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iolent criminal escapes police custody. where authorities think he could be headed right now. >> and here is a live look outside this morning. return of summer like heat on the way sue has all of the details in her forecast. >> one philadelphia mayoral candidate said if he wins, he'll get rid of philly top cop. but the current mayor is coming to his defense. what he has to say about this good day everyone, it is thursday may seventh. 2015. >> went on long walk yesterday. there was like sprinkles but it seemed like it wanted to rain the wind blowing still kind of hot humid like summer coming. kind of like we sort of skip spring right? >> seasonable, real cold winter. january february march, of this year, were all averaging below average temperatures. april, i forgot, but we're
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getting warmer, but not every day. and i'll tell you in the seven day forecast when we get back to seasonable temperatures, but some of us will be in the 80s today even though it was a cold front lauren that came through yesterday. so were you kind in that transitional period. everything moved to the south looking closer. the satelite on the radar picture here, don't see any thick clouds around, able to get little cooler. recall yesterday at this time mid to upper 60s 59 degrees right now still nice morning 5-mile per hour wind out of the east, and 5:54 our sunrise time temperatures mostly 50's, but cooler 48 degrees in mount pocono, we have 59 here in the city 06 wilmington, 53 atlantic city little bit of sea breeze going on at the jersey shore. foxcast had 79 degrees, high today, mix every sunday and clouds so back on the mild side, 77 yesterday not bad.
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fifty-seven was the overnight low. few changes coming to the seven day forecast. >> accident out the front door here on i-95. here is live look at i95 southbound, approaching girard avenue coming into philadelphia, only the far right shoulder here squeezing on through. and again there is early hour, don't have a lot of volume, we have a crash like this on 95, in the construction zone. >> leaving northeast philadelphia, headed south on 95 again as you work your way down approaching girard, only the far right shoulder is getting on through. >> an investigation underway this morning it is right there where the route 11 trolley rolls throughment trolley service not impacted.
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but there are some local detours around that scene. dad val regatta in town, philadelphia here through the weekend, kelly drive will be closed to vehicle traffic right after the morning rush hour, and stay closed and through saturday night so allow some extra time avoid it if you can maybe using the mlk drive or the schuylkill. into and out of town. >> here on broad street, see a lot of extra volume. the proud parent and the graduate headed in to the university campus there both today and tomorrow. coming in from new jersey, no problems at all on 42, 295 couple of work zones still out on the turnpike, crews there between philly and willow grove. also work crew between lansdale and mid-county. but otherwise mass transit looking good with no delays, chris, lauren back to you. >> breaking news for this morning, four people in the hospital including a police officer after a car accident overnight. >> this was in west philadelphia. >> jenny joyce is live in the
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scene, tell us exactly what happened. hi jenny? >> reporter: good morning chris, lauren, as you can see they are getting the scene cleaned up here. the white vehicle that was involved in this crash, with the police cruiser now loaded on to the tow truck. the police crews is her actually behind the tow truck according to police, the officer was heading north on 58 street head took call when he and the white nissan altima headed west on woodland, t bone in the middle of the intersection. police vehicle took out traffic signal onment corner and wound up down the street on sidewalk. the officer was taken to presbyterian hospital with minor injuries. and possible concussion. three people inside, adult and child also taken to presbyterian according to police. police have reopened the roadway, and they want to make sure that the trolleys can pass through this morning, although the traffic signals are still out at this point and they are still
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investigating unclear who had the green light who had the red light. figuring out those details now. again according to police all minor injuries involved in this crash. chris, lauren? >> jenny joyce thanks for the update. >> no report of any deaths, but the storm destroyed property ripped up power lines. >> just came right over the tail we got down on the base. actually flung the basement doors open through some tree debris and stuff down in the basement, so i was able to stop and fine a safe place. >> flooding is a concern more rough wet they are weekend. >> 5:05 happening now philadelphia police searching
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for 16 year old fugitive named aseem singletary. wanted for two home invasions and burglary during which he also allegedly stole car. all earlier this year. well police say the teen escaped last night from a private transportation car as he was being taken to southwest detective wearing black hooded sweatshirt, black pant, dark blue stripe when got away. >> block and a half away, i was able to get out of the back seat. and he runs eastbound for breezeway and northbound through alleyway and blocked. >> singletary down in florida whether pick up by police the 16 year old from the 3700 block of wallace street known to be in the area of 46th and market when in philly.
