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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 11a January 5, 2015

It was 6 30 when a man knocked on the door. A woman inside walked up thinking it was a fellow coworker. The man waved a gun and the worker ran to the back of the store and thats when a single shot was fired. My initial reaction was, oh, no, not again. John mcdonald is with the Business Association and he spent the morning alerting other stores in the area and applauds the workers who at the time were getting the store ready for opening. The folks here are very theyve had incidents over the years, and i think theyre well schooled in how they handle it. Mcdonald says over the holidays there were crimes committed here but never with a gun. A store manager declined to comment and referred us to the corporate office. We spotted several surveillance cameras along the front of the building and now police are hoping to retrieve a clear image of the shooter. When folks are out of work struggling i guess pressure gets on to do some crazy things. Reporter the store did open once police left the scene earlier today and we are working right now to get that Surveillance Video and a full description of the man police are looking for. Live in Port Richmond im matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Thank you. A Court Appearance this morning for the man accused of killing a Pennsylvania State trooper and injuring a second trooper outside of a State Police Barracks back in september. Eric frein was face charges of firstdegree murder and possibly the death sentence the Death Penalty. Doug shy melimell is live. This hearing was postponed twice already . Reporter exactly. There had been one of eric freins defense counsel that had left the team about a month ago and that was the last postponement until today but this has been a giant sense of relief for this entire community that the wheels of justice are now starting to turn albeit very slowly. Eric frein was actually brought into the pike county courthouse behind me just a little bit before 8 00 this morning under heavy state police guard. Hes been kept in the pike county correctional facility since being arrested on october 30th at the abandoned birchwood resort just outside the search pattern where most of the searchers had been looking for seven weeks. This morning he sat in court at the defense table. Opposite him was Corporal Bryon Dicksons widow. She glared at him the entire time. He never looked at her. They rolled what was probably the most i guess summarizing piece of video. It was the surveillance cameras from the Blooming Grove barracks the night of september 12th when shots rang out. You see Corporal Bryon Dickson who was ending his shift moving through the lobby. He is hit at about the same time trooper Alex Douglass is beginning his shift, he is also hit by another round. He drags himself into the lobby. A couple Armed State Police Troopers pull him back into the building. Eventually you see in the video they pull an suv around to block the front door and a threemember team gets out and pulls Bryon Dickson into the building. Of course, the coroner for pike county testified just a few minutes ago that they pronounced Bryon Dickson dead in the hallway just off the lobby. Theyre also talking to forensics folks about some of the rounds recovered off of the front of the state police building. They have more witnesses today. The prosecutor in pike county said they would like to get to them. Court Administration Says they have booked the courthouse the main courtroom, for today and tomorrow, but the Prosecutor Says he expects to get through all of the witnesses in the preliminary hearing today. Live in milford, pike county im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Doug thank you. Of course you can count on us to bring you do he tailse details from this mornings hearing on on air and online at nbc10. Com. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Winds began blowing overnight and theyre bringing much colder temperatures. Were also tracking snow in the forecast for tomorrow. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz here now with the forecast. Glenn . Yeah vai, quite a change from what we saw over the weekend. Those winds really started last night, and theyre continuing today and they continue to bring in colder air. You can see from right outside the station the flags blog blowing pretty hart. 33 in allentown and lancaster, and, of course it is windy, and so it feels a lot colder than that. The wind gusts up to 30 33 miles an hour in northeast philly. 36 miles an hour in atlantic city. A few snow flurries not really reaching the ground down to the south. A system were watching for tomorrow still way out to the west. Now bringing some light snow into the Central Plains states. But for today it is basically going to be dry, but its going to be getting colder as we go through the afternoon. Not warming up cooling down and the windchill dropping to about 17 by 6 00. Thats nothing compared to the cold thats coming later this week. Ill have that plus the timing on tomorrows snow with the sevenday in a few minutes. Well see you then. Jury selection is under way for former sportscaster Don Tollefson. Hes accused of stealing from 200 people who bought various sports vacations. He said the money was for charity. He pleaded guilty in september but then withdrew the plea. We just learned the court is giving tollefson 30 minutes to decide whether to take another plea deal. Well have an update in 30 minutes on what he decides, and we will bring it to you as soon as we find out. The trial is also set to get under way this morning for a former leader of a Philadelphia Ironworkers Union who is accused of threatening and sabotaging nonunion work sites. 