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WCAU NBC10 News Today At 6am May 2, 2016

Its dry in philadelphia but scattered light showers just north of allentown, a few sprinkles in allentown for those showers that are on the move and the first showers that have rolled through delaware and south jersey have already fizzled. 48 degrees in philadelphia. Occasional showers are possible during the day. A bit of fog in some of the suburbs, 44 degrees where its cooler. The fog not an issue for most of new jersey. The Lehigh Valley is seeing clouds and low clouds atc that. Easton 55 degrees at 9 00. 60 degrees at noontime. Thats the big story here. Temperatures will warm up nicely in spite of the clouds that will be here through the day. And a chance of some showers. The best chance of showers will come late this afternoon. But most of the day well be looking at cloudy skies in philadelphia, 70 degrees, the pennsylvania suburbs up to 68 degrees. South jersey will reach into the low 70s. At the shore, chillier, 61 degrees. Thats whats happening today. Theres the seven day at the bottom of the screen. When im back in ten minutes, ill take a closer look at the chance of strong thunderstorms. Jessica boyington watching your first alert traffic. Were watching the schuylkill expressway right now around the conshohocken curve. A lot of cars starring to make their way out the door, no problems in either direction as you can see. A 12minute drive time from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Speeds into the 60s. Theres still that accident out in hatfield township on koffel road and snowball drive with downed wires in the area as well. This is the garden state parkway. Reduced visibility with some of the fog. Right around the great egg toll plaza. No problems or delays, of course. You are watching construction. You can see cones in the area blocking off some of the shoulders. More updates when im back in ten. Tracy . What a run, the 2016 blue cross broad street run is now in the books. Theres jessie. Theres jessica. Nbc 10 carried the event live from the starting line in logan to the finish line in south philadelphia and all ten miles in between. 40,000 workers tackled the largest tenmile street run in the country, some of them for the first time. Nbc 10 followed the runners on the ground, in the air and even aboard a motorcycle. Philadelphias home to a lot of events like the blue cross broad street run, the popes visit last year and this summer well host the Democratic National convention. City leaders will be using these events to ghaith how its impacting the economy. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live at Independence Hall where hundreds in the Hospitality Industry will meet with city leaders. Set the scene for us, pam. Reporter this will be an opportunity to talk about exactly how big of an impact those events that you mentioned had. Its also another opportunity to look ahead to the summer. We spoke to our friends over at visit philly and they tell us that 39 Million People visited the city last year. Its a huge number but not as big as this. 10 billion. Thats how much money those visitors pumped into the local economy. That breaks down to 28. 5 million every single day. Independence National Historical park saw more than 4 million visitors. The money they spent while here supported nearly 4,000 jobs. Visit philly says there are plenty of attractions sprinkled in throughout the year to keep people coming back and experiencing something new. All those people go to an attraction, attend around event, eat in a restaurant, shop in our shops and they help improve the quality of life for philadelphia, everybody whoiveless and works here. This summer will be a busy one. Not only is the dnc expected to draw in 50,000 people but the wawa welcome america fourth of July Celebration is expected to host crowds of nearly 500,000. Once you take all of that into consideration, very easy to see how theyre already anticipating that were going to surpass last years visitors and well have to wait and see by how much. Reporting live at independence mall, Pamela Osborne, nbc 10 news. Meanwhile back to the blue cross broad street run. Nbc 10 was there when mukeria crossed the finish line. Our nbc 10 digital team was keeping track of the entire race, posting pictures to instagr instagram. New information this morning about why a former Philadelphia Police sergeant is behind bars. The Department Fired Francis Rawls who spent the past seven months in solitary confinement. Federal prosecutors have a search warrant and believe the hard drives contain graphic evidence. Two u. S. Missionaries were killed in jamaica, including one man from right here in our area. 53yearold Harold Nichols lives in kennett square, chester county. His body was found along with the body of randy hensel. Investigators say their battered bodies were found in bushes in separate areas of a rural part of the island. Were reaching out to teams from medical missions, pennsylvania based organization where both men worked. So far, we have not heard back. 6 06 and 48 degrees. Experts now say the increase of birth defects caused by the zika virus may be, quote, the tip of the iceberg. The doctors told a meeting of pediatricians in baltimore over the weekend that many cases have probably been missed because baebz look normal when they were born and their birth defects only became apparent as they got older. This morning, an Historic Church in new york is destroyed by fire. Flames shot from the cathedral of st. Sava in manhattan yesterday. Hours earlier, suburban orthodox prigser ins celebrated Easter Sunday mass there. Four firefighters suffered minor injuries. A cloudy start at 6 07. The clouds produce a few showers to start with. Lots of cloudiness and fog to deal with. That fog will disappear. The clouds hang in there. Its a mostly cloudy day, a chance well see occasional showers. A better chance of