>> jay gray in dallas, thanks for that update from the scene right there. >> among those shot and injured were two people in the crowd, two civilians. >> today witnesses who were there when the first gunshots were fired are recounting this what had been a peaceful protest just seconds earlier, the crowd through the streets. they were unsure where the shots were coming from. >> i was walking, the sniper shooting. like all of the cops were getting shot, man. i just saw cops bending over. there had to be five or six cops. all shot down. >> wöññ souheard what sounded firecrackers. >> rapid gunfc"sf"y fired, th police officers standing by me pushed me to get out of the way. my legs÷m(,÷;3;t got a little st from him pushing me out of the way. but if he didn't pushkw7]y me, probably would have got shot.

>> dallas transit officer brent thompson had just gotten married within the last two weeks. he was 43. his spouse also works for theró transit police. patrick was married with a 2-year-old daughter. he left the military five years ago to joinlsv6 the dallas pol tours in iraq.(eç micha michael crowell worked in michigan, but left in 2007 to join the dallas police department. people of allç races and faith gathered in dallas this afternoon for a prayer vigil, ñ thanksgiving squa, a landmark for promoting gratitude and peace in times of crisis. the shootings are having an especially hard impact on the law enforcement community. >> police in and around philadelphia tell nbc 10 they are changing tactics because of last night's violence. our team coverage continues with nbc 10's mitch blocker live at philadelphia police tqç$itch has more on that part

the story for us. >> reporter: jim, we talked to the secret service, the philadelphia police department, we talked to smaller departments throughout the area. we wanted to talk to them about how they're responding to the tragedy, how they'.mczp protect themselves and the public. the impact of a deadly night in dallas reaches across the nation.b"ä includingyyrx its birthplace. >> seeing those police officers being pinned down, first of all. not knowing whatxza they're deag with. it's absolutely scary. >> reporter: philadelphia police ñ ross now has officersi> working in two-police teams. it will change the way philly police work protests but now how they protect those involved. >> we'll do what we have to do to keep protesters safe,!">i bu most importantly to keep everybody in the city safe. >> reporter: the spotlight turns to philly in two weeks, the ser kret service said they won't

change. >> the secret service respects the rights of the protest. if they're not affecting the venue, we don't get involved with it. >> reporter: secret service training includes scenarios like what happened in dallas. >> it does bring home the reality. that things like this can happen. some changes. >> repta'sr: the head of oól police force was tight-lipped about any specific changes, deployments or tactics. one officer killed intóo@ dalls a transit officer supporting police. the chief said assignments are still up to supervising officers. >>÷r what happened last night, hits us all right to the core. and i think28 that the entire public feels t(dtway. you know, it's not just the policing community. it's all of america feels bad, that pain. >> reporter: we wanted to get a sense for how police departments across the area are reacting. media, on facebook, on twitter,

and what we've been finding is people have actually been reaching out to the departments. this is a facebookñy, post fromw jersey, from theç audubon poli department showing a gift given to them with a note signed anonymously. saying, all lives matter. reporting live at philadelphia pg blocker, nbc 10 news. >> yeah, mitch, seeing similar sentiments on my twitter feed as 6&óqkz pastors of the a.m.e. church are denouncing violence against qf%dáuáp'ds of faith leaders are in town right now for the 5÷ a.m.e. conference. just last night the people took )ú÷week.!áa/ cf1 o >> in this $kmoment, i certain want to say that violence against law enforcement can never be tolerated. i violence against anyone can never be tolerated.

