nbc 10 break news. >> gun fire erupts at a water ice shot. and a young person was shot in the head. >> george spencer is live at the scene. any word on their condition? >> reporter: just confirming that 19-year-old victim is truly fighting for his life and it may have been the result of a small time neighborhood fist fight. and the this water ice shop crowded with customers when they came and shot the victim from

behind. >> i was in the back taking care of some customer's ordinaers whi heard two gun shots. >> reporter: that victim was standing at the front counter with two of his friends, those friends were not injured. two gun shots fired and as the crowd scattered, no one apparently got a very good look at the shooter. at this point, philadelphia police are asking anyone who knows anything about the shooting or what happened earlier this afternoon to reach out with tips. i'm george spencer. to more breaking news now out of central jersey. one caught fire and exploded as you see right here. look that flames in this video. crash happened just before 8:00

tonight. the two drivers escaped with only minor injuries. good evening everyone. another big story we're following tonight, an 8-year-old shot under mysterious circumstances. he found the gun in a park and shot himself. >> nbc 10, where they're searching the boy's house? >> reporter: yes. and the problem is that detectives need a crucial piece of evidence, the actual handgun. the boy told police he found the gun while playing in a park earlier today and it accidently went off. the story goes like this, an 8-year-old boy playing in this german town park stumbles upon handgun in a plastic bag and he grabbed it and accidently shot

himself in the leg. parents at the east town german rec center say if this is true, it's a cause for concern. the boy walked home. police say criminals often leave handguns in hiding places to sell on the street or use during a crime. >> some of the criminals and drug dealers do stash their guns and sometimes they do hide them in recreation centers. >> reporter: but detectives want to make sure that is actually what happened here. they executed a search warrant at the boy's home, they haven't found the gun. mean while, parents that play ground say no one saw any gun fire or saw blood, so they're pretty surprised no one witnessed the shooting happened.

>> it would be very unusual because so many kids come through this park on a day-to-day basis. >> reporter: police say what is certain is that the little boy was indeed shot. he does have a gun shot wound. the next step is figuring out exactly where the gun came from and who it might be long to. tonight a delaware man is charged in a shooting that killed a woman and her daughter this week. they arrested tyler carter. they say he opened fire during an argument in wilmington. her daughter and another woman was hurt. fiphiladelphia's sister cit is in trouble after massive explosions killed several people. it happened at a container

terminal in china. the first plast was big, the second, even more intense. massive fire balls shot into the sky. they knocked doors off and shattered windows. people were warned to shut doors and windows because of the possibility of toxic gas. jimmy carter revealed this afternoon he does have cancer. here is when he was in philadelphia last month. they discovered the cancer doing surgery on a small mast. it's unclear what kind of cancer it is but his family has a history of pancreatic cancer. he was president from 1977 to 1981. today, i begin to intend to reveal the whole story. >> kathleen cane makes her defense. the top prosecutor blame as

political conspiracy for the charges against her. she's accused of leaking secret grand jury information. >> in fact, she says she's a victim of prosecutors and judges trying to hide their own wrong doing. >> reporter: as reporters shouted questions this afternoon, cane simply walked off the stage. the planned q and a turn under to a prepared statement. >> i'm innocent of any wrong doing. >> reporter: she referenced the charges against her only briefly saying she broke no laws and instead her six-page speech a plan to get out of office after she discovered a emailed involving prosecutors and judges. >> it's a story that begins with pornography, racial incensety and racial bigotry.

