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well, breaking overnight, police say a carjacking and reported kidnapping of a four year old boy in philadelphia was all a lie. what we're learning after officer spent hours chasing down a child who never existed. and police are looking for the man seen here burglarize ago local deli after it was closed for the day. we'll tell you the unusual way he was able to get inside and other crime that may be connected. >> and a plane crashes into a mall in australia killing four americans and one australian. we'll tell you what the pilot said moment before the plane went down. today is tuesday, february 21, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. so let's get you out the door this tuesday morning, checking the forecast with katie and the roads with meisha. >> good morning, how was your president's day? >> we were all here. >> i still loved it.
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you can still say you had a good day, right? happy tuesday, everyone, roads looking good. we do have one accident and a lot of construction out there. >> thankfully quiet roads to go along with it, quiet weather overhead, couple of clouds it start the day off. see the clouds build throughout the day. our temperature into the low 50's, for our region, and we're still above average even though is actually going to be one of the coolest days of the past for our area. so you can already see little thin vale of clouds. eventually will build n current temperature readings into the mid to low 30's, 28 up at mount pocono, chill for you there. but regardless, thankfully wind still pretty light. we keep it that way throughout the course of the day, we start off with sunshine, follow it up with clouds cover, as the day goes off, all a sign of things to come. latest warmfront scheduled to lift in. as it does lift in it will bring with it certainly nice surge on the thermometer in the days ahead. today even though again still above average it, will end up being one of the cooler days of the pack here. but you do have nice quiet day
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unfolding and eventually we will be tracking some showers. track those for you just a little later in the broadcast. meanwhile taste of may waiting in the wings for our thursday specifically. that's going to end up being very warm day. again, little later in the broadcast i'll let you know how warm we're calling it meisha. >> i like the sound you have that. looking at the vine right now. good morning, everyone, still very early. we still have the construction on the vine between the schuylkill and broad. still closed both moving in the westbound and eastbound direction. heads up on. that will i'll let you know as soon as that clears t usually does right before 5:00. any different today you will be the first to know. construction here schuylkill eastbound, right lane is compromised. heads up on that impact you can see crews out there. it looks like we have someone on foot walking around there. just heads up out there. it is very dark like i said, sometimes that can sneak up on you as you come around that curve. elkins park, vehicle hit a deer, brookside road at manor road. heads up on this. a lot of times early morning when the deer are still through the can happen. by the way on dark road, honk
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your horn a little bit, so the deer will be running. accident cleared, overnight construction, now just been cleared, he had up on this. this might continue, i'll let you know later in the week if that's out there again. of course reminder route one northbound oxford valley closed 9:00 to 5:00. will go through friday. rahel, back to you. >> we have just learned this morning that the carjacking kidnapping in the logan section of philadelphia that led police on frantic search for missing four year old turns out to be a hoax. during question, police say, 22 year old man admitted that he made up the entire story. now authorities are trying to figure out why and if had he should charge him. reporting last night at 11:00 the man told police he was delivering pizza 4600 block every sydenham street when his car was stolen. he claimed the little boy he was babysitting was inside. again, police say he made up the entire story. the motive to why not known this morning. >> new castle county police one man responsible for two
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kidnappings, two apartment complexes both happened in wilmington. last week woman was kidnapped at the top of the hill amounts. another kidnapping at the a runs recall ants happened sunday night. in the latest abduction, the woman was headed into her building when a mask man with a gun sexually assaulted her then forced her to withdraw money at the atm. >> are we more aware of our presence? yes. we're parking closer to our buildings, making sure that beer ' checking around before we get out. those are the kind of things that with my daughter i try to instill all the time it, helps to reinforce that. >> the previous attack happened february 13th when a man kidnapped and assaulted a woman. again that happened at the top of the hill apartments. >> new this morning, philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in south philadelphia. the gunfire broke out around midnight on the 3,000 block of mifflin street, that's right near the schuylkill expressway. two men are in stable condition. so far, police have not identified a motive or any suspects. meanwhile, another
