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WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am August 23, 2017

Slammed into another train. Good morning. Im rosemary connors. The man expected to mean with those investigators today. We are live at the transportation center. This is expected to be a lengthy interview. Reporter they said it could take several months to get to the cause of this crash. We know eight ntsb investigators here. They will be collecting evidence and speaking with the trains engineer. Dozens of passengers were injured. Four critical but all expected to survive. He urged the chairman for a speedy investigation writing we need answers now we need answers now the problem can be corrected. Tom wolf is in chester today. Well be asking him about his thoughts. Hopefully well have that for you when we see you at 11 30. Nbc 10 news. Thanks for that. New this morning more trouble for commuters. A new Jersey Transit train derailed. I it all started when an amtrak crew was moving the new Jersey Transit train was moving. Some cars ended up derailing. Kpl commuters have gotten used to them because of the repairs to the track all summer long. Sun is shining across the area this morning. This is near camel beach. A mix of sun and clouds. If the storms didnt wake you up last night you are a heavy sleeper. Yes. We saw how strong they were. It is a long period of time. We still have a little bit of high humidity. We will stay later this afternoon. Overall 78 degrees. A mix of clouds and sun. It is 76 in the lehigh valley. Still have a little more cloud coverage right now. Well have an isolated shower as we get into the afternoon. You can see here what im looking at. Pretty clear to the north. More clouds starting to stretch into south jersey. It is nothing like storms last night. It will be the last gasp of rain we have in our forecast for quite some time. We are talking pretty big difference in temperatures throughout the next several days. It will be very welcomed. In a few minutes well talk about the timing of spotty showers and lower humidity. And temperatures falling, well look at how low they go in just a few minutes. Thanks. Do you have your power ball tickets for tonights drawing . A surge in sales pushed the jackpot to 700 million. The largest was 1. 6 billion. Your odds of winning, one in 292 million. Theres a chance, right . It does not depend on the numbers you pick but there are combinations of numbers people pick. You may want to stay away from such popular combinations because you would likely end up splitting the pot if you do win. A 30 million lifeline. Yesterday the board of governors agreed to give 30 million in loans. The nations oldest historically black college must have a balanced budget by september 1st to keep its accreditation. The state board also gave permission to cut academic programs without allowing students to finish their studies. Siting a loss of confidence in his ability to command. The decision follows four warship accidents, two of which left sailors dead or missing. Theyve i have divers found the remains of some of the ten sailors missing in the accident. Nbc 10 has learned one of the missing sailors from the u. S. S. John mccain has one friend tells us he always wanted to be in the navy to be in his fathers footsteps. A statement says i want to thank all of those who offered prayers and support as i await word on my son kenneth. I appreciate the work of the crew in the aftermath of the collision abdomnd the ongoing re effort. Looking at whether heavy rains played a part in a collapsed wall. It happened after those storms moved through yesterday. The family showed us the damage. They tell us they devastated. They cant go back inside until investigators the safety of the house. Police looking for the vandals that targeted nearly two dozen they discovered temperature toppled headstoles. I dont understand who you people can do smig Church Members say it will cost over 10,000 for repairs. This follows vandalism after a this morning we are haerg from the victim of a burglary in philadelphia who says thieves stole rent money and birthday cash. He plans to install a Security System in his house this week. Lets head to south jersey. Hundreds of students are spending their first day of school in a brand new building. More than 750 kid frs kindergarten to eighth grade got to arrive for class. The new school has light filled classrooms and separate gym as well as library. The chief Operations Officer tells us they are excited about everything they are offering students. When i walked into the building to see a Natural Light throughout the building i get excited by that. Kids dont get a chance to see that and experience that. I cant wait until it is up and running. When youre in a city opportunities like that a new building will be used for Community Meetings and continuing education for adults. Coming up, tear gas, arrests and political passion. Tempers flared and the president s remarks about the media and democrats. Also ahead, into the wild, released thousands of farm rised salmon and whats being done to catch them. We are drying out. I i youll like what it means into the weekend. Dedays coming details coming up. Come to sesame place before little kids become, big kids. Before furry hugs, become first loves. Buy your 2018 season pass now, and get the rest of 2017 free fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our Fastest Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of you contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com four people face charges. The mayhem ensued after trumps speech. Someone threw rocks and bottles at officers. The president was on the attack. The he criticized democrats. We get more from nbc 10 National Correspondent edward lawrence. Reporter contentious protests before and after President Donald Trump spoke at a rally. During the speech the president unscripted. He blasted the media criticizing the controversy. Why did it take a day . He must be a racist. Think would like us not to do it. We have to close down our government we are building that wall. Reporter he hinted again he would pardon joe arpaio without names mccain he called him out as the reason Health Care Reform failed. We were one vote away from victory after seven years of everybody pro claiming repeal and replace. Both arizona senators boycotted. So i think its pretty sad no matter what side youre on. Reporter they say he may not be competent enough to lead this country. Nbc news, washington. In you this morning Jared Kushner and others are getting the snub by leaders in egypt. They cancelled a meeting with the u. S. Delegation. It comes after the Trump Administration cut nearly 100 million in aid to egypt just yesterday. The west wing of the white house is looking pretty sharp after 3. 