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WCAU NBC10 News At 5pm August 1, 2016

Were looking at now are pretty heavy thunderstorms and dover seeing the lighter rain down towards the camden and a little farther south and we have heavy rain even south of bethenny beach. Were looking at parts of salem and cumberland counties, cumberland mostly seeing the heavy thunderstorms and very slow movers and we could be look at localized flooding especially in the Lehigh Valleys and poconos and off to the west we have more storms around. Wondering where storm ranger 10 is, drove it in Gloucester County near glassboro and more details on this as well as a look at when the rain will come to an end. Thats all coming up. Still ahead at 5, we take you inside our newest forecasting tools for storm radar 10. Radar and wheels, it will help our weather team and bring you more accurate and reliable information. Well show you how coming up at 5 45, but right now at 5 00, protecting children from guns. Today the city of philadelphia has a new law in place. It follows a series of accidental shootings at injured or killed at least four children. Nbc 10 Investigative Reporter mitch blocker has been look into this new law and joins with us more details on that and how the city is trying to help gun owners obey the new rules. Mitch . Guys, were at Fairhill Square park in north philly where the philadelphia Sheriffs Department has just started handing out these gun locks. You can see people starting to gather the Philadelphia Sheriffs Office handing out the gun locks. The whole hope sheer that accidental shootings will be cut down and that gun owners, they will have a chance to think before they unlock their gun and discharge it. Few people note destruction an errant shot can have like dr. Amy goldberg. No matter how many years ive been doing this theres something so wrong about anybody coming in riddled with bullets. The longtime temple hospital trauma surgeon says they see roughly one gunshot victim a day here. Some are children. Being the doctor who cant save them all is something that stays with you. Having to dell their parents that their son or their daughter wont ever come home again, hearing them cry. More than 265 minors shot someone in 2015. Thats down from 6 hundred in 2010. Weve reported on an 8yearold, 9yearold and two 10yearold all shot accidentally. Together with the city councilmen the sheriff had a simple message. Got a gun, get a lock. Phillys d. A. Seth williams called for mandatory gun crime sentencing, required reporting of lost and stolen guns and background checks. All things pennsylvania has failed to pass. The nra tells us that wont the solution. Well, we have to be like the doctors here at temple and have a holistic approach. The gun locks are just that. Dr. Goldberg says she supports anything that could slow the rush of gunshot victims coming through her door. We need to be doing something more than just caring for the patients. We really want to prevent these injuries from ever occurring. And you can pick up the gun locks here at fourth and lee himpingt you wont be asked for identification and you wont be asked to prove your gun is legally registered. Live in north philly tonight, nbc 10 news. As we mentioned earlier, nbc 10 has reported on at least four accidental shootings and of injured children in the past month. The latest just last night. A 4yearold boy was taken to the hospital after shooting himself in the hand. Police are still investigating how he got that weapon. And before that, a 14yearold girl was shot in german town. It happened back on july 6th while a group of kids was playing with a gun inside a home. On june 29th the 13yearold boy was shot and killed after a group of teens found a gun inside an abandoned home. Now one of them accidentally fired the gun and the other two teens are both face charges. And on june 23rd a 4yearold was killed after shooting herself in the eye. Police say the girl found a gun in her familys closet. Her mother and mothers boyfriend are now both face charges. The mother told flames her boyfriend had the gun illegally. To decision 2016 now with less than 100 days in the election. The president ial candidates are spending a lot of time in one particular state, pennsylvania. Hillary clinton finished her tour of the keystone state over the weekend stopping in philadelphia. Hatfield, harrisburg. Johnstown, pittsburgh and youngstown. Donald trump was in scranton last week, and right now hes on his way to a rally in mechanicsburg. Nbcs katy tur is there and joins us live. Shows been following the Trump Campaign since the start. Thanks for being here. How important is pennsylvania for the Trump Campaign . What kind of resources are they putting into wing the keystone state . All right. Were waiting to get that hookup. Reporter hey, can you guys hear me . Okay. Great. Still trying to figure out how many resources hes put forward in the state but we do know pennsylvania is one of four swing states that donald trump will be focusing on for the general election. It inclusion ohio, florida and potentially north carolina. These are the states that the campaign believes they need to win in order to win the presidency. Without them right now it looks like it will be a loss for donald trump when it comes to the electoral map. Right now though hes embroiled in controversy, as you guys well know. Its pretty standard for the donald Trump Campaign, hopping from one controversy to the next. Right now the controversy surrounds his criticism of the khan family who lost their son to an ie. D. Explosion during the iraq way, came out at the Democratic National convention and criticized donald trump for the muslim ban and asked nim he even read under the constitution and under Donald Trumps presidency he would not have been allowed to serve of in the american