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WCAU NBC10 News At 4pm December 20, 2017

Center says about 80 of taxpayers will see a tax cut in 2018, and less than 5 will see a tax increase. No word yet on when the president will actually sign the bill. Live in the breaking news center, keith jones, nbc10 news. Our coverage of the story continues on nbc10 news at 5 00. George spencer is finding out what this all means for you and your paycheck. Do you have to take withholding changes . How soon could it all start . Those answers are ahead on nbc10 news at 5 00. We are following this breaking news here at home. An 8yearold is dead after this hitandrun crash in northeast philadelphia. This is the scene where police were able to find the driver after he took off. The two drivers involved in the crash are both in the hospital right now. Both are expected to survive. Investigators are still trying to find out how this all happened. More breaking news. Within the past two hours we learned new information about an attempted abduction near a school in philadelphia. Two children on their way to class say a pair of men tried to lure them. Aundrea clinethomas joins us live. What have you learned about what happened, aundrea . Reporter the kids ran as fast as they could to the school. Police tell us its four kids between 6 and 10 years old. Police want you to be on alert right now as children are headed home from school. It all happened in the 900block of devereaux avenue before 8 30 this morning when police say a man with gray hair, a graying gotee and a jacket tried to lure the kids inside a minivan. The kids took off running and the man started chasing them saying something to the effect of come here. The children made it to Carnell Elementary School and told administrators. They did exactly what wed tell any parent to instruct their children. Something like that, you run, get to the nearest adult, even if it werent their school, a school, gas station, police. Reporter the kids did the right thing. Detectives are in the area trying to see if there is any Surveillance Video. But again, they are telling residents to be on alert. Again, they are looking for a minivan with two men inside. Reporting live in northeast, aundrea clinethomas, nbc10 news. To our nbc10 first alert weather. Overcast skies across much of the region. This was the scene along Market Street in center city as people made their way around. May be getting the lastminute packages off. Live to the blue cross river rink with people enjoying a Late Afternoon zip around the rink. A look at the Camel Back Mountain resort in the poconos. On the roads, traffic is light. People have already taken time off work and theyre getting things done. Time to begin the holidays maybe a little bit early. People want to know what the weather will be like. Lets go to glenn hurricane schwartz. The weather is going to be variable through the weekend. It will be warm. And its going to be really cold. Skiers, youre going to love the forecast for next week. We have sunshine to end the day after clouds this morning. 45 degrees is the temperature. If anything, its gone down during the day. In the 40s everywhere. 42 in pottstown. Mount pocono down to 32. Theyll make snow all night tonight. The afternoon high today, or the daytime high, 48 after 58 yesterday. We are going down a bit tomorrow and then going back up. Friday and saturday. And then we go right back down. A big roller coaster. Through the night tonight it will be colder. We have a bit of a breeze. So it will be a lot colder tomorrow morning than what we have seen in the last couple of mornings. Mid 20s in Lehigh Valley and some of our northern and western suburbs with a little wind making it feel a little colder than that. So tomorrow is going to be a chilly day. We have warmer weather. We have colder weather. We have some possible White Christmas issues across parts of the area. All sorts of interesting things coming up in a few minutes. All right, glenn. For the first time were hearing from the family of one of the People Killed in this fire that ripped through this senior home in west chester. 137 residents were in the home when the fire broke out last month. Most were asleep at the time. Four were killed. Others made their way out into the frigid night air. Surveillance video shows firefighters lifting some of them up over their shoulders and carrying them to safety. Nbc10s cydney long joins us live from center city where family members of one of the People Killed spoke today. What did the family have to say . Reporter teresa malloys grown children know she died alone, trapped in her room. They fear she was terrified and suffered. As you can imagine, they are quite devastated and confused. They want to know how their mothers death was not prevented. We were the focus of her life. Her family was the focus of her life. She loved babies. And she loved to laugh. Reporter with a shaky voice and tears, mary and her brother shared memories of their father. They had just moved her into the Senior Living facility four weeks before it caught fire. It took her life along with three other residents. Thats why we are here. We want answers. Why was she not protected . What happened . Was there a failure in a mechanical system. Reporter they panicked in disbelieve the morning of november 17th, not able to find their mother. Its nothing compared to the panic she must have felt, in the middle of the night, dark, alone, by herself. And now that we know what happened, you know, put yourself in our shoes. Reporter now, together with their attorneys, they want answers. Answers as to how and why four residents could not be saved. Malloy worked for years at the irs raising three children as a single mom. She loved her seven grandchildren and eight great grandchildren and loved the shore. She didnt get the protection she deserved. That is truly cruel, because these children