and a half from the shooting scene. it was, police say, an attempted assassination in the middle of the street, and we found out today it was carried out using a gun stolen from another philly cop about two years ago. high overhead surveillance cameras captured it all, the man wearing that long white robe rushing up with gun pointed. the flashes of gunfire until the suspect actually has his arm in the car window. he then takes off, still firing as he runs away. >> that is chilling, absolutely chilling when you watch that. >> reporter: police commissioner richard ross just four days on the job calls it an ambush. nbc 10 cameras captured the bullet-riddled patrol car and the suspect's gun laying on the ground. police and witnesses say that suspect, edward archer, rushed up out of nowhere around 11:40 last night and fired on the passing officer, jesse hartnett, who was on patrol.

>> he didn't say anything, came straight down to the cop car and boom, boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: that officer, his left arm badly wounded, chased the suspect firing back and radioed for help. other officers captured the suspect just around the corner here only steps from a home where he often stayed. >> i was just woken up by a bunch of commotion. what i actually heard was, you know, the cop saying to the guy, get the f down, get the f down. >> reporter: the .9 millimeter gun had been reported stolen from another philly cop's home two years ago. when archer was questioned today, police tell us he repeatedly stated his allegiance to islam. an insufficient explanation for city leaders. >> right away he didn't have anything to say, but stated he pledges his allegiance to islamic state, follows allah. >> abhorrent, doesn't represent

the religion in any form or its teachings. >> reporter: at this point philadelphia police don't have any evidence to tie archer to a larger network, nor do they have evidence that would indicate he was strictly working alone. the fbi is working with local police on this. as for that gun, commissioner ross tells us the officer who had it stolen from his home back in 2013 did properly report the theft, but there is no way to know how many hands that gun passed through before it was used last night. george spencer, nbc 10 news. >> members of the islamic community say they agree with mayor kenney, the shooting cannot be justified by any religion. we are united with our fellow philadelphians and decry this and all senseless violence and urge that we do more to prevent the proliferation of guns on our streets. >> police commissioner says he's amazed the officer not only

survived, but fought back, as well. >> he made this call moments after the shooting. >> shots fired, i'm shot. bleeding heavily! >> this afternoon we're hearing from officer hartnett's father on what he calls a nightmare for the family. >> lauren mayk outside presbyterian hospital where doctors are treating the injured officer right now. lauren? >> reporter: good afternoon. officer hartnett was hit three times, three bullets all in the left arm. as you mentioned his boss, police commissioner, he is amazed he is alive, but his family, they are proud. at bob hartnett's auto repair, today it's about jesse. what has this past 24 hours been like for you? >> like a nightmare, it's tough, but it's family, we're going to take care of each other and all be back down there in a little bit. >> reporter: bob hartnett is closing up his shop for a weekend, anxious to get back to the hospital to see his son, officer jesse hartnett. shot in his patrol car while

doing the job he always wanted. >> this is a travesty, terrible, somebody just run up and shoot him. i don't understand that. >> reporter: surveillance video shows the 33-year-old officer get out of his patrol car after the shooting, wounded, he was able to return fire. >> i'm truly amazed, but i expect it from him. >> reporter: his uncle tells me about his handgun training. >> he's capable of doing what he had to do. unfortunately, their fire hit first. >> reporter: but family knows it's dedication, too. why do you think he wanted to be a police officer? >> always wanted to help people, plain and simple. always just wanted to do good. >> reporter: it's why his dad says he joined the coast guard. following that there was a stint at east lansdowne police. now he's in the hospital, where a proud dad got to see him after surgery. what did you say to him? >> i love him, proud of you, going to be fine. yes. he will be. >> reporter: while personally this is a tough day for the

family, professionally this officer is getting a lot of praise. i spoke with the chief of the east lansdowne police today, he tells me he was a great officer and that he was well liked in the community. his current boss, the police commissioner here in philadelphia calling him a compassionate officer and as for what he did last night, brave. live in powellton village, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >> this police shooting comes at the end of the week where the heated debate of gun control was on everybody's mind. >> it's amazing the number of weapons that are available to people, people who are criminals, people who are mentally ill. >> just in the past few minutes we learned the new york police department sent out an internal memo to their officers urging them to be extra vigilant because of the shooting here in philadelphia. president obama addressed the problem of gun violence earlier this week. he cried, you'll recall, in memory of the children who died during the shooting spree at

