Reads in part we want to mention, too, this is an nbc employee currently. Quote. My client detailed egregious acts of Sexual Harassment and misconduct by mr. Lauer. It is our hope that nbc will continue to do what it can to repair the damage to my client, their employee and any other person who may come forward. The attorney went to nbcs Human Resources and their Legal Department monday night. Here is a statement from nbc news chairman andy lack in part. It reads, quote, while it is the first complaint about his behavior in over 20 years, he has been at nbc news, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a Workplace Environment where everyone feels safe and protected. As you could imagine at home, the legendary anchors firing is creating a bit of a firestorm on social media. But also out in Public People are talking about it. Nbc10s lauren mayk is live near 30 Rockefeller Plaza across the river in new york city. Where plenty of people are talking, lauren. Reporter keith, when we stopped people today here in new york to talk about this, some of them told us, hey, we were just talking about this. Others told me that they heard other people talking about it on the train. This was on peoples minds today. In new york city, preparations under way for the Christmas Tree lighting in rockefeller center. A busy day here that started with news the today shows matt lauer was fired. Breaking news overnight. Matt lauer has been terminated from nbc news. Or inappropriate sexual behavior. The news was on brandon martinezs mind as he walked through the city today. We were walking fifth avenue and thinking how close i was to where they tape. Reporter martinez says the today show is often on at his home in boston. You feel really bad because he is so beloved. The olympics, nbc. And to hear that, its sad, but i am proud of women having a chance to be outspoken about things that they absolutely should be able to do. Reporter this group of women is visiting new york from georgia. Heartbreaking to think about it. You want to look at people and think the best of them. And then something pops up, and you are just floored because you dont know whether to believe it or not because you dont want to believe it. Reporter their trip here lasts until the end of the week. Did it change your visit at all . In a way. Just a feeling, you know. It kind of depresses it. Other than that, new york is great. Reporter and as people take this information in, some told us that they have questions and they would like to hear more information about the allegations. Keith, back to you. Lauren mayk live in new york city. Were live across the wourater. Over the past few weeks we have grown accustomed of women coming out and accusing highprofile men in the workplace of behavior unfortunate. It comes to the wake of the metoo campaign. Many women describe feeling like they cannot report Sexual Misconduct in the workplace because the man is in a highprofile position. We spoke to a local womens rights advocate who insists now is the time for action. Not address the needs of women, half the population of the world, in our city, more than half in our city. We ask them to suck it up and bear it. No more. Womens rights advocates believe culturally the country is experiencing a watershed moment in which no one is above reproach. Live at Liberty State Park. On the new jersey side, across the river from new jersey. Well make the trek in tonight. For now, back to you, jim, erin. Keith jones reporting live. See you next half hour. Matt lauers termination comes a week after veteran cbs anchor charlie rose lost his job. He was terminated because of allegations of Sexual Misconduct. Eight women claim rose made unwanted sexual advances towards them from the 90s to 2011. Rose said he thought he was pursuing consensual relationships. Lauer has not responded publicly to his firing. Download the nbc10 app to get updates on the story. You can also read full statements on lauers termination and statements from his accuser. We now know the name of the bicyclist who was killed during a collision with a garbage truck in philadelphia. Emily frederiks was 24 years old. People are gathering for a vigil in her honor at 11th and spruce. This is live right now. You see them holding candles. It all comes after demonstrators formed a barrier along the scene of the accident during this mornings commute. They are calling for safety upgrades for bicyclists in the city. The golden medal sanitation truck involved in the collision stayed on the scene as police investigated. Medics rushed frederiks to the hospital but she died a short time later. Members of the Biking Community say now is the time for change. They were the highest quality bike lanes at that time, but they are severely faded. And need to be, at the very low least, repainted. They also need to be upgraded and made safer and of a higher quality. Demonstrators say they plan to form another human protected bike lane tomorrow morning as well. Police in bucks county chasing new leads in a deadly hit and run that killed a teen and injured her friend. They have video showing the crucial moment surrounding the crash. 