in our region, you can with hold your name if you strike gold. this is a list here of all of the recent powerball jackpot winners. as you can see, people who buy tickets in delaware tend to remain anonymous. folks here say they, too, are probably going to with hold their name, keep it a secret. you can see here, behind the counter, show you big lines here all day, hundreds pouring in each hour. delaware lottery fishes tell me they're selling 22 tickets each second. that number is expected to rise as we get closer to drawing. sales are higher than last week. so far no reports of problems. the state's biggest lottery jackpot in delaware happened in 2004. 33 co-workers from a printing company in sussex struck big, got $116 million and close to remain anonymous. randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10. >> if you win in pennsylvania,

here's a tip, you take home more money after taxes. >> doug shimell joins us live from the store in philadelphia. >> reporter: they're selling more than a million tickets an hour in pennsylvania. we estimate here at brewer's outlet, 60 tickets an hour. the lines continue to extend almost to the door. a lot of first-timers here who were lured off the sidelines by $1.5 billion jackpot. if you win in pennsylvania, in state income tax. of course the feds will get a pretty good chunk. in the winning tickets comes from brewer's outlet or any where ils, the store gets $100,000 commission. >> to the pulse of camden. >> cydney long joins us live from cherry hill with excitement there. people are buying tickets like

crazy. >> left and right. good evening. since 3:00, we have seen about 75 to 50 customers coming in here all with those hot dreams of that vacation spot and getting their chance on forever financial freedom. you would think so. we found out from the new jersey lottery commission 7,057 a minute sold in the garden state. in one hour between 4:00 and 5:00, how much new jersey powerball players spent. 2.67 million in one hour between 4:00 and 5:00. officials don't know if they'll break last saturday's record. that's when they mate their record when no one won saturday evening if you don't know, if you had one dollar to $2 you can multiply your chances of winning powerball times ten. it called power play. i'd have a hard time balancing $1.5 billion jackpot let alone 15 billion.

we'll stick with that. if you call your travel agent, your boss tell them you won't be at work, call your real estate agent, call us, too. we want to meet you. >> maybe calling yourself, you never know. >> it's possible. if you haven't bought a ticket yet and like to play your own numbers we have the most popular numbers picked. >> according to lot lottonumbers.com, 26 comes up the most. it's been drawn 266 times and it could be due, last picked two months ago. also, 41 and 16 picked 255 times. then 22 and 42 and the number with the most times being the powerball number 20, in red. >> we are under five hours away from the drawing. tickets are not sold at 9:59 tonight. count on nbc 10 bring you the winning numbers.

watch nbc 10 at 11:00. if you have the app, you'll get the numbers right away in an alert we send to you. some low numbers in our weather. windy and chilier afternoon. plenty of snow in the mountains. >> chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz joining us with his first alert forecast. >> they got an inch or two in the poconos and able to make snow like crazy. and they might get a little bit more natural snow later tonight. it's 12 degrees now. it in the mid-20s, low 20s in some other parts of the area. still have wind making it feel like it's in the teens, exposed skin, redding feeling like 10. but the wind will diminish this evening. nothing on radar now close by. but we see an area of late snow in ohio that's moving to the

east. could clip northern portions of our area later on tonight. but not in philadelphia area. you could see the temperature leveling off because of the clouds are coming in, that will prevent it from cooling off very much. and the wind goes down as we head through the night. we do have a significant warm-up coming. then nor'easter and then another arctic blast. every bit as cole as this one. all in the seven day coming up. >> tonight, we have learned a house did not have working smoke detectors where two children died. we brought you this as breaking news last night at 6:00. >> pictures of the two girls. their father talked to nbc 10 about the tragedy that's impacted his family. tim furlong live from wilmington. tough times for the entire community. >> yeah, a lot of the members of the community are here now. there's a vigil that started an hour ago. it been gaining strength.

people have been singing, lighting candles, leaving things. we don't know what caused the fire that started in the front room. the man lost two of his seven children, and his wife is 4 critical condition. >> i'll be right back. >> reporter: mark told his wife and daughters he'd be right back. he had just gone to get his other kids at school. he came home to this. >> suspect trapped. >> reporter: his home, up in flames. he wasn't there when passersby and a police officer trayed to help his wife. they found her lying in the street, burned. >> make sure the baby was safe. we pulled her out. by that time she said, my children, my children, still babies up upstairs. >> reporter: christina in the hospital. burns over half of her body. her 2-year-old is okay. 3-year-old elizabeth tried to escape at the bottom of the stairs. her 3-month-old sister's body found in an upstairs bedroom. it's all so much for this father

to take. >> i asked the lord, what is this? they were innocent. >> reporter: the local fire station's engine truck was shut down as part of a plan to save money. the chief said the closest truck made it to the fire in under two minutes but it was too late to save the children. >> anytime we have a loss of life it devastating. loss of life of children is more so. anytime you hear a child trapped you step on that gas harder, you go deep somewhere harder into a fully involved fire than you would at any other given time. >> reporter: take a look at this. mark, the man who lost his daughters last night, told me he lost his mother and family members in this similar fire in camden in 1995. he told me he prayed for years that could never happen to his own family and here it is. back out live, you can see the memorial here. how you can help, mark and his wife are pastors.

