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WCAU NBC 10 News At 4pm November 3, 2014

Reporter after viewing the Surveillance Video which shows a struggle, family members believe she may have been targeted by someone she knew, a man who lived in the same neighborhood she visited her god son and relatives last night. The family remains heartbroken. I love her to death. Thats all i can say, carlesha, i love you. Please come home. While investigators continue to search for clues at the scene of the abduction today near west colter and green streets, carleshas family canvas the neighborhood. Somebody takes a little girl. Thats a coward, you know. Just bring her back. She was screaming for help. This witness was walking in the same direction as the victim around 9 30. He passed her and kept going. When he heard the cries for help, he turned around. He forced her into the car, in the back seat pep got out and went in the front. I dont know what happened inside the car. It was just like pat, pat, the glass came out. This shattered glass appears to be evidence of carleshas efforts to escape. She was a sweet child. Reporter described as someone who helped others in deed, carlesha works as a nursing aid and was onc her way home at the time of the tack. If anybody knows anything about her, get in contact with me, my dad, anybody thats in the family. Call the police. Police, anybody. Just bring my daughter back home safe. Thats all im asking for. Reporter now, police have not said whether this attack was random, however, as you heard family members suspect that carlesha may have known her attacker. In the meantime they continue to hand out these flyers, post them around the neighborhood. Reporting live in germantown, rosemary connors, nbc 10 news. Thank you, rosemary. Count on the nbc 10 news team for new information on this breaking story. As soon as we get an update well pass it along to you on nbc 10 news and nbc10. Com. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues now with new information from the father daughter duo accused of attacking a homeless man on a south philadelphia street. The father who was a mummer and his daughter are now both out of jail. Nbc 10 Investigative Reporter Harry Hairston has been trying to track them down. What have you been able to learn . Just a short time ago i went to the suspects home in south philadelphia trying to get their side of the story. Is mr. Damato available . Reporter no one would come to the door. As i was about to leave, a woman yelled from the balcony that their attorney advise them not to speak. Rita and her 62yearold father are caught in this neighborhood Surveillance Video released by police. It appears they are attacking and shooting a 36yearold homeless man. Take another look. It happened here near carpenter and second streets just over a week ago about 2 40 in the morning. Police say rita first hits the homeless man with a bat and then ritas father, carmen, according to police, shoots the homeless man in the leg. Both the father and the daughter turned themselves in to police after cops told them there was a warrant for their arrest. Police tell nbc 10 news an anonymous tip led detectives to the 900 block of front street where cops recovered two handguns, both rita and Carmen Damato are charged with aggravated assault and gunrelated charges. I reached out to the hospital officials, requesting an interview with the victim. The hospital denied that request. Once again, the victim is in the hospital right now. He is recovering in stable condition. Although there is no motive for this attack, a Police Source does tell us that they believe that the suspects may have thought that that individual may have been trying to break into some cars in the neighborhood. I also contacted the suspects attorney. He declined to comment for this report. Reporting live in the digital operations center, Harry Hairston, nbc 10 news. Thank you, harry. We have new information today about a former university of pennsylvania professor convicted of killing his wife. Hes back on trial. This time its a civil case resulting from the crime. Nbc 10 was there as rafael robb headed into court in Montgomery County this morning. A jury was seated. The trial began this afternoon. The family of robs wife is seeking damages for her estate. Rob has allegedly been hiding assets from behind bars. Robb, as you remember, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of his wife ellen. He was sentenced to five to ten years in state prison. Ellen robb was bludgeoned to death two days before christmas 2006 as she was wrapping presents inside their king of prussia home. Rafael robb staged the scene to make it look like a burglary. The police in ocean county, new jersey say theyre looking for a hit awn run driver also accused of trying to run over a police officer. Police say 54yearold Robert Deckert drove away after he hit another vehicle on route 37 in toms river last nigl an offduty officer saw the crash and followed the car to a nearby restaurant. When the officer approached the car, officers say deckert tried to run him over. Police made a potentially dangerous discovery at a north Philadelphia Business this morning. Two shotgun booby traps. Skyforce 10 over this screen. Police were responding to a call for help with the removal of an animal. When they got there, officers say they were met with two shotguns that were rigged up as booby traps. The owner put them there to secure the building. Now hes under arrest. Skyforce 10 over the scene on clyde weight drive. Atf is helping local authorities with this investigation. Damage is estimated between 300,000 and 500,000. And now to our coverage of decision 2014. Glenn a and the candidates are sprinting to the finish right now. Heres one of the key races nbc 10 is following for you. The race for pennsylvania governor, republican incumbent tom corbett. Hes been lagging behind in the polls to his democratic challenger, tom wolf. George, last night it was star power. Today, well, theyre covering a lot