5 million including heating, fresh car petting, i. T. Upgrades and a lot more. Police in western pennsylvania areinvestigating. Here is a look at the states 20 bill. The dead give away is this is a fake. It says promotion pictures use only. They have not said whether exactly passed it along. An unusual cleanup in Washington State there send people home with plenty of free salmon. The fish got into the open waterway. Wildlife officials are urging people to catch as many of the fish as possible. A live view here. Beautiful picture overhead. This will be the case as we go day after day. This is a not normal forecast for us to say its going to be dry. Here is a look in philadelphia. Today is kind of our transition gn al day. I want to start sending out the clouds. Temperatures will fall from the high 90 degree feels like conditions yesterday in the low 90s. This is really going to be better off. Park side at 79. Only reporting at 70 degrees. Here is our radar and satellite view. It shows a good deal of sunshine. Southern half still spilling in clouds here. Mostly cloudy conditions with spotty light showers possible. If we pull this out wider it is this pathway thats driving over delaware and south jersey. We go through the model here. There are a few sprinkles i was talking about. You can see this is offshore here and then everything is pretty much out as we go through the rest of the evening. Thursday lots of sunshine and thats a constant in our forecast. We are looking at 84 the high in summerton. It is 82 in allentown. Upper 70s for cookstown. Isolated showers we have possible and in delaware we are at 83 for our forecast high today. The last couple days we went from kind of humid to horribly humid. Today we are feeling much nicer. It is already starting to dip. It will feel great out there, not like summer in august for this area. Well talk more about how long this lasts with your ten day on ten coming up in the next half hour. This just in, no pumpkin chunkin competition this year. They have cancelled the event. They are being sued bay woman who said she was hit in the head by a piece of pumpkin causing catastrophic injuries. The land owner who donated his property is also named in that suit. Coming up, the eagles getting ready for their most parent game of the preseason. They are expected to see plenty of playing time tomorrow night. We hear more on what to expect. Also, tired of the tax, what a Study Reveals about philadelphias sugary drink tax and what customers are doing about it. Every year south jersey sends more and more tax money to trenton, but gets less and less back thanks to Steve Sweeney and chris christie. Heres the sweeneychristie record eight years of underfunded schools. Huge tax breaks for themselves and their rich friends while we pay more. And homestead rebate funding for seniors cut in half next year. Dont believe the fake news from his wealthy donors. Steve sweeney stands with chris christie, not with south jersey. Eagles are getting set for their third preseason game. The birds will take on miami dolphi dolphins. Philadelphia eagles insider is with us here. Let me start with michael kendricks. Will he be there when the season starts . He is the starting line backer. It is key for him to find a way to use him. We have seen him make plays in the back field. He has two interceptions. He snuffed toout a screen pass. He is an active player moving forward. He will find a way to move him. The obvious thing, two line backers played. All right. Time to start looking how how it is going to fill out. No need to use him in the preseason. What is he going to gain . S the eagles want to get him ready for the regular season. Thats all that matters. Everything thats happening, we are not talking about it. It will be about the washington redskins. Hall after famer. Hall of famer . Five of them. I dont know about. That well see. Tomorrow the most important day. The starters are going to play most of the first half and possibly into the third. Yeah. And this offense has been disjointed. They havent run the football effectively. The eagles believe they can run the football. Carson wentz has been up and down. They will have five starters. It should be the best showing of the defense. All right. We are out of time. Give me one rookie to look for. Derrick barnett, three sacks in two games. Great player. There you go. They are back in action tomorrow night. Where can you see this game . Right here on nbc 10. All on nbc 10. The only place you can watch the birds in the preseason. Keith jones and jock clark will kick off or coverage starting at 6 00. Espn facing criticism over the decision to pull an announcer from the broadcast of the ufrt of virginias first football game. Thats the same name as the confederate general. Espn says they made the decision to protect lees safety. It is being played in charlottesville over the controversial removal of the statue of confederate generals. Social media is lighting up over the Networks Decision with some calling it absurd. Right now all eyes are on the sky above the jersey shore. The Atlantic City air show. Well take you live where 400,000 people are expected to enjoy the action. And later, making their