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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A November 27, 2015

These, owe family car did not fit and it didnt work so we had to get a special vehicle, you smartly measured beforehand or did you just estimate. I estimated which luckily was correct. The the question is where will you store these and hide these until christmas. Storage room. A storage room. A storage room at the house. Yes. Do they fit in the doorway. Yes. I noticed while were you away getting the second vehicle the the toy here Mercedes Benz is exact same size as that little toyota a over the sign there. You are right. Youve got coffee and you are done shopping. Im done. Thanks for being patient and thanks for having fun. Thanks for helping out. Merry christmas. What we dont have for you new viewers just joining us is video of her and her sister trying to jam these in the acura which we will show you at 8 00 oclock. We will find the video within an hour i hope but let me give you a Weather Report for you people just joining us. Total thick fog. Maybe that is fogging judgment and clouding judgment of shoppers because we have seen people buy big tvs, one couple with a broken tv after trying to jam it in its trunk and then, other people buying big toys they cannot fit in. A lot of people are coming here with stuffed trunks and cars, already from previous shopping excursions in other stores that have been opened all night. They are coming here all right with the cars loaded and reload witt big things that they think they have room for while they are in the car and in the store and when they get out here with the cart they realize why did i buy this i cannot fit it in the the car and get it home. Very interesting black friday. It is. I have never seen someone rent a minivan to take two fake cars home. I said it,. Heres something we have seen around olde city. You know is what fun bye target, it looks like the pope is coming here as well because crowds were crazy here on thanksgiving. They put same kind of barricade in olde city for all of the big event we have had already. I have seen so many of these steel barricade. Is the pope coming to target . Is he shopping here as well . They just took them down because the lines gone. It is getting busy. Be careful. The road is wet. It is a slick surface. People are slipping around as well. Be careful if you are driving. Everybody is rushing from store to store to store and they realize the that the car does not have the the breaking power it normally has. There arent many people because yesterday was black thursday. Im calling it the brown thursday. Yes. There arent as many people out there as there have been in the years past because we dit all yesterday. Everybody talks about the the great deal you can get, you know, on a television on a day like today. Check out some of these nontraditional gift ideas though. So theme parks passes, sea world is offering season passes on buy one get one base fridays now until cyber monday. And cars, keeping an eye out for deals, experts are predicting this will be a record breaking day for car sales. You see hotels there as well, cheap tickets. Com is offering 25 percent off to the first five hundred customers, between seven and 10 00 this morning. Four minutes ago that started. You better hurry up, it is probably already gone. Airfare, this is a big one, Spirit Airlines had their one day only, 99 percent off sale. 99 percent off. 1 percenters. Air travel web site hopper. Com says to expect a lot of cheap flights between now and cyber monday. I havent heard of hoppery have been on the hopper but i have never used hopper. Com. Maybe that is their plan, to go out and go to hospitaller okay. Last skiing, lifttopia is offering a voucher for people who sign up this weekend. That voucher will be worse to ten to 150. Problem is if you wanting to to the the poconos they dont have the the know just yet. No, they didnt. National Retail Federation estimates, i know i just told you this three minutes ago but im telling you again, the national Retail Federation estimates that 135 Million Consumers will be shopping out there today. You know almost a hundred Million People will plan to shop today. A whooping 630 billion will be spend this Holiday Season. But the economy has been improving, many shoppers remain, fight fist ted unless you are renting vehicle tolls buy little cars for your kids. Some people got some cash. Umhmm. Umhmm. Consumer advocates are reminding you, that the Holiday Season is a prime time for scammers and hackers. Take advantage of you. Credit experts have this advice about taking precautions. What i recommend is trying to keep shopping to one or two credit card only because if something is wrong with those card you can lift the damage plus you have your other car in reserve while waiting for card to be lost and stole tone come to you. Sometimes it can take five Business Days or more. You can still operate. So that is important. He looks like a good time doesnt he. He also recommend contacting your bank about Virtual Credit card which used randomly generated card numbers associated with your credit account. You can set a max charge of Virtual Credit card which, further protect you from fraudulent transactions. Hey, chris murphy, is what going on 59 credit 06. Police in Burlington County your looking forgo a man they say murdered a Convenient Store clerk at quick and go in willingboro. Police still dont know exactly what happened, wednesday night but they do say that the shooting happened around 8 20. The shooter came in, pulled out a gun, demanding cash. The victim three twoyear old matthew moysing, handed money out but followed the guy outside. That is when the the guy turnout and shot moysing and left him. He later indict at the hospital. Those who knew him are really shocked. Unaudible. I came to work knowing that he came and died with the gunshot wound. He was a good person. Very hard working guy. Police are urging anyone