Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia 20141230 : vimars

Will tell but that, some big news. Yes. Big news. Which will be the next year. That would be the fifth of january. How about some more numbers. I think it will be an eight today. Were close. Im an eternal pessimist. It is going to be cold. Is that okay. That is okay. It works. Okay, thanks. Bus stop buddy is bunled up in the heavy down coat hat and gloves because we are seeing temperatures in the 20s and 30s which has not been this cold in a few days. We have snow showers in event rally with delaware. Our radar has been picking up sprinkles and flurries all morning long but it looks like decent snow showers coming down in central kent county. 33 degrees in philadelphia at the airport. Winds north east at 6 00. Wind chill of 28. We should hit 38 today. 10 degrees colder then yesterday. Cloud, sun and then later tonight we will see mostly cloudy skies. Maybe a flurry or two as we fall back down to 20 degrees. You will full forecast is still, a head but lets check traffic with bob. 7 02 on this tuesday. We have light volume, route 100 right here near pennsylvania turnpike in major delays a at all. We will see same deal as yesterday, lighter than normal morning volume, after 9 00 oclock once folks are out and about, kid are out and up and doing stuff. We will see volume. Ben franklin bridge looking good in downtown philadelphia lets role rid ohio of the news van, that occurred early this morning, and it involved a car fire, accident took down the telephone pole there, which has left a wires, all across the roadway, as we go to the maps along route 309 just south of quakertown here at toll gate road. Both directions of 309 closed use the old bethlehem pike as the alternate. Market street in philadelphia here watch for a house fire getting word blockage along market between 40th and fortyfirst but otherwise were in good shape along schuylkill expressway and i95. No problems coming in the city. Mass transit looking good as well. Mike and alex accounts back over to you. It looks like we have got some answers to breaking news grim and painful end for family members of the passengers and crew, for air air asia flight, 8501. Rescuers have been founding floating bodies and sea from the java sea where flight crash more than two days ago. Fox 29s jennifer gist has been following this morning all long and joins us live from the news room. Reporter according to routers, 40 bodies have been recovered from the waters off indonesia. This comes as hundreds of search crews have been even leslie scouring waters for any iron of wreckage. Several pieces of debris have been spotted in the sea, the debris still need to be examined and to confirm fit is related to the missing air asia plane as news spread bodies have been spotted in the water. Family members of the 162 passengers on board 8501 sat together at a local airport and they watch graphic details unfold on television. Many screamed, broke down in tears. The plane disappeared sunday morning on its way from inn near a to singapore after it encountered bad weather. Pilot requested to alter his route. He was denied because of air traffic in the area. Moments later radar contact was lost. No distress call was made. It tells me a couple things. It tells me that within either something catastrophic happened in the air that the pilots had had in knowledge of or could have done anything about or secondly they could have had something where pilots were focusing on trying to fly that aircraft and just never got a hold of it again and crash in the ocean. Reporter this is latest in the series of tragic air travel incidents in South East Asia Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing in march with 239 people on board and in july flight 17 was shot down over ukraine killing all 298 passengers, and crew. So again latest in the search for air asia flight 8501 routers reporting as many as 40 bodies have been recovered from indonesia waters. We are waiting to get more tea tails from officials there mike and alex. Families has some answers now. Close another. Yes. More breaking news this morning, police say alcohol and speed may have played a role in the deadly accident in nicetown. It looks like. What is going on out there what are the details. Reporter it happened in the shadow of new years eve. One young with man is in the living to see the new year. It happened on roberts avenue just off the boulevard north bound, investigators say a 2013 ford car came flying off ramp that was going so fast driver didnt make the curve there in the road and flew into that tell even if pole cutting it cleanly in half. We have video for you from this scene. You can see just a state that the carries in the the the roof of the car completely sheared off. Windshield totally shattered and caved in. The driver a 23 yearold woman passed away she was decapitated. The front seat passenger a 24 yearold man is fighting for his life in Critical Condition at einstein, he has broken limbs, severe trauma to his face, two back seat passengers a man and woman are very lucky both are stable at temple. Within of them is pregnant, she and her baby are expected to be okay. Police say this came as a result of some terrible decisions. They found alcohol in the car and they say speeding is a factor as well. We expect to investigators at the scene and lets listen to what they told us. Accident investigation officers are on location but investigating the crime scene and they did find some alcohol in the vehicle. So, they do believe that speed and alcohol possibly contributed to this accident. Reporter you can hear the car horn blasting on that car, the the alarm going off, back here live again, to this scene, the car flew down a 20foot embankment into a ditch where First Responders found victims and car, right new investigators looking into whether any of the passengers or driver was wearing a seat wealth. Mike and alex, back to you. 7 07. A 42 yearold pottstown