Transcripts For WCAU Early Today 20150311

Im chris cato. Lets begin with meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Its warmer out there, too. It is warmer. We are seeing a few lingering showers and foggy conditions. Those are the conditions that you see heading to work. This afternoon its going to be nice and mild with temperatures into the 60s. But a live look outside right now is cape may. Take it easy as you head to work this morning. 46 degrees in philadelphia. 42 in pottstown. 37 in allentown. Mid40s in cape may. Take a closer look at the foggy conditions, visibility is down to a quarter mile in allentown. One mile in reading. Lancaster is seeing foggy conditions. Philadelphia is down to four miles. Three miles in millville. One mile in Atlantic City. We have a fog advisory in effect until 6 00 a. M. Definitely be careful and take it easy. Theres a look at the lingering showers. Heading throughout the rest of the day, expect temperatures to range between 58 and 51. Early showers and fog. Then clearing and mild conditions to end for us on this wednesday. It will be a nice afternoon. Now well check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele for trouble spots on the road. No serious accidents to report. We have fog in the area and the roads are wet this morning, so slow down and take your time. This is route 309 near the pennsylvania turnpike near Fort Washington montgomery county. 309 is quiet and so is the pennsylvania turnpike. Checking your travel times on route 202, its average start starting. A man is in custody after he tried to firebomb a home around 2 30 this morning on palmetto street. The Police Caught the suspect a few blocks away thanks to a witness who saw him running from the scene. The atf and Homeland Security were notified. Nobody was injured. Today Kathleen Cain will be inside a philadelphia courtroom to watch a Supreme Court hearing about her criminal case. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live outside city hall where the hearing is going to take place with what to expect today. Katie . Reporter Kathleen Cain is going to be inside city hall here today because she wants to hear the arguments against her. So later today the state Supreme Court will consider whether a judge had the authority to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the attorney general. The investigation centered around whether cains office gave secret grand jury materials to a newspaper. The grand jury run by special prosecutor Thomas Carluccio has recommended she be charged with perjury. Ahead of today we contacted the lawyer representative Kathleen Cain to find out his thoughts. Ill share that you at 4 30. Reporting live in front of city Hall Katy Zachry nbc 10 news. Six public figures from philadelphia are charged in a corruption investigation that attorney general cain did not pursue. Louis bishop and michelle brownley and harold james turned themselves in yesterday accused of taking bribes from a lobbyist working undercover for prosecutors. Philadelphias District Attorney took up this investigation after cain dropped it because she said it was motivated by racism and politics. I am insulted when someone would allege something to be racist. When they know it is not. Now cain has previously said that the probe was too flawed to yield any conviction. The others charged in this case are representatives ron waters and Vanessa Lowery brown and thomas tine who pleaded guilty and is serving two years in prison. 4 04. Heads are still spinning this morning and some people are scratching those heads after another surprising trade by eagles coach chip kelly. The team is now quarterback with the st. Louis rams. We are live with more on this move and what fans are saying about it. Tracy . Reporter youre right. Fans are not happy with chip kellys decision going, huh . Lets go to the details of the trade. The eagles get sam bradford plus the rams fifth draft pick this year. Bradford missed two of the last seasons including last year. In exchange the eagles are giving up draft picks. Nick foles made the playoffs in the pro bowl. They had the best quarterback rating in the nfl in his first year under chip kelly but had a broken clavicle most of last year. We asked fans what they think about this decision and most were unable to grasp trading fole. What if hes wrong . I dont think anybody will be happy and he wont be here long if he is. He said he thinks outside the box, but i think he should have kept him. Youre not standing behind him . No. And its still unclear if bradford will be quarterback or if hell be used as a chip to get marcus mariotta. Tracy davidson nbc 10 news. Another possible chip for chip. Thank you. 4 06 now. Jurors in the retrial of a philadelphia priest are accused of molesting an altar boy. They will continue deliberating today even though it appears they have reached an impasse. Edward mccormick was first tried last year but the jury