little burglars or little ones in need of help. now the case has turned upside down in just the past hour or so. randy jigyllenhaal has been following this the entire day. >> reporter: since our story aired at 4:00 approximately. the family of those two young children saw them and recognized their faces and brought them here to talk to zkts. it started with two tiny burglars caught on camera breaking into a local school but stealing almost nothing of real value. when the philadelphia academy charter school, school officials quickly realized there had been a break in. but when they checked their security cameras, they were shocked to see two tiny faces staring right back, a young boy and a young girl, siblings who police say broke in through a window and then rummaged through

a classroom. >> they looked like they were just about 10 or 11 years old. >> reporter: we showed that surveillance picture to local families here. >> wow, they're young. they're really young. >> reporter: distraught that kids so young would break into a school. but we have learned this is not your typical smash and grab burglary. and the school tells us the kids didn't go after high priced electronics or lap tops, instead they pilfered change and food. >> it's very sad that the kids are in that situation and it shouldn't be that way. >> detectives say charges are possible, but they're just happy the kids are safe. they say the children are not malnourished and may have just been into some mischief. >> where are the parents? the parents need to be on top of their kids. >> reporter: the school tells us nothing of real value was actually taken, they were more

concerned about the health and welfare of those two children. those two kids don't even live in the neighborhood of that charter school, so it's still unclear why and how they ended up there. >> randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. to decision 2016, if you live in pennsylvania and plan on voting in november, the clock is ticking tonight. this is the last day of voter registration in the keystone state. we found stacks upon stacks of voter registration forms at the philadelphia city commissioner's office. take a look at the countdown, november 8 is just 28 days away and pennsylvania will play a key role in selecting the country's next president. we're joined by nbc 10's deanna durante live in norristown. what are you seeing there? >> reporter: people are still coming in to register to vote, the voter registration office is going to stay hope until 8:00 tonight. you can see stacks and stacks of voter registration forms.

there's about 500 of them that came in the mail just this afternoon. >> get registered, please register, it's important. >> have you ever missed an election before? >> yeah. >> but there is something about this year's election that's bringing people out. election officials in suburban county today say that turnout is high. absentee ballots are being filled out and turned in early. montgomery county has more than 16,000 new voters since the prichl election. it's a common practice in pennsylvania according to election officials. the closed primary system. this year this man's leaving the party he's been with for 36 years. election officials are working overtime, in bucks county,

worker -- >> we will be open tonight until 8:00 p.m., so if anyone would like to come in and register in person. >> i just want to know where i'm going and make sure that i'm on. >> and we have heard that people are double registered. so workers are busy going through those forms making sure you're registered to vote and that you know where you're going to vote. if you have an absentee ball lot, you still have some time for that. you can get in here by midnight or if you're going to mail it in, it needs to be here by november 1. >> the time to register in delaware is this saturday the 15th. if you're voting in new jersey, you have until next tuesday the 18th. hillary clinton maintains a nine point overall the lead over

all lead among likely voters, a band new poll shows clinton draws 46% to donald trump's 37%. libertarian gary johnson gets 8% and green party nominee jill stein 2%. and in a two-way match, clinton holds a 10-point lead against trump. this morning he was busy sending out tweets, attacking members of his own party. he called house speaker paul ryan a weak and ineffective leaders. he said that democrats have always proven to be more loyal than republicans. the hot mike moment with trump making lawsuit comments about women. the recording was from 11 years

ago. but today governor chris christie was asked if he was conferring withdrawing his support of donald trump. >> you certainly have to think about it. i have known him for a long time and i'm really upset by what i heard. but in the end, this election is about bigger issues than just that. and so, you know, at this point, i still support him. >> christie says he did not hold back while talking to trump over the weekend. trying but failing to convince him to be contrite and apologetic at the debate. hillary clinton took her message to florida today campaigning with former vice presidential candidate al gore. and count on nbc 10 for please 2016 coverage. for updates from the campaign trail and our interviews with the presidential candidates, just tap the nbc 10 a prk p.

a new jersey man who lost part of a finger in the hoboken train crash says he plans to sue. sheldon cast blames the state. cast was in the first car of the train that crasheded into the hoboken terminal on september 29. he also broke his nose and has cuts on his face. >> investigators say the engineer was going 21-mile-per-hour before the crash, that's twice the speed limit at the station. sky force 10 flew over this derailme derailment. the cars did not contain hazardous material.

in 2012, a derailment in paulsboro caused people to evacuate their home after toxic liquid stilled into the mantua creek. is city of philadelphia paid mail room employees more than $9,000 in overtime for hours they never worked. that is according to r a report from the city controller's office. he says surveillance video taken over an eight-week period showed that -- the mail center's supervi supervisor. >> this is fraud and it should never be tolerated. not only did it waste tax dollars, but created a hostile

work environment. is supervisor and administrative officer have since resigned from their positions. police in camden county warned residents to be vigilant after 22 home burglaries. >> the suspect breaks glass or uses through a backdoor window screen too gain industry. sbi. one woman awoke to an intruder. the system was brazen enough to steal right from her night stand. >> even in my bedroom, the drawers have been pulled out and jewelry was taken. >> they took a ladder i had hid on in the bushes, and they pushed it up against this

window, they cut the screen right there. >> police have stepped up both under cover and marked patrols. >> a parking ticket problem is brewing in eastton. firms say there a total $719,000 in unpaid tickets have not been paid. there's a plan to settle past tickets for half the price. but the amnesty program netted half a million dollars. today delaware governor jack marquel declared october national domestic violence awareness month. the office of pon -- the university confirms to nbc 10 that a campus wide fire wall is being impmented. any device connected to penn's

networks will soon be covered by the security measure. upenn officials dell us thousands of attempts are made each week to try to breach the school's network. >> next at 6:00, heated up over a school assignment. see why some parents are so steamed and what they say it's showing students. plus bad news for the birds. cars carson wentz just lost some premier protection. coming up, your first alert forecast plus how long we'll stay dry. it's not uncommon for autistic kids to flap their hands.

