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building. let's go to deanna durante. >> live in the villanova book store. that's going to be a busy spot the next few days. >> reporter: it's going to get even busier tomorrow when the final four merchandise arrives here. but that's not stopping fans alumni and future students from stopping by and picking up a little villanova blue. ♪ villanova v for victory >> the book store is seeing green. lots being spent on villanova blue. >> i got a jersey. arcidiacono jersey. all the other ones are xxl. >> you're buying gear but you want to make sure you're in blue. >> t-shirts for mom and her sister. everybody all geared up. >> go wildcats. >> 7-year-old avery is from clinton, new jersey. she and her family made the trip
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to campus just to get gear for saturday. >> a dog. >> you're getting the dog? >> uh-huh. >> not even ventured. >> we drove up friday and watched the game saturday night. they have been fans forever. >> when kevin brought his family to see the trophy nova won in '85 he never expected to see players. >> they are taking pictures. >> yeah. really cool. >> or have them pose. >> are most of them stopping? >> yeah. >> did you expect them to? >> no. actually, no. >> you thought they were going to walk by? >> yeah. >> reporter: they did walk right by us, they weren't allowed to talk to us. you can see plenty of gear here at the book store. doesn't mean you can't get your gear. when they opened this morning there were more than 450 online orders for those final four t-shirts, hats, mugs waiting for
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them. you can see customers are all over the store, stocking up for the big game saturday night. coming up tonight at 6:00 we're going to take more of a visit to what the kids saw and find out about the players' winning diet. live in the book store, deanna durante, "nbc 10 news." thanks. and count on nbc 10 for full coverage of villanova's chase for the championship. keith jones and matt delucia will be headed to houston to follow the team and their fans. >> watch as this man fires a rifle on shoe avenue in east germanto germantown. buts hit a man on the street four times before the suspect walks to a car and takes off. the shooting happened thursday just after midnight. police tell us the car that the suspect got away in may have out-of-state plates or a vanity plate on the front bumper. back to breaking news out of
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washington, d.c., following all afternoon, police have a man in custody they say opened fire outside the u.s. capitol building leading to a temporary lockdown there. >> we want to get to nbc 10 correspondent brian mooar with new details for us. >> reporter: jim and denise, we minutes ago got an update from the u.s. capitol police chief who tells us that a man apparently known to officers at this complex, came here, went through the metal detectors, set that off, and pulled out what appeared to be a gun. an officer or officers opened fire, injuring the man, larry wesle dawson of antioch, tennessee. he was taken to a hospital where at last word he is undergoing surgery. as for the situation here now, you can see that police are still blocking this road which leads to the visitors center, we're right across the street from a capitol complex. this visitors center itself is
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not only a beautiful atrium and a way of welcoming people to their nation's capital, it's also a security measure. today it performed as it was supposed to, a man with a gun stopped, authorities want to know how he got inside there, whether everything happened according to the book. authorities are saying none of the people, none of the visitors, the officers, the lawmakers who happen to be on vacation, were hurt in this situation here at the capitol. live in washington, brian mooar, "nbc 10 news." thank you. more than 1,000 untested rape kits in delaware could be keeping dangerous criminals on the street. now there is a push by some lawmakers in the state to find out why the kits are sitting on shelves. officials with the criminal justice council say the reason is unknown. one state senator wants the kits kept longer than the required one month before they can be thrown out.
