precip rates about 5 inches an hour. so with a severe thunderstorm warning we're looking at winds gusting near 60 miles an hour, lightning, heavy rain and hail. and we are seeing hail in this storm. right now look at the precip rates, east rock hill, bedminster, hill town seeing heavy rain. some of the highest amounts are over five inches an hour. the good news here, this is not going to sit in this area for an hour. but we're seeing heavy rain so there is a chance you could see localized flooding maybe in your front or back yard on streets, but here is a look upper bucks county again with the strongest part of the storm mostly tracking to the northeast. so, it will continue moving in that direction, and areas like knock a mixen around 6:05. the strongest part about to move out of bucks county dealing with it for the timing, otherwise this is a severe storm. here is the hail i was talking about. still over 476 and parts of

upper montgomery, upper bucks county, near perkasie. hail over an inch. that's about golf ball-size hail so. this is a very strong storm. again it's mainly for upper bucks county at this point because there is the area you see it to the south of milford. so we are looking at hail, heavy rain, lightning and potentially damaging wind. we'll talk more about the storms around and more rain as we go into your weekend coming up. didn't even think about going outside. in my mind somebody's going to be after my kids. >> words of relief but fear from the woman who watched as her baby boy was snatched away carried out of the busiest mall in the country. >> nothing? >> that's the woman accused of taking the infant from a food court at the mall. police say she is the same woman

seen on surveillance strolling out of the mall with the infant in her arms on the right side of your screen there, abduction set off a frantic search. >> i'm glad that he in my arms at this moment. i'm so glad he is in my arms. >> police tell us the accused kidnapper picked up a 7 week old boy at a food court at the mall. the suspect found with the child at an apartment in chester county hours later. >> she did not deny anything right away, immediately told the investigators that she had taken the baby. >> police say the woman told them she took the baby because her own newborn died in february. nbc 10 brings you live team coverage on the suspect, the timeline of how this happened and the suspect's prominent family name. we begin with aundrea cline-thomas who has an exclusive interview with the baby's mother. >> reporter: the mother tells us that she just wanted to go out get some fresh air with her two

boys, and she said yesterday was her first time and probably the last time that she visited king of prussia mall. >> i just want to keep him here with me. i just want to board up my door and stay in the house with my kids. >> reporter: it's hard to face the world after someone tried to abduct her 7 week old son from the king of prussia mall. >> why. why my child. why anybody's child. how could you do something so hurtful and evil. to someone. >> reporter: hunter befriended a woman at a jewelry store, they bonded over being new mothers. >> she came up to you? >> she did. she did. came up and just like i say having a conversation about the baby and telling me about her baby. >> reporter: the conversation continued at the food court at one point she tended to her son, when she says the woman grabbed the baby and took off. >> one minute was talking, the

next minute he was gone. >> police checked cars and buses and following leads. >> i can't believe it was me. on that tv looking for my child. >> reporter: the baby was found with the suspect a few miles away, still in shock over the incident this is what malicka thinks of her. >> according to police social media played a major role in them being able to track down the accused kidnapper, and for that hunter says she's grateful for the outpouring of support. now to more on the suspect cherie amoore. on the way in to court this afternoon to face the kidnapping charges. and deanna durante is joining us with more on the suspect and how police say she got so close to that baby.

>> reporter: yes, she told police according to court papers i was crazy, i don't know why i did it, and i'm sorry. >> she says nothing despite questions hurled at her. inside court is when she sobbed so loudly you could hear her from another room. once she saw her family she told them i'm sorry. >> she did not deny anything right away. immediately told the investigators that she had taken the baby. and they were able to see the baby pretty quickly and determine he was healthy. >> reporter: it was tips and this video that helped them find cherie amoore, six hours after the baby was kidnapped. police aamoore befriended a family, offered to hold the baby and calmed him while the mother was busy with another child. amoore took off with the 7 week old. after her arrest amoore said she was sorry and didn't know why she did it. >> she has told our investigators she did ghot to the mall with the intention to

steal is baby. she told investigators she gave birth to a baby boy on february 11, which die add few hours later. we have not been able to confirm any of that story. >> reporter: we found two baby registries on line items for a baby boy. the due date is listed in december. >> she had on line a baby registry for december. she tells police february. was she ever pregnant? >> at the apartment no sign of any one there today including the man listed on the baby registries. again her public defender couldn't talk much about the evidence that police have against her. a family pastor was here at court, says he is asking for prayers for both families. deanna durante, "nbc 10 news." that suspect is from a high profile family in the area. cherie amoore's mother is the deputy chair of the republican

party. >> i'm just here as a friend and as a pastor to support her and keep her unprayer and also to keep the other family in prayer as well. >> renee amoore was sobbing in court as her daughter faced the judge. our coverage continues, we're talking mall safety. an expert reveals the security measures at the mall you probably never noticed. to the long march to victory for villanova students. nbc 10 on campus as they boarded these buses and hit the road. destination, houston, texas. >> some 1500 miles away police escorted the villanova team bus into the stadium in houston, the stage set there for the final four showdown featuring our wildcats and the sooners of oklahoma, tip-off set for 6:09 tomorrow night.

