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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia November 11, 2014

11 11. And they go up to ten. I loved that movie. Yes. What is better than a ten on a scale of one to ten. Eleven. Turn it up to 11, 11, 11. Great day. Then that cold snap hits, man. Good veterans day. Well, ill just have to add another number there. Because we will go with a ten out of ten today. That looks good for veterans day for those who do have off and those who dont weather will be excellent. We have fog around this morning and there is some places you will see quite a few clouds this have afternoon. With the temperatures coming and fact that it is 67 degrees today we will take that ten. Bus stop buddy is feeling patriotic as well soluting those who serve our country, some fog as we said, milder then yesterday and a few clouds mixed in with your sunshine. Just a sweat shirt is a good idea. 48 degrees in the city, relative humidity at 86 percent. We have moisture in the air. That why is we have been seeing fog. Sixtyseven is our high with a mix of sun and clouds. Tonight was a cloudy sky and a maybe a stray shower and overnight low of 54 degrees. Is there your fox cast from the weather authority. Heres bob kelly, good morning, sue. Good morning. 7 02 on a tuesday. Heading down to the airport you had are good to go. This fog at philly international but hello, cherry hill, a live look at route 70 haddonfield mall, who took the mall. It is in the background there. This is a example of the thick fog and patchy depending where you begin and even your trip this morning. Couple problems in cheltenham old york road at willow avenue. Watch for a crash, also in Chester County route 202 right at smith bridge road just south of route one an accident tying us up and then south on the roosevelt boulevard we will get for a ride here stacked and pack from fox street down through the schuylkill, all because of an accident right before you get to the ramps for the schuylkill expressway. Inbound on the schuylkill, again, in fog but about a 22 minute trip from conshohocken to downtown. Seventeen minutes south of the i95 out of the northeast. Northbound lanes of the blue route slow from 95 up to the schuylkill. We will deal with the fog over the bridges later this morning. But right now were in good shape. Mass transit, buses, trains, trolleys, all running with no delays. Mike and alex, back to you. The accelerator, sproles at the 40, Darren Sproles, gone, touchdown, eagles. Just like you, he is short but has an accelerator. It was great. Eagles are seventwo after a blow out win over the panthers. It was over from the beginning. The Darren Sproles im glad we pick him up, with this rushing touch dunn. It was darren again with a punt return for a touchdown, he turns it on, and be in will catch him, in the 45 to 21 win. By the way, happy birthday, yes. Tied up in the bow. He is 28 years old today. We will talk about it, later in the show. Happening today, in man accused of abducting carlesha freeland gate inner germantown and will be back in philadelphia to face federal kidnapping charges. Yes, i95, down in virginia for a while. Yes. Steve. That was original plan, but call this a different kind of Federal Express services today, express delivery by federal boro of investigation straight to philadelphia package will be shipped and shackles and leg irons and virginia authorities told me that barnes was his Virginia High School home coming king, back in 1993. This is ative rent home coming for the philadelphia born accused kidnapper. He had been scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, in that horrific kidnapping in the 16 yearold little girl but that case could be months or years away they are telling me because barnes is brought back today to philadelphia face the federal kidnapping case involving carlesha first. His First Court Appearance since his arrest last week now, still will be tomorrow, same day but Different Court and now different state. Barnes is being pick up from a virginia jail to be taken to the federal Holding Center at seventh and arch streets. Federal judge signed the order to have look virginia jail turn barners over to the fbi to make sure barnes gets here for his scheduled Court Appearance tomorrow. His latest continuity in the jail will here tonight will come almost a year to the day, since he was let out of the another pennsylvania prison last november, after doing just eight years in a max, 16 year sentence for that savage attack on his exwife and fatherinlaw. So alex and mike, with a First Court Appearance tomorrow here in philadelphia, barnes definitely positively has to get here, overnight. You got it, steve. Fedex indeed. 7 06 on this tuesday. A fightin side Industrial Correctional Center send several inmates to the hospital. This is wild. Sky fox over the prison last night. Police say several inmates were stabbed with homemade weapons. Their injuries are not life threatening but it was a mala at one point. No officers were harmed during the incident thank goodness. Reporter officials at Six Flags Great Adventure say in one was hurt during a late night fire. Fire broke out in the barn in the theme parks safari section but it was under control by 11 00 oclock. Six flags said in a tweet all of the animals are safe. Police are looking for the man whom they say robbed and sexual willly assaulted another man, take a look at some Surveillance Video that we have here. Authority say this suspect seen here inside Golden Dragon Chinese Restaurant on the 3300 block of north second street, followed the 18 yearold man, out of the store and back to his home early sunday morning. That is when he forced victim inside at gunpoint, sexually assaulting him and robbing him. Neighbors we spoke to didnt recognize the man said they are worried and will be on the look out. A guy will follow another guy, rape him, that is i can is evening. This block right here, we will look out for one another, best i can say i hope he is okay. Suspect took the