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WCAU NBC 10 News Today At 600a March 24, 2015

How warm its going to get, but right now well check with Christine Maddela. Good morning to you, bill. Im the bearer of good news this morning. Knock on wood. Hopefully it stays that way. Then the full panel shot you can see theres a lot of green out there. And thats what we like to see meaning theres no real problems out in our area. And take a look right now at interstate 95 and castor avenue with volume picking up on the southbound side as is normal this time of the morning. The closer to 7 00 the more backups well see. For now, theres a little bit of vel yellow on the southbound side. Overall, a lot of good news to show on the map. If you are taking 95 southbound from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway that will take you 14 minutes. 12 minutes. 15 on the july kiln expressway and the blue route out there. What about the new jersey roads you ask . As we take a look at the highway overview, 295 and the new jersey turnpike and the 42 freeway are all clear. Vai . Thank you, christine. New from overnight, two people are in Critical Condition after a crash in washington township. This happened at green tree road and bells lake drive. Police say the driver of this car lost control and smashed into a tree. He and his passenger were taken to Cooper University hospital. And its unclear what caused the driver to lose control of the car. Meanwhile, four men with ties to the local mob will face sentencing this week for their roles in the multimillion scheme. The jury found nicodemus scarfo and others guilty of intimidation to take over a texas based Mortgage Company and using the assets to buy cars homes and a yacht. Scarfo will be sentenced tomorrow and his associate will be sentenced today. Scarfo is the son of former philadelphia mob boss mickey scarfo. A group homeworker was accused of sex crimes against two teenager girls. Prosecutors say Larry Holliday sexually assaulted the girls and inappropriately touched another. They are group in waterford township where holliday worked. We are not naming the center because of the allegations. And this brutal beating took place on a septa subway platform. The group attacks the little boy last thursday afternoon at the walnut locust station in center city. The group followed the victim when he tried to get away. He was not seriously hurt. The Camden County Police Lieutenant pleaded guilty to lewdness in connection to an incident at a cherry hill coffee shop. Bonito gonzalez is accused of exposing himself in a starbucks while he was offduty at the time. He could lose his job. Meanwhile, a new report shows the Philadelphia Police Department Must make dozens of changes in an effort to ensure deadly force is a last resort. A teen looked at 400 officerinvolved shootings since 2007 that led to significant strife and distrust among the community. And officers need to learn better ways to deescalate situations. To read the entire report go to nbc10. Com. In a few hours a hearing will be held in center city to discuss legalizing medical marijuana. The house and Health Judiciary committees will listen to arguments on the implications of making medical marijuana legal and also talk about the impacts that legalization would have on healthcare professionals. Find it live streamed on the nbc 10 app. Involving life and death. A camden man says if he had received lastminute help a state law would have kept him from marrying his dying bride. Matt delucia is live in camden for us. Matt, a local assemblyman wants to change that law. Tell us how we plan to do that. Reporter well, he wants to give doctors the power to quicken the marriage license process, especially when time is running out. She was the most beautiful mother. A beautiful wife. And a good mother to our kids. Reporter in the final days of her life lynnette was battling stage four cancer. They decided to wait on marriage and focus on her treatment. That all changed when lynnette was told she had days to live. My daughter was asking me when are we going to get married. Reporter what he didnt expect is that a law requiring a threeday application and waiting period for a marriage license might destroy lynnettes last wish. Omar rushed back and forth from the hospital to city hall to the courthouse getting the paperwork. I observed how it took omar the husband, away from his beautiful wife. Those moments are very precious. And he had a level of frustration. Reporter a nurse at cooper called on Angel Fuentes to use political influence to speed up the process. This has to stop. We have to do a better job. Reporter hours later omar and lynnette got married. Lynnette died the next day. It was her dream for us to get married. She was really happy. Very happy. Reporter and assemblyman fuentes knows of four cases like this in the past three years. So its not a common problem but a very important one and he says he hopes to start getting a bill to move through the legislature in the next couple of weeks. Matt delucia, nbc 10 news. And it is 6 06. In less than an hour the polls open for a special election in philadelphia. Sarah dericci and Martina White are looking to take the 170th legislative district seat. The seat was left vacant since january. That district represents northeast philadelphia. A cold and cloudy start with temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Very similar to yesterday morning. The difference is the clouds have moved in. The clouds will be breaking this afternoon, but it is going to be mainly gray this morning. And any wet weather, well, its on the way for tomorrow and thursday. But temperatures will be coming up by then. Look at mount pocano 16 degrees right now. Below freezing in Atlantic City at the airport. 