woman charge with corruption of the minor will be in court this morning. There she is, iris giveany has a hearing today, police say she admitted to having sex with a 17 yearold boy she met at a Pottsgrove High School football game. More on that to come. 7 07. Detective are working streets of north philadelphia trying to figure out shot an eight yearold boy riding his bike monday afternoon. Yeah. It happened on the 2500 block have of oriano street and that is what this boys family says. Didnt say they could not find any evident of the shooting, in shell casings or blood. Detectives say they are sure that the boy was shot but they dont necessity where or who pulled the trigger. Were getting some conflicting stories from family members which are making detectives suspicious about what actually occurred. That is not the only challenge. Police say they didnt learn of the shooting until a few hours after it happen. That call did in the come from the family, it came from st. Christophers hospital for children, where the boy is resting in stable condition. Bullet lodged in the shoulder police say the boy will be okay. Toddlers south jersey is in Critical Condition at chop and mothers fiance is behind bars. Twentythree yearold giovanni of sewell, new jersey is facing charges of attempted murder and endangering the welfare of the child and aggravated assault. Twentynine yearold boy went to the hospital on saturday serious injuries including, kidney failure. Bail is set a at 350,000. All right. Almost 7 09 on this tuesday. Growing memorial now marks the place where a ten yearold boy lost his life after being hit and killed by a Franklin Township Police Patrol car. Family says Matthew Mccloskey was crossing delsea drive, sunday night with two friend on his way to a sleep over at a friends house when the patrol car hit him. The other boy escaped uninjured but fifth grader matthew was killed. His three siblings and single mother now devastated and grieving, the the family friend and other members of the Community Letting everybody know how they want you to help. It is you caring. Com and it is Matthew Mccloskey memorial fund. So if the the community would like to show their support that is the the way we could use their support right now. Of course, Gloucester County Prosecutors Office continuing to investigate the accident. Some philadelphia parents are scrambling to find a place for their kid to go to school. They found out a few days ago that the Walter Palmer middle school is shutting down tomorrow and a vocal group of parents held a curb side meeting outside Northern Liberties school last night. They are angry palmer administrators decided to abruptly close the school over the the holiday break. These parents plan to send a message to the department of education, some students joined in as well. Because i learn a lot here and im going to miss my teachers and my friend. When she first came here she was below average. Now shes performing on a proficient level. So that speaks for itself no matter how you say it is being mismanaged, these kid are learning, these kid are our future and that is the point of them going to this school. The School District of philadelphia says they will find a place for palmer students in area Public Schools. The philadelphia School District has several enrollment sessions for former palmer students the first is tomorrow, at School District headquarters. For a list of all session dates and times go to my fox philly. Com ape look under seen on tv section. 7 11 now. Someone sending out bogus notices claiming to be with the Philadelphia Parking Authority trying to get money from you. Be careful. Ppa issued this alert about the emails. Heres one of them a woman in pittsburgh got this notice yesterday. You can see there is no identifying fur about the vehicle involve. I know it is hard to see very small print and it wasnt sent from the Parking Authority at all. Parking authority email address is not on there. Officials say if you get one of these things to not pay it. Direct people to another web site to make a payment. We want to make sure if they receive a email solicitation of payment for Philadelphia Parking Authority ticket it is not legitimate and they should certainly not make any payment to an unknown web site. The Parking Authority says that they never ask for money in an email okay. 7 12. A man trying to allude police is killed when his car crashes on chester pike in delaware county. Man was driving a white nissan and sped off when Police Officer tried to pull him over. He lost control hit a driver in the red pontiac and force that had car in the park car. Innocent man is in Critical Condition. Suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses her the impact and even saw the crash. Cars every where, police came out with the guns drawn and from there it was a chase. I feel bad for families of the people that got hurt. It is just terrible. Police say suspect was being pulled over regarding inspection stickers. Investigators are still trying to determine if the car was stolen or purchased. Okay. You have heard about this one havent you a lewd act a stolen dog, and a shooting. A bensalem man is facing charges stemming from some bizarre behavior sunday night. Police say they is, 21 yearold angel suarez, was caught naked from the waist down engaged in the lewd act on the second floor balcony of a womans apartment. He was master bathing. It happened at Franklin Commons apartment on the the street. Police say the man chased the woman inside her apartment. She was able to escape but then police say he stole her dog, before jumping through a window to the ground. He wasnt done yet. Investigators say from there he got into another apartment where he struggled with the tenant who had a gun. They shot him twice. Who knows what was going through this guys head why he would do all those crazy things. Police are awaiting the result of the drug test on suarez, no kidding and he is in a he is at aria