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WCAU NBC10 News Today At 6am November 4, 2015

Blocking both lanes and both directions. So that is closed. No access right in there. Your best bet for alternate to get around is to take oak grove road which pretty much runs parallel to the scene. 295. Thats the closest highway to that scene thats not a toll road like the new jersey turnpike. No access again in both directions on 322 at that point around Meeting House road. Downed poles and wires and a fuel spill. There will be a cleanup for some time. Time and time again what i am going to do to move fill ford. Tonight surrounded by all uf im reminded its not what i am going to do, it is what we are going to do together. He tweeted that too shortly after he won. Former councilman jim kenny will become the 99th mayor of philadelphia. Kenney a democrat won in a land slide against republican challenger Melissa Murray bailey. Today kenney will begin the process of taking over for mayor michael nutter. Matt delucia is live in center city. So matt, the new mayorelect talks about education as a top priority. Not a big surprise there. Reporter not a big surprise at all. Those inside and outside of city hall believe that education should be a top priority in the next mayoral term. Failing schools, budget irkofissues and that continuing stalemate in harrisburg are all things that mayorelect kenney will have to deal with. For now a celebration. From last night this is his victory party. The former city councilman got 85 of the vote against republican Melissa Murray baileys 13 so a major victory indeed. The new mayorelect talked about several issues last night but most of all he emphasized that commitment to improving education. I want a lot of things for our children, quality schools, prek, Community Policing and Job Opportunities that can support their future children. Most of all i want them to grow up in a philadelphia where we all look past our differences and join together to create a better place for all of us to live. Mayorelect kenney will be sworn in on january 4. This morning though he will launch his mayoral transition process. And coming up at 6 30 the top three things the new mayor will face once he gets into office. You know one of them, education. Well see you in about 30 minutes. Matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Well see you then. Democrats will now control the pennsylvania supreme court. Voters chose philadelphia judge Kevin Dougherty and pittsburgh judges david wecht and Christine Donohue over three republican candidates. Democratic justices will have a 52 majority on the states highest court. Well have more Election Results throughout the show this morning. All of them are available any time you want them on our nbc 10 app. 6 04. A woman in Montgomery County is probably still shaking after watching a train obliterate the car she had gotten out of. This was around 2 00 this morning near the intersection of fourth and depot streets in bridgepofrmt the woman was trying to cross the tracks when her car stalled. She got out and was on the phone when a Freight Train came along and you see the results there. No one was hurt. The car was towed and the train kept moving. Today the jury will continue to deliberate on whether chucka fattah jr. Is guilty of fraud. In closing arguments prosecutors claim fattah lied to banks to get Business Loans which supported an extravagant lifestyle. They said he lied on his taxes to cover his tracks. Prosecutors told jurors that fattahs services were effectively a sham. Fattah is acting as his own lawyer and he says hes confident that hes proven he is legitimate. I feel great. Look. Im very excited. Im looking forward to the jury getting the opportunity to make a decision in this case. Fattahs father congressman chaka fattah was in the courtroom during the closing arguments. Like his son he expressed confidence in the justice system. He is married to renee chenaultfattah. A child porn scandal rocks three schools, three students arrested and charged with cre e creating and sending pornography. Katy, there could be more arrests here. Reporter thats right. Police say expect more arrests, tracy. Those three arrests have shocked parents and students, young kids in this area. Many who take selfies. One of those arrests happened here. Another one took place at Valley Forge Middle School and another at conestoga high school. The youngest child involved is just 11 years old. And these kids are accused of sharing erotic and explicit pictures of themselves and classmates on line. In most cases were told the students were taking inappropriate selfies and sharing or selling those pictures. In another instance a student downloaded an erotic video and tried to pass it off as a female classmate. And making these arrest there is is a statement that parents beware of what your children are doing because the next victim could be your own. I think i want to know what they are going to do about it and how soon really. Thats the main thing. Make sure that kids are protected from this and what they are going to put in place to prevent this in the future. Reporter pennsylvania is one of 21 states that has sexting laws. Charges can lead to felony convictions and having to register for a as a sex offender. Reporting live, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. 