right now, this just in. new developments in a case that shocked our region. a woman abducted off a philadelphia street. this morning the suspect has changed his plea. good morning, i'm vai sikahema. the suspect allegedly seen carrying out the kidnapping in this sir say lance video we want before a judge in the last hour. monique braxton is in front of the courthouse with new developments. walk us through what happened. >> reporter: first of all, we were notified by federal prosecutors that they would be having a change of plea hearing this morning. now, that plea hearing just wrapped up here inside the federal courthouse.

the judge questioned dell vin barnes and he reiterated he grabbed the victim at random. his goal was to rob her so he would have money to head back to virginia. investigators say barnes is the person you see in this gripping image, snatching a 22-year-old woman right off a germantown street last november. the high-profile case gained national attention as the fbi joined philadelphia detectives in the search for the victim and her kidnapper. if the case had gone to trial, federal prosecutors would have argued barnes took this victim to maryland. they would have shown video of a man they believed to be barnes using the victim's atm card. then this video of the same man casually shopping in a convenience store. the suspect and victim were found inside barnes' car in a parking lot two days after she disappeared. now, under the terms of this plea agreement, barnes will be sentenced to 35 years in

january. in the next half hour, i'm going to comb through some notes i took inside the courtroom, and we'll have that for you at 11:30. live in center city, monique braxton, "nbc10 news." it has been a rainy morning around our region. nbc10 cameras on market street where parents and children needed umbrellas for the walk to work and school. things could get even more wet this afternoon in some areas, depending on where you are. nbc10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with our forecast. glenn? >> it's a wet forecast and it's so wet that we're ending the heat wave because of the clouds and rain. ben franklin bridge, i can't see it very well because there is moisture around. we have lots of showers on the radar now. some of the heaviest near rohoboth beach and lewis, delaware. heavier showers in kent county,

delaware, moving into southern new castle county. one heavier shore in center city philadelphia right now. that's headed up i-95 in the general direction of northeast philly. there's more action to the west. we have a very warm air mass and the potential for some very heavy rain. actually, it's much needed rain. it's been pretty dry around here for a while. as we go through the afternoon, more showers and storms across a good bit of the area. some localized flooding is possible. we're not talking about anything widespread. but you definitely need the rain gear with you for the rest of the day and even into the evening hours. the temperature, way down in much of the area. 75 in philadelphia. only 71 in pottstown. it's 84 in dover. only 69 degrees in mt. pocono. as we go through the rest of the day, lots of clouds around. the humidity is still there.

showers, thunderstorms, locally heavy. we have another round coming over the weekend. all the timing on that with the seven-day in a few minutes. >> we'll see you then. a school closing to tell you about. the prep charter school in philadelphia will be dismissing today at 12:15. a little more than han hour. not related to the rain. it's because the school's air conditioning is not working. we are preparing for the pope. mayor nutter will give an update on the city's plans this afternoon at 2:00 p.m. you can watch that update on nbc10.com and we'll have the key points at "nbc10 news" at 4:00. his announcement comes less than 24 hours after tickets became available to see the pope up close. the tickets for the pope's sunday mass on the ben franklin parkway went online at 8:00 last night. earlier in the day it took just seven minutes for the people to reserve another 10,000 tickets for the festival of families at which the pope will also appear.

you can see both events without tickets but you'll be father away from the stage. you can see pope francis parade down the parkway. here's the route he will take. the pope will go down parkway, around city hall and back to the festival grounds in front of the museum of art. a second, shorter parade will take place sunday on the parkway before the mass. happening now, we're getting a first look at some objects that will soon be on display in philadelphia. straight from the vatican. it's part of an exhibit at philadelphia institute called vatican splendor including a seventh century bronze angel sculpture, votive lamp given by st. paul -- st. john paul ii and a relic that holds holy bone fragments from saints. the exhibit is open to the public starting next week. some other rare works in art also arrive in philadelphia at museum of art. one of the pieces is from

