Group and detonated his suicide vest. Adrianna vorderbruggen game the third member of the air force to die in afghanistan. Her marriage to her partner three years ago was viewed by activists as a milestone. Air National Guard joseph lemm was killed. He was a 15year veteran of the new york police department. He had been deployed to iraq and afghanistan three times. Pentagon officials expected to reveal the identities of the other three troops killed later to tonight. New information about a doctors mysterious death inside his Center City Hotel room. Police found dr. Howard baker yesterday. Investigators saying he was lying on the floor naked with a belt around his neck. Weve gotten new details in the past 90 minutes. Are they calling this a murder, andrea . Reporter jim, police have stopped short of calling this murder. Theyre saying that dr. Howard baker died of strangulation and that he was robbed for a person they are now looking for. He checked into the rodeway in around 3 pm on sunday. He had two separate male visitors. The second visitor is the person of interest. He was seen on surveillance leaving the doctors room 12 30 monday morning with the psychiatrists backpack. Hours later employees found him dead. He was on the floor with a belt tied tightly around his neck. His wallet was also missing. Police say they dont know if prostitution is involved or if dr. Baker knew this person of interest. We talked to the wife. She did not know that he was even there, so were trying to sort of backtrack his lifestyle and whereabouts and get an answer to those questions. Reporter police are back out in the area of the hotel trying to get more information. They say the detectives are making Good Progress on identifying this person of interest. Coming up at 5 00 well have more on who dr. Baker was. For now, reporting live from police headquarters. Andrea kleinthomas. Nbc 10 news. A priest was convicted for the way he handled complaints about abuse. Well get another new trial. A superior court ruling overturned his conviction for the second time. His lawyers say the trial judge allowed too many victims not closely related to his case to testify. Hes been in prison since the conviction on child endangerment charges was reinstated. His attorneys say theyre working to get him released from an upstate prison. Now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. The first full day of winter rolls in with warm and wet wefrt. Nbc 10 at the 69th street terminal in upper darby. A cloudy day on the shore too. Live look from our cape may camera. By Christmas Eve it will feel like beach weather. Glenn schwartz tracking the next round of showers. Glenn. The showers are not going to be cooling us off any. We continue to see unfootballlike weather around here, and that is going to go all the way through the weekend. We were only 43 degrees on sunday. 57 yesterday. Expected about 63 today. And 68 tomorrow. Perhaps a record high temperature. Its 60 degrees right now. Even some of the normal cold spots its in the 50s. 51 in mount pocono. Thats not good for the skiers. Now, not much on the radar right now. But there is another area developing down south, and we i thi think that moisture will be coming up here during the day tomorrow. Its not going to be later tonight. Probably not affecting the morning rush tomorrow either. What is going to be affecting the morning rush is fog. Now, its going to stay unseasonably warm through the night but start to get foggy in most of the area later tonight. And by 8 00 expecting dense fog along with these very mild temperatures. Well talk more about more records that are going to be falling, all the way through the weekend with the rest of the sevenday in just a few minutes. Our team of first alert meteorologists will be tracking this weeks rain around the clock. Stay with nbc 10 on the air and on the nbc 10 news app as we bring you the latest forecasts through the christmas holiday. Police looking for the person who shot a 10yearold girl as she was sitting in her mothers car. Happened around 8 30 last night in redding near stout elementary school. The girls mother asked bystanders for help after the shooting and emergency crews arrived and took the girl to a hospital. Police say she is expected to recover from her injuries. We now know the identity of a man killed in West Philadelphia last night. Philadelphia police say 22yearold hakim zaboor was shot in the face while walking his dog. Police say it happened near his home on horton street around 7 30 last night. Last week another man was killed while walking his dogs in West Philadelphia. There have been no arrests in either case. In south jersey a middle school aide is charged with sexually assaulting a former student. 41yearold Jennifer Pasqual engaged in sex acts with the middle School Student between november of 2013 and may of this year. They say the relationship began when the victim was 14 years old and the alleged acts happened away from the school. She was arrested yesterday at the Ann Mullen School where she had been working and is being held in the county jail. The Gloucester School district superintendent says we are deeply saddened to learn of the allegations of misconduct. He goes on to say we will not tolerate conduct inappropriate or unbecoming of a stam member. Upon note nication of the allegations the district terminated the aide arrested yesterday. To a scathing report that recommended serious changes to the Philadelphia Police department when it came to the use of deadly force. Today the Justice Department praised the department and the sweeping changes it made. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante spent the day going through the report. Anytime an officer uses force of any kind theyve used all proper tactics. They absolutely had to use that amount of force in order to take a person into custody and we will have a thorough review of all these incidents to make sure. Reporter the report recommended more than 90 changes from training to deescalation tactics. Most of the changes have been implemented but some are still to come. The Police Commissioner would like to take the department of justice advice and use a third party to investigate its own police members. That would put the Pennsylvania State police as the lead Investigative Agency if there is an officerinvolved shooting where a person is injured, killed or any incustody death that occurs. Reporter commissioner ramsey says some of the changes have been easier to implement but the psp has met with resistance from the union. He says the changes will have to come in when the contracts are negotiated. Some changes will have to wait until the new commissioner richard ross, takes the job. Six to nine months. Reporter he says, despite a change in the guard i is not backing away from the suggested reforms. They call for increased training measures for recruits and new training or current officers, the requirement that all officers carry pepper like spray and tasers and changes when the tasers can be deployed. The report was generated by ramsey when he called in the d. O. J. To examine why Police Shootings were on the rise in 2013. Today he got praise. The government will always be held to a higher standard. I get that. The fact of the matter is that 248 people were killed in the city last year, not by the police. But by fellow citizens. Reporter now, ramsey says back in 2013 11 people were killed by police. He says this year two. He says despite those numbers actions answer police, shootings of police officers, people firing their weapons towards police, he says, has risen. Reporting live in center city, Deanna Durante. Ten news. Philadelphia taxi and limo drivers made their case in a facetoface meeting with the Philadelphia District attorney. The groups are calling on Law Enforcement to crack down on the unregulated uber x ride sharing service. It came after this street protest that snarled traffic and confused drivers around center city. Drivers are concerned that uber x is stealing customers own though the rideshare drivers are not regulated in the ways that taxi and limo drivers are. D. E. Tells us he is not clear if his office has jurisdiction but agrees safety of riders must be the priority. We do have to ensure that philadelphiians, when they get into buses, trains, cabs, that the people that operate them are responsible people. The illegal operation of uber x and lyft is a problem. He definitely wanted to take a stand on that. We are hopeful he will do something. Also meet with uber executives. The Limousine Association has a meeting tomorrow with philadelphias mayor elect jim kenny. They plan to make a similar case to City Council Leaders in the coming days. Pennsylvanias governor is threatening to veto a temporary plan that could end the states sixmonth budget battle. Tom wolff sent a letter to state house members saying a temporary spending measure would lead to thousands of furloughs and deep cuts to programs. The republican controlled house is considering a stopgap after voting down a pension bill that was a critical element of the binomial deal. House members could take up a vote on a temporary bill tomorrow. Now do our decision 2016. At least half of americans say they would be embarrassed to have donald trump as president according to a new poll. That hasnt affected his lead. The new poll from Quinnipiac University shows trump leading republican candidates with 28 of the vote. Senator ted cruz is not far behind with 24 . Senator marco rubio and dr. Ben carson round out the top four. Among the democrats. Hillary clinton has a commanding lead in the poll with 61 of the vote. Senator Bernie Sanders has just 30 there. And the war of words between trump and clinton has taken, well, a vulgar turn. Trump went on the offensive against clinton at a Campaign Event in michigan last night. He called her a liar for saying that isis is using him on video as a recruiting tool. Trump went so far as to use a sexually derogatory term in regards to clintons loss in the 2008 president ial primary. She was going to beat obama. I dont know who would be worse . I dont know. How does it get worse . But she was going to beat she was favored to win. And she got she lost. I mean she lost. Obviously we bleeped out the word. Clintons Communications Director released this statement saying we are not responding to trump but everyone who understands the humiliation this degrading language inflicts on all women should. U. S. Army Sergeant Bowe bergdahl made his first appearance before a military judge today. 29yearold is charged with desertion. He deferred entering a plea. If convicted he could get life in prison. The army says he walked off his post in afghanistan in 2009 and was held until his release in may of 2014 as part of a prisoner swap. A legal settlement for some of the families of the School Shooting in newton, connecticut. A dozen of them will split 1. 5 million from the estate of the gunmans mother. A lawyer says the settlements were finalized last thursday. 