Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A 20160715 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A July 15, 2016

Is a lot of traffic in the morning. We are stuck in traffic. I feel like bob kelly. We have a jammo on the kings highway. We are trying to make it to bob kelly. Jammo in haddonfield. Mike and alex are stuck in the traffic jam, ring the bell, good morning, haddon field. They will be here in a moment. Look at this crowd here. We are ready to go at kings court in haddonfield where we have the brand new mazda that we will be giving away next week when we go up there at the dell in fairmount park. Just in case mike gets out offhanded, here they come, here comes the trolley, here they are, giving them a big round of applause. They are here. Come on, guys. Here we are. Hello haddonfield. Hi everybody. Hello. I love you right back. I watch every day. I love alex too. Hi alex. Hi. I watch every day good thank you. Bob kelly what is happening. Traffic jam. We have to check timing on the lights there Police Officers will take care of that. Are you guys ready to have some fun today. Yes. All morning long we have a couple traffic jams out there this morning. Lets check the jam cams, come on kid take some pictures as we do some traffic. I95 we have volume out of cottman down to girard, ben franklin looking good now but we have a irish tour of shower on sunday shutting down bennie later on. We have a motorcycle accident at boulevard and devereaux and water main break what a mess in manayunk main street at manayunk, right here in the art of the manayunk, a clean up underway throughout the rest of the morning so try to avoid that. Out here in haddonfield we are under two big trees for some shade, sue what is the forecast looking like for the weekend. It is okay and can you say thank to you that guy behind me that has a name on a sign. Oh, yeah. Yes. I saw it right behind you. Just say thank you, that is all. Take a look at the number of the day. So sweet. Seven out of ten in your weather by the numbers today. Muggy start of course with muggy the dog and bus stop buddy and his sun screen. Ready for another scorcher with 80 degrees already at 7 00 in the morning. It was 80 degrees at 4 00 a. M. By the way in case you werent up yet. 8mile an hour wind out of the west southwest. Slightly humid and still hot, starting in the 80s this time of the daze you know temperatures will sore. Heat up decks near 100 with a high of 94. Mostly sunny skies, still humid. We will see if that hangs around in just a few minutes but now latest from the situation in france. Heres lauer than and chris. Heres our breaking news. Death toll continues to rise in nice after someone drove a box truck through a crowd of people celebrating bastille day. Right now 84 people are dead including two americans, police say that the truck driver was killed when he opened fire on the crowd and then they returned fire. Dave kinchen is live in the news room following the latest details, hi there dave. Reporter developments trickling in this morning, information emerging about the driver in this attack. Fox news is report ago this he was known to police for violence but was not otter or watch list, if you will, for officials over there. His name has not yet been released but he is described as a 31 yearold nice resident originally from tunisia. His bank card and cell phone were found in the truck after this whole ordeal happened. Suspect terrorist drove a box truck for more than a mile mowing down people leaving many with no chance to get out of the way. Carnage left in its wake. Police exchanged gunfire with the driver before killing him. We have also had new video to show you people who seem to be evacuating here with their hand up as you can see this appears to be mildly more peaceful then what had been taken place before so many chaotic scenes we have seen before we are also hearing from witness these morning too. We heard what i thought was fire cracker, and there was a surge of screaming people heading in the opposite direction. We saw lots of police and soldiers, and im not sure if i can say that much more. Only thing is, how did the truck get on the promenade. Reporter that is a big question and part of the investigation. State Department Also confirming a father and son from austin texas are among those killed in nice. They were vacation nothing france. The Football Team posted this picture of Sean Copeland and his son brody with the message saying tragically they did not survive the attack this incident has prompted the french government to declare a National Three day period of mourning. France was set to lift it emergency state that had been in place since the terror attack since last have in and now extended for several months. One more quick note as a result, belgium has lifted its security for its national day of celebrations or raise their security alert level in response to this situation in france, back to you chris. You wonder if they will ever let their guard down. Yeah, absolutely. Donald trump has postponed a press conference to announce his running mate citing at tax in france. Presumptive g. O. P. Nominee was planning to make that announcement later this morning in new york city. Trump says he has not made a final, final decision on a running mate, many are speculating that indiana governor mike pence has been picked but trump says that could still change. Also a teenager is in the hospital after being shot in East Germantown around 10 30 last night. Police tell us a 15 yearold was shot in the arm in the intersection of wi star and farly. He was able to run to a nearby pizza restaurant where a Delivery Driver return him to einstein hospital. He is in stable condition and no arrests have been made. An accident involving motorcycle pedestrians sends two people to the hospital in northeast philadelphia, this happened just before 3 30 this morning on the roosevelt boulevard and devereaux avenue and oxford circle. We have learned a woman walking across the street was hit by a person on a motorcycle. Both are in Critical Condition