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WCAU NBC 10 News At 11p February 20, 2015

Police tell me there is no motive as of yet for this shooting. They did tell me however, the victim is 44 years old. They are working on identifying him through the limo company. Were not sure where the suspects are at this point. Police are searching this only neighborhood. Thats where were live. Keith jones, nbc 10 news. We also following breaking weather news. Temperatures getting so low, all Public Schools in delaware will be closed tomorrow. You can see the delays running on the bottom of your screen. Tonight we have live team coverage. George spencer is checking on the districts that to have school and finding out how they plan it keep kids safe. We begin with sheena parveen, sheena, how cold will it get . Itll be 0 degrees or colder. Feels like temperature could be minus 20. As we go through tonight and into friday, mostly tomorrow morning, friday morning, dangerous cold setting in. Feels like temperature, like i mentioned, anywhere from minus 10 to minus 20 degrees mostly in morning tomorrow. You could get frostbite in this type of weather, which in 30 minutes, if you are not covered youed into the to cover the exposed skin. Youve been hearing us say that pretty much all week wrong. It feels like 9 below in philadelphia. Feels like 13 below in allentown. These numbers will get colder through overnight hours. Here is the future feels like temperature. 7 00 in the morning, almost everyone will be feeling close to 20 degrees below 0. We will be hitting some record low temperatures tomorrow morning. And this will be staying the case as we go through a majority of the morning into the weekend though when we are tracking rain and snow also. So coming up ill show you some of the newest snow totals. As we told you earlier, delaware schools are closed and students will have class but the School System is take extra precautions to make sure everything runs smoothly. Jordan spencer is live in center city tonight. How cold is too cold for school . The Million Dollar question we checked tonight and found the really is simply no National Standard for when it might be too cold for school. So each district decides independently. Of course it is kids timeout here in the elements. Walking or waiting for the school bus, that can be the most dangerous. Pulling into the bus warehouse tonight, one day in before another begins an hour early tomorrow. Crews will use the time to make sure buses actually start and can make rounds in temperatures near 0. Here at the bus stop now, can the kids handle this in the morning . No, i wouldnt send my kids. District leaders say in contrast to delaware schools for phillys 1 2340uz30,000 students will be a normal day. Kids will arrive in the buildings ensuring it is open and warm for first arrivers. As for getting there, bundle up. For parents that may have concerns about the bus stop what would you say . Prepare the children to have all the gear that they need for extreme cold weather. On the city streets, those extreme Cold Weather Concerns were even more immediate tonight for outreach response worker jessica perez. The weather is lifethreatening. So its a must. We caught up with her on this overpass checking on the citys chronically homeless. As they spend hours in weather that can cause frostbite in just 30 minutes. Perez is devoted and confident she can help at least some. They will be a little reluctant, too. But eventually they will decide to come in. We are linking to the hot line number for her group, project home on our website. Nbc10. Com. Live tonight, im george spencer, nbc 10 news. And we already told you you can find School Closings and delays running on the bottom of your screen. We will send you an email or text alert for your specific school. Just visit nbc10. Com to sign up. And taking extra precautions because of the dangerous cold, the system is storing car overnight in tunnels. Starting buses earlier to make sure they are warm when passengers board. Speed restrictions on rail and trollies help decrease tension on overhead wires. Tonight a Civil Engineer says a thin shell of ice is all that is keeping a West Philadelphia building from the possibility of collapsing. Nbc 10 was back at the building today. That building became an urban glacier after firefighters doused it with water to put out flames. Many temperatures are expected to warm sunday and that has one local professor concerned. We recommend that someone take action before sunday. The city tells nbc 10 it will speed up the demolition process if necessary. New at 11 00 tonight beaten and rob while just changing his tire. That happened to a 17yearold. Police hope you will recognize him. A man walked up and asked for his wallet but before the victim could hand it over, police say the robber beat him until he was barely conscious, then took his cash. The deal is off. Tonight the latest attempt to sell atlantic citys revel casino is dead. Straub was supposed to close the sale by february 9, but it was delayed because of arguments with businesses inside the casino. Straubs Attorney Says he will appeal the ruling. His 10 million deposit will be held in escrow. This is the second time in three months a deal to sell revel collapsed. Here is a look at the Wells Fargo Center to flight. Sixers stunned philadelphia. They traded away the rookie of the year. John clark joins us live. John fans are asking just whats going on here. Well you got to be even more patient. Together we build again. Sixers gm sam hanky is at it again. Trading Carter Williams and mcdaniels. Heading to milwaukee to play for the bucks as part after threeteam deal he becomes the fifth nba rookie of the year to be traded in league history. Sixers get a top five protected first round pick. So if it is not a top round pick, it is the sixers. Same nextier or 2018. Sam says it is important to continue to be aggressive in the ways we build our rosters. Sometimes that includes making difficult decisions in toward further our goal of building Something Special