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WCAU NBC 10 News At 6pm September 17, 2014

School on thursday and also trying to determine what to do if this manhunt drags on. In pike county, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Tonight, friends and family are gathering to remember Corporal Bryon Dickson at his viewing. This is new video of the Public Service happening right now at Marywood University in scranton. D dicksons funeral will be held tomorrow in scranton. Corporal dickson will be buried with full honors. Stay with nbc 10 for continuing coverage of the manhunt. Look for updates on nbc10. Com when we were not on the air. Breaking news on another shooting involving state police. This time its in delaware. Investigators say a trooper shot a suspect in kent county. The incident happened just before 3 00 this afternoon on judith road in hartley. The 47yearold suspect was flown to christiana hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Police havent released the name of the suspect or the trooper as their investigation continues. Tonight, Camden Police are hope for tips from the public that will help solve the vicious beating a 54yearold homeless woman. Now, investigators believe the assault happened somewhere near the stretch of mt. Efrum avenue. The victim whose family was identified as Charlene Lightfoot suffered head trauma and cuts so deep her ears were nearly severed. Police say the attack looks like the work of more than one person. Has a broken eye socket. She has three track turfracture. Her face looks like a watermelon. She has blood on the brain and someone did this to her. Amazingly enough, the victim was able to get herself to virtua hospital in camden. She remains in critical condition. Police believe someone in the camden area knows something about this attack. It can be reported anonymously by calling 215546tips. New developments in the case of a center city beating. Nbc 10c sources confirm police have interviewed at least one person in connection with the case. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante has been outside central detective all day long talking with those who have knowledge of this case and shes now live with the latest. Deanna . Reporter while police arent saying much about this case, Defense Attorneys say they have been talking to us. They tell us there is additional video out there that would paint a different picture. Also tonight, nbc 10 obtained a statement from the archdiocese of philadelphia saying they dont condone this type of behavior. This video was released tuesday night showing some believed to have been there when the attack happened. Nbc 10 learned members of the group are from bucks county. The arch die these late this afternoon is releasing a statement saying some of those involved are former archbishop wood students and the school has indicated those implicated graduated several years ago and this kind of activity is not condo condoned. I spoke with several Defense Attorneys who have knowledge of the case or have been hired to represent some of the people in the video. They tell me more video exists. They say one of the beating victims threw the first punch. Witnesses told nbc 10 they heard homophobic slurs during the fight. Defense attorneys represent something allegedly involved tell me this was not a hate crime. Now, we have learned that at least one man and his attorney have shown up here to central detective to talk to investigators. Its unclear at this point what role this man may have played or what hes saying in that statement to police. Reporting live in center city, Deanna Durante, nbc 10 news. Now to the growing fallout over Domestic Violence accusations involving nfl players. Carolina panthers defensive end greg hardy has now been placed on the nfl commissioners exempt list. Until his Domestic Violence case is resolved. That means he cant practice or play in a game. He was convicted of assault be an exgirlfriend in july and is awaiting an appeal. And tonight, nike has suspended its responsiblership deal with vikings running back adrian peterson. Also today, the team took him off the active roster. Peterson is now banned from all Team Activities until his legal matters are taken care of. The vikings star faces charges for injuring his 4yearold son earlier this year. Peterson admits to using a tree branch to discipline his son. Meanwhile, the Nfl Players Union is challenging ray rices suspension. The allpro running back was originally handed a twogame suspension after he was charged with assault for attacking his now wife in a revel casino elevator. He already served the first game of that suspension when a video of the incident surfaced last week and within hours, the ravens fired rice and the nfl suspend him from the league indefinitely. A top new Jersey Republican wants a review of case of a pennsylvania gun owner whos facing jail time for bringing her weapon into the garden state. State assemblyman says Shaneen Allen should not be sent to jail. Bramnick is calling on prosecutors across the state to take a closer look at allens case. She faces a mandatory threeyear sentence. She is licensed to carry in pennsylvania but never registered the gun in new jersey. Bramnick says most of his fellow lawmakers and the public agree with him. There are 30 states she could have driven through that she would not have been guilty of anything whatsoever. Bramnick endorsed legislation that would lessen penalties for people like allen who have no criminal record. The bill has been nicknamed shaneens law. Allen was denied an Intervention Program by the same Atlantic County prosecutor who granted the program toc ray rice. A vote on the proposed cigarette tax to Fund Philadelphia schools has been placed on hold. The gop leadership