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WTXF Fox Morning News At 5A February 19, 2016

Weve got 8 degrees in mount pocono, a chilly 18, in reading, we have got 21 in wilmington and dover delaware and 25 in wildwood. So wind speed are not that high this morning but it is a cold start so you need winter gear, of course. It was a child thursday, yesterdays high was 37 degrees, yesterdays average was 44. Now as of today our average, our normal High Temperature is 45, and where are we going . Just a little bit below average we will end up were 41, 42 degrees. It depend how long sun hangs around but we will have more cloud then sun. Still chilly today but the weekend is a different story. We will have that forecast, the weekend, and beyond, bob kelly. There you go. Is that better. Yes. Much better. 5 01. Good morning. Weekend is upon us and get ready kick those covers off and lets get started. Live look at the schuylkill expressway, good morning to gulph mills, gulph mills interchange there between king of prussia and center city, in problems or delays at all. We are looking good on the bennie as well, no problems coming into downtown, all of the bridges off to a nice quiet start. Rough ride on the way home last night for folks on amtrak and septas trenton line because of the fire in holmesberg. Good news everything is back to normal on the the rails and we expect normal rush hour here on the northeast corridor but septa, changing it up over weekend. They are bringing on that spring schedule and that begins on sunday and it will impact all of the bus, subway and trolley lines. So make sure you grab a new timetable today or log on to their web site over the weekend so you are good to go. Work crews out not only, packing up today but they will be out the later on tonight if you are heading out for your friday night, parties here. Ninetyfive work zone right here near the betsy ross bridge interchange in both directions. They are working in wilmington. Route 13 on the ramps to 295, and then they are also still working on the northeast extension, between lansdale, and q town, but they should be out of there about 5 30 or so and we will be good to go heading up to the poconos for the weekend. Lauren, back over to you. The pope and donald trump are on opposite sides of the fence this morning. An exchange between two leaders could impact the election. Steve keeley joins us live from the Constitution Center with more on this battle going on, hi there steve. Reporter headed to the white house exhibit here at the national Constitution Center but the first word in the name is national and Donald Trumps been fighting on the national campaign. Yesterdays fight went international, when donald trump is attack, he counter attacks usually up until now only politicians, Rosie Odonnell will and a certain fox news anchor but last night at a republican dates televised town hall on cnn, trump back off the pope, starting to day calling the popes word disgraceful but then calling the pope himself wonderful last night as the topic was topic one as soon as trump walk out on stage. You have been in touch with a lot of people but with the pope. I mean does that give you pause. I dont Like Fighting with the pope. I dont think it is a fight. I think he said something much softer then originally reported by media. I think he heard one side of the story which is probably by the mexican government. He didnt see the tremendous strain that the border is causing us. Reporter a person who thinks only about building walls, where ever they may be and in the building bridges is in the the christian. Well, South Carolina residents, not many catholics down there as they go to the polls tomorrow in that primary on a saturday, by the way, and we will see how trump does. He has a big lead in the polls and chris, lauren, latest National Poll came from cbs news last night which was way different from the earlier poll that had ted cruz in front. The latest poll has trum 27 to one over the guy in second place. Wow. He was way ahead in New Hampshire in the polls and that played itself out with him taking New Hampshire so we will see if it follows suit on at day as well. Steve, thank you, sir. A mysterious find all end up on annie young girls face. This is what one young mother says her daughter looked like when she pick up this girl from day care. Dave kinchen is live in hunting park with more on this dave, good morning to you and what are you hearing, from the parents here, there is so much concern. Reporter good morning, chris and lauren. It is a terrifying ordeal this parent says it is last thing this that she ever expect to find on her daughters face, when she pick her up from day care, and now take a look at why the mother is so angry. We will show you these pictures here. Look at the bite marks on her one and a half yearold daughter savannas face. Veronica figueroa says another child at bright side academy bit her daughter repeatedly. The mother says that the day care located on front and erie, called her, tuesday to let her know what happened and then she said she was shocked to see the bruising, which she picked up her daughter and, then get this, she claims it happened three other times, over the past two months. Bite marks are, he bit her and left scars on her face. It was open and close. I saw that she screamed probably for help and she was ignored. She must have been ignored. They gave enough time for to it happen again. Veronica filed this report detailing last incident that says savanna was bitten by another child when they both reached for the same toy but mother doesnt feel day carries taking matter seriously. We reached out, they referred us to their National Office and we contacted, them for a statement, they have not yet responded. We also checked the record for the day care and there are violations, from the past, including one incident in which one child used scissors and cut another childs hair. So, this particular case is still, under investigation at the this time. I cant imagine how the mother feels. Dave kinchen thanks very much. Developing overnight fire erupting right outside a local Cracker Barrel this happened just before 11 30 on the 200 block of East Lancaster avenue in downingtown. Fire officials tell us that fox 29, that the fire started in a camper trailer right outside the building and it jumped over to the restaurant n1 was hurt though. The cause of the fire has not yet within determined. Fire fighters also spent hours battling flames at a home on over hill drivein upper darby last night. This one started just after 6 00 p. M. And spread to the second home. The flames were not put out will until just after 10 00. There are no reports of anyone being hurt in the the fire and so far in word on a possible cause. 