Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A 20160531 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A May 31, 2016

June 1 tomorrow. Oh, man. Story after story about all of us, stuck in the traffic on the ac expressway, thousands of people stuck especially at farly exit there. It was crazy. The week on friday it was a mess. Coming back yesterday was horrible. People have their stories. Who can score the highest. How long were you in traffic yesterday . Get on twitter use the fox 29 good day. Who wins, five, six, seven hours. We heard four, five and six. So get on twitter. Back to reality today but back to sunshine now that the the holiday is over, thanks a lot. Some people did see sun. If you were up in the Lehigh Valley and men the northern and western suburbs of philadelphia, montgomery county, you probably saw some sun but today everybody well. It is eight out of ten. Dont forget your sun screen. Buddy is here to remind you about temperatures in the 60s and 07s and still sticky. Humid to start, as bee look back over last 12 hours we will see exit of the precipitation and right now ultimate doppler showing we have some cloud cover left over. So, in philadelphia, right now it is 71 degrees and we are heading to a high of 87 today. Sunny skies and humidity drops throughout the day, tonight we are down to 65. Lets talk traffic bob kelly. How are they doing now. Much better now then we were doing this time yesterday or i should say, 12 hours ago. Live look at 6 02. Trooper road in audubon disabled box truck here right off of route 422, coming back from the shore, right into the philadelphia area if you took that one extra night, and stayed down this morning and will come backup with sand in your shoes, you made the right decision. Live lot the at free waste coming toward that walt whitman bridge, no problems now coming from cape may, wildwood, avalon, looking good rolling out of the ocean city margate, Atlantic City there was the choke point where parkway and expressway came together. They had that within lane through construction. I dont know why they didnt figure out hey with the construction maybe we can get two lanes opened for the holiday weekend. I know that will cause havoc this coming week fend they dont get that fixed up. Two situations in the neighborhood we are watching detours around cottage and pratt. Another detour around orthodox and millnor the scene of the four alarm fire from yesterday. Mass transit looking good. Mike and alex, looking good. Unconfirmed word that flyers legend rick mcleash passed away, reggie leach made the announcement on facebook, he wrote it is a sad day my good friend ricky mcleash has passed. Great hockey player and wonderful family man and husband and dad. We will miss him a lot. We both turned pro together in 1970 my condolence go out to his family. We have heard from his daughters in the past six weeks or so that he has been very ill. We will follow it and try to get confirmation from the flyers themselves. He is one of the original members of the broad street bullies. He scored game winning goal that gave flyers their first stanley cup, in 1974, against boston bruins. He was also first flyer to score 50 goals in the season. Wow. His daughter announced last month that her father was dealing with several medical problems and had been hospitalized for six weeks. He was 66 years old. We will follow that but how about this horrible story, a manhunt on for person sexually assaulted a 13 yearold girl and beat up her mother so badly. Police thought she had been shot. That woman is in Critical Condition at the hospital right now. Let get to jenny joyce in frankford with the latest on the search for person behind this. Reporter good morning, alex. Police tell us that the man took off from the 1900 block of pratt street naked. He was running down the street. Police believe this man is responsible for both rape of the 13 yearold girl and brutal physical assault on the childs mother. Police say around 12 30 a call came in for sex assault of the child. When Police Arrived in one answered the door. Police officers went to the neighboring home and scaled properties to be able to see inside the home in question. They could see a woman lying in the bed bleeding profusely. Swat team was called out to clear property once inside they rescue the adult victim who had been missing several teeth. The child had already run to a neighbors home for help. We have a 13 yearold female who was victim of a sexual assault. Shes at st. Christophers hospital. We have a 38 yearold female who may be the mother of the 13 yearold and she is suffering from aggravated Assault Blunt Force Trauma to her face and head, missing several teeth. We actually found perfect teeth on the bed where she was laying and special victims inn investigating. The 13 yearold is being treated at st. Christophers hospital while her mother 38 yearold woman is being treated at Einstein Medical Center. Her mommies in Critical Condition, and the search for the suspect continues. Mike anales my goodness. Home invasion end with the home owner injured and a late night chase, police say at least two men broke in the home around 10 00 oclock has night on the 200 block of lafayette avenue in delaware avenue. When Police Arrived men jumped in and led officers on a chase on i95. One suspect was eventually captured and now hunt is on for second suspect. 