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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia October 3, 2014

We will give it a nine. Few more clouds and sunshine but we will stay dry, however, we are going to be watching out for some rainfall, not so much today but more as we move in the overnight. Seventythree for the high. Lower 60s moving into tonight. Coming up we will have more on the rainfall that will impact the weekend. Time for a look at traffic on this friday morning, a we take a live look at i95, girard avenue, you can see that traffic starting to build up as folks make their way to work and school. Also reports of an accident in perkasie, south fifth street at west chestnut, and that accident has cleared, thankfully this morning. Back to you. 7 01 on this friday, an american cam why man who work for a News Organization helping to cover ebola out break in liberia. For a Major News Network. He has tested positive for the virus and license flown back to the states for treatment. Meantime a texas woman has been confined to her apartment under armed guard after Thomas Eric Duncan, the man infect with ebola stayed at her home duncan is still being treated at a dallas hospital. Now liberia Officials Say they are going to prosecute him, that passenger, they say he lied on his airport screening questionnaire. When asked if he had had contact with anyone who had the virus, apparently he drove somebody to the hospital, who had it, ebola, and din didnt tell anybody. Airport are scrambling to compact, afraid to fly. In philadelphia 4 Million International passengers come through the airport each year and now, a quarantine station is set up and equip to house any travelers suspect of having an Infectious Disease such as ebola. Unaudible. Youre not worried. No, why should i. Make sure you wash your hands and you cannot really let the fear control you. Reporter some law makers in washington asked for a congressional hearing to see the if the cdc is diagnosis enough to protect its borders frome bowl. I never knew out of Philadelphia International they have that isolation protocol in place even before this. Really. Yeah, yeah. Police are investigating a series of vehicle break ins in bucks county overnight. Police say at least nine cars were targeted, in falls township. The thefts happened on thornridge drive and toll up lane. Vehicles were unlock. At least 3,100 worth of items were taken at least. Philadelphia police want to identified the suspects caught on surveillance camera vandal icing vehicles. Look at them here. This happened in juniata park between tuesday night and relevant i wednesday morning. Police say two women and a man slash tires on the vehicles park on east warol and potter streets. If you think you recognize any of these people call the cops. Fire fighters are investigating an Early Morning fire in the 2500 block of west oxford street. The the Fire Department arrived on the screen shortly after 1 00 this morning. Upon arrival they noticed heavy smoke coming from the the structure. There are no reports have of injuries. Three people were shot when someone fired 13 round in a residential neighborhood of kensington. It happened along the 3,000 block of northerly street around 10 30 last night. Police say a husband, wife and second man were all struck, they are all at the hospital in stable condition, one bullet also went in the occupied home but no one inside of that home was hurt. Police are looking for one man who was captured on surveillance camera. Police arrested a suspect in connection with the deadly stabbing near drexel university. It happen inside a home on the 3200 block of somer street around 8 00 last night. A 57 yearold man was kill. Police tell us hes was arguing with another man also in his 50s when he was stab. Two women and a threeyear old boy were in the house when it happened but they were not hurt. Philadelphia fire fighter is facing charges of impersonating a Police Officers and sexually assaulting a woman, steve is on the story at the round house. Looking at his arraignment paperwork nine charges including kidnapping for ransom being the sex act he forced her to do. That is where you get the Sexual Assault charges from. Along with impersonating a Public Servant this guy already is a Public Servant. Both fire and police jobs similar in that they both protect the public but officers say also similar in their uniform pants, the 18 yearold veteran fire lieutenant still wearing his uniform pants charged with telling a 48 yearold woman that he was a cop and asked her if she was getting high as she walk home after leaving her friends house. Then he forced her into his truck. A female is walking in the 1300 block of r uscomb street. She is forced inside a vehicle by a male. At that time the male states to her, makes a statement to her. She approached the vehicle. The male at some point in time throughout this interaction identifies himself as a police officer, which he is not. At that point the young lady enters the vehicle. He then forces her into committing some type of a sexual act while inside the vehicle with the her. The shes able to escape from the vehicle, notify police. She hides between vehicles and as he maneuvers around several cars looking for her a few minutes later police are a arrive, and apprehend this gentlemen. Jamal johnson has a court date now set for october 16th on all these charges. He was freed on hundred thousand dollars bail. He had to put up ten grand for. That next up not just prelimb at the the courthouse but also a a disciplinary hearing for sure over at Fire Department headquarters on Spring Garden street. Dont be surprised when you hear the next update on him that he is suspended from his job. They will in the let him back at ladder 14 facing these nine very, very serious felonies. My god. Thanks very much. 7 06. Lets state in