Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20160701 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A July 1, 2016

We are not fooling anybody. We are on the sand. Hey, bob we will capsize. It is the titanic. Kelce do you got me. Thank goodness we have life guard here. Bob, while were getting out and ready, you take it. My goodness. Life guards. Overturn boat on the Wildwood Beach. Good morning, everybody. Were up here on the boardwalk and little wet, and sunnies on the way, we can see it on the horizon. Let check the jam cams, i95, northbound we are starting to see some volume there at girard avenue through Construction Zone. Lets go to the roosevelt boulevard, little wet from the overnight rain. We will see unusual traffic patterns, folks up and on the move, septas 30th street station, and 30th street station, and there is 30 minute delays on all Regional Rail lines because of the switcher problem. If you are coming to the shore this weekend especially today be ready the Atlantic City expressway only one lane on to the garden state parkway. But incentive to come down the shore, how about, a brand new car, take a look at this, the mazda cx9 all brand new, i washed this puppy down this morning making sure there is no rain spots or anything on it. You can have a chance to win this mazda, right here on the boardwalk. All you have to do is come on by we have our mazda tent set upright here next to moreys pier. You can sign up on line by going to fox 29. Com, click on that tab and then we will give away this brand spanking new koran july 22nd down at our Fairmount Park show. Chance to win live in person. If you cannot make it down you can do it on the web but dave warren, we are counting on you to get that sundown here quickly. How is it looking back there. Im working on it. First we have to get rain out and then worry about the sunshine. Rain has moved out. We are seeing rain right now, rain was heavy at times right through cape may and up through the garden state parkway and moved through Atlantic City. But last of this shower is right, moving right toward long beach island. We will keep a close eye on the rain here, it is around, not completely dried out and that wind off the ocean we might see mist off and on not pick up by radar. Watch for that here over the next few hours. We will see a few more showers by ten or 11 00 oclock and then thunderstorms later today will be moving through strong to severe, temperatures in the 50s. Trying to climb up in the 80s but it will be cooler down the shore where we get that nice breeze off the ocean and a little mist here and there, mike anal ex mike and alex. You know, hi everybody. Good morning. He likes his color. My clip untied. Do i look all right. I think lou good. Yes. All right. Fine. This is your beach look. My beach look. Lets get to chris and lauren forehead lines because a lot went on overnight, ill tell thaw. Chris and lauren. We have breaking news. A thousand workers at taj mahal are on strike. Casino union failed to reach a deal. Steve keeley is on this they have been striking for more than one hour. Reporter we are seeing lots of effects because of this strike. We showed you roofers from local 30 in northeast philadelphia, torresdale avenue. They walk off the job. They are supposed to be putting a new roof on. Now we are seeing guests getting disgusted by condition of their rooms checking out and with us is tom, also from northeast philadelphia, kyle is here with six family members, supposed to be a big Family Reunion midsummer get together vacation. They have been disgusted. What was it like in your room with the strike. We check in at 4 00 oclock. When we check in we didnt want to undue our bags because it was like sitting down at the bused yet. The sheets werent right. Room was tore up. It ruined our whole weekend. We are checking out today. We are supposed to be here until tuesday. When you check in you thought that people were in that room because it looked like bed was slept in, three little bears story. I thought they mistake our room number and they gave us a dirty room you called room service this morning. I called room service last night they kept saying, okay, okay, 7 00 a. M. Now. Still havent gotten it. This strike is having a big effect. This is my first time summer since i got off work and it ruined it. Reporter hopefully it gets better back in philadelphia. With us are two day one workers. When this place opened you got chuck and myra here. They are both cooks. They had their Health Benefits taken away. They lost all of those years invested in the pension. Now have walked out. What made you say enough is enough. We said enough is enough. We have given concessions to the company. They have stripped us of our benefits, health care, pension in, pay raises for ten years. We are overworked. We would like more dignity and respect considering we have been here since day one employees. Myra, you are struggling to get by. Now you have no pay. Are you prepared for having karl icon say i have got thousands of people unemployment from casinos shut downey will replace you and get other cooks. Are you prepared to leave here for good. Im fighting, still for as long as it takes. Was it any better when donald trump owned the place. His name own it. Was it better way back then. Was there good old days here. There was good old days and now it is different you know. Reporter we keep saying karl icon is his great friend, every time he deals with china do you wish wow call his buddy and say my name is on this place. Rest of the country will think it myself i place because my name is still prevalent. It is five times the size of the word taj mahal. Rest of the world doesnt know history of the ownership. Do you think donald trum one get involved to keep his name not looking so bad as it does right now. People believe he could inter joke, for loyal employees to donald trump and karl icon. Just restore our benefits and we will Work Together as one team. Reporter do you think this makes donald trump even though it doesnt have anything