hospital to be treated minor injuries. the crash happened right in front of diamond pharmacy. 15 minutes ago one of the car owners walked over to us and told us about this crash. >> my co-worker was looking out the window and stated there was a car accidents. i looked out and had to focus it was my vehicle. when i came outside i noticed the school bus ran into the back of my vehicle and my vehicle hit the other car. >> reporter: no one is facing charges. police are working to get this part of diamond street re-topped traffic. live in north philadelphia i'm brandon hudson, nbc 10 news. tonight there is a void in philadelphia's heart. the entire city morning loss of ed snider. him. we go live to the wells fargo center. >> reporter: ed snider will

likely be remembered here in philadelphia in big ways. here where the flyers played the flag is at half-staff. some people are remembering him in smaller ways today. remembering what he meant to them. >> they gave him a chance to play hockey but gave my son a whole new lease on life. >> reporter: lisa called a local radio station after ed snider's death. ed snider didn't know her she says but he touched her family. >> i could never thank him enough. in really couldn't. my son could have easily, you know, become a victim of the streets and, you know, got into the wrong crowd. >> reporter: her sonoma enthusiast was 6 and learned,000 skate and became part of the ed snider youth hockey league. mat was diagnosed with adhd.

>> matt would get mad and not follow instruction, have a temper tan. the coaches welcomed him. didn't give up. >> it's made him become more empathic, aware of other people feelings. >> reporter: she says it's for mr. snider. >> this is his legacy and i'm proud my son will be a part it. >> reporter: now that was one story today. but there are others. fact, there are new memory boxes and people boards at the ice rink where those kids played so that you can recount your own memories of ed snider and those i'm told will be shared with his family. live in south philadelphia. >> for more on the life and legacy of ed snider have the nbc

10 app we have tributes from family members and flyers players. can you learn about his life outside of the rink. pennsylvania is another step closer to legalizing medical marijuana. the senate pass ad bill permitting use for medical purpose p.s. second time in 11 months the has passed the bill. the bill still has to pass the state house of representatives and republicans in that body are not promising a quick passage. governor tom wolf supports the bill. medical marijuana slcijuana is delaware and new jersey. philadelphia police are trying to crack the case of a tomb robbery. somebody stole two mausoleum doors. if you have any information call police. tonight we have new pictures

of the young women accused of turning a case of shoplifting in to a stabbing. it happened at the five below store in center city last week. lifted and followed outside by an employee. when the manager tried to get the items back she was stabbed. a surveillance video showing now former ocean city employee raiding a homeowner's refrigerator has prompted a review by police. the man is the stepson of the resort's mayor. he's taking stuff out of a frigid house where he just tested a smoke detector. sources say the man is joseph bernado. he no longer works for the resort but after seeing this video police are looking into recent theft cases in other

homes. a wet morning, turned no n to a clear evening. we have another big change coming tonight. >> let's bring in glenn "hurricane" schwartz. glenn, you're tracking a potential freeze for tonight? >> the temperature will be dropping quite a bit in just a matter of a few hours. the clear sky one of the ingredients here the other thing is the wind eventually diminishing and that's the big question for the tonight. we have the clear skies, obviously, just about to clear right at the beaches, and we have the freeze warning for some of the northern and western parts of the area until 8:00 a.m., berks, lehigh, northern chester, bucks and montgomery counties. right now it's still in the mid-50s so got a long way to go to get down the freezing points.

62 degrees in philadelphia. but temperature really is going to drop fast as we go through the tonight and it will be in the 30s by morning. we'll see when it will warm up, we're talking about 70s in the seven day in just a few minutes. new at 6:00 a jury convicted former camden anniversary of the of theft. shane streator collected a state disability pension at the same time he was working as a martial arts struckor. he also competed in mixed martial arts while too injured to work as a firefighter. authorities say he collected more than $82,000. the-year-old faces up to ten years in prison and faces sentencing may 20th. from our lehigh valley bureau a 20-year-old man is dead after a fiery crash. police tell us john delaney murray was thrown from his car. more information may come out tomorrow after an autopsy. philadelphia has new fire

