Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20240622 : vimar

Transcripts For WTXF Fox Morning News At 4A 20240622

Belated birthday. I was watching fox 29 weekend and bus stop buddy made me a cake yesterday. I posted it on my facebook page, check it out. Dave warren said he had to turn the oven on for him because he is a a child but anyway, it was a a great day so thanks for all of you wishes on line, its was as you ol all of the social media stuff. It was a hot one yesterday. We will have another one today. We are starting off with 75 degrees. We have 76 percent relative humidity. That number will be going up. 6mile an hour breeze, were great full for that out of the southwest. 6 14 is your sunrise time. You are starting to notice difference, it is getting dark. Im sure you noticed that as well. The satellite radar nothing in the offing, we have to go all the way up to wisconsin, and, Upper Peninsula of michigan to find some rain, and eventually that cold front will make its way here but not today. Seventyfour in trenton. 70 degrees already in allentown. Seventythree reading. Sixtythree, and mount pocono. Sixtynine in millville and dover. At the shore we have got a cooler 66 in wildwood. Had that sea breeze yesterday. Seventyone at Atlantic City. Most of the wind direction is different then friday then when we had low humidity. We have southeasterly wind around this morning. The heres what we have this morning, and today, 95 degrees, hot one. Plenty of blazing sunshine. Take care of yourself. Check on the follow thanks need you. Take care of the pets. Do not leave them outside in this weather. 72 degrees and humid with mostly clear skies overnight. Our bob kelly has the the day off today, he is making for a long weekend. We will see how many other people do later on when we check the volume, on the the roads. So we will start off with a look at the schuylkill expressway westbound between city avenue and belmont. Weve got construction there blocking the right lane. There were a lot of people outside slowing them down but if you go out there youll have to encounter that. Now we will go to i95 at cottman avenue. It is all cleared for now. Speeds across the region, we have gone at a regulation 55 miles an hour along i95 and around route one, we have a 40 miles an hour speed. Schuylkill expressway around 51, need to slow down at that construction as well, and no delay, lauren starting with any method of mass transit a at least so far this morning. Developing news this morning coming out of the north philadelphia, First Responders are in bucks county where a train, struck a person. This happened around 2 30 this morning near septas trevose station along the west trenton line. All we know at this point is that the victim is an adult, the the extent of his or her injuries is unknown at this hour. Of course, as soon as we get more information we will bring that to you. Police are investigating a triple shooting in olney this morning. Police were called to the 5900 block of Second Street just after 10 00 oclock last night. They took a man who had been shot in the arm and woman shot in the leg, to einstein medical center. Soon after another man was dropped off at the same hospital with the gunshot wound. All three are in stable condition. So far no charges have been filed. As the clock tics down to pope francis visit, more questions this morning such as what happens to businesses inside the security zone, dubbed the box . My co anchor chris murphy live at logan circumstance toll explain more about this, hi chris. Im in the heart of the box right along ben franklin parkway, quiet the now but in 40 days from now as you well know it will be absolutely pack. That is a problem, right for businesses. They are concerned about how they will conduct this because they wont be able to get in or out of the security area so later this morning the city is set to release a phone number for Business Owners to call so they can get their questions answered. Information is also going to be posted on the city web side, and it will be searchable with the hashtag pope in philly. In the meantime Business Owners we spoke with, they are making their own plans. Busy week, you know, that is a lot of money right there i cant lose that. I will be closed. It would be too a hard to be in and out of the city. It will be a problem for us. To take the truck in and out. Watch it on tv. Mess of my staff luckily lives nearby a lot of people are on bicycles, you know, people that are not going to be able to get in through the zone, we are going to, i live right around the corner. We will set up shop at my house and make sure everybody can grab a shower every day, sleep very nicely. Reporter so lets talk about this traffic box, reminder, the traffic box will stretch from Delaware Avenue west to 38th street and south street north, to spring garden, ridge, and girard. It encompasses 4. 7 square miles and lauren, you will have millions of people crammed into the box as we said. About 39 or 40 days. Now back to you in the studio. Chris murphy, thanks so much. Welcome back. An autopsy is expect today on the body of the woman found in the lehigh river, body of the five threeyear old Patricia Rasmussen of bethlehem was found in the river in north white hall township just before 1 00 on sunday morning. It is unclear who found her or how long she may have been in that water. We still dont know the name of the man who died swimming in the Schuylkill River on saturday. Five threeyear old was last seen swimming 20yard from the shore, near lock street in manayunk. When witnesses lost sight of him they called 191i dive team has recovered the body. Police make an arrest in the hit and run that injured a six yearold girl saturday night in northeast philadelphia they say 27 yearold mark he will wards hit a koran mcgee avenue but didnt stop. He turn on sylvester street and ended up on a sidewalk where he hit the little girl. Police say it he kept going hitting three park cars. The the six