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WTXF Good Day Philadelphia At 5A February 1, 2018

Outside right now, we love the number 29, and thats our windchill, in philadelphia at the moment. Today we get to high of about 48 degrees, whether all is said and done. That means, showers this afternoon, but by tomorrow morning, some of the showers could change to snowflakes. We will tike it time it all out for you bob kelly coming up. Good morning, 5 01 on a thursday. Live look at the schuylkill expressway behind me. They just pick up all of the cones. So were ready for morning rush hour, coming in and out of philadelphia. No problems or delays at the moment. It is in the neighborhoods where we have couple every accident, just popped up here, so westbound on the pa turnpike, just west of morgantown. Accident off to the shoulder, and a vehicle fire to go along with it, over in south jersey, south on 295, crash, at exit number ten, that Center Square road, right by the ramp for the Commodore Barry bridge, and then, out here in malvern, south along 22 202, south of 401 and boot road, accident, vehicle with entrapment there, sounds like one car accident, car into the guardrail. And patco says expect delays again today. Theyre running with modified schedule. That overcrowding start to occur around that 7 30, 8 00 hour. So plan accordingly. Otherwise septa says no delays. Karen, tomorrow, back over to you. All right, bob, thank you so much. We begin right now with the breaking news, weve had a very, very bad fire, it has been deadly, we know that two people have lost their lives. Lets get right out to the scene and jenny joyce. Jenny . Reporter good morning, karen, so the block where the fire started right here behind me, west toronto street, north philadelphia, still corded off. L and i officials here to take a look at the property, because it has structural damage after this fire. The deputy fire commissioner tells us that two people died here at a row home on the 1300 block of west toronto. Again, right off of broad. The fire started around midnight. When crews arrived, they found heavy fire onof the home. It was placed under control within about a half commissione, jesse wilson, says one of the victims was found dead inside a second victim was transported to temple hospital, and later died. Woman whose home backs up to the fire scene. She says she quickly noticed a lot of firetrucks, ambulances, and police, and then saw a lot of smoke. You can see the smoke. Walking around the corner like, you know, ive been near fires before, coy tell where it is coming f i literally came to the corner i dont know what this block was, but i was on park, i look up. And that woman said she does not know anyone who lives on this block and didnt realize that two people had died. Officials tell us that the fire was contained to a single home. So Neighboring Properties were not affected. At this point, the Philadelphia Fire Department cant say whether or not there were working smoke detectors. And the fire marshals are still looking into a cause. Karen, thomas . Very active night. Still early in the investigation as you mentioned, jenny, thank you. 5 03. Following another breaking story out of west philadelphia, three people including a pregnant woman, have been shot this happened shortly after 1 30 a. M. This morning 5200 block of webster street. Police say two women shot in the leg, man was struck in the back. All of them taken to penn Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition right now. Police are still searching for shooter. We had deadly shoot that happened outside of one of the high schools. Put the school on lockdown. Happened in mayfair, at lincoln high school, they put it on lockdown because there was shooting in the parking lot. There were two guys, who had been in the school for a basketball game. They started an argument, and started fight being. They were kicked outside. And the fight continued. One of them had a gun. Shot the other one. That suspect died. The other guy ran away. Over in Delaware County, the search is on this morning, for a trio of men wanted for robberies at gunpoint. Their victims, commuters who were just getting offer the trains. Steve keeley in upper dash think morning, steve . While commuting in the cold winter months is hard enough, without having some cold steel staring you in the face, and we mean, cold steel as in three guns held by three guys who have been walking along these dark path to and from the norristown highspeed line since friday night,solo commute. Demanding everything valuable they got on them. Even the clothes and belt, the lasts guy was wearing, tuesday night. Scary. Makes me not want to get off the stop any more. I didnt know. Terrified. Even in your neighborhood. I live right up the street. So, a we have to get him off the street, and they better hope and pray they dont run into somebody thats got a concealed weapons permit. Because, you know, shame on them. Anything, anything can happen, but if theyre juveniles, theyre now in the big leagues. And if theyre adults, theyre now in the big leagues. And big league crime as we know get you major lying prison time. Plane clothes cops walk to go and from the train stops, as well. Looking just like your every day, of raj solo commuters coming home, except for the gun, the training, the preparation, and the back up nearby watching and listening. So, perhaps these guys will run into the wrong person the next time they try to hold them up, unless theyre wise enough to watch it. V and see that the cops are onto them and maybe they should just stop where they were. Guys . Yes, well, exactly. Thank you, steve. It is 5 06. Bob brady said hes not running again, man is he a pour broker veteran philadelphia congressman, and Democratic Power broker, been under investigation, couple of his aids have been taken down by it, his career spans 20 years. Ten terms, and during that time, he was never really strongly challenged but there was a big scandal involving payments, allegedly made to convince a primary challenger to drop his bid. That has been dogging brady for month. He was asked whether that controversy led to this decision. My lawyers have