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WCAU NBC10 News Today At 530am November 19, 2015

Right now eye on terror. A gunman opens fire in the paris terrorist attacks plus a new police raid in brussels. Video showing a flameing suspect running from the scene of a business fire in philadelphia. Well show you the damage left behind. This morning, we are tracking rain in the first alert radar. What you need to know as you get your morning started. Its warm outside, 60 degrees at 5 30. Good morning, im tracy davidson. You want the rain coat. Not too big, it is warm out there. Meteorologist bill henley is standing by. It looks like people are leaving the house soon. They can be okay. Not getting rain right now. Another hour or two that will be dry. Which start to see rain moving into the area. Now its just dry. As you mentioned, unusually warm. Currently, it is in the low 60s in philadelphia, 60 degrees even. Thats 17 degrees warmer than yesterday. But it is about to get damp. The steady rain is just starting to inch into western lancaster county. You can see washington, d. C. Getting some of that rain. We seen some sprinkles north and west. So far, philadelphia is completely dry. But it is cloudy. 60 degrees at 7 00. Steady rain just after 7 00 and continues at 10 00 this morning. Look at those winds, southeasterly at 66 miles, it will be stronger at 1 00 this afternoon t. Temperature in spite of the rain will stay in the 60s today. We go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood. Jessco boyington has your first alert traffic. We are checking out the schuylkill. We have no problems around girard avenue. Eastbound drive times for the blue route to the vine street expressway a. 12minute trip. Can you see westbound to king of patrici prussia. Right now. No problems on the schuylkill. But no real problems on the new jersey turnpike. We have have construction southbound on the new jersey turnpike with the exit to 7a to 195. Drivetimes in chester county. No problems on 130 or 202. We are a tad slow. Thats because of the addition of traffic lights on 100. Otherwise, everything is looking great so far. Well have another check on traffic. Now to the latest from paris. The urkys president says the attacks in paris a spurring hatred against muslims and refugees. Matt, its earlier, in europe, theyre well na thursday. Already a lot of developments coming outs of that part of the world 12k34. Thats right. You mentioned new information in the last hour. Turkeys president saying the attackers spurring that hatred against muslims and refugees and calling on the entire world, especially on the World Leaders to use common sense when responding to this. Meantime, the white house says the u. S. President barack barack, he plans to travel to paris after the upcoming climate talks and a couple other things that we have been following, first some video, take a look here. This was obtained by the daily mail. In this video, you can see that there is a restaurant in paris and when the bullets start flying, people start running. You can see a woman narrowly escape the attack t. Terrorist Assault Rifle misfired. That gave her the chance to run away. Incredible video there. Another video is getting attention today. Isis released a new propaganda video. We are showing a small portion of that video, which depicts new yorks times square. It appears to be a recruitment video. Here is new yorks mayor talking about those images. Its important to note that there is no credible and specific threat against new york city. Nypd is working very close with the fbi and our other federal partners. Reporter but at this point new york remains on a alert this hour. Remember that raid that happened yesterday morning the one that happened while we were on the air . Well, french Authorities Say it remains unclear at this point whether the suspected mastermind of the paris attacks has been killed or if hes still at large. Authorities are still working to determine whether 27yearold bell judge Abdelhamid Abaaoud was among those who were killed in that raid. Esau a live picture from that town a few minutes ago. Some investigators are still in that neighborhood, going through that apartment. Of course, i am here in the digital Operational Center watching all the developments as they happen this morning. Im matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Hundreds of workers at Philadelphia International airport are going on strike today. They started last night. They join fellow airport workers at other airports around the country. The job action again if philly started at 10 30. It includes baggage handlers and cabin cleaners. Theyre pushing for a hike in the minimum wage, 15 an hour. Stronger benefits. They are calling to an end of the harassment they say they experienced for trying to unionize. A philly representative says they are prepared to make sure passenger needs are met. 5 35. 68 degrees. Philadelphias Emergency Management program has gotten the seal of approval from top managers across the country. When disaster strikes the city is as qualified to react to it as any municipality in this country can be. Events like the amtrak Train Derailment and the popes visit in september have proven the city is ready to tic kick into high gear to keep people safe. Philadelphia was one of 13 programs to receive accreditation last month. And its now the largest municipality in the u. S. To do so. This afternoon the mayor will accept an award for the citys preparedness. Radner Township Police temporarily shut down a local pizza shop after busting an assistants manager accused of selling more than piaas. They say she was actually dealing on the clock. Police made that investigation after seasons pizza if radner. Officials say brandy welner came out of the restaurant several times to sell to officers. The final time they followed her back into the restaurant where they say they found more marijuana. You larry of Something Like this its certainly shocks me. And having marijuana in the restaurants is also a health code violation. So crews had to shut the place down for cleaning. Police say it should