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using a chemical weapon to kill his ex-girlfriend's boyfriend. >> he hid a substance inside a scratch-and-sniff birthday card. dan from our philadelphia affiliate has the story. >> reporter: heavily armed s.w.a.t. teams moved in to the eleanor apartments. the teams wore full biohazard suits in event there was more of the deadly ricin at the suspect's apartment when they went in to get him. moments later authorities say 19-year-old nicholas todd hellman was arrested without incident and very quietly went along with the very heavily armed men. >> the individual has been taken into custody and we do not believe there was any threat to public safety as it relates to today's events. >> reporter: authorities say back on march 7th hellman who worked at this target store has confided in a coworker that he had placed a scratch-and-sniff birthday card in the mailbox of the man currently involved with his ex-girlfriend. he told the woman that he ground caster beans inside the card. police say he told the woman that the substance would kill anyone who came in contact with it. the coworker called police. hellman was arrested and
martha: you bet. thank you. gregg: well you might say she turned in her pom-poms for a machine gun. a former philadelphia eagles cheerleader getting a very warm welcome back after she left the team to join the u.s. army. chris o'connell from our philadelphia affiliate has that story. >> reporter: this off her second deployment from afghanistan, first lieutenant, rachel washburn is back to be home. >> great to be home. i call philadelphia my home and where my heart is and always will be. i'm a die-hard eagles fan. >> reporter: she better be an eagles fan. this is the uniform she was wearing three years ago as a philadelphia eagles cheerleader from 2007 to 2010. last time you were here you were in a cheerleading uniform? >> i was. three years now. >> reporter: instead of carrying pom-poms, she now packs an m-16. nowadays, lieutenant washburn serves as arm intelligence platoon leader. before that she was on the army cultural support team, helping
then there is this, the excessive heat that is now moving across much of the east coast, in places like here in new york city, boston, philadelphia, in for very hot, hot days over the course of the next few days. our philadelphia affiliate, wpxf, live in pittman, new jersey, where i bet it's pretty hot, how are you doing? >> reporter: yes, i'm burning up! that's how i'm doing. it's pretty hot. we're used to hot juves in this part of the country, but you know, this is just unbearable. the sun is already beating down on us and we have a ways to go before we hit our triple projected higho \on/zero triple digit projected high. i'm along the parade route, folks are not deterred by this heat at all, they're coming out to enjoy their parade. people are getting ready for the parade which starts in a few hours, they're lining their chairs up and there's even a 4--mile race going on at the party's festivities. can you imagine running in this weather? >> martha: my gosh. >> reporter: they do have