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>> williams made the comment at the last debate, and says despite the backlash, he stands by his comment and by what would be his decision. if-ee elected mayor. fox 29's steve keeley live at police headquarters with more on there is steve good morning. >> i'm going to try my hand at comedy. maybe the debate should be about anthony hardy being tony williams' first name, just pick a name, as they say. pick a lane. but, he goes by toniment we called him anthony hardy williams. still using dad's nickname, as well. anyway real focus of this race, not city hall, but this building, suddenly to get the fuse crowd to notice there is a mayor's primary election just weeks away. >> so what's your plan to come back? >> clearly, clearly occurring in philadelphia. stop and frist something evident. 95% of those stop and frisk are people of color and most
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of them clearly 95% so clearly profiling established. the department of justice provided us an understanding how it is occurring i in turn provide a plan, 91-point offered by the president of the us that would change and remove stop and frisk also, go further hate speech from police officers those police officers would be fired from the department as we understand t finally the person who unfortunately stop and frisk the most, current commissioner, would be changed. it is a change commission in philadelphia. >> one of my proudest moments in public service was ask police commissioner ramsey to come to philadelphia. and so, again let's set the record straight. 37% reduction in homicides during his tenure, lowest level since 67. violent crime the lowest levels in 30 years.
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an energized police department, a superior command staff. and 6300 personnel who know that he is a police officer's police officer and they admire and respect him here in philadelphia. and anyone who is not smart enough to at least ask him to stay is probably not smart enough to run the city of philadelphia. >> they tell us if commissioner ramsey was the one running for mayor himself he would win in a landslide without having race of single dollar or by single commercial. he would probably do better with his results than all of the other candidate combined a lot of people tell us last time police commissioner this town ended up being mayor frank rizzo one of the most famous mayors in the town history. >> a guy who may move from south jersey over to philly, and his name would be steve
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keeley if steve keeley ran for philly mayor he would win. >> no i pail in comparison to commissioner ramsey. politics not in his future. and, jim kenny is one of the candidates leading in the polls, but he's one who came out and said if i win shall commissioner ramsey can stay as long as he wants. if he doesn't want to stay much longer, he is going to promote from within, that makes a lot of philly police officers happy and maybe why they endorsed jim ken. >> i good. >> interesting. >> steve, thank you. as always, deep knowledge coming from steve keel bye what's going on at city hall. 5:10 the time. following years of internal struggle the delaware county borough colwyn has been classified as financially distressed by pennsylvania. this video from a contentious meeting last month when the borough's manager and code enforcement director, were fired. borough officials say an order that was to save money. now colwyn will now be put into the financial recovery act, oversight into the borough's budget, tan could allow officials to assess new
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taxes. the murder trial is underway for an exterminator accused of killing a pediatrician, he was doing work for. >> one of the first people to take the stands was philadelphia medical professor who says she met with the doctor hours before killed back in january of 2013. the 35 year old from thailand researched infectious diseases at chop. authorities say jason smith admitted to killing her after she argued with him over his work. his defense attorney says not everyone admits to the crime is, quote guilty not legally, so we'll keep an eye on that case. >> therapist who used to work at massage end she in west goshen is under arrest. police say he sexually assault add client last week, they say, 63 year old james deet err, massaged the women several times gaining her trust, before assaulting her. >> was fired and now being held on $25,000 bail. quick. 5:11 coming up college student found dead, just steps away from a car he was trying
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to sell on craigslist. the latest on the investigation into his death. >> and the nfl has released its much anticipated report 200 plus pages on deflate gate. we'll tell you what tom brady really new according to this report.
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>> lawyer send fun isn't she? >> download the weather app keep eye on the temperatures throughout the day. well this is the way to do it. >> you probably learned that much by now. >> show you live radar picture, if there is precipitation in your area. it is good to have nearby. because even though we're with you a lot of the time, not with you all of the time. >> speaking of weather here is something to look at.