at Frankford Torresdale hospital, no word on a cause of that accident. In new jersey, authorities in stratford are investigating a fatal crash that closed white horse pike. Officers tell thaws one person has died from their injuries. And sky fox is over the scene where three cars collided, just before 10 00 oclock last night. You can see debris and wreckage scattered all over that roadway, rescue crews had to cut out two people trapped inside their cars there. Philadelphia police are investigating a threatening letter that someone sent to the africanamerican museum in center city. Both bomb squad and home land security responded to the museum yesterday. It was evacuated for a short time. It is not clear who sent the letter. Museum says it will share more details once this investigation is complete, it is still operating on a normal schedule. The pennsylvania budget includes some new and higher taxes and a few people are not happy. No, especially the ones who smoke. Lets go to steve keeley in bridesberg, hi there, steve. Also not happy one of the law make hours did not go along with this. He sought they were just taxing 20 percent of the people to cover cost of the other 80 percent of the people in pennsylvania ape those 20 percent who smoked were mostly lower income hose to could least afford to pay more than anybody. It is going to be 2. 60 in state taxes every time you buy a pack of the cigarettes. Price of the two popular brand here over ten bucks a pack. How long have you been smoking. Over six years. Reporter new tax another buck out of your pocket for every packet the, will it make you to think about somehow trying to quit. Yes, so much money. Reporter have you tried to quit smoking before. Yeah, once. Reporter how did you do. Not the good. What brand do you smoke. New port 100. Reporter that is ten bucks a pack. Yeah, ten bucks. Serious, man. Every state or city that has raised cigarette taxes has seen a decline in smoking but is there still enough people who smoke that revenue is used for governmental purposes. We are happy that the ref knee goes to zero because every smoker should quit but we know many wont. It is appropriate for state to be using revenue for critical needs. Reporter Nutter Administration got a 2dollar a pack city cigarette tax just two years ago. So now combination of 4. 60 is way more than you will pay in new jersey and down in delaware but not as much as chicago where it is 6. 16 combined city and state. New york city 5. 85. Even alaska has a city state tax, chris and lauren of 5. We are lower than juno alaska but that will not make people in brideberg any happier. Long trip to get cigarettes, right. Expensive out there. Yes. Steve, thanks. Funeral services for alton sterling will be held in baton rouge, louisiana this morning. According to local reports al sharpton and Jesse Jackson will attend the private ceremony held at Southern University in baton rouge. He was shot and killed while pinned to the ground by two Police Officers on july 5th. Police say they shot him because he tried to reach for a gun in his pocket. Big turnout yesterday where funeral of Philando Castille was held. Castille was shot ape killed a week ago during a traffic stop. His girlfriend streamed the aftermath of that shooting on facebook claiming the officer shot castille as he reached for his license. But an attorney for the officer said officer reacted after seeing the gun. Circumstances remain under investigation. Tough questions thrown at president barack obama during a town hall meeting than race and policing. During that town hall the 15 yearold son the of the man killed by officers in baton rouge, louisiana got the chance to ask the president a question. I ask for your help to unite all of the races of this world in communities all across the kentry there is real concern about making sure that interactions between police and communities dont result in death. Nobody wishes that more than Police Officers themselves because when you talk to those Police Officers who have have whether justified or not whatever the findings have ended up, they killed somebody, it shatters them too. I dont know anybody in the Africanamerican Community or latin. Community or others that may have concerns about policing, that dont also recognize we need police. The event called a national the conversation focused on police and racial tensions. The also at that event Police Chiefs and other victims of family members of police brutality. Barack obama in his book, talked a lot about race, and it is interesting to go see now as a two term president he is still dealing with this president and more so than ever. Lets go to mike and alex in haddonfield, new jersey. They are having some fun out there. At least this event is, before it gets super hot. Look at that. Yes. This is how mike keeps cool. Yes. Yes. My husband and i watch you have morning. Thank you . One way to cool him off. My name is christie from palmyra. We watch you have morning. We love your show. Everybody has a husband. There is so much brightal shops here in haddonfield. I will get out of here right after the show. You might end up married. Haddonfield is beautiful. So much to love. Why dont you take a closer look. All right. Haddonfield, new jersey is a beautiful boro located in camden county, in fact it is an area that is lenape native americans once called home. Today this Community Proud liz boosts a population of 2,000 people. In 1858, first nearly complete skeleton of the dinosaur found in north america was actually found in haddonfield. A 12foot statue now sits in the center of town, commemorating that moment. But that is not all. The town also features a lot of parks, several pond, and the second oldest volunteer fire company in Continuous Service in the united states. Of course, haddonfield is known for its downtown shopping area featuring more than 200 stores. So if you are looking for a bakery, boutique, art gallery, shoe store, whatever, youll find it here. And if dining out is your thing there is lots of great restaurants to choose from. Italian, asian, mediterranean, japanese, so