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WCAU NBC 10 News At 6pm June 22, 2024

Open, man. Dont look at that, dont look at, look at me. I did a prayer before i walked up to him, it was a feeling, keep him conscious, keep him awake. Clark was getting out of his car near blakemore street when two men were shot. It was just after noon on june 26th smarts phone camera rolling. Clark offers a glimpse into the city streets. Most people dont get to see. You stay away dont move him. For more than four minutes, clark in philly from texas for work and other by standers con stan thely talked to the 22yearold victim as he grew wide eyed and started to lose consciousness. I thought, if he nods off, he may not wake up. They scooped the man into a police suv i found this shooting is one of two in the area. Police data shows that overall Violent Crime is down in the city. He was hurt because ive seen so much violence in the city. I dont know what the root of it is, but i just really felt bad that all these kids are playing outside, and this guy randomly drives by shooting up the block. You know i just i dont get it. Why did you film that. So the people could see. I think the country needs a revival, and i think they need to see some of the violence going on in order to realize that stuff needs to change. Clark didnt use his phone to call 911, that had already been done. He doesnt see violence like this where he is from. I checked with detectors, no one has been arrested for the shooting, both victims are still recovering. Were posting the video on nbc10. Com. To our weather now, the aftermath of strong storms and flooding rains today. Parts of our area have big messes to clean up. The heaviest rain has moved out. You can see the clearing here on nbc10 radar. Lets begin with Ted Greenberg in long beach township. That area hit hard today. It really was, jim. In fact the rain started falling again just a few minutes ago, light rain. Nothing compared to what we saw earlier today, this is not expected to cause the flooding we saw earlier today. The residual flooding we showed you at 4 00 this afternoon, is now gone. Smooth sailing this evening on long beach boulevard. Hours after it was filled with waves. On four wheels, two or a pair of feet getting around meant dealing with high water. Its interesting, its up to our knees in some parts. Intense thunderstorms pounded the jersey shore this morning. Police shut down sections of long beach boulevard because of flash flooding. We decided to turn around and take a walk. The rain woke me up out of bed. All that water outside the restaurant kept crucial summertime customers away. Its a short season days like this hurt but its fun to see everyone canoeing down the boulevards. Members of the volunteer fire company spent much of their day trying to dry out many after several inches of water poured into their firehouse and rental hall. The drain just cant keep up sometimes. We have to move everything up high and salvage what we could. Some boxes in the firehouse got soaked. Luckily, none of the equipment was damaged. Some areas have started to clear out from the early rain as we said nbc10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking whats ahead for tonight. The weather is going to continue to improve. The first improvement from the poconos, the Lehigh Valley berks county western chester because the storm is offshore now. Circulation around it bringing the showers around from the north to the south. Part of the area already clear. Now, remember that heavy cell we just showed you 15 minutes ago . Coming down the schuylkill expressway thats really weakened. Heres a traffic picture from the schuylkill at the vine street expressway its still wet. The visibility is up its not nearly as rough as it was, this cell has actually strengthened, thats what happened. This ones coming down toward cherry hill, down toward the south and other parts of south jersey cherry hill just a few minutes at 6 08 haddonfield at 6 18. And the other heavy cell is east of hamilton in new jersey. That too is moving to the south, moving into the less populated part of Burlington County ft. Dix at 6 23. Well talk more about these showers, still a few left down toward delaware nothing like what we saw. Few showers left but clearing and then lower humidity moving in. Well see how long that lasts in the 7day in a few minutes. As for earlier today, well lets hope these homeowners didnt have a plan to sit out by their pool today. The flooding rain too much for their backyard. People in Atlantic County saw flash flooding and Power Outages with this mornings knockout punch from mother nature. All along absecons white horse pike nbc10 spoke with the franchise restaurant owner, hes pretty sure a Lightning Strike split this pole in half. It missed us by inches. We would have had a bigger problem. All the wires were down there were sparks on that side. Atlantic City Electric crews worked quickly to blow four transformers. A Lightning Strike caused this house fire this morning in phoenixville, it happened in the 200 block of dayton street around 5 30 a. M. The flames were spotted by a volunteer firefighters from the poconos who happened to be dropping his son at work about. There was fire coming out the window on the third floor already. Some people were on the most of them were downstairs already, i was getting them out that way. I saw a fire and we all ran out, we didnt think of anything else, we ran out of the house. Their insurance will not cover Lightning Strike. Theyve had to start a go fund me page to raise money