Everybody. Friday eve. Almost feels like early spring, wont say mid spring. Spring like . Okay. Lets do that. There go. In fact, for that reason, we have chose answer number. All right. Ready . Here comes. Did i skip the number . Darn it. It is a nine. Whoo. It is number nine. I think it is coming upment little shower Activity Still in our area. It is very damp, couple of breezes out, there but look at this, 52 degrees, remember, monday, when it was about 9 degrees . Ya, so this is a great and welcome improvement. We will be 42 mount pocono, 56 degrees already in dover, delaware, and 52 in lancaster. Now weeks have a few issues with fog, all of the moisture out, there most of it to the north of us, around allentown, mount pocono. But we will keep an eye on that situation. Over here is the number. I knew i put it in there somewhere. It is a nine out of ten today. Looks like we will get that taste of spring. We got some fog and some showers still around, but a mix of sun and clouds throughout the afternoon in the 60s, this afternoon. Bob kelly, can you hands it will . I can handle t bring it on. Good morning, everybody, it is thursday morning, 4 02, starting off with some drizzle, some fog, as sue mentioned, throughout the entire area. No problems through the construction zone. Speeds are a little slower than normal this morning. Probably use your wipers maybe once or twice, to kind of get the rain off when you pull out of the driveway. Some spray coming up off of the cars in front of you. Accident chester county, route 340, also known as kings highway, closed at bonnesville road, because of Early Morning accident. Outside we go. Live look at the schuylkill expressway. Looking good here coming into and out of the city. Were still closed on the vine street expressway shutdown from the schuylkill over to broad street. Nineteen is your lucky number. Because theyve reopened the 19th street overpass, the first overpass fully completed for vehicle traffic here across that vine st. Expressway. So thats good news for folks in and out of the city. If youre trying to get out of the city today, you may find Early Morning weather delays down at Philadelphia International airport. So check with the airline, and then new traffic pattern northeast philly state road cottman avenue, at the cottman avenue interchange. Karen, thomas, back over to you. Bob, thank you. There are some members of the Transgender Community who are fearing theyre under attack after two separate incidents just this week in philadelphia. These attacks commas city officials work to go fight discrimination against the Lgbt Community. Our jenny joyce in center city with the latest on this, jenny . Reporter good morning, karen, according to Philadelphia Police, four people in the Trans Community were victims of two separate crimes, as you mentioned, that happened earlier this week, police say it is too early to know for sure if the two are connected or if there is a specific threat against people who are transgender. Investigators say sunday night in West Philadelphia three trans women were held up at gunpoint and monday night a man was shot to death coming to the aid of a trans gender lady friend who was being robbed. Police say both incidents occurred after dates were a ranked on back page. Com, a classified website, descriptions of the gunmen are similar, but police cannot confirm a connection or shared motive between the ooh two cases. Day gentleman, transgender woman, and long Time Community activist, says, the Trans Community fears that they are being targeted. This is nothing new. Weve been saying this for years, that trans women of color are in eminently more danger than most of the other folks in the Lgbt Community is. Right now little too early for us to say any particular group is being targeted as result of people responding to back page ads, or as a result of these incidents. Again we dont know that for sure at this point in time. I think this person may be targeting trans gender people and possibly because again they feel like theyre dispensible. But they feel like they are an easy target. Discrimination in the Lgbt Community is on the city radar last night, the Philadelphia Commission on human relations held a meet to go show people in the community how to file complaints after numerous claims of discrimination were made in a matter every months, meantime, the Philadelphia Police department is pursuing all leads related to the two crimes that occurred this week. Karen, thomas . Jenny, thank you will, weaver breaking news coming in right now. This is from our military this morning. Us probe says american troops fired on afghan homes, it happened during a fire fight with the taliban in november. Thirtythree civilians were killed. Also, learned now, fifth victim killed in that Fort Lauderdale airport shooting has ties to our area. Sixtynine year old mary louise, native of ohio, been living in dover, delaware, her identity just released yesterday. Her husband was reportedly wounded in the shooting and remains in a coma, Esteban Santiago accused in the deadly rampage, facing federal charges. 