new this morning, the video threat that led to a deadly police shooting in delaware county. we've learned the investigation actually started days ago at a local gym. plus another deadly police shooting, this one in cumberland county, where an officer opened fire on a man after a traffic stop. and it is december 31st new year's eve and mummers and nonmummers alike across the area are preparing for a night of fun. we'll tell you and show you some ways you can celebrate in your community and beyond. and no matter how you choose to ring in the new year you're going to need a big coat. it is a cold one out there this morning, as we take a live look at i-95 in south philadelphia.

we will barely get above the freezing mark and it will feel more like the teens with the wind out there. good morning and welcome to "nbc 10 news today" on this final day of 2014. i'm chris cato. let's begin with meteorologist brittney shipp and her first alert forecast. we're off to a chilly start. >> we are off to a freezing start, and it's going to stay that way as we head through the rest of the morning. we will be slow to warm above freezing heading into the rest of today. a live look outside at boathouse row, where we are going to see our temperatures today starting off in the 20s. 26 degrees currently in wilmington 25 in philadelphia, 23 in allentown, 17 in pottstown pottstown, 25 in philadelphia, 18 degrees, a cold start to the morning in millville. here's your feels-like temperature. feels like 16 degrees in philadelphia. feeling like 25 in northeast philly, 17 in allentown. and as we head into the rest of today, our temperatures will stay in the 30s, about ten degrees below average, ranging between 31 and 34 degrees. sunny and breezy cold conditions in store for us.

our wind speeds out of the west 10 to 20 miles per hour. that will contribute to our windchill. for a closer look at the roads, we'll check in with first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. >> good morning to you, brittney, you at home as well. we're following overnight construction on the 42 freeway, northbound side out near creek road and 295. in the overnight hours, 42 is blocked because of that. traffic is getting by now. it was scheduled to wrap around 5:00 a.m. you can expect to see construction out there, but at least traffic is getting by. in gilbertsville, we're dealing with a downed pole from an earlier accident philadelphia avenue at park lane. and for drivers in the lehigh valley this morning, an incident to deal with route 22 at airport road, all is quiet. chris? 4:02 now. we have new information now on a deadly police shooting in delaware county. we've learned that the suspect caught the attention of law enforcement by making statements at a gym. nbc 10's monique braxton joins us live from havertown now. tell us about the chain of events that led police to have

this run-in with the suspect last night. >> reporter: chris, we've been digging into this story all night long and new information this morning for you as we have learned the circumstances that led to the death of joe pacini began at this gym on sunday. the haverford police chief says the 32-year-old pacini openly threatened law enforcement in general, not aiming at anyone specific. the staff of the gym contacted haverford police about pacini's strange behavior. monday, pacini was asked to speak to police at headquarters. instead, pacini from clifton heights, posted three videos on youtube, threatening police and an arrest warrant was obtained yesterday, charging pacini with making terroristic threats. we're warning you, what you're about to see may be disturbing. >> you want to try to bring me down, i will kill you and your

whole [ muted ] family, all right? so go ahead and [ muted ] me. >> he was ranting on youtube, threatening to kill police threatening to kill fbi agents. they got the warrant for him. they were going to serve the warrant for him. he left the house in clifton. they followed him over to here. they go to stop him. >> reporter: and in the next half hour we're going to tell you what happened when police came face-to-face with pacini. live for now in havertown, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. we're also following another police-involved killing this morning, this one in cumberland county. bridgeton police shot and killed a man after a traffic stop there. a live look at the scene here. investigators are still on scene. they've been processing it for more than six hours now. you can see them now taking down what apparently is the police tape around the area. it happened around 9:30 last night on south avenue and henry street. now, police haven't told us much here. we do know that they stopped a black bmw with two people

inside. they don't know why yet. we know they shot one man who was taken to the hospital where he died. police say they found a handgun but they haven't said where they found it or what prompted the shooting. stay with nbc 10 as we continue to get answers to questions on this deadly police-involved shooting. and we have new information this morning in the recovery efforts of the airasia jet that crashed and went missing on sunday. nbc 10's tracy davidson joins us live from our digital operations center. tracy, now it looks like that the weather is hampering these recovery efforts somewhat right? >> right, chris. heavy rain and rough seas are making it difficult for search crews to find more victims. so far, seven bodies and that's the new number seven bodies have been found. two of the bodies from the crash site arrived by helicopter at a base in indonesia. authorities are working to identify those victims. they're collecting dna samples and pictures from relatives to help speed up the process. meantime dozens of ships and aircraft from multiple countries are involved in search-and-recovery efforts, including a u.s. navy destroyer.

