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WCAU Early Today June 22, 2024

Forecast on a nice breezy, cool start to the wednesday. Feels great. Humidity is nice. Low skies, temperatures cooler. Were looking at 50s and 60s for most of the area. Northeast philadelphia at 66, a cool start and a sunny day ahead. Well see clear skies at 6 00, 67 degrees. By 9 00, brilliant sunshine, low 70s and right up to the 80 degree mark. Very low humidity at noontime. The wind out of the northwest at 7 miles an hour. Thats that dry comfortable air coming in. It will be staying for the entire area today. Take a look at the neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now its early on a wednesday morning. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Good morning, jessica. Good morning, bill. Weve on the vine street expressway where were clear in terms of traffic. Right now we are watching out for a work zone on the eastbound side, you can see that right in here, not actually taking outc any lanes. Its off of the off ramp. You can see the drive time is okay, 59 to the schuylkill expressway, thats the westbound drive time, a threeminute trip. Its the same heading in the other direction. Watch out for that. Drive times around the philadelphia area, if youre on 95, no problems headed southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine, a 13minute trip. No problems on the blue route. If youre head the southbound, thats a 16minute trip there. Mass transit, currently fro problems or delays. Chris . Breaking news in Montgomery County. Where a fastmoving Apartment Fire force ed dozens of people leave their homes overnight. Katy zachry is live in king of prussia. Whats the latest there . Chris, if you take a look behind me, a portion of the fire is still burning at the abrams run apartment complex in king of perfect ushia, right off of bill smith boulevard. This fire youre looking at right here is being maintained by firefighters in the sense theyre watching it. They believe this is a gasfed fire. This portion of the fire youre looking at right here. They say they have a handle on it, theyre just waiting for peco to dig a hole down to the gas line. These peco crews just arrived in the last few minutes. You can see them breaking through the topsoil, digging down to the gas lane. When they turn off the gas line, im told that fire that we just showed you will be put out. The fire that break out this morning was primarily on the roof and inside of this section of the apartment complex, the abrams run apartment complex. That fire forced many, many people to evacuate, dozens if not close to 100. Were told 30 people are without a home. Theyve been displaced because a total of 16 units at this complex have been burned to the point where families cannot return. This is a mix of families, working professionals, young couples. Ive spoken to some of them off camera and theyc say they were woken up by police and fire knocking at their door around 1 30 telling them to evacuate. Well have comments from them coming up in the next half hour and youll hear from the fire chief. Good news here, no injuries to anyone living in this area or firefighters. Reporting live in king of prussia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. More breaking news now. This is from burlington, new jersey. A live pick from the scene brought to us by our photo journalist matt pantelino. A person died in this crash on route 130. Another person from that car was flown to the hospital. We done know their condition. You can see the car split in half. As matt pans around, hes showing us the other half of the car. This is right outside thenner it prize car rental on route 130 and beverly road. 130 northbound closed right there. Well continue to follow this story and let you know when that road reopens and any other details we get on the accident. 4 05 now. This morning, stocks were mixed in china and japan. Thats better news compared to the last couple of mornings. The Chinese Markets in shanghai and hong kong showed gains most of the day before slumping just before the close. The nikkei index in tokyo rose sharply and that could spark Investor Confidence here at home this morning. Stocks in new york will open lower again this morning. A surge of buying started the session yesterday but it collapsed toward the end of the day, ending a down market for the day. The Dow Jones Industrial average finishing more than 200 points down at 15,666. Of course, markets around the world are jittery because of chinas economy showing signs of slowing. Yesterday, the chinese cut Interest Rates for the fifth time since november hoping for a boost. Back here at home, new from overnight, a shooting at a Philadelphia Bar left one man in c q  condition, another facing charges and customers shaken after a close call. Police say two men got into a fight at the last shot in port richmond. They went outside, one man pulled a gun, shooting the other. When the victim ran back into the bar, the shooter fired two more shots, narrowly missing people inside the bar. People arrested the suspect. Police sources tell nbc 10 three bodies found inside a garage in philadelphia yesterday may have come from nursing homes. Police discovered those bodies after neighbors noticed a foul odor coming from an open garage on hagard street. Nbc 10 is not naming the owner. We blurred her face here because shes not charged with a crime. We spoke with another funeral director in the neighborhood who told us this. This is a devastation. You know, im concerned more about the families that will find out whats going on. Now, we checked state records and the records show that the funeral home license expired in 2012. Police sources tell us the bodies are those of people in their late 80s and they came from two nursing homes. The investigation continues. 