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>> beaches of both states being affected by the rain. no long area problem for us, because the colds front moves southward, and it is now out of our area. so we look at temperatures, as you get started in the morning, 48 degrees in mount poe know, 59 in the city. fifty-three trenton. and down at atlantic city in wildwood we're in the low to mid 50's, but already reached 06 degrees in wilmington. these temperatures are cooler than yesterday. just going through the future cast of temperatures to see we will hit the upper 70s at least by the end of the day someplace also make it to 80. then in the upper 50's overnight, then we move into friday. well into the 80s some places making it into the mid 80s friday. early saturday morning, see few echos on the future cast radar. that indicate possibility of fog. both mornings of the weekend, if you are a person that likes to get up early on the weekend really get them going not many of us are like. that will but if you are you
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will probably encounter some fog early saturday morning and early sunday morning as well. just so you know. as we look at the peaks and valleys of the last seven days we peaked at eight a degrees, on both monday and tuesday. yesterday we got to 77, with the clouds and the cold front coming through. today we expect 79 degrees, lower 80s for tomorrow, mid 80s for saturday, and sunday, sunday of course is mothers day and go ahead with the plans. even if it is foggy in the morning it should be warm and sunny in the afternoon. that's a look at the forecast, bob kel what i are you looking at now? >> downtown we go here, pick up the cones ready for morning rush hour coming into and out of the city. good morning to the schuylkill expressway. opposite side of the kelly drive, schuylkill at spring garden boathouse row all lit up and for good reason.
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dad vail regata in town, good news though, i95 earlier accident girard avenue, all lanes open, so as we go for ride here, flying southbound, into the city it is a little bit after break tap into gerard but at least all of the lanes are open. >> wizard world comic con taking over the pennsylvania convention center. chris will go down there later on today. this is a big deal, all through the weaken, expect big crowds in and out of the convention center, the dad vague regata in town, will close the kelly drive to vehicle traffic beginning today. right after the rush hour it, will stay closed through saturday night if you get up to the closure point work your way through the ballfield there at fairmount park. if you go from center city, out toward city line, you real he want to stick with either the mlk drive or the schuylkill expressway, and of course just give yourself some extra time, and lot of unusual traffic volume and specially here with the temple jam graduation today at the
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liacouras center both today and tomorrow, so we see a lot of extra volume, proud parent headed in to get to see the student get their diploma there at the lee cora center, this accident involves police vehicle around 58th and woodland, with some local detours but the route 11 trolley is rolling through there. >> the governor of maryland has licht dollars the state of emergency in baltimore. the extra police and national guard presence, they were sent there of course after the rioting broke out last week. no longer in place. meanwhile baltimore mayor has asked for federal investigation into the way the city police department operated and whether officers have used excessive force justice department already investigating whether the civil right of freddie gray were violated. >> cartoon contest in texas and provocative one at that, by two gunmen, this week, has caused a lot of concern.
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homeland security official says federal agents are aware of quote thousands of potential extremists. living in the u.s. but only small portion are under surround vale end right now islamic state extremist group taken responsibility for sunday assault white house still looking into the claim by the way 5:20 the time. authorities have arrested and charged st. louis man for the murder of a 19 year old college student who went missing while trying to sell his sports car on craigslist. twenty-four year old michael gordon charged with the death of 19 year old named taylor clark, now police say his name was found in emails about the car clark was trying to sell. >> new report stopped short of calling patriots quarterback a cheater. >> published in that 200 plus page document, the messages are being used as evidence
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that the new england team including tom brady new about those deflated footballs. the nfl says while many of the exchanges were humerous, investigators believe the jokes based on truth. attorneys for the team said exchanges referred to friend, that was not specifically tom brady. >> 5:21 coming up disturbing note home to local parents student accused of using a needle to zap classmates. why the school actually allowed that needle in the hallways. trading-in or selling your car, truck or suv? webuyanycar.com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. one, get your free online valuation. two, drive to your local car buying center. and three, walk out with your check in as little as 30 minutes. buying used cars is all we do... all makes and models... no dealership pressure. we'll even settle your loan or lease. so don't wait. get your free online valuation now at webuyanycar.com
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former pennsylvania senator, rick santorum, could be jumping into 2016 race for the white house pretty soon. republican says he'll make announcement about his plans on may 27th santorum, social conservative sought the republican nomination in 2012. he acknowledges he would be an underdog in the race, yet again but says he's okay with that. >> scott walker right now is casino of leading in some polls. interestingly enough. quinnipiac pole. >> how about chris christie fellow republican? >> he is hoping sale into calmer waters at the new jersey governor tries to casino of distance himself from the bridge scandal. >> so, christy at this point will be in for series of meet and greets in nam hampshire. that's separate today and then again tomorrow. his trip will include trip to the town hall meter the first time he's been to the granite state since two former aides were indicted and another pled guilty in a scheme to shut down all lanes on the george washington bridge.
