Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 4a 20240622 : vi

Transcripts For WTXF Fox 29 Morning News At 4a 20240622

Sue has been off all week. Today is a calm day with the weather but we are looking at a nice start to the Holiday Weekend. It will in the be this nice every single will day. Lets get started with the radar. All of the rain is gone, clear, ultimate doppler putting this in the loop not much happening. Philadelphia is all clear there was rain and storms along the coast last night but headed to wildwood this morning, it looks good right now with the radar but then there is a cool breeze. So grab the tshirt and shorts, even sunglasses with the sunshine expect. Sixtyfive to 70 just cool they are morning as you step outside and our number is up in the eight today. It will be dropping quite a bit there for one day this weekend. Not a complete wash out but certainly wont keep this nice stretch of weather going. 69 degrees relative humidity a 81 percent. Wait for that sun at 5 37 this morning. Heres the situation. We have cooler weather to the north. Sixtyone in allentown. Almost up to 70 in philadelphia. Cooler down the shore at 63 in wildwood. Sixtyone in atlantic city. Here comes this rain were talking about and this area have low pressure will impact fourth of july. It is not exactly the best day but not entire weekend. We will be able to eke out one very nice day ill look at the seven day forecast with the numbers coming up but as we said, would be is on his way down to the North Wildwood so ill give so traffic reports this morning. Everything is cleared on 76 this is right here near Spring Garden and dont detour this morning around vine street expressway. That is opened and all cleared this morning. A as we said, good morning everybody. That is starting at 6 00. I can just try, imitate but rarely repeated. Good morning. Bob kelly is on his way there he is already there i know that for a fact. He is already asleep. He will wake up and give you traffic reports from the North Wildwood. Whole crew is down there. They will do a lot from 6 00 to 10 00 this morning. Karen. We have some breaking News Philadelphia Police are investigating a robbery that turned into a deadly multiple shooting in the hunting park section. Lets get out to the scene Sabina Kuriakose is live with what we know at this hour, good morning sabina. Reporter right now we know two people are dead including the attacker. Lets go right to the is the very active scene with crime scene investigators going through too many shell casings to count. They dont know how many shots were fired because there were so many. Lets look at that white car over there that is car in question. Thirty lease say victims were inside that car when they were allegedly approached by an assailant with a 45 caliber hand gun. s parentally had an exchange of gunfire there. Police dont believe victims were armed. They think there was another group of people that engaged the attacker. He is dead. Were told officers and another victim a male in his mid to late 20s. Two other people were inside that vehicle at the time and they are okay and that includes an 18 year old man and woman in her early 20s. Police are looking to find out exactly who that other group was who may have exchanged fire with this gunman. So today this morning they are looking for more suspect. Again, police say that white car park along the street there had just pulled up. They were parking the car when victims were approached by at salient. We are told he was wearing a ski mask at the time. Again i mentioned so many bullet were fired and one hit one of the homes here but police say luckily nobody in that home was hurt. So obviously a very violent morning this morning were four people involve, in this shooting. Two now decidessed. Police are on the scene investigating, karen now back to you. I know we will have more information throughout this morning, and also in other news at 4 04 stage is set for philadelphias big fourth of july jam with hundreds of thousands of spectators showing up for the the big celebration and fire works right here near the art museum on the parkway. There will be a lot of security as well. Lets get out to independent mall where there is so many celebrations as well with our own steve keeley. Good morning steve. Reporter here we are karen on the nations birthday at the place where nation was born here at independent mall and do the the math 200 some odd years ago but now we celebrate freedom and independent at the same time we also have to be vigilant and on guard a against people for some reason who dont want a life of freedom. Fbi and department of home land security both issued a joint bulletin warning to local Law Enforcement a across the country of quote heightened concern involving possible terror targeting on the july 4th who will daze. All of the celebration as cross the country and the former cia Deputy Director Michael Morell said while security bulletins happen with regularity, there is nothing routine about this particular advisory. We operate here in washington d. C. , is there an elevated threat level at all times. We never lower our threat level in terms of our posture and we are aware of the discussion and chatter is around the fourth of july event and all of the threats and we take those into account. This may be potentially the most complex Counter Terrorism overlay for this event, ever, again, that is not driven by any information or particular threat, as much as it is driven by unfolding world events. Get out and enjoy the holidays. Important date in our history. I know i speak for secretary kerry when i say americans should go out and enjoy that. Reporter those events that john miller mentioned were three terror attacks on the same day just a week ago around the world and former cia director says he wouldnt be surprised if were sitting here a week from today talking about an attack in the u. S. Over the fourth of july weekend. That doesnt mean