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Showers, low 70s. By 10 00, a chance of showers. Temperatures in the upper 60s. Well take another look at the timing of rain for parts of tomorrow and also into your weekend. Thats coming up. New developments today in the search for an accused cop killer in pennsylvania. State Police Reveal this afternoon they discovered two pipe bombs capable of causing significant damage during their manhunt for eric frein. Authorities say the bombs were not deployed but they were fully functional and could have been set off by either a trip wire or a fuse. I amc calling on you, eric,o surrender. Youre clearly stressed. Youre making significant mistakes. We continue to take your supplies and your weapons stockpiles while you are no doubt weakening, our troopers resolve is very strong. Frein has been on the run since september 12th. Hes charged with killing one state trooper and wounding a second. We are following a gun tragedy in delaware. Right now, police are investigating how a 2yearold boy got his hands on a gun and shot himself. It happened late this morning inside a home in the valley run section of claymont. We said nbc 10 Delaware Bureau tim furlong to the scene as soon as we heard. Tim, youve been all over this story. Explain how this can happen. Reporter thats the tough part about this, how it happened. I got the email tip this morning. I couldnt believe it when i saw it. A 2yearold boy shot himself. I thought, no way it could be true. The police have been here all day long examining the scene, they say thats exactly what happened. I call him little man when i see him. Lots of the neighbors know little a. J. When hes playing outside. Very bright little kid, 3 years ole. Always speaks. I feel very sorry for him. Reporter tonight these neighbors want to know how he could have ended up with a gun in his hand. They believe the boy was home with his mom this morning when he found the gun and shot himself in the head. Some neighbors came outside when they heard the mom screaming into her phone. She said, he shot himself in the head. Like i said, i cant understand how a 2yearold would get ahold of a gun. Were looking at everything, taking everything into account. Reporter i kept checking with police for a condition update. They still say the boy is in Critical Condition but that the noir giving specifics about just how critical the situation is. They havent said if anybody will face charges for any of this. Ill keep working on the story. Well have an update at 6 00. Live in clay monday the, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. If you shopped a local Supermarket Chain this summer youll want to check your bank account. Acme is the latest retailer to become a victim of stolen Customer Credit card data. The supermarket train said that malware invaded the network that processes credit and debit cards. They believe customer information was stolen over the course of several weeks this summer. I am worried about it but it seems like it happens more and more, the way the internet is and technology is. It just makes it easier for people to steal your stuff. I dont think people should be afraid of using their credit and debit cards, notwithstanding the environment were working in. Its exercising what i would call good computer hygiene. That includes checking your Online Bank Statement every day and asking credit reporting agencies to freeze any new credit applications to prevent stolen data from being used to open up accounts. 95 million. Thats currently the highest bid for Atlantic Citys defunct revel casino at a bankruptcy auction happening now in new york. Nbc 10 is in midtown manhattan for the actions second day. That 95 million offer was made this afternoon by florida developer glenn straub. He enkou straub and his lawye accused revels attorney of having closeddoor negotiations with at least one other bidder. They say he failed to provide information on additional bids as previously promised. The process is meant to obtain the highest and best bid. Nbc 10 reached out to revels lawyer for comment butc so far we received no response. Nbc 10 jersey reporter Ted Greenberg will bring us more information as soon as he gets it. In the meantime, heres a question many people are asking today. Whats in the water . Harmful chemicals for at least two dozen home owners in Montgomery County. Starting today, change is on tap for those residents and families. Construction began on pipes that will disconnect homes in limerick from contaminated wells and link them to fresh, clean water. Nbc 10s christine madella is live in schwenksville. This Ground Breaking has been years in the making. Thats right. 15 years in the making to be exact. Right now, neighbors in this area dont drink the tap water and they use bottled water to cook as well but today theyre happy to see these pipes and welcome the construction project thats going to funnel uncontaminated water to their sinks. Water is one of those things many people take for granted until they turn on the tap and find out its contaminated. Reporter thats exactly what happened to some home owners in Montgomery County. Today marks the beginning of a water line project that will carry clean water to the 25 homes with contaminated wells in limerick township. Whos going to buy a home knowing that theres carcinogens in the water supply that have to be filtered out before you can use the water. The water comes into the house from the well over here. This isnt the only area tce has been found contaminating the water supply. When i asked them to show me where else, they said bridge road and skippack pike. Mary spent thousands on this whole home carbon filtration system to get the tces out of the water. Were hopeful that we werent exposed to anything but you never know. Reporter but for the past 15 years shes been fighting for clean, public water and peace of mind. I dont bathe in the water and dont drink the water kind of thing. Yes. Anytime my kids would get sick, there would always be this little in the back of my head, like could this be something coming from the water in the ground. Reporter now this 1. 