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don't wait. get your free online valuation now at webuyanycar.com. attack foiled arrests made. while you were sleeping another terror plot was foiled overseas. and this morning police want to know if a woman falling from a window was intentional or an accident. and we are live at the soon-to-be shut down racetrack and looking at the impact the shutdown will have. and this morning you're waking up to another clear and cold morning outside. 29 degrees in philadelphia now. some windy changes blowing in later this afternoon. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today" on this friday.
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i'm chris cato. we'll begin with meteorologist bill henley and the first-alert forecast and the all-important friday forecast, too. we'll see a lot of sunshine today, but we're also going to see a dramatic turn. the temperatures right around noontime, just in the early afternoon hours, that's when top wind shifts and temperatures will get colder. this morning it is colder but we'll see windchills that will feel colder this afternoon. right now in philadelphia we're holding at 29 degrees. 31 in northeast philly at the airport. pottstown is 22 degrees. look at the 20s for delaware and mt. holly, new jersey. 29 degrees. a cold start and it will be cold at 7:00. but bright sunshine at 9:00 with the winds starting to kick in at noontime. we'll get close to the 40-degree mark. we'll go through hour by hour to show you how it will be exactly changing as the day goes on. first we'll go to jillian mele. happy friday to you, jillian. happy friday to you as well.
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spring garden street is clear in both directions. you have the long-term construction on the ramps in the area, but as you can see, no delays or accidents to report on 76. and in wilmington, we have repair going on from the water main break on the northbound side of foulk road between ship lee road and silverside road with one lane blocked there. we are following breaking news overseas. police in paris and berlin carried out anti-terror raid overnight. the police arrested 12 people and the gunman who attacked the supermarket owner last week. meantime n an unrelated raid police in berlin arrested a group of extremists and said there was no evidence of showing
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attacks inside germany. and yesterday amateur video showed two suspects being killed and a third arrests. the group was just days away from carrying out an attack. this was one of three in belgium to arrest the second jihadist who just returned from syria. back at home, new overnight police are looking for a person who shot a man inside his car in west philadelphia. this happened just after midnight on stanton street. investigators believe the shooter was sitting in the backseat and shot the driver several times. a woman jumped out of the car and ran for help. the victim is on life support now. and a temple student is dead after falling eight stories to her death. police want to know if this was accidental or intentional. katy zachry is live in center city where this happened in front of a lot of witnesses. katy, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: yeah, this woman
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fell eight floors to the ground below. this is where it happened inside a dormitory at the corner of 16th and chestnut. it happened when the sidewalk below was extremely crowded with commuters going home. police say it is fortunate more people were not hurt. this is the scene where police arrived to the corner of 16th and chestnut with two women on the ground. the temple freshman as rebecca kemp as well as a 44-year-old woman kemp injuried when she landed on her. she may have been taking pictures before she fell from the window. this is a dorm from the university of the arts. police are interviewing several friends with the victim moments before she fell. i'm also told new this morning that police are searched the dorm room and are finished with the search. at this point they are not ruling this as an accident saying there are still many unanswered questions in this case. i'm also going to work on
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getting you an update on the 44-year-old woman who was injured walking on the sidewalk. she's right now at the hospital and i'll have that for you coming up at 4:30. reporting live in center city, philadelphia, caykaty zachry "nbc 10 news." happening today, a philadelphia man will be sentenced for beating to death his infant son. a jury convicted samuel cabrera of third-degree burglary and child endayment. he kidnapped the baby from his home in 2010. the baby died at children's hospital in philadelphia. the father confessed after first tell investigators it was an accident. a pennsylvania man who shot and killed his girlfriend on this street in fair hill will also be sentenced today. the jury convicted the man in the death of sharell baker in 2013. he told police he accidentally shot baker while arguing with a neighbor. now to the atlantic city
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casino crisis. today a bankruptcy hearing is scheduled for the struggling trump taj mahal that was scheduled to close last month, but billion dollar karl ikan put up several thousand dollars to keep it up and running. i-95 in bucks county is all clear after the deadly chain-reaction crash that killed a truck driver and snarled traffic for hours. skyforce 10 was over i-95 in ben salem township as a tractor-trailer slammed into the back of a line of cars on the off-ramp. that caused a second 18-wheeler to flip killing the driver. other drivers were okay but badly shaken. >> i look in the rear-view mirror and here comes an 18-wheeler doing about 90 air bags, everything.
