>> when the ups driver came up, he was somewhat shaken. >> a fully approved american express credit card in his name, one he didn't apply for. the driver who handed it over said he thought he was being followed, the two called police. >>. >> he noticed he was delivering an abnormal amount of american express gift cards that day. >> police pulled over that suspicious whiteland rover in evesham township. >> as the officer starts speaking with the driver, his story is all over the place. >> they arrested primo rafael lopez toro, who let cops search his suv. >> he discovered ups packages. >> it's scary when someone can pull your credit and get a credit card. >> he had the tracking numbers when they were going to be delivered. >> he couldn't have been working

alone. >> so far they've intercepted 80,000 in fraudulent credit and gift cards. >> not only does he have my social security number, yeah, my address and my home phone and everything. he has my cell phone. >> the suspect called him after his arrest. >> he said for eleanor, i said, there's no eleanor, and i didn't order anything. he hung up the phone. >> how did he go about getting our information. >> that's what we're trying to figure out. today ups corporate credited their driver for being vigilant. >> and police here have reached out to the fbi, they anticipate this is a much larger 3r5igs with dies to new jersey and new york that will result in more victims and more arrests. james garon is working to protect his credit information and may list a company like life lock to help him do so. in the meantime, lopez toro bailed out of jail on saturday.

leave in evesham, cydney long, nbc10 news. >> how do you know if your identity is stolen. you are entitled to one free credit history report every year from each of the three major agencies, can you pay for a service that monitors your credit and will alert you when there's an entry in your credit file. to our weather now, our september heat wave isn't just hard on people right now, flowers had to be cooled off today in newark, delaware. if you're heading out to the phillies game tonight. get ready for a steamy evening. nbc10's chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is joining us. we almost set a record today. >> that would have been an impressive one too. the record in philadelphia was set in 1884. some places are about to get rained on, this may be one of them. cape may, you can see how cloudy it is right now. there's a shower very very close. and the temperatures got close to records in much of the area. allentown set a record, it's 90 degrees now, they got up to 95,

92 in philadelphia at the moment, close to 80 at the shore. we've had now 37 days of 90 plus in philadelphia. that's the 12th most on record. we're not even close to the record. that's 55 days. never going to get there this year. still feels like it's 97 degrees out there. we have some showers around right now, especially near cape may, a lot more on the way tomorrow, the timing on that in the seven-day. >> hot tickets, it took only a few minutes for the online lottery to run out of the allotted 10,000 free tickets at the festival of families later this month. keith jones was one of the thousands who couldn't get a pass. he's joining us now. >> i tried, had no luck. tickets sold out in two minutes according to the website. the lottery went on line two hours ago for the festival of families. on saturday september 26th. when pope francis will talk to

families from around the world. the event starts at 5:00, on the parkway that saturday. and how about this, minutes after tickets were sold out, some people put them up on ebay, the asking price, $250 a ticket. let me remind you, the tickets were free. just yesterday the mayor blasted anyone trying to make a buck by selling the tickets. he called it triflent. there's one more chance for the lottery, that's the pope's mass at the parkway, that lottery goes live at 8:00 tonight. on the same website, worldmeeting2015.org/tickets. a reminder here, you don't need tickets for this event, the free tickets get you a little closer. today the world meeting of families opened this pop-up store in center city. it sells memorabilia for the historic papal visit. the store offers an array of official keepsakes. world meeting organizers hope

pilgrims will flock to their merchandise. dozens of pope entrepreneurs are working on a smaller scale, they're offering everything from papal posters to hotel shuttle service. >> how are bookings? how is business? >> it's good. i'm getting a lot of calls. we expect it to be a rush, once everyone comes. >> wore trying to sell the highest quality product to as many people as we can. >> the pope poster is intended to be the premiere keepsake from the papal visit. dina young and her business partner are arranging shuttle vans from various hotel. pay attention to root closures before the papal visit. the biggest issue is traffic, of course. king of prussia road from radnor, chester road from matsonford road will be closed

saturday and sunday to the thousands using the train station. access to penn medicine will be open. >> potentially 15,000 people walking in front of the restaurant we're hoping to get to the train station, we're hoping that will give us the opportunity to pick up some business. >> police will have electronic signs on route 30 and they'll be opening turn lanes to traffic to ease congestion. people who want to get from south jersey to the papal events. you will be able to bring your bike to philly if you walk over the ben franklin bridge. you cannot bring your bike on the patco train, if you ride the train you must collapse your strollers, all trains are expected to be packed with people. the pope's visit will likely have an impact onzifyou. philadelphia councilman kinada

