Big story is traffic. A septa bus crash that happened on the schuylkill expressway. The bus reared ended one car and then they all started slamming into each other, sue. So, as a result, weve got, all lanes of the schuylkill everybody just getting by on the shoulder here. You can see the bus, we see the turn signal lit on the bus. Maybe they were trying to change lanes or something, smashed it into this truck which then smashed the cara begins the median strip. So, we have a huge backup, on the schuylkill expressway, eastbound as a result. Gaper delay on the westbound side as folks slow down to see what is going on. Tow truck is fast. That is true. Other good parties we have no reports of any injuries, believe it or not, even in that maroon car. Eight cars involved. Right. And one of the mini buses, too. Yeah. So this is a while before they clear this up near girard avenue on the eastbound side where the accident is, heading into the city this morning. So that will slow you down, and find yourself involved in that accident this morning. Two minutes after 7 00, we will check weather, it is flag day, june 14th, so, what a perfect day to fly the flag and whatever else youre doing today a ten out of ten in weather by numbers. Buddy celebrating as well, mostly in the 60s, off to a nice start. Been a mixture of sun and clouds which made for a beautiful sunrise, and it is looking good right now. You can sea breeze moving camera just a bit, 10 miles an hour out of the north and 63 degrees is our current temperature. Hugh you midty 52 percent. 59 degrees in allentown and pottstown. Still in the 50s in lancaster. Sixtyfour in wildwood. Atlantic City International airport at 61. We are looking at a flag day that is perfect, back to the High Temperature of 80 degrees and nice, long day as well, mike and alex, sunset time is not until 8 31 this evening. 8 31. Yep. Okay. 7 03. We will continue to learn more about the man who carried out the attack on pulse nightclub in orlando killing 49, injuring 53 others, this morning, there are reports that shooter omar mateen visited pulse the night club several times over the years before the attack. Maybe dozens of times. He had used a gay dating app and chat app to talk with one regular at the club. There are also reports including one from the wall street journal that he eyed Downtown Disney as a location for an attack. The report sites Law Enforcement sources but fbi says they are still working to confirm all of that. And all 49 of the victims have been now identified and this morning there are chilling accounts of what happened inside that club from those who survived. One of the survivors is one of our interns fox 29 and philadelphia native patients carter. We have been telling but her and fact that she was shot in the leg. So many of you have asked how shes doing. We want to give you an update. Shes recovering after having surgery. She was shot in the knee and operated on the night of the shooting. Her family tells us shes in stable condition this morning and we are all praying for her speedy recovery and thinking of her, for sure. Well, patients told us that she was at the club with two of her friend and this morning, one of them is giving a chilling account of what she saw while hiding inside of the bathroom, at that club, facetoface with the shooter. Talking about tiara parker, she went to West Philadelphia high school, chris. Reporter those two young women are recovering today in an orlando hospital here. They are among the 593 injured victims of the pulse nightClub Shooting, they were with akyra murray when she was shot and held hostage. You were talking about tiara parker from southWest Philadelphia, she spoke with us with murrays parents outside the hospital, parker and murray were the 18 yearold west catholic graduates were killed, they were with her at the club with fox 29 intern patients carter. Parker tells us, that the three hour ordeal, that she says, that she came facetoface the with the mass murderer, she says all three young women were huddled in a bathroom, taken hostage by gunman omar mateen and parker tells news her own words about that terrifying encounter with the killer. This was all hostages in the bathroom. The hours im laying in blood. I got peoples body fragments on me. I seen him peak under the stall and look me in my face. From then on i thought my life was over because not too long after that he said something about him having another bomb to take out a city block. Reporter parker and carter once again remain in stable condition at an orlando hospital. Parker was shot in the stomach. Patients carter shot in the knee. As you can imagine, not just the physical scars, guys but emotional toll of this shooting this incident, of course, will last a lifetime. Undoubted. How could you ever get that out of your mine. Just hearing what she saw and the fact that she looked him in the eye. Thought she was dead. Akyra murray was a promising student athlete from west Catholic High School here in philadelphia. Eighteen years old. She was kill in the shooting at pulse. She graduated just last week, that is why they were down there to celebrate her graduation. As we said she was all set to go to Mercyhurst College on a full athletic scholarship. She was a great basketball player. Now were hearing from her devastated mother and brother who spoke to akyra during the horrifying ordeal. They were on the phone with her. That disbee leave. She was on the phone with me and my mom, screaming i have been shot, bleed ago lot, i need to you get here now. Always protecting my sister and my cousins. Im the only boy in my family. I always protect all of my girls. Akyras basketball teammates from west catholic were at that vigil last night in center city by city hall. They led a procession that circled city hall one time. School in west catholic continues to mourn looks of akyra this morning. So now joining us is west catholic principal jim gallagher. Principal gallagher, thanks for being object good day philadelphia first off, tell us about akyra . Akyra was an Outstanding Young lady, she had great dignity, character, really respectable and respectful towards everybody in