5 07. Police warning camden residents of the phone scam that has been circulating recently. The it is not new but the calls have happened more than a dozen times lately. Police say scammers claim they have one of your loved ones and the release, them only if you pay up. Calls are coming from an 856 area code. Police know of at least 50 of these calls so far. Scammers threaten whoever answerness to wiring money. Dont shut off your phone because if you shut off your phone, but i hung up the phone. Then i got on the phone and called my daughter to see over here in city hall and she answered the phone. In every case reported so far the relative turned out to be just fine. Police say if you get one of these calls or text messages, do not answer, and then call police right away, lauren. A man in south jersey is waiting for woman to jog by and then he exposes himself. New Jersey State Police say that this has happened twice. The first time the suspect was park on the side of the state highway 54, in buena vista. One woman says that she saw him exposed performing a lewd act. A few days later the same woman said she just finish her run in the same area when the guy asked for directions and asked if she would watch him perform a sex act. She said it was the same man. The Lehigh County coroner released the name of the victim pound inside a recycling win in allentown. Authorities say she was 59 yearold rose shinvi thesky. She died after getting shot, multiple times before being stuffed in the recycling bin. She lived in an apartment complex where a man shot at police who are serving a warrant connect to the case, tuesday night. Police say that man shot one detective, in the arm but he is out of the hospital tonight. This morning. Prosecutors have still not charged anyone in her death. 5 09. Search is on for an accused robber whom police say has struck in both fox chase and burholme sections of the city. Heres a lot at guy right here january 5th. This is when the first incident happened. Police say this guy walk in the galaxy smoke shop in the 7200 block of rising sun avenue and pulled a gun on that cashier. Then on january 16th, police say he did the same thing, at the auto zone on action forward avenue. He got away with cash, both times. And thieves break into a discount Luxury Department store in center city. The alarm was triggered in the century 21 right there on Market Street just before 5 00 n someone smashed two front display windows, 2,000 of merchandise was taken right off of the manikin. The damage to the window is estimated to be 7,000. And, Philadelphia Police are trying to find a man they say had stolen thousands of dollars worth of cell phones and other electronics from the at t store twice. The the suspect walk in the store on the 2500 block of grant avenue in northeast philadelphia on january 2nd and then again, on january the sixth. And he cut the security cords on numerous iphone, ipads and samsung phones and then just walked out of the phone. He was seen getting into a gold vehicle lauren. Jahlil okafor did not get traded yesterday but did he get find for his reckless driving incident on the ben franklin bridge. Okafor will to have pay 439 for driving 108 miles an hour, across that bridge, back in october. Some people wanted community service, but this is the standard penalty, lawyers for okafor says he had learned his lesson and now it is time for the team to put the problems from the first half of the season sort of behind them and pick up their pace for the final stretch. What they have, like 29 games left. Doesnt matter. They have a bad record. I mean with okafor, just glad to see that we have in the seen anything else happen off the court with him. He is such a young guy and so talented, we need someone like him to build this team because it is all about building this team going to these big draft picks. They got rid of Michael Carter williams who won rookie of the the year. We need some talent. Lets hope all that is behind him for good. Lets hope so. Fingers crossed. Still ahead body of the u. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is set to lie in repose today but questions over president s decision not to attend his funeral are adding to the political fire storm over this. And the race to the white house, it is heating up what the republican and Democratic Candidates had to say as they took part in separate town hall events last night. Nasa find a galaxy home to one of the biggest black holes ever discover. This is what you are seeing taken by hubbell space telescope. Galaxy located is more than 300 million light years away. Wrap your head around. That black hole measures 130 billion kilometers in and its mathis greater than 1 million suns combined. You cannot see the black hole because they are invisible since light cannot escape their gravitational pull. At 5 15 in the morning if you wrapped your head around that, my hats off to you. I was never a big nasa nerd. I lived in orlando. I was in orlando, and the Kennedy Space center is not far away, and you know, you cover those things. I have covered a rocket launch. I was just always like, um. I cannot wrap