we have the low clouds and rain across much of the region, as you can see, it's a solid area,

it's not covering southern delaware or extreme south jersey. the entire area aside from that is getting rain. it gets heavier time to time. we see a couple little blotches of yellow indicating moderate rain. we don't see thunderstorms. we don't see flooding potential, partly because it looks like a large area until you widen out. so this rain won't be lasting all day and not likely to be falling during the afternoon rush. as we go through the afternoon, you can see how fast it starts to move out by 1:00. we're already seeing some improvement. by 2:00 some parts of the area may be seeing sunshine. temperatures going up into the 60s. later today before sunset maybe more of the area with a little

sunshine. a couple lingering showers up toward the poconos and then the wind starts to pick up, the skies clear and we get nice weather coming in, although it will be chilly. we'll see how cold that will get, how long it will last in the seven day within a few minutes. >> just in into the newsroom, police arrested a man for impersonating military personnel on veterans day. authorities say it's a case of stolen valor. 25-year-old michael porter of gall gallow way township atlantic county was dressed as military police, he had a scanner and handcuffs. a judge set bail at $5,000. new video of a robber attacking a worker at a family store. this started at the store on west allegheny avenue tuesday afternoon. police say the robber pulled out

a gun, demanded the woman open the cash register. when she should not do that he got angry and began slapping her and pulling her hair. the man then ran out of the store empty handed. if you happen to recognize him, you're asked to call police. new details in the death of brendan creato. sources confirmed the grand jury subpoenaed 20-year-old sarah jessica creato, the sister of brendan's father dj. a year ago she made a video for a college project about the death of a young boy. her nephew portrayed the boy in that video. her attorney says it's just pure coincidence. >> it's a red herring. i would encourage people not to focus too much on it. i think it's a waste of time. >> five weeks ago, brendan creato's father reported him missing from his home in haddon township.

the boy's body was found in the cooper river park about a half mile away. autopsy and toxicology tests provided by n provided by no clues about how he died. a man is in the hospital after police say robbers shot him outside a family dollar store in delaware county. skyforce 10 flew over the scene in sharon hill last night. investigators say the victim was sitting in his car outside the store when two men robbed and shot him. the search continues for the robbers. firefighters quickly contained a fire at a recycling center in new castle county that started at gold metal environment on south heald street. philadelphia police commissioner is laying out his plans for the department. the mayor-elect named richard ross, jr., yesterday. ross says he'll build on his predecessor's accomplishments. community policing has been a big priority.

ross hopes to hire 250 more police officers from diverse backgrounds and send them out to know the community. he also wants to start a dialogue with those concerned about police brutality and misconduct. >> black lives matter versus support for police. to me they're not mutually exclusive. there's a way to have them happen at the same time. you have to have a dialogue so people can hear each other. >> ross says he supports the use of body cameras and hopes to limit the stop and frisk tactic. ing shaka a ta, jfattah, jr., w fight his conviction. in a letter to the attorney general, he said his rights were violated when the lead investigator in the case tipped off a reporter about fbi at his ritz-carlton condo in 2012.

the jury found fattah guilty on 22 counts related to bank and tax fraud. he faces four years in prison. chaka fattah, jr., is the son of congressman chaka fattah. the congressman is married to nbc 10 news anchor renee-chenault fattah. the democratic national convention will get under what i in philadelphia in eight months. convention planners will reach out to businesses looking to make money from the event. here's a live look at the wells fargo center in south philadelphia where the convention will be held next july. the host committee will show businesses how to get listed in a directory of vendors for that convention. minuteman press on south broad street is among those looking to cash in. nbc 10 was there as the company showed off merchandise it has already printed for the convention. we have more information about a proposed sales tax hike in

pennsylvania and what it could mean for you. pennsylvania state lawmakers are considering a plan to raise the tax to help balance the budget it would make state sales tax $7.25 and in philedly sales tax would go up to $9.25. lawmakers say it's all a give and take. by raising the sales tax we're avoiding a property tax hike. >> it's a shame we have high taxes in the city of philadelphia but i wish they would try to think about small businesses. >> raises taxes on people like social security, disability recipient, minimum wage workers to reduce property taxes doesn't seem like -- it just makes the tax code more regressive. >> lawmakers call the proposal a framework but say negotiations continue as details are being worked out. we are following breaking news from northeast philadelphia this morning where police tell us someone was stabbed outside lincoln technical institute.