debris from the plane was first discovered yesterday off the coast of borneo. search crews have yet to find the plane's black boxes, but they think they have found a large piece of wreckage under the water. they can see a huge shadow. also investigators say one of the bodies pulled from the water appears to be a flight attendant wearing airasia's trademark red uniform. they say that fully-clothed body suggests that the plane may have been intact when it hit the water. we're monitoring the feed. we'll keep you updated on any new developments. live in the digital operations center tracy davidson nbc 10 news. six minutes after 4:00 now. happening later today, three suspects in the murder of a toddler in chester county will be arraigned. jillian tait and gary fellenbaum are accused of killing tait 3-year-old son, scott mcmillan. amber is charged with endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly watch the abuse for two weeks without reporting it. in november the boy's body was

found at the home in parksburg where the suspects lived. this morning grief counselors will be there for students and teachers at the rioter school in gloucester county. matthew mccloskey was crossing route 47 with his friends sunday night when he was hit and killed by a police car. investigators say the franklin township officer was responding to a call at the time. that officer is on leave now pending the outcome of the investigation. in less than an hour the community of camden will resume its vigil for peace. it started early yesterday morning at the cathedral of the immaculate conception and continues this morning at 5:00 and runs until 5:00 p.m. an hour of prayer is devoted to each of camden's 31 murder victims this year along with prayers for a peaceful new year. ♪ and we are counting down to 2015. the new year now less than 20 hours away.

and of course new year's eve means final rehearsals for philadelphia mummers' parade. the fancy brigade got in some final practice at the pennsylvania convention center last night as part of the annual mummers fest. the brigades will strut their stuff down broad street tomorrow morning. in kennett square new year's eve will bring, what else? the mushroom drop! 500 pounds of steel and l.e.d. lights in the shape of a scloom will ring in 2015. a falling fungus. this is the second year for the event. kennett square is known, of course, as the mushroom capital of the world. new york city is ready for the most famous drop of them all. the giant, glittering ball in times square. workers tested the 10-ton waterford crystal ball yesterday and it slid down a 13-story flag pole with no problem. all of the region's new year's eve events are right at your fingertips through the new nbc 10 news app. download it for free now from the app store. ♪ now your nbc 10 first alert

weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> good morning. freezing temperatures in store for us as we head into the rest of your morning. by the afternoon, we'll warm a little bit above freezing but we're still well below our average. so if we take a closer look at our feels-like temperature, it feels like it's 10 degrees in the poconos, feels like 17 in allentown and pottstown, 16 in philadelphia feeling like 19 degrees in wilmington. our actual temperature, 19 in the poconos, 23 in allentown, 25 in philadelphia only 26 in wilmington. take a look at some of our shore communities. atlantic city, closer to the airport, 18 degrees. the actual temperature in millville 18. as we head into the rest of your late morning hours, expect cold and freezing temperatures to continue. even by 10:00 a.m. we're still right at 30 degrees for philadelphia, still below freezing at allentown, 22 in the poconos, 33 in atlantic city. even as we head into the rest of the afternoon, we're only going to warm to 34 degrees for philadelphia, 30 degrees in

allentown, 31 in reading and 20s in the poconos. so we will definitely see a cold day on tap for us. if you plan on actually being outside this new year's eve at midnight expect our temperatures to be at 26 degrees with a windchill of 20 degrees. i'm tracking a weekend storm, a slightly warmer condition. that's coming up in my first alert seven-day forecast. >> all right, brittney. ten minutes after 4:00 now. time to get a check of the early new year's eve traffic out there. nbc 10's first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is watching the roads. >> good morning, chris. we're not dealing with too many problems on the majors right now. for the most part highways are looking good. 95 is clear, 76 is free of any incidents, so is 422 and the roulette 30 bypass. our problem right now is out of gilbertsville. we have an accident that happened earlier this morning and brought down poles. so, we have a pole down in that area and officials are blocking philadelphia avenue which is route 73. and that's going to be blocked at park lane so you can take hoff meansville road to get around it.

apart from that, mass transit is looking good to start the day. we're not reporting any significant delays there. chris. a tragedy inside a walmart in idaho. a woman shot to death by her 2-year-old son. next, we'll tell you where he got the gun. plus the montgomery county woman charged with having sex with a teen who she met through her daughter's cheerleading squad gave her attorney a message to share in court. and a teenager comes face-to-face with a great white. you'll hear how he survived that encounter, next. and all this morning, keep your eyes on the screen. we will be showing you events happening today to ring in the new year. the city of allentown will celebrate with music and entertainment leading right up until midnight. festivities start at 10:00 and end with fireworks and a bell drop. and a spooky way to wrap up 2014. toast with a ghost! ghost tours leave from the powell house in society hill every hour starting at 7:00.