in harrisburg delayed the vote until at least monday. Yesterday, a Statehouse Committee unanimously voted in favor of the 2 per pack cigarette tax for the city. Supporters of the tax hope it will generate about 83 million a year for the underfunded Philadelphia School system. Tonight, two more candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to be philadelphias next mayor. One of the candidates is a familiar face in philadelphia politics. The other is a lawyer who is promising reform. Nbc 10s jacqueline london is live in the digital operations center. Jacqueline . Renee, wellknown former District Attorney lynn abraham is one of those people throwing her name in the ring for the mayoral race. Her adviser tells nbc 10 the campaign is still in the planning stages and an official announcement probably wont happen until november. Abraham spent nearly two decades working in the philadelphia District Attorneys office. Abrahams announcement came just under after Kent Trujillo kicked off his campaign outside the School District headquarters. He says education reform is one of his top priorities, that would include getting rid of philadelphias School Reform commission. Our children are growing up in four of the largest cities in america, in a city with an increasing gap between the poor and rich and in a city where children are losing their opportunities they should have. Trujillo said his other focus will be using smart Tech Knowledge and effective policing strategies to help City Residents feel safe. And besides trujillo and lynn abraham, the other candidates are terry guillen, a former aid to mayor nutter, john bell, a neighborhood activist with 20 years in politics and milton street sr. , the brother of former mayor john street. Live in the digital operations center, jacqueline london, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 is your election station. You can find more information about the mayoral candidates, including their background, by going to nbc10. Com. According to police, a School Employee stole a dozen ipads from a new jersey elementary school. Fadari mitchell has been charged with the theft of 12 ipads. He worked as a crisis intervention counselor with the School District. He had access to the ipads during a Summer Program at the school. His bail was set at 5,000. And a respiratory virus affecting kids continues to spread. New jerseys first case of enterovirus 68 has been discovered. Four children were being treated at Childrens Hospital in philadelphia. Its called enterovirus d68. Infants and children and teens are more likely to become infected. Symptoms include wheezing and breathing trouble. Theres no vaccine. We posted more information about the virus on nbc10. Com. There youll find details on which states have confirmed outbreaks. Well have detailed information from the cdy on how the virus was discovered and how you can protect yourself. And excitement turns to dispoit for more than 100 local college kids. They received letters saying they had enough credit to graduate. They then learned the letters were a mistake. Officials at Delaware County Community College tell us about 400 letters went out last week. 100 to 150 of those letters should not have been sent. Those students did not have enough credit toc graduate. A few days later, new letters were sent. The school says human error is to blame for the mistake. Look closely at this video. You can see a man picking up a banana. What happens next and why it could land him in jail. This womans basketball coach at Delaware State University now under investigation, new at 6 00, how parents reportedly say she was harassing, intimidating and threatening her players. And im tracking our next chance for rain, the details are ahead. My exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. Dont believe tom corbetts tv ad. The facts speak for themselves. Tom corbett cut a billion dollars from our schools. He took an ax to education. Twentyseven thousand educators were laidoff. Class sizes increased. And now almost eighty percent of School Districts plan to raise property taxes. Tom corbett. Cant trust him on education. Cant trust him to be for us. This is nbc 10 news. New at 6 00, it was this video that led to national outrage, a rutgers basketball coach caught on video abusing players. Well, tonight another local coach is facing allegations of inappropriate behavior. Nbc 10s Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong explains these new allegations. Entire delaware state marching band was suspended so School Officials could investigate hazing allegations and now another investigation. I learned a lot about the team. Reporter what is basketball coach tamika lewis at least temporarily reassigned after a parent alleges in a letter to the school that she mistreats her players. They reportedly told the paper coach lewis harassed the players, threatened the players to keep them quiet. I reached out to the coach. I havent gotten an email response back. I left messages for a number of the players parents around the country. I want to see if they agree with the accusations. You remember the rutgers mens basketball coach was fired after this video emerged. They are once again making it clear with their actions, if an allegation is made, they take it very seriously. You have to get there, baby, get there. Reporter today we found the schools crosscountry coach getting loud. A School Investigation will decide if tamika lewis went too far with her team. In dover, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. New at 6 00, a man robbed an east park Side Grocery Store with a banana. A surveillance camera shows him grabbing the banana off the counter of tejada grocery store. He hid the banana under his sweatshirt pretending it was a gun. He got away on a bicycle. The aclu says officers used force to stop a woman from taking pictures of an officer making an arrest. These pictures were posted on its website. The lawsuit claims a Civil Affairs officer walked up to a woman shooting video. The photos show a woman against the wall being held by her neck. It is the fifth such lawsuit against the department. Philadelphia police declined comment. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Another beautiful, comfortable day out there. Still lots of sunshine, though the sun keeps setting earlier every day. Weve got more dry days ahead and we have some more cool nights ahead. And we continue to get more and more of that as we head towards october. And the possibility of record flooding in part of the united states, that generally doesnt see a lot of rain. Well, we continue to see the dry conditions out there now. 73 degrees, the humidity way down there. 38 . Thats pretty low. And the temperatures are in the upper 60s to the low 70s. Fairly uniform, some places got into the 40s this morning. Were going to see a repeat of that tonight with the clear skies. 45 in allentown, 46 in quakertown and reading, isolated patches of fog and 49 in doylestown, 50 in norristown and in Atlantic City and dover, 47 in vineland and 50 in chester, westchester and in glassboro. We have those dry conditions across the area. Theres hardly any cloud cover at all in the east. And hardly anything thats headed our way from the west. So were obviously going to be dry for a while. Once in a while, the computer throws a green blip in there for no reason. Then as we go through thursday, on friday we may start to see a flow coming off the ocean that may increase the cloud cover and set us up for cloudy start to saturday. Theres hurricane edouard. Its still a hurricane and it is way out in the middle of the atlantic, kicking up the survey little bit along the atlantic coast. And odile is finally no longer a tropical depression or a Tropical Storm but look at the rain that is coming in to arizona and new mexico now. This is really, really bad news and theres going to be terrible flooding as a result of that over the next day or two. Clear and cool again tonight for us, 55 for a low in philadelphia. 45 north and west. During the day tomorrow, sunshine, another beautiful day. A lot like today. Mid70s for the high. And the sevenday forecast, more clouds come in on friday. Temperatures down a little bit. And we may start off with clouds on saturday, then the sun increases. The temple game looking pretty good. The eagles game looking pretty warm. Warm for the players. Really nice for the spectators. Could get an early showers monday and then cooler air comes in behind it. All right, glenn, cant wait to tell you about this story. Bring on the bacon. How philadelphia is celebrating a food with a cultlike following. Youre making me hungry, ren renee. Im john clark. Is Desean Jackson playing on sunday . Plus, another suspension from a Jonathan Papelbon incident. Thats next. Our dads a plumber. A business manager. And a stickler for homework. Im john kane running for state senate. Dad says the road to a good job starts in the classroom. [ lori ] hes a great dad who sees taxes going up but schools not getting the funding they need. [ john ] so id put back the billion dollars corbett cut from education and make sure corporations and natural gas drillers paid their fair share. Time to close the loopholes for the tax cheats. Dad thinks a lot about education. Im john kane and its about time harrisburg did too. There it is. This is where i met your grandpa. Right under this tree. man some things are Worth Holding onto. Theyre hugging the tree. man thats why we got a subaru. Or was it that tree . man introducing the allnew subaru outback. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. This is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. Im john clark, Desean Jackson will make his return to the links sunday against the eagles. He did not practice today with that spring shoulder but he says hes feeling better and i think its a safe bet to say he is playing. I dont plan on missing this game. You know hes playing. Thats the first thing he said, im playing. Hes ready to go. Sounds like deshawn is playing sunday. When they released him in march, it was a curious made. Thats their decision. They made a decision. I moved on, they moved on. He says his time in philly was a big part of his life. Obviously it will be a huge game for myself and something i always look forward to ever since, you know, everything went down the way it went down. He says he still talks to lesean mccoy almost every day and shady says he misses d. Jack. I think it will be emotional. I think every play he makes hell celebrate. Its going to be strange. We played together for five years. You know, it will be strange but i think one thing we have to understand is that its the eagles verses the redskins. He doesnt know if hell be cheered or booed by eagles fans but hes going to catch up with his former teammates before the game. You know, im not here to be buddy buddy. I want to win Football Games for this team here. So once game time comes, i could care less about anything else, you know, burgundy and gold is my colors now. Michael kychal kendricks did practice today. He has complete confidence in Casey Matthews and emanuel ocho. Really . He talks to scholars around the country about ideas for the eagles. He has it all covered. Phillies after losing to the padres last night, theyve clinched backtoback losing seasons for the first time in four years. Its cole hamels trying to stop the losing streak against san diego. And papelbon was suspended to are this gesture. The man who grabbe

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