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WCAU NBC10 News Today At 530am September 13, 2016

Lesson in cold hard kmikz. Today they can get a Second Chance at an education. Talk about a lesson. A Hidden History lesson. They unearthed something no one expected during a recent expansion project. Nbc 10 news starts now. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. Im tracy davidson. Just after 5 30. Lets get started with meteorologist bill henley and his nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather forecast. Bill . We are starting off with fog, clear skies overnight. The temperatures are cooling down an we have dense fog in chester county, coatesville down to a quarter mile visibility. The rest of the area is mainly fog free. We saw some light fog in new jersey. That has since disappeared. No sign of it in south jersey or delaware this morning. Visibility is at 6 miles. Thats no problem for dover at this time. Theres still cooling going on. We could see other areas with the fog thickening up this morning. 64 in philadelphia. No fog in the city. We will see sunshine. And once the sun is up, the temperatures come up, 74 degrees. The sun coming up in about 20 minutes before 7 00. 60 degrees in the suburbs right now. The wind is calm. Thats the other thing you need for fog to form. You can see some of the clouds in the Lehigh Valley. Its nice and clear in delaware. Sunshine were in the have this afternoon. The fog quickly disappears. Were on our way to a nice, warm summer day. At the shore, sea breeze, 70s there. 80s for the rest of the area. Ill go through the forecast for each zone hour by hour in a few minutes. First, lets check with Jessica Boyington and traffic. Starting off on the boulevard around 17th street. A few people heading out the door. Of course, it is 5 30. You can see north or southbound on the boulevard looks great. There is an accident in montgomery in welsh road and rose lane. Also 95 but this is moving through delaware. 95 looks okay. Well check in with the drive times. Ten minutes in both directions, north or southbound from 295 to 495 with speeds into the 60s. Vai and tracy . Thank you, jessica. Now to decision 2016. Pennsylvania is a key battleground state and both Political Parties feel they can win votes here. Donald trump will be in Delaware County tonight and pep rations are well under way for president obama visiting philadelphia, visiting eakins oval. Pamela osborne is live in center city. Walk us through whats happening today and how it could impact peoples commutes. Right, tracy, some of the preparations that are taking place right now will affect you as you head out the door this morning. Police officers here, another vehicle just pulled up. Theyre starting to set the stage here and get things ready. President obama expected to speak at 2 00 today. But lane restrictions around the oval and detours go into effect beginning at 6 00 this morning. At 7 00 a. M. , kelly drive will be detoured inbound. Spring garden traffic will be detoured on to 676. At 9 00, all the areas leading up to the oval will be closed. President obama is expected to arrive at philly international at 1 00 this afternoon. Hes here to campaign for Hillary Clinton at a hillary for mechanic event. President obama will participate in a dnc event before flying out. Later this evening, donald trump will be campaigning at the astin Community Center in Delaware County. Thats happening at 7 3. That event by the way is closed to the public. Giving you another live look as you can see some of the preparations taking place right now. We have a full list of the closures. Jessica boyington working on details for you this morning. Head on over to nbc10. Com. Reporting live at eakins oval, im push, nbc 10 news. Later this morning, voters in delaware will start heading to the polls for a primary election, democrats and republicans will choose candidates for some major offices. Delawares seat in congress is on the ballot, so are governor, Lieutenant Governor and mayor of wilmington. Delaware held a president ial primary in april. The polls open this morning at 7 00 a. M. And close tonight at 8 00. Count on nbc 10 and the nbc 10 app for results. 5 35, 64 degrees outside. In Delaware County, bubble wrap is what likely triggered a lockdown at Valley Forge Military Academy. Officials say an Eastern University student in an apartment across the street from Valley Forge Military Academy reported hearing what she thought was the sound of gunshots last night. Police put Valley Forge Military Academy on lockdown as they searched buildings but didnt find any victims or evidence of a shooting. They later determined that the sound of popping bubble wrap was more than likely what the student heard. While we can laugh about it now, its a good thing were able to laugh about it and while theres no imminent situation or threat taking place on either campus. Everything is now back to normal. A new tune for thousands of students. They were suddenly left shut out after Itt Technical Institute suddenly closed its stores. Monique braxton is live in Spring Garden at Community College of philadelphia. Tell us whats happening there today. When one door closes, another door opens. Here at cct, its being called fast track to enrollment for itt students day. Recently four campuses in the philadelphia area of Itt Technical Institute suddenly closed. Were talking about 4,000 displaced students that are being invited to enroll in the tenweek term at cc. The Community College is encouraging students to come to the Spring Garden campus