Low lying spots like this one in duey took a pounding over the weekend. If you were here on saturday you would have been about up to your knees in water, easily up to your knees in water. Reporter doris is still cleaning up the mess from the storm at her shop in bethany. Very, very windy, very rainy, salt covered everything, sands everywhere. Reporter her shop is okay, her beach is far from okay. The gates to Bethany Beach are now closed in some spots. This path basically dropped off like a cliff into the ocean below, same deal over the inlet. Three or four days, totally just gone. All gone. Some streets are still closed at the delaware beaches, youll still find ankle deep water in many spots. Here you can see the water is pretty calm now, but also still very high and most of the homes along the bay, including the ones here are elevated. The ones that are not, they can still face some water problems, at least for the next couple days. Kurt came down knowing his ground level house might be under water. I thought for sure everything would be flooded out inside, wed have to rip out the carpets. The water was about an inch from doing serious damage. Today he even put in a web cam so during future storms he can check the damage before making the trip down here. He got lucky this time, but the most vulnerable spots the beaches took a beating for sure. Delaware beaches need Major Repairs to get them back to normal and ready for the next storm that will eventually come as storms always eventually come. At the delaware beaches, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Lets turn to nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Glenn, we saw much nicer weather inland today. Will people at the shores see some relief . Yeah, that may wait until tomorrow. We have to get the wind to change direction and that will be coming the next 24 hours. Still a lot of clouds at the shores you can see in this live picture from cape may. The wind not as strong as it was over the weekend and last week. Were still gusting to 20 to 30 miles an hour in some parts of the area, but its not nearly as strong as it was. Remember late last week we were seeing gusts well over 50 miles an hour, close to 60 miles an hour, and persistent. Hour after hour, day after day, and thats what kept building up the water and the power of that water is incredible and can do a lot of damage, as you saw. Northeast winds still hitting the delaware beaches more than the jersey shore, but as it turns into the northwest, then were going to be seeing some significant improvement. So the concern this evening, just some minor tidal flooding in the back bays that comes a couple hours after the high tide at the ocean, so were not quite done with that yet, but were almost done. Then the clouds will be moving out, too. Well talk more about when well be seeing more rain with the rest of the seven day in just a few minutes. All right, glenn, thank you very much. In South Carolina, take a look at this. The governor says the rain is starting to back off, but the danger from this weekends fast moving flooding isnt over. This is highway 17 in myrtle beach, which remains flooded. Officials say more communities may need to be evacuated and more roads closed. Drone video shows the devastation in the state capital of columbia. The 16. 6 inches of rain that fell yesterday was the rainiest day in one single spot in the United States in more than 16 years. At least nine people have died in South Carolina since the flooding began. State officials are asking people to stay in their homes if they can. Nbc news has a live crew that was just forced to evacuate because of a dam failure. We hope to get an update from them later this hour. And you might have heard the governor of South Carolina say they havent seen rain like this in 1,000 years, but there is a reason that this is happening right now. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz has been looking into this. Hell explain it for us in our next half hour. Meanwhile, an amtrak train due in our area tonight flew off the tracks in vermont this morning. Train 55 derailed in central vermont. It was on its way to washington, d. C. , with a stop planned at 30th street station. These are photos from the scene. Seven people are hurt, one seriously. Passengers were put on school buses to take them away from that scene. Were waiting to hear back from amtrak about when those passengers are expected to arrive at their destinations. A woman from our area is accused of injecting her teenaged daughter and another child with heroin. Police say Jessica Lynn Riffey of Chester County injected the children at her home last month. Riffey now is locked up on several charges, including endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors. Investigators also tell us the teenagers snorted heroin that was supplied by riffeys boyfriend, his name is jamison burn. Burn faces drug charges this afternoon. A wave of Text Messages, thats what led police to five men they say are involved in a Drug Trafficking operation in montgomery county. Investigators say the men sent mass Text Messages to more than 60 potential buyers. The Text Messages told buyers where, when, and what type of heroin and cocaine could be purchased. The men set up in hotels. Police confiscated 1,100 bags of heroin and cocaine, along with cash, guns, and cell phones. The threat seems to have passed at College Campuses around philadelphia. The fbi issued an alert over the weekend warning there could be an act of violence at 2 00 this afternoon, but the deadline came and went without any problems. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante spoke with students today. Deanna, how are they holding up . Students have been warned not to miss classes, but at the same time they dont want to let those behind the threat win. I hope that it doesnt happen anywhere around here. Reporter workers, students, word of the threat. Public safety advisory, alcohol, tobacco, and firearms notified universities and colleges in our region. Reporter three university of pennsylvania students and many in the area were warned by campus security. We get a lot of alerts like that, so originally not much, but looking into it, maybe concerning. Reporter they were not stopping their day for it. Yeah, got an alert last night. I was really scared. You never know, someone playing or being serious, but stuff you cant take lightly. Any time you give more attention to it than is warranted, youre giving them attention that they want. Reporter the threat made mention of last weeks shooting in oregon with a deadline of 2 00. Reported here. The fbi says this isnt the first threat it has seen similar threats on social media nationwide. Police tell me they are working with area schools and tell teachers and students if they see something, they need to report it. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. A vote will come down later this week on the pennsylvania budget after nearly four months at a standstill. Governor wolf is warning republican lawmakers that steep cuts in education will happen if taxes dont go up. Wolf spoke today saying the republican plan does not responsibly balance the budget. On wednesday the state house will vote on wolfs plan. Just the way weve been doing it is not at all honest. Weve got to stop it. Thats what my intransigence has been about. Not about ideology, its about math. We reached out to the House Appropriations chairman, his comment says in part, as soon as Governor Wolf acknowledges that increasing taxes on middle class families is not always the answer, the budget standoff will be resolved. If you live in pennsylvania, todays your last chance to register to vote in next months election. Register online for the first time as long as you have a penn dot drivers license or i. D. Card. Voters will fill three open seats on the pennsylvania supreme court. Two other state appellate openings and several local races, including philadelphia mayor. Election day is tuesday, november 3rd. It was chilling Surveillance Video of a childs abduction. Now the woman who took that child from school and sexually assaulted her has learned her punishment with the kidnapper told the girls family before her sentencing. Plus, the search for a missing cargo ship turns tragic. Rescuers have found the body of one person onboard, but find out why they are still hopeful they could find survivors. Since 1961, Pearle Vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. That was dr. Stanley pearles vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. Today, doctors like Lisa Hamilton perform eye exams that can help detect diabetes. Because we care for you. And your eyes. This is genuine eye care, in your neighborhood. This is Pearle Vision. Were going to go back to the breaking news we told you about at the top of the hour. Take a look at this, sky force 10 is live over the southbound lanes of 95. It appears on the right side of your screen two lanes are getting by, this is approaching the Commodore Barry bridge, but on the left side you see the accident and the car fire that seems to be taken care of in one lane which is still closed and the traffic backup goes on. As you can imagine, 5 12 right you, rush hour, as people try to get over the bridge. We have not heard of injuries, but again, this is approaching the commodore bridge southbound 95. Well stay on top of the story for you. In the meantime, a woman who abducted a 5yearold girl from a Philadelphia School will spend 40 years in prison. Christina regusters was caught on Surveillance Video leading the child out of the school in january 2013. Nbc 10s doug shimell has more from inside the courtroom today. Reporter from the grainy School Security camera video, to sentencing day, prosecutors have pushed for and got a 40 years to life sentence for christina regusters. The judge understood that this is the type of case where she gets out, shell be a danger in the future. Reporter convicted of kidnapping a 5yearold girl from her school in 2013 and sexually assaulting her, regusters turned to the victim and her mother in court and said she was sorry. Shes not sorry for what she did because shes never admitted what she did and any apology she gave in the courtroom today was probably more in an attempt to save herself. Reporter also in court was attorney tom kline, who filed a civil suit against the Philadelphia School district on behalf of the victims family. Finally her admission of some culpability. She said to the judge right before she was sentenced that she does take responsibility for, quote, her part in this. Christina regusters defense attorney argued up until the end there were others responsible for the sexual assault. In center city, im doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Dorm room attacks at a local university have a suspect under arrest. John cannon is accused of criminal sexual contact and harassment of Rider University students. He is not a student at the school. Investigators say cannon entered the unlocked doors of two dorm rooms. He touched the women who were sleeping there but ran away when they woke up. Its not clear how he got inside the building. Rider university put out a statement saying it has increased Public Safety on campus and reminds the students to lock their doors. A, quote, massive but successful undertaking. Thats what u. S. Security leaders are saying about the measures taken to protect several World Leaders visiting the u. S. At the same time. That, of course, includes pope francis. The pope, the president of china, and more than 160 heads of state were all in the country at the same time within the past two weeks. Secret Service