Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 5A 20171013 :

Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 5A 20171013

Great to have you with us. Friday, looking good, feeling good. Then good. Lou good, all right. Sigh serio we are wearing fall colors autumnal theme. Temperatures feel like october so we are in the mood for autumn as well. Kind of delays, i guess, heres a look at trenton, new jersey. Good morning to you. Very tranquil in trenton and our number of the day is a seven out of 10. Yeah, not perfect. But, not as much rain as we saw yesterday. You see umbrella with bus stop buddy, just in case umbrella and lucky the black cat is right there on this friday the 13th. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s and you should have a jacket or sweater with you this morning because it is a cool one out there. It is cloud any many places, it is 57 degrees. We wont see the sun probably at all or very little of it but sunrise at 7 10 and we have a 9mile an hour breeze from the northeast. Mostly cloudy skies throughout the day. Occasional spotty shower. 67 degrees is our high temperature, not as windy, eventually like it was yesterday either, and changes over the weekend, changes after the weekend, it is all spelled out, bob kelly in the seven day forecast. Sounds good, sue, good morning. Tgif we are all in a good mood after eagles victory and it is a friday, getting ready for the weekend. We have cones down live look at 422, out near trooper road, interchange. These are trooper road and route 23, they are wrapping up project here on the westbound schuylkill expressway, closed until five. Any minute we should than rolling, ready for morning rush hour. Lets go to the neighborhood a couple accidents one garrett hill road at cedar brooke avenue just cleared out of the way. Police are on the scene there over in new jersey route 130 both directions at riverton road an accident, also knocked down Traffic Signals so that could be a little tricky for morning rush hour. Sue mentioned changes. We have changes on i95, by tomorrow morning penndot says they will have new ramps opened up at girard avenue and a new traffic pattern shuffle through fishtown. Mass transit, no reported delays. Eagles will escape with the win. How about the eagles. They are going to go to five one. We dit. We won. Jenny joyce, all along we never had a doubt, right we knew for sure we would lock this up, right. Reporter oh, shoot i cannot hear you karen repeat that. Tell me what people are saying. Reporter people here in south philadelphia not only do they have that friday feeling but they have that eagles feeling, eagles fiveone now talk about last nights thursday night thrilling victory, for the bird. Lets take a look at those highlights. Carson wentz all over that against Carolina Panthers a strong theme with the solid offense and defense and i know that especially because my opponent in fantasy football has cam newtown and scored nice 23 points with him last night but not enough to knock the bird down despite tricky plays from the panter. Eagles upped their a game and pulled out a big win. It is a great win. It is great. We are fiveone, baby. I liked it. I like the outcome. Always root for eagles. It was a nice road game. Just battling. Guys hung in there, did an outstanding job tonight and just found a way. Reporter oh, yeah, and now the bird have a little time off, hopefully they have a fun weekend before getting back into game mode. The next time we will see eagles on the field will be a week and a half from now, monday night football against Washington Redskins on october. That is a big night too. So much needed rest. They dont need it. Still going strong. Jenny, thank you. 504 67 89 classes are cancelled for mold remediation parents continue to question the possible health risk to their children, and School District now know this . Health report will be out. Steve keeley joining us from the philadelphia School District building, steve. Reporter looking for a positive maybe kid got to stay up and watch eagles since they had to get up for school this morning. That is the end of them. This story will get worse, when we tell you what the Teachers Union will stay around. All of the kid staying home now for as long as it takes according to the district, and the next announcement will not come until sunday. All districts first news release claimed if you will recall that traces of mold, were found, and it is clean up that is expect to be done by wednesday night and both turned out to be, way, wrong. I was shocked. I was shock, but same time, me and my mom was actually up this morning and looking at news and we were like were shock but were like yeah, kind of figured. Why is that . The school is dirty. You go in there and children running every where, nothing is cleaned up, you hardly see maintenance people or janitors walking around, and cleaning throughout the day. It was bound to be a problem. Reporter apparently it has been a problem long before this week. In fact back in 2015 wait until you see our report in a half an hour and wait until you will see disgusting pictures taken by teachers in this school, two years ago, a bowl on the kid desk, Musical Instruments and nothing was done. We will show them in a half an hour, guys. We will look for that. That is gross. Cant believe this, 5 06. Mold also a problem for Penn State Library at berks campus off limits because of suspect condition tam nation. We are waiting for official test results to figure out what they will do whether mold was there. Until then library closed. Cheltenham high also closed this week after they found mold in the books and in the air, they are renovating library replacing h vac system that will be closed in the spring. South jersey Monroe Township School District they are having a Huge Community meet up to date folks what they will do with the kid because all Public Schools affecting 6,000 kid