Transcripts For WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm 20140925 : vimarsana

Transcripts For WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm 20140925

Clouds break up. Slow clearing through the overnight hours. Tomorrow, big changes in the forecast and the changes will last all the way through the weekend. Ill show you that coming up. Count on nbc 10 to keep you prepared with our first alert weather app. Download it for free on nbc10. Com to get interactive radar and the weekend forecast right on your smartphone or tablet. An allout manhunt for suspected trooper killer. It has been nearly two weeks of leads and possible spottings of eric frein but still in arrests. Theres a new warranting tonight for residents and not about the search for the suspect. Nbc 10s doug shimell has been centered around the search area in monroe and pike counties. He has the very latest now from price township. Reporter the rains finally have let up which has allowed police to start doing k9 and helicopter searches in the fields surrounding eric freins home. They see the region where they grew up being tarnish bid a manhunt. This town is about caring and loving and good old hometown. Its not this big bad evil place where just one man has ruined it. Reporter so the blue ribbons have gone up all around the search zone. Were thinking of our policemen and praying that they capture him soon. Reporter there has been frustration from residents closest to where police say they have sighted fugitive sniper survivalist eric frein. I guess they found some stuff of his. Geez, with all the dogs, youd think theyd have him pinpointed. Maybe theyre afraid to get too close to him because he can, you know, take them out. Reporter trying to support the now more than 400 law enforcers has proven daunting to volunteers. Nbc 10 was granted exculusive t part of the Police Command that refuels searchers. When guys go out and come in, that little time when the cars hit the other cars and theyre coming back, we dont have much time to prep. Reporter when the word got out that food and supply donations were needed, they came. We are a true community. This is small town. This is where everybodys here to help. My 2 1 2yearold included. Reporter it seems in every crisis, there are frauds and Police Say People here have been getting phone calls from someone claiming to be state police asking for donations in order to keep the search for eric frein going. They say this is a scam. If you are asked to donate, dont. In price township, monroe county, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. New at 5 00, Surveillance Video of an armed robber in action. This man held up the martinez mini market in philadelphias fair hill neighborhood on tuesday. Price say the suspect threatened two employees and demanded money. The workers gave him cash from the register and the gunman took off. Two former Philadelphia School district principals are the two latest arrests in a widespread cheating scandal. Barbara mccreery and larry melton are charged with tampering with public records, and forgery. Nbc 10 records were there as mccreery and melton were escorted into the police department. Mccreery was the principal at Communications Technology high school in 20 10 when the schools math and reading scores suddenly shot up. She and melton are accused of creating answer keys and erasing wrong answers and filling in the right ones so the school could make annual yearly progress. Melton was the principle at bok technical high school. A sad scene today in West Philadelphia. Funeral Services Held for ayesha, the philadelphia girl killed this week by a stray bullet. Today a large crowd, young and old, gathered in West Philadelphia to say their final farewells. She was really sweet. She was a nice girl. She cared about everyone. She was so upbeat and, she was just really nice. She was just 15 years old. The teen was shot and killed monday afternoon. It happened as she walked home from Delaware Valley charter high school. 19yearold darien person is charged with her murder. He was involved in a fight with a group of teens and fired shots at them. A 19yearold man was also wounded. Police have a warrant. Nbc 10 in nicetown tuesday. U. S. Marshals moved in on persons home. Our cameras were rolling as they busted down the door of the house on rowan street. Person wasnt there. He turned himself in later that night. From our south jersey bureau, Armed Robbery at a Burlington County convenience store. Happened this morning on Camden Avenue in morristown. A masked man threatened the clerk before running off with cash and cigarettes. The worker was not hurt. Jews around the world are celebrating the jewish new year which began at sundown last night. Nbc 10 in Spring Garden for services this morning. Its the start of ten days of prayer and penitence which ends on yom kippur, the day of atonement. The painful reminder of the price First Responders paid on 9 11. Three firefighters who risked their grounds at ground zero died on the same day 13 years after the terrorist attack. The unusual connection between those First Responders deaths and why officials believe there could be more victims of the terrorist attacks. Years later. Weather is pretty terrible now but should be a beautiful weekend for racing in dover. Coming up, why some fans just keep coming back and what nascar and the dover track are doing to get more fans to give it a try. Nbc 10 continues to follow a developing story. Stepping up security. The local mass transit agencies increasing their Police Presence in the wake of a new threat from isis. Firefighters battle the threealarm blaze thursday afternoon at a large commercial building on chicagos west side next to