advised me that based on their review of the status of the case and the statute of limitations expiring that i will not be charged in this case. How has that affected your feelings about the job . Not at all. Not at small. No, not at all. Because i knew i wouldnt be charged tan wouldnt affect me anyway shape or form, wouldnt affect my reelection. He is claiming he wrote 14 bills that ultimately became law, and saying he brought so much money and held back to our area and the whole region more than 15 billion worth of economic benefit. He says his resignation will allow him to spend more time with his family. Weve also learned, ruffles us prosecute letters not retry new jersey senator bob menendez, last trial his jury ended in a hung jury. Failings dollars corruption charges for what prosecutors claimed was the senator trading his political influence for gifts and campaign contributions. Yesterdays filing to dismiss all charges against the senator and his friend, sullivan melgin, ended five year investigation. Menendez always maintained his innocence. In Lehigh County the corruption trial of allentown mayor ed pull oust ski will continue today, been listening to secret recordings after the fbi had his political consultant wear wires while meeting with the mayor. Prosecutors say he rigged city contract in favor of law firms and businesses cents that gave him money. The defense denies any connection between city work and contributions, and he said he will be testifying in this trial. The trial also continues today for the Delaware County man charged with shooting a police officer. The jury watched video of defendant, edward archers interrogation yesterday. In it the 32 year old tells detective he shoves officer jersey hartnett, was able to follow the suspect on foot. You see the suspect right there, then running away. Archer was arrested a a few blocks away. One year after a deadly inmate riot at delaware prison state investigators find the facility is still potentially explosive. Delaware governor john carney ordered an independent investigation after correctional officer steven floyd was killed during a riot at the von correctional prison last february. Find action from the report show the prison is, quote r dysfunctional, and is under staffed by over worked guards. And that inmates have too much idol time. It also found that inmate often complain about lack of adequate medical care. In bucks county, more charges for accused drug dealer. There he is. After the death after 35 year old woman, police say, she overdosed from heroin and phentinol in may, that he was responsible for. They had charged him, his name michael hennessey, with possession every intent to deliver heroin, now being charged with Drug Delivery resulting in death. Philadelphia changing the way you phone a friend. Some neighborhoods will be getting a new area code. 445 will be added to the same region, thats currently under 215 and 267 area codes. That includes berks, bucks, lehigh and montgomery counties. Now the change was expected to happen this weekend, but wont take place until sometime in march. Current phone numbers by the way wont be affected. Oh, ya. So birds will be back again, at practice on the field at the university of minnesota. Getting ready yesterdays practice was the teams first full work out since arriving in minneapolis for super bowl lii. Now the team did not wear full pads, but that doesnt mean theyre not fully focused on stopping tom brady. I cant tell you what to do but i can tell you what not to do and thats, you know, forget about doing your job, forget about, you know, your fend mentales, what got you here. Because as ive said, hes good at timing. Hes good at, you know, frustrating rushers, getting the ball out, mixing out the protections, and you cant get out of your game. Well, in order to help the team get ready, Doug Pederson asked his good friend and former teammate right there brett favre to address the Team Saturday night. And of course we got you covered, covering you all morning and all night long. We got the team thats out there having a lot of fun getting all of the scoop and the behind the same things you would not see any place else. Uber, putting on training wheels . Still ahead here on good day philadelphia, the company jumping on the bike sharing program. Where and when, theyre testing it out. All right, so did you watch the supermoon yesterday . So many millions of us did on facebook. But it turns out, you may not have been watching a live feed at all. What you were really gaizing at, just ahead. Hey, bob kelly . Good morning, everybody, it is thursday, we got an accident, south on 202 here, between 401 and route 30. West white lands firefighters on the scene there. Come on, lets check a jam cam. We get ready for a big house party. On sunday night live look at the art museum, all eagle out. Whats a song we can play for this morning . Trafficjamz, weve got your forecast when we come right back. Paths. Did you catch the supermoon . Hopefully you didnt catch it from this fake website ebuzz, juster thought it was a live view of the supermoon over greece, well, before facebook could take it down it turns out it was a nine year old still picture, wondering why it wasnt moving. Well, it happens real slowly. And they put wind and sounds behind it to make it seem live. Fake news. The page appears to run anonymously, unclear why they faked the video. Sue sent out official link to watch it from the official folks. Oh, watching from that is, a exactly. So, lets talk statistics now, as we head into the super bowl. Nearly third of super bowls have been played indoors, and the coldest with a dome was 1982 in pontiac, michigan, when it was 16 degrees, the wettest was cents Miami Florida 2007. They got almost inch of rain. The hottest super bowl 73 in 2003, la, san diego, 82 at kick off. The records to break this sunday 2 degrees at kick off time in minneapolis, this sunday, outside of the dome. Inside the stadium, 70 degrees. So there are a few stats for in you case youre interested. Thirtytwo agreed in reading, 37 wildwood, 30 wrightstown, 34 degrees in wilmington. Philadelphia were at 34. But it feels like 29, weve got bit of southwesterly