the winner of course moves on to play in college basketball's national championship. heading up our coverage is proud villanova alum keith jones, live tonight again in houston. keith, you're talking about an alum and fan maybe even more dedicated than you are? >> reporter: jim, there are very few cases where i would actually admit that. this is one of them. a legendary fan, put it this way, he has been rooting on the wildcats since his freshman year, 65 years ago. he's going to be here at the alumni association party in a bit. first let me show you who i'm talking about. 81-year-old jerry clingman, he graduated 1955. the 81-year-old now lives in florida, but goes to nearly every villanova basketball game. he even went to the national championship game in kentucky in 1985. this time around he had a message for jay wright. >> i told jay when i was 80 i said jay, i'm 80 and waiting.

now, this year i'm 81. so, i said jay, coach, 81, this is the one. nothing rhymes with 82. >> reporter: you put it that way, he's got a point. back live now, here in houston we're welcoming villanova fans for a full hour they are going to get together. we're going to introduce you to a lot of fans, too, bring you behind the scenes here in the lone star state as the team prepares for the match-up tomorrow night against oklahoma. for now we're live, keith jones, "nbc 10 news." >> he looks great. that will be you in a few years. in your 80s still traveling with the team. >> i wish. i wish i had as much energy and charisma as he did. >> he's great. see you in a bit. nbc 10 has a team of reporters with villanova in addition to keith, matt delucia, john clark, they are there too. watch for their live reports here on nbc 10 as the wildcats march to victory in the final four and make sure you tune in

to our hour-long special tonight, villanova march to victory live from houston, it starts at 7:00, we'll have keys to the game, players to watch, plus we'll give you the flavor of houston. tonight at 7:00 live from houston. nbc 10 coverage of our top story continues, this woman accused of kidnapping a baby from the king of prussia mall. surveillance captured the crime. it has people asking questions about mall security. one security measure you probably never noticed. we're still tracking thunderstorms moving through coming up i'll show you where they are heading and what you can expect for the rest of tonight plus big changes as we go into your weekend. that's next.

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how could you do something so hurtful and evil. >> nbc 10 talks to the woman who watched as her baby boy was snatched by a woman who calmly walked out of the king of prussia mall. police charged the accused kidnapper, they say cherie amoore took the baby. she claims she gave birth in february but it died the same day. investigators are trying to

confirm that. they believe amore is the baby seen carrying the baby out. the crime has people concerned now about mall security. and lauren mayk spoke with security experts joining us from our digital operations center with a behind the scenes look. >> jim, i also talked to a mall representative about how their security worked and helped law enforcement to bring this baby home. from inside the mall today we could see the surveillance that is part of their system. mall management didn't want to talk on camera but sent me a statement they have what they call state of the art protocol inside and out and their emergency procedures were quote operationalized instantly. i talked to that security expert. you may not realize where all of that security is. cameras that caught this image but beyond that, even into the parking lot. >> they have things designed,

example you can't leave directly from the mall. maybe the car is channelled to go a certain way because they don't want you to leave from all different areas. that's in the design, that's security in the design. >> might not even know that's there. he tells me it appears in this case the security system here worked as it was supposed to, helping to bring that baby home. live in the digital operations center, lauren mayk, "nbc 10 news." >> we know many of you followed developments from the abduction to the rescue last night. through the nbc 10 app. nbc 10 was first on the scene, first to send out a news alert, and you can get alerts like these on other news and weather developments, the nbc 10 app is a free download in the app store. we are still tracking showers and storms moving through here is a live look at the radar now.

a lot of the storms still to the north and to the west of philadelphia but we're still watching the one in parts of upper bucks county. the severe thunderstorm warning has expired but we're still seeing areas of heavy rain just to the south of bedminster entering solbury and also high winds expected and lightning in this cluster of thunderstorms near hilltown. precip rates about 2.5 inches so not as heavy as earlier. but we're still seeing that heavy rain nonetheless. even in parts of montgomery county, hatfield, norristown, 476 approaching the p.a. turnpike this is still heavy rain. so i'm sure visibility in these areas very low traffic moving slow but again, we've seen the hail with this storm when it was severe earlier about 10, 20 minutes ago that's when we had hail size over an inch. golf ball-size hail. that hail track extended from 476 in montgomery county through east rock hill township, bedminster and we're not seeing