31 degrees. We were busy at the slopes yesterday. Shaunee, thats the view from the pocano mountains with the snow on the ground. Very light here and look how quickly they are falling apart. Into new kas lcastle county. Well be below freezing at 10 00. Look at allentown, 31 degrees. 31 at philadelphia international. And a little warmer in dover at 35. Then we get breaks of sunshine this afternoon. Thats when we see temperatures come up here we have similar conditions to yesterday. The only difference is the Morning Cloud cover thinning out for sunshine this afternoon. Looking toward the weekend saturday and sunday it will be warmer. But before we get to the weekend weekend, lets check on the roadways. What are you following now, christine . I just got word that colleagues in the newsroom have been making a call for an accident on bensalem at knight and street road. Crews are on the scene. Skyforce 10 is headed there to give us view from this yash so we are going to impact the community throughout the drive here. And speaking of interstate 95 near the southbound side heres the long line of cars stacking up. Ill keep an eye on that as we head closer to the 7 00 a. M. Timeframe to slow us down more. Ill have drive times throughout the morning. 6 10 right now. The race for philadelphia mayor is in high gear and we check to see how much the candidates have. Plus George Zimmerman the man aquited of shooting and killing a black teen is blaming president obama for the racial divide in the united states. The time is 6 13. Coast guard helicopters will take flight from Atlantic City over the next few days until april. The new pilots are training to eventually secure air space over washington. Most flights will happen between tuckerton and ocean city and the harbor. People are expect to see and hear them twice a day during training. Police in bucks county have identified the two victims in an apparent murdersuicide. The two were found dead on sunday inside their home in northampton, bucks township. I know a couple years ago we saw him change color and drop weight. Hes depressed but other than that i dont know what happened. The District Attorneys Office is investigating into the incident. Now to the race for mayor of philadelphia. Hear what the six Democratic Candidates had to say about schools tonight in the Education Forum in south philadelphia. People attending can submit questions in advance. The event is happening at Childs School at 16th and morton. This morning were taking a closer look at Campaign Fundraising ahead of the may primary. Its neck and neck in terms of money between state senator Anthony Williams and former d. A. Lynne abraham. The williams reports shows he has 425,000. Abraham has 424,000. Nelson diazs Campaign Reports he has 79,000. Jim kenny says he has 76,000. The nbc 10 investigators found the former state senator bob street filed his report 25 days late and when he did file it it showed the campaign raised 3200. We dont have Campaign Fundraising information for mayor nutters spokesperson oliver. Michael cook is at the philadelphia board of ethics to make sure the election is a clean one. The idea is to give people enough time before the election to make an assessment about who is funding the candidate and what the candidate is spending money on to see if it influences their vote. In the enmoo time they have raised more than a million dollars, much less than the last open mayors race. The democratic primary for mayor is april 7th at the kimmel center. You can watch it live here on nbc 10 and if you have questions, let us know by submitting them to nbc10. Com or the nbc 10 app. The former neighborhood watchman acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin has harsh words for president obama. In a video posted online the president should have done what he said he was going to do and not interject himself. George zimmerman said the Obama Administration acted irresponsibly in expressing empathy for martins family following the 2012 incident. And zimmerman doesnt feel he did anything wrong and federal officials treated him unfairly. And he compared himself to the holocaust victim anne frank. And the 300brub acheache fire in valencia could be arson. It is 50 contained. Police are questioning two men on how the fire started. It is 6 17 and this morning the Dover Public Library is hosting library legislative action day. An event to bring together Library Supporters and local lawmakers that help to make them control the tourism. Tourism is one of the main drivers of the new jersey economy. In North Hampton county the Easton City Council members will vote on changing the parking ticket appeals position. Right now the Police Department handles the appeals but tonight they will vote to allow the Parking Authority to have the final say. The change comes after North Hampton countys d. A. Said it violates a persons rights to be due due. And drivers in ed to follow a short detour this morning as part of a project to fix the repavement and walkway problems as well as safety issues near the area. And now we are following an accident for you. This is Christine Maddela, hey, christine. Skyforce 10 is over this accident that i told you about of the intersection of ninth and street road. Several Police Cruisers are on the scene. We are told rights now. And this intersection is shut down and no one is allowed in that intersection. And our colleagues in the newsroom said the intersection needs to be shut down for a while in bucks county. Interstate 95 at indiana, some of the volume is increasing out there as normal. Our twitter update is showing as you head out to the Lehigh Valley 19 minutes from woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Clouds are overhead. But they will be thinning out. Well get some sunshine today, but you can see the clouds and a live view from the melon Bank Building past the Comcast Center. Clouds are in place but temperatures are cold nonetheless. 