>> reporter: she says the information is so embarrassing that they've stopped at nothing. >> at each step on this trail of consealment, they have been assisted, whitingly or unwittingly by judges and prosecutors. >> reporter: she called on local judge to allow the email chains released and even took a swipe at state leaders like governor wolf who called for a resignation but can't agree on a state budget. >> if this is a distraction, if these numbers are a distraction, then maybe more public service employees need to be distractd and maybe we'll have a budget soon. >> the d.a. office says it's policy not to comment. judge carpenter designed to comment. reporting in the digital operations center.

budget a talks will resume in the morning in harrisburg. an hour-long closed door meeting. the governor says they had a good conversation while republican leaders say for the first time the governor acknowledged their positions on tax increases and reforms. new at 11:00, the coast guard is extending its search for a man missing in the atlantic ocean. the man vanished from a freight ship. they suspended the search tonight. new tonight, members of the delaware county investigative decision. >> this comes months after we revealed questionable spending that volunteer station. we're told they took computers and baurkss from the building.

they have said there is no wrong doing. >> i walked in, i said, do anybody have a warrant for this and the female agent showed me the warrant which said they were there in reference to moneys. bank statements, checks that were written. >> reporter: colwn counsel meets tomorrow night. to tour bus driver tells investigators he had no idea he struck someone. the bus hit and dragged him and continued on to washington d.c. with 19 passengers board say they didn't know either. new at 11 cl11:00, it's off,

toles are going up. tolls will double from 2 to $4 for cash paying driver. easy pasusers will pay $3. they say the money will pay for safety improvements. they'll start september 15th. and we're expecting to hear about the papal visit. and across the ben franklin bridge for anyone coming to see the pope, stha this is a live l the ben franklin tonight. the port authority says one subject is the complete security plan on the bridge and we learned that construction will be put on hold during the papal visit. two music stars led a march through north philadelphia today as part of the black lives matter movement. junel monet is known for hits like "tight rope" and "the

electric lady." and beside her is hip hot artist best known for his song "classic man." more than 150 protesters chanted against police brutality. organizers also said they wanted to spread the message of black joy. a safe summer is the message at this pop up party at tonight's wind field neighborhood. they're meeting that track this evening as part of a fun safe phillys campaign. they lined up to get backpacks and other school supplies too. its rar way to try new things, have fun and give back to the communities. a federal judge is telling both sides to work things out on their own. and patriots quarterback, tom brady arrived this morning and at issue, whether the nfl was

justified for suspending him for four games after using underinflated footballs during the afc championship game. no cameras were allowed inside the hearing and the solution lead to more head lines. more, coming up in sports. temperatures getting hot wr days in the 90s ahead. i'm tracking our next potential heat wave. this teenager crashes his wave runner, how he survived the night ditching his life jacket. and a neighborhood fighting back, why they don't want new classrooms in their backyard.

from our delaware bureau, controversy in a wilmington neighborhood. eventually, it will go up to the

12th grade. and neighbors say narrow streetsz aren't equipped for an influx of cars. they also won't be able to pull down the streets to pick up or drop off studentsx even in bad weather. and a man is finally on dry ground after spending the night clinging to a buoy. >> nbc's's is in the studio with details. >> reporter: this is how far he would have had to swim to get to the buoy to dre land. his first words to rescuers, i love you guys. >> this is how he normally looks but today he dawns a hospital gown. the wave runner hit a rock and

sank. trapped in open water, he ditched his life jacket because he said it made it hard to swim and latched on to the buoy. dillen camped out for the night. >> i saw about four or five shooting stars that night and i prayed and wished on every single one i saw. >> reporter: nine hours past, time was running out, so he let go of the buoy and swam for it and that's when the coast guard spotted him. >> i started screaming from the top of my lungs and i started making as much splashing as possible. >> reporter: even still, carry says her son, dillen, is grounded. >> he says, mom i'm 19 years old and i said, well i'm a special police officer and he said, i'm going to be with you for a few days, i'm not leaving.

