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WTXF Fox Morning News At 5A March 3, 2016

And longer, right now, we have temperatures that are mostly in the 20s, 16 in mount pocono. But the windchills, as we mentioned, are mostly in the teens, not a lot of winds but every little bit makes it feel that much colder. So feels like 15 degrees in allentown, 19 in trenton, and 17 in dover. We are looking good, an accident earlier this morning on 95 near the Commodore Barry bridge, thats gone. Power grid from academy down through cottman, so driving through in the dark. Just make sure your headlights are on this morning. Be ready for. That will otherwise, street road, still dealing with a accident, right at the pennsylvania turnpike, it is right at the under at the overpass of the turnpike, right off the philly bensalem interchange, eastbound lanes block, still working on northeast extension, maybe another half hour between quakertown and lansdale. North on 95, putting the cones in the truck, at cottman avenue. So we will have that ramp opened up shortly, and we will be ready for the morning rush hour, otherwise coming in from the suburbs it, 202 looking good west chester up through malvern in through king of prussia. No problems yet coming in from royersford, through observation in toward 202. And the cone zone coming today, working on the dannehower bridge for the gang at norristown 9 00 to 3 00. Traffic will be restricted down to one lane. Chris and lauren back to you. Bob, just into our news room. Two people are in the hospital this morning after an accident in northeast philadelphia, police were called out for an overturned car we know they were taken to the hospital, more information as soon as we get it. First, a 03 00, this developing story out of Lehigh County, five people are dead, after car collided with a tractortrailer. More on this investigation, hype, dave. The road ways are opened right now there is was scene after fiery crash, not too far from where we are now, hours ago, and scene of devestation, hours ago, investigators say, five people were killed when the car they were riding in slammed into a tractortrailer, the victims were pronounced dead right on the scene, the crash happened here on route 222 near the route 100 intersection around 4 00 p. M. Yesterday, and it was shut down for several, several hours. Upper macungie Township Police say the vehicle with the victims inside headed north on 222 and crossed the median into the path of the southbound tractortrailer and crashed, forensics had to be used to actually identify the victims, the condition of the tractortrailer, driver, is not known at this time. Again, five people dead, their identities not known at this time. Investigators are working to try to identify them. A very tragic scene, were trying to also figure out what else may have led up to this crash. What else may have played a role in it. But, route 222 and 100 open right now following this horrible crash. Back to you. Bad for the families, good for the drivers, dave kinchen, thanks so much. 5 04. Happening today philadelphia mayor jim kenly formally present his budget to the city councils. I steve keeley live in center city this morning with a preview of whats on that agenda. Hine we are, winter, clock starts ticking on the budget countdown in winter, they spent spring debating it, and fighting over it, and getting lobbied left and right. Are they going to pass a big soda tax . The biggest proposed in the country. Soda industry spends in advertising, most of the advertising takes place in minority communities taking advantage of young people who will drink the sugary leverage, make themselves less held healthy f they had 800 million to spends in advertising im sure they can afford to absorb this ticktacks. Three sent an ounce is something never proposed even in philadelphia. Mayor nutter twice tried to propose a 2 cents an ounce tax, and the close test ever got to being passed, chris, lauren, was when they width philadelphia down to a half cents an ounce tax, and that near lip got passed, but then that got defeated at the last moment according to city council insiders. Maybe the mayor wants 3 cents at the start, just as a starting negotiating point. And then we will agree work little lower, maybe even be happen which 1 cents, but let the negotiations begin, and let the clock start kicking. Thats right, steve keeley. During mayor jim kenneys presentation to city council, also hoping to Equipment Police throughout the sit which body cams. He wants 800 officers outfitted with cameras, thats going to cost 1. 1 million. The city tested the cameras in a six Month Pilot Program in north philadelphia. More cameras are on the way, so is policy for using them. It is for everybody. It is for both the police and the public, it serves so many turns. Were using them in internal investigation, showing them what somebody sado kurd didnt occur. Over 250 septa officers already wear those body cameras on daily basis. Still under review, though, how long the sitly store those videos. 5 06. Personal information of nearly 11,000 Main Line Health employees has been compromised, Main Line Health says the employees fell victim to spearfishing scam, that exposed birthdates, and Social Security numbers. Health system says employee respond today what they thought was legitimate email asking for employees information. Health system said it learned of the incident tuesday, main line says no patient information was released in the scam. Only the employees affected. The west depford Police Department is looking foreman accused of scamming his way into an elderly persons home, then robbing them. They say the suspect knocked on the door and identified himself as someone from the water department. After entering, he began searching through the house, looking for anything to steel, some valuables, when the homeowner became suspicious, the suspect then ran out of the house. Police say cash was missing from inside that home. Disturbing video of woman passed out in a car with a baby right there in the back seat. Yes, we have blurred the faces because the mother hasnt