Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20160516 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A May 16, 2016

I have a little poll going. So does alex on our twitter accounts. Im saying it is leaning to i dont like it. Really dont think jersey sponsorship is so bad as long as it is tasteful and in more than two logos per uniform. We have responses but make sure you use the fox 29 good day and so we can show it on tv. We will have a representative from the sixers, we will ask them about this people are wondering why stubhub. Maybe not wondering why stub hub but if you have any quotes. Interesting marriage. They sell tickets to the sixers games. That is right. So there you go. Yes. Rumor has it, it is 5 million for three years, 15 million. Keep them coming. Majority says i dont like it, i dont like it but you one from philip says it is okay. We always see a change. That is problem in philadelphia, so interesting, we are the first city of all of the cities because we dont like change. The city that hates change is first one to change. Well, it is happening anyway. So is this . An eight out of ten today in your weather by the numbers. It is really chill toy start but it will be a Beautiful Day. We still have a eight. Bus stop buddy, we have put mittens on him because it is so cold out there. Temperatures are in the 30s and 40s here it is, the middle of may, so a nice warm fleece is a good idea. Thirtyone in mount pocono. Fortythree in wilmington. 44 in atlantic city. It feels colder then. That wind chill in the it the i is 38 degrees. We are heading to i a high of 65 today. 10 degrees cooler then average. Breeze tie with wind, at 15 to 20 miles an hour. 49 degrees with increasing cloud overnight, not quite as cold, we will talk about the next chance of rain, coming up in the seven day forecast, any better on i95, bob kelly. Unfortunately not, sue, 70 00 2a rough go here as we get started on i95. Heres a live look from skies fox, the at exactly the situation. It almost a half an a half ago an accident involving two tanker tractor trailers, on i95, and this fellow here obviously ran into the back of the second one. This could have been a lot worse though, gang because all we have right now is just a fuel leak, from the fuel tanks of this tractor trailer. Were not getting word from the Fire Department as to how many gallons are leaked but obviously this could have been worse. They are leading traffic through but only one lane just squeezing on by right now, south on i95. Lets go to the maps, getting ready to leave in northeast philadelphia, it is bumper to bumper from cottman avenue all the way through center city. It typically opens up there. Even folks from center city trying to go south this morning or having trouble, the accident is right there, at washington avenue. So a couple of alternate from center city, dont get on that seventh and race street on ramp work your way through and get back on at front street. If you are coming from the great northeast and trying to get to the airport on time forget that there is a river here and go over tacony or betsy ross bridge. Take route 130 south, come back in over the walt whitman and that ill with get you down to the airport in time for your flight. Another situation, water main break market between fortysecond and fortythird and it is sun glare every where, normal spots like conshohocken curve and northbound i95 coming from delco, mike and alex, back to you. Strap in may you may be sick of this story over the next few weeks. The corruption trial of congressman chaka fattah, begins this morning, down the street in the federal courthouse. Fattah is charged with misusing cam paper fund and grants to pay off loans from the failed philadelphia mayoral run. Steve is on the story, down the street, hi there, steve. Reporter i think tv viewers here in philadelphia are sick of seeing corruption trials, period here in philadelphia they happen as regularly as mummers parade does every year. Just three months after his son chaka fattah junior, got convicted here and sentenced to five years in the federal pen, fattah senior today starts facing a jury and his 29 count federal indictment. He he is going on trial were four aids at the same time, so were talking lots of lawyers. Today for instance youll get prosecution Opening Statement and five defense Opening Statements. Six Opening Statement in one day, means lots of charges, lots of confusion for this jury of 12 nonlegal will scholars to listen to and then sort out months from now. Fattah just got elect, or voted out of office after being elect 11 times as a congressman, 22 years in congress, now most of the final days in the courtroom not in congress. And maybe he will end his time as a congressman by starting his time as a convict. All this as philadelphia state senator Larry Farnese just got indicted, farnese youll recall replaced state senator vince fumo who got indicted, convicted and went to prison. Fumo, long time philadelphians will know replaced buddy cianfrani who got indicted, convicted and sent to prison. Long line of Corruption Cases continue and so does that other continuous parade to prison for politicians in philadelphia, parade that starts right here at the federal courthouse just eight blocks from where the mummers parade starts every year. Do you see up in new york state, there are Nine Congress people who are in jail now, just in the last year. Reporter look at powerful people in the the state house, state Senate President , a all those guys just getting indicted too. Corruption is is all over this country unfortunately. 