Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia 20141202 : vimars

Yuck. Now it is, we have seen worse, i have said that earlier but most roads are just wet, precipitation, a at least around metro is light but we do expect more mess, by the end of the day. Bus stop buddy is ready for it with some gloves on, umbrella, and waterproof warm coat because temperatures are in the 30s, and a lot colder then they were yesterday. You see to the south of philadelphia, it is just rain but as we move it closer around Chester County and New Castle County we may be getting snow and sleet milk in. Same story for delco. Just got to allow extra time and be careful out there, down in southern new jersey we are seeing rain and only rain and in the case of Cape May County there was heavy rain moving through as well, so 39 degrees with 50 percent relative hugh midty a and 11 miles an hour wind. Sunrise happening moments from now at 7 04. Winter weather advisory starts at 1 00 north and west of the city, more details on that coming up. 40 degrees our average throughout the day as that light snow and sleet changes over to rain for everybody and then tonight that tapers off after midnight and that is your fox cast for tuesday. Yesterday was a lot better weatherwise. Lets see how traffic is going. Yesterday was much better traffic wise. Two minutes after 7 00 on a Tuesday Morning, good morning to palmyra, new jersey. Live look at route 73, car dealership there, roads are damp, wet we have a wintry mix as sue just showed us depending upon where you begin and end, your trip, the breakfast buffet this morning. Live look at the the schuylkill expressway, headlights coming into downtown just damp roadways here. We have had some rain and flurries role through but pockets from conshohocken through downtown. A live look here at 30 bypass for gang leaving downingtown this morning. Starting to see pockets of volume heading eastbound in towards king of prussia interchange. Let get out to 422 where we are seeing those delays heading eastbound and in towards that curve. North along 55 for gang leaving south jersey wipers on and steady rain heading north on 55 in towards that 42 freeway. An accident in skippack on route 73 at valley forge road. Fire location in lower providence on osprey drive, and mass transit, septa says everything is running without a delay. No problems on the regional will rail lines. However, with the rain and lower temperatures things could be slippery on the platforms this morning. Just use some extra extra caution boarding buses, trains and trolleys. Rest of the mys Transit System in good shape. Slow go from girard into downtown. Chris an alex, back to you. Still no leads in the search for missing College Student Shane Montgomery. He disappeared thanksgiving morning after a night out with friend. Lets get to steve keeley live from manayunk with the latest on where the search stand right now, steve. Reporter this popular spot in the city considered one of of the most safees spots in the city. In bars on the business windows, no trash on the streets. No empty abandoned buildings. Now lit up for christmastime. The season just isnt the same though this year. Six days and still no clue what happened to Shane Montgomery after he stepped on the sidewalk here and hasnt been seen since. His family overwhelmed with anxiety is also overwhelmed by Something Special where the season of giving and philadelphias finest are both showing strong. Support in the search efforts has been in the hundreds of volunteers and now support to cover any cost in the family search is in the thousands of dollars. This go fund me page started by dana costa hoping to raise 7500 went over 9,000 almost instantly. 191 donors and growing strong. Reward fund also growing now over 30,000, with shanes family and investigators feeling it will be a tip that will be the the key to solving this case saying some one or someone knows something that can lead to shane. We know that somebody has seen him since then. There is hundreds of people walking out of the bars on one of the biggest drinking nights in the country and in the year. There are no words to describe the pain and heartache that we feel, every minute. We have moments where we are hopeful. Yesterday when canal came up and our shane wasnt in the canal, to moment of the deepest despair that you can ever, ever imagine and in parent should have this heartache and no one would ever believe the night mayor that we are living as a family and a community. We have no idea what has happened to our shane. It is almost as if he vanished and people dont vanish. So someone has to come forward and tell us what we need, so we can be redirect to find him. Reporter not adding to the reward yet is shanes school, West Chester University, where he is a senior and did not return to classes lick his fellow students did yesterday after the long thanksgiving break but the West Chester University Student Government association did step up adding a thousand dollars to the reward fund and tomorrow, on the steps of the Student Union hall, planning to hold a candle light vigil at 6 00 p. M. A night that will mark exactly one week since shane went out to his friends at kildares and has not been seen ever since. Kerry and chris. Steve keeley, thank you. Hopefully someone will come forward with any kind of a tip, nick at all. 7 06. New this Morning Police say a driver took off from this crash, in north philadelphia evening the car flipped over at germantown avenue and tioga a street around 1 30. No word about what led up to the accident. And a 25 yearold man is in critical condition, after a driver slammed into him, and just kept going. New this Morning Police say a driver took off from this crash in north philadelphia, the car flipped over at germantown avenue and tioga street around 1 30 this morning. No word what led up to that accident. Some of new jerseys aging schools are in for some, well, sprucing up. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will join camden mayor dana redd to make a special announcement today. They will reveal plans for School Construction project to replace crumbling school buildings. And in philadelphia today a special a announcement about the future of school lunches. Mayor nutter with the secretary of the u. S. Department of agriculture, will reveal new details about a federal program that will help School Cafeteria purchase more food for local farms. City of philadelphia will launch a part they are ship intended to fuel economic growth. Philadelphias mayor Michael Nutter will be on hand for an event later this morning at fortyeighth street grill. It is part of the new initiative called city of philadelphia which will bring zero per send interest to Small Business owners. The through this program anybody can lend 5 or more to the entrepreneur of their choice. And it is also big news for our area and nationwide, bill cosby is out at his alma matter. Last night the icon i can comedian resign from the Temple University board of trustees this made National Headlines as you alluded to. It follows weeks amid a Sexual Abuse Scandal where more than a dozen women after accused cosby of rape or Sexual Assault. Lets bring in Jennifer Joyce live with the fall out yet again this morning, jen . Reporter that is right, chris. We are seeing mixed reaction here on campus. Some people think it was the right decision. Other people think it came a little bit too late. Some seem to be taken back by bill cosbys resignation from the board of trustees. He was a board of Trustees Member from more than 30 years with Temple University. He has spoken at numerous commencements and sporting his cherry and white. Many see him a as a face for Temple University, a reason yes this attended this school, the the most famous tell am lum. Temple University Says bill cosby submitted his resignation in writing and they accepted it. Now the Third University in the last week to sever ties with the comedian on Sexual Assault accusations continue to mount. Nearly 20 women have blamed cosby drugged and assaulted them. He has never been prosecuted. Fox 29 broke the news about cosbys resignation to several students last night. Heres what they had to say. He had to do what he had to do to move forward in his life. More power to him. I think it is really division but it has only been the media that has been telling us stuff. I think we need to give it time. I have not heard anything bit. It seems like he did it quietly which i dont know im still rooting for him but i will keep an opened mind for now. Reporter signature have been posted on a petition at change. Org urging Temple University to oust cosby n a statement bill cosby says i have always been proud of my association with Temple University. I have always wanted to do well as well as in the best interest of the university and its students. As a result i have tendered my resignation from the Temple University board of trustees and at this point Temple University is not commenting. Chris anales if they do, we will have it. Jennifer joyce live on temples campus, thank you. 7 10. New jersey Child Welfare workers will report to work after threatening a boycott from work. Communications work are of a america greed to hold off on the walk out after a plan was presented to them according to north jersey. Com. The union has been concern with security at department of children and family offices, after a caseworker was stabbed two weeks ago in camden. Governor Chris Christie chrisized the potential boycott saying it will hurt children. Trump entertainment resorts is closing the new hotel tower and in longer issuing credit at taj mahal. It is trumps only remaining casino in Atlantic City. The company is closing its chairman tower and not issuing credit as of yesterday. Trump entertainment has been in talks with the union and state officials discussing ways to save money and maybe even the casino and its 3,000 jobs. It is slate todd shut down december 12th. The ferguson grand jury decision has spark debate around the country and many want to keep that discussion going. Organizers of ferguson to philly wild hold a town hall meeting tonight at 6 30 at Calvary Church on fortyeighth and baltimore avenue. Participants will talk about philadelphias concerns, meanwhile, president obama taps Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey, to help with a task force on 21st century policing. Commissioner ramsey will lead the pan well Laurie Robinson a former assistant attorney general. The announcement came on the same day a group of Philadelphia Police officers began wearing body cameras, and a Pilot Program, to try out the technology. And this with that said the president is asking lawmakers for a 75 million to get, 50,000 more police to wear those body cameras. The president made the announcement during a series of meetings, in the wake of the ferguson grand jury decision. The white house now says the cameras could help bridge deep mistrust between Law Enforcement and the public. Attorney general eric holds announced yesterday a new