been charged yet, we want to protect the babys identity. Good samaritan walking along al gain any Port Richmond spotted the woman and recorded the incident on his cell phone. This happened around 5 00 on tuesday afternoon. The man says he tried banking on the windows, but the woman just wouldnt wake up. When he called police, and then decided to take a rock, break the window and get the baby out while he waited for help to arrive. Seen her out of the corner of my eyes in the car. I went i was going to put it on blast on facebook. He was crying his eyes out, his diaper was soak. He was sitting in it for awhile. And it was just heart breaking. The man stayed with that baby until police arrived. Police tell us the woman was high on narcotics. They are still trying to determine if she is in fact the mother of that baby. They say she tried to run when they got there. But they caught up with her, charges now pending, the baby was take never by dhs now turned over to relatives. Right now the cdc testing for signs of viral outbreak aboard the crust ship battered by the storm on high sees last month. That ship facing possible threat of norovirus. That same ship, yes, you know it by now, Royal Caribbean anthem of the sees, to cut a travel short. This time the captain returned to port in new jersey two days early to avoid a similar storm. It had nothing to do with the vie just, as far as we know, and we didnt see anybody sick on the ship, although, i know there were some people with viral flu. But didnt affect us, majority of the people. We just wish it was longleat centers for Disease Control and prevention has confirmed 3 of those passengers fell ill with a gastrointestinal virus during that trip. All right, 5 09 the time. Want to get rich quicker . Yes. The new way Pennsylvania Lotterys allowing players to do just that. I sweards of the, damn, there go the potholes again. Yes, you can understand what she is saying. Swerve from potholes. What officials doing right now to solve the big pothole problem in philadelphia. The centers for medicare and Medicaid Services recently asked patients to rate the quality of over 3. 500 hospitals. Fewer than 6 received 5 stars. Among them was Cancer Treatment centers of america in philadelphia. Cancercenter. Com slash eastern. After trying brookside chocolate, people talk about it online. Love at first taste. I would liquefy it and bathe in it. Curse you, brookside your nefarious plans have succeeded. Nefarious . Are we still talking about chocolate . Brookside. Talk about delicious. Read across america day yesterday, by picking up a good book. Bo allen traded his football helmet for dr. Seuss hat, red to about 50 Elementary School kids. Part of book donation event at Martin Luther King High School in germantown. Bank donated 3,000 books to at risk kids, chris murphy. Yes, and it is not just eagles players who grabbed good book to read. Chris oconnell red green eggs and ham to second and third graders at the Chester Upland School of the arts in delaware county. Oh, ya, he dawned the hat. Chris looking very dapper in that cat in the hat hat. Oh, hey. Sue, were sick of wearing winter clothes, sue. Guess what . We hope we get a snow day. Women, you know what . There may be, im just going to say this, it could happen. Some delayed openings tomorrow. Because now we have officially a Winter Weather advisory, it is in effect for the counties as you see highlight in the purple there. That includes half of bucks, half of montgomery, philadelphia, delco, chester, all of delaware, all of south jersey. It kicks in at 10 00 tonight. So, now, we are thinking of later start for the snow. And then goes until 1 00 in the afternoon on friday. But i really dont think the snow will last that long. So weve got these temperatures in place, that will be around freezing, tonight, when the snow begins it, will stick on nonpaved surfaces, but we will have slippery conditions around, for the morning rush tomorrow. Twentyfour hours from now, we will casino of be right in the middle of it. So, thats what you can expect right now. We dont have any precipitation, and there is the storm, which is going to kind of dip to the south, come on back as coastal storm tomorrow. So there is the path of this storm. And for most of us, it will be snow. There will be some rain mixed in, at times, and you see it about 1 00 in the morning, mostly see snow. By 5 00 in the morning tomorrow, we do see the rain sneaking in southern delaware, jersey shore, maybe some sleet inbetween, through 8 00, 9 00 in the morning. Really depends on the exact track of that low pressure system, what youre going to get and when. There it is, through 1 00 in the afternoon, and the storm system then pulls out to sea after that. So yes, could be little messy, starting tonight, and going into tomorrow morning. Some of the estimates we have here, there could be little bulls eye of three or more inches of snow down there in central delaware, two, 3 inches, southern new jersey, again, with this coastal storm, southern areas will probably get more than we do in the metro area. But, again it, all depends on the exact track of that storm. Well see how it goes. But a messy morning for sure tomorrow. Weve got 28 degrees in philadelphia right now. All of these other temperatures that are in the 20s, windchills in the teens. We should top off around 40 degrees today. With sunshine early, but clouds taking over later on, and it is cold, and thats why were expecting snow and not rain like we had the day before yesterday, or yesterday, i should say, at this time, it was raining. But anyway, we do have that warm up. None of us really care about the snow as much when we see that 72 degrees. You casino of forget about how mess at this will be tomorrow, when you have that to look forward to, bob kelly. Definitely tomorrow, make your plans today, or readjust those plans for tomorrow morning. Right now looking good. Dry as a bone, no problems on 95, the pennsylvania turnpike, looking good, outside a live look at the schuylkill. Coming into downtown there Spring Garden street, no problems or delays into or out of the city. Also