candidates say tonight could impact swing voters. tim kaine versus mike pence, it all goes down tonight at longwood university in farmville, virginia. lauren mayk joins us live from the debate. what's happening inside the spin room where you are right now? >> reporter: well, jim, these are the final moments to set expectations before that debate. and you might be able to see behind me that things are getting a little bit more crowded here. folks are starting to come in to spin alley. the clinton campaign has been sending a string of surrogates in all stay to talk about tim kaine and now we're seeing republicans stream in as well. at the debate site, both candidates have got on a look at the hall. indiana governor mike pence and virginia senator tim kaine, getting a walk through of the

stage where the two men will sit together. for 90 minutes, they will shoulder the burden of carrying the ticket alone. >> i think tim kaine is taking tonight's debate very seriously. >> clinton campaign press secretary brian fallon called tim kaine -- i think he wants to communicate about the pro active agenda that he and hillary clinton have for the country. >> the republicans haven't provided a surrogate to talk about mike pence before the debate. lindsay walters tells us tonight is an opportunity for mike pence. >> i think tonight is a great opportunity for governor pence to be able to showcase that comparison and to run off with a proven record he has had indiana. >> how does he avoid makie this

entire debate about defending donald trump. >> i think you're going to see the -- >> we don't know what those questions are going to be, not even the commission on presidential debates knows what those questions are, but remember that this format includes discussions. so even if the moderator doesn't bring up taxes or clinton's -- >> you can watch the debate live at 9:00 on next 10. . and tomorrow, both vice presidential candidates plan to visit pennsylvania, tim kaine has a stop planned in philadelphia with a sheet metal worker es union. pennsylvania remains a key swing state in next month's election, today hillary clinton told a crowd in delaware county the

importance the keystone state will play in sending her to the white house. randy gyllenhaal joining live from haverford. >> hillary clinton bringing her daughter on the campaign trail, they focused mostly on policy issues but also a brief attack on donald trump. >> reporter: with barely a month until election day, hillary clinton is back shaking hands in this must-win swing state. >> i love pennsylvania, we're going to work hard the next 35 days. >> today speaking to families and young children in delaware county. >> to do everything possible to put kids and families front and center. >> reporter: paid family leave, yuan versus sauniversal pre-k.

>> they're mold, there's rodents, it is disgusting. >> her opponent donald trump also has a plan for family leave and tax breaks for child care, but trump got some tough talk from the crowd today, a teenaged girl questioning trump's treatment of women and his comments about miss universe. >> i see with my own eyes is damage donald trump does when he talks about him and how they look. >> we need to refute it, ignore it and stachkd up to it. there are too many young women online who are being bull bied about how they look. >> i would look her right in that fat, ugly face of herself. >> reporter: a last ditch bid for women voters in

pennsylvania. and donald trump getted his child care plan, meanwhile the pennsylvania gop also releasing a statement saying that voters here in pennsylvania don't trust hillary clinton. >> speaking of trump and tweeting, he doesn't plan to stay silent during tonight's vp debate. the republican presidential candidate says he'll live detail during the event. just minutes ago trump spoke at a rally about not paying taxes. >> why didn't she ever try to change those laws so i couldn't use them? you know why? she could have changed the laws when she was in the united states senate, but she didn't. >> and this afternoon, the clinton campaign saying it is not behind the release of donald trump's taxes reported by the "new york times." now to our weather, we are tracking hurricane matthew as it zeros in now on florida, the sunshine state and south

carolina could be starting to feel matthew's wrath coming up in the next 48 hours. the storm made landfall in haiti this morning and hammered cuba this afternoon. and causing a bridge collapse. our own hurricane expert nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking where matthew is right now. >> unfortunately, we haven't seen the worst pictures out of haiti yet, that may take a stay or two to show you all the damage. this is a very large storm, compared to the state of florida. the eye not quite as clearly defined as it was earlier, so it may not be quite as strong a storm and the wind field as come down just a little bit. but hurricane watch has been issued from ft. lauderdale area all the way up daytona beach. that's until friday morning, and a tropical storm watch from miami down to most of the florida keys.

