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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia September 8, 2014

I like it, mikey like y. Yes, we still have the view of fourth and market which we always loved. It has all of the primary colors, the the blue, red, it works. It is bright. Yes. Maybe biggest anchor table i have ever seen in my life. So lets give you a wide shot. This studio was a lot smaller before. Remember you came in for your audition. Yes, do i remember. Darker, smaller. We have all this space behind us. Look at all that blue floor. Beautiful. By the way you are in charge of keeping that shiny. Polishing the floors. Look at sues area where we will do weather and traffic with gigantic tv screens and then look at our view, that is bright. Very bright. Did you notice how clear those monitors are. Yes you can see my temples and everything. I hate high definition, for sure. I hope in your contract you got a shoe allowing and a new dress allowance. Yes because you will be able to see with this new gas desk, so, i put on some nice shoes today. Yes, lou great. So im showing off. We will see how long i can keep it up. At least today, now i have to wear pants. Were all begging you to please wear pants. Great to have you here. Sue, what do you think of the digs. You have to now wear shoes. Darn it. Ive abandoned the flipflops. Were going to adopt and it is reminding me of the jetsons but i have rosie the robot to come in here. Yes. So, it will be a lot of fun. Were starting as i said, today is the first day of rest of our lives. By the way, also we have to wash our hand because if you put dirty hand on this, it smudges. I know. Yes. Glass cleaner will be nearby. We are excited about this. How about the change. I feel like weather over weekend was just like the eagles game. The first half. Good. Second half, yeah. But it was that way tail of two weekends. We will keep that weather going to day but we will see more clouds then sunshine what number do you think we will give today. Would say eight. You know, pretty close. Some sunshine. Not too hot, now we will have a look at increasing clouds, a little later on today and a stray shower here and there so a seven out of ten. So there is buddy. He is so excited about the first day of school for Philadelphia Public School students. Nice start with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. 68 degrees in philadelphia with the northeasterly breeze at nine. We will see a few clouds but relative humidity not bad at 65 percent. Phillies back in town tonight they will play pirates, at Citizens Bank parka. 72 degrees when game begins. You may see a stray shower but we will not see enough to get a rain delay, just be on the alert that could happen. 78 degrees today. Mix of clouds and sun and a stray shower later on in the afternoon. That is your daytime high. Tonight were down to 64 degrees. Dont be surprised if there are a few showers around, mike and alex. It is now rice inside the elevator at revel casino. This is a bomb shell. In this video, you can see ray punch his fiance, janet palmer. Previously we had only seen the video, of ray rice dragging her ought of that elevator on the floor. Rice was suspended for first two games of the season. He didnt play yesterday for this incident. So how will this new foot able, which a lot of people knew existed, how will that change everything . Will the commissioner Roger Goodell to have make another statement . We will follow very closely. I think something will have to happen this morning. It has to. When you see that you cannot deny it. He knocks her out. She lunges at him again and he punches her in the face. One thing to see the after, when he is pulling her out, it is another to see it going down. Will he have to make another ruling on this case. We will keep an eye on it. I bet it happens before noon time today. Happening now back to school this morning for students in philadelphia. Yeah, the School Year Starts on time, mid budget issues, that continue to cripple this district, and, another new member of the team, we love her, Lauren Johnson is outside, one of the schools, where are you lauren. Reporter is what going on, mike. Students have been in class for a week now but Philadelphia City school kids will be in back in class and mayor nutter will be celebrating. The they are heading back under funded and under staffed. Philadelphia School District opening the year with a 81 million budget deficit. School is starting on time. There is some reason to worry over money in a financially strapped district. To help with the budget crisis district leaders had to make tough, tough decisions like cleaning schools less often, leading Police Officer vacancies opened and cutting staff positions. The district will have to find more creative ways to cut cash if lawmakers dont pass a 2 a cigarette tax. Despite all of those distractions happening parents we spoke with yesterday are hopeful that their students can still come to class to learn. Let them know it is all okay. Unaudible. Reporter one very good piece of news for students and parents this school year is all students are eligible for free meals. That will take a huge burden off families struggling to make ends meet. Look out for mayor nutter as he plans to visit all week to celebrate back to school events. He have is going to a back to school march, and we can expect him here at some point throughout the the morning. Mike and alex, back to you. Great job, we will check back with you next hour. That is right. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will be in Atlantic City later today. The visit comes amid of a rash of casino closings in the city, closed door meeting will be held with the Casino Reinvestment Development authority, next week, trump plaza casino will be the fourth casino to close, just this year, and that will leave Atlantic City with just eight casinos. Just eight my goodness. An investigation is underway into a Police Involved shooting in northeast philadelphia. Yes, steve is at the round house, what happened. Reporter new set for you guys but same old backdrop and same old head line for Dave Schratwieser and i at police headquarters. If it sounds like police are shooting their guns, shooting in selfdefense and shooting people because it seems more than ever they are being shot at or, driven at, just as deadly a weapon a car at ten last night in northeast philadelphia near comly Crest Apartments a. Police approached a black nissan at a traffic stop and, has new jersey plates. Three people inside when the the car did not listen to the officers orders to stop and came 59 at the the two officers. The driver tried to get him to stop but the car sped off. The officer dove out of the way. They got away unhurt. Not so for everybody in the the car. The cops thought someone may have been hit inside, since they shot from both inside the drivers side and passenger side. They alerted local hospitals in philadelphia a and south jersey to be the alert for anyone showing up with an a gunshot wound. Two hours later they got a call, treating a woman for a gunshot wound to the leg. Northeast detectives raced over there and learned that she was a passenger and then found where black nissan was nearby in the tacony section here on van dyke street. You can see a Police Patrol car, guard ago this address right there, the the officer there telling us that the car had bullet holes and shattered windows from being shot by the the officer. Patrol car out front waiting for detectives to come back to that address with the search warrant where they will likely find some kind of an evident why those with the new jersey plates were willing to run down cops to get a waste with whatever they had been up toe around 10 00 oclock last night on this side of the bridge. Mike and alex . My goodness, all right steve, thank you for that. A five twoyear old man is dead, after being struck in a hit and run crash in gloucester county. The man was walking along the 1,000 block of mantua pike in deptford, when police say he was hit by a pickup truck. Just before 8 00 oclock last night. The truck just kept going. It is described as an older model dodge, police are looking for the the driver, of course in, that case. And now a horrific, story out of philadelphia. Police in delaware, in two teens, and mentally challenge man. You are right, first state. We want to warn you, this is disturbing video. Video posted on instagram and you tube that shows two teens taking turns punching, a 26 yearold man and slamming him to the ground the victim known only as coran, was assaulted outside an apartment complex in newark and then again in a wooded area while several witnesses cheered on the the attack. Well, twit eras you can imagine exploded with outrage and hashtag the bully project. They used another, justin for coran. Investigators say a 13 years old and a 14 yearold has turn themselves into police. They were charged with assault. Police say more arrests are expect because a lot the more kids were involved. Social media, people do things and pose he had ape it spreads. And they get call. That is only good thing. Now the u. S. Has launched air strikes begins isis target. Meanwhile president obama is ready to layout his strategy for the militant group. Doug luzader has those details in the washington d. C. He will do it tomorrow, for whom. Reporter yes, tomorrow for members of the congress. For congressional leaders, for the white house and then next day on wednesday he layout his strategy for the american people. New round of u. S. Air strikes on isis targets in iraq. By all indications these have been effective but this may have been the easy part. The president now says he has a plan to take on isis even in the strong hold of syria, within limits. This is not going to be an announcement about u. S. Ground troops. This is not equivalent of the iraqi war. Reporter the president had been roundly criticized for saying that there was no strategy to counter isis but so far there are few details. Mixed in messages coming out of the white house has been very confusing and i think dangerous to american lives. I dont still know what the clearly defined strategy is yet. Reporter all of the focus this week on isis will also help the white house shift attention from the president s decision to delay an executive order on immigration. The something widely scene as an effort to stem democratic losses in the upcoming midterm elections. Then a surprising admission, the president did acknowledge, the image may have taken of him during his Marthas Vineyard vacation last in when his statement about the isis bee head ing of u. S. Journalist james foley was quickly followed by a round of golf. After the statement that i made i should have anticipated optics, that is part of the job. Reporter although almost immediately after this interview ended the president changed clothes, walk to his waiting met or cade and headed for a golf course. Now again we dont know much in the way of details what the president will outline, later this week, however, what he did say and he said this several times, there would be no u. S. Combat forces on the ground in either iraq or syria, and that puts him pretty much on the side of public opinion. There is just not much public at tight to send u. S. Forces in harms way to take on isis at this point. Speaking officeis they have basically said they have created a new country and they call it Islamic State because it is half iraq and northern half of syria. Dont you to bomb and syria to take them out. Reporter that is the thinking. Right now there have been i think last month maybe 130 air strikes on isis targets just on the iraqi side of the border. Syria is a different matter. The Syrian Government still operates air defenses. If you go bombing over through run risk of having aircraft taken out in the process. It is not as simple endeavor to go after those isis target even from the air. The golf comment people would be happier if he said it was a bad idea to go play golf instead of saying it looked bad. Reporter yeah, it is one of those statement where awe pol guys for offending someone if you were offended, a pol guys. But, it is unusual to hear any kind of contrition from