with any information to give police a call, if they recognize this man. Police say they found a second teen they wanted to talk to in connection with the shooting of the trooper earlier this week. Nineteen yearold lewis was riding in the car driven by 17 yearold Giovanni Cotto when it was stopped by troopers Tuesday Morning for an expired tag. Police say lewis then ran off but cotto jump back in the car and a Wild Police Chase followed. It ended with cotto crashing in the school bus and both cars catching fire right there on the vine street expressway in center city. Police say as he tried to get away he shot the trooper patrick casey. Casey had has been released from the hospital and cocoa released on three milliondollar bail. Police had been looking for lose is to question him about what happened that morning. They say they will in the information pursue any charges against him for anything that happened on tuesday. If you drivein new jersey you may start seeing fewer signs of state contracting work. The fund are drying up real fast. For governor christie the the democratically controlled legislature, june 30th, it is all coming up, real quickly. That is the deadline for authorization of new borrowing, and they just cant seem to agree on how to move forward. So in the meantime the department of transportation is slowing down, any work that needs to be done. This includes, concrete repair projects in both north and south new jersey, guys. Try cooking 2800 meals, 300 volunteers joined manna staff on thanksgiving to cook up a storm of food. They started at 5 00 oclock in the morning to feed all of the critically ill people of manna that it serves. They were delivered to people who need it the most. Manna is a nonprofit that provides air delivers healthy meals and counseling to people battling life threatening diseases. Thanks, guys. They do a great job there. Americans living there, in france are celebrating thanksgiving. Holiday took on a extra special meaning in that country, of course, yesterday in the wake of the terror attacks earlier this this month. U. S. Theme cafe right there in paris says it has seen more foot traffic then ever before. In fact, a young man from the stay of pennsylvania says it almost felt like home yesterday. I go to American University here in paris and a group of my friend all come together and we make turkies and a tradition, we go to the apartment and just eat together and have a good time. Good for him, that is nice. It the is 7 09. Well, lets talk eagles. In a way were talking eagles. Do you notice a couple of Animal Rights activist stormed on to the field during the fourth quarter. Yeah, we were watching. We were like what is going on. What are they trying to protest. The the director, then send the camera away. They are trying to get them off the field, security wise, we didnt get a good glimpse of the the banner that they had but it wases to promote an end to animal cruelty. Given it was thanksgiving, i guess it was an appropriate thing to promote. Interesting moment in the game. But that clock did you notice it just kept running n1 seemed to complain. We just wanted this game over with. People are talking about mostly though because were there, where is the security, you know, in this day and age. They got on the field pretty easily. 7 10. One thing philadelphians are known for dedication to our teams, that is for sure but even the the players. Well, they seem fed up. Look at Jahlil Okafor he knocked out a heckler in boston. Tmz really got the in to it there look at them running over to him. Knocks him down. Reportedly the guy was, kind of saying how bass the sixers were and it. It comes from their 16th Straight Loss this year to the boston he celtics n fact what have they lost now 26 straight games if you go back to last year. Yes. A representative says the the assault was selfdefense. But that video tells a different story. He pushed that guy for sure. Hey chris what else is going on at 7 11. Demonstrators in chicago are planning to disrupt black friday shopping in chicago to bring attention to police brutality. This comes after an officer was charged, this week for 2014, shooting death of laquan mcdonald. The 17 yearold. Protesters will hold the demonstration in the famed shopping district along Michigan Avenue knew. The reverend Jesse Jackson will also attend that march. Jackson and others say they hope their presence will discourage shoppers from going in to those stores. Several protests have been held since authorities released video of the shooting this week. Pope francis heads to uganda for second part of the six day trip in africa. This comes after visit in kenya where thousands turned out for a mass. The pope visited a kenya slum and u. N. Headquarters there. He pressed for better housing, saying quote, dignified Living Conditions are a basic human right just like it is is here in the u. S. In september. This is the first time the pope has been to africa. The the meaning is not lost on the faithful. Im feeling blessed and i feel this is a Good Opportunity for us ken yas. Because we are a receiving a blessing from god. Meanwhile while the the pope was in uganda, the countrys Gay Rights Community is hoping for a private meeting. They will ask for Catholic Church to promote human rights to promote gays and lesbian wright. The pope head to Central African republic the the most dangerous leg of the tour giving conflict between christians and muslims there the popes caravan must travel through a notoriously unlawful area causing some security concerns, and now the road is being patrolled by u. N. Peace keepers, in the areas being cleaned up for the popes visit. That is a look the your on top stories, now back to you. Rescuing a home less dog or cat this could be your chance. Heres the deal, animal care and control team of philadelphia is holding their own holiday special. It is starting to day, through sunday, they are offering free adoptions, and the the move comes after the shelter was