the eisenhower expressway. See all of the smoke right there. These are live pictures. Smoke billowing from the building that was engulfed with flames in the 3900 block of west harrison. Helicopter video of the scene showing huge orange flames and thick black smoke. Now most of it is white. It was shooting from the building. And in addition to the fire, officials declared a Hazardous Materials situation. The structures roof, as were told, caved in. The building is being considered a total loss. Again, this is a warehouse fire in chicago. Well keep you updated if we hear of injuries and more information. The latest in the effort to stop isis terrorists. Late today we learned of a new plot to attack subways here in america and in paris. The warning comes from iraqi Intelligence Forces overseas. We reached out to septa officials here at home. They tell us while theres no specific threat here in philadelphia, they arent taking any chances. Theyre beefing up security throughout the city. Tonight the fbi along with other agencies working to protect the u. S. Homeland are denying theres a credible threat that isis is specifically plotting to attack in this country, or in europe. Nbc 10 National Correspondent Steve Handelsman has details from new york city. Reporter on the move at the united nations, president obama had no comment on the new warning that isis plans an attack on the u. S. Homeland. The day after he met mr. Obama, iraqs new Prime Minister caused the stir. Claiming captured isis fighters told iraqi intelligence the group had a plan to attack somewhere in the u. S. And attack paris subways. U. S. Intelligence estimates one dozen isis fighters with american passports have returned to the u. S. And the fbi admits its hard to track isis intentions. Noum numerous sources say u. S. Intelligence has no credible evidence of any isis plots on the u. S. Have to take it seriously, but we also have to take with a grain of salt any reporting from the iraqi services. Reporter khorasan struck in seyria on tuesday and al qaeda n yemen that u. S. Officials fear more. As she shuttled between meetings, president obama got good news about his coalition to fight all the isislike groups. The french may join in strikes in syria. Germany delivered arms to antiisis kurds. And the pentagon said most of the warplanes flown yesterday were not american. Instead, from saudi arabia and the uae in strikes on profitable isis oil refineries. Strategic attacks meant specifically to get at the way that this group sustains, leads, and controls itself. There will be more. Reporter to destroy isis and the like before they can strike in the u. S. Im Steve Handelsman, nbc 10 news. In atlantic city, Catholic Charities for the diocese of camden offering a helping hand to casino workers who lost their jobs. 4 of the 12s citys casinos are now closed. Catholic charities is staffing a hot line for anyone affected by the layoff. To help the unemployed tap into its resources or connect them with other agencies. In north philadelphia, Senior Citizens attend a Crime Prevention university. Representatives from the Pennsylvania Attorney generals offered up valuable tips today at the new courtland life center. They focused on door to door conmen and dealing with telemarketers. Senior citizens are often the targets of those types of scams. A judge says there will be no tweeting during fridays hearing for a pennsylvania teen accused of stabbing his classmates. The judge must decide if 16yearold alex rival will be transferred from a juvenile Detention Center to a Mental Health facility. He was charged with stabbing 20 students and Security Guard at Franklin Regional High School in murraysville last april. His lawyer admits rival did it but says hes mentally ill. The meantime, from our jersey shore bureau, in atlantic city, wet weather is to blame for a chimney crash that injured at least seven people. The vehicle hit a building along pacific and massachusetts avenues. A minivan was also involved. One person in the van was hurt. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well, we started off the day kind of cold, windy and rainy and its still like that in some areas except if youre in the poconos. This is a live look at the poconos. Were starting to see some clouds break up. A little sunshine coming through. This has been the driest spot today. Way up to the north and west of philadelphia. The spotty showers for most of the area will continue for the rest of the evening tonight. Then overnight tonight, thats when we start to see more clearing. So the clouds start to break up a little more overnight and tomorrow we start to warm up through the afternoon and this will be lasting through the weekend. So ill show you that forecast in just a minute. Heres what it looks like around philadelphia now. Into new jersey as well. Along the ben franklin bridge. We have gloomy kind of rainy, windy conditions outside. Very different from the poconos. 64 degrees in philadelphia. Light rain being reported at the airport. Wind gusts near 25 miles an hour. So, it kind of still a dreary end to your day. This will be clearing up overnight tonight. Locally on the radar we dont have heavy rain but have the spotty light showers. Parts of gloucester, camden counties we have the light rain from gloucester, williamstown, victory lakes, glassboro along 55 in these areas seeing the light spotty showers. Also parts of Mercer County along 95 near bordentown township, just very light rain in the area and spotty showers for upper Montgomery County along 476 and Chester County seeing spotty light rain. This will slowly shift from west to east as we go through tonight. Also in parts of kent county, still watching this same line of light to moderate rainfall here. Its approaching milford. Farmington seeing some of this rain. Slowly moving through into parts of Sussex County. Thats the direction its moving. Again, well start to see improving conditions several hours from now. We still have the cloud cover with us. Theres quite a bit of clear weather off to our west. The cloud cover will slowly push offshore as we go through tonight and start to see more clearing skies especially into tomorrow. Temperatures in the mid to low 6 60s now, cool and windy. Winds gusting near 25 miles an hour. For much of south jersey and delaware, wildwood, wind gusts near 30 miles an hour. Future weather slowly starting to get rid of the light rain tonight. 