The what was the the activity going around and i went on my phone and i found out what was going on. Police have not released the s. W. A. T. Officers name but we do know that he is a 17year member of the force. Hes a father of two children and a husband. And this by the way, was the second time that he was shot on the job. Reporting live in northeast philadelphia im rosemary connors, nbc10 news. Police were trying to arrest devin gushard for the murder of an innocent byxander. Meggen was nine months pregnant when she was hit by bullets last september in frankford. Both a mother and baby died. Megans mother said she waited long enough for justice. Still would have liked to have the opportunity to look him in the eyes. God spared me the pain of going through court and dealing with everything. Hes in gods hands now. His family believes he was innocent of the murders and was in hiding because he didnt think he would get a fair trial. Megans moren watts to thank the s. W. A. T. Team who risked their lives today. We know a bulletproof vest kept more lives from being lost. A closer look at the special vest that members of the s. W. A. T. Team use and how it protects officers who confront some of the most dangerous criminals. Now to your first alert weather, nbc10 in haddonfield, Camden County. Look at this just the perfect day for some baseball out there. Sheena parveen joins us. A gorgeous wednesday, sheena in. Kind of a perfect day. If you liked it today, youre going to like tomorrow and all the way into the weekend. We have a nice dry stretch in store for you. Radar, nice and clear. Way not dealing with any rain right now. We dont have any rain in the evening forecast tonight. Or really in the next several days. Live look out toward the art museum here nice conditions. We have the lower humidity around. Temperatures in some areas will be getting quite a bit cooler through the overnight hours. Right now, though were still in the mid80s in philadelphia 84 degrees through the Lehigh Valley. Cooler temperatures mt. Pocono only at 73 degrees. 83 in millville, 84 in Atlantic City. The nice weather stretches all the way to the shore. As we go through the rest of your evening, the humidity stays low, its not going to be one of those muggy nights. Were not going to have a muggy night until we get into the weekend, for this evening, 84 degrees by 6 00 p. M. 8 00 p. M. Temperatures in the low 80s, very comfortable even by 10 00 tonight, temperatures in the low 70s, some areas will be on the cooler side through the overnight hours and early tomorrow. But we do have some humidity that will come back into the forecast and our next chance for thunderstorms. Well show you that with your weekend forecast coming pup. Thank you. Getting people in and around philadelphia is going to be one of the Biggest Challenges during pope francis visit in september. You Better Believe it. Officials are still working out the details, encouraging people to start planning now. Several agencies met today to discuss plans to safely get across the Delaware River theyre encouraging everyone to buy those special pope passes for those patco trains. The plan is not final, because the secret service hasnt announced which roads in philadelphia will shut down. Depending on what happens, the ben franklin bridge may need to close to traffic 37. If the road ss that go from the bridge on the pennsylvania side are blocked. There wont be any traffic on the bridge. There are plans for buses to park on the camden waterfront people can walk over the ben franklin bridge to philadelphia. Just north of there, we were in bucks county today. Thats where many visitors will be staying. Getting them into the city without disrupting residents will be no easy task. Deanna durante spoke to the president of the world meeting of families to find out how they plan to pull this off. Its something ive been involved in for over 600 days. The next 63 days are not going to be any easier. The plans are theyre not 100 finalized. Bob fielded a lot of questions about how the city of philadelphia would handle so many. Were not concerned. We spent a lot of time and Energy Planning for people its not just bucks county. I asked them about those staying in bucks county hotels and homes and how theyll be getting in and out of the city. Those coming in for the visit will be driving at least part of the way. And he says that septas transit plan is solid. Theyll get people very close and then obviously there will be some buses involved. 7,000 buses are expected to be in the city. Why all the secrecy . In some cases, we dont the actual contracts are not in place. In some cases, they dont want people to know. We raised approximately 35 million out of the 45 well need. Were confident well hit the 45 million. But it will come down to the wiring. Truthfully the Transit Company has been hired to manage all of the buses that will be coming in and out of the city. And theyre going to be relying heavily on apps and social media to alert people to travel conditions and of course to tourist attractions. In north wales, deanna durante, nbc10 news. While the pope will make several stops during his visit, the biggest attraction will be the sunday mass outside the museum of art, the president of the world meeting of families tells nbc10, they expect 2 Million People to attend. You cant get a spot up front there will be at least 50 jumbotrons placed around the city. The mass is expected to last about 2 hours and include 1500 ministers. Right now at 5 00 a story we brought you on nbc10 news. Philadelphia police have arrested three people in connection with a carjacking and robbery last month. Police say the woman in the video set up the victim telling her to meet him at 70th and broad streets. Thats when two men allegedly showed up with guns beat the victim and stole his carlettes