Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News Today Weekend At 9am 2016052

WCAU NBC10 News Today Weekend At 9am May 22, 2016

Weekend, whats going on, karen . Yes, hang on to the umbrellas, you may need it today. Plenty of cloud cover here. Looking at the east end live picture right now. Overcast skies will prevail just about everywhere. Possibilities of peeks of sunshine poking through, but you see our live Doppler Radar with a scan showing where the rain is right now. Looks like moving just east to west. Parts of western delaware county, broken showers here just off the coast crossing over route 9. And delaware seeing rain as well, moving in north to south. We can anticipate that we are going to continue through our sunday with a possibility of some isolated showers as we still have all of this moisture here to the best. It has to clear through the area as we make our way through our sunday afternoon. Were not looking for a washout today, but pesky isolated showers. Well get some breaks in the rain here and some breaks in the clouds. Thats why we say the potential is there for some peeks of sunshine moving through. Ill be back with what we can expect with the start of our workweek, and were talking about a big warm up as we get closer to the holiday weekend. Cant come soon enough, thanks, karen. New this morning, one person is dead after being hit by a car in burlington city. The accident happened on route 130 right around midnight. The driver of the car involved stayed on the scene. A power pole broke in half and drivers should expect delays today while the pole is repaired. And electricity is working to be restored for about 128 people. Problems underground forced people from their homes. Monique is following the story for us. At the other end of the block, pico crews remain on scene. They hope to have power restored in a couple hours. We were allowed to walk east a short time ago, and this is what we saw. Half a dozen homes with shattered windows on first and second floors. The damage is due to the force of the under ground electrical fire that occurred overnight. Pico, police and fire were called to 6th and pine this morning. When they arrived, they say a cable was burning under ground. One worker recalled flames shooting from the ground. The Power Company says three manholes lifted off of their bases. The Fire Department evacuated six homes because of that. And we spoke to homeowners who say they were evacuated or awakened. We were awakened by a loud noise and the house shoot. Then we saw smoke, then heard the Fire Department coming, and then we were awakened by the firemen asking to come check our house for carbon monoxide. We had someone staying with us from california. And the good thing is theyre under ground, but the bad thing is everything is ageing. Pico says there was no explosion, but a fire. Now this problem power falls on the same day at the 38th annual Society Hills open house and garden tour. Just moments ago we spoke to the organizer who says he does plan to go ahead with the tour of ten homes this afternoon. We also reached out to churches nearby an we have been told that no services have been canceled. I spoke to the reverend at ame, and he says they plan to have was as in just an hour. Live from now in society hill, monique braxton. Thank you for that update. Folks that frequent the Schuylkill River trail are on alert after not one but two cases of incident exposure that happened yesterday morning. Each time, someone saw a man performing a lewd act on himself in plain sight. In one case, the man was arrested, in the other case the man got away after running towards jfk boulevard. A local organization is teaching trail goers what to do in cases like these. We want to be a force of good on the trail, eyes, ears on the trail. We will be watching for things like this. The next Schuylkill River trail watch Training Session is on wednesday nights at city hall in philly. The group has advocated to have these yellow signs put up. This morning, a bethlehem postal worker is accused of groping three women after he delivered their mail. State police tell us that Robert Wexler is charged with indecent assault. According to the victims, he touched their chest after dropping off their mail. A philadelphia family is calling for action after the cold case murder of their family member. Michelle gonzalez was shot and killed five years ago in summ summ summerdale. Yesterday would have been her birthday. They are pushing for more aggressive action on cold cases. The police say the investigation is active but no arrests. Police were called to the scene here on frankfurt avenue around 4 00 this morning. They found a car on its roof. Another car was also involved in the accident. The victim in this case is expected to be okay. From our south jersey bureau, loved ones are remembers a teenager who died in a car crash right after attending prom. Family and friends gathered yesterday at the viewing and funeral for 15yearold mikayla moseley. After the services, we spoke to her grandmother. She was so bubbley and so loving, you know . Full of life. New Jersey State Police are still investigating what caused and what lead up to that deadly crash. Take a look at this show of support for Fallen Police officers and their families. A lot of people out last night. It was the 20th annual Police Survivors benefit. It benefits the families of the officers that were killed in the line of duty. They never forget us. Last night featured food, fun, and live music. This industry is brand new. It is historical, and the evolution of it will be a challenge. Budding entrepreneurs are eager to get into the new pennsylvania medical marijuana industry. Plus, the race for the white house, clinton and trump look past the primaries and on to the general election. Coming up, the voters theyre trying to court before november. Introducing the completely redesigned mercedesbenz ccoupe, with its athletic prowess and sleek new body. It doesnt just raise the bar. It completely crushes it. The allnew cclass coupe. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Good sunday morning, im karen thomas. Were taking a look at your neighborhood forecast this morning. Isolated showers on tap today. Sort of on and off spotty shower activity. Doppler showing us just where the rain is and you see where it is sort of broken apart. Today we do still have the presip around, but it is very broken apart like right now interior south jersey not dealing with much. Up in the lehigh valley. Taking you wider, this is out here in central pennsylvania. So we dont want to put our umbrellas away just yet. Temperatures are bumping up. We are slow to rise because of limited sunshine today. A little warmer up here now. The wind is helping to dry things out a little bit. 55 in vineland, 55 right now in atlantic city. Your planner for this morning in philadelphia, for the afternoon, 61 degrees with peeks of sunshine, 66 by 40u 0 p. M. 63 in the lehigh valley. Were not looking to get much out of the 60s as we move through the day. Thank you for that, karen. 13 minutes after 9 00 on this sunday. Still to come on this nbc 10 news today. For some it was a difficult day at the preakness. Two horses are dead and there is a local connection. Well explain after the break. Time now to check in on this weeks wednesdays child. We are introduced to ramier. The thud thud thud of a basketball on a wooden floor, or clanking off of a rim and back board to some would be annoying but its music to his ears. He loves basketball. Bowling is okay, but basketball is his favorite thing to do. He has down syndrome, and everyone at his school calls him mier mier. He has simple tastes. His other great love is going to the library with a box of legos. He loves legos. Even if it is not creating masters pieces, just stacking blocks one on top of the other. What color is this one . Blue. Always happy, always helping when you need someone. When you feel down he makes you happy. His adoptive family needs patience. He brings endless amounts of love, smiles welcome and joy into anyones home. He is adorable, loves to be around people, loves to help with anything. Clean up, whatever you need him to do, he helps. He is this weeks wednesdays child. If you would like to open your mind and heart to him or any wednesdays child, go to our wednesday right now and search wednesdays child, go to our website. Well check our sunday morning forecast and let you know what were in store for today. We have overcast skies right now. We look at the city skyline and we have a rain drop on the camera lens right there. We have a few folks out there on the boardwalk. We will continue with that, but looking for peeks of sunshine as you go out today. It really shapes up midweek. Were looking for summer like temperatures. Right now were looking at the rain moving through, radar has scattered showers from the west, and heavier rain throughout in harr harrisburg and the central part of the state. So hang on to the umbrellas, you could run into this on and off shower activity. Moving into Chester County as well. Dens the same thing. Dry right now in the interior south jersey. You see the system is large and it will continue moving in our direction. Well put the future cast into motion and show you what to expect as we move through our daytime hours. Rain to the west, spotty in nature. As we get closer to the evening hours, we see it is not raining here at parts of the coastline, but it is back here near wilmington and of course here in the mid state. But this evening as we move through, it sort of retreats and you see isolated pockets of precipitation. For the most part cloudy skies. 9 00 p. M. Tonight we really start to dry out and were looking for drier conditions. Temperatures in the mid 50s across the area. 55 in atlantic city. 56 in philadelphia. With the gray skies and limited sunshine, well will hard pressed to get out of the 60s. Just hang on to the umbrellas through today. Storm, drier and warmer conditions. Possible lay spritzer in the afternoon. Temperatures well above where we should be this time of year. Dry conditions and sunshine. Right now tand and sunday, the holiday weekend, looking pretty terrific. If youre looking to head out today, you might want to go over to bucks county. The peddlers village is holding their annual strawberry festival. This is from a Previous Year when they had sun year weather. Vendors will be selling things like strawberry short cake, chocolate dipped strawberries, and a strawberry pie eating contest. Thank you so much, good night. For the first time, audio from the pilot of the ill fated egyptair flight before it disappeared. Well have a update straight ahead. Morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment the Nonprofit Organization mens fit is committed to providing education, clothing for interviews, and more. And were going to talk about a Upcoming Event to support their effort pps thank you for being here. Thank you for having me, im delighted to be here. Despite the rain. So a big event coming up. A huge fundraiser. It is called monte carlo. Were looking forward to a lot of folks coming out to support our organization and having fun. Tell us more about the organization. How did it come to be . How are you helping people directly . We have been around in philadelphia for nine years. And i, you know, just saw a need. Im originally from philadelphia. I saw that there was services that men could benefit for that have typically been available for women. And i feel like if you dress appropriately, you feel good about yourself, your level of self confidence is increased and you feel good about getting your foot in the door for a job interview. We started off doing that, and we added a Career Development workshop where we focus on issues related to employment and financial literacy. Were showing pictures from previous monte carlo nights. It has been a big success for you guys. We also have information about the time, ticket prices, and you told me people can get tickets through your website . Yes, they can go on mensfit. Org and there is an event that takes them to event bright. And it is a black tie optional event because we know people may be coming from work . Yes, i have a couple folks say it is optional. If you want to wear bowties