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WCAU NBC 10 News At 4pm April 2, 2015

Today. Police say hes the person you see punching a man in center city monday. The victim was knocked unconscious. That suspect is 16 years old. Now to the Lehigh Valley and new information in the murder of a local mother. Yes, prosecutors charged the womans 14yearold daughter in that crime. Nbc 10s doug shimell is live for us in the Lehigh Valley. Doug we reported last month that the girls adult boyfriend had already been charged in this case. What led to todays development . Prosecutors now say this is the case of a 14yearold girl who lied about her age and many other things in order to get her 20yearold boyfriend to commit murder and police say it all went wrong when they pushed a bloody car down this embankment. Police never thought it would lead to an eighth grader. Jamie has been charge as an adult in the stabbing deaths of her 34yearold mother cheryl. Prosecutors say he was not a pawn of david barnes but rather a coconspirator. There has been a. Reporter juvenile that cannot be named that they talked about killing both slafonics parents, caleb barnes stabbed cheryl in the neck while in her car march 15th. Barnes buried her mother in the shallow grave which police found along with the car. Officers proceeded to the residence of 1516 randy lane in upper county township and there they found them undressed in bed together in an upstairs bedroom. The Digital Forensics lab, saying she threatened to throw me out of the house. I want her gone. Another says im going up to the bathroom while you do it okay . Why dont we wait until we get into the car with her. Barnes responds. Fine. Another one from jamie, just do it. Both caleb barnes and jamie silvonic. Given the age difference between his client and 20yearold caleb barnes who is in the army he finds it impossible to believe that a 14yearold can manipulate a 20yearold into committing murder. Live in lehigh county, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with this the senator surrenders. New jersey senior u. S. Senator turned himself in today on corruption charges and told the court hes not guilt. These allegations are false, and i am confident they will be proven false. Todays Court Appearance in north jersey comes after a federal grand jury indicted a democratic senator. Menendez is vowing to defend himself and hes not the only one to be implyicated in this case. Senator menendez arrived in fed cal court this morning to plead not guilty to the 14count indictment. He is accused of using his Senate Office to help his friend wealthy florida eye doctor. Now they have laid out their case and we will finally have an opportunity to respond. On the record in court. As i said yesterday, these allegations are false and i am confident they will be proven false. Prosecutors claim menendez received gifts totaling close to 1 million. The indictment lists private jets, and a piris hotel and visits to a posh country club. Menendez says the indictment is politically motivated. For nearly three years the Justice Department has pursued allegations based on smears launched by political opponents trying to silence me. U. S. Attorneys claim menendez used his office in a myriad of ways to help melgian, resolving a dispute over medicare charges and helping his many foreign girlfriends secure travel visas to the u. S. Prosecutors have to prove the friendship between the two men were used for criminal purposes. If found guilty menendez would be forced to leave office and face years in prison. New at 4 30 we will examine senator menendezs impact on south jersey and hear from those who say their lives have changed because of his work in the u. S. Senate. Its all new this afternoon on nbc 10 news at 4 30. Meantime were following a developing story out of africa. An attack on a college in kenya. 147 people are dead. This is happening in kenya, about 100 miles from the border in somalia and theyre believed to be islamic extremists. The gunmen went door to door shooting anyone who claimed to be a christian. Four of the gunmen are among the dead. President obama calling the preliminary agreement with iran over its Nuclear Program historic. Negotiators in switzerland announced the deal just a few hours ago. The u. S. Iran and five other world powers dame to the agreement. The plan limits irans Nuclear Program so it cant build atomic weapons. And i am convinced that if this framework leads to a final comprehensive deal it will make our country, our allies and our world safer. The final agreement should be reached within three months. This deal is straining relations with israel whose leaders are not positive about irans intentions and they asked congress to here at home sky force 10 over a street scare in philadelphia. An atv rider crashed that fourwheeler and is now hospitalized. The a it vs are not street legal in the city. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante reports from mayfair. Philadelphia police are towing that atv from this mornings crash. Witnesses say the driver of the atv was heading down the street and crashed into this fence. I guess the police and Fire Department see the guy in the street laying on the street and they were doing cpr. He says he saw the man riding his atv near walker and mcgee this morning when it flipped over. He took the cell phone video of paramedics working on him before he was taken to the hospital. 50 Miles Per Hour. You think he was going 50 Miles Per Hour . Very fast. Was he by himself . Just by himself and then he hit the fence. How fast the man was traveling and how he wound up underneath the atv is what accident investigators are working to figure out. Nbc 10 was there as major krieps examined the atv. IlPhiladelphia Police say it is illegal to ride atvs on city streets. Police are not identifying the man, but say hes 38 years old and had severe head injuries. Some say they know the man. He doesnt live far away and hes not known to own an atv. They fear this will be the first of many accidents. Every year it seems that its getting worse with people getting on fourwheelers or those mini threewheelers and they race up and down mcgee street. Reporter investigators are not identifying the 38yearold man, but we can tell you that accident scene investigators will take a close look at this atv and figure out if there is anything wrong with it that contributed to the crash. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Your nbc 10 first alert weather. Boy, is it a Beautiful Day to get out and enjoy the spring weather. Pictures at love park but it is so nice to feel the sun and we dont mind the wind and warmer temperatures are ahead and what does it is a on the street. Reporter 65 degrees and chief meteor ol jit glenn hurricane schwartz. It may be raining by the time you get up in the morning and this is a rare day with warm weather and sunshine. We havent seen that combination in months. We have dry conditions right now and were starting to see some of those high clouds increase across the area and weve had lots of sunshine during the day and look at the showers not that far away. Western central pennsylvania and theyre moving into dry air so i dont expect this first round to reach the ground. So this evening, i think it will be dry. 66 in philadelphia and 64 in allentown. Cooler right at the beaches and the wind coming right out of the south trying to warm us up and weve had gusts up close to 40 miles an hour and its already starting to come down a little bit. As we go through the evening its windy for a while, but the wind will diminish and the clouds will increase. Weve got rain tomorrow and well have a timetable on that along with another day windier than today with the serve dayven day in a few minutes. Happening now students at Stockton University are getting set to rally. This is outside the show boat casino in Atlantic City and you see them gathering here and getting ready for the rally and College Students and theyre upset over trump entertainment from being turned into a campus for stockton. Trump taj mahal is next door to the show boat. Trump entertainment says its worried that underaged College Students will sneak in to gamble and drink exposing the casino for fines. They blame carl icahn who is taking over trump entertainment resort. At issue is a 1988 legal covenant among the taj mahal show boat and resort casinos requiring the show boat never be used for anything other than a firstclass casino resort. Caesars entertainment closed the showboat august 31st and stockton bought it in december and they announced plans to convert it into a satellite campus. Once again, taking a live look here as the students are getting set to rally and the plan is to make a peaceful protest both here today as well as tomorrow. Meantime the showboat could actually have another interested buyer, the florida developer who wants the revel casino following all of this . Hes expressed interest in other Atlantic City properties and glen is back in Bankruptcy Court trying to get permission to buy the revel for 82 million. Revel officials and consultants testified today and it is the only real one that exists. Trump testified that he has a contract on his desk to acquire other properties including to acquire other show boat casino. Theyre in discussions with several people. Workers are striking at Philadelphia International airport today. What do we want . If we dont get it . Shut it down several hundred baggage handlers and airport cleaners hit the picket line this morning. They are not airport employees and theyre contracted and provide services for the airline. I have mortgage insurance like everybody else here and my coworker also said were here for respect and for more money and we aint going nowhere until we get our money. The airport says the strike is not having an effect on travel. From our Delaware Bureau the state senate set the vote that would a bell onnishbolish the death penalty. It would not apply to inmates currently on death row. We have a first alert traffic update from new castle county. The southbound lanes of route 141 near wilmington manor are open to traffic once again. Crews spent the last week repairing potholes. New information this afternoon on the copilot suspected of deliberately crashing that passenger plane in the french alps and there are indications he may have been planning this for days. German prosecutor say Andreas Lubitz was researching suicide methods and cockpit Door Security in the days before the crash. Search terms found evidence of that on lubitzs home computer. Investigators believe lubitz locked his captain out of the cockpit last tuesday before crashing the plane into the mountain. All 150 onboard died. French authorities announced today they found the second black box from the crash. Two of the three americans killed in the crash were emily selke and her mother yvonne. Emily graduating from drexel and her mother graduated from Springfield High School in 1975. Today marks holy thursday for christians around the world. Nbc 10 is at the cathedral of basilica st. Peter and paul the archbishop celebrated the mass where he blessed three holy oils. Holy thursday commemorates the last supper when jesus celebrated his final meal before the crucifixion. [ speaking italian ] pope frances headed to the main prison to wash the feet of inmates. Its an Easter Ritual designed to serve others. The impact its already having on our region. Its one of the few pictures of myself that i carry and one of the few pictures of myself i ever had framed. A numbers guy, he ranks his personal meeting with pope francis the number one experience of his life after having a family. As president of the world meeting of families in philadelphia he had the rare opportunity to shake the holy fathers hand at a special audience at the vatican last spring. But it will be right here on the ben franklin parkway where five hand picked families from around the globe will have a similar thrill a personal meeting with pope francis on