>> announcer: nbc10 breaking news. that breaking news from overnight, a deadly crash in chester, delaware county. two drivers are dead and witnesses say they were flying. we are live on the scene. and remembering beau biden, three days of memorials begin today for the attorney general, son of vice president joe biden. the rain has eased up. we still have a chance of showers in parts of our area. it's 4:00 a.m. good morning, this is "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. let's get started with meter rolls brittney shipp with the "first alert" forecast. >> temperatures are below average, but cooler than what we

saw yesterday and warmer weather is on the way for the weekend. here's a live look outside. mostly cloudy skies. you can see a few rain drops on the camera there. very isolated showers moving into parts of new castle county. mostly cloudy skies, just a few lingering showers, we'll see another round as we get closer to the evening hours as well. 51 in the pocono mountains. 58 in atlantic city temperatures in philadelphia about 59 degrees, and 56 in trimble. by noon 64 degrees, we won't warm up too much more than that. our temperatures are going to range only between 63 and 66. the average for this time of year is close to 80 degrees. and we will warm back to the 80s. i'll let you know in my full forecast. but for now, i'll check in with the "first alert" track reporter

katy zachry. >> good morning to you. very few cars on the road on this stretch of broad street in south philadelphia. speaking of 95 the typical trouble spot 95 to woodhaven, about 12 minutes. 76 looking great as well in pennsylvania. new jersey roadways are looking clear, too. unfortunately in delaware we do have a crash, at chester pusey street. and a crash killed two men after 1:00 this morning. nbc10's matt delucia is live on the scene. matt, what does the scene look look like now? >> reporter: you can see the police activity and fire troubles as well. a lot of debris as a result of this. the car is out here on second street. they got one of the cars up on a

tow truck. the other car is out here on the side of the road. a witness tells us that he heard the crash and the center lane trying to turn right on pusey street. and this is what's left. the witnesses say the red car was clearly going very fast at the time. and both men died here at the scene. the witness rushed out of his home and tried to save the lives of these two men. for now, second street remains blocked off from traffic as cleanups continue as does the investigation. live in chester, i'm matt delucia, "nbc10 news." it's 58 degrees outside. remembering beau biden. the public gets its first chance to say good-bye to delaware's former attorney general today. beau biden died saturday of brain cancer he was 46. he will lie in honor between 1:00 and 5:00 this afternoon.

a procession at wilmington to the state house will start around noon. if you plan to go to dover be prepared roads around the state capitol building will be closed. tomorrow there will be two publicvo# viewings st. anthony of pad dubois catholic church in wilmington and funeral mals will be said on saturday morning, president obama will deliver the eulogy. funeral services will be held for the new jersey state trooper killed by a deer hit in his cruiser. trooper anthony raspa. police say he and his partner were traveling when their car hit a deer. his partner was hurt but is expected to be okay. 4:04 life in prison without parole. a judge handed down that jen

said. the man acquitted of murdering philadelphia police officer moses walker. rafael jones killed officer walker. in court, the officer's mother called jones ded ded jones an animal. his mother led a prayer outside of center city philadelphia. >> from his history, that he's an animal, but i expected that. i knew justice is going to be served, i just wished the punishment fit the crime. >> co-defendant mcfarland accepted a 20 to 40-year plea deal in exchange for his testimony against jones. the jessica padgett murder case will take the next step forward in charging gregory graf

is charged with killing his stepdaughter and abusing her corpse. police found her body behind a shed on graf's property last november. she was last seen leaving her job at a north hampton day care five days later. investigators say graf shot is and killed her and then video taped himself abusing her. a man leaves a 3-year-old boy in a car. the police say the boyfriend drove off after a traffic stop in west philadelphia last night. they chased hill later recovered his car in upper darby, and the toddler was found inside the car and is okay. we have new information on a deadly tour bus crash in the poconos and what caused it. investigators say the truck here

crossed into the oncoming lanes of i-80. the truck hit another tractor trailer before slamming into the tour bus. three people on the bus died including the driver who we have learned is from new york city. four passengers are in critical condition right now. with the weren en witnesses tell us they jumped into action. >> she just jumped on my shoulders and brought her down to the ground. >> people were screaming and hollering. >> just havoc, there were people screaming and crying everywhere. >> a group of tourists from italy were aboard that bus headed to niagara falls. the crash happened along the same stretch of highway where singer gloria estefan was hurt back in 1990. in that case, a tractor trailer crashed into her tour bus, estefan suffered a broken vertebrae. if you have our nbc10 news app, you were one of the first to find out about the crash.

