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WCAU NBC 10 News At 5pm April 16, 2015

Woman told police where to find her vehicle and handed over the keys. We have this new video just in to nbc 10. A fall and rescue at a septa station in center city. Watch the bottom left side of your screen. A mans going to fall right there onto the tracks. This happened around 7 00 last night at the 15th street station. Some passengers scatter, a guy in an eagles jacket there jumped down to grab the man. Selfother passengers help pull the fallen man out. Were told he was not seriously injured. Septa commends the Good Samaritans but the agency advises a safer route would be notifying septa or using the emergency call box to have the tracks shut off. A burned body found in car near Philadelphia International airport. The mans body was found yesterday afternoon in southwest philly. The twodoor honda accord was just a burned out shell. Emergency crews found the body in the drivers seat and an empty gas can in the trunk. Police are not yet saying if this was a homicide. There were no witnesses. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. What a great day to be working outside today. This painter certainly had the right idea. Nbc 10 along east broad street in bethlehem. We saw lots of sun, low humidity all day long. But, ah the times, maybe i should say the weather will soon be changing. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen is fracking raintrack tracking rain. Sheena, after a few perfect spring days when can we expect the rain to come . Tonight. Before the morning commute starts tomorrow well already have rain falling. Heres a live look out at center city right now. Beautiful day all day today. Now we have more clouds move in and late tonight, well have even more clouds. Overnight those clouds will be bringing rain and that will be around for your friday. So take a big look at the picture now. We have rain moving into parts of central p. A. Thats where the showers are. Mostly light rain. But the clouds are approaching, too. So you will notice increasing clouds the rest of this evening. You wont really notice the rain until overnight. Weve hit 70 degrees already in philadelphia. Down to 69. 66 in wilmington. 69 in allentown. 69 degrees in mt. Holly. Its still warm outside. Future weather showing the clouds increasing. By 10 00 tonight, we should still be dry. Dont really expect the rain until after midnight. But even by 10 00, look at the temperatures. Still near 60 degrees. Very mild. And then overnight, before the morning commute, the rain will already be here. This is 4 00 in the morning. Temperatures still in about the mid to upper 50s. Still staying fairly warm outside. And the rain will be around to start your day tomorrow. And for parts of the evening hour for the evening commute, the rain can even finish the day for some. Well take a look at the timing and also how it will play into your weekend. Thats coming up. Thank, sheena. New information this evening about the Montgomery County bridge blocked off to 15,000 daily drivers. A sinkhole knocked the bridge out of commission and now frustrated commuters will have to wait until late summer for penndot to replace the bridge and reopen plymouth road. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante live tonight on the bridge. Deanna . Reporter three sinkholes. This is the latest one to open up after the bridge closed on march 21st. Now the detours have drivers leaving the blue route and heading west only on plymouth road. They cant come this way east on butler pike. You can see more sinkholes on this section of the bridge. Good news tonight, though, penndot saying theyve got a plan in place, the bridge should be open by the end of the summer. August 31st is a long time away so maybe they can accelerate that a little bit. Reporter Michelle Belle owns arugula, a restaurant at plymouth road and butler pike. Its a headache creates a headache for all of us. Reporter when diners are late it pushes everything back for the kitchen and people are navigating a detour it get here thats a problem. Six years in the making now. Reporter after planning for six years to open, this week is the grand opening of serenity nail bar. With a closed road the place is quiet. There was a lot of traffic coming through before we opened but now its completely empty. We expect plymouth road will reopen by august 31st, 2015. Reporter standing on the bridge penndots acting secretary of transportation announced emergency plans to demolish the bridge and rebuild. Bids will be accepted in the next week for the work but even a fasttracked plan met with resistance. The traffic coming through here is pretty intense. Reporter those who live along plymouth road say for the first time in years its quiet here. Theyd like to see with the road closed a wider bridge built, one thats able to handle more traffic. Whenever you ask questions, you cant get answers because theres no plan for the future. Thats very frustrating. Reporter penndot says the emergency plan calls for rebuilding the bridge the same width as the old one, says thats the only way to get this road opened quickly for the 15,000 commuters who travel it daily. Also penndot saying this wont be a quick fix, rather than a total rebuild to prevent this from happening again. This is the original sinkhole people who live here say its gotten bigger since the bridge closed march 2 1st. Theyll drill down to bedrock rather than build the bridge on soil. Reporting live in plymouth township, Deanna Durante, nbc 10 news. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf was in berks county today for his jobs that pay tour. Today he toured east penn manufacturing in lions. The company has been in business for more than 60 years. Now the Battery Manufacturer competes on a global level. Thats the kind of Business Growth he said we need in the state. I want to make sure that we have the informationrastructure, the Business Climate that says, you know what, pennsylvania we not only have great people were open for business. Wolf talked about creating new jobs and rebuilding the middle class. Something to sing about. Big changes are coming to a philadelphia neighborhood. Neighbors really excited about a brand new concert venue being planned, happening in fishtown. The new venture is set so turn a centuryold exfactory into a state of the art concert hall and more. Nbc 10s drew smith live to show us this neighborhood in transition. Drew . Reporter jim and rene this is delaware avenue. A lot of things changing over here. The casino on this side. The new construction were talking about today, this building here. By october, you should see a music hall in there opening up in the old factory building. Live nation wanted to start its latest philadelphia project with a bang. It plans to use the 125yearold Ajax Metal Company building to house a 2,500feet music hall a separate theater club plus a restaurant and bar. Philadelphias hot. Super hot. People are excited to come here. Reporter regional president jeff gordon says entertainment brings people out to new places. I think theyll come from all over philadelphia, all over the state, all over the country. Reporter the area is set to benefit is fishtown in the Delaware River waterfront already in the middle of a transportation. Its the most vibrant active organized community. Ive never seen anything like this. Reporter jordan rushie moved here eight years ago. Hes now the president of the neighborhood association. He said almost everyone is on board with the growth. We went from a place that was kind of cool and hip to a place thats truly a community. Reporter live nation already promotes and handles a lot of concerts at other venues in the city. Executives say its important to be expanding into a new growing area. We like revitalization of fish ountown fishtown. This building and development is a major element to that. Reporter im told this project will create several hundred jobs. Developers also hoping that this building will serve as an anchor for other businesses that may want to open up fill out some of the other abandoned buildings in this part of the city. Live in fishtown drew smith, nbc 10 news. From our Delaware Bureau its Graduation Day for 11 members of the delaware leadership academy. Nbc 10 was on hand for the ceremony at the Delaware Air National guard headquarters in new castle. These graduates can now use their credits toward a master of science degree in Homeland Security or other military leadership areas. A serious conversation for some Chester County students about surfing the internet and posting pictures online. Today the department of Homeland Security Radnor Police and the Chester County d. A. s office visited the Country Day School of the sacred hard in brynmawr. The goal to keep kids safe online. And educate students about the dangers lurking on the internet. Including online predators, and cyber bullies. Where they may be approached online by a user who says that theyre, you know a certain age from a certain demographic in a certain part of the world, and in fact that very well and very easily through technology could be a pedophile sitting anywhere else. Todays discussion was part of something called iguardian a National Cyber safety campaign. The campaign is a partnership between u. S. Immigration and customs enforcement, Homeland Security, and the National Center for missing and exploited children. Gone without a trace. Now been a decade since a pennsylvania prosecutor just vanished and the questions still remain. What happened to ray grekhart . Ten years after he became a missing persons case we look back at the now cold trail of clues. Oyster experiment. Happening today. Science meeting nature in one jersey shore bay. How experts are using shells to help the oyster population and local economy thrive. And tale of the text. We know most teens and young adults are glued to their phones and so are some adult adults. Put a penn state study looks at texting not as a habit, but as an unbreakable addiction. Whistleblower site wikileaks says it put thousands of emails and documents from last years sony hack into an online searchable database. Wikileaks says its archive includes more than 170,000 emails from sony pictures. December hackers attacked sony servers ahead of the release of the movie the interview as you remember. Sony says the cyber attack was a malicious criminal act and condemned wikileaks actions. There is still no answers ten years after the disappearance of a pennsylvania prosecutor. Ray gricar took a day off from work on april 15th 2005 and vanished. There were plenty of theories. That was an extensive search of the susquehanna river near lewisburg where his car was found, or even the hells angels being involved in his disappearance. Those who know gricar personally doubt he simply decided to leave especially because of his close ties to his daughter, laura. Shes now a mother shes now raising her child. Ive spoken to her recently and by email as recently as this morning, in fact and shes doing very well. Is she . Moving on. Shes moving on with her life, but the loss of her father is still figuring prominently into her view of the world. Now, state police this week released a statement saying this remains a missing person case. Exrap mogul suug knight will stand charges in a deadly hitandrun. Hes charged with intentionally killing 55yearold terry carter and seriously injuring another man. Prosecutors say knight hit both of them with his truck outside a Compton Burger stand in late january. His Attorney Says his client was ambushed and trying to get away from the two men who were attacking him. Were learning