the first question to governor john kasich set the stage for where the race is right now. >> governor, last night marco rubio ended his campaign. i'm shopping for a new candidate to support that's not named donald trump. >> reporter: kasich and his opponents holooker for support o lost a candidate and maybe found someone and who have a vote to cast. we even found a democrat. why are you considering someone who is not a democrat? >> only because i really like his positive messages. i like his not being negative about everybody. >> reporter: kasich's positive message sometimes alternated between advice session for college students. >> please listen to me. there is no shame in being able to say to somebody, i'm having a problem, okay? no shame in being able to say that. in fact, there's strength. >> reporter: and policy, with

questions like the one from emily brown on isis. >> we have to go in the air, on the pround and destroy them. and then once destroyed, and things settle down, we come home. >> reporter: do you know whether you would vote for him? >> after today, i definitely would. >> reporter: i caught up with the freshman student after the event. did you go in thinking you would vote for him? >> no. >> reporter: what convinced you. >> he was personable and very -- he appealed to both sides of the aisle which is something washington really needs. >> reporter: back out here live at villanova university. i do have a bit of an update for you at 4:00, we talked about a challenge, a court challenge, for john kasich here in pennsylvania. marco rubio supporter challenging some of the signatures that came with his petition to get on the ballot. i have now confirmed that that challenge is being dropped. john kasich remaining on the ballot in pennsylvania for the primary apr

prima primary april 26th. donald trump says, if republicans contest the convention, you can expect riots. late this afternoon, the republican front runner posted a video on instagram targeting the democrats. [ barking ] >> meanwhile, ted cruz is. coming after trump. he tweeted out the #duckingdonald strikes again. tell donald trump to debate. cruz is not happy donald trump said he would not debate monday. so when kasich also pulled out, that debate was canceled. a much quieter day on the democratic side. hillary clinton is still glowing from victories last night. she won all five states and bernie sanders is fighting to stay in it. today he is in arizona which is the next primary state. next tuesday voters decide in

arizona and there's a caucus in utah. to our weather now. thunder and lightning, tracking storms in the philadelphia region within the past hour. nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is joining us now with his first alert forecast. it's rumbling out there. >> yeah. rumbles moved through very, very quickly. much of the region now has dried out. we have cloudy skies now. little bit on the breezy side but it continues to be unseasonably warm out there. we saw those showers move quickly. they are now mostly in new jersey. we do have one batch right through portions of south philly, moved through camden now. this is just developed in last 15 minutes across portions of camden and gloucester counties. briefly heavy but not seeing the reports of lightning any more like earlier. and of course it's drying

farther back to the north and west. as we go through the night tonight. it's going to continue to be unseasonably warm. but that's going to change. we've got winter chill on the way. and that includes the threat of snow over the weekend. that's coming with the seven day in a few minutes. only nbc 10 there today when firefighters and police teamed up to rescue this woman right here from a burning building in south philadelphia. they used that construction ladder to bring her down carefully. this was the scene along north franklin. around 3:00, the woman is just fine. it not clear what caused the fire. happening right now, parents are coming together to get answers about the death of a high school student in north philadelphia. the teenager died yesterday from meningitis. after school, classmates released balloons. nbc 10's rosemary connors live from george washington carver high school. >> i know you spoke with students who knew the teenager

and described him as a gentle giant? >> reporter: right. they say that jonathan briggs was a big guy who had a big heart. well-liked, easy going. they tell me the last time they saw him walking through the halls last friday. so his sudden death has been very difficult to process. tonight the school's opening its doors to parents who mayg!f ha questions, who may want to express concerns. they obviously have school officials here, health officials to help answer any questions. the meeting here tonight comes after a special tribute just a few hours ago. >> it like a remembrance. so write something on a balloon, send it off to the sky, celebrate it. >> reporter: the sun shining on the students at carver high school of engineering and science in north philadelphia. they remembered 15-year-old jonathan briggs who died of bacterial meningitis. he was a freshman and played on the school's undefeated jv basketball team. >> always did what i asked him

to do an amazing kid. >> smiling, never seen him mad or upset any day. >> reporter: as balloons floated above campus, administrators prepared for the meeting with concerned parents. the principal has been in touch with the cdc following guidance on keeping the school sanitary. the principal insists parents have nothing to fear. >> they are safe every day. >> reporter: school administrators will not say when he was admitted. officials are asking anyone who have a weakened immune system and came into contact wit him remain on alert. officials are trying to track down any students who may have had really close contact with jonathan briggs, specifically, may have come into contact with his mucous or blood. randy gyllenhaal will have details on the meeting tonight at 11:00. live in north philly, rosemary connors, nbc 10.

