nbc 10 news starts now. right now at 6:00, do you have the winning ticket? someone is now a multimillionaire after winning last night's $429.6 million powerball jackpot, and it happened in our area. good evening. i'm denise nakano. just a short time ago we learned the winning ticket was purchased at a 7-eleven in trenton, mercer county, but the winner has not come forward just yet. here's a look at the winning numbers. they are 5, 25, 26, 44 and 66 and the powerball number is 9. nbc 10's lauren mayk is live

where the ticket was bought. >> reporter: we are live in mercer county and when we got here the first thing someone said to us was who won? i can tell you the person who bought that winning ticket bought it right here at this 7-eleven in trenton and they took the cash payout which means they get just a little over $300 million once they come forward. >> it's $284 million news. >> she woke me up and said there's a winner and it's in mercer county. >> these sisters say it's not them. we now know that the winning ticket was sold at this 7-eleven in trenton. >> i only have one number, number 5. >> reporter: you're not the winner? >> i'm not the winner. >> employee louis sandoval thinks he might have sold the winner here. >> i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: sandoval says it was tuesday afternoon and he's been asked not to reveal details. >> reporter: have you sold

winning tickets here before? >> not that big. this is the first one that we get this big. >> wow! i still can't believe it. i'm shaking right now. >> reporter: lottery regulars across the county were buzzing with the news and those who didn't play had some regrets. >> i went, oh, my goodness. i could have had a chance at winning. >> reporter: this store in hamilton township had been lucky before. >> i've had seven pick six winners and a scratch-off million dollar winner. >> reporter: sandoval is usually selling, not playing. >> are you going to play now? >> i'll probably give it a chance now. >> reporter: now he tells me he thinks that he recognized the woman who bought the ticket as someone who has been to this store before, but he can't be sure so we'll have to wait until that person comes forward. the store itself gets $30,000 for its part in the lucky ticket, and i can tell you that luis sandoval might be playing

powerball in the future. i'm lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. you couldn't ask for better weather on this mother's day and nbc 10 in hamilton, mercer county where the crowds were out enjoying the sunshine at the azalea festival. let's get a check of the forecast with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz and it's been a while since we've seen this much sunshine and it's a while since we've seen temperatures like this and we did get 70 degrees in philadelphia and we're down to 69, still a lot of sunshine out there and even a cool spot in the pennsylvania suburb and 67 in new jersey and in delaware and we have sunshine everywhere. the temperatures are close to 70 at pens port and winchester park and also in summerton and the airport did get over 70 degrees today. >> on the radar, we have one area of a little sprinkle just west of the poconos and not going to do anything as we go

through the night tonight and we could see moisture back across ohio and mostly that will track to the south and the futurecast will show us that as we get through the night and into tomorrow. we do not see any precipitation and temperatures again in the 70s and we'll see how long that lasts with the full forecast a little bit later. >> all right, glenn. thank you. pens landing was a popular destination on this mother's day. many families stopped by the 13th annual spring arts craft bazaar. that wasn't the only busy spot in the city. let's go to drew smith who has the excitement from franklin park. >> reporter: a beautiful day for the moms. check out franklin park. it is so colorful with the flowers and lanterns and this is the chinese festival that they're having down here and hundreds of people have come out to enjoy those mother's day memories today. >>. >> there's no better place to celebrate mother's day than the birthplace of the howl day. the historical marker for

founder anna jarvis and just outside the center city. >> we worked our whole life for, our family and they're my life and treasure. >> the moms sure are feeling appreciated today in the little lion restaurant. we caught families celebrating with the run. >> this is a day of appreciation. it's kind of of like a birthday times 2. >> recognizing you're not only as good as your own mom. >> in strawberry mansion, the chefs woke up early to prepare breakfast for all of the mothers. the eggs and bacon all served hot after the sunday service. >> thanking her for raising me. >> and at franklin square we found a woman overcome with emotion and receiving special gifts and the mothers tell us they're enjoying this day of recognition. >> being celebrated for all of the hard work that we do in raising our children. >> and the celebrations are not

over yet. once the sun sets here, all of this will be lit up and it's really colorful and a cool spot to spend mother's day. i'm drew smith, nbc 10 news. a missing jet skier, the coast guard has suspended its search forres is us diaz melendez. he and a friend were tossed into the water near the trenton boat ramp in the delaware river. the crew from a nearby ship rescued melendez's friend, but no word how he was injured. the coast guard searched for melendez until 10:00 last night. tonight we learned a baby girl critically injured in a crash on henry avenue last weekend has died. >> 7 week old zyana wilson died from her injuries friday. >> she has been in the accident since it killed her father and 6-year-old eric clarksdale perez last sunday. >> the crash happened along a

wet henry avenue avenue in philadelphia neighborhood. the driver crossed on to the oncoming lanes and hit a second car. six others are still recover fromming their injuries. >>. >> turning now to decision 2016 and the race for the white house. the new jersey primary is still about a month away, but the garden state is already a focus for the presidential candidates. >> democrat bernie sanders kicked off a two-day campaign swing in new jersey with a rally at rutgers university. many of them students at the rutgers athletic center in piscataway. including ensuring universal health care and plans to make colleges and universities tuition-free and increasing wages for american workers. >> we are going to make certain that if you work 40 hours a week in the united states you are not going to be living in poverty.

