>> announcer: nbc10 breaking news. nbc10 just confirmed minutes ago that the 2-year-old boy who was injured in that hit-and-run on monday has died. the accident happened monday night. the child's mother josephine rivero was also injured but she's out of the hospital. police are looking for white 2007 infinity that should have damage to the right driver's side. authorities are offering a $10,000 reward. and the crime spree that ended overnight in a dramatic way. and a fiery mystery near

philadelphia international airport this morning. we're talking to police as they try to figure out how had a man wound up dead inside a burning car. and this morning, we're off to a much milder start than yesterday morning. look at this 55 degrees as we take a live look at the ben franklin bridge. we'll have one more nice day before wet changes arrive. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today" on this thursday. i'm chris cato. let's begin with bill henley and his "first alert" forecast. bill. >> good morning, chris. temperatures are cooling down right now. skies are mostly clear, we'll see sunshine today to start with at least. nice view from center city. that's the view from the comcast center where the temperature, now in the 50s. 52 at philadelphia international, 53 at wilmington. look at the 40s north and west of pottstown and doylestown. and roxborough very low 50s. at the airport, it's 51. nice warmup as the day goes on we'll see sunshine high clouds

56 by 9:00. by lunchtime, 64 degrees. the hour-by-hour forecast when i'm back with the future weather. all right, bill we're traveling track problems in bucks county. 413 in buckingham township is closed after a deadly crash there. one person died in that crash. it happened overnight. only one vehicle was involved police are still investigating there. nbc10's "first alert" traffic reporter katy zachry has more. >> yeah we're hearing from the crews it's going to be out there for quite some time. the accident is happening at 413, route 413 which is durham road. at lower mountain road that stretch of 413 is closed off. you can take 263 around that. and i'll keep tabs on that and let you know when that clears. we're hearing it will be out there for quite some time. and the vine street expressway i have this highlighted.

a police car blocking traffic making its way on to vine street, eastbound or westbound because it's the construction that they're doing that should lift around the 5:00 hour. here's the map of it in center city the vine street exit is closed 676 broad street and you have many drivers coming from 76 east and west from the ben franklin bridge from 95. and center city. this is supposed to lift around 5:00 a.m. new from overnight police arrested two robbery suspects who led them through a chase through northeast philadelphia overnight. you're looking at the car that police say the suspects tried to get in. police say the suspects pulled several armed robberies. as investigators closed in last night the robbers ditched the car on nestor street. skyforce 10 flew over a deadly crash in atlantic county

late last night. a vehicle hit a pedestrian on 322 in egg harbor township. that person died. crews shut down the road for a time but it has since reopened. this morning, police are looking to get to the bottom of a suspicious determine near philadelphia international airport. crews first arrived for a car fire yesterday afternoon. once they put out the fire they found the body of a man in the driver's seat charred to the bone. and they also found an empty gas can in the trunk of the car. >> we have no leads at this point. >> ford mifflin road weaves to an industrial area around the airport there. the tags on the car are connected to an address in south philadelphia. 4 minutes after 4:00 this just in to nbc10 news, the search into malaysia airlines

flight that vanished last year could be expanded. search could continue if that jetliner is not found by next month. malaysia australia and china are leading that effort to find that missing jetliner that disappeared with so many passengers on board. 239 people that flight from kuala lumpur to beijing when it disappeared. >> happening today, a lehigh county woman, and her boyfriend, a 14-year-old girl will go to court on a preliminary hearing. a judge will decide if that 14-year-old and her boyfriend should be tried on murder charges. they are accused of plotting to kill the 14-year-old girl's mother because she was trying to break them up. nbc10 learned there was a series of text messages sent between that girl and her boyfriend in the evening leading up to her mother's stabbing death. kala barnes that woman you see

there is accused of stabbing her to death in her death in upper ma done ji. pedro hernandez confessed to quilling the boy. and local lawmakers are demanding changes at the philadelphia regional veterans affairs office after a scathing report came out that government audit detailed a litany of products including mimgs of mail and a backlog of veterans leading an average of 312 days in response to inquiries. an iraqi war veteran we spoke with said he's not surprised. >> i experienced that you know the long waits, the red tape

behind getting help. you know it makes it extremely difficult. >> the house veterans affairs committee will hold a hearing knicks week to focus on the philadelphia office. congressman ryan costello of westchester sits on that committee and said those responsible for the dysfunction need to be fired. the va said it's known about fleebss since last summer and has been aggressively fixing them. we have new information on the chaos in poland. council fired paula brown from that job last week citing a need to cut speeding. council president fred pletcher who you see there on the left there, brown accused him of extortion, he denied those allegations yesterday saying if anyone was guilty of extortion was brown. part that robert menendez

