On the wrong side of the road. Announcer nbc 10 news starts now. For my child to not know danger or sense danger is very scary. New tonight, an nbc 10 exclusive. A mother demanding answers after she says her son, who has autism, was found alone outside his medical daycare center. Good evening, everyone. Im jim rosenfield. The Philadelphia School district says one of its bus drivers followed protocol when the 8yearold was dropped off. But his mother tells nbc 10, she was told an employee on a break spotted her son wandering alone outside and brought him to safety. Nbc 10s Andrea Klein Thomas went searching for answers. Reporter Gretchen Alford is holding on to her son a little tighter after a phone call she received on tuesday from one of the directors at laurens house. Thats the medical daycare facility armani goes to after school. She said, well, you know, armani is here, but we didnt know he was here. The bus didnt give us a call. One of the aides seen that he was discovered him outs
Area. Thats great news. Higher wind shear in place for now. That played a part in weakening the system with the exposed center, lower wind shear, longer term as it gets into the gulf of mexico and the warm gulf waters. It does have some potential to strengthen. So as we look at the spaghetti models. The trend has been to the west. They have been all over the place largely because this has not been a tropical system. But, the best thinking today is a little bit further west. Also, we thunderstorms moving across Pinellas County. Moving offshore. We will talk more about this is a little later on. All right, steve jerve thank you for that. We will check back with you again in just a little bit. Okay. Terrified and alone. An eightyearold girl dropped off more than 30 minutes from her bus stop. Her family turned to 8 on your side to figure out how this happened. Well, the eightyearold i was lost, confused, crying when a substitute bus driver dropped not by a stop or two, but a long way off.
Taking this through the Florida Strait then entering the gulf of mexico. The good news if you are us most of the models take this back to the west closer to the central gulf. It is maintained as a very weak system overall. A lot of good news we are seeing this morning in regards to the tropical disturbance. Heres our forecast model as we go through the day. Inland showers and thunderstorms developing. Theyll start to push back towards the coast. Think well see a better coverage of rain than we are the best chances, just like yesterday, will be south of i4. The rain chance starts to climb as we get an influx of tropical moisture from that tropical wave. Well break down that forecast track and show you exactly what to expect for the entire weekend ahead. Thats coming up in a few minutes. Thank you very much. New overnight a man is injured after a mobile home fire in lakeland. Firefighters responded to the home on new tampa highway just before 11 00 last night. The man has burns on his ha
Painkillers. Federal researchers say the number of people addicted in our area is well above the National Average. According to the u. S. Drug enforcement administration, more than 650 people died from drug overdoses in philadelphia in 2014. About 440 from heroin and painkillers alone. In camden county, the death rate is eight times the National Average from overdoses. In 2014 close to 800 people overdosed in the state. In the past six years close to 2 00,000 people were hospitalized for opioid abuse f. Forred a ilkts it il for addicts its a struggle to stay clean. We have a guest here specializing in implantable treatments for a variety of issues. Tell us about how brayburn is trying a new approach to treating drug addiction. For almost any chronic disease, and addiction, as we know, is a chronic brain disease that needs long term treatment, an implantable you can have inserted and then not have to worry about remembering would be incredibly helpful. I would love to have a liptor impl
Officers apprehended him, he is also in the hospital. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live outside of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center where officer hartnett is being treated. Katie, how is he doing . Vai, i spoke to his dad not long ago and he said hes out of surgery, hes in good spirits. As you said, the injured officer was brought here to penn Presbyterian Hospital. Since then hes undergone hour hours of surgery. Hes spoken to detectives in his hospital room about being ambushed and shot while sitting in his patrol car. One of the first People Philadelphia Police officer Jesse Hartnett saw when he woke up from surgery his dad. I love him. Im very proud of him. Hes an excellent person. Reporter Robert Hartnett gets choked up thinking about the close call his son had while patrolling streets of West Philadelphia thursday night. 33yearold officer hartnett was stopped at an intersection when police say a gunman walked up to his patrol car shooting rapid fire at him. Heres the radio call. Shots f