11 00 p. M. , cloudy. Overnight, we see more clearing. Early tomorrow, we could have clouds lingering closer to the shore. As the whole system moves away. Well start to see more sunshine for the area through the day. Gradual clearing as far as the clouds are concerned. Mid 50s for the low in philadelphia. 49 degrees areas north and west. Tomorrow, more sunshine. Warmer temperatures, too. 75 to 78 degrees. And we keep on climbing going into the weekend. So for saturday, 81 and sunny. 83 sunday and sunny. The first weekend of fall. This weekend will feel a little more like summer. As we go into next week, we start with temperatures in the low 80s. Police in charlottesville, virginia, have expanded their search for a missing uva student. Today officer admitted they have no idea where Hannah Graham is. Meanwhile, the man accused of abducting her will be brought to virginia to face charges. Nbc 10 National Correspondent jay gray has the latest from washington. Reporter during a brief Court Appearance this afternoon Jesse Matthew said he will not fight a trip back to virginia, in the disappearance of Hannah Graham. The extradition process is under way. You know that hell soon be brought back here to the commonwealth of virginia and to charlottesville. Reporter while the search for the suspect has ended police are still working to find graham. This bright, really intelligent, athletic, friendly, beautiful, 18yearold College Student has been part of our community for the last two years, is still missing. We have no idea whatsoever where she is. Reporter hundreds gathered last night at the Alexandria High School where the 18yearold student athlete graduated last year. Many hopeful matthews arrest will be the break they need to help find hannah. Hope. Hope that shes okay. Hope that shell be found and hope for her family. Hannah, we love you so much. Please come home. Her community unwavering, as they light the way for her return. Jay gray, nbc 10 news. Rallying to make a change. Nbc 10 following a local nurses protest over contract negotiations and what they call unsafe working conditions. Only hours left for them to picket. Why the nurses have to go back on the job tomorrow morning. Plus, no signs of slowing down. A frightening respiratory virus continues to spread across the country. Where more local patients are being tested for the illness. You can vote for the High School Blitz game of the week for friday october 3rd. Here are the choices. St. Joes against vineland. A Catholic League battle between Cardinal Ohara and archbishop carroll. To vote, go to nbc10. Com or facebook page. Also call or text your onetime vote to 6106244111. The game with the most votes featured on the High School Blitz saturday night on nbc 10. Speaking of high schools, a name thats been a source of controversy for a bucks county high school. Tonight a group of people of native american decescent are calling on Neshaminy School to drop the skins mascot. They said the word redskins is offensive and derogatory and amounts to racism. Nbc 10 reported in june the school board approved a policy and forcing the editors of the School Newspaper to use the word in certain situations. School leads argued the word represents tradition and banning the word may trample free speech rights of other students. We reached out to the district for comment but have not heard back. From our south jersey bureau, hospitals are seeing more and more suspected cases of enterovirus, affects the respiratory system and sent children to hospitals in ten states. Most people suffer mild symptoms but some patients have trouble breathing and need more care. Cooper University Hospital says it has twice as many pediatric patients than last time this year and the hospital is keeping visitors under 16 off the pediatric floor for now. Back to the breaking news we were telling you about. Firefighters battling a threealarm blaze at a large commercial building on chicagos west side. Still a lot of white smoke remaining. This is next to the eisenhower expressway in chicago. See firefighters there pouring water on this scene. Earlier, there was even more smoke billowing from the engulfed building. The location, the 3900 block of west harrison, and this fire was seen from miles and miles away as you can imagine. Pictures now from the helicopter. We will keep you updated as we get more information. Again, this is a warehouse fire in chicago next to the eisenhower expressway. Well let you know if we hear of any injuries related to this. All right. Turning to this now. Shining a light on local children battling some grave illnesses. A new music video is putting them in the spotlight. Nbc 10 there to see the stars who made a big debut on the today show. Plus a new way to fight a disease these young patients are facing. Its race weekend at Dover International speedway. Changes may be coming along the tracks. Why fans may no longer be sitting in the stachbds and the impact it could have on the spect

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