michelangelo. it's part of an exhibit that features the story of premethius from greek mythology. tap the nbc10 app of what you can bring and can't bring. it's the eve of the september 11th attacks and the dedication of the flight 93 national memorial visitor center is under way. pennsylvania governor wolf is expected to speak at this morning's ceremony in somerset county. the museum honors the 40 passengers and crew members killed when united flight 93 went down in a field in shanksville. happening today, supporters of kathleen kane will hold a rally in harrisburg, calling for the state supreme court to stop

proceedings on whether to suspend her law license. the group says the decision should not be made until her criminal trial is finished. her lawyers now say the information about the supreme court reviewing her law license was leaked. her lawyer says state supreme court hearings are supposed to be confidential and now it's public knowledge, it could prevent kane from getting a criminal trial. the attorney general claims the charges were fabricated to stop her from releasing scandalous e-mails. dozens of notes of the penn state sex abuse scandal are in the hands of a judge. the university says it mistakenly turned over the notes of the family of the late joe paterno. penn state's lawyers claim privacy rights are at stake. we are learning more about

the cab company whose driver hit and killed a man and woman monday morning. the pennsylvania public utility commission has been investigating the company. state records show more than a dozen formal complaints were lodged against rosemont taxi company in the past five years. most had to deal with regulatory issues not safety. we reached out to the company but they had no comment. 25-year-old amanda of phoenixville and brian botti of baltimore were killed when a cab hit them early monday morning. witnesses say the victims were crossing broad street at arch on a red light when the driver struck them. a chester man who shot and killed a would-be robber has a license to carry a gun and does not face charges. police say early yesterday morning two men tried to rob the man as he got out of his car outside of his home on west seventh street. police say one of the robbers fired two shots. the victim wasn't hit and pulled out his own gun, shooting and

killed one of the robbers. the man's neighbors told us the man did what he had to do to protect himself. >> this time they ran up on the right one. >> it's a shame you have to carry a gun in this neighborhood, but that's the way it is. >> police have not released the name of the robber who was killed. the other one ran off. police have not kept him. the woman who kept mentally disabled adults in her basement in tacony will spend the rest of her life in prison. she pleaded guilty in court yesterday. prosecutors eliminated the possibility of a death sentence. police found four adults chained in westen's basement. prosecutors say she kidnapped them and held them prisoner so she could steal ther social security money. two of westen's co-defendants already pleaded guilty. two others are awaiting trial. tension for drivers along one highway. a series of shootings is leading

to fears a serial sniper may be on the loose. we'll have more on the investigation coming up. the family startled out west after something mysterious falls from the sky. the question today, what knocked a hole in the roof? the heat wave stops here.

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shootings against innocent drivers and they worry this could soon turn deadly. nbc has the story. >> reporter: along center state 10 in phoenix, arizona, police desperate to find a shooter. someone who has innocent drivers in their cross-hairs. >> it's very terrifying for them. >> reporter: this morning no suspects, no car description, just a growing number of vehicles riddled with bullet holes that nearly took the lives of those behind the wheel. now the news, there may be multiple shooters. >> i'm of the opinion we have multiple shooters just because the mos have change. >> reporter: the highway patrol took us along a stretch of the highway that could be the most dangerous. ten incidents in just 12 days. at least eight along i-10. the others all nearby. the majority, gunfire. robert mcdonald was alone,

driving this tour bus when a bullet sliced through the seat behind him. >> had the bullet been a little more powerful, it would have came this far from my shoulder. if i would have moved my head, i would have got hit. >> reporter: police now call the shooter or shooters a domestic terrorist. many scared to drive i-10, recalling the fear of the beltway sniper in 2002. criminal profilers that worked that case say the shooter here is also feeding on terror. >> he knows the time he wants to be out there. he knows the location and realize he, in his mind, is playing this chess game with authorities. >> that was nbc's miguel reporting. happening now, we'll take you to washington, d.c. for a gun control rally. this is virginia senator mark warner speaking right now. behind him is the father of alison parker, the slain

