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WCAU NBC10 News Today Weekend At 9am February 21, 2016

Lets get a check of your first alert forecast with meteorologist karen thomas. Hi, karen. Good morning, indicakaty, go morning, everyone. Its feeling mild outside. No matter what your plans are, i think youll like the forecast, at least threequarters of the forecast. Sunshine in this mornings region. Clouds will be moving in and will be thickening through the afternoon. Who is going to argue with temperatures, 55 in millville, 54 in wildwood. A little cooler in philadelphia at 47, then, of course, the cold spot up north and west of philadelphia. All in all, though, not too bad of a day. A little cloudier, not warm as yesterday. We are expecting showers to move into the area late this afternoon into the evening hours. Temperatures across the region still average this time of year, 55 to 58 degrees. Ill be back with more weather in just a bit. Katy. Thank you, karen. Breaking news out of michigan. Police revised death count in shooting rampage in kalamazoo. They now say six people died. Two others, including a 14yearold girl were seriously hurt. Now, according to authorities, they say a gunman drove around the city randomly shooting people at a car dealership, restaurant and apartment complex all last night. Theres seven people that tonight were engaged in every day life, going out to eat, going to look at a new car, and babysitting is my understanding. They had no participation in what led to their not being with us anymore. Police arrested jason dalton early this morning. Officers say he did not resist arrest and they found weapons in his car. Authorities expect him to be arraigned this afternoon. Back at home roosevelt boulevard back open after three crashes early this morning. 11yearold boy and a man in Critical Condition following crashes and several other people were hurt. You can see there were dozens of police cars, fire trucks and ambulances in both northbound and southbound lanes in the nicetown section of philadelphia around 2 00 a. M. Were told one car overturned and another car wrecked in the same area close to broad street, a mile sous of the wyissahickowissahickon. It was closed several hours and just reopened. Decision 2016, here are your winning president ial candidates from yesterday donald trump ran away with South Carolinas republican primary and Hillary Clinton hung on to win nevadas caucus. In South Carolina donald trump won with 33 of the gop vote. Marco rubio finished just ahead of ted cruz, both around 22 . In nevada, Hillary Clinton came out on top with 53 of the vote. Bernie sanders got 47 . Here is part of clintons victory speech. Some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other. The fight goes on. The future we want is within our grasp. Clinton was expected to easily win in nevada up to a few weeks ago but had to rally women and minorities and union voters to claim that victory. Bernie sanders voiced optimism after his second place finish in nevada. The vermont senator told supporters democrats in philadelphia for their National Convention this summer will see one of the great political upsets in u. S. History. Now, in the republican race for president , primary voters in South Carolina gave billionaire Businessman Donald Trump an easy victory. Trumps family joined him on stage during his victory speech in spartanburg, South Carolina, last night. He congratulated his opponents and referred to gop nomination saying lets put this thing away. Senator marco rubio sounded confident after his second place finish in South Carolina. Rubio said hes ready to claim the mantel of leadership. Senator ted cruz, who finished just behind rubio, said his campaign defied expectation of pundits. Also last night republican candidate jeb bush bowed out of the race. Listen to his comments. I am suspending my campaign. No. Yeah, yes. Bush finished a distant fourth in South Carolina following poor showings in iowa and new hampshire. Later this morning president ial hopeful donald trump, marco rubio and Bernie Sanders will talk with chuck todd on meet the press. It comes your way right here at 10 30 on nbc 10. New from overnight, a 20yearold man is dead after a double shooting in philadelphias hunting park section. Were told the second victim is a 17yearold girl who was shot multiple times. She was taken to Temple University hospital and listed in stable conditions. Both found inside a car. No word yet on a suspect or motive in that. Also new from overnight, a suspect is under arrest in the stabbing of a 13yearold boy. Nbc 10 was on the scene along holding street in west philadelphia. Police tell us the stabbing happened just after midnight. The boy is listed in stable condition medically treating him for a stab wound to the arm. Two new York City Police officers are expected to recover after being wounded in a shootout with a suspect. A bus en route to the location. Officer down at the location. Police hearing that call raced to help two of their own in brooklyn yesterday. This is the alleged shooter. Police recovered this gun youre looking at from his vehicle. They say one of the wounded officers was saved by his protective gear just like his detective father was 27 years ago. Heavenly father, son, a number of years apart, both saved by the vest we now require all personnel to wear. Youre looking at one of the two wounded officers, both in stable condition. The suspect, who was also shot, was listed in Critical Condition. Police say he used an alias. He had 19 arrests on his record and was wanted for crimes across the country. Well, hundreds of people in philadelphia are showing their support for an nypd officer convicted of killing a man. Hundreds rallied in philadelphias chinatown yesterday from peter laing. Laing was convicted of manslaughter in the 2014 accidental shooting death of an unarmed man in brooklyn. Protesters believe