couldnt reach a jury then after four days of deliberation. Mccormick assaulted the boy in 1997 when the boy was 11. The archdiocese of philadelphia says mccormick is onned a min stray stray administrative leave after another accusation was brought against him. Mark hottsteyer took a teen girl to his apartment and had sex with free. He was freed last month. And dash cam video from december shows warwich officers stopping Jeffrey Hamilton who smelled like alcohol, had slurred speech and failed three sobriety tests. In the video hamilton is heard asking the officers to call the mayor of warwich township which the officers did not do. And one of these officers is accused of stealing thousands of dollars and the chief is under investigation after a security worker says he dropped his pants in front of her. The womans lawyer said last thursday she was working at the entrance to the Public Safety building when she asked chief dennis brooks to remove metal from his pockets to go through screening. At that point chief brooks undid his belt pulled down his pants and told the client he was having a bad day. Standing there in his underwear . Standing through in his underwear. One of the highest ranking members of government. The security worker has not said if shell file a lawsuit but she does want brooks to be reprimand reprimanded. We have made several attempts to get the fire chiefs story but we have not received a response from him. Not far away in margate a firefighter is charged with stealing thousands of dollars from his union. Michael palmer stole more than 75,000 from the margate firemans union. He took that between 2011 and 2014 while the union treasurer. He was suspended last year after prosecutors were notified about the irregularities in the unions bank account. Good morning. As we head into the rest of this wednesday, we are going to see warm conditions. As you can see from the shot there at cape may, its a soggy start to the morning and a foggy start. Well see the fog advisory in effect until 6 00 a. M. And then well start to see a little more clearing and mild conditions to settle in for us once again. Temperatures yesterday close to 60 degrees and well see the same again today. So theres a closer look at how foggy it is in allentown. Down to one mile in reading. Six in pottstown. Four in philadelphia. Three in millville. For Atlantic City were down to about one mile and three miles for mount holly. We have cloudy conditions and a few lingering showers moving into parts of south jersey at this time. But we should pretty much be done with all the isolated showers within the next hour or so. Stepping out the door a fairly mild start. 46 degrees in philadelphia. 42 in pottstown. 47 in allentown. Temperatures in the pocanos at 40 degrees. For the rest of today, well see our temperatures warming into the 60s. 60 degrees today and well stay clear, nice and dry. But im tracking another round of rain getting closer to the weekend. Ill have the sevenday forecast coming up in ten minutes. Temps in the 60s, how about that . Ten minutes after 4 00 this morning. As brittney said theres a fog advisory. Well see if thats causing trouble for people out there on the roads this morning. Jillian mele is watching that for us. Good morning. Temps in the 60s, well take that any day. That sounds fantastic. Good news on the roads with no serious accidents. We have wet roads out there and are dealing with a bit of fog, so slow down and take your time. This is what it looks like along 95 at route 413. You can see as far as traffic goes, theres none out there right now. So it is a quiet start for most of the area highways. In fact, the drive times on the northeast extension are looking good both ways between quakertown and the midcounty interchange. 21 to 22 minutes average speeds in the 60s. Chris . Well, philadelphia will take a big step forward this morning in the planning for the popes visit in september. The announcement expected later today and how local companies are already benefiting from the pontiffs trip months ahead of time. Plus, a little boy found locked in a car outside a local casino. Who sounded the alarm and how long that boy was left crying alone . 4 13. There are patches of fog out there, so take it slow. A live look over center city and 46 degrees this morning. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp says were headed for the low 60s. Can you believe it . A couple weeks ago it was 6. Now 60 today. A nice change. New this morning, theres more fallout from the Deadly Police shooting in ferguson missouri. The city manager john shaw resigned last night. His resignation comes after a Justice Department review found patterns of racial bias in the Police Department and in the city offices. In shaws Resignation Letter he said his office never instructed police to target africanamericans. This morning members of the fraternity at the university of oklahoma are out of a place to stay. Their frat house was closed amid a scandal over a racist video. That video shows members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting. One of the students in the video issued a statement reading in part, quote, this is a devastating lesson and i am seeking guidance on how i can learn from this and make sure it never happens again. My goal for the long term is to be a man who has the heart and courage to reject racism wherever i see or experience it in the future. 