and prison commissioners. the mayor made the announcement today calling it the right time for a change. he appointed adam teal as fire commissioner and lance carney will take the top job in the prison system. >> the current commissioner has done a good job but some decisions made by the administration in the eight years has created a serious problem in our department. >> the democratic national committee showed off its plans for this summer's convention. this morning a convention that will happen right here in philadelphia. here's a live look at the wells fargo center where that convention will be held. city officials including mayor kenny did walk through where 50,000 people will rally in july. where democrats, course, will nominate their presidential candidate. today the city and dnc said everything is going according to plan. >> we've done large events before. we had the pope for a large

scale event. and we've had the rnc here back in 2000, i believe. >> the convention begins july 25th and runs through the 28th. tonight the democratic candidates have set their sights a little bit further north. hillary clinton and bernie sanders both campaigned in new york. clinton noted that today is equal payday designed to highlight the women's statistically make less money than men. >> people will say oh, there she goes, she's playing the gender card. and what i say to that is if talk about equal pay and paid leave and more opportunities for women and girls is playing the gender card, then deal me in. >> sanders spent time in syracuse telling an enthusiastic audience some polls find him beating clinton in new york. in a again ram election poll he would beat donald trump by 20 points. andk

pittsburgh right now. ahead of the state's april 26th primary. it's trump's first visit to pennsylvania since announcing his bid for the white house. meanwhile house speaker paul ryan says you can count him out of the presidential race. i do not want, nor will i accept the nomination for our party. >> ryan faced speculation he could become the nominee after a contested convention. today he said the nomination should go to someone who ran during the primaries. new at 6:00 a delaware bird rescue has helped rehabilitate three eagles after they got sick. we'll show you some video of those birds being reed. last month nbc 10 told you about several eagles found in sussex county. some were dead. some were sick and disoriented. officials are still investigating what caused the

illnesses. privacy versus public safety why new jersey transit sayshtñ want needs to your conversations on the train. protecting students from an epidemic. the life-saving medicine that could be coming to a school near you. freeze warning tonight and then temperatures getting in the 70s. tracking a wild weather roller coaster ride. details straight ahead in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast.

new at 6:00 the navy held a service at washington crossing yesterday to honor a bucks county native who died at sea more than a half century ago. a submarine accidents claimed his life in 1963 and his body was never found. at the time there was no memorial service. when his descendants learned he qualified full military honors they arranged for that service to happen. >> pennsylvania high schools are a step closer to having the life-saving medication narcan at their disal. the governor said the application process has begun for hundreds of school to receive free doses.

narcan counters the effect of a heroin overdose. the governor says it's a crucial development in filing the growing addiction problem across the state. >> it's a real problem for us. it's an he. we have to address it dispassionately and look at it as a real health problem that it is. >> the governor credited nbc 10 for helping to shine light on the problem of heroin addiction. nbc 10 spent six months investigating for our digital exclusive generation addicted. >> we heard series from people struggling with heroin addiction and we got insight from their families. today nbc 10 brought community concerns to the country's top drug official. >> reporter: nbc 10 presented a first of its kind community forum called combatting the heroin epidemic. forum for change. today is a culmination of six months of investigative work. it resulted in an nbc 10 exclusive called generation

addicted which put a spotlight on the heroin and opiod epidemic. if community forum involved southeast country's top official and featured white house national drug policy director. >> we have a role to play. there are things we can do to help. >> reporter: the panel ranged from advocates who lost family and friends from addiction and law enforcement. >> 85% of our crime is because of the drug problem. >> reporter: the panel included nbc 10's own vince who worked on generation addicted along with a colleague. >> that's why we do this. >> reporter: philadelphia mental health commissioner spoke out of the need to go after drug pills. advocate whose son died of a heroin overdose and would have celebrated his 32nd birthday

yesterday says the stigma needs to know now. >> people have to know addiction is aand stop shaming the person has it. >> reporter: at the national constitution center, denise nakano, nbc 10 news. >> don't miss generation addicted that takes a hard look at heroin addiction. it's available on nbc 10 app and nbc10.com. we have new video in the newsroom. it shows two burglars breaking into the recycling building in montgomery county. you can see them crawling through the cinder block wall. they tried to break into the steel casing of the machine but were notful. new at 6:00 new jersey tran set up says it's not breaking any laws by recording passengers conversations. the system is recording video and audio on some of its trains including on the river line between trenton and camden.

