Pilot program. Nbc 10s keith jones is live along the schuylkill. Keith . Reporter weve all seen active work zones, this isnt one here. The schuylkill is to my left, your right. You can see that blinking light and with that you could see a camera. Picture this this, this car hit four workers in an active work zone in bucks county in 2015. The driver died. In 2015 there were 1,935 crashes in work zone. Reporter this state senator is hoping a new bill adding speeding cameras in highway work zones could change that. Or could it . My opinion is there are likely to be abused for revenue rather than safety. Reporter james walker says its a money grab. Cameras are expensive and workers are relatively safe behind concrete barriers. In order to collect enough tickets to pay for it you generally have to have a speed limit thats artificially and unrealistically too low. Reporter aaa disagrees wholeheartedly. Aaa has worked vehemently in conjunction with the sponsor of the bill to make sure that there are specific motorist protections written into the bill. Reporter including two warnings, the speed camera only catches drivers going 11 Miles Per Hour over the speed limit and the money for the ticket goes to safety initiatives. Do you think this is a good idea . Yeah, i dont like it. Its a money grab. If theyre not calibrated theyll take pictures and send you pictures in the mail. You cant challenge it. Reporter its very safe. You know theres a camera, you slow down. Reporter slow down, that might be the bottom line. We are back live along the schuylkill expressway. This would only apply to limited access highways in the state of pennsylvania like the schuylkill behind me. State lawmakers are still contemplating legislation. Keith jones, nbc 10 news. Congressional republicans will be in center city tomorrow for a gop retreat. President donald trump will join them thursday. Capital police are stepping up security at the lowes hotel. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Vice President mike pence are scheduled to speak here. So is british Prime Minister theresa may, shes scheduled to speak thursday afternoon. Weve learned of major road closures during the president s visit. Theyre happening around the lowes hotel in center city and they begin thursday at 8 00 a. M. See those closures in red . That means no driving or parking and this doesnt just affect drivers. The secret service is establishing a secure primmer that will also limit access for pedestrians. You can see the area in yellow. Tap the nbc 10 app for a detailed list of closures. At 11 00, we will build the waltham. s what President Trump tweeted tonight. Weve learned he will sign orders on immigration tomorrow. Theyre expected to begin with steps to tighten border security. Including his wall along the u. S. mexico border. Hes also set to restrict the flow of refugees to the united states. Today mr. Trump signed executive orders advancing construction of the keystone and Dakota Access pipeline. Those pipelines are strongly opposed by many environmental groups. President trump says the move will create tens of thousands of jobs. The president says he will announce his choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. On the short list, Thomas Hardman of pittsburgh and William Pryor of birmingham though many feel he could face significant opposition of f nominated. All three sit on federal appeals courts. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley easily won confirmation tonight to become ambassador to the united nations. Haley breezed through her confirmation hearing last week. Despite lacking a background in diplomacy or foreign policy. She becomes one of the few women or minorities serving in the trump cabinet. From congressman to convict, former pennsylvania congressman shaka fattah will begin a tenyear prison sentence tomorrow. Fattah is required to surrender at a pennsylvania prison tomorrow afternoon. He spent 20 years in congress before his conviction last june. The jury found he took an illegal Million DollarCampaign Loan and used government and nonprofit money to repay it. A packed house in cherry hill as the community debated whether High Schoolers should be allowed to stage a popular play using a racial slur. Nbc 10s Brandon Hudson is live with the controversy. Brandon . Reporter jim and jacqueline, the play were talking about is the High School Production of the Broadway Musical ragtime. The School Board Meeting wrapped up. Heres the deal. Of the students who spoke, most of them both black and white want to keep this word in the play but there are some adults who dont think the word should be used because of our countrys current racial climate. You certainly have a right to speak. The cherry hill public School Board Meeting was so big that not everyone could sit down. Most wanted to discuss the use of the the n word in the cherry heil production of ragtime about three diverse families who were neighbors in early 20th century america. Two of the students in the play were the first to speak in favor of keeping the word in the play. I firmly believe ragtime should be performed without censorship so that everyone involved sees the ugliness in human history. We need to hear these words to not let history repeat itself. Reporter the testimony in favor of leaving the music unaltered was so powerful that at one point a graduate in attendance was overwhelmed with emotion. If you remove this word, you disregard the intention of the author and deliberately tell the wrong story. Reporter the school board decided against using the word after the local naacp chapter filed a complaint which led to a petition to reinstate the n word for the musical