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WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A December 15, 2016

Location. Location real think morning. Again, just kind of sneak up on you, i caught a smattering of the snow showers, just enough to leave a coating, some cases only on the grass, but it is just cold enough that it could be slippery out there. And as we look at rad air, there are few more flurries moving through. This is the leading edge of the very cold air weve been promising you all week long, and you can see some snow showers in mostly in new jersey there, salem county, Gloucester County there, little bit of Cumberland County and new castle county, delaware, maybe get that light coatingment same can be said for just happened at the shore around the garden state parkway around Atlantic City so that snow shower probably over. Temperatures are in the 20s and the 30s, and the winds are starting to pick up, gusty winds, too, sustained winds at 23 miles an hour in lancaster, 22 miles an hour in wilmington. So the windchills are definitely in the 20s, teens out there this morning, than is nothing like what it will be at this time tomorrow morning. So, there another look at the radar showing a smattering of snowfall, forecast for today and of course help get you through the weekends mess coming up in just a few minute, bob kelly . Sue, location is everything this morning. Woke up, saw the emails about some snow, im what . So the western suburbs, chester county, malvern, no snow, no signs of white stuff until you hit around city line avenue. But here is a live look at 95. And an example we have got the snow again, the grassy areas are covered with snow. But whats going to get just trouble is that folks that begin driving out of the driveway on dry roads, and on your way you encounter that snow line. And then i would rather have 8 inches every snow than just a lilt tiny dusting, because dealing with black ice, temp, 34 degrees, crews out salting the ben franklin, i end counts heard salt crews in philadelphia. So here is the differ identifying line, likes like city avenue is the line. We were dry as a bone coming through villanova, coming down the schuylkill, bamm, right here, is where i start today see the dusting on the grassy surfaces, at city line avenue, then of course delco, media, south jersey, getting a dusty, as well. Now, an overnight accident here, along route 41, at route 47, the delsea drive. Thats closed this morning, and an accident on the boulevard at fifth street, the blue route, 42, again, the blue route will be dry until you hit route one. Then you are going to start to see the wet roads, damp roads, some of the on and offer ramps, again, this morning are going to be tricky. And they will be slippery. The had two freeway again, they were out there putting some salt, all of the townships put down the drain brine, i noticed that yesterday, in the afternoon. Both the market frankford and the subway using shuttle buses until 5 00. Karen, thomas, back to you. Thanks forgetting us around this morning. Time now 4 03. Many of you have been waiting for it now it is here. Check out this video of the snow falling last night in media. Our Chris Oconnell captured this scene on his late commute home. You can see cars covered in snow. It is so beautiful. Just looks like christmas, here is the scene in center city from overnight. Where we had some snow coming down so pretty to watch. Really certainly feels like the holidays t came down little bit thick in patches, most certainly, people were getting around just fine. And others were saying bring it on. I wasnt expecting it but i might as as well go bundle up more than i got on. It is colds out here. It is awe s ive been waiting for the snow. So right now the snow is pretty and with a little bit of light snow, but it is getting cold and much, much colder ahead. Nice to look at. Certainly not nice to drive around in. To steve cure any cherry hill. You guys saw the most out there, last night . Reporter this was shock tow me. Because i thought i saw the weather, i thought it would be atlantic and cape may counties. I was out clearing snow. Here is my advice. Brush off the snow before you have to scrape off the snow. Sue, you are very accurate, because weve been out for over an hour now, waiting to go on at 4 00 because we start at 2 30, no wind at all, an hour ago, now, it is windy. Greg, who just has a little sweater on, will be going to the coat, or as we say in the tv business, hell be dawning a coat, because we talk in another complete stupid language in television. Let me show you clear carvers us unclear car here in south jersey so people get up early and get your car running, and the de frost letter not clear your windshield because this stuff is going to turn to slush. Do you have brush it off. It doesnt even come off when you drive. And look at these vehicles over here. We are at lowes on route 38. And i will demonstrate the brushing technique for all of you who have forgot it over the last 88 months eight months. It is already turning to ice, hard to do it, not like fluffy, you know . And i cant put scraper on that persons paint job, but you can see, look, let me put it this way. See how that is . Now i can scrape. Remember what i just told you . So thats how cold it is, because this wind is freezing, what was fluffy snow, and so there you go. It doesnt come off with just a brush. You have got to scrape. Coincidentally, we are next to a row of snow blowers covered by a little coating of snow. And in the the price tags, they werent blowing when was out taking pictures and they were all covered by snow. The winds has knocked the snow off. Now you can see 499 for a little snow blower. Boy, they are getting expensive. But how adorable is that that theyre covered with snow . And the bigger ones with the bigger price tags, further up, i see 899 now. And again, we couldnt see the prices earlier. So, as we say, treated surfaces, that means they put salt down, i happened to see a salt truck go by on route 38 because i was driving extra slow. But just walking here, already feeling ice beneath our feet, because it is wet out here, and everything is freezing now that it is breezy. So i used more than a minute of mia lot dollars time ill feed it back to you and i see little flurry falling around, but we are making our way to the shore