anti racial profiling measure. He made the announcement during a meeting at ebonieser bob advertise church in atlanta, the Search Church doctor Martin Luther king junior preached. The the attorney general will be visiting several cities as part of the white house effort to strengthen relationships between police and minority communities. Were following up on a developing story overseas right now. Two lebanese Officials Say authorities have detain one of the wifes and son of the leader of the Islamic State group. Military official says a woman and her son were taken ten days ago. Officials say their arrest was quote in coordination with foreign intelligence agencies. An aid for republican congressman resigned after calling out president obamas daughters. Elizabeth loudon is now former Communications Directors to representative Steven Fincher of tennessee, the former. In a Facebook Post you may remember she commented on the daughter as body lack wage and their outfits at last Weeks White House turkey pardoning ceremony. She trashed the girls saying they should have had or shown more class. She lates pol guyed for her post. That is not all. It turns out loudon was arrested as a teen in 2,000 for stealing from a department store, so since it was her first misdemeanor, the charges were later dropped. Our friend at wmmr are hosting a huge event this week in south philadelphia for a very good cause. Preston and steve at it holding their annual food drive to camp out for hunger. People can get down to xfinity live all week. All donations benefit philabundance. The food drive end friday. Taking a selfie today can help ensure a happy christmas for children. Interesting connection there. Well, philadelphia area Toysrus Stores are accepting, toy donations for toys for tots program. But the chain will double donations, if you do, one simple thing. As you alluded to, take a selfie and donating to the drive ape post it on social media using the hash tag play it forward, kind of a play on words there toysrus will did he nathan additional toy for toys for tots for every selfie shared. Great idea. And now we will take a live lot at rothman institute, ice rink at dilworth park where singers and skaters are helping to rereal the true cost of christmas. This is what we will do. They are performing the 12 days of christmas, pnc unwraps their christmas price and that is based on than famous song on the first day of christmas my true love gave to me. Well, those 12 days will cost you more for you this year. So, we will tell you, if you bought the whole song you would shell out about 27,673. 21. Wow. Who needs a pair tree anyway. Yeah, really. Biggest swing in prices came from the six geese a laying. So we will break down the exact cost of each item, throughout the show for you. It makes you feel golden rings. I would imagine that is expensive. What do you think, sue. Maybe the the part ridge but not the pair tree. We want the whole part ridge family what will that cost. It will cost a lot to get them all together again. Anyway, temperature is one thing that were watching this morning. Precipitation is the other thing. Temperature effects the type of precipitation, so weve got temperatures that are around freezing in lancaster reading, pottstown, allentown but were in the seeing much precipitation in those places. The places where it is above freezing, philadelphia, wilmington, millville, wildwood, that is where were seeing rain, and now these temperatures, be prepared, they are colder then they were yesterday. Es specially up in the mountains. 23 degrees colder. 12 degrees colder here in the city then it was 14 degrees colder down in dover, delaware. And, so it is a lot colder. You have to bundle up more president hopefully you enjoyed that 65 degrees yesterday. It will be a while before we see that again. Now here around the metro area were not seeing much if anything, in the way of precipitation. The rain is heavy in spots. Down to the south of us, but having said that, you could see a few flakes flying around, here a few sleet pellets on your windshield as you are driving around in places like Delaware County or in Chester County around, west goshen. Around wilmington, delaware but again, it is very light and a lot of thinks in melting as soon as it reaches the ground. So it is places like cape may, sea isle city,er with we will see some heavier rain this morning as well as lewis, delaware. So a Winter Weather advisory is not in effect just yet but it has been issued for 1 00 oclock this afternoon to 10 00 oclock tonight for Lancaster County, berks county, lehigh and northampton counties as well as carbon and monroe because those are the places when the rain that you saw moves northward they will get some frozen precipitation. It is all part of this situation with the warm front moving northward throughout the day. It was a cold front. Were moving northward as a warm front. We told but this yesterday. It moves in the place where the air is colder. We will just show thaw too. So as that happens after 12 00 noon what you will see is rain around the philadelphia area bit is north and west of the city where we can see some snow mix nothing and maybe even accumulating a little bit up in the mountains which is exactly where they want the snow. And then after i would say around 7 00 oclock, everything is changing over to rain. Because warmer air is moving in behind the warm front. Were still raining around 11 00 oclock tonight but shortly after that it gets out of here. So, it was a mild start to this