to to with this business, do you think this makes him look bad. Absolutely. Is there the picket line. It has gotten five times the size as it looks when it started at six and made Service Uniform and red dirt shirt. The police are in the background keeping order but it looks like is there no people wanting to come down here. They dont want any part. We are not seeing anybody go in the casino either. It looks like business is being affect, this early on into the strike in the first hour, guys. Governor christie issued an executive order calling for all work paid for by the states Transportation Trust fund to shut down by midnight saturday. This is in response to state senators delaying a vote that would have raised a tax on gasoline by 23 cents per gallon. Same plan, also would have cut the sales tax by percentage point over two years. Extra money from the gas tax was supposed to go toward the Transportation Fund which runs out today. Fun at the fair end with the stabbing of three teens in tulleytown. Jennifer joyce, as many as 30 to 40 people might have been involved in this. Reporter were hearing crowd were massive and they are calling it unreally assaults by teenagers at the saint mikes fair last night. Police confirmed three teens were stabbed, two were transported to trauma event isers in bucks county, four people are in custody, as Police Continue to investigate why multiple fights broke out last night. Call was dispatch before 11 00. Police say fair was forced to end early because of the violence. Police say large crowd built off fair ground and in the levittown, town center. Our crews talk to a couple people who say they were at the fair last night one described the sheer chaos. It went craze friday there. People started pushing and then, they shut down the fair. We were walking back to our cars and then we hear there is a fight over there, somebody got stabbed. When i say everybody started running, there was 30 or 40 people running toward walmart and it was a hectic time. According to one Witness Police seemed to get things under control quickly. They have a lot to investigate. We have talk to a Tulleytown Police lieutenant about 1 30 this morning. We knew they were looking in the Early Morning hours on this investigation which im sure will be picking up, later this morning and hopefully we will get an update later today, chris and lauren. Jen, thank you. Two men from New Castle County tested positive for zika virus. Delaware physician of Public Health say both men were in recent travel this brings total number to seven. All of those zika positive test results are due to the mosquito bite traveling abroad and none involved a pregnancy. I hate that video. Breathalizers used by Philadelphia Police come under scrutiny after being discovered they were not calibrated correctly. The Department Says it has fixed devices and return them to service after private attorney told police that the department used an expired solution while testing those instruments. Police say it appears that did not impact any readings but they are asking the District Attorney to review all cases during that time. Police blamed the original problem on human error. Fourth of July Celebration starts tonight in philadelphia as part of the wawa welcome america festivity. Penns landing will hose concert tonight and tomorrow night immediately followed by fire works. Tonight the philadelphia orchestra will play. Tomorrow night the United States army band will perform. Both shows start at 8 00 fire works at 9 30. Philly pops will play independent mall on sunday. On monday, independent day parade will start at 11 00 a. M. At independent mall. Then welcome america concert on the parkway fee he touring yas the greatest, leon bridges among others. Fire works display will even the festivities, on monday night. Should be fun. Fire works going off every where. Mike and alex are in wildwood this morning. They are. Youre looking for a tim mcgraw look alike to come say hello. Yes, because tim mcgraw will have a big concert this weekend. That is on the beach, right. Yes. So were having july 4th monday so we are having a tim mcgraw look alike contest. If you look like tim mcgraw come on out. Aim so excited to be in wildwood. Wildwood will have a special place in my heart because i started here my first day on fox 29 was on the boardwalk. Well, you know wildwood very well. You got your Wildwood Crest, right. You have got your wildwood. Your north wildwood. Your north wildwood. Well, listen to this. Garden state original an american classic at its best. Wildwood. It is a city with a year round population of more than 5,000 people, located in cape may county. It is made up of three beach towns, Wildwood Crest, and north wildwood, or the other two. Located on this a Nation Island it was voted in the top 25 beaches in the United States by trip advisor. Com and one of the top ten destinations for family fun in the country. The reason is simple, it is beautiful, through and through with a boardwalk affects nately known as 2 miles of smiles it the is made up of more than 100 rides and attractions. There are also, over 400 restaurants serving up everything from hot dogs to fries, chicken to pies. Of course, we have to talk about the tram cars, and moreys pier. As we get ready to celebrate americas birthday we would be remiss if we did not mention wildwoods Vietnam Veterans memorial wall, of course, the naval air station. Who are you. Vietnam vets of wildwood. How far away from the wall where we are. Twelve blocks right in front of the convention center. I will come down after the show. You have made great shirts that said god bless america. You have one small, it might be too big for you. No, a small. Mike is extra large, he has a little bit more weight on him here. Thank you very much. Thank you for your service back in the day. Mr. Mayor, come on in here. Is what your name. Ernie. Mayor have of wildwood. Yes, sir. Is there a mayor of all these different wildwoods. Yes, north wildwood, Wildwood Crest West Wildwood and wildwood. A lot of