yearold has broken bones but Officials Say that he should be okay. Tim tebow gets a warm welcome to philly fans as he lead eagles to victory. Steve keeley is live outside the link with more, on this, hi there, steve. Reporter well, preseason may be meaningless in the standings and the record books but the forced to buy ticket at same price as regular season seats and there was actually the sound of philadelphia sports fans, cheering, for the first time here in south philadelphia in a long time after embarrassing seasons for other three major sports teams who play down here. A top round pick who wears same number 17 as Harold Carmichael did for years showed the same kind of excitement for years, and then class in the end zone and locker room afterward and a 92a touchdown the at the end of the first half from a no name with a potential to be a big name former oregon player ken yan barner. Philly sports radio has lots of fresh topics to debate and philly sports fans lots to look forward to. He is a great play, by him, showing him he can run. The just one move and you are gone. That is type of plays that we need on the perimeter and he has shown that he can make play was this offense. Like when he caught the ball, it was just a hitch, and thinking he might make one move. I thought it was like he isnt catching him. It was great to see him in the end zone. The first catch too, that is awesome. Im not the fastest guy in the world. Tackle me. I just continued to play. Rookie too agholor, really good. He is strong without the ego. Very fast. That is very cool. Fun to watch. Reporter so many highlights we cannot cram them in one live report but we have to mention tim tebow adding to the cheers and touchdown total getting his first and first ovations here in philadelphia and everyone can talk about backup quarterbacks for a week until first string guy plays next preseason game next weeks begins baltimore. We will hear from tebow and the holy father of football that is, chip kelly, whose plan seems to be going according to plan, and that should be the topic that everybody is talking about instead of the players, but this guy has a plan and so far, i know it is only preseason, but it looked real good yesterday. It really good. Steve keeley, thank you and welcome back as well. Small plane heading to moorestown, new jersey goes down, in long island, bursting into flames. Ntsb says the single engine beach craft 35 plane was at 6500 feet when the pilot radioed air Traffic Control and said he was having engine problems and needed to return to the West Hampton Beach airport. The plane, suddenly lost altitude, in a railroad signal, the impact broke off the planes right wing seconds before falling on to the track. I didnt realize what was going on. My coworker did. He saw the plane that was upside down. A at that point he just got up and ran because plane was going down call 191. The pilot did not survived the crash but passengers, identified as karl giordano. The Long Island Railroad service was restored around 8 30 sunday night. Seaside heights looking towards the future, owners of the the amusement pier want a approval to rebuild. Super storm sandy destroyed casino pier in october 2012 where a roller coaster ended up in the ocean. The Asbury Park Press reports that the pier now has a permit to rebuild, a 225foot, a 266foot section. A huge party on the beach in Atlantic City, 50,000 fans, of nick jonas and maroon five turnout sunday, to put on to help market city as more than a gambling destination. The unlike Concert Series last year this year the the show was not free but drew thousands of onlookers from the boardwalk as well. Goal, to get people coming back as the city tries to reinvent itself. We need to get more bodies here and lets be frank, Atlantic City need more than just gamers. Gamers are terrific. 2. 5 milliondollar but we have 15,000 hotel rooms to fill every night. Show continues thursday with rascal flats, tickets are Still Available for that show. Civil rights act wrist julian bond died at the age of 75. Hear how people are remembering the long time chairman of the naacp. And former new york governor george powe tacky campaigning in iowa this weekend how he says that he handled fighting the the Islamic State group from the white house pataki. We are playing this song in honor of sue serio, on a monday after your birthday; and we knew girls can have some fun. Happy birthday, sue. Yeah, it was very fortunate i got the to spend Nate Baltimore with my family. Got some flowers with my husband. Look on line, i posted a picture. So, i will keep them for a little will while. So 75 degrees right now, in philadelphia, and temperatures are already starting out, warm. But we are in the 60s in a few places like pottstown, trenton has 74. Sixtythree in mount pocono. 68 degrees in lancaster. Seventyone wilmington. Sixtysix in wildwood. Seventyone Atlantic City. It is not the the most inn comfortable morning we ever had but pretty sticky here in the city. We are grateful for a breeze. Checking dew points mostly in the mid to upper 60s so we are starting to get in the sticky range once we get above 60 degrees, we will move from stick toy uncomfortable. We are not quite in oppressive territory just yet but we may save that for tomorrow. We will go right to the future heat index, this is in the necessarily our High Temperature for today but this is what it the will feel like, by about 5 00 oclock this evening, a heat index, in the the upper 90s. It could feel like 99 in lancaster. Ninetysix here in philadelphia we will look to tuesday which could be right up there with the heat index once again. So we will start to get the heat on saturday, now we have the humidity, and it will get, a little bit worse over today and tomorrow. So, are we working on a heat wave . Yes, we are. We are got to 88 on friday. Ninetyone on saturday. 