reopen soon. The colwyn president says he believes the d. A. s Office Investigation shows no wrongdoing. They served a search warrant on the fire house. Investigators were looking for items that fire officials claim to have purchased between august of 2012 and june of this year t. Search came after allegations of the misuse of public dollars. Were you able to find what you were looking for . We have found the majority of equipment we were looking for. We still have to compare the notes between the actual inventory we have and the items that were on the list. Some of the items detectives were looking for. In morning, police are looking for a man seen on this under Surveillance Video here after setting cars and himself on fire. Police say november 6th, the man set 11 cars on fire in overback. Now, look at the under Surveillance Video here. Will you see the alleged arsonist running from the scene with flames on his left arm. Police believe he probably has serious burns on that arm the fire also spread to nearby homes. We seen the fire in the back. My neighbor down the street said actually the light for the flames is on in the bedroom. It woke you up in. I heard the boom boom boom. Police say they have been canvassing hospitals to match the suspects description, but so far theyve come up empty. They are hosting a job fair for veterans in south philadelphia. It will run from 11 00 until 3 00 at link. Home depot is trying to make it easy for military Service Members to find a career in the company. They have an online tool called the military skills translator which matches an armed forces skills. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 5 39. A warm morning a. Cloudy one. Waiting for the ran. It will be moving in this morning. Moving out the door, 20 degrees warmer in northeast individual. Rain, a few sprinkles. The steadier rain that will be here for much of the day is to our west an southwest. 7 00. 8 00. The first raindrops. Steady light rain in wilmington. The rain will be withs through this afternoon. Steady rain, gusty winds, 65 degrees if abbington. At the shore the rain and winds will be a bit stronger. The later evening hours push offshore tonight. During the day, an inch of rain and then colder air arrives for the weekend. You got your sevenday forecast, back in ten minutes. We launch sky force 10 a few minutes ago after we saw a problem pop up. Jessica boyington has a birds eye view. Definitely seeing improvements on 95 t. Accident scene is around girard avenue. On the forth bounds side, they had this cleaned up relatively fast. You can see whats left of the scene on the northbound side is Police Activity into the work zone. So the cop is actually over into part of the work zone lanes that are blocked off. You can see no backups right now. We typically see volume and delay for the morning ours is still okay. Those drive times are around the 13, 14 minute mark. Intoupd were doing great. Northbound from 55 to the walt whitman bridge. Well do a check with your area bridges. Jessica, thanks. Police are looking for a man they say is an expert in the art of confusion. Hes a con man. Hes doing this scam all along the east coast. We will show you how he is doing it. Pulling the crime after business after business. A run away tour bus causes chaos in the streets of san francisco. What officials believe is to blame for this crash. Its a quarter to 6 00. Terrorism experts are examining a new claim from isis. They claim they took down the russian passenger jet with a bomb packed pence a so zsa can and a picture of that alleged bomb was published in the online propaganda magazine. You can see, it was disguised pence the can. The magazine says the bomb was smuggled on to a plane. The photo has not been verified by nbc news. Say a bomb even that small could, indeed, do a lot of damage. If the bomb was real, the cam would have to be packed with an efficient explosives. It could be any kind of explosives. But the more reliable, the more efficient would be for example a militarytype explosives. Here in the u. S. , experts say a soda can will likely not get past the tsa checkpoint. They say the biggest potential security gap is in the catering carts and cargo not screened 100 . That russian passenger jet went down in egypts Sinai Peninsula killing all 224 people on board. Russian authorities did confirm a bomb brought down the plane, egypt says its still investigating the cause of the crash. Now we continue do hear stories of survival and herreroism following the terrorist attacks in paris, including how one woman went from journalist to first responder. She is a producer at franz 24 news. She covers war zones. She has undergone firstaid and survival. She rushed outside to start to treat the first person she came upon when she heard the firings. It was a woman that had gunshots here in the arm i remember applying pressure right here to her. People started to feel the pain and people started to scream and people started to panic. She says she never once thought about her own safety, whether she was in the line of fire. She just wanted to help and comfort the people who needed aid. From our jersey shore bureau, people are looking for a 2450e6 who uses slight of hand and fast talking to rip off businesses. Looking at this, use it to actually give him more money then he came in with. He usually buys something for less than 5 and tries to pay for it with a 100 bill. He asks for different denominations of change along with extra cash. Hes a con man. He is doing this scam all along the east coast. He does have a way with words. Hes very aggressive about it. So far hes hit at least four stores. Authorities say they want those stores and customers to be on the lookout for the guy. The government issued a warning saying home depot continued to sell more than two dozen recalled products in its stores a tf recalls were issued. Everything from latders and outdoor lights were sold with risks ranging from lacerations to fires. We have a list of all of the items on nbc10. Com. We reached out to home depot for a comment. They tell us, in part this involves 1,800 transactions out of 4 billion over the past three years. That said, we take the safety of the our customers extremely seriously and apologize for the error. Looking for a better deal on Auto Insurance . Well, how much you pay depends on what kind of vehicle you are driving a. New report out by insurance quotes. Com shows suchs and trucks are cheaper to insure than sedans, the best deal goes to the ford explorer, followed by the sierra and chevy. Cohan lists say you can expect to pay 4 to 7 of the private of a few vehicle. 