Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A 20161012 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A October 12, 2016

How chase utley and joe blanton, yes, i said joe blanton, led the dodgers to victory. Thats not the phillies, though. It hurts blue and white . Dodger blue . Hi everybody. It is, is it wednesday . It is wednesday. October the 12th, now, back in the day, october 12th was columbus day. But that was monday. Which makes no sense any more. It doesnt . Nope. Okay. Good columbus day. Did he really discover america . Lets in the get into that whole controversy. Little early for. That will you know what does make sense . What . Going to sue to get some weather. You know, thats never made sense to me. Weve done it for 15, 20 years. You must endure anyway, im afraid. This might help. Ten, yes, ten out of ten. Make it feel little better . Here is bus stop buddy. Another chilly start this morning, he is wearing a jacket, but he may end up leaving it at school because it is going to be little milder today once the day is through. Temperatures are mostly in the 40s this morning. We have 39 degrees, though, in allentown and pottstown. Fifty in the city. Fortyfive in wilmington. Fortyseven in wildwood. There is your ooh degrees at the airport with 7 09 as your sunrise time. Just little bit after breeze, it is going to be nice one today, High Temperature of 70 degrees, mix of sun and clouds. But how long will this stretch of gorgeous autumn weather last . Well let you know in the seven day forecast, coming up the good morning being bob kelly. Hey sue good morning, everybody, 6 02, this wednesday, off to a quiet start, at least right now, here is a live look at disable there is guy off into the bushes here. This is the blue route off ramp, to ridge avenue, some folks kind of going around, we got penndot arrow truck just pulling up to the scene here. Again, so just watch yourself if you are headed that way again the blue route at ridge pike. Then, the ben franklin bridge looking good, no problems up and over into downtown, speedometer readings pretty much in the 50s for all of the major roadways, and we slide on down to delaware where we have an accident involving two overturned tractortrailers. This is southbound lanes of route one. Right near the smyrna interchange. Which is exit number 119. So for the morning rush hour, if you are headed south, route 13 is the way to go. Try to get more info as the morning goes on, hello shaders, maple shade new jersey, route 73 and fellowship, everybody out headed at the same time, Cumberland Farms in the background, no problems if you are headed up toward the talcony palmyra bridge. Then in Chester County route one crews are coming our way later on today right at route 41, mass transit looking good with no delays. Mike, alex, over to you. Thank you, bob. 03 00, fire in hunting park causes part of a home to collapse. It happened on the 1300 block of west pike street, around 1 30 this morning, at one point, firefighters were told to evacuate the building when it started to give way. Parts of broad street in the area also had to be closed, as crews investigated, it has since reopened, and they are still determining the cause of this fire. And now to talcony where firefighters battled garage fire. It happened at magee avenue and edmond street around 11 00 last night. You can see from this video, not much left of the garage. And, we do know, though, there are no injuries. 6 04. A murder mystery in Delaware County has left a community shocked and sad end. Police there say someone stabbed a mother to death inside of her own home. Dave kinchen, live at darby borough, at the Police Department there. Dave . Mike, alex, Big Questions here for neighbors and police trying to investigate all of this. Police talking to these neighbors. They are investigating the deadly stabbing after woman, she was found stabbed to death in the basement of her spruce street home on sunday. Neighbors say that they saw the victims daughter outside on the street. Now, here is the thing, the neighbors are saying that the victims daughter in her 20s, has special needs. They say it is strange for the daughter to be outside without her mother. Something theyve never seen before. So the neighbors called police. And thats when investigators made the discovery of the victim at the house. Now, police have not yet under kate dollars whether they have a suspect or a motive in this murder. We will check back with investigators today, working, and back out in the neighborhood taking a look at things again, but very strange situation here. Murder mystery, and police trying to solve it. Mike anal next. Dave, more on that in a little bit. 6 06 now. Bucks county, officials from the Neshaminy School district are warning parents about an attempted abduction. Police say man with silver hair driving black toyota camry pulled up to Elementary School student yesterday. Police say he asked the boy if he needed a ride. The boy said no. Then the man took off. If you know anything about this, call police. Well, with the president ial elections just four weeks away, and republicans divided over Donald Trumps character and candidacy, the billionaire now blasting House Speaker paul ryan for saying he will no longer defend or campaign with donald trump. But, focus instead, on protecting the Republican Party when it comes to the house majority. So, donald trump went to a tirade on twitter. Trump took to twitter yesterday and said this, despite winning the second debate in a landslide every pole it is hard to do well when paul ryan and others give zero support. Then this one it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off of me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. Well, paul ryan has not responded to these tweets. And Hillary Clinton says the fbi is investigating the hacking of the democrats top campaign advisor. Clinton is still feeling good following what many people are calling a Strong Performance at the second debate. She campaigned in miami along another former nominee, al gore, as she focused her talks on climate issues. Real clear