Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A 20170418 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 6A April 18, 2017

Extension . Procrastinators out there, well, you are out of time now it is deadline day to file your taxes. They got to be in the box by midnight tonight, find out which companies are offering freeby toss make this day a little less stressful. One of the good things about tax day. Free coffee, stuff like that. We will take whatever we can get. We have a list where you can get them. Good day, it is april the 18th , 2017. Good morning accounts mike. Hi, alex. How are you. Never been better. Im glad that the weather is good. Well, that is always a plus i will tell you this, after the rain moved out yesterday, it may have been nicer then easter. No. About 4 15. Depend what you like. 4 17 yesterday it was nicer then easter. You cannot beat 80 degrees and sunny. Yes, you can it is april, easter was 87. Yesterday it just felt like spring. We dont want to go right from winter to summer, right . I hate to say it, mike but i agree with you. Oh, come on. Mark it down. 6 01, tuesday. Well, there is today if you liked yesterday, because we do have, seasonal temperatures in the forecast, sun about to rise, temperatures in the 50s it is animal cracker day, remember the little box with the little animals inside, and little cookies . You bite the head off. Oh, anyway. Fiftyone is our current temperature. Sunrise time 6 19. Almost here. Right now we have kutztown with 48 degrees, little chillier there and coatsville with 45. Down in williamstown, new jersey it is 50 degrees. Bear delaware at 50s well as as we check jackson, new jersey 49. Mount holly 46. So if you are walking out the door a sweater in the suburbs, nothing on radar, so we should get up in the 60s today. Sixtyseven, 68 degrees for our high temperature, plenty of sunshine, this is a 10 but we have april showers in our seven day forecast, we will tell you when, coming up, bob kelly. Good morning. 6 03. We will begin with speedometer readings not bad double fives on the schuylkill, i95 and 42 we will zoom into an accident at 58th and walnut, lauren on the scene we will tell but that in a second. Watch out for local detour. And then three, tractor trailer accident here happening right now, pennsy turnpike, eastbound, right here near that route 29 slip ram in chester county. Again that is on the eastbound side, and tractor trailer accident on the Atlantic City expressway, eastbound, right here near the winslow interchange and the one we started it off with, a tractor trailer, overturn on the new jersey turnpike, northbound, right here near exit number seven as you work your way up toward central, new jersey, north jersey be ready to hit the brakes slowing you down in the right lane. Hello to the shaders, maple shade, new jersey waking up quiet, no problems or delays over here looking live at i95 as we start to see delays from cottman avenue in through girard. Mass transit just minor delays on septas west trenton Regional Rail line, mike and alex, back to you. Lets get out to west philadelphia, two people rush to the hospital after a hit and run accident in west philadelphia. So lauren is at the scene now, lauren . Good morning, alex and mike , right now crime scene, still remains here, and, i shouldnt call it a crime scene just yet but scene of the accident is at 58th and walnut street. The van, initially reported to have left the scene is actually still here on the scene, turned in the opposite direction of traffic on 58th street. You can still see the met or cycle here as well, lots of debris from the street from the impact of the crash but we are not sure at this hour exactly how it all happen. We do know two people were riding in the motorcycle, both transported to the hospital, in critical condition, and police are still investigating here. One officer tells me before he arrived on the scene here shortly after the accident happened at 3 30 the driver had already fled the scene. So at this hour that is who police are looking for driver of the minivan to find out exactly what happened in the west philadelphia, mike and alex. Not good. We are expecting the fire commissioner to answer some questions about the report on the death of the lieutenant joyce craig. Shes the cities first female Fire Fighters killed in the line of duty back in 2014. Steves on tonight northern liberties, steve. Reporter commissioner tiehl was not in charge of the department when joyce craig was killed. He had an instant reaction written wise yesterday after this federal report came out. Also reacting last night on television the leader of the local 22, that is the philadelphia Fire Fighters union where we are this morning. First, fire commissioner tiehl , and again mentioning the loss of joyce craig in his written Statement Released after the federal investigation into her death came out, wrote that the philadelphia Fire Marshalls Office had already come to many of the same conclusions, about training and the breathing equipment that failed joyce craig. He said it has already been updated. Report contained never before seen pictures of that very equipment with the fire hose, leading from her air tank to her mask where they had a burned out hole in it. It gave way, and that is why she suffocate todd death and that is why her last word, again in the report, cant breathe, i cant breathe, it is sad to hear that again after knowing that is what she said back on december 9th 2014 , almost three years ago. Devastating is the word the commissioner used to describe her loss to both her family and her very larger Fire Fighters family and hoping that the Lessons Learned from the new report will prevent a similar tragedy. So he will talk at 11 00 a. M. As they answer questions beyond his written statement, talking last night already, andrew thomas, the president of the Fire Fighters union, who says a lot more still need to be done, and despite all of the upgrade commissioner