voices heard. Women received the right to vote. Ahead, details on two special events honoring National Womens equality day. Authorities trying to figure out what cause add septa train to crash into another in upper darby delaware county. They want to hear from the man at the controls of that train. We are live to tell you more, pam. Reporter ntsb investigators will be speaking with him. We asked the ntsb if they would be making that available. The answer is no. We can tell you the camera is pointing in the direction of the trains engineers. The video recordings have been downloaded and sent back to washington for analysis. The investigation could take months. Dozens of passengers, including the trains engineer are recovering from injuries. Four are critical but all are expected to survive. This is the second train to crash here in the past six months. The investigation into the february incident is still ongoing. I mentioned that the grof nor is in chester this morning for an event. As soon as that is over with seeing if he could get our thoughts on rail safety. Well have more on nbc 10. Im pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. Thanks for that, pam. Lets get a check of our nbc 10 headlines. This latest ship crashed near singapore. They stated a loss of confidence in his ability to lead. There have been four warship accidents two of which left sailors either dead or missing. President donald trump is after the rowdy rally thats night and where he drafted the immediate yachlt they arrested four people outside the event. Plenty of folks dreaming of becoming multimillionaires. It is the second highest in power ball history. Well have winning numbers this chbing at 11 00. Happening right now an aerial display is about to start high above the beaches. The air show is happening today and a crowd of 400,000 strong is expected to watch the pie lotds and planes. Hey ted. Yea. Reporter yeah. Thats right. Check it out. We have a sea of people. Theres not a lot of room left right by the water. The air show just about to get started. The u. S. Army Golden Knights parachute team followed by many more thrills. The beaches getting crowded with hundred of thousands of people here for the 15th atlantic air show. Pilots took to the skies for a practice run yesterday. It gives you an important economic boost including mccane and a huge group of relatives. The only problem we cant is. We are excited. Looking fortoward to a great show. Air pace is restricted. Anyone caught flying a drone will have it confiscated. Not allowing any surfing or boogie boarding. We are waiting for it to start. Well show you more coming up on nbc 10 at 4 00. Nbc 10 news all right. Thanks for that. Pretty decent day. We saw the picture. Lets go a little bit further south there is a possibility of a shower later on today so get to the beach sooner rather than later. Krystal klei is tracking that for us. Yeah. We are looking at nice conditions for the region compa compared to what we saw last night. It is 82 in millville. The shore is one of the warmer spots. It is 83 at the Atlantic City marina. Redding at 75 degrees. Getting into the afternoon many of us will sit in the 80s. Nowhere near the 90s. Yesterdays feels like conditions were in the triple digits. It wont be a problem today. Here is why. Usually you have low to mid7 po. It is 57 in philadelphia right now. It is way drier outside. It will remain on the drier side through the next several days straight right through your weekend. Here is your radar and satellite view. Isolated showers. You can see a little bit of cloud coverage rolling through. Well track it and talk about the temperature drop as well. This morning in new jersey fellow lawmakers are mourning the loss of public servant. He served the second district. He also had been a state assembly men and mayor of Atlantic City. He recently had surgery. He told supporters he was planning to return to work. He was 68 years old. The current mayor issued a statement which reads in part i will always appreciate jims guidance and showing him the ropes. He dedicated his whole life to Public Service to Atlantic City and will keep him and his family in my prayers. May he rest in peace. Booker issued this statement. It says new jersey lost a true leader. He always served with dignity. State Senate President had this to say. For the people of south jersey and his entire state he was the author of many of the initiatives that have helped to revitalize Atlantic City and will be remembered for that work for generations to come. In other news this morning a new study finds the sugary drink tax is prompting others. The firm found sales of sweetened drinks fell. Outside the city limit went up about 38 tax. It raised close to 40 million so far. We did reach out to city officials to get their take on the study. They said while we think it is dramatically overstating the drop we expected retail sales would be down because initially people are upset. They do the math and figure out it doesnt make it worth it. There was a kiem whenl only honoring National Womens equality day in philadelphia. Check it our way. Well look at how long i in a few minutes. Fios is not cable. Were a 100 fiber optic network. And with the new fios gigabit connection. You get our Fastest Internet ever. With download speeds up to 940 megs 20 times faster than most people have. Switch to fios gigabit connection with tv and phone for 79. 99 a month online for the first year. Plus hbo for one year and multiroom dvr service for two years, all with a twoyear agreement. And switching has never been easier. Get out of you contract with up to a 500 credit to help cover your early termination fee. Go to fiosgigabit. Com this saturday marks 97 years since women received the right to vote in america. It holds special significance in the city where American Freedom was born. Joining me now are lynn and pat jones so explain what vision 20 20 is. It is individuals working togethe

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