ads, the presidential candidates are reaching out to voters in the keystone state. >> and for donald trump that includes a group that traditionally supported the other party and nbc 10's lauren mayk joins us now with more. >> denise and keith, we're talking about african-american voters, and this is particularly important in philadelphia where turnout among african-americans will be important for hillary clinton. now, some voters i talked to today say it is just too late for donald trump to be making this pitch. they just don't support him, but trump supporters argued this is part of a message about jobs, that trump has been real sending all along. the pitch from donald trump comes with his no holds barred style. >> what the hell do you have to lose? >> reporter: no north philadelphia daff if i goggins is happy to hear him reach african-american voters and wants to give him a chance. >> i think it's time for someone in the republican party to reach out to the african-american and latino voters. >> reporter: goggins is a

republican ward leader and a trump supporter. >> he's a businessman, you know. he has the links to the wharton school. things that are lacking in the black community. >> reporter: an nbc/"wall street journal" poll this month shows him with 1 is% support among black voters. that's before his recent overtures these past few days. >> he's a fish. his ego is bigger than philadelphia. >> reporter: this woman has already made up her mind. would you consider voting for him? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: why not? >> i wouldn't vote for him to pick up my garbage. >> reporter: here in goggins' neighborhood some said it's too late for this push. others though say the effort is a good thing. >> i think that's a good thing, and right now he has to reach out because it's close to election and he wants to change people's minds. >> reporter: one thing trump supporters i talked to today told me is that they would like to see donald trump make stops in african-american communities as well, talking about this

message in person. denise? . >> lauren, thank you. trump's running mate is schedule to be in bucks county tomorrow. mike pence will hold a town hall event in pipersville. it's not the first time a gop event will take place there. back in 2008 the company hosted a campaign stop for then republican presidential candidate senator john mccain. the clinton campaign is ramping up efforts to discredit donald trump. they released a new attack ad in eight battleground states including right here in pennsylvania. >> in times of crisis, america depends on steady leadership. >> knock the crap out of them, would you. >> the ad questions trump's judgment and finishes with the narrator saying all it takes is one wrong move over the sound of a flying missile. today the clinton campaign reserved an additional $80 million for ad spending in battleground states. trump, on the other hand, has earmarked just $5 million for

ads over the coming week. republicans are also on the attack against hillary clinton, but they are not going after her politics. they are going after her health. coming up at 5:15, our partners at factcheck.org show us why these ads are based on fake evidence. only on nbc 10, the frantic call by a pennsauken mother to call 911 as her 2-year-old boy wasn't breathing. tonight that mother's boyfriend is charged with the toddler's murder. police say 24-year-old zache re tricoche kicked and punched the toddler in the some am. tricoche is charged with first-degree murder. it happened in an apartment inside therefore mansion boulevard home in pennsauken. nbc 10 obtained the 911 call placed from the home around 11:30 saturday night. >> he has brugz on his chest.

>> his chest is moving? >> no. his chest is bruised, like it's turning colors. >> sources confirm to nbc 10 that two other children inside the home may also have been beaten by tricoche. he will appear in court tomorrow on the murder charge. and now to your first alert weather. a perfect day to let the boat out and go for a sail. nbc 10 at cooper river park in collingswood where this couple took in today's perfect conditions. after the last heat wave we really deserve a break. >> no question about that. first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with your neighborhood forecast. glenn, open up those windows, right? >> absolutely. got a couple more days that have before the air conditioning needs to come back on, and it will, because the heat will return by the end of the week. we've just had some of the fair weather clouds. you see how thin they are. there's very, very little moisture in the atmosphere overall. and you don't see any evidence of moisture on the satellite and

radar here, and you have to go a long way to the west, practically to the rockies before you find any significant rain. it's 82 degrees in philadelphia now and 78 in wilmington and 75 in coatesville. we've got places with sunshine in august only in the 70s. so, yeah, that's a fairly cool air mass that we've got, and that's going to allow the temperature to drop quite a bit once the sun goes down. by 6:00 a.m. down to 61 degrees in the city of philadelphia. many of the suburbs it's going to get much colder. 53 degrees in those p.a. suburbs like chester, montgomery and bucks county and in the lehigh valley and burks county, burks, lehigh and north hampton 54 degrees for the low by morning. even some 50s in parts of new jersey. it will heat up. we'll let you know about that, and the tropics are heating up which could be an important thing, too. that's coming up in a few minutes.

