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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 7A January 13, 2017

Bucks county neighborhood on edge as children head to the school bus. Very frightened to have them out the front door without me watching them. Who parents should be on the look out for after a, man attempts to get a young boy into his car. Black lives Matter Movement coming tour childs classroom. Local Teachers Group is pushing a curriculum based on the movement. But does it belong in the schools. Surprise honor for vicepresident joe biden. Im pleased to award our nations highest civilian honor, the president ial medal of freedom. Emotional ceremony brings the delaware native to tears as he and president obama reflect, on their friendship. And the who will take season is over, but the shopping, it the is not. The great deals, you could still get, right now, and the items that you should wait to boost. Good day, everybody, it is friday the 13th, a big story, today is what is happening in juniata, olney, bunch of communities coming together. Four coming together lawncrest, ol think, juniata, portions of frankford, and all of those neighborhoods funnel in the boulevard at the this intersection. So, what we believe, happened is this. At about 5 15, three guys in a car slammed into a offduty officer, well, state troopers car, other Police Officers respond to the scene, and three men jumped out, they apprehend one, put him in the squad car, and then trying to find the other two while trying to find the other two the guy in the handcuffs gets out of the car, and then takes off running, himself. They are looking for three people, and a lot of schools in the air contract, school, children, starting to arrive at the school, some buses have been slowed down, so they are late, and so the manhunt is on , for three people, one of them, running around, with his hand behind his back in handcuffs. Yes, school bus, right there. Exactly an example what we have been talking about, mike. And thinks the roosevelt boulevard at somerdale avenue this is inner drive. That is the accident scene and of course where this all began but anyone, typically, and, inside, this is main drag where everything funnels in. This is right where Old Sears Building used to be located right now off to the left would be a huge Shopping Plaza but all of the neighborhoods, funnel into the boulevard at this intersection. So right the now, obviously folks are at home parents getting ready to either leave for work, put kids outside on the school bus, all this while a manhunt is underway for like we said the three people that were involved. Heres somerdale avenue that comes in, that comes out of olney and lawncrest on the other side we have adams avenue that feeds in there from say frankford or june yacht a lets go to the happens roosevelt boulevard southbound inner drive there at somerdale but were in grid lock in the copping out of the neighborhood. Again, olney, lawncrest, we have frankford, juniata park all funneling this to the boulevard. For the most part, the toll accounts that live in this neighborhood here they dont use i95 coming in the city, they hit the boulevard and then head town towards the schuylkill expressway. We have a two news crews on the way to the scene. We will take through more details the minute they arrive another accident southbound lanes of 476, on the ramp to route one mass transit, of course, the septa buses, that typically use the boulevard, and quite frankly through the neighborhoods that are funneling in with this police chase, are going to be delayed as well but scottie, the good news here i think that it is getting cold, im not sure whether or not that will help, the officers on their chase here. Yeah, lets sure hope so. We are talking about drastic changes compared to yesterday. It felt like syringe. High made it up to 67 degrees in philadelphia weather by the numbers on the scale of one to ten to take we will give it a seven we will take a live look at a beautiful sunrise happening across the area. 51 degrees but turning blustery. Northwest wind sustain at 20 miles an hour. Some of that colder air is heading towards our area, during the daytoday. So temperatures north and west , look at this, 34 already hunt pocono. Fortyfour pottstown. Hanging on to 50 in wilmington fiftyseven right now in Atlantic City. So on average were talking about the morning drive, temperatures around 50 degrees , but by lunchtime lower 40s, upper 30s later on this evening with feels like temperatures into the 20 s and 30s. Now yes, we have some snow that will head in our direction, tomorrow afternoon and evening, and look at future cast showing it kind of moving in during the afternoon much more on the timing of that snow and the amounts coming up, back over to you. All right, scott, thank you for that. 7 06. Violence on the the Schuylkill River trail early this morning, person was rob near walnut street dock around 1 00, victim was not injured but surging crimes along the trail caused officials to install better lighting and surveillance cameras for added security hoping that it will stop incidents like this. Yet, last night it happened, a robbery. Just too bad just a great place to exercise. It really is. Police are now investigating a case of attempted child luring, in levittown, it happened on mill creek road, that was tuesday morning, the boy says, that he was walking to the bus stop at the entrance of penn brooke apartments, around 7 30 that morning i and when he took a man this an suv, pulled up, and asked him, actually almost ordered him to get in. Well, boy refused, kept walking, suspect drove off, encounter has parents in that area on high alert. It bothers me a lot and i wish they were really doing something about it and slowing him down to catch him or whatever. It seems like there is a lot of desperate people out there, and stalking children. Police say man may have been