the Police Department now. A Philadelphia Police officer is under arrest this morning after investigators say he hit his female partner during an argument. We first brought you this story on tuesday. The officer Kenneth Allen is now charged with assault. Authorities say a woman, and, now on desk duty. It is 7 07. New Jersey State Police said they are closing in, on a group of women, who pulled off a daring run much time robbery, at a Chinese Restaurant and they were using a minivan. Let get to karen hepp for the story. We are calling these lavender ladies, karen. What . Reporter that is my nickname because they are all wearing purple. Ladies in lavender. The mode of traveling, purple pants. They are kind of an unlikely crew to be ripping people off, lets take a look. Fear the bun. These ladies in lavender can work a neat hustle. New Jersey State Police say they distract with chatter and then clear you out, saturday the cases nail salon in folsom boro coming in the door one after the the other while the owner got suspicious, followed them all over the the store and watched them like a hawk. They left with nothing. But at this Chinese Restaurant on the black horse pike police say they have perfected their caper. First, they ordered food and then they asked about throwing a surprise party, keeping the owner occupied. And then that is when police say that woman went behind the counter and stole nearly 20,000. Then, to add insult to injure the owner says that they perfected their roos by waiting to their food order and even hugging her on the waste out before heading back to their pretty unlikely getaway vehicle, a toyota minivan. That owner is understandably embarrassed but, they stole a ton of money, almost 20,000. Shes offering a within thousand dollars reward for information that leads to these suspect. Police think they may be narrowing in. If you have anye do who these women are check out our web site at my fox philly. Com and call the new Jersey State Police. Mike and alex, back to you. Thinks the the weirdest story of the week. First of all almost 20,000 in cash at a Chinese Restaurant and it looks like they purposely wore those lavender outfits. Would you think that makes stan out. Yeah. Reporter it kind of reminds me, i dont want to make the connection but do you remember that haleboop comet thing whole bunch of people wearing same clothe, working doing the same thing. It is just an eclectic group of unlikely suspects in this case. That is for sure. How fast can a minivan go. Yeah. That is what i was thinking a minivan. Yes. They tore out of there in the minivan. Thanks, karen. We have to stay on that story, we will hear from them again im sure. 7 09. Two pennsylvania officials have resigned in connection with the scandal involving emails containing pornographic images sent from governmental accounts. State Environmental Protection secretary christopher abruzzo, pictured here and glenn parno, a top lawyer in the department, submitted resignations yesterday just hours apart. They are among eight other state officials. The state attorney generals office, disclosed, had sent or received hundreds of pornographic images or videos from state email accounts between 2008 through 2012. Yeah, state of pennsylvania. High graduation requirement, changes include various standardized tests, besides the park exam. The students will be allowed to use sat and act scores to graduate. If they achieve a minimum score. Student can also submit a portfolio, supporters say providing options gives students a way to prove what they have learn this change will take effect in 2016. Okay. Man, almost, how many people do you think was in on this thing here. Jp morgan says 83 million people, have been hit, with a breach, hackers, a massive signs tack, against banking giant Jp Morgan Chase has compromised the information of millions and millions. Almost 90 million people. The the company just release that had information, add ago this 7 million Small Businesses were also affected, this is back in july. The breach happened over the summer, the the company says names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses of customers were stolen from its servicer. The company says it has not seen any customer fraud stemming from the breach as of yet. Heres an interesting case a ohio woman is suing a sperm bank after she received a donation from a man of a different race than what she wanted. In 2012 general they are conditiondell says chicago area clinic gave her sperm from a black man when she called for donor be white. Mistake was discovered five months in the because she and her partner wanted to use the same donor for another child and went back to the bank to reserve that same donor but samples were not a match. Now the the couple is suing a clinic for negligence. I was just floored by the fact that it was so easily messed up, so easily like, oops, sorry. Wrongful birth lawsuit is seeking compensation for a number of things including medical expense, Emotional Distress and other economic and noneconomic losses. The clinic says it would not comment citing ongoing will will litigation. Texas should able to move for with the restrictive abortion law. Part of the law requires doctors who perform abortions to obtain hospital admitting privileges, and clinics must meet similar codes to hospitals as well. Critics say that means costly upgrades though. Supporters say the law protects womens health. More than a dozen clinics could close because they dont meet those standard leaving the state with just that. A huge state like that. Growing concerns over injuries in youth sports. We have talk about this all the timees is specially during fat ball season which we are in right now. After a insuring High School Football player dies from his head injuries. Dozen of teammates, students, staff, parents gathered for a vigil for the 16 yearold