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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 500a May 12, 2015

Drive times are still 13 minutes or under. If youre headed from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway, very quiet trip so far on 95. We are dealing with some problems on the bridges. Not really problems just something to deal with. One lane going westbound into philadelphia due to the ongoing construction. The bridge is expected for an opening. Residual delays there. No problem on the walt whitman bridge and a touch on upper dublin. A water main break on pine town road east and westbound near barton drive. If you have to go through the area take camp hill road to avoid any delays. Mass transit coming up in ten. Back to the breaking news weve been following for the past hour now. This is our first look from nepal as people walked out of buildings after anotherle strong earthquake rattled that country today. Heres what we know right now. Four people so far confirmed dead in todays quake. Its a 7. 3 in magnitude. Red cross workers telling us that a lot of people are injured, too. Still tallying things up. This comes less than three weeks after that devastating earthquake in nepal that killed more than 8,000 people. This latest quake, todays kwablgquake hit near namche bazar. Todays earthquake comes as nepal is still struggling to recover from the april 25th quake that killed more than 8100 people and injured close to 18,000. Entire villages flattened and buildings wiped out. Happening today in atlantic county, a man accused of faking his death in a boating accident is scheduled to make his first court appearance. Andrew biddel disappeared after crashing a pontoon boat. He turned up seven months later. He took off to avoid prosecution on fraud charges. Last month the grand jury handed up an indictment on more fraud charges against him. A man charged with shooting a Philadelphia Police officer is scheduled for a preliminary hearing. William nobblen faces attempted murder charges. Nobblen shot officer Daniel Kostic over suspected drug activity. Theyve both recovered. We have new information about the Burlington County woman accused of setting her newborn baby on fire in the middle of the road. She has pleaded not guilty to murder now. Authorities say 22yearold kimberly dorvilier doused the baby with accelerant and set her on fire. The womans Attorney Says she plans to say not guilty by insanity or diminished capacity. The neighbors saw this and tried to save her but the baby died at the hospital. Today in the Lehigh Valley an allentown woman is expected to be arraigned on charges. She killed her baby by throwing him off a bridge. Johnesha perry faces criminal charges in the death of her 1yearold son, zymeir. He died from Blunt Force Trauma and drowning. She threw him off the hamilton street bridge and jumped in herr self. They saved perry and tried to save the baby but it died nearly a week later. Time is 5 04. Its crunch time for Democratic Candidates in philadelphias race for mayor. Lynn abraham and nelson diaz appeared in a Mayoral Forum yesterday. The other four candidates didnt attend. Two sent representatives. The big issue is how the next mayor will make philadelphia a global destination. Heres a look at all six Democratic Candidates. Lynn Abraham Nelson diaz jim kenny, Nelson Oliver anthony kenny. Theyll take on the lone republican in the race in the november general election. Happening today. Voters in delaware will elect new School Board Members in all 16 districts across the state. In delaware you dont have to be a registered voter to participate in school board elections. You do need to be at least 18 and live in the district in which the election is taking place. Polls open from 10 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. In each district. The Camden County School Board District holding a meeting tonight. Theyre announcing staff level changes for next year. Cuts expected due to either performance issues or the need to align the number of Staff Members to the number of students. Happening today Delaware County will unveil its new identity. The product of a Marketing Campaign aimed at bringing more businesses and families to the area. Nbc 10s katy zachry has more. Reporter hi, tracy. Up until now county leaders are keeping quiet about this. They want to unveil their new Marketing Tool out of this. We did get some information out of them. It will involve a new website that they hope hotels realtors and businesses will use to lure residents to the area. Its a diverse place to live and work from the main line to the city. They call this the edge. Because its so close to philadelphia. The farthest i have to drive is to the king of of prussia mall. I have everything here. Restaurants, places to hang out, always something to do. Coming up in the next hour we look at how this new push to promote Delaware County is being affected by the popes upcoming visit in september. Reporting live in New Town Square katy zachry nbc 10 news. In Delaware County Police Arrested a man with a caught on camera street brawl. Theyre still looking for the person who they say fired shots during that fight. Cell phone video shows both men and several women fighting in the streets in darby borough. We showed you this yesterday. Some had bats. Tamir austin was arrested on rioting charges and rakeem presley fired a gun. No one was hit but the bullet did hit the house. Hes got a gun. On parole for drugs. Hes got drugs and a gun. What the hells he doing on the street . Darby borough has scheduled a Community Meeting for next month. Leaders want neighbors to work on the police. A mother and daughter are recovering from some injuries that they sustained in quite a crash yesterday on the northeast extension of the pennsylvania turnpike. State police tell us that a ups truck was changing lanes yesterday afternoon near the lance landsdale exit. The mazda miata was pinned. The mothers 74yearold mother was rescued quickly and it took them two hours to rescue cathrenia moening. I said were alive. This is absolutely miraculous. You saw it on sky force 10 capturing rescuers from pulling her out. Her husband rushed to her side. Cathrenia will need to undergo more testing. Her 78yearold mother is doing fine. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Almost 9 minutes after 5 00. Within the hour the sun will be up and we will see a good deal of it today. Look at the live view from here at the nbc 10 studios. Skies are starting to brighten. You see a few scattered clouds. Will be around during the day. Rain is avoiding us. 62 in doylestown. Not as hot this morning as it was yesterday to start with. 66 in philadelphia. Millville is at 63 degrees right now. Watching the pocono mountains. The showers that are avoiding most of the area have been moving through the mountains. Some light scattered rainfall. Most of the area is dry. Light showers really isolated showers to the west staying dry in philadelphia other than a few sprinkles and in Lancaster County its going to be a dry and a hot day today. Potentially record territory this afternoon for philadelphia. Look at the warmup for the pocono mountains. Sunshine, scattered showers, 77 degrees. 80s for quaker town and norris town and mount holly. Trenton, 87 degrees. Heat is on for dover and vineland. Sunshine and bright sunshine. A few scattered clouds. 9 degrees in philadelphia and swedesboro. Up to 86 for west chester today. Thats today. The weekend will be in the 80s but wet weather. Much needed rainfall saturday and a chance of storms and may see some showers into sunday morning but before we get to the weekend theres some really nice spring weather on the way. The seven day when i come back in ten. Thats what we need, spring weather. Yeah. Bill, thanks. Ten minutes after 5 00. Nbc 10s traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has a check of the roads. Thanks tracy and chris. Headed out the door to new jersey in cherry hill. 295 on route 70. All lanes moving along nicely. Southbound over here is where you typically see volume in the Early Morning hours. Only 13 minutes from 38 up towards the black horse pike. No real problems there. Pine town road east and westbound. Barton hill drive. Take camp hill road to get by the scene and avoid a bunch of messy delays. Speaking of resit dualcity sid dual delays, use caution when traveling through. Expect 10 to 15minute delays there. Currently no problems on the ben franklin bridge. No problems on the walt whitman bridge. Mass transit coming up in ten. 11 minutes past 5 00. Police are investigating after someone threw a chunk of cement at a bus carrying students with disabilities. Hear from one of the victims and well tell you why her mom thinks she was targeted. And the patriots punishment. Were following the latest chapper in deflategate and the penalty that takes the teams quarterback out of the game. There are a lot of channels on your tv but only so many you want to watch what if you could pay for the types of channels you want and not the ones you dont now, fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv, at a price thats totally affordable. Starting at 74. 99 per month. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Plus, get a 300 visa prepaid card with your 2 year agreement. Go to getfios. Com today. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v taking a look at your map. This shows whats pushing your temperatures up across the region. 66 degrees right now in philadelphia but things are going to warm up throughout the day. Its going to be muggy. We will approach 90 degrees according to meteorologist bill henley. Approaching a record set back in 1881. Were in for a warm one but tomorrow some relief on the way. Ela he have details on that in a moment. Just about quarter past 5 00 right now. This morning Philadelphia Police are reviewing Surveillance Video hoping to find the kids who threw chunks of concrete at a school bus. 20yearold Courtney Clancy was on that bus and was hurt by flying shards of glass. Shes a student at the school of the future in west philadelphia. She has social and behavioral disorders and suffers seizures. Clancy says her daughter has been bullied and she thinks she was targeted. I want everything over. I want them in prison and looking back. What he did was wrong. Clancy went to the hospital to be treated for her injuries which included cuts to her eyes. Police say theyre looking for six kids in all who probably live near the scene. The hammer has dropped on the super bowl mvp. The nfl has suspended Quarterback Tom Brady for four games for his role in whats known as deflategate. Vai sikahema is live in our operations. Vai, some wind has been let out of bradys sails this morning. Yeah, absolutely chris. The nfl says that tom brady knew what was going on here and also did not lift a finger to help out with the investigation. Yesterday the nfl announced that tom brady will be suspended four games without pay. The league is fining the new England Patriots in addition 1 million. The team will also forfeit two draft picks. Now Officials Say brady was at least generally aware that two Team Employees let air out of footballs before the afc championship game against the Indianapolis Colts. The league said he refused to cooperate with the investigation by refusing to hand over personal emails and text messages. While i think its a product both of the behavior and bradys unwillingness to fully cooperate with the nfl which they resented. Now brady says he will appeal his punishment. Interestingly, tom bradys first game back would be in week six. Barring a reduction of games with an appeal it would be against the same Indianapolis Colts on sunday night on nbc. You can see it here when it happens. Live in the Digital Operations Center im vai sikahema. 