of territory, right . Renee, both of the candidates have been crisscrossing the state, hitting three or four cities apiece throughout the day. At this point, their Campaign Messages feel almost secondary to a more pressing concern, getting the voters to actually show up. Hi, everybody. Are you ready . Are you ready for tomorrow . Reporter in front of a crowd of supporters, many holding signs, incumbent governor tom corbett made his election case one last time in the philadelphia area this morning at a plane hangar in westchester, followed by other events throughout today around the state. As his supporters return to the most basic issues facing our state, governor corbett emphasized voter turnout. Less than 36 hours to go out there and get those votes. As the chairman said get the vote out. We need to get our vote out there. Were not for higher taxes. Thats seems to be what the opposition is going to stand for. Were against that. Reporter meanwhile, democratic challenger tom wolf is doing a statewide run of his own with appearances in lancaster and pittsburgh. Over the weekend, the Wolf Campaign brought in the nations highest ranking democrat, president obama, to support the cause. As with their republican counterparts, the emphasis was on getting voters to the polls. If we want this election to actually deliver on the promise of those three things, education, jobs and fairness, guess what we have to do . Vote thats right. Tuesday we have to vote. Democrats lost the governors race in pennsylvania by 20 votes per precinct. 20 votes corbett is expected to complete his campaign day in pittsburgh. His own hometown with a final event this evening. Thats where an event for his challenger tom wolf began within the past ten minutes. Were monitoring that one as well. Live in the digital operations center, george spencer, nbc 10 news. Meantime, the garden state, democrat corey booker will try to retain his u. S. Senate seat. The former new York New Jersey mayor faces a challenge from jeff bell. He ran for senate in 1978. Ober in delaware, chris coons is hoping for a victory over his republican opponent, kevin wade. The polls open tomorrow morning at 6 00 in new jersey. c voters can cast their ballots an hour late at 7 00 in pennsylvania and delaware. Of course count on nbc 10 to bring you Election Results tomorrow night as they come in. Well have coverage of the candidates across pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. Well hear from the winners and losers on the air with nbc 10 news at 11 00, online at nbc10. Com and on your mobile device with the nbc 10 news app. Thats a free download, by the way, for your smartphone or tablet. President obama getting a taste of brotherly love during his visit to philadelphia last night in the form of this serenade while at Temple University for a tom Wolf Campaign rally. The local a Cappella Group brotherly love treated the president to this song. The group just performed at the rally when the president invited them backstage to take a picture. For reaction from the group about their visit with the president , visit nbc10. Com. Students at one of pennsylvanias state universities will mark election day with a protest over their polling place. The students from Kutztown University will march five miles to the maxatawny township municipal building. Their protesting the closing of an oncampus polling place. County Election Officials closed the polling place after residents in the area combined about long lines and crowded parking lots. The change is a great inconvenience for those students without cars. The Student Government will provide buss to the polls for students who dont march. Nbc 10 has learned new information today about the capture of accused cop killer and eric frein and the one place search teams did not look during their manhunt. Doug shimell is live in the poconos for us. While state police have said frein was a moving target during the search, youve learned one key spot didnt get checked out. Tell us about it. Well, exactly. Of course it was that infamous hangar where everything sort of culminated last thursday night. State police had been asked during the press conference last thursday after eric freins arrest had you searched that location . Had you searched that facility . And state police said yes, it had been searched and cleared but we found information that says that may not be the case. When a clean shaven eric frein was taken into custody late last week, it was unclear how long he had been hiding in the old airplane hangar at the closed birchwood resort in pocono township. State police claim they had previously searched and cleared the hangar but Law Enforcement sources tell nbc 10 the hangar had not been searched before. Sources claimed the hangar was not swept until a newly arrived team of u. S. Marshals was ass n assigned there last thursday. When the marshals saw eric frein walking in the open near the hangar and arrested him, it culminated a search that had stretched from the Blooming Grove Police Barracks to the woods near freins home in canadensis. Nbc 10 emailed state police and asked how long they believe frein was in the hangar and why it was allegedly not searched. A spokesperson emailed back, they cannot answer any further questions. One other item of note, it has been released from the Public Defenders Office in pike county, eric frein has two courtappointed public defenders to help him prepare for his preliminary hearing november 12th. Live in stroud township, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Attorneys for the two suspects in the deadly Market Street Building Collapse decided today ifat men are prepared to stand trial next year. Shawn benschon and campbell have been charged for the collapse. Campbell was a demolition contractor and benschop was a Building Contractor when the building being demolished fell on to a thrift store. A guilty plea today from the philadelphia man charged with abuse of a corpse after his mothers body was found stuffed in a freezer right after entering his plea, he was sentenced to time served. Hes now out on parole for 23 months. Investigators found the body of his 83yearold mother in a basement freezer at her feltonville home, this was back in july. The body had been there for about seven months. Authoritiy ies believe he hid t body to continue cashing her Social Security checks. We continue to follow that breaking news. The hunt for a woman snatched off a philadelphia street last night. Police just released this video showing the crime as it happened. This is on colter and green streets in germantown. Detectives found carlesha freelandgaithiers cell phone at the scene along with a knife and a glove. No sign of the 22yearold woman or the man who dragged her down the street into a car. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with this. Treehouse trouble. A property dispute leaving a little girl in limbo. Her treehouse is no longer safe after someone took a chain saw to it. Nbc 10 Delaware Bureau tim furlong picks up the story from there. This is my daughter, gratess treehouse. Richards daughter has down syndrome and she needs exercise. She gets it in her treehouse. The guy who lives in the house behind their property came over with a tree contractor who brought a chain saw. You cant cut that line. Theres no survey, its my kids treehouse. He stood there and said cut it, cut it. He put a chain saw right through and cut out a main structural support here. The treehouse is no longer safe. They say theyve had back and forth bickering. Its a border war. This strip of land is the real issue. It belongs to the neighborhood, it was originally intended to be a horse path around the neighborhood. Some of the people now say nicoles treehouse extends too far on the right of way. They dont deny the treehouse might encroach but they say the spray painted lines arent an official survey. I believe this place where he made the cut is actually on our property. All day long we tried to get in touch with the owners of this house. They havent called us back. Same deal with the Homeowners Association president. They believe the coles knew all along the structure should be removed. No matter who is right, this kid no longer has her treehouse. In newark, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Folks are bundled up on the boardwalk, nbc 10 in Atlantic City this afternoon where a lot of people are dressed in coats, hats and scarves to help stay warm with the wind. But certainly a whole lot better than it was over the weekend. Much windier and saturday was a total washout across much of the area. Were calming down. Weve had three Straight Days of some pretty strong winds but not tonight or tomorrow. We are going to be warming up c somewhere. It warmed up a good bit today. Were tracking rain and maybe some heavy rain before the week is out. A lot of sunshine out there right now. And what weve seen all day. 58 degrees, the wind only 13 miles an hour. Were 9 degrees warmer than we were at this time yesterday. And temperatures are in the mid to upper 50s, even 61 in bensalem. Reading is 60 degrees. We actually hit the 60 degree mark in a couple spots. A couple spots could hit the 70 degree mark tomorrow. Look at this, here is some of the lowest relative humidity youll ever find in november. Reading and northeast philly, 15 . If your skin is real dry today, thats the reason. The humidity is unusually low. The wind continues out of the west. Its not nearly as strong as it was. And so well have west wind but at least well have a warming trend. Generally dry conditions, a couple sprinkles in central pennsylvania. I dont think they will be bothering us. This area of showers in the middle of the country, that is with the next weather system that will be coming our way. As we go through the night tonight, patchy clouds. The warmer weather comes in tomorrow, not nearly as windy but its the right wind direction to warm us up, southwest wind. And then wednesday the clouds increase. That might prevent us from hitting 70. If l weve got enough sunshine wed hit 70 on wednesday. Look at this. Thursday morning, heavy rain and more of it coming back up from the south and west. We have wet weather coming. The warm weather is not going to last. Partly cloudy with the wind diminishing tonight. Not going to be gusty tomorrow. How about that . 44 for the low in philadelphia. 35 north and west. Its not as cold as it was this morning. Mostly sunny and warmer tomorrow. Look at that. Mid60s to near 70 degrees. Look at the sunset, 4 55. Its setting real early. It gets completely dark a half hour after that. Great weather for voting tomorrow. Wednesday is still mild. The heavy rain comes on thursday. Then here comes the Colder Weather friday and over the weekend. Theres a chance of rain returning by sunday. The experts are keeping a close eye on sea levels. As those levels rise, so does anxiety. Sea level rise is occurring and its not going to stop in my lifetime. Flooding fears, the measurements that experts are taking now and what they reveal about potential risk to parts of our region in the future. Plus this we just want to have a voice. Desperate with days to go, local casino workers facing an uncertain future. They take their case to city hall. Nbc 10 is there as the mayor lets them in. Well tell you what he told them. And winters early arrival, while other parts of the country are dealing with it, we know its not too far behind for us. Today, the program that can take the sting out of winters wrath. Newspapers speak out. Tom corbett has been something of a disaster. Tom corbett cut spending on education by a billion dollars. Its time for a change. Elect tom wolf, and youll get the type of governor we havent seen for a while. One who looks out for average, hardworking pennsylvanians. Its wolf who has solid ideas for bringing in new business and for boosting the economy. Tom wolf for governor, a fresh start for pennsylvania. Look at this, the first weekend in november brought a winter

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