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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am February 26, 2016

So its still at least a 45 minute delay here. This is typically about a 12minute trip eastbound from the blue route to the vine. And big delays headed westbound. 46 minutes there from the vine to the blue route right now. On 295 over in new jersey right around route 70 we are also having ongoing construction here taking the left lane out headed westbound. Right there on 295. Also, New Castle County airport road is still closed because of flooding between 95 and 202. Jessie, thank you. Imagine just waking up to this. The tires on your car are slashed right outside of your home, and then seeing that your neighbors are victims as well. Its the unfortunate reality for one New Castle County neighborhood this morning. And nbc 10 Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong is live in New Castle County with more on this vandalism. Tim, what a who arable way to start your day. Reporter come on, vai, 17 people woke up today on this cold morning, come out and this is what theyre finding. 17 different families had this happened. Slashed tires, some cars two tires slashed, some car four tires slashed. Look at this jeep here. Youre not driving this away. The police have come around and left these fliers and incident forms on cars all over the neighborhood. By the way a county police car, a New Castle County police car was also hit here in the Washington Park neighborhood in new castle. Take a look it happened around 11th and juniper streets. Police tell me it happened around 1 30 in the morning. One resident say they saw three teenagers going through the neighborhood. One guy said hes lucky he didnt catch those teenagers before the cops because it would have gotten ugly. A lot of people very, very upset here. We just talked to a guy who says its going to cost him over 1,500 for the eight tires he now needs to replace. Id say they get caught and pay for all the damages that theyve done to peoples vehicles around here. That is uncalled for. They ought to either go back to school or get a job. Reporter and again, police are looking for more victims at this point. If anybody around here has any information and theyre watching they should certainly call police and check their cars. Again, a lot of the cars with the slashed tires police preemptively put this on your windshield so you know you can fill out a form and report. A lot of these houses around here have surveillance cameras. Police have been going doortodoor. They say theyre going to find some of these houses see if they have Surveillance Video that would have shown the people slashing tires. The other weird thing too like this house over here, this is a house that has the cars in the driveway and they have motion sensor lights in the driveway. They really didnt get any cars that were in driveways. So anybody that had motion sensor lights or kept the cars off the street, they were okay. But again, 17 cars including a New Castle County police car were hit last night. More for you later this afternoon. Live in new castle city, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Tim, thank you. And new this Morning Police arrested a man who was allegedly trying to steal from a churchs collection box. And get this, officers were actually inside the church when he was committing the crime. The officers staked out the church in northeast philadelphia last night because there were burglaries there before. The cops say this man unlocked the door and started to pry open the poor box. He ran away when officers identified themselves but they caught him just outside. Authorities say he stole from the church two other times. He now faces charges of burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief. A germantown restaurant will be closed today while investigators look for the cause of this fire that burned through the roof early this morning. The flames tore through the house of gin restaurant. Firefighters spent an hour getting it under control. Then several more hours spraying the building with water as flames kept reigniting throughout the morning. No one was hurt. Skyforce 10 was over a School Bus Accident on rhawn street in northeast philadelphia this morning. This bus was carrying students from st. Francis st. Josephs home for children. One child was taken to the hospital for minor injury. No word yet on what caused the accident. And police say an argument between two brothers led to a shooting in northeast philadelphia. According to investigators one of the men shot the other in the chest at a home along woodhaven road. Police took one man into custody. Right now the 50yearold victim is in critical condition. And a Philadelphia Police officer talked to nbc 10 about coming facetoface with a man who threatened to shoot him in the head. Officer Michael Edwards says the man approached him in his cruiser wednesday night at a park in south philadelphia and said, i should blow your head off. Edwards says he kept his hands in his pants and used his body to try to barricade him in his car. But the officer managed to get out of his car, draw his gun and confront hans who made a shooting gesture with his hands. Thats when a backup officer arrived on the scene and tasered the suspect. He could have had a gun. And i wouldnt have known anything. I just would have been a victim. He would have been a murderer. The Police Commissioner says the officers would have been justified in shooting the suspect. And he said this incident shows that Police Training works. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Cold and blustery today, but at least were seeing some sun. You can see how windy it is out there as we take a live look at the flags flying atop the aramark building in center city. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley is here with our friday forecast. You can see it in the camera shake. That is a live view from center city. This is a live view from cape may. It was completely cloudy to start with this morning, but the clouds are breaking for some sunshine. Those clouds are blowing through on some very strong winds that were feeling in philadelphia too. You can see some scattered clouds. Were in and out of the sunshine. A few scattered snow showers earlier, pretty much disappeared. Now its just cold. 37 degrees, thats not too bad, but with winds at 22 miles an hour makes it feel like its 26 degrees. Were running colder than yesterday. There are more clouds in our future. You can see some scattered clouds moving in from the northwest. Those will continue blowing through the area during the day. Cant rule out a flurry, but most of it evaporating before it makes its way to the ground. And with breaks of sunshine you can usually get a pretty good warmup, but not with winds like this, a steady 26mileanhour wind in reading. Atlantic city at 24 miles an hour, an 18mileanhour wind in wildwood. And the gusts have been closer to 40 miles an hour so far this morning. And theres more to come this afternoon. At 1 00 this afternoon mostly sunny skies, just a few scattered clouds. 22mileanhour wind, 39 degrees. 19mileanhour wind with sunshine 40, that will be as warm as it gets. But with the wind blowing it will feel about ten degrees colder. And then with the sun down at 7 00 this evening the winds will start to die down, but thats going to lead the way for a colder night tonight. 35 degrees at 7 00 this evening. By tomorrow morning we will be in the 20s. But ive got some good news over the weekend as temperatures go the other direction. Ill have the sevenday forecast, vai, when i come back. Thank you, bill. Experts now say it was a tornado that caused this destruction in Lancaster County. Yesterday at this time we showed you the skyforce 10 view of the damage in salisbury internship. An ef2 tornado confirmed hitting the area packing winds of up to 125 miles per hour. It destroyed dozens of buildings in its path including an amish schoolhouse. Theres nothing left. Its just a foundation. Everything was completely on the ground. Almost looked like a bomb exploded the school. Many nonamish people in town got the warnings on tv and mobile devices. Some ran over to warn their amish neighbors, who do not use technology. And this morning dog fighting is at the center of an animal abuse investigation at a home in germantown. The spca found seven dead dogs at this house on tuesday. When nbc 10 crews arrived at the scene yesterday, we discovered even more suspicious conditions across the street. We tipped off the spca and they searched area eed the area and three more pit bulls. Police believe the vacant home is still being used as a venue for dog fighting. Animal fighting and the breeding of these dogs is big money in it, okay, a lot of money in it. Officials found two dogs at the home. The pennsylvania spca is taking care of them. Nj transit and the rail workers unions resume talks today to try to avert a threatened strike. A walkout could bring the trains to a screeching halt next month. The unions authorize a strike for march 13th. Among the sticking points are Higher Health insurance premiums and disputed pay raises. And happening this weekend, the American Red Cross and Philadelphia Fire Department are teaming up to help prevent fire deaths. Its called the no more fire deaths campaign. We told you all about it yesterday right here on nbc 10 news at 11 00 a. M. Organizers say every family needs a smoke alarm and an escape plan. And they will make sure people have those things by going neighborhoodtoneighborhood giving out detectors and offering a customized escape plan for each home. The red cross and firefighters will visit neighborhoods starting tomorrow. They will be at the corner of north 12th and west courtland streets tomorrow morning at 11 30. To hear more from the red cross about the campaign, head to our website at nbc10. Com or check out the nbc 10 app. Right now, you can get answers to your questions about Prostate Cancer. This weeks announcement by pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf that he has Prostate Cancer has put a new focus on the disease. Wolf says his doctors caught it early. And the governor is encouraging others to get screened. Dr. Jeffrey an oncologist at m. D. Anderson Cancer Center at cooper. And he is here with us all hour long to get answers to your questions about Prostate Cancer. You can enter your questions about the disease on our nbc 10 Facebook Page. He will answer them coming up on nbc 10 news at 11 00. The Philadelphia Museum of art now has 50 pieces of american art to add to its collection. The estate of a local collector, Daniel Detrick gave those works to the museum, as we take a live look now at the museum. The gift also includes a 10 million endowment. And this painting from Edward Hopper call eed road and trees among the donated works of art. Painting is the museums first piece by hopper. Another mass shooting in america. New details are emerging about the deadly massacre at a kansas factory last night. What were learning about the man police say killed three people. I mean, first of all, this guys a choke artist and this guys a liar. Plus, name calling, insult trading, finger pointing, another debate night turns into fight night. The tag team attack against donald trump in last nights gop debate. And what trump is saying ahead of super tuesday. Bill. Vai, heres a little picture im titling flags and wind. Okay. 