5 16. Liberians are marking the end of ebola in their country. They gathered in the streets this morning to celebrate. Over the weekend the World Health Organization declared liberia ebola free. It was the hardest hit country during the epidemic killing 4700 people there. Back here at home from the south Jersey Bureau local Breast Cancer patients will have a new resource to help fight the disease. Theyll hold a Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the Janet Knowles Breast Cancer center. Its the newest edition at cooper in camden. Today the Pennsylvania State senate is expected to approve a bill that will legalize certain forms of medical marijuana. Whether the bill will pass the house still remains unclear. The senate amended the bill to include patients suffering from crohns disease, diabetes and chronic pain. It would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana through oil extracts vapors and smoking it would not be allowed. 5 17. Lets check your ride to work. See if there are any problems popping up on this warm tuesday morning. Nbc 10s Jessica Boyington watching traffic for us. What about it jessica . Pretty quiet, chris and tracy. As we head out to the blue route around germantown pike, hardly any problems. No problems northbound as well. As we take a look at the rest of the drive times, no problems 95 southbound. 12 minutes from woodhaven to the vine street expressway. Eastbound a 13 minute trip there. The blue route southbound we just looked at a second ago, that travel time there is 14 minutes from the schuylkill expressway up towards 95. Now a check on mass transit. Currently no problems for septa, new Jersey Transit and the patco speed line. Pine town road east and westbound near barton drive take camp hill road to get through the area. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Another warm muggy start this morning. A few scattered clouds in the area and we are on our way to near record heat. The record for the state is 91 degrees. Well get very close to that this afternoon. It will be a breezy day and riding on the winds tomorrow will be cooler weather. A return to spring. Youll notice the difference first thing tomorrow morning. The humidity thankfully will be coming down tomorrow morning. 66 degrees right now in philadelphia. Light breeze now just at 5 miles an hour. That will be ramping up during the day. Light fog. We saw showers in the pocono mountains. Blue mountain, very light fog. Nowhere near as thick in any area this morning is what we saw yesterday. There are some spots of fog at the shore. Some clouds moving in from the west. Well see some clouds but it will quickly clear out during the day. The showers look to avoid the muchneeded rainfall will likely wait until unfortunately the weekend. Hourbyhour forecast shows 9 00 this morning, clouds some breaks of sunshine. As we go into the noontime hour late morning, early afternoon will still see some cloudiness. Then will break out into sunshine by 2 00 3 00 bright sunny skies. Thats when the temperatures will soar. Upper 80s to low 90s this afternoon with mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. Westerly wind to 20 miles an hour. Possibly higher gusts. But with those winds comes the cool for tomorrow. 69 after a morning low of 49 degrees tomorrow morning. Much less humid for thursday and friday. 70s in the afternoon with clouds and sunshine. Both days looks like its going to be beautiful. By the time we get to the weekend, clouds building for saturday. Rain looks to be likely with a chance of some thunderstorms. Still a few showers around into sunday morning. Bill, theres been a lot of talk about the success of the Camden County metro police force recently. Now another town in south jersey wants in. Coming up in the next half hour find out where those Camden County officers may soon be expanding their patrols. Plus cooling off and cutting calories. The experts at cnbc have food for thought on the changes that restaurants are making for their summer menu. It is 5 23. A few minutes before sunrise. The light is reflecting off the river as we take a live look atop the lowes hotel. 65 degrees. We are in for a big warmup. Upper 80s pushing 90. We could get to a record. Bill henley will tell us when we can get our next chance of rain. From our new Jersey Shore Bureau were learning about the impact of the casino closures. The county has shown a 12 jump in the number of families on food stamps since the shutdown of four Atlantic City casinos. More than 1 3 of the 275,000 residents are receiving some type of assistance. Of course getting employment is key to avoiding the need for assistance like that. Philadelphia International Airport is holding a job fair today. It actually takes place at the liacours center. More than 30 businesses are looking for candidates to fill job openings. Popular chain restaurants are revealing changes to their menu. Lets go to the cnbc business news. Landon dowdy has that. Good morning. A lot of food news. A trio of chains are revealing changes. Starbucks is offering a mini frappuccino with fewer calories and sugar from now until july 6th. 10 versus 12. Mcdonalds is a

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