lauren, lea. lauren: good news for the coal industry, jeff flock, thank you.ea: syrian president bashar al-assad fiercely denying that he used sarin gas on his people. assad calling the claims 100% fabrication this despite solid officials saying syria is to blame. >> it is attempt by him to throw false flags and create confusion. it's a tactic that we have seen on russia's part as well in the past. there can be little doubt that the recent attacks and the chemical weapon's attack was by the syrian government, by the syrian regime. lea: u.s. military and intelligence officials reportedly intercepted communications last week between syrian military and chemical experts talking about preparations for that sarin attack, fbn:am has not independently verified the reports. lauren: bheernl was dragged from chicago's o'hare airport this week preparing a major lawsuit. an attorney saying his client suffered concussion, broken nose and two lost teeth. the pager's daughter speaking about the incident at a news conference yesterday. >> what happened to my dad should have n

lauren. lauren: thank you, nicole. france unpredictable election has been plunged with turmoil after attack yesterday. the shooting came as the 11 presidential candidates were participating in a live television program. forcing the hopefuls into spontaneous reactions, joining us how this affects sunday's first round vote -- >> thank you for having me. lauren: if you look at the top five candidates and we will show you to you, the right and the center right and centrist and far left, those are the main candidates right now, all in a tight race to get into the may seventh runoff. my question to you is, a, who is the strongest candidate when it comes to security and does the terror attack give the candidate a sure win? >> marine le pen has the strongest stance, she has the strongest statement condemning the attack and says this is a product of lack of immigration policies during debate last night. this attack may, you know n a way benefit her but, i mean, that remains to be seen. nicole: let's talk about the other candida

i am lauren: good morning. i'm training for pure earnings disappointments of suicide at the features pointing higher. california paid nasdaq -- the shanghai composite index up fractionally. lauren: oil prices down three days in a row. on top of an extension of opec production cuts come as a $50.90 a barrel right now, a gain of 1%. nicole: admitted political crisis, venezuela seizes a general motors plant. we will tell you all about it. lauren: will you from telecom giant verizon after the ceo said he was open to doing deals with media giant including disney and comcast. nicole: in sports, even without their star, kevin durant, golden state warriors crush the trail blazers and hockey the anaheim ducks with the calgary flames. to win their series, will have the highlight. lauren: 5:01 a.m. in new york. the weakest flying by. we welcome you to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. nicole: upon by insane tax to fund could be pushed back as president says he still wants to overhaul health c

lauren: good morning, i'm lauren mayk for nbc10 @issue. the focus now turning from the white house to local congressional seats here and across the country. last week, democrats hoped to strike back against president trump by picking up a georgia congressional seat in a special election. democrat jon ossoff got more votes than any of the other 18 candidates, but he needed more than 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. he fell short with 48%. now, instead of taking the seat outright, which is what democrats had hoped for, he's forced to go head to head with his republican challenger. in kansas, republicans held the seat vacated by mike pompeo, the new cia director, with 52% of the vote, but it was a good showing for the democrats, who had 45% in a strong gop district. the libertarian candidate was just shy of 2%. and with me now, democratic analyst eleanor dezzi, she had a long history of working in pennsylvania democratic politics, and is the founder of the dezzi group. eleanor has been a delegate to multiple democratic conventions. and char

lauren: good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. we are going to tell you what the delay potentially mean for tax reform timeline with fox contributor kirsten haglund. train to today promises to be in historic day. supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. that's how you all about it. train to roller coaster ride for the dow before and it was the last of 41 points on concerns about the tax-cut timeline as well as federal reserve policies. train to u.s. stockmarket futures are down 13. s&p futures down one. lauren: stocks in japan fell to the lowest level. the nikkei sliding almost 1.5%. in china come to shanghai composite ended lower. lauren: facebook and ceo mark sabo and trying to crack down on revenge. lauren: amazon ceo jeff bezos going ahead again space-bar experience train to pick golfers at the masters tournament. a back injury keeps the world's number one player in the tournament had not been updated. lauren: good morning, everybody. 5:01 a.m. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. breaking this