politics which averages all of the polls in florida shows Hillary Clinton ahead nationally by six points. Moving on here at 6 06. Children who play for the camden raiders are devastated that somebody ruined their playing field. When players and coaches for the Youth Football Team showed up for practice they found that someone had driven a truck all over the field behind the Hall Community center. The turf ripped up, look at that, coaches started this team a year ago to keep children off of the streets. And theyre just heart broken. Specially the coaches, the kids, everyone involved. Why would people do this . It was for us, like for the kids. They loved it. They enjoyed coming out here. Half of them never played a day of football in their life. Just the fact that they have something to do, and theyre learning, and around a bun of men doing something positive. The city will be at the field this morning putting on top soil so their field of dreams will grow again. But their home game saturday now has to be an away game. We have link on the website if you want to help the kids fix their field with more information. So what we will do, take camera over there, watch this resod g. Steve used to play football himself. Steve keelie . On the very field . On the very field. Gal over there with a camera so we can watch this refurbishing of the field. Anything we can do to help we will. Tragedy of different kinds in the wake of the hurricane matthew. Why police say they opened fire on a man in north carolina, as they were trying to rescue people from the flood. Plus, local parents concerned for their kids safety. Take matters into their own hands. What theyre doing to ensure students get to and from school safely. Busy intersections causing a lot of concerns. Parent, neighbors, in grays ferry very concerned about children crossing streets, because there is not a crossing guards there. While they look for permanent solution, pitching in to keep student safe. Every day nearly 1500 students leave school and cross 32nd street here at dickinson, due to shortages, no dedicated crossing guards. Community activists, charles reed, has been volunteering himself while also reaching out to the Community Leaders and police. One time the Police Department, told me, i dont know who promised. Just click the caution button. Traffic lights dont do this. Mr. Lays uniformed office their during the busy hours but hope to Hillary Clinton more crossing guards, finds permanent solution in the near future. Sometimes you got to do it yourself. All right, 6 10,. Man shot and killed by state trooper during flood rescues in north carolina, what the governor says led to the shots being fired. During search and rescues missions monday night, officer has been placed on administrative leave. No further details of the shooting have been released but the governor said it happened under very difficult circumstances. Meanwhile the death toll now stands at 18, in north carolina, as flooding continues in several areas. President obama also has declared a major disaster in South Carolina. Providing federal aid to areas hit hard by hurricane matthew, in that state. Fema is transporting food, water, blankets, to help those impacted by hurricane matthew. The president is urging people who live in the area affected by the flood in South Carolina to follow the directions, of their local officials. I guess thats obvious. 6 14. Ive been checking in with some of the my friends in South Carolina they say theyre still without power, still waiting for it to be turned on. As you know alex holley worked here for couple of hours in myrtle beach right on the coast there. I have a lot of Close Friends and family friends. They are okay . Okay, but ready to get home so they can see the damage and get everything together. They will be affected by this for month for sure. Coming up in three, two, one, it is 15 00. Here we are, looking at much Better Weather pattern. Not quite as cold, in the 30s in allentown, 43 degrees in lancaster, 50 in the city. Fortytwo in hazleton. Reading has 41. Pottstown, 39 degrees. Fiftyfour in ocean city, new jersey, 45 in millville. Waking up in lewes, to 50 degrees this morning. Watching closely, hurricane nicole, which strength ends this morning to category two, and is headed right to the island of bermuda there. You see, pretty much a direct hit, at least the agreed upon path of the storm, and with 105mile per hour winds, and heavy, heavy rains, another day of destruction that we have to look at after all what we saw with matthew. Now, first tomorrow is concerned, weve been telling but this cold front coming through. And that we probably wouldnt get any rain. Well, now there is a chance of some rain, maybe two, 3 00 in the afternoon tomorrow. Should pass through pretty quickly if you get any at all from that cold front. And it will take temperatures down a little bit. Here we get to 707 degrees today. After 60s yesterday. Seventytwo tomorrow. Cold front comes through. It is mid 60s for friday and saturday. But saturday and sunday both look like beautiful autumn days. So if you are going to do some pumpkin picking, bob kelly, this is your weekend. You got t ill drop the kids off at your house and im sure they would love to go pumpkin picking with you and sue, going there. 