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better known as bridgegate at this point. and at 5:24, the votes are still being count in the britain's election, analysts say there is good chance it will be a hung parliament, they say it is unlikely the conservatives or the labor party want a clear majority of 650 house of common seats. small parties will likely play a major role in determining who wins. it is a dead heat between uk prime minister david cameron and challenger ed millieband. so britain is america's closest ally, as we know, and global pollster fear the instability could create a bit of a crisis. >> and staying in england the duke and duchess of cambridge have left for their country house. >> breaking news. prince william kate middleton and their two children, will be living at abner hall, restored country mansion on queen elizabeth's estate. kensington palace says the family is expected to spend few weeks there as they adjust to taking care of a toddler and that newborn. >> so they don't have any
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help. it is just kate and william doing all the work, changing the diapers up in the middle of the night for the feedings. >> youy? >> picking out the clothes? all of the cleaning of the clothes all the time, all of the drooling, they do all that work themselves. so they need a break they need to get away. >> they've got a team. they do. 5:26. coming up: ugly act of animal cruelty, beautiful swan found barely alive. what doctors think was used to hurt this animal.
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>> is a frist nerve escapes from philadelphia police. he's on the run and still wearing his handcuffs watch went wrong? >> and a truck note sent home from local school watch student is accused of having in the hauls that could have families return g their little ones to the doctor. good day everybody it is thursday may seventh 2015. >> i need a haircut. it is getting long. you know, the cutest hair, bus stop buddy. >> isn't it though? i try to show hill list pumpkin head today. it just sticks straight up there. i have counted the hairs on his head, and there is about 20. >> and that's some spike i gel he's got. >> now, trying to decide do we need the jacket today?
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>> will be 79 by the end of the day. little on the cool side there this morning so, you know, what moms do, wear a jacket. so we aired on the side every sweatshirt this morning cool start today. and rain from yesterday, the clouds most of that has moved to our south. >> almost sunrise time already. it is 5:54 officially, getting light out now. >> 59 degrees with just 5-mile per hour breeze out of the east east breeze does bring few extra clouds and specially at the jersey shore might see cooler temperatures there than we will inland. >> clouds, sun throughout the day. and pretty nights afternoon. as far as may the seventh go. what about the weekend? couple of little changes in our weekend forecast. we will check them out in the seven day coming up in just a few minute. good morning bob kelly.
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>> good morning suement checking in checking out. 5:30 almost call it 5:31, on a thursday morning live look at the 42 freeway. coming in toward philly. time to shake it loose and get on out of bed there, headlights coming in toward philadelphia. no problems or delays at all they pick up the cones in the construction zone. so good to go there. live look at i-95 near philadelphia international airport. disable, blinkers on there, disable northbound in the airport area. but looks like getting red foyer nice pretty sunrise down toward the airport. crews still working for another half hour or so. >> coming from in the suburbs 422 nice and quiet. happen the schuylkill behaving at least for the beginning of our morning rush hour. southbound lanes of 95, for the gang out of the great northeast, hit the brakes little bit at girard avenue.
