nbc 10 breaking news. >> i am happy to report that he's been located safe and sound. >> within the last 30 minutes we learned a 7-week-old baby abducted from the mall has been

found and the wop wman who walk off with the baby boy is in custody. sky 10 other the area where they found the baby. good evening, everyone. i'm jim rosenfield. investigators say ashir similar tons is safe and will be reunited with his family. nbc 10 has a team of reporters covering this story. let's go to andrea live at the mall with more on how this all happened andrea, explain it for us. >> reporter: well, police were assisted by multiple agencies including the fbi. they were able to locate that infant at a home. they also located the suspect there who they say was showing the baby off to her family. this is what the last few hours have been like. take a look is the surveillance video that shows the suspect leaves the mall with the baby.

she befriended the family shopping the group ended up in the food court. >> the child began to fuss and the suspect asked if she could hold to child to calm him. she did that, mom granted her permission. >> the baby is 7-week-old asir simmons. his mom went to take a phone call and got distracted by her other children. >> she was dealing with other children on the phone our suspect walks off with the baby from the food court. >> the family waited in agony waiting for the baby to be found. police will not release the name or the age of the suspect but again, she has been arrested and is in custody pending charges. reporting live, andrea kline thomas. >> all right, andrea. we continue team coverage with more on the baby's family. live at the upper marian township police department with more on that what have you

learned? >> reporter: that baby is with his parents. police thanking people for their help. many family members have have been coming in and out gathering in a community room here at the township building. we saw the police, chief of police return just a little while ago. people were congratulating him. for some of the family members this has been an extremely excruciating evening. we watched them from going yelling, emotions of fear, frustration, just being scared. they didn't know where this baby was. they didn't know what was being done to try and find this baby. we were in the lobby as police gave the group the news. they were excited. they were happy and then again, you could hear them being frustrated why would someone take this baby from them? we have video we shot. frustrated family members stormed out of the police station yelling and screaming with their frustration. they were at the mall shopping tonight. they let somebody they didn't know, somebody they befriended get in contact with that baby and then take the baby from

them, but we can tell you police are telling us tonight the baby is now back with his parents. we have seen family members coming and going again once again crying, happy that the baby has been returned. we're waiting to see if we will be able to speak to family members, get more information from police and find out more about the suspect we're being told is being held in chester county. we'll stay here and bring you the latest as it develops. for now live inside the building, deanna. >> chaotic there and scene outside the mall tonight with a heavy police presence. officers were searching car s as they tried to leave the mall to check for that missing baby. let's continue live team coverage with randy gyllenhaal also live at the mall and randy, shoppers definitely aware something was going on, right? >> reporter: there was a lot of police activity. at first, police were searching every single car, even stopping all of the buses but at some point tonight, we could tell

that search transitioned off of the mall property into the immediate area. late tonight we saw a number of police cars with the sirens on just racing in that direction and then we learned the baby and that alleged kidnapper found about ten minutes south of here leaving everyone here back at the mall relieved. as shoppers left the nation's largest mall, each and every vehicle was searched by police. >> i seen up there they were stopping a lot of cars. >> reporter: asia timmons unaware of the kidnapping asked what was going on. >> i actually asked the police officer should i be concerned? and he said if i have a baby then i should. >> reporter: shoppers were told to keep an eye out for this suspect last seen walking out of the mall with the infant baby in hand. at first, many hoped they would be found on the property but by night fall nothing turned up and police stopped searching scarca >> the baby could be anymore. >> did she get away? >> reporter: she got away.

>> dear god. >> reporter: but late word tonight the baby was found safe and alive. the kidnapper made it off the mall property but police found her at a home nearby thanks to tips from the public. shoppers glad to hear it but so confused why somebody would kidnap a random child. >> i wouldn't expect it here. sad. real sad. >> reporter: back here live, the malls now closed. they did have a giant command post but most of the police cars have gotten out of here. we got an update from the police chief. one other thing he told us is this alleged kid snapper showed that kidnapped baby off to family and friends but a tip with the video led to this reunion. >> and we will continue to bring you breaking news updates on this story throughout this newscast and up to the second updates by tapping the nbc 10 app. to other news a villanova professor is facing child

pornography charges. dr. christopher hoss was accessing the porn through a common computer, one used by other faculty and staff. the security system noticed the child porn last week and we've also learned hoss has been the target of a homeland security investigation since 2012 but the university didn't know about it. the school says hoss has been relieved of his duties and is not allowed on campus. a state trooper shot at a gray hound bus station in richmond, virginia has died. officials say the trooper was shot at close range by a man he encountered and then spoke with briefly. the gunman was shot dead by two other troopers today who are already in the gray hound station as part of a training exercise. two other people were injured. the trooper has now been identified as 37-year-old chad durmier. he was dressed in uniform and not wearing a protective vest. we have new information tonight about a violent home invasion in mercer county.

