Cool temperatures to start the day. Bill is here with a look at what we can expect. Good morning. Good morning chris. The temperatures will be climbing climbing. The humidity is higher will go higher not only today but over the next few days. The temperatures 76 degrees in philadelphia. Trenton and wilmington in the low 70s, 69 degrees in pottstown but were headed for the 90s this afternoon with just a light breeze blowing. Bright sunshine well see it during the day and warm things up to near 80 degrees by 9 00. By lunch time 86 degrees with mostly sunny skies. Well go through neighborhood by neighborhood with the forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Right now, Jessica Boyington has a look at your first alert traffic. Jessica . We are on the schuylkill expressway where we are dealing with ongoing construction on the schuylkill expressway, Spring Garden off ramp. Youll not have access to the schuylkill expressway westbound from this ramp. As you can see, it says road closed in our cameras. Still an 11minute drive time headed westbound from the blue route. Eastbound doing fine as well. Girard avenue to the schuylkill expressway in this direction and youll be just fine. As for the pa turnpike moving along nicely east and westbound. Just a 23minute trip at the most. Mass transit one no problems or delays for new jersey transit, septa or the patco speed line. Rammed rolled and arrested. Weve had new developmented in the past hour involving that robbery suspect from last night who led police on a wild chase that went back and forth between philadelphia and south jersey for two hours. Nbc 10s katy zachry live for us in southwest philadelphia. Katy, whats happening now . This was quite a wild chase, chris, youre right. Earlier this morning, the suspect was escorted into southwest detectives right behind me. Thats after he was released from the hospital following this twohour long police chase. Here is video of him. What our cameras caught as he was going into southwest detectives. Sources tell nbc 10 he is Robert Ritter from blackwood, new jersey. You can see the highspeed chase he led police on for over two hours last night. He drove the white van from oakland, new jersey then into philadelphia throughout the city, back to new jersey where he sped through a crowded mall parking lot and once again into philadelphia. Philly police say he crashed near the airport after he tried to navigate a tight turn. He just looked dazed and confused. Were fortunate no one was injured, the public. The officers did a nice job, the Aviation Unit the Pennsylvania State police from oakland, staying behind the car at a safe distance. Ritter is wanted for robbing a new Jersey Business with a shotgun. They did consider him armed and dangerous last night. They also told us why this police chase happening on a monday night actually helped them. Well talk about that coming up in the next half hour. Reporting live in southwest philadelphia katy zachry nbc 10 news. Man, what a chase, though. Well give you some perspective, though, this twostate chase, well map it out for you so you can understand why it lasted so long and took police so long to stop the guy. Here is oakland, new jersey in camden county. The guy start in oakland, he goes across the walt whitman bridge the sports complex, south philadelphia gets back on 95, he goes 295 a little bit there, goes down on to the black horse pike back up into camden. Takes a tour of camden Gloucester City on to 42 south and down to the deptford mall where he actually drives through the mall parking lot. Pardon me as i crouch. Takes a tour there. Police are still following him. He goes back up 42 back into camden decides then to get on 676. He doesnt have to pay the toll there obviously. He goes into philadelphia, old city drives past the liberty bell, independence mall, goes up frankford avenue to north philly before he somehow gets on to Delaware Avenue back down past sugarhouse casino. Dont know if he tried to stop and play slots or anything. Back down all the way across the river on 95 the schuylkill that is towards the airport where he eventually gets off of 95 there near the airport and thats when police were finally able to do that pit maneuver and stop the van. Im exhausted. Explaining that. Clearly had guy had a full tank of gas when the chase started. The amazing thing is no one was injured in all of that. Great work by police there. If you want an even better look at how that chase unfolded check the nbc 10 mobile app for a closer look. We produced a time lapsed video so you can watch the entire twohour chase in just about six minutes. Happening today, a philadelphia man accused of stabbing his wife and 1yearold daughter will face a judge in maryland. Police arrested Stephen Burton sunday night. Now, its unclear at this time when hell be brought back to philadelphia to face charges. One of his neighbors told nbc 10 she heard his wife, Danecia Burton screaming inside her home in West Oak Lane sunday morning she went over to see what was happening and saw Stephen Burton standing over her, cutting her with a knife. Police say Stephen Burton also