sandy hook elementary three years ago. he outlined a plan that includes an increase in background checks on gun buyers. the president discussed his action plan during a live town hall meeting last night. recapping what we know right now, philadelphia police say the shooting of officer jesse hartnett was an attempted execution and was carried out in the name of islam. they also say the suspect, edward archer, used a stolen police gun in his crime. hartnett was shot three times in the arm, but is expected to survive. he managed to fire back and wound the suspect, as wellment count on nbc 10 for new details. coming up at 4:30 we went to a mosque not far from the shooting scene today. what the local muslim community is saying about this shooting. sky force 10 is over breaking news right now in delaware county. a car and a tractor trailer have collided at second and jeffrey streets in the city of chester. nbc 10 is working to learn if anyone was hurt. drivers should avoid that area. we'll continue to monitor the crash and bring you updates as

they happen. and breaking news out of mexico. fugitive drug lord el chapo guzman has been caught six months after he escaped from a maximum security prison. authorities say el chapo was captured after a shootout with mexican marines. five people were killed, one mexican marine wounded. el chapo was not hurt. back in july you'll remember he made international headlines when he escaped through a tunnel through mexico's highest security prison. back here at home now to the fierce fire that killed a pregnant woman and her young son in north philadelphia this morning. fire officials saying the two were just steps away from making it to safety. nbc 10's cydney long is live in north philadelphia this afternoon. you've learned space heaters may have sparked this fire. >> reporter: well, jim, fire investigators are definitely leaning in that direction. they tell us as many as five space heaters were being used by this family and some of them improperly. they also say a blanket perhaps

on the first floor caught fire by one of the heaters and it spread upstairs and now two of eight people, a mother and her young son who were simply trying to keep warm while asleep, are dead. she's in shock. >> something that hurts, we're in shock right now. just something that it's not real for us right now. it's not. >> reporter: her cousin, elizabeth perez, was just 29, due to deliver a baby girl next month, she planned to name her yvette. perez died after going back inside to rescue her 2-year-old son nathaniel. fire official derek sawyer describes what he found once the flames were out. >> not a pretty sight, not a pretty sight, you can see her holding her child in her arms trying to get out. that's why it's important once you get out, you have to stay out. >> just hearing she made it to her son and gave her that hug, gave her child that hug. >> reporter: she offered blankets and coats to loved ones wailing in despair outside the home at 4:00 this morning.

>> it's sad, you know, hearing neighbors screaming out desperately. >> reporter: she realizes the danger, but empathized any parent would try to save their own child. >> i would have done the same thing. i would have crawled. if i didn't make it out, at least i tried, gave him 100. >> reporter: sawyer says the family was improperly using five space heaters inside the home, there were no working smoke detectors. >> monday i tweeted out if you're going to use space heaters, space heaters need space. >> reporter: the philadelphia fire department did spend the last hour or so canvassing this neighborhood checking door to door on residents to make sure that they do have working smoke detectors inside and one woman we spoke to says there is another reason that people in this area could become trapped inside their homes and it has to do with how they exit out of their back door. we'll show you what we're talking about and explain at 5:00. for now, live in north philadelphia, cydney long, nbc

10 news. now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> now to our weather, where the week is ending on a cloudy note. here's a live look over the center city skyline. we're looking ahead to a weekend warmup. we'll see some rain. first alert radar tracking heavy showers part of the weekend. >> first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz tracking what's ahead. glenn, not a total washout for the weekend, right? >> absolutely not, and the heavier precipitation comes later in the weekend. got a little bit of light stuff in central pennsylvania headed this way, nothing around here, despite all the clouds we've seen all day. you can see this is the first band of moisture as it moves into the cold air. there's a chance that some of it could be in the form of some very light freezing rain toward the pocono mountains, that's why there's a winter weather advisory there for late tonight, but just a few rain showers during the night tonight, generally dry during the day tomorrow. it's 45 in philadelphia now, even above freezing in the