it was unjust and the result of political pressure and influence. Whats unjust what is unjustice by the victim cant be better by unjustice to the police officer. Its society that should do better. Protesters tell us the Police Department does not give officer laing adequate training. This protest was one of dozens across the city in support of officer laing. Its 9 08. Happening today, a salute to philadelphias First Responders at the rothman rink at dilworth park. Roth man officer free admission with scale rental for First Responders and family members. The event runs from 1 00 to 4 00 and is designed as a thank you to the citys emergency workers the mayor, son of a philadelphia firefighter, is expected to attend. The mayor also honored firefighters in center city yesterday. He was among denies at the mass, they honored those who lost their lives in the line of duty. A man rescued after a staircase crumbled under his feet. Church street in old city last night, investigators tell us the victim injured his leg when the stairs gave way under him. He was trapped until firefighters could free him. City inspectors were called to the building to investigate what happened. Happening today, hundreds of penn state students will finally get a chance to sit down after spending 46 hours on their feet to raise money for families affected by childhood cancer. This is a live look at the dance marathon better known as thon. They have been dancing since friday night in the Jordan Center and will continue doing so until noon. Good luck with that. Just ahead, Prison Guards say they are under attack. Now their union is calling for help. The change they say is needed before an officer is seriously hurt. And the man accused of leaking secret government information says hes ready to come back to the u. S. , but Edward Snowden has one condition and thats ahead on nbc 10 today. Who didnt like those springlike temperatures yesterday. It took the edge off the polar plunge in chester county. Dozens rushed to take a dip in the brandy creek. The plunge raised money for the alliance to National Natural resources. That was yesterday. Today more of the same, maybe a little cooler but so much on the mild side. Lets get a check of the first alert forecast from meteorologist karen thomas. Hi, karen. Hi, katy. Those pictures, still bone chilling cold yesterday to be in a bathing suit and river for sure. On the mild side, we like that. Heading out this morning, you may need a light jacket. If youre up in the poconos, you definitely need ski wear but skiers are out nice and early because they want to take advantage of the very tranquil weather up there. 40 in the pocono mountains, not much wind to speak of. Feeling pretty good, peeks of sunshine, perfect skiing weather. 47 in philadelphia. Look down closer to south jersey and southern delaware, its 53 in dover, 57 in atlantic city, 54 in wildwood. So really feeling quite nice outside. We are above average for this time of year. Satellite showing we do have clouds moving in, so you want to take advantage of this Early Morning sunshine while we have it because the clouds will be thickening as we move through our afternoon. You see some showers pushing into hagerstown and pushing into northeastern maryland, parts of pennsylvania right now. Those showers will be headed our way later this afternoon. For today well call it mild and breezy. May need the umbrellas later on today. All in all, temperatures still on the mild side, 55 to 58 degrees. Ill be back with a look at a mid storm coming our way as well. Katy. Thank you, karen. This summer philadelphia will the center of the political universe when dnc comes to town in july. To get you ready, the National Center has a brandnew exhibit showing voters the history of running for president. Nbcs Randy Gyllenhaal reports to win the white house, youve got to have a compelling campaign. I accept National Constitution center. A firm, strong grip. Reporter matthew shows us how its done. He runs the museum here history of president ial politics, a Bobby Kennedy button. We really take a look at the evolution of the process, how president s have campaigned for office. This Years Campaign might be one for the history books with the surge of outsider, antiestablishment candidates. Its a total new wave election. We caught up with this group of democrats conflicted between choosing an outsider like bernie or an insider like hillary. I think shes a creature of the system, whereas bernie is an outsider candidate. It feels like a big paradigm shift no matter what but i havent decided which direction i would like to go for that. With dnc coming to philly this summer, voters are hoping the issues they care about take center stage. At the end of the exhibit you can write a post it note with your most important issue. I want to make education great again. We work in the schools in till dell. Its really hard to watch the state they are in right now. Voters hoping their voices heard as the country once again chooses its next president. That exhibit, by the way, runs through the election in november. Nbc 10 and telemundo 62 are proud sponsors. Meantime, voters in pennsylvania have two months to make up their minds. The primary here in late april. Randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Well, today is the biggest day in stock car racing, the daytona 500 is ready to roll. Nascar rookie chase elliot has the pole position in florida today but Dale Earnhardt jr. Is considered a strong choice to win the daytona 500. A field of 40 cars will get the green flag this afternoon. We will have more sports ahead at 9 50. Well be right back. The weekend warmup came just in time for the mummers parade yesterday. The String Band Division strutted down main street for their Second Annual mardi gras celebration. The crowd got a front row seat to the glitter, the feathers and that music. A wonderful parade of the people are