Enough. It will get him off the streets. Residents reacted swiftly. Its months in the making after the first trial reached a dead lock in may. Prosecutors believe he was suffocated. A Law Enforcement source says he didnt cry or show any emotion in court. When the case came out and it was just so suspect and didnt have anybody else they were looking for, clear lir he wly h guilty. Reporter they answered the door at their homes as soon as e we learned the plea we asked prosecutors the detail the plea offer on cam rarks but they e decli declined. Im not shocked. Plea bargaining deals, i worked in the prison systems for years. Reporter he hopes he gets help behind bars. Im not a big one putting on people in prison and locking the door. I believe we have to go beyond it and find out whats going on. Reporter we did try several times to get in touch with d. J. s defense attorney, but is yet to call, text or e email me back. D. J. Will be b given credit for the jail time already served, which means the now 23yearold could be released from prison before his 30th birthday. Im cydney long, nbc 10 news. Our coverage of this major story does not stop here. How do these plea deals work out . All new on nbc 10 news at 5 00, retired court judge will join us live to talk about the agreement with prosecutors. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a giant powerball jackpot. Its the second largest in history. And people are swarming stores this afternoon. In hopes of striking it rich. Having a good day because they have been their families. That was the owner of petes Convenience Store in Atlantic City. She says shes even buying tickets for herself today. Can can you blame her . Tim furlong is live. This place is known for selling winning tickets. Is that why youre there . Reporter i go anywhere where the winners hang out. Tristan usually tells books and tobacco, but lately your friendly neighborhood lottery provider. Reporter lately hes getting carpal tunnel taking cash and pumping out Powerball Tickets. A lot of people dont normally see. Everyone coming out and spending their hard earned money on the dream. 20 years ago a lady won on a ticket she bought here. Were. Hoping to win big. I think this is it. I feel a winner. Reporter now everyone coming in here thinks they are the next big winner. Fantastic to bring a little recognition to delaware. The small wonder. Speaking of the small wonder in delaware, the store sells a winning ticket, they only get 10,000. Most states give you a percentage. If you win or when i win, im going to go back and tip these folks where i bought my tickets. Reporter 4. 5 million, youre going to see more of that. I have photographs of it. The place is like my dream castle. Thats what im getting. It speaks to you and well see and all the family there. Tim furlong, thank you. As you might imagine, a steady flow of customers bought tickets at the big top Beverage Market today. Some have already found out what they are going to do with the cash if they win. I want to retire. Others said they would pay off bills and travel. Tickets are in high demand in. Trenton. Here it is right here. Its where a family struck it rich last year after they bought a Powerball Ticket worth 430 million. Eight members of the smith family opted for the cash option lump sum of 284 million. You may remember they have donated millions to Community Groups in their neighborhood and other charities as well. Lauren mayk will be live at the store where they bought the win ing ticket at 5 00. Youll hear from her and well show you the actor caught purchasing tickets for the cast of his entire nbc show. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with legal action against septa after dozens were hurt in the train crash. We are live on the Transportation Center in upper darby. We understand the ntsb worked to clean up what was left of that scene today. Reporter that train involved in the accident no longer here. Go ahead and take a look behind me pe. You can see that its pretty much business as usual. That it train hauled away being treated as evidence. Also the first lawsuit has been filed for a passenger on that tra train. Some of those passengers have been hiring attorneys and the lawsuit was filed. His client suffered a head injury and called this a preventable accident. Governor tom wolf was asked about the accident and to prevent future accident there is needs to be a lrgeer investment in public transportation. I suspect one of the things we need to find is mass transit. We need to invest in infrastructure. We are making up for lost time. We did reach out to multiple victims on that train at the time of the accident. They did not want to talk about at this time because of legal action. Reporting live, steven fisher, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 is updating this major story on our app 24 hours a day. We were the first to tell you about the crash and will bring you any developments on the investigation right on your smart phone. A few delays this morning for commuters a at penn station. Workers were moving some transit trains out of a rail yard when one of the cars derail ed. No one was hurt. This mishap caused 20minute delays for riders. Those trains have since been cleared from the track. Sky force 10 was over the scene as they roped off the area. Thought it was a stick of dynamite. Police took it to a safe location to dispose of it. The navy dismissed the commander of the 7th fleet. That comes after four warshipen accidents in the pacific, two of which left sailors dead or missing. The latest happened near singapore when the u. S. S. John mccain collided with an oil t k tanker. They found the remains of some of the ten sailors missing in the accident. This crash follows the june collision between the u. S. S. Fitzgerald and a container ship. Nbc learned one of the missing sailors has ties to south engineer e see. The 22yearold went to cherry hill east high school. One friend told us he always wanted to be