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as well. our weather alert for tonight, frost advisory in effect for the lehigh valley. stretching into west rock hill. we expect temperatures to drop down into the mid-30s. patchy frost is a possibility from 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. our future temperatures show by the time you wake up tomorrow morning, still in the 40s for philadelphia. places like allentown in the mid-30s. a chilly start as you head out on sunday morning. by the time we get to sunday afternoon, temperatures for philadelphia stretching out to trenton will warm into the low 60s. as we head into tonight, cloudy and cold with a few passing showers. mainly for southern delaware. 36 degrees for the suburbs to the north and west. heading into tomorrow more sun, but we start off cloudy. it takes a while before the clouds burn off. the temperatures between 62 and 65. warmer than today. the seven-day forecast shows
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nice conditions for the phillies game at 1:35. look at the warming trend on tuesday and wednesday. back above average. 70 on wednesday. another chance of rain on thursday. i'm john vorg. keiko alonzo talked about the trade for sean mccoy. and leah still was the star of the temple cherry and white game. don't miss the little cancer survivor's run to the end zone. sports is next.
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later tonight, phillies shot
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for back-to-back wins. the braves can hope they don't shoot themselves in the foot like last night when they follied around citizens bank park. the final error in the ninth. free man freeman with the error. a walk-off win for the phillies. looking to get his first win after a rough 0-3 start. >> i noticed last year and also this year he's also a guy that can fix himself and tries to make adjustments when he is out there. he showed that ability last year. he continues to do that. with the improvement he made last start, you know hopefully he has a good one in him tonight. >> we're now less than a week away from the nfl draft. eagles are preparing for what could be an epic night for chip kelly and the eagles.
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after the eagles acquired the linebacker for sean mccoy. keiko could be seeing baseball this summer. he is still a little stunned he will play football here in philadelphia this fall. >> i was surprised because i didn't see myself getting traded or going anywhere. i saw myself being in buffalo. at least for those four years. then you know it happened. it is a business. you know i'm happy with where i am now. i can't wait to get to work. final day of the penn relays. villanova's jordy williams in the relay. williams pulls away for the win and getting a huge trophy to take back to the main line. and then the age 75 and older 100 meter dash. the gentleman in the far right,
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purple tights 98-year-old champ goldy. he finished with the time of 33.09. today was the cherry and white scrimmage at temple. the star of the game is not in preschool yet. leah still, the 4-year-old daughter of devon still. it was announced she was in remission. today, leah took part in the coin toss and working to the offense and lining up as the wide receiver. she took the handoff from her dad and runs to the end zone with hooter the owl and the temple football team leading the way. she did her own touchdown dance. dad was impressed with all of the moves. >> she loves playing football. me and her play football a lot when we were by ourselves. for her to do it on the field with a team running and blocking for her, she enjoyed that. she learns well. she is athletic.
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she surprised me with how fast she is running. >> cute. great moment. i'm john borik. thank you john. dozens of kids got a chance to do what they do best. to learn about science. they got down and dirty. >> mess fest was back this year at the memorial playground. kids got the chance to make slime and shoot off fizzy rockets and mixing super liquid nitrogen and hot soapy water. we could use that heat. >> i do not think they cared looking at that video. >> they have the sun out there. >> we will get more sun tomorrow. our weather is gradually improving. tomorrow will be a bit warmer and more sunshine. 62 degrees. nice. check out the phillies game at 1:35. we have a track of showers monday afternoon with 61 degrees. tuesday and wednesday, warming
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back up. thursday, we track another chance of rain. >> all right. that is nbc 10 news for now. i'm denise nakano. see you at 11:00.