>> tearful testimony today, philadelphia residents asked the city council to look into reverse mortgages. reverse mortgages special kind of loan that lets people 62 and older convert home equity into cash. >> i felt i was cheated. i was cheated. i would have never signed away my house. i would never signed away my house. >> that woman told the council committee on finance that people need to be better educated before they sign on the bottom line. the last few years the number of mortgage foreclosures for reverse mortgages in philadelphia skyrocketed. today, police arrested the former cfo at visit philadelphia for embezzlement. joyce levit allegedly took $200,000 by charging personal expenses to the corporate credit card. the charges include $19,000 to bj's and costco and $20,000 for

meals. drivers will soon get the green light to go 70 miles per hour on the pennsylvania turnpike. the commission plans to boost the speed limit from 65 to 70. the turnpike tested the faster speed on a 100-mile stretch of the interstate for the past two years. they found no changes in the number of accidents. areas posted at 55, though, aren't going to change. new details on governor tom wolf's cancer fight. the governor plans to treat his prostate cancer with radioactive seeds. that's when doctors insert dozens of tiny seeds near the cancer. those seeds slowly release radiation to kill the cancer cells but spare nearby healthy tissue. wolf will continue with his regular schedule and duties. police in evesham township will pay to keep resource officers in eight schools next year. right now the district and township share the half million

dollar cost. bliss and mayor brown announced the measure in part to help the district save money. and be able to save the school from closing its doors. >> there's a deterrent and we have full coverage right now. >> definitely shouldn't compact to taxpayers, and the township i believe has enough money to do their own policing. >> the superintendent tells nbc 10 he hasn't reviewed the proposal. a school board meeting and and vote thursday is expected to draw hundreds upset about a possible school closure. >> disturbing, new report shows number of children abused in chester is on the rise and not just by a little. here's a look at numbers. starting 2012, 29 reports, 291 in 2013. 414 in 2014. and more than three times as many last year, 1306. the district attorney's office estimates more this year. district attorney tom hogan says there are three main factors for

the growth. the conviction of jerry san dusky changes the law to expand categories for those to report abuse and the d.a.'s office increased the focus leading to more cases. the new supreme court momny will start meeting senators first thing tomorrow. president obama nominated merrick garland to fill the vacan vacancy. gar lansdale served for 19 years on united states court of appeals for the washington, d.c. circuit and becamite chief judge in 2013. >> i've selected a nominee widely recognized, not only as one of america's sharpest legal minds but someone who brings to his work a spirit of decency, modesty, integrity, even handedness. >> thank you. this is the greatest honor of my life. >> not an easy road ahead for

confirmation. senate republicans will not allow a hearing especially not a confirmation vote. nbc "nightly news" will go inside party lines and talk about the battle to confirm the president's choice for supreme court justice. hid. hazards pulled from jersey shore water waste as boaters set to make waves. the growing effort to target a danger. also tonight, new option to gamble from your couch instead of inside an atlantic city casino. glenn? >> how long's the rain going to stick around? tracking showers. this price can't be right...

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their homes this weekend when a building implodes. >> saturday the philadelphia housing authority will implode two of the three high-rises at norman bloomberg apartment at 23rd and ingersoll streets in north philadelphia. implosion starts 7:15. take a look. everyone in the red zone must evacuate their homes. if you live in the zone, you cannot leave until the all-clear is given. we have more information on the website and nbc 10 app. new at 6:00. hidden hazards in the bay, lost gear used for crabbing could create obstacles for boaters. >> but expanding efforts to find them is reducing danger and building new partnerships. ted greenberg hit the water to show us how. >> reporter: the catch phil anderson wants to hook hasn't seen the surface in years. that one's been down there a very long time it what's left of

a lost crab trap. >> the pot is a ghost spot. >> reporter: corroding on the muddy bottom of a back bay. >> it's good to get them out of the environment. >> reporter: anderson is among the commercial crabbers working with new jersey's stockton university and other groups in a federally funded project to retrieve ghost pots from waterways where they can kill animals that get caught inside and pose a danger to people on the water. >> it helps just to reduce the hazards out there so that we don't have boater hitting pots and getting upset. >> reporter: it started in 2012. the effort recently expanded to target back bay areas from southern ocean county to northern cape may county. using scientific grade side scan sonar, stockton mapped 3,000 traps so far. information the crabbers use to zero in on the ghost pots with their on more affordle equipment

top date they've recovered close to 1500. >> if we can partner with them on programs like this and others, it's a win-win in different ways. >> reporter: what happens to traps now? those in good condition that are marked are returned to their owners. unusable traps get recycled. >> commercial pot fully rigged around $40 apiece. we're able to use this in the summer and retrieve our own crab pots back immediately. >> reporter: for crabbers, a chance to put their lost investment back to work while cutting down on the amount of missing gear haunting the water. ted greenberg nbc 10 news. >> back to weather now. rain falling here this afternoon. east falls, a half hour ago, drivers have a rainy commute. glenn? >> most of that has moved out into new jersey and we have more rounds of showers coming over the next couple of days, too.