forced to out nice dozens of dogs due to overcrowding. What . According to workers, they noticed a surge in the number of pets being surrendered over thanksgiving holiday. The goal, it is to make room and find forever homes as possible. Animal advocates urge people looking for a dog or cat to rescue, to rescue from a shelter. Do not, purchase them. They also remind you of the importance of spaying and neutering your pets, to prevent, over population. Be careful. Coming up on 7 14. On thanksgiving area volunteers spent the holiday saying thank to you some true american heres owes. Volunteers cooked up and served up a complete thanksgiving day dinner to active duty officers, soldiers. This is from fort dix, maguire. Aboard the battleship new jersey. It gave the soldiers a break and chance to spent time with loved ones on this holiday. It is good to be together. The it gives ace chance to get out of the home and just be family and friend, and everybody is here with us. At the the philadelphia Veterans Home volunteers served a holiday feast to about 100 people in need. Okay. A little piece of pennsylvania is heading to the white house. A local Christmas Tree farm, won a contest to provide the the white house with its Christmas Tree. Umhmm. So thinks busters Christmas Tree from lansdale. Every year since 966, the national Christmas Tree association has chosen one lucky tree to decorate the the president s house. So they will be unveiling the the tree at the white house, later this morning, where it will stay in the blue room until after christmas. So this isnt the the big, white house, out front Christmas Tree. This is going in the blue room. But still an honor. President obama will see it inside. It is just a gigantic trees, dave. Last year i went to see d. C. The at christmastime. They had one for every state. You can go and they have different rent other than also from the different states. By the white house. In the back. It is the back of the white house. Their backyard, south lawn we call it. Yes. I didnt get on the actual south lawn. It is apparently easy to do. Jump the fence. I have a fake tree. There it is. The the bottom third is empty, broken ornament. Come on, dave, get it together. I got the to work on these kids. Were working on the weather here. The the sunshine is trying to burn the fog off and doing a fairly good job but it will take a while. Were dense in some areas. The dense fog advisory continues until the a. M. The the sunnies up already and it is burning off the fog but it will take a while. Slow down on the roadways especially across new jersey, and delaware, visibility is quickly dropping to about a quarter of mile. A few more clouds today, still fairly warm. Weekend rain coming in from all of this dont worry about the snow. It will be warm by the time it gets here. Temperatures are climbing a bit but that rain gets closer and closer, not here today, we will continue to track this over the next few days, a next few hours here. By this morning theres the clouds, clearing up, fog is gone, sunshine is warming tell temperatures up in the 60es a. Clouds increase tonight. That keeps temperatures from dropping too much. Here comes that rain, late the saturday. So it is dropping to saturday where the rain developed and it could continue through sunday. It starts fairly light, and it will stay on the light side but it is fairly steady especially overnight saturday through early sunday. Temperatures in the upper 50s today thanks to the sunshine that we will have, and then try to climb above 60 degrees. It may be peaking peaking about. Dropping in the upper 40s. Wake up tomorrow to a mild start, 40s and 50s. The and then climbing into the 60s again. But heres that cooler air moving n so long as the rain is developing, we will see those temperatures drop quite a bit, and mainly, through sunday night, and monday. So, these are the temperatures here, sat the day afternoon, into the the 50s and 60s, so the rain developing, brings in that warm air and then it drops, once the the rain clears out. Fiftyeight with some sunshine. Sixtytwo. Down to 53. The clouds and a mix of fog, dense fog in some areas, as that continues until at nine or 10 00 oclock this morning. The showers tomorrow and sunday. A break on monday. It will get cooler. Sixtys down to the 50s, the showers will return for a day on tuesday and then we will have weather for thursday. Were 40s to fives off today for the holiday but traffic is looking g no major issues out there. There is some fog along 491 freeway, it is cobbs creek. Roadway is fairly clear. Volume picking up a bit. 202 northbound allendale road, there is a minor traffic here. The it is right here near the king of prussia mall. Volume increases a bit there. Take a little extra time. It is not all that heavy just yet. Travel times along the schuylkill, and i95, looking pretty good, all green, there, a lot of the roadways except for near those malls, mike and alex. If you have nothing else to do and the kid want to get out, why dont you go to Citizens Bank park today. They will be opened. They are hosting red friday. Families are invited to come out and take hole day photos on the field and meet phillies ball girls. You might be able to catch a snapshot while hanging out with the phillies fanatic. Fans can shop in the Majestic Clubhouse store and get their hand on the newest phillies gear. Nice christmas presents maybe. There will be plenty of free items and discounts. The runs from ten to 6 00 this message is brought to you by the philadelphia phillies. 7 19. Santa claus is coming to town. He is trading his sleigh for a ride on the market frankford line. What. The septa santa a express will be pulling into dilworth park later this morning. At 10 30 you can meet him and his helpers. Young riders will get a goody bag filled with christmas treats and they will get to ice skate with santa on the ice win k there. 10 30 this morning. Yes. Fun thing to do

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