lauren: good morning, i'm lauren simonetti.we are going to look at the details of it and get reaction. nicole: stocks take a breather, the dow dropped 21 points yesterday, u.s. stock market futures this morning mixed, somewhat wait and see. nasdaq futures up a and a half point. lauren: busy day for earnings. we are going to get results from amazon. united airlines want to avoid another bumped fiasco. offering up to $10,000. lauren: cell phone hrch afternoon-cell phone hrch imp inference grch. they close out that playoff series friday. one yankee celebrates his birthday at fenway park at the yankees beat the red sox, we will have highlights. nicole: welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. lauren: president trump says the u.s. will not pull out of the north american free trade agreement, surprising calls from leaders of mÉxico and canada. it is honor to deal with both peÑa nieto and prime minister and i believe the end result will end all three countries stronger and b

lauren: u.s.on track for second week of gains, dow sup 433 points, the nasdaq is up 138 points this week on the final day of the week and the month. dow futures down 4, nasdaq down 1, s&p futures a small 1-point gain. lea: let's take a look at key commodities, oil prices for a second weekly loss. here is a look at oil now, higher by 34 at 49.31 to the barrel below the 50-dollar mark and gold higher by a mark. lauren: we had exxon mobile and chevron reporting today. investors looking for earnings of technology. first-quarter profit jumped over 40% from a year ago from eighth straight quarter in the black. alphabet seeing a sharp gain this morning. renew rose more than 20% driven by surge imobile advertising and popular youtube service. take a look at microsoft shares, they are slightly lower. the software company says quarterly profit surge driven for collude-computing service, revenue actually missed the estimate. lea: is the tech rally ready to keep on rolling. let's ask chief analysts with disru

that's lauren, waving at the camera. saturday evening, off-duty cop and wakefest security officer chris yarchuk bumps into lauren at the bar. what'd you make of her? >> >> reporter: he sees her leave at around 2:00 a.m., finding her a night of drinking with hannah, chris and aaron. so they left. >> they left. the last time i saw them, yeah. >> reporter: they're heading to their camping spot, an outcropping across from the houseboats that make up wakefest. there's an impressive 35-foot drop to the lake on one side, a 90-foot drop on the other. hannah and her boyfriend aaron will crash in a tent. lauren and chris will bunk together in a hammock on the edge of the cliff. incredible anyone would think to sleep so dangerously close to a precipice. samantha arnold, friends with lauren and hannah, was on the cliff with the group the night before lauren died and says it was scary but thrilling too. >> it was very steep, i'm climbing and i'm climbing. and my legs are slipping. >> reporter: chris and aaron would later tell police

lauren. lauren: thanks, nicole. budget showdown that could shut down for tax reform announcement in a possible new health care bill. joining us now to talk about how all this could affect the markets is heather sue moraga. good morning, heather. good to see you. >> i haven't been at this early since i was 22 coming in and it before. lauren: you never get used to it. thank you for coming in. the end of the week marks the president's first 100 days in office. he wants to get a tax cut plan in. that would send the stock market soaring. what else does america want to get this week? >> we are seeing a rest today on the backs the case in arab results on the french election with le pen and macron heading into the second round on may may 7th. that is clear in a political concern and risks america has. allies around the possibility of health care reform as well as the tax reform details coming out on wednesday released an outline proposed a mac. markets are not just on earnings this year so far, but we also want to see tax r

i am lauren simonetti. is that he sent a straight repair this in in response to threats from north korea. >> markets earnings season moves into high gear this week and political risks around the world keeping investors on edge. a slight pullback last week in modesty and this monday morning. dow futures of five. lea: asia watch investors has been making is that seven tenths of 1%. shanghai composite and china lowered by one half of 1%. lauren: more headaches for adults are passengers at delays dragging today number five today. lea: google is sure changing women who work for the company. the golf gods finally smile and sergio garcia as he transfer his first major policy area. lea: welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. glad to be with you. lauren: president trumps national security advisor h.r. faster this open the possibility of more military u.s. action in syria. he makes clear the president wants a political solution to the crisis. exclusive interview, general mcmaster s

lauren: good friday morning, everybody. i'm lauren simonetti. lots of questions about how syrian president bashar al-assad will respond to the strikes as well as russian president vladimir putin. we will have complete analysis. nicole: global stocks initially soldoff on the news but cut those losses. dow futures have lost 140 points, right now down about 40. s&p futures down almost 6. lauren: let's look at the reaction in asia. japanese stocks ending with a gain of a third of 1%. in china shanghai composite two tenths of 1%. nicole: investors move out of risky assets such as stocks and move to safe havens treasury bonds. lauren: check out oil, up about 2% on concern about middle east oil supplies being cut off, right now 52.52 a barrel. 12.66 a troy ounce. nicole: good morning, 5:31 a.m. in new york april 7th, friday, welcome to fbn:am, first look at morning markets, breaking news and what to expect for the day ahead. lauren: right, we begin with the breaking news. the u.s. striking a syrian airfield with dozens of missiles, 59 tomhawk missiles