spoke to a pastor from dallas who is in town for the convention. we'll hear from him how(wu he' trying to help his community heal. v/÷ community reaction at 4:30. plus a former fbi negotiator will join usió$x live in the s with his insights about the dramatic takedown of the suspect. stay with nbc news throughout the evening. at 6:30, lester holt reports á@ñ "nightly news." it will be a special one-hour broadcast about the tragedy in dallas. now the heat wave baking our area. another dangerously hot day. the skyscrapers provided some shade for these window washers today in center city. plenty of people flocking to the shore for relief. live look here at the scene in cape may where the cool waters making the ocean a very popular place on this friday. we're also tracking some storms this afternoon. you see those popping up on

first alert radar. impacting rivals right now at9z philadelphia international airport, running about 90 minutes late now. and the storms could impact your friday night plans, too. >>+@ first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking thos storms neighborhood by neighborhood. >> we obviously have an area of rain and showers moving in from the west. but the strongest storms, well, this one came near the philadelphia area, went straight then started as we go in here, this is a1xn it is not headed to the shore right now. it's moving straight to the south if anything. near rockwood and tylertown.ç not real populated areas. and the warning only goes until 4:15 this afternoon.hr r larger area,rnoon.hr around berks county, solid rain.

we're not seeing lightning inuy this. it's just a large area of rain. you'll need the < umbrellas for this. we have more showers and storms back out in:;t3 central pennsylvania. these are moving to the east. so we do have the threat as we go into the evening hours. so that will knock the temperatures down. knock a little humidity out of the air. even tomorrow morning, we have a chance of some showers or thunderstorms developing in parts of the area. so the temperature won't be as much of an issue as we go into tomorrow. but another round of showers and storms. we'll get into the timing of that in a few minutes. now to the septa slowdown. some relief could be coming as early as next week for 0>s comms suffering through long delays, and waits. septa tells us it's getting outside help to speedagxhings u. nbc 10's randy gyllenhaal is live at septa headquarters in center city with the new plan to back on

time. randy? >> reporter: rosemary, this was a pretty detailed update fromdo septa with both good and bad news for rush hour commuters. the good news is septa is borrowing a number of train cars from some of our regional neighbors. but theyo%m bad news is that thx for those faulty parts could take a lot longer than we first thought. >> we apologize for the inconvenience and are grateful for your patience. >> reporter: septa's general manager revealing new plans to ease commuter congestion. they'll be leasing rain cars from amtrak from maryland and new jersey transit, adding 1,700 more seats, adding the holes while the septa fleet was pulled from service. cars. >> reporter: but now new concern txxtíx defective cars could tak longer to fix. septa says hundreds of those cracked steel equalizer beams

may need to be replaced entirely which takes longer, since they're molded from scratch. >> at this point, it's not looking good for a repair or a quick return to service. >> reporter: four days nowo3st the septa squeeze, and commuters areç adjusting to the new norm. the costs are rising, including significant overtime. >> this is millions of dollars. i mean, we'd have to sit down and think, but it's kind of early. it really is early to be able to pull those costs together. >> reporter: now, septa is releasing a brand-new schedule on sunday night. sjofu keep an eye out for that. there is also some concern that next week could be even busier people will be on holiday vacation. live in center city, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. new information right now on an arson spree in canada that set off more than a dozen fires in a couple of days.

carl ricks jr. is charged with 14 counts of aggravated arson. it lasted into monday. it destroyed mostly vacant buildings across the city. seven firefighters were injured. but they are expected to be okay. and new from our delaware bureau. a man wanted for trike to kidnap a pair of women on the$p83÷ fouf july. his name is joseph rudge. call newark police if you know where he may be. former eagles running back mccoy has been cleared for a second time. the attorney general's office has closed its investigation into mccoy's involvement in a philadelphia bar fight. take a look. video shows the chaos that "ff&cess lounge in old city. two offduty police officers were hurt. mccoy's lawyer said at the time mccoy was trying to break up the fight. you may remember philadelphia district attorney seth williams also cleared mccoy in april.

bureau, more than three dozen people are facing charges akwdñ a drug bust targeting atlantic city. prosecutors announced the results of the operation today. 19 people are already arrested. investigators still looking for 22 others.mgeç authorities say the group ran a significant heroin and cocaine trafficking operation in the a.c. area. sky force 10 over a scene this morning. the bus collided with a pair of cars at the intersection of route 38 drive and nixon drive in morristown. two people were hurt here, but not seriously.ifjtñ now to our decision 2016 coverage. hillary clinton is in philadelphia to give a speech a few hours from now. her words are expected to take a somber tone. nbc 10's drew smith is live at the pennsylvania convention center with more on this. drew?ç >> reporter: people are slowly entering the ball room here getting through security.