poconos, where it's going to be kind of a marginal case, but in much of the rest of the area the temperature not really dropping much. overnight tonight it stays cloudy, but we have heavy rain over the weekend and also some record warmth. the details on all of that coming with the seven day in a few minutes. so you thought $700 million was a lot of money. >> i did. >> thought $700 was a lot, how about $800. >> yeah, that's the new record powerball prize up for grabs. lottery officials saying strong ticket sales prompted them to raise the jackpot, and it's possible it could grow more before tomorrow night's drawing. "the washington post" reporting it could hit $1 billion. that's if there's no winner tomorrow. coming up at 4:55, ted greenberg finds out how many tickets are being printed every minute as we get closer to tomorrow night's drawing. tracy, stay where you are, you're not buying any right now. >> in a minute, yes. wall street just wrapped up its worst week since 2011, and

it's another day in the red. here's a live look at the big board, dow jones lost 150 points before closing to end the day down. it closed down 167 points for the week, the dow lost more than 1,000 points. a 13-year-old boy is dead this afternoon and no one is in custody for that shooting in camden overnight, happened just after 11:00 last night on line street near beacon avenue. officers found nathaniel plumber jr. lying on the sidewalk, he was taken to the hospital but died there. police haven't said what may have led to the shooting, and as we said so far no arrests. the man behind the deadly building collapse in center city know how much time they'll spend in prison. deanna durante was in court for an emotional hearing where the contractor said it was all an accident. >> reporter: family members of griffin campbell don't say anything as they leave the criminal justice center, some reacted inside the courtroom

while shouting profanity after a judge handed down a 15 to 30-year sentence for the contractor. his lawyer says campbell was not trained to take down the building at 22nd and market streets in june of 2013 and that's why it collapsed, but in asking for a larger sentence, prosecutors say campbell was in it for a money and took risks when he sold the building supports for parts before taking the building down. >> the drum they were beating that this was an accident makes it sound like it was sort of a one-off careless mistake, and that wasn't the evidence in this case. >> reporter: campbell sat hands down, head folded down, cried when his daughter spoke. the 51-year-old contractor was the lowest bidder on a project he hoped would propel him into the demolition field. they say campbell and his co-defendant are the fall guys for rich and powerful developers in the city. >> he asked for the forgiveness, he and family members expressed their condolences. this has been an epic tragedy

all along, but in terms of, quote, criminal culpability, it's an outrage that only two players, the bottom of the economic food chain, bottom of the totem pole, are the only two that the district attorney sought to obtain. >> reporter: campbell told a judge he never wanted to hurt anyone and tried to pull people from the wreckage, says he still cries and prays for the victims. the man operating machinery on the site that day when the brick wall collapsed, killing six and injuring 13, took a plea deal. he was sentenced to seven and a half to 15 years in prison. campbell's lawyers are vowing to appeal. he says he wants to use testimony from the civil cases to show that others were at fault. nbc 10, deanna durante. bill cosby is set back in court next month. the preliminary hearing now set for february 2nd in norristown. it was originally scheduled next week in elkins park, but cosby's

team asked for more time to prepare for the hearing. the 78 year old is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in his home in 2004. new information about a deadly hit and run in delaware. authorities have identified the woman killed as 21 year old michelle rivera. officials say rivera was trying to cross route 1 when she was hit by more than one vehicle, none of them stayed at the scene. turning now to the latest on the budget battle, the pennsylvania school board association has announced it's suing the governor and the state legislature. the group claims that it is illegal and unconstitutional to withhold state and federal school aid during the budget impasse. it's asking common wealth court to prevent the state from withholding the money and seeks damages. just last week governor tom wolf freed up $3.5 million in emergency funding for state schools and social services. here's a change on septa when it comes to security, the movements of every septa police

officer now will be recorded while they are on duty. all 270 septa police officers now have body cameras to wear as part of their uniforms. septa's police chief talked about the department's body camera program today and showed how they've been successful in their pilot program. each officer will get training on how to use the cameras and will also be responsible for activating it to record any incident. >> this is going to be very good for the public and for the police. cameras are going to make good cops great cops and make the rest of them follow the rules. >> septa spent nearly $300,000 on the cameras. an airman from our area killed in a suicide bombing in afghanistan was laid to rest today. 30-year-old air force staff sergeant peter taub graduated from sheltenham high school, the father of a 3-year-old girl with another child on the way. one of six u.s. troops killed in a suicide bombing before christmas.