6 07. Still not known what caused a massive fire that decimated American Legion post 396 on orthodox street in bridesberg. People are so upset about this. It had been there receive long and serving as American Legion post for decade. Neighbors say building hosted an event earlier in the day. More than 100 Fire Fighters battled the blaze and spent the night putting out hot spots. The there is a still a few this morning. Members say the lost is heart break. The uniforms of the men and women who served this our armed forces for many, many years, and pictures and medals, there are things that just cant be replaced. One fire fighter was hospitalized but is okay, fire marshall and atf are investigating. How about this we should have word any minute now archbishop chaput will hold a News Conference at Archdiocese Pastoral Center at 10 00 oclock, what is the news going to be. Talk is regarding an announcement from the vatican that impacts the life of the church here in philadelphia. What could it be. While it is unclear what the topic of todays speech will be just to stop any speculation, Officials Say the pope is not coming back to philadelphia and the archbishop is not retiring. We have inside information, coming in the next few minutes, we think. Pope might want to come back. So soon. Too soon. 6 08. Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Office has cancelled a News Conference scheduled for today announcing results of the investigation into inappropriate emails found on state servicer. Officials determine that the report wasnt comprehensive a and contain too much material. Now investigators findings will be released sometime during the summer. Last year attorney general Kathleen Kane assigned team of lawyers to comb through thousands of emails shared among judges, prosecutors and others in the criminal justice system. Kicking the can they call it. 6 08. Terrifying moment for little girl attacked by four dogs, why this could have been a whole lot worse. Mack leash. Blank than playing all about the bens with top prizes of a hundred grand . Winning,. On the spot. Play all about the bens from the pennsylvania lottery, and you could win. On the spot. Keep on scratchin i got the discounts that you need safe driver accidentfree everybody put your flaps in the air for me who didnt clean up . Be honest. Thousands spent the holiday the at the shore. One community is unhappy about the mess left behind. Facebook video posted by watch the tram car. Com has both long and short term residents wondering is what wrong with visitors to their community. Video showing a beach covered in cups, food wrappers and cans spark angry responses and reignited debate over wildwood beaches should be free to the public. Look at the towns that do have the beach fees, avalon, stone harbor, margate, sea isle, their beaches are beautiful. They are cleaned. Unfortunate parties when we have a weekend like this the city has to clean up what these people have done to our beautiful beaches. Well, officials we talk to say it is unlikely any changes would take place this summer. But the disregard for Beach Community created a debate unlikely to end anytime soon. This happens a lot of beach communities, i remember when i lived in myrtle beach, we did stories where people come and they leave all this trash. I wonder why paying gives you a tenenscy to in the trash it, you know what i mean good less people will go, less trash. We will look into it. Vicepresident ohio biden, in new castle for a special service, bitter sweet honor for his late show beau. As you know good day philadelphia is spending our fridays out on the road this friday we are in West Philadelphia at cedar park, that will be broadcasting live, welshing we will be broadcasting live from 7 00 to 10 00 in that park. But we are giving away a car. Just sign up to win brand new mazda cx9, head to fox 29. Com, click on the contest right on the home page. We will pick a finalist once a week and then our final show at the dell july 22nd we will have a big give away. How often can i enter to win. Once every 24 hours. 6 16. Heres where were heading, that is the list, you know it by now. Do you . Yeah. We need to post it on our social media pages. True. Big day for jay wright and National Champion villanova we will cats. This will be a day they will never forget. If i was invited to the white house to shake hand with the president , i would never forget it. They are heading to the d. C. And visit with the president and celebrate their win, taking home Mens National title. Coach wright will be joining us live on good day to talk about the day and what will happen . We will air the event right here on fox 29 it starts around 4 00 this afternoon. You can catch it streaming on our web site at fox 29. Com. In other word we have this ceremony covered, sue. Yeah. On line, on tv. Next best thing to us being here because we all wanted to climb on the bus. I might still go, sue. Sean bellies going. You cap ride in the storage area. I can hide in the suitcase, lets be honest. Youre right. We will look forward to that. Tonight phillies try again with the washington nationals. This will be a much better night at the ballpark because there is no jacket required. It will be 82 degrees at game time but not as humid. They are your keyword. Lovely sunset, youll experience at 8 30 or so at the ballpark or where ever you are, really. Is there our moisture from yesterday and rain we had, ruined a day at the shore but we had friday, saturday, sunday were g today we have sunshine to return. Real quick look at post tropical bonnie still around South Carolina not expect to move much over next couple days but we have to watch it as we get closer to the weekend. Phillies are in town all week, best weather days of the week are wednesday and thursday when we have low humidity and comfortable temperatures, really gorgeous. Then we will factor in rain on friday and then maybe late in the day sunday so stay tuned for more about the weekend but enjoy next couple days because things will be improving during the daytoday. Bob kelly, i see volume on i95. Volume, volume, volume. Good morning everybody. Back to work and school after that three day holiday weekend, live look at i95, jammo from cottman avenue in toward downtown, heading in toward girard. So rush hour is back at it, live look, north east philadelphia, woodhaven road between the boulevard and i95, looking good there for folks that went up to the poconos, coming