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WPVI Action News At 4PM January 12, 2018

Boundary from the east to the west. So, overnight tonight an additional quarter to a half inch of rain could spark again some minor street flooding as we get into the overnight hours. Then temperatures will crash near dawn and there could be an icy mix with some freezing rain and sleet in the far northwestern suburbs but that doesnt occur until after 4 oclock in the morning. In fact theres a Winter Weather advisory. It starts at 1 00 a. M. But nothing should fall in wintry form until about 3, 4 oclock through 10 oclock on saturday morning for the poconos Lehigh Valley all the way down to lancaster. Well show you the model how its picking up some of that ice coming up in that accuweather forecast and a big change for the eagles game tomorrow it is going to feel like the teens sharrie. Well chat about it in that accuweather forecast. All right our weather just all over the place. All over the place. Get updates on the forecast and check storm tracker6 live throughout the weekend right on your phone or tablet. The 6abc app is a Free Download for your mobile device. By the thousands Friends Family and fellow firefighterring gathered today to bid a final goodbye to lieutenant matthew letourneau. And we know that even as matt becomes part of our storied past, he will always be with us in the future. Heart felt words and somber silence mourners filled the basilica of saints peter and paul remember one of philadelphias bravest six days after his death in the line of duty. Action News Reporter Annie Mccormick live outside the basilica this afternoon. She joins us with the story from there. Annie. Reporter and brian, last night you could see at the first viewing that the line was wrapped around the block. Today hundreds more came out to show their respects both inside of the basilica during that mass and then also in the pouring rain they gave their final salute to lieutenant matthew letourneau. Hundreds packed the basilica of saints peter and paul for their final goodbye to 42yearold lieutenant matthew letourneau. Engine 45 from letourneaus firehouse carried the casket of the 11 Year Department veteran. Bagpipers from Philadelphia Police and fire pipes and drums played as his fellow firefighters carried him into the church. His helmet not far behind. His family standing together surrounded by men and women in uniform. Inside the basilica , a choir from letourneaus alma mater cardinal ohare and words of comfort from the fire commissioner. He will be with us every step of the way. For matt is not gone. He has simply gone ahead he has gone ahead and joined a company of other heroes. Reporter letourneau began as a volunteer firefighter near his home at the Springfield Fire Company in high school. He continued to teach and mentor there. Today his procession ended in Delaware County. Friends and family say letourneau will always be remembered for his wit, compassion for people and animals and his life of service. Ive known lieutenant letourneau for a number of years. Excellent man. Excellent person. Excellent firefighter. Reporter brian and sharrie we just learned from the Philadelphia Fire Department that lieutenant letourneau will be promoted next week to the rank of captain. For now reporting live in center city, Annie Mccormick channel6 action news. Back to you. All right, annie, thank you. An nj transit bus driver is recovering in the hospital right now after a man allegedly attacked him about 9 30 this morning at the intersection of haddon and kaighn avenue in camden. Police say a person tried to board the bus with a dog. When the driver explained that the dog could not board the bus, the discussion apparently escalated into a dispute. The suspect pulled out a knife and stabbed the driver several times in the arm and shoulder. Police arrived quickly and they were able to arrest that suspect. A Good Samaritan tried to stop a robbery in progress in north philadelphia. But he ended up critically wounded and in the hospital. The 27yearold was a customer waiting to get his haircut at the harris hairstyling barbershop last night when someone announced a robbery. Well, thats when the customer began fighting with the robber. The fight then spilled outside onto the sidewalk of the 2900 block of north 22nd street. Thats when several shots were fired and the Good Samaritan was struck twice. An arrest has been made in this shooting. Action News Reporter vernon odom is gathering more info on the story. Well have a live report coming up in our next half hour. Investigators in bensalem are hoping someone recognizes this woman. Shes wanted for trying to use stolen credit cards on more than one occasion. This video is from december 13th at the cvs on neshaminy boulevard. Police say the cashier thought the woman looked familiar because she tried to use stolen cards once before. If you know anything about who this woman is, youre asked to call police. We are just about 24 hours away from the eagles taking the field against the falcons. Yeah. Dont hate me for saying this but the birds havent won a playoff game in nine years but if all goes right that all changes tomorrow. Jeff skversky with us now and jeff, all that preparation about to be put to the test in a very real way. And all eyes will be on one nick foles. Can he get this done with the injured carson wentz watching along with eagles fans everywhere. Eagles making final preparations for the playoffs today with a light walk through. Tonight eagles will get some shut eye and hopefully wake up tomorrow and shut down and atlanta falcons. Doug pederson will make his playoff debut as head coach at 4 35. Pederson a coach of the year candidate