lauren: good morning. i am lauren simonetti. senate judiciary cir chuck grassley ballet methods that so they can earn. nicole: u.s. stock starts a new chair. automakers posted disappointing march sales. u.s. stock market futures this morning that can lower. dow futures down 61. lauren: the chinese and hong kong markets remain closed within a pixel in 1%. also lead to the downside by a week auto sector. nicole: tesla passes as the second biggest automaker. lauren: verizon says it will combine the two companies and call them oats. nicole: and sports, weather game. north carolina scratches and calls their way to their sixth title over gonzaga. >> because of the density. lester relaxed on a last-second shot. we need to prove we're the best in the country. nicole: will have the highlights. lauren: big mac and a big one. five of 1:00 a.m. in new york. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at today's markets in the latest breaking news. nicole: former president upon a national security adviser susan rice wasn't the one who requested the

lauren: what can they do? the cleveland murder video stayed up for about two hours before facebook took it down. joining us now to talk about the shooting and also the facebook killer cases fox news contributor and d.c. homicide detective rod wheeler. nice to see you. let's start with fresno, first. on that shouted a lawful authority. they say shootings had nothing to do with terrorism in their hate crimes they'd can you explain why it matters? rs because joyce went to find out the motivation behind this individual's actions. in my opinion it's obviously a hate crime because mr. mohammed specifically targeted white males and not only did he holler that out at the time he committed the crimes that he posted several face the postings of the prior to the shooting yesterday talking about his dislike for white males and how he wanted there to be a race riot in the united states between african-american and white. >> have to step in because you product the next point. he posted on facebook and social media, what job

lauren: thank you, blake.ttle over health care has presented three weeks after republicans were forced to pull legislation. president trump now threatening to withhold payments in order to force democrats to make a deal. an exclusive interview with maria bartiromo, trump and his negotiations will not easy. >> will have no democrats come to zero. they will have 100% of the republicans. not an easy way to run the government. lea: the payments approved by president upon t reduced copayments and deductibles for low income consumers. reaction was swift from leaders. chuck schumer issued a statement saying end quote president trump is threatening to hold hostage health care for millions of americans, many who voted for him to achieve a political goal of her appeal that would take health care way for millions more. the cynical strategy will fail. house minority leader nancy pelosi saying instead of working with democrats to bring down costs, president trump is coolly threatening to raise premiums and millions of fami

lauren: breaking news this morning. secretary of state rex tillerson on his way to moscow this morning to face talks on russian relations including the civil rights area. good morning. i'm lauren simonetti. lea: good morning. i am lea gabrielle in for culpability. on the smu tax proposals. lauren: a close eye in international tensions with syria and north korea -- after the dow rose not even two points yesterday ,-com,-com ma u.s. stock market futures to the downside. dow futures down 21 in asset teachers on. lea: japan's nikkei index down three tenths of 1% and china's shanghai composite ended higher by six tenths of an%. lauren: united airlines removing a passenger from their seat. we will have the latest on the story. lea: after the investor pushing all those due turnaround efforts are put to grocery up for sale. >> chicago cubs hoist the world series championship flag at wrigley field and miami heat rallied to beat the cleveland cavaliers and keep their playoff hopes alive. lea: 5:01 a.m. in new york city. welcome t

lauren: 5:31 a.m.first look at morning markets and breaking news. nicole: breaking news this morning. his warning against north korea. president trump saying the u.s. is ready to act alone and north korea's nuclear program if china does not take a stand. in an interview, the president also said china has great influence over north korea and china will either decide to help us with north korea or they won't. and if they do, that will be very good for china and if they don't, it won't be very good for anyone. the president's comments come days before he will have his first big face-to-face meeting with china's president of florida. this also comes as north korea reportedly preparing to conduct its six nuclear attack. lauren: meanwhile, the son of mott and your advisor chaired the guy visiting iraq. nicolekushner not clear why he s visiting the country. advising on relations with the middle east, canada and mexico. he's also launched a task is to improve the government by using ideas from the business wor

lauren: just getting started. have not come in i want to ask you this, we do not expect presidents to take a vow of poverty when they leave office. but, $400,000 speaking fee is double what bill clinton got. >> and if you haven't remembered the speaking fees of clintons got were a thing during 2016. i don't want to be hypocrite. i will be clear. any publisher paying me a lot of money with a book i will accept it. if i started my presidency in 2009 i'm begins all fat cats in wall street, his quote, not mine, i would have a hard time accepting money from those same people. lauren: joe he, blake, have a beautiful weekend. >> you too. david: he could give it all away. he doesn't have to keep the money. he could do it. harry truman didn't take a lot of money. >>> putting america first and making a comeback. many people in the steel industry are thanking president trump. >>> a big yale fail. a student hunger protest involving students getting paid and who aren't hungry at all. the fallout is next. lauren: want a cookie?