back on the extension were good to go no problems on the turnpike itself from philadelphia, over through valley forge. Things are quiet on the schuylkill, starting to see that volume pop here eastbound around conshohocken curve. We will zoom into cherry hill where that repaving project officially gets underway along route 70 between pennsauken road and cropwell road. If you came back from the shore or coming back this morning i should say you are in good shape no problems on the parkway or Atlantic City expressway. Mike and alex, back to you. This story is horrible out of the fox chase section where Authorities Say a man died after trying to rescue his dog from the penny pack creek. Police say someone called 911 reporting a body floating in creek yesterday morning. The investigators say that the 67 yearold man had jumped in the what the tore save his dog. When he was swept away by the current. Man was pronounced dead at the scene. The listen to this, investigators later found the dog uninjured waiting at the mans car. Police have not released the mans identity just yet. Pennsylvania girl is fighting for her life after getting shocked in the backyard pool. Authorities in mechanicsberg say eight yearold girl and seven others were swimming in the outdoor pool when something went horribly wrong. Child flip on the switch to turn on the pool light and electrical current shocked all of the children inside that pool. Eight yearold went in cardiac arrest and is in Critical Condition. Other children are okay. 6 20. Four yearold girl is doing well after police say that a talk bit her. It happened just before 5 00 yesterday afternoon at tenth and ontario in north philadelphia family say they are were barbecuing in front of their house when four dogs came down the street, two of them charged at 49 yearold girl, one bit her, police fired several shots at the dogs hitting one, that dog died. The other three were re strained. The dogs are from around the block and they knock my daughter off the chair. Little girl suffered a wound on her face and her neck. Family says that the dogs belong to somebody in the neighborhood but police have not said whether they have determined who actually owns the dogs on that block. Vicepresident joe biden was in new castle delaware yesterday for a special ceremony. Organization renaming one of its headquarters to honor the vicepresident s son, beau graduated from arch meara contacted my and university of pennsylvania after enlisting in the National Guard at age 35. He was awarded the bronze star and legion of merit for his services in iraq. The last year at 46, life of the rising political star was cut short by brain cancer. The friend who served with beau said there is no better way then to memorialize him. He just loved being a solder. He loved it. He liked being here, relaxing, being one of us, you you know, one of us. Compassionate, forgiving, i can go on and on. Headquarters is now called major Joseph R Beau Biden the third National Guard reserve center. Umhmm. Although he carried a politically powerful biden name he never used it to his advantage. You never knew he was the son of the vicepresident , that is for sure. Delaware National Guard. Did you go to bed early . It wasnt that early. If you went to bed at 11 00, the final score of the western conference finals. It was a good ballgame in the second half. So there were dunks, threepoint shooting, we will get highlights coming up. Third quarter was big for warriors. The lottery numbers. Winners are showing up all over pennsylvania. And with more than 500,000 winners of match 6, cash 5, and Treasure Hunt every single week, thats not a big surprise. Winners, winners everywhere play today i get out of work and i go to the store, and somebodys, smellin around, mmm i smell cookies. I say, oh no, you just smell me. I just got out of work. Thats honey bunches of oats, thats all. And now in delicious chocolate. Im howard eskin. Phillies back home after losing five of six on the road trip. Phillies opening up against first place washington nationals, ryan howard back in the line up. Lets go to Citizens Bank park. One for four with two strike outs but here in the eighth phillies had a twoone lead. Washington scores three runs. Daniel murphy begins hector near hose walked three, jason werth scores, they go up fourtwo. Jonathan papelbon, gave up a run in the ninth, which he normally does, but gets the last out. Washington wins fourthree. Problem for phillies is simple. Bottom line is were starving for offense. We have to string three or four hits together. Were in the doing it. That helps you win a lot of games. Ryan howard upped his average to 1. 57, one for four but he did strike out two times. Pittsburgh penguins win game one of the stanley cup final series against san jose there, score threetwo. That is sports in a minute. Im howard eskin. Lets do another minute what a game between Oklahoma City thunder and Golden State Warriors last night. Western conference finals was a nail biter, right. Yes. It is true. They were down at half time warriors were. Game seven in the books now after being down threeone in the series, golden state is heading back to the finals. It happened for second time. Thunder had early lead making some early big plays, but then warriors came back, from half time, firing off three pointers like crazy. The splash brothers on fire. They will played lebron james and cleveland cavilers once again, game one, thursday night, in oakland. Umhmm. That was close. To come back from three hospital one. Amazing rarely done. Dave kinchen, what are you doing today. Fire crews remain on the scene here in bridesberg after a devastating fire completely damages an American Legion, we will tell you what we know about the investigation after the break. Than playing whapennsylvania millions,ing with top prizes of one Million Dollars . Winning,. On the spot. 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