take a live look right now over North Brunswick new jersey. This is the scene of a massive warehouse fire this morning. Smoke billowing from the top of that building its part of an auto dealership complex. Firefighters are dealing with it plastics autos and Household Goods fueled these flames for more than 10 hours. Well have an update from the scene coming up at 5 30. To protecting your plane now. The faa sounded the alarm after more pilots flying over our region were blinded by lasers. Thats next at 5 00. The memorial for the five Service Members killed in chattanooga last week has grown across the state and the nation. Stopped to pay tribute to the lives lost. There were several reports of Stores Across chattanooga running out of american flags. Were learning new information today about the deadly shooting spree. The fbi is calling the violence home grown violent extremism, authorities are also praising some of the Service Members for their heroism. Chris clackum has more. Reporter as the memorial to the chattanooga shooting victims grew greater wednesday. The military and fbi say it could have been worse. If not for the heroic efforts of a sailor and a few marines. I can tell you that our marines reacted the way you would expect. Some willingly ran back into the fight. A fight that began when a heavily armed Mohammed Youssuf abdel aziz was met with gunfire from a sailor trying to protect his post. He observed him and opened fire on him firing several rounds at him. Abdulazeez returned fire. He made his way throughout the building continuing to shoot at those who he encountered. He exited the building into a fenced area where he shot and killed two more Service Members before firing on another crowd seeking safety. Two Service Members attempted to provide cover and assist the military personnel getting over the fence and away from the shooter. The shooter continued to fire and kill two additional Service Members. Moments later, Chattanooga Police shot and killed abdulazeez whose reasons for doing this remain a 34i69ry. The heroic actions of these Service Members saved numerous lives. The first funeral for the five victims is this friday. Chris clackum, nbc10 news. Gun toting citizens are showing up at military recruiting centers around the country saying they plan to protect recruiters following last weeks deadly rampage. The group of friends said they were protecting the military personnel inside. They hope that others will come out and stand guard. Absolutely as a deterrent for those idiots if you will like the one in tennessee, if anybody tried to have an idea like that. Thats pretty cool. Much respect for these guys. A marine spokesman expressed thanks for the groups support but declined any other comment. The group plans to be back out again next monday. Some va hospitals may be forced to close next month because of budget cuts some members of congress didnt take the news well. They grilled va secretary Robert Mcdonald on why he failed to warn them earlier about the 2. 5 billion budget shortfall. They blamed costly treatments for hepatitis c. Last year you talked about the management not giving veterans care. Now theyre giving veterans too much care . Members of congress expressed shock at the magnitude of the budget crisis many said closing some va hospitals was unacceptable. Social Security Disability payments could be slashed by Congress Next year. Thats according to a report that finds the fund will run out dry in about a year. Benefits will be cut by 19 of congress. Lawmakers could shift more taxes to Social Security but republicans say they wont agree unless disabled workers are some how encouraged to reenter the workforce. Months of negotiations with the iranians might prove easy by comparison. President obama escalated the push to get their nuclear deal approved by congress. Republican leaders are vowing to kill it. Secretary of state john kerry and Energy Secretary ernest moniz came to capitol hill to sell the nuclear deal they made. President obama says in effect its this deal or the military option. Many republicans are demanding a better bargain. Its not disagreement or war, its disagreement or doing the right thing for the american people. And because a bad deal threatens the security of the american people, we want to do Everything Possible to stop them. Lawmakers have 60 days to approve or reject the deal with iran. That process begins sunday. Polls show most americans support the iran nuclear deal. At this point it cannot pass congress. Iranian diplomats discuss the case of Americans Still held captive during nuclear talks. Humanitarian reasons have motivated the discussion but did not elaborate. It was the first confirmation of the iranians by any talks that may reveal the fate of these three men. Well a Beautiful Day outside today. And thats going to lead us into a really pleasant evening tonight. Its all because of this humidity staying low, its going to continue to stay low as we end out the week. Always makes it feel more comfortable when the humidity is on the lower side. The dry stretch continues for the rest of the week so far it looks like were going to have a pretty nice weekend forecast for you. Heres a nice look at our camera view. One area near brigantine along the shore. Clouds around but fair weather clouds. We dont expect any rain as we go through this evening. Live look out at center city mostly sunny skies, mid80s, 84 degrees right now in philadelphia, and over the past few days its been feeling closer to 100 with the humidity, so warmer than the actual temperature. Our feels like temperature today is our actual temperature, so that just shows you that the humidity is low enough to not make it feel hotter so very comfortable outside. 