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>> right now to first alert weather. live look in cape may. we're watching for strong winds that could gust over 40 miles an hour tonight. look at that. the wind picking up. we saw flags, flowers here, even the shrubs blowing in the breeze this afternoon. >> a lot of blowing behind us as well. sheena parveen is taking a closer look at this weather. >> yeah, it's windy outside right now. very gusty and in fact it's going to stay like this through the overnight hours tonight. we do have a wind advisory until midnight and that's because winds will continue to gust near 45 to 50 miles an hour as we go through the rest of this evening and into tonight. take a look at the wind gusts, 44-mile-an-hour wind gust in millville, 40 philadelphia, much of the lehigh valley seeing winds gusting 30 to 35 miles an hour. it's going to stay windy tonight and even through the day tomorrow. now this is a fairly warm wind
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direction so look at the temperatures. we're pretty mild. 67 degrees, atlantic city 63 in philadelphia and wilmington, only the upper 50s through the lehigh valley. tonight, though, it will get colder. look as we go through time, the winds stay up. by 7:30, near 60 degrees. still mild but also gusty. gusting near 34 miles an hour. then we get closer to 10:00 p.m., temperatures around 51 degrees, winds gusting near 30 to 40 miles an hour, so it's going to stay windy and mild. by tomorrow morning though, a little colder and then we have 30s and 20s in the forecast before a warm-up later this week. i'll show you that forecast and how warm it will get before rain. that's straight ahead. some new jersey lawmakers want drinking water in all public schools to be immediately tested for possible lead contamination. the senate president sweeney along with two senators
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announced the proposal. legislation comes after schools shut off sinks and fountains at 30 facilities earlier this month. testing showed elevated lead levels. coming up at 5:30, lawmakers tell cydney long why they were caught offguard about this problem and what their new proposal would mean for your child's school. >> a second open house going on now at septa headquarters allowing you the riders to weigh in on its new service plan. that plan includes proposals for new transit services and changes aimed at improving existing services. one session happened this afternoon, the second start add few minutes ago and runs until 6:30 and easier commute by the way on the way for septa riders in pennsylvania and work in delaware. the line is adding two express trains in the evening, those will travel between the four stations in delaware and center city philadelphia starting april 11.
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>> today is the deadline to register if you want to vote in pennsylvania's primary election next month. you can actually register on line, go to votespa.com. you have to choose a party to vote for president. and you have until tonight at midnight to get your online application in. if you live in delaware or new jersey you still have some time to register. delaware's registration deadline is saturday, april 2, and in new jersey you have until tuesday, may 17 to register for the primary. a get out the vote rally in north philadelphia today encouraging temple students to register guiding them through the process and as edward lawrence tells us sanders won big in caucuses over the weekend as the republicans continue their personal attacks on the campaign trail. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders trails hillary clinton's
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delegate count by 675, winning three western states this past weekend. that changes her strategy slightly. >> her delegate lead is slightly decreased and she's going to put more resources and effort in some of the big diverse states she hopes to counter bernie sanders' wins with big margins herself. >> reporter: sanders will need a wisconsin win april 5 to narrow the gap. >> our campaign is the campaign of energy, of momentum. >> reporter: clinton is in wisconsin taking shots at senate republicans for refusing to hold hearings on supreme court nominee merrick garland. there is new information reported in "the washington post" that she was warned use of her personal e-mail server while secretary of state could cause a security breach. the article said the fbi sped up the investigation to finish it well before election day. the republicans have their own controversy, senator ted cruz attacked donald trump in wisconsin today, saying trump has no real policy plans.
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>> instead he yells and screams and curses and attacks people and threatens lawsuits and attacks their wives and their families. >> good morn zblxth on a morning talk show in wisconsin trump says he would stop the personal family attacks if cruz did. >> i didn't start it. he started it. if he didn't start it would have never happened. nothing like this would have ever handed. >> reporter: trump will make an appeal over the louisiana primary where he won the state but cruz received more delegates. >> gay and transgender groups call it discrimination, a new law about bathrooms is being challenged in court. plus, a pennsylvania pilot grounded tonight we have new information on why authorities believe he was drunk before a flight. >> and adele knows how to use her voice now using it to send a message to new moms, message to them about the pressures of breast feeding.
