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WCAU NBC10 News At 5pm June 22, 2024

Into the river. Reporter across the river from burlington is bristol borough, pennsylvania. Over here there are no signs telling you not to go in the water. In fashgts tonl warning isfact, the only warning is about these rocks. The borough is now considering changes especially after the family of marqueese richardson spent days looking for his body which surfaced while his family was talking with nbc 10. Here we go right here. Its tragic. Reporter these signs may not change everyones mind about going in. There is always one bonehead who will think im a good swimmer, i can do it. Reporter at least they will have a fair warning. Drew smith, nbc 10 news. This summers scorching temperatures have killed a 64yearold man and an 88yearold woman in philadelphia. Thats why neighborhood block captains are reminding residents now is the time to check on the elderly. Nbc 10 spent the afternoon with alice wright of west philadelphia. Shes the founder of the United Block Captains Association in the city. She makes sure her older neighbors are staying cool with fans and air conditioners. She also recommends local Senior Centers as a way to beat the heat. Thats important advice to keep in mind as our heat wave continues. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen is here with more. Thats right. The heat wave is continuing today. We already hit 91 degrees. We have been in this heat wave since last tuesday. Aside from the heat today we also have a chance of storms mostly south jersey and delaware. Radar at the moment nice and clear but there are storms in maryland starting to fire up. Temperatures are still hot, 90 degrees millville, dover and wilmington. 91 philadelphia. 92 northeast philly. Mid 80s through parts of the lehigh valley. Even 90 degrees coming in at wildwood at the moment. 92 at the ac airport. We will be staying hot as we go into tomorrow as well but take a look at whats happened with the heat wave. Last tuesday we started at 93 degrees. We stayed in the low 90s through the weekend also around 90 degrees. Monday yesterday, we were at 93. Today, 91. Tomorrow very close to 90 degrees. As you can see, we have not seen much of a break from the heat. Tomorrow we get a little more relief in the form of lower humidity but the hot temperatures are still going to be here and we will be tracking the chance for a couple thunderstorms as we go through tonight. For most of the area i think we will stay still clear as we go through 6 00 p. M. Pretty much dry, 90 degrees and hot. By 8 00 p. M. Mid 80s, still hot. By 10 00 tonight, low 80s, still warm. Mostly those areas in south jersey and delaware can expect the chance of a thunderstorm. Then we could see more through the overnight hours. Coming up i show you which areas can expect that. We will look at the timing and who has the highest risk as well as the hot temperatures for the rest of the week, straight ahead. A fiery crash on the new jersey turnpike tied up traffic for miles today. State police tell us a dump truck smashed into an overpass this morning in linden union county. The truck overturned then burst into flames. No one was hurt. Police closed lanes in both directions and told drivers to turn around. One driver posted this video writing you know traffic is bad when the cops are encouraging people to do a u turn on the highway. Some were stuck in traffic for so long, they just made the best of it. Take a look. This video posted to instagram. These guys decided to toss the football around while waiting for crews to clear the accident. They are still waiting because only one northbound lane is open so far. Speaking of football thousands of eagles fans finally got a first look at their new team. The eagles held a public Training Camp session at the linc today. Outside the stadium, theres a big party. Cheerleaders, music, swoop, Face Painting and a lot of new team gear to buy. Fans have big expectations for the team that chip kelly crafted. Especially quarterback sam bradford. We need to give him a chance because i know hes been hurt a couple years now. I would just give him a chance see what he can do. Today was also alumni day. Nbc 10s tim furlong spent time with some of the teams legends. Hes live with that story at 5 30. While fans love to celebrate the eagles legends, many want to know who is going to be this years team. Will tim tebow be on that list. John clark from Comcast Sports net joins us from the eagles practice facility. I know the linc was packed with fans. What kind of reaction did he tebow get today . Reporter you know, just how popular is tim tebow . He has the second best selling eagles jersey right now behind demarco murray. That says a lot. Tebow is battling to be the third string quarterback on the eagles. A lot of birds fans came here today with their tebow jerseys looking for an autograph and afterwards, they were chanting his name. It is tebow mania at the linc. Tim tebow stayed after practice for awhile signing autographs and he is overwhelmed by the support hes getting in philly. Its very exciting about being in philadelphia. They have really passionate fans. For anybody thats watched me play and knows me they know im very passionate about what i do and i love it. Im blessed to be here. Reporter tebow is back in pads for the first time in a long time. A little bit different because this is the first time i have thrown in pads in a couple years. A little different. At first im like oh, man. Reporter he joins teammates for the prayer after practice. Many thought it was on a wing and a prayer for him to make the team. But chip kelly says tebow has improved. Theres a couple stretches in there where it seems like hes got more zip on the ball than he did. Reporter you feel the most comfortable now throwing the football . Yes. I feel like im Getting Better every day. Understanding the offense more where you can play a little faster. Reporter