Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM 20180115 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WTXF FOX 29 News At 6PM 20180115

Conditions have got authorities closing part of route 29. Fox 29s jeff cole reports from morrisville, bucks county. Reporter were on river road in morrisville, pennsylvania, where theres more river than road and across the river in trenton, the ice in the delaware has pushed the water up there causing still more headaches. The Delaware River looks more like a glacier tonight as it flows past new jerseys capital city. 75yearold arthur hill has come to trentons calhoun street bridge to marvel at winters handy work. I just want to capture the ice as opposed to what i caught this summer with sun sets and send it to my daughter whose down off the gulf of mexico. Reporter but what is scenic to some a problem to others new jersey dot workers were fighting early monday afternoon to open the drains along a closed section of route 29 feeding the capital complex. The icy overflow from the delaware moved in at 4 00 this morning they say. Theres a big clog of ice and snow here. All the bridges, the ice at the bridges that back up. Reporter across the delaware in morrisville, pennsylvania, river road is perfectly named. The Delaware River has taken hold in places closing the road, drawing the curious and concer concerned like ed fail len. I think theres going to be some flooding and it probably going get considerably worse as the day goes on. And i think this and tire area here its almost its above the road and its going get pretty bad pretty quick. No homes appear threatened as of yet. In bensalems neshaminy park, theres open water on the delaware. The white of the ice flows can be spotted on the new jersey side of the river where concern seems to be rising about the days ahead. It looks like its going to get much much worse. Yeah. Ever seen this kind of ice backed up here before. No. Never. Reporter tomorrow new jersey new governor democrat phil murphy will be inaugurated the big question will one of the roads leading into the capital complex actually be free of icy water from the Delaware River . In morrisville, pennsylvania, im jeff cole, fox 29 news. Skyfox over piles grove in salem county where the video says it all. Check it out. A tractor trailer slams into a house. Police say the trucker lost control after a crash involving two other cars on lincoln road. Paramedics raced to the scene. More information when we get it. Short timing a sky fox was over some kind of Police Investigation in montgomery county. Bridgeport police have an entire bridge on the 900 block of east dekalb pike blocked off. Early reports came in calling for help because someone got stabbed. Now an emergency crew is on the scene. So far though no one has been taken to the hospital. Celebrations in the Nations Capital honoring the late civil rights leader dr. Martin luther king, jr. And also a call to action on this day many gathered in washington, d. C. For a wreath laying ceremony at the mlk memorial. Members of the Trump Administration including the interior secretary and fbi director were there. They join the reverend kings oldest sore Martin Luther king iii who called for more to be done to address the evils of poverty, racism, militarism and violented he mentioned president saying quote we need to work on this mans heart. You have a president who says things but has the power to execute and create racism. Thats a dangerous power and a dangerous position. Dr. Martin luther king, jr. , was 39 when an a sin shot and killed him. Today would have been his 89th birthday. Dozens of events honor dr. King across our area. Thousands of volunteers came out to mark the 50th anniversary of his Poor Peoples Campaign that put the spotlight on the principals of civil, human and equal rights. Our joyce evans was there. I feel excited. Reporter Quincy Freeman of americorps started the day volunteering along with thousands of others at the greater philadelphia Martin Luther king day of service. Im here to help people out thats what i do the. Reporter then he ran into people there to help him out. Some people they stay at home but theres opportunities out here that people dont really go after. Were talking about the restaurant industry. Were talking about the text mychal field. Were talking about almost every area that you can think of in the philadelphia area. The helping of volunteers stretched around and well beyond the philadelphia area. Its great. Youre helping people around the world that, you know, that need food. Makes you feel good. Yes. It does. Reporter leading with a sense of accomplishment when some young volunteers came feeling what can they real dollar to help . Were doing our best we can and this is this part of it. You got to you go the to start working in the smallest way possible. Reporter getting involved to help improve human conditio conditions. Service and sacrifice. Some of dr. Kings teachings, firefighter john scrugs once his little cameron to learn early and practice often. Every day. Every day. He stood for something. I want him to know his family know his goals and dreams are not lost and thats important as a community. Thats important for my daught daughter. So she can live that. I learned that you have to work hard for what you believe in and everything is a job but in the end its all worth it. Its better to do it with our younger so they get a good feel what its all about except being home on day off its a day on to learn. Reporter the importance of civic and social action is waddell at a Sigma Theta Sorority was teaching. Todays climb demands that we all be involved in the voter process. Reporter continue the progress that were take every making and well protect the progress weve made thus far. The recurring message all day long was try not to make this just one day of service out of the year instead people were encouraged to make service a part of their lives. If not every day, whenever you can. Iain . Joyce, thank you. Our own alec holley at mlk event today at the National Constitution center one of hundreds of volunteers taking time to organize kits with book and school supplies. Volunteers also wrote messages to include for the children who will receive them. President trump says hes still willing to make deal on daca after down playing chances of a bipartisan bill over the weekend. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are working to try and hammer out deal for deferred action of undo you meaned young people. Democrats want to make daca a part of the upcoming federal budget with a deadline friday. Some republicans say theyd rather tackle immigration issues after sighting the deadline to fix daca doesnt come until march. President trump wants to make deal but democrats are derailing it. Honestly i dont think the democrats want to make deal. I think they talk about daca but they dont want to help the daca people. Majority of his country wants us to have a sane, sensible immigration policy that is just, that keeps us safe, but also leaves the door open for the legacy of this country which is diversity. If congress and the white house do not reach a deal on funding by midnight friday, federal government will close until lawmakers can come to an agreement. President trump sweet tweeted about senator durbin this last noon blaming him for the daca situation because of a quote lack of trust. Philadelphia jurors have acquitted a man of all charges in a strange case they found 57yearold kenneth fenn see to the guilty accused of assaulting a boy at a furry part back in 2009 at those parties all members were dressed up in animal customs. His Attorney Says the charges were attempt to profit off his clients wealth. Meanwhile, three other men and a woman are a way iting trial in that case another man plead guilty to child sex trafficking. Atlantic county jury has convicted Atlantic City man of endangering a child bisexual conduct. Prosecutors say that 59yearold david, would repeated touch the back side tenyearold girl and walk in on her in the shower. He did this over a period of self years. Upon the conviction the judge revoke his bail hes now facing up to ten years in prison. This Dover Police Officer keith boris facing charges for driving drunk with his young child in the car. Police were called to the parking lot of mc glynns on north dupont highway for hitandrun last thursday. They learn the car involved belonged to boris. He was found passed out in his car several hours later near transportation circle in south bay road. Thankfully that child was unha unharm. Weve got update for you now about two bodies found in inside a bucks county home. Middleton Township Police say they found a 57yearold woman and a 66yearold man dead in their home in langhorne saturday night. They say both had medical issues that may have been contributing factors to to their deaths. A blood test revealed no drugs in their system. Police are still waiting for toxicology reports. All right. Fly, eagles, fly. Fans are buzzing after this weekends big win and looking ahead to sundays game. Were checking in with eagles nation. Kristen. Iain, the eagles are ready for another 60 minutes of football. Coming up an early look from Doug Pederson and his thoughts on the challenging that the ,000 in america last year. We need to stand up and say enough. The only way this problem is going to be solved is if we raise our voices. Choose help over helplessness, hope over hopelessness. Make sure that the lives weve lost will not have been lost in vain. Addiction is a disease. When you ask for help, help is there for you. Gunfire in kensington sends a man to the hospital. The shooting happened on the 2700 block of emerald street at 1 45 this morning. The man was shot twice in the left arm. So far police have not made any arrests. Skyfox over an rv fire in philadelphia. The flames broke out around noon near the intersection of palethorpe and ashdale streets in olney. It took a couple of hours but firefighters were able to get it under control. Thankfully nobody was hurt and investigators are still trying to find out how that fire started. You already know think but the eagling hosting the nfl champion shim game at the linc on sunday a win a way from going at the super bowl in minneapolis. Fox 29s Jennifer Joyce talk with fans who you can imagine are buzzing with excitement. Ryan rolling to the right. Reporter two days aft the eagles pulled off a big win against the Atlanta Falcons with a prayer incomplete. Reporter some players are back at work volunteering their time on this Martin Luther king day of service. We thank them so much for the amazing season that were having and thank you for giving back to community on such an important day. Reporter at a cradles to crayons warehouse in west conshohocken, donny jones, matt hole lince, steven means and torry smith sorted through donations. Then took a minute to share their most season excitement with us. It was amazing. To pull that win out and see the reaction from everyone and the response from the city its been crazy looking forward to having another great week. I played a lot of places. The linc on saturday were you unbelievable. Probably the best atmosphere i played new jersey come this sunday its going to be rocking even more. Fans of all ages are throwing their support behind the birds. Were so excited. Im just so happy theyre winning because like in my lifetime like they havent ely been like the best team yet. I hope they win. Yeah. But win or lose im still a fan. 87yearold mike sporting eagles hat at modells in south philly says hes seen it live as a long life member of the bird gang and was at finger land field when the eagled the 1960 championship title against the green bay packers. It was very exciting. Joe barnes of limerick says hes confident our team can do it again. Were going to take this home and going to win. Theres no doubt about it. Hear that no doubt about it. All eyes will be on the birds when they play the vikings next sunday right here at the linc. Reporting from south philadelphia, im Jennifer Joyce, fox 29 news. Yeah you can catch the nfc champion shim game here on fox 29. Kick off sunday our coverage starts at 6 00. Kristen