6 07. Today well hear from the parents of little isaac harrison, the 11monthold boy who was repeatedly given overdoses of chemotherapy bay local hospital. His parents say doctors at Saint Christopher diagnosed him with a rare cancer and gave him 10 times the dose of chemo he was supposed to get. St. Christopher apologized. He is being treated. Today his parents will discuss what impact the overdosing has had. Happening today, Governor Tom Wolf will visit the port of philadelphia. The governor plans to announce a plan for the port among the nations leaders in handling steel, imports and cocolorado jim kenney says he supports the expansion. He will work on plan to bring thousands of working class jobs to philadelphia. Eight minutes after 6 00. Our skies are nice and clear. Look at cape may. Thats a live view from the marquis de lafayette hotel. The temperatures were killy yesterday. They are again this morning with clear skies overnight. The temperatures have been steadily coming down and the numbers are still going to fall a little more until we get bright sunshine. Youll feel the morning chill, see the brilliant sunshine and then im tracking clouds on the way and will start moving in later tonight and youll see cloudy skies tomorrow. In the clear for doylestown, philadelphia, its 45 in doylestown. 41 in millville and slowly falling to 50 degrees in philadelphia. Thats a nice sunny view or about to be sunny. Bright sunshine and well warm even the mountains in the 70s. Very little wind. Its calm for most areas and just a little breeze for philadelphia, wilmington and trentons. Light wind and brilliant sunshine. A fast warmup. They will start moving in late tonight. During the day, nothing but sunshine. Southbound copied and pasted the forecast. Look at the 70s for doylestown, norristown and mount holly. Warmer along the coast up to 70 degrees for cape may, vineland will farm to 75 and inland, sunshine, philadelphia, in the middle 70s. There are changes as we go closer to the weekend. I got your sevenday forecast when im back in ten minutes. Its about ten minutes after 6 00. Over breaking traffic news. All lanes of 322 in Gloucester County were shut down. Right. To give you a better view of whats happening. Right. All lanes in both directions is important. No access to this point now on 322 as you can see we have a jackknifed tractortrailer, there are downed poles and wires blocking off the roadway. As well as a fuel spill. Theres a lot of cleanup involved with this scene. No traffic moving through the area of 322 both directions around meting house root. Your best bet is oak grove road. A little nord an parallel. No problems on 295 by that scene that runs beyond that. So thats a good alternate. Mass transit, were starting to see delays, the broad street line for septa is having signal problems at fern rock so up to 10 to 15 minute delays there. More when i come back in the next ten. Thanks. Its 11 past 6 00. Chicago residents are in disbelief after a 9yearold child was killed. Ahead the calls to end the violence from the citys youngest residents. The reward police hope will lead to answers. If the race was today it came down who Hillary Clinton and ben carson . A poll that looks a it the hypothetical matchup. Back to our decision 2015 coverage. In south jersey democratic assemblyman Bob Andrzejczak and bruce land beat the republican ticket in the first district. Also in district 2 the incumbents held on. Republican chris brown and democrat vince mazzeo will return to trenton. And then in the race for Philadelphia City council cindy bass took the eighth district seat. Sherrel parker won over ken strickland. For a look at the candidates with the most votes you can tap the nbc 10 app. Well have more throughout the show and again they are all available on the nbc 10 app. Voters in ohio made their choice clear. They are saying no to legalizing medical and recreational marijuana. Many voters said no for moral reasons and though many others wanted to legalize marijuana they voted against it because they didnt like the idea of a select group of wealthy investors controlling production of the drug. The governor there a republican president ial nominee praised voters for their no vote. Supporters say they will try again to push for the legalization. Now in decision 2016, america is evenly split a year away from the president ial election. So were talking about a possible matchup between democrat Hillary Clinton and republican ben carson. A new poll finds that this hypothetical race between the two is tied. Carson and clinton with 47 . Carsons campaign explained where his support is coming from. Family people, younger christians, women usually the age 45 and up. And that is our core base. But we have a pretty broad appeal. The new polls showed clinton beating every republican candidate except carson with whom she is tied 47 . Chris christie is campaigning in New Hampshire where he is still down in the polls, christie said he is hoping to build off of the momentum he gained in last weeks debate. Christie is in a tie for sixth place. Later this morning donald trump and Martin Omalley willble in New Hampshire to file papers for the primary election. That first in the nation primary is scheduled for february 9. A newsroom merger in philadelphia is costing dozens of people their jobs. The owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News last week announced plans to merge newsrooms. Now were learning those papers will lay off 46 workers as a result of the merger. That will save the Media Network 5 to 6 million a year. Authorities in chicago are offering a 20,000 reward to find gunman who murdered a 9yearold boy. You can see one neighbors disbelief last night. Police say someone gunned down tiesean lee as he was coming home from school. They say the fourthgrader was shot in an alleyway near his grandmothers house. A child who lived nearby summed up the community reaction. I feel sad because its a quiet community. I wish it would stop, make peace with the world. Authorities say they dont know if tieshawn was the target but several were in the alley arguing at the time of the shooting. The new york city bus driver shown on Surveillance Video running over an elderly woman and leaving the scene is now behind bars. Surveillance video shows the moment before the bus hit the woman crossing a street in brooklyn. The driver pauses before taking off leaving the woman in the middle of the road to die. Witnesses describe after grisly scene and say the bus driver appeared confused. I dont know if he know but he stopped, then started going. I dont know what was nervous or i have no idea. The driver has been suspended without pay pending results of the investigation. If 322 is on your morning drive youre going to want to make alternative plans. Jessica boyington has details and the picture were getting from sky force 10. Right. Thats in Gloucester County where we have all lanes blocked on 322, you can see the reason here. Thats a jackknifed tractortrailer, so because of this accident there are downed poles and wires, creating a difficult route to pass by. Additionally a fuel spill. 