93 degrees was our High Temperature yesterday. So there is one, two, three, here comes number three, 94 today, and then it is pretty good chance we will be well in the 90s by end of the day and could end up being a four day heat wave, with 92 degrees on tuesday. New we have had some showers and thunderstorms to the in mix or wednesday and thursday so now were talking mid to upper 80s, those days. Got the the phillies coming back home for two day series with the blue jays, and so the weather for tomorrow looks a little better then it does today. A couple more days in the 90s with that oppressive heat and humidity where we have to watch out for not only the people, but the pets, as well. So lets take a look at traffic, our bob kelly is off to day we will start off with that schuylkill expressway westbound. Construction between city line avenue and belmont, right lane is closed, and it is scheduled to be out there that construction until about 5 00 oclock this morning. Checking ben franklin bridge going into philadelphia, it is just fine now, but we expect more traffic later on for folks who decided to stay at the shore for the weekend and come on home monday morning and go right to the office. Travel times as we check i95 and the schuylkill, schuylkill from the blue route to the vine, it will only take you 15 minutes this morning and i95 from woodhaven to the vine street expressway only a 13 minute trip there. So, now we will check mass transit, delay on septa, a 15 minute delay to be exact, on the airport regional rail, but all cleared on the other methods of mass transit this morning. Lauren. Thanks very much, sue. Taking a look at our top store thinks morning, new details in the death of Actor Morgan Freeman step granddaughter over the the weekend. New york post is reporting that three threeyear old adina heinz was stabbed outside herman hat on apartment in some kind of a disturbed attempt at an exorcism. According to the post a witness heard a man screaming get out devil i cast you out devil in the name of the jesus christ i cast you out as he attacked her. The paper identified a 30 yearold man a arrested as heinz boyfriend, lemar davenport. Heinz was granddaughter of freemans first wife. In a statement freeman says the world will never know her artistry and talent and how much she had to offer, may she rest in peace. Searchers spot wreckage from the missing plane in indonesia. Crash happened sunday in indonesia Mountain Region during a nasty storm with heavy rain and strong wind. There were 54 passengers, including five children, according to the Transportation Ministry the the plane lost contact with the airport, minutes before it was scheduled to land and never made a distress call. Officials say this area is covered with jungles and mountains, other planes have crashed there abe have never been found. Civil rights act wrist julian bond is being remembered as a trailblazer, icon. Long time chairman of the naacp died at 75. Foxs trever shirley has more. Reporter julian bond will long be remembered as a voice for the people. A voice calling for action during the civil rights movement, and later being heard as a member of the georgias elected ship under the gold dome. The news of the death hitting a hard for those who remember hearing that voice. That was pretty much just in shock, just immediately began to reflect on the movement, because i lived through the movement. He obtained a lived a life of example, he was precise. He was truthful. He was a high man of integrity. Reporter news of his passing was all the of the talk outside ebonieser Baptist Church this morning as those remembered bond, impacted them. He was a great person that did a lot of great things, over the years, for the naacp, and he is very out spoken. Reporter bonds leadership and work for equality spanned decades. The as co founder of the both Southern Poverty Law Center and Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee he put his safety and reputation at risk working to better lives of African Americans all across the country, despite a long, career, those who knew him say he never lost sight of those he served. He not only was a civil rights icon he whats electric politically, in his representation of the people, but ultimately, he came back to what got him to where he evolved upon to be elected. He came back to the people. When you look at the tremendous legacy and contributions that julian bond made to our city, our state, our nation, and really our world, we certainly lost an iconic person. Former new york governor George Pataki is telling iowa he will make fighting isis a higher priority. Republican president ial candidate said he would increase u. S. Air strikes against a violent militant group in the middle east. He would draw experiences learned when he was governor during 9 11 as is custom candidates are invited to give a 20 minute soap box speech. That fair rinse through august. Eagles fans finally have a game to get excited about, what the the players to have say about yesterdays big win. Milwaukee brewers rookie made baseball history over the weekend, revealing he is gay, what david dempseys teammate is saying about the a announcement. We finally have a Football Game to talk about with the eagles, preseason but something for fans to get excited about. For the most partying also played well in a big win over the colts, lets go to lincoln financial field, an Exhibit Exhibit game but big for the the fans. Mark sanchez, nelson agholor, unbelievable run. His speed is terrific. 34yard touchdown. He had three catches. Eagles win 36 106789 Jordan Matthews loves what he sees in the rookie wide receiver. It was crazy, because, like when he caught the ball, it was just a hitch, and thinking he might make one move. I saw him angle and says they are not catching nellie. It was great. First catch too. That is awesome. He had three catches. Nelson agholor and matt barclay 12 for 20, 192yard. Eagles play next saturday night in baltimore. Phillies lost, against milwaukee. That is sports in a minute. Im, howard eskin. David dempsey revealed h

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