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WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm March 12, 2015

Nbc 10s renee chenaultfattah joins us live from the Digital Operation Center with details. Renee . Reporter jacqueline and keith, Philadelphia Police have told us that viewings will take place tomorrow and saturday. The Funeral Service will also be on saturday at the palestra at the university of pennsylvania. Officer wilson as you know was shot and killed a week ago today. He was buying a video game for his son at the gamestop store in north philadelphia when Police Say Two men came in to commit a robbery. A shootout began and officer wilson was killed and he was in the 22nd police district. Charles ramsey said he spent the day with the officers family to finalize his funeral arrangements. We have a framework that we use for a full honors funeral, but we have to be flexible because we work with the family and ultimately its the family that decides exactly what they want, what they dont want and so forth. We have certain protocols, silent march that we have when the caisson, the horsedrawn caisson is taken to the venue where the funeral is going to take place. Speaking of a silent march, Philadelphia City council also took time to remember officer wilson by holding a moment of silence before todays meeting. Thank you so much. And again, the funeral for officer wilson will be this saturday at the palestra at the university of pennsylvania. Reporting live from the Digital Operations Center renee chenaultfattah, back to you. [ bleep ]. The man hunt for those responsible for shooting two officers during a protest in ferguson missouri. The two officers wounded in ferguson have been released from the hospital and today attorney general eric holder condemned the attack and others like it. Among them the killing of Philadelphia Police officer Robert Wilson. These devastating incidents serve as a reminder that our Law Enforcement officers perform a job that is extremely serious, that is deeply heroic and it is deserving of our most emphatic support. Holder said these acts of violence threaten reforms that people in ferguson and around the country have been working toward. Tonight missouri investigators are focused on finding who carried out this mornings attack. As you might imagine, this is the number one priority right now of the st. Louis county Police Department to identify these individuals. That individual or individuals who shot our Police Officers. S. W. A. T. Officers were at a home in fergu8 4 they took several people in for questioning. Last nights shootings took place during a demonstration. The crowd gathered shortly after fergusons police chief announced his resignation. Michael browns family is condemning this mornings violence and they called the shootings senseless. Browns death sparked widespread protests against police. At 5k clo, the results are in for last months casino revenue in Atlantic City. The numbers released just this afternoon show the struggling shoretowns casinos took another economic hit. Nbc 10my Jersey Shore Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg is live in Atlantic City. Ted . Jackie and keith, ive been going through these figures and they show not all of the casinos had a down month, but overall experts say Mother Nature is to blame for keeping people away from Atlantic City. Falling snow and plunging temperatures in february prove to be a downer for Atlantic Citys gambling industry. Total gaming win for the citys eight casinos dropped by just under 2 compared to the same month last year. This is a very very tough month and i expected actually even more difficult results for the casinos. The figures we got today do not account for revel trump plaza and showboat, all open in 2014 and Golden Nugget and resorts were strong performers last month. When you see the contraction of the industry and you see a relatively Strong Performance from some of the ones you expect to see. The trump taj mahal and valleys which have struggled lately had the weakest performances last month. Live in Atlantic City im Ted Greenberg, nbc 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Its been a sunny and dry day and 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. Nbc 10 meteorologist Sheena Parveen, just when we were getting used to the temperatures a change. Its still dry and its still sunny and still looks and feels really nice out. Radar, completely clear and this is where we have all of the sunshine and live look at philly Citizens Bank park and its been shaking all afternoon. Winds are gusting near 22 miles an hour in from the north and that wind direction is cooling down the cooler temperature. Right now it is 50 degrees in philadelphia and it is 10 degrees cooler than it was yesterday at this time and as we go through tonight we will be colder, but our winds, those will start to lighten, too, so it wont be as windy and then we watch the moisture that we see down to the south and this will be moving up as we go into the weekend and we have rain in the forecast and i hope you enjoy the dry day tonight and still breezy 47 degrees and we get closer to 8 00 p. M. And those winds lighten up and by 10 00 tonight we should be dropping in the upper 30s in some areas early tomorrow morning will be in the upper teens and it will be a colder start to your day tomorrow and then that rain approach is going into the weekend and coming up ill show yah a look at that for your weekend and how long it will last. Well see you later sheena. They have been called rolling bombs after derail am explosions and fires. Rail cars Holding Thousands of chemicals