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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am June 8, 2016

Burkes, parts of the Lehigh Valley, into the allentown area. You see it across 176, 78, near allentown, and where the red is, that shows you where the heavy rainfall is. In this line of storms, which is in fact Getting Better organized, we can expect 40mileperhour winds, small hail, lightning, and heavy rain. This is approaching upper mon Montgomery County where we have lightning strikes developing, upper bucks county and Chester County. It will be approaching the philadelphia area in about an hour here, but again, be careful, because we do expect strong wind gusts with these storms, too. As this moves mostly to the eastsoutheast around 35 Miles Per Hour, west chester can expect it by 11 20. Wilmington expecting the strongest by 11 38, and philadelphia closer to noon today. And as we go through the next few hours here, were going to see conditions deteriorate in the philadelphia area. Right now, at 70 in philadelphia. 1 00, expect showers and storms to continue, mid 60s. By 4 00, well be seeing clearing from this with highs topping out around 70 degrees today. A cool, windy day with showers and storms in the forecast. Mostly the mifl of the day. Well take a closer lock at the radar and what the rest of the area can expect coming up. Happening today, Philadelphia City council could vote on the soda tax this afternoon. Mayor kennys plan calls for a 3 cent ounce tax to all sugary beverages in philadelphia. There are enough votes to pass the soda tax, but that doesnt mean the mayors proposal would go through. In the past hour, hundreds of Business Owners and merchants gathered to oppose the tax. Sky force 10 was over the scene where a new bipartisan antitax coalition made its public debut. Citizens against regressive taxation are focused on defeating the sugary drinks tax and container tax. The money generated would fund a universal prek program across the city. Opponents say the tax would hurt businesses and consumers and this isnt a way to go about getting the money. They want all these things. But they dont know how to pay for them, so they want to come after your pocketbook, and they want to come after your wallet. When is enough enough . We have to stop this regressive sales tax and every other tax that wants to come out in that building. City council is scheduled to meet at 2 00 this afternoon. Stay with nbc10 of course and the nbc10 app and well let you know what happens later this afternoon. Sky force 10 was over an accident that sent a car into a house. This is in camden county. The car hit a home near gafrbs road. Officials say everyone will be okay and there was minor damage to the home. We dont have word on what caused the accident. And police in norristown are looking for your help as they investigate a shooting death at a mcdonalds drivethrough. This happened before midnight on west main street. A witness told us two men were chasing a 24yearold man and shot him about ten times. He died at the scene. Police havent said anything about a possible motive for the shooting but are asking anyone with information to contact them. And this morning, two philadelphia firefighters were hurt while battling a fire in cobbs creek overnight. They have been released from the hospital. The fire damaged an abandoned barbershop. No one else was hurt. It looks like it will be donald trump versus Hillary Clinton this fall. Clinton won california early this morning, giving her more than enough delegates to secure the democratic nomination. Where does that leave Bernie Sanders and his millions of fired up supporters . Tracie potts has that story from washington. First time in our nations history that a woman will be a major party nominee. On a day when Hillary Clintons historic victory is the big story, the political world is buzzing about Bernie Sanders. Hes still in the race. We take our fight for social, economic, racial, and Environmental Justice to philadelphia, pennsylvania. But without enough delegates to win the nomination, whats his end game . Will he drop out soon . We all hope it would come sooner rather than later. Senator sanders needs to do this on his own timeframe. Tomorrow, sanders meets with president obama. The white house says sanders afged for this meeting. A top democratic source tells nbc the message will be the math is the math. He wants to unify the party and make sure sanders voters doi s defect to the other side. To all of those Bernie Sanders voter whose have been left out in the cold from a rigged system of superdelegates, we welcome you with open arms. Trump facing his own defection from republicans put off by his calling a federal judge unfair because his parents are mexican. Saying his comments were misconstrued are not an apology. Reaction from capitol hill today. Hes no racist, and were going to take the foyt to hillary. Support from republicans here is mixed, as trump prepared to take on the democrats last woman standing. And trump plans to go after clinton right away in a speech he planned for monday. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. And now to local races in new jerseys first congressional district. Democratic voters handed the incumbent a victory. Norcross fought off alex law. Norcross won 70 of the vote. Norcross will face republican Bob Patterson in the general election this fall. Patterson ran unopposed. Youll find more results from yesterdays primaries along with some continuing coverage of the candidates and delegate totals on the nbc10 app. And were now hearing more Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in our area. Lets go back to nbc10 meteorologist Sheena Parveen who has more of that. Whats happening . We just got the Severe Thunderstorm Warning up a minute ago. It is for Chester County, parts of Delaware County, and parts of New Castle County including wilmington. This particular thunderstorm has gotten Strong Enough to provide damaging winds, near 60 Miles Per Hour. Potentially some small hail, and you see the heavy rain show by the red here, and also a lot of lightning. This goes until 11 45. Its right now over parts of parks brg and moving into Chester County, coatsville seeing the heavy rain, too, over highland, seeing the worst of it at the moment. Thats heavy rain shown by the red. Damaging winds and potential for small hail. Were going to keep tracking this as we go through the next 30 minutes to hour. Its going to continue to move into Chester County. All these areas shaded in yellow, west chester, concord, edge mont, all these areas expected to see possibly some damaging winds, including wilmington across the i95 corridor as we go into the next 30 to 45 minutes. Now, this storm is moving to the east right around 35 Miles Per Hour. So if youre in pike creek, expect it by 11 25. Wilmington, 11 38, philadelphia, right around 12 00. We have been saying all morning long the storms are going to be moving into the philadelphia area around lunch time, and theyre still on schedule for that. If we take a wider view, we have a line of storms stretching from the Lehigh Valley into Chester County now. These are all traveling to the east. Everyone will be seeing thunderstorms out of this. Theyll be moving through the philadelphia area by noon. Trenton closer to around 12 20 and eventually making their way to the shore by about 1 00 p. M. Well keep tracking these for you in a bit. Well check back in with you. Thank you. Were getting an inside look now at a School Bus Crash involving students on their way to dorny park for a senior clastrip. You saw the story breaking here at this time yesterday morning. Take a look. [ screaming ] this is the first look at the very moment a tractor trailer collided with a school bus. Several students, a school counselor, and also a bus driver are recovering from minor injuries after this crash on i78. In Northampton County yesterday morning. The bus full of students was on their way to dorny park. I saw the 18wheeler and then i dont even know. My phone, i guess, was still up and it hit us. I went flying. The students say the bus was smoking and slowing down just before the truck hit it. Most of the students dill continue on to dorny park for their class trip. Congressman chaka fattah is back in a federal court room this morning as his corruption trial continues. Yesterday, his former chief of staff in washington, d. C. Was on the stand. She said it looked bad that the fattahs allegedly kept a porsche in their garage two years after it was sold to a co hft defendant in the case. The codefendant is accused of bribing the congressman to get a federal appointment. She also testified that fattahs daughter was a paid fundraiser for his campaign and she got a 10,000 bonus for her role. A ride turns tragic for a group of cyclists. A driver plowed into the group, leaving several dead. Well show you why authorities were warned in advance that something terrible could happen. Well have that coming up. And theres a problem lurking in the water off the gulf of mexico, and it could lead to discomfort for swimmers if youre heading to that area for your summer vacation, well tell you what to look out for. And we still have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning out for Chester County, including parts of new castle and delaware counties. More storms moving through as we go through the next hour or two. Ill show you where theyre headed with your neighborhood weather coming up. Were tracking some severe thunderstorms now, especially in Chester County, moving into Delaware County, parts of New Castle County. This is until 11 45. These counties shaded in yellow. Thats the area storms that were watching. This has some pretty heavy rain, also lightning, damaging winds, potentially near 60 Miles Per Hour. Also some hail with these storms. Again, were going to be watching all the storms tracking to the east, right around 35 Miles Per Hour. Ill show you where theyre heading, the timing of them, what you can expect for the rest of the day coming up. Thank you. Some international news. Two People Killed and more than 20 others injured when two speed boats packed with tourists collided off the coast of southern thailand. The crash happened near phuket. Most of the passengers were chinese tourists. A driver in new york city is under arrest after this wild ride that looked like it could have come straight out of a movie. It started as a traffic stop when the driver made an illegal turn. The silver suv refused to stop. It hit a patrol car. The officers pulled their guns and demanded the driver get out. Instead, the driver takes off again, hitting more cars along the way. He was eventually arrested after ditching the car. Five bicyclists are dead and four more hurt after they were hit by a pickup truck in kalamazoo, michigan. The driver was found a short distance away and taken into police custody. Gabe gutierrez hat that story. It was chaos. Multiple bikers down. Confusion. Cyclists run off the road, and this morning investigators in western michigan are trying to piece together what led to this deadly crash near kalamazoo. I have never seen anything like this in my life. One witness says this blue pickup truck swerved into the group before he could warn them. Thats when i seen a bunch of bikes in front of his truck. Nine cyclists hit, five killed, the other four rushed to the hospital. Police say callered had reported the pickup Truck Driving erratically. After the