today to meet with admissions, Financial Aid and college counselors. Ccp is committing to devise an individualized Program Beginning on october 4th. So the doors to opportunity are opening once again to students at 9 00 this morning here in Spring Garden. Live for now, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. Thank you. The boss is coming back to philadelphia this month but he wont be singing. Instead, hell be signing. Good evening, philly this is video from last wednesday nights soldout performance from Bruce Springsteen and the estreet band. It was the first two of shows at Citizens Bank park. One that broke a record for the longest performance on u. S. Soil clocking in at 4 hours and 4 minutes. Hes expected to hold a meet and greet at the free library of philadelphias central branch. Could be a mad house there. To promote his new memoir born to run. Tickets will be 33 each and include a signed copy of the book. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. 22 minutes before 6 00. Its a school start this morning. As the temperatures have been cooling down overnight, youve been see something fog form. You may run into a few spots of fog first thing this morning. It may not last. The fog disappears, another Beautiful Day. Comfortably cool this evening as the humidity stays low into the evening hours. Fog this morning, seems to be limited to coatesville and then some scattered fog into the Lehigh Valley. Though allentown is showing some good visibility at ten miles, tenmile visibility also for pottstown. Temperatures, 64 degrees. Calm in philadelphia. A few scattered clouds but mainly sunshine today. 80 degrees by lunch time. In the suburbs, low 60s right now. Some areas of the fog but that thins out quickly with a little bit of sunshine this morning. 72 degrees at 10 00 and then up to 80 degrees by 2 00 this afternoon. The Lehigh Valley, really Beautiful Day. The wind is calm right now. A light breeze out of the South Southwest will make things warmer this afternoon. But still quite comfortable. 77 degrees at lunch time, into the lower 80s this afternoon. And for new jersey, sunny skies. Once the sun comes up, well warm from the 50s. By 10 00, 20 degrees warmer than it is right now. Lower 80s this afternoon. At the shore, sea breeze, coming in out of the south southeast. Thats at 10 miles an hour. A little bit stronger at the coastline than the rest of the area. The temperatures that warm to the middle 70s, stay in the middle 70s through this afternoon. In delaware, youll see sunshine, warm temperatures from the 60s this morning, into the 70s later this morning and then its 80s for this afternoon. Low 80s today. Youll feel that breeze later on. Southerly winds at 12 miles an hour. That will bring in more humidity and that will be more of a factor for tomorrow as the temperatures go higher tomorrow afternoon. No sign of any rain for most of the area until we get to the weekend. A look at that and beyond with the 10 day on 10 when im back in a few minutes. All right, thank you, bill. 5 40 on this tuesday morning. As we take a look at the roads. Including the blue route. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has you covered for your ride to work. We look good on the blue route so far. Cameras around germantown pike. North southbound on the blue route right now. A lot of cars making their way out the door. Theres an accident in montgomery on welsh road and rose lane. Watch for lane restrictions there. This is over on the white horse pike around 295. Over in new jersey right now, no big problems or delays. Most of our majors look similar, especially heading into the philadelphia area. Theres an accident being reported out on 95. Updates for you, well check in with our cameras and ill have an update on where it is when im back in ten minutes or so. For septa Regional Rail riders, theres another wrinkle in the daily commute. Those five train cars are out of service again. Up next, hear about a new problem with the fleet. Also, Hillary Clintons health. Up next, hear from the democratic president ial candidate about how shes feeling after pneumonia forced her to suddenly leave an event. Dont forget to vote for our High School Football game of the week. The choices are parkland and easton, st. Josephs prep and archbishop wood and cb west visiting north penn. Call or next your vote to 6106244111 or vote at our website, nbc10. Com. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Mike pence will be on capitol hill to drup up support for republican president ial nominee donald trump. Violence broke out at a donald trump rally in asheville, North Carolina last night. While the gop nominee was speaking. A fight erupted in the stands. Security guards were taking protesters out of the arena when a man confronted the group. You can see the man grabbing a protester around the neck. We circled it there. Security let him stay at the rally. Trump seemed unaware of the incident while attacking democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for calling half his supporters a basket of deplorables. Hillary clinton turned to social media to say shes feeling better and cant wait to get back on the campaign trail. Questions persist over why it took so long for her campaign to reveal the diagnosis. She talked to Anderson Cooper last night by phone. She said she didnt think her illness would be a big deal. Clinton denied fainting. I felt dizzy. And i did lose my balance for a minute. Once i got in, once i could sit down, cool off, once i had some water, i immediately started feeling better. Clintons aides admitted they did not give the public enough information about her condition. Her campaign promised to release more of her medical records this week. Clinton said shell return to the campaign trail in the next couple of days. Quarter to 6 00. 