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a pregnant woman is recovering this morning after being attacked and robbed just feet from her philadelphia home. take a look at this surveillance video here. you can see a man run up behind the woman, who is seven months pregnant, knock her to the ground. after punching her in the head. this happened last monday night on manton street in the city's pennsport neighborhood. family members say the suspect broke several bones on the right side of the woman's face. >> i mean what kind of a coward picks on a woman like that seven months? you can't miss she's pregnant. >> the suspect ran off with her purse and a bag of food. surveillance video captured the suspect's car. they say he was driving this gray suv. call police if you have any information. this montgomery county woman accused of having sex with a 17-year-old high school student waived her right to a preliminary hearing yesterday. 42-year-old iris gibney a married mother of three, faces a number of charges, including corruption of minors and giving

obscene materials to a minor. gibney's lawyer says his client is remorseful. >> she is heartbroken at the decision that she made under the circumstances. we're going to make every effort now at this point to try and move forward with her life. >> upper pottsgrove police say an officer caught gibney and the student having sex in a park. gibney will make her next court appearance in february. 4:16 now. two women are facing charges after police in cherry hill say the women used a baby to hide stolen cosmetics. police say amanda platt and another woman stole $500 worth of products from sephora on saturday. according to investigators, the women hid the cosmetics underneath a 4-month-old who was inside a car seat mounted to a stroller. the women are charged with shoplifting and using a juvenile to commit a criminal offense. well the california surfer who survived a shark attack is talking about his encounter for

the first time. kevin swanson is recovering this morning after a great white attacked him over the weekend. the veteran surfer was in the water when he suddenly felt himself being pulled below the surface. >> you know i completely disappeared. it was like i was never there. it happened sudden it happened violently, and it was quick. >> swanson was somehow able to break free and make it to the beach. he was flown to the hospital and underwent two hours of surgery. he actually used the rope on his surfboard to make a tourniquet. his family now says he's following a new surfing rule -- call as soon as you're out of the water. engineers will be examining the morton salt storage facility in chicago after a wall collapsed, burying cars with salt. a side wall broke yesterday afternoon, spilling salt on to the cars at a car dealership next door. that's not good. no one was injured. a preliminary inspection found that the wall may have collapsed because the salt was piled too high.

former president george h.w. bush is back home this morning after spending a week in the hospital. the 90-year-old was released from houston's methodist hospital yesterday. he was admitted last week after experiencing shortness of breath. a spokesperson says bush is grateful to the doctors and nurses for their superb care. well bats may be the cause of the ebola outbreak that has claimed the lives of nearly 8,000 people in west africa. a team of researchers believes the first case was a 2-year-old boy who played in a hollowed-out tree where infected bats lived. they are now testing different species of bats. so far, none of those bats has tested positive for ebola. well a south korean activist has hatched a plan to bring the controversial sony film, "the interview," to the people of north korea. the activist says he'll start dropping 100,000 dvds from a balloon in north korea next month. he says he's partnered with a

u.s.-based non-profit human rights foundation which is financing making copies of the movie with korean subtitles. the comedy depicts an assassination plot on north korean dictator kim jong-un. the movie is, of course at the center of a cyber war between north korea and the u.s. following the hacking of sony pictures. now, your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. >> good morning. as we head into the rest of today, we are going to stay cold. temperatures well below average. a freezing new year's eve on tap for us. temperatures stay below average for at least the next three days and then we have one mild day and then another arctic blast. so, i'll go over all the details on that in your seven-day forecast. we're also tracking the possibility of a weekend storm, which will bring us rain and the chance of a wintry mix. light wind speeds right now. they will continue to pick up through the morning hours. 25 degrees with clear skies at the philadelphia international airport. wind speeds out of the west-southwest at 8 miles per hour. we couple those two together the feels-like temperature in

the teens. our actual temperatures for the poconos at 19 23 degrees in allentown, 17 in pottstown, 26 in wilmington 18 in millville, 18 degrees right now in atlantic city. we're at 29 in the harbor. and a closer look at the rest of the region. quakertown only 16 degrees, 17 in pottstown, 26 in wilmington 18 in mt. holly, 21 in trenton. right here along the shore it's a bit warmer in avalon at 29 degrees but still well below average. and we're actually 16 degrees cooler in atlantic city from this time yesterday, down 17 degrees in millville. but clear skies for us. and as we head into the rest of today, we'll see plenty of sunshine, quiet conditions for the entire eastern half of the nation, for the most part. our average for this time of year, 41 degrees. as we head into today, take a look at those temperatures. 33. 39 on your thursday. and our feels-like temperature heading into the rest of the afternoon pretty much staying in the 20s, although our actual temperature will warm into the 30s. but we have a very cold day on tap for us. and your seven-day forecast

