on. >> trump made that comment recently and today took to twitter says, quote, of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day. why do republican leaders deny what is going on? so naive. today philadelphia city leaders came together to address the issue and assure people that their votes are protected. we sent nbc 10's deanna durante to find out what happens from the time you vote until the time your vote is counted. >> reporter: there are more than 3700 voting machines in the city of philadelphia. they're all the same. so people at the polls should have the same experience no matter where you vote. and workers here have been making sure all of the voting machines are working, the ballots that you'll see are appropriate to the election, and that this card that holds your vote is secure. >> there's a great big green button on the machine that you hit when you've completed voting. >> reporter: all machines in philadelphia are the same. you touch the box next to the candidate you want to vote for. while the machines are open

today, they'll look slightly different come election day. you won't see this secure cartridge or the printout that logs your vote. each machine is tagged, and it's locked. it will be opened at the polls. >> there is no hacking into 4,000 standalone voting machines. they're not connected to the internet. >> reporter: he says there have been cases of voter fraud but after the votes have been cast, and he added, by people who have been able to access the numbers. >> they've indicted people. they've prosecuted people. there have been guilty pleas in almost every cases. >> reporter: he says once a voter hits the button, the vote is recorded more than once. the final votes are counted up about three weeks post-election. even though your vote is stored, counted, and printed out, all votes along with it are counted again. as for comments about vote-stealing, schmidt won't address them. he says he can only speak about the sanctity of the election process in the city of

philadelphia. >> any time a vote is cast on a voting machine in philadelphia, it can't be taken away. >> reporter: when it comes to numbers, how many people use this voting machine? two counters on the back. one that shows the number of votes cast for the life of the machine and another that shows the votes cast just for this election. in north philadelphia, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. nbc 10 investigators are also taking a look at voter fraud. george spencer spoke with a man who voted illegally in at least four elections. he's not the only one we found. look for his investigation wednesday night right after the last presidential debate only on nbc 10 news at 11:00. a new poll shows hillary clinton is expanding her lead in pennsylvania. according to a new quinnipiac university pillow, clinton now leads trump in the state, 47-41%. that's a three-point bump for clinton compared to two weeks ago. she's also leading in colorado and florida. clinton is off the campaign trail as she prepares for the next debate, as her campaign continues to deal with the

fallout from her hacked e-mails. some of the new e-mails which have not been authenticated by nbc news allegedly capture what was said during clinton's 2013 speech to goldman sachs. it claims to show the democratic nominee admitted taking action against wall street only for political purposes. a spokesperson for the clinton campaign says the trump campaign is cheering on russia's hacking into u.s. e-mails. tomorrow, former president bill clinton will be campaigning in our area, set to speak at montgomery community college in bluebell at 3:00. if you live in new jersey, you have just one day left to register to vote. tomorrow is the deadline in the garden state. besides voting for president, jersey voters will decide on casino expansion and what the gas tax money should be used for. the registration deadline has already passed in pennsylvania and delaware. in just days, the candidates will face off in one last debate. the third and final presidential debate is set for wednesday

night at 9:00 at the university of nevada las vegas. nbc 10's lauren mayk will be there, bringing you live reports of all the debate action. look for her reports beginning tomorrow. let's go to the weather now. get ready for a warm streak. temperatures just going up and up in our area, expected to set a record for this time of year. >> nbc 10 meteorologist sheena parveen with a look at how warm we can expect it to get. >> tomorrow and even wednesday expecting record highs across the area. today we got into the low 80s. now temperatures slowly dropping. tonight will still be cool, just a little bit milder than previous nights. 79 in philadelphia and dover. trenton, 78. we're still fairly warm across the rest of the area, mostly the mid-70s right now. look at the warm air down to our south. 80s, even 90s down in texas. we're still tapping into a lot of this warm air. for the next two days, we'll still be in the 80s. big changes, though, as we go