services also held today for a 5-year-old autistic boy who ran off from a party on new year's eve. he was later found dead in a lehigh valley canal. police believe his death was a tragic accident. today marks the fifth anniversary of the shooting of former congresswoman gabby giffords. bells rang out across the state in honor of the victims at the moment of the shooting that left six people dead, 13 others injured, and the gunman, jared lockner opened fire during an event in a supermarket parking lot. giffords was shot in the head, left with a severe brain injury but has since become a vocal gun control activist. lockner is serving life without parole. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> well, it's been a good week for the poconos, able to make snow, but they are going to be in with the rest of us getting rain this weekend, and some of

it on the heavy side. not exactly great for the skiers, but next week it's going to get great again. sunday in the 60s in parts of the area, record warmth again, but we've got two arctic blasts coming next week. going to make up for that. got cloudy skies, had it all day, had it yesterday. temperatures still above average. 45 degrees, the winds northeast at seven miles an hour. that northeast wind helps to keep those clouds in. and so we've had 45 degrees today, up to 52 tomorrow, 65 degrees on sunday, and then it really plunges early next week. right now 41 in mount pocono, 41 in allentown and lancaster. temperatures not dropping a whole lot, so no real threat of icing other than up in the higher elevations. we'll keep an eye on that during the evening. clouds, lots of clouds around, but it's been dry all day, despite that the rain is back to

the west. coming into pennsylvania, and in some of the higher elevations in the form of some freezing rain, generally on the lighter side and that whole thing is going to be weakening. we do have winter weather advisory for the pocono mountains and north hampton county until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, kind of a marginal situation for north hampton, best chance of getting a little bit of icing for a brief period of time. you can see how the temperatures are marginal up in mount pocono and well above freezing elsewhere. plus, not a whole lot of precipitation coming in tonight. do have some showers coming in towards midnight, so a lot of you are going to be sleeping when some of the light showers come in and by tomorrow morning we're generally drying out, so most of the day, if not the entire day tomorrow, is likely to be dry and warmer with temperatures getting into the 50s in the philadelphia area and points to the south. still kind of cool up to the north, but the regular rain, the

steady rain, the heavier rain doesn't come until later saturday night, and you can see that coming up from the southwest. look at this, by sunday morning, it is all over the place. some of this is very heavy, possible thunderstorms here, you can see even the red, that's as heavy as it gets here, but look how warm, temperatures in the 50s. it is moving out fast, too, limiting any flood threat, and look at that temperature rise in the afternoon. 66 degrees in philadelphia. it's amazing. cloudy and mild with a chance of some showers late, 40 for the low in philadelphia, 34 north and west, and near the freezing mark in the poconos. cloudy and milder tomorrow, just a chance of a shower in the morning, but most of the rain comes well after dinnertime tomorrow night, and high temperatures getting above 50 in at least a good bit of the area. there's the record warmth for sunday, the morning rain, the

afternoon looks dry and windy and warm, and then the wind brings in arctic air. temperatures 30 degrees colder monday afternoon and with the wind it will feel 40 degrees colder. how about that? then we've got a chilly day on tuesday and another arctic blast coming in wednesday a chance of some snow showers. so check this out, come to your screen, look at that. the bird you see is a snowy owl. it was captured mid flight by a traffic camera in montreal, and data suggests that the elusive snowy owl is actually turning up more frequently in the skies of north america than the pages of the harry potter book because they typically travel only in search of food, they are rarely seen outside the arctic. >> that one wanted some facetime. >> crazy, right? >> beautiful bird. well, there is trouble for a maker of one of the holiday season's most popular gifts. >> why some users say their fit

bits aren't living up to the hype. next, the problem inside this mobile coffee shop that made it explode. we continue to follow breaking news in west philadelphia where a police officer survived an ambushed shooting. police say the suspect did it in the name of islam. at 4:30 we're live with a local reaction.