80 degrees right now in allentown, 79 in pottstown, 82 reading, much of south jersey and delaware anywhere from the mid to low 80s, radar and satellite showing you nothing in the way of rain barely any cloud cover, at least through most of the area any clouds around again, those are fair weather clouds not enough moisture to give us any rain its all because of that big area of High Pressure you see. Heres future weather, watch what happens over the next few days, the area of High Pressure thats going to give us lower humidity and slightly cooler temperatures overnight. Its going to kind of hang around, its going to keep the rain to our south, right there as we go into thursday its not going to let it move in almost like a roadblock, its going to keep things dry, as we go through friday and even as we start off the weekend. That is going to be sporns for giving us pleasant weather eastern as we go into the afternoon on saturday. Then the humidity starts to go up as we go into sunday. For tonight, clear, comfortable, mid60s in philadelphia. Mid50s north and west. Tomorrow sunny lou humidity again, a lot like today. 84 to 87 degrees for the high temperature. If youre heading to the shore and beaches this weekend. Temperatures will be comfortable around 80 degrees. Plenty of sunshine but keep in mind the uv index is going to be high. About 9 or 10. You get sunburn in about 15 minutes. You want the sunblock this weekend if youre heading there. To the poconos, looks good friday and saturday. Sunday more humidity and were going to throw in a chance for possibly some thunderstorms in the poconos. But most of the area should be on the dry side. There you see if we end out the week on a very pleasant note even starting off the weekend. Sunday humidity does go up temperatures near 90 degrees, next week were going to get hot again. Mid to low 90s. Authorities call it a dangerous prank, and a federal crime, it seems to be happening more often lately. The pilots of five flights roirted seeing laser beams flashing into their cockpits from the ground. Nbcs Tracie Strahan explains federal investigators are looking into it. Reporter no signs of a slowdown after flights over newark, new jersey were put in the sky. The faa confirms an American Airline flight coming into new york from charlotte was targeted by a green laser pointer while over old bridge new jersey. The danger didnt end there, three other flights were soon also hit with pointers two near warwick new york while flying in an altitude of 7,000 feet. The other coming into Laguardia Airport just after midnight. Theres a laser at about 11 00, maybe 3 miles or something. Last nights incidents in the sky come after a string of laser pointer incidents were reported just last week 12 laser strikes in the cockpits in one night the potential risk in whats often considered a prank are high. Instead of focusing on the landing of the plane, that pilot is focusing on getting hit by a laser. We learned the faa as well as detectives from the Port Authority are now a part of this expanding investigation. No ins dernts were reported in last nights ins dernt. But the faa confirms that pointing a laser at an airplane is a federal crime Tracie Strahan for nbc10 news. These types of incidents have increased by 10 times over the last decade. Since june 16th 13 pilots have reported laser sightings over new jersey and pennsylvania. We checked out the data for last year, there were 33 reports over philadelphia international. 27 at the airport in Atlantic City and 7 at new castle airport. Next on nbc10, why your child may be able to avoid the hospital the next time they need treatment. Plus putting parents fears at ease what local researchers want families to know about autism. And how its being diagnosed. Music etta james at last plays throughout sometimes, at last doesnt happen at first. Your dad just kissed my mom. Turning two worlds into one takes love. Helping protect that world takes state farm. Our partners at the Philadelphia Business journal, a new trend inle th care. Its a shift away from admitting people into the hospital when they need treatment. The Childrens Hospital of philadelphia plans to treat more kids on an outpatient basis. In its new pediatric care center. 600 million project opens next week. Its across the street from chops main building. If you think there are more cases of autism youre correct. That doesnt mean the disease is on the rise. The number of children with autism has tripled in recent years. But researchers at penn state say its partly because more children get diagnosed with the disorder, not because actual cases are increasing. Doctors often struggle to categorize the communication disorders which causes them to call other conditions autism. Artificially upping the number of cases. To this now. Nbc10 has new information on a Police Encounter caught on video video. A chester family says a developmentally disabled man was the victim of police brutality. We asked investigators how theyre responding to those claims. Then at 6 00 you see them all the time on the shore. Fishermen. Some of them are going after big fish. Sharks. So were asking is it legal . Find out all new at 6 00. Mmmmmm yoplait oh good news everybody there is now 25 less sugar in yoplait original. Say adieu to that sugar. Because it still tastes good ahhhh yoplait nbc10 has new information tonight on this Police Encounter caught on video. A chester family says their loved one was the victim of police brutality. Investigators are looking into the video. Family members tell nbc10 the man police are confronting there is developmentally challenged and shouldnt have been arrested. Doug shimell is following the latest developments. Last night the family said they couldnt even find out where their loved one was. Now thats changed . It has, but it took three days according to the family who says they just learned he was transferred from Crozer Chester hospital to jai