12 minutes before 6 00. Its unusually warm this morning. The temperatures are starting off in the 50s and 60s. The rain moves in during the morning commute and stays with us this afternoon. In fact, the rain is falling in the poke know mountains, northeast philadelphia, 58. Atlantic city is 63 degrees. Completely dry right now. 60s to start w. The rain is going to be moving in. The temperatures that are mild will stay mild this afternoon. Here it is. 63 degrees at cape may airport Cape May Point is 61 right now t. Rain is just to our west. You see the heavier rain to the south. Most of the day it will be the steady light rain. The wind will make it feel like its coming down healthier. Some spots a bit heavier. A few through delaware and glocester county, in new jersey, the afternoon commute will be damp, too. Windy, mild with temperatures in the 60s this evening they clear out for friday. One more system we will keep an eye on for the week. There it is, moving into chicago by late tomorrow evening, early sunday morning. We could see some showers in our area. Today, though, its a steady rain. Skik 66 degrees. Tomorrow, sunshine, the winds will be blowing. 64 degrees the high temperature. It gets colder saturday morning. 54, should be dry during the day on saturday. Its saturday night we will see some rain showers and maybe some snowflakes mixing north and west early sunday morning. But not during the game. It will be dry, windy and colder sunday afternoon, 49 degrees, it will feel like its in the low 40s. It gets colder for monday, tuesday and wednesday morning. All right, bill thanks, for. That ten minutes to 6 00. We will check your ride to work, include d. C. Blue route. Heres jessica boyington, hopefully with great news for people traveling the blue route. Great news so far this morning. We are in the blue right now. This is approaching the schuylkiller, pressway offramp. We are okay. Can you see that drive time southbound from the schuylkill to route 021. It will be okay. Average speeds 66 miles per hour. So everybody is moving out there. So no real problems yet this morning. As for 95, we just cleared an accident scene on 95 northbound around girard avenue. Drive times hardly affected be i that. Southbound is where we see the problems in the morning anyway. From wood haven to the vine street expressway. A 14 minute trip. No problems through the accident scene. The area bridges are great. Okay. So far, no option scheduled right now for burlington, bristol or pal myra and the ben franklin bridge is clear. Watch for construction headed into philadelphia. Chris. Watch closely. Will you see a puff of smoke, a cloud of smoke. Thats a bus crashing into san francisco. It happened last week. We are just getting this under Surveillance Video the bus will approach, speeding down this busy street knocking construction cones out of way. Unfortunately, 20 people were hurt. It is believed a mechanical failure caused the bus to crash. Next, the university of north dakota now has a new nickname well tell you the as a result u resu results of the school. Sadness strikes twice in the same day for former nfl quarterback zoug flutey. His parents both died of heart attacks within an hour of each another. Flutey is best known for the naughty miracle. His hail mary pass in 1984. He spent 12 seasons in the nfl and works as an analyst for nbc sports. He posted opened facebook wednesday his father, who had been ill, died to have a heart attack in the hospital. Less than an hour later, his mother suddenly died of a heart attack. Flutey wrote, can you di of a broken heart and i believe it. Hmm. Sports teams at the university of north dakota now have a new mascot. Theyre now called the fighting hawks. Now, that replaces their old mascot the fighting sioux. Finding a less controversial nickname has taken years t. Campus xhuptd got to choose between fighting hawks and rough riders. I cant believe they didnt go with rough riders. Nearly 30,000 students staff and alumni cast votes. Happening today, mcdonalds is pouring on more support for the cop program. Its a chance to discuss issues if near neighborhoods. Members will actually be in the haddon avenue mcdonalds today from 4 00 to 6 00 Mcdonalds Restaurant is donating 500 to the Camden County metro police department. The flyers will be back on the ice tonight. Last night, players traded their sticks for serving spoons. Thats captain Claude Giroux there. The teammates serving up thanksgiving dinner for people at Ronald Mcdonald house. They supports family osf seriously ill children who are in town waiting for long surgeries, recovering from that. Good for the flyers. Shop rite want to make sure they delivered 7,000 pounds of turkey in south philadelphia yesterday. That is a lot of turkey. Those turkeys will go to food pantries and Charities Across the area. They serve about 90,000 people every week. Its a huge charity. It is that time of year. The Salvation Army of norris town kikdz off red kettle season. They served up hot soup and coffee outside the Montgomery County courthouse yesterday. This time the norris Town Division hopes to fund selfvation Army Programs and services which, of course, benefit thousands of people here locally. All right. Well, two reporters at an nbc station in fargo, north dakota, got pretty close on air. You know, news travels fast so he had to act fast to trick ashley into marrying him. She put together a story of winter weddings. When it was supposed to air. A prerecorded message popped up. He got down on the one knee and popped the question and of course she said yes. Of

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