like oil right through philadelphia and suburban neighborhoods. Nbc 10s doug shimell reports. The rail cars have been going by for years. Im 69 and theyve gone by before then. Reporter it is one of the more uncomfortable facts of life on stillman street. Anything could be in there. Im scared. Im real scared. You see how it is. Tanker cars many coming and going from philadelphia refineries with crude oil and flammable liquids. How much more damage do we need . Reporter environmentalists say philadelphia was lucky that tank cars were not punctured during derailments in 2014 and 2015, but last month, West Virginia wasnt as lucky. A fiery derailment were to happy in the city hundreds of thousands of people would be in the blast zone and people simply wouldnt be able to get away. Reporter the problems say city officials, are the department of transportation want 11 cars that are easy to puncture. Philadelphia city council okayed to measure,ing can the feds to force Rail Companies to build safer, doublewall tankers. We want to make sure that here in the city of philadelphia that we can prevent a catastrophe from taking place and i want to make sure that we dont have an environmental catastrophe, as well. That was doug shimell reporting. We have new developing news from the philadelphia eagles. Thats a common occurrence now. Fans heads have been spinning this week after a surprise trade and one of the games most talented on on excuse me, it gets me choked up. One of the games most talented players and member of the Dallas Cowboys has landed on home turf. Demarco murray landed a few hours ago and speculation is flying and john clark, and fans would love to see the leading rusher just stripped from the cowboys and the longstanding riefralary between the teams. Reporter theres more to the plot. There are two runningbacks in the complex behind me signing contracts with the eagles. This wild and crazy off season of chip kelly continues to run filed. Eagles are signing two runningbacks today. Take a look. Demarco murray the nfls leading rusher arrived in philly late this afternoon. Hes expected to sign a fiveyear deal for over 40 million. He would be the first leading rusher of the nfl team to switch teams in 68 years. Remember lesean mccoy led the nfl in rushing in 2013 . Murray led in rushing last year. Hes expected to sign. Take a look at ryan math us of the chargers. He was already in town expected to sign, came to an agreement with the eagles before the birds got hot and heavy with Demarco Murray, but the eagles Just Announced that ryan math us has officially signed a threeyear deal. This is just wild and now in the backfield, youre looking at Demarco Murray, Ryan Matthews darren sproels and chris polk. It is wild chip kelly is collecting runningbacks now. It all started with trading lesean mccoy and they thought they had an agreement with frank gore and Ryan Matthews and now its Demarco Murray and Ryan Matthews. The madness continues and im john clark live and well have more at 6 clock, maybe another runningback signs. So much to keep up with. John, youre doing a great job out there. I want to take a look at this from philly. Com. The political cartoonist pointing out how much attention the eagles trades are getting compared to the lack of interest in the philadelphia mayoral race. Speaking of philadelphia will play host to another major event, with part of the announcement today that one of the biggest soccer tournaments in the world will take place this summer at lincoln financial field. The concacaf world couple be played. That includes other teams from the region. It will take place at ppl park in chester. The championship game will be the next day at lincoln financial. Right now we are tracking the latest in a deadly military chopper crash. The bodies of two servicemen were found today. Next what investigators are saying about that crash and the victims. After the storm, a Second Chance at sandy relief. Fema officials plan to look again into more than 100,000 stormdamaged claims. Whats behind the feds change of direction and check out this mess. A pennsylvania interstate was closed after being littered with dozens of smashed boxes. Well tell you about the tasty cargo that hit the pavement after this truck crash. Developing out of florida tonight, survivors. That is the word from the u. S. Military after a day and a half of searching for the wreckage of a downed u. S. Military helicopter in the waters off the florida panhandle. Nbcs sarah doloff has more on the crash and the communities struggling with the loss. Reporter after more than 24 hours of searching today came the news many had feared. At this point we are not hopeful for survivors and we are transitioning our search and rescue operation to a recovery. Reporter the uh60 Army Helicopter went down in thick fog during a Training Exercise over the santa rosa sound. It was certainly a highimpact crash. So we do have a lot of debris. The 11 soldiers and marines onboard are feared dead as the military moves into a recovery phase. We have retrieved remains. Seven onboard the chopper were special forces marines based out of camp lejeune, north carolina. The helicopter and fourperson crew were members of the Louisiana National guard, two other military communities now suffering a loss. The ongoing fog is now likely to hamper Recovery Efforts of the helicopter and delay officials in retrieving the black box. Something they hope will give them clues as to what caused the crash. Last night this tightknit military Community Held a candlelight vigil to remember those onboard and support this family. It brings the Community Together to make sure