that's where secretary clinton will be taking the stage earlier than scheduled. that's because she canceled a campaign event in northeast of respect for the victims today in dallas. but her campaign said it was important for her to be here in front of these people in particular. clinton will be speaking about all the news events dominating, coming out of dallas, minnesota and louisiana. we did speak tozñldsome people stood in line for a little bit. they're hoping to hear certain things from the candidate.aqñz listen. >> i want to hear her say something positive, something that appeals to this -- the population. you know, something we haven't heard that she's going to do something.!o:4÷ we're tired of empty promises. >> we're hoping to hear l justice, social injustice, andb:ehow we n bridge the gap between all races. >> reporter: the clinton campaign said last night she

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does not even look like it's headed toward atlantic city. it's kind of weird, it's moving straight to the south, and this area that's yellow indicates the severe thunderstorm warning ÷ it's just eastmria of mullaky . this one is moving to the southeast to chesterfield. that one is weakening. we have one right along the delaware river, just south of bensalem. right across into burlington county, willingboro getting it. burlington about to get hit by pretty good rains. they're moving in differentjebíñ directions, which makes tracking them very difficult. you can also see a solid area of rain in parts of berks county, and upper montgomery county. and it's not -- we're not

talking about lightning, we're not talking about torrential rain..óx hatfield is getting into the rain right now. far(her to the south, philadelphia's up here, we have pretty good cluster of storms in maryland. weakening as it moves into new castle county. and so we're not realli80u seeia jt rain here, except/y7' in this one cellz" right over newark right now. but that's not going to last too long.3jc here's the future cast as we go to 5:30. we have some scattered showers and thunderstorms tending to move into new jersey and toward the shore. watch out for your outdoor activities at the shore early this evening. things quiet down later tonight. and then regenerate tomorrow. so far today, we've been 93. that makes it an official heat wave. tomorrow going for about 91 degrees. but that will be determined by how quickly any showers move in to knock the temperature down,

the way it has in allentown, down to 80 degrees. 86 in coatesville. you can see the effect of these so for the neighborhoods 90 degrees. î"b a dangerous heat tomorrow. fairmount at 91.s8,n more than one)vyq shower or thunderstorm tomorrow, could be a fairly wet afternoon. yardley at 88 degrees. easton only 84 degrees for the high temperature. easton township, 89. a lot of places getting short of the 90-degree mark. and it's been a while since that's the uk'case. and here's tomorrow. we could even see some showers in the morning. hours. and then some later in the afternoon. especially from philadelphia northward. the lower chances farther to the south as you go through the day tomorrow. and then we dry out on sunday.

sunday's going to be a really nice day. here's a look at the weekend. here's a have those showers and storms, more than one, during the day tomorrow. and then on sunday, lower nocñ humidity, more sunshine, nice comfortable temperatures. so it doesn't get a whole lot better than that. so sunday is definitely going to so sunday isñ a better day than. poconos, same story. showers and storms tomorrow. pretty nice weather on sunday. some really nice weather on sunday. and at the jersey shore, similar story with the best chance of showers and storms tomorrow, and beautiful sunny day on sunday. although it's warm. because it will be a land breeze. more on next week.ç the heat is coming baj2o a litte bit later. >> uh-oh. okay, glenn. it is a little warm to be talking about snow. but we're learning about a new problemd$pá behind during this winter's blizzard. >> remember these scenes? we'll tell you how all that snow is impacting local beaches.

