Bus but no one was injured. Mess left behind by todays windy weather. Crews hard at work after several trees toppled over. This one in stafford township fell on power lines. Theres still thousands of Power Outages in our area. Take a look at this. The wind caused two townhomes under construction to collapse in warrington. This is a picture of the homes. Luckily no one was hurt there but those powerful winds created problems all over the region. But it was those downed trees that caused the most problems today. It was a busy day for tree crews and a frustrating one for some car owners. Im like, for real . Why my car . His charger is likely totally loss. Strong winds toppled a tree on cre sham road hes thankful it wasnt worse. My son could have been in there that day. All day weve seen it happen in norristown. Crashing to the road. In elkins park a tree block part of new second street. Plea mouth meeting cars forced to detour. In philadelphias an dorrar section. Im hoping i can get out of here in the next 45 minutes instead of being backed up wall to wall with detour. He had to wait after a tree slammed on top of a box truck bringing down power lines with it. That driver is okay but it shut down this below zero rode for good risen. The cop told him and ran into the tree. And the wind still going strong tonight. Look for yourself the flags atap the aramark building. That wind making it feel much colder. Krystal klei, whats instore for us tonight. The winds are starting to die down. Youve got to deal with the windy conditions as we speak and at least for the next several hours. Heres the current wind gusts that were dealing with now. Earlier this afternoon we had gusts above 50mileperhour. This is an improvement but still windy. 50 in philadelphia, wilmington at 32. I can tell you around 11 00 a. M. We were up to the low 50s there. 31 mile per hour in coatesville and 30 for wildwood. We are starting to see these winds weaken and they will really start to drop off as we go overnight. Now you see the difference here by 15 to 20 mile per hour gusts instead of 50 and above. Into your Tuesday Morning, now were looking at spots only around five to 15 miles an hour. Things get a lot better as we go into tuesday, but we are feeling much colder than we truly are because of these winds. The whole day weve only felt like we were in the 20s to low 30s. Were at 27 the feels like in philadelphia. Mt. Holly at 28 and lancaster at 25. Dover also feeling like 28 degrees. Coming up well talking about the temperatures overnight tonight and well time out your valentines day. If you want warmer air, well show you the weekend forecast that looks a lot better than these numbers. Watch your money. A group of thieves is taking cash right from peoples Bank Accounts and people still havent figured out how. Deanna durante is live in bucks county where they managed to steal tens of thousands of dollars, deanna. They have and for weeks police have been trying to identify these men. They believe five men struck at one bank using cloned atm cards. Somehow getting access to the victims personal information and emptying out accounts in the middle of the night. They dont even try to hide their faces. One by one police say these men showed up here at the first bank in the middle of the night. They may have been all together or maybe they took turns. Sometimes they checked the account balance. If the card was rejected, lowering the amount until they got the money they want. Taking out increments of two, or three until they got to 17,000. It wasnt until victims began noticing they were missing money they called police. 12 have come forward so far and all of them share very little in common. Each had their atm cards and theyve not given personal identification numbers out to anyone. The cards were compromised is that theyre all getting some federal benefits. They come from pittsburgh, scranton and philadelphia. They all get Social Security checks and thats part of the investigation. Police say a major factor is putting names to these faces. We dont know if these guys are local. We dont know where theyre from. Theyre taking advantage of folks its a lot of money 17,000 with a bunch of victims out there and im sure thats going to continue. Reporter police say they fear that the victim list will climb because they say some of the withdraws were very small amounts of money, cash that victims may not yet know is gone. So if you know who those guys are, you are asked to call police. Reporting live in ben salem township, deanna durante, nbc10 news. Tonight in Philadelphia Police are trying to figure out who knock the over ten headstones at a cemetery. It happened at the holey redeemer cemetery. They found the damage when they were walking by on sunday morning. They all got together and reset the stones themselves. None of them were damaged. Tonight a final farewell for a Community Activist who is found shot to death inside her home. Winnie harris was laid to rest this morning at the Christ Community church in western philadelphia. Friends and family gathered to remember her life. The 65yearold was the acting executive director of University City green if urban gardening nonprofit. There is a 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. A man is hospitalized after he was hit by a bullet that came through the window of a north philadelphia home. The victim was in his apartment on popular street watching tv when he was hit. Police say someone opened fire from last night. Several people in the apartment were arguing right before the shooting. The victim is in critical condition. New details on that van dix spree that forced half of the Pennsylvania StateCapitol Building to shut down. Ryan stump got into the building yesterday morning got a fire extinguisher and started spraying it. Officers chased him down and arrested him. Investigators say four floors on the senate side were vandalized. Hes now facing several charges including felony burglary and trespassing. The strouzberg Area Association has been