authorities say it started as a fight between two people. one man was stabbed and he drove himself to the hospital. investigators are gathering more details and they're unsure whether there are other victims. we have a crew on the way to the scene and we'll bring you more details as soon as we get them. today philadelphia will join forces with its new sister city. mayor michael nutter will meet with the mayor of frankfurt, germany for a signing ceremony. this follows nutter's visit to frankfurt last july. the two cities are fostering business and educational partnerships. today on nbc 10 news at 4:00 p.m., investigators exclusive. a firsthand account from inside one of the most infamous stories in philadelphia history. investigative reporter mitch blocker has a preview for us. >> reporter: it made headlines and changed a philadelphia mayor's race. mayor john street's office

bugged by the fbi, part of a pay-to-play investigation targeting one of the mayor's advisors. >> we realized absolutely the gravity of the situation. >> reporter: but it turned into so much more when the bug was discovered. >> philadelphia has been targeted by the national republican party. >> reporter: they all knew at the time that they were lying. they were making it up. >> reporter: today at 4:00, get inside the scandal with the nbc 10 investigators and the retired fbi agent who planted the bugs. >> talking to you is the first time i've ever publicly acknowledged it. hopefully it's not a mistake. >> reporter: for the investigators. i'm mitch blocker, nbc 10 news. happening today, comcast will host a job fair for military veterans and family members. it's happening in tremendous vos, bucks county. registration is required. we have more information on nbc10.com. come cast is the parent company of nbc 10. new information about the racially charged turmoil at the university of missouri. we are learning disturbing new

details about some of the incidents that led to protests and major shakeups at the school. plus, wild weather in the midwest. violent storms trigger tornados and leave behind plenty of damage. glenn? >> that kind of storminess is not headed our way but we are dealing with rainy and windy conditions. how long is the wet weather going to last? plus i'm tracking colder air on the way. i'll break down the timing just ahead.

president obama is awarding the country's highest honor a retired military captain. this is a live look from the white house where president obama is presenting whim the medal of honor. he saved fellow officers lives and tackled a suicide bomber in afghanistan. let's take a listen. he was badly further the attack. he's been recovering for the last three years having gone through more than 30 surgeries at walter reed medical center. before the attack, groberg dreamed of becoming an olympic runner. this morning, a police report is confirming an incident that helped spark racial turmoil at the university of missouri did happen. according to campus police, an officer saw a swastika on a restroom wall. meanwhile, a student who allegedly posted an online threat is expected to appear in court today to face charges. many students say they were

afraid to go to class after 19-year-old hunter park allegedly posted this threat on social media web site yik yak saying "i'm going to stand my ground tomorrow and shoot every black person i see." adding, "don't go to campus tomorrow" and "we will kill you." earlier this week missouri's president resigned in criticism of his handling of racism on campus. >> we want him to resign or be removed from his position. >> the missouri movement is spreading. at ithaca college in new york, hundreds of students staged a walkout calling on their president to step down. their complaints include offensive remarks made by public safety officers and a racially tinged party invitation sent out by a campus fraternity. >> and yale university's administration is pledging to increase diversity on their campus. thousands protested growing

racial tensions there. several incidents led up to the demonstrations. including one student of color claiming she was turned away from a frat party that was "for white girls only." the administration is now vowing to increase the diversity of its faculty. forecasters say there will be more problems in parts of the midwest today after violent storms thundered through the area last night, spawning at least nine tornados. nbc's ron mots reports from chicago. >> reporter: the so-called late fall storm called the witch of november is appropriately named because of all the howling winds coming across the midwest and especially here in chicago overnight. we saw, look at this, last night thunder and lightning over downtown chicago. just to our west next door in iowa there were confirmed nine tornados that touched down there. fortunately they were in less populated areas, rural areas where there was very minimal damage to property. now, going forward today, the story is wind. wind, wind, wind today here in

