Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News Today Weekend At 7am 2016091

WCAU NBC10 News Today Weekend At 7am September 11, 2016

Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Thanks for being with us. Im rosemary connors, its 7 00 on this sunday. Lets talk about the weather first. We know a lot of people may be heading to the eagles game and as meteorologist krystal klei has been telling us looking pretty good out there. Yeah, the forecast is looking a lot better than, say, just yesterday where we were still talking 90s. Yesterday we hit a high of 95 degrees, exactly where we were expecting those mid 90s, it was humid, felt hot throughout the day. Today a little different. This morning not quite yet feeling the changes, its still a warm and somewhat humid start, but if youre heading out here is what you need to know. Its not going to be as hot or humid today in comparison to just yesterday. As you move into the night it will be a much nicer evening. Tailgating plans, the game itself or maybe if you have something planned tonight overall looking way better than the last few days. Here are your temperatures right now,el 0 degrees northeast philadelphia, 77 wilmington, 86 mount holly, along the shore upper 70s, upper 60s mt. Pocono. These numbers tomorrow morning totally different, 50s and 60s expected. We will take a closer look at the change in temperatures, why its happening and most importantly we will have more details on that football forecast all coming up. We will see you shortly. Lets take a live look right now at ground zero. Hundreds of lives were lost here in the terrorist attacks on this day 15 years ago. Thats when two planes flew into the twin towers. Now to a live picture from the pentagon where a third plane hit. Today americans are pausing to remember the victims and they are reflecting on where weve been ever since one of the darkest days in this countrys history. In our area in old city the Philadelphia Fire Department and Police Department along with First Responders will honor the fallen. They will meet at the firemans haul museum and march to the betsy ross house for a remembrance ceremony. Bells will also toll at the garden of reflection in lower makefield, bucks county. Drew smith was there last night. Reporter they called it the peace through light service, a gathering in lower makefield township at the garden of reflection, the official pennsylvania september 11th of memorial. Some days, yes, its been 15 years but other times its like it happened five minutes ago. Reporter its anniversary that never gets easier for the families of 18 people from bucks county who died in the 9 11 attacks, their names read aloud, including judy reeses son. Joshua reese, tower 1, 105th floor. Around the garden young student volunteers put together thousands of paper doves decorated are the names of all the victims. I think that kind of touched these children. Its not a number. They actually saw these individual people. Reporter in Camden County people celebrated patriotism in a Haddon Heights church dedicating the end of the program on americas heroes with a specific focus on september 11th. Ive been wearing a flag every day since then to remember those people, innocent people, who died that day. Reporter a decade and a half later the world is a much different place because of what happened that day. Something that we as americans never thought we would see and it makes it a little difficult. Reporter but its moments like this where a Strong Community finds comfort. Drew smith, nbc 10 news. New this morning thousands of flags are in place in pennsauken Camden County to mark the lives lost. Volunteers put out the flags with the names of the victims on them at the towns 9 11 memorial. The night time flag placement event has become an annual tradition at the corner of merchantville avenue and route 130. A Memorial Ceremony will be held here at 12 15 this afternoon with patriotic songs and release of doves. Hundreds of runners will hit the streets in norristown. They will take part in the Travis Manion Montgomery County hero fund 5k race. Travis manion was killed in 2007 after his unit cake under sniper fire in iraq. Proceeds from the run will help the foundation that bears his name as well as the Montgomery County hero fund. Norristown lawyer sean cullen and his wife created the fund. Montgomery county hero run is specifically for police, fire, military, First Responders that are hurt in or on the line of duty here in Montgomery County and the goal of that is so that in the event of tragedy we immediately are available to help them and their families. The run will begin at 9 00 this morning on main street at the foot of the Montgomery County courthouse steps in norristown. In delaware an Interfaith Service will be held at 4 00 this afternoon to bring together faiths in a stand against terrorism. Senator tom corporal will take part in the Commemoration Service at Holy Rosary Church in clay month. If you had a like to find out whats happening in your community go to nbc10. Com or tap the nbc 10 app. Both president ial nominees are marking todays 9 11 anniversary by attending the official commemoration at ground zero. Donald trump is a native new yorker and Hillary Clinton was the senator from new york at the time of the attacks. Neither will be on the campaign trail today, continuing the tradition of setting aside partisan politics on this somber anniversary. Clinton, though, is stepping back a bit from comments she said