police arrested this man, 21-year-old joseph blanch for attacking a 92-year-old woman at her home earlier this week. he's now charged with kidnapping, burglary, aggravated assault and other offenses. authorities say two masked men ransacked the home monday morning and assaulted the victim and tied her up. that woman was found when a friend came to check on her. now to the financial crisis in atlantic city today governor chris christie said the state is trying to rescue the people from the government they have. one week from tomorrow, city employees will cash their only paycheck for a month. that's until the may 1st tax revenue is collected but that money won't last long. ac mayor says his city never got a sum of $33.5 million from the state. christi says atlantic city spends two to three times more per resident than any other city in new jersey. >> i'm not going to put the people of new jersey in the

position of writing another blank check. >> we're not playing games. we're taking every recommendation safely. >> a state takeover and a measure to create alternative tax payments are the only solutions. now to decision 2016 the pennsylvania primary getting closer a presidential candidate rallied supporters at the union league today. ohio governor john kasich criticized donald trump as unprepared for the presidency. kasich said he intends to compete aggressively in pennsylvania before next month's primary. speaking of trump, the front runner met privately with the republican national committee this afternoon. trump waved and gave a thumbs up as he left the nearly hour-long visit at the committee's headquarters today. the meeting comes a day after trump faced criticism for saying if abortion were to become illegal, he would advocate some form of punishment for people that receive abortions.

republican senator ted cruz will appear on pennsylvania's primary ballot. cruz won a case in supreme court that challenged his citizen ship. cruz isn't eligible to run because he was born in canada. a very fired up hillary clinton campaigned in new york today and once again criticized trump for his k07comments on abortion. clinton went after bernie sanders for calling the comments a distraction from quote serious issues. sanders rallied this morning in pittsburgh. the vermont senator discussed trade policies and how they affected workers in pennsylvania and around the country. sanders trails clinton in polls of likely pennsylvania voters. and those voters in pennsylvania and delaware will head to the polls on april 26th. new jersey doesn't hold its primary until june 7th. we continue to follow breaking news tonight. an infant abducted from the mall has been found.

we'll have a live update straight ahead. plus, why a plan to cut down on congestion led to outrage. the march to victory, inbc 0 touches down in houston texas gearing up for the final four. we take you behind the scenes next. rain for the end of the week for your friday. take the umbrella tomorrow aside from that, the weekend is going to get colder. i'll show you times of the rain and how cold temperatures will drop. that's coming up. katie vo: she works as many hours as the guys do.

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nbc 7 andrea joining us from the mall with the latest, andrea. >> reporter: it was a tense five hours. police went to locations in upper marin township and tradition township they were able to track down the infant and arrest the suspect. police say they received a number of tips after sharing this video of the suspect leaving the mall with the infant in her arms. authorities say 7-week-old ahsir simmons was taken around 5:30 this evening. the suspect allegedly befriended the mother earlier in the day. the mother allowed the suspect to hold the baby and got distracted by her cell phone and other children and that's when police say the woman took off. >> extremely rare. extremely rare to have a case like this. the way this incident took place, but thankfully we had all the resources available to bring this child home safely. >> and before that child was able to be reunited with its family, they sent the child to

the hospital to be checked. again, that suspect is in custody and she's pending charges. reporting live from the prussia mall. a community outrage tonight. the philadelphia streets department removed three stoplights to try to ease traffic but people said they made a big mistake. we'll show you where the lights used to be. this is in the over brooke park avenue of road street and sherwood. >> we need our lights. can't even get out. >> and this evening a hand full of residents protested the removal of the traffic signals and blame a half dozen recent accidents on the loss of those lights and they say the busy intersections are not safe for pedestrians especially children. >> i won't even let my child walk to the corner store now because where she needs to cross at, there is no light and i'm afraid someone will hit her. >> since the lights came down, residents say traffic along busy

avenue is a nightmare. often backed up for blocks. final four fever has swept over the villanova campus as the wildcats continue the mark to victory late this afternoon around 600 new final four shirts and nova gear arrived to the bookstore and quick lly flew of the racks. the march to victory resumes in one day and seven hours or 18 hours i should say. the wildcats taking on oklahoma in the final four of the ncaa men's basketball touchment, of course, nova and sooners square off sat night in houston, texas. the winner moves on to play for the championship on monday. nbc 10's keith jones touched down in texas this afternoon and he's already found plenty of other nova fans to keep him company. >> let's take you behind the scenes starting with villanova hotel and the giant murals the ncaa made after the wildcats. let's go inside.