my head around it. It is just too much. I have never seen launch but would i love to see it. It is gra it to watch. Like there atco co beach. Brighter then a million suns. That is you. It was poetic really. I was thinking. Getting a little ridiculous. Anyway, 24 degrees in philadelphia it is cold in the entire northeastern part of the country but check this out 61 degrees in st. Louis. Fiftyeight in memphis. And 66 in wichita. Sixtythree in dallas. The these are current temperatures. It is a february morning. That is the mild air that is heading our way, just in time for the weekend. So, it is chilly right new but it is not going to stay that way. We do not think this lit ale use of snow will hold together. We will keep an eye on it but we dont have any precipitation to show you at all. We talk about the coastal storm, possibility next week with the le pressure system arriving. It looks like at this point and this is really early because it is friday and this is not until tuesday into wednesday, at the earliest, you could get some snow, you could get some rain. It all depend on the temperature and track of the storm, timing, temperature and track, the 3ts are always the things we watch with these coastal storms. Just alert you of the possibility right now. Mid 20s, teens, Single Digits, it all depend on where you live this morning. We dont have much of a wind chill f we get that kessal storm tuesday into thursday we will have to keep in mind that is there a full moon, next week and that could increase the possibility of tidal flooding. So things start to get interesting, after the weekend. Lets look at the weekend. 59 degrees on saturday. 57 degrees on sunday. Chilling out, by monday, and with that colder air in place that is why it is going to be trick toy predict the type of precipitation at this point, but it looks like something will happen, probably tuesday, into wednesday, bob kelly, to get your self ready. Get ready, find shovel and umbrella and have them both standing by. Good morning, everybody. Hello delco, live look at Delaware County near highland avenue. Kind of quiet no problems for gang heading up towards the airport. Out to the limerick outlets, sues favorite home on the weekend in the background there, in problems on 422, between the two, and royersford. They are going to be working later on today, although that stretch on 422, it is between cooper, and valley forge road. Getting word of a, fire in southwest philadelphia at the a junkyard at 61st and passyunk. So if you are hearing the fire engines roll through the neighborhood that is where they are going. We are going to try to get a camera shot to see what is going on there septa changing it up this weekend, rolling out their spring schedule, so pushing winter behind us, getting ready for sunday. That will impact all of the bus, subway and trolley line. Grab a new schedule, or go on line through the weekend so you are ready to go for machine morning. Septas transit line was suspended last night because of the big fire in holmesberg. But for the morning rush hour we are good to go, all of the trains are rolling out of the gate with no delays and amtrak is also, back to a normal schedule this he were impacted by that fire last night as well. And then if you are getting out of the town for the weekend, lucky you, no problems at the moment at philly international, chris and lauren, back over to you. Body of the u. S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is set to lie in repose today for members of the public to say good bye in the Supreme Court building. The president and first lady will pay their respects but questions continue about obamas decision not to attend scalias funeral tomorrow. It is symbolic, he should be there and it looks like he didnt feel like he had to go. Vicepresident biden, who is somebody had his own personal relationship with Justin Scalia and his family, will be representing the administration at the funeral. Josh ernest went on to say that some people actually want to use the funeral of the supreme Court Justice as a political weapon and that the president doesnt think that is appropriate. In the meantime political battle continues over whether the president should be the one to nominate a new supreme Court Justice to fill scalias vacant seat. Democrats think that president obama should be able to make a many in nation because is there more than enough time left before his term is up, what about 11 months. The most republicans feel the nomination should wait until the next president gets into office. The political battle is set. Final push for president ial hopeful in what is shaping up to be a key weekend. Republicans john kasich, jeb bush, donald trump took to the stage last night in a town hall after ben carson, ted cruz and marco rubio had their turn on wednesday. Trump was asked about his former comment that george w. Bush lied to get the United States to go to war with iraq. I will tell you very simply it may have been the worst decision going into iraq, may have been the worst decision anybody has made, any president has made in the history of this country that is how bad it is, okay. John kasich was asked about trumps feud with pope francis. He said trump was anti christian for wanting to build a wall at Mexican Border. The kasich laid in on the issue. There are too many walls, we need bridges between fuss we will fix the problems in washington because all they do is have walls and i think we need to get the problem solved. Republican primary in South Carolina and democratic caulk news South Carolina will be both held tomorrow. Get your mind off of all of that we will get to things like sports and how about a nice warm place like florida. Yeah, phillies getting on the field for day two of the spring training, hear from the new manager who is getting his first crack at a full season for the phillies. In clearwater. In clearwater. 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