about trump supporters. Take a listen. You could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islamaphobic, you name it. In a statement the democratic president ial nominee says she was grossly generalist i can and regrets saying half, but clinton also says she will continue to call out racist rhetoric. Donald trump is criticizing clintons comments saying that she made, quote, the worst mistake of the political season. Trumps campaign is trying to win over more women voters in pennsylvania, in fact, just yesterday the campaign introduced the pennsylvania women for trump statewide leadership team. The group is made up of more than 45 republican women who want to share their message about why they are voting for trump. Its seven minutes past 7 00 right now on this sunday and we are talking zika fears. Mosquito spraying in florida continues as Business Owners anxiously wait for the all clear from the cdc. We will tell you what needs to happen for officials to lift the travel ban to miami beach. We are just hours away from the eagles home opener and the birds have a new qb leading the force. Coming up in sports we will hear from rookie carson wentz about his nfl debut. Third president . Male teacher and the largest planet . Male teacher someone we havent heard from. Female teacher anyone else . Through internet essentials, comcast has connected more than 3 Million People in need to low cost, high Speed Internet at home, helping to make sure that every hand in the classroom goes up. Male teacher okay, veronica. Amphibian. Male teacher excellent. Welcome to a brighter future. Welcome to it all. Comcast. Y242by y5yy welcome back. If you have plans to go to the eagles Season Opener versus cleveland today, very good news, the forecast is looking perfect to be outside. 78 will be your temperature for that tailgating weather as we move through your Morning Hours into the early afternoon. Kickoff time will be at 82 degrees, 1 00 p. M. , got that scattered mix of clouds and sunshine out there, mostly sunny as we move through your afternoon, thats because the cold front will pass. Its also going to keep your temperatures at bay. Instead of talking mid 90s like we did yesterday were talking mid 80s, 86 is your forecast high. It will still be warm out there but not nearly as hot as yesterday and even better the humidity is going to drop behind that cold front. Meaning that while this morning it might still feel a little sticky out there it will not be feeling like that as you move later in the day. It will be that crisp air outside. Theres a look at Rehoboth Beach. Going to the delaware beaches, the jersey shore the thing to do, 80 at 10 00 a. M. Look at the forecast temperatures in the afternoon, just to the low 80s. With that mix of clouds and sunshine should be a very nice day today. Actually very nice in the days to come. We will check in on the temperature up and downs coming up. Greta friedman has died, she is the iconic woman in that photo being kissed by a sailor in times square at the end of world war ii. You can get an idea of what the photo looks like, im sure you know what im talking about. The 92yearold died thursday at a hospital in richmond, virginia, the famous pose is captured on film and seen by millions. This statue depicting the photo draws tourists in san diego. A planned 9 11 tribute could get an nfl player fined by the league. We will show you what the titans starting linebacker wants to do today and why Police Officers in new jersey and new york are standing behind him. When it comes to risking Social Security on the stock market. Pat toomey wrote the book. Im. Ive got a whole chapter in my book where i. Specifically lay out how i think we should. Reform Social Security. Toomeys plan requires wall street and bankers to manage. The accounts. Collecting fees out of your Social Security that could. Total billions. Fees they collect, even if the market crashes and. Seniors lose everything. Pat toomeys looking out for wall street, not pennsylvania. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. whispering what are you doing up . whispering mom said i could have a midnight snack. Well, i say its late, and you need to go to bed. Why . Because i am the boss. Youre not the boss, moms the boss. Well, technically, we are cobosses. Technically, moms the boss. Mmmm. Shhh. The family favorite. Yoplait. Jury selection continues this week in the Market Street Building Collapse trial, the trial will determine who should compensate the victims of the 2013 collapse in center city, philadelphia. The victims are suing the owner of the building that collapsed, the Salvation Army and the demolition contractor, among others. You will remember six people died and 13 more were injured when a fourstory blik wall collapsed on the Salvation Army thrift store at 22nd and Market Streets. This week the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that challenges the states Public Education funding system. Six school districts, parents and Community Groups filed a lawsuit claiming the department of education has failed to give School Children the resources this he need. Two of the parents in the case have kids that attend schools in philadelphia. The lower Marion School board meets tomorrow evening for the First Time Since a judge ruled that it must redo its budget for the school year. The judge called the districts 4. 4 tax increase unlawful. He capped any increase at 2. 