4 15 now. Happening today, a court date for the man charged with assassinating a coworker at her bus stop in north philadelphia. Randolph sanders facing a preliminary hearing charged in the murder of kim jones in january happening at the corner of 12th street. Jones was about to report him to dhs for mismanaging money at the Nonprofit Agency where they both worked. This morning a philadelphia man is charged with leaving his young son alone in the car while he went to play blackjack. Brian boles was arrested after leaving his 7yearold in the car while he went inside to gamble. A passerby noticed the child crying in the parked car for his father and called police. Thats just unfathomable. I wouldnt leave a dog or cat in the car let alone a child. Police believe the boy was alone for about 45 minutes before they found his father. Boles is charged with endanger endangering the welfare of a child. A truck driver accused of hitting a pennsylvania worker is out on bail this morning. Hes facing homicide by vehicle charges in the death of road worker bill debogan. Hes accused of crashing his tractortrailer into construction vehicles and has this message for other drivers. Be careful on the roads. Its a very serious charge. And anybody can be where im at right now. So slow down. Jenson has a preliminary hearing set for march 24th. The families of another injured worker didnt want to talk to us on camera. A coworker will be arraigned today for allegedly beating a man to death at a camden trucking company. Police arrested Antonio Cunningham yesterday for the murder of harry hogans jr. Who was found two weeks ago inside a break room at the river Road Trucking company. Prosecutors believe cunningham killed him and then ran away with company money. 4 17 now. Today pennsylvania lawmakers will hear from politicians, labor experts and clergy among others at a hearing in philadelphia on bills to raise the minimum wage. That starts at 10 00 at temple university. The bills would increase the minimum wage to 10. 10 an hour and also raise the minimum for workers who make tips to 70 of that 10. 10. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf is on board with raising the minimum wage. He supports the 10. 10 increase and supports future minimum wage increases tied to a cost of living index. Well well find out today who will make up the committee for the world meeting of families in philadelphia. That Committee Chairs and vicechairs for the weeklong conference in september will be announced later this morning. Now in just about six months the world family meeting conference will be held ending with a mass with pope francis presiding over the mass. A million and a half people are expected to come to philadelphia for that. Businesses in this area are already cashing in on the benefits of the popes visit later this year. The moravian tile works in bucks county had a big boom after pennsylvanias former governor tom corbett and his wife gave tiles from that company to the pope during a visit to the vatican last march. We are months behind in filling orders. So in anticipation of a large demand this time weve started production way ahead and are stockpiling them. So at the door they may not have to wait as long to get them. Meanwhile at a shrine in ben salem they are getting ready to learn about philadelphias own st. Driscoll. Good morning. Heading into the rest of your wednesday, temperatures today are very similar to what we saw yesterday, well above average pushing to 60 degrees. Were dealing with a fog advisory in effect until 6 00 a. M. Be careful as you leave the home and mild again. More rain back in the sevenday forecast. Its warm but were in an sun unsettled weather pattern. For the entire area we are still seeing a few showers. Heres what it looks like on radar. The feelslike temperature is 43. Throughout the region 40 degrees in Atlantic City. 48 in Atlantic City. 40 degrees in reading. And temperatures today will push into the 60s, which will be very nice. 40 degrees in mount pocano. 38 in shenandoah. 40 currently in reading and coatsville. Temperatures in horsham at 44. 45 degrees in friendton. If you live closer to woodvine, 49. 47 in millville. Temperatures in dover, 48 degrees. The big difference from this side yesterday, we were up about 16 degrees in mount holly. Up 16 in Atlantic City. 18 in millville. Our fog advisory shows how low the visibility is if youre in doylestown, down to 3 miles. Down to a quarter mile in allentown. Down to a quarter mile in lancaster. 