casino every quiet on the 42 freeway here, coming in toward philadelphia. Later on this morning, we will go to medford, new jersey, pattys cafe right at the flying w airport. This will be cool spot to take the kids this weekend. The cafe is located right there on the runway, so you can see the small planes come in and out, also the home, one of the landing spots for skyfox. Going to be over there with the breakfast segment at 9 00. Come on by. Bring the kids, they can be little late for school today. Street road, right at the turnpike under pass. Eastbound lanes still blocked with an overnight accident that is still out there. Westbound getting through, it is the eastbound side that is still block. And if you are coming in from the suburbs, 202, coming up from frazier, malvern, headed in toward chesterbrook, looking good. No problems yet on 422, picking up some volume as this 5 00 hour we start to see folks getting up, getting out, Philadelphia International airport, if you are headed to the airport today, should be good flying day, no problems or for the first couple of flight in or out every philly this morning. Northeast ex it end sean, work crew still out there near quakertown. Chris, lauren, back to you. Take a look at this scene after major car accident in northeast philadelphia. Happened about 6 30 last night right near the intersection of castor avenue and ben err street. Two people are in the hospital after two vehicles crashed including that jeep that ended up on it roof. Police say medics transported one adult, one child, to local hospital. It is sure sign spring is nearly here. Road crews are busy repairing potholes. Yes, the Philadelphia City Streets Department says theyre trying to keep up with the pothole problem. You may have seen a truck around town. Crews have been busy with this automatic pothole filner northeast philadelphia, almost daily. Penndot says pothole problem isnt even nearly as bad as it has been the last few years, but that does not mean that were okay. Your break, everything messed up. It is horrible. If you dont see it, it will mess your axle up, break your tire rods, you know, it will take you to the mechanic, thats for sure. Penndot says the best way to get a pothole fixed is to report it, call in their hotline 1800fixroad. Give exact location and mile marker. Penndot says they try to respond within 48 hours. Well, chris murphy, here is the deem. Back on january 15th, definitely more than 48 hours, right . Go on. January 15th, driving in south philadelphia, im not sure if youre familiar. There is a target and a shop rite. I know. And there is a street thats full of potholes right there. Right, right. I was driving down that street. Where were you going . To target. Okay. I hit a pothole. Oh, no. I got a flat. What happened to the rim . It is bent. Thats not a cheap rim. Oh, no it is not, because i have something called i dont even know what those run flat something flat tires . Oh, you mean some salesman, he up sold you . To buy an expensive thing like that . No, my car comes with those tires because of the way my car is. All right. So i had to go get new tire, that was about 200. Right. Then i had the roadside assistance, to wait in the car, it was colds that day. It was just a headache. Guess what . Yes . I still havent heard from anybody. I called 311. I called fix the road. You dont want to hit the same pothole. I dont want anyone tolls hit it either. You try and report them so other people dont go through what you go through. Still no help. What did the rim cost to fix . I had to get it bent back into shape. I dont remember. And were you all bent out of shape yourself. And i still a. M. , sore subject. Right . Pennsylvania lottery mobile app is now a feature that allows you to scan instant game ticket right from your phone. I like that idea. So easy to use. Just point your phone camera at the bar code, see if you won, even better it is free, available on apple and google play stores, Pennsylvania Lottery is a sponsor of fox 29. You can see the low i little day right here, just, is it before or after the 10 00 oclock news . After the 10 00 oclock news . Right after. Right at 10 59 p. M. Exactly on wednesday. In fact, look at your winning lottery numbers right there. Did you win last night . I dont play. Oh, you better get on it. What about this . It was a very long trip when i left here in february. I dont even know what day it was in february. I was 50. Now im 52. Hes back. Astronaut scott kelly back on us soil, very special welcome call. The new jerseyborn hero received, that is coming up next. Scott kelly back on earth after record 340 days on the International Space station. Not taking all of the credit for what he accomplished, the mission was team effort, and a big, big win for america. Talk about my year in space, and it is not mia chiefment. It is nasas a chief our country a chiefment. Kelly went on to say the space flight is the biggest team sport, couldnt have done it without everyone at nasa who continued to his john. I and the president even called kelly to congratulate him on the mission. Sent out this twitter account explaining the president made the call while kelly was on his way home. This morning kim i back in texas with his family, he still has to undergo more testing after spending so much time in space. Again, nearly a year. 340 days. Kelly says leaving the space station was bittersweet. The mission generated tremendous interest around the world, fielded fueled in part by kelly especial media posts, he has 1 million followers on twitter and instagram, posted 1,000 pictures from space. I wonder if thats the longest time that hes been separate from the his twin brother . Yes, good point. Right . Or from any other, well, he was up there with some cosmonaunts. Right. But still. They are talking about the psychological effect theyll study, as well, but fist logically, he had muscle atrophy, bone density lost, all of that kind of stuff. So theyll see now how his body changes and recovers. Now that hes back to earth. Now that hes home. Thats interesting. 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