television reporter. his name is andy, standing behind senator warner. they're rallying for gun control -- to change gun control laws, making it so it's not as easy for people to get guns that have emotional problems and problems that have happened in charleston and virginia over the last month and previous years. the mass shootings at the emanuel ame charge ignited gun control and race arguments now. we hear from a victim of the attack in an nbc10 exclusive. >> we were about to say a prayer and he caught us with our eyes closed. >> she says difficuylann rooff,

accused of killing nine african-american during a bible study in june. two women survived, but her son was among the nine victims. he had talked about the nine victims in an interview with lester holt. >> i remember my son say, momma, he shot me in the head. >> your granddaughter was with you. >> yes. and i was telling my son, just lay here. just lay here. but he was still talking to me. i said, just lay here. and my granddaughter was hollering, saying she was so afraid. >> instead of harboring resentment, sanders says she has forgiveness in her heart for the accused shooter. and new video shows what a bomb squad found in the apartment of james holmes following the 2012 movie theater

shue shooting. authorities in aurora, colorado, found the apartment was booby-trapped so they couldn't get in. but they did send a robot inside to give investigators a look at what awaited them. inside the place, a number of homemade bombs and explosive devices holmes had made. court testimony revealed the apartment was wired to explode, to catch fire and kill. one of the bomb technicians who took apart a few of the explosions by hand said what he saw did not surprise him. >> just a matter of time before something like that ends up here. that's the way we look at it. worst case scenario. you're always trying to think ahead. >> holmes is serving life in prison for the deadly theater shooting. fire fighters are battling a growing wildfire in central california. the butte fire has burned more than 1200 acres of land and threatening several structures.

there's no word yet on what caused this blaze but high winds and dry conditions are helping fuel it. so far firefighters have less than 50% contained. residents who live southeast of sacramento have been asked to evacuate. a sanctuary for big cats is being evacuated because of the threat from the wildfire in california. volunteers helped move smaller cats like bobcats, lynx and jaguars to a safer location yesterday. the larger cats, lions and tigers, will be moved later today. zoos and other facilities are providing temporary housing for the animals. the cat haven hopes to return to normal operations once the fire has passed. wildfires and droughts may be helping a california man to help dig up sacred artifacts but taking artifacts from public land is illegal. the man recovered beads, charms, arrowheads similar to these from dried out lake bottoms. he now faces felony charges.

they are turning the items over to local native american indians. a mystery in northern california after a large chunk of ice falls from the sky and lands on a home. a woman was sitting outside when she saw something that looked like a garbage bag flying through the air. turns out it was a big ball of ice. it landed on the roof of the house and then on a car's bumper. these photos showing the moments shortly after the impact. you can see pieces of ice mixed with parts of the home. >> i said maybe it came from a jet plane. he said, no, he didn't think it looked yellow. i would like to find out where it came from. >> the faa is investigating. we have other stuff falling out of the sky today. we already had some downpours and we have more on the way so

keep the rain gear with you because it's going to be a wet period. it's the end of the heat, though. the clouds and rain will put an end to heat wave number six. weekend thunderstorms, just because we're going to be clearing out tomorrow doesn't mean it's going to be picture perfect over the weekend. can't see very much of the skyline of center city now. we have rain in the area. 75 degrees. the wind is generally out of the east. 10 degrees colder than it was yesterday. we'll be seeing quite a drop. we had three days in a row of 90 of my plus. missed the record by 1 degree yesterday. barely up to 82 today. we'll need a little bit of a break in this rain in order to do that. we see temperatures, only 71 in reading and in pottstown while it's in the 80s in dover, millville, atlantic city, some places will cool off, too, as the showers and storms come in.

the greatest threat is the flood threat. localized flooding. it won't be widespread, the creeks or rivers because it's been so dry. some lightning in the area as well. you can see in the past hour there are some thunderstorms around. not everybody is seeing rain. we have one heavy shower we showed you in center city that continues to move slowly up i-95 and the roosevelt boulevard into northeast philly. a couple other showers and western suburbs. heavier rain is in delaware. one area coming through smyrna and into the middletown area. the real heaviest now, just from lewis offshore, headed up towards cape may. so, you may be getting some lightning strikes there within the next 30 minutes. as we go through the afternoon,

