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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am May 2, 2016

Reporter last week he lost his seat in a primary. Now he has denied those allegations. It will be up to a jury to decide his fate. That trial is expected to begin may 16th. Reporting live today. Nbc 10 news. And were following breaking news this morning from leehigh county. The high school is on lock down. Bullets have been found in the boys bathroom. Were working to gather some information on this lock down so stay with nbc 10. Atlantic citys mayor is about to give an update on the citys official crisis and his plan to make a 2 million bond payment. Heres a look where hes expected to make that announcement. Well bring that to you when he gets there. On friday the mayor said the city will likely come up with the money. No city or town has defaulted on its debt since the 1930s. Well bring you details in our next half hour. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Fog covered parts of our area this morning. Drivers on route 202 had limited visibility during the morning rush hour. Tim sent us that video right there. Our meteorologist is here with the forecast. It was pretty missable yesterday with all that rain. We dont necessarily have much rain right now, but its cloudy just about the entire area. Temperatures only 47 in pennsylvania suburbs. 53 degrees in philadelphia and 50 in the lee high valley. We still have some patchy fog across the area. We had just a couple of showers moving through. Its very light, but its going to be a different story as we head to tonight. Lets take a look at this future cast as we go into the afternoon just starting to see some showers well to the north and west and then later on theres 3 30, a few more showers around, and then by dinnertime still not a whole lot. Watch what happens later on. By this evening were getting some potential heavy showers in the philadelphia area and thunderstorms this central delaware and then look at this. By 10 00 tonight a lot of the area really getting pounded with heavy showers and thunderstorms. We also have a wet weather pattern. You can see that reflected in the sevenday that is continuously contr continuously scrolling on the bottom of your screen. As we go through today 60s holding in much of the area. Pennsylvania suburbs only getting in the mid 60s and lee high valley struggling to get into the low 60s. Delaware is most likely to see the heavy showers and thunderstorms tonight. More on the timing of the rain and what the rest of the week holds in store in a few minutes. Weather may be to be blame for a car crash that damaged a porch. A car smashed into three parked cars around 11 30 last night and the impact pushed one of those vehicles into a neighbors porch. Nbc 10 spoke to the People Living there. Reporter what did that sound like . Boom. Very loud. Really, i didnt know what it was. It was very loud. It shook the house. I walked inside and i heard the boom. I saw the neighbor car was in my porch and porch was destroyed. Medics took the driver to the hospital. Were working to find out his condition. Police believe rainy conditions led to the accident. Authorities will give us an update in about a half hour into their investigation into a deadly crash that injured one child and killed two others. This was the scene. Accident investigators tell us the car carrying the four children veered into oncoming traffic and was hit head on. Two off Duty Police Officers stopped to help and folk cussed their attention on the children. It was like people laying face down and she was like im shaking like i dont know what to do. A 2monthold child remains hospitalized. New this morning, Burlington County police are trying to figure out who stabbed a woman in the back. The woman was stabbed in a different town than found. The victim is recovering at cooper hospital. So far police have not made any arrests. Happening now, former penn state assistant football coach is back in court. He was convicted of 45 counts of child sex abuse crimes in 2012. His attorneys are saying he didnt get a fair trial and he didnt have competent council. His attorney is trying to prove that his case was rushed to trial and the previous defense time didnt have time to prepare. Time now for a check on the roads. What are you seeing. We are seeing some delays on the expressway. Thats no surprise. Its because of slow moving maintenance vehicles. You can see in our cameras right around montgomery drive its a slow go heading eastbound. Westbound doing better, but we do have lane restrictions towards center city. The rest of the majors are doing okay, but we have an accident scene on 4th street. Reduced visibility because of the fog, but now were doing better. 295 over in new jersey looks okay in both directions and if youre heading from new jersey over into delaware still watch out for that emergency construction on the delaware memorial bridge. The left lane is closed. More traffic news. Today well find out when cars can go faster on parts of the pennsylvania turnpike and interstate highways across the state. Officials will announce expansion of the 75 miles an ho hour. Officials will remind drivers that the 55 mile an hour zones are staying the same. What a run it was. The 2016 bluecross run is now in the books. Nbc 10 carried the event live from the start in logan to the finish in south philadelphia and all ten miles in between. Some 40,000 runners tackled the route and some of them for the first time. I have certain things on my bucket list and this was one of them. I like running broad street because its a race, but its more like a party and the whole city comes together for it. Im just glad i finished and i finished running. Thats really great right there. Nbc 10 followed the runners on the ground and in the air and even aboard a motorcycle. Nbc 10 was there when the the new yorker crossed the finish line first. The second place winner finished the run in 57 minutes. You will get another chance to watch or dvr the race again. Comcast will rebroadcast the entire coverage on saturday afternoon from 12 30 to 3 00 and 3 30 to 6 00. Two missionaries are found dead. An investigation to what may have happened and their connection to our area. He left behind a massive estate, but no will. Today the first formal hearing about what may have come to princes fortunes. Glenn . Were stuck in the clouds for now and im tracking the run of more rain this week. Ill let you know when more rain is coming and when we see a break from this weather pattern ahead. Now to decision 2016. 