said his legal defense fund is thriving as he faces charges. a filing with the irs showed that menendez raised more than $1 million for his fund before launching it a year ago. records show by the end of last year he had spent $500,000 on legal services. meantime a florida judge ordered the senator's friend and co-defendant to stay in jail in a separate case. dr. solomon malligan is accused of trying to dupe that program. and this morning, the statute of limitations in child sex abuse lawsuits yesterday jerry sandusky's adopted son joined a handful of lawmakers. jerry sandusky is served a 30 to 50-year prison sentence for abusing young boys while he was

an assistant football coach at penn state. in north hampton county authorities are warning parents to be on the lookout after a woman tried to lure a girl into her car. she pulled up to a 9-year-old walking home from school. the girl described the driver as an older woman with light hair large rimmed glasses and a puppy. she kept asking the girl to get in the vehicle. but she drove up and the girl's brother drove off. >> as soon as they said a puppy in the car, that was stereotypical, too. she wasn't but the puppy was. >> announcer: now the nbc "first alert" weather with meteorologist bill henley. clear skies this morning. temperatures, they're falling right now, 40s and 50s not quite

as chilly as yesterday morning. look at the wind not blowing at all. the flags are rested at the studios. 47, 53 in wilmington get your sunglasses ready. we'll see bright sunshine not just for the ballpark but at least to start with there there be clouds rolling in later in the day. thin high clouds rolling through new jersey right now. clouds are coming in advance. high clouds in advance of showers that are moving to the midwest. and it's this rain that should be moving our way first thing tomorrow morning. right foundation it's moving past chicago into michigan kalamazoo is getting a few light rain showers. today, though you won't need your umbrella we will see sunshine and just some high clouds and that will lead to a warmup in spite of those clouds. winds shift becoming more northeast at 10:00. by then upper 50s at philadelphia millville at 60 degrees. by early this afternoon, we're

at 70 degrees in philadelphia. so, a nice day ahead. with sunshine 56 degrees at 9:00. by noon time we'll be into the 60s and climbing. a look at the weekend forecast when i'm back in ten minutes. all right, bill 11 minutes after 4:00 right now. let's get a check with the traffic. nbc10 joins us with that. >> the southbound lane right at academy avenue. if you head south on 95 closer to center city will you encounter some of that overnight construction. some of that long-term project they're doing around cottman and girard. everything is looking good at 95 and academy. we were talking about a vine street expressway closure. in in effect until 5:00 this morning. in buckingham township there san accident it seems like it's

going to be out there for quite some time. it's route 413 which is also durham road right at the intersection of lower mountain road. you can take route 263 around that one. a check of mass transit chris, everything is running on or close to schedule at this early hour. federal investigators say two men in uniform actually tried to serve dangerous killers. next the accusations against two army reservists. plus the underwater hurdle facing boaters at the jersey shore. and more space for your buck. the airline that's giving passengers more room.

4:14 now, near san diego,

two army reserveists face a court hearing on gun charges they're accused of stilling weapons and body armor. authorities say the ammunition and body armor came from marine supplies. look at this. the chopper sat down yesterday to the surprise of a lot of beachgoers. crew members were taking part in routine training when that chopper had a low-pressure warning. no one was hurt. president obama welcomes the wounded warrior project soldier ride to the white house today. the eighth annual event focuses on raising awareness about rehabilitation for disabled veterans. the event planners also want to help wounded warriors restore their physical and emotional health as well. new jersey governor chris christie is making the round as a possible presidential candidate. he sat down with the "today"

show with matt lauer. >> this is the nomination for president of the united states you've got to earn it. >> and you can see the rest of christie's interview on the "today" show at 7:00 after nbc10 news. sweet news for people in south jersey a famous cheesecake maker is setting up shop in burlington county. junior's announced it's moving its baking operation from new york it will replace the smaller building in queens where junior's has been set up the past 15 years. the company is expecting to finish that by july. demonstrators in pennsylvania are fighting for a bump over the minimum wage. on market street in philadelphia yesterday, the campaign called the fight for 15 they're trying to make the minimum wage $15 an hour. >> ma do we want? change. >> this is the scene in

philadelphia yesterday morning. some workers walked off the job yesterday. similar protests took place in other parts of the country. if you live in philadelphia you will soon be getting a new tax. the city mailed out 131,000 yesterday. more than 58,000 property assessments are going to be higher. a bill that could provide sick leave for workers now headed to the republican-controlled state house. pennsylvania senate voted in favor of that bill on tuesday. it's opposed by democratic governor tom wolf. it's set to take effect next month. today, wawa is marking its 51st anniversary and that means free coffee. mike nutter will help celebrate by declaring wawa day.