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combination of construction zone earlier accident and the dad vail regatta setting up shop on the river shutting down vehicle traffic beginning today at 11:00 so after the rush hour, all traffic will be pushed through the ball fields. want to stay away from the kelly drive unless attending regatta through saturday night. all of that extra volume going to be pushed on to the martin lighter king driver or the schuylkill expressway. and it is a graduation jam along broad street. temple university big day for the graduates proud parent, volume today tomorrow headed into the liacouras sent, otherwise mass transit looking good. chris, lauren, back to you. >> thank so much. breaking news this morning crews cleaning up accident in west philadelphia where police say car collided with the -- >> jennifer joyce live at the scene. good morning. >> good morning as you can see, the police cruiser is still on scene over there. the other car has since been towed. we are hearing from the aid investigators, apparently, this happened at just after
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2:00 this morning. cord too long police, the officer was heading north on 58th street apparently lights and sirens on, when a white nissan altima t bone in the middle of the intersection. took out traffic signal onment corner wound up on the sidewalk. the officer was taken to presbyterian hospital with minor injuries. and the possible concussion, three people inside the altima, possibly two adult child, were taken to presbyterian as well for some aches and pains. according to police. police have reopened the highway, they want to make sure that trolleys can pass through, traffic signals still out still investigating this crash, at this point unclear who had the green light but again, according to police, all minor injuries in this case. chris, lauren? >> jennifer thank you. 5:33. philadelphia police are searching for 16 year old fugitive hasheen singletary. he has several warrant.
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teen escaped last night from private transportation car taken to southwest detective wearing black hooded sweatshirt black pants dark blue stripe, when he was able to get away. >> faking pro-active measures to make sure certain construction accidents don't happen, that's the goal of new joint effort by the philadelphia fire department. and the department of licenses and inspections. vacant and abandoned property. officials say that's vital to saving the lives of firefighters and residents, as well. >> actually been about 250 people in those referrals and had been removed from harms way. >> ensuring that people have the right to go to work in the morning, and they have the right to go home to see their families. >> officials say they're target being 25,000 of the city's most dangerous vacant structures. >> coming up: swan found with burns on its head. but this bird is recovering. his road to recovery.
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we'll update that for you straight ahead. first, not eagle any more. but it seems like lesean shady mccoy can't let go of his past. his angry words for chip kelly. pea past
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. >> sean mccoy can't let the anger toward chip kelly go. mccoy basically called chip
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kel a racist. lesean mccoy among few things said you see how fast he got rid of all of the good players specially all of the good black players. he got rid of them the fastest. enough. let it go. not much left to say about a bad philly's team to atlanta ninth inning. codey ash i four strikeouts, the phillies actually could have tied this game, down seven-five herrera down to the last out he strikes out too. the phillies lease to atlanta seven-five. put fork in the new york rangers. all right carl haglands, gold tender rangers down two-one no. i'm telling you. amazing the way washington is playing. they win the game two-one. they lead the series three games to one. put the fork in the ragers. they're done. that's sports in a minute. i'm howard eskin. howard likes saying the range remembers done. what they've done to our flyers lately. basketball court nothing seems to phase the globetrotters, right? very special appearance yesterday, made them little nervous. >> this would make me nervous
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too. able to meet the pope. the team touring italy made a stop at the vatican they tried to teach pope francis one of their no ma'am famous tricks the finger roll. players say they've met so many famous people. but this was the most nervous they've been in pretty long time. also gave the pope a globetrotter's jerry? here is the deal. when we me the pope, right september for world meeting of families i've always been told you are not supposed to shake the hand after pope but kiss the ring. >> oh,. >> but he just more casual there is pope. >> yes. >> look at him. twirling a basketball on his finker. >> playing with the globetrotters. >> there he is, shaking hands. >> apparently you can shake the hands. >> you can shake this pope's hand because he is that cool. >> coming up, scary situation at local school. several student say they were pricked by a needle. who is now in trouble for this. >> and later the number one crime on septa trains. and buses. cell phone theft. we'll take a look at the latest case that was caught on camera.