driving a dark gray ford explorer. They have increased patrols around bus stops in the complex. Well, a landmark study of marijuana. Bless you. Thank you. Is revealing both the drugs effectiveness and the drawbacks and some people are finding the results of this study, quite unsettling. And so karen hepp is in the the news room with what researchers discovered about marijuana, big revelation, right. Biggest revelation is they need to do more study on this one. Big pros and cons. Heres the headline on the cons. Researchers are saying marijuana raises risk of getting schizophrenia and can even trigger heart attacks. That is a big con. Now to the pro. It can, ease chronic pain and help some people sleep. The federal Advisory Panel is dismissing most of the drugs other medical benefits, as un proven. The report cast doubt on using it to treat cancers or for certain symptoms of parkinson s disease or to help the addiction. Scientists involved also say there is not enough research to say whether marijuana effectively treats epilepsy which is one of the most widely recognized reasons for cannabis prescriptions. There seems to be uncertainty in the findings. The most significant study on pots effect to date. Scientists also say they would have much more conclusive evidence if marijuana was not considered a schedule one drug with no accepted medical use. So i think there will be more studies, certainly in the future. That is for sure, yeah. Doctor mike is here, he will weigh in on this too. We will talk to him bit. Thanks, karen. President obama surprised his right hahnemann, were talking about vicepresident joe biden, of course. He propped the vicepresident with the nations highest civilian honor the president ial medal of freedom. Joe biden was genuinely shock, i think, he had no idea , he just thought it was a farewell, speech with the vicepresident standing next to the the president. He had no idea that this medal was going to be brought out and put around his neck. You can see for yourself. I dont think he knew. Mr. President , this honor is not only well beyond what idea serve but it is reflection of the extent and generosity of your spirit. He was truly surprised. He turned around and immediately takes out a hander chief and wipes away a tear. He was very emotional after realizing he was getting that award. You know, the past eight or nine years the men have developed a close personal one they consider each other family members like brothers, rights. Right. Okay. New we will show you the moment when he was surprised. Okay. Were just cute it up. Im pleased to award our nations highest civilian honor the president ial medal of freedom. See he had to get himself together there. Wow. He has been through so much though and he is such a great leader. Im sure it was a shock. He said he didnt deserve it. As days wind down now on the Obama Administration one more week president obama reflects on the eight years of their partnership. Praising joe biden for his job and his ago establishments. Yeah, quite emotional yesterday. Said all right, one more chance to talk about our bro mance before we get out of this office. It is a week from today. Week from today. It is that you go racial we will a fortyfifth president , it seems the tables are turned now, the fbi find itself, in a strange position this morning. Bureau itself is under investigation for roll it the laid leading up to the november election. So, doug, they are investigating, james comby. Among others but he is big head line here. Comby will be on cam toll hill to talk about when russia allegedly did to the president ial campaign, but he is going to face Big Questions now from the Inspector General of the Justice Department, the independent investigator that presides over the Justice Department, questioning comey s actions in the run up to the election. I know, how disappointed you feel. Reporter did the fbi sink Hillary Clinton. Fbi trek or james comey is latest culprit for democrats who publicly talked about clinton over her e hail use while declining to seek charge is a begins her and then telling congress that the investigation had been reopened, was all in violation of the establish fbi norms. Now the Justice Department Inspector General will carry out an investigation, a decision that the white house denied having anything to do with. Anything the Inspector General chooses to investigate is something that he will to, he or she will do based on their own view of the situation based on their own knowledge of the the facts. Reporter while conservatives see a heavy handed effort by the administration to delegitimiz ed Donald Trumps victory probe goes beyond just director comey. I understand why democrats are bitter about all of this, but at the same time, the media seems to be leaving out the fact that there are unpleasant aspect of this investigation for democrats as well. Reporter to that point the Inspector General will also investigate whether a senior Justice Department official i am ployly fed fur to Hillary Clinton owes campaign but still in the part of the investigation that is meeting between attorney general Loretta Lynch and former president bill clinton at Phoenix Airport back in june, while Hillary Clinton was under investigation. You cannot leave Loretta Lynch and bill clinton and their bad judgment on that day off that list. Reporter it is not on the list right now but that could change. And Inspector General said, they will expand and move forward. Comey for his part says he welcomes this and will cooperate. This may take a while. This will go well beyond Inauguration Day before we get any actual results of this. Okay. Have a great weekend. We will see you on monday, big inauguration week. Yes, thanks doug. Now yesterday was, 67 degrees, was the high, we knew that was coming. You knew, we didnt know. You predicted it. I did predict it. It would get up to 66. Beat that, got 67. We said lets have a syringe