you should sit home in the comfort of your air conditioning sit around scared, go out and celebrate and be part of the vigilance. If you see something say something. On a lighter note, lets talk about the fun we will all have and how about that bob kelly and jen fredrick driving together to the shore. Try to get an word in edge wise on that 90 minute ride. That is a lot of fun down in North Wildwood. Steve, thanks very much. We appreciate it. There was early independent day celebrations. Lets look the at scene in medicine forward last night. I love fire works lighting up the sky a would have the freedom park. People dont mind rain on their head, and again, soggy weather. Many sat under umbrellas tenth, for debris that came down before the show. They had a national anthem. Lots of activity for the kids, food. It was a fun night. Im a dedicated fan myself. I dont like to sit around in the rain. I dont care either. We went last year. So it was okay. And my husband said this was nothing like medford. Medford is one of the few towns that still hosts july 4th fire works show some towns like cherry hill and berlin had to cancel because you their crowd out grew venues when they had other people, coming from the area. So they were cancel. Williamstown high school is mourning loss of the star athlete. They had a candle light vigil last evening at the school in monroe town hip for da rius boyar. He disappeared wednesday while swimming at fish and wild life property. Was a star wrestler, football player. They are there at williamstown high school. Philadelphias Police Commissioner is explaining a controversial change in policy. The Philadelphia Police Department Says it will begin naming officers in Police Shootings which will reverse a Department Policy that used to keep names private because of safety concerns. Commissioner says that the department will evaluate every single shooting before releasing names. Within 72 hearst we will release their names unless is there a threat made against officer or member of the family or Something Like that. We have a protocol that we are putting in place to make sure that the officers and their families are safe, during that period of time. Philadelphia had more than 400 officers involved shootings since 2007. The department has been criticized for waiting six months to name officers involved in fatal traffic stop shootings, specifically the one in brandontait brown. The president is coming back to our neck of the woods. President obama will visit this month. The president will be speaking at Naacp Convention being held right here in philadelphia on july 14th this years theme pursuing liberty in the face of injustice lots of topics there. This will be the second time that the president addressed the National Convention as president. He also spoke at the event back in 2009. Political news, another demies adding his name to the list of president ial hopefuls, former virginia senator jim web, is now seeking his parties nomination. He is a vietnam war veteran and also a fierce critic of the war in iraq. He faces four other declared candidates including hillary clinton. Meanwhile 14 republican candidates announced their candidacy, including just this week new jersey governor who announced, chris christie, that he will run on tuesday. U. S. Unemployment rate is at a seven year low at 5. 3 percent but figure shows an uneven nature of our economic recovery they say. There is 223,000 jobs were added last month with you Unemployment Rate drops because many unemployment people simply stop looking for work and those people are not counted in the government figures. Wages have stalled rising just 2 percent over the past year. Drivers who used this is good news. If you are one of the drivers that used bridges between new jersey and pennsylvania, you could soon be paying less, in tolls, yes maybe it will be cheaper. The drpa, the Delaware River Port Authority finance Committee Approved a measure to lower tolls from five bucks to four bucks for drivers who use the bend been, walt whitman, betsy ross, Commodore Barry bridge at least 18 times a movement if you are a regular commuter you could pay less this will appear as a credit for ez pass users. This goes before the drpa board of commissioner july 15th. If it passes, it will get into effect a little later this year. Some of you may be waking up either down the shore or heading down to the beach this weekend but before you get in the ocean is there something officials are warning to you watch out for. Plus also, the miss u. S. A. Pageant yeah, it finally found a home after that whole mess with donald trump and what he said and getting dumped by nbc . We will tell you where it wound up. Maybe a network you never even heard of. We will be right back. Welcome back. Are you one of the lucky people who might be trucking it or flying out to chicago for the grateful dead reunion tour . I necessity some people that from our station will head out there maybe you are as well. Whoever you are celebrating we will bring you weather ape small warning. If you are going down the shore this Holiday Weekend object the water, portuguese manowars, is there an official warning from the state of new jersey specifically, that there in lbi. They have had more than two dozen of these jelly fishlike creatures, spotted on the beaches or in the ocean just recently. Experts say, they have these long tentacles that can wrap around your body, stinging multiple times and rare cases the manowar is for a reason they can be deadly. We spoke to one mom who said her little boy was stung by one of those creatures at just two. He just pick something up, we were 10 feet from him. He got very, very sick, crying and his hand started to get very red. It was very frightening not knowing what was going on and why he was behaving that way and so upset. Experts say that the manowars float on the Water Surface and blown into land when the win comes from the northeast. New jersey poison control