for repairs. When bad weather hits dont be caught unprepared. You can get weather alerts sent right to your smart phone or tablet. New at 6 00 new allegations of Racial Discrimination at american ables. A local attorney claims at least 80 africanamerican employees at the airline in philadelphia and washington, d. C. , were the victims of discrimination. Investigative reporter Harry Hairstons been looking into this story and he joins us with the latest. The claims were made in this letter Loretta Lynch who happens to be in town. The letter claims managers made racial slurs and there were racially offensive nicknames for jobs and parts of the terminal have racially segregated breakrooms, control rooms, teams and job assignments. The employees claim they were refused proper training which left them unqualified for some job opportunities. And overtime. The letter also alleges pervasive use of the n word by managers. Pervasive use of racially offensive nicknames by managers. Also calling it a jungle and a ghetto and referringing to black employees as circus monkeys. American Airlines Denies the claims. Diversity and inclusion are py fundamental to our airline, ours is a Diverse Workforce serving customers who are equally diverse, and we are committed to fostering a Work Environment that is based on Collaborative Team work and mutual respect. A spokesperson for the airline also says the airline will vigorously defend our company and the hardworking employees who provide Top Quality Service to our customers each and every day. We will stay on top of this story and bring you the latest for the investigators Harry Hairston nbc10 news. New video of gun toting Home Invasion suspects to show you. They tried to get into a home in west mt. Airy last night, the man inside opened his door slightly saw one of the suspects was armed with a shotgun, so he shut that door. When the men couldnt get inside they took off. The final day of the Naacp Convention in philadelphia feet toured a former president. Bill clinton told the delegates this morning that the 1994 crime bill he signed into law helped make the overpopulation problem in our prisons worse. In some cases it made prison sentences just too harsh. We had the biggest decline in history. And we had people who were senselessly locked up who were minor actors for way too long. President clinton told the audience the political leaders must work to reform the sentencing guidelines. On this same issue. New jersey governor and president ial candidate chris dressty is expected to speak about criminal Justice Reform in camden. This will be his first policy speech in new jersey since announcing his run for president. A new jersey man admitted he played a role in the death of a woman who died from a reaction to heroin. 42yearold rufus young pleaded guilty to a drug induced death count. The 23yearold found unresponsive in a toms river home. He faces a 13year sentence. Coming up for sentencing in september. An unusual encounter for police at the jersey shore. A state trooper shot and killed an aggressive pig in woodbine cape may county. An aggressive pig we said. Police say that 250 pound pig attacked a beagle and was trying to breakthrough a fence. Animal control recommend the pigging put down for the safety of the animals and residents. Helping students in need. The local schools on the receiving end of more than 1 million in grants for college. Hes still like a little baby, i have to do everything for him. Putting a face on the pennsylvania budget battle. With no end in sight. A local mother has a message for lawmakers, she and her son live in limbo. We still have some showers out there, nothing like what we saw this morning. Wait until you see the forecast for the weekend. We have a heat wave on the way. Thats coming up. Pennsylvanias spending standoff is in its third week. Time is running out for people across pennsylvania. Some nonprofits and county agencies will lose funding. A Montgomery County message has a message for harrisburg. Mary quinn lives in fear of her 36yearold intellectually disabled son. As her health fails, shes looking to the state to take over. She fears a broken budget will lead to a broken promise. Her birthday was in may. It will be 76. Billy quinn is good with numbers and full of questions. He works with an aide to read and care for himself. A job his mother says she cant do alone. I really really need help. When he with the bipolar, he doesnt get his way, its very scary here. Her son is bipolar and autistic, his behavioral problems are too much for her to control. He looks like he could kill me. Im afraid of him. The billy we met today isnt the billy she always sees. He gets angry and frustrated. For 36 years shes been able to care for him. Its just here until they get him in a group home. Reporter billys now on a wait list with 14,000 others. Mary doesnt know when her son will move to the top of the list or if he will. Im getting older. I dont know whats going to happen down the road. Governor wolf told us hes working to make sure the services arent interrupted. The wolf budget is too taxing. The republican backed plan doesnt add up. People like the quinns remain in limbo. You need somebody here. Deanna durante, nbc10 news. More than a Million Dollars in grants will help students in our area go to college. Local schools taking part, Rutgers University in camden ocean county college. Atlantic Cape Community college and cumberland college. We issued a first alert yesterday afternoon because of the threat of flooding for the most part, thats what we had layed last night