>> thanks, glenn. nbc 10 has learned new details about a deadly shooting inside a philadelphia home. police have now identified the victim as hakim raman. his six children were inside the home when he was shot and nbc 10's me beak braxton has more on what happened to those children and the search for their father's killer. >> reporter: video seen first on nbc 10 home side detectives searching the car of a 36-year-old man killed in front of some of his six children. investigators say they are ages 5 to 13. just your thoughts that this would happen, that someone would come through the back and shoot him and kill him? >> no, no, because i'm still peeping to see where did they come through the back. >> reporter: we went through the alley behind 3730 37th street to see where detectives believe two killers entered the home. you can see the grass is worn down. police say a shotgun, ammunition and a knit skull cap that may have been used for a mask were

discovered not far away in the alley. neighbors say they heard nothing. >> i went to sleep around 12:30, so i didn't hear nothing. >> reporter: yet police tell us three gunshots were fired here inside this second floor bedroom. two bullets hit the dead man's wife. she's been able to talk to police. >> she's very quiet. she goes to work every solitary day. >> i've never seen any suspicious activity in that house or nothing. i just moved here like two and a half months ago but never nothing out of the ordinary. >> reporter: we saw the children leaving the home this morning with their grandparents. police tell us the deceased man is known to them. he has 28 priors. in hunting park, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. we have new details about an arrest in a deadly hit and run in philadelphia. police say 29-year-old andrew

aceto from delaware county hit an older woman near masher and lehigh in north philadelphia early saturday morning and then hit another person. the man is now facing several charges, including homicide by vehicle and him driving under the influence. and members of the philadelphia fire department and the red cross return to the germantown neighborhood where one person died in a fire yesterday. they conducted a fire safety walk through east klatchier street and installed free smoke alarms. one person was killed and two others critically injured after fire trapped them inside a house. investigators are still working to determine what sparked the fire. it was back to school this morning for some students in the area. philadelphia police officers welcomed students back to charter school douglas elementary as part of an ongoing effort to foster a healthy relationship between police and the community. students were welcomed back on

september 7th. a total of 85 providers have applied to expand quality pre-k in the student for more than 4,000 students by the start of next year. those applications are now being reviewed, and the city's pre-k program will expand by an additional 1,000 seats for the 2017-2018 school year. an additional 1,000 seats every year after that until 2020 when 1,500 seats are added. drivers who normally travel along i-95 north from center city may want to find another route this week. penndot says lane cloesh hours will go into effect from 9:00 at night until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow to thursday. crews will be reviewing repair work on the viaduct on lehigh avenue. courts are getting involved in transgender rights. that update at 5:00 and gabby

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opponents of hillary clinton are not just attacking her politics. some are also raising questions about her health. take a listen. >> i'm not saying, that you know, she's had a stroke or anything like that, but this is not the woman that we're used to seeing. >> almost seems seizure-esque to me. >> go online and put down hillary clinton illness and take a look at the videos for yourself. >> the clinton campaign has fired back calling these, quote, deranged conspiracy theories, but we asked our partners at factcheck.org and dig a little deeper on how these claims got started in the first place. >> she also lacks the mental and physical stamina to take on isis and all of the many adversaries we face. >> donald trump questions hillary clinton's health at a

rally in ohio despite the fact that her doctor says she's fit to serve of as president giving her a clean bill of health, driving the claims that illness is plaguing the presidential candidate reported medical reports circulating at some conservative websites that she show suffers from seizures and dementia. >> these documents circulating around, they are fake. >> clinton's longtime physician released a statement to factcheck.org calling the documents false. the doctored documents are based on something that did happen back in 2012. >> she was traveling and got a virus, dehydrated, fainted and hit her head and got a concussion and she had some lingering symptoms of that for a couple of months, including double vision. you may recall her wearing some special glasses at the time, but her doctors said after a couple of months all of her symptoms had gone away and she was clear. >> nbc 10 has been fact-checking both of the presidential campaigns and see the campaign on any time on our website at

