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WPVI Action News At 4PM January 30, 2018

Hi guys. Reporter hey there brian and sharrie. This is Doug Petersons shining moment and he turns 50 tomorrow. Today former eagles great Brian Westbrook joins our super bowl coverage and caught up with Doug Peterson for a oneonone. Your guys have played awesome how confident are you in the Football Team . Really confident and our guys are confident. That is what it takes this time of year. Have you to play with that swagger. And really new england is playing the same way. Two great Football Teams obviously battling it out on sunday but i like our team. And i like where they are mentally and they prepare themselves and blocked out a lot of this noise that really helps. Reporter obviously things are getting serious here they have a big time game to prepare for but we are having a lot of fun as well. They are keeping it loose. Check this out we saw jay ajayi in the mall of america in the gold shades and last night on super bowl Opening Night i saw the same shades on lane johnson. I never wore anything like a day if my life. Why wear them now . Why not. Im here and having fun with it. I thought it would be something funny to bring along. That is my boy, i am trying to help his swag out. I wanted to make sure he was looking degree not cameras. I think he looks good. Pulling it off ll. You understand lane is part Football Player and part wrestlers that is his alter ego. Is he pull that look off . I think he needs to give them back. He needs to give them back to jay. Its not fitting him. He is so huge, and the glasses are like really really small. Ha, ha, ha. That is the pit my of lane johnsons personality. He is a great dude this guy. One of my favorite people on the team. Honestly, if you have a bad day, he can make it better. Isw uperhe is a good dude. You should have pulled off that look. You could have worn t dont know. S g you reahe the 6 abc logo. All the players seeking it out and the coach as well. That is a good thing because in this town for every star, every player there are about 10 microphones in their faces and so many in this building. There is an area of mall of america the fan galleys and where radio row is, the unique opportunity for to watch and s live broadcasts and live interviews and its an area that is so busy. National radio and local radio and anything in between all set up there and they are from all over the country and fround the world. Its a place for broadcasters to work and a mingling spot to see professional players coming and going. And we spotted eagles fans cheering on their team and listening to radio host and former players like tray tho and mike reece he played on the 2004 team that played in the super bowl but unfortunately could not get it done for the eagles at that time. He says he is rooting like crazy for this eagles team. Enough heart ache and pain in the city of brotherly love over the years and its our time. And so i love that i can enjoy it from this side and dont have the anxiety for the players if the game but at the same time i wish i could get out there and give them a couple of plays. He would like to suit up and help out, if he could. But hopefully this team they have got it and they have what it takes to get out and get the w. They can get it done on their own but have fan supports. A lot of philadelphia fans are coming into the area wren here over the next several days. Lets keep it real. We are competitive not just football but cheesesteaks as well. The night we arrived here i noticed the cheesesteak description at the menu at our hotel. Shaved ribeye, banana peppers and provolone on a baguette. But we found a philly guy here in minnesota how to make a cheesesteak. I said what about this cheesesteak. What is wrong with that . Outside of everything . Antonio knows cheesesteaks, in fact they are in his blood. As a northeast philadelphia transplant he grew up in his dads cheesesteak shop slinging them. We had to bring it back and show what a real cheesesteak is. But frank from philly here at the minnesota campus they do. Right down to the authentic rolls shipped in fresh from amarosas. And cheese wiz dripping down and the kids are here and awesome to and convey that experience to the different cities. We did a good job. By his own admission antonio is a pig in mud. The eagles rolling in to his home town for the biggest game of his life. And he is rolling out the green carpet to welcome the philly fans his long lost neighbors that remain near and dear to his heart. Hopefully get a win and cheer with them. Ill be downtown somewhere watching the game. I want to see the streets flooded with green. Yes, you can take the guy out of philly but you cant take philly out of the guy. A great character. I did taste test and it very good. Spot on. All right brian, coming up at 4 30, meet a family from iowa that bleeds green and the three little boys that know a thing or two about the eagles fight song. For brian taff im Sharrie Williams. Back to you in the studio. Looking good thank you. Meantime. Kickoff your super bowl quick here on channel 6. Friday night at 8 00 p. M. Tune in for the preaf view live from minneapolis and tune in saturday as it builds with live reports tluts the day and on sunday. Start your day with 6 00 a. M. Coverage with live reports all morning long and through action news at noon. Live pregame and west and they try to dry the ground out during the evening hours and the flakes are off the coast by 7 00 and the winds gusting up to 35 Miles Per Hour. And again trying to dry out that ground and temperatures dropping quickly