critics call it a violation of privacy but mj transit executive director say it's protecting passengers froms who target public transportation system. quite a change from the start of the day to the end of the day. and hope you were prepared for that. the freeze is tonight, late tonight and into tomorrow morning for part of the area. you may need to prepare for that too. bring your tender v ee eer vege. 70s returning in the seven day forecast. a lot of sunshine for the second half of the day after the first half of the day was pretty wet. 62 degrees, the wind north-northwest at 18 miles per hour. so it's still pretty strong.

bringing in colder air. we got up to 50 degrees on sunday, only 43 saturday. 69 degrees on monday. that's the exception to the rule. the average high now is 63. that's what we hit today. we'll be a little bit below average the rest of the week. the temperatures now dropping in through the 50s, north and west approximately still not all that chilly. the wind makes it feel cooler. the temperatures really are going to drop quickly during the evening hours. it's still kind of windy, 15 to 20 mile-per-hour winds. by morning that needs to really drop-off in order for the temperature to reach as low as it needs go to produce this freeze that the freeze warning is for for tonight. if not tonight but tomorrow night. berks county, lehigh valley, northern chester and upper bucks county. in the last several hours the sunshine has returned.

even getting sunny at the shore, and now that we've seen that, well things are really going to be staying pretty nice. this is the rain. 6:00 a.m. it's, of course, long gone. you can see just about everybody got some and now nobody is getting any. not for a while. got a dry country and dry weather pattern here. that's very fortunate for the phillies. they've their home stand just in time. they weren't home over the weekend. tonight's wind different. blowing from left fielder to right field corner or even a little bit in from left field. just the opposite of what we saw yesterday. so it's going to be a little harder to hit home runs tonight but it'shnghç going to be chill the end of the game. take a coat with you if you're headed out there. for the rest of the night possible freeze north and west 32 degrees for the low temperature. just so it's barely getting to the freezing points.

sunny and cool tomorrow. upper 50s, little cool for this time of the year but not much wind. similar conditions wednesday, thursday and friday. then we start to warm up on saturday and big time warm up sunday and monday, by monday we're in the upper 70s. looking good. i'm john clark we'll hear from the flyers dedicating their playoff run to ed snider. that's next. modres: the cost of living the pay stays the same. i have to work extra hours just to make ends meet.

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i'm john clark. the flyers on thursday will play first game in the 50 year history of the franchise without its founder ed snider. the first playoffs without ed. flyers hit ties for the first practice after ed passed away yesterday. the flyers are dedicating their playoff run to ed snider. they say they are playing for him and want to end the flyers 41 stanley cup drought in honor of their chairman. >> it's pretty, kind of special. holding onto see if we make the playoffs and now he'll be looking over us from up there. like i said, he's a well-respected man and i mean everyone wants to win another cup and it should motivate us to get one this year to show respect. >> reporter: two of ed snider's

flyers want to honor the man who brought hockey to philly. >> he's done so much for this organization and for to us be in a position we're in now, we have a position to kind of spread a lot of people and we're taking a challenge pretty seriously and it's going to be a fun one. >> unfortunately that he passed but like i said yesterday, this playoff will be dedicated to him. i'm sure everybody in philly knows that. >> mr. snider a big win. >> that was claude face timing with ed on saturday after the flyers clinched the playoffs. they have been playing for him and this is the last time the

team saw him. they visited him in december. since then the flyers are 26-12-7. ed has inspired them. take a look since ed founded the flyers the flyers have been the most successful pro team in. the best winning percentage. it's all right there. one quick phillies note ryan howard will play clean up. i'm john clark. we're right back.

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cold night but it will get better after that. >> a couple of cold nights. freeze warning in effect for northern and western counties. pretty comfortable in the afternoons and then over the weekend. it's really going to warm up. it was so cold this weekend. >> and snow. no more. >> flip side of that is this coming weekend. beautiful night out there. for all of us i'm jim rosenfield

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