that we all know that each though some people are gone that were all there for each other. A community now coming together to support the families of those lost. Sarah dolloff, nbc news, florida. For more on the story be sure to watch nbc news at 6 30 right here on nbc 10. The Boston Marathon bombing trial continued today with a witness who says the tsarnaev brothers carjacked him at gunpoint. Three days after the attacks. The medical examiner also testified about an m. I. T. Officer allegedly killed during a shootout with the brothers. Tamerlan tsarnaev died shortly after the shootings and his brother dzhokhar could face the death penalty. According to a new study, the survey has been around for the past 40 years and its latest findings, only 23 of americans have exceptional confidence in the supreme court. Only 11 believe to be the executive branch and 5 for congress. The confidence is high when it comes to the u. S. Military. 50 of those surveyed said they have great faith in the armed forces. Safer people safer streets. That is the goal of a new u. S. Department of transportation initiative. Local leaders gathered in d. C. And focused on improving pedestrian and bicycle safety. Its a part of the Mayors Challenge summit and a year of activities and challenges for participating cities. Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter is one of 75 u. S. Mayors to accept the yearlong challenge. Well make a transformation in society and how we live and thats to get more people out of the vehicles and on to bicycles and walking. My motto is burn calorie, not carbon. The first Mayors Challenge aims to redice pedestrian and bicyclist death. City officials spent the day learning and sharing ideas inside a series of work shops. Hondas new ad campaign is alerting consumers about an air bag recall affecting some of its vehicles. The ads will direct customers to check one of their cars in the tecata air bag recall. They should be taken to dealerships for repair with the facebook and Newspaper Campaign starts monday. More problems for Jackie Robinson west the Chicago Little League Baseball Team stripped of its National Title and now League Officials are dissolving the teams home district and we told you earlier this year when the National Title was stripped and they revealed players from outside boundary lines were members of the championship leading team and it became after it announced its possible departure from Little League international. Traffic is slowly getting back to normal along a kentucky highway and dozens of drivers found themselves stranded. Some drivers were stuck for more than 12 hours. Some parked their vehicles and left and crews moved the vehicles to the side of the road before plowing, and they were still sitting where they were parked yesterday. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Big improvements with our winter weather, thats for sure. Today, plenty of sunshine and we do have the cooler temperatures around this afternoon and as we go into tonights and it will be colder through most of the area and some spots being in the upper teens overnight tonight and rainy as we go into your weekend and we have rain moving in for your saturday and ill show you the timing in just a second and the good news is the rain isnt going to last all weekend and by sunday well be seeing clearing conditions and at least theyll be one that you can get outside and you can definitely see how windy it is outside with the flag blowing and 51 degrees right now, so its about ten degrees colder than it was yesterday at this time and those temperatures keep dropping and the winds diminish too. We are seeing clear skies and lows and west and redding and potts town and 48 degrees west chester and 50 degrees, bensalem and 50 in wilmington and 51 in dover and it is cooler out today, but at least it is nice and dry and if youre in the shade it will feel colder for the rest of this afternoon. Radar is nice and clear. So we dont expect rain right now or even as we go through most of the day tomorrow. All of the rain is down to the south and pretty far away and its kind of slow moving but it is starting to build up more moisture from the gulf of mexico and this is the area of rain that were watching as we go into the weekend and we have rain coming off this saturday. Heres a look for the future weather and for the rest of the afternoon and evening and we stay dry. For friday, though well be mostly dry through the day and 3 00 p. M. Friday youll notice more clouds moving in and then late friday night were talking between 9 00 and 11 00 p. M. And thats when we will see rain approaching and then overnight into saturday morning and we could see areas of heavier rain and waking up saturday at 8 00 in the morning and everybody will be above freezing and philadelphia will be in the 40s and a mild rainy start and the rain continues and by 5 00 p. M. Once the rain starts to break up we could be in the mid to low 60s. It will be mild and rainy for saturday and then we go on to saturday night and we could have a few thunderstorms before this all clears out and well pay close attention to that and thats saturday night and then we go into sunday and that will be the better day out of the weekend if you want to get outside and do anything and i know it will be the dryer day. Winds will be lightening up and 29 for the north and west. Sunshine moving into the day and rain coming later tonight and temperatures staying in the low 50s and we go into saturday and it will be a rainy start and we go into next week mostly in the mid to low 50s to start off. If yo

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