here did what they believed to be the right thing, to seek out a facility to provide her with that very protection. Reporter now, we can tell you that both the atf and Chester County officials are working to determine a cause of the barkley friends fire. They plan to meet after christmas to compare notes and discuss the cause. In the meantime, the Attorneys Office is conducting its own independent investigation. They are focused on Fire Suppression and other safety protocols. Well have more on that when we see you coming up in the 5 00 hour. For now, live in center city, cydney long. Nbc10 news. The fight to reinstate criminal charges against the engineer in this deadly 2015 amtrak derailment in philadelphia will have to wait. A judge set a february hearing date for brandon bostian. Thats when prosecutors can argue the engineer should be held criminally accountable for the accident. In september a different judge threw out Involuntary Manslaughter charges against bostian. Eight people died and more than 200 were hurt when the train rounded a curve at more than twice the speed limit and derailed. Federal investigators in the deadly amtrak derailment in Washington State want to know if the engineer was distracted by a conductor in the cab. The ntsb says the conductor was getting familiar with the route. The trains actual conductor was not in the cab at the time of the derailment. Meanwhile, crews worked through the night to remove all of the rail cars from the scene. Theyre on the way to a military base for inspection. Even though the train cars are gone, a lot of work is left to be done. Once the removal takes place, d. O. T. Crews will be going into the site and repairing guard rail, repairing damage to pavement that becomes revealed after the locomotive is removed. Three people died in monday mornings crash. The train was headed from seattle to portland when it took a 30 mile per hour curve at 80 miles an hour. A key figure in the child sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in boston died yesterday. He resigned in disgrace as archbishop in 2002 while under investigation in connection with the scandal in the boston archdiocese. He remained with the church, working at the vatican. He was accused of protecting priests who had been accused of molesting children. He was 86 years old. This afternoon two men accused of killing four young men this year in bucks county face a wrongful death lawsuit. The family of one of the victims filed the lawsuit today against Cosmo Dinardo and sean kratz. The families are also named in the lawsuit. The family of mark sturgis says dinardos family should be held responsible because the gun used was registered in his mothers name. Theyre facing charges in the murder of four men who were murdered over the summer. Crews are working to fix a broken water main that caused this pipe to flood. 18th and rittenhou street. Two condo buildings are without water as well as four businesses. 18th street will be closed from spruce to walnut while the work is completed. Right now, there is an online petition going around asking a Philadelphia Church to stop using live animals in its nativity scenes after a cow escaped twice. So far the petition has 43,000 signatures. Many of them were other states or countries. This is all after a cow named stormy got away from the scene at Old First Reform Church of christ. We left a message with the church in the past half hour to get their response to the petition. We are waiting to hear back. Today new jersey lawmakers are considering a bill that could hike energy bills for residents about 40 a year. The reason pse g says low Natural Gas Prices could force them to shut down the two Nuclear Plants in the next two years. It wants money to help keep them money. The plants produce about half the states electricity. In camden, the new Jersey Department of Environmental Protection will begin a longawaited project to redevelop the harrison avenue landfill into a water front park. Theyll have to transform 62 acres of landfill at the cramer hill waterfront park. Its been closed to the public for 70 years. In delaware a group of lawmakers and physicians gathered with a plea to congress. They want reauthorization of the Child Health Insurance program, the program, known as chip, could lose funding next month. The Lieutenant Governor says if that happens thousands of delaware children will lose health care. Wed like to see congress, who is acting on corporate taxes today, take immediate action on reauthorizing and refunding our childrens program. Congress has yet to vote on a plan to renew chip. It insures nearly 9 million children in this country. Its a celebration of science, technology, engineering and math. To benefit the minds of future female leaders. This morning the academy of notre dame and villanova hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the schools new 30,000 Square Foot Center for s. T. E. M. Education. Notre dames president calls it inspiring. Today represents a milestone in that we will be building a stateoftheart center for s. T. E. M. Education for our young women. It benefits all students. It impacts all careers. Working at comcast, i know the incredible opportunities for young women, if they have this background. Darcy is an alumna and vice chair at notre dame and works at comcast, the Parent Company of nbc10. In kensington, teachers and administrators joined teachers and parents walking from the play ground to the elementary to promote the importance of attendance and being on time to school. The final beam was hoisted into place atop the new Comcast Technology center today. Not before workers got a chance to leave their mark on it. Many of the more than 1,000 workers signed the beam before being treated to lunch today. Then cranes lifted the beam into place. The 1100foot high center will be the tallest building in the city. Today comcast chairman and ceo