4 . The judge found that the districts budget would plan for multimillion dollar deficits, a Rainy Day Fund of sorts but yearend audits found multimillion dollar surpluses. The district is already appealing the case. Now to news on the zika virus. So long as the number of zika cases holds steady in miami beach the centers for Disease Control could lift its travel advisory for the area. According to a report from the miami newspaper the cdc would lift the ban on september 19th so long as there are no locally new contracted cases. Mosquito control teams have been spraying insecticide in the area to kill the mosquitos that can carry the virus and the crews plan to continue the spraying operations over the next two weeks. And we will begin by taking a look at some of those neighborhood temperatures. Right now we are looking in the philadelphia neighborhoods, westbound area at 77 degrees, germantown the same, 78 Graduate Hospital and 79 that temperature at the airport. Fox chase 78, bustleton already at 80 degrees outside. This morning temperatures are on the warm side and this is the tail end of that heat wave that weve been dealing with. We hit the 90s yesterday just as expected and it was very humid through the afternoon. Good news is while its still a little humid this morning and temperatures are still up right now they wont be rising quite as much in the afternoon because of that cold front that will be affects us. Along the shore 77 your temperature at cape may courthouse right now, 76 in dennis township. A lot of mid 70s out there, summers point, Atlantic City in the 70s, Little Egg Harbor 75 degrees. These temperatures going to warm into the lower 80s, of course, a little higher farther inland. Current wind speeds around 5 to 15 Miles Per Hour, wildwood 12 mile per hour winds, currently still seeing that winds come in from the south and southwest but thats a change from yesterday where it was directly from the south. And the bigger change will be coming chlgt if you look farther along to our west notice they are coming in almost directly west to east and northwest to east. That is what were going to be dealing with as the cold front passes, thats where the front s thats why you see the change in independent with. Once it moves over us wind direction changes, it pushes out the moisture we do have in the air and we look much more comfortable as a result. 86 in philadelphia, dropping to the lower 80s by monday. 79 monday in dover. Allentown as well dropping to 79, only low 80s today and even wildwood getting in on that action at 83 degrees. Look at monday, tuesday, along the shore if you can extend your weekend, mid upper 70s. Should be very nice as well as very sunny. Next chance of rain very isolated here and its this morning that we see it on your model very spotty. It almost completely dissipates any chance. So by 11 00 we push the clouds out and are looking at a sunny forecast for your afternoon. 3 30 should be very nice in those mid 80s and a clear overnight as well. Here are the temperatures today, 86 center city, lansdale 85, allentown in the lower 80s. Along the shore lower 80s, delaware low to mid 80s and the same for new jersey. We will take a look at that ten day on 10 coming up in the next half hour. Runner nia ali brought an olympic medal home to philadelphia. To celebrate her Old Neighborhood brought the party to her. We will take you there after the break. 7 23 right now on this sunday. Just about 83 degrees outside the nbc 10 studios. This is a live look at ground zero. One world trade center. Where in a few hours hundreds will gather to remember the lives lost and the heroism in the midst of terror on that day. Its been 15 years since the twin towers in manhattan, the pentagon and the pennsylvania countryside in shanksville were all struck by hijacked passenger planes killing 2,996 people. On this 9 11 Police Unions in new jersey and new york are showing their support for an nfl player who wants to wear special red, white and blue cleats on the field today, but instead titans linebacker Avery Williamson says he is going to auction the shoes to benefit operation warrior wishes. Williamson says he doesnt want to cause any trouble after the nfl warned him that he would face a fine for breaking uniform rules if he wore the cleats. A number of new york and new Jersey Police associations have told williamson that they will pay any fine for him if he does decide to wear the 9 11 cleats. Happy sunday to you, Danny Pommells from csn. It is game day, the eagles kick off their season against the browns this afternoon and carson wentz who was supposed to watch and learn will just skip that watch part. Wentz tweeted yesterday tomorrow cant come soon enough. Beyond blessed to be able to play this game i love. Here what he had to say about playing in his debut earlier this week. No doubt im going to be excited. Im already excited, im trying to just control a little bit and focus in all week. I will be real excited but once that kickoff happens, once were playing ball its just football again and at the end of the day i will look back and realize how special of a moment that was for me. Its human nature. My butterflies will be going, too, its my first game as well. You get into the course of the game, you get past that one, two, three plays into the game and it settles in and is football. Patriots and cardinals going at it, both teams should be in the playoff hunt but Chris Collinsworth says there are no sure things in this league. You know, if theres whatever

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