is in for his biggest challenge leading the eagles without m. V. P. Candidate carson wentz. Pederson talked to quarterback nick foles reminding him just to be himself. As far as his message to the entire team on the eve of their first playoff game in four years, well, at this point, there is not much more to say. I shouldnt have to say anything for this game. You know what i mean . The energy level, the juices will be flowing. Its been a couple weeks since weve been on the field. Its a different feel and our guys i have no doubt our guys will be ready to go. Lets hope so. Everyone counting on the eagles to keep these super bowl dreams alive. Yeah. It is a tough one tomorrow against that team that just lost the super bowl. Remember, the falcons had that huge lead. Im sure they dont need to be reminded of that. All right. Well see what happens. Jeff thanks. Lets go to alicia with more on eagles fans. Oh, yeah and as they get ready to watch their eagles fly, fans are preparing for tomorrows big game from viewing parties to tail gates, theyre stocking up on everything theyre going to need to cheer on the birds. Action News Reporter bob brooks caught up with some very enthusiastic super fans and shoppers in south philadelphia. Eagles. Lets go eagles. Hopes for an eagles win tomorrow is high. Its the playoff. Weve got to win. Are they going to win. Yes, were going to win. We need a win. This town needs a win. We got to get to the super bowl again. Before the big game excitement across the city is growing at the acme on snyder avenue in south philadelphia the whole store is decked out with eagles. Get this, if you wear your eagles gear into the store you get 5 percent off your purchase. So far weve seen jerseys to hats and even shoes. Shrimp, chips, dip for the game tomorrow night. Eagles, go eagles. On the road to victory. Even swoop and the eagles cheerleaders are here to help get people fired up. From there we stopped off at the philly pretzel factory in mayfair and would you look at that, they have the 6abc logo made. In fact, theyll do any logo you want for tomorrows game as long as you call and place your order. We do that eagles logo will have to be ordered but we can do anything. They have a deal as well. Wear your eagles gear and get a free pretty sell. Youre going to get a free pretzel. Yes. Thats a good thing. Theyll have plenty of food. Now they just need a win. Were going to blow them out. A blowout. A blowout. Were going all the way. They were giving away free prizes at the acme. One young woman won tickets to the eagles game tomorrow, talk about a treat and that 5 Percent Discount goes until the end of the day. So if you want to get that throw on your eagles gear and come on down. For now reporting in south philadelphia, bob brooks, channel6 action news. All right. It is time for a first check on the action news traffic report tonight. Lets take a look outside through mobile6 giving us a look at how traffic is moving and of course thats the weather conditions with the wet roads, this now on the boulevard in northeast philadelphia but the car and cars along with it moving at a pretty good clip here this afternoon. Gina gannon in for matt pelman keeping us updated. Hi guys. Things arent moving along too nicely if youre traveling in langhorne bucks county on 95 our first check showing you that we have an accident out there its a jackknifed tractortrailer and it is blocking that right lane. You can see it out here on 95 right at route 413 on that southbound side so that is definitely going to show you down. Youre delayed back to route one but you can see it looks like we have police on the scene and again that jackknifed tractortrailer out there blocking that left lane so give yourself a little more time if youre traveling on 95 in the langhorne area. Taking a look live on the big picture we do have slow speeds. Earlier i showed you the roosevelt boulevard. We have some flooding out there in the inner drive southbound around f street so do yourself a favor and try to avoid that. Its going to show you down. The vine street expressway is very crowded. Were recovering from an earlier accident on the eastbound side just approaching 95 as you get off that of off ramp there and it has since cleared but delays out there in full force. If youre traveling on the westbound side expect backups from broad street through this point at 76 and the entire length out there on the vine street expressway. Brian and sharrie, back to you. All right, gina, thank you. Still ahead here on action news at 4 00 today its the insult threatening to derail one of americas most bates. New reaction today to what President Trump reportedly said in the oval office disparaging certain immigrants this as he now denies it. Plus an amazing rescue. Hear from the firefighter who caught an infant frantically tossed from a burning building. Are you taking the tissue test . Yep, and my teeth are yellow. Time for whitestrips. Crest glamorous White Whitestrips are the only adaaccepted whitening strips proven to be safe and effective. And they whiten 25x better than a leading whitening toothpaste. Crest. Healthy, beautiful smiles for life. Im never gonna be able ill take a sick day tomorrow. On our daughters birthday . Moms dont take sick days. Moms take nyquil severe. The nighttime, sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching, fever, best sleep with a cold, medicine. Its a like, a dagger . A worm a tiny sword . Bread. Breadstick . A matchstick a lamppost coin slot no . 