chicago and to our east. we're expecting wind gusts across the chicagoland area, 50 to 55 miles per hour and obvious they is going to have some impact on air travel. already today we have seen delays and cancellations at o'hare and as we get into the afternoon hours with these winds whipping up we may expect to see even more delays and cancellations so if you have travel plans, check with your airlines before heading out. that's the latest in chicago. let's get it back to you. and even though we're not expecting severe thunderstorms or tornados, some of that wind from chicago is coming this way. it will be bringing colder air with it. we have an area of rain moving through right now. it's not going to last all day and colder wind starts to come in behind it and, as we've been saying for quite a while, we're going to have a chilly weekend, although it's going to be a dry one. it's not dry right now. the clouds are fairly low. the visibility is not great and

it's raining in much of the region. 56 degrees. the wind is out of the south at nine miles an hour. four degrees cooler than it was at this time yesterday. of course temperature held down by the rain. 48 in mount pocono, low the mid-50s across most of the rest of the area, 60 degrees in atlantic city international. later on today once the rain is gone and we get some peeks of sunshine, temperatures should be able to get back into the 60s. you can see this rain area moving through. some of it, at least on the moderate side but it is not that big an area. there is a back edge to it that we can see. here's a little cluster coming over philadelphia right now. another one in delaware county will come right across the city. the heaviest is up in upper bucks county. that's going to be moving across the delaware river shortly. but this is the back edge of the rain. this is only one hour's worth of radar so you can see how fast everything is moving. the rain's really going to let

up in chester county within the next hour. it's going to end at, b berks county within the next hour the way it's moving because although it's a solid area it's not that big when you look at the big picture. and there's breaks in the clouds in western pennsylvania which are likely to be coming in here later today. by noontime we're seeing much of the rain area moving through and as we head toward the afternoon rush, we don't really expect any kind of rain. and the southerly wind keeping things on the warmer side, especially if we get a little sunshine, temperatures into the 60s again. the average high only 58. and then as we go through the night tonight, again, it's not all that chilly but during the day tomorrow it's not going to be warming up a whole lot so here we are at 6:00 a.m. at 48 degrees which is not cold for this time of the year. and then the temperature is really struggling to get up near 60 degrees tomorrow. and then it will be even cooler than that.

significantly cooler than that on saturday. so as the temperatures go down friday night into saturday morning, take a look. the 30s start coming back and we're going to see more and more of that. it also means that the weather for the eagles game is going to be on the chilly side, not as windy, and not as cold as saturday is likely to be, though. pretty decent weather for football this time of the year. we have showers today with drying conditions later in the day, highs in the low 60s. and then tomorrow we start seeing the gusty winds come in, we could see gusts over 35 miles an hour. and temperatures may not even get to 60 degrees, nowhere near 60 on saturday. and it's going to be windy, too. that will be a chilly day. and then look at sunday morning. 35 in philadelphia. i wouldn't be surprised if some areas get down into the 20s by the time we get to monday. but look at next week. it starts warming up again.

now, i've put together my long-range winter forecast, including how much snow we're going to get, which month is going to get the most snow, which month is going to be the coldest or the warmest. look for it all later today, my winter forecast only on nbc10.com and the nbc 10 app. we'll look forward to seeing that glenn. direct strike. >> it is a laser. it just did it again. >> a bright green beam of light hits an nbc news helicopter flight the cockpit. how authorities were able to nab a suspect and what the faa is doing in light of this latest incident. plus, delaware's largest city could be the setting for a new tv show, but not everyone is happy with this new distinction for wilmington.

one delaware city is getting national attention for the wrong reasons. a new tv series set in wilmington is titled "murder town." "variety" reports jada pinkett smith is set to produce and star in the show for abc. she'll play the city's first african-american district attorney. wilmington's mayor says he know there is's a crime problem in his city but he says the show could really hurt his town's reputation nationally. >> i'm to the point where, you know, i'm not going to sit up and get a battery of lawyers and try to sue abc. it would be fruitless. i think it will flop anyway. i think maybe one or two shows. i don't think it will get off

the ground. that's my personal opinion. >> there's no indication the show will be filmed in wilmington. that brings us to our next guests. they believe putting a stop to violence begins with young people and they're part of an organization in wilmington that works by educating and encouraging young people in their city. rob moore is the president of the chance foundation and he's hear what marsalis sirdan. coach, i want to talk to you first, you coach a lot of youth teams. you worked everyday to stop violence in your city. you're one of those people that do that every city has guys like you and there should be more of you. what's your reaction to a show that's dubbed murdertown? >> i got a call from one of the writers that wrote the article and there was this -- it was disgusting to me, to be perfectly honest. murdertown, it seems they're capitalizing on a real serious