the the building. She was a stand out athlete but you could not tell by the way she carried herself. She treated every member of her community, teammates, classmates, faculty and staff with just so much respect, and it is just such a shock to lose somebody like that. When you talk about her and type of person that she was i thought it was interesting she encouraged some of the teachers there at the school. We have a theology teach shore came on as a substitute toward the end of the year, and any new teach their comes in struggles a little bit, students trying to get to know him and trying to get to know students and akyra would take time after school to actually sit down and encourage him to keep doing what he was doing because they appreciated it. She kind of helped you too when you came to west catholic. Absolute hi, within the first couple weeks i was here Walking Around the building, i didnt know too much people. Akyra was here with her basketball team. We got to talking about locker room, was hoping to build for the girls. She was every single time she saw me after that made me feel welcomed as if i belonged here and i had been here for a while. She was so talented. Not only was she very smart, third in her class but so talented when it came to basketball. A thousand point shooter. Even some of the stuff she signed for mercyhurst but she had to switch positions in order to help out her team. That goes to show, you know, how much team player she was, starting point guard but went down with an injury last summer and akyra knew she would have to, you know, pick up the slack a little bit and she practiced so much on her ball handling skills. As a Power Forward she came out and played point guard all year and was able to lead to us a district championship and score the thousand points. That shows her dedication to her teammates and willingness to do what she needed to do to help them win. I any a coach that said he is taking this very hard as we can all imagine. We saw the team last night. Have you talk to them . How are they holding up. Reporter they came in yesterday really heart broken as anybody would, really shaken up and they spent time together sitting together at mid court yesterday in the basketball gym and they left smiling and remembering all of those great things and those experiences that they had with akyra and it was really fantastic. Coach owake holds herself up in teaching the girls to carry themselves with dignity, and that is the first thing, sports man ship. Interesting because her dad used those exact word too last night that she had great character and held herself with great dignity. Absolutely. Grief counselors, are you guys out of school or grief counselors still going to be on campus. We were fortunate yesterday there were no students on campus. Today or juniors come in and we have sophomores and freshman come in days afterwards and we will have counselors available for each group that comes through the school and we are planning a Vigil Prayer Service at the school so everybody can come together as a community. Let us know tea tails about that but there air lot of west catholic alumni saying i graduated years ago but we are all still a family. Absolutely, that is one thing you hear a lot is family and a tragedy like this hits every single one of us, whether they graduated last year, ten years ago, 20 or 30 years ago, this is one big family and it has impacted all of us a lot of fame as you alumni from weskits lick weighing in. Thanks, principal gallagher. Absolutely. 7 11. Well, now to this developing story, a young woman said to be in her teens, early 20s, died instantly after being involved in a hit and run in northeast philadelphia. You can guess where this happened . The boulevard. Woman was violently tossed on roosevelt boulevard in a crosswalk, this is where it intersects that angled street adams street, steve is at that intersection, steve . Reporter all right, mike, you and i talk about this so many times. The boulevard is more like a drag strip of death, people fly way past the speed limit. The speed limit here is 40. Watch this buick, see what they are doing, they are veering off on to adams avenue. You can see both vehicles have light and pedestrian has the light. You can see vehicles flying off of the boulevard, because they are just coming from a stop light they are in the coming as fast as they would the in the middle have the night when this happened right before midnight but it is dangerous out here. Heres our video. She hit crosswalk and tossed 200 feet then out of her shoes and her earrings even, and all she haddon was a cell phone. Police didnt know her name or how old she was because she had no identification on her. The seventh deadly hit and run already in 2016, alex and mike and arrestness two of them. Odds are these people are getting a way witt. Maybe they know that. That is why they are taking off. How this van the got away with a smashed windshield is beyond me but all they know is according to witnesses a white or silver older van, ten or 15 years old with the smashed windshield and smashed front end. Smashed front end, keep an eye on her, lets get this person. 7 13. Pennsauken a person riding a bicycle will was killed after being hit by a car. That is not the right video there sky fox was over the scene last night on route 130 and north park drive, before 11 00 last night. There it is, authorities have not released information yet on the victim but a car hits a bicycle. 