stabbed the 1yearold daughter in the stomach. Both mother and child remain in critical condition. Jury selection resumes in the trial of a man accused of murdering a perspective buyer from craigslist. Thomas coffey faces a list of charges. Cook was gunned down in West Oak Lane in 2013. Police say he was in the area to buy an atv that he saw advertised on craigslist. They say when cook showed up to make the purchase coffey robbed and killed him. Happening today, a panel will gather to look at a new report that proposes implementing universal prek. This comes on the heels of a new study showing the majority of prek centers fall short of delivering highquality education to children. That study revealed it costs on average close to 12,000 a year to educate a child. State funding for each child falls about 3,000 short of that. You think of a room of ten children, thats a gap of 30,000 that a high Quality Center has to make up some way, often through outside donations in order to provide the quality of care kids need to succeed. This push is part of a nationwide effort by the obama administration. Advocates say Research ShowsEarly Childhood learning is critical in making sure children start school prepared. Getting prepared in another way here preparing for the pope. Believe it or in the, were less than two months away from Pope Franciss historic visit to philadelphia. The pressure is building for city officials to release a plan of how people can get around while the pontiff is in town. Tracy davidson is live in our digital operations center. This is pretty Important Information the city still hasnt shared with anyone. Right . Its estimated 2 Million People will jam the city for the popes visit in late september. How am i supposed to get from point a to point b . Mayor Michael Nutter adressed the issue yesterday. He said city leaders have yet to decide on street closures and security zones. The mayor emphasized keeping pope francis safe is a priority. Im not planning to give every nut case in the universe a significant amount of advanced information from a security standpoint as exactly where and when and how and what route pope francis will be transported. So its a balance. Also yesterday, septa was supposeded to announce when it would put the papal Regional Rail passes back on sale. It postponed the announcement until sometime later this week. Last week youll remember septa and website crashed on the first day, within the first few hours of selling those special passes. One community in bucks county declare a state of emergency to handle the popes visit. Middletown townships police chief recommended that declaration. The townships woodbourne septa station is one of the five train stations during the papal visit. Maybe he knows its going to require more Police Officers but it might be a little bit of an overkill. Im planning on working from home that week just so i dont have to deal with the whole train schedule. It would also give the township access to federal money for Police Overtime and other expenses probably the main motivator there. You can count on nbc 10 to help you get ready for the papal visit. Just use the nbc 10 mobile app and look for the special section called preparing for the pope. Well tell you where you can see pope francis and well stay on top of all of the transportation changes. Ahead in the next half hour not everyone will get a chance to see the pope in person but one group from south jersey has an unorthodox plan. Youll learn what theyll do to get a view. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Ten minutes after 4 00. We have a humid day ahead and the temperatures will be rising. High heat high humidity. Weve got a heat wave brewing that will take us right on through the weekend and beyond. The longest duration heat wave of the summer so far is just ahead. 68 degrees right now, though, in doylestown, nace and clear. Just a few scattered clouds in philadelphia and millville with readings in the 70s at this hour. Its dry on beach avenue no showers heading your way today. The few sprinkles that we saw overnight are moving offshore. Now with the higher humidity were watching for areas of fog, seeing light fog in pottstown, just under a mile visibility. Its hazleton in the pocono mountains thats getting dense fog at quartermile visibility. No fog in delaware or south jersey. The high clouds are monthing out ingmoving out. Sprinkles are offshore. There are thunderstorms in our future. Just wont see them today. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast 88 for mt. Pocono 94 in allentown, reading at 93 degrees. A steamy day for Doylestown Trenton and mt. Holly and at the shore, middle 80s for cape may and atlantic city. Whats closer to 90 in vineland and lots of sunshine. Youll notice the higher humidity throughout the day. Wilmington and williamstown, all in the low 90s this afternoon. More on the threat of thunderstorms when the come back for the extended future weather in ten minutes. Chris . Thank you for the heads up. Well stand by for that. Lets give you all a heads up before you head out on the roads this morning. Nbc 10s traffic report Jessica Boyington is here for that. We start off on the vine street expressway. All lanes open. That ongoing construction not around right now on 24th street. Right here were heading westbound towards the schuylkill expressway. These two left lanes, a threeminute drive time westbound from 95 to the schuylkill. The philadelphia drive times no be pros for 95, the schuylkill or the blue route. Chris . From a disturbing discovery to a neighborhood mystery. Next were learning new details about that box of human remains we told you about that was found in a vacant lot in philadelphia. Wait until you hear who we found on that one. Plus smoke pours from the backyard of this house. Why police were called instead of the fire department. Iran keeps their nuclear facilities. Military sites can go uninspected. Restrictions end after 10 years. Then iran could build a Nuclear Weapon in two months. Iran has violated 20 International Agreements and is the leading state sponsor of terrorism. 4 15. We now know more about the box of cremated remains we told you about yesterday found in an empty lot in north philadelphia. A woman reached out to nbc 10 and said she was friends with the deceased woman whose name was linda up sshur. I knew her for like three or four years. My husband passed away. When i moved out i left a lot of things behind. I guess thats how you guys found her ashes. She says she never intended disrespect. The box of ashes is now in Police Custody but upshur could get the proper scattering friends say she always wanted. More than 1,200 firefighters will continue battling that fire raging for days near fresno california. The willow fire. It broke out saturday afternoon and has torched more than 1,500 acres now. The fire is still only about 5 contained despite a steady air attack. Dry grass and fallen trees from previous wildfires are fueling the flames. Not too far away from that in Sacramento County a suspect is behind bars on multiple counts of arson after allegedly setting a grass fire. The browning fire has burned 450 acres and destroyed several homes. We expect a guilty plea from the upstate new york woman charged with helping two convicted murders escape from that prison last month. Joyce mitchell hid hacksaw blades and other tools in frozen meat that was eventually given to david sweat and richard matt. After three week on the run matt was shot and killed by police sweat was captured and taken back into custody. 4 17 now. A Florida Community is hoping for the safe return of two teens who went missing when they went out on a fishing trip friday. Yesterday, hundreds had of people gathered to pray for Austen Stephanos and cohen. On sunday those two were on a 19foot boat and the boat they were found on the boat was capsized about 70 miles offshore, 170 miles north of where they left. A captain who was on the water the same day the teens left he says there was a bad storm headed toward the shore. He says all of the boats were racing toward the inlet except for three, including the one the missing boys may have been aboard. The storm was gone. I turned around and looked back there. It was like this it was nice out but you know, i had no idea what happened to them. Navy crews are a part of the u. S. Coast guards expanded search of the florida coastline today. 4 18 now. Lawyers for Comedian Bill Cosby is appealing a judges decision to unseal Court Filings that revealed controversial admissions about his sexual encounters. Earlier this month, a judge unsealed cosbys deposition in a Sexual Battery lawsuit involving a former Temple University employee. The documents, quote, cosby is saying he gave the women quaaludes before sexual incounters. Its cosbys only testimony under oath about accusations he sexually assaulted several women. A woman says smoke from her neighbors barbecue grill was so strong it made her eyes water and she even got a headache. Thats the focus of an ongoing feud that has gone viral. A county environmental specialist cited the man for producing too much smoke. The brothers say theyre being harassed. The woman shot video of smoke coming from the grill which the men say shes video of the smoke citation has been viewed online over 4 million times. Now your first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Getting a warm start and watching for areas of fog, hasnt hit philadelphia and probably will not. Some of the western suburbs seeing fog with the higher humidity thats going to stay with us through the day. Here you can see a little bit of haze on the horizon. This is a view from the Comcast Center in center city. The humidity up there at 58 . So far, were 5 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time. Its going to be a hotter afternoon, too. Boathouse road is all lit up. Well see lots of sunshine to push the temperatures into the 90s later today. Were watching the radar screen. We saw a pop of showers and thunderstorms yesterday afternoon. Theyre out of the picture right now. The next round of showers and thunderstorms, a long way away. Its moving through the dakotas. Well be watching that for later on thursday. Thursday afternoon, thats a cold front