to the teens any untreated suffer as act as if they a icy side. Or and snow in the accuweather and talk about Super Bowl Weekend with the seven day coming up in just a little bit. Thank you adam. New information about the double Homicide Investigation in northeast philadelphia. The shooting left a woman and her wheelchair bound mother dead. A witness is now being questioned as a suspect. Annie mccormick is live now with more. Reporter monica, at this point no charges are filed. The homicide captain confirming this afternoon that a man that they have in there for questioning is the person they believe could be the gunman. Philadelphia police say that a 911 call of shots fired brought them here to the 1200 block of gray street and this man recalls a knock at his door. They came knock on the door in a big hurry and they said do you know what happened. Police were looking for information about the neighbors. Inside they found a 66yearold wheelchair bound woman shot in the head and a 32yearold woman shot in the face. The woman mother and daughter pronounced dead at the scene and the 39yearold boyfriend answered the door when Second District officers arrived. They lived together the mother and daughter and boyfriend of the daughter, the 39yearold we are holding for questioning at this point. I could have left an hour later it could have been me. I dont know how crazy this person is. They are not looking for anyone else at this time now with the 39yearold in their custody. The investigation is developing that is where it is pointing at this point. There is work to be done yet and things to be firmed up. Reporter and police have not released the names of the women killed saying they are still working on notifying their family rather and that 39yearold still has not been charged. Reporting live outside of police headquarters, channel 6 action news. Back to you. Hank you. Investigators have discovered Surveillance Video that may help them solve a Sexual Assault case involving a Drexel University student. They say this video shows the man attacking the 23yearold asleep in her apartment in the city 6 00 a. M. Saturday morning. The victim tells police she woke up to find the heavily intoxicated stranger on top of her and was able to run away and call police when the suspect fell asleep and the man was gone by the time the Police Arrived on the scene. Walter perez will have more coming up at 4 30. Neighbors r an explosion before flames came from a row home this morning. Smoke was coming from the second floor when they arrived at 5 45 a. M. And some of the homes windows were blown out. On whaave caused the blast. Action news hh care shakeup. Er companies have a new plan to provide reasonably pricede options. And peco trucks heading to puerto rico how the local compan ielng t hurricane ravaged island. That and more when action news continues. Do i use a toothpaste that whitens my teeth or. One thats good for my teeth . Now i dont have to choose from crest 3d white comes new whitening therapy. Its our best whitening technology. Plus, it has a fortifying formula to protect your enamel. Crest. 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They are teaming with Warren Buffett and Jp Morgan Chase to form a Health Care Company for their employees and eventually focus on technology to provide simplified reasonably priced care and the goal is to reduce Health Care Burden on the economy. Now a look at todays numbers in a rare market slump on wall street today. The dow was down 362 points and nasdaq dropping 64 and the s p 500 falling 31 and some analysts say that the drop is due to uncertainly ahead of the president s state of the union in washington. But a down day for stocks. Time to check the action news traffic report. Now matt pellman in the traffic center. Closing time and time to head home. You are headed home on wet streets not snow covered streets, i would take it easy on its overpasses, they may be colder and could find slickness, for now we are looking good on the highways, congested 95 from penns landing to this point at s the vine street expressway on avee. We have a number of suburba accidents on this tuesday afternoon. One if hanks pla northbound side past creek road and the left lane is blocked serious pennsauken close be 38 eastbound by the canals liquors it has cleared and using 38 again. They are salting out there. 35 Miles Per Hour is the max this afternoon basically the whole way from the delaware Memorial Bridge into mercer county. On the rails once again a modified schedule on patco. Trains are overcrowded and not running as frequently. And downed wires near somer ton means the west trenton line inbound not running and outbound has 20 minute delays. Lets check the waze app. Route 1 in west vincent word of an overturned vehicle crash north of Fairview Road. 7 miles. Well check it again in the next half hour. The fir its kind facility is opening today to help the homeless population. The hub of hope is a facility in septas concourse. Mayor jim kenney that helped to cut the rib bon not a shelter but a way to connect the homeless and get a hot meal at the same time. Jon bon jovi is also on hand there. And showers and a laundry facility in the new center and a medical facility staffed with doctors and nurses and counselors. For the past six winters it was housed in suburban station. Heavy equipment from our area is headed to puerto rico to help get the lights on and they loaded up repair vehicles and supplies. They will be ship bid barge to arrive by early february and 140 repair workers will fly down to help restore electricity. Puerto rico was damaged by hurricanes