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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 600a October 21, 2014

Forecast when i come back. First, jillian mele is watching a difficult travel scene this morning. Good morning, jillian . Going on two hours and this traffic has not moved at all because of a fatal accident closing interstate 78 eastbound between exits 59 and 60. Thats 145 and route 309. This is approaching the exit for route 145. The traffic that is just stuck behind this accident. It is a fatal accident and all lanes are blocked and you have to avoid that portion of 78. You can take route 22 if you want to avoid it this morning. Heading to Chester County, a live look at the route 30 bypass and eastbound right near route 113. The roads are wet and little bit slow moving on the 30 bypass. Take your time. Were also following police activity. Closing a portion of dekalb pike out near Germantown Pike and take swede road or new hope street if you need to get around that. Tracy . 6 01 right now. Following breaking news in Montgomery County and sky force 10 is over East Norriton and these are the dekalb apartments and julie mentioned this earlier. Police and ems activity going on here. Were working to figure out exactly what is going on inside. Katy zachary is on her way to the scene well get an update as soon as we can. Were staying on top of breaking news from south africa, olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to five years in prison for the killing of his girlfriend on valentines day in 2013. Pistorius showed little emotion as the sentence was read. He is currently in a holding cell after being free on bail. The pistorius legal team believes he will serve ten months in jail and then could be considered for house arrest. But the National Prosecuting authority thinks he will serve more like 20 months. Steenkamps family is happy with the sentence and pleased it is over. A fire in franklin section forced several people out of their home. Started just before 1 00 a. M. In a second floor apartment on granite street. Investigators are trying to figure out how it started. Now to the search for eric frein. Another reported sighting of him, this time by the police. Frein has been on the run for 39 days and counting, leaving hundreds of police and the fbi scouring the woods in Monroe County. Law enforcement official reported seeing frein Near Post Office not far from fridays spotting at his former high school. Schools in the pocono mountain district are open today, but students will remain indoors. Frein is charged with killing one trooper when he ambushed their barracks. At the post office where frein was spotted this morning. Right now headed to the state barracks and get a live report coming up at 6 30. 53 degrees outside. Now to Philadelphia School budget crisis. Teachers wont be charged for their health care for now. The Teachers Union sought the ruling that came down yesterday after the School Reform commission canceled its contract with the teachers on october 6th. Then again yesterday a judge issued a temporary injunction. The src says the city cant afford to keep giving teachers free health benefits. The teachers should not be the Funding Source for the School District. It is not the teachers responsibility to fund the system. We deserve to be a temporary hold and take all legal actions immediately. We will appeal this order. The next step is a hearing that is scheduled in harrisburg tomorrow morning. Pennsylvania Supreme Court justice Shamus Mccaffrey has been suspended with his involvement in an email scandal. He cannot perform any duties until the conduct board finishes its review. Revealed mccaffrey sent or received 244 emails with sexually explicit content. He blasted a vindictive pattern of attacks against him. Issued this statement to nbc 10 yesterday. Todays action against Justice Mccaffrey should surprise no one given chief justice relentless crusade to destroy his career and his reputation. We will continue our efforts to expose the intent to take down Justice Mccaffrey. We are confident he will be cleared of any wrongdoing and return to the bench soon. Now to concerns over the ebola outbreak. Doctors without borders is distributing thousands of medical kits in liberia. Going to people who are taking care of family members infected with ebola and waiting to receive treatment. The Home Protection kits offer a stop gap solution to patients who have been turned away from overflowing clinics there. Meantime, the u. S. Military says it is moving personnel, humanitarian aid and medical supplies and portable hospitals to liberia as part of the response to help fight the outbreak. Designed to provide support to contain ebola in west africa nations. That outbreak has killed nearly 4,500 people so far. More than half of the victims have been in liberia. You can stay informed about the developing ebola situation on oour website, nbc10. Com and keeping close tabs on local preparations in the event that there is an outbreak here. Plus, we separate fact from fiction. With information on how exactly the virus is spread. Happening today, one of the speakers at the 30 under 30 summit is Nobel Peace Prize winner malala yousufzai. Awarded the 2014 Liberty Medal at the constitution center. Given to a person of courage and conviction who thrives to secure the blessing of liberty around the globe. Survived an attack by the taliban in 2012, as you know. A worldwide advocate for girls right to education and also the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner. Clouds are in the area and were tracking a few scattered light showers this morning. Really tapering off to sprinkles in much of the area, but a few raindrops around and theyll be back this afternoon. After a mild afternoon, temperatures reaching into the 60s today. Tracking steadier rainfall for tonight. Right now, were much warmer this morning. 