breeze, so it is milder than it was yesterday. But you still need to wear a coat. And you probably need an umbrella before the end of the day. The moisture that you see out to the west of us, is going to be moving in, later on this afternoon, by that time, we will be in the fours, so were only expecting rain to begin with. There you see, about three, 4 00, few raindrops, but i think for the evening commute is when we start to get wet in the infamous i95 corridor. See the rain continuing through the night. By 1 00 a. M. In the morning, with colder air moving in, we will see a changeover to snow. So heres 4 00 a. M. In the morning when we get started with good day, rain changing over to the wet snow. Kind of like what we had the other day when the roadways were wet. And the accumulation, what little we got, was on the grass. By 8 00 all out of here. This is quick moving system. But it may make a mess in the early part of the morning commute tomorrow. 41 degrees is our average hi, well below average yesterday, today we go above. Tomorrow below. We stay chilly saturday. Back to the 40s sunday. Up and down, up and down in the seven day forecast. 38 degrees on monday. But by wednesday, we will probably be around 50. Sound like sister agnes, some days, robert youre above average, some days robert youre below. Get it straight. Good morning, live look, 5 17. Live look at 202 southbound, east white land fire company, number five, on the scene here. One vehicle accident. Looks like it is off into the woods here, hit the guardrail. So, southbound lanes of 202 between 401 and the bypass, look out, down to one lane squeeze, and it is that stretch where they dont have the overhead street lamps. So just be careful, the firefighters and the ems crew are out there taking care of business. Other situations cents happening here, west on the turnpike, the pa turnpike, out near morgantown, tractortrailer fire, and an accident, all kind of within the same mile or two of each other. And then south along 295, an accident, right at Center Square road. Thats exit number ten. Hey, later on today, we got another eagles pep rally for you. Ill take over mccall elementary school. Right here at seventh and pine in old city. We are going to get all 730 students, plus the teachers, plus the parent, outside for a big eagles pep rally today live on good day starting at 9 00. Make sure to come on by and join us, and modified schedule on the patco highspeed line again today. Expect delays and overcrowding as the trains are running, every ten minute, inbound, to philly. Karen and thomas back over to you. Thanks for the heads up, bob, thank up, the ntsb will be on the scene after amtrak train caring dozens of gop lawmakers derailed in rural virginia. One person died after the train collide wad garbage truck outside of charlottesville. The lawmakers, some of them with their families, were on the way to a retreat in west virginia. They returned to help those who were injured. And even tried to said truck driver who did not survive. Were tracking developing news right now out of washington dc. Allegations that a bombshell memo was altered. Now, the fbi has grave concerns about its release, the memo allegedly shows, bias and poor tactics of the fbi in it russia investigation. It was written by republicans. Now, House Intelligence Committee member, democrat, adam shif, says previous agreement to release that memo is invalid because of what he calls secret altering of that document. The white house has to approve the memos release, which the chief of staff john kelly says will happen quickly. The philadelphia area mourning the passing of a local hoops star. Former nb a and la Saul University basketball star, butler, and his wife, lea, died in a car crash yesterday in california. He was 38 years old. The philadelphia native and Roman Catholic High School Product was drafted in the second rounds of the 2002nba draft by the miami heat. Butler played 14 years in the nba. His wife, lee, a was cents a contestant on the third season of american idol. And former phillie oscar gamble has died of a rare tumor of the jaw. He was 68 years old. The official phillies Twitter Company reacting yesterday saying the phillies are saddened to learn of the passing of oscar gamble. We offer our condolances cents to his family and friend. Of course gamble was famous in part for his afro, often seen spilling out every his hat and helmet. 5 20. More allegations of Sexual Misconduct this time coming from super model kate upton. Said she was sexually harassed by the gloating brand guess, she said disappoint be such an iconic womans bands is still embracing paul as their creator. He shouldnt be allowed to use his power in the industry to sexually and emotionally harrass women. These are s ads she was featured in. Guess has not responded to her accusation. Time now 5 21, big auto recall to tell you about, toyota owners, listen up here. The auto maker recalling hundreds of thousands of cars. We will let you know which ones, and why, but first heres your lottery numbers. Welcome back, 5 24. Toyotas recalling thousands of vehicles this morning. The issue is the airbags, may not go off. This could be affecting 645,000 vehicles. Cars have electrical problem that could prevent your airbags from deploying in a crash. This recall covers 15 different toyota and lexus models, that were made between may of 2015 and march of 2016. Toyota will begin to notify owners by letters, in march. Mark zuckerberg told is investors his attempt to fix facebook has involved users spending less time on the sitement his tweets let to 5 dropped in time spent on the social network, he said because facebook is showing fewer viral videos in news feeds. Uber is branching out, interesting, electric bikes, theyre going to be testing out the bikes in San Francisco next week. Uber users can join an on line wait list to reserve the bikes. Here is the thing. Theyre the pedal assist, the bill hills in San Francisco, they have electric power to the wheels as you pedal along. A bargain. Each ride is two bucks for the first half hour, and a dollar for every additional 15 minutes. Not too bad. 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