your smartphone or your tablet you can download the app for free nbc10.com. it's 4:08. authorities are checking to see if a bank robbery is connected to a holdup in delaware county. a man used a gun to rob this bank on plymouth road yesterday. he made his get away police say, he fired one shot towards the teller no one was hurt. but now take a look at the side by side comparison. the image on the right was taken from a wells fargo robbery last month in bryn mawr delaware county. investigators believe it's the same man. the city wants to buy a 27-acre property known as international plaza in tinicum township, delaware county. today's meeting will focus on discussing the acquisition and

what residents in the area should expect as the project moving forward. nearby residents have been fighting the expansion saying it will diminish their mropt values. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. good morning, as we head into the rest of this morning, we are going to continue to see a chance of showers mainly for parts of philadelphia. into newwe3: castle county right now, coming up from the south, though we are going to see a better chance in southern parts of the area, as we approach into the rest of the afternoon, our temperatures aren't going to warm up too much what we've seen rooting now. 59 degrees in philadelphia. 55 in pottstown. 57 in allentown. 51 in the poconos. 59 in dover. so not really dealing with the temperature start like we did yesterday and the reason why, the wind direction has shifted

now, moving in from the northeast. so that's drier air moving in and cooler air and that's why temperatures will be cooler than what we saw yesterday. the eight-hour breakdown shows temperatures at 6:00 a.m., and then mainly in the mid-60s. 66 in allentown. 62 in pottstown, 65 degrees in philadelphia. and winds out of the northeast at 10 miles an hour. we'll see cloudy and cool conditions with a chance of showers. i'll have the seven-day forecast coming up in ten minutes. 10 after 4:00. let's check roads. a couple things to note nbc10's "first alert" traffic reporter katy zachry has details. >> at the top of the show we told you about an accident in chester. matt delucia told us it's still active. you can take kerr lynn around

that. if you're headed south in and around the wilmington delaware area 495, very light volume this time of the morning. no major accidents to report on any majors in delaware new jersey or pennsylvania. speaking of new jersey on the 42 freeway right now, things are looking really good if you're going route 55 up to the walt whitman bridge it will take you five minutes and southbound. speaking of bridges, the ben, the betsy, the walt all looking really good. tracy. the cost your commute could be going up. we'll tell you the extra that those in one state should have to cough you have. swirling out of control. new video shows the car swerving around. it's where the driver had just been that makes it more interesting. this morning, the anthrax accident that sent live spores around the world is expanding again.

at 4:14. it is 58 degrees outside. a live look at the clouds over center city philadelphia. cooler today than yesterday. brittney shipp will have details coming up. new surveillance video shows a car just missing people on a sidewalk seconds before it slams into a gas meter in delaware county. take a look. watch as it loses control, goes up on the sidewalk. crashes, and it's hard to see a guy was sitting on the bank and missed him by inches. upper darby police say the driver had just left traffic court where he was charged with careless driving. no one was injured but it did trigger a gas leak shut down in

the area. peco crews have been trying to restore service. now to decision 2016 a fourth democrat is now running for president, he's lincoln chafee. he announced his candidacy calling for an overhaul of policy. >> without a doubt, we have prodigious work to do in africa. >> chafee was a republican and then an independent before declaring himself a democrat two years ago. he joins the other three democrats, hillary clinton, bernie sanders and martin o'malley. on the republican side there are nine in the race. ted cruz rand paul marco rubio, lindsey graham former pennsylvania senator rick santorum ben carson carly

fiorina, and george pataki. and governor christie blasts the overhaul of the nsa bulk collection program. the changes tuesday to overhaul the program by keeping records in phone company's hands, not the government. the nsa will continue to seek our text messages and e-mailing after the september 11 attacks. the number of labs across the country that may have received live anthrax is growing. yesterday, the pentagon announced mistakenly sent live spores to at least 51 locations and 17 states and three foreign countries which is about twice that was announced last week. labs in delaware and new jersey received the spores but authorities say there's no risk to the general public. it's about 4:17 and there's

new information on the man who drove a gyrocopter on the lawns of the white house. some say his employer is taking steps to fire him for unacceptable conduct. the pilot is facing several charges that could land him in jail for years. >> the widow of the man run over by rap mogul marion knight on a movie set in california is filing a wrongful death lawsuit. the lawsuit has claims against universal studios citing negligence for continuing to film in compton after officials were warned to keep knight away from the set. knight is currently behind bars and pleaded not guilty to murder charges. an alleged victim of convicted child molester jerry sandusky wants a court to force state prosecutors to file charges. the man says the abuse happened in the late '80s during a

football camp. and yesterday, the attorney filed an appeal naming kathleen kane and two of her employees. the office determined the allegations were too cold to be viable under the statute of limitations. pennsylvania house will now consider a bill aimed at protecting jobs. the senate advanceded the bill yesterday that would prevent people from tethering dogs tying up dogs outside in severe weather or when it would deprive them of food water or shelter. the senate also approved other protection bills which now go to the house. delaware drivers could soon pay more in vehicle fees a bill to raise those fees is headed to the senate for a vote after it was approved by a committee yesterday. the tax on car sales would go up, so would penalties for late finance and registration renewal renewals.