into the weekend. we're not going to get there just yet. we'll stay fairly warm until then. tonight, temperatures will be dropping, a little bit milder. when you start your day tomorrow by 9:00 a.m., mostly we're take a looking at the mid-60s, warming up quickly through the day tomorrow. look at these possible record highs. the record in philadelphia, 81. the forecast is 84. many areas could get close or even break their records over the next couple of days. we'll talk more about this and how much cooler it's going to get going into the weekend, coming up. >> okay, sheena. all new at 6:00, this video has some neighbors really concerned about what that is lurking nearby. some are worried the big cat caught on camera in new jersey could be a mountain lion. nbc 10's cydney long is live from hammenton with the details. >> reporter: jim, the owner here of this winery took the cellphone video you're about to see. he says he's certain it's a mountain lion in between the vineyard and the christmas trees they grow in the distance, that

video taken in late september. once a friend saw it posted to facebook, that's when police and animal control got involved. take a look at this grainy black and white photo of a large cat snapped from a hunter's camera in the woods where winslow and hammenton meet. then there's a paw print and cellphone video. >> i don't really know what a mountain lion looks like but it looked almost like a bobcat. that's what scares me. >> reporter: he didn't know the apparent mountain lion sightings were so close to home in the neighborhood where he runs. >> now i'm even more scared, to be honest with you. >> reporter: they're keeping a close eye as their children returned home from school today. winslow police are not certain the photos are that of a mountain lion. but they are warning residents to be cautious. >> basically we can't confirm or deny that it is a mountain lion. >> reporter: the county got a half dozen calls from concerned

residents on monday but no actual sightings. >> people kind of panic when they see mountain lion. >> reporter: animal patrol stepped up patrols in the area. >> we don't need an all-out, you know, mountain lion hunt. we don't even know if this thing exists or if it's, you know, bigfoot. >> reporter: for now, he plans to keep his guard up. >> you don't know, you've got little kids, they could think it's a squirrel or something in the trees and something could come out. we're keeping precaution with that kind of stuff. >> we apologize for those technical difficulties. cydney long reporting from hammenton. philadelphia police are trying to find out who killed a father in his own driveway. police say johnny questiozada w

fired on by two men at point blank range. before he died he was able to tell police that the two men who shot him took his handgun. his sister-in-law tell of us the victim's wife heard the shots from inside the home. >> he calls and tells them, come home, i heard some shots, he said it was me, i'm on the ground, come bring me water, i'm thirsty. >> detectives are now checking out surveillance video from homes and businesses on the street. a $20,000 reward is being offered in the case. south jersey university has a warning for its students this evening. rowan university investigating after a student reported being sexually assaulted on campus on friday morning inside the new holly point dorms after a late night of partying off-campus. the student claims someone she

vaguely knew offered to walk her home from that party. she says she blacked out and woke up to being sexually assaulted. rowan students are thankful the school is getting the word out. >> it was kind of shocking to me to see that. i think it's just nice that they at least inform everyone on campus, give them the information they need so women and everyone on campus can stay safe. >> so far no one has been charged. rowan university police want anyone with information to call them. a defendant in the bridgegate trial took the stand today and testified that governor christie wasn't aware of the plot. bill baroni told jurors he believed the lane closures were being done for a traffic study and that he and the governor had nothing to do with the scheme. the former port authority executive says the plan was created and executed by david wildstein. wildstein testified last week that baroni helped intentionally just down several lanes of the george washington bridge back in 2013 as payback against the ft. lee mayor.

christie denies involvement. new at 6:00, vice president joe biden brings an update about the cancer moonshot, an initiative close to his heart. he says they've already made strides, coming up with new methods of cancer research. he says doctors need to focus on better ways to diagnose cancer and have access to the latest treatments. >> there's a recognition that the cancer system established five decades ago needs to be reimaged for the 21st century. too often the system plays by the rules of '71, not 2016. >> the vice president lost his son beau to brain cancer last year. can you imagine? it could have been myself, it could have been anybody else. >> working together to save a life. wait until you hear what some good samaritans did to rescue a woman pinned under her car. talking trash. a redskins player has some harsh

words for the eagles following the birds' second straight loss. and i'll show you who can expect record high temperatures over the next few days before a big weekend cooldown, that's next. planned parenthood.

