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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am February 14, 2017

Contacts with russia. He admitted to talking to the Russian Ambassador about relaxes sanctions before donald trump was president. He may have been making that call on behalf of the administration or the incoming administration. Would that be accurate . No. It would be a mistake to conclude that. Remember in the end it was misleading the Vice President that made the situation unsustainable. Now flynn released a statement saying, quote, i inadvertently briefed the Vice President and others with incomplete information. Retired army general Keith Kellogg has replaced flynn for the time being. Also on the short list is David Petraeus and robert harward. Russia is reacting meantime to the resignation. The kremlin says this is an internal matter for the u. S. And none of its business. In the past russian officials denied any discussions about lifting sanctions prior to the president s inauguration. We have sky force 10 over an accident on i95. This is a live picture on the northbound lanes in hope well township mercy county. This involves two cars and a tractortrailer. Just the shoulder is getting by in the northbound lanes. Were unsure of any injuries right now, but this is not a fatal accident. Nonetheless, you see the traffic backed up there. For more on this, lets check in with jessica boyington. As you can see, really big delays. This is in hope well headship and headed on 95 northbound. It is just around exit 4. Were having problem from the video feed of sky force 10. Allowing about one car at a time to trickle by, so this is not much better than actually being closed within the hour, which it has been since around the 10 00 mark. Heres another view, maybe a view that wont be blinking in and out here. Its around route 31 and thats around exit 4. Some of the cars are able to get out to the front and exit right after the exit ramp right here. The rest are trickling by one at a time. This is going to be there for a little bit. Once this is clear, theres going to be massive delays behind it anyway. Just up in this general area you can see some of those delays. Thats where were seeing that 95 northbound closure right there where the cars are just moving by so slowly. You have to get up to this northbound area. If youre coming from the pa side, you can take route 1. Thats an option. 2951 still open over in new jersey. Just remember were also dealing with that bridge closure for the Delaware River bridge. That might be a hard thing getting from pa to new jersey right now. Sky force 10 over a house fire in philadelphias kensington neighborhood. You can see firefighters on the roof there working to get to the flames. This is on East Cornwall street. This happened just before 9 00 this morning. The fire is out now and no one was hurt. New details about a deadly fire in the frankford neighborhood. A heater is being blamed for the fire that killed an elderly woman. It started on akron street. Marisol cruz was bedridden and was not able to make it out safely. Less windy for now. Heres a live look at center city where things are much calmer than they were yesterday. Krystal cline is here now with the most accurate forecast in town. Krystal . Things are looking a lot better than yesterday. Dont have to break out the gust map. Winds only around 5 to 10 miles per hour. If you remember yesterday, we had gusts in the 40 to 50 mile per hour range. Not the case today. Still looks chilly though. Right now were seeing 31 degrees in pottstown. 36 Atlantic City to millville. Dover at 37 degrees. Temperatures in the afternoon should make their way to about the low mid 40s for highs across the board, and thats going to shape up to be a pretty nice valentines day for this point in the year. Radar and satellite, clouds right across our region. Theres some showers trying to develop down south near washington, d. C. As we pull this out, were actually going to be staying dry you can see through the next several hours. We go through a mix of clouds and sun into your afternoon. Temperatures start to climb. Were at 40 at 1 00 and 44 by afternoon. If you have dinner plans for valentines day, well take a closer look and well also talk more about the winds increasing yet again on that extended forecast. Happening today, well learn who will lead an independent review of that deadly prison standoff in smyrna. Were also learning about growing staffing problems for the prison since that standoff. Tim furlong is live in wilmington where the governor is about to make an announcement. Reporter yeah, in about 40 minutes were going to go upstairs to the governors office. Were going to learn who is going to lead that independent investigation. Take a look. 13 days ago, Corrections Officers and a counselor were overtaken in the c building at the james t. Vaughn prison center. The governor wanted to know how this could happen, what led it to, and how this could be prevented again from happening in the future. Questions about the relationships between inmates and officers and staffing issues. A number of officers have quit or filed for retirement. More than half of all Corrections Officers will quit within three years. At least they have historically. We have a lot of questions for the governor. Hopefully were going to get some answers. After that news conference, i have set up a