. we begin with new information in the mysterious death of this 3-year-old boy. sources tell nbc 10 a relative recently appeared before a grand jury. stopping sexting at school. officials will talk about the dangers of that. as we take a live look at center city towards the art museum there, dry outside now. we are tracking showers moving into this area later this morning. just ahead, when you can expect them and a cooler change coming for the week. good morning, welcome to nbc 10.

we are following breaking news at a recycling plan. let's go to bill henley with his first alert forecast. >> close to normal this time of year. the temperatures are running up to 10 degrees cooler. clouds just moved into the heir area. you can see harrisburg starting to see a few showers. temperatures 40s and 50 degrees in trent on, wrights town international dropped to 49 a. chillier morning. but we move back in the 60s in spite of clouds moving in and a chance you get to use your umbrella again today. by 9:00, in the upper 50s, 61 degrees, southerly wind kicking in. the winds will play a part in the weekend forecast, too him right now, jessica boyington has first alert traffic. >> we have been avoiding this

traffic all week. we have the vine street parkway closed in between the schuylkill expressway, right around the vine. so you can see crews accessing the vine eastbound. that's what it looks like across the board. our drive times are great to the vine. 12 minutes. no problems on the schuylkill eastbound. and the blue route southbound. a 15-minute trip. mass transit, we currently have no delays, petco and dart. chris. >> let's get back to thatic practiceing news i mentioned a moment ago out of newcastle county. they've contained a fire at a recycling plant. a recycling center. it's in newcastle. we have a crew headed to the scene.

we are trying to see if they live nearby that recycling center. this morning, we have information on the mysterious death. their adjei period this week. sours close to the investigation tell us the grand jury subpoenaed 20-year-old sarah jessica, the sister of brendan father dj. one year ago, she made a video about the death of a young body and her nephew portrayed the boy in that video. her attorney says, this is pure coincidence. >> it's a red herring. i would just encourage people not to focus too much on it. balls i think it's a waste of ti time. >> five weeks ago, his father reported him missing. he was found about a half mile away. toxicology tests provided no

clues about how he died. a man in is the hospital this morning after robbers shot him outside a family dollar store. sky force 10 flew over last night. two when e men walked up to a victim and tried to rob him and shot him in the abdomen. the search continues for the robbers. no word on that man's condition, by the way. happening today the chester county district attorney's office will be talking about sexting and cyber bullying at local schools. now this all comes in the wake of that sexting scandal that rocked the east town school district. authorities have charged three students, between the ages of 11 and 15 with sharing child pornography. students say they spread erotic pictures of themselves and shared a video o a classmate. and the cities were at east town middle schools and constoeg ga high school.

we have new information on the george washington bridge scandal. remember that controversy? a former appointee of governor chris christie wants his trial moved out of state. they filed a motion saying it is impossible to get a fair trial in new jersey. the trial is scheduled tore next april, by the way. beroni and staff kelly are accused of orchestrating a scheme for the governor not endorsing the governor's re-election bidments they will reach out to businesses looking to make money from that event. here's a live look where the convention will be held next july. they will host an online seminar today. >> that will show businesses how to get listed in a directory of svendors for the democratic convention. mint man press is among those

hooking to cash in. nbc 10 was there as that company showed off merchandise it has already printed for the convention. friday's mayor elect named the city's next police leader. first deputy commissioner richard ross, wallace he says he will build on his accomplishmentings. community policing has been an outgoing priority. ross hopes to hire 250 morosiss from diver's backgrounds, he says, and send them out into the community oget to know people. he also says he wants to continue a dialogue with those concerned about police brutality and misconduct. >> i will give you an example. black lives matter. to me, they're not mutually exclusive. there is a way to have them both happen at the same time. you have to have a dialogue so people can hear each other. >> ross says he will also expand the use of body cameras and

hopes to limit the stop and frisk tactic. now, commissioner ross will be sworn in, in january. he was born and raised in philadelphia. he joined the force in 1989. he's a 26-year veteran. he's a graduate of central high school and received his bachelor's degree from penn state and his masters from st. joseph's university. >> happening today the city of allentown is a step closer to building up the riverside district t. city is holding a celebration today for work that has already begun on what's called the waterfront. apartment businesses will stand on the western banks of the lehigh river. this according to an artist is what it will look like when it's finished. there will be six business building, three apartment garages. officials say that will add 3,000 jobs and 400 apartments. there is going to be a half mile river walk with direct river

access. along with outdoor plazas a and am fitheaters. >> eight minutes after 4:00. clouds are starting to move back into the area after he saw some sunshine yesterday. clouds are moving in, but i'm tracking showers for the day today. it looks like later this morning and this afternoon, that's when we see the rain move through parts of the area. not everybody will get it. but we will all see dusty winds later today, riding in on those winds is much chillier winds. compared to yesterday, 45 in doylestown, friday at 49, millvale at 43 degrees. no rain just yet, in fact, it's pretty far to the west at this hour. but that is going to be making some changes, making some progress into the area. wind is calm right now. but it will really pick up once the showers move through. this is a cold front on the way. you see the line of showers into the ohio valley, into western pennsylvania. later this morning, this