the store will give out free coffee. wawa first opened in 1964. happening today from our jersey shore bureau. the start of a project to restore oyster beds. marine wildlife group plans to build a snells shells the group will place baby oysters on the reef so they can attach to the shells and thrive. experts consider the project innovative and one of the best ways to do that for oysters. and south of barnegat there are word of boaters running aground. the sand from there washed into that inlet from beaches replenished after superstorm sandy. the army corps of engineers

refutes that. it's just not safe to pass through. >> boaters are afraid. and the boats will goes where. we end up with a lot of boat slips that are empty. >> the coast guard said it's working to mark the inlet more closely so boaters can safely navigate it. firefighters have three separate brush fires under control. skyforce 10 found one of the fires in bucks county and two in northeast philadelphia yesterday afternoon. these are the consequences of dry weather that prompted a warning. bill, are we seeing a risk those brush fires todayy. >> not really the wins have died down. that's going to decrease the risk quite a bit and it's going to allow temperatures to come up for another nice day. sunshine will be bright and temperatures back in the 70s. i'm tracking showers that will help dampen that fire risk. not an all-day rainfall we'll see scattered rain showers and

sunshine still on track for the weekend. 52 degrees at philadelphia international. that's a few degrees warmer than yesterday. not a lot different. with a gentle breeze blowing, and we'll see a shift in the wind that will become more easterly that will bring more humidity in the area. you'll likely feel it. 46 for millville, atlantic city potts pottstown, just a couple degrees warmer. 47 in langhorne. and furlong dropped into the 30s, upper 40s for doylestown and quakertown down to 53. a little chill in the air. not quite as cold as yelled. some high clouds around actually helping to keep the temperatures up this morning. just high clouds. no rain from these clouds. any rain will wait until tomorrow. forecast is calling for scattered high clouds mostly sunshine that's a mild one. high temperatures in the the upper 60s and low 70s this

afternoon. and the numbers take off saturday. 77 degrees, sunshine we will see clearing skies early saturday morning which starts the day for nice weather on saturday. a little cooler sunday yes, with sunshine to start with. clouds late in the day. that will lead to more wet weather next week. i've got the full seven-day forecast coming up in the next half hour. 4:21 time to get a check of the roads, nbc10 "first alert" reporter katy zachry watching the track. >> we're going to start off with a live look at 76 at montgomery drive. free and clear, no issues along 76. but you'll see this sign out here, well this is alerting traffic eastbound, which is this lane right here that coming up ahead as you get closer into center city philadelphia, there's a closure on the vine street expressway. on center street the vine street expressway is closed in

both directions from broad street and the exit from the schuylkill expressway. drivers are coming from all over, ben franklin bridge from 95 from parts of 76. deep that in mind. in buckingham township up in bucks county there's a closure of route 413, durham road at the intersection of lower mountain road. you can take 263 around that. chris, when i see you in a few minutes we'll take a look at the drive times on the freeway. don't use this as a license to speed but a new report shows most people who have gotten traffic tickets over the past five years are not paying more for car insurance. insurance rates go up for one in every five people who get a ticket. younger drivers are more likely to see their rates increase after a ticket. now to the skies, and wider

seats coming to southwest airlines. these new seats add close to an inch of extra width for passengers. enjoy that. let it breathe. southwest claims this will be the widest 737 seat of any u.s. airline. passengers will see those slightly bigger seats sometime next year. new advice for parents who are looking to have another baby. neck, how long experts say you should wait in between kids. plus why a hollywood heavyweight took action to stop hundreds of wartime artifacts from going on the auction block in new jersey.

a new study suggests breast-feeding could help new moms quit smoking. studies show about 70% of women

who quit smoking during pregnancy relapse during the year. but woman who breast-fed for three months are less likely to resume smoking. experts say smoking after werth could have harmful ecks on mothers and babies who may be exposed to second hand smoke. and another study suggests women may be having children too close together. experts say a woman should wait at least 18 months. researchers found about a third of woman became pregnant sooner than that. a local auction house is planned after japanese. lambertville auctions went through those artifacts and this keep after weeks of urging and the objects up for auction captured like in world war ii a time when japanese americans

including including tackai were impressened. >> now rago talks plans to work with the owners of those art fa tacts to find a permanent home for the collection. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather. clear skies this morning. 51 degrees. we're cooling down at 4:27. but warming up today. something else will be going up tomorrow. this morning, katy zachry in the "first alert" traffic center. good morning, katy. >> good morning, bill i like that tease. i wish i had one throw out there. unfortunately, we're seeing a close on vine street expressway. at 43, things are running smoothly.

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news. nbc10 news has learned that the 2-year-old injured over the hit-and-run died overnight. now police are looking for the driver who did it. ordered to pay up. the multimillion-dollar price tag that two bars have to pay in the case of a brutal beating. and we have one more day of sunshine before the crane is back. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm rosemary connors. >> and i'm chris cato. how about some of that sunshine from yesterday. we're looking for more of that with the "first alert" meteorologist bill henley. good morning. >> good morning. we're getting a pretty good start, most of the area in the 50s. but