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space is so tight at one local animal shelter, it's waiving adoption fees to save cats' lives. the team tell us they've seen an unusual spike in cats coming in. on top of that, the fourth of july weekend was very slow for adoptions. today and tomorrow the shelter is doing away with fees for anyone who wants to give a cat or kitten a new home. >> when people come to us, with pets they can no longer keep, we can't put them away. that sometimes puts us in positions where we're full with animals and there's nowhere for them to go. we're asking the public's help to come and adopt or foster a cat and help save some lives. >> if you are interested, the shelter is on honey park avenue right off roosevelt boulevard. july 23rd is nbc 10's clear the shelter's adoption day event. during last year's event, 20,000 pets across the country found forever homes. good story. if there's a better than a-plus,

these college students definitely earned it. >> they've given hope to a 9-year-old girl using ingenuity, 3-d printer, and inspiration from the little girl's favorite movie. trying out her lightweight plastic arm with a design from frozen. she was born without a right hand, so eight physics students at sienna college in new york built her new arm. it's made of 30 pieces of special plastic. it took 30 hours to print and two hours to put it all together. what carissa likes most, all the frozen features like the snowflakes and princess crown above her name. that's ingenuity, science, and heart. because they did that for her. >> absolutely. >> out of kindness. a beautiful thing. "frozen" is a word we're hearing outside of the story today. >> not really, not so much. we're right smack in the middle of a heat wave. we've got storms moving across the area this afternoon, right,

glenn? >> that's right. you can see them on the nbc 10 first alert radar. of course, cooling things down. why you might get wet. well, we're going to get some cooler weather, too. and lower humidity. i'm tracking where the storms are headed next in my first alert neighborhood forecast. our coverage of the tragedy in dallas continues next. we'll talk live to a former fbi negotiator about how a robot ultimately took down the suspect wanted for the deadly sniper attacks on dallas police.

we continue to learn new details about the deadly ambush on police officers in dallas last night. the city's police chief says the attack that killed five officers and injured seven others was well planned. the suspect has been identified as 25-year-old michael xavier johnson, an afghanistan war

veteran. negotiators say he told them he was upset about recent police shootings and wanted to kill white police officers. authorities believe he was the only gunman. here's some more of what we learned about johnson. he left the army reserve in april of last year. according to an employment application obtained by nbc news, johnson was working as an aide for mentally challenged children and adults. they believe he was driven to violence where black men were killed by police officers. police used a controlled explosive to kill the suspect inside a dallas parking garage. >> we have an expert joining us now to shed some more light on the suspect and what this all means for law enforcement moving forward. clint van dam is a former chief hostage negotiator for the fbi. clint, thank you for being with us. >> good to be with you guys. >> clint, you have a lot of experience in this area. talk about how unusual it is to

essentially blow up the suspect right in the middle of negotiations. >> well, i think for years we've had robots with both two-way speaker system, as well as many times armed with a weapon, like a shotgun for example. many times that's used when police are trying to detonate a suspicious device, and they'll go in and shoot it with a shotgun. but it's always capable of using that as lethal force. i think in this particular situation, many may argue it, but the police department had already lost half a dozen officers, and had in excess of that number wounded. now, they may well have been using that robot to negotiate, but they had that secondary capability which was to put an explosive device -- and you notice the chief of police did not mince words. he didn't come up with a -- some type of personnel eliminator or

something like that. he called it what it was. they put an explosive device, a bomb he called it, and sent it in, and detonated that, realizing the choice police felt they had was either that or send a tactical team in and risk more officers being shot and killed. police chief makes the final call. this was his call. i'm not going to second-guess somebody who lost so many officers at one time. >> he didn't seem to be too interested in really negotiating. he was telling the officers as we understand it that the end was near. so they apparently felt that that's the only tactic they had to move on with. so we've learned the gunman johnson served in the army reserve, did a tour of duty in afghanistan. so he had military experience. is that a factor here, clint, especially in terms of firearms training? >> i think it's a factor with his age, the ability to move, maneuver, run, shoot. i think those are all acquired

skills. i mean, this guy was deadly with his -- what's been described as an ar-15 type of weapon. i can't imagine somebody being more deadly than he was. but realize, again, he fired a lot of rounds, dozens and dozens of rounds we're told. and again, as you say, my background is as a hostage negotiator. i've talked a lot of people out of various situations. but you reach a point where you have the tactical role as an negotiator where the s.w.a.t. team, the negotiator, that you make a decision, this guy is not coming out. we've seen this with isis terrorists, and we've also seen it with what appears to be a domestic terrorist. >> clint, i want to talk to you about what's next in all of this. frequently, of course, here in philadelphia we have a lot of big events. we have the dnc in just a few weeks. we know there are going to be protests. how does the ambush in dallas