crash, police say the driver fled on foot but was later arrested. A neighbor says she first thought the truck had hit a tree. Front of the truck is completely demolished. I figured it was the truck. Police say the 50yearold driver is in custody but has not yet by charged. Authorities say the four survivors sustained serious injuries and at least two are in critical condition. Gabe gutierrez, nbc news, cooper township, michigan. And happening right now, indias Prime Minister is addressing a joint session of congress. Well give you a live look from capitol hill. In the past, he had been shunned in washington over religious violence in his home state. He will also have lunch with congressional leaders and he will attend a reception there later today. Looks like hes greeting lawmakers right now. A group of Senate Democrats gathered this morning to push for more funding to combat the zika virus. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says there have been more than 1700 cases so far in the u. S. Last month, the Senate Passed 1. 1 billion in emergency funds to help stop the threat of zika. They say the time to act on zika was yesterday. For nearly 350 expecting mothers, being monitored for possible zika infections. And tragically, every day that we do not act, these numbers get worse. Senate leaders say the house has only passed a bill for 622 million, about half of what they requested to fight zika. The two sides have yet to come together to hammer out a deal. If youre heading to the beach down south this summer, this next story might gross you out a little bit. Baby jellyfish are causing all kinds of problems for swimmers and surfers in the water, in the waum waters in the gulf of mexico. Theyre larvae of jellyfish who get trapped between skin. They could cause a serious rash. Basically like little thousands of little miniature bee stings that cause the irritation. Experts say once you return from the beach, its best to take off the bathing suit and rinse off with hot water. Luckily, the junior jellies arent really dangerous, theyre just painful. Well, we have strong storms moving in right on type for the area. You can see them here on the radar moving through the allentown area. A large line of lightning here, so these storms are developing and becoming stronger. Now approaching the philadelphia area, so if we look across parts of our pennsylvania suburbs into the Lehigh Valley, theres a lot of lightning with this. All these lightning strikes here we have seen in the thunderstorms moving across milford, reading, pottstown, parts of king of prussia, and across 476 right here on the edge, the leading edge of this, one near abington across the p. A. Turnpike, norristown, phoenixville seeing a lightning strike. A lot developing now and its going to continue to develop over the next hour or so. We still have a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Chester County, extending through parts of Delaware County until 11 45. King of prussia just on the edge of that. Coatesville getting out of some of the heaviest rain, but locked into the area of heavy rain and high winds. With any severe thunderstorm, we expect 60mileperhour winds, lightning, heavy rain, and potential hail. Thats why these things can be very dangerous. Now, as we track this moving to the east 35 Miles Per Hour, if youre in east goshen township, expect it 11 26, upper darby, 11 51, and philadelphia, right around 12 00. So we still expect these storms to be moving into philadelphia, the strongest part of them, right at lunch time, at 12 00 p. M. Well keep tracking these for you. Also dont forget while im tracking the storm, your sevenday forecast is at the bottom of the screen. Were still seeing storms in montgomery and bucks county, near richland, hatfield, this still continues into the Lehigh Valley, even though some of the heaviest is out of the Lehigh Valley, reading still seeing heavy rain, still quite a bit of lightning around douglas. That lightning near 476 near richland. Again, strong storms and pretty moderate to heavy rainfall near allentown, easton, bethlehem, and holland. Again, still watching a lot of this developing, and getting stronger, and thats what we expect to continue to move through parts of new jersey and into delaware. Temperature wise, were not warm outside with the storms. Were kind of cool. 70, philadelphia. 55 now in allentown. That is some rain cooled air there. 66 in coatesville, 69 degrees in vineland. For today, by 2 00 p. M. , philadelphia area may still be seeing showers and storms, but then clearing by the evening commute tonight. And well be staying dry after that. Pennsylvania suburbs by 2 00 p. M. , maybe leftover showers and storms, but then quickly clearing by the evening rush. The evening rush even for the Lehigh Valley expected to be dry. Look at the temperatures, though, only in the 60s. Its going to be cool. If youre new jersey and delaware, showers around 2 00 p. M. And then drying as we go through the rest of this evening. At least over the next couple hours, well watch the storms moving into new jersey after they pass through the philadelphia area and in delaware, and then well see things quiet down for the evening drive. More details, another look at the radar coming up. See you then, sheena. Unique show is happening this morning in center city. Yeehaw. Well show you how its freeing some student to be themselves. And a woman with a big heart who loves to bake. Shes looking for a forever family. Ill introduce you to this weeks wednesdays child. This weeks wednesdays child is a young woman who loves to bake and cares about others. Shes looking for a forever family. Allow me to introduce you to ajine. How are you . Our w

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