Brian Roberts said the workers feel a deep sense of pride about the new building. I think that something magical happened and they know it, so theyre given it even greater effort than maybe any other job they have worked on. And people know theyll be proud one day to say, there is the tallest building or there is the Newest Technology thats helping to create products to change peoples lives. The Comcast Technology center opens in 2018. Comcast is, of course, the Parent Company of nbc10. Nbc10 is your official station of the philadelphia eagles. Here is a live look at right now a quiet lincoln financial field in south philly. It wont stay quiet for long. The birds are set to return to play on christmas night. You know the crowd will be loud heading to john clark. The birds hoping to wrap up a nice Christmas Gift for the fans on monday night. Yeah. Could be quite a day after you have gotten all the gifts you wanted on christmas morning. Hopefully another one is waiting for you monday night. The birds can clinch home field throughout the playoffs if they can beat the raiders. Here is something to make you feel good. Nick foles has won his last eight games at the linc. That was under chip kelly. Against the raiders he tied the record with 7 touchdowns in a game. The birds are 60 at home this season, the only Undefeated Team at home left in the league. Home, sweet home for nick foles. Anytime you wear an eagles uniform, its a special moment. Every time i put it on its special. But to step back out there at the linc, i am excited for the opportunity. Knowing philadelphia, it will be rocking. I cant wait to see the fans and see the excitement and energy in the stadium. Really excited for it. He says he came back here for a reason. Coming up at 5 45, is this nick foles team now . Wait until you hear his interesting answer on that. 5 45. I am john clark. Back to you. All right, john. See you then. It is the eagles versus the raiders. Christmas night in south philadelphia. Eagles game day kickoff on sunday, Christmas Eve day at 9 30 a. M. Followed by gameday sunday an 10 00. The stands will be crowded in the lincoln financial field cheering on the eagles. Weatherwise . What will they be dealing with . Glenn, what do you think . Its going to be cold oh, boy. It will be cold and windy. Right now it looks like it is probably dry. But were going to be dealing with windchill temperatures. It may be feeling like its in the teens by the time that game goes on on monday night. 45 degrees right now in philadelphia. Not all that cold but certainly colder than yesterday at this time. And we have ended the day with a lot of sunshine. All across the area. After the clouds earlier in the day. And again, the temperatures down a little bit from what we saw this morning. Its already down to 40 degrees in fleetwood. Were talking about berks, lehigh, northampton counties. 42 in mertztown, allentown. 43 in white hall, walnutport, one of the normal cold spots. Bethlehem at 42 degrees. The places will be dropping into the 30s very quickly, obviously, and down into the 20s later tonight. You see the clouds from earlier today, generally just high clouds. Thick, high clouds, so you couldnt see the sun. But certainly not capable of precipitation. The rain stayed way down to the south as expected. And you can see the dry conditions that were going to be seeing during the day tomorrow. A lot of sunshine, but it will be on the chilly side. Then the moisture starts increasing from the west here. This is friday. So during the daytime hours friday its basically dry. But later friday night and into saturday, thats when the rain comes in. Its also when the mildest air comes in, especially in southern parts of our area. And then, things get colder as you will see in a minute. First of all, tomorrow, colder than today, 40 for the high. In chestnut hill, swanksville. Maybe not even 40. Allentown and easton, after temperatures in the mid 20s in the morning. 43 in vorhees and long port and 44 in knnewark, delaware, after lows near freezing. Here is the map for saturday morning. With the rain across a good bit of the area. So there is going to be quite a difference between saturday and sunday and monday as we head through the holiday weekend. Here we are by saturday night. Still raining. But were getting the cold air coming in. So its changing over to some snow possibly in the poconos. Then we dry out. So most of sunday, if not all of sunday, is dry. Then we start to see the moisture come back. But now the moisture is coming back, and its already colder. So there is the poconos seeing some snow. Thats sunday night. Thats Christmas Eve. At the very least, the poconos and maybe the Lehigh Valley have a chance of seeing the White Christmas monday morning. Much of the rest of the area is looking too warm. Like it would be rain. Then it dries out. Thats why it is dry for the eagles game on sunday night. Monday night. Look at the difference here. Saturday, 56. Warm and wet. By christmas day, a high of only 36. Its wet, and its also windy. As we go through the day on monday. So we are feeling like winter. As we look through the rest of the tenday on 10 later on, you will find multiple chances of snow next week. All right, glenn. An early christmas surprise causes some students to dance today. In west philadelphia, nearly 500 students were given backpacks from the kids in need foundation. The new bags were filled with muchneeded School Supplies. A lot of times kids just want the basics. Nothing extravagant but something basic like School Supplies so they dont feel badly at school. Age they say is just a number. A recordbreaking birth. She may look like your average baby but some might say she is actually 24 years old. Plus whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa speeding away. One officers wild ride that wont soon be forgotten. And o

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