along the streets, packed like new years day. Thats what fires us up collectively. The parade is a fundraising effort for the string band who rely on donations to pay for costumes and set. This weeks wednesdays child is looking for a family to support and encourage her as she faces life challenges. Nbc 10s vai sikahema introduces us to natasha. Reporter natasha is a sweet and fun loving young lady full of energy and determination. She wanted to try out bowling so we met up at laurel lanes in new jersey. Natasha suffered a brain injury as a baby that caused developmental delays but she doesnt let that stand in her way of making friends. She loves life. Shes one of those people you love to be around. Shes also able to communicate despite her challenges. She does know how to sign language sometimes. Maybe she might point to what she wants or might take you by hand. Children with needs like natasha thrive in home environments where families have time to give oneonone attention. That family is going to need some patience, understanding of a child with delays. Her forever family would be forever trained based on her needs. She has a great Therapeutic Team who would be there along the way when she moved her new home. We would be able to train the family and they would be able to meet her current staff so we would be able to successfully transition her into her new home. Natashas happiness and enthusiasm are sure to brighten the lives of any family. She does Little Things like cuddle up in your arms. Shes a princess and thats how we treat her. Natasha is this weeks wednesdays child. If you would like to make natashas dream come true or the dream of any wednesdays child go to nbc10. Com and suffrage wednesdays child. Call National Adoption center. Now, nbc 10 first alert weather. Checking your forecast, its a busy weekend for a lot of folks. When we hear warmup, you get outside and get things done. Still mild, safely head outside with a jacket, light jacket perhaps. We dont need the hat and gloves today, at least not today, maybe the umbrella later on. We are tracking some showers coming into the area and a storm moving up the coast come midweek. 47 degrees currently is our current temperature in philadelphia. Winds are calm and relative humidity 77 as we go ahead and check area temperatures. Not doing too badly. Get warmer on the way to southern delaware, jersey. We have southwest wind bringing in warm air now so temperatures not looking too bad. If you enjoyed yesterday and thinking what was our temperature yesterday, in philadelphia up to 60 degrees. Our record was 70 degrees. We were 10 degrees away from that. Still nonetheless, these temperatures we hit the high yesterday were well above where we should be this time of year. Next 12 to 24 hours, temperatures dropping off, this evening, a steady decline overnight in the temperature reading. But the moisture should be out of here by the time hit those freezing temperatures tomorrow morning. So the rain developing as the cold front moves through bringing clouds and this low pressure system moving west to east. That will be bringing us shower activity were anticipating late this afternoon into the evening hours. You see it already moving pretty well here and just pushing out of West Virginia into parts of maryland and parts of South Central pennsylvania. So those showers will be with us not with like heavy rain. If you want to take the umbrella along this afternoon into the evening hours, probably a good idea. Mild with the upper 50s, our temperature reading across the area. As i said, some showers moving through. This system gets out of here fairly quickly according to the models. Should be out of here by tomorrow mornings commute and then High Pressure coming in. You see this bubble of clear skies here. We will be colder tomorrow but well have more sunshine in the forecast. So all in all not looking too badly today. I would have to say the majority of our sunshine would be early part of today as opposed to the latter as the clouds will be increasing as that system gets a little bit closer to us afternoon. Temperatures on the mild side for sure. Once again 55 to 58 degrees across the area. Here is a look at your sevenday forecast. As i mentioned, we will be getting colder monday, tuesday, and then we stay in the warm sector of the storm coming. This is the way its looking right now, the low pressure system and storm will to the western track. The inland of our area. Thats going to keep us in the warm sector, so we should have all rain, extreme north and west, might get a wintry mix out of the system. For us, looks like all rain and some could be heavy. Well keep a close eye on it for you. Katy. Ive been loving music every since i can remember. The love of the music. Thats why a lot of these voice hopefuls lining up for a chance of a lifetime. You still have a chance to sing your heart out today. Well tell you where and when coming up next. Its 9 27. The Union Representing new jersey corrections officer calling for change, it comes with reports of attacking officers. Four officers in recent weeks. Ep these injuries happened addingly at the hands of inmates. They want to establish a bill that would establish a fund for officers injured on duty. Still to come on nbc news, well tell you how identifying these three men seen in the video could solve a stabbing near a state university. In the race for the white house, donald trump and Hillary Clinton claim victory and jeb bush says goodbye. And here is a live look outside at boathouse row in philadelphia. Springlike temperatures are going to stick around. We might see rain in the forecast. With first alert meteorologist karen thomas coming up in just a minute. Wet weather, as we said, is hitting West Virginia right now but it is headed our way as karen thomas will break down for us. Karen, lets get a look at the for

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