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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am October 8, 2015

Fear there are more to come. The budget battle is having a noticeable impact on one particular school in philadelphia. This school, something very obvious is missing here, as you can see, all because of the budget impasse. Well have that story coming up in the next half hour. Meanwhile, skyforce 10 was over this crash on i95 in bucks county that blocks traffic for more than an hour this morning. Two cars collided in the northbound lanes between academy and wood haven roads around bensalem at 6 45. Were trying to find out if anyone was hurt in that crash. Our region is enjoying sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s. Tomorrow it will be warmer but rain and cooler conditions are coming. Brittney shipp is here with our forecast, good morning, brittney. Good morning, vai. Well have one more nice day. Temperatures will stay in the 70s but a cold front will come in, im also tracking showers but right now our temperatures are at 67 degrees in philadelphia. Humidsy is 63 . Wind speeds about seven Miles Per Hour and across the region low 60s. In the poconos 66 degrees. Temperatures closer to the shore almost at 70 so we have a big drop in our temperatures coming. Our average is 70 for this time of the year. Today well stay in the low 70s. Well climb well above average tomorrow then we have the big drop by the time the weekend starts so keep this that in mind. Temperatures will drop down into the mid60s. City planner shows that as we go into the rest of today we stay into the low 60s. A mild evening ahead. Coming up, i am tracking how much cooler well get as we push into the weekend, whats in store on saturday and sunday. Thats in my full forecast. See you then, brittney. Fire investigators are looking into a massive warehouse fire in philadelphia. The warehouse is near 70th street and the cobbs creek parkway and there are lots of homes and business nearby that warehouse. This is what it looks like this morning. A burned out hole with nothing but charred rafters and debris left behind. Skyforce 10 over this building earlier today. This is what the fire looked like last night. Raging out of control around 9 00. Crews were there all night just to make sure nothing flared up again. This video was sent to us by ans 10 viewer, this is just after firefighters got there and jake caught the hugh flames, fire crews working to get the trucks as close to the building as they could and breaking down a fence in order do that. Neighbors told us they could not avoid all the motion. I looked around and there was billows of smoke coming from over on this direction. So of course i wanted to know what was happening. Its pretty bad. Officials tell us there that no company was using the warehouse but there might have been squatter inside. The Ridley Township Recreation Department sent us these pictures in hopes of finding who wrecked their dugouts. If you happen to know who may be responsible, youre asked to call ridley township police. Philadelphia police honored one of their fallen. The department unveiled a hero plaque yesterday commemorating Sergeant Robert wilson, iii. Wilson was killed in the line of duty this past march. After his death, wilson was awarded the departments highest honors, the medal of honor and the medal of valor. Wilson walked into a became the stop store in north philadelphia to buy a game for his sons birthday and while he was there two brothers tried to rob the store. Officer wilson separated himself from the employees and the customers during a shootout with the men. Both are now charged with wilsons murder. An officer who graduated with wilson spoke directly to his family at the plaque dedication. Your grandson will be legend. Ill make sure no one forgets his name and im sure everybody in the 22nd, the double deuce, is proud to have worked with that man. Game stop sponsored wilsons hero plaque. Two men could face life in prison for kidnapping and torture ago woman in a botched jewelry heist in philadelphia. The two men pleaded guilty yesterday on the second day of the testimony in their trial. In april, they kidnapped a woman in a parking garage and they beat and tortured her, demanding codes of the safe at the Jewelry Store where she worked. The two men will be sentenced in january. A defense attorney said his client had the victim in mind when he chose to admit his guilt. One of the major consideration was that this woman would have to testify to and recount it all again and my client recognized that he didnt want to put her through that trauma yet again. A third suspect pleaded guilty earlier in the case. He comes up for sentencing next month. Allentown city council haas passed an antipay to play ordnance amid an fbi probe into city contracting. That Means Campaign contributors cant receive nobid contracts and city Financial Assistance worth more than 2,500. It applies to anyone contributing more than 250 a year to an elected city official or candidate. It also applies to donors family, Business Associates and subcontractors. Fbi agents raided city hall back in july. They took computers and cell phones and requested hundreds of documents. And from our jersey shore bureau, the army corps of engineers is launching a search to find this house. Storms caused the house to collapse and pieces of it are lodged in grassy sound channel, a popular spot