there will be more showers and storms developing. as you can see, some are on the heavy side. they're not moving very fast. a lot of moisture in them so there is that potential for localized flooding. by dinner time, again, we have some more. you can see, even the radar echoes are circulating like this. that's an indication we've got a low pressure area on top of us. it's going to take a little while before we clear out. once we do during the day tomorrow, it's going to get nice and comfortable. that's only temporary, though. as we go through the rest of the day today, we have these cloudy skies, showers, thunderstorms, some places don't even make it up to 80 degrees after all those 90s we've seen. the seven-day forecast, we've got clearing during the day tomorrow. humidity dropping, but it comes back up on saturday. by later in the day, saturday night and into sunday morning we've got another wet period

here. maybe some locally heavy rain again, but as we head toward next week, it really gets nice. >> thank you, glenn. flu season is approaching. if you need another reason to get a flu shot, we'll tell you about a good one coming up. see how the shot could protect more than just your body. most women smokers quit when they get pregnant and most return to the habit. we'll tell you what's most likely to make them light up again. many people clean their dentures

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here's another reason why you should get your flu shot. researchers say it won't just protect you, but also older adults in your community. the study looked at 3 million people over eight flu seasons and found seniors were 20% less likely to be diagnosed with flu-related illness. if they lived in areas where more younger adults were vaccinated. the reduction in flu risk for seniors was twice as large for older adults who were vaccinated themselves compared to those who did not get a flu shot. well, more controversial comments from donald trump. this time the gop front-runner is coming under fire for his words about a fellow candidate. we'll tell you what he said about carly fiorina. just in time for the papal visit. a new book is revealing never-before-seen photos of pope francis and offering insight into his life at the vatican. we'll talk to the author coming up.

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it's 11:30. back now with new developments in the kidnapping case. this is the surveillance video of a woman being snatched off a philadelphia street corner. this happened last year. now the suspect is in court. nbc10's monique braxton is live in front of the federal courthouse in old city. monique, tell us what's happened. >> reporter: dell vin barnes has shown no emotion when he entered the courtroom on the 17th floor, handcuffed behind his back. knowing he was coming to plea on a plea agreement that would land him in prison for 35 years instead of his life. when questioned by the judge, 35-year-old barnes told the court he had been treated for anxiety and depression since held in custody. this riveting surveillance videotape showed him capturing a woman off a germantown street in

may. they were found two days later in his car in maryland. when asked why, he said he took her by force off the street and drove her to maryland as an act of depression. he also said he can't make sense of it. he mentioned he ran out of money and was waiting on the corner to rob someone to get back to virginia to face charges there. now, under the terms of this agreement, barnes will not be prosecuted in virginia. barnes plead guilty to kidnapping and sexual exploitation. so, i asked the federal prosecutor if sexual exploitation meant sexual assault, she declined comment. barnes will be sentenced to 35 years in january. monique braxton, "nbc10 news." >> you see in monique's live shot it's been pouring around our region. this is a live look at citizens

bank park where they will take on the cubs. do fans need to bring their rain gear? will there even be a game tonight? chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz can answer that question. >> definitely need some rain gear. will be some delays in the game. they still have a chance of getting it in because it's not a solid area of rain, a continuous type of rain. we can see some pretty heavy showers in the area and some thunderstorms as well. a lot of activity is in delaware but we have one cell. you saw monique's live shot in center city, just getting crushed with heavy rain. that goes across camden and pennsauken, new jersey. that's some of the heaviest rain. we also have heavy rain up i-95 and the boulevard, frant further avenue, going into northeast philly. back into central delaware, we have one thunderstorm going through dover right now. that continues to move slowly. that means some areas could get

a lot of rain, an inch or 2 of rain in a short period of time. these storms near lewis, delaware, now crossed into delaware bay and just about to hit cape may itself with heavy rain and maybe lightning. you can see the futurecast hour by hour, some lots of areas of rain, some of it on the heavy side and even into the evening. yes, there is definitely a threat of rain for the phillies game. we'll see what type of threats we have for the rest of the area and also into the weekend with the seven-day in a few minutes. >> thank you, glenn. take a look at this. torrential rain caused heavy flooding in sicily, yesterday, and forced people to abandon their cars and seek shelter. the main shopping street in this coastal city turned into a fast-moving river. crews worked to free people trapped in their cars by the rising waters. you can hear screams. heavy rains are leading to massive flooding in japan. authorities evacuated more than