office says you should call them if you have questions. I certainly have a few. Lets check our weather. I know our sue serio likes to go down the shore. She has a place down in wildwood where i have been in the past. We want to know very simply what is the weather going to be like today tomorrow and sunday. Okay, in the great and beautiful. We have one or two days that are nice. Middle day unfortunately the fourth, that is day where it will not be the best. We will give you ultimate doppler radar. It looks clear and stays that way today at least. The rain has moved off, push off thecoast. We have sunshine. It will push that temperature above 80 degrees today. Nice day down the shore today. That wind will come off the ocean. That will keep temperatures down a bit and starts to gust out of the east tomorrow. That is not the best day there. Just be patient because it end beautifully there on sunday. Upper 50s in mount pocono. 60 degrees pottstown at 6o philadelphia 1 degree shy of 70 and cools off to the south. Heres our future cast computer that shows sunshine this morning and just a few clouds. By the afternoon maybe one or two spotty showers. Not expecting too much here. It is focused to the south in the Del Marva Peninsula there. Maybe a pop up shower. Really not heavy at all. Things will change though tonight. Look at how the cloud increase. You go to bed tonight and wake up tomorrow morning with cloudy skies and patchy drizzle and there is an area of low pressure moving by filling in all this rain, very heavy rain, expect, start to develop and become heavy late in the morning especially to the south but that rain goes up to allentown. Mainly a. M. Rain. Because by two or three it is pushing off the coast. So it will slowly begin to taper off tomorrow evening. By tomorrow that looks okay. Skies will be cloudy but that steady heavier rain will be gone. Okay start today with some sunshine 70 degrees. Rough middle down the shore this weekend. Win picks up out of the weekend that keep temperatures down and just be patient dont get any hard leaves. Tonight, beautiful finish 79 and sunshine there on sunday. 83 degrees. Cloud and sun. Thanks to the sunshine. Seven day forecast, we will take a look at this day by day this weekend. Is there mainly a. M. Rain. Temperatures down to 76 degrees. A great finish to the weekend with the rain clearing out sunshine coming back. We will go up to 87 degrees and we will continue to climb monday and tuesday up to near 90. Hot with thunderstorms. The wednesday hot with a storm. Not nearly as hot as thursday but there is still showers and storms back in the forecast. Bobbies on his way to wild wide so our Traffic Authority updates here, this is 95 at cottman. No backups for right now. It looks pretty clear. Keep an eye on that one. In vine street, both detour, wide opened and all clear. We have one accident to tell but, this is on, 195 eastbound, heading there in new jersey Hamilton Square you cannot get off that ramp heading eastbound on 195 there is a tractor trailer overturn. So all ramp lanes are block. Like we said, bob will start coming your way at 6 00 oclock this morning from wildwood. Karen. Thanks, dave. Do you watch miss u. S. A. Pageant . You know the answer to that. Heck yah he does. Now there is a new place to watch, it is a whole controversy, maybe a network you never heard of. It is called real channel. It has been pick up after donald trump made derogatory comment and nbc and uni vision decided to dump the pageant. The real ceo said they pick up the pageant in the interest of the woman in the pageant. Nbc and uni vision dumped the pageant after trump made knows comments during his president ial announcement last month. Trump has announced a lawsuit against uni vision, macys and they have said that they will cut business ties with trump this week. Los angeles District Attorney is now declining to file felony charges against diddy in connection with the confrontation he had with his sons football coach last month. Diddy is no the in the clear. Case is turned over to the l. A. City attorneys office. Prosecutors there will have to decide if they will charge as just a misdemeanor. Diddy is accused of swinging a kettle bell against a ucla conditioning coach but school says be in was hurt. Diddys sonnies a junior defensive back. He said he was defending himself and his child. Nascar is now taking stand in the controversy over the Confederate Flag. They are asking fans to not display the flag at races. This all comes from the International Speed way corporation, and speed way motor sports inc. Which own most of the tracks in the sprint car series. They say there is an effort to make the race an all inclusive environment. Flag has been banned from official use at all nascar events. Debate over the use of the Confederate Flag was renewed in the wake of the terrible deadly shooting at a Historic Black Church in Charleston South Carolina last month. Since then local governments, retailers, organizations have made varying decision about not using the flag or even selling it. Coming up another huge settlement made in connection with that bp oil spill, how much the company will have to have pay out for that massive gulf coast disaster, right now. And also this is our dumb criminal alert . Police in Delaware County are looking for two guys, they steel a delivery mans car and police say suspects made one huge, dumb mistake that help them find them. And lets take a look at last tonights winning lottery numbers, we certainly hope you have them, good luck. Phillies have never lost four games in the series against milwaukee. They had a chance last night. Milwaukee is second worse game in baseball so it would be embarrassing. In the 11th inning phillies came back from four to nothing and sevenfour but they lose in 11. Adam lynn with the single. Eightseven milwaukee and phillies are swept. Golf this weekend and is there a tiger sighting. 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