for philadelphia. Sixers as i said also trading kj mcdaniels taken 32nd in the second round. He was sent to houston, getting back point guard isaiah cannon and second round pick. Coming up in sports, well tell you how the sixers could have four picks in first round. Amazing. Im john clark. Together we build again. Remember that. All right. Will do john thanks. Tonight the School Reform kpligs finalized a deal to approve five new Charter School applications. Teachers and parents against the plan say new Charter Schools will only take away plan from underfunded Public Schools. A war of words continues tonight over the term islamic terrorism. The notion that is war is at west with islam is an ugly lie. The president argued the problem is nottis islam. Critics argue not calling the act of isis is not. Former new york mayor Rudy Giuliani even says the president doesnt love america. Today he backed off that slightly but said that. Jeff mar kel spoke to members of ten major muslim organizations and mockses. The meeting called after three young muslims were murdered in north carolina. From our jersey shore, more trouble tonight for an Atlantic County doctor accused of inappropriately touching female patients during exams. Dr. Moore, people are coming forward. More women are coming forward. What do you say about that . Doctors say he didnt answer questions from nbc 10s Ted Greenberg there. We were the only station there when the neurologist turned himself in when claims came in from 22 additional women. He was charged with information linked from three female patients. Another woman came forward saying he sexually sayassaulted her. Plans for the elevated station on the market frankfurt line elevator security cameras and Communications System will be added along with structural improvements. Work could begin in june and last up to three years. The coldest air in more than 20 years sets in overnight. Then more weekend snow even ice. When the winter storm will arrive. Oil tanker exploding in west virginia. Now philadelphia lawmakers are taking action. What they want done to make sure our rams stay safe. This weekends parade postponed. We will tell you when theyll march. Spied does not appear to be factor in mondays oil train derailment. That word from federal officials tonight. They sigh the csx train was going 33 miles an hour. The speed limit was 50. A fire was triggered that is 85 contained. A Philadelphia City Council Member is taking action over concerns about the potential dangers of oil trains. Today, a resolution urging Emergency Management officials to make more information about oil train roots available to the public. That resolution also urges federal authorities to force upgrades on older model tank cars. New at 11 00, Princeton University is banning some faculty and Staff Members from campus unless they can prove they are immune from measles. Test results show a student has measles. The school is waiting for additional test results. Princeton says the student has recovered and is no longer contagious. But the university wants certain workers to show they have add vaccine or to take a blood test to prove they are immune to the virus. Mean while, the town of princeton could raise its smoking age to 21. The board of health is considering an ordinance that would ban the sale of tobacco and ecigarettes to anyone under 21. The statewide smoking age is 19. Three other municipalities in north jersey have adopted policy making it 21. Tonight a debate is raging in new jersey. Is about a new standardized tests that student will start taking in the next few weeks. As reported some people say the exam is doing more harm than good. We dont even know what it measures. It seems like it is being thrown at us and kind of you know heres what its going to be and everybody has to scramble to get ready for it. It is called the partnership for assessment for readiness for college and careers. Next month new jersey students in third to 11th grade will take it for the first time. But state Teachers Union wants parents to opt out. Basing all of the childrens needs on one test is not the right road to go down. This week the union launched this ad Campaign Featuring parents and teachers discussing their concerns. One of them, dave atkinson, a parent and teacher who is fed up after his son came home saying school is stressing him out. He is stressed out and im worried about him. Dave worries that if his son is this overwhelmed as a first grader, he cant imagine how much worse things are in later years. Some kids refusing to let their kids take the park test. Supporters say the test will provide better information about students strengths and weaknesses. We share the guidance that the state shares with us. That is students are strongly urged to take the test. Are parents breaking the law by opting out . According to the department of education wbt answer is no. New jersey has no legal requirement for kids to take the test but they say there are possible consequences for opting out, including preventing High School Seniors from earning their diploma. Because there is confusion, the Teachers Union is pushing for a clear opt outlaw. More than a hundred district adopted policies to accommodate students whose parents refuse to let them take test without punishment. An icy rescue in massachusetts. Two dogs and their owner trapped on a frozen marsh. They needed a little bit of help. I got a call 911, thank god, the police came. Fire department. And saved him. And look. Theres the smaller dog, lola obviously scared freezing cold. She took a snap at the firefighters who tried to rescue her. Thunder, the darther dog, waited patiently. Firefighters put the dogs on a small boat and pulled them safely to shore. What a job for the firefighters out there in the icy waters. So true. Our temperatures tomorrow morning really shocking. Sheena . Thats right. Actual lows could reach record lows and then we are talking about the wind. That is going to make it dangerously cold. So we have a first alert weather day out tonight into tomorrow. Dangerous cold under way. We have been telling you about this all week long. It is going to feel like anywhere from minus 10 to minus 20 degrees. And in this kind of weather with you can get frostbite within 30 minutes if your skin is exposed. You definitely want to cover up. It feels like sp below 0. Feels like 18 below in reading. Also trenton and with the wind feels like minus 5 in wild wood. Come tomorrow morning though it will feel a lot colder. So here is the feels like temperature, 7 00 a. M. For tomorrow morning. Its going to feel close to minus 20 through majority of the area. So under philadelphia tomorrow morning, we can feel like minus 16 colderer. Areas north and west will be feeling the coldest. 