90,000 people from their homes because of the rising waters. look at that home just lifted off its foundation. others were stranded on the roofs of homes and buildings. at least ten people are missing right now. some parts of japan have been near -- have seen nearly 2 feet of water since monday night. republican presidential candidate donald trump is on the defense once again. this time he's backing away from comments that he made about his gop rival carly fiorina. "rolling stone" magazine published an interview online with trump. it describes an incident where the tycoon is watching tv news when fiorina appears on camera, trump says, look at that face. would anyone vote for that? trump says he was referring to fiorina's persona, not her looks. the former hewlett-packard's chiefs dismissed his remarks and

said maybe she's getting under his skin because she's climbing in the polls. ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ >> r.e.m. is ordering trump to stop using their song "it's the end as we know it" during campaign speeches. he used it at an anti-iran protest in washington, d.c. michael stipe sent out a profanity-laced e-mail saying do not use our music or my voice for your moronic campaign. he was also asked to stop using "rockin' in the free world". the aide who set up hillary clinton's e-mail while she was secretary of state is scheduled to appear before house investigators today. but prosecutors have been told he plans to invoke his fifth amendment right to refuse to

testify in order to avoid self-incrimination. two senate committees are discussing whether to give him immunity so he'll discuss clinton's e-mail setup. the pope is scheduled to fly into andrews air force base on september 22nd. presidents almost never welcome visiting -- foreign visitors at andrews but president obama will make a papal exception. just in time for the papal visit, a new book is offering a behind-the-scenes look at the life of pope francis. it's called "pope francis: a photographic portrait of the people's pope", featuring more than 250 previously unpublished photographs taken by the pope's official photographer along with intimate stories about pope francis' life. the author, michael -- father michael collins joins us live via satellite from new york city. welcome, father. we appreciate you coming on.

>> thank you very much. a great pleasure. >> now, this book traces a year in the life of pope francis. what insights does it reveal about his daily life? >> well, i think the thing most people find attractive about pope francis is he's so down to earth, so normal. you know, he rides a car. in fact, the car he's going around in at the moment is a ford focus, so that's good placement for detroit. he's very uncomplicated. he's not very -- he's not po pompous. human rights empower him. that's what we tried to do in the book, bring people for a year through his day, through his week, his month and what it's like day to day in the vatican. also a little section on what the international tours are like, such as the one that begins with cuba and finish in the north of america, the united

states. >> we're showing some pictures in the book. father collins, the book also follows his rise to the papacy as the first jesuit and first latin american pope. how have those experiences shaped his papacy? >> well, he came from argentina, which experienced a lot of turbulence in the middle of the last century, especially during a time in the 1970s to '80s, the dirty war, political turmoil, and that continued right into 2001 when there was the economic collapse. he's a man who's seen poverty firsthand, seen violence in his own country, civil war. that's something which has really carved itself into his experience. he's thought about that. now as the leader of 1.2 billion catholics in the world, and also as a political leader, a moral leader, forbes voted him the fourth most important person in the world from that point of view, i think he sees himself with a very big important role and he wants to ask humans to turn in -- examine the way we

live our lives and see what we can do to improve. >> he's known for all those things you mentioned and also known for his off-the-cuff remarks. sometimes it's been offensive to some folks. talk about the impact of that and his words. >> well, that's true. he comes up with all these expressions. i don't know if their spanish idioms, but he said to a group of nuns, he said, be careful, you don't have to look as if you just swallowed a lemon. people just laugh. they think, well, that's the way he is. they don't get offended. he said one time about slapping children, he didn't have a problem about it. and it was murder to issue an apology. as my mother said, when you were 4 years of age, i had to give you a slap on the legs when you were running out in front of a car. so, you know, there's human wisdom as well. he has to be careful but that's part of his charm as well. he says these things. we know, bottom line, his heart

is in the right place. that's the attractiveness of pope francis. >> father collins, thank you very much. i've got the book right here. i'm sure it's available at any bookstore. we appreciate you coming on. just tap on the nbc10 app for a list of everything you need to know about the papal visit. of course, you'll find the pope's itinerary plus a list of road closures and mass transit changes. we'll have much more coming up.