we got up to 70 plus in parts of the area today after that chilly weather yesterday. that's going to be colder by the weekend, though. temperatures going down each day to the point where by sunday it's cold enough for snow. we may very well get some. i-95 and south philly, generally looking on the dry side now but we have had showers. 65 with rain reported at philly international at 6:00. winds south-southwest at 8 mile as hour. yesterday up to 53. today 71. tomorrow unseasonably warm as well, 66 degrees. but down to 56 on friday, 47 saturday. we may not get 40 on sunday as the snow comes. near 60 in kenneth square, wilmington, wrightstown, chester springs. 61 coatesville, objection

towards. 60 in doylestown. coolest beach haven, 50, wind off of the chilly ocean. these are showers zipping by. and the thunderstorms about to hit new york city. we have lingering showers farther to the south. you can see through the lehigh valley, bucks, montgomery county pretty much done. showers that went through philly across the river, past cherry hill and camden, evesham township at the moment. some lightning strikes with this. it's relatively heavy. but it's mosh moving so fast you don't get that much rain overall. more showers spinning around big upper low coming in each day. and we have at least some threats of showers. as you can see, as we go through tomorrow, there's more showers scattered around generally during afternoon. then more coming in on friday as

well. we wait for this nor'easter to develop over the weekend. looks like it could be close enough to the coast and cold enough for snow. mostly cloudy, mild, chance of shower this evening. 48 for the low in philadelphia. during day tomorrow, chance of shower afternoon. windy, mild, warm day. warmest day we're going to see a while because it's going to get colder and colder. chance of shower friday. dry saturday. cold sunday. cold and windy and could be snowy. and then windy and cold on monday. >> eagles seen a receiver. find out the relationship with sam bradford. all three philly teams leaving for the ncaa tournament.

this is sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. >> i'm john clark. eagleses signed a receive who had his best season with sam bradford in st. louis. chris gibbons gets a one-year deal. traded to the ravens last year. his best year his rookie year playing with bradford. close to 700 yards, 3 touchdowns, big plays. jordan matthews spoke to givens and here's what he told him. >> just come join the way we're trying to do special things and i agree with him. we're one of the guys who won a lot of our career. it's just the right fit for me. >> flyers in chicago to face the blackha blackhawks. big win over the red wings. one point out of the playoff

spot. march madness, here is villanova, nice send-off. the cats play friday in brooklyn against unc asheville. it gives the center an extra day for his sprained ankle to get better. >> the biggest advantage is playing friday, after playing three on thursday, friday, saturday, having daniel banged up, being able to get to friday, if we can get him 100% healthy, i think we're going in a good direction, that's the biggest advantage. >> st. joe's leaving hawk hill for spokane, washington. the longest trip, the lightest game around 10:00. >> i don't think it's going to be that hard. we still want to win. we are looking forward to this game. it's a big, physical, tough game. like i said, looking forward to winning another game. we don't feel like we're finished. >> you're in this. you're in it to win. you're not in it to say this is great.

it's a long trip and a lot of support to play 40 minutes. >> owls leaving for brooklyn late. owls are facing iowa after nova plays. iowa lost 6 of 8. owls have a chance for an upset. >> everybody's nothing, nothing. it's going to depend on guys making shots and not making shots. how good you play defensively. how ready you are to assume responsibility. and every game is a separate entity. >> keith jones and i, reporting from brooklyn. i'll be there starting tomorrow. katie: the u.s. has added 14 million new jobs since the great recession - a good start. but too many families see the special interests gaining the upper hand in washington, while paychecks don't go far enough. if you work hard, your paycheck should show it; you earned social security - it should be there when you retire. and you shouldn't have to go broke to afford college.

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big ups and downs with the weather over the next several days another warm day tomorrow. then it gets colder each day as we head toward the weekend. showers even afternoon. and sunday, that's the threat for actual accumulating snow.

>> not often you hear of a spring snow. >> update's at 11:00. >> nightly news is next. developing news. tonight supreme court showdown. president obama's supreme court nominee revealed as many republicans refuse to even meet with him. an epic battle brewing. trump versus clinton. after big wins, donald trump warns of riots if he's denied the nomination at a contested convention, and hillary clinton now plotting to take him on. an american student sentenced in north korea, breaking down as he's ordered to serve 15 years of hard labor. what north korea says he did. a shocking escape caught on camera. a helicopter hijacked at gunpoint flying over a prison as inmates grab hold and hang on for their lives. guards helpless to stop them. and cancer drug outrage. billions wasted as live-saving meds are literally thrown away.