for police for these sniper type of situations? >> well, i think it's incumbent on police, secret service, fbi, marshal's service, the fbi, whoever it is, to have a number of tools in the toolbox. we don't want them just to have one. that's why police officers have less than lethal force weapons, and they have lethal force. we want them to be able to choose. we want them to use the least intrusive, the least lethal weapon, but we also want them to have the ability to escalate when lives are on the line. and i think this is something that's been practiced as an fbi agent, i've been to political conventions where we worked on negotiation techniques. but we also worked on bringing s.w.a.t. in if we had to, too. so those tactics, those techniques have been refined over the years. but the philadelphia police department is one of the best in the country. they're going to be ready to deal with as well as their

federal law enforcement partners, they want a convention where there's no issues whatsoever. but they don't want to be blindsided if there is an issue. they want to be able to deal with the threat, either talk them out, or in a worst case scenario carry that threat out. >> we know they've been doing a lot of preparation. nbc news analyst and former fbi negotiator, clint van zandt, thank you for your insight this afternoon. we appreciate it. >> good to be with you guys. >> with the dallas tragedy heavy on their hearts and minds, philadelphia police and local community members came together for a day of relationship building. >> this afternoon there was a block party at 56th and pine street. it was a time to reflect on why this kind of interaction sometimes seems to be a rarity rather than the norm. at this summer block party, the more the merrier. >> we was on the bouncy house and swimming. we was having fun. >> our church community is here, we bring our kids here and they get to interact and enjoy, have

fun and fellowship. >> we like to get in touch with the young people. and let them know we're real people and we care about them. that's what it's about. >> reporter: captain robin recognizes the importance of police hosting these events. a stark contrast to the officer involved shooting that played out in other cities this week. >> across america, we're having a problem. but this actually shows the other side of policing that exists regardless of what's going on. >> some people are scared to trust the police. you know, we're not sure if you're a good cop, bad cop. there's a lot of good cops, as you can see. >> reporter: for the children, it's an opportunity to see these officers in a positive light. to be introduced to them as friends, not foes. >> i think it's really awesome that they're doing this. it's really nice of them. to let all the kids do all the fun stuff. it's bringing people together. >> we should mention that this

block party was preplanned. it's the seventh year that the police department has hosted it. on another note, the neighborhood where the department hosted the block party is the same area where officer jesse hartnet was shot during an ambush attack in his patrol car earlier this year. he's currently recovering. now, your nbc 10 first alert neighborhood weather. >> more on the dangerous heat in the area. one of the keys to keeping cool, stay very close to the water. and in the water, too. the streets are sizzling in the city this afternoon. a live look at broad street from the kimmel center campus camera. we're also tracking storms this afternoon. you see them popping up on the radar. glenn "hurricane" schwartz back now. >> fill us in on this, glenn. >> we've had a lot of changes, just in the last half hour. this area of rain in pennsylvania is really weakened. the stuff moving into delaware has weakened. but not in new jersey. what's happened is, the sea breeze coming in from the east

meeting the west wind, and that's how you get this thunderstorm. and it moves right along that sea breeze front. and that is the strongest storm in our area now. it's not moving very fast. near mullika. it's not moving near the jersey shore. the severe thunderstorm warning does not include the shore. egg harbor city is about to get clobbered with this. it continues to move to the south. which is kind of unusual for this area. it's warnings until 5:00 p.m. we've got another region right along the delaware river. here's the river here. of some heavy thunderstorms. and there's a flood advisory for this until 8:30. radar estimates of 1 to 2 inches of rain there. meantime, that rain to the west is weakening. so, yeah, we've got some wet weather, but not severe weather in pennsylvania. more on tomorrow's storms with

the rest of the forecast in a few minutes. >> okay. we're tracking storms. we're also talking snow. it's not usually a topic of conversation this time of year. but we're talking about it today. >> topsy-turvy. how scenes like this from this winter's blizzard are now impacting beaches along our coastline.