military, donald trump coming back firing against them saying that he needs to hit back. He should be allowed to hit back if they criticize him. Today the khan family has been blanketing the airwaves giving their side of the story trying to humanize american muslims in this country and what they have done to serve of this nation. Meanwhile donald trump had no words for the khans today at his earlier rally in ohio. Well found out if he has any more words for them tonight here in pennsylvania. It looks unlikely as of now as the campaign is trying to vehemently change the subject, trying to turn things back to radical islam and what they feel is Hillary Clintons negative record when it comes to fighting terrorists, also her negative record when it comes to job creation which they say will be central to the vote here in pennsylvania. Thanks so much. She will be following the Trump Campaign through election day, and you can see her reports right near on nbc nooigs nightly news with lester holt. Thats coming up tonight at 6 30. Many republicans are stepping forward to denounce Donald Trumps comments. That includes pennsylvanias senator pat team who is in a tough reelection battle this november. Now today team said the khan family, like all americans who lose loved ones in the defense of our country deserve our gratitude and honor. Anything else is inappropriate. Toomeys opponent says those words are not enough. Until pat team pledges to oppose donald trump in november his carefully crafted statements about our nations veterans and armed forces are completely hollow, and coming up on nbc news at 5 00 well hear more from the khan family and those coming to their defense after trumps comments. Meantime, new details on a double homicide at a Montgomery County apartment complex last night. Police found the bodies of janice trunk and kevin smith inside the forest apartment gardens in ambler. Neighbors told investigators they heard about five gunshots just before midnight. So far police have not made any arrests. New taxes are sparking debate in new jersey and philadelphia today. Pennsylvanias cigarette tax jumped by a buck today pushing the total price of a pack above 7. Taxes will cost them more, nearly 5 after the city ended its 2 tax to help fund schools. The debate over a proposed gas tax hike in new jersey is heating up again this afternoon. Under the proposal, the states gas tax would jump by 23 cents a gallon, but governor Chris Christie is expected to veto that plan. Christie halted statewide transportation projects after money ran out. New jersey commuters we spoke to say enough is enough with the gridlock at the statehouse. Drove down one road and that could use some repair. I would probably tell him to resign. Thats exactly what i would say, you know, because they just keep making mistakes. The gas tax would take effect as soon as an override of the potential veto happens. The ongoing septembera slowdown is change the way Regional Rail riders pay their fare and it couple pact you get home today. Regional rail riders will have to buy tickets before boarding at any philadelphia stations from now until 6 30 tonight. Septa says they made that change because of scheduling issues when they had to sideline more than 100 rail cars with structural problems . This was just a really brutal and barbaric murder. Brutal and barbaric. Police say two former Police Officers are to blame for this womans death. What weve learned about the suspects and the victim next at 5 00. Plus, a Pennsylvania Church has its faith shaken. Tonight they are remembering one of their own killed in this historic flooding. And a Community Comes together. How they are trying to comfort the owners of this south Jersey Business destroyed by fire. Thats all coming up news at nbc 10 news at 5 00. Accused of murder. Tonight we have learned new details about the suspects and the woman who was killed. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton has been looking into this for us. Shes joining us now live with the latest. Monique . Reporter homicide investigators are calling this one of the most barbaric and brutal murder cases they have ever seen. This afternoon we talked to a neighbor of the victim and the suspect, her boyfriend. She called me the night before. Reporter but when the neighbor went over to check on Joyce Quaweay no one answered the door and the woman believed her fellow israelite and friend had been trying to break up with aaron wright for some time but police say quaweay killed her before she got. In the Israelite Community we represent our our men represent our women. We love who we are, and we dont our men dont beat on us. Reporter homicide investigators paint a different picture. They also tell us the couples two children plus wrights schoolaged children were inside when quaweay was killed. The boyfriend had stretched her of her clothes, handcuffed her to a weight bench and used a baton to beat her throughout the body. The friend was helping position the female. Reporter Police Identified that friend an upstairs neighbor as marquis robinson, a Temple Police officer. His job ended when he was charged with murder on friday. As for aaron wright, Temple University tells us he used to be a Police Officer there, but he hadnt been on the force since 2012. We are the chosen people of israel. What allegedly happened here inside leaves the friend stunned. We represent, you know, love and community and consciousness to our sisters and brothers. We dont represent our kings killing our queens. Reporter yasharala also tells us the victim leaves behind a 2yearold girl and 10monthold boy. Just a short time ago weave learned relatives are trying to obtain custody of those two young children. Outside police headquarters, Monique Braxton, nbc so news. The cleanup continues today in parts of maryland slammed by flash flooding over the weekend. Look at this scene right here. Two people drowned in Ellicott City after Rushing Water swept their cars away. Officials are not sure when residents can return. Oh, my god people caught by surprise desperately clung to their cars as the water rushed through the center of town. First responders, even witnesses rescued more than 100 people. They formed a human chain right here to save this woman trapped in her car now one. People killed in the flooding is from pennsylvania. 