21 below 0 in alantown. Also pottstown. Minus 19 in northeast philly. 18 below in trenton. This is tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. South jersey and delaware temperatures feeling like anywhere from 15 below 0 to 20 below 0. It is going to be obviously a very, very very cold day. Aside from that actual low temperatures with records. In philadelphia the record low is 1 degree. We can sit that. Atlantic city is 0 degrees. Overnight tonight, here are the expected low temperatures. So some parts of the area could be hitting record lows. Now aside from this we are watching our next round of Winter Weather into the weekend. Here so look at saturday. 11 00 a. M. Saturday we will see snow approaching the area from the west. It continues to fill in through the afternoon so we are in fact looking at snow to start wur your weekend. We should have good coverage and accumulations to. We could see 2 to 4 inches around the philadelphia area up to trenton, bucks, montgomery county, possibly 1 to 2. South of that through south jersey and delaware. And the reason we dont expect much bit end of the weekend, watch this show as we go into saturday night now. Transition to icy mix and then rain. So the atmosphere will start to warm up. By sunday morning we are looking at rain through much of the area with some spots actually warming into the 40s. So kind of a wet messy weekend for a majority of it. For tonight, dangerous colding like anywhere from minus 10 to minus 20. Could be a record minus 3 in the west. We could have records there at it okay tomorrow morning. Frigid winds feeling like minus 20 early and through afternoon close to 0. Actual highs around 17 to 20 degrees but its not going to feel like that. There we go into saturday. Afternoon snow will accumulate. Again i think a lot of those accumulations will be squashed come saturday night. We start to get sleet, wintery pliks, freezing rain in the forecast. By sunday a lot of the area will transition over to rain. So that will be ending through the day on sunday. So your entire sunday is not going to be washed out but i think saturday will be the day where we will see the most coverage of rain snow ice. We will definitely keep you posted on that. Aside from 40 on sunday back into the 20s next week. All right. Thank you. If you are planning to watch the Mardi Gras Parade next sunday, you will have to wait. The p raid is aimed at raising money for the bicker parade new years day. More on the sixers big trade. How they can have four picks in the first round of the nba draft this year. Flyers banged around by buffalo tonight with a move closer to a play off spot. That is next. Is there an elk in your bed . With sleep number, now theres an adjustment for that. You can only find sleep number at a sleep number store. Right now save 50 on the ultimate limited edition bed. Know better sleep with sleep number. Sfs as we as we told you earlier, hickey did it again. He trades mcdaniels to houston. Sixers get protected first round pick to the thunder by taking on mcgees contract from denver. Ncw tweeted, i cant lie, im shocked. I love this city. Thank you for everything. I can honestly say i gave it my all. There could be four first round picks. First, their own, and miamis unless it is top ten pick. It can happen. Lakers unless it is top five pick, which it surnt currently is. The thunder, unless it is top five pick which it is. Flyers inducting eric desjardies in. Flyers lose 32. 27 in shootouts. Those are valuable points. Phillies pitchers and catchers. First workout today. Understanding ham ills comments about wanting to pitch for a winner. Ruben said he would have used different words. Doesnt look like he is asking for a trade there. Cold day if clear water. A day filled with elbow problems, marshal has that story. Reporter looking to have a healthy lead this season. Hold oog proes conference afterwards with a little lep. Another tough one. I dmoeptont know if i want it answer that. Cliff lee was fully prepared to shake off questions about cole hammils comments and trade rumors by shaking a magic 8 ball and letting it answer the questions. It showed up in my locker. Im glad it did. Takes a lot of pressure off me. I asked lee, if there was a chance he could, he didnt need to use the 8 ball to answer that question. He said he just hopes he can throw a good game. Eagles tight end james casey today. Take a look at oregon quarterback marcus mariota. Chip kelly wants to move up to get him. Could chip and marcus be reunited . I think that would be a fun opportunity. But again, this process is out of our hand out of our control. And we will see what happens. College hoops, temple loses at smu. And darren tells me his mri says he is clear of cancer. We are right back. Thats philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter going prime time tonight. A cameo as himself on the series allegiance. Big stretch for him there. A starring role in the spy drama focused on city hall. And really frigid morning. Yes. And it is already really cold outside right now. Close to 10 degrees below 0 in philadelphia. And tomorrow morning it is going to be even colder. I know you dont want to hear me say it but we have been talking all week anywhere from a minus 20 tomorrow morning to minus 30 in the poconos through the afternoon. W

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