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WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A April 3, 2017

Okay. Now, they have got rain in their forecast. We do not at least for today. It is an eight out of 10. We have dry conditions here in philadelphia. Good morning. And, 46 degrees, calm wind, and so it is not too cold out there. We have 48 degrees down in wildwood. It is chilly in the poconos mountains with 30 degrees and 39 in lancaster but most of us are doing okay, nothing on radar, but what is on the way, well, series of strong, thunderstorms, some of that cluster down there in alabama, mississippi affect wye that and some ofha toward ohio for earlier today. It was a sunny sunday. Was than the yesterday gorgeous. 63 degreesthere will be even moe average today with limited sunshine, we still expect a mild afternoon, and a High Temperature of 67 degrees, and sun does until 7 28, bob kelly, wow. We got to stay out late maybe go for some water ice. Good morning, everybody on a monday morning, back at it at 4 01. No problems at all on the schuylkill expressway, what a hot mess, all day yesterday, on the Atlantic City expressway. Letsmol our news van when we were on the scene of the overturned tanker right here near farly Services Plaza that were closed for most of the day and into the overnight. That was last night. I have good news for this morning. They have suspended the clean up operation, and through the morning rush hour, came back to the maps here so until 8 00 e opened on the eastbound side, right here near farly Services Plaza after 8 00 a. M. , hazmat team will return to make the final clean up. So at lee for morning rush hour youre good to go, probably have a lot activity there that will slow us down. Heres a live lot at blue route 476 no problems up and over schuylkill, it was a mess using i95 all weekend as well , crews were making repairs to the concrete pavement near cottman avenue. We are good to go and back in business, all four lanes are opened, for the morning rush hour, and just watch for that new project in an uneven payment on route 202 between route boot road and route 30. Mass transit and airport looking good, karen and thomas , back over to you. Thanks, bob. Developing right now police are searching for group of teenage boys who they say sexually assault aid young girl inside an abandon house inside hunting park. Victim so young just 13 years old. Lauren johnson at Philadelphia Police Department Special victims june it this morning with the very latest, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, unit nowd karen. Investigating this awful crime that happened yesterday in the hunting park area. As for victim we hear she was taken to st. Christophers and shes expect to be okay, despite what happened, Sexual Assault happening at a vacant property on the cornerar avenue just one block off busy broad street. Police tell us it was just before 5 00 p. M. When a 13 yearold walking down the street was snatched up, pulled into the property and sexually assaulted by three teenage boys. At not told us whether the victim knew her attacker or if this attack was random. People living there were too afraid to show their face on to say about their kid, their parents and now the crime. Reporter these juvenile everything, doing everything, everything they shouldnt be doing. A parent should be held responsible. These children come in the vacant building over there, causing all kind of problems around here and here we are a 10 yearold girl ace salted. Like i just dont get it. Reporter neighbors say at Bandon Property has been boarded up but that is not stopping the boards off windowsd climbing inside. One couple told us that they caught teenagers trying to get into their home through a window, they were forced to we have up security at that home and police are hoping that they can identify the boysbrutd thomas. Horrifying details. Thanks very much. So disturbing. Other news, three teenage girls will be going to trial today they are facing charges related to the death of the 16 yearold amy joyner frances. She died after she was assaulted inside of a high school in wilmington last year , in a bathroom. Investigators say she had a preexisting heart condition but the stress of the assault was a contributing factor in her death. Only one of the teen defendants is charged with criminally negligent homicide. Man accused of shooting in the parking lot of the Gentlemens Club last week is expect in court this morning according to philly. Com. Twentynine yearold Lawrence Mitchell will be in Camden County superior court for detention hearing. He is facing a tempted murder charges. Police say he used a rifle to fire shots into the delilahs parking lot from a build ago cross the street from the club the shots hit two cars, parked nearby as a woman was walking toward one of the vehicles. Police sources tell fox 29 mitchell had no connection, to the woman who owned that car, and was shot, she was being held, he is being held in Camden County jail on fugitive charges. Right now time is 4 06. Bill cosby returns to court this time attorneys for entertainer will try to bar any mention of quaaludes in the Sexual Assault case. Our jenny joyce is out there outside the Montgomery County courthouse in norristown with the very latest on this, jenny. Reporter good morning, karen. This hearing is scheduled to begin at nine credit 30 this morning, its purpose to hammer out details of which evidence can or cannot be used in the upcoming trial, last week, prosecutors found and filed a motion to use statements cosby made about his use of the aphrodisiac spanish fly, a substance made up of chemicals from a beetle in his 1991 book childhood, and live interview with larry king in the same year, cosby says he used spanish fly to get girls interested in him. His defense Attorney Says that the comedian was joking, the comments arent fun toy prosecutors who are trying cosby on sex Assault Charges in june. The 79 yearold ace cues