20yearold adam lanesic skilled 26 people, most of them young students. He killed his mother nancy before the School Shooting and killed himself afterwards. The suit says his mother failed to properly secure the rifle which she owned and her son used in the shootings. The nbc 10 investigators have been monitoring the installation of positive train control ever since then. Investigative reporter hairy hairston is live in our Digital Operations Center with more on the tour. Reporter nbc 10 went to the amtrak train center in wilmington to find out how positive train control works and why it was crucial for amtrak to finish installing the system. Amtrak activated ptc on trains between philadelphia and new york over the weekend. The Safety System uses gps and other tracking systems to automatically stop trains in danger of draerailing. They could be speeding, about to collide with other trains or about to enter a work area when they activate. Listen to what happens when the simulator tries to speed through a curve on the northeast corridor. Watch what happens here. I put full power on the train. Its saying there is a 90 ahead. I am trying to speed up. Whats happened is i have now a penalty brake application. It says i am going over speed. Its putting the brake on the train. Everything is starting to slow down. I cant put power at all. It took control of the train away from me. I cant do anything. Reporter amtrak had until the end of this year to install ptc. Investigators say the may 12th crash in Port Richmond could have been prevented if ptc was operating. 18 people were killed and about 200 others were injured in the derailment. Ptc was activated on trains from philly to washington last week. The stretch between philly and new york completes the Safety System along the busy northeast corridor. Live in the Digital Operations Center, harry hairston, nbc 10 news. Comcast will operate in philadelphia for the next 15 years. Philadelphia mayor signed legislation this morning at city hall. Under the agreement philadelphia will continue to get 5 of the tv revenue in the city. Last year it totaled nearly 18 million. Mayor nutter says the deal with improve Customer Service standards and expand discounts to lowincome seniors. The agreement has been described as among the best in the country. The line the tag line across the country is we want what philadelphia got. City Council Approved the deal earlier this month. Comcast is building a second tower in center city. Its scheduled to open in 2017 or early 2018. Comcast is the Parent Company of nbc 10. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. This incredible month of december continues. Today the temperature, 18 degrees above normal. And thats going to be the second coldest day of the week. Were also tracking more rain. It doesnt matter if its cloudy or rainy. Its still going to get warm. Incredibly warm. Were smashing some records for Christmas Eve, maybe even Christmas Day. Its going to be warm all weekend. Wait until you see the forecast for sunday. Now, cloudy skies across the area, but its 60 degrees right now. The wind westsouthwest at 8 miles an hour. 5 degrees warmer than it was yesterday at this time. And it was warm yesterday at this time. 54 in allentown. One of the cool spots. Westchester, 56. Another one of the relatively cool spots. Look at these numbers to the south. 63 degrees. Atlantic city international. 62 in dover. So we had a cold weekend. But there goes the temperatures. By tomorrow up to 68 degrees. That would be a record. And were pretty much assured of a record on Christmas Eve, because a record in philly is 64 set last year. Were predicting 75. You dont beat records by 11 degrees. That hardly ever happens. Allentown will beat it by 8. Redding by 7. Looks like the whole area will be setting records on thursday. We had just one area of rain come through this morning. Dried out this afternoon as expected. And now were going to be waiting for another area to build up. Just starting to see some of the clouds thicken up in tennessee. Watch what happens as we go through the night tonight. The southerly wind keeps it very warm. But its also going to get foggy. Its very humid out there. Not so much in the way of rain by the morning rush but maybe some dense fog. Here comes the area of rain. Definitely need the umbrellas tomorrow because look at this. This is a pretty solid area, some on the heavy side. You will also see the temperatures going up into the 60s. And there is 6 00, all right. 67 degrees in dover. And 70 degrees at 9 00 at night. At the end of december. Look how heavy the rain is. 64 in philadelphia. 69 in philly at 11 00 p. M. Thats mindboggling. There is 70 degrees at 6 00 in the morning on thursday. So we have already smashed the record before even daybreak. And then were going higher into the 70s with the southerly wind. Maybe get a little bit of sunshine. That would be interesting. And its going to be recordsetting. Near about 63 today. But 68 tomorrow would be a record. A record thursday is 64. Were going up to 75. Even Christmas Day is going to be pretty warm. And then were going to cool off a little bit saturday and go right back up on sunday. Unseasonably mild with areas of dense fog developing. 54 for the low in philadelphia. Then tomorrow, rain becoming heavy at times. Remember that fog early. And nearrecord warmth. Highs in the upper 60s. That may not occur until tomorrow evening. And then look at the low temperature thursday morning. Smashing the record. Friday, incredibly warm with some showers. Saturday we cool down a little bit with a chance of showers. But thats still way above normal. And look at sunday. Im now going up for another record. 71. You guys been good this year . Yeah louder yeah santa arrived a little early to brighten some childrens lives in camden. Nbc 10 was at the Charter School this morning for jolly saint nick delivered presents and toys to the kindergartners through 7th grade students. The gifts come through a Nonprofit Organization providing Educational Opportunities to deserving and financially disadvantaged students. And they got to open them before christmas. Which is always fun. 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