The polls opened at 7 00 theres been a steady flow all across the city with Chestnut Hill and mount airy seeing more people. Is philadelphiaens are selecting their 99th mayor. Here at society hill she was greeted by former d. A. And former democratic candidate for mayor lynn abraham. Murraybailey says she has no regrets running in a democratcontrolled city. Its been a great week. Weve gotten to see so many voters in the last stretch and really encouraging things to say and people want to see Something Different in philadelphia and they know thats what i bring. Shes running on a business refo reform in just a couple minutes jim kenny will be arriving here. Hes endorse bid many labor unions and africanamerican political leaders. As soon as he arrives we hope to talk to him live about what hell do for the rest of this day. He told us hes not taking anything for granted. Live now in old city, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Volunteers are at every polling location in philadelphia to answer any questions voters may have and also address any concerns. And there are three yes or no ballot questions in philadelphia. The first involves an amendment to create the citys office of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender affairs. The second wants to create a department of planning and development and the final question asks voters to approve or reject the citys plan to borrow nearly 156 million to use on projects like improving streets sanitation and parks. In the garden state, voters will choose a new General Assembly. All 80 seats are up for grabs. Right now democrats control the chamber and experts expect them hold on. New jersey voters will also have their say in several county races. We just told you jim kenny voting at his polling place. He is the democratic mayoral candidate. Hes with Monique Braxton now. Monique . Thanks, chris. How are you doing . Its a beautiful day. Everyone should get out and vote. Reporter everyone feels like you are the frontrunner but you dont take anything for granted . Dont count your chickens before they hatch. People have to respect the sacrifices that people made in the 1960s to be beaten and water cannoned and dogged sicced on them and killed in order for the right to vote. If we dont come out and respect their efforts, were dishonoring their memory. Reporter you promised to expand the port as far as jobs are concerned, youre pushing universal prek. What else is important to you that should entice people to come out and participate in the voting process. We have many people incarcerated in our city are coming back to us everyday and we need to make sure youre ready for them psychologically and with job training and opportunities and take away the sigma they have and make them productive citizens and if we can do that, we can change the poverty issue in our city, educate our young kids, take care of our old folks and make sure people who went wayward can come back. Reporter how do you plan to spend the rest of the day . Seeing people, saying hello and thanking people for their hard work during the course of the campaign. Reporter no stops at relish . Well im getting chicken up at relish, trust me. Reporter and cookies at Fourth Street deli . I dont know if ill get there but im getting to relish for sure. Reporter good luck to you today. Appreciate it. Take care, byebye. Reporter the councilman is going in to vote. No doubt hes going to vote for himself and he hopes to become the 99th mayor of philadelphia. Were going to continue to cover this race throughout the day and have the developments in our evening newscast. Ill be back in 30 minutes with the latest from the Murray Bailey and kenny race. Back to you, chris. Jim kenny hopes to be relishing a victory later tonight. He has the numbers advantage with democrats outnumbering republicans 71 in philadelphia. Heres the polling hours in state to state. In new jersey you can vote from 6 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. In pennsylvania and delaware you have till 8 00 p. M. For a list of all locations, go to the nbc 10 news app or nbc10. Com. Voter turnout is notoriously low in offyear elections like this one. No president ial contest. But the committee of 70 has answers for many of the excuses people will use for not vogt. For example, many people think they cant vote if they dont a photo i. D. But the committee of 70 says thats no excuse. You dont need one of those unless its your first time to vote and even then youll be given a provisional ballot until everything is sorted out. Another thing cited is people dont know where their location. Is thats a lame excuse according to the committee of 70. They say ask your county office or google it. And for answers to more common excuses for not voting, go to nbc10. Com or check the nbc 10 mobile app, there youll find full election day coverage, including help in finding your polling place and once the polls close, well have those Election Results for you throughout the evening well refresh those every time new results come in. And you cannot use the weather as an excuse not to vote. You couldnt ask for better conditions in early november. Were headed for the 70s today. First alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here with the forecast. Glenn . Chris, its a spectacular day throughout from the shore, thats cape may, all the way up to the poconos. Nothing but sunshine and temperatures are going up as a result. We dont any clouds today. We had a lot of them yesterday. This is what well be watching over the next couple days. Might start creeping to the north but it will take quite a while for that to happen and its not happening today or tonight. Were up to 65 in philadelphia. Thats as warm as its been the last two days. The average High Temperature is only 61 so were already above that at 11 00 a. M. And some other spots closer to 70 already. Not much