32 degrees in philadelphia. The wind was strong. Though when we went on the air at 4 00 we had a 15mileanhour wind and now its down to 8 miles an hour. It will stay down. The skies are clearing in the pocanos mountains. This is the view from the frenchman nor this morning with another sunshine to warm things up a bit. And temperatures are near 29 degrees for lafayette. Collegeville, 28 degrees. And look at the 20s for gilbertsville. Upper providence, the upper 20s to start with. Heading to the 40s this afternoon. Fizzling. The snowflakes are trying to move into the area. Might have seen a few flurries in southern Chester County and new castle county. But theres not much left of those there. They are going to come to an end. And the clouds are going to break for sunshine this afternoon. The next round of showers is coming from that possible tomorrow afternoon. Eventually the thunderstorms are coming in on thursday but it will start out with light showers tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow tomorrowwest. Well start off tomorrow morning with sunshine and the clouds come in during the day. You might need your umbrella later in the afternoon, but you will see the temperatures this afternoon similar to yesterday topping out in the lower 40s. The sevenday forecast 50 degrees tomorrow with a chance just a chance of scattered showers in the afternoon. A better chance of some light rain showers on thursday. There is a chance a slight risk of a thunderstorm with highs in the 40s. Im just going to focus on the 58, bill. Imagine going on a hike and low and behold theres a Little Library on the trail. Next, where to pick up a book and enjoy the outdoors. And we have new information in the pent state investigation on campus. Skyforce 10 is live here at this intersection of knight and street road with a pedestrian hit and the driver who hit that pedestrian took off. They are now searching for that car. They told us this intersection will be shut down for quite some time. We are seeing a slowdown on interstate 76 near the conshohocken curve. Watch out for a disabled vehicle on the side. Clouds overhead and they are starting to break. Weve been watching for some snowflakes. Doesnt look like thats going to happen in center city. And the rest of the area is seeing what snow we were tracking quickly fizzing. We have light snow in northeastern pennsylvania. We are at 32 degrees in philadelphia. Expect the 40s this afternoon. Two crimes just days apart. Katy zachry is live with what students need to be aware of. Katy . Reporter thats right, vai. West Chester University is warning students about several attacks that have taken place along or near campus. And one of the attacks a student was injured. Detail coming up. And stopping crime with sound. The hightech functions that could be coming to philadelphia. Jacklyn our middle schools have classes that are devoted for test prep. My kids only have a half a year science and a half a year social studies to make room for preparing for the test. Gina we have no afterschool programs, we have no freshman sports, we have no extra anything. Okaikor were cutting those programs to make way for test prep. And were not taking in to all the other things that makes a child whole. Gina we are setting our kids up to fail. Around here, were all about fast. Thats why xfinity is perfect for me. With millions of wifi hotspots all over the place including one right here at the shop now we can stream all things fast and furious. Youve done it again, carlos with the fastest inhome wifi and millions of hotspots xfinity is perfect for people who love fast. Dont miss furious 7 in theaters april 3rd. [ female announcer ] Business Travel isnt just about the going. Its also about the going home. And being connected all along the way. Whether youre working or recharging do Business Travel on your terms. Acela. Take off. It is 6 30 and skyforce 10 is live over the scene of breaking news in bucks county. Bensalem police are investigating a hitandrun accident involving a pedestrian. We have just learned a minute ago that this is a deadly hitandrun. Jesse gary is arriving on the scene in a few minutes to bring you another update as soon as he gets there. On alert. Students in west Chester University are told to be aware of two students are attacked. And its going to be a cold day right now with temperatures still falling. It is 31 degrees, but they will creep back up slowly. Good morning welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. Im tracy davidson. Bill henley has the first alert forecast bill . It is wintry this morning with temperatures in the lower 20s to upper 20s. Thats a live view from the Comcast Center with clouds producing scattered showers, but some just fizzled. So the snowflakes wont be hitting the ground. Temperatures right now in the 20s for pottstown and trenton. 30 degrees in northeast philadelphia. Wilmington is 33. Still see some clouds over center. I think well have enough sunshine to warm us up this afternoon to the lower 40s. Ill go through the neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten. Now to the Traffic Center with a look at the Tuesday Morning commute. Hey, christine. Good morning. Skyforce 10 is right over the scene right now of knight road and street road. This is a major intersection here in bensalem. There are several detours in this area and this will cause problems in the morning due to this fatal hitandrun as Police Continue their investigation. So i do have a way for you to get around it. Ta

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