn perceptions around, off campus renters could be fined as much as 1,500 for housing nuisance parties or giving alcohol to minors. Student could also face expulsion. Four 12 00, more tan dozen people are in big trouble in new jersey including a teacher facing child porn important charges. The hightech way investigators say they beat them at their own game. And Government Shutdown avoided. What off initials Atlantic City did to help out with it money problems. There will be a cold front coming through the area, what to expect, rain around an inch when all is said and done pretty much all day event, on and off, not constant deluge, but the heaviest rain looks like it will fall between noon and 3 00 p. M. , not to preclude showers this morning, probably see some before the morning is through. And possible thunderstorms around that time, as well. Heres what we have right now. You can see the heaviest rainout in the western part of the state at the moment, some showers, thunderstorms down as far south as north and South Carolina with this storm. At least were not getting the snow. There is up to the north. Well save that for saturday. Talk about that in a second. But actually, right now, because we look at the future cast. We start with today and here we are in the 4 00 hour. Nothing happening until maybe about 6 00, 7 00 when the scattered showers start to move through. Then around about the time the good day is over, the heavy rain begins. And thats when some of the thunderstorms could pop up, as well, as we said, between noon and 3 00 p. M. When the heaviest rain could fall. Then we see scattered showers continuing, even after the heavy rain is over, throughout the rest of the evening, and then the showers taper off, by about midnight at the latest, so it, does lock like we will have a dry friday. Here we are at 1 00 when the parade begins, looks like well see some sunshine, but i will tell if you will probably be breeze any addition to being on the chilly side. If youre going to go out and watch the villanova parade. Now we move ahead to saturday morning. See what we see here . Yes, chance of snow. Im not kidding. Then rain down to the south of us. This is saturday morning. Were not finished yet. Here comes the wrap around moisture saturday evening, again, with a chance of snow. Not expecting accumulation at this point. It will be wet snow around the philadelphia area. Looks like that could be different story up toward new york, but just be prepared for a wintery weather if you can even believe it for saturday. Now, weve got mild temperatures, 55 in philadelphia, 54 wilmington, 50 lancaster, 56 degrees in dover, delaware, and 41 in mount pocono. Winds are sustained in the teens, in many places, but then we have these wind gust that is are 24 miles an hour in philadelphia, a 31mile per hour wind gust in Atlantic City. As we mentioned earlier there is winds advisory will be in effect starting at 7 00 going to about 6 00 tonight for southern new jersey, and all of delaware, with wind gusts possibly as high as 45 miles an hour. Our average high has risen to 61 degrees, we were, last time we were above average, was monday, really colon tuesday, not so bad, yesterday, with a high of 54 degrees. But still on the chilly side. So we will stay with that roller coaster ride, 60s today, 50s, tomorrow, fours, on saturday, and sunday, just when we start to get a little milder, anticipating the phillies home opener, we have to factor in chance of rain, monday and tuesday. Youre gunning for a time out chair. I know. Talk about that s word. Good morning, everybody, 4 18. Still working out along Spring Garden street here, downtown philly, got one lane with the work crews and the officers blocking us right there in center city. The ben franklin looking good. No problems at all coming into downtown philly so off to good start blues i day for politicians and their event, this morning, bernie sand he is will have an event at 9 00 at the hotel along penns landing, then well have motorcade madness. Through the vine street expressway, and the next event is at 10 00 right here at the sheridan at 17th and arch street. Which is just off of the vine street expressway. So that transfer from that run from penns landing into center city will certainly lever us with delays, right at the end of our morning rush hour. Crews are working on the pennsylvania turnpike, the northeast extension, the southbound side coming in toward quakertown. South jersey you are looking good. No problems on the freeway. Fiftyfive, of course, you still have your construction here in bellmawr, no problems for the shaders coming out of 73, headed down into cherry hill, or mt. Laurel, new jersey, 95 looking good out of the northeast through the work zone, and theyre almost ready to pack it up thereon 422 near the oaks interchange. Chris, lauren, back over to you. Thank you so much. Man shot and killed right in the middle of the street. Police in upper darby say group of men got out after car on atlantic avenue just after 4 00 yesterday afternoon, and start shooting. They got back in the car, sped off, police tell us the man in his 20s, who lives in the neighborhood, was hit. He died at the scene in the street. My hope is there had to have been a lot of people who saw this, hoping people come forward in the neighborhood, tell us what we need to know. Investigators also hoping could show them something at this point there is no arrests. Cash strapped Atlantic City has avoided a Government Shutdown. City Council Approval a mover to pay City Employees monthly instead of every two weeks, starting this friday, when the city will run out of money, for three weeks. According to published report, Officials Say the new plan should allow the city to stretch funds until june, once they receive their quarterly taxes, governor Chris Christie blasted mayor don guardian yesterday, for not supporting a state takeover of that resort town. Surveillance cameras capture a burglary attempt in bridesburg, two men pull up to the Pantry One Food market, on torresdale avenue last week, right in the middle of the night. They pry open the door head straight for atm. Police say they planned to steel it, but something went wrong. The thieves ran off, emptyhanded. Now if you have any information of course call police. Operation safeguard leads to 16 child pornography arrests in new jersey, among the accused a teacher at a vineland elementary school. Investigators say 36 year old thomas guzzi had hundreds every files containing child porn on his computer, also worked as stage manager at the Broadway Theatre in pitman. Police say he hid a camera in a rest room used by performers. Police in Montgomery County on the hunt for the man they say shot Convenience Store work earth. Investigators say the man shown here in Surveillance Video walked into the abington 7eleven, early tuesday morning, pulled a gun on worker, police say when the 67 year old employee tried to knock the gun out of the mans hand shot the worker and ran off. The worker now recovering in the hospital. Roosevelt boulevard not working according to sit lead earth. Now they want your ideas to help fix the problem. Mayor kenney joining from se

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