will have much more on the eagles coming up just a few minutes. Successful mission to free a hump back whale near the Hawaiian Island of moui. Releasing this video of crews trying to remove some fishing line that was wrapped around the whale on friday. Fishing vessel saw the whale and contacted authorities and crews removed more than 280 feet of line that the whale was trailing. Officials say that whale has an excellent chance of survival and investigators are now trying to find out where that line came from. Lets get back to your fox 29 Weather Authority now. Its cold out there as we take live look at wilmington all traces of last weeks winter warmup gone. If the cold isnt enough scott is tracking snow in the foreca forecast. How much are we going get . The answer in 15 seconds. Yes, thats right. More snow is headed in our direction. Right now as we look at ultimate doppler, were dry and quiet. But off to the west, this is the clipper. Its a slow mover. So by this time tomorrow, many of us still wont be looking at any of the snow. So heres the timing. During the day tomorrow, most of the snow far north and west mainly for the poconos into sections of the Lehigh Valley and then tomorrow evening and overnight early through wednesday about midday were locking at that light snow around philadelphia points south and east. Then how much snow do i expect for philadelphia . About a couple of inches. Higher elevations north and west. Could see anywhere from three to as much as about 5inches of snow. But as we go hour by hour look at the clock. 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow afternoon. Most of us just cloudy and chilly. Were looking at that snow north and west. Then what about 6 00 oclock . You can see most of it stays well to the north and west of us throughout much of the day tomorrow. There might be some flurries or some flakes that try and approach the i95 corridor but once again most of that snow will hold off until overnight tuesday into wednesday morning so the highest impact as far as the commute times go will be for wednesday morning. So thats the bottom line with that system as we look at the arrival times of that snow Tuesday Morning far north and west in the poconos. By the afternoon, sections of lancaster county, berks county into the Lehigh Valley made maybe some flakes moving into upper montgomery and bucks county. Then late tomorrow night and into the overnight thats when it arrives i95 south and east. How much snow may be one to 2inches the i95 corridor. Coat to go about a half an inch as you move into south jersey and once again three to 5inches once you move toward say berks county the Lehigh Valley and also into sections of the poconos mountains much look at the temperatures its. 32 freezing wilmington. 32 degrees freezing in Atlantic City. The high in philly today made it up to 34 degrees. Temperatures tonight bottom out in the mid to upper 20s. So as we go hour by hour tomorrow once again its cloudy, chilly, most of the snow will stay far north and west. Temperatures will start to moderate as we move throughout that seven day forecast. 38 degrees for tuesday. 32 on wednesday. Once again the highest impact on that wednesday morning commute 37 degrees on thursday. Not as cold friday 41 degrees. Upper 40s by saturday. It looks like low 50s as we move toward sunday. So comfortable for tailgators. By kick off temperatures likely in the upper 40s. Kristen, over to you. I am liking that forecast, scott. Nfc champion shim game is set both the eagles and vikings share more in common than collective chip on their shoulders. Coming up an early look at Doug Pedersons thoughts on the matchup and the biggest challenge for both teams as pro tip giant has great prices on produce. Raspberries for john. Strawberries for amy. Whats a jicama . Thanks take a fresh look at giants produce prices. We finally have an answer to who let the dogs out . The eagles. Another week of play off football for philadelphia and another week where the birds arent favored. The eagles do not care though. Feel free to bring the dog masks you can leave all of that doubt and talk at home. The eagles arent the om ones coming into the nfc championship off emotional win. The vikings still celebrating from that minneapolis miracle that walk off touchdown to stefan digs to clinch it over the saints. Now the challenge for both teams to make sure they dont suffer any hangover from those games this week. The challenge obviously in probably our case and in the vikings case is coming off these emotional, you know, close victories and then having to turn around and do it again, um, and so we just got to i just got to make sure i continue to, you know, stay aggressive with the week of practice and then prepare the guys, um, you know, just like we have the last couple of weeks. The giants are reporte report to fire pat shurmer as their next head coach hes serving ago minnesota offensive coordinator he gained a lot of attention for helping to develop case keenum. Eagles fans remember him as their offensive coordinator. He was the head coach of the brown in 2011. Today is the final day of nba all star voting apparently joel embiid wanted to plead his case for those who havent voted for him yet. Sixers hosting the raptors tod today. Little afternoon basketball. Second quarter sixers up 12. Embiid fakes the shot. Goes are to the basket gets the layup. 18 in the first half. Fourth quarter sixers up seven. Embiid nice move takes the hook shot and eventually goes n he had 34 on the day. Sixers win it, 117111. Before kyle lowry and raptors took on the sixers today our lowry stopped by his alma mater at villanova to make a 1 milliondollar donation. Its the largest ever by a former wildcat basketball player. The money will be used to make renovations to the pavilion. The phillies celebrated Martin Luther king, jr. Day in a special way for some young baseball players. Reece hoskins, nil williams and mickey led free baseball clinic for Youth Academy over at ryan howard training center. This was all part of the phillies mlk

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