Morning. Today its lighter and the temperatures a little warmer. Mt. Holly sitting at 27, but look south. Were 42 degrees in wildwood and 40 in dover right now. So while it is a cold start again, its more mild than yesterday, and in the afternoon things are looking a lot better than what we saw yesterday. Winds, like i mentioned a second ago, are pretty light across the board. Fi 5 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia and 12 at Dover Air Force base. These winds not a big concern today. Were tracking the warmup, then were tracking rain, then after that were tracking the winds. We do see quite a bit of variation in the forecast over the next few days. Satellite today, its just the clouds. Were warming up but its not going to be that sunny warmup that you sometimes e8tu instead it will be a cloudy forecast for today. Heres what were looking for in the next few hours. Philadelphia low 30s by 8 00 a. M. 42 by 11 00 a. M. Well see how high we go with our philly forecast coming up in a few minutes. Now news from our south jersey bureau. A man is dead, shot by police, and investigators say they found a gun where he collapsed. This happened in bridgeton, a community dealing with changes after a Previous Police shooting. Detectives spent hours investigating on south avenue last night. A Police Source tells us a man ran from an officer and then he pulled out a gun. Police shot the man. He died a short time later. Its not even the first time the cops are killing blacks and stuff like that. Show me your hands show me your [ bleep ] hands this comes two years after the Deadly Police shooting of jeremy reed at a traffic stop. Bridgeton eventually cleared the officer who shot him. Use of force was put into place after that shooting. Todays delawares governor will join loved ones and comrades at the funeral for state correctional officer lieutenant stephen floyd. The officer was killed last week during an inmate revolt at the Correctional Center in smyrna. His Memorial Service will be held in dover. Also today cabellas will be holding a fundraiser for floyds family. Its a cookoff. Police are searching for a driver that hit one of their officers. Authorities tell us the driver crashed into this car at 52nd and market streets in west philly. When the officer approached the driver, he sped off, hitting that officer. The officer went to the hospital for minor injuries. Construction work will impact drivers trying to get around center city this weekend. Almost a dozen major roads are closed today and tomorrow. Nbc 10s Pamela Osborne is live at broad and walnut to fill us in on these closures. Pam . Reporter its dark and early out here, rosemary, but the work to get some of those Construction Projects going this weekend is already under way. I want to give you a closer look at exactly whats going on here on broad street. This is shut down at 4 00 this morning. There are two cranes in place between locust and walnut. This closure will remain in place until 8 00 sunday night. But there is some other closures you should be aware of as well. Starting at 6 00, so right now, there will be closures in the areas of filbert and 4th streets. Those are in effect until 6 00 p. M. Then from 6 00 until 4 00 today, north broad street, the eastbound lanes of arch and race will also be closed. And at 7 00 a. M. , so just an hour from now, 18th street, callowhill street, washington avenue and race street will be closed until 3 00 p. M. Expect to see construction closures beginning at 8 30 on lombard street as well. Tomorrow just a couple of closures in the area to be aware of. 16th street and arch street, and of course this area of broad that were standing on right now. All are going to be closed until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. This particular section we post aid list of these closures on our website, nbc10. Com. Reporting live in center city, im Pamela Osborne, nbc 10 news. This morning Edward Snowden is responding to an nbc news report that russia may be returning him to the United States as a socalled gift to President Trump. A senior u. S. Intelligence official says the russians may hand over snowden as a ploy to curry favor with the president. During his campaign, mr. Trump called the nsa leaker a spy and a traitor who deserves tore executed. Snowden faces charges that could put him to prison for decades. Snowden retweeted last night and said, finally, evidence i never cooperated with russian intel. No country trades away spies as the rest would fear theyre next. In other news this morning, the white house says President Donald Trump has full confidence in his National Security adviser, mike flynn. Nbc news confirms reports that flynn spoke to the Russian Ambassador about sanctions from the Obama Administration before President Trump took office. Flynn, Vice President mike pence and other top officials had denied that, but yesterday flynn said that he wasnt sure if he talked to the ambassador about those sanctions. That he would mislead the American People about what he discussed with a Russian Ambassador, that makes him, i think, if true, patently unfit for office. Some lawmakers are looking at the timing of flynns communication with the Russian Ambassador. It happened just as the white house during the Obama Administration was expelling Russian Diplomats for Election Year hacking. President trump is now looking at options after a federal Appeals Court upheld a freeze on his controversial travel ban. Yesterday the