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WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm April 9, 2015

Center city and overcast skies and well keep this in the forecast, and we stay cool or chilly i guess you can say, showers moving in and temperatures staying right around 40 degrees and we see the temperatures rise through the day and some areas near 80 degrees and those strong thunderstorms move in and coming up, ill show you the timing on that. Staying behind bars at least for now. Thats what a federal judge ruled today about the philadelphia woman accused of trying to join isis. Nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal is live. Explain why bail was denied this afternoon. Reporter they argue she is both a flight risk and a danger to the public but her family appearing in court for the very first time is hoping shell get some sort of house arrest and this judge today ruling she will remain in jail. Get out of my way the family of Keonna Thomas sprints out of federal court, no comment after learning their 30 youz rell yearold relative will remain in jail. Shes accused of wanting to join and support the terror group isis. Facing a judge today she was ruled a threat and a flight risk. Miss thomas will be held in prison pending the trial in this case. Prosecutors say shes dangerous that since she was arrested her associates have threatened to attack the jail where shes being held. There have been comments by a close associate on twitter threatening a martyrdom operation here in the United States and also threatening violence at the prison. Reporter but her defense team and family say thomas has nowhere to run. Shes lived in philadelphia her whole life and has two young children. We believe that when all the evidence is presented at the time of trial that Keonna Thomas will be found not guilty. Extremist groups in syria and iraq will be recruiting american citizens and almost 200 have been on the feds radar and terror experts say groups like isis are very good at recruiting on social media. By recruits it doesnt just mean people that will come fight and die. It also means that people who will make trouble in the United States. This federal terror case does appear to be going to trial because her defense attorney tells me they will plead not guilty to all charges. Randy gyllenhaal nbc 10 news. Penn state approves a deal to settle more lawsuits brought by victims of Jerry Sandusky. It is unclear how many cases are involved or how much money is involved here. Sandusky is serving a lengthy prison sentence. They believe that the university shouldnt continue paying for the actions of the former assistant football coach. In the meantime joe pattern ons widow is touting the success of a new program aimed at preventing child sexual abuse on college campuses. Sue pattern on was in harrington harringtonisburg to talk about that its called circles of safety for higher education. Sue paid nearly the entire 220,000 to fund the program at pennsylvanias 14 state schools. This program is about helping people have the courage, the comfort and the confidence to take those initial conversations when they hab to see something even vaguely like the warning signs. The seed for the program was a journal entry her husband made in the days before his death. The legendary penn state coach wrote that some good could come out of the Jerry Sandusky scandal and sue pattern on took thatta an invitation to start the program and create a culture of child sex abuse prevengd on college campuses. A South Carolina man shot and killed rile running away from a Police Officer this week snooeshd Michael Slager is seen firing eight shots at walter scott. Those images continue to fuel debate about deadly force in the United States. Nbc 10 correspondent sarah dallof has more from South Carolina. New details are emerging about the Police Officer charged with murder. Michael slager joined the force six years ago. Personnel records show a complaint against him two years ago for improper use of force with a taser, slager was exonerated, but the man who filed the complaint and his attorney spoke about what they call a systematic problem within the police department. We believe as citizens start listening and well uncover other instances where theres been aggressive behavior. Reporter vast gartinvestigators and the public continue to scrutinize the photoing. Why does slager appear to retrieve an object from the ground near where the shots were fired and dropped it by scotts body. They believe that was the taser he tried to use to sub on due where mr. Scott was. He planted the taser directly next to his body. Why are though officers seen on video performing cpr when the initial report says they did . There are questions that i have in my mind that i cant answer right now. No 86 or easy answers in the case thats reignited debate over Deadly Police force. Michael slager has been denied bail and fired from the force and it is still too early for them to comment. In North Charleston South Carolina im sarah dallof nbc news. The Police Officer charged with killing walter scott spent a great deal of time in south jersey. Neighbors remember a younger Michael Slager as a wellmannered boy who ployed outside in mount laurel. Hes a graduate of lenape high school. Slager had whoz been fired, lost his attorney and faces murder charges also yunt went coast guard recruitment and hes also worked at a restaurant in voorh voorhies. One candidate has been fined and explaining how this all happened. State senator Anthony Williams says hes the only candidate subjected to two sets of finance rules. As a state senator he says he did not have limits as to what could be accepted but taking donations from those who had contributed to his Senate Campaign and donated to his race for mayor is a violation of city ethics. The board and williams agreed to settle the dispute by paying