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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A August 7, 2017

Hard to wake up from a nap too sometimes, in the afternoon. Yes. But welcome back, how was vacation. Thanks, it was fun. I had a wonderful time. Hopefully you had a nice weekend as well. Thomas drayton will join us at 5 00 doing late night duty if you want to check that out as well. Little cooler, yesterday certainly. Yes. It was nice. Very nice, yesterday. We beat the rain in today but later on this afternoon, oh, boy we will get rain and lots of it. So hopefully did you enjoy yesterday. We will give you a five. That may be a generous number for today but for most of us it hasnt started raining yet but heres Flash Flood Watch that goes into effect at noon, lasts through this evening for several inches have rain at very lee, you can see plenty of it coming our way, there is some rain from the d. C. Area and more in West Virginia that is all going to come, toward us, throughout the daytoday. You might see a sprinkle or two in lancaster and down in the central part of delaware but were still dry in philadelphia at the moment it looks like. 71 degrees our current temperature. 6 06 is now our sunrise time as these days are getting shorter. 58 degrees mount pocono. Seventy down in dover delaware we will check cape may at 76. Rehoboth at 73. Medford lakes at 69 degrees. We have, 59 degrees in perkasie. So someplaces cooler then others. We have cloud cover around this morning. We will stay in the zero seven s all day, and we will be lucky to get to 77 degrees later on not only some rain but a few thunderstorms and localized heavy downpours, long with those storms, so bob kelly, we will really be rocking and rolling later on but rain will be moving in this morning. It sounds like a rough start as we move through the day as you just mentioned but were good to go. Dry as a bone. We have construction out there , construction on the northeast extension, also a portion of the turnpike between mid county, and king of prussia and an accident on the roosevelt boulevard, it is southbound roosevelt boulevard , approaching, ridge, and it looks like police are just pulling away here, following the tow truck, again , rolling on down, you have got a lot of some sand here, which was used to soak up, the oil on the gasoline spills, and then, otherwise were looking good, no problems on the vine expressway, no crew did his not work last night into this morning. So vine expressway is opened, they have been working all weekend long on the schuylkill expressway, both directions, actually between gladwynn and conshohocken, watch for, one of the lanes are block, if you are coming eastbound in the city, only the right lane is opened and they have got a dust cloud out there as well, not from the fog but from the work crews, so down to one lane on the schuylkill and they should be out by 5 00. In northeast philadelphia, northbound i95 off ramp to woodhaven road is closed with construction, you have to go up to street road or jump off at academy and work your way back to woodhaven road. And then we will slide on over again as we mentioned about that work crew still there on the schuylkill, both market frankford and broad street subway using shuttle buses until 5 00. Karen, back over to you. Today our city and really the entire sports world is mourning passing of former phillies catcher Darren Dalton who died after a four year battle with brain cancer. Our howard eskin has more. I consider baseball a job. Reporter did he that job as well as any catcher in phillies history. Base hit center field. Reporter he was born Darren Arthur dalton in 1962, but to a generation of phillies fans. There is dutch. Reporter he was simply dutch. Here again the most popular player. Reporter a 25th round draft pick in 1980 who combined baseball talent with a milliondollar smile. Clean your face. Reporter to make him one of the most popular phillies of all time. Dalton comes back, got it. I have grown to these fans here in philly and they are behind me now so that makes a difference. Personally i like to play here in philadelphia that is why i signed here. Reporter his best season as a player was 199 to when he lead the National League in rbis with 109. Off the top of the fence, it will get two home. Reporter but he will forever be remembered as the face of the 1993 Phillies Team , a team that played, and lived hard, and in doing so, captured the imagination of philadelphia. They came within two games of capturing the world series, title. Out of here. Reporter dalton would finally get his world series ring as a member of the 1997 florida marlins, and retired after that game. Marlins have won the world series. Reporter his Championship Ring may have said florida but he was, and will always be, a philadelphia philly. Certainly is the truth. As you can imagine reaction is pouring in, about his passing. Lets get out to the stadium there steve keeley in south philadelphia with what people are saying and what we are learning from people, steve. Reporter it seems that were only going here for sad reasons. I remember being here the morning harry kalas passed as well as harry kalas said his Favorite Team was that 93 team and his favorite player obviously was Darren Dalton. Right now phillies on the road so only reporters gathered here to use the stadium as a background right now but news came in this tweet on the phillies official twitter account at 10 39 p. M. Last night. We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of 1993nl champion and phillies wall of fame catcher Darren Dalton and it made the late news and started to make rounds at local sports bars and even, our favorite cheese stake places down at ninth and passyunk. It is very sad. I mean particularly for me it brings back memories from that 93 team and i was in first grade at the time. So i was really my first kind of introduction to that and getting into that team, and dutch was my favorite player on that