lauren: good morning, everybody. i am lauren simonetti.ald trump has to the hetland for his by american can hire american plan. nicole: u.s. talks on upcoming earnings for the dow shooting up 183 points. u.s. stock market futures to the downside accelerated over the last 10 minutes or so down 50 or dow futures. s&p down six. nicole: then he taken in a 31%. and china's shanghai composite losing .8%. trade t-shirts of netflix to open a record high after its latest earnings report. we will have details. lauren: we will hear from to buy big tanks are goldman sachs and bank of america due to report their latest quarterly results. nicole: the playoff for the basketball and hockey fans trip abroad james leads the cleveland cavaliers to victory and hockey the toronto maple leafs done the washington capitals in overtime. we will have all the highlights for you. lauren: 5:31 a.m. in new york. tuesday, april 18th, tax day. welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. we hope you got your tax return and are filing today.

lauren: 5:31 a.m. are welcome to "fbn:am," your first look at morning markets and breaking news. lea: breaking news this morning accused as russia trying to cover up his searing weapons attack last week. u.s. intelligence confirmed that the assad machine used sarin gas on his own people. 80 people including its own children. in an interview with maria bartiromo, president trump shares his views as area. >> we are not going into syria, but when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration, that they violated it. >> they said they got rid of them. >> what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it and you would've had a much better -- syria would be better off now than it has been. lea: the president saying vladimir putin is backing a person that is truly an evil person. lea: president trump saying he wants health care reform before a tax overhaul. here is why. >> obama carries a total mess. we

i'm lauren simonetti.rice remains defiant as lawmakers call for her to testify on herbal and i'm asking a trump campaign officials caught up in intelligence surveillance. nicole: and the markets, companies report their best earnings in six years. at the markets got ahead of the earnings growth? raymond james, chief investment strategist this morning. dow futures at 12, as in the future some fractionally. lren: investors take the north korean missile launch in ride at the cost the edge slightly lower in japan. the nikkei moved slightly higher. nicole: amazon and the nfl in deal two lifestream thursday night football games. all the details. lauren: mcdonald's chief marketer had are the latest shakeup as latest shakeup at the fast food giant tries its growth. transient spores, russell westbrook makes history as his team dominates the milwaukee bucks. in baseball, st. louis cardinals come up short against the champion chicago cubs. we'll have all the highlights for you. lauren: today is wednesday, april 5th. y

lauren: thank you nicole.ails of tax cuts on capitol hill lawmakers raced over to government shutdown. joining us now, brad blakeman, former adviser to george w. bush. what the impact of the 15% corporate tax rate e.? >> it would unleash the power of our corporations to hire and build and five. this is very positive news. we seeded in anticipation of the marketplace. so they are just waiting. not only that, but if we can repeat your money offshore in this country trillions of dollars and reduce the individual corporate greed, our economy will take off. nicole: it could add to the federal deficit and that is something everyone is concerned about. how much does the deficit matter at this point? >> it matters a lot in getting this bill through congress. it is a two-step approach. one is pending and the other is to reduce taxes and give velocity of money back into the marketplace. our economy does well when it exchanges money between individuals, not what we said money to the government. lauren: we are expecting 1

lauren.ren: let me ask you, how is great britain doing now that they've made steps to move the european union? it would take two years. the biggest growth in exports for 10 years. the best foreign direct investment into britain. there is a slight slowing of retail sales, but nothing out of the ordinary. it is in good shape and i will say this. much better shape than our neighbors in the eurozone. >> you know, there's been a lot of focus here on some of the other elements that come into play. what you think are the elements of everybody else is focusing on. >> the big conversation as i read going to have tariff free access of reciprocity with the european single market? economic logic says given that the.k. is the biggest export market in the world, and make sense for them to have a terrorist free trade deal with us. whether economic logic or veils or politically they decide they would rather be seen to punish britain for daring to leave the club. i remain as seen. america tries to tear up in