>> and he's at the hospital, dehydrated, might have hyperthermia and says this won't stop him from taking a wave runner but will stop him from making that route. >> unbelievable. a couple of nice days. >> and we are talking about really nice weather, kind of like today. humidity stays low overnight tomorrow morning, going to be gorgeous tomorrow afternoon and even more nice days as we go into your weekend. there's a heat wave in your forecast. and we're heating up to near 90 degrees and we have dry weather coming up too. so, the rain chances, we have taken those out today, so the weather pattern actually looks a bit drier now. heerd here's a look at your temperatures tomorrow morning. and about the upper 60s from

philadelphia down to wilmington and right around the upper 60s to near 70 degrees. tomorrow will be around 83 and then we shoot up to near 90 as we go into saturday, so that could be the start of our next heat wave and in case you forgot, the perseid meteor shower is right now until 2:00 in the morning. and this hasn't been observed for more than 2000 years. we're pretty much dry across the area. humidity is going to stay low. and even as we go into tomorrow afternoon, i think tomorrowed could be a little bit better than today, and friday, humidity still very comfortable but the temperatures are going to heat

up to upper 80s and closer to 90 degrees for the weekend. and clear and kim comfortable. low humidity, mostly sunny. and let's jump ahead to sunday, why don't we. nbc 10's going to be carrying the eagles game. and we're talking about the preseason game. so, we're looking at nice conditions for pregame time. and humidity will be higher over the weekend. by 105:00 temperatures should be in the mid-80s. and if you're going to be in the stands for the game, it's going to be hot, if you're inside watching it, it's going to nice in the air conditioning and then with that 90 degree temperature in the forecast, we could have a heat wave as we go into the beginning of next week. and why is eagle's running back being held out from certain

plays. and are the phillies getting closer to trading sutly?

this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity. and will we be able to see quarterback in the fist game and he says, yeah, maybe. that's all we're getting right now. and team demarco murray has missed scattered time during this training camp but he says he may not be totally comfortable with some of the plays just yet. >> there's some plays where i'm comfortable and others where i

need a bit more work. and i'm sure it will be like this throughout the season. >> i think he watches enough film and sees me out here to know what i'm working on and some things tat i need to work on constantly and i think the coaching staff have a good grasp on how to use certain players. >> we're four days away from seeing demarco and the eagles. coverage starting at 12:30. tom brady and the nfl met in court today. no outcome. look at this. two different sketch artists, different hair color, different suits, neither of them look like brady. very sketchy. one of the sketch artists has apologized. and the phillies are talking about a chase utley trade and they are even talking about

specific prospects. and pete mccanon said he will try oo to hit on friday, not sure if he will play. how about cameron rough? four rbis, for rough. and ken jiels, 4 out save. phillies win 7-6. and look at this catch tonight by cub's first baseman anthony risso. look at one more time. that is an amazing grab and and a no hitter for the mariners.

"the tonight show" starring jimmy fallon is up next. >> thank you and everyone in philadelphia, reba mcentire is here to perform, it's a great

show. ♪ just want to spend this moment with you ♪ >> they should go on the road together. >> i like how he said her name. >> is that elvis? well, a grand hog in a jam. >> or should we say a can. the groundhog's head got stuck in a can. and campus police came to rescue monday. one officer tried without success to fupull the can off t officer's head and one used a long armed grabber while they pulled the animal free and the only disappointment is that the groundhog took off without saying thank you. hopefully he won't wake up tomorrow and it happens all over again. >> that would be like "groundhog day" wouldn't it.

it's an event called clear the shelters. and this saturday, you can adopt a pet without having to pay adoption fees. >> share the event on social media, make sure you use the #clear the shelters and come out on saturday for details and just tap on the free nbc 10 news app. >> those faces say take me home, i need a good home. >> and no matte you are, there will pee a shelter participating. and it's many, at least 26 shelters around the area, delaware, new jersey, pennsylvania, go on, look, save a life. and a lot of people don't realize there, are a lot of pure breds at shelters too. but the weather will be great as we go into tomorrow.

and temperatures will be round 90 degrees. so, it's going to be hot as we go into the weekend. tomorrow looking perfect. >> and thanks for watching. "the tonight show" starring gymry fallen is fallen is jimmy fs s s

♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- sir ben kingsley, henry cavill, musical t re