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WCAU NBC 10 News At 4pm October 8, 2014

When brantly found out his blood type was a match, he went to a Community Blood center in missouri. His donation was flown to omaha. Dr. Doctors hope the antibodies will boost ashoka mukpos. Teresa ramiro says she remembers touching her face with a protective glove after leaving a room. She helped treat a spanish missionary who died of ebola at the end of september. The leeing experts of Infectious Diseases are meeting right now at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Christine madella has been speaking to these experts. Christine, how are they addressing this outbreak . I just heard from a doctor from the centers for Disease Control and she told me this is the largest Ebola Outbreak in history and the first ebola epidemic the world has ever seen. Now, doctors from around the world are here at the Pennsylvania Convention center. Theyre attending this Infectious Diseases conference. Ebola is a major topic of discussion. This afternoon, i sat down with the medical director of the Communicable Diseases unit at Emory University hospital. Hes treated ebola patients flown to atlanta from west africa. He says the response to ebola has been just that, a reaction. Instead of taking a proactive approach, he says Health Officials are trying to keep up with ebola, the outbreak will continue to spread. If we dont do a better job of Contact Tracing and identifying and isolating patients with this disease, its anticipated there may be between 1 million and 2 million victims from this infection over the next six months. Clearly we need to do a much better job. And in order to do a better job, dr. Ribner says all Health Care Centers around the world need to know the symptoms of ebola and isolate those patients right away. He also said west africa needs help. He says right now in west africa, they dont have trained personnel. They dont have supplies. In some cases they dont did the even have running water, so they need assistance from other countries in order to combat this disease. Reporting live at the Pennsylvania Convention center, christine madella, nbc 10 news. Our coverage of the Ebola Outbreak continues through 6 30. All new this afternoon at 4 30, well go back to christine whos asking these medical experts if air travel should be restrictioned in light of the Ebola Outbreak. Hear what they have to say. Thats a little more than 20 minutes away. Right now on nbc10. Com, learn more about the efforts of airport workers on u. S. Soil to spot those who may be contaminated with the ebola virus. Skyforce 10 over a house fire in northeast philadelphia. In the last hour, you can see the heavy smoke and flames coming from the flird floor of this home on princeton avenue. Fortunately, no one was hurt but investigators are still trying to figure out what started this fire. This just in to nbc 10. Police in Montgomery County just wrapped up a News Conference announcing the arrest of two lower southford township women accused of giving heroin to children. Patricia davenport and Megan Rudolph brought davenports kids along to buy the drugs in philadelphia and the women allegedly injected the heroin into davenports daughter and her boyfriend. When i read this story about these allegations of a more introducing her child to a drug like heroin, im at a loss for c words. I cant fathom these allegations and the facts that are charged in this case. Prosecutors say this happened several times over the past six months. Both women are charged with endangering the welfare of children and a number of drug offenses. And now pennsylvania and new york are teaming up with other states to crack down on the growing heroin epidemic in the northeast. The coalition allows Law Enforcement to investigate heroin trafficking that often crosses state lines. They will be able to share information on any case regardless of the jurisdiction involved. That coalition includes new jersey and massachusetts. Other states in the northeast and midatlantic regions are expected to join within the next few weeks. Philadelphia is the cross roads for the supply of heroin. It comes in to philadelphia by land and sea and trafficked from philadelphia up and down the east coast and to the western states as well. The attorneys general say one of the first goals of this partnership is to educate the public and parents about the crippling effect of the heroin epidemic. A Montgomery County jury is about to get the case of a man on trial for the murder of a baby girl and her grandmother. He served as his own attorney. Deanna durante was in the courtroom as he made one last plea to the jury. Tell us what it was like for the man to deliver his own closing arguments. It was long, two hours. At times you felt that Raghunandan Yandamuri was going down a road that he was trying to prove his case to the jury and then it seemed like he would get off topic and then go back and accuse police of not tracking down leads, saying the confession he gave was coerced. This trial has been going on for about 23 days for the jurors since the time that the first set of jurors were selected. So this is a very long trial for them as it is. Prosecutors, the First Assistant District Attorney in this case, usually quiet and reserved at times raising his voice, calling the accusations that yandamuri made in his closing arguments ridiculous and insulting to the Police Officers that he said worked like a small army, trying to bring home a 10monthold baby girl. Now, recall back in october of 2012 when investigators first arrived at the