and bob kelly Pay Attention to this, i checked traffic conditions, they have lowered the speed limit on the garden state parkway so down the shore maybe a little bit more treacherous because you got the winds with the trucks blowing around. And maybe little more icy with this as we know karen, you know that parkway in avalon when you go it, has grass on both sides. So if the snow just stuck to the grass, perhaps it is blowing on to the road surface, and that may and reason why they theyve reduced dollars speed limit on the garden state parkway, along the coast, with grassy medians on both sides. Ill be dawning my scarf later, thank you there, steve. Okay, you got it. Some video also from new jersey, this is going to be from collingswood. Certainly the same scene there, seeing a loft cars covered with snow. I had some on mine, as well. There was a driver just like steve pulling out an ice scraper trying to get it off of the cars. And, you know, there he is, took couple every attempt thomas get it up. Pretty thick right there, with all of the cold temperature the arctic blast as it is sweeping across our area, we want to keep you un zero informed, so getting ready for whatever you are going to do, maybe not near a tv, always watch thereon aoun zero your phone, ipad, computer just download the fox 29 weather app or head over to the website fox29. Com. It is 4 08 right now. We have story we first told you about last evening, there are some firefighters from chester battling pretty serious bed bug problem at the firehouse. Not fun to deal with. If you know once they pop up these pests certainly hard to get rid of. Out to jenny joyce in chester. So how exactly are these firefighters dealing with them . Reporter good morning, karen, thomas, well we are hearing this this discovery was made after two chester city firefighters started complaining of some bug bites, and then a week later we are hearing that the first exterminate err has gone through the firehouse, that was yesterday. The bed bugs were discovered at two different firehouses here in the city of chester stations 81 and 82, apparently the bugs were found in the sleeping quarters and after this situation was reported to headquarters, sources say, firefighters were handed cans of bed bug spray to take care of the issue. Now, a week later the city says it has hired an exterminate err to handle the job. This after box springs and mattresses were tossed in the trash. We verified that we do have some infestation with bed bugs, we have a company to come out and remedy the situation for us and it is being taken care of. A spokesperson for the chester fire union issued a statement saying, quote, we look forward to working with the city to provide our firefighters a healthy and and recall workplace to ensure Proper Services are provided to the citizens of chester, firefighters did not want to talk on camera, but told us, Chris Oconnell last night, that theyre very concerned about the bed bugs for their family sake and also for the sake of the citizens of chester whose homes they visit each and every day, karen, thomas . Sleeping out in the cams, shouldnt have to be that way. Thank you. It is 4 10. There is someone out, there take good look at this guy right there, who has a police badge from philadelphia who certainly shouldnt have t so they think that guy right there on the video in the yankees cap may have taken a patrol jacket, a badge and a hat from a bench over at the cjc, criminal justice center, caring a shopping bag in the video, little lower on the screen, investigators say they actually have him on video putting the object into that bag. If you know who he is, please call investigators. In your monday think morning, if you have a yahoo account, if you use yahoo, listen up here. Because the company is disclosing another huge hack. It says hackers may have stolen data of more than a billion customers august of 2013. This very well could be the biggest data breach ever. The information stolen may include name, email addresses, phone numbers, bert dates, but believes bank account and credit card date is not affected but dont wait for notification. Change your password right away. This revelation all comes after yahoo disclosed another big hack, back in september. 4 11. Lets talk about the transition, tech titans gather for a meeting with the president elect. Donald trump is pledging open door policy with the silicone val nay effort to create more jobs in this country. So, trump urged them all to put political differences aside, certainly focus on grow the economic. Among the leaders of yesterdays summit, facebook coo, cheryle sandberg, also in the room, elaine must being of tezsla, and apples tim cook. Twitter, anyone from twitter wasnt there. Says twitter isnt big enough. Well, ya. 4 12 is the story. Us intelligence officials now are reportedly believing that russian president vladmeere putin was personally involved in hacking during the election, according to nbc news, cia says russia did so with the intention every helping donald trump win and also as a vendetta against hillary clinton. Sources say that putin personally instructed how that haak information from the Democratic Party would be leaked and otherwise used. Time now 4 12. We have been talking about this for the past several days. If you are getting up this morning, not only dealing with the colder temperatures like snow, some flurries and the roadways are slick. We knew it was coming but still a shock when you step outside the door. It is cold. So you can see with are in the arctic blast right now. A live look outside because it looks beautiful. And this is blue mountain. And some of the ski resorts should be opening on this day. You can tell the winds is picking up there, theyll be making snow over the next several hours, next several days, as well, but if you are headed up there, headed anywhere this morning be careful. Were coming right back. Many of these cars belonging to employees of fox 29. This is our neighborhood old city. You see the smattering of snowfall, very light here in the city. Just depends on where you are. Weve had the snow showers come through last night. Three things to remember for the weather today. Number one, snow showers are still around this morning. Could slow you down and could make things slippery. Number two, winds are picking up. And eventually, we could get to 