they could be upgraded to warnings. now the track took it right over the western tip of haiti, now it's just about right on the eastern tip of cuba. and unfortunately, that leaves a lot of the circulation over water so it can't weaken that much. if it was going over those mountains, it really would weaken a lot more. so the latest is that there's a category 4 threat to florida. at least to parts of florida, but florida east coast to be specific. more of a right turn in the track, after the carolinas, that could have an impact on our weekend and could help us out if that trend continues. 140-mile-per-hour max winds now moving north at 9:00, just east of guantanamo bay and it is predicted to be a category 4 right up to the florida coastline. that's over 130 miles an hour. this is the track, my projection

is a little bit to the west here, more inland of florida and perhaps more of a right turn. i'll tell you more about how that's going to affect our weekend in just a few minutes. >> we'll check back with you and only nbc 10 has the most high-tech radar in the country. stormranger10 is moving south. the high powered doppler radar helps the first alert weather team get ahead of the storm and track it more accurately. and within the last hour, american airlines announced a travel alert to florida and the caribbean. american cancelled numerous flights and the airline is allowing you to make changes to flights to florida and the change fee is going to be waived. nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong spoke with anxious relatives who are watching matthew's track very closely, their story coming up in just a few minutes. other news now, for the

first time, the family of an 8-year-old girl murdered in camden, came face to face with her accused killer, nbc 10 was the only -- he was accused of killing 8-year-old gabby carter when she was playing outside her home in august brown was involved in a facebook war with an enemy and that ended one a shoot-out. >> it feels good to have the bail set at $1.5 million but it still hurt like hell watching, she will always be remembered. >> brown's mother and girlfriend were also arrested, accused of helpi ining him to hide, after gabby's murder, brown slipped away to sicklerville and then to

kentucky. a man approached a 12-year-old girl near karen lane on september 16th and told her he was looking for his dog, he drove away in a silver four-door sedan. investigators today found what could be three key pieces of evidence from the wreck cadges from that north jersey train crash, a data recorder and a video recorder and investigators are hoping those two pieces of evidence will help them determine whatt kaz caused the crash in hoboken. a gift verdict for an unlicensed fun ral home. blair hawkins is now charged with abuse of a corpse.

the sentence is probigs and hawkins is apeeling the verdict. crews in clerry hill have blocked off the westbound right lane at garden state boulevard. two other westbound lanes remange open. the philadelphia housing authority is laying off more than 120 workers as it deals with a $20 million deficit. the agency made that now today, officials say the extra money is needed to help pay for construction of more homes, phj has lost over a million and a half dollars in subsidies in the last two years. fans have waited two years to see him in action, tonight a new start for the sixers. as hurricane matthew bears down on haiti, a pastor is really concerned about the people there. and i'm tracking the latest path of the hurricane and what

it could mean for the weather this weekend in your. for doctors who perform them. would you put people in jail for performing abortions? at some point doctors performing abortions i think would be subject to that sort of penalty. dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising.

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>> reporter: this reverend has a lot of his plate. he's concerned about his churches and his shelters in haiti. one of his employees sent him in video of the waves near his church. winds have been up near 130 miles an hour. the pastor of the church here in delaware has wood construction, siding and the whole nine yards, but his buildings in haiti, they're really not made to handle the storm that's coming through right now. he says he knows at least one of his churches has been flooded out. >> this morning he told me so far everything is still okay, they got a little damage. >> but he's still not able to reach employees at his other facilities. he and the thousands of haitians

living in the area will wait and watch for news. in georgetown, delaware, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. you're closely watching this path as it makes its way toward thes. >> and it's not going to be taking a straight either and that's one of the things that makes it difficult, as you'll see with these curves and you can see the size of it, it's large and very intense hurricane. it's the strongest one to hit haiti in over 50 years, the eye is just about to hit the eastern tip of cuba. which means it won't weaken as much as it would have if it went right over the mountains of cuba. there's a hurricane watch from ft. lauderdale all the way up to the cape and a tropical storm