7 07. Come ber day for students at this south jersey high school. This morning they returned for the First Time Since the tragic death of two classmates. It has been only hours since it happened. Two teens were killed in the car crash coming home from the prom. Bill anderson, at bridgeton high school, bill. Reporter good morning. Students and teachers administrators are starting to arrive for the first time here at bridgeton high school, since one of their, two of their classmates were actually killed this weekend returning from whom activity in over city. This morning grief counselors will be speaking to students, teachers and friend of daisia assault on and mikayla mostly when they were killed when they lost control of a car and slammed into a tree. The sign behind me on campus that i noticed this morning that reminded, student going to the prom to be, respectful, act responsibly and inspire higher. That sign may have been inspired by the fact that brink ton was still mourning another student killed in the car accident, just two weeks ago. We are in mourning. Especially knowing that today, we had the Funeral Services for one of our senior students who was tragically killed in a car accident, approximately two weeks ago. In response to that elect officials started to will into this. Senate president Steve Sweeney issued a statement with the all too common warning for parents and students. He said this time have the of the year is a special one for students and their friend but it must also be a time of great caution. I urge parents parents to talk to their children about the importance of safe driving especially when traveling at night. As student come back to school today talking to grief counselors trying to put together the pieces, elect officials are looking into this. Three people in two weeks, way too many and they are starting to figure out whether there may need to be policy changes for these tragedy so that they dont happen any morey was talking to one of the bridgeton teachers on twitter. She was saying actually on facebook that she was a teacher for both of these girls that were killed in the car crashes over the last two weeks. You know the post through keep putting up, says cousins, do you know if they were cousins, can you check into that . Reporter i will look into that. We have not confirmed that yet and a lot of the student were kind of calling each other that so i dont know if they are by logically cousins or just close friend but we will look into that and continue to pray for two students who are still in the hospital, hopefully recovering. Back of that car. Officials, say how close they were, even if they werent family they felt like family. 7 09. Well, police are investigating after a 17 yearold was shot. Tell me about this, lauren. Ten times in, grays ferry overnight and taken to Presbyterian Medical Center in Critical Condition. Police in the area heard gunshots. Several people called 911. They believed that the victim was targeted, south detective, are currently looking over security cameras footage, for help identifying this suspect. And a man is being held behind bars after police say he killed his girlfriend by pouring gasoline on her, while she smoked a get. Officials say 46 yearold melissa bacon was burned alive at the Lincoln Motel yesterday in bensalem. Police say bake objects boyfriend sketch small, confessed to his family members, about that attack, and the motive remains unclear and Officials Say small is being held, without bail, and no one else was injured in that fire. And crews cleaning up the water main break near the fire station at fortythird and market in West Philadelphia, Officials Say that this happened around 4 00 a. M. In traffic delays have been reported in that area. And extra excitement, security during Commencement Ceremony at university of pennsylvania yesterday. Vicepresident joe biden and republican president ial candidate donald trump were at Franklin Field for that ceremony. Both had a connection to the 1500 students graduating class. Bienss granddaughter niomi and trumps youngest daughter tiffany. They were sitting in the main row in the front. Trump and biden have previous ties to penn. Trump graduated from Wharton School of business in 1968. Two of his other children were there as well. Bidens late son beau attended under grad at penn. Hundreds of students from rutgers camden, go the to be a part of history yesterday. Two younger students travel to the main campus in New Brunswick to see president obama. He is first sitting president to deliver a commencement speech at rutgers and during his speech he took a swipe at donald trump, and his plan to build a wall along our border and isolate muslims. It contradicts the evidence that our growth, and our innovation and our country has always been spurred by our ability to attract people from every corner of the globe. That is how we became america, why would we want to stop that now good president owe bam delivered a keynote dress at the universitys commencement as part of the year long celebration of the the 250 anniversary. Mike and alex. Well, also the president was going to go back in d. C. , as a matter of fact because he will award the nations highest honor for Law Enforcement to Philadelphia Police officer Sergeant Robert wilson the third. He will be honored for his heroic efforts during a Armed Robbery at a game stop in north fill race year. He was killed in the gun battle trying to protect customers from two armed men. Sergeant wilson will be awarded the medal of valor given to officers who have exhibited exceptional courage in the a tempt to save or protect human life. He is one of the 13 officers being honored today and that is highest honor given to a police officer. His family there been there. I wand fur his son will be there too. Would i imagine in the white house. All right. Coming up at 7 12. Sue, lets get right to the point. You are talking about deceiving sunshine out the there today, it is chilly but you very, very bright, because of the clear skies we have had overnight. If you think this month has been cool, you are right. We should for the average of the in so far as of the 16th be at almost 64 degrees, but 51. 