40mile per hour wind gusts specially this morning, into early afternoon. Three, temperatures are plunging, it is happening today, weve been talking about it all week with the words polar vortex, and here is a look at the last six hours, and you can see the first rounds of snow showers that came through overnight, and now it has left this morning, seems to be mostly in new jersey, right across the river, from us here in pennsylvania, so there are light snow showers around right now. It is 34 degrees in the city. But a lot colder in other places, 28 in millville, 29 in pottstown, and 28 in reading. Thirtythree in dover. Some places saw little bit of rain, but really what you are dealing with, besides the messy weather, is the windchill, teens, and 20s, and the wind gusts, right now, which is are which are as much as 0 Miles Per Hour 33 Miles Per Hour in lancaster, and pottstown, so maybe the best advice for today, besides being careful on the roads, is to watch out for that trash can, if it is your trash day and youre leaving the trash out this morning, you may not finds that trash can this afternoon. As far as precipitation, maybe a few more flurries or snow showers, rest of the day today. Tomorrow should be dry. And then we watch the snow start to come in around midnight. But then it will be really tricky with warmer temperatures moving, in how much accumulation well get before the changeover to rain, and it could be probably less than an inch for most of us, and then, another rounds every rain coming in for sunday, with a cold front. So, the average high is 45. Fortythree, way below today with high of 27 and those snow showers through the morning, 29 degrees, our high tomorrow, 49 for saturday, sunday we could zoom up into the 60s before we plunge back down into the 30s, monday, tuesday, and wednesday of next week, of course, as weve been telling you, bob kelly, the first day of winter. Little bit of everything going on here, here is a great example of with a we are dealing with, looking liver, the ramps from the blue route onto route one here in media, delaware county. Right here, you are coming doubt ramp. See, you got the snow, the dusting in the center lanes, everything is wet. But look at the temperature, 34, so were right on that dividing line, black ice. This is where sue was following the salt truck, saferly following behind the salt truck earlier this morning, so the salt crews are out there. The roads are wet. And again it, all depends on where you are waking up. Youre going to wake up and look out the front door, whats he talking about snow in then there are areas that certainly have know on your Christmas Lights this morning. Here is a live look downtown on the vine street expressway. Now there is has been closed overnight, so before they even allow folks to drive, look, it is snow covered. That fine light dusting, like your frosted flakes here this morning, as theyre working here on the ben franklin parkway. So, the dividing line looks like it is city line avenue here. So dry roads out, the western suburbs like malvern, coming in from king of prussia, you wont see any flakes until you hit around city avenue. Thats where i saw the first dusting of the grassy road surface, the grassy median, and then you have the dusting through media, delco, center city dusting and steve over there in south jersey. Salting and reduced speeds on the expressway, the parkway, i passed couple of city salt trucks, yes. They are out there doing on and off ramps so if the roads look wet thats a sign that they could be icy hovering around in degreesment vine expressway as i showed you still closed between the schuylkill and broad street until the about 5 00 this morning, expect slippery conditions on the Regional Rail lines this morning, and again, slower than normal speeds all around the board. But it was cold, but we had a lot of fun last night. I hit the road, i went to levittown. Check out this guy, not me, thats me there with my Christmas Lights outfit on. But the residents, they have the lights synchronized to the music. Them got the boom box set up out front. Look at that, ten different songs, everything from dancing in levittown, if you want me to showcase your Christmas Lights all do you have do is snap a picture and pop it up on facebook, twitter and instagram. Use that fox29lights contest. So i can show the homes here on tv. Broadcasting from your home next week. So much fun watching you last night, bob, thank you. 4 21, investigators still have a loft questions this morning about deadly ambush in frankford, two gunmen fired more than dozen times, killing 30 year old jonathan ramos, it happened early wednesday morning, this is in the 1400 block of adams avenue. In this morning, police are asking who wanted ramos dead and why, neighbors, you can imagine, theyre stunned. He did, okay, he said he says son, brother, he might be a father, and no matter what he did, you know, it is a life that we lost. This was an ambush. Investigators believe ramos may have been set up. He received a call to meet someone on adams avenue, minutes later he was killed in the execution style murder. Investigators found 28 shell casings, right, there at the scene. Coming up on 4 22, police say theyve nabbed a guy tacking packages from the front steps of homes, specifically, in northern liberties. Weve got some surveillance video, we were some of the first to show you, police say it shows the suspect in the act, this is the 800 block of laurence street, on friday. There he is, taking the packages right under his arm, walking away brazeningly. Police tell us they stopped the guy over at fifth and popular streets and he had someone elses packages on him when they caught him. Talk about red handed. Temple i am zero end doug g their new football coach. We will talk about that, plus the sixers give us something weve all been waiting for this season. The twin towers working together, but did this force get the win over the raptors . Also lottery numbers. This is fox 29 sports in one minute. Good morning, im sean bell. The fans finally got see joel embiid and okafor in the starting line up together. Unfortunately, the results wasnt a win. In the Third Quarter the sixers with Great Ball Movement right here. Embiid with the fake, drivers, this is okafor for the dunk. They played well t

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