watch from miami down through most of the keys. now the latest this afternoon is that the increased threat to florida of a category 3 or even a category 4 hurricane with over 130-mile-per-hour winds, that's possible and the u.s. hasn't been hit by a major hurricane a long, long time. the right turn once it gets to the carolina is more likely than it looked this morning or yesterday. and that could cause less of an impact around here if that trend comes. could still get some rain out of it. some went out of it. some coastal flooding out of it. but not as bad as of course if it would come closer. now the spaghetti plots if you've been following them have generally been offshore florida now they're generally on to florida. a lot of them are right along the south and north carolina coast and now a lot of them are farther offshore once it gets up

do our latitude than it showed this morning or yesterday. so the trend and some of the latest, most accurate computer models are showing it more of a right turn too. we hope that trend continues. 140-mile-per-hour max winds now, moving north at 9, this is the area of tropical storm force winds, this is not a point, so even if the eye passes well south and east of us, there's still going to be come impact. this is the track from the hurricane center, we showed you, possible category 4 by the time it gets to the florida east coast. and then there's that right turn that we're talking about. but i'm thinking that may be seeing an even more dramatic curve with this farther to the west in florida, which would be worse for them, possible direct landfall and a sharper left turn

when it gets to the carolinas. the best european model suggesting that. by thursday night, it's right along the florida coast, then comes up toward the south and north carolina coast saturday, but we're still starting off with a decent day, we could see some showers with a cold front coming in from the west, that's what's going to push this thing out to the east and there it goes, so by sunday, we may be seeing improving weather. we didn't get much improvement today, temperatures low to mid 60s throughout the area, with those low clouds coming in from the ocean, is not related to this at all. and you can see that that trend is going to be bringing dry air in here as well as we go into the next 24 hours. so some pretty nice weather. for a few days, tomorrow, thursday, friday, it starts getting warmer, saturday, we see some showers, with the cold

front, maybe a little bit heavier rain or wind at the shore, then we start drying out sunday, if that track continues. sheena will update that at 11:00, then you can see the dry and cool weather that comes in after that. it's the long-awaited debut. coming up next in sports.

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waiting for almost two years ago. joe ellenby will be force and in action. embiid is expected to play 12 minutes. he has missed the last two seasons with a broken foot. coach brett brown talks about what he sees and expects in embiid. >> i see a leader in him. that's hard to find. you either have it or you don't. and i'm not even talking about his talent. so there's a disposition, there's a leadership, there's a competitive spirit, all that stuff, that shines for me as i watch him play. it's an amazing journey for him and the real positive for the city. >> ben simmons will be making his sixers debut for quite some

time. the top overall pick this year underwent successful surgery on the broken bone in his foot. the technical term was a jones fracture which the sixers had not hoped for. first place in the nfc east and feeling rested, coming out of a bye week, brandon graham says they're just going with the flow. >> we are going with what they throw at us, so for us, we're just going to take it with a grain of salt and keep going because we have a plan to get a win, because i'm just excited, the energy in the building is real. >> lain johnson has hlane johns his hear. until they hear from the league, johnson is penciled in as their right tackle.

this week on csn, insider jim salisbury sits down with jim middleton. here's middleton on where the phillies rebuilding project currently stands. >> i think if you look at the phillies in 2016, it's wrapping up the season, and you compare it to '14 and '15, i don't think there's any question we have made progress. there's players who are playing with energy and enthusiasm. i think the fans are reacting well do that. now for a look at what's coming up on nbc 10 news at 11:00, an internet giant, combing through your e-mails for the government? what you need to know on next 10 news at 11:00. we're right back.

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all right, the next three days are looking really good. philly and the jersey shore, the weekend of course will be determined by the track of math.

a little windier at the shore of course on saturday. >> updates coming up tonight at 11:00. breaking news tonight. large-scale emergency evacuations. plans to urge over a million people to flee the south carolina coast as a deadly monster hurricane barrels towards the eastern seaboard. critical clash, the vp candidates face off as trump's poll numbers slide. can a big moment tonight turn the tide? spying on her e-mails. a stunning report that yahoo secretly searched hundreds of millions of accounts snooping on its own customers for the government. getting out alive. residents escape for a dramatic neighborhood blast. the warning signs that every family should know. and life-saving cancer test. ben stiller goes public with his private health battle. how his cancer was caught, the test he