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>> allentown, 7:00, live at seventh and hamilton, come on out. >> johnny's bagels and del toy start then move out party on the plaza, two live bands and mascots, joined by lucy noland. >> so if you can't make the party in the morning still party an into the. 5:00 and 6:00, alex holley heads to coca-cola park with sean bell, getting through the lehigh valley irons pig's night. and quincy back at t he'll be back at allentown hanging out with scott williams at dorney park. they'll hop on some new ride out there of course eat all of the food they can. >> i think the coolest star wars costume is the storm troopers. what do you think? >> i'm not real a star wars fan. none in our area. >> it was in the midwest oklahoma take a look at the video. as we get going throughout the morning also, watching this area of possible tropical
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development southeast coast of the united state sub-tropical storm hybrid between tropical and low pressure is tell. see kind of circulation moving in a counter clockwise direction around that low. may form what we see in the summertime as an eye of the storm. and particularly troublesome as we head into the weekends, indications right now as we go past the weekends, are this low pressure is tell probably not affect us, but rip current, could be a problem and rain and rough surf down in the areas of the beaches of north and south carolina, and you see that rain, that shield of rain, if you will, moving off the coast right now. but, for us, any rain or showers that we had yesterday, are indeed out of here. so temperatures, as you walk
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out the door little cooler. 48 degrees in mount pocono, 59 in philadelphia, 55 in dover. and in millville, it is 53 degrees right now in atlantic city. as we head into the rest of the day, watch the shore temperatures which will be about five, six maybe even 10 degrees cooler, than what you see inland. so while we're at 77 degrees, cents at 6:00 this evening atlantic city will be at 63, that's the sea breeze effect, ocean still pretty chilly, and with that on-shore flow, that is going to be big difference in temperature between our shore points, and inland today. probably the same situation tomorrow, when we get into the 80s tomorrow. we will only be at the 60s at the shore. that's a look at our future temperatures eight a tuesday 77 yesterday pretty comfortable out there just had few sprinkles around here and there more cloud cover we had seen in the beginning of the weekment today we go with
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the ten 79 degrees. partly sunny skies the ten won't apply i don't think to the shore where it will be a lot chillier. for the reasons we just explained. and then we get into the weekends friday, 83 degrees, for our spring fling. looks like it will be dry on both end of the day morning and the afternoon, and then on saturday 64 degrees, mid to upper 80s sunday, keep in mind both days of the weekends looks like we are going to start off foggy both mornings so up early, that could be. showers roll in in the afternoon monday, linger through tuesday cold front possible thunderstorms and it cools back to seasonable temperatures will finally feel like spring again bob kelly, on wednesday. >> looking good. good morning everybody. 5:46. getting ready to roll out the front door, grabbing your coffee and keys, no problems here up and over the benny. construction zone in the right lane roll through the toll plaza head in the toward philly. good morning delaware county. live look at 476 the blue
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route near saint david's villanova. starting to see volume pop we get ready for morning rush hour, otherwise good shape in the 50's here on the schuylkill expressway. little slow right there on the blue route in the area of route one 95, southbound hid dollars down toward girard avenue. to the neighborhoods we go, fire location here in northeast philly at fawns and calvert with local detours mayfair and unruh and charles in the great northeast and then get ready one of the big events in town, wizard world comic con today through sunday, at the pennsylvania convention center, looking for toking do with the kids through the weekend there you go. and through the middays keep in mind there is has been rough for the gang going to marple newtown high school. media line road, new project here down to one lane between route three and 252. got to add some time to your commute if you are dropping the kids off thereto school or trying to get in on time. to pick them up. no problems coming down the
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extension. 422 really nothing out of the ordinary there. then south along i95 headed down today the airport up and over the girard point doubt decker bridge, good shape as you head down through delaware county. chris lauren back to you. >> you mention septa. how about this? >> only on fox, an unsuspecting victim stands on a septa train at the mel born platform. two teenagers ran off the car the last one grabs her new iphone six. she of course chased the suspect for several hundred feet before they were able to get away. now septa police look to go identify those two men. two males grabbed her phone, she was standing at the exit doors. and ran off the train. right now looking for the public's help to identify the males. working with the school district to id. >> police believe the two suspect are between the ages of 14 and 18, septa says cell phone thieves getting younger and younger each time. they warn passengers just be aware. >> pretty scary. it happened at bucks county middle school after several student say they were pricked
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by a needle, and now those responsible are facing disciplinary action. >> fox 29's dave kinchen spoke to some pretty upset parents. >> it is concerning. i mean, all the different things diseases, stuff like that. >> reporter: irritation from parent after finding out student allegedly pricked numerous classmates with a needle at franklin d. roosevelt middle school. now the type of needle used to check glucose levels in people with diabetes. her daughter says? >> my friends was stuck in the neck with it. >> oh my god. >> reporter: what did she say about it? >> she said she didn't even feel it, but she saw like other people who were getting hit that's how she found out that she got stuck with it, too. >> school leaders say the incident took place throughout the day tuesday usually when students in crowd. and they say most did not even notice. we're told the suspected student got the finger prick test from schoolmate only one victim reported having their skin broken by the needle.