player. Officials say the teens death appears to be link to a traumatic brain injury. Doctors say it is hard to determine the severity head injuries. We dont have a blood test, a scan that will tell us, yes, you have had a could be cushion. Therefore, we dont have a test that says you are over your concussion. So according to the study an average of 12 high school and College Football players, died every year from these head injuries. In california, a ferris wheel riders at disney a venture gets trapped on the ride. Witnesses say they were stuck for an hour and a half, crews work to manually move the wheel to get those riders off. In word on any injuries. If that happened to us, would you like it if you rock the car. In, i would be like stop it, stop it. That is a scary situation. Severe weather, again, my daughter was telling me about this in the midwest, the trail of destruction across several states and were in early october. Arkansas, texas, oak, missouri all hit with heavy rain and wind. Take a look at that. Some homes and business where is destroyed in the wake of the storms and thousands where is left without power. All right. Lets give you some world news now. Honk conns leader is offering a olive branch of sort to protesters to saying he will step aside. Wont resign but he is willing to hold tax with activist and protesters. Protests have died down a little bit since at nuns. But for a week demonstrators have been demanding reforms including open nominations for candidates but it remains unclear what kind of a compromise could result from these talks. Turkey is gearing up to join fight against Islamic State group. Turkeys parliament approved military measures that will allow a country to play robust role in the u. S. Led coalition against sunni militant. About time, turkey. In australia a surfer loses his arm after fighting off a great white shark. Yikes. Twentythree yearold also has lacerations, on his legs. He was flown to a hospital in perth, where doctors say he is in stable condition, Officials Say, that he was visiting the area with his girlfriend, another surfer, who helped pull him out of the water. Meantime Officials Say steps are being taken to make sure that in one else gets hurt but that is hurt. Fox 29 howard eskin has a big report that the phillies are on the verge of a major shake up. So on august 28th philadelphia is nuns that had president and ceo David Montgomery was taking a leave of absence. So howard, reports that montgomery is being pushed out of the phillies top spot, and howard has also reported that minority owner John Middleton is in the process of trying to take the lead in this ownership group. In addition to the owner ship move, howard reports that the phillies will do whatever it takes to move ryan howard, this off season. Wow. Team is looking very closely a at potential of trading cole hamels. That is a big shake up. That is big. Exactly 7 15. Heres Scott Williams. This morning for me im typically in bed typically at this hour but im filling in for sue serio who has had the right idea about taking this morning off. High temperature today on your friday we will top out at 73 degrees. As we move toward tonight, we will call it mostly cloudy, 63 degrees, and rainfall will be arriving, after midnight. It is a storm system right now that has been bringing a lot of heavy rain, gusty thunderstorms toward the deep south, gulf coast right now but it stretches from the gulf coast all the way to sections of the great lakes. As we take a look along the the eastern seaboard, it is dry and quiet. Those first flights out of the Philadelphia International airport are looking pretty good. What about the timing of this system. As we advance the clock, you can see by 9 00 oclock tonight, the the rain is still off to the west, and so we will be dry for your friday evening plans, and that is the the good news but after midnight you can see were watching that rainfall approaching the Lehigh Valley as well as pocono mountains, tomorrow morning, 7 00 a. M. , were damp, were dreary so wet conditions, to start on your the saturday, and then by midmorning, 10 00 a. M. We are still looking at clouds and rainfall across the the area. This could be a rumble of thunder but then that system will be moving out of here. So by 1c oclock, most of the activity is down the shore and by 5 00 p. M. , were starting to dry things out, and area wide across the the area so weekend is not a complete wash out, and how much rainfall do i expect . On the average of a quarter inch to a half inch of rainfall, some of the highest amounts, mainly toward the Lehigh Valley as well as the poconos mountains. Now, lets talk about that seven day forecast, because look at the changes as we move towards today, not that bad, as it is dry, 73 degrees is the High Temperature. Look at the weekend. Rainfall to start on the saturday. 69 degrees will be the the High Temperature. And, then low 60s, that is it for High Temperatures on sunday. We will wake up to a low of 44 degrees. Then as we move towards next week, more seasonal, numbers, temperatures topping out in the lower 70s and next rainfall chance after tomorrow morning will be toward the middle of the week. Big game at the link. Look at the kick off weather were talking temperatures only in the 50s. 58 degrees by 1 00 oclock that is not a typo so it will feel like football weather and we are looking at temperatures, at 58 degrees at one, wind out of the west at 10 miles an hour. Weather and traffic together now lets update you on conditions now route 55, north bound before route 56, in vineland, there is some construction that has right lane block until 3 30 this afternoon n university city, south street, the westbound near convention avenue is there an accident in which a vehicle struck a pedestrian. In lower mer

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