president said that he is considering signing a new executive order on immigration while the first one is tied up in court. Mr. Trump told reporters aboard air force one that he will likely make a move by tuesday. The president added that hes confident hell win the legal battle over his First Executive order. Last night in south florida, President Trump and the first lady hosted japans first couple for dinner at the president s maralago resort. The president hosted Prime Minister shinzo abe at the white house earlier in the day. This weekend the two World Leaders will be playing golf and getting to know each other a little bit better, spending time with each other. Former president ial candidate and vermont senator Bernie Sanders will be chuck todds exclusive guest on nbcs meet the press. As you can imagine, everything is up for grabs from the travel ban, latest in the courts and also to the possibility of the president signing a new executive order. It will all be up for discussion. It comes your way tomorrow morning at 10 30 on meet the press right here on nbc 10. Seven minutes past 6 00 on this saturday. Coming up, Animal Rescue. Only our cameras are there as they rescue a goose shot in bucks county, neighborhood. Just ahead, a search for the shooter that opened fire on the bird. 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Cable cant offer speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Welcome back. Lets go through your planner for today. We will be considerably warmer this afternoon. 37 your temperature by 9 00 a. M. By 1 00 p. M. , 46. Notice it con athe icon and thi consistent across the board. Were going to see mostly cloudy conditions throughout the day. Here in the suburbs, 35 by 9 00 a. M. , 47 by 1 00 in the afternoon and also temperatures flirting with 50 degrees. A little lower in the Lehigh Valley. 42 to start and about 53 in the afternoon. Delaware youre at 41 at 9 00 a. M. New jersey will get to the low 50s as well with 48 at 1 00 p. M. , and the enginejersey shor by 1 00 p. M. Huge difference from yesterday. Speaking of which, yesterday we had a high in philadelphia of 34 degrees. That was a drop from average of 43, but look today, we get up to 50. And then tomorrow right back down. 42 degrees on your sunday. Thats because were tracking rain moving in. Then we start to pick numbers up again to 50 by your tuesday, just in time for valentines day. Well talk more about the conditions that change with this including the rain and the winds. All of that in just a few minutes. Help for injured veterans is the goal for the 5k hearts for heroes race in wilmington today. The event begins at st. Marks high school at 18 30 a. M. This morning. Theyre hoping to raise money for veterans with ptsd and brain injuries. Others will celebrate valentine valentines day with the cupid 5k at the zoo this morning. It begins at 8 15. Several geese dead, one rescued from this pond. The reward being offered to find out who killed them. And thats not the only thing you can only find in new york state. You can find it all, only in new york. New york. Its all here. Its only here. Plan your winter getaway at iloveny. Com local Department Store chairman and fiphilanthropist robert boscov has died. He had a bout of pancreatic cancer. He is credited with coming out of retirement in 2008 to save the business from bankruptcy. Employees were known to admire boscov for his energy and attention to detail. He also helped to fund reading programs and the arts in our area. A Burlington County pet store is closed for good after being cited for parvo virus and unsanitary conditions. Angry pet owners say the route 206 puppy barn in springfield township sold them sick and dying dogs. Now dozens of puppies rescued from the store need homes. Officials said they will hold puppy barn accountable to pick up the tab for any pet owners who have a sick animal. Animal rescue in bucks county caught on camera. Only nbc 10 was there as volunteers saved this goose that survived a shooting attack. Today authorities will also examine for other geese that died. This as investigators look for the shooter. Nbc 10s Brandon Hudson reports from salisbury township. Police said someone shot at these geese during a snowstorm on thursday. Those gunshots came dangerously close to neighboring homes on the other side of the pond. We were here as a group got down into the water to save the only living goose. There you go, kid. Reporter our nbc 10 camera was the only one rolling as an Animal Rescue worker waded in water to safely pull a chinese goose out of a retention pond in salisbury township. Jessica huff of the sanctuary farm. It makes you feel good when you can go to bed knowing this guy is safe tonight. It was in the middle of the snowstorm that morning and we heard pop, pop, pop. Reporter Regina Mangan lives by the pond. She said the neighborhood bonded with them over the years. Now theyre on edge because of this violent act. It just put a fear in us, and we were very upset that a person took it upon themselves to do that. Reporter the bucks county spca will treat the goose. They are offering a 500 reward leading to an arrest. Its not something we come across very often. Reporter the Bucks County Police and spca are deciding which charges will be filed. Brian hudson, nbc 10 news. This is a good sign. I know it doesnt look like much but this is the phillies equipment truck arriving in snin california. Pitchers and catchers report to camp on monday, followed by infielders