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attacks. ♪ music filled a cathedral, mourners gathered to remember the victims of the attacks. >> a show of support from the muslim community, this group held a solidarity rally in brussels. they carried balloons in the colors of the belgian flag. the metro station was targeted in the attack. >> officials say the number killed is now at 35. after four of the wounded died in the hospital over the weekend. 96 people are still hospitalized right now of it one of those victims says she feels no anger toward her attackers. she was on the way to the u.s. as part of her mormon missionary work when the brussels airport was aing taed. it knocked the 20-year-old to the floor, left her with second-degree burns to her face and hands and shrapnel in her leg but says it's not in her
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nature to feel angry. >> i would say thank you this event. i realize that there are still good people in this world and before i was kind of oh, no, i know people don't care about anything. i still hope people can be nice to each other and love each others. so i feel really -- >> seeing the best. her doctors say her wounds are healing well. to the deadly easter sunday bombing in pakistan. activists and lawyers held a vigil for the victims, held signs condemning the attack and calling for unity in pakistan. at least 72 people were killed there, more than 320 injured in the suicide bombing that happened at a park filled with christians celebrating easter. most of the victims were women and children, a faction of the
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taliban claimed responsibility for that attack. >> to north carolina now, a fight over a controversial new law. last week state lawmakers passed legislation requiring transgender people to use the bathroom aligned with the gender on their birth certificate. the law prevents cities and counties from passing anti-discrimination rules. two transgender people a law school professor and civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit against that legislation this morning. >> until last wednesday no one needed any laws to tell them which bathroom to use and there were no problems of any kind. everyone knew where to go, and where not to go. now people like me have to be concerned that there may be harassment, consequences. >> opponents of the law say it's unconstitutional and promotes discrimination. in philadelphia all city and privately owned businesses that have single stall bathrooms are required to have gender neutral
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signs. mayor michael nutter signed the bill last november. businesses were given until january 20th to change their signs. >> georgia's governor vetoed a bill that would have allowed religious leaders to owe and allowed groups to decline serving or hiring someone based on their faith. many in the business community had threatened to move out of the state if the bill passed. the governor said those threats had no bearing on his decision to veto the bill. one of the most popular museums the in need of an expensive makeover. the smithsonian says it needs $600 million to renovate the national air and space museum in washington, d.c. plans were already in place to fix the plumbing, the ac and other systems, but now the smithsonian says they need to make replacements and repairs to the exterior as well. >> this is like any 40-year-old house. you need new plumbing,
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electrical, and this has been planned for at least the last 15 years. >> the smithsonian is requesting federal funds to help but not all lawmakers are on board. at a recent hearing. well, you saw this morning a rainy start to the work week. nbc 10 here in camden county this morning, the rain has cleared out but now the winds have moved in. the wind is pulling in the drier air. it's pulling in the sunny skies so we're going to see big improvements as we go overnight. look at the flags blowing in cape may. it's very windy out now. strong winds as we go through the rest of tonight and overnight and even into tomorrow we're going to still be windy through the day. colder nights in the forecast, so tonight will be colder and especially as we go into tomorrow night. some areas in the 20s. then we have a brief warm-up before the week's over. 70-degree temperatures return.
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at least for a little while. here's the camera across center city showing the comcast center. it is shake, winds gusting near 40 miles an hour in philadelphia. temperature 63 but that's more of a warmer wind direction so it doesn't feel too much colder out. we're going to stay in the 60s for a little while longer and then we drop down as we go through the overnight hours. by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, temperatures around 40 degrees through the philadelphia area, but with the winds still in place and starting to change direction a little bit it will feel closer to freezing. so it's going to be windy and cold to start your day tomorrow. now, the rain has moved off shore, now it's windy and ushering in the drier conditions. but the winds are going to be so high for the rest of the evening and tonight we do have the wind advisory out until midnight. winds gusting from 45 to 50 miles an hour. very gusty. right now here is a look at the rest of the area's. millville 44 miles an hour. they 6-mile-an-hour in
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wilmington, 31 in allentown. so windy tonight but look what happens late tonight. by 11:00 p.m. some areas especially along the shore could see winds gusting up to 50 miles an hour. 40 miles an hour inland, then we go into your tuesday morning. by 8:00 in the morning when you walk out it's still windy, winds gusting from 30 to 35 miles an hour. staying windy throughout the day tomorrow and even by tomorrow afternoon 6:00 p.m. so this time tomorrow we're still going to be talking about winds gusting near 30 miles an hour. the wind stays around tonight. temperatures dropping to around 40 for the low in philadelphia. 36 allentown, 38 degrees in pottstown so. a colder night but once that wind starts to change direction tomorrow morning it's going to make it feel about 10 degrees colder. tomorrow afternoon from 55 to 58 degrees. sunny and windy, but a little colder as we go through the afternoon hours. so, as we go into wednesday morning, i mentioned areas in the 20s. philadelphia area mid-30s but north and west you'll be in the
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20s wednesday morning by the afternoon around 60 degrees, not as windy but nice and sunny. then we go into thursday, 72 there's warm-up i was talking about even for friday, 70 degrees but that is going to come with rain. thursday the rain will be later in the day friday, pretty much all day rain. we clear out into the weekend. but also we're going to get colder again. >> thanks. watch your step. one lawmaker wants to crack down on people who walk and text at the same time. what could happen if you get caught coming up.
