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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am August 26, 2016

Bill . Lauren, it is a steamy one. The temperatures are soaring this morning. Were close to 90 degrees already, and look at the skies. Kind of hazy outside, but were getti ting enough sunshine to p temperatures up into the 90s this afternoon. This is going to be the hottest day of the week. 88 degrees already in philadelphia. Near 90 in wilmington, at 589. And look at the 80s for new jersey. Even at the shore, were seeing a warmup, Atlantic City reporting 89 degrees. Indeed, warmer than yesterday at this time. Up by 6 for philadelphia and allentown. Wilmington is 8 degrees warmer along with trenton. And you factor in the humidity, and it already feels like 104 degrees in dover, where the humidity is elevated. 93 is the feelslike temperature in philadelphia. And 97 degrees in vineland. And the temperatures are still climbing. Afternoon numbers into the middle 90s. Thats without the humidity. Factor in the humidity, 99 degrees is what our feelslike in center city. Sunshine and 90s for the suburbs and the Lehigh Valley. No sign of the showers that we started with first thing this morning. No sign of those cooler temperatures, either. Bordentown, 93, will feel like 97 degrees this afternoon, even at the shore, topping out near 90 degrees, and it was the evaluated humidity, it will feel like close to 100 degrees in stone harbor and right up to that mark more cape may. Weve got sunshine in delaware, too. Hazy sunshine. 93 in wilmington, will feel like 97 degrees this afternoon. There are some changes, though, ahead for the weekend. I think youll like them. Got a look at the weekend forecast when i come back in just a few minutes. Lauren . Thanks, bill. Right now officials are keeping watch on a philadelphia neighborhood after a chemical leak at a warehouse. G street is still closed between erie and venango in kensington because of a chemical that began leaking from its tank yesterday. Some businesses were evacuated. Now, this chemical can explode if it reaches high temperatures, but were told that is not a threat at this point. Crews are cleaning up the problem. New from overnight, repair crews are fixing a water main break in West Philadelphia on haverford avenue near 41st street. Thats where the pipe broke around 12 30 this morning. Were told the break didnt cause any significant damage. Lets get a check on your roads now with jessica boyington. Shes keeping an eye on that for us. Jessica, sounds like people will be pumping that airconditioning in their cars today. Definitely and maybe if youre heading down the shore, you can roll them down for a little bit. And youre actually going pretty quickly, so maybe you dont know the airconditioning at that point. Winds blowing through the car. Everythings moving along. There is construction, a lane blocked in both directions until noon today. So a little bit of a delay, because of that. But other than that, this is headed southbound right here. Thats whats headed towards the shore. Youll be good doing that, if you want to roll your windows down nice and quickly. Mansfield township, there is a debris field on the new jersey turnpike headed southbound around exit 6, around the p. A. Turnpike. Just watch for some small lane restrictions there. Also in new jersey, in hadden township, a traffic signal down on route 168 headed southbound around route 130. But our p. A. Majors look pretty much the same as they usually do. Heres the schuylkill expressway around montgomery drive, no huge problems or delays. Thats what they normally look like. Just a little bit slow. Thanks, jessica. Septa is adding express bus service to some Regional Rail lines next month, a move that could help ease congestion as septa works to get all its trains back on the tracks. Septa took more than 100 cars out of service just before the fourth of july. Originally, it said it wanted those cars to be back in service by labor day, but now it says the cars should be back by early november. The buses that will start running the day after labor day. Thats when the trains could really get more packed with school back in session. In montgomery county, a septa employee is in jail, accused of stealing more than a half Million Dollars worth of parts. Prosecutors say kyle allen of langhorne stole more than 200 batteries, catalytic converts, spools of wire and other electrical components. Officials say he hit septa stations across three counties. He allegedly sold the parts to scrap yards. Happening today, Vice President joe biden will be in wilmington, talking about the future of rail transit on the east coast. Bidens expected to announce a new 2. 5 billion deal between amtrak and a firm that builds highspeed trains. The Vice President will speak this afternoon at the amtrak station that bears his name. He was a longtime amtrak customer between women tonk and washington, d. C. Philadelphia police are looking for this man in a robber in center city. Police say the suspect asked a man walking at 22nd and market streets wednesday night for a dollar. When the man refused, he threatened to kill the victim and started reaching into a backpack while demanding the victims wallet. The victim gave him his wallet. Philadelphia police also need your help identifying a bank robber. He hit the Republic Bank on frankford avenue in homeford yesterday. He gave the teller a note demanding money and ran off with the cash. Now to the nbc 10 south jersey bureau. An intense manhunt is underway for the person who shot an 8yearold girl in the head. Police have increased patrols in camden while doctors at Cooper University hospital are working to keep Gabrielle Hill carter alive. Meantime, as