fling and pretend it is june 12th instead of january 12th yesterday. So we asked to you meet us at gazebo, guardhouse in the middle of the Rittenhouse Square. At 1 00 oclock. At 1 00. We arrived at 1 01. Mike was nervous, what if nobody shows up. I figured ten or 15. There was 150 to 200 people that showed up. Yes, for four hours. Good morning. It was fun. We spent a half an hour and went over to parc restaurant and had champagne and cheese. Very nice, and great for people to meet us. Sue was there. We did notice though that there werent anybody sitting on the, nobody was sitting on the wall, normally, especially in the evening in Rittenhouse Square, people just are crawling all over the walls. When it is nice out too. Yes. No. This time honored tradition of sitting on the wall is no longer allowed. Sitting on the concrete walls inside Rittenhouse Square especially main part, middle part, it is banned now. Is there enzymes up that say dont sit on this wall anymore new rule follows the shooting that happened back in october in Rittenhouse Square, police tell us that is there also been a increase in vandalism, and a lot of marijuana smoking people smoking on that wall, smoking up, so officers have been busy, telling people to get off of the wall. We have a lot of home less ness in the city here, we have a lot of other issues. For them to be concerned about somebody sitting on the wall, it is just a little absurd. So, there you go. Interesting. There is a view of the sign there. No sitting on the wall. Then you look at the daily news their picture, it is, a picture of that sign saying to sitting on the wall with people sitting on the wall right next to it. Exactly right. It will take a little bit of time. People arent used to it, they are not sure it is happening, maybe they werent aware not to call these people out here, should i cover their tastes. That is all right. Sitting on the wall right next to the sign. When you see people smoking by a no smoking sign, leaning up against the sign. Yes. Figure that out. You cannot sit on the wall anymore. Lets get back to the big story of the morning. We have a mess. The roosevelt boulevard where it intersects with adams avenue and somerdale Avenue Police are still looking for, well, at least one guy but we think three different men who were involved in a Traffic Accident with an offduty state trooper that happened probably about two hours ago. So, the trooper was offduty, ground shot now. They are still looking. We think were three people and one of these guys probably is still in handcuffs with his hands behind his back. It is a mess. Bob . Yes, we are watching it all unfold not only from sky fox earlier but from our ground shot there, again listening to what is going on. We have steve on the way. Sound like guy in the handcuffs kicked out back window of that police car and that got the whole thing started. There we go back with sky fox. Again, this is all taking place on the roosevelt boulevard right at somerdale where somerdale and adams all come together. Probably one of the busiest intersections of the boulevard so what happened is it happened right here the inner drive. Heres somer tail coming from the right. We have adams avenue that comes in from the left. It is funneled in from the neighborhood, olney, lawncrest , somer tail, frankford, juniata park, all funneling into that one intersection. Just a traffic light sequence is a hot mess to begin with. So were backup for miles, on the boulevard, and then the thing that is concerning now is folks that live in this neighborhood the school bus, septa buses are jammed up and delayed, and the kids, they are getting ready to typically would be heading out on the corner right the now, waiting for that bus to pick them up, as we mentioned we have that Police Search, police and k9 dogs in that neighborhood as well. Heres a live look at route 309, this is 309 northbound just above the pennsylvania turn pike an accident, two separate accidents in this delay. What started out as a nice morning i think has gotten chillier over the last i would say last hour or so, scottie and it will keep ongoing town hill from here. Yeah, absolutely dont be fooled by those temperatures early this morning in the 50s , dropping town in the 40 s for most, north and west, and then take a look at this friday the 13th, we have a full moon that is called the wolf moon early in this january season. So, of course, keeping tabs on winds of change and also some colder air moving in, even snow, as we move towards saturday. So as we focus on those temperatures dropping to 51 right now, lot at wind out of the northwest at 18 miles an hour, that is sustained wind, and, were looking at gusts up to 30 miles an hour right now, cross the area. So 33 already in mount pocono. Fortyfour pottstown. Mid 50s still in millville but look at pittsburgh, 31 degrees, 17 think, five below in minneapolis, that cold air, it is headed in our direction. Across the area on average were talking temperature low to mid up toker 40s in the area but feels like temperatures, later on, watch the clock here as we go hour by hour were talking by 10 00 9 in philadelphia, feeling like 18 in mount pocono. Yes, we do have some light snow in the forecast, tomorrow afternoon and evening, maybe a coating up to an inch of snow expected. Much more on that throughout the broadcast, back over to you. Thanks, scott. 7 20. We will get some opinions on this the black lives Matter Movement coming to your child s classroom local Teachers Group is pushing a curriculum based on the movement but does it belong in schools. We will have a good debate on that. We just moved into this house and didnt realize how difficult it was going to be to tie all that space together. With an open floor plan, you need to separate it with furniture. Bassett had everything that we needed. Fabric combinations marry the rooms together. 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