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this is "nbc nightly news" holt. substituting tonight peter alexander. good evening. tonight, the same underground plates that made the himalayas the mightiest mountains in the world unleashed the biggest earthquake to strike nepal in 80 years. the 7.2 magnitude quake was felt from
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india to china. the destructn immense, flattening sections of katmandu and mt. everest just as the climbing season begins. more than 1,500 people including one american are confirmed dead. we begin tonight with nbc's kelly cobiella. >> reporter: nepal is a country in ruins tonight. its people badly shaken and afraid. historic temples destroyed. hospitals overwhelmed. a massive quake hit just before noon without warning. >> walls are crumbling right and left. and i turn to my son and i say, oh my god, it's an earthquake. it's almost as if waves are moving you up and moving you down. and i have to hold on to the side of the car door. it was, i mean, utter terror really. >> reporter: the 7.8 quake shook so violently witnesses say people jumped out of buildings to avoid being crushed. some rescues were
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miraculous. d s of five countries. chinese soldiers racing to help. families mourn india. in nepal's capital, katmandu the 19th century tower a popular tourist site is gone. more than 150 people buried and rescuers are desperately digging. to the east on mt. everest sherpas were running for their lives. the quake triggered avalanches and landslides cascading into camps. >> here we had a bit of rock fall. >> reporter: more than climbers are beli to be on the mountain. climber cars ten peterson told nbc news he hid behind this rock as the snow barrelled down. he said we're treating casualties no one can leave basecamp. in india at least 30 have died. my leg started shaking
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and the temple windows and walls started trembling, this caretaker said. he tried to save the kids. we were screaming for help when the walls of the temple fell down. experts say the danger is still real. >> we've had over 20 aftershocks that are magnitude 4 or larger. we can expect these to continue for weeks, months even years. >> reporter: as night fell in nepal, under stormy skies, thousands slept outdoors. too afraid to go inside. kelly cobiella nbc news london. closer to home in baltimore it's been a day of heated but mostly peaceful demonstrations. protesters demanding know why a 25-year-old man suffered a fatal spinal cord injury while in custody e protests were the largest since the death of freddie gray nearly one week ago. nbc's tom costello is in baltimore again tonight. tom, good evening. >> reporte hi there, peter. we've had several thousand people today protesting marching the streets starting in the whe freddie gray was ar and then marching all the way
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down here to city hall. and at this minute down at camden yards at the baseball stadium. and they are having a confrontation with police. i've got multiple sources telling me that. but for the most part this day has been about a very vocal but yet peaceful day of protest. from the neighborhood where freddie gray was arrested through the streets of baltimore, past camden yards and onto city hall. >> no justice, no peace! >> rep this saturd has been an afternoo of protest. the police under fire for a fatal spinal cord injury that freddie gray apparently suffered while in police custody. for many people here it's onen of brutality too many. >> black lives has be lost for many years at the hands of the police department. and we need it to stop. >> reporte this department's with the coy badly strained. >> i know it's going get better. it's not going to have a choice but to get yesterday police commissioner
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anthony batts urged troublemakers to stay away. >> the people of baltimore will not tolerate you hurting our community where we live where we worship and where our kids g to school. >> for something like this to happen for everybody to get together and set -- >> reporter: today batts was in the crowd taking heat and holding hands. last night the department released 16 videos taken at the time of gray's arrest. and a snapshot of witnesses police would like to talk to. 30 investigators are assigned to the case with the department promisg to hand over its findings to prosecutors by friday. but for many baltimore residents here today, the gray case underscores the te thas been growing for years. >> i have a young black son that i am raising here in baltimore city. and i'm afraid. i'm afraid for him to go to the mall. i'm afraid for him to be out without me or his father. >> reporte tonight, n and
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apprehension ae waits for word on whether anyone will be charged in freddie gray's death. police have really tried to keep a low profile today really standing back and allowing the protesters to have room. but again, just in the last few minutes we're hearing of multiple confrontations involvg police down camden yards. we're hearing of the possibility of some injuri as well. peter, back to you. >> tom koscostello, thank you h for that. ton millions re under the th for severe weather, even tornadoes. let' bri in mete dylan dreyer dylan. >> peter, there was already a confirmed tornado just to the t of henderson, kentucky. you can see those severe storms are continuing to move. and not only the potential for dangers tornadoes but also dangerous lightning as well. now, we do still have this threat through e night all the way into the southeast. but it's in this orange area this enhanced zone where we could see our best chance of tornadoes, also our largest hail and damaging wind gusts as well. now, we are going to
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see this area of low pressure exit off the coast by sunday morning. but a second area of low pressure is going to redevelop back through texas by sunday night. this is going to trigger more storms overnight on sunday. so because of that we do have a slight risk of stronger storms. now, we're not looking at widespread tornadoes on sunday but we are looking for wind gusts up near 70 miles per hour hail up to two inches in diameter dangerous lightning and also torrential downpours. that could lead to some flash flooding which could make things dangerous on the roads. we could end up seeing as much as two to three inches of rain across parts of texas and oklahoma sunday night into early monday morning. peter. r ahead. dylan, thank very much. > up next right here our exclusive interview with kim congratulations. you're down with crestor. yes! when diet and exercise aren't enough, adding crestor lowers bad cholesterol up to 55%. crestor is not for people with liver disease or women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. tell your doctor all medicines you take. call your doctor if you have muscle pain or weakness, feel unusually tired have loss of appetite,
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am a woman. >> reporter: in an interview with abc news's diane sawyer the gold medal olympian the american icon at 65 wants to live life as a woman. >> i look at it this way. first, always telling a lie. he lived a lie his whole life about who he is. and i can't do that any longer. >> reporter: the decathlon champ turned reality star known all over the world is now the most famous transgender to go public. but jenner is hardly alone. >> i never really thought of myself as male. i was very uncomfortable with the walls that society try to put on men. >> reporter: 33-year-old amanda swagger was born l swagger, the oldest sibling to two sisters who r felt like a big brother. for three decades amanda lived as michael, becoming a teacher, even coaching football. wa it a difficult decision to make?