set to open in march. At least one Community Member believes the word shouldnt be used because this is a High School Production founded by taxpayers, not a Broadway Musical. I and we dont need to be refreshed on what racism is by the unfettered use of this word. Reporter the petition to keep this play unaltered has about 1500 signatures. The school board said it would not make a decision tonight, it will make with stakeholders later this week. Live in cherry hill, Brandon Hudson, nbc 10 news. At 11 00, witnesses say two people robbed a man as he lay dying on a philadelphia street. The 33yearold victim was shot and killed just after 8 30 in hunting park. Police are trying to track down the gunman and the alleged thieves. Mysterious gunfire in delaware. Bullets hit a familys minivan with two Young Children inside. No one was injured but police arent sure where the gunshots came from. It happened yesterday afternoon in clay monmont. Police found a bullet hole in a second car parked nearby. Sky force 10 captured a fiery scene which shut down lanes on the new jersey turnpike. Thats a car carrier burning on the shoulder of the southbound lane in robinsville, mercer county. You can see that fire destroyed some of the cars on board. Were told the fire fighter was hospitalized with a shoulder injury. A south jersey homeowner lucky to be alive after a massive try smashed into her house. She says a crack in the chimney was the first sign of trouble yesterday. The Fire Department told her to get out so she and her husband grabbed papers out of her bedroom and left and seconds later that tree right there fell right on top of that very bedroom. We decided, we just heard this loud crazy crashing down. We were both trying to run down the stairs. No one was hurt, the family is expected to learn the financial scope of the accident tomorrow. All along the jersey coast, beaches took the brunt of the noreaster, winds and waves eroded dunes. Beaches were left with dangerously step drops. The mayor says it will cost North Wildwood between 500,000 and a Million Dollars to fix the damage. Atlantic city is working to help homeowners reduce the cost of their federal Flood Insurance plan. Nbc 10 was at city hall for a free insurance workshop. Homeowners got to meet with certified flood plan managers to find out ways to lower their premiums. We should know how long the Delaware River bridge will remain closed. The pennsylvania Turnpike Commission tells us it hopes to release a timeline in a few days detailing how long it will take to make repairs. A crack formed in one of the bridges steel supports. That bridge connects the pennsylvania and new jersey turnpikes. Meanwhile, the belair bridge is no longer stuck in the air. Crews got it down today and theyre running tests. It had been stuck since yesterday. The bridge carries new Jersey Transits Atlantic City line. The Transit Service is still suspended between 30th street and cherry hill. Patco is accepting new Jersey Transit rail tickets. To our delaware bureau, new management is coming to a popular concert venue in wilmington. The queen theaters owner world cafe live is set to leave the spring. The new owners say the stage will remain open for musical acts. Other businesses hope it attracts bigname acts and big crowds to market street. Concord plaza could be getting a facelift. These are renderings of a new redevelopment project. Council members took Public Comment tonight on the proposed project. The existing plaza would be converted into a complex with apartments along with retail shops. The School District at philadelphia hosted a town hall meeting in support of immigrant students and their families tonight. Supermarket william hight was among those on hand at tonights discussion at the Community College of philadelphia. Up next, facebook backlash. The local lawmaker under fire because of what he posted about the womens march. City of stars, are you shining just for me and an oscar nod for a man from our area. The contribution that could earn him an academy award. And last time we saw president obama he was bidding the white house farewell. The new picture of the obama familys vacation as private citizens. Glenn . Im tracking a temporary warmup before the winter like temperatures return. Ill also tell you about our next chance for rain. My nbc 10 first alert neighborhood forecast coming up next. A philadelphia sheriffs lieutenant is back home after he was badly injured in a center city elevator accident. Today family and colleagues surrounded paul owens as he left the Rehab Facility hes called home for six months. He was in an elevator at the criminal Justice System last august when it shot up to the top floor through cement barriers. He broke bones in his back, now hes paralyzed from the waist down. Its hard but, you know, just part of the process. Ive got a long way to go but i got this far. Just happy to be going home today, thats all. Investigators are trying to figure out what caused the elevator to malfunction. His lawyer filed a lawsuit against the company that operates the elevator. Apology not accepted. Women who marched saturday are furious with an Atlantic County social media post about women the freeholder insists was meant as a joke. Reporter their voices raised along with colorful signs, hundreds of thousands of women and men taking to the streets of d. C. , philly, new york, and beyond saturday to stand up for womens rights as a new administration they see as threatening those rights moved into the white house. Back home in in Atlantic County tonight quite frankly that blew my mind. Some who march have had a new fight on their hand with county freeholder john carmen. Its extremely