were closed this week to get air tested. That is where they have found the most at holy glenn elementary school. It will be closed for months. Will they get rid of the mold in the building. They have a big meeting. It will be jammed packed at Williamstown High School tonight at 7 00. Wild fires burning in california are now the deadliest in the states history, two more people confirmed dead overnight bringing death toll to 31 this morning. Crews are making progress battling wild fires but they say trouble looms as hundreds have people remain missing. Thousands of homes are destroyed as nearly 200,000 acres have burn throughout the state. Fire fighters say they are dealing with american 20 different fires, and napa and sonoma count business in rain in sight. Officials say they are far from getting any relief. Were in this fight for the long hall. It will continue to get worse before it gets better. It is heart breaking and we need to provide as much relief as possible to the victim families. We have a lot of folks, hundreds of folks still unaccounted for. This morning there is still no official cause for any of the fires. Right now in precinct patrols on popular spot in our city following a number of incident there was a woman who said she was attacked by a group of teens on our Schuylkill River trail. She tells police she was jogging tuesday when teens on bikes surrounded her and groped her and she said nobody passing by even stopped to help. Then there was another incident, police found a body mans body was riddled with gunshot wounds, somebody looks like they dumped him in the river. They pulled him out around walnut street and schuylkill avenue yesterday, detectives are trying to figure out his identity. They just know he is in his 50 s. Two days of searching police after rested a man for murder, Lehigh County District Attorney announced murder charges against 25 yearold Christian Diaz dejesus after authorities found the man shot tuesday night at corner of tenth street and Chestnut Street in allentown. He was pronounced dead late their night. Authorities say they found their suspect after looking at Text Messages between him and the victim. After five years in captivity a york county woman and her family who were being held by taliban were just freed, thinks caitlin coleman, on the right, seen in this hostage video released in december, after five years being held captive by a taliban off shoot, she and her husband and their three children who were born in captivity have been all rescued this was done during a operation by pakistani forces. Government, who tipped them off to this, in the video she pleaded for then president obama to help her family. I would ask that my family, my government do everything that they can to bring my husband and child and i to safety and freedom. The family says that they will go to canada where her husband is a citizen. Typical College Student one day, hours later, lying in the local hospital bed with part of his skull, gone. One phone call may have changed everything but it never came. Nature bit couple just filed a lawsuit begins two drexel fraternities. They say their son iain mc given suffered a is he rear brain injury after he was punched in a fight two years ago. When he didnt come home that night they drove to the Fraternity House where they found their phone, and covered in blood, they knew they had to get him to the hospital right away. A doctor walk in the room and basically said we need to remove the left side of your sons skull and do an emergency kaine ohio plasty so that his crane can swell without the pressure in it and we need your permission to do that like right away. Since that night iain has had four operations and his parents say while he improves with physical therapy, he will never be the same. They are hoping by sharing their story, it will spread the message to others to call 911 right away. First on fox investigators hunting for evidence in the multi milliondollar scheme that sources say involves half dozen pawn shops spanning across three counties in our area. The state Attorney Generals Office executed a search warrant at a warehouse in folcroft yesterday. Sources are telling us thane investigators are looking for items from half dozen pawn shops in bucks, delaware and philadelphia counties. They think these stolen things are sold on line. Heres what people are saying. Pretty quiet so when you see that, but around find out is what going on. Surprised that i might lose my stuff in the pawn shop. I dont want to lose it. Spokesperson for ags office says by law he cannot comment, prosecutors havent filed charges just yet. All right. Coming up on good day philadelphia a crime spree connection. Robbery after robbery happening in the same area, new police are trying to determine if in fact there is ailing. So imagine this, you will sell your home, go to closing and then go there you have your buyer and everything and there were squatters living in your family home where you lived for 30 years and you cannot get them out. It is a real struggle for this family. We will explain bob kelly. 