aim lauren johnson. karen hepp has the day off. thomas drayton joins us tonight. >> sue is here now. hi, how are you guys? >> i already got my free coffee. >> good for you. >> bonus, free coffee day. i'm like boom. the day got better. >> makes a smile on your face to start the day. >> just the little things. >> free is a good price. >> i'm sure bob has some traffic news. >> you will need that free coffee. >> so smile for few minutes. because. >> oh, oh,. >> the number of the day is oh, we're going to gave you a ten even though it is cooler, it is seasonably cool, and we're starting off with 54 degrees here in philadelphia. 14-mile an hour breeze makes it feel little cooler than that. and temperature in lancaster is 48. forty-six in allentown. we have 38 in mount pocono. thirty-nine in hazleton. as we told you yesterday it would be little cooler than it was yesterday. and indeed it is in a lot of play cents, that cool air has yet to settle into ocean city where it is 57 degrees, lewes, delaware, 58. lil rounds up of temperatures, th

>> good job, lauren. we will use picture that you sent out, you tweeted this morning as you were the passenger going over the bridge in the news van. example of the flames you can see leaving philadelphia going into new jersey off to your right. anyone that uses the betsy ross, do it sometimes, you look down, nice little neighborhood. that's the little area that we're speaking of here, so that's the home that we just saw in lauren's camera and going over the betsy ross, into new jersey, that little township right here to the right of the betsy ross watch lauren mentioned is the fire hoses were used to fight the fire, have come across the train tracks for the new jersey transit river line. so that fire is located right there at the river line station parking lot, and adjacent to the tracks. so certainly going to be delays impacted with the river line this morning, we're getting, trying get words, from new jersey transit as to what their game plan will be. but obviously, first and for most, for the firefigh

. >> is what up, lauren. >> what is up on this good friday. >> well, i'll tell you this, this sunday we will have the easter parade, i will go to the one on south street. let's play some of the easter parade, it is one of my favorite movies. crank it up. >> ♪ >> lauren and i being sophisticated as we are, didn't wear bright easter egg colors today, likees from a stair and judy gar land. >> we didn't. >> we went with black and white and we didn't call each other. >> you are sort of gray. >> gray, i have black shoes, black belt do you want to see my black belt. >> nobody wants to see that. >> that would be sue serio. >> you have the same dress. >> mine has no sleeves. >> i noticed. i opted for the sleeved version. we don't call each other. we looked at each other and went. >> so does bob kelly have a black and white tuxedo on. >> the penguin will be in moment trily just to be our mascot in the morning. but anyway, i got my button straight here, because if you like yesterday, spring-like temperatures we're a chilly start this morning, buddy also in black and white. go with the theme. so

. >> is what up, lauren. >> what is up on this good friday. >> well, i'll tell you this, this sunday we will have the easter parade, i will go to the one on south street. let's play some of the easter parade, it is one of my favorite movies. crank it up. >> ♪ >> lauren and i being sophisticated as we are, didn't wear bright easter egg colors today, likees from a stair and judy gar land. >> we didn't. >> we went with black and white and we didn't call each other. >> you are sort of gray. >> gray, i have black shoes,

hi, jennie. >> good morning, lauren.e're hearing the victim remains in critical condition here at temple university hospital after police tell us he was shot three times in the chest overnight. our cameras were at the crime scene early this morning as lauren said blocks from temple university campus. police tell us just before 1 12:30 this morning gunshots rang out 18 and susquehanna avenue. a 24-year-old man was shot three times and rushed to temple hospital where he remains critical. the university posted alert to twitter page early this morning telling students to avoid area. many students moved into the neighborhood. it's unclear whether or not any students were around at the time of the shooting or if the victim himself has any ties to the school. police are looking to talk with witnesses as they continue to investigate. and at this point, no arrest have been made, lauren. >> jennie, thank you for the update. breaking this morning cruz rescue two people trapped inside a car during a crash. this happened 1:00 on the