nbc10.com. donald trump is also taking aim at mr. and mrs. clinton's charitable foundation. trump called the clinton foundation, quote, the most corrupt enterprise in political history, end quote. former president bill clinton defended the foundation's work saying if hillary is elected president the foundation won't accept donations from foreign governments. >> senator pat toomey got the endorsement of former arizona congresswoman gabby giffords and her husband mark kelly. this was giffords at last month's national democratic convention. gifford endorsed toomey saying he broke from the gun lobby when he voted in 2013 to expand background checks on sales at gun shows and online. a federal judge in texas has blocked a new rule allowing transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. >> back in may the federal

government told schools nationwide that transgender students must be allowed to use bathrooms consistent with their new gender identity but this new ruling mean schools may not face federal sanctions if they don't do anything to accommodate transgender students. the federal government is expected to appeal. >> what a change from what we saw last year. we had an eight-day heat wave and broke it by barely a degree or two and now it's nice and comfortable. 28 in philadelphia. 70s in some other parts of the area like the lehigh valley and the humidity is super low. we had 93 degrees saturday and 89 with high humidity yesterday and then here's a couple of days in the low 80s and mid-80s on wednesday and all three days with very low humidity this time

of year. places in delaware. we had feels like temperatures of 105, 110 and up to 120. remember during that heat wave now, we've got feels like temperatures in sunshine 79 degrees in newark and 78 in glasgow and will 2 in odessa and we have a northwest wind so it's about as warm as delaware beaches as it is inland. 82 degrees at rehoboth beach and 28 in milton. nothing on the radar close by. hardly any clouds close by. this is the front that produced the wild weather yesterday. parts of delaware had 3, 4 inches of rain. very little moisture in the country down south, as if they need any more rain in louisiana. tomorrow a lot like today, nothing but sunshine, and you can see it in the whole of our

neighborhoods. temperatures below average for this time of the year. 81 in shanksville and 80 in easton and 81 in reading and robbinsville is 82. longport is 79. a bit of a sea breeze tomorrow so it will be a little bit cooler at the shore in new jersey tomorrow than today and rehoboth near 80 degrees just like they were during the day today. now we're centering the peek of hurricane season historically. mid-august to mid-october is the general peak and september 10th is the absolute peak day. this is the time of year we should expect an increase in activity and that's what's happening. we have fiona out in the central atlantic weakening, but we've got another one in the central atlantic hand another one in the eastern atlantic. and this one has already been

forming around this one has a better chance of getting close to the united states. these are the spaghetti models, the computing models predicting in the future and, of course, the closer they are together the more confidence that we have that it's going to go in the general direction and a lot of that heading into the bahamas by the weekend so there's plenty of time to watch it, but it is something worth watching as opposed to the other two which is likely to stay way, way out to sea. >> humidity will be up a little bit thursday but still not like it was last week. by friday it's a different story though. 89 degrees as the p.a. suburbs thursday. 88 in lehigh valley so everybody is going to get a little bit wa warmer but still not to the extreme levels that we have seen. now, let's see what happens in the ten-day. by friday that's an extreme day. it's 94 degrees and high

humidity and it will feel probably like it's close to 100 but that's going to last because then we're down to 88 degrees with sunshine and lower humidity on saturday, sunday, same story and then we start heeding up a little bit next week so this heat, that's just going to be temporary. >> thanks, gwen. george dunn and rashaun davis are behind davis after a month long investigation by multiple agencies including the state police and homestand security. they are accused of running a prostitution ring in sussex county. eight victims in all have been identified. dunn and davis are facing charges in an unrelated home invasion robbery. >> a sign that atlantic city's struggling casino industry may be struggling. they saw their collective operating profit rise by 21% for the first six months of the year with a second quarter profit of

$259 million. the surviving casinos have been doing better over the past year as they adjust to a smaller market. the trump taj mahal will close its doors for good after labor day. tropicana entertainment which owns the casino says it was losing millions of dollars a month. gamblers aren't the only ones who win at the casino. many local towns get a lot of tax money, too, but find out why some of that money could be going away. that's ahead hat 5:30. coming up next, lochte's loss. how his antics in rio is now costing him big money.

