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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 600a August 27, 2014

First jillian mele has traffic. We made it to 6 00 a. M. Without accidents and unfortunately we have our first accident of the morning in northeast philadelphia. This is a live look. You can see quite a scene out here. Eastbound side of woodhaven road. Near the boulevard. One lane of traffic is getting by. Use caution heading out in that direction. Its something well continue to follow. Route 22 at airport road is free of accidents. Some longterm construction. And speaking of construction, we still have some on the new jersey turnpike. Its out there right now southbound between pennsylvania turnpike exit 6 and Burlington Mount Holly exit 5. The left lane is blocked and expected to be blocked until 7 00 this morning. Keep that in mind. Average speeds on the new jersey turnpike in the 50s and 60s right now. As far as other majors in new jersey, 42 freeway is looking good. 55 is quiet. No accidents on the majors in delaware and taking mass transit, everything is on or close to schedule. Tracy . Two people have been killed following an abduction and robbery that ended up in the Schuylkill River. Their bodies in the Schuylkill River. Heres a sky force 10 live over the scene. They were searching. Police did find the two bodies floating in the river. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton has been gathering information all morning and is live on the scene near kelly drive. What can you tell us . Reporter the marine unit now has amped its supply of force arriving on the scene. Let me show you where two bodies are located. Look over my shoulder where the detective is standing with the hat. One body is there on the other side and then right down to the left where you see a group of crime scene investigators that have arrived on the scene are standing at the location of the other body. We were told that about 4 00 this Morning Police received a call that three men had been robbed, abducted and then dumped into the river. We have since learned from homicide detectives, veterans here on the scene, they arrived about 5 00 this morning. The two bodies are bound multiple times and floating here in the river. Now, youre looking at video we captured about 4 30 this morning shortly after we arrived. We were told that the two people are not sure what happened. The circumstances leading up to their arrival here. One detective pointed out drag marks. He also pointed out tape that was here on the concrete. Its very hard to see. I can tell you because of the developing things here that are going on, the crime scene has been expanded and more officers have arrived. Were told that police brass will arrive momentarily to give us an official statement but for now three men robbed, abducted, brought here to the banks of the Schuylkill River. Two bound multiple times are dead in the river. A third one stabbed and taken to a local hospital. Well continue to monitor the situation and as soon as we get more information, well pass it along to you. Live along kelly drive, Monique Braxton, nbc 10. Were covering this breaking news out of philadelphias fishtown neighborhood. Two men posing as police stole 100,000 from a Food Distribution center. That robbery took place around 2 30 this morning at a business on North Delaware avenue. Nbc 10s jesse gary has been there for us all morning on scene. Jesse, have you learned anything else about this company . Apparently someone knew it was open during these Early Morning hours. Reporter they believe it may be an inside job because of that. Weve done some digging into kawa foods. They help with emergency food supply services. At this point investigators believe someone who does or used to work here was in on this crime. Lets take a look at our video earlier this morning two criminals knocked on the front door posing as cops. When the owners opened up, they were forced inside at gunpoint forced into the safe room and to open the safe. This is a remote area of Delaware Avenue off i95. Not easily found during the dead of night and as such investigators believe this was an inside job. Its dark. Its very convoluted back here. Theres always a possibility that somebody knew where they were going and knew where the money was inside this property. Reporter and now as the sun is starting to come up, you can see most of the police have left this area. One lone police car here as kawa begins normal operations for the day. Investigators say the time it took for criminals to make off with 100,000 in cash was just five minutes. Surveillance cameras inside and outside. They believe that will lead to a quick capture and that video will be released to the news media shortly. A house fire in north philadelphia left one person with minor injuries. It started around 11 00 last night. Heavy smoke was coming from the home when firefighters got there. Everyone was able to make it out of the home safely. The cause is under investigation. Happening today, a 7yearold philadelphia girl is expected to testify against the woman accused of abducting her from her school and subjecting her to horrific sexual abuse. The courtroom was cleared yesterday as jurors were shown graphic pictures of the girls injuries. A doctor testified that she has rarely seen abuse this severe. Jurors were visibly shaken but the defend, Christina Regusters didnt react. Regusters insists shes not the person responsible. Prosecutors say regusters is the woman seen here leading the girl away in january 2013 before taking her to a house in cobbs creek and holding her captive. 