5 million project should be completed by thanksgiving and she says shes thankful she will finally be able to trust the water shes using in her home. Reporting live in schwenks shl, christine madella, nbc 10 news. An exciting time for kids in manayunk today. 200 volunteers built a new play ground at north Light Community center on green lane. The employ ground had been in use for 15 years. The new design is based on childrens drawings created at a special design event over the summer. Glaxo smithkline and kaboom made the event possible. Michael phelps under arrest. What the olympic swimmer was picked up and the charges against him. Plus, voting investigation. Forget yay or nay, do you know whos actually casting votes in trenton . It may not be your elected official. You have to see what an nbc investigation uncovered. Skyforce 10 live over breaking news, this time in Montgomery County. Emergency crews are responding to a shooting at the Public Safety Training Campus in conshohocken. There was a person shot at the gun range Training Center located at 1175 conshohocken road. No word yet on the condition or the identity of the person shot and if it was accidental or intentional. Lu ann cahn is headed to that scene to get more information. An oklahoma man accused of beheading a woman after being fired from his job was charged today with first degree murder. 30yearold alton nolen is charged with severing the head of Colleen Johnson and allegedly trying to kill another woman, traci johnson. It happened around 4 30 in the afternoon last thursday at a Food Distribution warehouse in moore. Nolen was attacking johnson when an offduty sheriffs deputy shot him. The sister of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appeared in a new york court this morning. She faces a harassment charge unrelated to the marathon bombing. Authorities say she made a threatening phone call to a woman who used to be romantically involved with her husband. She toll the woman she knew people who could put a bomb where the woman lived. Her brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Michael phelps is in trouble with the law again. He was arrested this morning in maryland and charged with dui. Police pull him over in baltimore after officers say he wasc going 84 miles an hour inside the ft. Mchenry tunnel. Phelps appeared intoxicated, then failed a sobriety test. This is the second time hes been charged with dui. Phelps got probation and paid a fine after his first arrest in 2004. This afternoon he posted this statement on twitter. Quote, i understand the severity of my actions and take full responsibility. I know these words may not mean much right now but i am deeply sorry to everyone i have let down. 11 days after a man with a knife made it into the white house, secret Service Director Julia Pierson testified shes still trying to figure out how it happened. As nbcs Steve Handelsman explained, lawmakers were not happy to put it mildly. This is disgraceful. Reporter lawmakers vented their outrage at secret Service Director Julia Pierson. Dont let somebody get close to the president. Dont let somebody get close to his family. Reporter pierson says shes still investigating the firstever forced intrusion into the white house september 19th. I will make sure that it does not happen again. Reporter as she testified, came a fresh disclosure from the washington post. The fence jumper, omar gonzalez, who made it through the unlocked door deep into the white house was stopped by an offduty officer who happened to see him. No dogs were released. No shots were fired. I want it to be crystal clear, you make a run and a dash to the white house, were going to take you down. Reporter officers are to assess the threat and act fast. Shes not sure why they blew it a week ago friday. We have a security procedure that wasnt followed. One week prior an individual had climbed the fence and was arrested within seconds. Reporter before pierson took charge, in 2011, a gunman fired from the south and hit the residence but secret Service Supervisors did not believe it happened and the seven slugs werent found for four days, because officers who knew the truth kept quiet. Is that still an issue . How do you even know what the problems are. Reporter president obama today was out walking, a reminder that hes a target and the front door of the white house now locks automatically if theres a threat alert. Through a spokesman president obama said he has full confidence in secret Service Director Julia Pierson to make needed reforms. At the white house, Steve Handelsman, nbc 10 news. Elsewhere, a boat carrying hundreds of migrants was rescued off the coast of italy. It had nearly 500 people on board. Thousands of people get on boats like this year after year to escape turmoil in the middle east and africa. Amnesty International Say more than 2,500 people have already died this year. A mother from philadelphia says she is desperate for help and shes traveled all the way to washington, d. C. To get it. Faith yezner took part in todays mom march as its called outside the u. S. Capitol. Their goal, to get help for children across the country who are suffering from eating disorders. She says her daughter has been battling anorexia for six years. Please open your eyes to the seriousness of this, your children are dying. It could happen to you, we need action. You guys can help us. Participants in todays march called for more research and education tomorrow. The eating Disorders Coalition will also meet with lawmakers to lobby for more funding. Its not really felt like fall. Mother natures beenc really md with sunny conditions. To