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it was terrible. >> now, state police are still investigating the crash. you can use the "nbc 10 news" app to stay connected to us for updates. now to a high school sexting scandal in bucks county. eight students will be charged in this case. the authorities at the neshaminy high school passed around sexually explicit pictures last fall. fellow classmates told school officials this was going on. middletown police confirmed to us last night they have wrapped up their information and again eight students will be charged. police in wilmington are looking into the shooting death of a suspect during a traffic stop. police pulled a person over yesterday afternoon and say an officer got into a struggle with a person in the car. when the person fired shots, the suspect shot him. the suspect is in critical condition and the officer was not hurt. ♪
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♪ ' ♪ oer the ramparts we watch ♪ eric holder met with law enforcement officials and community leaders yesterday for a roundtable discussion. this is part of president to baa's plan top strengthen the police departments and the people they serve. >> the issues we have in some communities is deep and we have top continue to hold that. >> he will also talk about races relations with the group. and president obama and david cameron were at the white house last night. they are hoping to boost their
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online security. today the president and prime minister are expected to discuss terrorism concerns economic concerns and trade. the skies are clear this morning with temperatures coming down. most of the area is in the 20s right now and getting a cold start. but we'll see sunshine at a pretty quick warm-up. until this afternoon when gusty winds kick in. and that will drive cold air back in here. a blast of cold you'll feel later today and at least for the first part of the weekend. followed by rain for the second part of the weekend. right now 20 degrees and falling in reading. 29 in philadelphia. cape may 32 degrees. most locations running a little colder than yesterday. completely clear over center city. no sign of the clouds we started off with yesterday. the sun came out in the afternoon. and the skies are still nice and clear. that goes for delaware and south jersey, too. but as the day goes on, the wind will be kicking in from the
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northwest. we'll see clouds blowing in and a few spots could see a brief snow shower with temperatures plummeting during the afternoon hours. this morning, though look at those arrows. the nice southwesterly wind will boost our temperatures to a good warm up. by 10:00 this morning, 35 degrees and climbing by lunchtime and early afternoon. we'll be flirting with the 40-degree mark. but look to the north and west with snow showers popping up. that's cold air as the wind shifts behind it. the cold part is coming in with arrows as they change the direction, the northwesterly direction. by 5:00 in the afternoon, temperatures will be lower and windchills are in the teens. you'll have to bundle up more later today than you do right now if you're leaving the house. so the forecast is calling for a big change today. a nice sunny start with a warm up into the lower 30s and 40s. we'll look at the extended future weather when i'm back in ten. here's hoping that today's
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drive on i-95 is a loot smoother than yesterday. several sent thesaccidents made it rough out there. let's go to jillian mele now. this is 95 looking good the entire length of the way to the airport. no accidents there. 76 is free of accidents, so is the blue route. for drivers in new jersey in pilesgrove, we are dealing with a problem near route 40 shut down in both directions near kings highway all because of an accident that happened around midnight. it brought down a pole in the area so we have that downed pole and crews are out there doing repair work. in the meantime, take auburn road as your alternate. just a few hours from now another atlantic city gaming attraction will take an economic hit. jesse gary is covering the latest shutdown of the atlantic city race course and the impact that's expected to have. plus the key to living
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happening today, outlined proposed legislation will be looked at for those who suffered from sandy, superstorm sandy. and now today another gaming venue is going to be closing. jesse gary is live in atlantic
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city with more. what is happening there? >> reporter: citing declining conditions as well as the overall regional economic conditions. the combination is leaving the racetrack here in the deep freeze permanently. more recently there was a short spring season for live racing and daily simulcast to leave the doors open. the closings of a handful of casinos has hurt this track as well. we'll have more coming up later, jesse gary "nbc 10 news." today new rules go into effect to roll back an embargo with cuba and make it harder to visit that country. some restrictions do remain, though you still cannot visit cuba for a vacation but americans can go there to see family or for government
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business journalism and a few other exceptions. once in cuba travelers have new freedoms like unlimited spending and you can use credit cards and debit cards. you can also bring back $100 in rum and cuban cigars. nbc 10 was at the mexican consulate on independence mall yesterday. this is just one place now where the mexican government is now issuing birth certificates. until yesterday, anyone who needed the government had to go to mexico to get it. we have new information this morning on the death of a woman on a smoke-filled metro subway car in washington, d.c. the medical examiner says carol glover died from acute respiratory failure due to exposure to the smoke. glover had ties to this area with a computer science degree from drexel university. monday's incident on the metro stranded many people making them sick. the reward to find a missing
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bucks county teacher has topped $10,000. aerial search teams have been looking for christopher tully who was an award-winning teacher. yesterday their focus was along i-76 at tully avenue. his parents were driving him to treatment for depression and he jumped out of the car. that's the last time his parents have seen him. and a jury yesterday found this football coach guilty of sexually assaulting five of his players. leon watson's players testified to be molested my times before an investigator found him at a boy's home in 2013. one of the victim's was a developmentally delayed adult. this teenager girl is going to prison for attacking a temple university student with a brick. a judge yesterday sentenced 16-year-old dariah estes for the
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attack. she also got four years probation. a student was walking on campus when she was attacked out of nowhere by a brick. police say two other girls also hit the student with their fists. they are being tried in family court. the student suffered severe injuries to her face. the baltimore ravens and former star runningback ray rice reached a settlement agreement over back pain. the terms of the deal have not been disclosed publicly. rice claims the team owes him $3.5 million after releasing him in september. the ravens terminated his contract after the video surfaced of him showing him punching his then fiancee in the elevator. officials in pennsylvania say this more than a century old prison has to be torn down after a fire tore through the place. this happened wednesday at the
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northumberland prison. 200 inmates had to be replaced after being displaced from the fire. the prison cannot be rebuilt at this current location and investigators are still looking into what started that fire. and the federal government will be paid more than $19,000 to settle a false claims case. a tenant sued the properties over trash removal fees that amounted to extra rent. the u.s. attorney said the landlord was also putting in for federal asis the answer at the same time. this settlement will make sure the tenants get their money back with legal fees paid for by the landlord. in the race for philadelphia mayor, nelson diaz is now a democratic candidate for the nomination. he was the youngest judge elected to the bench in pennsylvania history to serve. he said his campaign will focus on improving public education.