50s for reading and philadelphia and cape may. Weve been watching the cape may camera for a few sprinkles, but it continues to be drawing on beach avenue, the showers are farther to the north and are really not very impressive. There you go, you can see getting a little raindrop or two and sprinkles are heading across delaware bay. And were watching one isolated shower now in northern Chester County and moving into Montgomery County. This will not last. Gloucester is getting a little bit of rain and just passing to the north of norriston. Stand by for a sprinkle or two to start with and then breaks of sunshine and temperatures warm into the 60s this afternoon for allentown, quakertown and reading. 68 degrees for trenton with northeast philadelphia getting a lateday shower along with doylestown. At the shore, well, the temperatures will climb into the upper 6 os for dover, vineland partly sunny skies and 67 and near 70 degrees for cape may and atlantic city. Inland, some lateday showers, but until they arrive, well be watching the temperatures into the upper 60s to near 70 degrees for wilmington. The sevenday forecast with a chillier rain on the way, when i come back. In addition to that traffic mess out there on i78, just reading a tweet from jillian of an accident in county. Lets find out exactly where that is, jillian. An eye on 78 right now. 78 has been shut down on the eastbound side for two hours at this point between exits 59 and 60. So, for a lot of drivers in the lehigh valley, you can see this line of traffic out here. They have not moved into ours. So, we have about a fivemile delay out there on interstate 78 and a really bad situation. It is a fatal accident. So, i want to make sure you do not get on 78. Stick to route 22. That is going to be your best bet. You can see on 78, this is where the accident is located and basically jammed much of the length on 78 eastbound between cedar crest boulevard and the accident scene. So, this is 22. Stick to that, thats your best bet to get around your accident. That is the main thing we continue to follow for you this morning. 95 southbound is jammed as you can see and down to girard and keep that in mind and we have a new accident, butler pike at stenten avenue. Tracy . At 6 09. We continue to follow breaking news in Montgomery County. Live over East Norriton. Dekalb apartments and we have confirmed police and ems activity going on and working to figure out exactly, exactly what is going on. Nbc 10 katy zachary just arrived that scene and working to update the situation and get a live report in just minutes. Saying goodbye. Sears is closing up shop at king of prussia mall. Find out what is going in its place. Turned out to be too controversial for that city. This is ceo tom macarthurs world. In macarthurs world, he opposes new laws to ensure women receive equal pay for equal work. And macarthur opposes a womans right to choose backed by a group that would outlaw abortion even for rape and incest. For us in the real world, Aimee Belgard. Aimee will fight for equal pay and protect a womans right to choose. Aimee belgards on our side. Im Aimee Belgard and i approve this message. At 6 13. An update on breaking news following for you out of Montgomery County where a lot of activity going on right now in East Norriton. Katy zachary just arrived on scene. I know you just got there, but what can you tell us . In the last two seconds, tracy, i learned from an East Norriton Police Officer that they have the suspect in custody and going to be walking him out of his apartment door to a Police Cruiser and take him away. This is what we know. Ever since 11 00 last night police were here at the dekalb apartments right between colonel and Germantown Pike for reports of shots fired. They say up to a dozen shots were fired from a third floor apartment. When they got on scene, they identified an individual, a 37yearold man, a resident of the apartments. They were concerned for peoples safety who lived nearby. They evacuated several apartments. They have been out here since 11 00. Thats almost seven hours making contact with the individual who fired the shots and in just the last few minutes, im told, that they were able to safely get him out of the apartment, safely for everyone else involved. I dont have any information on weapons at this time, were hearing there were no injuries to anyone at the dekalb apartments or any of the surrounding officers who responded. A very Large Police Presence as you just saw evidence of sky force ten. Well try to get a different angle in the next few minutes and get new information and ill be back with you shortly to give you an update. Reporting live in East Norriton, katy zachary. A kroerveal murl is no longer an attraction in downtown trenton after police expressed concern it sends the wrong message. It depicted Michael Brown who was shot and killed by police in august. City crews painted over it yesterday. The artist said he had wanted to start a conversation about racial profiling, but Trenton Police said it did not support police and relations. The accused white house fence jumper is due back in court and Authorities Say u. S. Army veteran Omar Gonzalez was carrying a knife when he scaled the fence and got as far as the white house east room last month. The highly pub licized Security Breach led to a change at the security service. Gonzalez has already pleaded not guilty. Governor tom corbett will be in philadelphia today to sign the revictimization relief amendment. It was created after convicted cop killer Mumia Abujamal gave a commencement speech for his aul aulmata. He