for fishing and crabbing. The coast guard is urging boaters to be very care informal this area. There could be debris underbeneath the water so ensuring youre going at a safe speed and operating your vessel properly is important. The new Jersey Department of Environmental Protection says its working to have whats left of the house removed from the water. The owner tells us hes trying to salvage whatever he can. And here she is, and youre paying for it. Atlantic city taxpayers are on the hook for 65,000 in security costs for this years miss America Pageant parade. The city was forced to pick up the tab after organizers claimed they couldnt pay. The press of Atlantic City was able to get that through an open records request. Its not the first time the Miss America Organization couldnt pay up. In 2013 it was in a nearly 900,000 deficit. A big announcement and a big decision from Hillary Clinton. The former secretary of state is making a break from president obama. Well tell you about the new stance thats putting her at odds with the current commanderinchief. And a joke lands another president ial candidate in hot water. Well tell you what he said and who he upset coming up. Im tracking another nice day as we head into tomorrow. Thats when the changes will start. Im also tracking rain and cooler temperatures for your weekend. Thats coming up in my full forecast. Your immune system doesnt work the way it did when rock was young. 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Its a move critics are calling a major flipflop. Nbcs Andrea Mitchell has more on what it all means. Reporter with the nomination in the balance, whats happened to the team of rivals . Barack obamas former secretary of state has now broken with her former boss, opposing his high priority trade treaty with asia, even before she had read it, telling Judy Woodruff of pbs what i know about it as of today i am not in favor of what i have learned about it. I dont have the text. We dont yet have all the details. I dont believe its going to meet the high bar i have set. Reporter republicans immediately cried flipflop. As secretary, clinton called the treaty the Gold Standard in trade agreements, although before the details were negotiated. The move neutralizes bernie sanders, a locktime treaty opponent. Im glad she reached the conclusion. This is a conclusion that i reached from day one. And it puts joe biden on the spot. If he runs he has to choose between organized labor and the president. The trade decision is clintons most dramatic break from obama, coming out against the Keystone Pipeline going far beyond the president on gun laws and criticizing the white house for deporting so many undocumented immigrants. As joe biden weighs weather to run. Theres new criticism of a draft biden ad set to run next week. By focusing on my sons, i found my redemption. Reporter former advisor David Axelrod on twitter. Am i alone in finding this ad taste lest . Its powerful but explo i taive the. Cant believe hed approve. The organizer pushed back with kate snow. I worked for beau for a long time and i never would have approved an ad that i thought was problematic. With the political world waiting for his decision the Vice President with labor leaders wednesday joked about not overstaying his welcome since the president was up next. If i dont move ill be demoted to secretary of state or Something Like that. [ laughter ] thats a joke. That was nbcs Andrea Mitchell reporting. A joke at a Campaign Event for republican president ial candidate john kasich lands him in hot water. When a student raised her hand to ask the Ohio Governor a question at the university of richmond monday, kasich responded with a statement referencing taylor swift. The 18yearold says the response was insulting. Take a look. I dont have any tickets for, you know, taylor swift or anything or, you know, or go ahead, yes, i know, youre just so excited, yes. A staff writer with the College Newspaper fired back with a serious question about undocumented immigrants, kasichs campaign has not addressed the students concerns. Fellow republican candidate new Jersey Governor Chris Christie is campaigning in new hampshire. He held a town hall in manchester this morning. Christie cover misdemeanor topics, including the need for alternative Energy Sources to protect the environment and also the need for aggressive Mental Health treatment to prevent tragedies like the mass shooting in oregon. Jeb bush the pitching his campaign in iowa this morning. The republican candidate spoke before the Greater Des Moines Partnership Iowa Caucus Consortium candidate forum. Thats a mouthful. Happening today in washington in the next hour, House Republicans will vote behind closed doors for their nominee to succeed john baber as speaker of the house. Current House Speaker current House Majority leader Kevin Mccarthy of california is the frontrunner, but Utahs Jason Chaffetz and Daniel Webster of florida are challenging him. The full house, including democrats, will vote on a new speaker on october 29. We are going to see another nice day with temperatures staying in the 70s. A little above average and slightly cooler than what we saw yesterday. One more nice day, nice and dry throughout the day, mostly sunny skies, a few clouds. I am tracking rain. Im also tracking a cold front that will help cool us down as we get closer to the weekend. A live look outside right now. Barely any clouds over the philadelphia skyline. Our temperatures are at 67 degrees right now. Wind speeds out of the east at seven Miles Per Hour. Humidity is at a comfortable level so its a beautiful fall day for us. Across the region, lots of sunshine in allentown, 66. Atlantic city, a few more clouds 68. Right now temperatures throughout the rest of the region at 66 in reading, 68 in coatesville, 66 in pottstown. 