Transcripts For WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A 20171218 :

WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 4A December 18, 2017

Just off of the ramps for the pennsylvania turnpike, so look out there, expect delays in the air at philly international across the country today, more info on that but big power outage in at plants airport will have residual delays across the country today and live look at i95 near cottman avenue interchange where we have glare off of the road surface, everything is damp and wet all that melting snow, from friday , karen, back over to you. Well, eagles, it was, an interesting game to watch put that it way. They did clinch first round bye in the playoffs. Going in the game we had questions about nick foles filling in for injured wentz but now questions are about the defense. Eagles passing game, did great under foles. He threw for 237yard, four touchdowns. That will look great. Heres the issue, our defense did in the play well. Giant came in with one of the war offences in the league but eli manning threw for 437yard , and three touchdowns they were able to get the ball with hes a begins our second ary something that need to improve if we want to make it deeper in the playoffs. We will have more on. That lets talk about the good parts and celebrations, our jen fred, in lansdale at back yard beans coffee company. Good morning, jen. I think people are waking up. We feel okay about what happened during the eagles game. We feel like we can go on with our day. We have great crew from the uf c jam good morning. Hi, good morning. So you are, youre able to work out because you know that the eagles have a first round bye. Everything will be good in that position. That is right, weekend off, get some rest, everybody gets a work out in. Are you working out here at coffee shop at some point. At some point im sure we will be, im sure we will be. All morning we will be right here checking out, where were ready to rock. We have backyard beans, coffee , crew, here ready to go it is the cutest place. If you have in the been to lansdale lately take this time , come on over, it is 4 00 a. M. E a couple of hours before you need to get to work but yeah, everyone is happy. We have a couple other games that we need to win, right. Yes. Now nick, not the problem. Oh, still using that word. It is early, it is early. You feel good about us going in the playoffs. Well, playoffs, yes, home field advantage, it will happen. All right. So, we want to hear from you on twitter, we want to hear on facebook and all that and thank you for coming, look at this, karen, thinks kind of transformation im looking for in the new year. New year, new me i might actually go to the gym. Arent we all. Two weeks. Seriously. Jen, thank you. 4 03. Lets get to this breaking news a 25 yearold man has been sand in the back someone attacked him outside his home on frazier street. It was 2 15 this morning. They rushed him over to the hospital with that stab wound to his lower back. They think he necessary his attacker and they are trying to figure out what led up to the whole thing. Happening right now, the lights finally back on at our nations Busiest Airport but that ground stop yesterday, it is impacting flights here in our area and across the country. Lets get out to jenny joyce at our airport, jenny . Reporter good morning, karen. First arrival is not slated until just before 9 30 this morning but we are hearing that departures are set for as early as 5 00 this morning. Lots of people impacted. I just found one young man who was impacted by all this, thinks will crawford, will, you are a student at Princeton University but you are from georgia trying to get home for the holidays. Tell me burr story. Well, i had a flight out of trenton, new jersey i guess, yesterday morning at this point at 7 45 that got delayed and eventually cancelled in the afternoon. So i had to book a flight out of philadelphia and get here, you know, yesterday about 10 30 and i have been here all night for a 7 00 a. M. Flight. Reporter have you got even any sleep, what have you been doing last couple of hours. No sleep just watching movies and reading some. Reporter what do you make of the outage. When you heard it happen oh, man talk about timing everybody is trying to get home for the holidays. It wasnt ideal but doesnt help to get upset bit. Reporter you had are in good spirits. You are not alone. We have video. We were here at philly International Last night a lot of people were in will crawfords situation trying to get home. We have talk to one man from atlanta he was in philadelphia just for the weekend trying to get home. It wasnt going to happen. We talked to a second man who happened to have a lay over in philadelphia from london trying to get to atlanta and again, the same situation, the thought, should i book a hotel for the night or just try to camp out here, at the airport, and according to Georgia Power , the initial thought was that this outage was caused by a fire, but that was underground. They say they have a lot of backup plans but it was backup system that was ultimately affected causing this power outage that ended up lasting 11 hours, karen . It is, a mess, all right, thank you. 4 06. Latest allegations of Sexual Misconduct hit closer to our area the governor of pennsylvania is calling on state senator daylen leach to step down. Lets get out to king of prussia and steve keeley with the very latest on this, steve reporter long time state senator for 15 years but running for Congress Begins pat meehan. So two different jobs at the same time. People want him to drop out of the governor. Put Democratic Party loyalty well behind strong solid reporting and research by two excellent Philadelphia Inquirer reporters and stories and statements they have from eight women and three men about montgomery countys state law maker. They claimed touched female Campaign Worker inappropriate ly and talk and joke with sexual over tones. Governors statement says this disturbing behavior is absolutely unacceptable, senator leach should resign. This conduct cannot be excused and he added the lack of structure from victims to report this type of behavior, and feel protect is unexcus able and under scores harrisburgs culture must change too. Well, senator leach put out his own statement after the inquirer report denying he inappropriately touched woman and says his joking and humor is no more racey then average person to be clear it is not pure either. Chairman of the Delaware County Democratic Party is calling for leach to immediately suspend his campaign for that u. S. Congress seat now held by congressman meehan. It will be very interesting we are following this closely. Steve, thank you. It was front page of the papers yesterday. 