some, theyre really missing the rain. For area farmers, the dry weather is either helping or hurt something of the crops. Rosemary connors is live at linvilla orchards in media, delaware county. The pumpkins here, they love this dry weather but for the strawberries its a little bit of a different story. These ones look great and they taste great, i might add, but thats because the farmers have been irrigating this crop themselves. It depends, some of the crops could stand to have a shower or two in the forecast. Others not so much. I see some. Here we go. You can still pick your own fruit, even this time of year at linvilla orchard in delaware county. The kind of crop you want does depend on how much water it needs. Something like tree fruits, apples are doing tremendously. Theyre deeply rooted. It takes a very long dry period to have an effect on apples. Reporter the dry spell is creating the perfect condition for pumpkins which are susceptible to fungus from too much moisture. They look very nice. They always have a great variety. Reporter while pumpkins are the fall favorite, linvilla orchards is harvesting corn but not if we get a taste of winter in october. Most people dont think you can get sweet corn this time of year. Its delicious. Tomatoes are good. Were picking peppers and things like that, all of those things the first hard frost theyll be done. The apples can make it through an early cold snap and will be picked through november. This is the biggest one. As you can see, the pumpkins right here, as long as they dont get a downpour over the next couple weeks will be just feern throu fine through october. Thats the good news. Meteorologist Sheena Parveen is tracking light showers that are coming into the area tonight. Sheena . Yes, rosemary, light showers unfortunately, its not the type of rain that we need for the deficit of rainfall by any means but there are a few showers as we go through this evening. Great conditions, a few showers as we go into tonight. Not everyone will see the rain. These will be spotty showers. But we do have more rain coming into the weekend. Im saying a. M. Weekend rain because it will mostly be to start off your weekend. Most of these will be in the morning. Ill show you that coming up. After that we have cooler temperatures moving in. Will feel more like fall this weekend, especially more like football weather as we go into sunday for the eagles home game. Speaking of the eagles, we have a nice look at the linc right now. Sunshine with clouds around but no rain just yet. Temperature 78 degrees in philadelphia right now. It feels comfortable. Humidity is 43 . Very light wind and as we go through this evening, thats when our chance of showers will start to move in. But, again, its not a huge chance. Some of us, especially areas north and west could see a few showers as we go through the next several hours. 75 degrees in pottstown, 76 allentown. In reading, 74 northeast philly. Closer to the shore, temperatures around 70 degrees, 75 paoli thorndale, 71 right now in dover. So locally on radar we really dont have much going on. Its a pretty nice day. If we look back off to the west, a line of thunderstorms through central p. A. This line should not make it into our area but theres enough moisture later on this evening to potentially give us a few showers. A wider look out, showing the rain to our west, rain off to our east. Were in the middle with this drier slot of air. The rain in the atlantic, thats moving away. Again, some of the showers to our west may start to creep in as we go through this evening. Heres future cweather. By 9 00, 10 00 p. M. , rain tries to move into parts of lancaster county, chester county, the Lehigh Valley. A few showers in the forecast tonight. Tomorrow, we start to see this wraparound moisture from whats offshore. Early tomorrow morning, a little more in the way of cloud cover. As we go through the afternoon theres a chance for a few showers. You start to notice the clouds moving in from the northeast. Well keep at least a few showers in the forecast for tomorrow. We will be staying mild, though. The cool air doesnt get here until this weekend. Heres a look at future temperatures. The warmest air stays to our south. By friday, were still looking at a pretty mild nice day into the week. Going into the weekend, the cool air starts to move in. Saturday night into sunday morning, some areas will be in the 30s. That will mainly be the Higher Elevations like the poconos but we do have 40 degree temperatures in the forecast. For tonight, though, evening showers, patchy fog possibly forming late tonight. 60 for the low in philadelphia. 56 degrees areas north and west. Tomorrow, early clouds and fog developing. Cooler temperatures tomorrow but its not the kind of cool air were talking about. 71 to 74 degrees for the high temperature. As we go into thursday, 71 looking pretty good but mostly cloudy friday, mid70s. Take a look at the weekend, morning rain saturday. We drop down into the mid60s just in time for the eagles home game. All right, sheena. Another teenage daredevil is facing charges for climbing to the top of a new york city skyscraper. Take a look at this photo posted on the 17yearolds Instagram Account shows the new World Trade Center and another skyscraper peeking through the clouds. It was taken from the top of a new residential building on park avenue. The teen is charged with trespassing and reckless endangerment. Forget paper or plastic, you better take your own bags. The state of california is now in the first state in the nation to ban plastic bags. What that means for shoppers plus what pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware are doing about a bag crackdown. And a touchdown for football fans. What happened today in washington that could allow fans to watch games that were previously blacked out . Skyforce 10 was over breaking news in Montg