behind the front desk, a huge mural of the entire team. fans have a ton to look forward to as soon as the wheels hit the tarmac. coming in fast. philly full speed into houston. hustle and bustle, anxious, antsy and amazed. check out the team hotel bleeding in blue and white including the nova cheerleading squad and senior lindsey. >> i think we'll do well. >> you think? wait a minute. >> i'm feeling pretty confident we'll do well. >> for the seniors, this could be the last year of their careers. >> it could be but i don't think it's going to be so we'll see. >> could be the last one, nervous? >> a little bit nervous but i'm actually -- i'm absolutely confident in the team especially with your senior classic put in so much work the past couple years and really as mazing to see it come together. >> the excitement in the coverage from houston is just getting started tomorrow. thousands of fans from the delaware valley will come down

to watch villanova practice open to the public starting at noon. in houston, keith jones, nbc 10 news. and tomorrow, make sure to tune into our special villanova march to victory live from houston. we'll have keys to the game, players to watch and we'll get the flavor of houston tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. right here on nbc 10. >> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. it is still warm outside now. temperatures will stay warm as we go overnight tonight. and a little breezy, too, but as we go into the day tomorrow, still warm but then we'll be watching some thunderstorms move in. so rain for your friday. that's going to be in the morning and even later on in the afternoon. i'll show you time income a second. after that clears out, it will get cooler as we go across your weekend and colder as we go into sunday. then we go into next week. we have another little weather system we're watching. that could give us a chance for

snow. not prolonged period of snowfall but we could certainly see wintery precip. 67. still windy. winds gusting near 25 miles an hour. we still have a strong south wind and now we have overcast skies for most of the area like we had late this afternoon and for now, we actually have some showers with it. so some overnight showers not out of the question mostly on the light side. majority will be here tomorrow. here is the closer look at delaware county, chester county and also 76 going into the philadelphia area. that's mostly light rain. lower montgomery near the p.a. turnpike seeing light rain and near trenton and mercer county we have the light rain there, too but for the rest of the area, pretty much cloud cover. more wet weather off to the west and southwest so for tomorrow, we have rain and thunderstorms in the forecast. here is future weather now overnight tonight. maybe some very light showers

and by tomorrow morning for the commute, i don't think we'll see a ton of heavy rain. we could certainly see spotty showers but it will be a mild start. temperatures mainly in the mid 60s then closer to lunchtime and that looks like the better chance for heavier rain, maybe thunderstorms by 11:00 a.m. to noon and through the afternoon we could see another line of showers, maybe some thunderstorms try to move through. so it's not going to be an all day steady rain but i think we'll have periods of rain through the day. 8:00 tomorrow evening looks pretty good if you have the friday night plans but then come early saturday, some of this rain moves back in for the morning, hosely new jersey and delaware. even by the middle of the day possibly lingering but then we clear out more as we go later into saturday night and into your sunday. tonight, though, mild and windy. chance of a late shower still mostly through the overnight hours. tomorrow showers and storms windy and warm. temperatures mid to upper 70s for a high. so take the umbrella before you leave tomorrow and if you're in new jersey and delaware, keep it handy as you go into saturday.

we'll have rain lingering there. colder for sunday. highs around the upper 40s but morning lows in the 30s and there you see it by early tuesday a chance of the wintery precip. >> i'm amy from comcast sports net. two days away from villanova and oklahoma in the final four. coming up in sports, hear on the hype surrounding saturday's big game and when it hit home for them, the enormity of the stage they are on now. all that and more, next.

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saturday night in houston, villanova and oklahoma fight for the right to go to the national title game. john clark has more. >> this is something you dream about since you were a little kid and, you know, to be in it is crazy. when we lost the last couple years, i watched the championship. to be here and play in the game is awesome. >> he said it really hit him that he is at the final four when he walked in his locker room and saw his face in it. >> we walk in here, there are so many pictures of us and villanova. it's surreal and don't know what to think about it and can't get caught up in that stuff. >> the difference between '09 and this year in terms of how they treat the players, how they set everything up, it's already significantly more hyped than it was in '09. and so we started to explain to them last night, this is the beginning. you know, we got to take it in

but we got to remain hungry and remain humble. >> they were sent home early the last two tournaments, making the final four now makes it sweeter. >> we've been through the struggles with my freshman year. even through this year it's been inconsistent. we've had our battles in practice with coach, with each other and it hasn't been pretty but to have an end result like this in the final four and have an opportunity to win the national championship on saturday is something that everyone dreams of. >> everybody has to hold everyone accountable just because we're playing on the biggest stage doesn't mean playing a little basketball goes out the window. we have to do the things that got us here. >> villanova is trying to go to a national championship game for a third time. the 1985 team won it all. the 1971 team, they played in the title game right next to here at the astrodome.

>> thank you, john. the flyers held the annual team picture today and hope they will look back on the photos and remember a play-off team. flyers currently are on the second wild card spot in the east two points ahead of the detroit red wings. notable absent from today's team picture, ed snyder missed the picture for the first time ever. he's dealing with health issues and resting in california. the head coach says he has spoken to snider. >> he wants to congratulate us, yet, you know, really it's the other way around. everything that our team is doing right now, i believe, you know, goes back to mr. snider. >> we're right back after this. thank you so much. did you say honey? hey, try some? mmm that is tasty. is it real? of course... are you? nope animated you know i'm always looking for real honey for honey nut cheerios

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prussia mall, the baby found and suspect in custody. stay with us for the latest developments and the latest at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. thanks for watching. have a good night.

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