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More people running all of a sudden pop, pop, pop, pop, i started running too. Reporter when it was over four people were killed including the gunman, 14 others wounded, five critically. Witnesses say the suspect, cedric larry ford, who was an employee of the excel Industries Plant was armed with an assaultstyle weapon and handgun. Police say ford also shot and wounded three people he encountered on the way to the plant before he went inside and opened fire. He was randomly shooting people. Reporter the first officer to arrive immediately engaged the gunman and single handedly took him down. The only reason he stopped shooting is because that officer stopped the shooter. Reporter police say ford was served with a protection from abuse order filed by his girlfriend just hours before the shooting. 3 30 he gets served, 5 00 we have the first shooting. Reporter Officials Say this investigation will continue for quite some time, but as of now this community is starting to mourn for the tragic loss of life here in rural kansas. In newton, sara plake for nbc news. In decision 2016, democrats go to the polls in South Carolina tomorrow, but president ial candidates from both parties have their sights set on the 12 states going on tuesday voting on tuesday. The republican candidates all try to shine in a debate last night to win support. Nbc news correspondent Edward Lawrence has the latest from washington. You get along with nobody reporter the debate contentious. First of all this guys a choke artist and this guys a liar. Reporter donald trump was attacked from the right and left by senators ted cruz and marco rubio, who joined in a tag team to knock trump out of favor with voters. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldnt be hiring illegal immigrants. Reporter rubio went on an allout offensive against trump attacking not only his immigration ideas but his Health Care Plan among other issues. Thats the only part of the plan you have many different plans. Youll have competition. Youll have so many different plans. Now hes repeating himself. No, no [ cheers and applause ] reporter rubio upped his attacks telling the today show he will expose the real trump. We are not going to turn over the conservative movement to a con artist who is telling people one thing but has spent 40 years sticking it to working americans and now claims to be their champion. Reporter the fighting led to this moment by ben carson who felt he could not get air time. Can somebody attack me, please . Whoa, whoa. [ cheers and applause ] reporter last nights debate set the stage for voters to decide on super tuesday. Donald trump is winning or slightly winning all of the polls in super tuesdays states except for one, thats texas. Senator ted cruz is winning in texas, he represents the state here in the u. S. Congress. Reporting in washington, Edward Lawrence, nbc news. Rubio is back on the campaign trail this morning in texas. He again criticized trump as someone who defends planned parenthood and who has promoted Single Payer Health care. As we take a live look at rubio at a town hall. This is a live look now at Bernie Sanders campaigning at an event in minnesota. The democratic president ial candidate just took to the stage. This is sanders second stop in northern minnesota. His rally in duluth last month drew about 6,000 people. The primaries in pennsylvania and delaware are two months from today on april 26th. And if you live in new jersey, your primary day is june 7th. Download the nbc 10 app for everything you need to know about decision 2016. Its a free download. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Its a cold one today. The wind is blowing making it feel even colder. Gusty winds all day long. And the clouds that have been blowing through the area, well, theyre going to keep ongoing for most of the day. We will see sunshine. Right now the wind is making things fairly cold. Those cold winds will not cease until we get to this evening. And thats going to clear the way for a colder night tonight dropping into the 20s tomorrow morning. But a weekend warmup. Weve got it for you. With temperatures that will be climbing significantly. Partly cloudy skies over reading. Clouds are blowing past philadelphia and cape may. Mostly cloudy skies with some breaks of sunshine keeping temp which you weres in the 30s so far. You can see the clouds moving through the city. We have seen some scattered light snow showers this morning. Those are pretty much disappeared. But the winds, th

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