any president , and that kind of made it news worthy we will see you again tomorrow. Thanks, mike. Peace deal in the Eastern Ukraine is threatened by schilling over the the weekend. Clashes between Government Forces and russian backed separatists threatened another ceasefire agreement just two days after a deal was struck. Rebels recently opened a new front around a port city there which many ukrainians fear is a attempt to secure a land corridor between russia and crimea peninsula. Russia got the the peninsula in march. In scotland voters are gearing up to make a decision about whether they want to be independent from britain. Voters head to the polls september 18th. Polls show a decision will be close. Meanwhile push for independent, British Government says the the plans to offer scotland more financial autonomy, a plan will be unveiled in the next few days. I guess we can advise scotland it kind of work out for us, independent from great britain. Yes. That would be interesting coming up quickly too. Since were talking about britain, Prince George would be a big brother. Really. Really. We have to go through this again. Again. Yeah, Prince William and Kate Middleton are expecting another baby. The couple and their families are said just to be delighted with the news but royal Officials Say that kate is at Kensington Palace being treated, again for severe morning sickness. You may remember she suffered from morning sickness during her first pregnancy with georgey boy. He just turned would be by the way. George and his new sibling will be about the same age apart aspirins william, and prince harry. They must be busy, um. Well, alex, does that mean they have choreographed these things. Would i like to think so. Isnt everything choreographed when it comes to royal family. Even getting it the on. They have scheduled it. Ugh. It did not start off well but eagles certainly used a huge second half so we can all go, wow. We were worried. Eagles scored 34 unanswered points in the 3417 win, over jacksonville. Eagles visit the the Indianapolis Colts next week, and jon and sean from 97. 5 the fanatic will be here to talk more about that win because we were all worried about that win. We ran into sean brace as we were leaving the link, yesterday, do you remember that. Yes. He had his little red shirt on . He looked like he was very concerned in the first half, because, he he must have gone to a bar too. More in a second. A viewer sent in this pick on twitter showing security lines to get in the link yesterday. I got the to tell you, it is just ridiculous. We all go out there would i say half of the fans didnt see the kick off. Isnt that there some way to get through this line faster. I remember we were in the parking love. You saidal accounts, we have to go. There is 30 minutes. Look at what happened. We got stuck in line in the heat. Because alex forgot her clear bag, sue. I was than the thinking about it, im sorry, my fault. I have a Michael Koors bag so now we have to run around with a clear bag. It was very fashionable. That was fancy. She had a freezer bag. Ziplock is the best. You zip and just fine. What do you think of our new location. We call this the bam, big all inclusive monitor, yes. Yes. It shows what is going on here. We are watching a storm down to the south, that is affects us a little bit. You can see the circulation here. I like this big thing here. I can actually see. We will zoom in closer. We will see rain in kent county, delaware and clouds, further south you go. It is not too bad here in the city. We dont have precipitation in the city but dont be surprised if you see a pop up shower, again southern new jersey you can see one today but things are looking good at least here in philadelphia and a north and west of the city it is cooler because they didnt have the clouds overnight. As we look at future cast it will be mix of sun and clouds throughout the rest of the day and then by noon we may be socked with a few clouds here and there. By 5 00 we could have rain down to the the south. That is in sussex county. Further south and east from philadelphia we could have the problems. Here are temperatures in the region. 68 degrees in philadelphia 68 in millville, new jersey. 57 degrees in mount pocono. 70 degrees down in dover, delaware. Not a bad morning especially if it is your first day of school. Dew points have come down this morning. Anything below 60, means it is not feeling too humid out there. So that is a good thing. How about your pollen count for today, it looks like, ragweed and grasses are an issue. Today we are in the medium level of pollen but thanks to some rain were expecting tomorrow and on wednesday, that will bring pollen counts down so if you have seasonal allergies and starting to get bad out there you will get a break for a couple days. Here is a look at our seven day forecast and figure out where to go here. Lets look at entire seven day forecast, this is, 78 degrees today and a seven out of ten. Tomorrow, a five, rain is in the forecast. Six if that rain extend into wednesday morning. We could see late day thunderstorms on thursday. Thursday and friday are our days with temperatures in the 80s. Sat kay and sunday, so far so excellent. For their seven day forecast. So, that is a look what is going on with weather, now it is traffic time and we will start off in bala cynwyd. Kings grant avenue you at city avenue. The reports of an accident there. Also in glenside, keswick avenue at glenside avenue. Reports of an accident in that area as well, and finally on 422 eastbound off ramp to sanatoga the accident there plenty of have places show slow you down this morning. It was a tail of two halves, sue, eagles making quite a come back in that second half 34 unanswered point, we will have highlights coming up. Alex, have you noticed one thing about the new set. The floors are very slippery. Were sliding around here. If you move wrong, you end up against the windows. Tom wolf. Hed be a different kind of governor. He served in the peace corps in india. And then got a phd from mit. And as

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