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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am August 22, 2016

Neighborhood. Nbc 10s mondique braxton has more. Reporter hi, vai. Police returned to the neighborhood to examine the victims car. People on the block are shocked the 35yearold victim was murdered in front of his wife, six children, and the wife was shot as well. We watched homicide detectives examine the scene here in the 7300 block of north 7th street for clues overnight. Police tell us they believe a shotgun was used to kill an adult male and wound his wife in a second floor rear bedroom around 1 00 this morning. Three casings were found there. We spoke with neighbors as they came out to see what had happened. I never seen any suspicious activity in the house or nothing. I just moved here like 2 1 2 months ago. I never seen her. Nothing out of the ordinary. Reporter police tell us the deceased male was 28 price. They do believe he was targeted. We also got a lock at the alley here behind the 3700 block. We saw that police tell us this is where they found a shotgun, a sack of live shotgun shells were also discovered, along with a knit skull cap that may have been used as a mask. The children range in age from 5 to 13. They were seen leaving the home this morning with their grandparents. And we just got an update that the 40yearold female, the childrens stepmother, was shot twice and right now is listed in Critical Condition at temple. Live for now in hunting park, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. Three miles away in Port Richmond another family is recovering after a Home Invasion on east lipin cot street. Two armed men pistol whipped a man inside. He is in the hospital but is expected to be okay. The attack happened just before 11 30. The robbers got away with cash. Police say a child was inside the home but was not hurt. One person is dead and another in Critical Condition after a fire trapped them inside this house in germantown. Nbc 10 on the scene on east clapier street. This happened last night. Neighbors rushed toward the heavy smoke but couldnt get inside. Firefighters arrived to pull the victims out. The smoke was too thick, they didnt get in. Medics took three other people to the hospital with minor smoke inhalation. Investigators are looking at how this fire started. And two firefighters are recovering after being injured in a propane tank explosion in bucks county. Investigators tell us several propane tanks caught fire in a garage yesterday in bensalem township. Happening now, Jerry Sandusky is back in court to resume his appeal hearing. The former penn state assistant football coach is trying to have his child sex abuse conviction overturned. He testified that he never molested boys and that he wasnt properly represented at his trial in 2012. If the appeal is successful, the judge could order a new trial. One of the suspects in a deadly street racing accident in northeast philadelphia is facing a judge. Police say ron ferrell was racing Chris Bloomfield last july through somerton when bloomfield crashed into a tree. Police say bloomfield walked away before emergency crews arrived. He has a hearing scheduled tomorrow. Farrell will be arraigned today. Announcer now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Just a drop dead gorgeous day around our region. A live look at roxboro from our president ial city camera. Comfortable weather conditions have returned. But how long will it stick around . Thats the question. Nbc 10s first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz with the forecast and the answers. Hi, vai. It wont be lasting all week but it will last another couple of days. Great weather for baseball or any other kind of outdoor activity. We dont have any clouds in the area, let alone rain. We have to go back a long way to the west to find any kind of showers. This is the front that came through last night with all of the showers and thunderstorms. The temperatures now only in the 70s. 77 in philadelphia. And the humidity is way down as well. Temperatures barely getting into the 80s during the day today, starting to cool off quickly tonight. It will be another comfortable night. By 10 00, its 64 degrees in the Lehigh Valley and in the 60s across the rest of the area. High it was at the shore as warm as the inland areas. Well see how much it warms up and when, coming up in a few minutes. Thank you, glenn. A check on the roads with traffic reporter pamela osborne. Seeing any trouble spots, pam . Some delays on the blue route, north of beady road there. A jackknifed trailer in the southbound lanes approaching where that was, some delays happening right now as a result of that. Were keep an eye on an accident in upper marion, youll want to avoid that area as well. Mass transit, septa is having some delays with their trollies. Nothing really significant there. But something to be aware of this morning if thats how youre getting around today. One more look, cherry hill, new jersey. This is route 70 at cornell avenue. Everything is moving smoothly. Pamela, thank you. Happening today, repairs to a gas main will cut down some lanes of traffic in cherry hill. Pse g is doing the work. The project should be finished by saturday. For updates, tap the nbc 10 app. Happening today, crews in north philadelphia will be demolishing the west sedgely avenue bridge. The demolition starts at 6 00 p. M. Tonight and expected to end by 6 00 a. M. Tomorrow. Officials say neighbors should expect minimal noise during construction work. The bridge is being replaced. Officials say the entire project should be done by the end of the year. The games in rio are in the history books today. A spectacular fireworks display marked the end of the closing ceremony last night. The fireworks shot from the top of the rio stadium and samba singers brought the crowd inside to their feet. Here is your final olympic medal count. Team usa dominated the competition by racking up 121 medals. The next closest country was china with 70, followed by Great Britain and