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WTXF Fox Morning News At 5A March 1, 2017

And a week of wild weather from springlike temperatures and storms to possible snow showers. Sue serio is tracking our threat of Severe Weather. Philadelphia Rapper Meek Mill facing backlash this morning, what he made a homeless man do that has many people outraged. Good day philadelphia, at 5 00. Good day everybody, it is an ash wednesday, it is already turning the page on new month, it is march 1st, thank you so much for waking up early and joining us. I always like today. When you had your monthly blotter on your desk, could you always rip it. You have a nice clean desk. Clean plate. Until you spill coffee and make up. All of that stuff. All gets on top of it. Good morning, lawyer glenn thank you for having me, guys, im here for thomas, hell be here in what an hour . Yes, mild morning out there, already felt it if you havent walked out the door yet. Believe me, it very mild. Maybe like bus stop buddy just had that umbrella, press that button too soon. Spend the time. Have the umbrella with you for later on in the day. But you dont need to bundle up for sure. It is seven out of ten. We will get to the 70s, but if you look out in the western part of the state thereon ultimate doppler radar, you see some thunderstorm activity around the pittsburgh area, for us, it is dry at the moment. Although the grounds is still wet from the rain that fell overnight, and we have some fog. Down to 2 miles visibility at Philadelphia International airport. Even less in wilmington, millville, and Atlantic City, so, with all of the moisture in the air, not big surprise. We have 56 degrees in the city. 8mile per hour winds, and 97 relative humidity. It is humid out there. Sunrise time 6 34. And look at this. It is the first day of march. And all of our temperatures are in the 50s to start the day. We ends up in the middle 70s before those thunderstorms hit. And sunset time 5 53. So, we break down the timing of the thunderstorms, we will talk about, yes, the possibility of snowflakes on friday morning. It is all coming up in the seven day forecast. Bob kelly . Bite your tongue. Good morning, everyone, it is wednesday. Come on, cutting through the fog here. Here is a live look of 95 right near the Commodore Barry bridge. So, folks here, are headed northbound, heading up toward the airport, roads are damp, theyre wet, and were dealing with the fog. So, make sure you are prepared for. That will weve had half dozen accidents this morning, half of them, three of them, were on and offramps to gave you a idea of how things are slippery. Here is a live look at the benny, flags starting to get comings there, up and over into downtown, no problems on the schuylkill expressway. All of the work crews for the most part were either nonexistent last night because of the rain or they pack up and headed on home. We have reduced speeds across a lot of the area bridges, like the Commodore Barry, because of the fog this morning. Then later on this afternoon, be ready. We have got the big soccer cup in town. Both at 4 00 and 7 00 in delco. Thats going to throw extra volume exiting 95 near the Commodore Barry. And then the new Jersey Transit river line using shuttle buses over in camden, because of yesterdays water main break. Karen, lauren, back over to you. Bob, thanks. We want to get right to the breaking news because it is happening right now. Police are investigating two separate shootings, both in north philadelphia. Steve keeley near the scene of the most recent one that just happened north ban sal street what we know so far. Steve . Reporter sadly youll see a police van coming with a young mans body that they just pick up. And when they pronounce somebody dead on the street, and who never even has a chance to be returned to the hospital, because the First Police Officers normally will take a shooting victim in their own car and get him to an emergency room as soon as possible. But, in this case, as you see the van coming toward us now, we will move with our camera position, we pick up our tripod right now and get out of the police way. This person was shot so many times, was pronounced dead instantly, then officially. Sixteen evidence markers were found in the street sadly. And this happened just 17 minutes after a previous murder. But look down the street here. You can see at the end of the street thats one every philadelphias main streets, west lehigh avenue, thats a school there, saint martins, and where we were at at 4 00, to talk about a first murder before this one just 17 minutes before this one, we were just steps outside feltonville school. So lets go to the video that far one where we had 2 24 a. M. Shooting, a 24 year old man shot and killed, three doors off roosevelt boulevard, this is on rising sun avenue directly across from the Feltonville Public School, we were just outside the school for another shooting. Just weeks ago. And this was outside illegal club, police tell us, fight inside the speak easy, it is an unmarked building, right nextdoor to a legitimate legal clon, the feltonville dance hall club, which has cameras on it, hopefully that helps. This young man was returned to the hospital but pronounced dead at temple just 29 minutes after being returned into the emergency room. In this case, as we come back to this murder as police are wrapping up and leaving this scene, this was a 31 year old man theyve learned. So they know the identity of the victim. And again, shot so many times up close that he didnt have a chance, whether or not there were any witnesses out here, and again, you heard sue say how warm of a night it was, little light drizzle, little breezy, but two murders, within 17 minutes, after a slow night for police. And that slow