Good morning. Im rosemary. It gives us the things you cant do right now. Drug otherdoses killed nearly 64,000 people. It is up 22 from 2015. 1,900 reported in new jersey in 2016 and other sources estimate died in the state of delaware since last year. We are live where the Heroin Task Force is teaming up to educate people about this crisis, randy. Reporter good morning. The president will make his anoubsment at announcement at 2 00 today. The Opioid Crisis is an emergency. Reporter it will make clear once and for all it is a National Public health mench emergency. Those on the ground hope it will mean more federal money flowing into treatment and recovery. It is a limit amount of time. We are hoping Something Like this could extend their time in treatment. We are a program that teaches life skills. Law enforcement react to the news. District Attorney Says it could mean more federal funding for life saving doses of narcan but he says more needs to be done including going after pharmaceutical companies. It was the first to sue. How to pharmaceutical companies to our doctors and hospitals telling them these are not addictive. That was completely wrong. Reporter and that lawsuit is seeking damages from manufacturers of opioid medications if the county wins they could take the money and put it back into treatment and care. Nbc 10 news. Well be watching this very closely. Thanks. We have been doing in depth reporting on local families. You can watch our Award Winning series generation addicted right now on the nbc 10 app. Over a house fire earlier this morning. Firefighters responded on the roof spraying water into the house. It was when the blaze broke out. Rescuers took her to the hospital. She is in serious condition. Still at the site of a restaurant destroyed by flames. Crews were dousing hot spots where it stood for four decades. Equipment on the scene to help with clean up. Three firefighters suffered injuries. It spread to a pet store killing two dogs. They dont know how to blaze began. Dozens of employees are looking for a new place to work. A deadly overnight fire being called suspicious. It claimed the lives of two boys. The fire also critically injured an eightyearold who was flown to childrens hospital. They are working to determine thousand fire started. The defense Attorney Says investigators are looking for a person of interest. Quite an unexpected discovery. Officers quickly learned the driver was trying to rush a gunshot victim to the hospital. They called paramedics to take the victim the rest of the way. The shooting happened in camden. They have been questionings two people about the incident. No word on any arrests. Lets head to philadelphia after a driver is suffering injuries after another driver struck his suv. The other driver admitted to officers he ran a red light. You can see investigators took that driver into custody. Definitely feeling like fall outside. It is a cool day as we take a live look from our camera. Anybody heading out to lunch and had that jacket on with them. Steve that has details ability this cool down. Sweater weather is what we have out there for you right now. It is bright and brisk. The wind keeps ongoing out here. It will be the story of the day is the breeze and cool weather. We will see clouds coming in. You want to opt for the fall sweater or jacket here. The breeze out of the north and west. It is 18 Miles Per Hour here. It wont be until later tonight until the breeze relaxes. Skies clear out and it will be the ingredient for fras across the area. It is 50 in allentown and 44 here with that wind. We will go dlu the stats and more coming up in just a bit. All right. Thanks for that, steve. Now lets take a live look at breaking news. The house just passed a 4 trillion budget. This is a live look from washington. The Senate Approved the plan last week. It paves the way to pursue a tax cut package without democratic support. Well follow this throughout the day. Now to pennsylvania budget, a step forward to pas budget. It will allow casino gambling at struck stops and other locations in the commonwealth. They hope it will generate millions. Quickly on the Senate Approval but it could lead to a gambling explosion. The owner is already considering suing. Also lawmakers approved 600 million for pittsburgh and penn state universities for in state opportunistudents. Neighbors, friends and families remembering two teenagers taken by gun violence. Hundreds turned out. With candles and flowers nay paid tribute to two 16yearolds who were shot and killed. He was a former member of the hockey team there. He was a good kid. He didnt deserve this at all. He would do anything for you. He would love this. He would love this. Police believe an argument between two groups sparked the shooting. Investigators are hope to go identify as many as six people possibly involved. Take a look at this incident. Pizza Delivery Driver attacked. You can see one suspect pull out knnr6r knocking him to the ground. Someone else hops into the car and takes off. Police just released a video yesterday. The victim was in a coma for three days. They believe the attackers are as young as 14 years old. Lets get a quick look at traffic with jessica boyington. She is keeping an eye on construction out there. Yes. Emergency construction on route 30s eastbound ramp to route 130. They losing the left lane there. Not too bad. Not many delays but something to watch out for it might cause problems for the noon hour. This is headed southbound towards the Washington Township area. Northbound here no problems there. Same goes towards center city. Everything is a little slow. For the most part its moving along. Watch for this around harvey road. Back to you. Thanks. A quick heads up. The station will close on monday. Construction crews will connect an overpass to a new pedestrian bridge. Between this monday and december 10th trains will not stop. Riders should get on and off at the near by stadium station which is less than half a mile away. Today one of