russia. President obama saluted team usa with this tweet which read in part, couldnt be prouder of team usa. Your determination and passion inspired so many of us. The one black guy for t black eye for the u. S. Athletes is the incident involving ryan lochte. Police say the swimmers vandalized a gas station restroom and were confronted by security guards who demanded they pay for the damage. Lochte talked about ripping a poster off the wall. You just ripped it off the wall . Yeah. And i have no idea i was very intoxicated. I have no idea why. I mean, it was immature. It was childish. And it made a big noise . And it made a big noise. And we continued to walk out and get into a taxi. The u. S. Olympic Committee Says the swimmers will face discipline but have not yet decided what it will be. Nikes for newborns. Thats what newark olympian delle donne promised, that she would buy every baby born in the hospital over the weekend a pair of nikes. Team usa got the gold and the newborns got the shoes. One of those babies, it so happens, is the granddaughter of one of our nbc 10 employees. Gold medal swimmer Kelly Worrell from vorhees threw out the first pitch yesterday. Also at Citizens Bank park, a call for change after two people were hurt by foul balls during phillys games over the weekend. It started at saturday nights home game. A girl was hit by a line drive off the bat of freddie galves. The little girl was taken to the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. On sunday a woman was hit in the face by another foul ball. Fans say theyre worried whether theres enough net to go protect the fans. Its scary to think a baseball could actually hit your child in the game. Before the season started, the phillies were one of 19 teams that extended the netting to the sides of the dugout near home plate. But now they could be doing more. The Team Released this statement that reads in part, we decided earlier this season to consider the possibility of further expansion next season. A mother and son find themselves in a frightening situation. The pair are left hanging, literally inches from disaster. Well show you what happened next. Is a trump change in store . Why political observers think the republican nominee could modify one of his signature policy proposals. Glenn . And what a beautiful start to the workweek. But the heat is going to be returning eventually. Ill show you when. Now to decision 2016. There is an indication that donald trump may be looking to change his tone on one of his most controversial proposals of the campaign. And it involves deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Nbcs Hallie Jackson reports. Reporter a new week and a new tone for Donald Trumps team. Seeming to soften his stance supporting a socalled Deportation Force to remove the limit estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the u. S. Will trump actually use that force . To be determined. Reporter the candidate silent, his policy still standing, with trump struggling to win over minority voters, not just latinos but africanamericans, from whom he has just 1 support. Youre living in poverty. You have no jobs. 58 of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose . Reporter that argument to black voters delivered to mostly white communities. I live in a white community, im white, i was very moved by his comment. He is trying to tell americans we can do better. Reporter now as trump tries to stay on message for another week and on attack against Hillary Clinton, one of his top surrogates is raising eyebrows, raising questions about clintons health. Go online and put down, Hillary Clinton illness and look at the videos for yourself. Reporter clintons theme has shot down what they call deranged theories about her physical fitness. Shes under fire for her charitable foundation. What the foundation is saying is they dont want to become a distraction, that they want to go as far as they possibly can to make sure theres no possible conflict of interest. That was Hallie Jackson reporting. Meanwhile trumps running mate, indiana governor mike pence, will hold a rally in pipersville, bucks county, tomorrow afternoon at worth and company, a mechanical contractor there. Earlier this month pence hosted a town hall event in lancaster. A crash left a mother and son dangling from a florida overpass. The rescue was caught on camera. Witnesses say the woman was driving this car yesterday before she lost control and went over a concrete barrier. Firefighters had to use slings in order to secure the car and make sure it didnt fall any further. Rescuers also had to break out the back windows to pull the mother and her son to safety. You see them doing that right there. The two are wearing their seatbelts and suffered minor injuries. The mother was charged with careless driving. A paraglider is dead after slamming into a church on sunday in draper. Police say the 57yearold pilot crashed into a roof of a church building. Police are investigating whether the crash could have been caused by either a malfunction with the glider or a medical condition of its operator. The church was evacuated and services were cancelled. This morning, nine people are hurt in ohio after a driver accidentally plowed into a crowd of people at an outdoor concert near cleveland. Police say the driver was a 74yearold woman. She accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes while trying to get out of her parking space. Six people were taken to the hospital, two of them seriously hurt. So far charges have not been filed against the driver. Police say theyre still reviewing this case. And in central california, firefighters think they have stopped a wildfire from spreading to a historic landmark. The flames have stopped three miles from hearst cancel. Tours there have been cancelled. 