immediameeting wi head of the correction officers union. Efforts are under way today to create an alert system for hitandrun investigations. Jay alerts would send out information about hitandrun vehicle descriptions similar to what police do during amber alerts. It is named after jayana powell. She was struck and hit by a hitandrun driver last year while walking home from school. An 18yearold died last week after she was hit by a car while leaving the Palmer Park Mall in the Lehigh Valley. Police are still looking for the driver who hit her. In montgomery county, septa will increase its bus route by splitting it in two. Riders will now have the choice of a red line or a blue line. Two separate smaller routes will help get more riders where theyre going faster. Two women are in the hospital after being stabbed in a West Philadelphia neighborhood. Police were called to parkside avenue around 1 30 this morning. The women stabbed each other. Both are expected to survive. The son of Jerry Sandusky is himself facing a sex abuse scandal. Jeff sandusky was arrested and suspended from his job as a corrections officer. He asked for naked pictures from a 16yearold girl. He also asked a 15yearold girl to perform a sex act. He is the adopted son of Jerry Sandusky who is spending time in prison for sexually abusing young boys. We talked to a child psychologist about these latest allegations. Sometimes there can be something called survivors guilt where maybe nothing particularly happened to that person, but it happened to the siblings. And that guilt can also impact how they lead their lives and that can make them also make some choices that arent so healthy for them. Sanduskys attorney declined to comment on the allegations. A man Philadelphia Police say grabbed and kissed a septa officer against her will is facing an assault charge. Police arrested the man yesterday at the 69 Street Transportation Center in upper darby. The officer was not hurt. Three former fire officials will be spending their weekends in prison after a plea deal. The former president of the Volunteer Fire Department along with her boyfriend and daughter pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. They were ordered to pay 35,000 in restitution. Theyll spend 15 consecutive weekends at the county prison and then be on probation for three years. Delaware county will be the end of the line for a new propane and National Gas Pipeline across pennsylvania. The pipeline will run more than 300 miles from Washington County to the refinery in marcus hook. The company says it will provide four times the capacity of its existing pipeline. More than 100 people died in 2015 after taking fentanyl by taking the drug alone or mixing it with heroin or cocaine. Play without the girls or forfeit the season. Thats the decision a fifth Grade Basketball Team in north jersey had to make. Youre looking at the kids vote to forfeit. This Catholic Youth Organization team near newark made their choice after the arch diseaoces enforced its rules that boys and girls cant play on the same teams. We want to hear what you think about the decision made by this team of fifth graders. How would you feel if one of your sons or daughters were faced with that choice. Interesting reaction i got on my Facebook Page this morning when i posted this story for sure. The clock is ticking to avoid a disaster in california. Officials are racing against the rain as a dam remains in danger of collapse. Well have an update straight ahead. A different way to deal with snow. Youll never guess the secret ingredient. And you have plans this evening for valentines day. Were going to go through your planner neighborhood by neighborhood to let you know how cool it gets by this evening and then well talk the winds in the days to come. Were just getting more information about that accident we showed you off the top of sky force 10 on 95. Jessica, whats the latest . Were watching this in hope well township. This is 95 northbound where they have it shut down. Theyre just now allowing a car or so to trickle by on the northbound side. This is right near route 31, which is exit 4. A few cars involved and a tractortrailer. Some people taken to the hospital here as well. We have a lot of Police Activity on the scene, but the biggest problem is the northbound side where its been shut down since 10 00. This isnt providing much relief for anybody moving through the area. They have taken out part of the Center Median there, part of the next shoulder over, two lanes, and then this lane is where were starting to see some of that movement. Now how to get around it, its a little different, especially if youre headed up to that northern area. If youre coming from the pa side, you can take route 1. 295 is still open. The burlington bristol bridge is still open. Now to europe where a Freight Train and a passenger train collided with deadly results. The crash happened in luxembourg. 