3 is where we are right now. So it has been a cold month but this morning that we just had is not the coldest we have ever had. 28 degrees in 1966, on may the 11th was the coldest we have ever been in the month of may. So in comparison, it is so balmy, 44 degrees in philadelphia 31 mount pocono. Fortythree dover. Fortyone lancaster. Fortytwo in trenton. The wind chill map in may, it feels like the 30s out there. Mount pocono has a wind chill of 21. And so, keep that in mind when you are selecting your outer wear, this morning. Something warm if you are going to wait for a bus, wait for a ride outside. Freeze warning and frost advisory still in effect until the north and west of us. Ultimate doppler is showing that is there snow falling in upstate, new york and new england this morning. That is how cold it is. So, we do not have that in the forecast. We have sunshine and 65 degrees today. And make sure you bring a nice warm jacket in if you are going to the phillies game tonight. Tomorrow you may need an umbrella with 62 degrees. Sixtyfour on wednesday with showers in the morning, and then, thursday, is when we will get to 70 degrees, mid 70s by friday, and then we can end, we will stay in the 70s, as well, that is a look at your seven day forecast, bob. Hey, sue, good morning. We still have problems on i95 here. This is i95, in Center City Philadelphia just south of center city, two tanker trucks involved in a crash. It happened at 4 00 or 4 30 or so. Luckily this could have been a lot worse. The there was no fire. Just a minor, leak of gasoline from the actual fuel tanker, and one of the tractor trailers but heres the problem, only one lane is opened, on i95, south just south of Center City Philadelphia. So we got our normal jam from the northeast, all the way into center city. Then were still jammed from downtown all the way through tunnels under penns landing down to washington avenue. And then to add a problem to it, we also had an accident on the vine expressway ramps. If you are leaving the house right now from northeast philadelphia or bucks county and you are trying to get through center city to get to the airport, go into new jersey. Forget that there is a river there and use tacony or betsy and take 130 all the way down to the walt whitman. If you are leaving say neighborhood or center city, avoid getting on i95 in center city, work your way down to the front street ramps, and then that will hook you up with a nice easy ride all the way down to the airport. Again, there is another accident, totally separate then the tanker truck, at the seventh street ramps, to the vine street expressway, and so again, leaving town, trying to get to i95, forget about it, you will want to head down to front street. Mike and alex, back to you. Had phillies won they would have been in first place in the nl east. That is unbelievable. It was an impressive weekend until yesterday. Yes, that is true. This was the play of the weekend though, look at this, on saturday, youve got to make a perfect throw. He did. That is fantastic. Tyler goodell, with a perfect strike, into rupps glove, and youre out, double play. Reds lose. Phillies win. We will go for the sweep yesterday but that didnt go as well. Right new were in second place. By one game. Matt lombard owe is here from 97. 5 the fanatic. I will tell you was that one of the most impressive plays you have seen. I think you under sold that, that was play of the year, how about biggest play of the last five years at Citizens Bank park. Who knows how they are doing this. Obviously top prospects like jp crawford, Nick Williams are still not up in the Minor Leagues but it is an Exciting Team to watch, with rupp making the tag giving of the body that was exciting and it is a fun team to watch right now. Nick williams is outfield. They need his bat. Yes, they do. The reason you cannot get all in on this team is games like yesterday where you see they cannot score runs. Pitching has been great. Aaron nola has been great. Hellickson was spot on he had a great outing but they need to bring up a bat. They need crawford, williams. They might be up by june or so. We will have to see. How about ryan howard . Nice one. If he keeps, striking it like it is right now he might be someone you can deal to bring a young bat in here. Somebody will take that 25 minute. Probably not. Okay. Were asking the same question as john smallwood, is today in the back page of the daily news . Are the phils, what the record says they are . Well, lets just wait and see because they have a ten game road stretch. Another long road trip in the beginning of the june. Lets see how they survive. That they cannot hit. There is no power in the outfield. Pitching has been great. Top prospects are in the here yet. They are a fun team. Lets take it for what it is. Lets talk eagles. It is a very big day. Joey voto. Yes, did you see what he was doing. Yes. Yes. Faking everybody. Quick way to make yourself the least popular man in philadelphia one thing to fake out a group of fans but then he does it again and goes over to a little kid and he doesnt throw the kid the ball. I have been there. That is no fun. Would i boo him if i were that kid good he did get boo. And he is taking heat on social media he does it again. Do you want this ball. Do you want this ball. I hate, that because he is such but he is looking directly at an adult, a guy that was given him so much fits. Yes. All game long, he was yelling, you know, stuff at him. When you fake out the little kid. When little kiddies there with the glove, staring him down, and kid has a glove. Little kid love for that sort of thing. Take the glove hoping to get a foul ball or ball from a player. The adult says i dont want that. Get into that. Mike schmidt does what. He gives the kid indabas ball. The kids win in the end but does the kid know mike schmidt. But such a cool moment, cool gesture from ben davis and mike myth submit to give him the ball. Mike signed it and got to love that. Yes. Now were ready. Just exited to see how this goes down because we are expecting carson wentz to meet sam bradford for the first time. Yes. That goes down today. We saw carson wentz at rookie camp throwing a couple passes the other day and there were more reporters in the building then there were players. That is how it goes in philadelphia

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