the stage. Typically what happens is that five families, one from each of five continents would interact with pope francis and have the opportunity to ask him questions or tell him stories that then he would engage with them. That will happen as pope francis attends the festival of families on saturday september 26th. Hes expected to deliver remarks and bless the crowd. Do we expect that will be in english . Do we know . Thats a good question. Many languages . We dont know. All this a day before he says mass on the parkway at the climax of the weeklong festivities. By that final weekend, the population of philadelphia expected to double an influx of as many people as inhabit the entire island of manhattan pouring in from around the world. The Economic Impact already projected to eclipse original geographic and financial estimates. Clearly the Economic Impact has increased significantly since we started this so beyond 418 million coming into this region . I we really wont know unless we did another Economic Impact study. I would say were at least 500 million. When i say biggest challenge, what comes to mind . Biggest challenge or biggest concern . Biggest concern. A hurricane. And the reason i say that that is something we cant control. Well have to talk to glenn about that but we have less than six months left to prepare for the pope. The world meeting of families will be held the week of september 22nd. Pope francis will be in philadelphia the weekend of september 26th and 27th and with each passing week you can count on nbc 10 news to bring you important developments about the papal visit and its impact on the region and you can get those updates any time by using the nbc 10 news app for your smartphone or tablet. Hell be here before you know it. Jews around the world are preparing for passover. The weeklong holiday begins tomorrow. In jerusalem theyre gettinget ready for the meal to remember the exodus of the people from slavery in ancient egypt. Your nbc 10 first alert weather with glenn hurricane schwartz. A good day to get the kids to the playground and lots of sunshine in Gloucester County. The kids steal needed the coats, but at least it feels like spring and it was funny and it was also warm and we have not been able to say that for a long time. We do have rain coming in on friday more than just a couple of showers, but we also have temperatures near 70 degrees in parts of the area and a windy weekend especially on saturday. The phillies and the pattern is improving just in time for the beginning of baseball season as youll see in a minute. 66 degrees now and 23mile an hour winds gusting to 31 and the relative humidity is very low, though. The pollen is high today, but its going to be much lower tomorrow because of the rain and then it builds up saturday and sunday. By sunday thats pretty high. 11. 0. The temperature in the 60s just about everywhere and 55 in mount pocono and it is colder right at the beaches at the jersey shore. Its generally 10 to 15 degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday, plus we have sunshine like yesterday. So it makes it a nicer day. There are some of those showers in central pennsylvania and moving into dry air and they may not make it until well after midnight and more showers back to the west and its not that well organized and it doesnt look all that heavy and also doesnt look like a big threat of severe storms. So when a Severe Threat tracker, the heavy rain threat is only moderate and lightning is only moderate and the other things high winds, hail tornadoes are very, very low threats for tomorrow. Now thursday we see the southerly wind keeping us warm and keeping us warm through the night tonight, too. Its going to stay in the 50s to near 60 but you can see some of these showers coming in by 6 00 a. M. Affecting the morning rush and some more showers, perhaps in the middle of the day and into the afternoon and it still gets warm despite all of that. You see, you saw that 70 there toward philadelphia for late in the afternoon. Despite all of the clouds and the rain. Tonight, cloudy and mild, a few showers after 3 00 a. M. And 49 north and west and during the day tomorrow warm with showers at times and also a chance of thunderstorms. Its not going to rain all day. Temperatures ranging from the upper 60s to the low 70s and a very windy day on saturday and the gusts could be at 40 miles an hour or more. A breezy day, but plenty on Easter Sunday and what a Beautiful Day and then a pretty nice day for the phillies to start off on monday highs in the mid60s when they start the game and then it starts getting wet and cooler. It was so strong. Potholes costing drivers big time but the state wont help you pay for damages. How one lawmaker is trying to change the rule. A new stomach virus in the u. S. Spreading in the area and who should avoid using antibiotics to treat it. This senator accused of raking in millions for a friend and how it would affect his request to fix rundown areas. At book club they were asking me what youre doing now, janice. Blogging. Your blog is just pictures of you in the mirror. Its called a fashion blog todd. Well, ive been helping people save money with progressives discounts. Flo, can you get janice a job . [ laughs ] you shouldve stuck to softball i was so much better at softball than janice, dad. Wheres your wife, todd . Vacation. Discounts like homeowners multipolicy i got a discount on this ham. Ive got the meat sweats. This is good ham, diane. Paperless discounts give it a rest, flo. All yeah, flo, give it a rest. The phillies play their last spring training game in florida today against the tampa bay rays. From there, they head back to philadelphia for the ondeck series and they play the pirates at Citizens Bank park and then saturday at 1 05 and then off sunday. Monday, april 6th theyre playing against the boston red soshgs and the game youll see here on nbc 10. Taking a look live at Citizens Bank park all quiet no

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