4 07. Accusations of Sexual Misconduct against ms nbc anchor christmas yous surfac ing from 18 years ago. Daily reporter report ago this nbc paid thousands of dollars for his show back in 1999 after she brought a Sexual Harassment complaint against him. It also claims that the network paid her 40,000 to settle the claim. At cueser said matthews made inappropriate comments to her and inappropriate jokes about her to others. Ms nbc said he was punished at the time of the owe even if. Rocker gene simmons is being sued for sexual battery, assault and gender violence. Unname radio broadcaster from california, accused the kiss front man, of unwarranted sexual advances during a interview last movement simmons grabbed her hand and forcefully placed it on his knee. She claims that the 68 yearold touched her back side and made sexual innuendo. He denies the accusations. A 25 yearold man is recovering right now after being shot during an attempted robbery in the castor section of the city. Police say victim was walking on the 6900 block of large street last evening around 9 30 when a gunman tried to rob him. Victim ran away and suspect opened fire, hitting him in the torso. He also suffered a grazed wound to the head, police say that the victim was able to run to this nearby wawa to get help. He ran about one block, and then when police first found him he was in the wawa, bleeding from the head and shoulder, he was disoriented, from being shot twice, and when police were driving him to einstein he was able to give a description of the shooter. The victim is in stable condition, this morning, he described the suspect as a guy wearing dark clothing, gunman didnt getaway with anything and police are checking nearby cameras. Happening today, classes back in session at westmont Hill Top School district in upper yoder township. A 12 yearold is in custody for threatening School District last week. School Officials Say that the child, at a cyber school and does not attend classes there they cancelled class friday after receiving a threatening message on twitter. How about this, shot over shoes, police are looking for a person who shot a 36 yearold man at fdr park yesterday in south philadelphia. The investigators say victim was selling sneakers and clearly this transaction didnt go as planned, they are calling this a robbery and they say guy who shot him three times once in the chest and once in the left temple and once in the wrist may have had an accomplice. The victim is in critical condition, over sneakers, at hahnemann hospital. And is there a man in stable condition right now, after being shot three times, police say someone shot the 38 yearold victim on parkville street in kensington, paramedics took him to temple where he is expect to recover, they are looking for the gun man. And also, police are searching for a 22year old woman whom they think kidnaped , was kidnaped by her exboyfriend. They say she lives on Howard Street with friend and family saturday night when the sedan rolls up, and her exboyfriend forced her in the car. In one has heard from her since. Police are concerned and they are searching for them. And two teenagers are in the hospital after a shooting in north philadelphia, their 15, 16 yearold this one happened saturday at West Somerset and north ninth street. Police arrested someone they think they all know each other , the teens are expect to recover. Lets get to Delaware County a guy is in serious condition after being shot outside a nightclub in chester some one called police to the scene at 2900 block of West Third Street around 2 00 yesterday morning, when they found 35 yearold farrakhan womack shot in the head and back. He was taken to the hospital. They are still looking for whoever did it. Lets get to mercer county, police there, they have street fight to thank for finding a man they suspected of carjacking. Lets get to this one. They have arrested Cedric Hodges for holding a woman at gunpoint saturday night and taking her car and later shoot ing a guy during the fight. Carjacking victim said he carried a sawed off shotgun jumped in the car and demanded a vehicle. While police were investigating the scene on the 2300 block of South Broad Street an officer witnessed a fight between two men and found one fit the description and was holding a sawed off shotgun. The other guy, in the fight suffered a gunshot wound to the arm after a short chase on foot and they arrested that guy. Delaware state police have identified a person shot in the trooper involved incident, police say an officer fatally shot 30 yearold adam radcliff after he tried to drive away during a traffic stop. He was pulled over friday in wilmington for driving erratically. Investigators say he took off and drag the trooper and police say the trooper fired his weapon, hitting radcliff, who was taken to the hospital, where he died. All right. 4 12. You did you catch snl, kevin h art there, listen. Happy holidays, merry christmas, very merry, merry, christmas. Thanks, shack. And not all fun and games, what he said that has a lot of people buzzing on social media bob kelly. Good morning, everybody. 