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>> it took a very very long time to come up with the self-assurance that i s doing the right thing. but once that the decision was actually very easy once i had gotten over the self-acceptance of myself. maureen morrisey is a therapist at the transgender center. >> when they get to the point of transitioning, it's because they simply live an inauthentic life anym k it's really important foop that. it's estimated 700,000 people are transgender. for man it's too painful. jenner understands why some would ponder suicide. i cou see where people get to that. just go in the room got a gun. boom! you know pain's over it's done. i can't do something like that. i mean i want to know how this story ends. >> reporter: for bruce jenner and amanda swagger, the story isn't ending. it's just beginning.
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miguel almaguer nbc news los angeles. and those closest to bruce jenner are also breaking their silence now. among them jenner's stepdaughter kim kardashian west. in an exclusive interview she told matt lauer how their family took the news. >> reporter: did this t take time? was the an adjustment period for family members to kind of get used to this idea? >> i think there is still an adjustment. and there is, you know family therapy. and we're really close. you know i see reports that say, you know this one doesn't support him and this one's over here and my mom feels this way. it's all really so made up. we all really support him. is it a hard adjustment? yes. you can see the rest of matt's exclusive interview monday morning on "today > up next a lesson in friendship from t
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> finally tonight, two first graders who could teach us all a thing or two about being there for each other. colin cox and ryan are only 7 years old but proving you can be best friends at any age. we get their story tonit from our friend mike bush as our nbc station ksdk in st. louis. >> old friend don't have to be old. >> they truly love each other. >> rep colin cox and ryan branson have known each other for two years. that's a long time when you're only 7. are you guys on a mission? >> yep. >> reporte whas e missio >> we need to save the day from evil bad guys. >> howy are up here all together? >> reporter: they met here at tower grove christian school in st. louis. thou the reason they became friends sounds more like the reason you're hired for a job. >> i like his experience. te but colin came home from school one day with some bad news. >> he said well mommy i'm kind of sad,
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my friend at school. his name is ryan. his house burned down a couple days ago and i'm really sad for it happened late one night in late february. ryan's family had just fallen asleep. a seven-alarm fire tore through their apartment complex displaceing dozens of family. i lost my toys my stuffed animals, i lost my toy box, i lost my bed. >> repor in fact his family lost virtually everything. but they found an angel in colin. who asked his mom if he could make a video to put on facebook. >> i always take his picture and he always says don't put it on facebook because y will see it. he understands everybody sees things on facebook. >> repor he was ho people would this. and my friend at school his name is ryan and his age is 7. his house burned down. >> reporter: within hours it was clear that one small voice. >> i'm asking you to help ryan. >> reporter: can have a big impact. >> i'm sitting here and i'm looking at it
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and i run down stairs to show my mother and she's looking and she just starts crying. oh she starts crying. >> reporter: what did k of that? >> it was very great. >> so donate today. >> reporter: to date have donated more than $10,000 to help ryan's family. it's never easy to explain misfortune to a 7-year-old but friendship needs no explanation. becau that's what friends do. they stand up for each other. they help each other. >> is there another subtraction fact? >> reporter: first graders showing us all that you don't have to know everything to know the important things. >> you're the best friend ever. >> what would i do without you? >> reporter: mike bush nbc news st. louis. >> colin and ryan teach us all a pretty good lesson tonight. that's "nbc nightly " for this saturday. i'm peter alexander reporting from new yo. see you right here tomw morning "to and then righ back here evening. for all of us here at nbc news, have a
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the. >> full house returns but who is moving back home? welcome to "access hollywood", welcome to "access hollywood", weekend edition. i'm liz. kit joins me with the return of full house. >> i'm excited about this. john made the bold announcement that beloved sitcom return on netflix as fuller house. plan is for reunion show followed by
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spin off series but exclusive interview with billy and me on "access hollywood live", lori says it all comes down to who signs on the dotted line. >> will the beautiful lori return as aunt betty. >> i don't know. >> what. what. >> what do you mean. >> i tell use. i think we would all like to come back. if the powers that be are fair to all of us. >> this is groovey have mercy. >> lori revealing to us in the everything about netflix fuller house spin off is a done deal. especially when it comes who will appear on the show simply because not everyone from the hugeular series has inked a deal. >> spend off idea for kandace and andrea 3 girls move in the house to raise the 3 boys. flip on the original series then they decided it would be great to do open the show with one hour reunion. the only thing is they made deals with half the cast but not the other half. >> which half. >> so condition today's, jody an deg

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