tiehl and mayor kenney have made in the short time they have been in charges specially when it comes to training specifically a place for it. He said we dont have one, he said last night our fire tower is unsafe, it cannot be used, you have to have a facility for classrooms and on hand experience and training and right now we dont. But he did agree that there are no more shut downs to save money on firehousees, called brown outs, ridiculous Nutter Administration phrase and instilled during nutter years to save money, and it ended instantly by jim kenney, son of the fire fighter and the Response Time the union always said would be hampered by that the Nutter Administration always said no, dont worry. Well, in this National Report we have learned that joyce craigs backup took 21 minutes to get to her and had they got there sooner, well, maybe we wouldnt be standing here today would we guys. Twentyone minutes. All right. We will check back with you. 6 08 exactly now. Well, the nationwide manhunt continues at this hour, for facebook murder suspect Steve Stephens. Hi, can you do me a favor . Can you say joy lane. What. Joy lane. Joy lane. Yeah, shes the reason why this is happening to you. And then he shot and killed him. On sunday, police say, he shot and killed 74 yearold robert god win senior seemingly at random and posted it on facebook. Yesterday there were reports that stephens had been spotted in philadelphia but searches for him later have proved, unfounded, but, at one point they had nine schools that were on lock down because of that report. Victims family issuing a heartfelt plea for the suspect to turn himself into police. I just want him to know that god loves him, we love him, yes, were hurt but we have to forgive him, because if we dont forgive him the bible says your heavenly father wont forgive you. Police say stephens should be considered armed and dangerous. A 50,000 reward is being offered for information leading to his arrest. Well, is there a new clue in the case of a missing local uber driver, we told but her yesterday morning. Well, they found her car. Plus, new details in the investigation of the princes death was latest document reveal about his opioid addiction. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Police found the green subaru at the base of the ben franklin bridge yesterday on the pennsylvania side, on our side of the bridge here. Police are now saying that her disappearance may have been voluntary, and she may have been trying to hurt herself. The 45 yearold woman from abington was last seen a week ago today, after dropping off a passenger in northeast philadelphia, like i said, it was 5 00 in the morning when she dropped that passenger off 6 11. Forgetful president gets a nud ge from his first lady what donald trump for got to do during the National Anthem that created a funny moment at yesterdays easter egg roll role. Apparently, people think im too perky. So now im not being perky, telling you that drivers that switch to progressive save an average of 548 whoo i mean, whoo. A great forecast for today but heres the down side, a chew because the allergy pollen forecast and tree pollen is high, high, high, high for tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday. We do have rain in the forecast for some of these days but it will not be enough , to really alleviate that for you. You have been warn. Nothing on radar today and nothing for the rest of the day, it is not until tomorrow afternoon, cloud will roll in and we have a chance for sprinkle or two. Another chance of rain thursday morning, stays kind of cloudy rest of the day and again, it is unsettled on friday as well, so all of the more reason to enjoy nice weather today. We are starting off cooler then we did yesterday, 45 degrees in pottstown, 37 in mount pocono. We are at 50 in philadelphia, 53 in wildwood just before sunrise and 9mile an hour breeze. We will head to yesterdays temperatures, it was a very pleasant 72 degrees, in the 70 s just about every where else, so today, not that warm but still very nice and 10 worthy, we have 67 degrees high temperature. Sixtythree tomorrow with some showers, around, in the afternoon, not a deluge but a little bit of shower activity every day of that seven day forecast but it doesnt mean it will necessarily rain every day you know what i mean. If i wash my car it will rain every day right over my car. 6 16. We have a car fire right now on i95, this is a live look at i95 southbound right here near betsy ross bridge. I just tweeted out a picture. Lets get for a ride, sky fox over the scene i believe in the brideberg section of the city, southbound i95 right here between betsy ross bridge and Bridge Street interchange there, engine 33 there, the right lane blocked, it is right at betsy ross interchange. This will impact everybody, wow, it looks like a total loss there hopefully everybody okay, just Walking Around a lot of smoke there and southbound i95, you can see the right lane taken out so everybody pushed off to the left and that will start off on a bad foot for the gang from northeast philadelphia accident at 58th and walnut as we heard from lauren that Investigation Underway and couple of tractor trailer accidents we are dealing with this morning, pennsy turnpike eastbound right here near route 29 slip ramp. Atlantic city expressway tractor trailer accident eastbound at winslow and this is a dump truck accident at Monroe Township route 322 just outside Williams Town block in both directions. We have been dealing with this one north on the new jersey turnpike northbound, right lane taken out with an overturn, tractor trailer near exit number seven. Mass transit looking g mike and alex, back to you. 6 17. Arkansass first execution in 12 years has been halted. Yeah, Supreme Court turned down the Arkansas Attorney generals request to vacate a stay for inmate set to be executed late last night but karen, this is what they are trying to execute like eight people in the last two