issue that we're having in the city of wilmington. but it's not that bad and they're portraying that wilmington, delaware, is really that bad and it isn't. >> tell us about your organization, what you do. >> my organization, we've been around for nine years. we've actually -- we have a traveling basketball team, we do a lot of mentoring and we're currently starting to write plays and trying to touch kids all across america and throughout the tri-state. it's been a hard task we've been doing working with the kids and everything but i enjoy it everyday working with these guys and working with all the kids in wilmington, delaware. >> let me stourn theturn to thed ask marsalis and shawn. shawn, you've done acting, marsalis, this is your first experience in acting so tell me about the play first and then what your experience has been like.

>> well, the play to me is about the overlying message of the play is about unity so everybody in the play has a different target. it's called "i shall not be a target." so we all have a target or goal in life that we want to accomplish, then there are things in our lives that are vices that are targeting us. so i think there's somebody in this play that everybody can relate to. >> and shawn, how about you? how do you see this play making an impact on the youth and the young people in wilmington? >> i see this play making an impact because it sends a message to get kids off the street and do something positive with their life and even in the play itself, you know, it's -- it straddles the line where you see the negative but you see the positive and at the end of the plate it will make you want to go the positive route. >> you guys are doing good work and appreciate it. you guys brought me a t-shirt of the play. this is fresh off the printer. >> fresh off the printer now. >> you're the first person besides the crew that actually

has one of the shirts. >> appreciate it. appreciate the good work you guys are doing in your city and what it means for the people there. you can see the stage play "i should not be a target" this saturday november 14 at stubbs elementary school on north pine street in wilmington. there's a show at 2:00 in the afternoon, a matinee, and one at 6:00 p.m. for more information, head to our web site, we'll have a link and find out how you can get tickets at nbc10.com and check out the nbc 10 app. guys, thank you for coming in and good luck on the play this weekend. it's a serious issues for parents in schools especially following revelations of a school sexting scandal at a local middle school. authorities are focusing on cyber bullying and ways they're working to stop it in this digital age. plus, coffee cup controversy. starbucks stirred up plenty earlier this week with no symbols of the season on its cups, now dunkin' donuts unveils its new cup design. we'll show you the difference when we come back.

it's a pretties in a day day throughout if you haven't noticed. rainy and windy conditions going on right now. we have a live look here. belief it or not that's boat house row. hard to make out, but that's boat house row in philly. the rain is falling right now in various places but it's not going to be an all day event and that's the good news: nbc 10's first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with the forecast. it will end some time today. >> absolutely. some place will end within the next hour. it did not affect the morning rush, it's not likely to affect the afternoon rush. you can see visibility is down, you still have rain and it's been a steady rain because it's a solid area but we see the back

edge already. it never made it to central southern delaware or extreme south jersey. that's not going to last that long. maybe you'll get an hour or so of moderate to heavy rain. it's tapering off in delaware county and some of the locally heavy rain in much of the philadelphia area, especially northeast philly. lower bucks county and lower montgomery county right now. but the back edge of it you can see clearly. it's not going to be raining all day. we still have some showers back by washington that could come through over the next couple of hours so it's not necessarily going to shut off and that's the total end of it but we don't expect it to be lasting through the day. by 4:00 expect least peeks of sunshine, temperatures getting into the 60s. southwest wind keeping things mild even through the evening

hours. but that wind direction is going to change. colder air coming in and some good winds, too. the timing on all of that and see how cold it will get with the seven day in a few minutes. >> thank you, glenn. the chester county d.a. has just finished meeting with the media to discuss dangers of sexting and cyber bullying. his words came after scandal that rocked local schools there. monique braxton is live in west chester where the d.a. finished talking to reporters. monique, what did the d.a. have to say? >> district attorney tom hogan tells us at this point four juveniles, all guys, face serious cyber bullying and sexting charges. he showed us a flowchart to give you a sense of how the case began. two middle school students were dating. they're represented at b 1 and g. boy 1 and girl. when she broke up with him and started dating boy 2, that's when the first boyfriend began sending those sexting messages

between the initial couple out to several other kids. now d.a. hogan says it doesn't only involve students at valley forge, east town and conestoga but it's happening all over the school district so he's urging parents to talk to their children. >> three of the boys have been charged in this particular case, one has been charged in a separate case so there are four boys that we have wrapped up in this sexting and cyber bully in incident. >> reporter: he ban says the children are hiding the sexting pictures in vault apps or what's called the cloud. 30 to 50 cases have been reported in chester county. the assistant district attorney read part of this victim statement from the girl that's involved in which she says bullying and harassment are never okay on any level. we will continue to follow this investigation and have more in our evening newscast.