46 buildings have been destroyed by the flames and hundreds more are threatened. South texas is cleaning up after heavy rain pounded the austin area wednesday night. Several people had to be rescued from flooding to the south. High waters swept through streets and across bridges. Check out this video of a dust storm rolling through phoenix, arizona. The storm yesterday was fueled by wind, wind gusts as high as 40 miles per hour. The dust moved across two major interstates and caused problems for drivers with visibility. The airport had to stop planes from taking off and landing during the worst of this dust storm. Announcer now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Finally weve gotten the heat and the humidity out of here. Temperatures now in the 70s. 77 in philadelphia. But the humidity is way down from what it has been much of the month of august. 75 in new jersey. 74 Lehigh Valley. 78 parts of delaware. The friend, well, it was 93 degrees on saturday, 89 sunday. But 83 today. 82 tuesday. We start going up on wednesday. And by the end of the week, we could be back to 90 degrees. We have a land breeze at the shore. And thats why its just as warm or even warmer at the beaches than it is inland. 81 in ventner, 80 in mays landing. 77 in woodbine. 77 in cape may point. Weve had really hot weather at the shore, ocean temperature is 70 degrees, by the way. No cloud anywhere close to us. The nearest in mississippi. Most of the country is pretty dry. We have a dry weather pattern this week. This is the predicted High Temperature with the predicted feelslike temperature. And last week and the week before, these numbers were way higher than the air temperature. But not this time. Chestnut hill, 82 degreehigh, feels like 80 because the humidity is so low. Makefield, feeling like 78. A lot of people enjoying this kind of weather. Stone harbor, 79, feeling like 78. Harrington in delaware, 82, feeling like 81. It was feeling like, what, 120 a week ago . In the tropics, midaugust to midoctober, this is Tropical Storm fiona. There are other disturbances that may become prop storms over this week. One of them, as you can see, moving in the general direction of the bahamas and storms that were going to have to keep an eye on as we go through the late portion of the week and into next week. Theres certainly no threat of anything over the next few days. Theres no threat of really any cloud cover over the next few days. There are the temperatures in philadelphia and the suburbs. Lehigh valley, barely to 80 today and tomorrow. Then warming up a bit on wednesday. The jersey shore in the 80s with the land breeze. Once the sea breeze kicks in, its not going to be quite as hot. And on the tenday forecast, theres an 85 wednesday. 88 thursday. Back up to 90 degrees on friday. And then over the weekend, were in the 80s. Were still basically dry. Good time to wash the car, because its not going to rain for quite a while. All right, good advice, thank you. A new proposal for fighting an epidemic, experts say theres a step pediatricians should be allowed to take that could help reduce the problem of opioid addiction. What one organization would like to see happen, coming up. Is your job taking a toll on your Mental Health . What one new study has to say. Pediatricians, according to a study, should be able to treat opioid use in teens. Use has doubled among adolescents in the past 25 years. Here in philadelphia, Officials Say Overdose Deaths from fentanyl have gone up 636 over the last two years. Thats why the American Academy of pediatrics is recommending doctors consider treating young patients with medications that help build long term sobriety. The nbc 10 digital team spent five months investigating the issue of opioid addiction in our region and beyond. Check out their awardwinning coverage right now in the nbc 10 app. The documentary, generation addicted, will air on nbc 10 on august 31st, which is International Overdose awareness day. You may want to encourage your teens to eat healthy rather than worry about their weight. New Research Shows teens who focus on eating right are less likely to be obese or have an eating disorder. Studies show family involved in treating weight problems is more effective than concentrating only on struggling adolescents. The American Academy of pediatricians recommends parents discourage dieting, promote a positive body image, have more family meals and avoid talking about weight. If you want to be mentally fit in your 40s, get a good job in your 20s. Thats the main finding of a new study from ohio state university. Researchers looked at today from over 6,000 people. Those dissatisfied with their employment in their early years were more worried, had more depression, and were more likely to have trouble sleeping by their 40s. Trouble in the tracks in texas. A train goes off the tracks and into the water, coming up. One boys wish. A child with a rare disease is about to have a dream come true. David was proud to be an american soldier. And i know im prejudiced because he was my son, but i dont think he had a mean bone in his body. There is not a day that i dont think about david. When i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. She was standing there, she had nothing to say. If donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them. Votevets is responsible for the content of this advertising. We have breaking news out of pennsauken, camden county. Police have made an arrest in the murder of a 2yearold boy. The child died of energy injuries. The mothers boyfriend faces homicide charges. The police came to the home on route 38 saturday night after a 911 call. Nbc 10s cydney long is working on the story, look for reports from her later today on nbc 10 news. Police continue to search for clues after a double shooting leaves a man dead and his wife in Critical Condition. The father was gunned down in front of his six Young Children in front of their home. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live on the scene. Reporter hey, vai. Investigators tell us the children found inside this home when gunshots were fired were between the ages of 5 and 13. Weve also learned they were the deceased mans children. We captured this video a short time ago. Detectives ar

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