92 delegates and all are up for grabs for the democrats and 57 delegates for the republicans. Hillary clinton needs 232 more delegates and donald trump needs 240. Trump says hes wasting his time on republican rivals and he wants the primaries to be done with already. We have millions and millions of votes more and we have more delegates, but we have millions of votes more setting a record in the history of the republican party. A new nbc news wall street journal poll of likely Republican Voters in indiana found 49 choose donald trump. Ted cruz is 15 points behind at 34 and Ohio Governor john kasich got 13 . Senator cruz is not conceding indiana. He stopped this morning at a cafe in indiana. Cruz will be joined on the trail today by indiana governor mike pens who endorsed cruz on friday while commending donald trump for tapping into the quote frustration of millions of working americans. On the democratic side a new poll Shows Hillary clinton leads Bernie Sanders by just four points in indiana. Thats within the margin of error in a virtual al tie. Clinton was in detroit, michigan where she delivered the key note address at the naacp dinner there. She spoke about the crisis in flint. She has appearances in kentucky and west virginia. Two u. S. Missionaries were killed in gentleman macka including one from our area. His body was found with the body of 48yearold randy hensel. Their battered bodies were found in bushes in separate areas of a rural part of the island while reaching out to teens for a medical mission. So far we have not heard back from officials. Princes family went to court this morning to figure out how to divide up the estate. Last week his sister filed paperwork saying he had no will. That means his multi Million Dollar estate will be divided among his siblings. He was found dead last month inside his estate. Law enforcement investigators are looking into whether prince decide from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Nearly all detroit Public Schools are closed today because of a teacher sit out. The move follows a decision that the district will not be able to pay the teachers starting this summer. The governor signed a law in march that has kept the district operating through the end of the school year. It looked like piles of snow on the ground indiana but it was hail. In some parts it was ten inches deep. The ice balls damaged vehicles and property in indianapolis. Louisiana residents are cleaning up this morning after heavy rain brought floods. This homeowner used a boat to rescue neighbors from their homes. Neighbors blame low lying streets for repeated flooding. We didnt have enough rain to cause flooding yesterday, but we had plenty of hours of it and it kept the temperature down. It barely got up to these numbers yesterday. 53 in philadelphia now and yesterdays high was only 54. 50 in trenton. One of the places thats going to stay relatively cool is right at the shore. Atlantic city only 51 degrees. We have a wind off the ocean. Its a light wind so if we get a little sunshine it could get up to 60 degrees. Theres still some fog in parts of the area. The visibility shows us how dense it is. Pottstown up to a little over one mile now. You can see in new jersey the visibilities are excellent while in pennsylvania its not so great. Philadelphia is seven miles so that should help things out at the airport and visibility gradually improving across pennsylvania and its improving considerably in delaware already. Well the story we got showers and thunderstorms on the way. Not so much in the next few hours as tonight. Look at the radar showing virtually nothing on it right now. Its going to be a fairly wet pattern here. This is just the beginning. This area down south, you can see on the sevenday forecast lots of days with showers and below normal temperatures. The temperature high of 70. Get your neighborhood forecast here any time. You dont have to wait until the end and its not just philadelphia anymore. Heres the future cast. This afternoon a few showers to the west of the area and starting to come in later on during the day. So keep the umbrellas with you if youre going to be heading out and staying out, especially the later you are as we go through the evening, the more likely it is to rain. The further south you go, the more likely you are to get heavy rain or thunderstorms. By 9 00 tonight some of this is very heavy. There could some strong gusty winds with these storms in delaware and south jersey. Lesser chances up toward the north because theres going to be cooler weather. As we go toward 11 00 thats a large area of heavy rain and so the heaviest of the rain is going to occur during the night tonight. Not this afternoon and not so much during the day tomorrow. Here is the neighborhood forecast for today. Very few places getting up near 70, but youll notice that the further north you go, the colder it is and the further south the warmer. Theres lee high valley getting into the low 60s and delaware is in the low 70s with showers and thunderstorms. Thats what this neighborhood forecast can do for you, show you the huge changes and differences from one area to the next. That is going to be the case here. You can see the cool weather for several days here, weve got showers in the forecast all the way through wednesday. Its not going to be a total washout both of those days, but this is an overall pretty wet pattern. Here temperatures not going up a whole lot and not a lot of sunshine this week either. Theres the jersey shore. Temperatures barely getting into the low 60s and after the 72 today in delaware not quite as warm over the next couple of days. Well be back later with a tenday forecast and see if we get out of this. Thank you. Problems at the playground, a new Study Reveals why more kids keep getting hurt even as efforts continue to make playground equipment safer. Pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. Then your eyes may see it differently. Flonase is the first and only nasal spray approved to relieve both itchy, watery eyes and congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Most allergy pills only control one substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. More complete allergy relief. Flonase. 