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measure heart rate as advertised. fitbit says it stands by its technology but warns the wrist bands are not intended to be medical devices. well, you're going to notice changes to the labels on campbell's soups products. the company says the federal government should establish a single mandatory labeling standard for foods delivered or derived from gmos, but campbell's says even if a federal solution isn't worked out, it's going to still put gmo labels on products that contain those ingredients. today we are getting a rare look at a police officer's stunning attack in west philadelphia. >> these pictures show the alleged ambush frame by frame. we'll break it down for you next. i'm aundrea cline-thomas live in the suspect's neighborhood. i'm going to tell you what we found out about him coming up. ♪

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nbc 10 breaking news. >> now at 4:30, officer ambushed. a gunman's attempt to kill an officer on a west philadelphia street is caught on camera and today the police say the suspected gunman carried out the crime in the name of islam. the injured officer, jesse hartnett, was shot three times in the arm but was able to fire back. >> and he's now recovering in the hospital. today the police commissioner commending hartnett's heroic actions. as for the suspect, edward archer, fired more than a dozen shots, archer was also wounded in the shooting. we learned today the gun used in the crime was a police weapon stolen back in october of 2013. nbc 10's keith jones is here now to give us a closer look at the terrifying face to face encounter. >> as the commissioner said, amazing officer jesse hartnett

survived and here's why when we break down the surveillance video. here's the suspect approaching the police cruiser pointing the stolen police weapon at hartnett. then police say edward archer pointed his gun right into the window with his right hand, shooting officer hartnett at point blank range and hitting him three different times. you can see the suspect run away in our next shot, he's a bit of a blur here in the crosswalk. he turns around one more time, tough to see him so i'm going to circle him, right here, even extending the right arm out in the officer's direction. then officer hartnett with his injured arm actually gets out of the police cruiser, he's right here right now favoring that left arm and this is when he's calling for backup. despite his injuries, he courageously runs after the suspect, if you're looking for him, he's right down here actually. there he is, bottom of the screen, edward archer soon arrested after this, too, and it's thanks to him running after him, also shooting at the suspected as he's running, but

this man was apprehended. jim, tracy, back to you. >> thanks for that explanation, keith. nbc 10 has been digging into the suspect's past. >> that includes his ties to islam. nbc 10's aundrea cline-thomas spent the day in archer's neighborhood. >> aundrea, what have you learned? >> reporter: since archer told police he acted in the name of islam, it's raising a number of questions, namely, did he act alone or is he part of a larger network possibly connected to terrorism? law enforcement today said they could not answer any of those questions. right now they are classifying this as a hateful act. i spent some time in his west philly neighborhood earlier this afternoon. the fbi searched two of archer's known addresses. here they are bringing boxes of evidence out of a home on 61st and pine street in west philadelphia. another house is being searched as part of standard procedure, looking into archer's computer activity, telephone, and travel records. sources tell nbc 10 the 30 year

old was unknown to the fbi prior to this incident. in a phone conversation, archer's grandfather told nbc 10 the suspect traveled to saudi arabia about a year ago. it's a place muslims visit as part of a holy pilgrimage. for now law enforcement is not suggesting anything was suspicious about that trip. meanwhile, muslims across the area are condemning the shooting and showing support for the police, including a mosque in archer's neighborhood that the iman could not confirm whether archer attended. >> we can't be responsible for anything that anyone else does. as a matter of fact, we don't take the blame for anything that anyone else does in the world today. >> reporter: i've been looking into archer's prior criminal record, we'll look more into his background, that's coming up at 5:30. for now, reporting live in west philly, aundrea cline-thomas, nbc 10 news. >> the emotion was raw for fellow officers responding to the shooting of one of their own last night.

one philadelphia police officer posted his account of the shooting on facebook, and his words and show of support for officer jesse hartnett have gone viral. in the post, the officer speaks directly to his injured colleague. he writes, "as the light turned green you proceeded through the intersection, what you didn't see was a man approaching your driver side window with a fully loaded handgun by his side. without warning or provocation he raised his weapon and began firing into your vehicle. the officer goes on to say, every cop in the city and surrounding counties responded. i was only two minutes away but felt it took me an hour. almost crashed three separate times trying to get to you. simply wasn't your time, god was watching over you. you did great last night. you made the 18th district and the entire department proud of you. you are a hero. you can count on nbc 10 and the nbc 10 news app for continuing coverage as new details in this story emerge. all right, we're going to take a turn here, here's a question for you if you're going

out to eat tonight. if so, your waiter may impact what you eat. >> not just with recommendations. next, how your server's size could dictate what you choose to eat. and your glass of wine may not give you the health benefits you may think. next, the new study that says it's the exact opposite. i'm keith jones for nbc 10 at issue this week you'll meet one of the democrats running in this spring's primary for pennsylvania u.s. senator. john fedorman doesn't look or act like a candidate, but that's not stopping him or his supporters. >> i am who i am, dress how i dress, i come from a really hard core blue collar working class town, that's why i wear work  shirts every day. >> join me after "meet the press" only on nbc 10.