in other word, haddonfield is great. We are here with two people who noah lot about haddon feel. We are talking about the deputy mayor john. John, good morning. Thank you for coming. What do you do. Im with the partnership for haddon feel. What is that. That is the corporation for the business district. What is a cool thing about this town give me some highlights. Shopping, food, the schools, the people. The people. John what do you love about haddonfield. Amazing the level of volunteerism we have in this town a lot of the things that make this town unique are done by volunteer organizations, the parade, partnership and Outdoor Sculpture trust and there are so many people that come out to volunteer to make this town unique. Thank you for having us on the show in your town, really great. I love that you have so many events, come down here during christmastime. What a parade. Amazing. It is a nice feel. Most of the parade are done by Celebrations Association which is another volunteer organization. Do you have wiwanis here. Yes, we do. Who do you like . You like sue serio. Yes. Would you like to hear from her now. Sure. Wow like to hear from you, now. I engaged the president of my fan club, that is the entire fan club right there. My fan club of one, thank you sir. We appreciate it. Check is in the mail. Seventyfive in haddonfield, new jersey. It will heat up by eight twobyeight. Warm and humid all morning, eight twobyeight oclock. Fiftyeight by 10 00 a. M. You know you will have a muggy, hot day. Eighty at the airport. Seventyeight in wilmington and dover. Wildwood has 78 degrees. 69 degrees, up in the mountains, and we even have a heat index. So our 80 feels like 84 out there. Get used to it. Dew points are down from yesterday but they are still very high, and still pretty uncomfortable and very humid out there. Were smack in the middle of the month of july, 15th day of the month and it feels like it, and it will all day long and that is why we have an excessive heat warning in effect all day until 8 00 oclock tonight with heat index, it will feel like a hundred degrees, 90s. We will get heat wave number three. We will be close to 90 on sunday. Some storms on tuesday will take away a little bit of that humidity but look for hot and humid conditions at the shore today, up on the beach. 91 degrees. Upper 80s tomorrow and better on sunday. That is a look at your seven day forecast, lots of sun and lots of fun in haddonfield this morning, hi there bob kelly. Piggy toes in haddonfield. This is my little guy kyle. You say he quiets when i come on tv. Ever instant is he was born he was fuzzy and put on the morning news and wow stop, look up. Little kyle, he is a little jameer, part of the little jameer club. Good morning everybody. We are here at kims Company Court holding court. We are check jam cams as we head out on this friday morning there. Blue route at baltimore pike, in problems at all coming through delco, downtown we will go on the vine street expressway looking good. Over in new jersey, 295 northbound an accident at route 73. And then we have that water main break in manayunk on main street. That is a mess not only for happy hour but also for the weekend. Back here live, kings court in haddonfield new jersey, big weekend, big event, it is irish pubs tour of the shower. With me mark oconnor. Twentyninth year for this. Twentyninth annual. Wow. 2500 riders this year which is a record. Our goal, it is a milliondollar this year. We are at 912. Still donate, click on the logo for irish pub tour to shore. You are a good man. Over here, we go back many years ago. Right now you are in charge of the traffic, you will shut down bennie. Yes, sunday morning at 6 30. We start and end where. We start in philadelphia and end in Atlantic Citiy via bike. Yes you are in charge of the emergency crews, oxygen along the way. Yes, the base of the bridge all the way down to Atlantic City you guys have ridden before this in this race. Yes. With the Montgomery County wheels of justice what is it like along the ride do you have people cheering you on. A lot of people cheering. It is a long ride. Are there pit stops. There are four. You can stop as many or as little as you want. You can go on down. Let me ask you what happens when i get down there on my bike, im not driving back on my bike. Big, big party, drink as many beers as you like. We will bring your bikes back to philly. Take a snap, get off at 20th and walnut. Can i still enter. Absolutely. Im busy on sunday. I would like to sign up michael jerrick, sunday, put his name down there. Give him the bike with the training wheels. Mike, we have something for to you do sunday. Back to you guys over there. How far could think i could bike. No the very far. Woman is vibrating standing next to me because shes watching this show since 1999. Yes. Donya was here. Yes. Thank you for watching. Why are you so nervous. Who isnt nervous around you, really. For many reasons. We should go on a date. Heres the date. I know you are married but we will worry about that later. We can take a cooking class here in haddonfield. That is where jen is. Shes just down the alley way. Ladies and gentlemen if that isnt reason enough there are power tools here, there you go, what is the number one thing people are doing wrong when they come to these cooking classes. You will be surprised. Come on back. We are playing with power tools and getting our cook on. One American Park is larger than yellowstone, yosemite, grand canyon and Glacier National parks combined. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your Summer Vacation at iloveny. Com hey, we are having fun in haddonfield but i have to tell you it is already hot out there. Mike isnt acting like it is hot. Look ought picking fight with mia, seriously. How old are you. Im turning ten. Okay. Okay, i see. Wonderful. Before we get to you were talking about how hot it is. Mike is already sweating. Look at the back of his shirt. Yes. That is because it is hot, you know what happens, a lot of

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