Leaders say thousands of special agents were on assignment. They worked to protect these leaders and screened more than 1 million people. All these forces working together brought about safe and successful visits to the United States by the pope and other World Leaders in a highly professional, precise, and well coordinated manner. Security leaders say theyll continue to perform evaluations on the work that was done. And despite the praise the secret service is getting for the popes visit, the agency now dealing with another scandal. A federal watch dog is reopening the probe into efforts by the secret service to discredit a congressman who was investigating the agency. The director of the secret service is accused of changing his story about when he first began looking into the background of congressman jason chaffey. Inappropriate access of information, private information, about that congressman as retaliation. Returning now to decision 2016. Hillary clinton today promised tougher gun purchase regulations if shes elected president. She vowed to end the socalled gun show loophole that allows thousands of gun sales every year with no background checks. Nbc 10 National CorrespondentSteve Handelsman has the story from washington. Reporter Hillary Clinton says tougher gun laws could help cut americas death toll from firearms, 10,000 a year. We have got to keep guns out of the hands of people who should not have them. Reporter she promises executive action to require background checks for all private sales. If 40 of guns are sold, gun shows, online sales, we need to close that loophole. Reporter she would push to allow lawsuits against gun manufacturers by victims, that congress banned in 2005. Clintons voice cracked praising moms like nicole hoffman, who pushed tougher gun laws since sandy hook, where nicoles son dylan died. And have tried to be the voices that we need to hear. Reporter the issue sets clinton apart from all republicans running and democrat bernie sanders, who has a mixed record on guns and leads in New Hampshire, where clinton was today. Hillary, if i can call you that. Or you can call me val. Reporter clinton played val the bartender on saturday night live. Val, val, i wish you could be president. Me, too reporter now shes pushing tougher gun control as a female. Clinton made sure to mention. Who could be more of an outsider than a woman president . Reporter off the email issue to gun violence and what she said she would do. Im Steve Handelsman, nbc news, washington. Carlie fiorina hit the campaign trail in New Hampshire today. She began her day with a rotary club speech where she said a Fiorina Clinton debate is what most voters would want to see. A poll found fiorina jumped to second place in New Hampshire among republicans. Shes polling second after donald trump. The house will decide who will replace john boehner as speaker later this month. Today the congressman scheduled the house election for the post on october 29th. Once the speaker is chosen, it will be up to them to set elections from majority leader on down. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Theres a live look now from boathouse row in philadelphia after several days of cloudy and rainy weather, things have really taken a turn for the better. And we could look forward to some more sunny days ahead. Yeah, we had some nasty cold, wet weather over the weekend, but at least joaquin stayed out in the ocean. Imagine how things would have been if that had come in after all of this rain and flooding that we already had. Were calming down now. The seas are calming down, the winds are calming down. Were getting more sunshine, obviously, and were going to be warming up, even from where we were today. We have some fair weather clouds out there now. Theres no rain around. 68 degrees in the northeast at 10 miles an hour. 6 degrees warmer than this time yesterday and generally in the mid 60s across much of the area. Just barely 60 in mt. Pocono. And were near 60 at the beaches, as well, and those beaches need to see the winds shift. Hasnt quite happened yet. its kind of parallel to the jersey shore, but the delaware beaches still getting hit with the northeast wind. The ocean temperature 65 degrees. We still have the Coastal Flood Advisory until 7 00 for southern portions of delaware and extreme south new jersey, generally in the back bays. Weve already seen the last of the high, high tide. Still some clouds around near the beaches, but nothing compared to whats going on to the south and to the east. Theres joaquin out in the middle of the atlantic and theres that gigantic upper air storm that helped creepua eed c disaster in South Carolina over the weekend and it continues. And the showers continue. Its nothing like the rain that fell over the weekend, but dont really get a chance to dry out when its still raining. We have temperatures tonight going down through the 50s and into the 40s. And thats going to be kind of cool for this time of the year, but with the sunshine tomorrow we start off bright and sunny, going to start warming up pretty quickly. Well into the 60s by 11 00 a. M. And by 1 00 were in the 70s, which is higher than weve been in a while. Remember last week, early last week, it was 85. Then it was barely 50 on saturday. Theres joaquin way out in the atlantic. Still a hurricane, still hanging in there. Still over unusually warm water for this time of year. 85 mile an hour maximum winds, new advisory shows the winds moving to the north northeast at 12 miles an hour. And the computer models take it all the way across the ocean as a tropical system and then it gets cooler waters as its approaching the British Isles. That should be interesting. Mostly clear and cool tonight, 49 for the low in philadelphia, 43 north and west. Then during the day tomorrow, going to be seeing a lot of sunshine