tim tebow is grateful for this second chance. You can take it for granted and there have probably been times in my life where i have taken it for granted but you realize how blessed you are when you come out here able to play a game that you love. Thats pretty special. Reporter tim tebow will have to beat out matt barkley for the third string quarterback job. What are the chances he will make this team . Linebacker Brandon Graham says he will shock a lot of people. He will make this team and he will play a lot. We will see. John clark live at the linc. See you in about an hour. We will hear more from the birds and Jimmy Rollins coming back for the first time to Citizens Bank park. Lot of excitement building already. John thank you. Nbc 10 is your official Eagles Television station. You will see all the preseason games right here starting with the colts on august 16th. New information now from brewerytown where police have identified a mechanic murdered at an auto repair shop. He was earnest pearson. Investigators are looking for the gunman who killed him. He walked into the shop on gerard avenue around 5 30 last night and fired a shotgun twice at pearson. Officers found a trail of oily footsteps leading from the shop to an apartment several blocks away but no one was inside. Two years in prison for a Delaware County teacher who sexually abused nine children. Paul hochschwender was sentenced today. He pleaded no contest in january and has already served seven months of his sentence. He received ten years probation and will register as a sex offender for life. Until last month she was the top aide to pennsylvania governor wolf. Now she is making a run for the u. S. Senate. She confirmed it today in this online video. She is seeking the democratic nomination next year. She ran for governor last year. Wolf hired her at his chief of staff. She resigned in july. She hopes to challenge the republican incumbent pat toomey. She faces opposition from former u. S. Representative joe sestak who narrowly lost to pat toomey in the 2010 election. From the nbc 10 delaware bureau, a proposed Sports Complex gets the go ahead. Middletown New Castle County town council has given final approval to the indoor outdoor facility. The 170 acre complex includes 20 soccer lacrosse and hockey fields and 16 baseball diamonds. Developers hope to break ground later this month. We are following developments, the search is now on for two men who fired at soldiers in a military facility. We will have an update straight ahead. Plus who will make the cut . We are moments away from finding out which of these candidates will make it on to the stage for the thursday night president ial debate. Plus a new law in delaware could change where your children go to school. We look at the impact on families next on nbc 10 news at 5 00. A developing story in mississippi. A shooting at a military facility. Police say they are searching for two men who fired shots at officers and soldiers from a pickup truck. This is happening at Camp Shelby Joint forces Training Center in hattiesburg hattiesburg. Authorities are telling us no one has been hurt. Police say the two men drove off after the shooting. More than 4500 soldiers are taking part in training exercises at camp shelby through midaugust. Now the latest in decision 2016. The first Republican Debate will happen this thursday night. Today based on the latest polls we will find out which candidates will take part in the event. Nbc 10 National Correspondent Steve Handelsman has the latest. Reporter Chris Christie hoped to make the cut to face jeb bush and the gop frontrunners on fox. Based on the polls in by midday this looked like the ten in the fox debate thursday night. Christie kasich and perry were near the cutoff. Fueling speculation fox might expand to 11 debaters. No question who is number one. Donald trump leads in every poll with 19 in the new nbc survey. Trump credited his business success. In a call to msnbc. People see that and i would put all of that energy and whatever that brainpower is whatever that type of into making our country the best. Reporter trump stayed away last night when 14 republicans showed up for a forum in new hampshire. Some critics afterwards slamming jeb for again seeming not to answer how as bush 45 he would be a different president from bush 41 or bush 43 who launched the iraq war. I have a different view than my brother. My dad is probably the most perfect man alive so its very hard for me to be critical of him. Reporter 40 percent of voters disapprove of jeb. 56 disapprove of trump in the new nbc poll. 48 disapprove of hillary clinton. Her worst number ever. Fueling speculation that Vice President joe biden might run. Steve handelsman nbc 10 news. The woman whose experience in prison spawned orange is the new black testified before the u. S. Senate today. Lawmakers are holding a hearing on the many challenges facing the federal prison system. Piper and another former federal inmate talked about their experiences in prison and told lawmakers how tough it was to Reenter Society after they got out. She spent 15 months in federal prison after she was indicted and convicted of transporting drug money. The panel is pushing for better medical care Better Mental Health care and more training programs. I saw women in bureau of prisons prisons denied necessary medical care and women with Mental Health issues wait for months to see the one psychiatrist who was available for 1400 women. She has become a fierce advocate for prison reform. She has testified on capitol hill in the past, urging lawmakers to consider reforms that target women in prison. With less than two months to go before the popes arrival, philadelphia is hosting another global gathering of catholics. The knights of columbus is holding its International Convention in center city this week. It is the catholic mens organization which promotes charitable works. Archbishop Charles Chaput held mass this morning. One