19yearold jess kurtz died from her injuries. Her friend seriously injured. A driver struck them monday night. According to officers the drive stopped, moved kurtz off the road and took off. We still believe that this ford pickup truck is involved. F150 or 250. Twotone red and white. Axle on it. Black male driver. Thats what we are looking for right now. Investigators say they are receiving tips from the public and have recovered solid evidence but are still searching for the driver. Crime alert at the promenade in south jersey. Police released this picture of a couple wanted for stealing a womans wallet from the panera. A short time later 1500 was already put on her credit cards at target and an apple store nearby. Philadelphia Police Need Help finding the man who used the drivethrough window of a Dunkin Donuts to rob the place. Video shows him coming through the window head first. He grabbed money from the register and took off. If you recognize him. Call police. A check of your first alert forecast now, unseasonably warm today. Temperatures in the 60s as we take a live look at the camden skyline. Nice day in ann arbor. We found people walking on haverford avenue wearing light jackets and sweaters. Boathouse row. Pleasant conditions to dine outside this evening. Nbc10s chief meteorologist tammie souza is here. And you didnt need your puffy coats today. Do not need the puffy coats today. We wont need them for about nine days. Then well need them for about three weeks. Well explain that later on. Lets savor what we have right now. Beautiful out there. Look at this. Clear skies, a tremendous sunset. 64 the high. No rain. Beautiful, clear skies. Lets check out the suburbs. How about the pennsylvania suburbs. Bedminster. 55. Fort washington, 58. Blue bell, 57. If we go to west callum. 54. Chadsford. 59. A mild evening continues. In philadelphia its much the same. 61 at the airport. 62 at graduate hospital. 62 at king sessen. 62 society hill richmond. Urban heat island effect knocks it up a few degrees. 60 at parkwood. Finally, lets go to south jersey. You are basking in warmth as well. 58 in lumberton. 68. Mount laurel. Cherry hill, 55. Glassboro at 54 degrees. This evening well enjoy clear skies. This is where we go to. When you weake up tomorrow morning, 38. A few high, thin clouds. Pennsylvania suburbs, 35. Lehigh valley, a little cooler at 29. These clear skies let all the warmth out at night. 36 in delaware. 34 in new jersey and along the jersey shore 40. A little cooler tomorrow because a weak front has come through and shifted the winds to the north and east. Nonetheless a Beautiful Day tomorrow, huge changes are on the way. We will talk about that when i come back. Central high school in philadelphia is receiving tens of millions of dollars towards a big renovation project. Today School Leaders announced a 42 million ex pancreas. 10 million coming from an alumnus, joseph field, the founder of intercom communications. His donation will be used for a new performing arts center. Administrators say the goal is to create a worldclass learning environment for future generations. Our goal is to aspire to make every school as great as central is. And our kids deserve that opportunity. If we do that, we will send this city over the moon. The Philadelphia School district will also contribute just more than 8 million towards the project. Other donors are putting up the rest of the money. Groundbreaking is scheduled for january 2019. Graduate students at penn rallied against the proposed tax reform bill currently in congress. It was a National Movement to protest a plan to eliminate a Tax Exemption for tuition waivers for grad students. Senator Bernie Sanders visits reading this weekend to rally against the gop tax plan. He says the legislation goes beyond taxes. Sundays rally starts at 2 00 p. M. At the santander performing arts center. Tickets are not required. Two philadelphia restaurants will have to pay a hefty price for not properly paying employees. The restaurant on pine street and on north fifth restaurants failed to pay proper overtime to more than 150 employees over four years. The restaurants now owe nearly 830,000 in back pay. Theyll also have to pay more than 10,000 in penalties. The lawsuit has left many workers with mixed emotions. Its a little bit bittersweet. I am happy because of my coworkers. Theyll get what they deserve. The money they earned for working so hard all these years. But then again, for the place, i wish the place, from now on, they would do things different. We reached out to the Restaurant Owners to get their sides of the story. They told us theyve reached a mutual agreement and can now return to providing Better Service to their customers. Right now at 5 00, pennsylvania legislators are giving Business Owners who are women of color a voice in harrisburg. State representatives in upper darby as part of a listening tour. They sat down with minority Business Owners to find out what challenges they face and make sure theyre getting the support they need. We want to make sure that as we develop our next budget and policies and as we develop legislation that the women women and girls of color who own their own businesses, that are entrepreneurs, have a seat at the table and are a part of setting of the agenda. The meeting was also a chance for Business Owners to find out about resources that are available to help their businesses move forward. Still ahead at 5 00. The Community Reacts to the firing of Nbcs Matt Lauer following accusations of misconduct in the workplace. You cant get away with stuff that you used to be able to get away with. New at 5 00, what people are saying about lauers fall from grace and what it means for female empowerment in the workplace. Also, day care deposit. A mom was told a day care didnt have space for her son after she paid them. Why she has struggled to get her money back. How you can prevent this from happening to you. How a new Sports Complex in wilmington will help teams score on and off the court. Thats new at 5 00. Sixers doing pretty well on the court. The team moved its Training Facilities to camden and are now working to build up another city in our area. We have details on the teams plan to brings hoops and help. Reporter wilmington had problems. Crime is one of them. It also has a lot going for it. By next winter theyll have a new basketball and a sweet place to watch them play. Homes, shopping, restaurants and an ice rink. The west