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WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm March 18, 2015

With a wife and young child. Heres the surveillance video. If you look closely the shooter is wearing a Philadelphia Water Department jacket and hat. He came in several minutes after the victim and started shooting. You can see him bend down and fire the fatal shot at norman. Police not sure if the killer worked for the water department. We are working with Philadelphia Water Department their bosses in hopes of trying to identify this person whether hes an active employee or an exemployee or Somebody Just wearing a Philadelphia Water Department jacket. We are working with them and they are working with us. That killer shot the victim in front of shocked customers right in the middle of the day. Right now there is a 25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. Anyone with information is being asked to call philadelphia police. Nbc10 news. Thank you. New information right now about last years deadly gas explosion in Ewing Township mercer county. The new jersey board of Public Utilities finished their investigation into the blast. Ed boubthey will have to pay a combined settlement of more than 1 million. The march 4th explosion killed linda saratelli, who was working at home and it destroyed or damaged more than 100 homes. Skyforce10 is there as dozens of students and staff suddenly left a south Jersey High School after feeling sick. They walked from the building to a nearby Athletic Field before some went to the hospital. The students were sickened at Paulsboro High School a short distance away from the Paulsboro Refinery which is now the focus of an odor that may have made the students and staff sick. Rosemary connors live with this update. Reporter jim, within the past half hour, i went into the emergency room here at the Medical Center to get a status check of the remaining two students who are left behind of the 15 who were brought here right from the school. Those two students, they are in the process of being discharged. So everybody that was brought here from the school, they will be out of here. A few parents have brought students in to get checked out so they may be here through the early evening. Never want to have to go to the hospital because of an issue with school but be thankful nobodys really hurt bad or anything out of the ordinary. Reporter when parents sent their children off to Paulsboro High School this morning, the emergency room was the last place they expected to pick up their kids at the end of the day. She told me her nose is burning, she has headaches. She told me that shes dizzy, she doesnt feel well at all. One of my friends had to be carried out on the stretcher. She has really bad asthma and breathing problems. Reporter Firefighters Police and emergency crews tested the building while students were dismissed for the day. The nearby Paulsboro Refinery tells nbc10 it was a leak in the top of a tank storing partially refined oil that caused the fume says. Kids passing out and getting sick from this its not right. Reporter the wind today didnt help the problem, both neighbors and government leaders tell me the strong odors from the refinery are not unusual. Kind of a norm around here. This is just about not every day but it happens off and on. Weve always had really weird smells come out of the refinery. It is normal for people that live in paulsboro and in this area. Sometimes you worry about it you know. Reporter parents and students tell me that really the odor started on monday. Today it was the it was the worst of it. I did speak to representative with the refinery. They tell nbc10 the leak theyve been trying to remove that partially refined oil from that tank and really today was their last day of doing it. They call this incident unfortunate but say the whole time they have been in touch with the school. Reporting live in woodbury, rosemary connors, nbc10 news. If you saw the sun out there, dont let it fool you, right . The wind makes it clear were not done with winter yet. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp is here with the forecast. Unfortunately, the cold is going to stick around. Its a big difference yesterday to today. Our current temperature, below freezing in poconos. 41 in pottstown. Mid40s in philadelphia. This time yesterday we were in the 60s. Feels like temperature with our strong wind speeds, 37 degrees in philadelphia. Feels like 33 in pottstown. Feeling like 18 in mt. Pocono. 35 degrees in Atlantic City. Were seeing wind gusts close to 25, 30 miles an hour. Those wind speeds will subside as we head into the rest of the night. 37 degrees by 9 p. M. 35 and cold by 11 p. M. We stay nice and quiet heading into tomorrow but take a look at this next system im tracking. That is going to make its way closer to us on the first day of spring on friday. We expect snow and a snow rain mix. Ill go over all the details in my first alert seven day forecast. Students from a Montgomery County school went back to class today. When they arrived, the classrooms were very different than what theyre used to seeing. A saturday morning fire destroyed destroyed Wyncote Academy. They are looking to rebuild as investigators get to the bottom of what happened there. Deanna durante is live at the scene. Reporter investigators want to know who was hirnd this fire and what happened here early saturday morning. The school a total loss. Students and staff showing up nearby grats college four days after this fire destroyed the school. Heartbreaking. Reporter four days after the devastating fire broke out inside, students and staff are together again. Theyre not far from the home that the fire marshal says was destroyed by someone. Im just