philadelphias finest will retire. Chance is retiring after six and a half years on the job as an arson and explosive dell tecting cani canine. He once found a fire bomb before anybody got hurt. He will enjoy his golden years living with his human partner. Wish him the best. 11 11 right now. New security for travelers flying into the u. S. It could make getting in and out of the airport slower for everybody. Amazon is taking Home Delivery to a new level. And from frosty to mild. You see all of the frost add rise ris behind me. Ill walk lu you through thyou the big storms that are coming up for the weekend. Steve sweeneys negative headlines keep piling up. Why are south jerseyans so angry at sweeney . Sweeney repeatedly sided with Chris Christie to underfund south jersey schools, increase standardized testing like parcc, cut takehome pay for teachers, and broke his promise to fund the pensions of hundreds of thousands of new jerseyans all while padding his own. Steve sweeney says a lot of things. But the truth is, hes not on our side. Breaking news out of texas this morning. This is in the city of richmond, texas ch texas. A tractor trailer driver crashed into a restaurant. You cant see the big rig because it went completely inside of this sushi restaurant. It was carrying gases of some kind. Hazmat crews are trying to assess that situation. Businesses were forced to evacuate. A new effort to protect all americans from stress overseas. New security screening procedures are in place today. Anybody flying back in will need to get to the airport even earlier. Dave shows us what to expect. New security measures are in effect from a foreign airport effecting 180 airlines, 2,100 daily flights and 325,000 passengers. The changes include closer inspectio inspections, more security in passenger areas and more thorough interviews with trav travelers as they check in. If we have to spend a little bit more im okay with that. The security upgrades first announced this summer after intelligence suggested isis was able to smuggle hidden explosives. They mandated passengers flying from ten middle east airports until security at those airports improved. It did. The tsa also imposed rules requires travelers to all electronic such as tablets and ereaders for screenings. Zb i feel very very thankful. The changes apply to u. S. Bound flights and tsa does say that the vast majority of airports and airlines have already implemented security measures. They are asking passengers to arrive an extra 30 to 60 minutes than they usually would. Nbc news, atlanta. Today mysterious questions about the assassination of john f. Kennedy could finally be answered. They will release the final batch of secret files about the assassination. It has helped to fuel conspiracy theories that others were involved in jfks murder. They are planning to post the files on the web site. New this morning corey booker and lindsay gram testifying for menendez. He is akuds of helping an eye doctor. He pleaded not guilty. And a good thursday to you. Im steve here with your forecast. In a month that is running almost 8 degrees above average this is a big set back here with the cool weather and much more of what you could expect during the month of october. We have that cool afternoon. There will be a few straight sprinkles. If youre north of the city youll you wouldnt want more than could wet the ground. We we are looking at frost. Ill show you that map in jaugs second. Temperatures jump all post where they were in the morning to where they were this afternoon it is 53 4 degrees. Well continue at 2 00. There could be a sprinkle or shower in a few spots. By 5 00 i think many of those sprinkles are moving on out of here. We are left over with the cool breeze. Tracking the clouds and sprinkles for you we have a good deal of clouds but peeks of sunshine in between. The shower is north of trenton. Once we get rid of these clouds we are looking at temperatures free falling and how low can they go . Thats the game well play tonight. Near lehigh and North Hampton counties, you can see this area. No frost advisorieadvisories. This is coming later and average. On average our frost is 7. 5 days later. It is also due to Climate Change across the area. It is 50 up and bringing you into your neighborhoods. A 51 up through bucks county. With that breeze though midto upper 50s. This chilly pool of air that comes across the area tonight along with gusty wind here tonight. Fall jackets, definitely something you want to have. As we track these temperatures hour by hour check this out, 41 in philadelphia. Many of our northern and western suburbs but look at that, low to mid60s. Now we have to talk about part 2 which is a bigger storm for the second half of the weekend. Ville that coming up in the next half hour. Thank you. The sixers score big points with a local family, thousand team honored a young boy who got caught in cross fire and survived being shot in the arm. Hes a husband, father, veteran. But most of all, hes a fighter. Chris brown has never been afraid to take on the big fights. Thats why he stood up to republicans and democrats alike to fight the north jersey casinos and the takeover of atlantic city. Chris brown is fighting to protect jobs in our region. A true champion for the working men and women of atlantic county. On november 7th, lets keep him fighting for us. Chris brown for state senate, hes on our side. This weekend best buddies delaware supports inclusion and. Joining me now to tell us about the 2017 friendship walk is best buddies delaware and michael who is in the best Buddies Program and works for the organization. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. It is focused on best buddies delaware. It is an international organization. Our goal is to see more inclusive schools, more Inclusive Communities an more inclusive workplaces. We do it by creating one to one friendship and their typical peers and of course everybody says friendship, thats great, who wouldnt want friends . Ill take two kind of thing. It is also important because having friends builds your selfconfidence. It allows you to learn important skills, socialization, netwo networking and it gives you a support system when you need friends. Unfortunately individuals with disabilities are still isolated and still bullied still under employed. We hope our Upcoming Friendship walk will shine light and generate awareness and funds about abilities with disabilities. And well get to specific details in just a moment. You are a participant and you work for the organization. Yes. Tell us about your positive experience. I have been there for seven years. I love working with them. You helped to organize that walk thats coming up this weekend . Yeah. I am doing something with it too like asking or letting people know to make more donations to make for the friendship walk coming up this saturday. Funds are important. Thats one of the most important things, right . Yeah. It is real important. Tell us about your experience in the program and how its changed your daytoday life. Wow, thats a good question. I love to be part of the organization and learning new skills in the office. And youre matched with brine. Brian. Yes. I have been matched with brian and we spend time together like watching march madness on tv while we eat pizza together. Who wouldnt want to do that . He is your friend. Yes. He is my friend. He is my buddy. The importance is to promote friendship and relationships. Yes. And the event saturday . Tell us about the event saturday. Wow, okay. This saturday it is at bellevuu state park. If you cannot make it you can go online or register to be involved with the best buddies friendship walk and also give money. Michael has a team called pretty good. He is trying to get to a thousand. Yes. So if people want to do nate to your team yes. Absolutely. And we have over 300 walkers. We want to thank our sponsors. We have a committee that has been working on it for several months. Show up and we will welcome you. If youre not sure whether you want to register or donate come and see our mission in action. There is face painting, pumpkin decorating. As you said, it is a celebration of inclusion. It is. All right. Thank you so much for coming in. Appreciate all of the work that youre doing. How about making her an honorary member . The friendship walk everyone. Thank you for coming in. Good luck with the walk this weekend. Thank you very much. Today call it an interventi intervention, President Trump takes on the opioid epidemic, why it could mean more resources in the fight gebs this national crisis. A new jersey state trooper was off duty at this fast food restaurant. It didnt stop him from saving a customers life. A bridge shut down over politics. Their biggest triumph was a traffic jam. Chris christie and kim guadagnos failures shortchanged our future. After 8 years incomes are down, costs are up and our economy is crawling. We are better than this. Im phil murphy together well build a stronger, fairer economy that works for every new jersey family. Christie and guadagno left new jersey stuck. Im serious about moving new jersey forward. This afternoon President Trump will declare this a nationwide emergency. Community leaders are holding an educational seminar, certainly timely with this announcement from the president. Reporter yeah. We were just at this heroin addiction conference. It is good news for so many across new jersey and delaware. President trump, we are expecting to make this announcement at about 2 00 today. He will say that the crisis has gotten so bad its now a Public Health emergency for every citizen in this country. The Opioid Crisis is an emergency. Reporter what exactly this announcement will mean is still a bit unclear. It could open up more federal funds to fight the crisis possibly funding more narcan and Health Experts hope it means more federal money flowing into treatment and recovery helping addicts getting them back to work and back on their feet. Individuals going to treatment. Its a limited amount of time. We are hoping Something Like this could extend their time in treatment. We are a 9 to 12 Month Program that teaches life skills. Individuals have to get back into society. Reporter in new jersey governor Chris Christie says this is a great move and says hell have a full report on the president s desk by november 1st. We could see what the next steps are in this federal program. We are live, nbc 10 news. Thanks for that. The nbc 10 digital team has been digging into the impact on our region for the past two years now. You can watch our Award Winning series on the nbc 10 app. You can certainly feel the chill in the air this morning, a big chill. A far cry from the summerlike weather earlier this month. Here is a live look from our camera in cape may. Nbc 10 is tracking the Cool Temperatures in the neighborhood forecast. Yes. I must have esp with our producers. He had the live shot pulled up. I do as well. The summer days are over. It would be a packed beach in july. Gusty winds out of the west at 20 Miles Per Hour. Youre seeing a nice curl to the waves. A Small Craft Advisory in effect. It is not the day to take the boat out and go fishing. We have the gusty wind thats funneling in all of that crisp cool weather. It will last through tomorrow morning. Keep that jacket and sweater handy as you will feel that cold Steering Wheel as you get into the car tomorrow morning to head to work. It is 53 in potstown. It feels like the 30s. Many places here this afternoon will stay in the 50s. We are going to struggle. We will try to reach 50 degrees here this afternoon. It will never feel it with that breeze. So after we lose the breeze tonight and the sky clears out we have this really crisp. This is on schedule here for areas of south jersey. It is in areas tonight youll see frost and then north and west of lets say i476 youll see that frost as well in chester and bucks county. Give yourself a little extra time to scrape off the windshield. Why in the world do i have a syst