73yearold joseph dougherty, a former member of the iron workers local 40 is the only one who will go on trial. The other 11 members already pleaded guilty. Federal prosecutors say the group used violence and arson to intimidate builders into using their unions labor on construction projects. And today former philly mob boss joey merlino will head back to prison. He will report to a federal Detention Center in miami at 2 00 this afternoon. In october a judge ruled he violated the terms of his supervised release on a 2001 racketeering conviction when he met with known mobsters in florida. And today the real housewife is facing a new reality in a prison cell. Teresa giudice began serving her sentence for fraud at a Danbury Federal Correctional Institute in connecticut at around 3 00 this morning. The real housewives of new jersey star was sentenced to 15 months. Her husband, joe, also pleaded guilty to fraud and will head to prison after she is released. And police are looking for the person who carried out a Home Invasion in the kensington section of philadelphia. Police say a masked gunman forced his way into a house on kip street around 2 00 this morning. He stole cash and jewelry. Police say security cameras captured the entire thing and no one was hurt. And fire forced nearly a dozen people out of their north philadelphia home this morning. It broke out just after 11 00 at the home on north lee street. All nine people inside the homemade it out safely. Investigators are working to find out what caused the fire. And we could learn more about the death of West Chester University student shane montgomery. Family members tell us it appears to be an accident. An autopsy was finished yesterday. Montgomerys uncle highwayssays the medical examiner is waiting for toxicology results. Crews found his body on saturday in the schuylkill river. He vanished around 2 00 a. M. On thax day after thanksgiving day after a night out with friends. He will be remembered later this week. A viewing will be held at st. John the Baptist Church on thursday night from 5 00 to 9 00 and again friday morning at 9 00. A funeral mass will follow at 10 00 a. M. Happening now, the casino crisis in atlantic city. A federal judge is considering the proposed sale of the former revel casino to the runnerup bidder in last years Bankruptcy Court auction after the deal to sell revel to a Canadian Firm fell through they turned to glen straub. Straub says the price should be less than the original 110 million deal. Revel shut down september 2nd. It was one of four casinos to close in 2014. Wild blasts are creating a noisy mystery in one pennsylvania town. Over the past few days several neighbors in conestoga township have called police to report hearing and feeling explosions. People say it sounds like dynamite and noises are coming from several different directions. They say their houses are even shaking but officers say every time they go check it out, they cant find anything. Many eyes on boston this morning. Jury selection gets under way for the trial of the surviving suspect in the marathon bombing. Were getting a look at him today and well tell you when Opening Statements could take place. The coach of an nfl playoff team watches his house catch fire. Hear from the coach who made it out coming up. Well first comes the arctic blast, then comes snow. Ill have the timing for you coming up in my first alert sevenday forecast. Happening now, jury selection is under way in the trial for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev and his brother tamerlan allegedly planned and carried out the 2013 twin bombings near the race finish line. Three people were killed and more than 260 people were wounded that day. Tamerlan was killed during the manhunt over the next three days. About 1,200 people will be considered as potential jurors. Opening statements are expected to begin on january 26th and the trial could last three to four months. Tsarnaev faces the Death Penalty if he is convicted. And happening today, a judge could set the trial date for a south jersey native accused of a deadly shooting rampage at Los Angeles International airport. Paul ciancia is scheduled for a hearing in california. Hes from Pennsville Salem county. He pled not guilty to killing a tsa agent and injuring three people in a shooting at l. A. X. In november of 2013. On friday prosecutors announced they will seek the Death Penalty. That could mean delays and push the trial into next year. Prosecutors say ciancia intentionally targeted federal employees and terrorized passengers and airport workers. Jury selection will begin today in the trial for the murder of etan patz. Pedro hernandez is charged with murdering the new york city boy back in 1979. Patz was the first missing child to appear on a milk carton. Police say hernandez confessed to killing the boy after luring him to the store, but lawyers for hernandez say he is mentally ill and falsely confessed to the crime. Investigators say they found the body of a newborn baby who was kidnapped this weekend after a shooting at home in long beach. Police say 3 week old Eliza Delacruz was 230u7ndfound in a dumpster in the san diego area. Still unclear how she died. Investigators talked about how discovery of the babys body was made. A resident was in a dumpster looking for recyclables. Happened to find a bag that did contain the body of a deceased baby. That individual then reported that to a business who then called 911 for assistance. The baby was abducted on saturday after a man shot her parents and uncle at a home in long beach. They are expected to survive. Police say they do not believe the kidnapping was random though they havent identified the man responsible. He is still on the loose. Firefighters in North Carolina battling an overnight fire at the home of Carolina Panthers head coach ron rivera. Flames broke out just after 4 00 this morning at the south charlotte property. Rivera as well as his family and house guests were all able to get out safely. Im okay. Youre