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found out he was receiving an all expenses paid trip to phillies fantasy camp. >> sergeant ali, everybody. >> i never knew that this was going to happen. i never knew it was going to happen, so sort of overwhelmed. i haven't came down yet from this high that i'm on. >> while on deployment in iraq, sergeant ali said phillies baseball helped him get through his deployment. he was in iraq when the phillies won the 2008 world series title. that season played such a big role during his deployment that sergeant ali left his phillies jersey behind, hanging it on the wall in the dining hall, where it still hangs today. now he looks forward to stepping on the same field as some of his favorite phillies legends. >> i'm still soaking everything in. i haven't been able to come to grips that me, i was chosen, and i'm going to have this

opportunity to go there and just enjoy myself. i'm a little rusty at playing baseball, but again, i'm just going to enjoy myself, i'm going to take it all in and have fun. >> to me, this is what it's about, be able to give back to the people who take care of us, that's the way i look at it, guard our freedom and fight for us. nothing better than see the look on the face or smieg like that, totally shocked, and that's what it's about. >> sergeant first class ali said he'll spend the next few weeks on the field practicing before heading to clearwater. fantasy camp gets under way february 20th. pretty special morning this morning in south philly. >> really special. he shouldn't feel pressure. maybe he can make the team. >> just some legends down there. >> we'll catch up with him there. thank him for his service. >> thanks, jen. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> really nice weather down there during the time of year where they have spring training,

it's why they go down. we are going to be getting some rain this weekend. it's not a total washout, but some of that rain is going to be heavy for at least a few hours, but sunday temperatures are going to get into the 60s, record breaking temperatures in parts of the area, but"tis we'vt two different arctic blasts coming in next week. we continue to see the cloudy skies, cloudy skies yesterday, cloudy today, 45 degrees over the northeast at seven, so very similar to yesterday, temperatures are almost identical, too. we're just above the freezing mark in mount pocono and that temperature is going to be critical tonight as late precipitation moves in. other areas well above freezing are going to stay well above freezing, and so we're just talking about some light rain or showers later on tonight. temperatures range up to the mid 40s in parts of the area. average high once again is 40. it's cloudy everywhere. but we don't have any radar returns until we get a little

bit to the west and some of that in the form of snow in central pennsylvania is mostly in the higher elevations and those are the areas that could potentially see just a little bit of snow or some freezing rain as we go through the generally late evening, toward midnight. you can see 5:00 it's still well above freezing and even at 11:00, mount pocono is above freezing. the rest of us are just as warm all night as during the day today. tomorrow is cloudy, milder, generally dry. that's the best day to avoid this stuff. sunday morning, we get up early, it's going to be raining hard, and as you can see in the future weather computer some of the red here could be seeing some thunderstorms at 7:00 a.m. some of you might get woken up early with it, but look how warm it gets. and once this moves through, that's the morning rain, so in the afternoon it's going to be

mainly dry, and it's going to be incredibly warm. maybe a couple of showers, but sunday afternoon is going to be a little bit different than you would expect in the middle of january. as far as the amount of rain, this is kind of the average of the computer models, a half inch to an inch, so yeah we got heavy rain for a few hours and maybe some local ponding on the roads, but kind of widespread flooding because everything is moving pretty quickly. cloudy and mild with a chance of showers late tonight, generally towards midnight or later, 40 for the low in philadelphia, 34 north and west. then tomorrow another cloudy day, we could see a couple of showers in the morning, but most of the day is dry. it's milder than what we've seen the last couple of days, getting above 50 degrees from philly southward, then on sunday it gets ridiculously warm. look, sunday morning the low is 52, then we go up to 65.

with the morning rain, some of it heavy, then we get into the 60s, maybe a shower in the afternoon. the arctic blast comes monday. temperature drops 30 degrees. with the wind it's going to feel 40 degrees colder. that's a drop. then another arctic blast on wednesday when we may see some snow showers where it gets even colder. so do you have your powerball ticket? >> soon. tomorrow's drawing is a big topic of conversation today and for good reason. $800 million is at stake. so what can you do to increase your odds of winning? we'll tell you next.