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shooting this one in olney left three teenagers injured, it happened just after 7:30 last night on the 5500 block of north american street. you can see dozens of shell casings littering the streets. police tell us the victims are 19, 17, and 16 years old. at last check me were all list in the stable condition. so far no arrests have been made. >> well, hatfield police looking for the man seen in this surveillance video after the second rooftop burglary in montgomery county this month. the suspect used a rope to climb down into lansdale meats and deli on north broad street last week. stole cash and handgun after breaking his way into the office. one nearby business owner is on edge after learning about this most recent burglary. >> you own a business, and you got the news that your neighbor got robbed. my turn next here? started whole area to know where to get, you know what i mean, what, nobody knows
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anything at all. >> now, earlier this month, a burglar stole jewelry from the cosco in king of prussia by repelling through the roof. police are looking for ties between the two crimes. >> well, a small plane crashes into a shopping mall in australia, killing five people, and we now know four of those victims are americans. we have learned the americans were on golfing trip when the twin engine plane went down yesterday morning in mel born. the families describe the trip as a once-in-a-lifetime vacationment the pilot reported a catostrophic engine failure moments before the crash. no one on the grounds was hurt. the mall had not yet opened for the day. >> this morning there is heart break at a california police department after an officer was killed in the line every duty. officers and firefighters saluted as the remains of keith were load into a car, the 53 year old and his partner shot after responding to a crash in whittier outside of los angeles, they've not lost an officer since the late 19 70s. >> you know, it is really hard for me to hold back
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my tears are all grieving since 10:00 this morning. >> police say that officer boyer and his partner were approaching one of the cars involved in the crash. they were about to search man in that car when he allegedly pulled out a gun and started firing. the officer shot back, wounding the man, where his partner is in the hospital in stable condition. they say the shooter is a known gang member and may have been responsible for a murder earlier monday. >> well, president trump plans to visit the national museum of african-american history and culture in washington dc today. he originally planned a visit for the doctor martin luther king holiday but scheduling issues forced him to delay that visit. the president also plans town vale the latest version of his immigration ban. sources tell cnn his new executive order will target the same mostly muslim countries but will not affect green cardholders.
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homeland security, says parts of the orders will be phase in the. >> career army officer from philadelphia is president trump's new national security advisor, the president called lieutenant general hr motorcycle masterman of tremendous talent and tremendous experience. mc master grew up in roxborough, graduated from valley forge military academy in 1980. he searched in afghanistan and in the first gulf war. mc master considered to be one of the most successful in iraq. >> man suspected of selling drugs in new jersey makes a run for it as police close in. >> but things don't quite as planned for him. we will tell you what happened during that police chase that had rescuers joining the effort to catch him. >> and iraqi police make a big discovery, they close in on isis in mose you will. we will take you underground, into the elaborate tunnel they found. stay with us.
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mozul, held buoys a.m. lake state millitant. iraqi troops have secured hill overlooking the city airports, and discovered this sophisticated tunnel. the recently abandoned islamic state tunnel was outfitted with stirofoam coolers, and water tanks. >> police chase in fort lee new jersey ends with a suspect having to be rescued from a tree, police say the suspect made a run for it, after he was allegedly caught selling drugs to undercover office earth, while he took offer through a wooded area, jumped a fence, and then scaled down a cliff near the george washington bridge, and that's where he got caught in the tree. took two hours for crews to rescue the suspect and is now facing drug charges. a high speed chase ends near boston, but not before a 30 minute pursue. terry guy pulled over for routine traffic stop, but took off. now, some were in the middle of the chase, police say he stopped for gas. yes, gas. even going inside to pay, as the suspect pulled away, he collide wad police cruiser,
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then took off again. >> the officer saw him, saw him for minor vehicle infractions, was going to pull him over, probably write him a so takes and away he could have gone. but whatever prompted him to take on this course of action is really bizarre. >> police were eventually able to corner the suspect the at a highway ramp more than 40 miles from where the chase began. took breaking the windows out of the car to get him to surrender. bizarre indeed. bizarre incident in connecticut. >> after a driver reported seeing these 2cows, sunday, police decided to have some fun. they put this photo on facebook sailing two suspicious males going door-to-door trying to sell dairy provides t has been shared more than the thousand times. the coast escaped due to faulty electrical fence. every time i see cows i think of the chick-fil-a ads, eat more chicken? >> i do want to point throughout was quick graphic that said jim donovan and rahel solomon.