in chester, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >> monique, thank you. a news chapper crew helps police two men accused of pointing a laser at their aircraft in the skies over new york city. as nbc's tom costello shows us, shining a laser at a cockpit can have dangerous consequences. >> reporter: the incident took place wednesday night when a chopper pilot for our nbc station wnbc was flying 1500 feet above new york city. >> don't look at it. >> reporter: suddenly a bright green people beam of light lit up the cockpit. >> he's getting lasered. just did it again. >> reporter: a laser nearly blinding the chopper 4 reporter and his pilot as they hovered above brooklyn. >> you get in the the face like that, in the eyes, you can go temporarily blind. >> reporter: he then spotted a group of men who appeared to be targeting not only the nbc chopper but also a new york police department chopper called in to investigate. >> oh, yeah, you think this is a joke, huh? >> reporter: nbc cameras catching police arresting at

least one man and detaining two others. it comes after a string of similar incidents at new york city airports earlier this year. >> american 1472 we've got a green laser shooting at us right off the left wing about a mile out. >> reporter: experts say the problem is growing at airports across the country. in 2010, more than 2800 reports. last year, nearly 3900. while the suspects appeared to think it was all a joke, those inside the aircraft say it's no laughing matter. >> this is a helicopter that weighs almost two tons. imagine that coming down on your house because the pilot's vision similar paired. even more serious is if it was a jetliner. >> that was nbc's tom costello reporting. the "today" show meteorologist al roker is trying to visit all 50 states by tomorrow and this morning he happened to come through our area. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong was on the train with al as he traveled from

wilmington to the 30th street station. >> i was with him for two states and i'm exhausted. i was wondering what the secret sauce is to this trip. hitting every state in under a week. the two key words are quick and efficient. talk about a whirlwind. >> go, go! >> reporter: al roker and his rokerthon team working at an unbelievable pace. delaware on his quest to do all 50 states weather. you're watching his stop in state 41. what will you remember most about your time in delaware? >> it was very short. >> reporter: then back in the train. a team of producers and technicians trying to keep everything straight and make a on the of live tv. they've traveled by jet and car. today they are am tracking it. >> it's all on a moving train! last year we did the rokerthon where we were up 34 hours. this is like doing six rokerthons in a row.

last night was the longest we got to sleep. like? three hours? >> three hours. >> reporter: the crew is cheery but friday. >> we've been eating horribly. horribly. it's good food but it's so bad for you. >> reporter: before you know it, the train slows down -- >> philadelphia. philadelphia 30th street station. >> we have to get ready to get off the train and do the record now, baby. >> reporter: al jumps out and together we do the weather for pennsylvania, a.k.a. state 42. >> philadelphia you're looking at 62 degrees today. >> reporter: al slaps me with some swag. >> have a rokerthon hat. your camera guy gets a rokerthon hat. boom, all right. >> reporter: then al getsen the northbound train. about to tackle new england. >> we're back on the train. here we go! >> reporter: it all happened so unbelievably quickly i can't believe it happened. i was left on the platform alone with a goofy hat and flag. al is on the train to boston then getting in a car and driving the rest of the new england states. he a goal to new york city and

finish up the world record tomorrow. he's doing this for feeding america. so they're helping fight hunger around america during the course of the last week so it's all for a good cause. live at 30th street station in philadelphia, pennsylvania, a.k.a. state 42 on rokerthon. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> and, of course, delaware is 41. >> first state but number 141. >> a west philadelphia principal is literally begging for books to ensure her students have the proper reading material. nbc 10's katy zachry has a look. >> reporter: we're not talking about textbooks, these are books kids read for fun outside of the classroom but it turns out students at one west philadelphia elementary school were not doing this. >> one of the questions that with ask is what type of books do you like? what's your favorite author? fantasy. what type of genre. and they didn't understand what we were talking about. >> reporter: that's because