on strike for a week. Students returned to the classroom today. No word when contract talks will resume. Septa is expanding his key card Program Starting today. Riders can find kiosks for the key card along the broad street line, the market frankfurt line as well as major bus route. We found this key os being up and running this morning at the walnut low customer location. Septas reloadable key cards will eventually replace tokens, magnetic stripped passes and paper transfers. A wall of water is threatening hundreds of thousands of people in california. Those people were evacuated. If a crews found a whole in part of this massive dam but now officials are hoping theyve avoid the worst case scenario. Plus put down that pill bottle. What doctors say you should try first if youre suffering from lower back pain. Plus, the price of prescriptions. They can be a burden for many families. It was expensive, but you do what you do. Youre vulnerable. But are companies keeping those prices too high. Investigators uncover a practice that patients need to know about. Coming up all new on nbc10 news at five. Weve been telling you about this wind, the scene from sku l skyforce10. The owners were not hurt. We see damage like this across the area because of the high wind. Well have an update on your most accurate neighborhood forecast next at five. New tt of your prescriptions. They were expensive, but you do what it takes. Youre vulnerable. The nbc10 investigators uncover a tactic that may be keeping drug prices too high. These are real harmed that patients are suffering every single day. Industry watch dogs call that tactic product hopping. It can be subtle changes in most of your common drugs. Investigative reporter George Spencer tells us what patients need to know about. He just started he was slipping. Reporter the memory loss in her husband bob started slowly as an athlete who suffered head injuries, he began forgetting the basics. Within two years of the first symptoms, this entrepreneur who coowns a Senior Care Service in collingswood had become a caregiver herself. She was eager when doctors recommended the drug nemendia. I remember thinking ill do whatever it takes. Reporter whatever it takes ended up costing between 3 and 400 a month out of pocket and even as generic drugs similar to nemendia came out wrights husband kept taking the name brand. In 2015 a new york appellate court found behind the scenes the makers of nemendia engaged in socalled product hopping, pushing families like wrights to keep paying those brand name prices longer than they had to. Says the tactics started raising eyebrows in just the past five or six years. A price that goes up a lot gets a lot of attention. What we dont notice is what the price stays high and doesnt come high. Stays high longer than it has to. The federal trade commission describes product hopping as a Brand Name Company trying to obstruct generic competitors and preserve monopoly prices by making modest reformulations that offer little or no therapeutic advantages. Those reformulations could be as minor as switching a twice a day drug into a single pill that you break in half. Product hopping does not prevent a generic from making a drug. Substituting a generic for a brand name because the two are not technically equivalent. You switched the form from capsule to tablet, if you switch the dosage by just a little bit no longer is it the same. So they cant be substituted. Patent holder keep your ma nolly. And because youre region is a pharmaceutical hub, philadelphias Third Circuit has become ground zero for testing the product hopping tactic in court. Two of the five big cases were filed here way third files in delaware. You call this innovation. Right. I call it innovation because i think thats what it is. George gordon has advised Drug Companies on this issue. He believes its dangerous for judges not doctors to decide when a drug change is big enough as even small changes can make life much easier for a patient. I dont know what it means to say technically little or no benefit and who gets to make that decision. Reporter generics do compete. Fda records show in 2015 about 15 new generic drugs were approved for every one brand name. The risk with overzealous enforcement and attack on whats been called product hopping is the fact you increase the cost of innovation. Outline what theyre going to give you. Reporter critics say the impact on wright and their patients is pronounced because their knowledge of drug options and pricing is limited. A lot of people dont know and im embarrassed to say i shouldve known. I shouldve done more research. Wright is confidence many of her clients are in the same boat. For the investigators, George Spencer nbc10 news. Now watch dogs and drug Company Advocates alike say the single most important thing patients can do is speak to their doctor and pharmacist about generic options. The company which currently holds the amended drug patent never responded to our multiple requests for a comment. Back pain sufferers listen up. New guidelines have been released for treatment options. The American College of physicians says medication should not be the first option for easing lower back pain. The new guidelines suggest therapies such as exercise, heat therapy, massage, acupuncture or spinal manipulation for treatment. One of the therapies weve been recommending have been reviewed and theres more evidence for what has been considered alternative therapy that should now be more part of the mainstream. Experts say opioids should only be used as a last option when other methods have failed. If drug therapy is needed, certain over the counter medicines work better than others. All the details tonight on nbc10 nightly news. No plow operators are working overtime after a massive snowstorm brought much of the state of maine to a standstill. The National Weather service says parts of the states could get as much as two feet of snow before the storm moves out to sea. Here at home it was the wind everybody was