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i don't think that those cows are named jim donovan and rahel donovan. >> , no we've been eating healthy food since the beginning of the year. >> i don't know about that inneundo. >> if you've never tried skinny cow, i lover them, the chocolate delight. >> oh, okay. >> try them. >> okay. >> i have to catch up on that. >> well, totally switch gears here, talk about the weather, expecting nice warm up here, nice taste of may again. come later this week, we will start things off by taking you out to very quiet view, over looking the delaware river, offer in the distance, center city skyline, nice clear sky. few clouds are beginning to build depending on location, off to the south and west, beginning to see some of, that all because of warmfront starting to lift in. it will sends us on very significant uphill climb on the they ar thermometer in the s ahead here being brinking in little wet weather. now i don't think we actually end up with much in the way of wet weather later this evening
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at the earliest, couple of showers may dot the area radar, then through the overnight even as late as early tomorrow. but it doesn't really look like it will be terribly widespread. and it really doesn't look like most of us even see a drop of rain at this point. despite what this looks like, it looks a lot more umf at the moment, especially across the deep south, lower mississippi valley. but just doesn't look like it will pan out too much out here. so here's what we are specking. definitely get in on the warming trend, but sort of miss out on the rain, so tranquil day to start things off here. coolest day of the pack i might add, at least initially, 52 the high, follow by sunday shine, by clouds, spotty shower is the worse we have to worry about here. later tonight we drop down to mild 41 degrees low. moving forward, well, the warming trend begins. by thursday, it is might as well be may. 72 degrees the expectation, so since upped the expectations here since yesterday. sixty-four, 65, apiece, both friday, saturday. there will be showers and thunderstorm, yes, thunderstorm, with spring like
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warmth saturday. then we do cool down to the coolest day of the bunch on sunday, definitely closer to what's typical. meisha? >> katie, thank you so much. we looking at the vine, it was closed overnight for the construction between the schuylkill and broad. see what you are looking at now, moving in the eastbound direction, looks like opening. looking good on the vine right now, still very quiet. will get very busy later. that would be my hinting suspicion. also, construction on the schuylkill eastbound, between city avenue and the boulevard. this is where we had it, block that far right lane. those crews have now just moved out of your way. looking good on the schuylkill basically anywhere we look. we do have water main break in newark, happened actually 8:40 . heads up on this, 72 southbound near 95. only one lane blocked. won't slow you down too much right now but could potentially moving toward the 6:00 hour. and we have an accident here elkins park, vehicle hit a deer, brookside road manor road. just heads up there, as well, slow you down maybe just little bit. also in springfield, weaver some construction, actually, installing water main, between packer avenue and oaks avenue
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closed between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. this is going to run you through april 7. so your alternate will be baltimore pike. that changes, i'll let you know, but heads up on. >> this looks like that through the entire month of march. also, construction we were talking about yesterday, talking about it again today. route one, oxford vale, closed 9:00 p.m. through 5:00 a.m. >> this will run you through friday, jim, rahel, back to you. >> thank you so much, meisha. well the amazon wal-mart battle for customers continues this morning. >> we will tell you thousand could mean more money in your pocket in this morning's money watch report. stay with us, we'll be
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>> welcome back, 4:48. time for business news. >> jill wagner joins us live this morning for the knocks knock stock exchange, good morning, jill. big retailers trying to take on amazon for quite some time. good news for customers. what can you tell us? >> yes, it is a battle between amazon and wal-mart for on line shoppers. amazon lowered the amount that you have to spend to get free
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shipping. regardless of if you have time, from $49 to 35. packages arrived in about five to eight business days, wal-mart recently lowered its free shipping threshold to $35. jim, rahel? >> well, jill, awhile back we talked about snap chap, spectacle glasses. what's the latest on those? >> so those glasses, the spectacles, are now available on line to everyone. previously, they were only available at the pop up vending machines. they have built in camera. they cost about $130. they let the wearer take circular videos, easily up loaded to users snap chat accompanied. expected to file a ipo in the next couple of weeks. critics say these spectacles lost their luster, so could be one way to build up some more hype. jim, rahel? >> i do have snap chat, but only used it i think once. >> how is it that you have snap chat and i don't even have it? >> i signed up for it, i tried