2,000 residents are being ordered to stay away from their homes until the oroville dam is fixed. Reporter officials call this a race against time. Crews working overtime, dropping bo boulders to fix the spillway, all to prevent a catastrophic failure of the nations tallest dam. It can fail. When it is leveed, there are bridges. Reporter the threat of a breach so serious nearly 190,000 residented ord es ordered to ev. I had to pick up our kids. We have six kids. We left with nothing. Reporter others like Bill Morrison staying put. He knows if it fails, hell be in the path of a torrential flood. If i see it break, adios. Im out of here. Reporter in 2005, three environmental groups, including ron storks, filed this motion with the federal government asking them to armor the emergency spillway with concrete, saying it didnt meet modern safety standards. Officials rejected the request concluding it was safe and would, quote, perform as designed. This effects real people and real lives, and i think we should have spent the money. Reporter water Officials Say theyre investigating the claims and the dam is structurally sound, but with more rain coming as early as tomorrow, swift water rescue teams are standing by. Well, theres a sweet new way to clean up snow and ice. Crews in rhode island say the concentrate ingredient is better than brine. Guess what. Its molasses. Road crews are spraying it onto the current supply of rock salt. It sticks better to the roadways making salt more effective, meaning you dont have to use quite as much. Notice a difference. Were doing something different. It seems to be better. Its best for the storm water management. Unlike the popular brine solution, molasses is tougher to wash off. Thats crazy. Molasses. We dont have to worry about snow anytime soon, which is pretty sweet, i think. Lets check in with krystal klei. Were trying to get past the end of winter on a nice easy note because conditions are looking pretty dry. At least through the next ten days. We see weve got clouds outside, a little sun breaking through, but no rain and no snow falling out there. We dont have that in the forecast as we move forward either. Temperatures would have close though if we had anything. 35 for chestnut hill. Pretty chilly out there right now. Society hill 35 and 34 at the airport. Were also 35 degrees in summerton. Were going to climb into the low 40s by this afternoon. In delaware currently marshallton, 36. Lincoln, allendale, upper 30s. Radar and satellite, we have got the clouds in our region. Weve got some moisture, a little rainsnow mix, down to the south of us. We stay dry for our valentines day and beyond just with some clouds. Its going to really just stay right to the south of us. And as the next system starts to develop, it too is going to stay to the south of us. We are just going to miss out as we go through the next few days. 8 00 p. M. , were at 40. By 10 00 p. M. , we do slip into the 30s. It will be chilly, but a lot better than yesterday because the winds are not nearly as strong. Only about 5 to 15 miles per hour. In the suburbs, 40 by 6 00. Flirting with freezing in some spots. 34 officially in allentown. Delaware, youll be 38 degrees. Upper 30s by around 8 00 to 10 00 p. M. You can expect that drop into the 30s. A little mix of clouds clearing. Tomorrow thats when winds start to pick back up. Were looking around 10 to 20 mile per hour sustained winds but with gusts up to 25 and 30 miles per hour. It will be the pick up you notice in the wind speeds and theyll continue into your thursday. We go from 46 tuesday to 48 degrees tomorrow with those breezy to windy conditions. Then thursday gusts up to around 30 to 40 miles an hour with a temperature of only 42. The system will stay to our south. We do see a big warmup in store for your weekend. Saturday, 60. Sunday, 63. We keep those upper 50s in the forecast even through monday. If youre a parent whose baby was small at birth, youll want to hear this. Some of the challenges lowbirth weight babies may deal with later in life. 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We have breaking news in this accident on i95 weve been covering since we came on the air about a half hour ago. This is the northbound lanes in hope well township mercy county. Sky force 10 was in the air. Involving two cars and a tractortrailer. A couple of lanes have now been trickling by. Although it looks like for the moment it has stopped. Were unsure of any injuries right now, but we do know there was no fatalities. Lets check in with jessica boyington. Right. We are watching this since about 10 00 this morning actually. Right here is video from what we saw a little while ago when sky force 10 was over the top of the scene. A few vehicles involved. A tractortrailer, two other vehicles. Some of the cars looking pretty mangled there as well. On the northbound side in hope well township at exit 4 on route 31. Now were seeing things improve just a little bit. Were down to one lane pretty much getting by. Before it was one car at a time over the shoulder. Right now were seeing at least one lane getting by. Either way youre going to see some pretty big delays moving northbound there. If youre coming from the pennsylvania side, 95 not a good idea. Take route one. If youre over in new jersey, take 295. Just remember the Delaware River bridge is still closed for structural repairs. Tracy, back to you. Now checking out our nbc 10 headlines for today. Fire damages a house in philadelphias kensington neighborhood. Sky force 10 caught firefighters on the roof working to get to the flames on East Cornwall street. Nobody was hurt. Any minute well know who will be put in charge of an independent review into the smyrna prison uprising. Today officials confirm that since the incident a handful of officers had quit or retired. Two women are expected to survive of pol

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