as we've been saying, strange time to be talking about this, snowstorms. but there's new evidence last january's record-breaking storm took a toll on delaware. it's altered the state's seafloor. researchers at the university of delaware say the storm's high tide caused significant shoreline erosion. they hope to predict and model how future storms will behave. no snow today. we're talking high heat. >> yeah. really hot out there. first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking those storms that could impact your friday night. hey, glenn. >> that's right. the storms are with us to end the week. perhaps to start the weekend.

but more 90-degree weather is ahead. i'm tracking those storms, and when we'll finally cool off a bit next in my first alert forecast. # @

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most of our counties in pennsylvania are seeing the rain weaken, and the thunderstorms weaken. except in bucks county right now. we're seeing the storms from new jersey kind of redevelop into central bucks county, buckingham, down the turnpike, even down to abington. we'll see how these are moving, because a lot of these cells are not moving very much. this one in new jersey moving pretty much straight to the south and toward galloway. and eventually perhaps egg harbor. it will take a little while before any of it really hits the shore. this is just the edge reaching long beach island right now. this is the northern portion of that cell. here's the delaware river. so much of this is across the river in new jersey. this area in reading, down

toward limerick, it's really weakening, just an area of rain. same thing in delaware, we've had mostly lighter rain, except this one small heavy area just south of smyrna. as we look ahead, we find these showers and storms gradually working their way toward new jersey. and then moving out. and that is going to be the case for tonight. but that is not the end of the threat. so as we go through tomorrow, we could still even see some showers early. then in the afternoon, some more develop, locally heavy, as you can see. so there may be actually earlier activity tomorrow than what we've seen today. then it does dry out as we go into sunday. so sunday's going to be great. tomorrow, a lot of clouds. that's going to help keep the temperature down, so we're not into the dangerous heat.

allentown 85. any part of the area could see some showers and storms tomorrow. perhaps a little bit lesser amounts in delaware, wilmington, dover, rehoboth beach and at the jersey shore. we do still have threats there. over the next few days, the weekend, sunday is the best part. monday is also looking beautiful. lower humidity sunday and monday. lehigh valley, same story. the storms tomorrow, and then drying sunday and monday. we do expect the ten-day outlook to show the heat coming back. by wednesday, we're back up to 93 degrees. and then it gets hotter, next thursday, next friday, next saturday. another heat wave. and more extreme heat on the way. >> we need a break from that. all right, glenn. there's a big drawing tonight. >> look what i picked up on my way in to work. >> oh, this is the one you got for me. >> no, no, i got 13, and they're

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>> our lines are bigger and bigger for the mega. >> reporter: no one's come forward yet to claim tuesday's prize, leaving people here wondering who has it. and hoping they could be the next lucky one. ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >> good luck, everyone. nbc 10 news at 5:00 is next. the heat wave is official. there will be relief for part of the weekend at least. we're tracking rain for you. your forecast is coming up next. we are still waiting for hillary clinton to take the stage here in philadelphia. she'll be speaking before the a.m.e. church conference at any moment. we'll let you know as soon as that happens. one of the topics we expect to address, the tragedy in dallas. we continue to follow the latest on the five officers killed. we'll have new details on the man accused of carrying out those attacks. that's next on nbc 10 news at 5:00.

a city in mourning struggles to move forward. >> we must have hope and believe that tomorrow will be better. and it will. >> the people who protect them ambushed and killed. >> please, we need your support. >> tonight dallas comes together to honor its fallen officers.

>> one was a newlywed, another a military veteran. in all, five officers were murdered in this ambush, seven others were injured. >> police believe the person responsible was acting alone, and now we know who he is. >> in dallas right now, police are still trying to piece together clues about the shooting that left five officers dead and seven others injured. >> we are heart broken. >> the shooting left people in the city in shock, sending thousands running for their lives. >> we heard what sounded like firecrackers, and people were like, run, run! the crowd went crazy and started to scatter and disperse. i wasn't a half a block away, and then there was another round of what sounded like firecrackers. >> this afternoon police searched the house of the accused killer. during a standoff with police, he said he wanted to kill white police officers and he said he acted alone.