a fine. Im the only one who is a state official who had a state campaign as well as getting prepared to run for mayor and im the only one who had to abide by two sets of rules as i prepared to run for mayor and when i finally ran for mayor. Because williams has spent some of the contribution the rest will be put aside and held until after the election. Williams will reimburse the city for money spent on account sgloog a new Study Suggests levels of a cancercausing gas has risen since the controversial practice of frackiing started in pennsylvania. Frackiing releases natural gas by blasting water, sand and chemicals into the ground. Since frackiing began in the keystone case. The second leading cause of lung cancer in the u. S. The study cannot link it to fracing, but the water levels. Right now deliberations are under way for a murder trial. Well take you live to the courthouse. Perfect for refrt and relaxation, but it is alsos scene of a mystery. Listen to this someone stole the familys cabin. You heard me right. They stole the entire building. How the thieves pulled it off. And whats all the buzz . This is something you dont see every day. What happened when a swarm of bees took over a Highway Patrol motorcycle . There will be no verdict today in the murder trial of former nfl star Aaron Hernandez. Jurors wrapped up deliberations for the day less than an hour ago so theyll be back to work in the morning. John moroni is live in falls river massachusetts. John i understand the juror his a question today or two today, right . One or two questions. Reporter they did have a couple of questions today for the judge, keith, in this case. They have entered six notes in total. We dont know what those notes said but six notes have been sent in the last three days of these deliberations and they have gone home for the day. They have now deliberated for about 16 hours which is really not a long time given all the evidence in this case. I would expect, though that well see the jurys verdict in relatively reasonable amount of time. Its a relatively simple indictment. The jury in the trial of Aaron Hernandez has now been at it for three days and is apparently taking its time to understand the facts of the case given todays questions for judge susan garsh. They want adeled a for judge susan garsh. They want adeled a couple of missing photographs and the day when the defendant was in possession of ammunition. He is charged with illegal possession of ammunition and a firearm as well as a murder of 27yearold odin lloyd. Either the jury will buy into the governments theory of the case or they wont and it will take them some time to work through it and i dont expect to be a complicated case for them. Hernandez shot and killed lloyd after planning the murder with wallace and carlos ortiz. There is no evidence in this largely circumstantial case that he committed the crime although theyage believe that the defendant was present when the murder of owed irn lloyd took place. Reporter in a related development a photographer for a boston and television station has been barred from covering the rest of this trial after he told the judge under oath that he had actually followed a couple of jurors after they had finished deliberation yesterday despite her orders to the contrary. We are live in fall river, massachusetts, john moron, y for nbc 10 news. Thank you, john. Robert durst pled not guilty to two weapons arrest. Its kept him in new orleans even though he waived extradition to los angeles. Hes charged in the death of a longtime friend in los angeles from 15 years ago. Durst was the subject of an hbo documentary detailing that friends death was disappearance of his first wife and the murder of a neighbor. It is another black eye for the secret service. The agency has placed a highranking supervisor on administrative leave amid Sexual Misconduct allegations. A female coworker ashes khussed that supervisor of making unwanted sexual advances last month. The department of Homeland Security is investigating. The secret service has suspended the supervisors security clearance. Irans Supreme Leader says theres no guarantee of a nuclear deal with world powers and the iranian president said he will not sign an agreement unless all economic sanctions are immediately lifted. Tehran and six powers agreed on a froim work and it was meant to krb Irans Nuclear technology with International Assets blocked by sanctions and that deal is set to be finalized by june 30th. A new survey by bank rate finds half of americans arent investing in the stock market and more than half say is because they simply dont have enough money and other factors include not knowing enough about stocks and the lack of stock in trust brokers and the market being too risky and people fearing that theyre being charged higher fees. A British Energy company today announced a major oil find in southeast england. The company says that analysis of a new well shows a lot of oil near Londons Gatwick airport and there may be as much as 158 Million Barrels of oil per square mile in a fivecounty region. That finding suggests the entire basin may hold as much as 100 billion barrels of oil more than 10 times earlier estimates. Weve hit the discovery. 1,500 feet is effectively a sponge pull of oil. Drilling could be complicated if theres opposition in largescale drilling and it stretches across 4,180 square miles of inhabited land. A family in Washington State says thieves pulled off quite a feat. They stole an entire cabin. When the family went there this past weekend the only thing left of the 10 x 20 cabin were the concrete blocks it used to sit on. It was there two weeks ago and the family has never had any issues on their property before. Shock. It was just total, dumbfounded shock, i was, like wait. Where is it . What happened to it . And then you just start looking around like is it a dream . Is it a joke . The family says whoever did this knew what they were doing and had the equipment to haul away the cabin. Sheriffs office is trying to track down the thieves. Check out this video, these arent the kinds of passengers you want to see on your motorcycle thats for sure. It was overrun by hundreds of bees. The officer was investigating an accident at the time. A beekeeper was called in and it took about an hour to remove the bees without hurting the queen. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Today is still kind of a cold rainy, damp day outside, but tomorrow we will see some much bigger changes and big warmup as we go into your friday and were talking about temperatures near 80 degrees for part of the area and that will come with strong thunderstorms mainly through the afternoon hours. So for tomorrow we do have a first alert weather day out because of storms. Some of the storms can provide light, gusty winds and the potential for hail so that will be later in the day tomorrow. The good news is the rain does clear up for your saturday and sunday plans. As for tomorrow the seerth tracker, and mostly in the afternoon hours and we expect a lot of thunderstorms to move through. Hail is lower and the we cant rule any of these out like we may see tomorrow. Right now temperatures is in the low 40s and it will still be chilly and damp as we go through the entire evening and big temperature changes tomorrow. Just the clouds around. The closest storms are about to move into western pa and theyll continue tracking to the east and well be watching these later tonight. Severe storms are farther away to our west and southwest, but we do expect some of these to move in as we go into tomorrow. So heres what future weather shows the rest of this evening we stay cloudy and maybe areas of drizzle or rain and 11 00 p. M. Or midnight we could have a line of showers moving north and west and breaking up through the overnight hours and we do expect showers around and some of these could be brieferly heavy and then through the middle of the day we get a period where we could see dry weather and this would push those temperatures up to near 80 degrees and we could be around 77 and closer to 80 degrees and then a few thorps start to flair up to our west. Take a look at 5 dlok p. M. And we could be dealing with the line of strong thunderstorms and the Lehigh Valley approaching the area between 5 00 and 6 00 and 6 00 moving through south jersey and on the way to the shore. By 9 00 p. M. We should be clearing out and the best chance is lie around south jersey and delaware looks like they and to provide, periods of rain around temperatures rising to the upper 40s in philadelphia and mid40s in areas north and west. Areas north closer to the poconos should be in the upper 60s and south like new jersey and parts of delaware around 82 degrees and the lateday thunderstorms and some of those are locally strong. Good news though we clear out just in time for saturday and temperatures staying in the mid to low 60s across the weekend and nice or sunday and near 70 on monday. Our first alert traffic concern, look for more rain restrictions on a portion of i95 in philadelphia tonight, from 10 00 p. M. Until 5k clo, i95 southbound will be reduced to one lane between the gerard avenue and the i76 interchange so the crew can construct an overhead sign to widen i95 and rebuild the gerard avenue. A break for people looking those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Removing the license fee for gold star license plate. Drivers can apply for the plates for free. On and off rain and the threat of showers and thunderstorms want exactly the kind of weather that will make you want to run out and wash the car, but you can still do it. Thats what government officials are suggesting especially for drivers in our area. Why theyre urging you to clean your car. And the doctor will see you now. A new study ranked the best and worst places to Practice Medicine. Where a pern penn new jersey and delaware rank on the medical stage and why. There is no royal blood in this country. Nothing is reserved for anyone. Its all just out there waiting for someone to reach out and take it. And the ones who do. These are the kings and queens of america. A decision on whether to raise fares for new Jersey Transit riders should be coming soon. The agency is looking to close a 60 million budget gap. Commuters will likely learn before the end of the month whether fares will increase. The hike or service cut would be last resorts. The long cold winter may still be doing a number on your car, so the government wants you to wash it specifically the undercarriage. Road salt can gather under cars and lead to corrosion. That rust can eat away at parts that carry brake fluid. Salt did exactly that to about 5 million chevy, cadillac and gmc trucks. So the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration is urging drivers in cold weather states to wash the undersides of those cars and those states include pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. Its one of the most dangerous and violent places in america. But camden and its police force are making strides. Next, the city has a brand new hightech Crime Fighting tool and nbc 10 has a look at how it works and why its already making a difference. Stopping teen violence and our area seeing several highprofile rhymes and one Philadelphia Group is using the power of education to steer young people away from crime. Plus their tuition may be pricey but new jerseys only Ivy League School also has the best value. Tonight at 6 00 why a new study says princeton gives its students the most bang for their buck. A cool gray day to work outside, no doubt about it. Nbc 10 along Fourth Street today as these guys were hard at work laying bricks on the sidewalk. This is outside st. Johns c

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