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WTXF Fox Morning News At 5A January 6, 2016

Stowe doesnt feel that much colder than it actually is. You can see the winds are relatively calm, or very, very light. And they are starting to change direction too. And that will be key to whats going to happen over the next couple of days. Nothing on radar. So we can get right to the High Temperature today. Now, the average hi, for january 6th, is 40 degrees. So it is chilly. But appropriate chilly for this time in january, a prepare prepare atly chilly for this time in january. Mid 20s, our overnight low for tonight. Soap, that is a look at your forecast for today. Were going to get to the seven day forecast, which includes the weekends coming up. Of course it is january the sixth, bob kelly, and we were talking about this yesterday. It is epiphany a lot of people wait until today to leave their decorations up through today, then take them down tomorrow. I took my decorations down over the weekends, thats when i had time. And people were saying you cant take decorations down until the sixth. I said great, you know what, ill leave them up. You come over my house on the sixth and take them all down for me. How does that sound . 5 01. Live look at the 30 bypass. This is eastbound on the bypass. Right at 322, looks like theyre just about ready to clear out an accident that occurred on the off ramp. So, were almost back to normal there. Kind of quiet on 95. No problems or delays at all as we get ready for your hump day. Theyve opened up the vine street expressway, so over night construction gone. Were ready for morning rush hour. The vine opened in both directions. Septas market frankford and subway still using that night off service for maybe another five, six minutes or so. But just be ready for some scattered delays. Again, the cold temps, not playing traffic, minor scattered delays all morning, then even into the evening rush hour on the Regional Rail line. So just bundle up and be red if i youre using mass transit. There could be few extra minutes wait on the corner. If you use patco make sure to have the new timetable for all of the trains this morning, otherwise, the schuylkill and 95 looking good, and if you are headed to the airport lucky you getting out of town. But no delays down there at Philadelphia International airport. Lauren, back over to you. We have a developing story this morning. Police shoot and kill a man in upper darby. Officers say they were called out to an apartment on bishop avenue for reports of suicidal man who had a knife. This was last night. Police say the manna poached officers on the scene. Officers ordered him to drop the knife, even tazed him, but say, he still came at officers. They fired four to five shots at the man. He died at the scene. His name has not been released, no officers were injured. Video from High School Basketball game gaining major attention for all of the wrong reasons, in it it appears to show a coach in a incident with a referee. Steve keeley live in langhorne at Neshaminy High School with more on this video. Hi, steve. Well see how far theyve del. , beyond just taking a report, see whether the referee filed any kind of criminal complaint. Close game, fourpoint difference. Dispute call and contact between the head coach jerry devine and the referee. Neshaminy player drives and scores. But the referee says no basket, offensive foul. Then maybe bigger foul committed by the head coach of neshaminy Boys Basketball jerry devine, the ref goes down, another ref steps in, throws devine out of the game. Which continued. There was only 30 seconds left. And pennsbury went onto win. No Public Comments yet from anybody, connected to Neshaminy High School over l school district, and specially from coach devine, or even the pennsbury head coach didnt want to comment after the game. Now coach devines been the neshaminys boys head basketball coach for ten years, ejection already has a mandatory one game suspension, in Pennsylvania High School athletic rules, by the way, most coaches are also teachers, and lauren, if you are wondering what coach devine teaches, history anal gentleman bra. Sos smart guy, maybe not such a smart move getting so angry over a refs call. But it is late in the game. That is close game. His team is having rough seas on, one in seven already this year. Yes, a loft emotions on the line. All right, steve keeley, thank you so much. And if you are feeling lucky, the jackpot for powerball, it is getting big, historic level, many people buying into the funds for tonights big drawing, why not send chris murphy out to bridesburg to get us all a few lottery tickets, and lets hope for some good luck, right. Exactly. So you mentioned buying the lottery tickets. I have another 25 minute to decide whether or not to fork over two bucks, because, here at the 7eleven in bridesburg, the machine here, for the powerball, will start selling tickets per Pennsylvania State law at 5 30, all right . And then the particular lets begin on sale tonight until 10 00 then the drawing at 11 00, so, here is the deal. As you can see, it jumped to 450 million overnight. The last drawing was over the weekends saturday, they do the powerball drawing saturday nights, and wednesday nights, society next drawing is tonight. So, at 450 million, your cash prize is going to be more than 245 million. This is huge, if won tonight, would rang as the powerball games fourth largest on record. This jackpots been rolling now since november 4th. So heres the deal. The tickets are going to go on sale as we said in about 25 minutes. Should, lauren, and bob and sue, should i fork over the two bucks . Now, that question is one we posed to some people last night. Heres what they had to say. I would buy a castle and fill it with penguins. I love penguins. Thats the craziest thing i would do with 450 million. These are activities, definitely probably would buy a yacht, definitely a yacht, and be in the mediterranian and travel all over the mediterranian, italy, the island of pizza, and travel, definitely, buy a yacht. So thats what those good folks would do if they won. A castle full of penguins, guys . I dont know about that. Hey, by the way, quick question for you, largest Powerball Jackpot of all time, lauren . Was in florida, all right . Go ahead. Sorry. It was may 18th of 2013. Any guess . Now again, were at 450 million. Yes. Whats the largest all time . Whats your guest . 