shows that we'll stay cold heading into tomorrow. 39 degrees. a bit warmer but we track a chance of a wintry mix saturday and then rain on saturday into sunday morning. could see two on sunday then an arctic blast drops us back down into the 30s. >> all right, thank you, i think. 4:21 right now, and that car will be chilly as you climb in this morning. let's hope there's nothing else to slow you down and make your final morning drive of the year any less painful than necessary. jillian mele has more. >> it's not bad. highways are looking good. they're clear. no big spots of construction tying up traffic, no accidents out there on the majors. this is a live look in center city, philadelphia. 76 right at the vine. you can see 76 is clear. the vine is clear the entire length in both directions. our one problem is out of gilbertsville, an earlier accident that brought down a pole. so repair work is being done at the scene on philadelphia avenue which is route 73. that's blocked off near park lane. you can take hoffmansville road as your alternate there. and mass transit, once it gets up and going this morning, we're not reporting any significant

delays at the start of the morning just yet, but i wanted to will the you know new jersey transit is operating on a modified weekday schedule for the day. patco is operating on a special schedule today. and septa regional rail lines operating on a regular schedule. chris? a round-about way to get cheap flights. there is a website that can do that for you. next, we'll tell you how one airline is trying to shut that down. plus get ready to pay more at the pump in pennsylvania starting tomorrow. after weeks of telling you about falling gas prices we'll tell you how much it's going up. and money up in flames. why the city of philadelphia is tossing a lot of green into the fire. and once again this morning, we're keeping you posted on all the ways to ring in the new year in the area. here are two more options if you're looking for something to do. the philadelphia orchestra is helping to send 2014 out in style. you can catch the 7:30 performance tonight and you can still make it to your party by midnight. or you could hang out in haddonfield for a night of family-friendly fun.

alcohol-free entertainment. festivities there run from 6:00 to midnight at kings highway and tanner street. it wraps up with a fireworks show. ♪

4:25. united airlines and orbitz are suing the founder of a website that helps people buy cheaper airline tickets. it uses hidden city fares. that's where you buy a ticket with a layover in your destination and skip the last leg of a flight. this is cheaper than a direct flight. the founder says there's nothing illegal about that but united airlines and orbitz says it promotes strictly prohibitive travel and they want $75,000 in lost revenue. well pennsylvania drivers will have to dig a little deeper

into their wallets to pay for gas starting tomorrow. that's because gas taxes will be going up nearly 10 cents a gallon. diesel taxes will rise 13 cents a gallon. this is the latest in a series of tax hikes to boost construction funding in pennsylvania. the next increase will come in 2017. well new jersey is considering a plan to turn highway rest stops into shopping destinations. a bill in trenton would require operators of the new jersey turnpike, the garden state parkway and the atlantic city expressway to look at new retail options. those possibilities include billboards, corporate sponsorships and even stores. lawmakers say the idea is to raise money for road repairs without charging drivers. like everything the life of a dollar bill must come to an end some time. so, what happens once it's taken out of service? well in philadelphia, the federal reserve bank is turning the old green into electricity. each month, tons of old money is being burned to light up homes and businesses in the area.

pretty cool. did not know that. the fed says this is a way of helping the environment. so, how much power is burning this cash actually producing? you can find that out and the rest of the story right now. it's all on the new nbc 10 app for the iphone. now, your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> and i'm tracking freezing conditions to start off your morning. and as we head into the afternoon, temperatures are staying cold just above freezing, plus very cold conditions expected as we head into this new year's eve. i'll go over all the details coming up in my first alert seven-day forecast. jillian? good morning to you. if you're waking up in delaware 95 is clear of any big incidents this morning. drive times pretty average on 95, especially through wilmington. you can see about ten minutes in both directions between 295 and 495. coming up in just a few minutes, a check of the roads in new jersey. and here are two more ways you can ring in the new year tonight. if you want to get in shape in 2015, why not start with a run?

the fifth annual philadelphia new year's eve midnight run starts at citizens bank park. you can get there at 9:00 for prerun drinks. i don't know if that includes champagne. and if you want to get the kids in bed early, good luck with that. you can stop by nest on locust street to a countdown to noon. children under 9 are invited to a mocktail party, complete with a photo booth, red carpet and crafts. that starts at 10:30 this morning. we'll be right back after this. ♪