happy to have happy everybody is okay. Reporter students are grateful no one was hurt saturday morning. The Building School splice are a total loss. Hanging in the schools temporary home photos of what the school once looked like. Its horrible to do it to a historical site, to do it to a school and put not only the staff out but the students out of the school of a Historical Building and everything. Its very disappointing. Reporter this school was nrch to serve kids who need extra attention in the classroom with small classes and individual attention. Students today are asking who was behind the fire and why . Obviously didnt have any regard for us. Reporter alumni are working to show students they do care. A go fund page has been set up and former students are working to set up a benefit to get the school up and running again. I hope that the Community Knows what a Wonderful School that this is. Reporter now, youre taking a live look at the building here. Police tell me that they have not been able to go inside the building and get a better look inside but they are hoping maybe a large crane scheduled to be here in the near future will give them a look from above. The fire marshal not commenting much further other than saying the fire was incendiary in nature. Reporting live deanna durante, nbc10 news. Police say a gps device in the vehicle of a murder suspect led them to the body of his missing wife two states away. 26yearold Erica Crippen has been presumed dead since early january. Police uncovered her body beside this sykesville mayor mashgs rural dirt driveway yesterday. Authorities say kyle crosby labeled points of interest on the gps device and police say the harsh winter helped their investigation. Frankly, that may have been of assistance to us in the long run, the fact her body was relatively well preserved when she was found yesterday. Police discovered crippens body the day after her motherinlaw, jo crosby, was arrested for helping her son cover up the crime. An air force veteran and new jersey native pleaded not guilty to federal terror charges. Hes accused of trying to join Islamic Militant group isis. Prosecutors say former airplane mechanic pugh was stopped at a turkish airport in january. Officials found his laptop containing information on border crossings into syria. Turkish authorities denied him entry. Thats when he was deported to the states and arrested. Even after having been discharged several years ago, this is someone they want to put in front of a camera they want to declare his loyalty to isis. Court records show pughs laptop was loaded with nearly 200 jihadi propaganda videos. In all, 23 americans have been charged with trying to fight for isis. A woman came to nbc10 trying to get more information about the night Wilmington Police officers shot her brother. You saw it on this newscast as breaking news back on january 15th. Police told us that night they shot 24yearold marvin jones after he shot at officers during a traffic stop. Police later admitted jones never fired a shot but the Court Documents show the officers shot him during a struggle. Where they say he pointed a gun at them. Jones is still at christiania hospital paralyzed from the neck down. And his family tells us they dont believe they know the whole story. Its hard to see him like that. Were going to keep praying. Well get through this. Wilmington police say their internal investigation is still under way and the officers are still off the street. The Delaware Attorney Generals Office will soon launch its own investigation. To a developing story. Penn states president is talking about the fraternity sex scandal rocking the campus and beyond. The frat has already been shut down for a year. Next what the college is saying about the scandal and the students involved. Also looking for a few good bets. Some of the biggest employers around held a job fair today and none of the interviews involved a handshake. Next gearing up for game fim. Well take you live to pittsburgh as villanova and lafayette get ready for their College Basketball tournament introduction. Want to go to breaking news from skyforce10. Look at this mess right here. Were told a trash truck caught on fire had to dump its load of garbage right onto the roadway here. This is lincoln drive and cherokee street. Because of all this lincoln drive is partially blocked. You see the traffic trying to get by the northbound lanes of lincoln drive blocked here. A trash truck caught fire and had to dump its load right there. Fortunately, no injuries as a result of all of this. In western pennsylvania researchers are looking for a man who fell from an Observation Deck in a park and floated over some falls. The man fell trying to take a picture at the state park in fayette county. He was with a group of friends at the time. The Army Corporation ofs of engineers is trying to lower the water level using hydraulics. Sweeping changes anaunsed for the fraternity at university of oklahoma. The National Fraternity of Sigma Alpha Epsilon announced changes today. Nbcs jay gray will detail what will be different. Reporter allegations and in some cases evidence of racism dangerous and even criminal behavior at fraternities from the northeast through the southwest. A criminal investigation is under way at university of houston where five members of a fraternity have been suspended after allegations of hazing. While at Vanderbilt University police are trying to dpern whos responsible for spray painting three swastikas inside the Jewish Fraternity alpha epsilon pi, all on the heals of this video uncovered by students at the university of oklahoma that shows members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting racial slurs. The National Organization announced a fourpart