killed Daniel Faulkner back in 1981. Penn states board of trustees will hold a special meeting regarding the universitys response to the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The trustees will take a new look at the free report named for former fbi director louis freeh who headed the investigation. The document included that then head coach joe paterno and other administrators concealed key facts about sanduskys sex abuse about children. Sears says its closing its stores at the king of prussia mall. They made a deal to take over its lower space at the plaza. Its leaving the upper level space to dicks sporting goods. Sears has not said when that change over will happen. A treasuretrove of civil war artifacts is closing. After more than half a century, the Soldiers National museum will close november 2nd. Museum Officials Say they have seen a slow down in the number of visitors recently and it would cost too much money to compete with other civil war attractions in the area. Three new amtrak stations are in the works in Chester County. Designers are now working on a new station that could open by 2018. Also new plans for stations, new stations in downingtown and coatsville. These stations will also serve septa riders. These projects are part of pennsylvanias efforts to improve amtraks keystone rail corridor from philly to harrisburg. Speaking of travel, les get you updated to your ride to work. Heres jillian mele with the latest. Jill . Still no movement as far as the traffic that has been stuck behind this accident since we first looked through these cameras at 4 10. 78 eastbound closed between and five miles of delay out there. Stick to route 22 if you need to get around it. That is going to be your best bet. 76 eastbound at amontgomery drive, a disabled vehicle blocking the left lane. A tow that just got to the scene right now. So, you can see police are also out there working to get that towed. That should be cleared in the next few minutes. As you can see, theyre pushing it over to the shoulder right now, of course, that is causing a slow down on 76. Heading into new jersey, turnpike northbound past 195, exit 7a. A truck fire out there earlier. The right lane is blocked and just a few minutes ago i actually checked through this camera that was positioned in this area and two lanes are blocked in that area and clearing the one lane. The one lane blocked in that area because of that truck fire and it looks like it is extinguished but clearly see a lot of activity on the northbound side of the turnpike and dealing with a pretty heavy delay in that area. Nothing heavy about the showers that weve seen move through the area, most of them have fallen apart. Now just clouds over center city, this is a live view from the comcast center. 53 degrees. Big improvement over yesterday. Right now 11 degrees warmer than yesterday at this time and no wind and what wind will develop today will be on the light side. Gustier winds will wait for tomorrow. 52 right now in wilmington, trenton has drop under to the upper 40s along with doylestown and wrightstown and langhorn and its 50 in richboro and farther north and west, this is where we saw 20s yesterday morning turning 20 degrees warmer this morning at 48 degrees. So, the clouds are helping out to start with. The good news is were seeing some breaks in the clouds just to our southwest so, we will see some sunshine before showers return this afternoon. You can see more showers farther to the north and west. So, this morning, few sprinkles ending and then partly to mostly cloudy skies with temperatures in the middle to upper 60s this afternoon. Winds out of the, theyll be light out of the west at seven miles per hour. But gusty winds will be here tomorrow and a windy, wet and chillier day. Wind will blow a few more showers into the area on thursday and then start drying out on friday. Temperatures rebound nicely. Look at the weekend. Sunny skies saturday and sunday. Mornings will be chilly in the 40s and upper 60s and then possibly 70 degrees monday. 20 minutes past 6 00 right now and continue to follow breaking news in Montgomery County where sky force 10 is over the apartments in East Norriton. A suspect taken into custody after shots were fired overnight and more than a dozen shots were fired and apartment husband to be evacuated. They had taken the man, the shooting suspect into custody. No one was hurt and katy zachary is live on the scene and well check with her in just a couple of minutes. The u. S. Government is making an urgent plea to car owners, get defective airbags fixed and get them fixed now. The list that you need to see. And the woman made famous for her affair with president clinton is vowing to use her past to stop others from being hum humiliated to death. We will hear from monica lewins lewinsky. Its about 6 24 and 53 degrees out there. Were taking a live look at i95. The bridge there with Traffic Volume building as you can expect that from the 6 00 hour. But mostly cloudy today and some showers. Bill henley will be along with his first alert forecast in just a moment. Former white house intern Monica Lewinsky makes a rare public appearance at the first ever forbes 30 under 30 summit in philadelphia. Lewinsky at the center of president clintons impeachment scandal was a keynote speaker at the event yesterday. He contemplated suicide after her reputation was destroyed via the internet long before social media took off. Lewinsky also told the crowd, shes vowing to put purpose to her past to stop people from being humiliated to death. To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing. The forbes 30 under 30 summit brings together entrepreneurs with the goal of c

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