afternoon, that's when we will see the wet weather arrive. before it gets here, we will see the temperatures climb. 9:00 this morning, it warms to 55 degrees in philadelphia. but you can see the rain to the west, it's on the way. at 11:00 this morning, umbrellas will be going up for parts of the area. philadelphia into the western suburbs. trent on, you will see some rain, burlington county goting rain. cloudy skies for most of delaware and south jersey and those clouds swing through with some scattered showers, nothing more than that. doesn't look like heavy rainfall today. 52 the high in mount pocono, 60 for allentown and reading. we will be in the low 60s in trenton, mount holly, norristown. the showers moving through later this morning, mainly dry, though, for rehoboth. cape may, dover, into the middle 60. some breaks of sunshine, sunshine might come through late in the day. first we get the showers with high temperatures in the low 60s for west chester. philadelphia and williams town him don't get used to these

readings, christians, i got the weekend forecast when i'm back in ten minutes. >> anything you tell me, bill, i always write it in pencil. i know changes. >> are you the guy. >> change is coming him. >> you are the guy. >> all right. let's make way for miguel. >> that doesn't sound professional. >> thanks a lot. >> bill started it. he took us down that road. you are taking us down 422 now? >> i like that one. it's early. we will start off there. right around trooper road him we have no problems, you can see those lane restrictions him but eastbound towards the schuylkill expressway. 8 minute drive time to the schuylkill expressway. if you are headed out the door on the pa turnpike, we have no problems there as well t. roadways are green. no problems westbound or eastboundch a 23-minute trip. when i come back, we will do another check on your area roads. we now know that nine people

died in that fiery plane crash in ohio we will hear from people whose lives have been forever changed by that crash. chris, coming up, imagine students at one school not know whack they like to read for fun. well, that is a reality at one school this west philadelphia, coming up, we will show you how the principal is trying to change that. .

we have new under surveillance video that shows tuesday's deadly plane crash in akron, oil, that killed all nine people on board. you will see the plane going down, right there, top left of

the screen. investigators say the ten seater altitude clipped power lines. thankfully, no one on the ground was hurt. but the crash did misplace a dozen families. they are looking at several factors that could have been in play when that crash occurred. those include weather, maintenance and flight records and air traffic control. they have recovered the cockpit voice recorder. meantime, neighbors impacted are still trying to make sense of what happened. >> it looked like something in my afghanistan days, something, a bomb and i said something. i just ran. i was only .2 of a mile away. >> neighbors whose homes were destroyed in that fire are thanking friends and community for helping them with donations and giving them a place to stay. well, a university of missouri student who allegedly posted an online threat will appear in

court to face those charges. many students say they're afraid to go to class after a threat was posted on a social media site yik-yak, i'm going to stand on my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person i see, adding, don't go to campus tomorrow. we will kill you. this comes from earlier this week amid race imissues on campus. it seems the missouri movement of students calling for accountability on their leaders is spreading. >> we want him to be removed from ris position. >> now, that was the scene in new york at ithaca college, hundreds of students faced a walkout, calling on their president to step down. complaints on the ithaca campus include some offensive remarks made by public safety officers and a racially tense party

invitation sent out by a campus fraternity. montreal, canada, is often known for being one of the cleanest cities in the world. maybe not now. the city is dumping untreated sewage into the st. louis river. it could release as much as 2.1 tweeted gallons of untreated waste water t. city says this is necessary so that it can replace aging parts of its waste water treatment system. >> of course, nobody is pleased with that situation, but we have to do it and it's to enhance our own structure for the future. i think that's important. >> this is our town. this is our earth. where are we going to be without it? >> people marched through montreal and protested the move. the city says it will have little effect on the fish population and will not affect drinking water quality. 4:16 now, happening today. an army captain florence grover will become the tenth living

recipient of the med am of honor him he tackled a suicide bomber while serving in afghanistan saving his fellow soldier's lives. he has been recovering for the last three years, having gone through more than 30 surgeries at walter reed medical center. before the attack, he dreamed of becoming an olympic runner. . new this morning, a book challenge. the principal is begging for books to ensure her students outside school district head quart, in spring garden with more. what is happening. >> in this school and throughout philadelphia, there is not the money for outside reading. techbooks in the classroom are hard enough to fund. so this principal him shaes come up with a plan.

she begged for looks. visitors to the west philly school. even her own family and friends earlier, students were asked, what kind of books they read for fun. most couldn't answer. they don't have access to books outside of the classroom. that's a major hurdle she says in the learning process. >> i believe that if they don't start reading for fun, then how are we going to expect them to read in the classroom? how are we going to expect them to understand how important reading is to get information? >> reporter: coming up, i'm going to tell you a story about some students benefiting more from this focus on fun reading. we'll have that for you coming up at 5:00. katy zachary, bc 10 news. >> now your first alert weather.