johnson will meet with residents to answer questions. it takes place at the philadelphia high school for the creative and performing arts. the nbc10 news app is your official guide to help you navigate through the pope's visit. other news, investigators pointing fingers at the pilots of a gulfstream jet that crashed last year, killing the owner of the philadelphia inquirer and six others. the private plane crashed during takeoff. the flight crew failed to do a preflight safety checkless, and didn't notice the elevators were locked which meant it couldn't get airborne. investigators believe the flight crew routinely ignored checklists and issued a safety recommendation in light of the accident. >> this accident was preventable. it shows us the importance of following procedures each and every time a plane takes off. >> seven people died including

louis katz who had just purchased the philadelphia inquirer. life in prison, that's the plea from the woman accused of keeping mentally disabled adults locked in a payment for days. linda westin pleaded guilty today in federal court. the possible den people ailty is now off the table. prosecutors agreed to a life term. four adults were found chained in her basement in 2011. westin kidnapped them, held them prisoner so she could steal their social security money. two of westin's codefendants are already pleading guilty, two others are awaiting trial. a philadelphia based company plans to build a $70 million research facility at the navy yard. they will move 190 jobs there, and it says that number could double over the next five plus years. they make liquid and powder coatings. the project will be finished in 2017. help arrived just in time for dozens of firefighters about to be out of a job in atlantic city.

bob menendez and cory booker announced a $21.5 million grant. it's designed to keep 85 firefighters on the job. the men were set to be laid off after four casinos closed last year. charcoal is to blame for a forest fire that scorched nearly 1,000 acres in new jersey's pine baron. authorities tell us it's too early to say if any criminal charges will be filed. a final farewell to a philadelphia police officer killed in a hit and run crash last month. the viewing was held for lamar poole in west philadelphia. he was offduty riding his motorcycle when he was hit and killed august 30th. this man hit him with his vehicle and took off. a tow truck driver followed him

and blocked him in until police could get there. the fate of dozens of notes connected to the penn state sex abuse scandal. the notes are from interviews conducted with penn state employees after jerry sandusky's arrest. lawyers for the family of the late joe paterno. penn state says they mistakenly turned over the notes and its employees privacy rights are at stake. the judge heard arguments about this issue today. coming up next at 6:00, philly prison guards busted tonight. what they're accused of trying to slip into the hands of prisoners. work in progress. we're going to take a look at what it takes to rebuild a section of the board walk in atlantic city. finally, relief is on the way, cooler temperatures, and i'm tracking some rain, maybe a lot of rain. my first look forecast is straight ahead.

prison guards experiencing the other side of the law tonight. they're accused of trying to smuggle drugs and phones into the prison. lauren mayk joins us live with more. >> reporter: good evening, these guards appeared here in federal

court in front of a judge today. and they are accused of meeting folks outside of the prisons and making deals for cash. deals for $500, $1,000, $1500, deals that could be quite costly. . there are fences and barbed wire separating inmates from the outside, someone trusted got contraband inside. >> prison safety depends on prison guards acting with honesty and integ pretty. >> six current and former guards accused of smuggling in oxy con ton bills and sell phones for inmates. a tool that the philadelphia prison's commissioner tells us endanger the public. >> they can use them to transfer messages, intimidate witnesses. further the criminal enterprises if they chose to do so. there's a number of dangers. >> he tells us the charges grew out of an investigation into a

growing amount of contraband in prisons. >> my clients are charged with bringing a cell phone and drugs into the prison. >> jack mcmahon is an attorney representing defendant and former guard mark thompson whose mother is a philadelphia police officer. >> what is the family's reaction? >> any mother, whether you're a philadelphia police officer or not, is going to be upset when their son gets indicted federally. probably doubly so when you're a law enforcement officer and good law enforcement officer like his mother. >> the accused guards could face decades in prison. >> we hope the message is clear. the philadelphia prison system will have no place to use the power of their decision to engage in powerful acts. >> what prison procedures may change as a result of all of this. i found out something that may surprise you. the prisons are not in his word saturated with video cameras. they are hoping to change that.