4 12. Live look downtown. Everything is still wet from the melting snow over the weekend but 39 degrees getting report of the an accident on the turnpike as we say good morning to downtown, ben franklin parkway, all lit up, looking good, come on, time to rise on up, one of our monday morning traffic jamz, what gets you going in the morning . Powe it to facebook, twitter, instagram, use traffic jamz we will try to play it for you. Sues back and we have your forecast when we come right welcome back. Our eagles, there is jen fred, in lansdale. I hear you jen, is what happening out there, good morning. Good morning. Were having fun getting our coffee on we have people from ufc gym but more importantly, we have the coffee and im yelling now because the coffee is beginning to kick in and im happen bye that. We will be here from four to 10 00 a. M. Anywhere near lansdale come on out. Great idea, we will have a big party in lansdale join jen and the gang. 4 16. Lets check a forecast and goat back to sue. We have three days we are three days away from winter sol says 11 28 in the morning is when the season actually begins, important parties, after the shortest day of the year days will start to get longer. You wont notice much in the beginning because sunset is still early, but that is what will happen this week. We have been talking, if you are watching over the weekend you heard about the possibility of drizzle, maybe flurries, maybe some freezing rain. Not much of that is actually happening. We are keeping an eye on berks county where there could be a few flakes flying around but most of our temperatures air above freezing so if you get precipitation at all it will be some drizzle, and that is about it. Included will be clearing throughout the afternoon and we will get some sunshine today. We will do a temperature round up, of the states in the viewing area we will start with pennsylvania where chad ford is 35. We are only a degree above freezing in pottstown. Tannersville 32. If you had stuff that melted yesterday it could be slippery out there this morning. For most, it is above freezing , we are looking at 43 degrees s point at 40. Voorhees new jersey at 37 and ewing is at 36. We will head down to delaware 36 degrees in middletown, fredricks 40 degrees and bethenny beach at 41. Not a bad start with the average high being 44. Our temperatures are close, already and guess where we were yesterday just right for this time of the year at 44 degrees. So as we look ahead to the seven day forecast, we will been 48 degrees today, and then, we warm up a little bit. Fiftysix, nice day tomorrow, and windy, colder on wednesday , with a cold front and a high of only 40 on thursday but then we will start to warm up a little bit friday, Christmas Eve, eve on saturday, we will be rainy but 61 degrees and Christmas Eve itself on sunday, little bit cooler then saturday but still not bad with a High Temperature of 51 degrees. As you can see bob, it is a virtual roller coaster ride that seven day forecast but nothing as frigid as it was, last week. Good thing difficult not put my shorts away for tomorrow, 56, looking good, people like to send us their elp picks day. Buddy the elf is what your favorite color we will do that at our switchboard and news desk today having some fun on a monday morning. Quiet. Live look at king of prussia, everybody, stopped for traffic signal, this joint was jumping over weekend. Road are damp and wet from the melting snow we had to deal with on friday, so temperatures air would have freezing, so we dont to have worry about black ice this morning, but some of that slushy ice, you know, that could cause for some slippery spots, especially in the neighborhood. Pennsylvania turnpike westbound approaching willow grove watch for an accident, causing an Early Morning delay there downtown a live look at vine expressway no overnight construction last night into this morning, coming in early, everything is opened no problems on the schuylkill, i95 or vine but we will have problems at philly international as jenny joyce mention that had power outage in at atlanta, check ahead, karen, back to you. Senator john mccain is likely going to miss this week s vote on the republican tax reform bill because he is back home in arizona after being hospitalized in maryland with a viral infection. His doctors say he is improving and responding positively to his brain cancer treatment, the 81 yearold family while underring physical therapy and rehab. The senator is expected to return to washington next movement. President trump says he is not happy with the way the russian collusion investigation has been handled but when asked if he is planning to fire special Counsel Robert Mueller President Trump clearly stated his answer. Unaudible. No im not, no. Even though he is not going to fire mueller he did criticize the special counsel, of emails from his Transition Team were improperly accessed and turned over to investigators but spokesperson for mueller says those emails were legally obtained the way they always are with all those investigations. Pete roses defamation suited against his lawyer kick out of baseball has been dismissed. He claimed john dowd defamed him in 2015 when he said rose were with teenage girls. Both lawyers said the dismissal was based on mutual consideration. Dowd investigated rose in the 80s leading to his lifetime ban from mlb. Rest played for our phillies for five seasons. Camden police need your help to find these figures right here, they say they are responsible for an Armed Robbery at a super market on wednesday, Authorities Say that they went to the compare supermarket on north 32nd street at the 9 00, they were armed, they stole money and stuff from the store. If you have any information this all happened in camden call police. Lets get to Chester County where police are asking for your help to identify those, is that two guys . Yes, they robbed t mobil store on dilworth crossing in thorn bring township on saturday night. Heres what happened, according to investigators they go in with guns, they ordered employees with the room in the back and they tie them up and order one to fill garbage bags full of cell phones, tablets, they getaway in a suv, the employees were not physically injured.

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