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a north jersey home the focus of a stalker known as the watcher is back on the market. the couple who bought the home for $1.5 million says they want out of the deal. in fact, they refuse to move into the home. they say they received letters from a mentally disturbed person who is fixated on the home. the couple is suing the former owners. >> you see people doing it ault the time. >> talking about walking down the street with your head down not looking. now a lawmaker wants to make distracted walking illegal, the law would ban distracted walking on public roads unless there is a hands free option.
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the offense would carry a $50 fine or 15 days in jail. according to the national safety council distracted walks incidents accounted for more than 11,000 injuries from 2000-2011. most of those offenders were talking and texting when hurt. the most common injuries fractures, sprains, country kugss. >> if you had to guess what age group you think would be more addicted to their gadgets at the dinner table? according to a nielsen survey, baby-boomers are the worst. teens were more likely to eat their meal tech free. yes. you would argue with that. followed by millennials. >> mayor jim kenney paid a visit to some students in china town. nbc 10 was this as the mayor led storytime at the learning center. mayor kenney has been visiting day care centers across the city to talk about his plan to raise money for his pre-k plan.
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right now at 5:00, new questions about what's in the water at your child's school. today new jersey leaders have a new plan to look for lead. they want to test the water at every public school in the state. >> but we wanted to know how they plan to do this, how is it done, who is going to pay for it? a lot of questions, we sent cydney long to get those answers for us. and for you. and she's joining us with more. >> reporter: jim, i can tell you it would happen twice a year, 30 days before the school year starts and then six months in and basically school districts would hire an independent water testing firm and then be reimbursed by the state to test the clean water supply from their town or municipality. not at the source but through the pipes potentially contaminated pipes at schools. >> for us we didn't know there wasn't a standard for testing water. >> the senate president sweeney admits lawmakers did not realize
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that new jersey has no law to force schools to see what is in their drinking water supply. running through their school fountains and into kitchens where school lunches are prepared. he says that on top of the flint, michigan crisis and lead levels considered dangerous in newark, new jersey schools they must force action. >> is this reaction, of course. it came out our kids are drinking water with lead in now it's catch up. >> lawmakers want $3 million to pay for testing and more than 600 districts in new jersey's 21 counties, trenton mom erica suffered lead as a child and will soon send her daughter to school. >> no. i think that is awesome. yeah. i think it should be done. >> senate democrats say christie and prior administrations have taken money from a lead prevention fund.
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>> governor christie failing the health and welfare of this state? >> yes, he is. and not only the children, adults too. >> we spoke to this mom today while districts in camden, trenton, even atlantic city with older or aging schools may be at far greater risk of lead contaminated pipes. >> i believe this should be done for the children. >> and lawmakers also say our clean energy fund that right now has $147 million should spend $20 million on a band aid approach to add filters or water treatment devices to the fountains or sinking in new jersey schools, this until the old pipes can be replaced. remedial costs of lead found in any school, that would fall on the district or municipality. cydney long, "nbc 10 news." starting today the nbc 10 investigators began their week-long series called living with lead. right now on nbc10.com we showed you what parents need to know
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about lead in your own home. and coming up tomorrow, we focus on philadelphia. there's a law in place to get rid of some of the city's lead but the investigators found no one is enforcing it. we'll have those details tomorrow on "nbc 10 news" at 4:30. in the past 30 minutes we learned new information about the co-pilot grounded on suspicion of drunkenness over the weekend. we learned john mcguire is from chads forth, delft county. he was scheduled for a flight from detroit to philadelphia saturday that was canceled. mcguire was released pending arraignment. maryland police officer killed in the line of duty was laid to rest today in delaware county. loved ones gathered for officer jacai colson's private burial. we'll show you video from the delaware county native's funeral in maryland on friday. officer colson was accidentally killed march 13 by one of his fellow officers. that was after another man began
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firing at a police station. he was only 28 years old. after she was wounded in a deadly shooting five years ago, former congresswoman gabby giffords brings her gun control campaign to our area. jacqueline london joining us with details on giffords' visit. >> the former congresswoman and her husband retired astronaut mark kelly spoke in wilmington. nbc 10 was on hand. giffords and kelly joined state leaders to announce the new delaware coalition for common sense, the goal is to come up with common sense solutions to keep guns out of the wrong hands. the couple called on lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle to take a stand against gun violence. >> democrats, republicans everyone, we must never stop fighting. >> i'm a strong supporter of the
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second amendment. at the same time we have 33,000 people die from gun violence every year. 10,000 murders, another 100,000 people shot. we can do a lot better than that. >> you'll recall gabby giffords survived an assassination attempt outside an arizona grocery store in 2011. six people were killed in that attack. by the way, new numbers show one person dies from a gunshot wound every 17 minutes in the united states. in the digital operations center, jacqueline london, "nbc 10 news". >> now to your first alert weather. hold on to your hats, the wind is blowing tonight. as you can see from this live look in cape may. >> sheena parveen is back with more on this windy weather. >> yeah, it is very windy out. it's going to stay that way the rest of this evening, overnight and even for tomorrow. the rain we had this morning, though, it's long gong and winds are blowing and that drier air.