Late Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing. Thats when we could see heavier downpours. As far as the fog is concerned, this is what weve got. Zero visibility and down to half mileanhour in quakertown. The dense fog in the pocono mountains. Wrightstown is see something of the light fog and millville has been in and out of it. Right now its out of it. Its Atlantic City that has light fog at onec mile visibility. As far as showers are concern, that first batch of showers that move through wilmington into south jersey and philadelphia within those have dissipated. The next round of showers and potential for thunderstorms moving through pennsylvania and into West Virginia. Thats a possibility for us later this afternoon. The futurecast shows the showers on the move. 8 00, well see scattered light showers from cape may, philadelphia and into the Lehigh Valley. Then those showers clear out and weve got a dry, late morning and early afternoon before the next chance of showers and thunderstorms pops up later today. Those showers will likely be around for the evening commute. During the day, in spite of the clouds, in spite of the chance of showers the temperatures will be climbing. Low 70s for somerton. The suburbs, lansdale a little cool. That sh neshaminy, 69 degrees. Bethlehem, 67. Reading and berks county, closer to the 70 degrees mark. Hamilton, occasional light showers possible in haddonfield. Most of the rain holds off until late this afternoon and this evening. Atlantic city, 66 degrees after a morning low of 50 degrees. Mostly cloudy, chance of late day storms in wildwood and in delaware, too, where the temperatures will reach into the low 70s for dover and dewey beach. Thats today. Theres the sevenday at the bottom of the screen. Thats one seven day for each part of our area. When i come back, the tenday outlook. Thanks, bill. You can keep track of when the rain will impact you at home or at work. Theres live interactive radar. You can zoom into your neighborhood, see when youll be getting rain or storms this afternoon. The app is a free download. Follow bill henley on twitter as well. His handle is bill henley usa. Very nice. Our traffic team and cameras help out our weather guys. You can see how foggy it is in some places. Last time we checked Jessica Boyington had a camera showing 202 where the visibility was reduced. Were looking at 202 again for more fog, around route 29. You can see on the roads right here, theyre clear. If you look up into the distance, you can see how the reduced visibility can impact the morning drive. This is 202 around 29. No problems with the drive times yet. Were still at a sevenminute trip from the schuylkill with speeds gnat 60s. Downed wires in the area as well, heres route 73, over in voorhees, new jersey around cooper road. No backups or delays there. You can see up into the distance, a foggy start out there for a lot of our major roadways. Also theres emergency construction if you are crossing from new jersey over into delaware, the left lane is close heading that direction. No problems, delays or backups heading on to 295 or the turnpike, vai. Neighbors had a rude awakening last night when a car slammed into their home. Boom it was crazy. Very loud. Check out the damage. Three other cars were also banged up. Coming up at 6 30, well tell you what officers are saying caused this crash a. Andc kasi breaks away from his campaign. It is 6 14. Wow. Wow, look at that. Thats on top of the cpsfs building obviously. Low clouds and foggy conditions around the area according to meteorologist bill henley. We will update you on what the morning and the day holds. Thats coming up in just minutes. Now to decision 201. Today is the last full day of campaigning before tuesdays indiana primary. If that contest could all but end this years president ial nomination process. 92 delegates are up for grabs for the democrats, 57 for the republicans. Hillary clinton needs 232 more delegates while donald trump needs 240. Trump says hes wasting time on his republican rivals. He wants the primaries to be over already. Millions and millions of votes more. We have more delegates by a lot. Like 300 or something, maybe more. But we have millions of votes more, setting a record in the history of the republican party. A new nbc news wall street journal marist poll of likely Republican Voters in indiana found 49 choose donald trump. Ted cruz is 15 points behind at 34 . Ohio Governor John Kasich got 13 . The next president of the united states, Ted Cruz Ted Cruz is not conceding defeat in the Hoosier State. The republican hopeful rallied for votes sun. Despite trailing in the polls, cruz continues to insist he can win indiana tomorrow. Ohio Governor John Kasich has no Campaign Events scheduled today. Last week he helped a california girl find a prom date. Nico, it would be great if you would go to the prom with jul julia. Julia later tweeted that worked. The latest nbc news marist poll Shows Hillary clinton leading Bernie Sanders by four points. Thats within the margin of error. Clinton delivered the keynote address at the naacp dinner. She spoke about the Public Health crisis facing the nearby city of flint. Sanders rallied the masses in south bend sunday night. Sanders says hell fight for each and every vote right up until the convention. Today well find out when cars will be able to go faster on parts of the pennsylvania turnpike and highways across the state. Penndot and turnpike officials announce the expansion of the speed limit to 70 where its already 65 today. The changes follow safety and engineering studies. Time to check in now with the traffic. Jessica boyington has that. What are you seeing . We with rawatching a problemn the schuylkill around golf mills on the westbound side. We have a vehicle to the right hand shoulder. It looks like his door was hit off or something to that effect. We have that right shoulder blocked and penndot crews as well, blocking the next lane over. One lane getting by. This time on the schuylkill expressway well see big delays as soon as this starts to really back up by that scene. Traffic is moving by over to the lefthand lane. Thats a good thing. Heres the blue route. No problems here yet. We are seeing a little bit of reduced visibility in some spots. A 14minutec trip headed southbound from the schuylkill to 95. Reduced visibility and foggy conditions at 295 and 195. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. 6 18. Lets check the nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather. A forecast you wont get anywhere else. Bill henley, this is why neighborhood weather is a great idea. Some people will warm into the 70s, others see 60s today. Philadelphia, the low clouds, this is a view looking across the delaware. Those low clouds will lift a bit during the day. Theyll hang in there for most of the day. Weve seen some showers and this threat of showers will still be with us, especially later this afternoon. Most of the day its just going to be cloudy. 51 degrees at 8 00. By 11 00 into the middle 50s and still climbing. Right now, though, 40s for philadelphia. 48 degrees and the numbers have dropped to 48 in bustleton. Fairly uniform temperatures thanks to the clouds and fog, light breeze this morning. 54 degrees in philadelphia at 9 00. By 1 00 this afternoon, 60, near 70 later today. For the suburbs, not quite as warm but a good warmup in spite of that. Mostly cloudy skies. We could see Late Afternoon showers and thunderstorms in the suburbs and Lehigh Valley, a few scattered showers this morning. Then clouds for 1 00 and 5 00. 50s and 60s later today. Delaware, this morning, a few scattered light showers. By 1 00 this afternoon, 62 degrees and then late this afternoon and this evening, ill be watching for some strong storms in delaware and south jersey, even possible at the jersey shore. That wet weather, nothing much going on right now. We did see showers about an hour and a half ago roll right through wilmington. Those first showers have fizzled. Now there are just light showers in the allentown area. Those are heading to the north. Look to the west, storms rolling through central pennsylvania. Those will miss us to the north. But this batch of showers and thunderstorms, though the thunderstorms are dying down right now, as things heat up during the day. We could see Thunderstorm Development in our area. Noontime, a few scattered light showers in the allentown area, into bucks county and further to the northeast. As we go into the Late Afternoon hours, there may be breaks of sunshine that will allow for those temperatures to warm up. Heres the chance of thunderstorm activity. Rolling through late this afternoon and into the early evening hours. Those are showers moving through delaware and south jersey at 6 00 tonight. In the later evening hours at 8 00, storms are possible in south jersey and to the south and especially in southern delaware at that time. There is the potential for Severe Weather. The greatest risk is to the south. Damaging winds and hail could accompany those storms. Not everybody is going to see that. We were watching that through this afternoon and this evening for that potential later today. Today will not be the only day you may need your umbrella. The tenday outlook shows lots of clouds and occasional showers. Turning cooler tomorrow, the rain will continue into tomorrow and wednesday, it might be dry in the morning. By afternoon, showers and a chance of thunderstorms on wednesday. Youll still need your umbrella for thursday and friday. Friday, even a littlec cooler 62 degrees. Well finally get a break going into the weekend. The temperatures will respond coming up from the low 50s to 74 in the afternoon. Wont be an allday rainfall on sunday but the chance of showers and thunderstorms returns. Then it clears out of here for monday, tuesday and wednesday. It will feel like summer by wednesday afternoon with temperatures in the 80s. Vai . Thank you, bill. You ever try to change or switch cell phone providers . Yes. Not a fun experience. We all know how expensive cell phones can be. When one of our viewers tried to switch services to save money, it turned out to be a pricey problem. It was breaking up, i wasnt happy. She returned her phone but with bills after until she contacted nbc 10 responds. See how Harry Hairston helped her get her money back. Cute alert. New pictures of Princess Charlotte were released yesterday ahead of her big day today. Well tell you who snapped these pictures of the princess. In this morning, the First American cruise ship sailing from the u. S. To cuba in more than 50 years expected to arrive in havana. Carnival corporations adonia left miami yesterday with about 700 passengers on board. It is scheduled to arrive in the cuban capital at about 11 00 a. M. Its the first trip of its kind since the u. S. And cuba resumed diplomatic relations. Good morning, everyone. Its Jessica Boyington with a check on your first alert traffic. Were watching the schuylkill expressway right now. Watching for some big delays headed westbound. Thats because theres an accident around gulph mills. Only the left lane getting by. Updates at 6 30. For now, lets get a check of the weather with meteorologist bill henley. There was light fog in cape may but now you can see this view from the marquis de lafayette hotel, its cloudy and cool, temperatures hovering right around 50 degrees at the shore. 48 degrees to be exact. 6 27 right now on a monday morning. A 2monthold baby girl is still in the hospital after a crash that killed another child. This morning, police are investigating why the car veered into oncoming traffic and was hit head on. Well have a live update from nbc 10s katy zachry, up next. Plus i dont know where i would be, probably still fighting with verizon if it werent to are you guys. Nbc 10 responds for this woman after spending months battling with t

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