a number of other pastors gathering donations at building at 100 philadelphia pike, also in wilmington. the family lost everything. they need clothes, any supplies you can provide. we'll continue to follow this tragic investigation. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> explosion today at edmonds school in east mt. airy. a maintenance person working on the heater in the basement when the boiler exploded. that maintenance worker suffered second and third-degree burns to the lower part of his body but expected to be okay. the school will remain closed for the next two days. a chester county pastor is expected to return to the u.s. from ecuador to face sexual assault charges. he resigned in november. a month later, police say a young woman confided in church officials that she was pregnant and malone was the child's

father. police say malone first met the victim when she was a child. he invited her to stay with his family within they lived in the midwest. police say malone offered her a place to live with his family when they moved to pennsylvania. police are talking to another alleged victim. a bucks county woman who faked cancer will learn her punishment next month. cynthia clarey faked cancer to get insurance money. she owes nearly $135,000. she used some of money to pay for her daughter's wedding, a trip to florida, and massages. new at 6:00, u.s. secretary of labor paid a visit to the delaware valley. thomas perez spoke to inmates in eagleville. the facility is one of 20 correctional institutions around the country that uses federal grant money to fund jail-based

employment center that helps inmates prepare for a job after release. perez's visit part of the white house's state of the union cabinets in the community tour program. camden's homeless community can get free health care if a brand-new facility thanks to funding from the affordable care act. it's opened monday through friday to all patients regardless of insurance status or ability to pay. project hope the only health care provider to the homeless in camden county. tonight, new details about the bucks county basketball coach who appeared to bump a ref to the ground during the game. >> the district attorney announced neshaminy coach jerry divine faces harassment violation. divine is suspended from his coaching job but returned to the classroom as a teacher this week. new at 6:00, former eagles can be ron jaworski is taking a

swing at owning a seventh golf course. they bought the country club in mt. laurel. one of the partners is joe flacco, from audobon. ron jaworski golf bought the country club from the family who owned it more than 50 years. the clubhouse will shut down for extensive renovations. breaking news coming into nbc 10 newsroom now. out of maryland. crews are fighting an apartment fire here in the town of adelphia. you can see the scope of how big that fire is and all of the thick, black smoke and flames beneath that smoke. it's unclear if anyone is hurt. an apartment fire in adelphi maryland. we'll will monitor this for you. >> next at 6:00, finding a cure

for cancer. the president put the vp on the case. local patients talk about battling the disease. new twist on a local treat. rita's water ice going all natural. >> three-day holiday weekend. tracking what's in store.

this is be in 10 news. >> i'm putting joe in charge of mission control. for the loved ones we've always lost, for the families that we can still save, let's make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. what do you say, joe? let's make it happen. >> that was one of the loudest cheers last night during the president's state of the union last night. >> vice president biden starting his mission quickly. he's coming to philadelphia. nbc 10's lauren mayk reports. >> my husband and i had this baby and discovered -- >> reporter: margaret diagnosed with breast cancer. >> i remember saying, well, at least it's not stage iv. and my doctor said, no, no, you are sage iv. >> reporter: that was nine years ago. the mother of three has metastatic cancer.

>> stage iv you're never cured. i'll never be done. >> reporter: but her treatments have worked. >> i will always be a stage iv cancer patient but i am cancer-free at this time which i can thank science for that. >> reporter: sacience research new shot in the arm to cure cancer announced by the president. does it make it more possible? >> absolutely. >> reporter: kick off the university of pennsylvania with the vice president friday. >> we can begin to think, as he is thinking big, of a way to use the immune system to prevent cancer from developing in the first place. >> reporter: when margaret heard -- >> first reaction, it like a shout out, the president acknowledging that cancer is a huge problem. >> reporter: show knows it's a big task but hopeful it will make a difference. >> i need it to make a difference. i need to make sure that i can live long enough to see me children grow up and that my