torresdale hospital in Critical Condition from the gunshots. And womans doggies still missing. We will stay on this story and try to find that dog for her. Well crews are trying to keep up and keep roads safe after snowing and cold temperatures, this was a mess yesterday afternoon and last night. Im glad i got out of there sunday. Just in time. More than 6,000 miles have of streets to clear and temperatures in the Single Digits Denver Public works plow drivers are working 12 hour shifts to keep up with all of the work. More than 150 flights in and out of the airport were canceled yesterday and more snow is expect today which is sure to cause more of a mess. Meanwhile in the state of indiana is there an unusual crime spree going down in the middle of the night. Thieves are stealing plows right off of the big trucks. Victims think plows are hot items because of the heavy see in fell last year and the plows could mean some quick cash this snow season if they can attach these big plow toss their own vehicles, that is if they can getaway with surveillance camera have caught a couple of these thieves already. Police are now using those camera and video to try to catch all of the guys mostly men, stealing plows off the front of these trucks in indiana. My gosh. That is not the easy to do. Caitlin, come on. I know inn yan a had a winter just like we did last winter. Second snowy on record. Very good. Congratulations. Were you listening. So proud of you mike. We did learn that earlier yes, i am. Heres the snow that was in denver which is moving through areas of kansas namely, wichita, starting to see that snow moving through. It is are cold in denver. Very cold on the front range of the northern plains. This is an big arctic inn racial that will make temperatures unbearable for parts of the midwest. For us it will get colder but not as cold though. We have a front bringing light rain and snow showers across the del marva. As we zoom in this is snow on the radar looking heavier then it has earlier this morning. The that is making it to the ground there. In between dover and milford seeing snow. We have flurries and rain sprinkles mixing in Sussex County delaware. We are coming off very unseasonably mild weather. Chris mass take last thursday 65. Fifty last friday. Beautiful weekend. Hopefully you enjoyed it because yesterday was first drop off from 50s to 40s and today we will fall from 40s to 30s when it comes to high temperature. Twentyseven in pots town. Thirtythree in philadelphia 34 in dover delaware. Your holiday forecast new users eve for little ones out seeing fire works early around 6 00 they will do them at penns landing, we have temperatures in the 30s but falling quickly in the 20s. For these midnight fire works 20s and wind chills in the teens. New years day not much better. It will be sunny, breezy but only a high of 37 degrees that is for new years day with wind chills in the 20s. New year another new year day, also pretty breezy, we will moderate maryland rating through rest of the licensing holiday weekend. Fortytwo on saturday. That looks to change to rain. Temperatures sunday in the 50s. Despite all this cold weather, bob kelly not looking at any snow not yet. They will be changing ward to those golden slippers, oh them fuzzy warm golden slippers. Live look at the blue route 476 come out of the mid county. So far so good this morning. Off to another great start. In problems getting where you are going. Live look at boulevard from the northeast philadelphia down to the schuylkill we are in good shape. We have a fire location along Market Street with local detours between 40th and first street, blair mill road, looks like it fell out of the back of the trash truck near county line road so look out for that one there. Coming from the suburbs, 422 202 looking good, again light volume this morning. Even coming out of the north i95 southbound looking good into the city and somebody sent me a tweet earlier and said in the a bad ride in today the right hoed will be the the same. I think yesterday we had those afternoon jams up and down i95 for evening rush hour. It is a great day positive person. Yes put tonight existence. I will leave it right here good touch it. Rub it. Okay good. That was weird. Just a little bit. How do you describe the u uber car service. Yes alternative to taxi is it is amazing. I love using it. Try to hail a cab today good uber users, really. You know, i switch it up. Yes. So all you uber users out there, prepare, it will be busy new years eve an Company Expects record breaking profits. That means you to come down to us. That within tomorrow night young lady, last new years eve, uber made 10. 7 milliondollar, well that is nationally. That was a 369 percent increase from 2012. That is a good increase. Tomorrow night and thursday morning the Company Expansion to be responsible for 2 million rides, if they are right, uber could rake in american 100 milliondollar wow. That is partly due to surging prices which is in effect when tea manned for service is high. If there is a lot of demand, the old who is the the economist alan smith, adam smith, that is who it was, supply and demand, darn it. That is true. They warn you before it takes uber, price surges. Speaking have of money alex holley, do you have at t service, they are paying money back to us. How about that. There is another phone company that mayo you money that you dont even know about how you can if you go another out if they owe you money wouldnt that be nice gift at the end of the year. Great gift. Was about this on santas naughty list already you wont believe what his parents made him do do you think this was the right move, or do you think it went too far we will let you know if it went too far. How can i decide. Ill tell you coming back from the break. I get it thank you. Okay. Look at the little white boat going to the right. That is an odd looking vessel isnt it. It is. What do you suppose that is used for is that Spencer Tracie in the b