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breakingies in. police have captured a suspect wanted for killing a man and wounding a young girl. officers arrested samuel james in camden county about an hour ago. police say james shot byron turner in the head outside a home in burlington on saturday night. a 5-year-old girl was hurt while running from the gunfire. she was not shot. well, there is new fallout following the biggest blemish on the olympics in brazil. three of ryan lochte's major sponsors are severing ties with the american swimmer. >> the news comes after lochte admitted to exaggerating a story that he and three other teammates were robbed at gunpoint in rio during the

games. nbc has this report. >> reporter: monday the first blows to u.s. olympic swimmer ryan lochte came after ralph lauren and a hair care product and speedo decided to cut ties with the controversial. speedo said we cannot condone behavior that is counter to the values that this brand has long stood for. >> it was me. i'm taking full responsibility for everything. >> it comes two days after lochte admitted to matt lauer that he wasn't truthful about what happened after a night out drinking with his teammates. >> i love details out out which that's why i'm in this mess is i left certain things out and i overexaggerated some parts of the story. >> u.s. olympic committee says it's considering punishment for lochte and the three teammates with him in the gas station where lochte admits he tore down

a poverty and is accused of damaging a bathroom. one columnist called for lochte to be banned through the 2020 tokyo games, but sports journalist mike lupe "k" says people judging lochte need to keep things in perspective. >> i just don't think it rises to the standard of giving him the death penalty in the sport. >> it's a night out that will cost him a lot more than the money he handed over to the police in the gas station. next at 5:00, a an american ninja warrior is back in philadelphia. >> and carson wentz is back on the field. an update on his recovery still ahead at 5:00. plus, it sounds like something from an episode of "law & order." a professor pushed to his death. now we have new details on a second suspect. that's next on "nbc 10 news at 5:00."

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the officers will have to be let go. >> they make enough money. >> reporter: one of the state's biggest money-makers. >> i know the ben salem police do do a lot of extra calls because of it. >> reporter: and in ben salem parx casinos kicks in as much as $11 billion a year to the local economy to pay for police, fire and ems services. >> i definitely think that the police need that support. >> reporter: and so does ben salem's mayor. he's watching a lawsuit closely piled in the pocono money chance where mt. arie casino says its fee to the hometown is too excessive and says the 10 million minimum it and other casinos pay is just too much. >> that money we get from the casinos absolutely the most important thing. we could never afford to lose that. >> reporter: ben salem is not alone. in bethlehem the sands casino, the state's largest grossing casino pays $10 million a year to the city. that helps with the salary of 10,000 police officers. the sands and parx casino have not joined the lawsuit. the fear if mt. arie wins, that

the casinos could skip out on the fee. >> where would we get the money? >> that's terrible. the whole reason they are here is because everybody agreed to that deal in the beginning. >> reporter: now those agreements were put in place before the casino operators got their license. we have confirmation that the attorney general's office is actually defensing the case here. the lawsuit that mt. arie has brought against the state trying to eliminate the fee. we reached out to parx on where it stands and our calls have not been returned. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> jerry sandusky moved into the second day of a three-day appeals hearing. the former penn state assistant football coach is trying to get his 2012 conviction on child sex crimes overturned. sandusky contends he wasn't properly represented at his trial. today his lawyers focused on conflicting statements from a man who settled the child sexual abuse claim with penn state but didn't testify at sandusky's criminal trial. if sandusky's appeal is

successful, the judge could order a whole new trial. a second person is now charged in the murder of a penn state professor who fell 80 feet to his death after being pushed off a cliff. danelle geier was arraigned in the death of 56-year-old ronald bettig over the weekend. authorities charged george ishler jr. last week. bettig was an associate professor of media studies at penn state. they say the two suspects dude bettig to a quarry by telling him they would be investing and harvesting marijuana plants, but they pushed him off a cliff instead. police believe the two thought they would benefit from a will the professor recently signed. there's a new task force in pennsylvania devoted to improving the lives of military veterans. the 21-member panel will work to bring together public and private resources, information and strategies to address veterans issues, everything from employment and housing to mental health and legal services.