lauren? >> sabina, thank you. >>> to a developing story north korea's vice foreign minister is blaming president trump forest lathing tension in the korean peninsula. the vice minister says mr. trump's tweets aimed at regime are causing trouble, he also warned that the u.s. against provoking north korea militarily saying we will go to war if they choose. >>> a lehigh county teach's waiting arraignment, authorities say christopher johnson had inappropriate relationship with a student. park land high school teacher charged with unlawful contact with minors, corruption of minors, and institutional sexual assault. all three counts are felonies. the student told police she and johnson were involved in sexual encounters in several locations, including her own home. >>> check out the fire power, police took from the 16 year-old officers in gala way township, said the teenager had all of the parts and tools to assemble a ar15 rifle. police also found ammunition for another gun, and cocaine. investiga

looks like we got a lot of activity out there lauren. >> yeah, absolutely. it is light in intensity but it is widespread in nature but not the best looking beach day in are a hob beth. you see the planks there, they are certainly damp overcast sky conditions and that will be the trend as we head into the evening hours. temperatures are cool to boot. 54 degrees right now in philadelphia. 55 in allentown, down to the 40's in mount pocono at 46 degrees. and caught a little bit of break in center city philadelphia from that light rain over the last hour but you can see this area of precipitation it is returning moving mainly from west to east so we're going to see this batch of light shower activity continue to work across the area spreading back into south jersey as we head into the next couple of hours. so, dealing with areas of light rain this evening, cool conditions with temperatures in the low 50's. overnight the rain turns off, some partial clearing, chilly, dropping down to 45 degrees. we'll dry out a bit as we head into our sunday but looks like

we want to check in with storm team 4 meteorologist lauren ricketts.y, unfortunately, we havehe rain as you said, angie, most of the day and pretty much through the day tomorrow. some areas will be dry tomorrow but not all. we'll show you what is happening out there right now. we have a few showers out there. and this is going to continue to pull through the area as we go through your saturday morning. unfortunately, we are getting dry spots, but that won't last for long. another batch of rain will continue to move through the area. look at that fog. it is going to be a little on the foggy side as you head out the door. temperatures right now are 61 degrees. we're going to continue to drop. we'll spend most of the day in the 50s. now, we are also going to spend most of the day on the wet side. we'll time out the rain for you and let you know when to see the rain spots coming up in a bit. >>> thank you. 6:31 this saturday. a fallen officer brings people together. the jacai colson remembrance >> it's overwhelming. >> no shot! >> i feel joy. >> reporter:

lauren, back over to you. >>> u.s. forces in afghanistan dropped military's largest, non-nuclear bomb on a islamic state target. officials there now say 36 islamic fighters are dead. accord together pentagon bomb was dropped in the cave complex, believed to be used by isis fighters in the afghan district of, province close to the boarder with pakistan. doug luzader joins us live from washington this morning. doug, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. this is a massive bomb that has never been used in combat, before. it has been around for a while and been tested before. we have seen what it it can do but never been used, in the bat many fields. it is gpu43, better known as m aaoab, mother of all bombs and it is huge 20, thousand pound. it has to be dropped out of the back of the cargo plane and it did target this tunnel complex there in afghanistan. there were about 36 isis fighters, killed, as a result. we have not seen confirmation of that just yet but it clearly was to send a message not just to isis but

good afternoon lauren. >> good afternoon jim.uite stormy, rain pouring down on a western portion of the delaware valley this area of precipitation riding along the interstate but you see the yellows and oranges really starting to blossom especially over the last 30 minutes or so as we're seeing more activity the intensest is increasing. we have thunderstorm activity right now over chester county, west goshen into upper chichester seeing a pretty good downpour also hearing those rumbles of thunder with a few embedded lightning strikes up towards the lehigh valley, lehighton up into mount pocono. this is moving up to the north-northeast and to our southwest the nasty looking cells around the d.c. area an those respect headed into our backyard as we head into the afternoon hours. we do have the severe threat potential marginal risk for philadelphia much of south jersey slight risk of severe weather interior southern new jersey the shore and across much of delaware. what to expect this afternoon and evening, rain and embedded thunder

i'm lauren johnson. karen hepp has the morning off. thomas drayton joining us tonight with the late shows. sue and bob are here. >> boom, good morning, everybody. >> good morning. >> good to see you looking good. >> i like your colors. >> thank you. this tyree mind me, remember the candy that had like the little dots. >> you peel off the paper? >> you would bite them off like this. >> would that be great if i could make like a candy tie? sometimes you get the pape nerve your mouth? >> i think i ate a lot of paper through the years. >> i ate too much candy through the years. >> anyway, whatever you are doing today, we've got wet their will cooperate with your plans. >> yeah. >> you know what it is? i don't know if you can read that, it is scrabble day. >> is it? >> yes, bus stop buddy caring some scrabble tiles around. >> oh, i thought you said scrap snell. >> no, no, no. >> words with friends, that you can play on your phone. >> true, but his is old school tiles. >> oh,. >> that would drive me crazy, that word with friends. >> do you s