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though we had clouds up the lehigh valley everything looking dry and windy. here's a live look down in cape may, this is right along the shore, so if you see the flag flow blowing here, even late tonight winds could gust near 50 miles an hour at the shor. the winds gusting 45 to 50 miles an hour. they are pretty high across the area. 40-mile-an-hour wind gust in philadelphia. 36 atlantic city, 44-mile-an-hour wu69 in millville. 35 in pocono. and it's going to stay like this as we go through tonight. some areas may be seeing higher wind gusts flew the overnight hours. this is kind of a warm wind direction because our temperatures haven't really dropped off much. 63 in philadelphia, 67 millville and atlantic city, 63 in wilmington. 58 allentown and tomorrow it's going to be windy but then more of a northwest wind so temperatures will be cooler tomorrow afternoon. we also have 30s and 20s in the morning forecast as we go across the next couple days and a
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warm-up before the week is over with rain. i'll show you that in the seven-day coming up. april is jazz appreciation month in philadelphia and musicians and music fans filled city hall to celebrate. musical performances scheduled throughout the city all month long. look at this. governor tom wolf and his wife hosting an easter egg hunt. not only did they fill their easter baskets, there were arts and craft stations and also some real bunnies to pet and hold. >> a bitter sweet easter monday for president obama and the first lady. they hosted what will be their last annual white house easter egg roll. when it came time some had an easier time than others. 35,000 people were expected to
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visit the south lawn for today's festivities. >> phillies home opener is just two weeks from today and for some people the food is just as important as the game. this year philly fans will have more options to choose from including a favorite of chicken lovers. we'll have all of the details all new on "nbc 10 news" at 5:00. fios is not cable. we're wired differently. in the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. but we've received a few more, including jd power who ranked us
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a plume of ash from an erupting volucano is getting bigger. it started yesterday afternoon. it's in southwest alaska about 40 miles from the closest community. the ash plume is about 37,000 feet high and extends 400 miles. >> a mock tombstone for donald trump has been removed from new york city central park. the grave marker listed trump's
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name and birth date, the year of death left blank. it read make america hate again. it was a few blocks from the trump tower. the parks department doesn't know who put it there. >> you've seen signs for deer crossing and duck crossings but nobody expected a koala to cross this highway in australia. video from facebook showed people getting out to watch the little one hop along the road. a police officer came and stayed with the koala until it found a tree and climbed up to safety. it's dangerous to pick them up because they have sharp claws. coming up, a local store has made a new millionaire. the winning location revealed ahead on "nbc 10 news" at 6. ♪
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>> >> a blood test could one day be used to detect concussions according to a new study. it suggests that a protein linked with head trauma may be present in blood up to a week after a concussion. this could help diagnose patients who want to get checked out. researchers say the results are substantial step forward but blood tests are still at least a few years away from routine use. >> temple taking a step forward in the plan to build a football stadium on its campus. the plan calls for $126 million, 35,000-seat stadium to be built. our partners at the philadelphia business journal are saying that temple has hired two
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architectural firms. last month the board authorized $1 million in funding. mayor jim kenney and many neighbors are against the plan. the ncaa men's final four resumes saturday at energy stadium in houston. preparations are under way. the floor is being installed. crews working around the clock to piece it all together. with the big win over the weekend villanova will be in houst houston. >> the last time villanova won, that was 1985. so we're going to look back at other highlights that year. the number one movie police academy. that was fun. the number one song, we are the world by michael jackson and a gallon of regular gas cost $1.20. >> count on nbc 10 for full coverage of villanova's chase for the championship. keith jones and matt delucia will be headed to houston to
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follow the team and their fans. new food, new fashion and fandom at citizens bank park. tonight the team and aramark hosting a peek at all things new this year. when it comes to concessions rita's water ice and chick-fil-a will be added to the menu. at harry's in left field fried pork belly sandwiches, courtesy of bizarre foods host andrew zimmer. >> nbc 10 has a special welcome home planned. we'll air a pregame show on monday, april 11 at 2:00 p.m. as we look at the new phillies food we talked about. the first pitch coming up at 3:00 p.m. here on nbc 10. there it is. welcome home, phillies. april 11. well, it's a windy end to