the task force includes people who have served in world war two, korea, vietnam and the wars in the middle east. nearly two dozen pens pens-based airports are about to get a much needed upgrade. 8.8 million in investments will fund the project. 23 airports in all have been selected for safety upgrades and expansion opportunities including five in philadelphia, montgomery and bucks county. >> drumming up a love of reading today. more than 800 kids have something new to read thanks to the north cam ben little league. a bus travels across the country to donate books and read aloud to children and have spread a love of reading. nbc 10 needs your help spreading the word about free money to those making a difference in hour community. we're giving away grants to

local non-profits and calling it 21st century solutions, and the goal is to support organizations that are implementing new and innovative programs. the application is on our website, nbc10.com. the deadline to apply is this friday. >> oh, she's got it. >> the olympics may be over, but there's still plenty of exciting competition to watch here on nbc 10. tonight american ninja warrior is back and the competition returns to philly where for the first time in american ninja warrior history four women will compete in the philadelphia finals. see how they do tonight at 8:00 right here on nbc 10, and here's a look at how i fared when i attempted the course when american ninja warrior came to town earlier this year. see which obstacles i made it through, denise, and which i was less successful at by visiting our website nbc10.com and tapping on the nbc 10 app. >> after getting through that

obstacle, who wouldn't want to take a ride in something called a man basket? >> yeah, right, exactly. maybe not some people who were afraid of heights. that's for sure. i got a chance to do it. give you a whole new perspective on the city of philadelphia. we'll take you 60 stories up in just a few minutes. plugs, the "today" show gets a new puppy with a purpose. we'll introduce him coming up on "nbc 10 news at 5:00."

eagles quarterback carson wentz still sore but the rookie was back on the field throwing at practice today. wentz recovering from the fractured rib he suffered in the team's first preseason game. a good sign there. hopefully it's a sign that he is healing. >> yeah. csn's john clark is here with more on wentz's status for the start of the season. john? >> a good thing to see you on this monday. also a good sign carson is throwing on the sidelines at practice. he is moving in the right direction and the birds are still hoping that he can return

for that final preseason game. he will get a lot of action. carson, he's not practicing yet, but he is throwing off to the side, and he still has pain. that's the main thing. he can start practice and playing when he can tolerate the pain. sore ribs are a process. they can hurt with every movement you make. >> day-to-day activities i'm feeling pretty good. again, it takes some time and i'm easing into it with the throwing and everything and hopefully i'm out there hopefully sooner than later. >> coming up at 6:20 we'll hear from head coach doug pederson about the new linebacker stephen tulloch. is he actually competing for a starting job? it's interesting. we'll see you then. >> john clark live for us at csn. thank you. before the game, tune in for eagles preseason kickoff. we'll go one-on-one with eagles long snapper whose brand of magic has captured the country's attention on "america's got talent." that and much more live from indianapolis starting at 6:30, saturday night here on nbc 10. speaking of football, it is that time of year again.

>> this friday marks the return of high school football here on nbc 10. vote for the high school football game of the week. this year's choices are upper darby at bonner prendie facts and circumstances judge at council rock south so call or text your vote to 610424-4111. we'll announce the winner on thursday night at "nbc 10 news at 11:00. meanwhile, millions of americans suffer from peanut allergies but the cost of epi-pens makes it harder for patients to protect themselves. and you can probably turn off the ac tonight. i'll have details on the cooldown and when the heat will return. that's next at 5:00. plus, all new on "nbc 10 news at 6:00," two local schools caught in the middle of a mailer mistakes. the controversy surrounding this postcard that's launched a state investigation.

the father of a toddler killed by an alligator at disney world reached into the animal's mouth to try to free his son's head. that's according to the final report on the child's death released today by florida's wildlife agency. it says the seven-foot gator by the the 2-year-old boy's head back in june as he bent down at the edge avilla goon as disney's grand floridian resort. the report says the boy died from a crushing bite and drowning and also claims the boy did nothing to provoke the animal. the zika virus is sparking new fears in miami beach after confirmation that thes about has spread to one of the country's

most popular tourist destinations, on friday florida governor rick scott announced that five locally transmitted cases have been confirmed in the miami beach area. none of the five people have been identified although scott said three are men and two are women. today leaders called on congress to give $1.9 billion for the fight against the virus. mosquitos, zika, not republican, not democrat. it's an issue that affects all of us. we need to come together as one and make sure we get the proper funding. >> the total number of locally transmitted cases in florida now sits at 36. millions of americans suffer from peanut allergies which makes having peipens on standby a necessity and the cost of the life-saving devices is making it difficult for patient to keep up. nbc's jen maxfield has the story. >> had such a horrible reaction to peanuts that she needed it to live. >> reporter: last fall abby