of the goals is to draw attention to the plight of christians in the muslim world. They have virtually nothing. They need housing, medical care, clothing, food. So far the knights of columbus has raised more than 3 million in aid for catholic refugees around the world. The Convention Wraps up on thursday. When pope francis was a boy he lived in a working class neighborhood and went to an all boys school. This very school where friends describe jorge as a smart, happy student. Nbc 10s Jim Rosenfield visited one of the popes oldest friends in argentina. Tonight at 7 00 only on nbc 10 ernesto provides surprising information about the pope when he was a boy and the direction the popes life took as a teenager. That is one of the stories you will see on tonights nbc 10 special report. Join us for the peoples pope at 7 00 right here on nbc 10. Comcast is getting faster. The Company Announced its speeding up its discounted internet service. It will also offer internet essentials to more people. Comcast created internet essentials to get more low income people online. This latest upgrade doubles its current speed to up to ten megabytes per second. That lets users watch online video and until now, the program was limited to families of children who qualified for the governments discounted school lunch program. Comcast will test the program for low income seniors, too. Comcast is the Parent Company of nbc 10. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Another hot day today where we are still technically in a heat wave. We do have the chance of some evening thunderstorms through part of the area. This is mostly going to be south jersey and delaware but yeah either way, the heat wave will continue. No storms on radar. We will be watching as we go through tonight. Tomorrow we do get relief coming in the form of lower humidity a less humid day making it feel more comfortable outside. Currently still feels like the actual temperature. Humidity is not too high but tomorrow we expect it to be a little lower than today. 91 degrees in philadelphia. Beautiful view of the linc. Mostly sunny skies. Again, since we hit 91 we are still in the heat wave. Mid 80s through lehigh valley. 84 in allentown. 87 glassboro. 92 at the Atlantic City airport. 90 degrees in dover. Also wilmington right now. Its pretty hot outside. It will stay hot as we go into tomorrow. Again, we will get the humidity relief, too. Locally we are dry on radar but down to our south and west right in maryland this is where we have some storms that have very quickly flared up. Watch over the past hour whats happened to these storms. They popped up very quickly. A lot of lightning here. Through the rest of the evening, we will watch for any of these storms to develop and possibly move in. Now the highest chance for our severe storm risk through the area will be extreme south jersey to the shore and also delaware mostly kent and sussex counties. We will be keeping an eye on that through the next several hours. Heres future weather. Pretty much shows us being dry right now and over the next hour or so it will pick up on some storms trying to move through south jersey and delaware. And even as we get closer to 10 00 tonight, we could still see some more trying to flare up and even by midnight tonight, possibly a few more, too. Tomorrow, we do expect a sunny, nice, dry day but temperatures again will still be hot as we go through the afternoon. Still near 90 degrees. Then we go into thursday. Another dry day but you notice the clouds starting to increase thursday. Thats going to be ahead of some rain as we go into friday. Take a look at the big picture here. Thursday, going into friday and friday morning, lot of moisture starting to move in from the west and southwest. For friday it does look like we will be dealing with rain and it will all depend on the track of this system but so far, rain with temperatures possibly only staying in the 70s. Tonight, chance of a thunderstorm mostly new jersey and delaware. Lower humidity overnight tonight. 70 for the low in philadelphia, 59 degrees areas north and west. Then tomorrow warm and windy day but the humidity will be lower. Temperatures right around 90 degrees. It will stay sunny as we go through the afternoon tomorrow. Thursday, still a pretty nice day. 83 degrees for the high on thursday. If you were wondering if the heat wave will continue theres your answer. 83 thursday 77 possibly friday. Coming along with the rain. Over the weekend, good news on the timing. We start to dry out. Temperatures in the mid 80s. It was a different story last night. The thunder from those overnight storms may have woken you. Our Sky Cam Network captured this lightning but we escaped major damage seen in other areas. Take a look. Thousands in new york are still without power. Thanks to those storms. You see trees down on cars hail lightning, strong winds knocked down trees and branches across parts of long island. The storm even knocked down train service. Today crews are still trying to get the power back on for thousands of customers. A small device could make a big difference in the fight against heart disease. See how local hospitals are using this tiny heart monitor to save lives. Plus before dozens of new Police Officers hit the streets of philadelphia they are spending the day in the nations capital. How a trip to the Holocaust Museum is preparing them for the job. Temple University Hospital has a new weapon in the battle against heart failure. The hospital is now offering a new miniatureized wireless monitor called the cardio mens system. It allows patients to transmit results from their homes, allowing doctors to find problems earlier. It can be implanted during a nonsurgical procedure and the device doesnt require batteries. A history making hire for a major philanthropic organization. Its hired its first latino president. This is pedro ramos first week on the job. H

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