more about the Arizona Police officer seen on a dashcam ra runera running down a suspect. Before moving to arizona, michael worked for the new York City Police department. While there he was at the center of a lawsuit. The plaintiff says rapieko pointed his gun at him and ordered him to get back into his car. The officer threatened to shoot him then choked him. The city paid the plaintiff 20,000. That claim was dismissed. Police in boston are searching for a thief who stole nearly a dozen pairs of donated sneakers from two Boston Marathon bombing survivors. The victims told Police Someone stole the sneakers and athletic gear from a car. The items were supposed to go to a team of survivors who plan to run in next weeks marathon. The thief left a note that said quote, from me to you, with a smiley face and a heart. Everyones safe thats the word this afternoon from the tour manager of the band lady antebellum. The bands bus caught fire just outside of dallas. A tire on a bus blew starting the fire. Singer Hillary Scott was on board at the time. The bus was on its way from nashville to texas ahead of this Sundays Academy of Country Music awards. On Instagram Scott said she, her husband, the bands tour manager and the driver were the only ones on board the bus. Shaken but relieved scott waited on the side of the road and later another tour bus arrived. The bands expected to be one of the performers at the american Country Music Award Ceremony this weekend. President obama is expected to sign a medicare reform bill the house and senate gave final approval in a broad bipartisan vote. It will now increase payments to doctors by onehalf of 1 each year through 2019. This fixeses a problem that has been years in the making. By getting rid of the notorious doc fix, seniors will have a more stable and reliable system for seeing their doctor. A family thats taking care of their parents will have a little more peace of mind and taxpayers will save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 20, 30 and 40 years. The bill also extended the Childrens Health Insurance Program known as c. H. I. P. Measles outbreak that started at disneyland could be near an end now. The California Department of health says it will declare the outbreak over tomorrow if no new cases pop up. Measles cases linked to the theme park began last december. Total of 131 people in california infected. The disease also spread to several other states. The outbreak reignited a National Debate about vaccinations since many who got sick were not immunized or only had one dose of the measles, mumps, rubella vaccine. Gm wont have to face dozens of lawsuits over its defective switch. It is shielded from legal claims that happened before it was out of bankruptcy in 2009. Those ignition switches are blamed for more than 200 deaths and serious injuries. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well today another Beautiful Day. Temperatures near 70 degrees again. And plenty of sunshine. But as we go overnight tonight, youll notice more clouds moving in. Rain overnight tonight. And this will be lasting into your friday. So for the morning commute, well have showers around and even part of the area for the evening commute. Good news, though with the rain. The timing works out perfectly. So it looks like it will be clearing before the weekend gets here. So you should get all your weekend plans in. Live look at the top of the building the flag is blowing. Its a little breezy but were still dry outside. Just increasing clouds as we go later tonight into the overnight hours and then the rain comes. Philadelphia sitting at temperature of 69 degrees. Weve already gotten to 70 degrees so far today. So we are still in nice conditions to end your evening. Upper 60s for allentown and reading. 65 degrees in westchester. 66 wilmington. 68 degrees still in millville. And it will stay mild and warm as we go overnight tonight. So the overnight hours will still be in about the upper 50s for most of the area. The satellite and radar right now, though showing the clouds around, but the rain is not here just yet. Thats still back off to our west. Showers moving through central pennsylvania. Then if we zoom even farther out, you can see more rain down to our south and west. So for tomorrow pretty much going to be cloudy with periods of rain through the entire day. Future weather showing the clouds move in and 3 00 in the morning, the rain will be here. So again, before the morning commute, rain already falling. Now we get into 7 00. Showers around for the morning commute. By the middle of the day, we could just see periods of rain. 4 00 in the afternoon, still some scattered showers afternoon. And the good news is it looks to be clearing up tomorrow evening. So if you have the friday night plans, it should be mostly dry. Then we go into the weekend saturday, clouds start to clear out. It really sets us up for a nice sunny start to the weekend with temperatures warmer in about the mid 70s possibly. For tonight, though cloudy and staying mild. 55 for the low in philadelphia. 50 north and west. Rain mostly after midnight tonight. Then tomorrow, well see scattered showers pretty much through the entire day. I think most will be in the morning. It will still be warm. Temperatures near 70 degrees. The chance of a thunderstorm. That chance should be fairly low. I wouldnt be surprised if he saw at least a couple. Then we go into saturday sunny warmer temperatures. Mid 70s. Looks pretty good the entire weekend. Sundays going to be about 10 degrees cooler than saturday and well see more clouds that sets us up for a pretty rainy monday. Thanks sheena. Do you text even when you know you shouldnt . Researchers at penn state looked at College Students texting habits. Most participants said they conside

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