6 06. A court date scheduled today in Montgomery County for one of the alleged ring leader of a drug operation on the main line. Timothy brooks is accused of selling and recruiting others to sell marijuana and other drugs to students at several high schools and colleges along the main line. Four other suspected dealers pleaded guilty to charges related to this alleged ring. Investigators say those defendants have agreed to testify against their codefendants. Now, the alleged ring leaders include brooks who faces formal arraignment this morning and neil scott. Prosecutors say those two ran the operation which they called the main line takeover. It was a house guest of two women murdered in philadelphia who is now charged in their execution style deaths. Police say 25yearold robbed the victims and shot the women inside their house. Dolly evans and ruby thomas were killed execution style on saturday following a struggle. Police say he was in prison for Violent Crimes involving a gun and lived with two women for three months. The son of dolly evans is still in shock. He stayed with them and my mom took him off the streets. For why he did that over a couple dollars, now he got to sit in jail for the rest of his life. He says his mothers funeral will take place saturday in maryland. This morning were hearing from witnesses about the moment that someone opened fire at a crowded Basketball Court last night in north philadelphiathe 17yearold robert reid. There was a game being played last night. It wasnt an organized game. Reid and others were playing ball on this court on cumberland street around 8 30 someone fired at least ten shots at reid. Most at close range. He was killed. Witnesses describe what happened when they heard the gunshots. Everybody ran. Nobody knew where the shots was coming from. Everyone ran in the same direction basically. I had just left and heard about it and came running back because hes one of the kids thats special to me. Police say there were about 100 people there. There was a neighborhood cookout going on when that shooting happened. They saw another 17 year old running from the scene just after shots were fired. Police believe hes the shooter and that reid was the intended target. They are now looking at surveillance cameras to try to identify that suspect. Clear skies overnight. Temperatures have dropped nicely this morning. Its another cool start with bright sunshine were on our way to a hot afternoon. This weekend, Holiday Weekend, could turn stormy. Showers and possibly thunderstorms are possible for labor day. Right now 62 degrees in mount pocono. Clear in turnover. Were waiting for sunrise. Well see plenty of sunshine on this view. This is from blue mountain. Look. There above the cloud level is low cloudiness and some areas of scattered fog in the pocono mountains. Radar is nice and clear. Look to the north. There are some showers farther to the north and off to the north and west an isolated shower threat for the pocono mountains and Lehigh Valley later today. Most of the area will be dry and warm. 89 for allentown and reading. Quakertown, high of 87. 90 for trenton and northeast philadelphia and mt. Holly and a rip current risk right along the coastline for Atlantic City, cape may through the weekend. Look at the temperatures this afternoon. We hit 909 in philadelphia yesterday but more spots including wilmington and chester will touch 90 degrees this afternoon. It is not going to be nearly this hot tomorrow. The sevenday forecast when i come back. 6 10. We have at least one accident out there to warn you about. Lets find out about that with jillian mele. Where is it . Let me tell you whats happening right now. Mass transit is on or close to schedule. No delays to report there. Bridges are still clear. No accidents on any of the area bridges and one accident that were following is in northeast philadelphia on wood haven road. You can see it right here right in this area. A lot of activity eastbound side of wood haven road. That far left lane is getting by. We know at least two vehicles are involved in this accident. Other details still unclear at this point. It just happened in the last few minu drivers head into center city philadelphia. If youre taking area bridges, i did mention they are clear. This is ben franklin bridge westbound into philadelphia. No delays and no construction to report. Tracy . Dishonoring the dead. Well tell you why family members are rushing to the grave sites of loved ones in bensalem and business boom. Details on whats behind this economic resurgence in one Gloucester County city. Mara its easy to lose your way in a place like this. Ms. Winnie earle kids in paterson face lots of obstacles but nothing can stop their determination. Mara my dream is to be a pediatric nurse. Ms. Earle taught me if i work hard i can do anything. Ms. Winnie earle mara had so much potential, it was my job to help her reach her goals. Mara now, im headed to college to study nursing ms. Winnie earle there are so many talented kids like mara and they all deserve to live their dreams. Exactly the way you want it. Until boom, its bedtime your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. Enter the sleep number bed. Right now, all beds are on sale. Hes the softy. His sleep number setting is 35. Youre the rock, at 60. And snoring . Sleep numbers even got an adjustment for that. You can only find sleep number at a sleep number store. The time is now for the biggest sale of the year. All beds on sale with 50 off the labor Day Limited Edition bed. Know better sleep with sleep number. We continue to follow breaking news at 6 15. Sky force 10 in the air over a very big crime scene that is expanding after two bodies were found floating bound in the Schuylkill River along kelly driver. A third man was stabbed. Were told that three were robbed, abducted and thrown into the river. When we were just arriving on the scene, the third man who was stabbed was being rushed to the hospital. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live on scene and getting new information. Well have a live update coming up from her at 6 30. Have, a video from the scene. Heres Something Else to tell you about. There is recommendation of safety improvements following that hazardous Train Derailment a couple years ago. The accident report was released yesterday and they recommend changing training protocols for First Responders and rail workers. Seven train cars derailed on a bridge over a creek and one car released toxic chemicals into the air. One community in Gloucester County is experiencing a business boom. Today a new salon will have a grand opening on broad street in woodbury. Its one of several new businesses that are opening in the city over the next month. Now that resurgence began about two weeks ago with Ground Breaking the Patient First facility. The city administrator tells us what makes woodbury so attractive to new businesses. Great venues for transportation. Were right off 295. Were close to philadelphia. Were close a lot of major thruways. The train stigs station will come through woodbury very soon. A Performing Arts Center is another business that just opened in woodbury and a medical Underwriters Group called access reininsuran reinsurance is taking over a renovated masonic table. The low wage Worker Task Force is holding the first meeting in wilmington examining low wage jobs like fast food and retail comparing them to other sectors of the economy and look at impact low wage jobs have on families and the community. Philadelphia Police Charged one man for a series of robberies targeting the elderly. They say the man seen on the left turned himself in on monday. Investigators believe the trio is connected to nearly a dozen robberies in northeast philadelphia between june 3rd and august 13th. Victims left the bank and were robbed outside their homes. Bensalem police need your help finding vandals that appear to be targeting the graves of military veterans. Investigators say there have been three separate incidents at Rosedale Memorial Park and Roosevelt Memorial cemetery where grave site American Flags, veteran markers, flag holders and other decorations were piled up and set on fire. To take the American Flag off grave sites and decorations is despicable. I dont know why someone would want to do that and to happen at two cemeteries a mile or two apart clearly it seems like the same person doing this and theyre upset over something. The two most recent incidents happened over the weekend and other last month. Police are stepping up patrols at local cemeteries. Lets get a check of traffic before you hit the road to start your wednesday morning. Nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele has an update. Mass transit note to pass along. Tweeted a few minutes ago due to signaling problems on ben franklin bridge expect delays eastbound and westbound. Expect delays out there. Unclear how many minutes those delays could be. Make sure you take that into account this morning. This is a live look at the accident we continue to follow. Its way up here involving at least two vehicles on the eastbound side of wood haven road. One lane of traffic is getting by. Delay in that area. Make sure to leave yourself extra time. Westbound side of wood haven road is looking okay right now. For drivers in new jersey, a live look at 295. Very quiet near route 168. 295 free of delays or accidents. 42 freeway looking good. No reports of accidents on the majors in delaware. Just a few minutes away from sunrise and well see a lot of sunshineoday. This is a live view from the comcast center. Its going to be brilliant sunshine. Look how nice and clear it is. No a cloud in the sky there. Humidity is now up to 87 . That number will drop during the day. The wind will stay light. A little bit cooler at the shore. Temperatures did drop into the 50s this morning. Look at the clouds offshore. A view from cape may. Still a risk of rip currents during the day today. And for the Holiday Weekend as well. Well watch this satellite. Most of the day it will be completely clear. Theres a chance of an isolated shower north and west. But the risk for rip currents is high along the coastline, delaware beaches, jersey shore as cristobal stay s offshore bu close enough to churn up the seas. Look for relief from the heat at 90 degrees in philadelphia today. Youll see it at the shore. 82 degrees. 81 tomorrow. Winds pick up and thats drier air moving into place and then 75 degrees and nice and cool for friday. A nice change as we head into the weekend. A weekend warmup will be with us. And today thats going to be a hot one. 90 degrees this afternoon for much of the area. Westerly winds just to 7 miles an hour today. Temperatures near 90 today. Not tomorrow. Wind picks up. Dry air moves in. High of 84. Cooler on friday. Really nice and comfortable. Then the weekend the humidity comes back. High of 88 on saturday. Then 90s with a chance of showers sunday and labor day monday. 6 20 right now. Robbery in fishtown were following this breaking news story this morning where gunmen steal thousands of dollars from a Food Distribution plant. I love the taste. Always smooth, never bitter. My cup of coffee is always awesome when i go to dunkin. Man i see the steam rising off the cup, cause you know its a fresh pot. Man one cup a day for sure. Two if need be. And its usually need be. Dunkin your place for coffee. 6 24. We continue to follow this breaking news on the shores of the Schuylkill River. Police have found two people gagged and floating in the river. Police say in all three men were abducted, robbed and dumped into the river. This is a live picture from the ground right now. So again, three men were abducted, robbed and dumped into the river. Two bodies were found floating in the river. Another man was found stabbed. He was rushed to a local hospital. Again, police are expanding their crime scene and getting more information. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is on the scene and will have a live update at 6 30. People will get information about Water T

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