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your monday but better than a rainy one. we had rain this morning, that's cleared out and now the winds increasing. here is a live look at cape may, the flags blowing. we have a wind advisory until midnight and then we're going to have colder temperatures moving in early tomorrow morning. and especially wednesday morning as we'll have areas in the 20s. now, aside from that we do have 70 degree temperatures in the forecast this week. so before the weekend gets here we do have a bit of a warm-up, then cold again so i'll show you that. here are the current wind gusts, 40-mile-an-hour, 44 in millville, 28 in wildwood, 36 at atlantic city. most of the area from about 35 to 40 miles an hour and that's the way it's going to stay through tonight but some areas could be gusting closer to 50 miles an hour. the wind direction fairly warm, we're around 60 degrees through the lehigh valley. 63 in philadelphia. also wilmington. we still have 67 in millville
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and atlantic city. by tomorrow the wind direction is going to switch. a little cooler so our temperatures cooler too. the rain has moved away. the cold front took it with it off in the atlantic. now we're seeing gusty winds. for the rest of tonight winds gusting 45 to 50 miles an hour with the wind advisory. even through late tomorrow, the winds are still going to be up near about 35 miles an hour, tomorrow afternoon but the wind direction is going to shift in from the northwest that's going to pull down colder air tomorrow night and wednesday morning. so that's a day we're talking about 20s and 30s in the forecast. that would be wednesday morning. the coldest morning of the week. after that our temperatures start to warm up with more of a south wind before the week is over. so warming trend starting wednesday. really warming up thursday and friday. but then you see some rain as we go into the end of the week for friday, the first day of april. now for tonight temperatures will be colder, 36 in allentown, 38 pottstown and reading. 40 for the low in philadelphia.
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around 40 much of new jersey and delaware. very windy in some areas winds could gust near 50 miles an hour. tomorrow closer to 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts but sunny, colder through the afternoon though from the mid to upper 50s. you might want your jacket even through the afternoon tomorrow in the morning it's going to feel about 10 degrees colder than the actual temperature just because of that wind. them we go into wednesday morning, lows in the 30s for most of the area except if you're in the lehigh valley you should be in the 20s, wednesday afternoon around 60 degrees. then in the low 70s by thursday. we'll see a chance of showers later thursday evening. and then for friday still around 70 degrees, with some april showers in the forecast. going into the weekend we dry up and temperatures drop too. look at sunday, a high of only 4 48 degrees. >> we've been following breaking news from our nation's capital. >> police at the u.s. capitol scrambled after reports of shots fired in the capitol visitors center. brian mooar has an update from
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washington. >> reporter: terrifying moments this afternoon as gun shots were heard at the united states capitol visitors center. police officers rushed to the scene responding to reports of active shooter. though congress was not in session, the annual cherry blossom festival brought tourists to the nation's capital. >> and they said run, they told everybody to run. the security officers. >> the shooting took place in an underground area designed to be the first layer of security. federal law enforcement sources tell nbc news the suspect was a frequent visitor and well known to capital police officers. sources say the man was stopped at the metal detectors and pulled out a gun when the alarm went off. >> we believe that this is an act of a single person. who has frequented the capitol grounds before. and there is no reason to believe that this is anything more than a criminal act. >> and this evening
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investigators are asking how a man with a gun made his way so close to the nation's seat of power. brian mooar, "nbc 10 news." and lester holt is joining us with a look at nightly news. >> following the latest on this story out of washington. good evening. >> good evening. we've been looking more into the man at the center, he is from tennessee, we'll tell you more about him. also how famous film festival the latest flash point over the safety of childhood vaccine. if your car -- plus late-breaking news about the fbi and apple while we're getting in that unlocking that iphone. back to you in philly. >> thank you. we'll see you at 6:30. next on "nbc 10 news" at 5, how adele is using her voice to send a message to new mothers. and then coming up on "nbc 10 news" at 6, people in pennsylvania head to the polls
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i've always taken on the status quo. in harrisburg, they didn't like it when i stopped their perks and pushed for reform. as head of pennsylvania's third-largest county, i cut out wall street middlemen to protect pensions, stood up for marriage equality and protected our environment. now i'm fighting for criminal justice reform. i'm proud to be backed by tom wolf, ed rendell and people who care about our families. i'm josh shapiro. i'll be an attorney general who always fights for you.