7 13. The life of marlton native and singing sensation Cristina Grimmie remembered as hundreds of people gathered for a hometown for a vigil last night. She was 22 years old. Cristina was gunned down after a concert in orlando friday night during a fan meet and greet. Right after the concert. She was a you tube sensation and finalist on that hit tv show the voice in 2014. Cristina graduated from Cherokee High School and attended Fellowship Alliance chapel in medford. Before she and her family moved to los angeles for her singing career. Those who knew cristinas life spoke well of aspiring star especially her brother. She loved this town, she loved this state, she loved singing, she loved the lord and she loved me. When you lose a shining star that was only 22 years old throughout her, and had her life ahead of her and she was living her dream because she work so hard for it, it is devastating to all of us. Cristinas funeral will be in medford at the Fellowship Alliance chapel, church, and adam le vine who coached her on the show the voice, has paid for her funeral. Coming up at 7 15. As we have new details emerge about the tragedy in orlando many are wondering what they can do to help the victim. In the wake of the shooting, thousands flocked to blood banks to donate blood. Something a sexually active gay man cannot do. The ban has caused outrage among the lgbt community. State representative brian simms posted this message on his Facebook Page that reads gay men are still banned from donating blood, please go to your nearest blood banks and donate for us. Another man posted this, again urging others to donate on behalf of gay men who cant. There are conflicting reports because some people in orlando say they lifted the ban on gay men giving blood and then Blood Donation center said the ban is still in place. We have brought in doctor jay, from philadelphia fight, what is philadelphia fight. Philadelphia fight is a Large Community based organization that provides care to People Living with hiv as well as those at risk for hiv. Is that situation in florida same in philadelphia, gay people cannot donate blood. It is national f. D. A. Regulation. F. D. A. F. D. A. And so then there are conflicting reports saying it temporarily lifted the ban that was all false. That was all false. Why cant gay men give blood. There is Historical Perspective here, unfortunately in that when hiv was recognized as a cause of aid back in the 80s, the f. D. A. Instituted policies that there were several groups who were known to be risk group for hiv were banned from donating blood. Last year, after about five years of convening various policies they modified the ban for gay men but it is still exists for gay men who have had sex with another man within the past 12 months. You have to be honest about that. You have to fill out a form. There is donor screening that goes on at the time of donation. When they get units of blood dont they go through certain test, could they not get tested if they have hiv. They do, indeed, and the testing has gotten much better. So one of the worries, back in time was that there could be a donation of blood, for people were unaware of their hiv status, and because testing was in the as good that you would miss that individual. Okay, i see. Testing has improved to the pint where you can now detect, virus within nine to ten days of the time of infection. You know if that trueness fusion bloodies ready to go and pure. Pretty much. You can lie about being gay on the form . You could lie about last time you had sex . Correct. Correct. So is this going to change. So i think that within of the things that our regulators have to realize and thinks where advocacy can play a big role is that this is a policy that on both face value and when you look at it on paper is really not necessary anymore. There is in reason to single out the group of gay men. If we had a disaster here in philadelphia, you would need all of the blood you can get. Fact that so many people were willing and to not be able to. That is right. Look at that line, that was in florida, look at the that line, it went on, some people waiting seven or eight hours. Ironically, interesting to some people, june is aids education month. That is correct. I mean there is a whole series of things. Thanks very much. Thank you very much. 7 18. We are getting updates on the accident that is happening on the schuylkill, sue . Yeah, still backup on the eastbound schuylkill expressway where that was the site of an eight vehicle Chain Reaction accident probably about half an hour, 45 minutes ago and you can see folks are only getting by on the shoulder, so at this time of the day on the eastbound schuylkill expressway into the city a huge backup has ensued. Eight vehicles involved. No reports of any injuries. It is still taking a while. Tow trucks are there getting two of the vehicles, the truck, and the car that was smashed up against the median strip out of the way but it will be a while before that situation is resolved. Make sure you avoid it. We hear about a new accident on i95 northbound just past kerlin street and that his left lane blocked. Folks are slowed down there as a result of that accident. Take it the easy on the roads this morning a lot of sun glare out there. That is a good thing, weatherwise with sunshine. 7 19. Looking at temperatures walking out the door this morning. Sixtythree in philadelphia 60 in reading. Sixtysix down in dover. Fortynine in mount pocono. Because these wind are coming from the north we have low humidity today, so another delightful number ten, flag dade and plenty of festivities to enjoy here in olde city if you have an opportunity. Weather could not be any better than that. Little will more tomorrow. We will have increasing included in the afternoon getting ready for some rain possible on thursday, maybe lingering in to friday morning but so far, fathers day weekend, mike and alex, is looking good. Good. Thanks, sue. Well, eagles big star gets a raise, a big raise, fletcher cox signs a big extension, howard eskin will talk to us to break down all of the numbers in this deal. All right. 7 23. Lets talk big money, baby. Look at the inquirer in the sports section. Sachs of cash because we want him to get sacks and we will pay him to do that. Yes. And the back of the daily news, dont get a big head now, you have a big contract, howard eskin, is this guy for real. Six years, 100 million. 63 million guarantied. The 63 million guarantied is what you have to look at. It is hundred million could be hokuspokus money but is he worth it . It is a great question. In todays sports i dont know if worth the money they are getting paid. We dont have enough time on the show to run down the list of players that are probably over paid. You can look at ryan howard, at the end, is he worth it . No, he is not. Flet