of a wind today and, of course, with all that sunshine, the temperatures go into the 70s and tonight we cool off quickly with clear skies and light winds, back down into the 40s by tomorrow morning and then the sun comes out and its back into the 70s again tomorrow. Well see how long this incredible weather lasts with the sevenday in a few minutes. Lets hope it lasts right up until next spring. That would be great. Not likely. Look at this. Roads are back to normal in south philadelphia after a broken fire hydrant sent water gushing into the street there. Skyforce 10 flew over the street at 25th street. Bad timing for the morning commute. This happened around 6 30 slowing people down. You can see drivers moving slowly through that standing water there. Jurors will hear closing arguments in the case of shaka fattah, jr. Hes finished questioning his final witness now and some exhibits are being presented into evidence for the jury to consider. Then he and the prosecutors will give their closing arguments. Fattah, jr. , is accused of defrauding several bank, the irs and the School District of philadelphia out of hundreds of thousands of dollars fattah, jr. , is the son of chaka fattah who is in the courtroom to support his son. The congressman is married to renee chenaultfattah. Scary moments caught on camera on a snowcovered road. Yeah, thats not good. An auoutofcontrol suv winds u on a collision course. Even scarier because of who was inside that vehicle. Thats coming up. And pot at the poles. A state that borders pennsylvania could take a big step toward legalizing Recreational Marijuana. Well show you where theyre deciding that issue. [ horn honking ] scary moments in anchorage, alaska, after an sufficient slid out of control and slammed into a vehicle. A tv crew was parked alongside the road when it began to slide backward. And look at this, the family had a small child inside that vehicle. Thankfully no one was hurt. And look at this amazing sight caught on camera. A meteor streaking across the night sky in thailand. Drivers s is in bangkok took t videos around 8 00 p. M. Local time. You can see it lighting up the sky as it zipped across. Now to decision 2016. Republican president ial candidate donald trump is speaking right now to reporters about his new book. A live look at that event right now at trump tower in new york city. I think its a different book. We just had polls come out today from iowa where im leading, you saw the new poll from iowa. You saw the new poll in New Hampshire where im leading big. A poll just came out in florida where im leading big. Georgia, texas. I mean, all over the place. Were doing well. If you add ben and myself, were beat everything everybody by a lot. That seems to be the big story. They call it the establishment. Its called really the failed establishment because the establishment has let us down. Reporter but is he leading overall . Well see what a new poll says about that in a moment. His book, by the way, is called crippled america how to make America Great again. Publishers say the book provides insight into how the businessman uses the media to his advantage and also outlines his ideas for the future. Now this, of course, comes one day after republican rival jeb bush published an ebook titled reply all, its a collection of emails from and to constituents during his time as governor of florida showing he says how he turned up with of the largest states into an economic engine. Now on to trumps comments about his leading in iowa and New Hampshire. According to a a nbc news wall street journal poll, dr. Ben carson is ahead of trump by six points. Marco rubio has 11 and governor Chris Christie has 2 of support but he says hes not worried about that. This is a race where 80 of the people polled havent made up their mind yet. Thats a good number. Governor christie was speaking in camden at an event when we got his reaction to that poll. The next Republican Debate is one week from tonight in milwaukee. And in the democratic race, nik has now doubled her lead on Bernie Sanders in the nbc news wall street journal poll. Clinton with 62 to sanders 31 , a sixpoint jump last month. But there is one trouble spot for her in that poll, more than half of the registered voters surveyed gave her poor marks for honesty. Happening today white house candidate Bernie Sanders will air the First Television ad funded by his campaign. Take a look here. Son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement, he went to Public Schools then college. Reporter people in iowa and New Hampshire will see that ad in its entirety first. The minutelong spot cost more than 2 million to produce. It introduces sanders and tells viewers about his rise from childhood to a u. S. Senator from vermont. The ad also States Sanders campaign is funded by over a million contributions. Happening today, ohio voters could force state legislators to reform marijuana laws there and potentially pave the way for legal Recreational Marijuana use. Todays vote would amend that states constitution to allow citizens 21 and older to use up to one ounce of marijuana recreationally. Thats in addition to allowing medical marijuana for anyone who has a doctors prescription. The Company Behind the keystone xl pipeline, transcanada, has asked the u. S. Government to temporarily suspend its application. Heres why. The company is in the middle of a dispute with nebraska over a preferred route for that pipeline and it doesnt want that to interfere with the approval process. Now, this move comes as the Obama Administration is widely expected to reject the pipeline permit application before the president leaves office. Not feeling like november today. We have more of the same coming. Its just a gorgeous day, the fall colors are at their peak and lots of sunshine and great visibility. It will be warm for the rest of the week as well. We are tracking some