390. Know. 590. 590 million isnt that crazy . 509 . And i bet you it goes up to five, at least five by the end of the day with all of the people spending monday. I because thats the deal, right . Everyone will flood in to places like this, 7eleven, in bridesburg, other places and start buying tickets today. Today should be huge by way of ticket sales. Chris, you cant see us, but keurig council is now here on the test being bob and i, sue is staying out of this, you know keurig tweeted yesterday when we asked the big question what do we do. For those unfamiliar, bob suggested lets buy a keurig for the studio. Right. Ten bucks apiece. Chris thought the price was just way too steep. He was in the going to buy n bob delivered the keurig yesterday. Wait. Time out. Time out. Heres my rational. Okay . All right. I get free coffee at the station. The good folks at fox 29, jim driscoll, denise, they have a coffee machine for us on the second floor. Okay . And it is free coffee. And thank you. Hey by the way my last station in san diego, i wont talk about which owner it was, it was not fox, they charged us as employees to use the coffee machine. And then the ratings were good one period, and they unlocked it and said free coffee for a week. Isnt that nice . Previous employer. Why am i going to fork over money for your cure wig we get free coffee . I dont get it. See in he still wont buy in. I was going to suggest make all nicenice with everybody, okay . You buy lottery tickets right there in bridesburg, at 5 30, take your 10, buy us lottery tickets, and just agree to share that money if we win, and then everyone is good to go. All of the k cups you want. Is that fair . Let me ask you a question then bob. Based on that rational, okay . Ill buy five lottery tickets at two bucks apiece. Okay . So listen, five bucks, 10, right . So five people. Now, here is the deal. What if the say sue serio won, you know sue would be very grains, help us out, probably kick some money down to us. What would you and i and lauren and others do with that money would we just hoard it all for ourselves or would we share . Youre going to buy the tickets with the 10, instead of giving it to us for the keurig, buys us, buy five lottery tickets, then youre in. We pull that . And we all own these five tickets . We all own it. How about just a yes see you guys later well get the ticket right now . I have to think about that. Oh. We cant be nice to this guy. Chris murphy we love you and miss you. Thank you. Okay, drivers for the popular Ride Sharing Service uber protesting at the city headquarters later today. Philadelphia Limousine Association made up of over 500 uber black drivers are pretty unhappy with their pay, and availability on the app, compared to the less expensive uber x service. Protest is expected to happen at 12 00 p. M. At ubers headquarters in center city. More changes among the top brass at the Philadelphia Police department. This morning, Police Commissioner richard rot, will swear in a new Deputy Commissioner chief inspector myron patterson, he is 30 year veteran of the department, and will head up patrol operation, that ceremony against at will the 30 at the Police Headquarters in the auditorium. Lawyers for three brothers convicted for their roles in plotting to kill us mill tear personnel will argue to have their life sentences overturned. The brothers of cherry hill were convict in the 2008. The brother say they wanted to testify to deny the charges, but were told by defense lawyers to keep quiet. The brother convicted when two other of plotting an attack at military sites in fort dix and elsewhere. Phillies first baseman ryan howard has filed lawsuit against al gentleman geez a reporting are false information about him using drugs, zimmerman also joining in on the suit. Aljazeera documentary claims two along with other professional athletes allegedly received shipment of performance enhancing drugs. Zimmerman awe who are after the report contained the dark side contained false statements, inaccurate. Person has already recanted everything he has said. As the oregon ranchers stands off enters fifth day, oregon congressman gets emotional about the situation. Ok, so the government crashedtested the f150. The one with the highstrength militarygrade, aluminumalloy body bolted to a highstrength steel frame. And guess what . It made the strongest statement any truck can make. It pulled a 5star safety rating. On all sides. For every cab configuration. cuz when they say militarygrade, they mean battle tested. This is the ford f150. And every other truck is history. Usic thunder clatter by wild cub most weekends only last a couple of days. Some last a lifetime. Hampton. We go together. Always get the lowest price, only when you book direct at hampton. Com equipment err is here. Our official low temperature was 12 degrees for tuesday morning, the coldest since march the seventh, and then the High Temperature was only 32, the coldest day since march the six last year. Coldest of the winter so far. This is the jet stream. You can see it because it says jet stream. Thats how you know. Anyway, moving to the north of us, and it means, that we go from the bitter cold, to kind of cool i shallmild i shall weather by the weekend. Meaning, temperatures that will top off until the 50s. Right now nothing to show you on radar. In fact, the entire northeast is just under the influence of High Pressure which usually means dry weather. We have 14 degrees in wildwood, and