braverman's daughter heather was rushed to the hospital and her throat started closing up after she was mistakenly served peanut sauce in a restaurant. >> it was really, really scarey. >> heather's younger sister julia is also allergic to peanuts so epipens are an essential part of the family life. today they are checking the expiration dates. >> these are all expired. >> reporter: they are spring-loaded syringes that contain medicine to stop a severe allergic increase. the cost has increased more than 400% in the last ten years. >> the price should definitely come down. it has to be fair. it has to be safe. this is children's life-saving medicine. >> reporter: there is just one drug company that makes this type of product, myland. the company spokesperson blames the increased charges on higher insurance deductibles saying, quote, this change to the industry is not an easy challenge to address and we recognize the need and are committed to working with customers and payers to find solutions, end quote. >> patients can use this $100

coupon to save money on the epipen and others are resorting to more drastic measures like carrying around a vile of epinephrine and syringes and all of this only costs about $10 but doctors say it could be dangerous and may not work. >> think about, you know, opening a little vial and drawing out a certain amount of substance and then injecting it. that's -- that's a lot to ask, and there are already very, very frightened >> the donated epipens have been donated by the company to several schools across the country. a generic version. pens won't be coming any time soon. the fda rejected the idea earlier this year. jen plaxfield for nbc 10 news. >> just a gorgeous start to the week and not much argument with that, i don't think. 82 degrees still in philadelphia

and lots of sunshine and temperatures are dropped into the 70s all right and other parts of the area despite the jian. northwest wind across the area and bringing in the cooler and dryer air that we've seen. let's take a look in parts of new jersey. turnersville is 79 and medford is 79 and it's 81 in mt. laurel and 79 degrees in millville. millville is one of the places that will really keep down as soon as the sun comes down because of the school that they have there. 75 degrees in princeton. it's already started to cool off in that portion of the area. nothing to show you on the radar and satellite. nothing but a few fair weather clouds out there and there's no rain anywhere nearby and so we definitely have a dry pattern

and the comfort has returned and the high temperature 83 after 93 start and 89 with that high, high humidity. >> that 82 with low humidity tomorrow and 85, fairly low humidity on wednesday and then it starts to get hotter as we head towards the end of the week. tomorrow, just another spectacular day and nothing but sunshine and we can see in the neighborhood forecast and shanksville at 81 and allentown 80 degrees. if anything a degree or two cooler than today, especially at the jersey shore where you have a land breeze pushing temperatures into the mid-80s in some spots. tomorrow some places won't even reach 80 degrees and avalon at 79 degrees. all right. the tropics have become pretty active, and this is the time. year and that will happen. the peak of the hurricane season

mid-august to mid-october. fiona out in the middle of the atlantic not doing too much. another disturbance not too far away. this is the one that we'll need to be watching the most closely and farther out in the atlantic tropical depression seven has just formed right along the coast of africa. another big blob and then in the middle of the couldn't net we've got another big blob. it's one after another that starts coming east to west and this time of the year this is very typical and it's called the cape verde season because the cape verde islands are coming not too far off of africa and lots of those storms come from that direction and these tend to be the types of storms that can get very powerful. this is the one storm that i was telling you has the most chance to affect anybody in our portion of the world. the closer they are, the more sure we are about the forecast, so at least for the next few days i'm pretty sure it's headed

towards the bahamas. after that there's a lot of different possibilities. that's by saturday that we're talking about, so there are more possibilities off that storm and that's one to really watch out. by thursday we're up to 90 degrees and shore is 82 and 94 on friday and the shore 87, and we'll not see any rain through the five days. your seven-day forecast at the bottom of the screen, you won't see any rain through seven days either. >> thank you so much, glenn. lester holt joins us now from the nbc studios in new york. >> with a look at what's coming up on "nbc nightly news." good evening, lester. >> hi, keith and denise. ahead for us tonight, american olympian ryan lochte being hit where it may be hurt the most for his false story. how miami beach residents are fighting back against zika and beware what pops up on your computer screen. reports of a computer repar

