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tonight at 11:00, charges for kane. pennsylvania's top prosecutor could find herself on the other side of the law tomorrow. legal trouble. but first, the papal shutdown. some of the major roads that will be closediy when pope frans comes to visit. these traffic plans will affect millions of people in our area from miles around philadelphia. the impact stretches far beyond the pope's visit.
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ben fraiph'n bridge, no cars will be allowed. if you plan on crossing, you'll have to do it on foot. as for the highways, all eastbound lanes shut down to interstate 95. the westbound lanes will close from 95 to u.s. 1. portions of city avenue will be shut down. that's the area where the pope will be staying overnight. also 676 will close in both directions. no traffic on the vine street expressway. but you will be able to drive i-95.v++pz during the papal visit. the city today also released the details of what it calls the traffic box for the l(visit. it's a three square mile secure zone. that zone ex-tends westwardo) t
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38th street. the box, but they won't be allowed back in. it will affect people from new jersey to montgomery county. how are people reacting to this news? >> reporter: most people seem to be taking it in stride. especially because it will all be relatively brief. and the planning took a bigad÷km forward today now that people know the skuk l expressway will be among the closures. interstate 95 will remain open during pope francis' visit, but this afternoon, we learned much of i-76 through the city of philadelphia and into the suburbs will.; be closed. people are completely lost. >> reporter: this man lives in one of the areas most likely to feel the impact of the shut
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down. j to;lá÷ see at least a few confused pill grams asking for directions here. >> it's going to be worse than normal. >> reporter: in the city itself, the so-called traffic box will become a dividing line. many residents inside the box will leave parked cars untouched and walking anywhere they need to@j go and some will skip town early. >> i'm just going to leave the city. >> reporter: meanwhile, south of south street, only blocks away but outside the box, it will be a different way where residents will face their own challentng % >> i would expect something of a clog of disappointed people for one thing. and then people looking for parking spaces. >> reporter: considering all that, weuztx found some optimis >> hope to see him at some point.
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i don't know if that's going to be possible. >> reporter: at least you'll see the traffic. >> yeah, exactly. >> reporter: also9? note that philadelphia city courts will be closed at least during part of the world meeting of families. other city services will be impacted. more details on that in the coming days. george spencer, nbc10 news. tomorrow, you can find out if you won one of septa's golden tickets. the authority is e-mailing the winners. a total()4azf 20,000 passes wen unsold in monday's lottery. but that doesn't mean everyone who entered is a guaranteed winner. they are still determines which specific stops sold out. tap the nbc 10 news app. you'll also find the pope's itinerary. tonight, authorities in
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delaware county wantxc'ez know a body found in a creek belongs to a missing 11-year-old boy. searchers discovered the body in the darby creek while looking for laquanxr lattimore. he was last seen monday afternoon. the boy's family says he's never police have more questions they would like answered. we explain that part of the story at 11:15. >>6 pennsylvania's top prosecutr could be facing charges in just a matter of hours. &háhp &hc% montgomery county tomorrow. a grand jury recommended that authorities charge kane with perjury and other offenses. accusations that kane leaked secret grand jury information to a newspaper. she would not confirm or deny
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the report that kane will be charged tomorrow. a local city council president faces up to five years in prison afterzp5ñ pleading g to bribery charges. today, city council president francisco acosta admitted he took a bribe. they say he took an $1,800-í bre of a campaign committee to an ally. they say the official had the power to sign city council legislation into law. the only person with that power is the mayor. and turning to another investigation that rocked the lee high valley tonight. calls for the mayor of allentown to resign. we were there as the allentown city council faced its constituents. >> ethically and morally, i think it stinks. >> reporter: concerns over
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suspected corruption brought out a crowd looking for answers. some call for ed pawlowski to step down. the mayor was not at the meeting for hear for calls of resignation. instead, council members took the heat for what some view as a government. >> you failed to represent us. you have failed to hold the administration accountable. >> reporter: tensions between city government and the people they represent rose to a new level when federal agents seized documents in a grand jury investigation. one councilwoman says she and her colleagues were kept in the dark about a visit from federal agents a year ago. >> i find that uncon chenble that that wasn't not made. >> reporter: they were looking into any possible connection between campaign contributions and building contracts.