talking about. You can really hear it in center city today. The Tall Buildings created a wind tunnel for people walking here at 19th and market streets and that wind will start to die down as we go through the night. Lets see how that will effect your neighborhood forecast. Krystal klei whos also tracking a bit of a warmup. Temperatures will be better tomorrow and the winds will be lower which is a much better forecast. Heres a live look outside the nbc10 studios. Its not a constant flapping around because the winds are already starting to die down as we speak. Take a look. These are your current wind gusts. Some areas like the Philadelphia Airport still up to 30mileperhour gusts. You can tell because you go north areas like allentown not reporting gusts any more. Were at 31 in coatesville and wilmington in 32 so still windy out there but not nearly as windy as it was a few hours ago. Temperatures were certainly effected today. We had that cool air that lingered and on top of that it felt even colder because of the winds. Philadelphia neighborhoods were at 39 degrees and 38 in center city. 38 as well at the airport. Officially we hit a high of 42 degrees. And 38 degrees in parkwood. Its cold out there and its going to continue dropping off overnight. The good news is the winds weaken overnight. You wont have to too as much worry about that wind chill. In parts of berks county. About the same. Reading is one of the areas that saw the highest wind gusts report, 63 Miles Per Hour earlier today. 33 near freezing in kutztown. 34 in allentown and right at freezing for walnutport 32 degrees. Radar and satellite, not a lot to talk about in our area, no rain or snow. Thats all well off to the northeast of us and were seeing the winds as a result of that storm system thats just pummelling the rest of new england yesterday we saw the rain in the beginning of this system but it wasnt cold enough here for us to be talking any snow. Our neighborhood temperatures for tomorrow our actually looking very good. 46 degrees in fairmount, this is only a little bit above average so its a pretty typical february day. 44 in slankzville, Lehigh Valley to berks county, same deal in those low mid40s. Allentown is at 42. Nice mix of clouds and sun out there. In new jersey robbin vilz 42, voorhees 47, mid40s along the jersey shore and upper 40s for delaware. Mix and cloud of suns as we move along through the day. For tomorrow, youre trying to get in maybe an early breakfast, 6 00 a. M. , 30 degrees will be your temperature. Chilly start to the day. Well see some around noon, 39 degrees your temperature. Well hit that high as you saw in the mid40s forred in. And if you have dinner plans, were still dry. The winds are lighter so ladies you can do up the hair. Your ten day on ten. Its windy and then quite gusty through thursday with a little dip in your temperatures. We promised the warmer temps and there they are. Saturday, sunday into the 60s, upper 50s through to next monday. Thank you for that. Now to breaking news were following. This is a live look at skyforce10. A house fire in frankfurt section. It looks to be a firefighter there right in front of that home the 5,200 block of akron street and you can see at least one fire enjoint scene. At least one person is hurt. Well keep our eye on this scene and keep you updated as we get more information. Small business, big rewards. How one community could bring home half a Million Dollars just for helping its local stores. Thats still ahead. All new at five. Week four of president trumps presidency and another world leader visits the white house. President trump welcomed canadian prime minister. The two leaders reaffirmed the friendly relationship between the u. S. And canada. They also took part in a round table talk about women in the workplace with Business Leaders representing first countries. Vaufrp was part of that as well. You need to make it easier for william to manage the demands of having both a job and a family. We also need to make it easier for Women Entrepreneurs to get access to capital. Up next israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to visit the white house on wednesday. Nbc10 in old city for the abe ham lincoln parade. Where a ceremony honored the countrys 16th president , sunday, by the way, was lincolns birthday. We want to tell you about an employee at a chick fee lay. He was a dining room host at the restaurant. He had such an impact on customers that they raised 1,800 for him and surprised him with a party. He was wearing a special shoe that was wornout. She learned he had diabetes and couldnt afford to replace that special shoe. So kind of the community to come together then. Yeah. Parents of a Philadelphia School are worried their childrens education is being left to chance. Next at five. The change that will effect dozens of kindergartners in one philadelphia neighborhood. Plus were getting a closer look at some of the wind damage across the region today. Look at this. New details from the owner of this crushed car. Thats next at five. Together nbc10 responds coast to coast recovered 10 million for you. And were not stopping there. Got a problem, every email, every call, we respond. Always wins. Especially in my business. With slow internet from the phone company, you cant keep up. Youre stuck, watching spinning wheels and progress bars until someone else scoops your story. Switch to comcast business. With highspeed internet up to 10 gigabits per second. You wouldnt pick a slow race car. Then why settle for slow internet . Comcast business. Built for speed. Built for business. Take a look at conditions in Sussex County delaware, the wind was kicking up flags in lewes. Oh, my goodness. A lot of people will come home from work tonight looking for their trash cans because this was like a scene all over the area. This is ridge avenue. I know personally i had to run after my trash cans this morning. Our first alert continues now with south jersey cydney long she is live in west deptford where one homeowner n