there are many kids at alan locke elementary school who don't have books to read at home. their principal catherine mceller carter wants to help build those home libraries so she's asking everyone, her friends, family, even the public, to donate elementary-age books. she gives out a few books a day to students for good behavior and they love it. >> 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: turns out they need this extra reading at home because many older students are choosing books three or four years below their grade level reading. so this exercise has helped teachers see what they need to focus on in the classroom. their principal tells me she's not picky. she will accept any school-age appropriate donated books from any background and any interest. reporting from spring garden, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. as starbucks continues to face criticism of its plain red

and green holiday cups, dunkin' donuts has released its own holiday-themed version. the dunkin' version has the green-and-red lettering on one side and the word "joy" on the other side along with images of wreaths and holly. compare that to the starbucks cup on the left with plain red and the green starbucks logo and no holiday wording at all. some religious conservatives say the starbucks cups are a part of a war on christmas. dunkin' donuts says its cups in the works before starbucks controversy. shop till you drop. do you dread it or does the thought of going on a spending spree get your blood moving? well, doctors say they have some insight on retail therapy and why some people just feel better after they go shopping. well, we're dealing with the rain for now and it's going to get windy out there, too. i'll let you know when the rain will move out and when the cold air will move in. that's just ahead.

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obesity is still on the r e rise. data says 37% of adults are obese, up from 32% a decade ago. the study shows the scales are tipping toward women. obesity rates for men and women had been about the same for the last decade but now they are significantly higher for women than men. do you those the mall when you're having an emotional day? now doctors have some insight behind retail therapy.

nbc's haley hernandez explains what they found out. >> uptown, up scale, off the rack or online. >> i'm a shopaholic. >> reporter: it doesn't matter where you buy. the pleasure from the purchase is still there. >> the day that i'm down i'll go to the mall and goo shopping and i seem to get a fix out of that. >> reporter: a psychologist at cleveland clinic said shopping is enjoyable because it appeals to the senses. >> it can be visual, auditory senses but it gets us sensing, that gets us out of our own thoughts and if we can get away from thinking about ourselves we feel better. >> some say that feeling has led to an intentional habit. >> it's like my hobby. after i go shopping, if i feel stressed i feel relaxed. >> it's a fleeting feeling. always exciting to get new shoes or a new purse then you want another new shoe, new purse, right? >> reporter: i cleveland clinic says you don't have to charge

anything. window shop canning produce delightful brain chemistry. it's all about thinking of possibilities. if you enjoy retail therapy, the doctor suggests using it as a reward. >> if you plant it out and say i'm going to save for this thing or reward myself for new behavior, you accumulate those funds to do retail therapy, that can feel really, really good. >> that was nbc's haley hernandez reporting. one in four children is suffering from a vision problem and that often results in poor school performance. sad reality is that many of these children don't have access to quality vision care but a local university has been doing its part to look out for kids in an important way. dr. michael middleman is the president of salus university and he's here to talk about the looking out for kids initiative. dr., welcome back. tell us about this program and the kids that you're helping. >> well, we've been doing this program for over nine years but really we've been going out to schools for over 40 years. we recognize that there's a

unique need for vision care, as you stated, for kids and in philadelphia public school wes think there are about -- up to about 40,000 kids who might need some sort of vision help. >> reporter: are these typically kids in inner city who are living in poverty who can't afford glasses? can't afford to get their eyes checked? >> absolutely. that's what this program is focused on. we go out, we screen these kids and if they need definitive vision examination wes bring them to our eye institute in east oak lane. we do an exam and provide two free pair of glasses for them. one for home, one for school. >> because typically kids in the suburbs where their parents have money and they can get glasses, those kids are taken care of but kids in the inner cities in a single parent home and typically doesn't have as most kids don't have the confidence to say i can't see the chalk board, those kids fall through the cracks. >> they do. we're very concerned about that. but teachers notice this, the school nurses play a key and essential role and by down this

they're changing these kids' lives. they bring these kids to us, they either bring it to one of the screenings or call it to our attention and we're able to really give them that definitive vision care that makes a difference and what we found through the examples that we're getting from the schools is that once they get the glasses, these kids light up. they actually change. their performance improves and all of a sudden we change their lives. >> tell me how families who may have a child in need, how can they access your program? >> they can mention it to their school and the school nurse would actually -- knows how to contact us. we're in philadelphia public schools, we're in norristown public schools and we're going into abington so basically philadelphia county and montgomery county. obviously i don't have the resources to go everywhere. we screen over 5,000 kids a year right now. so the more assets i have, the more i can do. >> and this costs money and you have a big fund-raiser coming up.