64 degrees. If youre thinking of taking a selfie the at polls this election season, you could be breaking a law in some states. An Appeals Court in boston will consider the issue for the first time. It takes into consideration a New Hampshire law that makes it a crime for voters to take photos of their ballots and share them on social media. New hampshire is not the only state that bans voter selfies or pictures. Its also illegal in pennsylvania and more than two dozen other states. Voter selfies are allowed in delaware. The law is unclear about the issue in new jersey. Septa slowdown. 18 repaired trains are pulled from service over a new defect is found. Inspectors say they found a design problem with the newly repaired cars. The rail cars will be repaired and put back in service sometime this week. 120 Regional Rail cars were pulled from service in july to fix a structural flaw thats caused delays for commuters. Septa says it will still have all of its trains back on the tracks by november. Speaking of septa, theyre getting a funding boost. The Transportation Authority is getting a 1. 6 million grant thanks to the federal railroad administration. That money will go to philadelphias lawndale station to construct a new pedestrian underpass and two rail bridges. The station is part of septas fox chase Regional Rail line. Now to education funding. More than 1,000 philadelphia students are getting help to get into College Thanks to a 3 million grant. Students showed off the big check yesterday at kensington creative and performing arts high school. They will use the grant for the College Access program. Every year more than 94 of the students who engage with our centers are accepted into a college and with our assistance, they secure the Financial Support they need to make college possible. The grant money will be used over five years to help students apply for college, get Financial Aid and attend college. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. 12 minutes before 6 00. A live view from center city. Looking towards new jersey and thats where youre going to find the coolest temperatures this morning. 50s for the Lehigh Valley, 60 degrees in the suburbs. Low 60s for delaware. Look at south jersey, low 50s this morning. Some areas even a little bit cooler. At c atco is 51 degrees, 62 in florence. Princeton is 49 degrees this morning. Very little wind and clear skies have allowed the temperatures to cool down. By lunch time, well see winds of 7 miles an hour and they will be more southerly today. Expect the temperatures to be warmer as a result and a little bit more humidity than yesterday. Still in the comfortable zone. As we go into the afterinto, those stronger winds at the shore will keep coastal communities in the 70s today. The rest of us will warm into the 80s this afternoon. Nice and clear this morning. Plenty of sunshine. Not much in the way of wet weather but there is a chance that well see some of these showers later tomorrow. Those storms rolling through wisconsin and into iowa, though it will largely fall apart. What we will get before the shower possibility is the warm air surge. Youll feel a little of that today. Tomorrow well be in the 90s tomorrow afternoon. As for the showers, you can see the slow movement in that cold front by later tomorrow afternoon, that will be moving into pennsylvania and theres a chance of some showers and thunderstorms in the pocono mountains. Thats 3 30 tomorrow afternoon. But watch what happens as these showers try to move in the Lehigh Valley and philadelphia and the shore. A chance of some isolated showers, at best, most of them will be falling apart as they roll into our area later tomorrow. So not much in the way of wet weather. But sunshine, we have boat loads of that for today. 85 degrees this 1 2 yoon. Youll feel more humidity and hotter temperatures tomorrow. 90 degrees. Its a oneday warmup into the 90s. Look at the turnaround. Once that cold front comes through, it brings the temperatures right back down. Thats where the temperatures should be. 78 degrees in the afternoon, 64 in the morning, even cooler friday morning. 58 degrees and then a warmup into the weekend, sunday, a better chance of seeing showers and thunderstorms than tomorrow night. By monday, were kleeing out. Theres another chance of showers next week. Wednesday, 78 degrees with showers, possibly a thunderstorm and then mostly cloudy and low 80s on thursday. All right, bill, thank you. Ten minutes before 6 00 right now. Lets get you to work. Jessicas looking at an accident on 95, jessica . Yes, an accident that just popped up into our system. No major delays behind it yet. Its on 95 headed southbound between route 420 and ridley park. In this general area here. You can see in our map system were still into the green if youre headed southbound. Also, president obama will be in philadelphia this morning. Were starting to see closures in the next ten minutes or so at 6 00 a. M. Lanes will be closed around eakins oval. At 7 00 a. M. , kelly drive will be detoured inbound. 7 00 a. M. , mlk drive and Spring Garden street will be detoured towards the vine street expressway. Also at 9 00 a. M. , by the time the closures in place, eakins oval and the surrounding roads will all be closed in and out

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