lauren kacie has your forecast, meisha watching the roads.ther yesterday gorgeous. >> absolutely stunning, i enjoyed it. looking outside, just dealing with a loft construction, one accident oath there, disable vehicle, we'll get to all of it in a minute. >> repeat performance the answer is no. >> that's why katie took off. >> yes, it was a warm day yesterday, getting taste of summer for the easter bunny and all of the little baby checks. 87 degrees in philadelphia, high temperature actually 3 degrees shy of the record yesterday. got close to record in ac at 88 degrees, if you were down the shore yesterday, you are loving life. 85 degrees. the high temperature in wildwood yesterday, because of the hot day, it is still extremely mild at this early hour. 65 degrees in philadelphia, 67 in wilmington, we have fallen back to the 50's in the lehigh valley, 56 degrees right now, so little cooler there. storm scan3 showing us mainly quiet conditions, couple of sprinkles trying to work their way into northern delaware, do have more in the way of shower

lauren johnson working this one getting lot of new information. lauren? >> reporter: hey, karen, we spoke to the fire chief after we checked in with you guys last time. we inched stands the fire, although doesn't appear this way; contained, but there are some hot spots that are still burning. you might be able to see from our advantage tan point here, firefighters now trying to get the burning embers out after tree next-door to the house and right above where we are. from the outside the structure seems stable. but beyond the foundation walls, apparently the upper floors collapsed down on to the upper floor from the fire, smoke, heavy watt their firefighters used to battle the flames. we are told the fire started around 2:30 a.m. in the back of this multi family home. but it spread pretty quickly. we understand there are four apartments inside this structure. two families were home at the time including young children, but everyone was able to get out safely. the only injuries reporte were from firefighter who hurt his ankle trying to help other firefight

lauren is in for katie and, meisha is here, good morning, ladies. >> lauren, great to see you. >> nice >> happy wednesday. >> we are looking outside and we are looking at some fog but it is patchy, it is scattered here and there we have one place with a speed restriction in play but that will be lifted. >> mess of the fog is closer to the coast but dense in some areas. watch out, if you are closer to the coast. we can check out visability down to half mile in atlantic city, down to .3 of a mile in trenton but in philadelphia, lehigh valley, berks county, no visibility problems, this morning, and temperatures, they are feeling g60 degrees right now in philadelphia, wind west at 9 miles an hour, we are chillier down the shore with cooler temperatures allowing that if you go to settle in. 45 degrees is current temperature close to that dew point so we are seeing foggy conditions. forty-seven in the poconos, little breezy as we have a wind child there before our day to day across the region it will be a beauty when that fog clears out, mostly sunny, 65. poconos look good, nice, 68 degrees.

johnson is at the scene, lauren?reporter: good morning, karen. we have gotten closer to the scene here to show you perspective. we understand that the van is here on the scene, you can see it is on 58th street, turned in the opposite direction, of traffic there and a officer tells me once they arrive from the scene the driver of the van had already bailed the car motorcycle, also still here on the scene as this becomes a crime scene as police try to investigate the accident and, find out what happened. two people ride ago this motorcycle were transported to the hospital with extremely severe, injuries, we understand, this happened around 3:30 this morning. so again, we do know that the van is on the scene, the driver of the van and whoever is responsible for this accident is not on the scene and that is who police are hoping, maybe returns to the scene and turns himself into explain exactly what happened while those two people in the hospital get a much needed medical treatment, karen? >>> thanks, lauren. >>> a natio

thank you so much, lauren. appreciate it.you have any more exciting news to share. >> no but i'm going to come up with some for the 11 o'clock. even if i have to make it up. >> you've got some time. let's get some exciting news from lesley or not. >> stringing a few wins together. jerad eickhoff on the mound. earlier today the phillies required todd kelly from the blue jays and placed buchholz on the dl. rocky inning giving up a solo homer o. that will cut the phils' lead to one. but law able to strike out tyler flowers with two on to get his second save, society phillies won four to three but pete mackanin not ready to give the closing trolly hector just yet. >> we don't have anybody that i would name as a closer or setup man. i think they're all setup men and we have a few guys that can close so we're just going to go along and see what happens. >> bring football wrapping up up -- spring football wrapping up for the temple owls. nice handoff to armstead to busts through the middle. cheery beat white 17-14. the highlight coa