the majority of women smokers quit when they become pregnant, but most start again within a year of giving birth. now new research finds stress is the number one reason for a smoking relapse. the study found many women believed smoking was okay as long as they protected their babies from secondhand smoke but most saw it as a way of coping for a newborn. apple's new products failed to impress investors. the stock falling 2% yesterday. analysts say the knee fewers on the iphone 6s as well as 12 megapixel camera, the ability to shoot 4k video and a function called 3-d touch may not be enough to get people to upgrade. apple gets most of its revenue from the iphone. they also say the ipad pro is

too big and too similar to microsoft's surface tablet. over the past three years, apple stock has dropped an average of half the percent on the day of iphone announcements. the new phones go on sale november 5th. preorders start saturday. toys "r" us is stepping up its game ahead of the approaching holiday season. the retailer cut its minimum yum online order for free shipping. now you just have to buy $19 worth of toys instead of $40. in may walmart announced plans for free, unlimited shipping for $50 a year. both are competing for amazon prime which gives you free shipping with a $99 membership. in burlington county, police believe there could be more victims in an identity theft and credit card scheme. police arrested primo raphael toro. a u.p.s. driver realized he was

delivering too many credit cards in one neighborhood. and thought someone was following him on his route. he called police and police pulled over toro in the vehicle the u.p.s. driver described to police. >> he discovered u.p.s. packages that belonged to residents that belonged in that neighborhood. he had the tracking numbers of when they would be delivered. >> officers say they intercepted $80,000 in fraudulently approved credit cards and gift cards. the fbi is now involved. they believe the case is connected to others in new jersey and in new york. here are some ways to make sure your identity is safe. you can get one free credit history report every year from each of the three major agencies. you can also pay for a service that monitors your credit and will alert you when there's an entry into your credit file. mastercard is testing a new program called selfie pay. the program will allow cardholders to verify online

purchases using a selfie. the company has talked about a future free of having to remember passwords and using biometric scans or voice recognition as a way of verifying your identity. awe my five below store is open in center city and mayor michael nutter helped cut the ribbon on that store at 15 lt and chestnut. the two-story building stands on the side of the arcadia theater. this is the largest store out of the chain's 400 locations and it's just steps away from the company's corporate headquarters. it's geared towards teens and preteens and everything costs less than 5 bucks. you might not realize it, but atlantic city's boardwalk used to be longer than it is now. some sections were left unsafe and even collapsed. now that's changing. demolition crews are removing the unusable stretch of boardwalk. the $50 million project mostly

funded by the federal government will add a protective sea wall and make the boardwalk whole again. the finished product is expected to be strong enough to pass the test of time. >> we're building a sea wall at this end, a rock wall at the other end and the boardwalk is going to be on the land side of that because the nor'easter still hits the city pretty bad. so we don't want to build a boardwalk and lose it at the next nor'easter or major storm. >> if all goes as planned, it will be finished late next year or early 2017. pretty nice, glenn. >> yeah, really excited about that. it's been since 1944 the atlantic city boardwalk has been complete. there was a hurricane back then and that started some of the damage, especially near the inlet. we have downpours today across the area. happening right now, and more coming later with the end of the heat. the heat wave that we got

yesterday, 93 degrees. remember that? nothing like that today. and some weekend thunderstorms. we get a break after this stuff and then some weekend storms. hard to see, but there is liberty place. the low clouds have won out in center city. 75 degrees. winds out of the east, 13 colder than at this time yesterday. the greatest threat on our threat tracker is for flooding. not so much widespread flooding or river flooding or anything like that. but localized flooding from these downpours. the ground has been very hard with all of the dry weather. so, you get a lot of runoff. you could see some ponding. some lightning across the area but threats of high wind and hail are significantly lower than the other threats. we'll look at the temperatures. but look at the winds. northeast, the cool wind.