you just saw, balloons were tied to her front porch outside her home. Thats where she was shot wednesday night. Police say at least four men were shooting at each other, and hill carter got caught up in the middle of it. A reward has been increased to 6,000 for anyone who has information leading to an arrest. The Pennsylvania State senate will reconvene this sunday for a vote to possibly name the states new attorney general. Governor tom wolf has nominated bruce beemer to take over the see. Kathleen kane was convicted of lying to the grand jury. Yesterday, the phils traded carlos ruiz to the dodgers. Hes the third member of the 2008 world series chance to be dealt to the dodgers, following Jimmy Rawlins and chief utley, although rawlins is no longer with l. A. In return for ruiz and some cash, the fiphillies got a. J. Ellis and received former Haverford College pitcher, tommy bergjanes and a player to be named later. The world series title will be decided this week in philadelphia. Officials are hoping to shatter attendance records. Thats not all thats being shattered. A wild pitch yesterday smashed the lens of the network tv camera behind home plate. Play was stopped, the grounds krewe cleaned up the debris, but as you can see, the camera itself kept working. At the jersey shore this weekend, you can party with the sixers. This is video from the sixers beach bash last year. This years bash is in avalon. It starts at 3 00 tomorrow. You can meet the sixers number one draft pick, ben simmons. An officer races to the scene when a man is trapped in a lifethreatening situation. What followed was a dramatic rescue from a burning car. And it was all captured ton officers body camera. Well show it to you. Plus, hes an nba star with local ties. Now hes back in town after winning gold. Kyle lowry joins us in our studios, coming up. Golden sunshine and were warming into the 90s. Almost there in wilmington. That is live view from crowley stadium. Look at the weekend forecast. We have some changes ahead when we come back. 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The passenger couldnt get out because the accident bent the door frame. Whitney bent back the frame after trying to get the fire out with a small extinguisher. An explosion under the hood knocked off his hat and his camera. The passenger is okay. Though, sadly, the driver did not survive. A man is in custody in omaha, nebraska, after police say he stole a truck and rammed it into a parked plane. It happened last night at etly airfield. Police say a man jumped a security fence, stripped down to his underwear, and then stole a truck and rammed it into a plane. There were people boarding that plane, but no one was seriously hurt. Now to decision 2016. Both Hillary Clinton and donald trump are now accusing each other of racism. Andrea mitchell reports on the new war of words between the candidates. Donald trump ramping up his war of words with Hillary Clinton on cnn late thursday. Again calling her a bigot. She is a bigot. In what way . Because when you look at whats happening to the inner cities. You look at whats happening to africanamericans and hispanics in this country, where she talks all the time. Reporter clintons running mate, tim kaine, addressing the bword in a taped interview with Stephen Colbert that airs tonight. He called your friend, Hillary Clinton, a bigot. When Hillary Clinton got out of law school, she was working to help advance Racial Justice in the juvenile Justice System in South Carolina and fight School Desegregation in alabama. At his early career, donald trump was a real estate guy who got sued by the Justice Department for discriminating against people in housing. He is taking hate groups mainstream. Reporter and in a major speech, clinton tearing into trump, charging her rival with building his campaign on prejudice and paranoia, tying him to rightwing extremists, citing trumps leading role in the birther movement. He promoted the racist lie that president obama is not really an american citizen. Reporter dismissing his claims about her health. His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health. All i can say is, donald, dream on. Reporter calling trumps new campaign ceo, steve bannon, the head of breitbart, a key player in the altright movement. A fringe element that has effectively taken over the republican party. Reporter underscoring her message with a new video, featuring former klansmen, david duke. Running against donald trump at this point is really treason to your heritage. Reporter even before clinton spoke, trump insisted she was smearing her supporters. Hillary clinton isnt just attacking me, shes attacking all of the decent people, of all backgrounds, doesnt matter, of all backgrounds, who support this incredible, once onceinalifetime movement. Escalating his attack on the clinton foundation. Hillary clintons actions constitute all of the elements of a major criminal enterprise. Reporter as to his own 100,000 donation not foundation constituted pay for play, trump hedged. I didnt do it for that reason. But i will say, they like me a lot. And if i didnt make that contribution, they probably wouldnt have ma liked me at all. That was Andrea Mitchell reporting. A suicide bomber killed at least 11 Police Officers in turkey today. The Prime Minister says the kurdish militant rammed a truck packed with explosives into a checkpoint near a Police Station in southern turkey. 