4 07. Happening today, a whistleblower and his attorneys will inspect a closed frat house at penn state as part of a hazing lawsuit. Attorneys for james will say he will go through the former Kappa Delta Rho house room by room with a video camera to show where alleged abuse happened. He claims as a new Fraternity Member he was beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to drink urine and hot sauce and claims penn state ignored his complaints. The school suspended the frat until 2018. Friends of curtis smith say they are baffled by what happened yesterday at the Chester County courthouse. Smith is the man that deputies shot and killed yesterday. The District Attorney says smith charged past metalc detectors, pulled out a knife and started slashing a sheriffs deputy. Another deputy shot smith, killing him. He says im gonna get you, im gonna get you and keeps running. All of a sudden, pop, pop. He was friendly. One of his numbers in coatesville. He was arrested for jumping the white house fence in march. And the deputy who was attacked yesterday was hospitalized with cuts on his arm and hand. No word on his condition but hes expected to be okay. The courthouse is expected to reopen today. Head to the ppl center in allentown if youre looking for a job. The arena which opened last october is looking for parttime workers. Job fair runs from 11 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. At the ppl center on hamilton street in allentown. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 4 09. If youre looking for nice, comfortable weather, step out the door. The temperatures have dropped into the 50s and 60s. A cooler morning this morning. Were running 10 to 15 degrees cooler for most of the area than yesterday. Well see lots of sunshine. Warm afternoon but it will stay comfortable with very little humidity. Were on track for a weekend warmup, the temperatures will go higher. The humidity may not be all that bad this weekend. Right now were looking at comfortable conditions, 58 in allentown, northeast philadelphia 66 degrees with clear skies and Atlantic City is nice and comfortable at 62 degrees. Nice, beautiful view of boathouse row. Its glowing this morning. Very little wind to start with. What little breeze we have is coming out of the north. Thats the dry air thats coming into the area. Showers to the northwest, showers offshore, in between, we are completely dry. No sign of any rainfall today. Youll need your sunglasses rather than your umbrella. Clear at the shore as well. The showers that started things today. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast, low 70s for the pocono mountains. Look at quakertown, 79 degrees and right at 80 for allentown and reading. Very low humidity for doylestown, trenton, mount holly with plenty of sunshine. At the shore its right around the 80 degree mark for Atlantic City, cape may, delaware beaches at 81 degrees. Beautiful sunshine inland as well. Thats a nice warmup. Made it up to 89 in philadelphia yesterday. 84 for philadelphia in swedesboro and right at the 80 degree mark at west chester. Back in ten minutes. Right now its traffic time. You have something to say about that. I wanted to say its traffic time. Stole my thunder there, weatherman. Thats okay. Ill recover. 11 minutes after 4 00. Lets get a check on traffic. Bill is right about that. We have the situation on 130 we just told people about. Lets see whats happening on 95 now. Heres Jessica Boyington. Jessica . I love these double introductions as well. Were out on 95. Good morning, everybody, right around girard avenue, the southbound drive times, were doing just fine from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. Thats 14 minutes. A live look right there. Thats the southbound side. Were having no problems there so far for the morning. If youre driving on the pa turnpike, all the cars moving along nicely. 23 minutes. If youre headed westbound or eastbound from route 1 up toward valley forge. We have an accident investigation scene in burlington township, 130 northbound at beverly road, theyre detouring all traffic around the incident. Follow the detours and youll be fine. Chris. Its not quite youre fired but donald trump is getting a lot of attention for two other words. Sit down. Sit down. Next, why the president ial candidate gave one of the nations most respected news anchors a timeout. Also next, feeding the need. Hundreds of kids across south jersey dont always know where their next meal is coming from. Thanks to generosity, now they do. c lets check in on our breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. This is a fire burning right now at an apartment complex in king of prussia. This is a gas line burning off the excess gas there. Crews are working to snuff this out. They have pgw crews in there working to put things out. This is a result of a fire that burned 16 units at the abrams run apartments in king of prussia. Nbc 10s katy zachry is there on scene gathering new information for us. We know several families are displaced by this fire. Shell have an update for us at 4 30. Now to decision 2016. Donald trump making headlines after he threw a univision anchor out of a News Conference in iowa. Watch and listen. Excuse me, sit down, you werent called. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Go ahead. No, you dont. You havent been called. Go back to univision. That was jorge ramos trying to get a question in to trump about deporting millions of undocumented immigrants. Ramos later returned with trump greeting him before they resumed their argument. They looked at some of the gangs in baltimore. They looked at some of the gangs in chicago and ferguson. They have rough, Illegal Immigrants in those gangs. You mind if i send them out . If they come from mexico, do you mind if i send them back to mexico . No, no, do you mind if i send them back to mexico . Those people are out. Theyll be out so fast your head will spin. You used the word illegal imgran. You should use it. Thats what the definition is. Trump also reminded ramos that hec is suing univision. The Spanish Speaking network drum dropped the miss America Pageant after trump called some Illegal Immigrants cnns and rapists. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is blasting the Iran Nuclear Deal. Yesterday, christie called on the states congressional delegation to vote down the deal. He stood alongside jewish leaders in denouncing the agreement. The governor calls it a bad idea, a bad deal and he said that president obama lied to america about the details. And todays supporters of the Iran Nuclear Deal are planning a series of rallies across the country. In this area theyll be gathering outside the offices of senators bob casey and chris coons and brady as well. The First International rail crossing between the u. S. And mexico opened yesterday after more than a century. Cargo hasnt been shipped using rail lines between the u. S. And mexico since 1910. This project started back in 2010 and it cost more than 100 million. The rail system is part of an effort to expand trade between the two countries. And its opening comes during a hot topic debate surrounding illegal immigration. 4 17 now. Yes, summer is winding down, kids. School is almost back in session for a lot of children in this area. Many of them are still at summer camp and their next meal is being made right now by hundreds of volunteers. Without those, they might not have anything to eat. Nbc 10s matt delucia went to find out why and whos reaching out. Reporter to understand how this happens thank you. Reporter you should know what goes into putting this food on the table. I got it. I got it. Reporter inside a warehouse in pennsauken at the food bank of south jersey, teams of volunteers are hard at work. Its func to help out. Reporter helping because throughout new jersey one in five kids doesnt know where the next meal is coming from or when. And thats the case for at least 1,600 kids at 45 different summer camps. Folks like louise goldson just cant accept that. We get to go home and eat, why shouldnt they. Reporter where would these children be without they wont eat. Reporter workers at the food bank started the Summer Meals Program last year. Kids from lowincome families can usually get free lunch while school is in session. Then there was a void. Hunger doesnt take a break. Hunger doesnt take a vacation. Open your lunch. Reporter at this camp in pennsauken, every bite now comes with a smile. They are truly a blessing. Without them, the kids wouldnt be able to have any of this. Reporter full stomach, courtesy of full hearts. In pennsauken, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Skies are nice and clear. Temperatures are cooling down and weve got a sunny day in store. Thats a live view from the loews hotel in center city. A nice cool start. Were watching the satellite imagery. Seeing a few scattered clouds. Were in for lots of sunshine today with serious clouds producing showers way offshore the next few days. By 9 00, lots of sunshine and 72. And a northwesterly wind is bringing in the dry air that will keep the humidity low this afternoon. 80 degrees at noontime. And some spots may stop in the low 80s this afternoon. Scattered clouds over the weekend. It will be a warmer weekend. Sunny skies on saturday. The humidity low on saturday will start to creep back into the area on sunday. 90 degrees sunday afternoon. Full sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. Chris . All right. Well stand by for that. Thank you, bill. 4 20. We have a couple things to watch out for on the roads on this early wrens morning including that accident, the fatal accident on routec 130. Nbc 10s first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington shows is us what else shes watching. Well do a full new jersey check right now. Route 73 in mt. Laurel, new jersey around 295. Everything moving along nicely, all lanes open. No incidents to worry about at this point. Moving forward to the 42 freeway, you can see moving along with all of the cars nice and green, a fiveminute drive time from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge. Out in burlington township, investigation scene, due to a fatal accident closing route 130 northbound at beverly road. All lanes are closed in the area. They are detouring traffic around the scene. Your alternate is fine for right now. You dont need one because theres not a lot of volume and traffic throughout the area. Follow the local detours and youll do just fine. The tac pal, the ben and betsy are all clear this morning. Chris . Happening today, resorts casino hotel in Atlantic City will unveil its new conference center. Youre looking at an artists rendering it of that facility. It will feature thousands of square feet of event space with a dozen new conference rooms. You could call it an online error by a former phillies ace. Curt schilling is now out of an announcing job because of one tweet. Next, the controversial message he briefly posted. And as the region prepares for the pope, are we whining too much . Ahead at 4 30, why one seminarian claims the amount of anticipation about the pontiffs visit is being overshadowed by complaints. Some people would agree with that. If you want to complain or tell us what a great time youre having, do that through the nbc 10 periscope feed. See what happens behind the scenes here in the studio. We talk to you as much as we can during commercial breaks. Follow us on periscope, our address is nbc philadelphia. I will chat with some of you momentarily. Stand by for a programming note and jazzy music. The eagles visit the packers saturday night, preseason game number 3. Everyone eager to see how the eagles will play on the road. Watch that game right here on nbc 10. Nbc 10 is the official television station of the eagles. I just combined some words there. That was my fault. And thats the same thing that Curt Schilling is saying. Hes saying that a tweet that he posted yesterday that ended up costing his tv announcing job is 100 his fault. Yesterday espn dropped schilling from its coverage of the Little League world series. The network made that move after schilling sent a tweet comparing muslim extremists to nazis. The message was posted for ten minutes before being deleted. Schilling later said he understood and accepted his suspension. Schillings tweet had a picture of adolf hitler with the text saying, it said that only 5 to 10 of muslim are extremists. In 1940 only 7 of germans were nazis. How did that go . Schilling commented that the m

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