6 16, morning, a live look, the blue route off ramp to norristown. What look like first an addition able vehicle, turned into a vehicle fire. Fire crews are on the scene there. Looks like maybe just an engine overheating. Nonetheless, a lot of activity on the blue route off ramp to norristown. Then septa having some delays this morning on the norristown highspeed line. Because after disable train, allstate, all passengers between the radnor and the bryn mawr station, need to board on the out bound platform. So thats going to throw some delays into the norristown highspeed line this morning. And we have overturned tractortrailer, involved with another tractortrailer, accident here, southbound lanes, route one, being told there were chickens in one of the overturned tractortrailers. This is all southbound route one down in delaware, right near the smyrna interchange. Which is exit number 119. No report of any injuries. To drivers or the chickens, good news, for all motorist this is morning, if you are headed south route 13 is the way to go for the gang leaving south jersey into problems yet on the freeway, or 295. And we are looking good on mass transit. Alex back over to you. Thank you, bob. 6 17. Medical examiner says oklahoma man was on drugs when he was shot dead by Police Officer last month. Now, an autopsy shows 40 year old Terrence Crutcher pcp in his system, also shows he died from gunshot wounds in his chest. Officer betty joe shot crutcher unarm after his car broke down, prosecutors say, the officer reacted unreasonably when crutcher didnt follow her orders. She has pleaded not guilty to first degree manslaughter and she had told investigators, she thought he was on pcp. And the drama surrounding billy bush continues. There are reports that the today show host is negotiating his exit from nbc. The move comes less than a week after recording was released of bush talking to donald trump. It is a hot mike situation of course they are referring to on the bus as they were filming for access hollywood. Donald trump made leud comments about women. Bush has since apologized for the remarks and said he was quote embarrased and ashamed. Right now bush is suspended indefinately. And hes only hired three month ago as an anchor for the show. 6 18. Samsung Electronics Says it is sending fire resistant packages to its customers, precaution against possible fires or explosions from gal, i note sevens as they return to their retailers. Samsung says it is offering prepaid shipping boxes as an option for us owners of the phones, which are prone to over heat and catch fire. The company has recalled all of the phones and said it was discontinuing the devices. Not sure you can still use your phone through a fire resistant bag, but at least it wont, i guess, blow up on you. It is hard to use it when it is shut off. Thats also true, mike. Talking about toyota. Recalling more than 340,000 cars around the worlds. This is because of defect in the prius hybrid parking brakes. Toyota said it has received reports of crashes, injuries, death. The japanese auto maker refuse to provide details saying it was still looking into the report. Residents of small street in West Philadelphia say they have a big problem. Speeding drivers are crashing into homes. It has happened twice in the last month alone, and they are begging the city to do something. The problem areas located on the 900 block of marko street. If help doesnt come, just matter of time before someone gets killed. I had got to the point where i put a stop sign up there myself. You put a stop sign up there . I put a stop sign on the pole. I dont want to be sitting in my living room, having to turn over and somebody is in the car watching it. V with me. Late last night we place add phone to find out what can be done about the street. We are awaiting the city response. Residents say all it would take is speed bump two to slow down the traffic in that area. Talk about speed bump, the eagles have one, life without lane johnson. Something the eagles will have to adjust to for the next ten games. Officially suspended now by the nfl. The response from howie roseman. Coming up. When i was one year old, i was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer on my spinal chord. But i spent my whole life fighting back. So you can imagine what i thought when i saw donald trump say. I dont know what i said, ah, i dont remember that reporter he is talking about suffers from a chronic condition that impairs movement of his arms. I dont want a president who makes fun of me. I want a president who inspires me, and thats not donald trump. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. Its all of this, this, and this. And especially that. Waaat . Yep, add this and youve got strawesomeberry. Oohh honey bunches of oats with real strawberries. This. Is. Everything. Good morning, lane johnson will be suspended ten games. Johnson can practice, be around the facilities, or even talk to the coaches until he comes back in week 16. Because johnson went to arbitrator, it was all or nothing. Maybe if he appealed to the nfl cohave got the suspension reduced, but he did it, and the worse thing about this, with him being suspended theyre taking on washington and minnesota in the next two weeks. In college basketball, it is around the corner, villanova still on cloud nine. Media day coach jay wright talks about using last year to become even better. We have to take all of the positive lessons into that we learned from that experience, and we have to translate that into being better basketball players, better men. Thats sports in a minute. Im sean bell. See philadelphia headlines speaking of sports, there you go, things are bad for the sixers. Just flatout. Wasnt that positive. Ben simmons, is he ever going to play next season . But it could be much much worse. Hey, ben, good luck with that surgery, the surgery went well. Now, three, four months of recovery. Will he play . Or do you just hold him out the whole year . Speaking of the sixers, everyone thought joel embiid was going to have tough time against big tall dude by the name of marcus. Now, did he fine. Did he fine. Even though the grisslys spanked our sixers 121 to 91, it is preseason. So it wasnt on tv last night i was looking for, couldnt find it, then i found out hey mike it is not on. Joel embiid continues to impress. He had 13 points, five rebounds, and how many blocks . A block . One block . I guess one block, in just 13 minute, sixers did lose by a lot but still it is preseason. Joel did very well against preseason, just saving up their energy, not trying to do it all. Is that right . Look at this headline. Things are bad for the sixers. Read it and weep. Weep. Does that upset you . This might make you sick, too. To the baseball playoffs. Nationals versus dodgers. We have former phillies on both teams. Lots of former phillies to go around, including, chase utley. Chase, coming through

© 2025 Vimarsana