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steamed over school assignme assignments, one mother tells us this reading assignment was something else entirely. >> my daughter was to read this article. >> reporter: jill didn't like this reading article her sussex county middle school student brought home.

put out by school lastic for use in classrooms, blue and black is an article adapted from the "new york times," it outlines police involved shootings. the article is lop side it and except for a couple of brief mentions by a -- officers aren't to be trusted. >> i think it's truly one sided. i think it's promoting racism, i think it's promoting, it's pretty much telling young kids that the cops are bad people. >> jill wouldn't let her daughter use the article as a source to answer the related questions and when jill asked the school administrators about the article, they said they weren't going to use it gchb. some people agreed with jill, maybe it was a little bit too unsided. but like every issue, it depends on your background and personal experience. >> i would have no problem with it if it were from different

points of views. >> reporter: jill understands people have different opinions, she says that if the writer had made this a more balance piece she would have no problem with it. >> and school lastic -- they have received positive feedback on this issue. >> nbc 10 at today's raise a -- the school will serve up to 750 kindergarten through eighth grade students. the school is set to be ready by the fall of next year. >> with many parts of the area

got into the 30s this morning, it's into the 60s in philadelphia. it's starting to cool off, we do have sunshine across the entire area, 59 degrees, walnut port, 57 degrees. some of those places are going to see those temperatures drop. there are clouds to the west coming in that will prevent the temperature from dropping as much as last night. and the ocean, we have got some low clouds there, with a southeast wind, that will bring some clouds into the other parts of the area to prevent the temperature from dropping as much. the high pressure that was over the great lakes yesterday is right now over new england, that's why we have that easterly flow. we have a front that's going to be approaching on thursday, we were showing you this yesterday,

in the morning, but the general trend is for it to fall apart as it comes into the east. and you'll see that in your seven day forecast for the lehigh valley, you see the rain dropped and no wrowhere else. that's why we do neighborhood weather because sometimes the weather does change from one part to toot. as we go into the day tomorrow, here's what the neighborhoods look like, 41 in easton, going up to 65 as some of the clouds break up in the afternoon. 43 in redding, going up to 66, west chester going up to 45. in all of these places we're in the 30s this morning. as long as they have those clouds, they won't be getting that cool. and right now in the city of philadelphia, and temperatures at least in the 40s in parts of south jersey. got another hurricane on the

map, nicole is back to hurricane strength and strengthening rapidly and there's bermuda, and unfortunately, this 80-mile-per-hour hurricane not only is projected to come right here bermuda but strengthen and the latest forecast has it at 110 miles an hour, almost category 3. coming right into bermuda. in the next couple of days. and over the next three days, we're talking about temperatures getting into the 70s on thursday, and then dropping back. so there we are, 74 thursday, the chance of showers in the lehigh valley, then it cools off for a couple of days, as we get more sunshine, then it starts to warm up again. a look at those temperatures, 58 on monday, that's the first decent chance of showers for most of the rest of us and then on tuesday the average high is in the upper 60s. >> it's the perfect time of year

to take the kids on a hayride, take them to the pumpkin patch. find that perfect pumpkin to carve up. >> this time of year, you can be in a drought, or you can get some really nasty, stormy weather, a few years ago there was sandy, and so it looks like a quiet pattern into next week. i'm john clark, how will the eagles deal with lane johnson being suspended? plus brandon graham talks about carson wentz after his first interception.

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i'm john clark from csn, we have waited for over two months through an appeal, but lane johnson has been suspended for ten games by the nfl for performance enhancing drugs. lane will be eligible to play the final two games, but would he even be in game shape? and that giants game he would return to, he -- and howie roseman release at statement, we're very disappointed that lane johnson has been suspended 10 games, his actions have affected the entire organization, he has no choice but to hold himself accountable to jeffrey laurie, coach peterson. >> the right tackle, the eagles

didn't want to change two spots, they like how allen barber is playing two spots. a lot has been made for carson's decision to go for the deep ball that sealed the eagles loss on sunday. doug paidederson will not -- >> i think we got a lot of confidence in them and we don't always stay aggressive and i think they let him kind of make his -- they trust him. and he made that play and they made a play. i wouldn't have it no other way with him, i really believe he just made a mistake. >> nbc 10 is taking you back to where it all began with the rookie eagles quarterback, we traveled to carson's home state of north dakota to look at his early life before becoming an eagle.

it's called from wentz he came. the flyers are going to open their season with two 19-year-old rookies for the first time in 20 years. he's going the play on the second line and he knows there may be some growing pains. >> i've been through it in junior hockey as well. there's games where you're putting bad games together and you can't figure out what's going on. but i think as long as you figure out how to be a pro and still be effective in games and helping you're team. it's just contributing in any way you can. >> looking forward to the flyer season opener on friday night.

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a.i. dupont hospital for children who may not be able to go trick o-or-treating this yea. ht it's war. donald trump declares the shackles are off, unleashing a furious tirade on the highest ranking republican, speaker paul ryan, and on senator john mccain. while his campaign trains its focus on hillary clinton, trump trains his fire on his own party. race against time for the rescuers desperately trying to reach families cut off, trapped by flood waters after hurricane matthew. tonight, new dramatic rescues and a jaw-dropping view from the air. crisis mode. a major announcement amid new fears about exploding smartphones, as the company now clashes with apple. and breaking health news tonight. an alert for millions of americans who take calcium supplements.