4 06. Developing this morning, disgruntled customer goes on the attack inside southWest Philadelphia deli. You see the Surveillance Video right here, what set him off . Apparently it was a cheese steak. Lets get right out to steve keeley at Police Headquarters. You think you heard it all, steve . Reporter it was the price of the cheese steak that set him off. Anybody watching this right now with a grandmother is going to get re angry real quick. Philadelphians since new years angry over the higher prices of the soft drinks since the soda tax there is real tough guy, and i mean that sarcastically, beats up woman, grandmoms age, about 60 years old, did it because he wanted her cheese steak price rolled back to what it was and maybe the 80s, four bucks, instead of the relatively cheap six bucks she charged today. First he squirts his drink at her, through the holes, in a protective clear shield, then she forgets in a moment of anger why she has to work in her deli behind that thick clear protective shield. And goes out into the lobby of the store, to confront him and call him stupid to his face, and then she got punched in the face repeatedly in two rounds of beatdowns by this guy, who thinks beating up a smaller old lady 60 years old is just acceptable in society. Upset, he squeeze the juice bottle in front of the little hole at the store inside the window. Thats when start, i dont know why i go outside, i just went out. I never thought he is going to hit my face. Dont talk to him. I never fought with nobody. Reporter well, she said that he toll her call me stupid to my face again. And thats when she went out there to call him stupid second time. Thats why she got beat up. This happened 4 30, in her corner deli elmwood avenue last wednesday afternoon. The guy, if you didnt notice, in the surveillance picture, has mustache and go t that he may shave off after he sees himself on tv. She has bruises and swelling on her face. But she talked to us last night. She seems relatively okay. She is a tough older girl but nobody should have to put up with that. Karen, thomas . Really is lowdown. Good picture of him. Hopefully someone knows something. Steve, thank you. Time is 4 08. Just days until inch ago augusts, donald trump held fiery News Conference wednesday, fins since winning the election, taking on media outlet, specifically those who reported unsubstantiated information about russia having un, trump called the reports fake news, for the first time did he acknowledge russian hacked the dnc during the election. As far as hacking, i think it was russia. But i think we also get hacked by other countries, and other people. Now, trump also vowed to unveil proposals to repeal and then replace obamacare. They had several discussions about that. Of course by early next month he hopes to do. That will the president elect also explains he will turn over his Business Empire to his sons by placing it in a trust that they control. Meanwhile the president elect continues to fill out his cabinet. Yesterday he named david showken, and he spent some time right here in our area in philadelphia. He served as chief medical officer at upenn, also at Temple University hospital currently he is the under secretary of health with the obama administration. And secretary of state, nominee, Rex Tillerson grilled about his connections to russia during his confirmation hearings. The toughest line of questioning came from senator marco rubio. He laid into the long time head of exxon mobile for failing to take a tough stance against russian cyber attacks. He also pressed tillerson for his view on the kremlins role in the syrian war and attack some civilians by the russian military. Unprecedented moment for the final day of confirmation hearings for trumps pick for attorney general, because new jersey senator cory booker testified against another sitting senator. There is of course cory booker, Jeff Sessions is the nominee. The alabama senators record on civil rights, lgbt equality and i am graduation makes sessions unfit for the job according to booker. Senator sessions has not demonstrated a commitment to a central requisite of the job, to aggressively pursue the congressional mandate of civil right, equal rights, and justice for all of our citizens. Despite the objections, sessions confirmation will likely be approved with the 52 votes needed for simple majority. With just eight days until the inauguration, learning that our city will be represented at the inauguration. The first troop philadelphia civil calvary will be in the parade, practicing, the countrys oldest continuously serving unit. Of course we will have complete coverage of Inauguration Day next friday right here on fox 29. Hopefully we invite to you join us, you can also go to fox 29. Com. Clicking over right now before 11 00 on this morning, three men climbed pretty small grass window at gas station in the northeast, once they get in, Something Else comes on out. Yes, still ahead here on good day philadelphia. What they pushed through the hole of that station moments later. Thank you, barack, for proving youre not a lame duck but my very own silver fox. The first lady making her final appearance on late night tv. She did not hold back. More on late night later in the show. Good stuff. Good morning, everybody, 4 11, we go for a ride. Take a ride out of town on the schuylkill, behind the septa bus there past girard avenue. Roads are wet. Lets take live look downtown. Where 19 is your favorite number this morning. Ill explain why. Sue has the forecast when we come right back. And good morning, take a look at the scene right here, parts of california continue to be plagued by severe flooding. This all comes after several days of heavy rain. These images are out of hollis err, where officials have ordered mandatory evacuations. You can see y the record rainfall has also downed trees, cut power in many places there. Unfortunately, more rain is in the forecast. So what can we deal with here . Lets get over to sue. Recently we had rain in our weather. Now we have a lot of warm temperatures, sue . Right. There are still some showers moving through, not quite finished yesterday, mild temperatures in the forecast. These are the records to beat today. We wont be beating the philadelphia High Temperature record, which has been standing for, well, 127 years. 