and long gowns, we welcome pa. Its vegas style. It is wednesday, june 1st from 6 00 p. M. To 9 30. Tickets are 100. It goes to a good cause. Theyre doing great work and you can go to their website mensfit. Org for more information. Yes. When we come back, the days top stories including a power outage for dozens of people in philadelphia. Residents describe it as an explosion. All right, we want to hang on the umbrellas today. On and off shower activity and plenty of cloud cover today. But we could see a peek of sunshine here or there. A little bit of everything today. When we dry out and warm up after the break. Look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, but, uh. The yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. Mmmm, yoplait. An extremely scary when you turn the light out, get into bed, and you hear a boom. Flames erupt under ground causing Power Outages and blown out windows in a philadelphia neighborhood. Were live with what pico said sparked the incident. We may see some sunshine today, but it is still chilly out there. When the warmth returns, that is coming up in our first alert neighborhood weather. Thank you for being with us. Lets get a check of that forecast now, karen, it is a little better than yesterday. Our forecast will be improving through the next workweek and closer to the holiday weekend. I know a lot of people may have an abbreviated week coming up, and wait until you see the numbers coming up. You have the sevenday at the bottom of your screen, and i will let you in on the tenday, waking up this morning, if youre just rolling out of bed, overcast skies. We even have rain drops on the lens here. 56 degrees currently. Mainly in the lower to mid 50s just about everywhere. We can expect that as we move through our sunday. Temperatures for High Temperatures bumping a little bit, but still below where we should be for this time of year about 73 degrees. So 67 degrees will be our High Temperature in philadelphia today and as we look at radar, certainly isolated spritzers out there. Today were following a power problem in the Society Hills neighborhood. Monique braxton has details on an explosion and a under ground fire. Pico is quick to tell us it was not an explosion, but a fire. Let me show you what is taking place. The power crews are telling us as many as 128 homes dont have hour, but they should in just a few hours. A few hours ago we captured this video from just a few hours ago. Half a dozen homes have shattered windows. Glass coating the sidewalk in that area. Prk ico s pico was called along with police and fire and they discovered a cable burning under ground. Three manholes lifted off of their bases as well. The Fire Department evacuated about six homes. People say their lights were flickering, and then the smell of something burning, and then the Power Company arrived. This is all occurring on the same day as a home tour. A number of churches are also in the area and so far after a quick check, we have been told that no sunday services are being canceled. In the next half hour, well talk to some folks who live on this block who dont have power. Live now from Society Hills, monique braxton. In the meantime, utility crews are investigating an under ground explosion from yesterday. They had to close Market Street between 29th and 30th streets for hours. Officials say an old lead cable corroded and began smoking and that is what caused the explosion. The blast damaged part of the street. Now to the latest on a story we told you about as breaking news last night at 11 00. A triple shooting left a teenager dead and two others wounded. It happened along pine line. Nbc 10 was on the scene. Officers were in and out of this ne nearby corner store. Police found more than two dozen shell casings. They also found an suv with the back window shattered. There was a lot of gunshots. A lot. About 2 00 later, i heard yelling. Police have not released the name of the teenager who died. Right now investigators are working to find witnesses and theyre hoping that the corner store surveillance caught some of the violence on video. It will likely take more than a year to get medical marijuana up and running in pennsylvania, but some entrepreneurs are making moves. Randy gyllenhaal reports. Now that medical marijuana is law in pennsylvania, the scramble under way to prepare for patients as budding entrepreneurs plant the seeds for a booming business. Thats our dream to provide relief for many pennsylvania residents. A cannabusiness show, and joe hopes to grow and manufacture in his hometown. We would do something on farmland, set up a ware mouse. The state is handing out grow licenses and for expenses, applicants need up to a 1 million in capital. Were operating a medical program. People not supposed to be getting hold of it will not. But the industry fwrous in uncharted waters. Marijuana is still banned at the federal level, so many banks refuse to get involved making this a cash only operation. Still, there is excitement here for what is to come. It is brand new, historical. Randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Now to the latest in the crash of egyptair flight 804. Leaked flight data shows trouble with smoke in the planes cockpit and bathroom. There was a sudden dramatic catastrophe that led to the crash. All was routine and going fine as the pilot checked in with air Traffic Controllers in switzerland. Thank you so much, good night. Were also raernilearning th egypt has a submarine looking for the planes black boxes. Investigators hope they will help explain why the plane suddenly plunged into the sea with 66 people on board. Fighting zika as the number of infected pregnant women in the u. S. Is on the rise. Well explain, coming up. Morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment as we go ahead and take a look at live Doppler Radar, we see where the shower activity is at the moment. We see very isolated shower activity pushing west to east into philadelphia. That will continue in the next couple hours pushing into delaware and central delaware and north delaware. In south je

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