team, kind of inspired me to play catcher in little league. So it is very sad. Reporter here is the philadelphia daily news, known for its back page big sports headlines and covers goes front page today, with Darren Dalton good bye dutch, phillies wall of famer Darren Dalton succumbs to cancer. Karen a little trivia here i dont want to put you on the spot do you know why they called him dutch. Tell me. Reporter well, his first wife, the famous lynn austin became famous because she was in playboy and original hooters girl. She said he looked like the kid on the Dutch Boy Paint cans with his haircut and that is where it came from but teammates on that 93 team didnt even call him dutch, they called him buba, because he was from arkansas city, kansas. Buba was his on the field nickname, dutch off the field and dutch is how we remember him because it sounds so cool even to this day. That is the truth, he has been on good day and friend of the show hain we will have so much more, steve, thank you. Our coverage of the passing of dutch buba, continues on line just come to our web site at fox 29. Com or Facebook Page to post your thoughts about the passing of this great baseball legend. 4 08. A 13 yearold boy has been rushed to the hospital after being injured in the late night shooting. Police say that the victim was walking down the street when someone opened fire strike ago this teen in the leg. It happened around midnight on kensington avenue and east ontario street, at last check police are still looking, for the gun man. Developing right now, from germantown, they are investigating after this, hundreds of young people, ran through the streets and into traffic last night, second sunday night teens gathered at Lonnie Young Rec Center in germantown hurling things at police as they began to live. Lets get out to Lauren Johnson to explain, what do you know, lauren . Reporter hi there, karen it has happened again, sunday great weather, summertime, kid have no where to go so they come here to the Lonnie Young Rec Center where the pool and basketball courts are, they didnt expect to get into any trouble. But lets roll video from last night. When Police Arrived they were met by large crowd of teens, police helicopter, above the scene to get a good look at how big situation was on the ground for those responding officers. So, officers responded in large numbers, many of them, carrying batons as they walked the street to manage the kid we can hear cursing in the video at officers. We are working to confirm reports arrests were made. When police first got the call around 10 00 p. M. The group of three to 400 youngsters was peaceful. Thirty minutes later there were reports that rocks were being hurled at police and female was running around bleeding and screaming. Traffic was impacted in a major way in this area, septa buses rerouted, due to the large number of people in the street. Again, this is not the first time this has happened, this summer, three weeks ago on july 16th, Police Responded to a similar disturbance call, here at the same location, during that incident though, there were no arrests and month injuries reported, and students still have roughly about a month of summer left though, karen and they will not be back in class until september 5th. Sure, after Holiday Weekend we know two teens are being questioned after shots were fired in west philadelphia, the street was full of kid at that time. Witnesses say there was a teen firing a gun on the 4300 block of wyalosing avenue yesterday afternoon. When police got there the suspect ran in the house and then he held up inside, barricade situation is what they call it, swat came out there, police say there was a woman and Young Children in the home but they were able to get out. Police are awaiting a search warrant to go inside and search that home. And a new look at what was a very terrifying 30 minutes for close to 300 people on an American Airlines flight from greece to our area in philadelphia all kinds of trash every where, peoples drinks flew up to the top of the aircraft littering the aisles. You can see big mess after they hit turbulence. One passenger tweeted these pictures to show what happened urban fan is a doctor in los angeles, three passengers and seven crew members ended up having to go to the hospital for evaluation. They say their injuries are not severe. In one of the videos we can hear the captain apologize and tell passengers it was a surprise. Ladies and gentlemen, thinks your captain. We a will guys fortune expected bump we were expect light turbulence and no one reported anything, it was totally unexpected. So, from the aftermath of this, this was anything but light if you were on board, american says that the fastened seat belt was on but crew where is going through drinks and they had drinks all over. Needless to say 300 passengers and crew were happy to see our city after that ordeal. Doctor fang tweeted with a shot of our sky line from the wing of the plane saying happenty land after the rough, tumble turbulence, concluding landing safe. Turbulence. Coming up later on good day we will talk to that doctor live about his experience. How about this one can you imagine really scary moments for a septa worker coming up next on good day what happened moments after she got home from work that may have you rethinking what you do when you get in and out of your car all morning long we will remember Darren Dalton, good friend of the show, been on our show, mike jerrick spent sometime with him. We will remember his life and legacy. Hi, bob. Good morning, everybody. 