irma and maria. And adam is here to get a look at the precipitation out tlx we stay add above freezing for most of the day. They are starting to drop below freezing and we clear the clouds out and we have a cool astronomical event happening tonight. Lets head to the weather center, the super blue blood moon. Super because the orbit ofhe moon is clo to t earth tha it typically is and will seem bigger and brighter and the blue moon the second full moon of the month. And a lunar ellipse. They are in alignment. And once you are in alignment. The eclipse happens and casts the shadow and block its from the moon and you get a little bit of rays from the sun to go on the extreme outside of the earth and that casts a reddish glow on to the moon. A little later tonight giving it the red color. Socalled blood and that happens in the predawn hours in the western part of the United States. For us here locally we see a partial ellipse and you want to head outside at 6 45 tomorrow morning. Very low on the horizon. The moon here is going to set around 7 10, you have a small window tomorrow morning to check this out. And it gives the edge of the moon, reddish, not the whole moon but it will seem bright and big most of the night because of how close it is to us and the second full moon of the month. Stormtracker 6 live double scan you see the snow showers in south jersey and delaware, they will continue to drift off the coast here as we get toward the can have, 7 00 hour and light snow and salem and glassboro and hammonton along route 40. And the sun gets lower on the horizon any snow that falls sticks a little bit on sidewalks. Winds pick up into the 30 Miles Per Hour range in much of the area and we want that wind because that is almost like an atmospheric blow dryer. And windchills in the teens across the board and chilly out there. Satellite and radar there are the clouds breaking up to the west and move in tonight through tomorrow. And late tonight temperatures falling into the teens 20 in philadelphia. Watch for the patchy black ice. Your four day at 4 00 only in the 30s with increasing clouds after morning sun and mild late rain on thursday, and 39 degrees would end as wet snow. Early friday morning. And friday itself for groundhog day cloudy and blustery and cold on saturday just 31 sun to back now to the eagles the teams famed mural got an important addition today. It includes the nfc championship title. Action news was there as the two artists painted the upgrade in the snow. And the pleural stretched along darryl street was first painted in 2014. Season Ticket Holders and the team and eagles staff are all part of the project. Let hope there is another tight thal needs to be painted come sunday night. Fans across the tristate area are getting creative as they too cheer on the birds. One woman from Burlington County was inspired by the broadway hit hamilton and came up with the lyrics in the car on her way to work that was jill potter, wearing her Brian Westbrook jersey and even commented on her video on facebook saying she did you a good job. Her response, this is the greatest moment of my life. She is pumped. You can share your eagles cheers and personal stories with us here at action news. Use 6abcaction on twitter or instagram. And share your posts on the 6 abc facebook page. And it may be featured live on the air this week. Hello again 4 30 we are live minnesota we continue the countdown brian taff with Sharrie Williams. Inside of the mall of america we are anticipating every moment until that big one on sunday when Doug Peterson and the birds take on Bill Belichick and the evil empire at the stadium from where we stand. This team embraced the title of the underdogs and ta has fans rooting all the more. We met a family from iowa all philadelphia. They love the eagles and they have generation to generation to root for the birds. Meet the family bleeding green here in minneapolis. Decked out in shirts, sweaterers and jerseys, this is the odonnell family. Brady, blake and luke are here with their father, brian and uncle casey. You think they have deep roots in philadelphia but they are from the iowa. Its a must to root for philly generation to generation. My father was a lifelong sixers fan and eagles fan. And we grew up loving the eagles. Brian is a principal. We play the fight song on the announcements the day after they won the championship. Iowa is only a few hours from minneapolis and it was a no brain toward make the trip. We want to say we were here for the championship. And he pulled the guys from school to be near the birds. And we are staying at the same hotel as the philadelphia eagles. If you are in iowa and you hear the eagles fight song its likely its the odonnells carrying on a proud family tradition. Eagles fly on the road to victory score a touch down one two three hit them low hit them high and watch our eagles fly eagles all right guys. Ha, ha, ha. The family, the boys are so cute. They sang that song with pride and teaching them the right way to do it in iowa to love the birds and they took the day off to have the experience and be close to the eagles. Like my son their son is name said bridy and but it was not inspired by tom brady. Eagles fans through and through, we see a lot of that over the last several days and we expect to see more of that as eagles fans from philadelphia make their way to the twin cities. For now Sharrie Williams along with brian taff in the mall of america. Back to you. Love it. Thank you guys. Meantime the Philadelphia Museum of art is getting in on eagles mania. And staffers sa

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