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allentown's mayor told us in a previous interview he is staying put. >> i hope my city will thrive in the future. right now, there is definitely a black cloud over the city. police say a driver lost control and smashed right into a dunkin' donuts stonight. the crash left the front of the shop badly damaged. no one was hurt. movie theater shooting in tennessee. police say the suspect was armed with a pelletty gun when he bur into the theater this afternoon. it happened in antioch just outside nashville. he also unleashed pepper spray. swat teams moved in quickly. police say the shooter fired at officers and as he tried to get
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out through a back door, swat members shot and killed him. one man suffered a minor hatchet wound, but says he's okay. >> i'm eternally grateful for the police department, for their fast response today and the fact that no one else got injured. >> police say the attacker had two backpacks with him along with the weapons. they detonated one of them as a prekaugs. this shooting comes about two weeks after a man opened fire inside a movie theater in lafayette, louisiana. john houser killed two people and wounded nine others better killing himself. in 2012, james holmes fired shots inside a movie theater in aurora, colorado.z]ñ a jury found him guilty and is now considering whether to sentencexzsf;xc holmes to deathe massac massacre. >> tonight, new video of a rescued boater reuniting with a
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crew that saved his life off the may. that's damien sexton thanking a crew in atlantic city today. the four crew members swept him from the o%3ñ last weekend. they"w rescued him after he spe about four hours in the ocean. this video shows the boater in the water. a huge wave knocked him off a fishing boat saturday night. he chased a container ship for[ about 10 milesj,et'ejjut the cr found him. today, he had a chance to say thank you. >> i can't even put it in words. it was like, thank god i'm going to be alive, i'm going to see my family again. i didn't think i was going to make it. >> but he did make it. he was more than 40 miles off the coast of cape may when the coast guard reached him. here's something you don't
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see every day. something strange turns up in a new jersey river. what it is and how it got there. plus, where's your money? why thousands of people are still waiting for their refunds months after tax day. and we finally broke out of the heat wave. now we're tracking rain before the week's over. who can expect the most of it and the timing. that's straight ahead.
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a body found in a delaware county creekcd belongs to anwl1 11-year-old boy. laquan lattimore was last seen monday afternoon. >> reporter: the latest that we know is the f;ñi is telling us:% they're having trouble identifyingx tensions running6ñ high tonight. flashing red and blues highlight the boy's house.
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it's the third long night in a row. >> it worries me.23rñáó cf1 o it's not like laquan not to show up. >> reporter: the boy's uncle was out with police today. hours after units discovered a body. >> he's usually outside playing around or i see him with the other boys. >> shouldn't be down there alone, definitely. >> reporter: tonight, the fbi waits to identify the body. but more questions remain. why laquan left his cell phone behind and then disappeared. >> there's no reason to believe that he's run away. there's no clear indication of foul play at this point, but we are@5 considering every ,xcñ ñi,x5 considering every ,xcñ >> reporter: keith jones, nbc10 news. >> new at 11:00, charges dismissed against two people arrested in the kidnapping of an
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86-year-old korean war veteran judge toss at a preliminary hearing this week. the reason, lack of evidence. prosecutors say in april, three women kidnapped the victims. they were allegedly forced to rent cars for the kidnappers to commit other crimes. they plan to refile charges. check out this new video of aaw dolphin stranded in a cent jersey river. you can see it at the bottom of your screen here. this is the south river. officials say the dolphin probably just lost its way, but they're keeping an eye on it one of the four people indicted along with congressman chaka fattah appeared in court (s
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bribed the congressman forç an ambassadorship. he allegedly paid off the student loan of thesj congressman's son and the feds say he agreed to buy a usednx porsche from the congressman's wife. >> at some point in the future and at that pointvttí in time will plead note' guilty. >> renee fattah has previously said in a letter she used the cash toward a vacation home, but has done nothing wrong. she has not been charged with a crime. it's been 111 days since the tax filing deadline.
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tonight nbc10 learned thousands of people in new jersey are still waiting for their state refun refunds. they say they're working harder to protect people from identity theft and root out fraudulent filers. some could be waiting several more months for their money. >> stay on top of it so that we can get our refund early. ô1 ip:ñ a >> the cpa asoegts ofzf new jery waiting for their checks is actually closer to 150,000. some local students spent the past six weeks turning pages. tonight, they earned some hardware for their hard work. nbc10 and spring garden fory@ t philadelphia summer reads awards show. it's a program designed by the city to keep kids busy with books while they're away from school.