4 13. They are still working on the schuylkill expressway, both directions near conshohocken curve. Lets go outside open up that front door as we listen to philly native jill scott one of the traffic jam requests here this morning a live look at ben franklin parkway, long walk from here up to the steps but sueby has your forecast as we listen to jill scott we will check jam camz when we come back. Good morning, allentown. Where stairs are born, some of them there, it is 4 16 on the beginning of this workweek happy monday to you. Thanks so much for waking up early and joining us. Lets get over and get a check of the weather. We have flood conditions we have to worry about, sue. Later on there could be isolated areas of flooding. Why . We have a couple rounds of rain heading our way. Heres low pressure system bearing down on us this morning and another one with quite a bit of rain associated witt and at times the possibility of pop up thunderstorms. You look down in virginia there you see that light evening that just popped up there. It could happen to us as well. Hopefully you did enjoy yesterday. It was a beautiful day. Lets zoom in on the heavy rain moving up Chesapeake Bay and entering in to Lancaster County. We will see yellow in the western part of the county with the heavier rain moving in, be prepared have rain gear here for sure. In kent county delaware and New Castle County we are seeing pretty steady rain. So Flash Flood Watch is in effect starting at noon, goes through this evening, possibility of some several inches of rain and that could mean ponding on the roadways and if your basement tend toss flood this will be the day unfortunately it could happen. As we look at this morning we see rain increase in intensity , rolling in by eight or 9 00, everybody starting to see rain and last people get it at the shore. Heavy rain by 1 00 at the shore, very heavy rain in the philadelphia metro area could be an adventurous ride home but that rain will be out of here but we can count on, on and off all day rain, so, that is sort of simplifies it but where heavy downpours will be that remains to be seen. We have check two computer models, one has over an inch one has close to an inch, but there are places where we could get localized several inches of rain, three, maybe 4 t depends where set up is. Seventyone in philadelphia. We have cloud cover. Cool spot mount pocono with 58 seventythree in wildwood. 66 degrees in lancaster. Our average high is now down to 86 degrees. This is significant because days are getting shorter even though were still in august and we had a cooler then average weekend with 79 degrees on saturday. Seventyeight on sunday. Today around 77, we will get word in there eventually. It is monday. Were slow. Eightythree tomorrow. Mid 80s through the rest of the week, certainly not a wash out but there will be times of showers, friday and maybe on sunday as well but we will work object all of that as well but today we could have an adventurous afternoon. In the meantime, remember 101. 1 more fm after you get in the car, checking everything out, make sure you take your time today, bob kelly good net the car, make sure i have everything, i have my coffee, ear budd, i dont need my sunglasses, i will need my wiper blades and good set of wiper blades. Good morning everybody. 4 19. Still working out on the northeast extension for the gang coming back from the poconos right in the office this morning, they are working also westbound between the norristown interchange all the way over to that 29 ez pass express lane and then work on up to 95 where they have been working up here as well. I95 between academy road and woodhaven road, it looks like they are picking cobbs up so they are going backward here just outside camera shot there live look at bennie coming into downtown. We are getting ready for a morning rush hour, sue said it would be a rough one. Allow some extra time and especially as day goes on and into the evening, think burr travel plans where you have to be and where you are supposed to be out there when we get that heavy rain. Both market frankford and subway are using shuttle buses until 5 00, back over to you. Really scary moments for offduty septa worker, police say 24 yearold markkwan pits a suspect robbed and carjack a woman at fourth and Spring Garden street yesterday morning. Then they say he ended up in new jersey driving on the ac expressway and then allegedly tried to rob a gas station attendant at a Service Plaza there was a police chase all in south philadelphia over at eighth and mercy which was where Police Arrested him. Obviously the septa worker got away. 4 20. There is a u. S. Led Global Campaign to punish north korea for latest ballistics missiles test underway. U. N. Imposing the toughest sanctions yet on north korea and china and russia are cooperating in this effort. That is significant. Unanimously approved resolution was slashed the communist country export revenues by a third or a billion dollars. Goal to cut off money for Kim Jong Unregime that he uses to fund his missle program. U. N. Ambassador, u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Says strict sanctions are a good start. We hope we dont to have do anything but all options have always been on the table and will continue to be on the table. Foreign minister of the china is urging his counterpart to stop provoking goodwill of the International Community but he also said that the u. S. And south korea need to stop increasing tensions and urge all to return to negotiations. Meanwhile our Justice Department is tightening efforts to stop leaks of classified information coming from the white house. Deputy attorney joan rod rosen stein is leading investigation to find out source of the damaging leaks to the media he appeared on Fox News Sunday saying Justice Department will prosecute those responsible, no matter who they are. If they violated the law, in that case warrants prosecution. Including white house officials and members of the congress. Including anybody who breaks the law. Reporter he made it clear that the department is not targeting journalist who published the leaks but those who break the law could be prosecuted. He confirmed that the fbi has created a new unit to handle the leak investigation. 4 22. There is a reward being offered in a series of arsons happening at a luxury

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