if approved the increases would take in effect in october. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather with meteorologist brittney shipp. good morning, heading into the rest of your thursday you are going to see cloudy conditions and showers will return as we head into next week and also into today. but i am tracking brighter conditions head into the weekend. so you're going to see beautiful conditions for saturday is and sunday. right now in philadelphia mostly cloudy skies. humidity at 75%, winds out of the north-northeast at 9 miles an hour. 57 in allentown, 55 degrees in pottstown. 56 in westchester. stone harbor same thing, atlantic city at 59. the opposite from this time yesterday, but as we head into the afternoon, we'll stay a bit cooler than yesterday.

staying in the mid-60s. we're also tracking a few scattered showers, parts of dover starting to see a little activity as well. but as we head into the rest of the morning, this is what we can expect to see closer to 7:00 a.m. we start to see showers into atlantic city dover, even into cape may, most of that moisture is to the south of us that the why other locations have a better chance of seeing rainfall first, as we head into the afternoon, first, we'll see a little bit more clearing. even a bit of sunshine peaking through. and then another round of light, light showers closer to 8:00 9:00 tonight. we will see the average for this time of year 79 to date 65. high tomorrow we start to recover, 73 degrees. and our rains today will be between 63 and 66. cloudy and cool. with a chance of showers, heading into your morning hours and then once again, into your late evening hours. the seven-day forecast shows that temperatures start to warm up, nice and mild in the work

week on friday. 73 degrees. take a look at saturday and sunday. just beautiful conditions 77 degrees on saturday. sunday, 78. >> looks good. 4:21, if you're getting ready to head out the door. let's check the roads with nbc10 traffic with katy zachry. >> most of the roads are looking very good. no accidents to report. let's start things off at 76 right on montgomery drive outside of philadelphia. you can see if you're going westbound between the vine and the blue route it will take you about 12 minutes. the opposite direction about 13 minutes. there is an accident though unfortunately, near the water front in chester on second street and pusey street. you can sake kerlin on that. we showed a live shot at the top of the show showing an active scene. a few minutes ago i told you about the drive times on the 55 freeway looking good. route 68 and 168 will take you

about 13 minutes. a philadelphia high school is honoring fallen firefighter joyce craig. they awarded a scholarship in her name at winfield heights last night. she graduated from dobyns in 1995. she died while battling a row home fire last december. she left behind a teenage son and a 3-year-old daughter. changes and changing the way one of a kind karnes is caught. groundbreaking research done in the philadelphia area. it could mean people live longer after being diagnosed. it's one of the most anticipated movies of the summer let's morning, we hear from a local actor who got a chance to be part of "entourage."

it's 4:25 and 58 degrees outside. banning powered alcohol is the idea behind a public discussion at temple university later this morning. philadelphia state senator shirley kitchen called for leaders to be there. powered alcohol to not be sold in stores. research done here in philadelphia could change the way lung cancer is detected. scientists at the wistar institute say tests for a certain protein could pick up the disease in an early stage. lung cancer the leading cancer killing in the philadelphia area even higher than breast cancer. it's 4:26. the movie "entourage" is now

playing in theaters across the country and for one athlete it brings up memories. it includes ronda rousey, patriot tom brady, mike richards. and it was the same when ryan howard made a cameo in the series in 2010. we asked him what it was like to be part of the "entourage" party? >> it was cool. you know. it was just an unique experience, like being able to be a part of a show that had so much variety. and everybody is getting along well. and people were calling for it. the call has been answered and you deputy go check it out. >> we also asked him whether he was given a script when he was on the show he said he was, but he said he was also directed to

act naturally. something that comes pretty easily for ryan howard. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather. and a cloudy and chilly day on tap for us but we are warming things up as we head into the weekend. i'll have the details and what you can expect coming up in the forecast. katy. >> good morning, brittney and good morning everybody joining us. this is a live look along city avenue, the accident did clear. unfortunately, there are mass transit delays. i'll have delays. >> reporter: i'm matt delucia, a deadly crash witness tells what he saw. i'll have that coming up.

>> announcer: nbc10 breaking news. a twist of mangled metal and scattered debris we're following the investigation into a deadly crash in chester overnight. this morning two drivers are dead. we'll have a live report just ahead. and house to will converge on delaware today to pay their respects to beau biden, three days of memorials are planned for the former delaware attorney general and son of vice president joe biden. and we're starting out cool and cloudy but we will be warming up. in fact the close are we get to the weekend, the better the forecast gets. right now, it's 58 degrees at 4:30. good morning and welcome back to "nbc 10 news today." i'm tracy davidson. >> and i'm vai sikahema. i think we have to put up with another day of this rain and then we'll be all right. nbc10's brittney shipp with the forecast. >> that's right. first we have this and then as we mentioned the temperatures move u