>> sanders will hold another rally tomorrow morning at boardwalk hall in atlantic city. >> sanders' rival hillary clinton is also focusing on new jersey. she'll be in camden county wednesday where she'll be discussing her plans to raise wages and break down barriers that hold americans back. her daughter chelsea will host grassroots organizing events and essex and middlesex counties this friday. the presumptive republican nominee will visit new jersey later this month. donald trump will appear at a pair of fund raisers on may 19th and one to help governor chris christie erase debt from his own white house campaign and another to benefit the state's gop. today republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania voiced his concern about trump's abilities, in an editorial on philly.com and in it he called trump's candidacy highly problematic and went on to say as the republican elected official he's inclined to support his party's nominee.

toomey also wrote it is up to trump to make a case for himself in a way that reassures the millions of republicans and non-republicans who have grave doubts about him. winning the nomination is a great accomplishment, but it does not mean party members check their judgment at the door. fighting back. penn state's president is taking a stand against new allegations against joe pattern on. his message to the penn state community next. plus rallying for change. people hitting the streets to celebrate pennsylvania's legalization of medical marijuana, but they're not satisfied just yet. what they want the state to do next.

narrator: the constitution says the president shall make nominations for the supreme court and the senate votes. no exception for election years why is pat toomey refusing to do the job pennsylvania elected him to do? toomey refuses to consider

anyone president obama nominates, even a former prosecutor with more experience than any other nominee with bipartisan support. but toomey is choosing his party's leaders and playing politics with the supreme court. call senator toomey and tell him to put the constitution before his politics. the president of penn state university says he's appalled at the media frenzy over new allegations surrounding joe pattern on and convicted child

molester jerry sandusky. aaron baron talked about the controversy in a letter to the community. new allegations surfaced last week suggesting the late joe pattern on was told sandusky abused a child on campus back in 1976. court documents also claim assistant coaches witnessed children being abused in the 1980s. in his letter baron wrote i want you to know i am appalled by the rumor, innuendo and rush to judgment that have accomplished the media story surrounding these allegations. all too often in our society people are convicted in the court of public opinion only to find a different outcome when all of the facts are presented. glenn? >> well, the sun finally came out today. look at that picture, but just how long is this nice weather going to stick around? i'll tell you when you can expect more rain in my first-alert seven-day forecast.

new at 6:00, dozens of people hit the streets of philadelphia today to rally for more marijuana reform in pennsylvania. it was all part of a global cannabis march celebrated across the country. this comes as both the state and city have taken steps to decriminalize the use of marijuana. nbc 10's andrea cline-thomas joins us live from city hall. they had a message for state lawmakers? >> reporter: yes. first, putting this into context, in 2014 philadelphia decriminalized the use of marijuana and governor wolf signed a bill making medical marijuana legal across the state. so today's gathering was both celebratory and also a rally to hope for even more changes, dozens gathered at eighth and market and they lit up and walked to city hall. many drivers honked in support along the way. the group wants marijuana to be fully legalized and regulated in

philadelphia and the entire state. the reasons include wanting to use it recreationally and also because of the number of people getting sent to jail for drug offenses and they say the state is losing out on a potential financial benefit and they have a state representative on their side. >> it's not about people being able to recreationally smoke all of the time. >> no. it makes fiscal sense for us to do this the right way. >> our representative harris wants to have a bill that fully legalizes and regulates marijuana across the state right now and he's looking for co-sponsor ship. i'm andrea cline-thomas, nbc 10 news. there was a sea of pink on this mother's day for the annual susan g. komen race for the cure. the event got off to an emotional start as hundreds of breast cancer survivors walked down the steps of the philadelphia museum of art. many were joined by family members and friends who banded

together to show support for those who survived and those who lost their battles along with those still fighting the disease. >> this time last year i was struggling with chemotherapy treatment, and i was watching on television and it was giving me hope, so i hope to do that for someone who is going through the treatment right now. >> it was the 26th year for the event which helps raise money for breast cancer survivors. now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> i haven't seen much of this lately, sunshine, sunshine, sunshine and partly cloudy symbol of philadelphia is just because of some fairly high clouds and we had an east wind keeping temperatures close to 50 degrees and day after day after day and now a west wind and a 70 degrees in woodvine and 68 in atlantic city and 65 in holgate