children won't have to worry about a life of cancer because their mother had it. >> reporter: her recommendation, put the money into research and scientists, the reason she's here today. lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. patco suspending service between the hattenfield and wood crest stations in both directions because a large tree is in danger of falling across the track. sky force 10 over the dark scene. patco trying to figure out if new jersey transit can provide alternate service. fiphilly facial expressionsn your phone. to you do emojis? >> you know i do. the philly emoji keyboard. more than 60 that represent the city of brotherly love. you can download them for free. watch out. they're going to come your way. >> wink is my favorite. rita's water ice has a new

line of famous treat. the company, based in trevo, will scoop out a natural line. flavors with no artificial coloring and without trans fats, gluten. pineapple and strawberry are for sale. banana and orange available in march. >> nbc 10 first alert weather with chief metrologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> cold for water ice today but warming up over the next couple of days. freeze continues tonight and for tomorrow morning before that warm-up comes. we're going to see it peak friday. colder air comes in as holiday weekend goes on. by monday, freezing cold again. we have mostly clear skies, 26 degrees, high clouds coming in from the west. west at 12 miles an hour. 16 degrees colder than this time yesterday. we have gone up and down this

roller coaster here over the last few days. sunday, 65. afternoon high monday 35. 46 yesterday. 29 for the high temperature today that's 11 below form. we have not seen that very much. 12 now in mt. pocono. low to mid-20s elsewhere. feels like temperature, the way it feels, exposed skin, in the teens. redding, one of the cold spots at 10. you can see patchy clouds across the area now. no precipitation until you get back to ohio. little bit of light snow and some computer models have a grazing some of the lehigh valley but the poconos as we go into the 6:00 a.m. hour. but that's about it. bigger system, that's going to be developing in the western gulf of mexico. this is the subtropical jet stream fueled by el nino, a classic pattern.

those systems up the coast, provide plenty of moisture. this will move rapidly. it's going to bring rain by friday evening. yeah, rain, because it's going to warm up so much ahead of it. that's the issue with el nino type nor'easters. wonder where the cold air is. you need a blocking pattern form that and we don't have it. it may be past us saturday leaving us with a dry weekend. clouds increase, chance of light snow lehigh valley or poeshgs. temperatures leveling off once they drop over the next couple of hours. cloudy tomorrow, not as cold as today. temperatures close to average and less wind. so feel more comfortable. and then up near 50 on friday. by the time the storm comes in, it's going to be warm enough for rain, ending early saturday. wind picks up. cold air starts to come in sunday. maybe snow flurries with that. and then by mlk day every bit as

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this is sportsdesk brought you by xfinity. it will change the way you experience tv. >> i'm john clark from comcast sportsnet. day 15 of the eagles' coaching search. birds put in a call to hugh jackson before he was hired by the browns. doug peterson interviewed sunday. he can in the be hiredful the chiefs are out of the playoffs and he thinks the eagles are done with their interviews.

>> gosh, it went great. a great opportunity to see howie and mr. lurie and sit down with them. a lot of respect for the organization and what they're doing there. but you know, now we're focused on new england. that's behind me. moving forward. >> flyers hosting the bruins. the flyers have won five straight at home. they are getting back in the playoff hunt. four points behind the bruins for the final spot. they say this and every game going forward is huge. >> it's one thing we did this year, made sure we look at the small picture, not the big picture. and we need to start with boston. we know they have been playing pretty good. they're a good team. we've got it make sure we have a responsible offense. >> sixers continue home stand tomorrow against the bulls. today at practice, jerry colangelo and sam hinky stopped by. jerry thinks sixers can turn

this around quicker than people think. they've got more lottery picks this summer. >> i think if you zoom out the summary of what we've done is plant seeds for a harvest. it's not out of the question that harvest might come in even this summer. >> great to be in i position where you have assets to use. there are a lot of teams in the league you can't say that about. they're locked in in terms where they are. one way to go here and that's up. >> jerry says this year could be big. john clark.

we'll start cold tomorrow but it won't be that windy. warms up in the afternoon. warms up even more friday. then we get rain friday night. then it gets gradually windier and colder through the holiday weekend next week we're freezing again. >> all right, glenn. >> don't forget powerball live numbers at 11:00.

>> never too cold to buy a power ticket when it's 1.5 million. test test test. tonight, iran releases americans. dramatic images of the moment the navy boats were seized. new details on the efforts to free them and the apology one american made on a iranian state tv. fighting words. donald trump hits back at the rising republican star who took him on and open aid new rift in the party. and hillary clion on the attack as pressure mounts for her campaign. el chapo's texts. new insight into his time on the run. flirtatious messages between the drug kingpin and this actress, calling her beautiful and planning a secret rendezvous with tequila and dancing. and train tragedy. deadly crashes that could have been prevented by technology that has been around for years. so why are so many trains around the country still running without it? "nightly