there's the south wind. of course, where it comes together, that's where the storms are going to be the highest but it also shows you the temperature difference. it's only in the low 70s in much of pennsylvania where it was in the 80s in delaware and parts of south jersey. the wind direction makes the big difference. so, there's some kind of low pressure center right near the area. that's right where those showers and storms are in delaware. we have one right across philadelphia. and the delaware river. it has not been moving very much. and so -- while it's been spreading towards northeast philly into lower bucks county but it's stretching out a little bit. so, this is the kind of thing we could produce some localized flooding. it just sits over the same spot for a couple of hours and you can get a couple of inches of rain very clearly. once again, still center city getting a little bit but just on the edge. it's more like right near i-95 and the delaware river. as you can see, all the way up

into northeast philly where we got some pretty heavy rain out of that. and also some heavy rain in delaware. we had one storm go through the dover area. now we have another one that's going to be coming up, so parts of delaware are going to get heavy rain. there's cape may. you can see this storm tending to weaken as it goes into cape may county, some lightning mainly offshore. some heavier rain headed up towards wildwood at the moment. here's the future cast as we go through the afternoon and you can see the yellows and the reds indicating some of that heavier rain across a good bit of the area. some is on the heavy side. you see once again, it's starting to spin. there's an area of low pressure right nearby and that means it's not going to be moving out very fast. here we are, 8:00 tonight and we still have rain threats. certainly a threat for the phillies came tonight. the very least you get some rain. then we start drying out as we head into later tonight and

tomorrow. how much rain? computer models generally averaging around an inch but some places are going to get more than 2 out of this because of the slow movement. showers and thunderstorms today. some places not getting out of the 70s. nobody getting anywhere near 90. for the seven-day forecast, we have clearing during the day tomorrow. pretty nice day. lowering humidity. but another system comes in on saturday. humidity goes up, late day thunderstorms, saturday night kind of stormy, and even into early sunday with the temperature going down. once that system moves out, we've got some really nice comfortable air behind it. >> thank you, glenn. coming up, it's a moment that people like glenn and i have been waiting for for months. a preview of opening night in the nfl. coming up, we'll have that for you.

are you ready for some football? >> yeah. >> glenn is. nfl season kicking off in a few hours right here on nbc10 as super bowl champion new england patriots taking on the pittsburgh steelers. tonight's game comes after an off-season -- off the field controversy. 60,000 fans expected to pack gillette stadium in foxboro and

they hope tonight's kickoff will take some of the air out of, what else, glenn, deflategate. you can watch the game right here on nbc10. it starts at 8:30. over and under on deflate, the word deflate. steve harvey is kicking off season four of his show a week of surprises today. >> somebody got to jump. that's what life requires. >> this afternoon steve we will comes reality tv star bethenny frankel who has advice for a mother tis county man whose girlfriend is waiting for him to propose. will he pop the question? we'll find out. catch it today at 2:00 p.m. starting at 3:00, an all new ellen. you don't want to miss this, joining her is democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton and bucks county native and superstar singer pink. then "nbc10 news" at 4:00. this afternoon millions of children are getting on the

school bus again and most of them won't buckle up. coming up at 4:00, the new push to make restraints mandatory. and where the rules stand in pennsylvania, new jersey and in delaware. our chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz here to explain all of this back here. >> there's a city back here? yeah, we have showers and storms in and around the philadelphia area. some in delaware, some approaching cape may. it's going to be a wet afternoon. and stormy evening as well. and that's the end of the heat wave. tomorrow we're clearing. we have another system coming over the weekend. later this afternoon, wae'll hae more computer guidance on the timing of that rain over the weekend. of course, the latest radar to show what's happening for the afternoon rush today. >> it's starting to feel a little like fall. >> can't wait. can't wait. >> thanks for watching "nbc10 news" at 11:00. i'm vai sikahema, for glenn

"hurricane" schwartz and all of us here at nbc10, have a great day and stray dry out there.

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