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now diaz joins five other democrats in the race former district attorney lind abraham, dennis trujillo anthony hardy-williams and doug oliver and former state lawmaker milton street. no republicans have officially announced. and at 4:20 we are following breaking news right now. this is happening, a live picture in the logan city of philadelphia. and look at the up damage to the front of that home there. that's where police say a car crashed into the home. you can clearly see the vehicle, an suv there, went right into the front of the porch. it looks like it's buried pretty far in there. this happened just before 4:00 a.m. police say the driver ran off so we don't know if anyone in the car was injured. we also don't know if anyone was inside the home at the time of this happening or if they were injured. but clearly we have a crew on the scene and are working to get you more information. we'll bring that to you as soon as we get it. but a severe crash there into
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that home. it will be three hours before we see the sun come up but look at the moon come up. the moon is going to be bright until the sun comes up. then we'll see a lot of sunshine. we are not seeing much wind right now with a little bit of a breeze this afternoon to turn windy and colder. 29 degrees right now in philadelphia with a southwesterly wind at 9 miles an hour. southwesterly winds help to warm things up but there's colder air waiting to the north and west. they are making snow in the pocano mountains, but colder air is on the way in the mountains. that's going to be blowing into philadelphia this afternoon. right now it's 19 degrees in quakertown 206789 degrees for reading. pottstown, 22. a couple 30s here and there
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along woodrine. look to the north, you can see the snow showers. that's cold air that is diving our way. that is going to be arriving this afternoon. and you'll feel it tonight and tomorrow especially. during the afternoon tomorrow hour by hour forecast showing upper 20s. then look what happens. we get clouds that will be moving in first thing sunday morning. 7:00 in the morning, then here comes the rain up the coastline. 44 degrees in cape may at noontime with rain extending inland. even north and west areas will likely see rain on sunday. but today, a sunny start. then gusty winds. high temperatures right around midday. near 40 degrees. then it gets colder this afternoon. the full seven-day in the next half hour. 4:22. the first alert traffic reporter jillian mele is always looking to bring you the first sign of anything to slow you down. anything out there, jillian? >> we did find an accident on
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the vine street expressway. in the last few minutes i saw this in our cameras. this is on the vine street expressway eastbound past 76 heading into philadelphia. as you approach the broad street accident, that's where the accident is. we have seen a tow truck on the scene. there was an ambulance out there but this appears to be a single vehicle accident. again, i could not see everything going on because you can see we are partially blocked over there. i want to get more information there and be sure to let you know. elsewhere, we are following the water main break. the repair work in near ship lee road and silverside road with a lane blocked there. some more motivation if you needed to get off the couch. this is after you finish watching our fine news program. new research shows walking 20 minutes a day can improve your health and extend your life. a study tracked many european
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men and women who walked 20 minutes a day, and it cut their illness, hypertension obese the and diabetes rate. and a big fine that was just slapped on southwest airlines. and more all because of this man, the impact the pope is having on nuptials.
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planes on the runway including last january when 16 planes were delayed on the tarmac at chicago's midway airport. bundle up this morning. 29 degrees at 4:27. let's go to jillian mele in the traffic center now. we have an accident on the vine street eastbound past 76. more details coming up in minutes. and we are still live on the scene of breaking news in the logan neighborhood of philadelphia. look at this suv that plowed straight into the front of the house. we are right back with the latest information on any injuries and the search for the driver.
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we are following two breaking news stories for you. first, a live picture from the logan area of philadelphia. look at that this is an suv that crashed into a home about 90 minutes ago. also breaking this morning, we are following a string of anti-terror raids that happened overnight in three countries. several linked to the deadly newspaper attack in par pris. and we are following up on this story, a temple student falls eight floors to her death. this morning we're checking in on the safely records of the building. and clear and cold to start our friday but the winds will pick up to make it feel colder than it is right now. well, happy friday. >> that's a big change, right? >> good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> i'm chris cato. we'll begin with meteorologist bill henley, the bearer of windy and cold news this morning. it will be sunny, all right? until the winds kick in. then we'll see the clouds maybe a brief snow shower

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