night ended instantly at 2 24 a. M. Lauren, karen . Recent threats targeting Jewish Community centers, and vandalism of jewish cemeteries, as well as last weeks shooting, in kansas city, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forums. Right out of the gate, in his first address to joint session of congress, President Trump condemns the wave of threats against jewish institutions and the desecration of jewish cemeteries. So this was a very big speech. He also laid out his vision for the future of our country. As foxs jeweled end others, mr. Trump called on everyone to bring renewed optimism and what our nation now is seeing. President trump delivering first joint address to congress. The president with fellow republicans, Vice President mike pence, and how speaker paul ryan, looking on, touting Campaign Promises he has kept in the first few weeks of his administration. We have gun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials. President trump pivot to go future policy proposals. Everything from tax reform, to repealing and replacing obamacare. I am calling on all democrats and republicans in congress to work with us to save americans from this imploding obamacare disaster. In the president s box, five guests, including the widow of the Late Supreme Court justice, antoine scalia. And the most dramatic moment of his speech, prolonged standing ovation for the widow of navy seal, rhino ends, killed in arrayed in yemen one month ago. Ryans legacy is etched into eternity. Thank you. Delivering the democrats rebuttal, former red state Kentucky Governor steve beshear, strong supporter of obamacare and medicaid expansion. Every republican idea to replace the Affordable Care act would reduce the number of americans covered despite your promises to the contrary. Democratic voters said they agreed with President Trump on several issues, but they doubt his ability to unite the nation. 5 08 is the time. Weve also learned that the president s new immigration order will remove iraq from the list every countries whose citizens fate face a temporary travel ban. Say the decision unless pressure from the pentagon and the state department. They urge the white house to reconsider iraqs inclusion given it key role in fighting the Islamic State group. Designed to replace earlier ex tech touch authorities was blocked by federal courts. Kind of an unusual move by a community in our area. The Cape May County Correctional Officers could soon be agents to rounds up imigrants under pretty controversial new program. Dozens came out to blast it by this plan by the Cape May County sheriff. So it is called 287g. And under this program, Correctional Officers would have the power to investigate, arrest, detain, undocumented immigrants that come through the county jail system. Basically, working like ice officers. Immigration control officers there. So this is an effort by the government to track down criminal aliens, but some worry it goes too far. For all immigrants, and we do have an obligation where we have rights to stands up for each other, especially, the more vulnerable ones. Theyre in the going to be outgoing up and down the highways and knocking on doors and things like this. And going looking for undocumented immigrants. Cape may county is waiting for approval. They would be one of the only very small number, 38 agent sits in the entire country to participate. 50,000 reward being offered as Police Continue to investigate vandalism at a Jewish Cemetery in wissinoming. Dozens came together to voice their anger and concerns over hundreds of headstones overturned at the mount carmel cemetery. As Police Continue to search for who ever is behind the vandalism, the fbi and the us attorneys offers have now opened civil rights investigation. All of this, as the community joint together to clean up that big mess. Just to help clean up and make it look nice, just whatever i can do to help. Actually i think well have a lot more eyes and ears in the community. I think people will start really paying attention, and reporting things that they see that doesnt that dont look right. Several trade groups have also offered their Services Like installing lighting and surveillance cameras on the property hoping to prevent future incidents of vandalism. Big showing every support at the zats community center, people gathered last night for rally to sends messages of love and peace. This jcc was one of three in our region and dozens around the country, threatened on sunday. Well the threats were not considered credible. Hershey is set to layoff about 2700 workers. Most every these cuts will impact people who work outside of our count rip. The candy maker says 15 of the work force was cut, part of plan to boost international business, but the company says this is all needed to continue driving the overall sales and profit more detail about the cost saving plan are expected when hershey will hold its Investor Conference today, in new york. All right, it is 5 12, been so mild outside. So we thought maybe saving some money when it comes to our heating bills. But not so fast. Coming up next on good day philadelphia, why one Utility Company says that warm weather, we have enjoyed, well, that should cost you a lot of money. Can you believe that, bob kelly . Lots of money. Money, money, money. Good morning, 5 12, we go for ride on the northeast extension, we got that Construction Zone out there between lansdale and midcounty. Lets go up to trenton, new jersey, the capitol, as we say good morning to the dome right there, we can see the dome, see the flag in the background, but some areas getting socked in with fog. Sue has your forecast, ill check the jam cams right after the break. Bosh is first. No, no, it is me. The teleprompter says bob kelly, just to