disturbing. Whats disturbing is this Facebook Post by carmen, a meme hes since removed from his page that asked with questionable grammar on saturday will the womans protest be over in time for them to cook dinner . As a tax paying resident i expect representation that would be not mist obstruction of justice misogynistic and to focus on all constituents. Carmen attempted to apologize for the post but it fell flat for a group of women who came to post their concerns. I hope they come to realize it was a joke. Bad taste, absolutely. But thats all it was. Nothing more. Carmen insists the community has other important issues financial and otherwise that deserve equal passion. This is what democracy looks like. Days after it captured the worlds attention, this meme is not sitting well taxpayers of Atlantic County. He can make his own dinner. Carmen insisted the women in his own family thought the post was funny but he said if it was offensive it was not intentional. New at 11 00, a delaware man is taking matters into his own hands in the quest to get his wife a new kidney. Serena crawford has been experiencing kidney failure for six years. While she remains on the waiting list for a donor organ, her husband bill erected this sign on display outside the couples home in louis, sussex county. Former president barack obama and wife michelle are enjoying some fun in the sun this week. After eight years in the white house, the obamas are taking time off in the British Virgin islands. The commissioner of the islands police force tweeted out this photo of the obamas saying it was an absolute privilege to oversee their safe arrival. They got their yesterday after a shortstop in palm springs, california. Not quite the British Virgin islands but still warm weather coming our way tomorrow. It will be mild for this time of year, right, glen . The average high is 40 and well be way above that. First we have to get rid of the wind or at least knock it down. Still windy out there with those flags blowing but not as gusty as it was earlier. Were seeing gusts 20 to 30 miles an hour 3, 1 in Atlantic City is the most. Its still breezy but we were gusting closer to 40 during the afternoon so were finally seeing the wind dying down later tonight. By tomorrow morning its not going to be knocking you over. It wont be calm temperatures unseasonably mild wednesday and thursday and then its kind of back to winter temperatures. And then rain basically a dry pattern except for the chance of some rain on thursday morning. Its 41 right now in philadelphia. 39 in allentown, 28 in the poconos and with the wind it feels colder. But even with the rain and the wind, the temperature has been above average the last two days and the next two days thats about 15 degrees above average before we start dropping down friday and getting close to average on saturday. Here we are with the radar finally getting the rain off of the scope near us, new york is still getting some, including some snow and that noreaster continues to spin just offshore as we wait for the next area of moisture near chicago to come in. Thats not very impressive but it does give us at least a chance of some showers coming in on thursday. Especially earlier in the morning as you saw there. Watch through the day, heres the latest guidance just in minutes ago and just a few little showers, we have some models that give us nothing and that is pretty much the precipitation threat over the next week. So its really going to get to dry out. Tomorrow the wind really diminishing quite a bit. Temperature 53 in tacony for the high. Even allentown 48. Its way above average. Temperatures will reach township 55, newark, delaware, down to 58 degrees and then over the weekend the temperatures are dropping but this is close to average for this time of year, even upper 30s lehigh valley. Youll notice a lot of sunshine, youll notice no precipitation. All right, glenn. Down goes nova. While the wildcats may be in danger of losing that number. One ranking. Tiny dancers took stage in center city tonight. More than 200 philadelphia third and fourth graders entertain it had crowd at the prince theater company. They danced in the final performance of the ballet x Dance Exchange program. Bali x is the citys premier ballet contemporary company. A big honor for a local musician. He was nominated for an academy award. City of stars, are you shining just for me thats city of stars from the oscarnominated film la la land. Its nominated as well for best song and 31yearold beng passack from ardmore wrote it. Hell find out if hes a winner february 26. Joining la la land are arrival, fences, hacksaw ridge, hehell or high water, lion, manchester by the sea and moonlight. Speaking of hollywood, it came to south philly. The sixers put the spot on a bigtime movie maker. Tonight was m. Night. M. Night shyamalan rang in the teams ceremonial bell before tipoff against the clippers. Shyamalan is an avid sixers fan and has court side tickets. His daughter sang the National Anthem at the game. Im danny pommels. Number one no more. Shocking loss for villanova. Well show you how the nations best wasless than themselves. Plus it was rocking in south philly as the sixers continue. Highlights from a wild one at wells fargo next. Hey, hey, good to see you, Danny Pommells with you once again. The Number One Team in college basketball, the villanova wildcats facing marquette, the team they beat by double digits earlier this month. That was earlier. The cats talked about how tough a Team Marquette was this week. Early on nova dominant. Jehlen brenson, the steal, the stick. Nova led by 17 at the half but the second half a much different story. Just over a minute