of drugging and molesting Andrea Constand a former Temple University Athletic Department employee at his philadelphia home in 2004, cosby says that the sexual contact was consensual. Prosecutors are pushing to introduce evidence of cosbys testimony, from a decades old deposition in which the actor admits to drugging a string of women before sleeping with them. However, cosby claims did he not use quaalude was constand and therefore his defense team thinks the testimony should be barred from the trial. All of this is expected to be debated at todays hearing. Dozens of woman have raised sex assault claims begins cosby but judge Steven Oneill has ruled only one of them can testify at the june 5th trial, and cosby has pleaded not guilty. He did so in 2015. Karen . Jenny, thanks very much. Many developments on this one. Also right now, police are investigating whether a drive by shooting that happened right on roosevelt boulevard this weekend was a random incident or if the driver was somehow, targeted. Police say that the 39 yearold victim was waiting at the light on somerdale avenue just before 6 00 saturday when another car pulled up beside that driver and opened fire. Witnesses say gunman then turned on to the boulevard, drove south, the victim crossed six lanes of traffic, and then hit a fence outside of a friends hospital. Police have not released the name of the victim who died at the scene. Another accident, in a woman being coiled after a car she was riding in hit a deer this happened yesterday. Car was driven by a man which struck a deer early in the morning and then slammed into a utility pole which fell, and then cut the vehicle in half. There was a 22year old woman who was pass evening shore was thrown from the vehicle, she died at einstein medical center, the driver, who is 27, he is expected to recover. And there is, a man from north philadelphia right now in critical condition, after he was shot several times, in the stomach. It happened yesterday evening on the 1800 block of north tam ey street. Police took him to Hahnemann Hospital no arrest has been made. An Investigation Continues into a fatal Apartment Fire in east oak lane. Fire fighters quick to respond to the 6300 block of north tenth street, just before 4 00. That is when they found the lo ne victim inside regency house apartment building. It took crews a half an hour to get that fire under control no word on how this all happened. Or started. Time it is 4 09. Expect a fiery she down this week as senate votes on the confirm nation of judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court at least three democrats will support gorsuch while others are threatening to filibuster. Should that happen, republicans are expected to exercise the socalled Nuclear Option by changing senate rules allowing a simple majority to confirm the nomination. As it stand it would take 60 senators to approve the nomination. Top ranking senators remain split over possibility of the judge gorsuch being confirmed this week. No Supreme Court justice has ever, in the history of our country been stopped by a partisan filibuster, ever, and in fact, the business of filibustering judges is a fairly recent invention ironically of the now minority in the senate, the democrats. When gorsuch refused to answer the most rudiment try questions in the hearings after there were many doubts about him to begin with and he wouldnt even answer whether he supported brown v board, even judge roberts who was very red sent did that there was a seismic change in my caucus. While opposing democrats say it is unlikely gorsuch will get 60 votes needed republicans are vowing that the judge will receive final confirmation, by friday. Well, it has been a rough year for philadelphia sports. I think flyers just got eliminated from the playoffs, Going Forward but our fightin phillies, it is all brand new on day one and maybe we have something to look forward to, opening day is finally here, fightin phillies will be taking on the red in senate think afternoon at Great American ballpark. First pitch scheduled for just after 4 00. Phillies have their home opener, on friday, where they will be facing off against, the nationals. Feel the excitement. Flyers goalie Michal Neuvirth back at home after passing out during the game against devils on saturday. During the first period, neuvirth fainted, falling hard on the ice, and medics rushed in escorted the goalie off on a stretcher. According to flyers general manager ron hextall all of neuvirths testing came back normal. He will be reevaluating this afternoon. So disturbing a crime that was caught on cameras coming up on good day philadelphia. Detectives make their first arrest in the assault streamed live, on facebook, and watched by dozens of people who didnt call the police. Wow. Wow, is right. That got your attention out there we have had all of these thunder strikes, lightening, scarring people at a walmart they make a run for it. All right, bob kelly. Good morning everybody. Making a run for your car. We are good to go on the major roadways g news for gang up at mid county interchange all of the ez pass express lanes were opened up for the weekend open up your front door and say good morning, cool shot of the ben franklin parkway and art museum, sue has your monday forecast, ill check jam cams when we come right back. Well, what a scene here more storms expected today in parts of the south after a possible tornado rips right through southern louisiana. That storm destroyed a mobile home killing a mother and her threeyear old daughter. You can see devastation. Two were inside when the storm hit yesterday. Witnesses say childs father had just stepped out to go to the Grocery Store when that storm hit. Lets get a check of our weather, we will have a number of systems moving through this week, right, sue. Right, it is april now, and april showers, plenty of them in the forecast, we just to have see if we can get some baseball in between the showers, and now