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they just are relentless, lauren? >> clearing on out, but they will make a return as we led into the upcoming work week, but we will get little reprieve as we head into our sunday, we know we dealt with low clouds, light rain, cooler temperatures, 58 degrees, our high temperature in philly today about 8 degrees below average, and our coolest day, in over two weeks, time, and temperatures right now getting chilly. cloud decks starting to breakdown north and west of the city. allow temperatures to drop more efficiently, 47 in allentown, some 30's mount pocono, down to #r two -- 52 degrees in philadelphia. last of the shower activity moving off shore over the last hour. we stay dry through the overnight period. seeing clearing skies berks county, lehigh county poconos as well allowing temperatures to chill on down. we'll deal with slow area moving of slow pressure riding up the coast head into monday and tuesday, so light rain returns monday, periods of heavier rain on tuesday, and with the easterly wind flow, highs only

lauren lauren, "fox5 local news". >> metro is looking to make some major funding changes to keep the trains and buses in service. general manager paul wiedefeld says metro needs 15.5 over the next four years and he's looking to governments for that money and labor cast need to be cut in order to avoid a budget crisis and metro should have the flexibility to out-source some operations. many of the changed wiedefeld will need to make will be tough because they require approval by state and local government in the area metro serve. wiedefeld will be live on "fox5"news morning:30 to talk more about the proposal. >> controversial swelling among small business owners in old town, alexandria. >> it has to do with potential plans to revitalize the historic district. what does this mean for them and you. tisha lewis joining us live in old up to with more opt story, hi, tisha. >> eye, sarah, eye, tony, old time alexandria is known or home time field and mom and pop shops and seven ut of ten robberies will the locally opened. and if spokes have their way it revitalization plans to the near fact

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. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> hopefully you deposit have outdoor plans. it's been chilly, dreary, wet weather coming on top of yesterday's storms and take a look at damage left behind in colonial beach, virginia. there's a large tree, branches toppled over and fire truck ran off the road while trying to get through standing water and town impose aid curfew due to the storm damage that started 10 . no one is allowed to walk or ride in streets of sout southboundry avenue until the morning. >> doesn't look good there. fortunately today's rain didn't come with wind and hail too. here's a live look outside on saturday evening. tucker barnes is in for gwen tonight. hey, tucker. how long is this wet weather going to be stick around? >> that's a good question, matt, generally speaking the next couple days. although i think tomorrow a break and we'll not be a washout. probably just clouds for much of the day. we may even gets sunshine tomorrow. orin wet all day surprised as well and it looks like the rain hold off most of tomorrow and return again monday and tuesd

lauren now talking aut forecast.kies, are they looking bright. >> they are looking bright, start, log i talking with me. >> yes. >> a beautiful start to the foggy conditions, and chillier temperatures to the east of 95 greatly reduced visibility ac county, atlantic county, ocean county. visibility down to .3 of a mile in ac. temperatures 61 degrees in philadelphia, feeling fine but atlantic, brutal.h that east 44 degrees. we are at 45 in the poconos. beautiful day will the second hf the day. once fog clears temperatures will warm up. sixty-fiveow sho, 68 in the city and top out at 58 with sunshine in the much diffet story, powerful storm system moving in, period of rain both in the morning and lally strong thunderstorms, possibly isolate todd severe as well, times of the heavystng wind ande both commutes likely to be impact by this rain a activity. so you need extra time for both on your thursday. >> all right, lauren,nk head upn that. we can get no relief because of that rain. good thing your morning commute today i

lauren demarco live in manassas with this one tonight. hi, lauren. hey there, two young boys were trapped in the second story of this home when the fire broke out yesterday evening. two neighbors came to their aid. they put up ladders and were able to get the boys to safety. everyone else inside of the home was okay, but displaced. red crosses is helping them find a new place to stay. ate people involved fl we're going to talk to one of the men who helped save those boys. you will hear that coming up at 11 1 #. jim. and developing tonight, french police investigating a deadly shooting in paris. a gunman opened fire near a popular tourist destination killing a police officer and isis has claimed responsibility. authorities are trying to figure out if the gunman acted alone. fox's lauren blanchard with the latest tonight. >>reporter: a deadly police shooting in paris this evening leaving at least one officer dead. and now the terror group isis claiming responsibility. it looks like another terrorist attack and what can you say, it just never ends. pres