live in center city, lauren mayk. nbc10 news. a rally this evening in atlantic city. marking one year since a local man was shot and killed by police. relatives of sean brown say there's been a lack of answers and transparency from law enforcement. brown was armed with a handgun during a confrontation. brown's family believes the shooting was unjustified, they filed a federal lawsuit today. the prosecutor's office had no further comment. decades of storm damage have taken its toll on the board walk. some sections left unsafe, part of it collapsed into the water. that's about to change. demolition crews are removing what was a dilapidated unusable stretch of board walk. the $50 million project mostly funded by the federal government will add a protective seawall to make the board walk hole again. the finished product is expected to be strong enough to pass the

test of time. >> a seawall at there end, a rock wall at the other end, and the board walk is going to be on the land side of that, the nor'easter still hit the city pretty bad. we don't want to build a board walk and lose it at the next nor'easter. >> the project will be finished late next year or in early 2017. summer has continued around here, we have another day in the 90s today, and near record heats in philadelphia, one degree shy of a record set in 1884. a couple places did tie or set records. some thunderstorms tonight. we got more activity coming tomorrow, that's when the heaviest of the rain is on the way. we have mostly cloudy skies now in the philadelphia area, not quite as cloudy as it is in cape may, where the rain is about to move in. 92 degrees, feels like 97.

that south-southwest wind continues to keep it very muggy. we've had three days in a row, 90 plus now, that makes it heat wave number 6. 94 yesterday, 93 today, nowhere near that during the day tomorrow. places will get into the 80s, we don't really think any place will get to 90 degrees tomorrow. mostly because of clouds and rain that's coming in. the southerly wind is bringing in the sea breeze. it still feels like 97 in philadelphia, 94 in trenton, 92 in reading. and we did set a record in allentown today in the mid-90s, you can see that shower near cape may, it's weakening, at least it's finally moving into the southern portion of cape may county. most of the rest of the area not seeing any rain, until you go back into the western half of pennsylvania. some of that is what's going to be coming later tonight and tomorrow. as we go through the evening

hour by hour, you'll see some isolated showers or storms developing. it really increases after midnight. as we go into tomorrow morning, there's more activity around, even some models have it wetter by tomorrow morning's rush, especially in portions of delaware, as we go through the rest of the day, you can see some of these heavy storms, they're not going to be moving very much either. some areas could get some localized flooding out of it, the ground is hard from the lack of rain, you get a lot more runoff that way. look at all of this at 6:00 tomorrow, temperatures knocked down into the 70s. and so it could be pretty rough tomorrow afternoon, it's not going to be in the 90s, by 8:00, some areas north and west are in the 60s, 60s after 90s today, how about that for a change in one day. the dryer air comes in friday morning. temperatures are down close to 60 degrees, we have dry

conditions. the threat tracker showing the greatest threat for any kind of problems tomorrow in the flood department. some threats of lightning, but the main area is of concern. wouldn't be widespread, it would be localized. warm and humid with showers increasing after midnight, 73 degrees for the low. big temperature contrast from north to south. periods of rain, some of it heavy, some thunderstorms, localized flooding with that, it could be continuing into early friday, especially parts of new jersey. then we're drying out, humidity is going down, the next system comes in, builds up the humidity saturday, storms saturday night and into sunday morning, and then some really really nice weather next week. the eagles are just days away from the season opener, and the key piece of the offense returns today.

the eagles and falcons get going monday night in atlanta. former team president tweeted a prediction of the eagles as super bowl champions, all starts with this guy, sam bradford, you'll see his first regular season action at some time. for more, here's john clark. >> zach felt good in his return to practice today, chip kelly and he are going to monitor his progress throughout the week. he could be a game time decision monday night. zach said he had this problem in

his rookie year, so it's been bothering him for two seasons, he had to get the surgery done, boy does he want to start the season monday night. >> i don't want to miss any games, i worked so hard offseason. when the games come around, i know if i have an opportunity to play, i'm going to play. we have to be smart for it, it's the first game of a long season. >> something i pinpointed. it was a four to six week injury, we're at the tail end of three weeks, it going into the fourth, so we're right on schedule. >> at the nova care complex with the eagles, john clark, comcast sportsnet. thanks. the recently released tim tebow has resumed his previous role as an analyst on espn's sec network. here's a snip et of the video

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church is sparking a national debate. the story at 11:00. for all of us here at nbc10, thank you. tonight, fireball on the runway. an engine bursts into flames just before takeoff, leaving passengers just seconds to escape. tonight we hear from the captain whose actions saved lives as fire consumed part of that plane. moving targets. terror on the freeway as bullets pierce through cars. a possible tenth shooting just today sparking fears of a serial sniper. world outrage. the camerawoman caught kicking and tripping families of migrants running for freedom. now she's paying a price. and two massacre survivors from the church in charleston. for the first time describing the moment shots rang out. the shooters' chilling words before he fled and a grandmother's act of love that saved a little girl's life. "nightly news" begins righno