on tuesday and outfielders on wednesday. With spring training just about here, you know what that means . The season is almost here. The opener is april 3rd. The home opener is april 7. Well welcome it with a pregame show. Welcome home, phillies. Just the mention of spring training gets me excited. We are looking at temperatures today reminiscent of spring as well, especially concerning yesterday we were in the 30s. In philly, temperatures are still cold. In new york, 29 right now. Tallyville youre at 31 currently. We go farther south, were seeing right around the same until we get into sussex county. Take a look at this. Lincoln 44, ellen dale at 43, milt on at 42. Millville the same. Really boosting the farther south you go and thats whats happening today. Temperatures going to start warming up as we cross the board seeing areas get to the 50s by the afternoon. Much nicer than what we saw yesterday. Radar and satellite for us. Weve been looking at this through the morning hours. Just clouds. No rain, no snow to track. Dont expect to track that today. Instead we will stay dry, but what youre going to notice is with these temperatures really warming up, there will be a lot of wet spots on sidewalks, grassy areas, even some roadways because the spots that were slick or snowy the last couple of days will be melting off today. We pull this out, though, and you see its just clouds across the board. Were not going to be rolling anything in the afternoon. Well have rain in the forecast but thats tomorrow. We start at 6 00 a. M. Go through your morning until early afternoon. 2 30 still clouds in place. It might thin here and there, still peeks of sunshine, but overall still clouds today. Weve got rain that starts to the north at 7 00 a. M. Around 10 00 to noon, we see the rain start to stretch farther to the south. Delaware to new jersey, spots more steady. That begins to thin as we get to the afternoon evening. 5 00 p. M. We see spotty rain thats lighter. It clears out as we go overnight sunday and on into your monday morning. Weekend high temps, the forecast today very mild. 50 for philadelphia, 46 in parts of philadelphia suburbs. I think some spots in the suburbs may make it to 50 as well. 51 in new jersey and 52 along the jersey shore. Delaware spots up to 53, although farther south could see some upper 50s, even. On sunday well cool a little bit. Thats because well have more cloud coverage and the rain moving. A rain snow mix possible for the Lehigh Valley. Everywhere else just some showers that pass by. Still 52 over parts of delaware. Your 10day on 10. Were looking at moving conditions on monday. We drop to 44 degrees. Were at 50 tuesday for your valentines day forecast. The rest of the week, pretty average, lower 40s to upper 30s. You live here, but how much do you know about the history of the city of brotherly love. Weve got answers that may surprise you. Im a philly native. Theyre even surprising me. Do you know the liberty bells original name . Or how your neighborhood got its name . Or why George Washington had slaves in both philadelphia and mt. Vernon . Thats a touchy subject. It wasnt illegal, but they did that to avoid their slaves being emancipated. That plus local help to get you started on building your family tree. Thats this sunday morning at 11 30 right here on nbc 10. Coming up this morning, stolen livelihood. The northeast philly restaurant reeling after its most important piece of equipment is taken by thieves. You know your heart loves megared omega3s. But did you know your eyes, your brain, and your joints really love them too . Introducing megared advanced 4in1. Just one softgel delivers mega support. A popular barbecue joint in northeast philly is without its barbecue this morning. The theft happened just outside jacoutside jack jacks barbecue on red line road. It isnt hard to spot because of its red color. The smoker was even chained and covered up, but somehow the thieves got it. The owner tells us its a difficult time for him and his customers. We miss it. We really need it back. It takes a real scumbag to steal a smoker. That smoker is our lifeline. I feel it would raise some red flags to see it driving down the road on a truck. Jack jacks is ovffering a 1,000 reward for the smokers return. We are bringing you a celebration of black History Month. Were selling stories from across our region making a difference. Heres one of them. I dont have dance, dance has me. Thats joan meyers brown, the founder of philandanko in west philadelphia. She opened a school for dancers, something brown couldnt do as a young girl herself because of the color of her skin. In 2012 she received the highest civic honor from president obama for her work in the arts. She tells me its important to give back to her community. Well, i was raised in the era of segregation, so having the opportunity to give others what i missed out on is important to me. Joans story is just one of many well have for you tonight at 7 00 in our nbc 10 celebrates black History Month special. 6 26 right now on this saturday. Coming up, weve got a heads up for drivers in center city. Pam . Reporter rosemary, were talking about a series of closures that take place over saturday and sunday. Different parts as well. When we come back, ill tell you about those closures in just a moment. Were looking at better temperatures for your saturday as mild air starts to move in place, but it doesnt last long. Well start to look at windy conditions, warmup, cooldown a