marquee apartments, they found a 61yearold grandmother murder, ransom notes scattered all over the apartment, demanding 50,000 for that baby girl, that girl nowhere to be found. An amber alert had been issued and five days later, the babys body was found in a basement of one of the Apartment Building at the marquee apartments. Yandamuri multiple times pointed to two men, matt and josh he called them, saying they were the ones responsible for the crime. We did ask his standby counsel again, hes defending himself, he has a stateappointed lawyer that to act as an adviser. He we asked him after the proceedings why yandamuri didnt go into detail or offer up more information about those two men. He said that he cant answer that question. Hes not sure why yandamuri made the decisions that hes made. But that he does say that for someone with no legal background, that he felt he did an effective job of delivering his closing arguments. Were calling a lot of detail from memory. Prosecutors call him a cold, calculated murderer. They say he is the one responsible for this crime. And he alone is the one who is responsible for killing the grandmother and killing the baby. Kevin steele telling the jury the babys only crime, only reason she died is because she was crying and yandamuri couldnt get her to stop. Thats why he suffocated her. At this hour, right now, the jury is getting its final instructions before it goes back to deliberate. And judge steven oneil told that panel they should prepare for a long evening. That is the very latest, reporting live outsidec the Montgomery County courthouse, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Skyforce 10 over a School Bus Crash right outside an Elementary School in northeast philadelphia this morning. At least ten of the 23 children on the bus were hurt and then taken to nearby hospitals. Police say the bus driver lost control and hit four parked cars outside ann frank Elementary School. Nbc 10 spoke to a parent who also happens to own one of the cars that was hit. It sounded like a really bad explosion. I came running back and thats when i saw the bus up on the lawn with the suv in front of it. The school bus is owned by lehigh transportation. Police are questioning the driver to try and figure out what caused him to lose control. A child and three other people were hurt when another School Bus Collide with a car in southwest philadelphia. Skyforce 10 over this scene at island avenue in lindbergh boulevard just after 8 00 this morning. Police are trying to figure out what caused this crash. Two septa passengers were injured after the bus they were riding on was rear ended by a car. Skyforce 10 here at tomlinson and roosevelt boulevard just after that accident at 8 30 this morning. Septa tells us those passengers were not seriously hurt. From our jersey shore bureau, two Police Officers from new york are charged with sexually assaulting a woman at the trump taj mahal in Atlantic City. Andre torres and devin thomas were both charged for the april 24th attack. Torres is an officer in the new york Police Department. Thomas is a trooper for new york state police. Both men are expected to be extradited to new jersey. Pennsylvania state police gave us new information about the search for eric frein as day 26 of their manhunt for the accused trooper killer continues. Doug shimell just got out of the News Conference. Hes been reporting from the poconos since this story broke more than three weeks ago. Even though police still dont have their suspect, they have a treasure trove of evidence . Reporter exactly. And Pennsylvania State police say they have had five live confirmed sightings of eric frein in just the past week. The most recent coming this past monday by a law enforcer at a dance of 150 to yards in dense woods. The items taken in a search of eric freins house took on an ominous context. Police seized a night vision scope, am my clips and bullets, multiple computers, laptops and tablets and external drives. They also took various writings from a desk in the house. A search warn the says from tiffany freins room, they took a 4 gigabyte memory card. As the fbi released new pictures of what frein might look like now, they also read from the journal they found. Friday, september 12th, got a shot around 11 00 p. M. And took it. He dropped. I was surprised at how quick. I took a followup shot on his head, neck area. I just used my marker lights. Missed the trail around a runoff pool and drove straight into it. Disaster. Reporter well, the atf said all of those items or many of the items found at eric freins home are consistent with the manufacturer of some of those pipe bombs that were discovered at a campsite a week ago this past monday as well as other booby trap style explosive devices. Coming up tonight at 5 00, where did eric frein spend his final days and weeks before that fateful shooting here in Blooming Grove . Live in pike county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Students caught in Philadelphia School budget crisis made their voices heard today. Some students at philadelphias high school for the creative and performing arts didnt show up for class today. They said they want todays show their support for their teachers. On monday, the src abruptly terminated its teachers contract over an ongoing dispute over Health Insurance contributions. The move forces teachers to start paying Health Premiums of as much as 140 a month. Teachers vow to fight this in court. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with decision 2014. Less than three hours from now, the keanes for pennsylvania governor will be facing off with their third and final debate. Tom wolf will be fielding questions on the big issues facing the keystone state as well as tom corbett. You can see the candidates spar over the issues. Highlights of the coverage tonight right here on nbc 10 news at 11 00. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is rounding up support for tom wolf. Clinton will headline a women for wolf grass roots event for the democrat tomorrow at the National Constitution center in philadelphia. The Republican Party of pennsylvania responded to Clintons Campaign event for wolf tomorrow saying, quote, this even though women occupied only 2 out of 26 management positions and zero positions on the board of directors, end quote. Job creation, certain to be one topic of discussion at tonights debate for governor. Today, nbc 10 is in one pennsylvania city thats starting to see a turnaround in this. Take a look at these figures from allentown. In july 2012 be with the unemployment was 12. 7 . Fast forward to july of this year and that number is down to just over 8 . Still above the state average. Today nbc 10 Lehigh Valley Bureau Reporter Randy Gyllenhall shows us what the city is doing now to get more people on the payroll. Reporter you can tell theres a surge of progress in allentown because in some corners, construction cranes stand taller than the citys historic civil war monument. Were seeing close to, over the next year and a half, about 4,000 new jobs. Reporter allentowns mayor says its a clear sign the local economy is on the rise, a billion dollars in new development here like the newly opened ppl center. Yet still unemployment remains above the state average, better than before, but not where the city wants to be. Many times you have folks just dont know that jobs exist. I want to thank you all for coming here. Reporter so today, a new way to connect the unemployed to the thousands of new jobs flooding the Lehigh Valley. Its called tweet my jobs. An online portal to search openings, even a Smartphone App that shows you the closest listing based on your gps location. With improvement in the economy, theres still a lot of folks struggling and need help. Reporter the companys founder says it may help people who may not know how to network or have good contacts in the city. Carlos is one of those people. He wants a job in construction. Machine operator. Reporter and found some on the website. The nature of the kind of growth thats happening in allentown means there will be more jobs. We want to make sure allentown citizens are the first to hear about those jobs. Reporter for you, the job seeker, this website and Smartphone App is completely free but it costs the city about 50,000 a year. In allentown, Randy Gyllenhall, nbc 10 news. Child abuse trial for Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson could begin as early as december. With his wife by i had side, he showed up for an arraignment this morning. Peterson is accused of injuring his 4yearold son when he used a switch to discipline him. Despite all the recent issues for nfl players, most fans believe commissioner Roger Goodell should keep his job. Thats according to a new poll from the ap. 66 of fans surveyed say goodell should remain in charge of the league after his handling of recent Domestic Violence cases. The majority of people polled do disapprove of how goodell handled those cases. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Well, this is about as mild as its going to be until we get into next week. So if you like the mild weather, i hope you enjoy today. The chill returns. Youll feel it tonight. Youll feel it tomorrow and every day through the weekend at least. We have rain coming in on saturday and then we dry out on sunday. We cant promise you a totally dry sunday but it will be drier sunday than saturday. Theres the live picture, a lot of sunshine during the day today. 74 degrees. The wind now 16 miles an hour but at least were not getting any gusts at the airport. Other places getting gusts. 74 in philadelphia and in bensalem, 73 in mt. Holly and many places in the 70s this afternoon. 74 degrees, Atlantic City international. We are still seeing gusts of 20 to 25 miles an hour, straight oust the west. Right now, its keeping things mild but eventually its going to be bringing in the colder air and if the wind totally died down, these numbers would be even lower. But i think this is about as low as its going to get tonight. 42 in allentown, 44 in reading, 46 in quakertown. 48 in doylestown and norristown. Not as much of a temperature contrast when we have some wind. All you need 5 to 10 miles an hour and you get fairly uniform temperatures, at least compared to a calm night. 49 in chester and in westchester and also in glassboro, things are very dry, of course, around our area. Also dry, way back to the west. We are going to be dry for a while. With the High Pressure building in. However, thats going to move away and its going to allow some moisture to start coming in from the west and there it is, a saturday 6 00 p. M. Could start later on friday. Its friday night into saturday morning. Then its a question of how fast this thing moves offshore as to when we clear out. Now, eventually some of that moisture could come back but we may have this break from later saturday through sunday that will help us out, at least not having a total wash joust a weekend. Theres the forecast for temple. We do have a chance of rain, especially at the beginning of the game, most likely dry for the eagles, alt

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