in the navy to follow in his fathers footsteps. They issued a statement about each and every one of us in c Camden County are proud of his service and humbled by his dedication to our grateful nation. He exemplifies a life of service to others. Protesters greeted President Trump in nevada. The president was in had town for the American Legion national convention. The visit comes one day after a speech the president made in phoenix. Tearing into the media and some republicans. Today the president called for unity and told veterans they are an example of strength and courage. He also talked about his improvements to the department of veterans affairs. We have delivered same day Emergency Mental Health services at every va medical center. After his speech, President Trump signed a bill which allows vets to have their appeals heard more quickly the at the va. Both pro anden antitrump protesters demonstrated peacefully but loudly outside a Convention Center in reno. Police were on hand to prevent any scuffles. Hillary clinton tells all in her upcoming memoir. She talks about her regrets and what she would go back and do differently during her failed 2016 campaign in one expert which clinton read herself on morning joe. She described a debate where Donald Trumps pacing and. Demeanor made her skin crawl. What would you do . Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he werent repeatedly invading your space or do you turn, look him in the eye and say loudly and clearly, back up you creep. Clinton says she wrote the book to pull back the curtain ob an experience that was exhilarating, yet baffling. Writing this wasnt easy. Every day that i was a candidate for president i knew that millions of people were counting on me and ien couldnt bare the idea of letting them down. But i did. Ien couldnt get the job done. And ill have to live with that for the rest of my life. Clintons memoir will be out september 12th. The center piece of voi elect protests in charlottesville, virginia, is now shrouded in black. Today crews covered the statue of general robert e. Lee with this drape. City Council Approved the measure which is intended to symbolize morning hire. There are also plans to cover a a statue of general thomas stone wall jackson at another nearby park. Nationalists clashed with counterprotesters in front of the monument and later a car ran into a crowd of demonstrators killing hire. Two Virginia State troopers also died that day. They were monitoring crowds in a helicopter when they crashed. Sensitivity over the robert e. Lee statue promped espn to reassign one of its broadcasters scheduled to cover a youfrt of virginia Football Game. Were going to explain what it has to do with his name and what spoesocial media has to say at. Police now have a time line to go on as they search for the vandals who targeted two dozen headstones at a northeast philadelphia church. The last person left at 3 00 in the afternoon monday. Church members believe vandals got in through a fence at the back of the property. They say it will cost more than 10,000 for repairs. Today a pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf was in our area to visit the city of chester. He met with members of the Power Home Remodelling Group there. The governor praised the group for its commitment to workers in the state. This was really fun for me to s see. Jury selection is nearly complete in the corruption trial of u. S. Senator bob menendez. 12 jurors were seated this morning. Lawyers are working to fill the final four alternate positions. In the meantime, menendez entered a not guilty plea during a hearing that was closed to the public and media. The democrat is accused of taking gifts and Campaign Donations from a florida doctor in exchange for political influence. Opening statements are scheduled for september. In south jersey officials cut the ribbon on a Development Project near Rowan University today. The project features luxury apartments for both students and nonstudents. Its made possible because of a partnership between glassboro and the university. Its 350 million economic Development Project thats brought people to our downtown and created a downtown. An emotional day for parents of students for the class of 2021. Parents and siblings helped move into the newest dorm. 5100 freshmen and transfer students ren rolled this fall. They represent 60 countries and 45 states. The move ins continue all week. Classes start monday. Today Penn State University brandy wine celebrated the opening of its first residence hall. It can accommodate 250 students. Thick thingings are going to look a lot different. Under. Went a renovation. Took a year and a half to finish it. Students attended classes at a nearby middle school until the renovation was finished. This is not something residents in texas want to experience again. This was the scene in houston earlier this year. More floding could be on the horizon as tropical depression harvey get. S stronger. Look at all that water. The storm has the potential to become a Tropical Storm or even a hurricane. Emergency management officials want residents to be ready. The storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall and flooding along the texas and louisiana coast. Here in our area, investigators are looking into heavy rains played a role in the collapse of a basement wall in kal den county. It happened at this house on Beverly Drive after storms moved through yesterday. The family showed us the damage. They cant go back inside until the house is safe. That was quite the show late last night with the thunder and the lightning. It got really loud. Lets go over to glenn hurricane schwartz to get a look at our weather today. Its been more sunshine to the south. And as we take a look at the jersey shore, we have seen more clouds today, but its still got up to 86 in ventor. The wind is fairly light today. Clouds at the shore now. Especially in cape may here. Its not stopping a lot of people from going to the