Short time ago. Police say just before 9 00 this morning a caller said a teen with a gun was on his way here to mlk. The school was placed in lockdown. Police also say this stems from an investigation earlier this week regarding a stolen gun used in an Armed Robbery. The lockdown was put in place because a student was identified as being a member of the Martin Luther king student community. Reporter did he bring a gun to school, sir . No, he did not bring a gun to school. He never entered the school grounds. Reporter again, police tell us there was never a threat to anyone at the school or the school itself but nonetheless we have seen parents arriving to pick up their students, their children, were working on that for you at 11 30. Live in germantown, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Meanwhile, police have a teenage suspect but still no weapon following yesterdays gun scare at the Community College of philadelphia. This was the breaking news that we first brought you yesterday on nbc 10
Alert traffic were watching construction in new jersey. That will only be out there until 6 00 which is about right now. Well have updates for you as soon as theyre cleerds out of the way. If youre heading out of the door on to the schuylkill expressway, right now currently no problems. This is right around the vine street expressway. Eastbound, no problems from the blue route to the vine. Still a 13minute trip if youre heading eastbound. We havent budged in our drive tame, so a good time. Mass transit, were in the clear this morning. Vai . A transgender woman is murdered by a group of men in the middle of a philadelphia street but police say its too early to call it a hate crime. Katy zachry is live for us right now. What are the police waiting for in order to rule this homicide a hate crime . Reporter theyre waiting for more information. Yesterday they spent the information talk to people in this area and theyre also looking for Surveillance Video. We asked them about the motive mind
Morning . Reporter it was in this area where were standing just over 24 hours ago when police found 22yearold Keisha Jenkins dead in the middle the street. The morning i did talk to homicide detectives who say theyre still looking for the group of men believed to have attacked her. Here is a picture of the victim, 22yearold keisha jenkinjenkin. Police say minutes before the attack she had been dropped off. They believe a group of five or six men beat her and then shot her in the back. Shes the second transgender woman murdered in philadelphia this year. Its a tragic loss for the city of philadelphia, for the Lgbt Community and for this individuals family, friends and loved ones. Reporter homicide detectives tell us it is still too early to call it a hate crime. Theyre still considering that the motivation was robbery. Coming up, well look closely at how social media is helping to play a role in potentially solving this case. Its 5 32, happening today a hearing on the financialji e fu o
This is nbc 10 news today, im tracy davidson. And im chris cato. First alert meteorologist bill henley is standing by with a first look at the weather. This morning with a few clouds moving through the area, were looking at 50s and 60s. 57 in pottstown, lancaster is 59 degrees, toms river dropped to 48, 61 degrees at philadelphia international. Northeast philadelphia just into the upper 50s. Well see plenty of sunshine like yesterday. The humidity stays low, another warm one. 59 at 6 00 within by 9 00, 62 degrees, wind at 10 miles an hour at lunchtime, 59 degrees. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back at in 10 a lot of roadwork around garrard afd has pingd up. Head out the door on 422 were everything is in the green eastbound where we see the delay. But thats not happening yet. We only have a 9 minute drive time right now. On the boulevard, watch out for the inner drive blocked. When i come back well going to check in with the vine street expressway. In dhorthis morning th
Nearby to shut their doors and windows in order to avoid falling embers. All you smelt was smoke. You couldnt really see anything out the window. Then it let up and thats when you saw like it was raining fire. Actually the rain and the weather conditions usually hamper us helped us with the rain was very heavy. So, any embers that landed on the roofs of buildings, the rain was helping to extinguish it. Reporter even after the fire was brought under control, hot spots kept crews busy for hours. After the aftermath we saw stacks on paint cans and freestanding walls on the brink of clapping as how the damaging fire began. One firefighter did suffer minor injuries as a result of this fire. The good news if there is any in all of this, none of the homes were damaged. Tracie strahan, news 4 new york. A group of long island teenagers is accused of vandalizing a soccer field so badly that it cost 10,000 to fix. It happened in the overnight hours of september 11th of all days. Police arrested f