square. keith and denies, back to you. >> thanks, lester, we'll see you in a bit. >> to "today's" show uppy who needs a name. >> the labrador retriever made his debut on the "today" show. he's part of a nonprofit group that helps with veterans. he heel learn a variety of skill during his time with "today." first, he does need a name, an here's where you come in. three choices are sarge, charlie or ace, and it's up to you to pick one of those names. cast your vote right now by logging on to nbc10.com. >> not afraid of all the attention he's receiving. >> he's loving it. the new comcast tower is 60 feet high. if you're afraid of heights going up the elevator could be a challenge. >> that's right. now imagine going up in this. it's called the man basket. i took it all the way to the top and beyond. we'll show you the amazing view

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question for you now. would you take a small metal basket 1,300 feet above

philadelphia and the only thing holding the basket, by the way, is a single wire. >> usually i would say no can do and not doing this assignment and just for you at home a frofer took the frankly terrifying trip. that same trip though that workers at the comcast innovation and technology center make every single day. >> it's clear. swinging right. >> about to see something. >> are we swinging? >> you have never seen before. >> going to swing when we get up there? >> what workers call a man basket. >> if you're not nervous, something wrong with you, in my opinion. >> that's coming from blue bell carpenter andrew whose job it is to assist the tower crane some 1,300 feet above our heads. we strap in. >> this process i've got to get right. >> six guys are inside the crane

basket and the final preps are in place and it's our last chance to chicken out. >> you guys want to trade places with me? and the ground drops away. we're off. going so high we're in faa regulated airspace. >> look at this view. the basket sways with the wind. >> oh, and don't look down. >> but the ride is surprisingly smooth and the workers use this man basket twice daley. >> oh, my god. look how high we are. our lives in the crane operator's skilled hands showing us the city from river to river. 30th street to the ben franklin bridge like you've never seen before. that is, until the comcast innovation and technology center reaches these heights. >> let me give you some perspective and do it quickly because we're really high up in the air in this mass death. liberty one, we're taller than this and look over here on my left shoulder, the comcast center, still taller. look at the crane atop the comcast inowe ovation and technology center.

it's going to climb higher than that. >> all right, tommy. you're good on the left. >> and as fast as we climb we descend falling at least 15 feet per second watching floor by floor pass by. >> coming down. >> these hard working local men and women changing the philly skyline and finally we touch down. >> here, good. nobody got too scared or nothing? got to be a little scared though. >> and that's an understatement. we heard it over and over and over again on that street. >> i'm not going up there in no basket. i'm cool, thank you, but i'm not going. sflrt. >> would you have the guts to go up in that thing? >> no way. i'd have to mentally prefer. >> we're changing the skyline. >> so the crane-operated man basket, it doesn't operate in

winds because it starts to sway. >> my knuckles were white. >> they say some workers, they sit down in the basket because it's too high for even them, so the fact that i did it on camera without squealing. >> being afraid of heights, no longer in. >> exactly. what an experience there. no question. all right. something a lot of people are talking ing about. next at 6:00, a shocking postcard sent to parents y.this mistake has two local students at odds and why the state is calling for an investigation now. >> our break from the heat and humidity isn't going to last long. when the comfortable conditions will end and the 90s will be coming back. my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. a 2-year-old pennsauken boy is dead. police say he was beaten to death by the mother's boyfriend. hear her frantic call to 911 from inside the home next.

right now at 6:00, toddler murdered. nbc 10 has the 911 calls revealing the last few moments. little boy's life. a third-party push, last-minute scramble for these presidential candidates to get on the ballot in pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. >> and from gymnasts to judge. the new job for gabby douglas in atlantic city after winning gold in rio.

>> we're on the way. >> oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness, oh, my goodness. >> a mother's cry for helps for a 911 dispatcher. when her 2-year-old son wasn't breathing. today county prosecutors charged with beating her boyfriend to death. >> nbc burro reporter cydney long is live in pennsauken with more on the tragedy that has saddened a neighborhood. what have you learned her. >> they said they didn't hear or see anything out of the ordinary. that was when police and detectives showed up over the weekend and a little boy took his very last breath inside this apartment inside of this home. >> okay. what's going mon? >> my son is -- he's not resp d responding. >> reporter: desperate for help you can hear the fear in the mother's voice and right beside her her yf