>> it does. our looking our for kids charity that was started by my chief of staff nine years ago, that provides the funds for this and last year we provided by almost a thousand pair of glasses for these kids. >> and it came mostly from fund-raisers like this. >> it did. from fund-raisers like this. we take it to the university. and we have other services. we have audiology, speech and language and we're trying to combine these to provide full care. >> president mittleman, i speak for those kids how much it's appreciated for them. you can't help everybody but you can help as many as you can and last year a thousand kids. that's really, really impressive. the ninth annual looking out for kids charity fund-raiser and online auction is taking place this saturday night, november 14, from 6:30 to 10:30 at salus university in elkins park. nbc 10's rosemary connors is your emcee.

fantastic. for more information, head to our web site at nbc10.com or check out the nbc 10 news app. thank you for coming in. >> appreciate it. >> you, too. >> things are changing pretty rapidly out there. >> the rain is across the area and moving out. it's moving very quickly. colder air will be coming in behind it over the next two or three days setting us up for a chilly weekend on saturday. the low clouds are still there and the rain still reported at philly international but not for much longer as you'll see. eventually that wind is going to change and knock that temperature down high of 59 tomorrow and 51 on saturday the average high is 58. 48 in mount pocono, 50s

elsewhere. low to mid-50s north and west. 57 in philadelphia and in northeast philly but 55 in wrightstown and trenton and close to 60 towards the jersey shore. the wind out of the south for the time being once it shifts into the west and northwest the colder air will come in. about five to ten, 12 miles an hour right now. but it will be much windier tomorrow. you can see the area of rain already moving out very quickly. it's already ended in chester county, delaware county, at least the steady rain and the heaviest rain is now in the trenton area, mercer county moving toward new york city. there's another area of showers not as heavy coming up from washington and i-95 will be headed into northern delaware and the philadelphia area within the next hour. everything's moving fast so the clearing will be coming in fast as well. so by later this afternoon

instead of having rain for the afternoon rush you may have sunshine coming in. 60 degrees by 1:00 and you can see the rain pretty much gone as we head toward the afternoon rush. the southerly wind still there. it's on the mild side and as we go through the night as long as we have the southerly wind it stays mild. 61 at 9:00 at night and then we start to see some changes. it won't be all that cold by tomorrow morning. it's not going to warm up a whole lot during the day. watch those temperatures in the 50s not go up. there's noontime, 55. now it goes down. so if anything it's going to be 10 degrees colder tomorrow afternoon and by friday at 7:00 p.m., 46 degrees in philly and by saturday morning we're going to be talking about temperatures in the 30s over many suburbs. they're at 35 degrees we saw there in allentown. it's going to be chilly for the

eagles game but not as cold on sunday as it will be saturday. showers moving through with drying gradually coming in during the afternoon with highs in the low to mid-60s depending on how much sunshine we get. gusty winds, gusts over 30 miles an hour and temperatures not going up very much during the afternoon. saturday is a chilly day and a windy day high of only 51. the average high is 58. we'll be close to that on sunday and then we start to warm up next week. we can get close to 70 by the middle of the week. i've put together my long-range winter forecast for this season. my 19th annual pit includes how much snow we're likely to get. which month will be the coldest. there should be quite a variety of conditions this winter. look for all of that today and my winter forecast only on nbc10.com and the nbc 10 app. and we'll be right back.

coming up this afternoon at 3:00, ellen celebrates 24her 2,000th show with a lot of great memories. then nbc 10 news at 4:00. bedbugs return. how one local library is trying to get rid of these pests for the second time and where they might have come from.

this afternoon on nbc 10 news at 4:00. thanks for watching nbc 10 news at 11:00. i'm vai sikahema, for glenn "hurricane" schwartz, all of us here. have a great day, stay dry.

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