>> 19 minutes after 4:00. skies are getting cloudy. it is dry at least for now. if you are milling in the house right now, you want to take an umbrella with you him we have rain on the way. it will be late this morning. 49 degrees, that's cooler than yesterday. it's going to be chillier to start with. we warm back into the 60s today. even though it's dry right now, we may see mid-day showers. really a better chance of the showers for the northern an western disturb u suburbs and north of the estimate trenton and northeast philadelphia. look at the 40s. millvale 43 degrees. 50 in trenton. low 40s in west down. 43 degrees. a little fog has formed. hasleton has a quarter mile visibility. probably won't be. now that clouds are starting to move in. that's going to slow the cooling process. and it will lead to wet weather. showers will arrive later this morning. gusty winds kick in.

we will see 60s today. it gets much chillier for the weekend. saturday the winds will still be blowing. a cold morning on sun in the 30s sunday afternoon, close to 60 degrees. i have the seven-day forecast when we come back in the next hour. >> you will need that sweater. coming up. i'll show you what you may want to avoid. now it's time to check the first alert traffic. reporter jessica boyington has a loo look. >> you can see we have a southbound drive time in the green to the delaware memorial bridge. once you get to delaware memorial bridge, a heads up. headed into delaware. so there is backup there approaching the bridge. burlington bristol had an earlier 3:55 a.m. opening. that's all closed now. no problems on the bend.

scent for ongoing construction. on the schuylkill, we're doing okay. 12 minutes eastbound from the blue route to the vine street expressway. when we come back. we will have another look. >> today on nbc 10 news at 4:00 p.m., it's a first hand account from pence one of the most infamous stories in philadelphia's history. mitch blocker gives us a preview here. >> it made headlines and changed the philadelphia mayor's race. mayor john street's office bogged by the fbi, part of a pay-to-play investigation targeting one of the mayor's advisers. >> we realized, absolutely the dprvty of the situation. >> it turned into so much more when the buck was discovered. >> philadelphia has been started by the philadelphia national party. >> they all knew at the time they were lying. they were making it up. >> today, get into the scan capital with investigators and

the retired fbi agent who planted the bugs. >> talking to you is the first time i ever publicly acknowledged it. hopefully, it's not a mistake. >> again, that report will air at 4:00 p.m. all right. we know thanksgiving is around the corner, right. which meant we were oh, but next, we will tell you about some changes coming, the philadelphia legendary mumers parade, this has nothing to do with the parade route this time. also ahead, a controversy, ahead at 4:30. why one christmas item at target has some people very offended.

>> happening today, al roker is rolling into philadelphia on amtrak. he is well into his second roker challenge as he is delivering weather in all 50 states. al will arrive at amtrak 33 station at 9:18 this morning. we will have to see if there are any mummers there to welcome him. the parade that has been a mainstay for more than a century is changing a little bit this year. well, in spite of those divers costume, there have been a complaint about a lack of diversity among the mummers parade so this time around, a mexican heritage group is among

those new participation and attendance and the mummers say this will ensure the parade grows. >> i think it's great. we need more people to come out. hopefully they pay more attention. >> the hope is a fresh start with new faces will allow the mummers to continue entertaining the crowds on new year's day for years an years to come. from our delaware bureau, this guy is on a parade of sorts. the emu, the wayward emu of newcastle county is still on the loose. a viewer showed him going through the field. he kept darting in and out of traffic and caused a school to go into lockdown on monday and now the department of agriculture is asking the police and the game warden to cap cure the bird. they have been trying to the that. no success. the emu has done a nice roadrunner impression so far.

>> 47 at 4:26. here come the clouds and then the rain. your hour by hour future weather when we come back in ten minutes. rate now jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. >> right around norristown road. no problems there. you can see in both direction. we have something to talk about on the area bridges. before you pack your kids' lunch for school today. look at this, produce with a potentially deadly side effect here. >> that is a macwidow and a bunch of grapes. get this, those grapes were sold at a local store. stay tuned.

. >> nbc 10 news starts now. house explosion. cameras capture the exact moment a home in new jersey is blown apart with deadly results. this morning, we know what caused it. the city of wilmington is now thrust into the television spotlight. not everyone is thrilled about the new tv show being filmed in that city in delaware. and we're in between showers right now. no rain here. but that will change in just a few hours. we'll get the details for you. good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. >> hopefully, you haven't replaced the umbrella. bill henley, it's dry out there right now. >> that will change later this morning and this afternoon. a few raindrop versus moved through harrisburg. >> that line will move off to the north and east, but the rain in