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parent tell us they were left out of the loop. >> i can't believe that you are telling me this. you know, try to say that you guys and not through them, that's kind of alarming. >> the school. >> yes. >> superintendent doctor sam lee released statement saying in part, quote according it the bucks county health department, student are in no imminent dining fresh this incident however parents who believe their child's skin had been pricked can contact their healthcare provider as added precaution. but beck says more should be gone. >> regardless with the school, somebody stuck with needles not finding out through the school, that's casino of messed up. >> in bristol township dave kinchen, "fox 29 news". >> administrators tell us they sent out e-mail and phone blast, appears some par dents not get the message. school says it has discipline the too students that were involved. >> the discovery after injured swan in new jersey sparks criminal investigation. >> officials say this was no accident. >> the adult male mute swan
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recovering after suffering chemical burns on its head and face. it is believed someone through acid on it. it was found monday along the trail in the state park in elmer, salem county. the vet whose caring for the swan says it is responding well to antibiotics starting to rebuild strength, he hopes the swan returns to the wild the next couple of weeks. the vet will join us live later this morning to talk about the treatment. you know why? because i'm going to mullica hill to find out more. >> okay good. >> mullica hill. is it pleural? >> hill? >> hill, yes. such a disturbing story. evidently someone actually poured the acid. if you look at how the marks are left. it is just awful. >> terrible. coming up: the truth is out. kylie jenner comes clean about her super plump lips. >> plus sir elton on capitol hill. what the legendary singer said to congress about fighting hiv. i would be remiss if i didn't mention it is jennifer joyce's brother's birthday. happy birthday to big bro j this thursday.
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i'm lynne abraham. when i became philadelphia's da, child victims had to face a judge ...a jury...the public... and testify eye to eye with their attackers. it wasn't right. so i got a constitutional amendment passed allowing children to testify remotely. i'm running for mayor for the same reason -- our children should come first. jim kenney and tony williams are fighting over public schools versus charters. i disagree. we have to improve education for all of our children.
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life. hot topic famously performed at buckingham palace in 1981, diana's favorite band, eril brown was 71. famous faces visit washington dc to ask law makers to not to cut aids funding, sir elton john, pastor rick warren testified before subcommittee on global health. the 68 year old entertainer and aids activist, said has the power to end aids adding he believes it can happen in his lifetime. after much speculation kylie jenner has admitted her lips are fake. that will clip for new episode of keeping up with the cards ash yan's the 17 year old said she has tell for area lip fillers. for months they wondered whether she enhanced her lips. some even went sofas creating the kylie jenner lip challenge. kylie previously denied any enhancements and said she used make up to make her lips look bigger. all right 5:55. coming up: search underway after teenager escapes police
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custody. where they think he's headed. and, powerful tornados leave trail of destruction across the plane states. we'll take a look at the damage coming up next, mike, alex coming up on good day philadelphia.
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his way to police, somehow escapes just a block away, and he was still wearing his handicuffs. what went wrong here? >> and the alley was full, twisted, i mean, tornado alley, alive. the midwest crawling with tornados and people there are in the -- not in the clear. another severe weather day across the midwest in tornado alley. the seventh day of may. wasn't that a book? and a play? >> it was? >> i'm sure it was. >> just trust me, everybody. >> we will. >> what's the number? >> let's see. you know what? i said what the heck? go with the double digits today. >> eleven? >> all right. but i think we'll at least be ten worthy. because temperatures will be above average but not a lot. and it is cool out this morning. so for long way to the bus stop may want a sweater on, this afternoon i doubt if
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you'll need it. off to cooler start because cold front came through yesterday, and there is a look at where the rain went. >> didn't have that much rain to begin w front out of here, 59 degrees we have sunrise just happened. 5:54. will bring few clouds into our weather picture. >> 60s at the shore thanks, to the sea breeze, then tonight, down to 58, so that takes care of your thursday. >> few changes in the weekend forecast. >> find out what they are in a few minute. >> 6:00 straight up on a thursday morning looking live at the talcony palmyra bridge. just completed an opening traffic starting to move across the span again

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