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This afternoon two republican senators couldnt recall hearing it. But today republican senator Lindsey Graham says he pushed back after hearing the vulgarity about african countries. The lone democrat in the room dick durbin of illinois calls the president s denial a lie. It is not true. He said these hate filled things and he said them repeatedly. It was a heartbreaking moment. Now, all of this today sending shock waves through capitol hill and of course around the world with many lawmakers saying that this conversation throws a wrench into those immigration talks, what they were there for in the first place. Also today President Trump is getting his first medical checkup as president at walter reed military hospital. That exam includes everything from Blood Pressure to cholesterol blood sugar heart rate and weight. The white house did say though that the president will not be undergoing a psychiatric exam amid some recent calls for it by critics. Sharrie. Another very busy day out of d. C. All right, alicia. Kentucky will be the first state to require many of the its medicaid recipients to have a job. The Trump Administration announced individual states can mandate employment for certain medicaid enrollees. Each state needs to apply for a waiver from the federal government and today kentucky became the first to win approval. Officials expect the change to save the state 300 million but as many as 95,000 residents could lose their benefits. Some incredible new video shows dramatic rescue from a burning apartment. Youve got to see this. Watch as a baby is tossed from a third floor balcony straight into the arms of a firefighter. Several people that be trapped in this building in decatur georgia. The fire captain raced toward the inferno and thats when she made that incredible catch have somebody else assist them down but i got halfway up there and here comes a baby down to my arms. Wow. The captain a mother of triplets brought the baby to waiting ambulance. That child is one of 12 people rescued from that fire. Now here is a look at todays closing numbers as we close out this week. All green arrows acrosstheboard. The dow soaring 228 points reaching 25,800 plus on the day. The nasdaq up more than 49 points. The s p 500 up more than 18 and a half points on the day. Well, if you have not yet if you havent yet, you will soon start seeing changes to your Facebook News feed. The social network wants your time on the app and web site to be more meaningful. Facebook will now prioritize posts from your friends and family over business pages and viral videos. Feeds will begin highlighting the things youre more likely to engage with. The change comes as critics say social media can make people feel depressed and isolated. The world is a place thats difficult to navigate. Sometimes it. Looking at the temperature, i cant believe my eyes 63 degrees right now but its about to head off the cliff. You know what, though, well flip that number around and go south of there as we wake up tomorrow morning. Big changes coming in overnight. We take a look at storm tracker6 live double scan. The heavy rain is over temporarily. Its a bit of a break. There are a few light showers in the western suburbs coming from maryland working across the border into southern Chester County berks county as well as northern Montgomery County so were starting to see things fire back up and whats going to happen is the radar is going to fill back in during the evening hours and heavy rain will eventually move in as well. As we look at High Temperatures today, four records have been broken so far, trenton a new record high 65 degrees. We match that in allentown, 64 in reading and even the poconos a record High Temperature today of 58 degrees. But as we look at the winds theyre out of the southeast right now so the ocean is 34 degrees. So notice how beach haven cape may 40s because of the wind off the water and because the atmosphere is so drenched right now with moisture, there is dense fog and a dense fog advisory for the shore only until 6 oclock while inland locations much warmer in the 50s and the 60s as we look to the south you can see a good pipeline of moisture coming up. That is the warm sector of this low which is in the Tennessee Valley cold air back behind it. Toronto chicago cincinnati starting to see snow. Theyre to the north and west, no threat for any icy conditions at least until the one, 2 oclock hour in notice northwestern area. 44 philadelphia, 46 in millville with rain turning heavy at times. In fact, 6 oclock you can see heavy rain down to the south. The radar filling in in and around the delaware valley. Torrential rain right around midnight as the area of low pressure starts to push through, starts to change to a little freezing rain up in the poconos and at the tail end 4 00, 4 30 in the morning you see a little blue near allentown and reading with freezing rain. The rest of us no threat. Its all gone by the time most of us wake up early tomorrow morning with some sun returning. Future tracker any sort of ice accumulations you can see it is way on the low end of the scale and just right in the fringe of our viewing area in berks county and Lehigh County. Watch for sleet and freezing rain on saturday morning. Come on graphic lets go. Dont freeze up on me. Winter whiplash here. How its going to feel. 63 right now. 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow, 35. Noon tomorrow 21 and for the start of the eagles game 17 degrees with winds over 30 miles an hour. Your four day at 4 00 forecast High Temperatures tomorrow in the 30s. Again, kind of falling all day with those winds whipping around feeling like the teens. Brisk cold but sunny sunday, less wind 27. Clouds increase for your day of service on monday but dry at 32 and there could be snow showers or flurries. Righ

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