victims cell phone and house keys and 120 in cash. Call this man if you recognize him. Authorities say authorities kept eric frein from seeing his client. Veteran criminal defense attorney james sweat, says he tried to meet with frein after Police Arrested him. He says, that they told him, no, you cannot meet with him. By the time he saw frein, the next day, the Attorney Says that police already interviewed him, without the attorney being present. Prosecutors charged frein in the shooting death of Corporal Brian Dickson and the shooting of trooper alex douglass. Just a few weeks ago. Seven new Jersey High School Football Players accused in the hazing scandal will be tried as juveniles. Middlesex county Prosecutor Says that. The sayreville war memorial High School Football players were arrested last month all between ages of 15 and 17 years old. Prosecutors say that the teens held other players against their will and touched them in a sexual manner. School superintendent canceled the football season after the hazing allegations were first discovered. Yep, 7 08 on this tuesday. Former Philadelphia Traffic Court judge convicted of per injury any federal court will plead guilty in a unrelated corruption case. There she is 71 yearold thomassin tynes is expect to add in myth to taking a 2,000 tiffany bracelet, from an informant. Her plead is a huge win for Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams who reopened the case, this past summer. And at 7 09. Just in time for veterans day, new efforts are underway to improve services for our vets. Yeah, jenny joyce is live outside the va hospital with more on those improvements, much needed, jenny. Reporter absolutely much needed mike and alex. With the new leader in the va we are hearing that they are pledge to go provide better care to our veterans, hire more doctors and then discipline those who have contributed to the outrageously long wait times for veterans medical care. To improve communication between officials and veterans, meeting was held in our area last night, veterans and their families were invited to attend and speak up about their issues and concerns. One man explains he has been battling for benefits for ten years. Decades long war in iraq and afghanistan, a recession back home, and over reach on the part of the va has led to absurd wait times for medical care. With the new leader the va says it has a plan in place to improve the system, veterans tell us that they are cautiously optimistic. I think we have a way ahead to help us ensure we are centered on veterans and focused on how we best deliver whatever that benefit he or she may have earned. In general, the length of time it takes for your veterans to get services they need. For eight to ten, on average about nine months for a survivor, minimum of a year. Long time. We know we have made great progress and here in philadelphia a we have come a long way. We are on target. We make no claim over 125 days at 98 percent quality by the end of 2015. Reporter va handles roughly 36,000 disability claims each year. The department not only wants to catch up on the backlog but ensure quality care. They are not streamline facilities and web sites to make it easier for veterans to access their medical benefits. Right now the complaint is it is not only a lengthy process but a very confusing one, mike an alex. All right, thank you. 7 11. My goodness. Also this veterans day philadelphia dignitaries will tend a ceremony at washington squares tomb of the unknown. Todays event will commemorate living veterans and remember those, that paid the ultimate sacrifice serving our country. The tomb of the unknown honored thousands of, soldiers who died during the revolutionary war where they were buried in mass graves. If youd like to attend that ceremony, that ceremony begins straight up at 10 00 oclock this morning. They will have a ceremony for it just like tonight arlington, virginia. All day to day several local restaurants are affecting free food to vets to celebrate the restaurant. Veterans and active duty military personnel can get a free medium pizza, at mark owes, and plenty of have coffee to go around too chain is delivering pizza a to veterans groups throughout the country. Applebee is offering free meals as well. The chain has a special menu for the holiday. You just need your military id to get the deal or wear your uniform. Septa is looking to hire vets, the Transportation Agency is working with the va on a special initiative to recreates veterans to the company septa will release more information about its program in an announcement later on today. And we are honoring our men and women in uniform this veterans day. Were asking townsend pictures of loved ones, who served. It looks like cindy is proud of her dad. Sure thing. And then also, another one happy veterans day, for this veteran who left in october. Yes,. Samantha harry conway World War Two, look at that. Were loving these pictures. Remember if you send it in use that a hash tag, fox 29 good day. 7 12 now on this veterans day. Police stop a burglar in his track. They say 48 yearold fredricko, robbed a number of homes, on noreen and sycamore drives in Burlington County between midoctober and just last week. Cops say that he is a primary suspect, in all of these robberies. So, prosecutors have not charged him with all will of them as of yet. Police caught up with him friday night while he was riding his bicycle. And how about that story in hawaii that laugh a slow moving for weeks. Yeah. Finally hit a house. Stream of lava set a home on fire in a rural had hawaii town. The residents werent home when the lava hit the rocks. The lava has been threatening the town for more than two weeks now. Civil defense Officials Say they are continuing to closely monitor the lava flow. Killer wave just keeps spewing out. They werent there because they have been watching this for two weeks slowly inching toward their house. Cant do anything about it. Cant do a thing bit. They finally caught it on fire. Meanwhile a very different