government. Too much government. Do you come together and hang out. We are all good friend. We all Work Together. Were one island so we work a cordingly. My you have a big key. This key is for you because we want to give you a key to the city. As always you are always welcomed here. We have a great concert coming in this weekend. Country legend tim mcgraw coming in and your first show was right here in wildwood. Yes, were honored to have you. Were on toward to have this key, as we say this is a major key. Yes. Good to see you. Will we be able to get in any city buildings. You can do anything you want. Ill give you my office. That is a bad idea to say that toe me. You can have all of the office and take all that comes with it. Real quickly here, michelle, come in here. I just met this couple. They have been dating for 18 years. I think today on good day philadelphia in wildwood this is day to pop the question. Eighteen years. Eighteen years is enough. He is saying no. I dont have a ring. You dont need a ring. Is what your name. Michelle. Im tom. How long have you been dating. Eighteen years. Question you forgot to ask, do you want to pop the question. Yes, he does. You better get on it. You know the beyonce ring on it. Better put a ring on it. Tell him. Mike. Heres the situation, now, we have had some miss continuing and now sun came out and it is cloudy again. Who can we look to to figure out this weather. We could look to dave warren. Dw. I will do my best. We have had rain, mist and then sun and cloud but nothing on the radar. Looking good there. Even though it is a little messy here, that will be the case for next few hours these passing clouds, maybe a shower but there is nothing to indicate that. It will be developing over delaware bay and sliding north. We will stretch this break out until at least 10 00 oclock this morning. Clear shot of wildwood, looking good, and there will be a few passing showers, especially to the north over the next few hours, filling in with our computer forecast that shows this clouds and a few showers. After this morning we will look at this north and western suburbs. These are storms developing becoming strong and severe and fly through, between now and 5 00 oclock between 5 00 and 8 00 they are holding on but they will be clearing up later this evening so fire works tonight, a few places starting their celebration early and might have to watch for a few showers passing by but through but not sticking around. Warm, muggy temperatures in the 70s and we have a temperature here of 72 degrees. We are heading to the 80s with increased humidity, there are storms not as bad as sunday, monday looks good for the fourth, on tuesday we will have some rain to the south but we are clearing up nice and warm on wednesday and a hot day on thursday. Well, traffic will be on and off despite the weather, and for that we will go to bob kelly. You got it, dave. Look, look i got some sun glare right here, the sunnies pushing off, some of the clouds here as we look live over moreys pier here on the poured walk in wildwood. Get ready, lets check the jam cams. First of all we have got some problems already this morning. We have an accident at wynnewood road and penn road in bala cynwyd. Also on the the blue route we are seeing volume near baltimore pike. As we go outside live to the ben franklin bridge happy birthday to the ben franklin bridge 90 years old today. Make sure you ask for the free cup cake, when you go through the toll plaza. Then septa running with delays of about 30 minutes already on its Regional Rail lines. Back here live are you guys ready to inning is. All right. You know you cannot come to wildwood without singing wildwood days. We dont have bobby rydel here but we have bill and a leash, come on guys, lets do it. You know the word, lets do it. One, two, three. Cute babe a leather. Come on over here, check out the new mazda. Your chance to win, right here, on the boardwalk, in those wildwood days, you can sign up here in person and from your home just go to our web site fox 29. Com, for easy to sign up and win, and one today every day, come on by, we will right here at moreys pier on the wildwood boardwalk singing wildwood days. We will get better as the morning goes on. Back to you guys. Were singing with you, bob. Yeah. Im hungry, i want some pancakes. Jen is on it good hi, jen. Hey you cannot go anywhere, hi, unless you go to uncle bills pancake house. Listen, there are some people, but not nearly enough. You know where we are, right on the corner of burch avenue. Come here we are making pancakes in wildwood. Some potentially big Business News in the world of music streaming, wall street is reporting that apple wants to buy tidal, it is owned by jayz. Specific details has not been revealed but if it does happen it would give apple a huge advantage over competitors like pandora and spotify, when it comes to, exclusive streaming rights. This could be really big, alex holley. Yes, lauren, i know you like to ride bikes especially ones around town, indego bikes but check this out, this is a bike that is electric. It is electric, you know, anyway, im here with scott. You are here, you own this company. Yes. Tell me what makes these so special. This is an electric bike. Do i to have petal then. You have to pedal it is assisted, it helps you. Now i did try this earlier. It feels like im pedaling and i get a push and makes it easier. Just like power steering it doesnt steer but helps you steer. You can go up to 20 miles an hour. Here you can rent these. Yes. Very nice. How long have you been here. Five years. It is special paw now you have time. Best time to ride your bike is right now when it is nice and cool out. I can ride on the boardwalk. Up until 12 00 he clock. A lot of people come and rent bikes. Do you have to rent them in advance. In advance or at the moment. You have your family here. You are all riders. Yes. I will go around. Hi max, how long have you been riding the bike. Three years. You have got blue, g

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