35yearold Jessica Watsula of lebanon died when her car got swept away by floodwaters. Her pastor tells us she leaves behind a 10yearold daughter. She lived for her daughter and her daughter was very, very close to her mother. The reference said watsula works volunteered in the church nursery, was visiting Ellicott City with her family. Just devastating floods there. Lets turn to first alert meteorologist sheena par convenient with your neighborhood forecast. Sheena youre tracking some rain. Yeah, we have some heavy thunderstorms around the area right now. Overcast skies through most of the area. Center city seeing the overcast skies, but we have the heavy rain south of philadelphia. Through new jersey and delaware, heavy thunderstorms and quite a bit of lightning. These are slow movers. The rest area mostly just seeing the cloud cover, but we are continuing to track those storms, and if youve ever noticed the white sweeping radar that helps us see the storm activity but its also stationary. We cant most radars around. Im sure you probably assumed that and because of that to fill in the gaps and give us a better look and to give you a better look of what to expect outside we now have storm ranger 10. This is a mobile radar, so now when you see the red sweeping radar, that is our mobile radar. It has wheels on it. Its on a giant truck. Im sure youll see it later on in the newscast. But this particular vehicle has a radar on it. We can drive it anywhere we want any time we want and in any weather condition, and what it does when i tell you, it fills in the gap. It sees what the stationary radar has missed, for example, its also closer to the ground in some cases, we can see what precip is actually hitting the ground and where are you such as freezing rain or snow or rain, so, again, in the Winter Weather, just remember this. You dont want to miss storm ranger ten. Able to give you a more specific look of whats happening and a more accurate forecast and with our neighborhood weather can drive it anywhere as well as the seven day behind the bottom of the screen. A lot of new tools and look at a lot of thunderstorm activity towards kent county and smyrna seeing very heavy rain. A lot of lightning here going on crossing the delaware bay at the moment. Delaware has been seeing some of the heaviest rain so far. Very slow moving. We could certainly be seeing localized flooding maybe around route 13 and near harrington as well. These are slow moving showers and thunderstorms and the red is showing you the heavier rain and there you see the red sweep going by. That storm ranger 10, its right in Gloucester County and near glassboro and where we drove it to today. We can move it anywhere we want so can you have a better idea of thunderstorms. Now a look at Cumberland County and heavy rain and commercial as well. The heaviest of all that lightning and shower activity. Thats a little bit offshore in the delaware barracks but these are slow movers, like i mentioned, so we could be dealing with a little bit of localized flooding. Now were looking a little farther off to the west and right near the poconos thunderstorms moving in. Very slowly we could be seeing a flooding threat through the lehigh vale and poconos and with any late night showers that develop tonight. Some of the pennsylvania suburbs like montgomery and bucks county through the Lehigh Valley and poconos and mercer county, Flash Flood Watch still because the ground is very saturated and we could see heavy showers and thunderstorms which could lead to localized flash flooding. Heres future weather. By about 10 00 tonight we could be seeing scattered showers or storms through the area but best chance could be up neither poconos and Lehigh Valley so well be watching that very closely. Later on tonight we could see some thundershowers showers overnight and tomorrow were not going to be out of this pattern just yet. Cooler with an onshore wind and the clouds will still be with us tomorrow and see scattered showers and hold on to the umbrella tomorrow afternoon. Its mostly going to be lighter rainfall and that would be even throughout the afternoon and evening. Finally though we see things starting to clear up as we go into wednesday so wednesday well see more in the way of sunshine and our weather pattern gets quiet from wednesday through the end of the week. Temperatures right now. Were only in the mid to upper 70s because of the cloud cover and our wind direction is 76 and turnersville 77 and Hamilton Township is coming n at 79, so as we go through tomorrow, scattered showers around. Wednesday and thursday we dry up. Mid80s, if youre in the pennsylvania suburbs mid80s as we go through wednesday and thursday and after tomorrows rain and even through the Lehigh Valley much cooler temperatures. Well take a look at new jersey and delaware and your tenday forecast coming up. A unique display of the Olympic Rings caught the attention of onlookers today in brazil. The rings, take a look closely. Made up from ropes hanging over the bridge and got mad cheers from the crowd. Organizers hope to break the Guinness World record for the largest formation of its kind. Opening ceremonies beginning friday night right here hon nbc 10 and all through the olympics well be introducing you to local athletes who are going for gold. One of them

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