that will be coming into the area. Behind it some drier air. Well feel the humidity come down as we go into the end of the week but before this line moves in heat and humidity will be building in our area and the temperatures will soar over the next few days. Then come thursday afternoon, here we go well be tracking a line of showers and thunderstorms. Thats 2 00 thursday afternoon. That will be sweeping through the philadelphia area most likely during the evening commute. Hot, humid weather is ahead and it starts today. Sunny skies, hot and humid into the 90s this afternoon. And well feel even hotter tomorrow in the days to come. Got the sevenday forecast with the details when im back in the next half hour. Steamy. Thank you bill. 4 21. Lets see how the brave to work is shaping up for those of you who like to head out the door in the wee morning hours. Heres Jessica Boyington. Were doing a big check on new jersey roads 295 around the black horse pike. Inactive work zone but were losing the righthand lane lefthand shoulder, excuse me, on both sides. 13 minutes from 38 up towards this point at the black horse pike. The 42 freeway is looking okay as well. Northbound is typically where well see the volume in the morning hours. 55 up toward the walt whitman bridge, a fiveminute trip. Currently no problems on the walt whitman bridge. The rest of the area bridges okay as well. No opening scheduled for the tac pal. Well have more drive times coming up in the next ten minutes. Chris . 4 22 now. Officials in south jersey are urging people to attend two public hearings surrounding the states proposal to build a natural gas pipeline. The state wants to build that pipeline through burlington monmouth and ocean counties. Todays hearing are happening at 3 00 p. M. And 6 00 p. M. Both at the Manchester TownshipMunicipal Building at 1 colonial drive. Mystery solved. This woman was hurt in a frightening crash but she never figured out who came to her aid until nbc 10 stepped in. Well take you to their reunion. Plus this you think youre better than me . I challenge you to do the whip. Oh, yeah. Thats your pintsize challenge there. Wait until you see who this brave little girl wants to see bring their best moves. Nbc 10 was there last night when a woman met the Good Samaritan who helped her after she was injured riding her bicycle on the Schuylkill River trail. She met steve klein for the first time. Carrie says she hit another rider and flipped off her bike. She was knocked unconscious and woke up to find a strange man holding her neck. The mystery man left after the ambulance arrived. She wanted help tracking down her mystery helper and last night she met him in person. After the accident i kept asking my husband who this person was, this person i woke up to and, you know, all i know is his name is steve but there happened to be a picture on one of the bikers phones. We were all very concerned about her and never expected to know anything more and the fact that she reached out through facebook and nbc 10 is just an amazing testament to the power of social media today. Pretty awesome, isnt it . Carrie gave steve a cycling shirt for the group she rides with which raises money for cancer research. Carrie says shes okay and ready to get back on the bike soon. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. 4 26. 74 degrees. A light, gentle breeze blowing this morning. Temperatures set to climb this afternoon. The beginning of what appears to be the most serious heat wave of the summer so far. Jessica boyington is watching first alert traffic. Jessica . And, bill were looking live at an empty roadway at 309 right near the pa turnpike. Well check more roadways coming up at 4 30. Under arrest after two hours and tons of twists and turns. Next were learning more about the driver who led police on that wild chase to jersey back to philadelphia to jersey and back to philadelphia again. Eeeeohmumohweh hush my darling. Dont fear my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. [snoring. ] hush my darling. [snoring. ] dont fear my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. [snoring. ] take the roar out of snore. Yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. Nbc 10 news starts now. The driver who led police on a twohour twostate chase had a busy night. This morning we have new information about what happened to that driver overnight. Doing more than shopping. Police arrested this man inside a walmart for allegedly recording video under a womans skirt. This may be just the start of their investigation. Temperatures are heating up. Today we should hit 90. As youll see, its only the beginning of a hot week ahead. Its 4 30. Good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. It even looks steamy out there this morning just looking at it. You can tell the humidity is back when you step outside. Guess who else is back . Bill henley. He is. He came back for another day. Cant have one without the other. Cant have humidity without henley. Let me show you whats happening outside. The temperatures will be running higher throughout the day. Its warmer in philadelphia, at 76 degrees