78 others are hurt. Two days ago, turkey launched attacks against isis and Kurdish Militia fighters in syria. No ones claimed responsibility for that bombing, yet. In italy, a first look at the rescue efforts after wednesdays deadly earthquake. Italian Police Released this amateur video today, of rescuers walking through the streets of amatrice. And more trouble for the same town today. Aftershocks from the quake are damaging the two crucial roads into the town. Theyre shut down and making access difficult. Generations of history are at risk for many families in italy because of the quake. This rustic twostory villa has been home to the same family for five centuries. Now its covered in cracks. Firefighters are trying to go inside to recover treasures, but aftershocks are making things dangerous. Announcer now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Heading out right now, weve got lots of hazy sunshine and the temperatures are taking off. Hot, humid conditions. And the temperatures will continue to climb into this afternoon, along with humidity, which will remain evaluated, but start to drop this evening. A warm evening, yes. Well be in the 80s with some scattered clouds. The clouds have been thinning out nicely. Already, 85 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. The suburbs, 88 degrees and near 90 until delaware. Typically, we get cooler temperatures at the shore, but not today. 89 degrees already. Upper 80s for cape may courthouse. Hot and humid all around today. Cape may, the crowd is growing. This is the place to be, even with sunshine and temperatures that will feel like theyre in the upper 90s this afternoon. This is a breeze blowing, and that wind is going to help us, as we go into the weekend. But today, thats not going to make much of a difference. Steam heat through the day today with the temperatures feeling like theyre close to 100 degrees in philadelphia this afternoon. 99 degrees is what it will feel like at 4 00 this afternoon, while the temperatures are in the low to mid90s. The cooldown this evening, thats when dry air starts to move into the air. So thats going to make for a pleasant change this weekend. Its going to be a sunny weekend and a warm one, too, with lowering humidity saturday and sunday, a lot nicer than what were dealing with today. Saturday, 90 degrees in philadelphia. Near 90 degrees on sunday. If youre looking for some cooler temperatures, the shore is the place to be. And if youre looking for rainfall, its really not in store for us. We had a few showers this morning. Weve dried out nicely and those showers that are way to the west are going to be staying out of our picture over the next several days. But the end of the fiveday forecast, you can see tuesday, a chance of some storms in philadelphia. Not likely. At the shore, it should stay dry there. And before we get there, the temperatures are right back into the 90s on monday afternoon. The full tenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. Lauren . Thanks, bill. Kyle lowry is a philadelphia native who played for villanovas Mens Basketball Team and who has gone on to become an allstar point guard in the nba. And whats more, he just brought home a gold medal from rio. This weekend, he is giving back to his hometown and we are pleased to welcome kyle to our stud studios. Welcome back to philadelphia. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. And congratulations. That is incredible. Yes, its an honor for me to be able to wear this and represent my country and bring the gold back home. And you were just saying, its a little heavy around your neck. Its very heavy. I think i wore it for 20 straight minutes and i was like, yeah, i got a little crick in my neck now. Be careful, be careful. Dont injure anything. No. What was it like to be over in rio as part of team usa . It was an honor. It was a situation i never thought i would be in, but it came true. To be hang ought with those guys, and, you know, coach k. Did a great job of letting us understand how much we were representing our country. The things that we could do for our country and the military that we represented. It was an amazing honor. All right. So winning the gold or watching the wildcats win the National Championship . Can you weigh those . I want to say winning my gold. I was there watching the game, but winning this, this is special. You know the cats got their championship, but this is for me and my personal, you know, life, this is definitely much more special. Had you thought was it something you ever thought about, actually going to the olympics and winning a gold medal . No. I always thought about it, always dreamed about it, watching the dream team in 92 and watching those guys in 08, the redeem team. It was always a chance for me to say, i wish i could do that. But once the call came, it was a nobrainer. Yes, im there. Lets go win a gold medal. So now you are back in philadelphia. And tell me about the special clinic that youre part of. Were doing a free clinic for the city of philadelphia. And we always try to do something to give back to the community, especially where im from. And give the kids an opportunity to meet someone what grew up the way they did, give back, give some free things, and have the opportunity to interact with me and me and some of my friends and have the chance to give back. Now that youve had that experience in rio, how can you fit that into your lessons for them . Well, its going to be a kid coming from the inner city, working hard to get to the situation where he was able to go back and come home with the gold medal from rio and represent the country and be a part of a great team. All right. Sounds awesome. Thanks so much, kyle, for joining us, and bringing that medal here and winning it for team usa. Once again, kyle lowry, Community Day is tomorrow. It runs from 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. At the mastery charter school. Tap the nbc 10 mobile app. You can get more information there. Again,

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