ocean. Its just going to be spectacular for a number of days. So does philadelphia. This rain area not really reaching the ground, but its thickening up the clouds. Cape may county is not going to be seeing a lot of sunshine for the rest of this day. Remember yesterday oppressive at minimum. But today through friday, through the weekend, through early next week, nice and comfortable. High temperatures, 82 in taconi. Swankssville at 80. Allentown and easton too for the high tomorrow. And vor heez at 82 at the shore. Were seeing near 80 degrees and a nice sea breeze coming in the afternoon. For tomorrow nights game, its just great conditions. Last weeks game it was kind of warm and humid for football. This is football weather. Really nice football weather. As we head through the rest of the week and into the weekend, its like nothing but sunshine. Comfort every single day. Temperatures actually go down a little bit toward the weekend. Dover, into the 70s for highs. Allentown, sunshine every day. 70s every day. Wildwood is looking good too. And speaking of the beaches. Lets take a look. Sunshine, mid70s, not much wind. Wildwood, sunshine, mid70s, thot much wind. Check out the water temperature. Atlantic city ocean temperature at 74 degrees. And again nothing but sunshine. We have harvey emerging in the gulf of mexico. This is going to be a big problem for the texas coast over the next few days. The computer models all show it going into texas and stalling. So 20 inches of rain is e predicted. But the remnants of this could potentially affect us by later next week. Expect the unexpected, especially when it comes to this. Live tv. One mother learned that lesson the hard way from her toddler. Youre looking pretty fit. Whats she like is now on the desk. Still ahead, how the womans daughter derailed the conversation. Plus all is forgiven. Cheney university will get millions of dollars in debt wiped out but it comes with a catch and it could impact student there is. Well explain. And broou know meets broou know. The pop star play ed a concert and comes face to face with a pro wres wltler who inspired hi name. Take a look at the closing bell on wall street. They end ed the day in the red. y8yxppp how many bottles of booze can you hide y nor clothing. First they were in her purse. You see there then she got creative. She put them in her pants and down her bra. She was smiling and strutting as she left the store. You got to love surveillance cameras because they are going to see you doing all this stuff. A little hard to walk with all that. Peter hernandez, you probably. Dont recognize the name. Hes known as bruno mars. He met the man hes nicknamed after. He posted this picture on instagram with bruno. The two met during his tour stop in pittsburgh. The story goes that mars was a chunky baby and his dad ni nicknamed his son after his favorite wrestler. Mars was given a replica of his championship belt. They have both done well for themselves. Too close to home. Espn reassigned one of the broadcasters after the violence in charlottesville. Still ahead at 4 00, the controversial name game that led to this decision and what social media has to say about this. Plus the countrys oldest historically black college caught in a financial mess. But millions of dollars in debt could be wiped out in one deal. Well explain, next. Also remembering his mother 20 years after her death. Prince william sharing the toll the death took on him as a teen, thats at 5 00. Anden dont forget nbc 10 is your official station of the eagles. The only place where youll be able to watch the birds take on the dolphins tomorrow night. Keith jones and john clark will start coverage at 6 00 p. M. With a onehour pregame show followed by kickoff at 7 00. You can still catch thursday night prime time line up on cozy tv. Today, we spend a whole lot of time like this. So at citizens bank, weve created banking tools that fit how youre living today. From advanced atms. To online banking. To our Award Winning mobile app. And if you prefer facetoface, we have that too. Ask me, terry goggans, how our balance of technology and people can help you. Right now a new school year and a new dole to help a university dig out of a financial mess. The oldest black college has had a history of money problems threatening its future, but aundrea clinethomas explains how a new plan has now given the university and students a renewed sense of hope wp. They had a longer road than most to cheney university. Before i came up here from florida, i was homeless anden didnt have nowhere to go. Reporter a football scholarship was his saving gr e grace. Its like a family bond. They are my parents. Students would lose Financial Aid and be forced to transfer. School administrators, alumni and supporters rallied the state to keep the doors open and a glimmer of hope as the school earned 30 million of the the debt would be forgiven, the catch, the University Leaders had to slash the budget 7. 5 million this school year alone. I care for this school. Its a first. Despite concerns, there remains a strong loyalty. Cheney gave me a Second Chance in life. Reporter now cheney needs a Second Chance to continue a regular si thats provided better lives to so many of its students. Aundrea clinethomas, nbc 10 news. Hes a look at the other stories were following county by county. The School District is askingen students to weigh in on its bathrooms. The school board agreed to create a survey. It comes after a lawsuit over the districts policy. Allowing students of the opposite sex in those rooms amounts to sexual harassment. To bucks county, the School District will announce new initiatives. Leaders will be joined for your announcement. Its at 6 00 inside the administration building. They are still looking for a few good monsters. The park is hiring 500 people for its annual halloween haunt including monsters, makeup artists and usher. The last job fair runs until 8 00 today. The halloween haunt kicks off september 15th. Cray