wilmington, but the winds isnt as much after factor as it was yesterday. Winds year up there, single digit windchill, dangerous, but no below zero windchills, like we had all over this map yesterday. In fact, it actually feel like 21 out there, still really coal. Still have to bundle up. Not as harsh as it was yesterday with the wind blowing in and just settling in your bones, we have 3mile per hour wind, in philadelphia, right now. So, it is all about the temperature. And it has been taking a dip lately. Today we expect to get back to normal which is 40, 43 tomorrow, i think upper 40s by the time friday gets here. And with that nighttime low above freezing, it looks like when the precipitation arrives it will be in the form of rain, and then casino of unsettled weekend both days of the weekend we had rain in the forecast, not going to rain every minute, but it will be at least a little bit milder, with temperatures in the 50s both days, and brr it is back to cold weather again early next week, bob kelly. Bundle up, and if youre using mass transit, just the walk to the car. Remember if you are going to warm the car up, make sure youre in it. Yesterday we had the situation where somebody left the car running, while they ran into the Convenience Store go get cup of coffee. Somebody stole the car with the baby in the back seat. So make sure the car is occupied, if you are going to warm it up. And you got those seat warmers up. Nobody no problems here on 95, live look right near girard. Looking good at the benny up and over into downtown, no problems or delays at the moment. The market frankford line, trains start today roll again, that night owl service, done with for the evening, so trains are rolling from 69th into the market frankford line, same way on the subway, patco, kick in new timetable over the weekend so make sure you got the new schedule. Few minutes either way can make a difference of standing out in the cold. We had a lot of issuing yesterday, suspend the in the morning, one hour delays for the ride home last night. We reset the clock, everything back to normal on septas Regional Rail lines. But, dont want to rule out minor delay. Again there is cold weather, not playing nicely with the train engines this week. Lauren, back over to you. Bob, thanks so much. In new jersey, authorities warning people who live thereof an irs phone scam. Sheriff jam says several people in the country getting calls from someone claiming to be with the Internal Revenue service. The callers demand thousands of dollars in back taxes, and threatens officers, will serve arrest warrant if he dont get the money. Authorities say if you receive a call like that simply hang up. Thousands every pounds of grounds beaver sold at walmart now under recall. The sams choice black angus beef patties with may and june 2016 use by dates. Sources say the meat may have wood inside, and there have been no reports of anyone being sick just yesterday but the us d. A. Says anyone with the meat should throw it away immediately or return it to walmart. There is still no word on whether after flu end is a teen ethan couch will return to the u. S. For trial. His lawyer visited him at the Detention Center in mexico city but didnt comment on whether couch will continue with his court one reprieve or drop the appeal altogether. He doesnt know yet if he want to go home yet or not, flight. Well, we had a chance to confer, but i am not at liberty to discuss what we talk becomes im so sore. I eat and and his mother tanya were arrested in motorcycles coafter fleeing to the country back in november. Couchs mother has already been deported back to texas, now faces charges there. Authorities are trying to figure out how to get rid after mal airasia in oregon on federal land. The standoff enters its first day in burns, authorities are pushing for a peaceful ends. The group has taken over National Wildlife refuge and is demanding government controlled lands, be returned to locals. Rumors of arrest warrants for five group members, including ammobd bundy circulated. Said he will take stand on possible raid. If government is being that fear and intimidation, that it needs to be checked and bald. And if other Government Entities will not do that then it becomes the responsibility and duty of the people to remove that intimidation and fear. Government buildings and area schools were closed this week out of the precaution, local leaders say the standoff has hurt the economy there. Were getting new look at tornado that touched down in dallas, texas last month. Check out this amazing video. It was just released from the north texas toll way authority. The Traffic Cameras shows the twister as it passes over i30, near the bush turnpike, on december 26th. The day after christmas. Traffic can still be seen moving along some of the ramps, even though the tornado was just several hundred yards away. Eight people in their cars died when this happened. The white house says it cannot confirm a north Korean Nuclear test, but, does say, the us would condemn any violations of United Nations Security Councils resolution, con did duct dollars Hydrogen Bomb test, put the country step closer to improving its Still Limited nuclear arsenal. Spokesman for National Security council says america is monitoring the situation in close coordination, with our regional partners. In afghanistan, one. S Service Member killed and two other hurt in a hours long fight in the southern part of the country. Us troops came under enemy fire in the talibans strong hold, and mort area fire hit medical helicopter responding in that area. The military has yet to release the names of the americans killed and wounded, the pentagon says there is still an ongoing fight. Over in france, the nations stopped to remember the 17 victims killed in the Charlie Hebdo massacre year ago. Victims families joined frances president to unveil a plaque in their honor yesterday. 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