and quite a change from what we saw last week. well, we were 56 degrees on friday and 63 yesterday 71 degrees today for the high and 74 degrees coming on monday. so the sunshine is returning and those temperatures are going straight up, not necessarily to 80 degrees this week, but we're going to be seeing more of these temperatures in the 07s and we do have sprinkles just west of allentown and some of them could come in during the evening hours and that's a very, very weak system and this one is pretty weak, too and this one is tracking down to the south and is not going to be affecting us. so the futurecast, we go through the night and you can see a few of those very light showers up toward allentown and we start the day off tomorrow with sunshine, but then the clouds increase. you don't really see any kind of rain. there's monday night and here's tuesday. we have some chances of showers

in delaware and south jersey, but that is about it. partly cloudy skies and the latest temperatures in the 70s and trenton at 71 and hattenfield at 73. at the shore, atlantic city, 65. galaway, of 8 and it will be much cooler at the shore and as we get into tuesday and dover, 67 degrees and you can see the cooler weather on tuesday and back to warmer weather on wednesday and a similar story in the pennsylvania suburbs and in the lehigh valley, look at that, 76 degrees on wednesday and the jersey shore down to 56 tuesday and then the chance of showers coming in on wednesday, and the forecast is generally dry and we need some time to dry out, and more showers on saturday. and a weather forecast and

giving it last week. hi, i'm ron boynkin. and the phillies continue to claw their way to victory after the marlins after the break. pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. then, a wall street wheeler-dealer overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. in the senate, it's no surprise toomey's been siding with wall street. voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. 1y5s

. this is "sportsdesk" brought to you by xfinity. it will change the way you experience tv. >> hi, i'm ron burke from comcast sportsnet. just when you thought they would come to reality, 18 to 14 to phillies on the season and two teams in the national league right now have more wins than the phils. both teams doing their best to honor their moms and check out the mound.

m. m-o-m. and the rookie launches one into the gap. emanuel burress ties the game at five. and the next batter is an dress blanco. he takes one to nearly the exact spot to double that score. the phillies take a 6-5 lead. they try hold onto it in the ninth and john carlos stanton at the dish and jim strikes him out. and they have won 11 of 14, one-run games and check out this phillies game and the fan in the stands with a child in one hand makes the catch with the other. i'm not sure if the moms out there might approve of this, but he'll come home with a baseball as a souvenir, but more importantly an unscathed child. >> moving to the eagles, our first look at carson wentz, and

sam bradford will not be attending those workouts and his teammates continue to say bradford will be back in action soon over the next couple of days and jordan matthews have told comcast sportsnet, today lane johnson echoed those sentiments telling 97.59 fanatic, he has not spoken to the quarterback directly and word on the street says they'll be back this week or next. that's it for sports. i'm ron burke, back to you, denise. >> ron, thank you so much and time to check in with kate snow for a look at what's coming up on nbc "nightly news." kate? >> coming up tonight, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms tearing through part of the plains and it is not over yet and plus tens of thousands driven from their homes by a monster wildfire now more than twice the size of new york city and officials in canada could take months to bring it under control and also inside the hermit kingdom and a rare look at north korea whose leader has a new message for the u.s. about a potential nuclear

conflict and the new age, transylvania vampires. they don't want your blood. they want your money when we see you in just a few minutes for nbc "nightly news." >> kate, thank you. and we'll be right back.

narrator: the constitution says the president shall make nominations for the supreme court and the senate votes. no exception for election years why is pat toomey refusing to do the job pennsylvania elected him to do? toomey refuses to consider anyone president obama nominates, even a former prosecutor with more experience than any other nominee with bipartisan support. but toomey is choosing his party's leaders and playing politics with the supreme court. call senator toomey and tell him to put the constitution before his politics.

mother's day has gone to the dogs. more than 2,000 pups are competing for best in show at the annual trenton kennel club dog show. the two-day event wraps up tomorrow. glenn's back with a final check of the forecast and finally some sunshine. >> people were wondering if this was ever going to happen and we're going to see the clouds come in and look at that, temperature, 78 degrees and that's nbc 10 news for now for ron, glenn and all of us here. happy mother's day. see you back here at 11:00.

on this sunday night, dangerous storms. severe weather tearing through part of the country on this mother's day weekend, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hail, and it's not over yet. out of control. that wild fire in canada is still growing, dangerously shifting in different directions, well over 1,000 homes destroyed, more threatened. on the attack. exactly six months from election day, donald trump now attacking hillary clinton, as never before. hackerville. inside the town in transylvania that is not only ground zero for cyber crime, but also for fighting it. and the golden years. checking in with recent retiree american pharoah, living the good life and still earning millions, a year after winning the triple crown. "nightly news" begins now.