72 degrees back in 1890. Atlantic city, 1913 is the record of 63 degrees, so is wilmington, and allentown, and reading. These High Temperature records are all in the 60s. And thats where we expect to be today. So, yes, we do have just little more rain moving through our area. But as we look at the future cast, most of that will be out of here. It is all in advance after cold front, which will come through, later on in the day. So, tomorrow, will not be as mild as today. And then we look ahead to this situation for saturday. When we say situation, it is not necessarily good. In the morning, weve just got clouds. Then by noon, were starting to see even by 11 00 some snow move in from a system that will be coming by to our south. So the front that comes through tonight will stall to our south. But colder air will be in place by then. So we do expect this to largely be snow. Now, if youre down in cape may county, maybe southern delaware, you may see little bit of rain or freezing rain. But there is tricky travel in the forecast for saturday. It doesnt look like we will get a lot of accumulation, if we get any at all. But it could be very messy. Stay tuned for more on that. 52 degrees right now. Thats right. It is 52 degrees right now. Fortytwo in mount pocono, 52 in millville, off to mild start in lancaster, with 52. Well above the average already. The average high is 40 degrees. We got to 54 yesterday and as advertised we expect to be in the 60s today. Tomorrows high in the 40s. You see, it is chilly, in the 20s in the morning, on saturday, high of 34, which is why we expect probably mostly snow when that precipitation comes by. And then the rest of the holiday weekends, looks like it is a mix of sun and clouds, with seasonable temperatures in the fours, look at this, we zoom back to the 50s by the middle of next week. At least bob kelly, no more highs in the 20s. No reports of black ice this morning, thats good. I didnt know whether i should wear a coat or not. I wore my coat, i was hot actually driving in this morning on the schuylkill expressway. Good morning, everybody, 4 17. Hot and wet. Here is a live look, route 100 at 113. Everything is wet this morning. Good news, though, at least were starting off at 52. So we dont have any reports of black ice, but again, north and west, as sue showed us those temperatures, the wet roadways can be just as slippery as those icy roadways. So there is a live look for chester county. Live look at the benny, no problems at all coming up and over into downtown, off to a good start. Downtown we go, 19 your lucky number today because yesterday penndot opened up the 19th street overpass over the vine street expressway, first overpass completed with the whole vine st. Reconstruction project, something new you will notice today coming into downtown drizzle and fox closed at bondsville road. Water main break fowl being, just off route 202 here,. On the differ identifying line. Use route 202 that could be a mess down there. So far so good, out of the gate on the buses, trains, trolleys, and no report of any delays at the airport. Karen, thomas, back over to you. Looking good so far. Time 4 19. Four men wanted for stealing from atms in northeast philadelphia. You can see them on security video right there, prying 1atm loose, express fuel on oxford circle. Then shoved the entire machine right through a hole in the door. Since november, detective say, these burglars have swiped at least six Bank Machines from area businesses. Theyve gotten away with a total of about 50,000. They work Early Morning hours, overnight, one of the videos they spent over an hour in a please on new years day. Now the crooks even managed to steel the atm from the lobby of ariatorresdale hospital. Also hit up red robin restaurant and beer distributor. Accused carjacker brought down by a gun after Good Samaritan. Confrontation unfolded as suspect tried to steel a septa truck. Some witnesses are not letting him get away. All too real, when this catholic priest, had front row seat. Just thinking, i hope nobodys dead. Police say it started when the driver of this Dodge Charger blew a red light at the intersection, rammed this car, setting offer chain reaction, that actually damaged two other vehicles, the driver of the charger ran down 63rd and came upon the driver of this white ford. Carjack him, he is able to keep pull his car door closed and pull him off. Our bad guy then race today this septa maintenance truck, tried to steel it. This man was the driver. Sideswiped two cars, homed out, racing back to the accident scene at 63rd and woodbine with the driver of the first car he was permit today carry a handgun in hot pursuit. Joe Kelly High School freshman was a pass inning nerve one of the cars from that original accident. The man with the gun was running to stop him, tackle him, and i think he tried to get break into his car. So i ended up just tackling him, bringing him to the ground. Father picks it up from there. They tackled him. He got up. Kind of began coming at this other guy. The other guy said something to him, then a lot of shouting and commotion in the street then he pulled a gun and then very calmly, i think he gave him a warning or something, the guy came at him, he shot him. He didnt want to shoot him. He clearly didnt. He was just trying to be protect full citizen and protect people around him. Police say the Good Samaritan described only as 34 year old philadelphia man will likely not Face Criminal Charges for his actions. As for the would be carjacker described as 32 year old philadelphia man, police say, he had no criminal record that they are aware of. They couldnt find drugs or weapons in his car. They are frankly at a lost to figure out why he would have take answer basic car accident and turned into something this potentially deadly n overbrook, bruce gordon, fox 29 news. Thanks, bruce. Interesting question who should be able to go or not go to a High School Sporting event . There is a school in our area that has some new rules. Truman high school in bristol township, all spectators must now show photo i. D. If they want to go watch a game. Younger students must have a grown up with them. New policy stems from the cancellation every basketball games monday because of