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a frenzy ahead of tomorrow's $800 million drawing and there's still plenty of time to get your tickets. the nbc 10 countdown clock shows one day, six hours before the winning numbers are pulled. the jackpot is the largest in u.s. history, and at the rate that it's going, it could get a lot higher. >> nbc 10 jersey shore reporter ted greenberg found people aren't just thinking about themselves, tracy, when it comes to their dreams of hitting it big. >> reporter: soon after he climbed up to change those numbers, the powerball jackpot jumped again. >> this is where it's going to be. >> reporter: at shore true value hardware, they are convinced the winning ticket will be sold here. >> made me come in. i turned the corner and came right in. i said they got the winner. >> reporter: booming sales nationwide bumped the powerball jackpot for tomorrow night's drawing up to an all-time u.s. lottery high of $800 million. >> just like they say, pays to

dream, everybody's dreaming. >> i got the winning ticket. >> reporter: adrian mobley is looking beyond the incredibly slim odds of winning, 1 in 292 million, and thinking about being generous. >> i definitely give it to the needy. >> reporter: the owner of northfield news and tobacco says he's selling quadruple his normal amount of tickets. >> anybody that can, $20 mostly, couple people $100, $200. >> reporter: those who helped problem gamblers say the sky hijack pot can be risky for some. >> when you're not going to be able to put food on your table the next day because you've spent the food money on lottery tickets, that's where our concern comes in. >> reporter: most folks with powerball fever, though, only give up a few bucks. >> i would actually help everybody out. it would be a great thing. >> reporter: i checked with the new jersey lottery and at one point today nearly 2,000 powerball tickets were being sold each minute in the garden

state, look for that number to keep growing closer to tomorrow night's drawing. in northfield, i'm ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >> i love talking to people about how they pick their numbers, right? there is a strategy, a lot of people have their own way when it comes to picking the numbers. >> if you're looking to win the largest jackpot in u.s. history, here's what you can do to increase your odds. a mathematics professor says your odds are slightly better if you let the computer choose the numbers rather than choosing yourself. i know you say what, how can that be. well, it's because when people use birth dates or other favorite numbers they generally choose numbers 31 and under and that ignores the fact that there are 69 numbered balls. >> how much does buying multiple tickets help? here's a breakdown of that math. if you have a 1 in 292 million chance of winning with one ticket, then you have ten times the odds if you buy ten tickets, but the probability is still incredibly small. you could buy all possible

number combinations, but at $2 a ticket, that's going to cost you $584 million, so after the taxes you'd end up losing money there. >> that's not going to work. >> good luck however you do it. nbc 10 news at 5:00 is next. >> here's keith jones. >> next at 5:00, we continue to follow a crime that police call chilling an an outcome they call remarkable. a gunman captured on video ambushing a philadelphia police officer. that officer survived being shot at 13 times. tonight we've learned the gunman did it in the name of islam and where his weapon came from. and on radar we have a lot of rain heading this way, even some wintery weather, but not for everybody. i'll show you who may expect that tonight and some rain for your weekend coming up. plus, after a mother and her young child died in this philadelphia fire, local firefighters have a life saving message. they show us the right way to use space heaters and the mistakes home owners make that

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nbc 10 breaking news. >> ambushed in his own police cruiser. these surveillance photos capture a gunman's attempt to kill a philadelphia police officer. the gunman fires shot after shot until he and the officer come face to face. >> this could have easily been a police funeral. his will to live undoubtedly

saved his life. >> not only did the officer survive, but he chased down and shot his attacker. tonight the gunman claims this was all done in the name of islam. that suspect's name is iz ward archer. fbi agents took items from his west philadelphia home this afternoon. investigators say archer fired more than a dozen shots at officer hartnett at point blank range and the gun used in the crime was a police firearm stolen back in october 2013. officer jesse hartnett was shot three times but is expected to survive. we'll have more on officer hartnett's injuries and what lies ahead for his recovery, but our team coverage begins with nbc 10's george spencer who's been gathering the latest updates from police. do police know anything else about the motive? >> reporter: that's what they are working with the fbi right now to figure out. at this point, though, investigators say they simply do not have hard evidence that would directly connect him