initiative that demands mandatory diversionty training for all members and the First National director of diversity and inclusion. There is no end game, so we will constantly stay on it and this will constantly be a focus for zeus as it continues to be a focus across the country. Jay gray nbc news. Experts believe friction will grow between the u. S. And israel over the Peace Process and iran. Prime minister netanyahu had a decisive reelection win yesterday, and he did it after rejecting the u. S. Policy that calls for a palestinian state. Netanyahu campaigned on capitol hill against any nuclear deal with iran. He won republican support. There will be a confrontation. Not over the palestinian issue but over iran if there is a deal. A spokesman for president obama insisted netted yeahanyahus win will not substantially impact john kerrys urgent negotiations with iran. Kerry called netanyahu with congratulations. Still no comment from the u. S. Embassy in tokyo after Death Threats were made against ambassador caroline kennedy, who was there giving a lecture at a Tokyo University when someone called the u. S. Embassy and issued the threats. This comes just after a u. S. Ambassador was attacked in south korea earlier this month. This is video just after mark Lippert Lippert was attacked by a knife. He was treated for cuts to his face and arms. He described it as a scary incident. The attacker was arrested immediately afterwards. An investigation continues. Look at this video. Hard to believe no one was killed in this massive pileup in ontario. About 50 cars and tractortrailers collided east of toronto. Police say snow squalls and pack the road caused this crash. Four people were hurt with minor injuries. Good evening. One of the final days of winter but it still feels like it. Youll see temperatures stay well below average even as we head into the rest of the day tomorrow. Well recover a little as we head into the weekend but we track snow. Spring officially starting on friday. As we push into the weekend, our temperatures will recover a bit. Next week cold again. For philadelphia right now, 45 degrees. Plenty of sunshine. Dont let the sun fool you. We have wind gusts up to 30 miles an hour. Sustained wind speeds at 18 miles an hour. Feels like temperature in the 30s and it will stay that way as we head into the rest of the night. Poconos feels like temperature of 18 degrees. Feeling like 34 in allentown. 34 in trenton. Feels like its only 34 in mt. Holly. 35 in Atlantic City. The feels like temperature right now in dover at 38 degrees. So its a chilly night ahead for us. It will feel a little better once the wind speeds die down a little bit. Our 24hour temperature change map shows were 20 degrees colder in Atlantic City same in millville and parts of dover. Actual temperature, 40 degrees in allentown. 48 degrees in dover. Heres our wind speed, gusting up to 36 miles an hour in Atlantic City. Gusting up to 33 in mt. Holly. 30 in fchl. 29 in allentown. Up to 30 miles an hour in the poconos. Its a very gusty evening. Our satellite radar shot shows our next system a system that will bring snow and a wintry mix heading into friday. That will affect your commute both in the morning and as you head home from work. Heres a closer look at our future weather model. It shows us exactly when the precipitation will start to move in. This latest model shows it moving in at 10 a. M. Its possible this could start a few hours earlier. Once this starts youll notice it keeps going throughout the entire day. By the time you head home from work if the central southern parts of delaware mainly rain. If you look closer to philadelphia or wilmington the northern parts of delaware we expect to see snowfall and more of a wintry mix. If you live close to the suburbs suburbs, Lehigh Valley thats mostly accumulating snow during the day. We do expect to see accumulating snow. Different precipitation types, slippery conditions for everyone. How much will we see . 3 to 6 inches for poconos, Lehigh Valley. 1 for 3 for wilmington philadelphia stretching out to mt. Holly. Closer to the shore, were expecting closer to a trace to 1 inches where well see warmer temperature. Heading into the rest of the night, the temperatures will drop down pretty low, clear skies. Down to 19 degrees. Tomorrow well see an instant replay of today with temperatures staying below average between 42 and 45 degrees. Our only saving grace tomorrow were not dealing with the wind speeds. Sevenday forecast shows as we head into friday were tracking the snow and rain mix. Temperatures drop down to 34 degrees. We dry out heading into the weekend. Villanova wildcats just over 24 hours from their first ncaa tournament game as the top seed in the east. They will face the lafayette leopards in pittsburgh. Comcast sportsnets neil hartman is in pittsburgh with more. Reporter villanova arrived here yesterday afternoon. Theyve already had a few practices here in pittsburgh. They just finished a public workout at the Consul Energy center. Jay wright told me he wants fresh legs and fresh minds. This will be their 35 game of the year tomorrow against lafayette but it could be the start of something special. I hope we have a good chance. You know being number one seed definitely helps. I think one of the things that weve all learned through the years of this tournament anything can happen. And i just think were the kind of team that we really honestly, we could beat anybody. We really could. But were not were not super talented that we couldnt lose tomorrow you know. Its just you know we our closest game of the year this year was against bucknell you know, at home. And, you know, a similar team to lafayette and they won their l

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