story in minute so the a minneapolis getting colder and colder by the hour, look at that winter blast hitting the upper midwest. This is from yesterday morning. Some areas are seeing more than a foot of snow, and apparently they were seeing plunging temperatures. This is just north of minneapolis, where one community saw 16 inches of snow already, over 200 Million People by the the end of this week will be in frigid temperatures. Im getting nervous but here we were off to a foggy start. Yes. But by tomorrow it will be cold. Middle of the day. We will start off mild tomorrow and hug you into a false sense of security. This is the fog. On i295, just near burlington, new jersey. Yes. Not disabling these days. It is very a hazy. All around fog. That is still the case out there in some places this morning. It was not supposed to get this cold this soon. But the problem is that, typhoon nori which was in the pacific last week, it has now decided to way north to alaska and dislodge the polar air. It is already affecting places like minneapolis, and minnesota and then that whole big cold air mass tomorrow afternoon will be dipping further to the south and dislodging the jet stream so that cold air can get here, sooner then it was, supposed to. And once it is here, it will be settling in for a while and wont be going away anytime in the foreseeable future. So we will have have to watch out for possible possibilities of some, wintry precipitation but we dont have anything measurable or anything of a big deal in the forecast. The big deal is getting used to the cold air once it gets here. Heres future cast to show precipitation early in the morning tomorrow. Probably late tonight into the early overnight hours. We are dealing with clouds in the morning but the the cold front comes through and then the winds pick up in the afternoon and then temperatures will start to plumet, the cold air moves over the great lakes abe we will be watching i think our news story will be snow in places like buffalo and cleveland starting tomorrow night and thursday. So lets get right to the seven day forecast and we will show you this. Light sprinkle today with a high of 67 degrees. There will be a few place that he is make it to 07 with sunshine. The wind have of change hits thomas temperatures plunge after we hit that early high of 65 degrees. A high of 49 on thursday. Mid 40s on friday, an said day, and feeling like winter instead of spring. We dont have small in here anyway which is really is. We are at one extreme or the other, bob kelly so get used to the cold. That is pretty much the same deal with the fog. We have just showed thaw dash cam video from i295, for the most part the following is settled on the new jersey side of the river. So we have got 295 with some fog. Live look at route 07 with haddonfield road, in the background is the cherry hill mall, heading out front door in south jersey, fog is on the jersey side. Heading to the airport, fog not impacting any flights out of philly international, we are off to a good start there heading north on 295, a crash approaching the 42 freeway, heading in towards bellmawr, expect delays, and, of course, coming into philadelphia on the whitman that will tie you up as well. Northeast philadelphia, grant and the boulevard, one of the busiest intersections, the highest number of accidents occur at this intersection, not just in philadelphia but in the country. Grant and a boulevard, the crash up there bridges looking good. We have a little bit of volume. Inbound on the schuylkill no fog or sun. Inbound schuylkill 18 minute trip from conshohocken to center city. Southbound i925, we have the jam wood have tone downtown, a 15 minute trip and some delays on the blue route from i95, up through the schuylkill expressway. Septa, all of the region rails are looking good. All of the bridge lease good coming into philadelphia mike and alex, over to you. Well, cookie cape inner maryland has been solved. Two teens are under arrest after police say they tried to make off with a wagon full of girl scout cookies. I mean they are good but you have to pay. It happens saturday. Two young scouts were selling cookies. They turned their backs and notice suspects taking off with their goods and heading to the getaway car. Two neighbors jumped in and tracked them down and, they said they were able to arrest suspects in the far away. Dont touch my thin mints, okay. 7 18. California man has a close call with the 8foot long, hammer head shark. Yes. There he is. His name is forest, hi, forest, run. Was he fishing. He was looking for yellow tail tuna when he and his friend startedded shark in the the water what he does next will shock you. He turns on the cameras puts Police Issued a warrant bait in the what the tore draw in the shark and then jumps in with the friend. Then he said hammer head was aggressive, what a bafun. He says he divide with sharks before and he will do it again, darnit because the thrill of, in the sharks is worth the risk, and adrenaline rush. We hopped in the water it was evident that he was really fired up and he came straight into the point that we were pulling our finness and keeping our limbs close to our body and within, i dont know, 452nd of jumping in the the what ther with him it went from him scoping us out to him being right on top of us. I have a nickname for him already for the next story we do for him. Stumpy. He says that he is divide with sharks, before and he will do it again, and im saying it is the same thing over and over again. Yes, i cant believe that. That is just playing with information. Playing with sharks. Have you and your kids been to mcdonalds, we have a warning for you parents out there about these happy meals. Yeah, there is something in it. How can you forget this video Police Cruiser catches fire but with this officer still inside he was rescued by a 17 yearold and today, they are rewriting right here on our good day set. No one asks to have diabetes or heart disease. 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