okay. The family is okay . Everybody is fine. Thank you, guys. Investigators are trying to figure out how this fire started. The Carolina Panthers advance to the divisional round of the nfc playoffs after a win over the Arizona Cardinals saturday afternoon. Rivera was the linebackers coach for the Philadelphia Eagles from 1999 to 2003. Divers have returned to the java sea hoping to find the wreckage of the airasia flight 8501. Sonar detected five large objects in the water over the weekend. Officials say the weather is better today and the waters are calmer so that should help the mission. The plane crashed more than a week ago with 162 people on board. Search teams have found 37 bodies so far. Most of the victims are believed to be still in the plane. Investigators are hoping the 70yearold sole survivor of a plane crash in kentucky could help them figure out why the plane went down. Sailor survived the crash that killed her parents, her sister and her cousin. She managed to get out of the plane and walk nearly a mile through the woods to find help. The pilot reported engine trouble before it helped. The ntsb says a preliminary report about the crash will be released in about ten days. Two children are pulled alive from the rubble of a deadly landslide in bosnia. The disaster claimed one life. This happened in the middle of the night. Tons of mud and snow and ice smothered seven houses. The homes had been built on top of an abandoned coal mine. None of the survivors were seriously hurt. And at least 700 firefighters are battling wildfires in southern australia. The fires have destroyed at least 26 homes there and are threatening others. Since the fire started, more than two dozen people have been injured or hospitalized with conditions like severe asthma. The flames are forcing more evacuations as government officials are warning about the dangerous flames. Wouldnt let us come inside the house, unfortunately. Have you lost everything . Everything. Wildfires are common across much of australia during the summer months. In 2009 wildfires killed 173 people and destroyed more than 2,000 homes. If you think its cold here try living in minnesota. Its one of the states getting some of the coldest weather of the winter with windchills dipping into the negative double digits, but people there are finding ways to make the best of this big freeze. This man here one of the brave few kite boarding along lake calhoun. He says if you cant run from the winter you might as well play her game, and this father and son visiting from cleveland sharpened their winter survival skills by ice skating for the first time in st. Paul. Great time. You know bring in the new year doing something different. Well the weather kept crowds away from rice park in st. Paul. They had fewer than 50 visitors yesterday compared to 1,100 people who came the day before. For a check on the weather here is nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn glenn hurricane schwartz. Their windchills are in the minus 40s. 40 below zero the way it feels, at least at some points during this cold blast. Were getting a piece of this arctic blast during the day today. It started last night with those strong winds. Were also tracking some snow ahead of a second arctic front, and weve got bitter cold coming. Some of that minnesota air, although its not going it feel like minus 40. It will feel like its below zero before this week is over. You can see the flag still blowing pretty hard, continuing to bring colder air in. Its 37 degrees. The windchill is 27. And were gusting to 25. It is 14 degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday, and its going down during the day today despite whatever sunshine we see. Temperatures in the low to mid30s to the north, near 40 to the south. And just about everywhere the temperature will be lower at 6 00 tonight than it is right now. The windchills generally in the 20s to the low 30s, and well be seeing some negative numbers here before the week is out. The feelslike temperature as we go into the afternoon, down into the teens across the north and west areas, but even by 7 00 tonight feeling like the teens in philadelphia and not much better during the night tonight, although the wind will not be as strong tonight or tomorrow as it has been in the last 24 hours. But look at how it feels back in the west. It feels like 21 below in chicago. 26 below in minneapolis now. 30 to 40 below in southern canada. Now, a large chunk of this is going to be coming down later in the week. Wednesday night, thursday morning i think will be the coldest, and the windchills could be 10 below zero by that time. A few flurries not really reaching the ground here. This is the area that is going to be coming our way. We call them alberta clippers. They generally come from the alberta section of canada and they move along at a fast clip and here is the latest future cast out of this. As we go into tomorrow pretty light to very light, and the atmosphere will be dry at the start, so some of that first snow may evaporate. So im really not expecting much in the way of accumulation. The latest future weather model showing as we go into tomorrow by 6 00 a. M. Practically nothing. Maybe a little bit in Lancaster County developing and then as we go into the early afternoon, were totally up maybe an inch in parts of the area. Now, it will be cold enough to stick on some of those colder surfaces, so were going to have to keep an eye on that untreated surfaces is where were likely to see that. Well the arctic blast is during the day today. The temperatures dropping to about 29 by 6 00. Tomorrow that light snow, maply lymainly in the morning but also mainly after the morning rush and then its just bitter cold after that especially by thursday. Low temperature 9 degrees with wind. So the windchill, 10 below or in some places even colde

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