and into this morning. We still have some showers out there right now, nothing compared to what we saw yesterday. The shower in philadelphia that was so heavy an hour ago is next to nothing now. Now we have a heavier shower in cherry hill that is affecting the traffic. This is route 73 at 1 30 in new jersey. The roads are wet, and in some cases very wet. And that storm is moving down to the south, its got rainfall rate of close to an inch an hour, but because these storms are moving. Theyre not likely to be producing flooding like what we saw this morning. Its tracking to the south, it will go to burlington at 6 27. The philadelphia cell fell apart totally. The other heavy shower is east of the trenton area and that is moving toward mt. Holly at 6 30 lumberton at 6 39 and mt. Laurel at 6 33. At the shore, we were showing you some rain coming down that has weakened it was not strong to begin with. And now that is good news too. Because of how much rain and flooding they had during the day today especially in the morning. The reason were so concerned about watching the showers, the areas in yellow had two plus inches of rain from the storm. The red areas more than three inches. Especially at the shore, all the way up toward berks county its a lot of real estate to watch. Its all going to be dry now tonight as we go in through the evening. Thats what future cast is showing, mostly clear skies later tonight, temperatures dropping into the 50s. That is definitely a sign of a comfortable air mass thats going to be with us. Were getting into the 80s tomorrow well get a sea breeze at the shore. The ocean temperature is very high and thats certainly going to help us out over the weekend. Going to be able to escape the heat well see in the city. Temperatures in the 90s in philadelphia, but only near 80 at the shore. So you can escape there or to the poconos. In the poconos well see some showers and thunderstorms for saturday afternoon. For the rest of the night, scattered showers continuing to diminish followed by clearing and less humid weather, down into the 50s in some of the suburbs. Then tomorrow a lot of sunshine its going to be much less humid, nothing like what we saw today. A totally different type of day. Friday, another Beautiful Day out there. The humidity jumps on saturday maybe the start of the heat wave here. Thunderstorms possible saturday afternoon, less of a chance on sunday most likely on monday which will be the hottest day in the heat wave. Thanks hurricane, im john clark. Has chase utley figured out his swing . Another honor, well hear from him next. Im Sigourney Weaver and new york is my home. Theres no place like it in the world. Like our state parks. The adirondacks are my favorite. For hiking, fishing, camping, you name it. Niagara falls is the oldest state park, but visiting it never gets old. The readers of a National Newspaper voted letchworth the 1 state park in america. Watkins glen, 3. New york state parks are a gift. Plan your vacation at iloveny. Com summer theres something for everyone. Im john clark from comcast sportsnet, the phillies are back at it friday against the marlins. Chase utley will begin hitting. Hes already running and fielding, so hes hoping to return soon. Ken rosenthal reports utleys sprained ankle is feeling better. Chase has figured out something in the mechanics of his swing that was caused by the injury. Utley is hitting 179 this season. Worst in baseball. New jersey is the athlete capital of the world recently. Delran carli lloyd, and last night mike trout put on a show and afterwards he and todd frazier hopped on a charter flight back to millville tory lax for a few days. He led off the allstar game with a home run, scored two runs in the game he became the first ever to win back to back allstar game mvb. Hes only 23. Hes the best player in baseball. It means a lot. Obviously he came out with a w. Thats the biggest thing. When i go out there, i play my hardest every day, it doesnt matter what the score is. You know when im in there, im playing nine innings hard. And its just an incredible honor to be a part of the allstar game. Its Something Special for sure. The sixers officially signed point guard pierre jackson, he was a part of the drew holiday trade a couple years ago, but was injured. Take a look at who was out there, on the sixers bench today, joel emby getting in some work before his surgery in a week or so. No jaleel okafor. Steve zach nice jumper the nets are beating the sixers 7566 in the fourth quarter. The deadline for franchise tag players to sign deals is gone. They signed Demaryius Thomas to a fiveyear deal. And the cowboys locked up dez bryan the. 45 million guaranteed. The eagles will be seeing plenty of them for years to come Bradley Fletcher not so much. Former eagle Demarco Murray tweeted congrats. See you soon. Im john clark from comcast sportsnet. Jamie wanted a taste of the real new orleans and we just couldnt say no to that face. Then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says. Oh yeah, thats betty. Youre going to want to do this alligator thing. And betty didnt lead us wrong. A little later we passed some dancing. And who doesnt like dancing . Especially when its followed by fireworks everyones nola is different. Follow yours. We need a break from the rain and were going to get it. Next two days just beautiful. Sunny, low humidity and it gets hot and humid over the weekend. For all of us here at nbc10, im jim rosenfield. The news continues with nightly news. Tonight, candid on rape. 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