322 both directions right around Meeting House road, thats where youre going to run into this problem. You can take a highway to get by. You can take oak grove road if you want to stay locally and get where you have to go. Youre otherwise going to be stuck. Mass transit, were seeing marketfrankford line is suspended from broad street line express right now but local service is still running with a 20minute delay. And starting to see volume where we normally do around girard avenue. Starting to see a string of brake lights. Ill be back with another check on traffic. When shes back in ten minutes well see a lot of sunshine, the sun will be coming up. Skies are clear. A little bit of a glow on the buildings, this is a twilight now. 50 degrees in philadelphia. Its going to be a quick warmup like we saw yesterday. That is the warm. Most of the area is chillier. Youll need a jacket. Clear sky, the view from the Comcast Center. Like yesterday, temperatures back in the 70s. Right now toms river is in the 30s. Low 40s in wrightstown and millville, pottstown, 41 degrees. And some spots have dropped in the 30s, even in Montgomery County. Bluebell is 41. Its close to that. Look at collegeville at 38 degrees. So you need a jacket to keep warm. Bright sunshine as the clouds stay way to our south during the day today. Those clouds will bring us a chance of showers for tomorrow, just a chance, well see the clouds roll in tonight. Low clouds possibly some fog overnight and into tomorrow morning. Then during the Morning Hours and the afternoon a chance of scattered showers, mainly north and west. For today everybody sees sunshine. Sunny skies, a mild one. 74 to 77 degrees this afternoon. Tomorrow still mild in spite of a mostly cloudy day. A chance of scattered showers, 73 in the afternoon. On thursday, 73. On friday, 77. But it changes saturday. A chance well see showers, the heart walk happens at Citizens Bank park, a possibility it will stay dry. So the weather should not hamper their reaching their goal of raising 2 million. By sunday, the temperatures will be coming down. 57 the High Temperature. It gets colder monday and tuesday in the 30s. From 75 to 39. Thanks, bill. 6 22. A year after being shot in an ambush that took his Partners Life a Pennsylvania State trooper is doing something amazing. And this. If you dont get out of here with that camera, i will make your day tempers flare at the polls. What led to this shouting match between a former official and poll worker. This holiday season, my good friend gave to me 7 powerball tickets 6 match 6 chances 5 cash 5s 4 cash4lifes 3 pick 3s 2 Mega Millions joe happy holidays, rita. rita thanks, joe man what a great gift announcer Pennsylvania Lottery tickets make great gifts, like the new holiday millionaire. joe happy holidays and best wishes from the lottery delicious and packaged with nothing to hide. No secrets. Just like our family. Well there is one. Folks, im not your grandma. Just a handsome kind hearted drifter who wandrered in years ago and stayed for all the yummy sausage. Feel bad about lying. Nap time. I got her. Seriously . I feel like i just woke up. Ha ha ha fully cooked johnsonville breakfast sausage. We dont make sausage. We make family. And sausage. Temple students and a youth group got a small taste of what its like for the homeless in philadelphia last night. Members of temples chapter and the Bright Hope Baptist Church coalition rallied and held a sleepout. They used card board boxes as beds to try to tuns challenges that homeless young people face every day. We actually sleep out here for a couple of hours to simulate what it would be like to be homeless to make yourself aware. The problem of Youth Homelessness is exploding. We have a lot of Youth Homelessness in various areas. The groups collected donations for homeless shelters. The digital team knows about this problem very well. They spent two months investigating Youth Homelessness. Check the nbc 10 news app to see our special project, the faces of homeless youth. Good morning everyone. Im Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic now were looking live over top of a scene in woolwich township, route 322 closed both directions around Meeting House road due to a jackknifed tractortrailer and theres downed poles and wires as well as a fuel spill. So, no traffic allowed by the scene right now. You can take local road oak grove road or 295 approaching the 295 scene now. For now no access there. More on this when i come back around 6 30. For now a check on todays trauk with meteorologist bill henley. A cold start in the mountains, clear skies, 30s in lake pocono. The rest of the area is in the 40s and Fill International is 50 degrees. You need a jacket this morning and sunglasses during the day. The voters have spoken and did so pretty cloudily. Jim kenney will be philadelphias next mayor. Matt delucia is live at center city and matt, the mayorelect is already turning focus to

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