61 changes everything. Philadelphia has emerged as one of the top tech cities in the entire country and thousands of people are getting a chance to see whats new and hot during philly tech week 2016. The event manager for techicly. Its techniquely. Yes techniquely. Tell us about it. We report on local tech and innovation news and things happening in the community, whats happening with local colleges and universities to support those groups and philly tech week is a weeklong celebration of that. Its our sixth annual event. Theres over 50 partners in make tg happen. Youtell me why this is such big deal for the rentgion and h philadelphia became the center for the country. Theres so much happening here and with the colleges and universities. Technically philadelphia started about seven years ago and it was one of the first groups talking about it. Another group like philly startup leaders is another great supporter. Theres so much happening here and we want to bring attention to it. One of the things that happening here is comcast is located here. Comcast taking the lead in technology in our area and across the country, really globally. So tell us why this is important for comcast to be involved in this . Sure. So comcast is a Media Entertainment and Technology Company and as a company were really excited to not even lead, but to be a part of this community. Its very important that were supporting the Startup Community as we build the technology and Communication Center that will open in about 20 months. Were looking to partner with startups in philadelphia and around the country. Weve supported philly tech week in the last two years in a big way and well be the big supporter on wednesday at the entrepreneurs expo. 75 startups will be on display there. This is a very important week mostly because this is an opportunity for people from all neighbors to experience technology, to see the opportunities that are possible by through innovation and technology and maybe to join the Startup Community. We were laughing during the break because we all went to school with people who we thought were tech geeks and now were looking for somebody to work for. Philly tech week runs now through saturday may 7th. More more information head over to our website. Thank you very much for coming in. Thank you. Up next, just days after defeat congressman heads to court. Its day one for his jury case. Another historic day in havana. A u. S. Ship sailing from the port in more than 50 years arrives in cuba. Well have details from the passengers on board. A jury selection is under way in the trial of congressman fattad who is facing corruption charges. Were live where the congressman did say a few words to us as he passed. Reporter he spoke very briefly for a moment. He and his legal team were here at court early this morning. They arrived at 9 30 ahead of juri juriors. Ahead of the 10 00 a. M. Selection process. Now he has not stopped to speak to us, but he did Say Something in passing as he headed into court. Can you talk to us for a second . That was him saying they were there to get through the fiction and get through the facts. Hes accused of taking bribes and misusing hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign money, Charitable Funds and pay off debt. He lost his seat in the primary. He has denied those allegations. It will be up to the jury once selected to decided his fate, but that Selection Process were told that it could take some time given the fact that this is a highprofile case. His trial is scheduled to begin may 16th. Thank you. Meanwhile a 4yearold drowned in a pool over the weekend in atlantic county. Police say the boy drowned accidentally. Police say they were called to the location by the childs parents who said the boy had gotten out of their home and they were unable to find him. Theres no word on how the accident happened or if any charges will be filed. Philadelphia police are holding a News Conference at this moment about a deadly crash on henry avenue yesterday that killed one child and injured another and several adults. Lets take a moment and listen in. Then theres a 4 and 5yearold with different kinds of injuries. The 4 and 5yearold were in the backseat. So you had the 20yearold male in the backseat and four children. The 5yearold the 6yearold was not restrained, however baby infant was in a car seat at the time of the crash. Two females, two adult females that were in the front of the vehicle that crashed, we havent had a chance to talk to them about who was driving the vehicle because they were both ejerked from the vehicle. It was a critical crash and a lot of injuries in this one. When you see a situation with that many people in the vehicle and in the one vehicle there was seven people, what can you talk about. Its never advisable not to be restrained to begin with and it was not it was a very unfortunate. You can see the devastation that occurred as a result of not being restrained. Reporter how many people in that backseat. Reporter none of the people in a car seat . No, as far as we know no one was restrained except the 7 week old was in a car seat. Its never advisable to be in any vehicle unrestrained. Reporter is everybody connected. Reporter do you know if that car seat was i dont know. It was strapped in. After the crash there was devastation inside the veekhicl. They are critical but stable. Reporter just so were clear the vehicle with all the vehicles in it thats coming around the curve and it starts to fly and it hits the vehicle thats t boned. It was going away from the city and somehow loses control and starts sliding. So it slides this way and then was hit by the car coming the other way. Reporter it was t boned so to speak. So it went into the southbound lane. Im not sure. It didnt seem it was excessive speed. The roadway was wet. Never advisable. You have to take your time when the roadways wet and were not sure how that person lost control. We didnt

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