side of Christina River gets all the attention. By the end of next year you see this. 140,000 square foot 76ers field house. The home arena for the 87ers who have been playing in newark. The 87ers will be your neighbors. Is that cool . Thats real good. Reporter will you see them play . I sure will. We believe in delaware. We believe in wilmington. We believe in businesses here and we believe in the community. Reporter the 26 Million Partnership with have sports and Training Facilities and residents in wilmingtons nearby south bridge neighborhood sure i love the sixers. Reporter they are excited to have the sixers as neighbors and about their promise to let kids in lower income neighborhoods like theirs have access to sports programs at the fieldhouse. Kids need somewhere to play around so they can get on the streets, dont be on the corner and stuff. Play around and have fun. Reporter we just got out of a News Conference talking about this. Were told it will generate 150 construction jobs and full and parttime construction jobs. It will be a physical Therapy Center and youth sports leagues have signed on. There will be a bridge from the other side of the river that will have pedestrian and bike lanes and connect with the restaurants. Center. In a few hours the tree, right there, will come to life. You can watch the Tree Lighting right here on nbc10. Tonight the holiday fun starts at 7 00. Here at home, the river rink tree lights up this friday night. You can watch that here on nbc10. It sure doesnt feel like christmas weather today. A live look at the river rink. Its still warm out there tonight. Tammie souza here. Toasty. It is. For november. 64 degrees was the high today. Thats crazy. 13 degrees above average. Where are we going next . 70 . No, were not. [ laughter ] lets take a reality check as to where we are going next. 64 the high today in philadelphia. Mount holly, 64. Pottstown. 61. Allentown, 63. 66 wilmington. On and on with the magnificent weather. But we do have changes ahead. You knew that was coming, right . Anything that good is not going to last. Here is what you need to know. We will be mild. We will see the 50s through the start of december. That means into early next week. A beautiful weekend ahead. Then we get the cold pattern, when i say cold, i mean really cold. It sets in late next week and could be with us for the rest of the month. Below average. Way below average. Rain, may be some showers early on friday morning. There is a chance of that. Next tuesday and wednesday, a little better chance of rain. And the weekend, it looks beautiful. Seasonal. Get out and enjoy it. Put up decorations. Get the tree. Mostly sunny and pleasant. A pictureperfect start to december. Outside, perfect weather with Doppler Radar. No clouds or rain. You have to go a bit further to the west. We have a weak front that came through today that will cool us in the 60s to 50s tomorrow. About ten degrees cooler. The next front that comes in will bring us our rain for early, early friday morning. Lets walk you through it hour by hour. You wake up tomorrow morning in the mid 30s across the area. A few high, thin clouds but for the most part well see sunshine. Later in the day we make the mid 50s and then the clouds build in, overnight tomorrow night into early on friday. 2 00, 3 00, 4 00 in the morning, rain. Shoulding out shoulding should be out by the morning commute. And then a nice weekend. December 9th, the end of next week. We get a huge low of very cold air descending upon us. That will be with us on and off through the rest of the month. Look where the temperatures will be at that point. We are not talking 60s or 50s. Were talking 30s. Get ready to pull out the puffy coat. 55 tomorrow. 52 on friday, shower in the morning. 51 saturday. 54 on sunday. The birds are on television on nbc10 that night as they take on seattle in seattle. 55 monday. 60 next tuesday. Rain on wednesday. Byebye warmth. Here comes the cold. The 40s. Look at this. By a week from saturday we could even see a little bit of a rain snow mix. Guys. Talk about encouragement. One local teacher promised a student her car if he made it to the nfl. Well, he did. That teacher is making good on her promise to the now eagles player. That story is ahead at 5 00. Oversized food. The reason this festival favorite is getting rave reviews and not just for its taste. Thats next. Fl. Fire safety today. In west philadelphia, members of the Philadelphia Fire Department were in the neighborhood this morning going door to door installing smoke detectors. Firefighters, Police Officers and the American Red Cross came together for the push to keep the community safe. Cookstown may be home to the biggest funnel cake ever made. Hundreds of people turned out to the folk Festival Grounds yesterday to try to get into the record books. They fried up a funnel cake 30 inches in diameter. It looks good to me. The festival says its an american record. This is all part of a Television Pilot series. By the way, the guinness book of World Records does not have a category for largest funnel cake. It will also add 30 inches to your waist if you eat it. A high flying stunt. Two french wing suit flyers jumped from the swiss alps. Soared through the sky and over the mountains until they glided into position and landed on board a plane in mid air. The pair took more than 100 practice flights. I am glad to know that. So they could coordinate and perfect the stunt. Because you need perfection. Wow. Right there. Thats beautiful. We continue to follow new developments in our top story, the firing of matt lauer from nbcs today show. Keith jones joins us live once again, keith. Reporter the news of matt lauers firing for inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace comes as a shock to many but also to his toda