be sure we know whats going on. Do we know whats going on . I dont know. I will tell you there is everything as it should be. The cold front we predicted is coming through ohio, indianna, missouri and all of the red you see there, those are tornado watches now slight risk of Severe Weather here, minimal chance of tornados, but i can tell you this, a the low of lightning, precursor to the front. Little disturbance ahead of the front. A lot of lightning right now, the clouds are around this morning, very damp, and here is the timing of thunderstorms today. First the first round you see in pittsburgh right now, looks like that will skirt north and west every us, affect the lehigh valley, Lancaster County between 9 00 and 10 00 a. M. And then starting around 2 00, out west, inbetween 3 00 and 6 00 i would say, for most of the rest of us, a line of thunderstorms could come through. We will definitely get some rainout of t whether you get a strong storm or not, some of us will, some of us wont, but dramatic change in temperature afterward. Before the storms hit we get to the mid 70s, then little wrap around moisture overnight. Now we move ahead to friday morning. It is cold hine the cold front right . It is cold enough for snow, 6 00, you see some snow moving into the lancaster area, and you see it by 8 00 weve got some snow in the philadelphia area. Ac laying cents still not certain if we will give any but snow showers talking right now, eventually changing to rain with temperatures warming up a bit on friday. So yes, a lot of changes in the weather, certainly isnt boring. 2mile visibility, at philly international, and even less in wilmington, in millville, and Atlantic City so sort of fog any some places but very, very mild you do not need to bundle up with temperatures in the 50s, where are we headed . To 75. The records for today, 76. We could tie it. It is a lot chillier, with the winds tomorrow than 50 degrees, then friday morning, we could see some snow showers at least to start the day, very cold day saturday, getting little bit better on sunday, by next webbing back to the 60s so the cold comes back but doesnt stick around for long. Brian commenting i said i would put soap in your mouth for saying snow . He said since st. Patricks, we should put irish spring soap in your mouth. Oh, thank you. Magically delicious, yes. Hey, where is my soap . Where is it . Live look, 95, right near the Commodore Barry bridge, were so fogged in here, this is 95, again, north and southbound in the area of the Commodore Barry bridge, because that far reduced speeds on a lot of the area bridges, again, comes up on you fast and then that quick, bamm, gone. We can certainly see the headlights over here in south jersey nor bound lanes of the freeway starting to see delays 295, but see the glare . On the road surface . Thats a sign that everything is wet, from the rain last night, the fog, making things a little slippery. As you roll from center city, into south philly, the walter new Jersey Transit using shuttle buses on its river line from walter rand over to the waterfront because of water main break yesterday. Septa commuters still getting a just dollars to the new transit schedules that rolled out over the weekends, rolled out not just because of the Commodore Barry bridge, camera shot, but later today we got the soccer cup in town. Both 4 00 and 7 00. So two big matches today. Thats going to cause some jammos exiting 956789 of course that change over inbetween the games will occur during the evening rush hour. Karen, lauren, back to you. South jersey gymnastics coach in trouble with the law accused of sending pornography to teenage girl. Nineteen year old bradley donkey from Jackson Township sent the 13 year old inch appropriate photos. He coached her at a private facility in ocean county. Its been fired and now faces some very serious charges. Police say the girls mother found the photos on her daughters phone and reported it. Donkey is out of jail until his next court date. South jersey man allegedly walking into high school lockerroom during swim meet and filming video. John lions junior facing invasion of privacy charges. Valley high school, then allegedly recorded inside a lockerroom filled with female swimmers, no word on when hell face a judge. 5 20 is the time right now. All of these people they want a contract and when when do they want it now. In vote ville, one of the fresco users nick brought us this the video from the Coatesville Area School meeting happened last night. Teachers there won a contract, presented petition to the board, teachers got more than 2,000 people to sign it. They say they would like to have a contract finalized soon. Also the philadelphia gas works, they want a rate hike. Right now it is asking state regulators for 11. 3 increase for residential customers. Pgw says the warm winters and increased Home Appliances have dropped their sales volume over the past few years. And while the cast of natural gas has dropped, the price of delivering the gas and running the business has gone up. Has raised nationally, and biscuits in general going up, thats why we have to come back and ask for this. The Public Utility Commission is expected to rule on this increased request by later this year. Pgw just has not raised it rate in quite a long time, back in 2010. Lansdale Parks Committee expected to hands down its recommendation today on location for the towns skate park, the issue is sort of dividing the community there. The list of four potential locations has been narrowed down to two. One is at Fourth Street park, which already has a playgrounds, and athletic fields, some neighbors say it is a good place for the kids to skate and bike, but other say the locatio

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