6 in wilmington and 4 in millville. A lot of dense fog out there that is going to reduce your visibility. You want to be careful driving. The satellite radar shot shows scattered showers moving through parts of the area mainly throughout the pocanos and right along Cape May County parts of salem and Cumberland County as well. Everywhere else will see dry conditions heading throughout thursday. Then heading into friday, were going to track our next disturbance that will move in friday night and last until saturday. Yesterday we saw a high of 59 degrees. Our average for this time of the year is 50 degrees. Well be ten degrees above average today. Temperatures on your thursday dropping down to 52 but still pretty nice out. 58 to 61 is the range today. Early showers with fog. Then well start to clear out and see mild conditions settleing in. A nice and enjoyable afternoon once we get rid of the fog and also the showers. The sevenday forecast shows temperatures in the low 50s approaching the weekend. Then more rain friday night into saturday. 4 21 now and time for a check on the first alert traffic. Jillian mele has a look at the roads. Any problems out there with fog so far jillian . We are seeing a bit of fog out there, but im not seeing much in my cameras. So you could run into patchy fog. Keep that in mind this morning. This is a live look in center city, philadelphia. The vine street expressway out near 76. What we can see in the cameras, the roads are wet out there this morning. So you can expect to see some slippery conditions. Just make sure you take your time and youre aware you could run into that. Checking drive times on 76 between the blue route and vine very average start right now at 12 minutes in both directions. Chris . The legal battle over a smash hit is over. And the line is no longer blurred. Next how much robin thick and pharrell have to pay up for ripping off marvin gay. It was a smash hit two summers ago but now Pharrell Williams and robin thick are being charged for copying blurred lines. The family says williams and thicke went beyond giving it up. That could be bad more a musician to mimic another artists sound. 4 25 now. And now to the race for the mayor of philadelphia. We are now past the deadline for candidates to file petitions for nomination. Here are some of the contenders in the race for mayor in philadelphia. Now these petition results wont be official until later today. And you, of course can count on nbc 10 for continuing coverage leading up to the mayors race in philadelphia. From our delaware bureau, state leaders are discussing a plan that could be good news for tourists and state business owners. The Small Business administration led a tour of wilmingtons south ridge neighborhood yesterday. If this is a key spot on the underground Railroad Harriet tubman led thousands of slaves north from the maryland state line in kent county. Officials are working on a plan to better mark the tubman byway. The message is clear. We can all tout history in opening our doors to tourists and additional businesses along the way. The project would highlight businesses where tourists can shop and eat along the byway. The Small Business administration is expected to start brainstorming some sessions soon. Well keep you posted. And speaking of tourism, one jersey shore beach will be getting bigger sooner than anticipated. Work on a beach widening project in Long Beach Island will start next month. It was originally planned for august but the equipment became available earlier than expected. And new jersey homeowners still recovering from Superstorm Sandy may get a better idea of when theyll receive financial help. Steve between sweeney is giving estimates on when they will get their funds. The governor vetoed that plan last year. And good morning. Im tracking a foggy start to your morning. A fog advisory in effect until 6 00 a. M. With a few lingering showers. But it will be a mild afternoon. Jillian . All right, sounds good. Good morning to you if youre waking up in delaware traveling 95. Your drive times are average 10 to 11 minutes between 295 and 495. Past top prosecutor heads to court today. The argument her lawyers are expected to make to keep her from facing charges. Eagles nation is in a tizzy this morning after a big swap. Who is out of the nest and what it means for the eagles future . And our cameras captured heavy rainfall in montgomery county. But the rain is moving out and dense fog remains for much of the area. Heres a live look at center city, philadelphia this morning. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. We are off to a warm start this morning. And wait until you see how warm it may get today. Well start with meteorologist Brittney Shipp and her first alert forecast. Good morning brittney. Its a mild start to the morning as we head into the afternoon with temperatures pushing into the 60s. Were also dealing with