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a pea sized lump was found in a doctor's visit. she will undergo surgery and radiation. a spokesperson for the model says dickenson will not let it define her and wants to enkurnl all women to get a regular checkup. a new study finds that acupuncture can help with hot flashes. there were 200 patients in the program. half received regular sessions. after three months the actour puncture group reported 50% fewer hot flashes. the benefits lasted up to six months after the treatment ended. >> good news for anyone taking care of an infant with an ear infection. they have declined. that's according to a study of 400 babies. university of texas researchers found that about half developed an ear infection by their first birthday, that's a significant drop from the 1980s and 90s.
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a topic that ignited controversy, now adele is weighing in on the debate. she blasted those who pressure mothers to breast feed. she was asked and her response is going viral. the pressure is ridiculous. and that some moms can't do it including herself. the singer has a 3-year-old son with her partner. she told the crowd all i wanted to do was breast feed. then i couldn't and felt like if i was in the jungles now back in the day my kid would be dead because my milk's gone. the government office of women's health acknowledges that breast feeding can be challenging but they want new mothers to know about the many benefits it can provide. breast milk has antibodies.
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they recommend breast feeding at least 12 months and infants only drink breast milk for the first six months. for women who have trouble doctors urge them to seek help. under the affordable care act more women have access to those services without any out-of-pocket expenses. also tonight women can lower the risk of breaking their hips as they age if they eat a mediterranean diet according to a new study that finds downing more fruits, veggies, fish, nuts and whole grains slightly reduces the chance of a hip fracture. researchers say they couldn't find a similar benefit from any other diet. "nbc 10 news" at 6 is next and here's jacqueline london. >> coming up next, everyone is wild about the wildcats, villanova fans are in a frenzy to get their fingers on final four gear, the must have merchandise is nowhere to be found for now. nbc 10 has the inside track on
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how you can be among the first to take home the new products. we're live on campus next. >> plus, get set for the return of much warmer weather in the neighborhood this week. details are ahead in my first alert forecast. >> and election day exception. the pennsylvania primary is next month but the voters decision may not be the final one. what you need to know about the ballot before heading to the polls next on "nbc 10 news" at 6.
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go wildcats. it's a familiar rallying cry on villanova's campus. gear is being gobbled up as the cats get ready to resume the championship chase. >> oh, my god i'm like so excited. >> the road to the championship leads to texas where the stage is set for the final four, two wins here will earn the wildcats college basketball's biggest prize. >> after four straight victories to start the tournament villanova heads to houston, texas. they take on the oklahoma sooners in the final four. the winner moves on to play for the championship on monday. the focus is on saturday night. tip-off set for 6:09.
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the countdown shows we over five days away. >> this will mark nova's first visit since 2009. carolina went on to win. before that villanova's last final four appearance in 1985. they won it all a stunning victory over georgetown. completed a championship run that the philadelphia area will never forget. deanna durante live on villanova campus. >> so much excitement there. >> reporter: there is. a lot of people wanting their gear and actually some saying no, we want to hold off until we buy from the national championship win saying they don't want to jinkts the team. many people here alumni, students and people from the community want their villanova blue. >> most of them stopping? >> yes. >> did you expect them to? >> no. actually no. >> you thought they were going to walk
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