showers during the day thursday. We have clear skies out there right now. 65 degrees. The winds south at five miles an hour and were three degrees warmer than we were at this time yesterday. We here in the 60s everywhere, even mount pocono with 67 degrees. Thats an indication of how warm the atmosphere overall is. So with the sunshine, a lot of these places are going to get into the 70s today and then stay there. You can see were close to five degrees warmer than yesterday but mount pocono 14 degrees warmer than it was at this time yesterday. So its warming up aloft before it warms up at the surface. We have lots of sunshine here, clouds to the south. Theyre not moving our way now but there are indications some of that moisture starts to come to the north. We wont be seeing a lot of moisture out of that but thats the only thing that gives us any kind of chance of showers during the week. We have the mild air, you can see some of those pitiful little showers there as we go into thursday. By friday we could see the warmest weather of all and then this cold front comes down. Theres just no doubt that the front is going to be coming through. And heres the futurecast as we go through the night to wanightd into tomorrow. It would be showing clouds and rain if there was any. There we go, into thursday we can see more clouds and also see a little bit of a trend to the north but not much of a rain threat if any. For the rest of the day today, we expect sunshine, very mild for this time of the year, low 70s, about 10 degrees above average or even higher and then the sevenday forecast, 74 degrees, sunshine tomorrow, very much like today. Thursday just a chance of a couple of showers. It would be relatively light and most of us would not see it. Friday breezy and warm, 76 degrees. Then we start to cool down over the weekend. Some early showers possible on saturday with that cold front and then significantly colder on sunday and monday. Glenn, there are a couple of people here grimacing when you showed that chance of rain on saturday. Were hoping its a small chance and that it stays away because theres an important event happening saturday that really means a lot to people in this community and its all about stopping Heart Disease, the numberone killer of americans. This weekend you can help fight it. Nbc 10 and telemundo 62 are once again proud to sponsor the American Heart Associations philadelphia heart walk. Its this saturday, Citizens Bank park from 8 00 to noon. Even if you dont participate, theres something all of us can learn here and here to help us with that is chuck ball, the chair of the heart walk and tina frye. Tina, i want to start with you. Youre young, youre 37. Im going to call that young because im about that same age. Relatively young in terms of Heart Disease but tell us about your skn. How you discovered it and what people can learn about it. Sure, i started going downhill with my health relatively quickly, just felt like i had an upper respiratory tract infection that never went away and it turned out to be my heart. There was a virus that attacked my heart, i ended up with dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive Heart Failure. With a lot of medication and help and rest things have gotten better. This was a virus that attacked your heart . It was a virus. Was it genetic . No, they think it was most likely viral. And you went through several misdiagnosis before they discovered what was actually affecting you . Everybody blew me off sort of. I mean, they listened to me but they didnt think that i could have Heart Failure or it could be my heart because i was so young that my symptoms were overlooked for that. Well, its proof that it comes in form wes may not expect and that it affects people across the board. Chuck, tell us about the heart walk this year, about the philadelphia heart walk. How many people are you expecting and how can people really still help make a difference. Its exciting. Its the signature event for the heart association. This saturday its the 17th year weve done it. We expect over 10,000 people, upwards of 14,000 and were taking registrations and people can go on the American Heart Association web site and still register. Where does the money goes go . Its used for research and education. Weve got all the large Academic Medical Centers participating in this but largely it goes to research and education. We know a lot of people how many people did you have last year . About 14,000. So lets get more out of that. Our jacqueline london will be emceeing again. Were excited to be a part of this. The American Heart Associations philadelphia heart walk this saturday from 8 00 to noon at Citizens Bank park. Rain or shine, but it will shine. We wont let it rain. Nbc 10 and telemundo 62 proud sponsors go. To nbc10. Com or check the nbc 10 news app for more information. Thank you, chuck and tina, for waiting all this time to talk to us about this. Thanks for the opportunity. Speaking of Heart Disease, listen to this. Chuck talked about research. There could be a connection between what youre drinking and your risk of having Heart Failure. Youll see what a new study says about that straight ahead and teens and the their precious screens. Young people spend a ton of time in front of them. Youll see how to keep those teens from becoming totally detached at home. Drinking too many sweetened beverages may increase your risk of Heart Failure. A new study looked at the food and drink consumption of more than 40,000 men over a period of one year and researchers found two or more servings of sweetened drinks per day was linked to a 23 higher risk of Heart Failure. Its not clear if women or minorities have the same risk. A new study finds restaurants who voluntarily list calorie counts on their menus tend to offer more lowcalorie items. That makes sense. Researchers looked at menus from 66 chain restaurants, fiv