weeks of this month. Reporter they need to cram tonight because lethal injection medicine is expiring the execution did not happen last night, inmate in this case is don davis, he was grant that had reprieve shortly before being set to die. Lawyers filing paper in the state federal court. Davis was convicted and sentenced to die in 1992 for murdering a woman execution style in her home. He is one as you mentioned of those eight inmates that the state hoped to execute over 11 days before the supply of this drug, that will expire at even of the movement it is controversial. Even maker does not want this to be used for lethal injections. Swift time line has sparked a furious debate. I do not believe that this process is being rushed and it is time for those families to have closure that they need. We have never seen anything like this before and it is logistical problem. The national trendies moving away from the Death Penalty since it was established in 1976, 19 states have abolish it and out of that 32 that still have it, 26 have not carried out an execution in some five years and many of the manufacturers of the drug have stopped making it at all. There are two more executions still scheduled right now for thursday night and there will be a whole round of more legal papers filed, as well. Now to a story that certainly i have been following for years, decade, man convicted of killing six yearold etan patz will be sentenced to day finally. Fiftysix yearold Pedro Hernandez once lived in maple shade, new jersey. Little boy etan disappeared in soho neighborhood in 1979. Hernandez work in the Convenient Store near the boy s home, right around the corner by his house and he confessed to the murder in 2012 but his lawyers argued he was mentally ill. Almost a year after the death, is there new information in the investigation in princes death. New documents showed that a doctor prescribed oxycodone under princes friend name to protect his privacy. Document is one of the several just unsealed, that suggest that the pop star was struggling with an addiction to prescription opioids, prince was 56 when family found him unresponse any of april of last year. 6 20. Black hawk helicopter comes crashing down on a golf course in maryland killing one crew member and injuring two others team was on a training flight yesterday when it happened one witness described pieces falling from the chopper, while another person says, they saw it spinning out of control before it went down. Helicopter was stationed at davidson airfield in virginia. All right. Lets talk a little bit about sports here, in the good enough. Not good enough. You dont want to hear that phrase. That is how carson wentz described his first year in the nfl what can we expect in year two. Playoffs. Nobody does underwater stunts, sylvia. Except me, of course. This is my stop. Adios if youre a stuntman, you cheat death. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Numero uno by the time the drugs rannd wout, i was addicted. It happened so fast. I ended up on the streets, where the drugs are cheaper and easier to get. I was a full blown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. When i realized i needed help i didnt know where to go. But i got help and you can too. Youre not alone. Help is within reach. This is governor chris christie. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Good morning, eagles are back together for off season work outs and yesterday, carson wentz talk about his expectations, going into this season. I will always help myself to High Expectations and last year at end of the day we finish sevennine that is not good enough. That will never be good enough for me or anybody in this building. So i fully expect us to all, you know, make stride and hopefully be playing into january. Big five showing some love to the past and present, basketball players at their annual banquet, Jameer Nelson and randy foy among others getting in the big five hall of fame. Jay wright, won the big five coach of the year and josh h art won player of the year. Cavilers and pacers, new jerseys ballers getting it donnas always, kyrie irving stepping it up and making the tray ball, cavilers go on to win 117111 taking a two to zero series lead. That is sports in a minute. Im sean bell. All right. 6 25 now on this tuesday, i see that they have service for dan rooney. Yes. Funeral for former Pittsburgh Steelers chair will be held today. Details came out yesterday afternoon. Mass will be held at 11 00a mountain at st. Paul cathedral among those expected to attend is former president barack obama. Rooney served as ambassador to ireland under the obama administration. Rooney died last thursday at age of 82. 6 25. Killer on the run Police Across the country they are still looking for Steve Stephens after he murdered a man and posted video on line and yesterday philadelphia had a scare, many people were calling believing he was in the area. We will give you latest on this search plus reward being offered to bring him to justice. Lauren is on a horrible accident in west philadelphia. That is right, mike and alex, good morning to you. You can see tow truck is here at 58th and walnut here, we will tell but exactly what happened when two people involved in the accident, hit and run overnight. A new report, comes out, about the death of the first female fire fighter, to pass away in the line of duty, it is not good. It says killed, joyce craig , and deadline day for your taxes, Company Offering some free byes to help ease the pain. Put your hand over your heart, President Trump gets a nudge about this already, we have some more footage now what he seemingly forgot to do during the National Anthem, put his hand over his heart, yesterday afternoon but is there something new about the egg roll, that could crack the case, wide opened. Crack, egg. See what you did there. I got a dozen of them. Good day, it is april 18th, 2017. It

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