there is the area of storms now in mississippi, heading into alabama, very strong to severe storms down there in southern mississippi and parts of the louisiana. We will zoom into cincinnati, ohio, where the phillies start their season playing the red today at 4 00 oclock. You can see a little bit of rain in the vicinity already, there is more in the forecast for later on in the day but for us were expecting a dry day, at least today. As we check the future cast we will head into tomorrow, we will see cloud on the increase , and, later on today, and then we will see the rain start, probably nine or 10 00 oclock tonight, maybe a little bit earlier and possibility of pop up thunderstorms along the way. We will get a round in the morning and then another round for afternoon drive time for tuesday. So this is basically a monday night tuesday event, with this event and rain and it should be gone by wednesday. How much rain . Not a ton. Maybe around an inch of rain when all said and done. Little bit more to the north where we expect most of the rain to fall. Meanwhile back to today, you do not need any rain gear today, it is 46 degrees in philadelphia 30 mount pocono. Thirtynine lancaster. Fortyseven in dover delaware and 48 in wildwood. Not bad for an april, morning. Very calm wind, tranquil, if you dont like monday, weather will cooperate with you a little bit and it will be gentle as well. I dont know why i started talking like this but okay. Yes. We will ease you into monday morning. It is a 63degree high yesterday. Beautiful day. Sixtyseven today. We could inch in the 70s tomorrow but the trade off is showers, and thunderstorms, a dry day on wednesday, and then back to showers and thunderstorms on thursday, and then the home opener for the phillies is on friday, cloud and question mark with the showers. A little iffy with that. We have time to work on the forecast for friday. Time to find my phillies umbrella hat so im ready throwing. Right. 4 17. Good morning. It is monday. We are back at it. We are looking good on the major roadway 95, schuylkill expressway, no problems on the upper end of the roosevelt boulevard but what a mess we this overturned tanker on the Atlantic City expressway. Lets roll video our news van on the scene right after it happened in the eastbound lanes right near farly Service Plaza. Actually right before the far ly Service Plaza we had eastbound lanes closed for most of the day and overnight because of the tanker that spilled all of the fuel. So they had to clean everything up. Heres the deal, lets come back to the maps. They have opened up the eastbound lanes, for the morning rush hour, however, at 8 00 a. M. The clean up crews will come back, they will close all eastbound lanes, and then traffic will be diverted back off again at hammington interchange which is exit number 28 and route 54. At lee in the morning rush hour we are good to go heading down to ac and get your coffee there at the farly plaza an accident right here on the roosevelt boulevard, right here near adams avenue interchange, i95 looking good at the moment, it was not the case over the weekend. They did all of the concrete repairs down to one lane at times through the weekend, but were opened and ready to go for rush hour. No problems here on the schuylkill expressway, the Martin Luther king, kelly drive are back opened again looking good on the roosevelt boulevard and no problems, on mass transit. Karen and thomas back to you. Chicago authorities issuing a warrant for at rest of the teenage boy following an assault, streamed live on facebook. It stems from the Sexual Assault of the 15 yearold girl last month. So far the 14 yearold boy is facing charges of aggravated criminal Sexual Assault in making and disseminating child pornography. Police say multiple videos of the attack were made including version that streamed live on the social network. Forty people watched the assault live and no one called the police. We have seen a couple acts in this city now in the last few months, involving social media and it just discussions me that people would look at those videos and not pick up the phone and dial 911. Further charges are expected against others, including an adult, police say the attack involved five or six males. Tragedy at a hotel pool party, covered the 13 yearold boy and send more than a dozen others mostly children to the hospital. It happened in michigan. Investigators say it was a malfunctioninging pool heater to blame. Emergency crews responding to the quality inn and suites found 15 people sickened in the pool area, monk them seven children. Hoe tell employees and also some Police Officers who before there trying to help. Two people are still in serious condition. That hotel has been closed. And the tragedy in columbia, overwhelming, where hundreds were killed by raging waters while they slept. Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after heavy rain, sent water,mud, debris into and through homes, crushing them at least 207 people were killed, and many of them children and now another challenge they dont have fresh drinking water, there is no power which is making it very difficult there for people trying there to help. They are suspending search and rescue effort throughout the night and more rain, is expect in dubai a massive fire engulfs a 72 story sky scraper under construction sending a cloud of thick smoke over the city. It happened at residence fountains tower. It is located near dubai mall and worlds tallest building. Emergeny crews say the fire was an accident that started on the parking level. Three men were injured in that fire. This weekends fire just a block away from the 63 story tower that was heavily damaged in a fire on new years eve in 2015. A heart pounding scene. Eighteen people injured after an accidental explosion at a weekend bond fire near paris. Five of those injured, including a child, are hospitalized with serious injuries. Autho

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