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well, we finally broke out of the heat wave today. we've been in the 90s for the past several days. but today, we did not hit 90 degrees, so the heat wave is ending now. nz in the next smqñ6÷ç> days. we are however tracking rain before the week's over and more rain for some parts of the area than others. some areas may bezl completely y at some points during the day and some may be seeing heavy rain. otherwise, it does look warm across the weekend. as far as the heat wave is concerned, here's last tuesday, 93 degrees. today, we only hit 89. tomorrow we expect to be right around 83 d.degrees. we arew;wcy going to see condit pretty comfortable as we go into the rest of this week. tomorrow morning, though, we
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could have some areas in the 50s by the time youv wake up. the door, low humidity and we expect to stay dry. right now, we're nice and dry too. too. then you'll noticep we have a bigeg area of low,u pressure right around kentucky and tennessee. this is the one we'll be watching tomorrow night, friday, and possibly saturday morning for part of the area. some of the models are disagreeing on the placement of ñlow. either way, we dof%! expect rai philadelphi. here's what it looks like so far. one computer model we have been showing area of low pressure1ç approaches late tomorrow into early 8wfriday. we could see showers up through philadelphia and maybe points north and west. z of the@)ãmoisture is to stay just to'r our south. some models do keep this area of low pressure just offshore.
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in that case,> we could seex so showers saturday. sunday. again, some models do move this out earlier. as of now, we expect quite a bit ofãrainfall for south engineerdy and delaware. two to 3 inches and maybe more. certainly something to keep the eye on. so far for new jersey and delaware, we are talking about quite a bit of rainfall both friday and saturday as this area of low pressure moves away. tonight, though, clear and comfortable. mid-50s areas north and west. sunshine moving over to increasing cloud cover. rain later tomorrow night. mostly for new jersey and delaware. we'll be watchi) areas south f philadelphia very closely. there's a chance it could move[ farther north. the brunt of the moisture will
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be remaining just to the %i5#ys. so again tomorrow, weh;7vmc)s& more updates on this storm system for you because of course we know it always changes and the vcr of this is going to be the most important thing as far linger and ™["t most > that's the upside. we're not looking at the 90s any time soon. all right. john clark talking eagles. >> once again, is three a crowd at running backbfw÷ and inside linebacker for the eagles. and the phillies trying to chase down another win against the dodgers. that is next.
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i'm john clark. the phillies have the best record in baseball since the all star break. how about tonight against the dodgers? another standing ovation. very, very nice. first inning, phillies fall behind early. three-run shot. and still without back to back wins this year. third inning, phils looks for the comeback. doubles off the wall. gets the phillies within two. two-run shot. frenchie has been magnificent lately. final game of the series right here on nbc10 tomorrow 1:00. he says he's on his way back to philly. could be activated by friday.
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pete mccann unanimous says tonight, chase won't play every day. how about the eagles? they've got three good players for two spots. they have rotated them during the first three days of camp. billy davis says it will work itself out. >> we could go to packaging and we might go to packages where all three are on the field. we play more snaps. so there's plenty to go around and a rotational basis can also be used. >> we have the most depth that we've had in that position in a long time. whoever is on the field, i'm comfortable that the guy can get it done. >> also have a great running back trio. there'sgb demarco murray. former eagles brian westbrook, he says it can be challenging.
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>> they're used to being on the field most of the game. it's going to be a little tough, but they will stay fresh. it's hard to stay involved in the game when you're on the sideline and you think you should be out there. over time, they'll figure it out. >> looking good. i'm john clark. we're right back.
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i was at my shop tied up with a customer when i realized the time. i had to get to the bank before it closed, so i made a break for it. when i got out it was almost closing time. traffic was bad. i knew i was cutting it close. but it was ok. i use td bank. it's got the longest hours and stays open an extra ten minutes every day. i'm sid. and i bank human at td bank.
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the "tonight show" starring jimmy fallon's up next. what's coming up? >> thank you, everyone in philadelphia. ice cube is my guest tonight. and the night sweats. it's a great show. do not change the channel. >> all right. >> humidity gone today. felt so much nicer. we hit 89. technically the heat wave is over. there are no 90-degree
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