5 12. Coming in and out of downtown, not that bad at the moment. Enrique and pit bull taking over south philadelphia, come on open up that front door and say good morning to allentown on this friday the 13th. When youre a doubledipping pensionpadder like steve sweeney, its important to maintain a certain. Lifestyle. Thats why sweeney spent over a hundred grand of his Campaign Funds on highpriced meals and other gifts. Were talking fine cigars, fancy watches, pricey restaurants, and expensive wines all to charm the type of folks who helped him raise your taxes 145 times. Too many in south jersey are struggling. But steve sweeneys looking out for himself, not for us. Nicely done a little devil ish with our music on this friday the 13th. So lets go to our resident angel right now sue serio to bryant things up. Thank you. If only that were true. It is. Weve got cooler weather now wer starting to think ahead, to holidays, and here are, count down to the big three, halloween is 18 days away, thanksgiving is 41 days away, and we better start cleaning now, christmas, 73 days away. Just so you know. Weve got a look at radar, it is not as busy as yesterday at this time. We have a few scattered showers to the south of us, around southern delaware, some of that rain may sneak up into our area, we will certainly get included from that southern storm system, very scattered, lets just say spotty showers throughout the daytoday, throughout the night, some drizzle is possible, and it looks like things will stay unsettled, as we head into, saturday. Unfortunately. But it looks not like a wash out. Go with your plans. We have mutt strut tomorrow morning. Registration at 9 00 in the navy yard, benefit for philly paws. Love to see you there throughout the afternoon maybe along the shoreline, a little bit of the shower or two. None of this looks like a big deal, nothing will be a wash out, by sunday morning, we will see things starting to clear up. We will get sunshine in the afternoon and then by sunday evening after sunset cold front comes through with rain. 57 degrees in philadelphia right now. Four mount pocono. 63 degrees in wildwood. It is cooler then it was yesterday, breeze is still out there as well, 9 miles an hour in philadelphia with everything coming out of the northeast it will keep us cloudy to day, that is the high temperature, 67 degrees, same as yesterday, 76, if we hopefully get some sunshine on saturday, and back to the 80s on sunday but much cooler on monday and tuesday with those highs in the 60s. By wednesday, thursday we are back in the 70s and we will be back on the radio this morning, 101. 1, more fm so after you listen to bob kelly s traffic report and get in the car, feeling all prepared, youll say oh, i forgot the forecast, 101. 1 more fm. Boom, you got it. 5 17. Good morning. Hello fort washington. Live look at route 309 down toward the turnpike. Pretty much all of the overnight construction gone, out of here and we are ready to get weekend started. What a difference a day makes here, 42 freeway, we had what three separate accidents this time yesterday, heading in to philadelphia no accidents, roads are dry, wet leaves could be slippery this morning but we are looking good coming in here on the freeway, schuylkill expressway in the a problem at the moment but get ready to rehoboth your boat Navy Day Regatta taking over the city tomorrow, shut down kelly drive here, they will be rowing on the river and of course all that extra volume will be pushed on the schuylkill coming into or out of the city. Friends of Rittenhouse Square are having their big event tomorrow along 18th street at locust, starting at 11 00. We will see with all of the events happening this weekend just give yourself extra time coming in and out of the city. Down pole here route 130 both directions at riverton road, knocked down the Traffic Signals as well, so in and out of the cinnamon son could be tight but good news for gang on i95, this weekend we will see some changes, ramps will open up at girard for gang in and out of the fishtown and Port Richmond and new traffic pattern on the northbound side , penndot hopes to have that all ready to go sometime tomorrow morning, karen and thomas, back to you. 5 19. House approved a 36. 5 billion Disaster Relief bill if approved, money will go to help residents in texas, florida and puerto rico. Vote caples hours after president trumps tweet about federal help. He said we cannot keep feel, military and First Responders who have been amazing under the most difficult circumstance necessary puerto rico forever. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi was among the critics of the president s message. Heart breaking and it lacks knowledge, knowledge about what the role is of fema and others in time of natural disaster. Puerto ricos governor said he received assurances from the white house that the government is not rushing to pull fema from the island. Clicking over to 5 20. President trump says executive other he signed to dismantle owe bam carries just beginning on this one this directs the Labor Department to increase Health Care Competition and choice, mandate tone courage Small Businesses and people to join together to buy insurance through nationwide association and plans. This will cost the United States government virtually nothing and people will have great, great, health care and when i say people i mean by the millions and millions. Experts worry this will take young and healthy out of the obama care, in turn sending the premiums sky the wronging for people who are older or have preexisting conditions. More questions are being raised this morning about the Police Respond to the las vegas shooting, mandalay bay Officials Say latest police time line is still not accurate. At issue whether the hotel was delayed in calling police after the shots were first reported by Hotel Security staff. Resort management says Hotel Security guard was shot second before the rampage began but police are reporting incident happened several minutes before Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd killing 58 people. The resorts statement comes as attorneys suggest that more lawsuits could be filed by victims and their families. Bucks county man missing since june is now safe in new york city. Private investigators hired by family says 22year old Timothy Caesar right here walk in the hospital, disoriented yesterday, and details on where he has been all these months still in the clear. People who necessity caesar last saw him in the area of the croyden 7eleven on route 13. Former radnor township commissioner just learned his fate for inappropriately touching his 10 threeyear old motherinlaw, judge senten

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