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it once, i didn't really understand it so i kind of left. are you on snap chat, jill? >> i have it, and don't know how to use it. >> see? i'm in good company. >> we're kinds of all in the same boat here. >> thank you, jill, we'll check in with you in the next hour. >> meanwhile, we've been little spoiled the last several days. >> this is true. today probably good day to grab the winter coat? >> at least this morning, it is chilly beginning to the day. but quiet one all things considered. but if the warmth is your thing, fear not, weaver warmfront already lifting in today. i'll tell you what it will do to the seven day coming up. here is a hint. it will get
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afternoon, but of course once the sun comes up, will have hard time seeing it, regardless, fun fact, right now, it is 248,751 miles distance from the surface of the earth. >> look at up, kate. >> i that's some water cooler talk. we like to get you out the door, plus extra fun fact for the day. all right, looking ahead here to pretty decent day, all things considered. there is a warmfront that's going to be lifting in, how much, it bridges with it some additional clouds, you can already see the vale of cloud cover working it way into central pennsylvania parts of delaware, but overall, you'll start off with some sunshine, it will be followed up by more cloud cover, again, also a sign of warmfront lifting in. as that lifts in, you can ma'am it, will start warming up. you can even see moisture associated with this specially across the great lakes region, i don't think we see much more than spotty shower out of it, how much, at the moment, current wind speeds are pretty light, generally out of the northeast. but they will be turning more southerly, as the morning and afternoon progress here, again, because that far warmfront lifting in. what that will do for us of course sends us on another
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uphill climb here. we peak anyway by thursday, with a taste of may at 72 degrees flirting with records here, and then back to the mid 60s, although that's still well above average, into the weekend, check out saturday, yes, not just showers, but thunderstorm, some very spring like weather, before us, as another storm does move in. and cold front on saturday, with those showers and thunderstorms, going to knock us back a lot closer to reality. ooh degrees, but sunny skies, second half of the weekends. meisha? >> looking gorgeous, katie, thank you so much. and still talking about the vine. between the schuylkill and broad. you can see, the westbound side, hard to see this, that car leaving us, but the westbound side is open. eastbound side still waiting to fully open. actually looking very, very quiet there, regardless. and then we have this construction, limekiln pike between county line road and westminster line. county line road probably your best, as you navigate around there. and then talking about water main break in newark, actually happened last night around
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8:40 p.m. heads up on this. seventy-two southbound near 95, one lane block there. probably won't slow you down too much right now. later in the 5:00 hour could maybe start to slow you un ever so slightly. then talking about where a vehicle hit a deer, elkins park, brookside road at manor road, heads up for that. honk that horn springfield construction, springfield road between packer and oak avenue. closed the a.m. to p p.m. this will run through april 7th. meantime you will have to use this alternate, baltimore pike, going to be your best bet. more construction, route one northbound oxford valley heads up. talking about this yesterday. talking about it again today. closed overnight. nine p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and this is actually also going to run you through friday. so a lot of this, these construction project, long with standing, whether it be just for the week or couple of weeks or through couple every month. so heads up on. >> this talking about more whether we come back in a little bit. jim, back to you. >> a lot going out there. if you are headed out the door stay updated on sister station
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>> appear to be random attacks. that's what's most concerning with us as a police departmen department. >> a police department has a community on high alert, after two women are abduct in the separate incidents just days apart. we're live with more on the man authorities say is behind the attack. >> it was no ordinary burglary. police are searching for the man seen here stealing from a local deli. but it is how he was able to get inside that has officials wondering if he struck before. plus this: >> the white house responds to new threats made against jewish community centers across the us. i'm roxanna in new york,
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coming up that story and a look at the administration's plans for this week. >> well, today is tuesday, february 21, good morning, i'm jim donovan. >> i'm rahel solomon. katie and meisha keeping an eye on things this morning, do you believe the month is almost over? >> crazy. >> i cannot believe it is going so fast, but i'm so looking forward to june. >> the heck with the other months? >> don't worry about it, june, bring it on, baby. looking outside, we do have one accident out there antoine of construction, and i think a little busy now that everyone is jumping back on the roads after the holiday. >> yesterday was really busy, too, for a holiday? but regardless at least the wet letter cooperate for us again today, we will see mixture of cloud and sunshine here throughout the day. warmfront lifting in. as we take a look though at the bethlehem camera from high atop hotel bethlehem overlooking main street here, in the distance, all is dry. all is calm. we don't have the flag shot in this particular camera view. but it is pretty calm wind right now. so not too much movement on the flags in the field cameras right now either.
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