as much in this storm system but it really shows you what it was capable of. here's a look higher up in the atmosphere at the core of the storm. at one point it was over 40,000 feet in the atmosphere. that causes it to be cold muff to produce hail like we saw. we'll look around and see still the height of some of these storms, we're seeing some of these weaken from what we had earlier. so now if we watch that trail of storms it extends through northern delaware. if we look down the trail of storms they are not as high. so in these areas there's less of a chance for hail but we are still seeing some locally heavy rainfall. so now we are looking through parts of new castle county and northern delaware. near wilmington, heavy rain, 495, kennett square, seeing heavy rain, also lower montgomery county now we have heavy rain approaching glenside will see that soon. and it is still approaching the philadelphia area. so if we track this line of showers with some thunderstorms still the potential for storms as they move through. we'll see it approaching the

philadelphia area, close to 6:30. gloucester 6:44, washington township 6:46. so they are moving quickly around 50 miles an hour which means they should be moving out quickly too. future weather showing the storms around by about 7:00 p.m. so only an hour or so from now. storms moving through the philadelphia area, but still potentially across parts of bucks county, even trenton. a lot of these could be losing energy quickly as we get closer to 8, 9:00 this earning. much better than what we see now on the radar. but then as we go into your saturday, starting off your weekend, we have rain moving in. this is saturday morning, 8:00 in the morning. south jersey and delaware you'll be seeing it first. i wouldn't be surprised if we had rain starting off the day in philadelphia and it could even stretch up farther north and west. so rain for your saturday morning. as we go later into the day saturday and into sunday, that's when we have high winds moving in and we're talking about potentially damaging wind gusts. we're in a high wind watch for

the ep tire area, 50 to 60-mile-an-hour winds possible. later saturday into early sunday. don't be surprised if you walk out and you get a very strong gust of wind. those are damaging so be careful as we go later to the middle part of your weekend. tonight early showers, even storms around, temperatures only dropping to the mid to low 50s, a mild evening. then tomorrow, morning showers, high winds developing later in the day. high temperatures much cooler mid to low 60s, and then we're colder as we go into sunday with that high wind. morning lows in the 30s, afternoon highs about the mid to upper 40s, next week though we have a lot of stuff in the seven-day forecast. a clipper system moving through on monday. that will mostly be rain but then into early tuesday some of that could be changing over to snow. >> reporter: i'm john clark live in houston texas, villanueva villanova preparing to play in a football stadium. we'll talk about that next.

hey, i'm john clark live in houston, texas, 24 hours away, villanova, oklahoma in the final four. nova getting used to the stadium, the football stadium they are playing in. it's tough to shoot in these football stadiums so they dealt with that today. they are getting ready to face buddy hield. >> you can't stop him but try to keep him up der control and the other guys under control. you probably could stop him.

but the rest of the team is so good they'd kill you. >> the cats face maybe the best player in the country, buddy hield averaging 29 points a game, only steph curry had more points through the first four games in ncaa tournament history. >> it's going to be tough to stop buddy. he's going to take tough shots, he's going to make tough shots. it's their whole team. last time they had five guys in double figures. >> look what nova's defense did to perry ellis in the win over kansas. they held him to a season low 4 points. >> you have to go into a game like this with an open mind. you can't go in with one game plan against a great player like that and the other guys. you can have a good game plan. he might come up with something that you have to adjust. our guys ability to adjust i think is a great strength. >> jay wright says the cats were embarrassed in their 23-point

loss to oklahoma in december. their worse loss of the season of it they learned a lot from that game. >> didn't know how much confidence they had and since the last time they got us really good. but we can't let that affect us because we think we're a different team from that point in the season. but we also know how good of a team they are and how much better they improved. >> reporter: and join us at 7:00 right here on nbc 10, villanova, march to victory, we'll take you behind the scenes in the locker room, hear from jay wright, coaches, fans, everybody, we're going to bring it to you an hour, getting you ready for villanova in the final four. john clark live in houston, texas. laboratory chemist, developing drugs to fight deadly diseases. as a scientist, i know there's more that washington can do to help families. i'm running for congress to protect planned parenthood funding so more women get cancer screenings and treatment...

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philadelphia area, wilmington, also another line of thunderstorms moving through chester county, east nottingham. we're still looking at thunderstorms moving into lower bucks county. so we have this left on the radar. it will continue to move through as we go through tonight and into tomorrow, we have rain for your saturday morning so don't be surprised about that. later in the day saturday, a high wind watch. that is going to give us wind gusts near 60 miles an hour. late saturday into early sunday. sunday we're colder and the potential for wintry precip into early tuesday. lots of stuff. >> be sure to tune in to our hour long special villanova march to victory live from houston coming up in 30 minutes at 7:00. keith jones and john clark on the ground in houston with nova nation. for all of us here, i'm jim rosenfield. the news continues with "nbc nightly news" with lester holt.

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