68 in wilmington. 68 in northeast philly, 66 in trenton and closer to the mid60s for mount holly. Along the shoreline, a bit on the cooler side. So a chilly start there but our 24 hour temperature change map shows were seeing similar conditions to what we saw yesterday. Its warmer if youre closer to millville and dover and our satellite shows us that. Really a Beautiful Day on tap but let me widen out the picture. Well fly you back to green bay and the great lakes. This is where our chance of rain will come from as we head into friday so not friday morning but closer to friday evening. It wont a whole lot of rainfall. Youll notice most locations stay under an inch so half an inch closer to allentown, same thing in the poconos. 6 in philadelphia. Maybe three quarters of an inch if you live closer to Atlantic City. Theres a system there. It will move closer as we go into the afternoon. Closer to 4 00 p. M. Is when the heaviest rain will start near the poconos and well see this move through the entire area. There will be periods of moderate downpours but we expect to see light rain associated with the system that will move through. Closer to 11 00 p. M. , thats when were done. Youll notice the moisture offshore and we see clearing as we head into saturday. We stay dry into sunday which is nice. But there is a cold front associated with all that rain and thats going to drop our temperatures into the mid60s as we head into saturday and into sunday but for today we are still going to stay nice and mild. Temperatures mainly in the 70s. Your sevenday forecast shows we jump up a bit as we head into friday but thats before the cold front and all the rain gets here and then we start to see a big drop in our temperatures, close to 15 degrees heading into the weekend. A cool start to the weekend by sunday with the eagles game, 69 degrees and nice heading into next week were back to the 70s with another chance of showers on tuesday. Thank you, brittney. An event this weekend will honor several local civil rights champions. The philadelphia naacp will hold its 2015 awards gala friday. Heres full disclosure, the event is sponsored by comcast, the Parent Company of nbc 10. Here to tell us more the president of the fill fill ch philadelphia chapter of naacp rodney mohammed. You talked to talk about the passing of jerry. Tell us about fridays gala and why this is so important to the work of the nbc. Its an annual tradition of the naacp. It started again and really revived by a former president who just passed, jerry mondesire. I was newly elected president in 2014 and so were happy to announce that the awards gala is on again and our special honoree this year is dick gregory, comedian, author, lecturer, civil rights, human rights activist. And were recognizing others in the community doing good work. Tell us about the others. We know the work dick gregory has done for years. Tell us about the others youll be honoring. Were we have our judge at n the juvenile system Kevin Dockerty who i believe is running for the supreme court. He is. We have a young man named anton more down in south philadelphia, point breeze, been doing incredible work against violence in the community and doing things for those who are disadvantaged and underserved. We have suleiman rahman, a sharp young businessman. Paula peeples who is the state chair for Reverend Al Sharptons National Action Network will be honored and, of course, the president of philadelphia black clergy, terence griffin. So we have others but thats a lineup wright there. Now moving forward, what are the issues and the topics that the philadelphia naacp will be focusing on in the year ahead . One of the things we looked at when i first became president was reconstruction. Reconstruction was a postslavery period where people of color, primarily black people, suffer from three things and one was joblessness, the other was illiteracy and the other was poor health. These are targeted areas for us. One of the things you can expect in 2016 coming is a very aggressive Voter Education program. Well be working that the aggressively. We feel the cornerstone of a democracy is an enlightened mind and a senseless vote is still no vote so we want to put some sense and intelligence behind our votes but we want Voter Participation and we feel that the only way to get it is through education. Once again, the philadelphia naacp 2015 annual awards gala is tomorrow night at First District plaza. The reception begins at 5 30. Hararry hairston will be the master of ceremonies. Weve posted a link on nbc10. Com. Thank you mr. Muhammad for coming in today. Appreciate it. Another possible complication from sun exposure. See how soaking in rays doesnt just mean an increased risk of skin cancer. It may also affect when people contract another disease. Well explain that straight ahead. And an ominous potential complication from weight loss surgery. Well tell you what researchers found patients were more likely to do within three years of the procedure. 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