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>> announcer: this is nbc 10 news. some good samaritans worked with police to save a live after a crash on an an atlantic county roadway. >> new video catches their frantic efforts to rescue a woman trapped underneath her car. >> nbc 10's ted greenberg shows us how it all unfolded. >> i was freaking out. i was like, oh, my god. >> reporter: she says people on the roadside flagged her down, frantically in need of her muscle, to rescue a woman

trapped under this car. >> so i just parked real quick and i started running towards the car. they were telling me, help to lift. >> reporter: hamilton township police say she was one of seven good samaritans who helped lift the car off the woman, who had just crashed into a tree along a curvy section of weymouth road sunday afternoon. she was thrown out of the car when it flipped over. it then landed on top of her. >> i was just trying to lift the car, as strong as i could, so she could come out. >> reporter: a police dashboard camera captured the frantic scene. the group raised the car enough so the sergeants could pull the woman out from underneath. >> i was shaking, it was so super heavy. can you imagine, it could have been myself, it could have been anybody else. i just wanted to help, that's all. >> reporter: the victim suffered serious injuries in the crash. but police say she is expected to recover. >> she's alive, i don't know how. a miracle or something.

>> reporter: teamwork by strangers and police, who saved a life by pooling their strength. ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. right now a meeting is being held on philadelphia's new initiative to end youth smoking. >> they want reaction from the public. that hearing started about a half hour ago at the municipal services building. last week, the mayor announced tougher rules against retailers who sell tobacco products. the city wants to hike the fee to businesses who sell tobacco from 50 to $300. that money would go to hiring more inspectors to crack down on youth tobacco sales. we'll have more on that on our news at 11:00. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen joins us now. >> if you're already missing summer and you don't want the cooler air to be here, be outside tomorrow, wednesday, part of thursday. we'll start to see some changes into the weekend. but yes, if you like today, we're actually calling for record warmth in the forecast

this week. so not so much today. we didn't have any record high temperatures at least for the philadelphia area today. but we were around 80 degrees. the record warmth is going to keep on coming. this is a live look at rehoboth beach, beautiful conditions as the sun sets. many of our south jersey neighborhoods already down to the low 70s. philadelphia coming in still around 80 degrees. now, if you're in turnersville, they're still seeing temperatures around 80 degrees. piney hollow, 74. mt. laurel, still 80 degrees right now. 78, pemberton. florence coming in at 77 degrees. over the next couple of days, we'll be in the mid-80s. and those will be some record highs for part of the area. locally, we're nice and dry. we're going to stay this way until the end of the week. big area of high pressure will keep us dry. it's also what's responsible for all that warm air moving in. so we are looking to set some records over the next couple of

days. the forecast high for philadelphia tuesday and wednesday is 84 degrees. the record high below that. so i think we will be hitting some record highs across the area. thursday could be a close call, 78, record high 79. thursday will be the transition day when we start to see more clouds and showers. until then we're going to be nice and dry and unseasonably warm. the normal high this time of the year is 66 degrees. we're going to be around 82 in allentown. new jersey, 83. robbinsville, egg harbor city, 81. in dover tomorrow, expect temperatures in the low 80s. tomorrow, a few more clouds by wednesday, still dry in the afternoon. still looking at the mid-80s. more clouds move in thursday. by thursday morning, so far we could be looking at some showers for the morning commute but temperatures will be a little bit cooler, around the upper 70s. for your thursday, 78 degrees after we hit those mid-80s.

rain chance thursday. friday morning, 68 for the high on friday. friday, we really start to cool down more going into the weekend. take a look at saturday and sunday, only around 60 degrees for the high temperature. we go into next week, and we're really just kind of staying in the 60s, mid- to low 60s. if you like the warm weather, enjoy tomorrow, enjoy wednesday, enjoy thursday. but we really start to drop off going into the weekend, feeling a lot more like fall, john. >> all right, sheena, thanks a lot. i'm john clark from csn. the sixers get aware of their top players back in practice, all next. katie: i'm katie mcginty and i approve this message.

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i'm john clark from csn. as you know, redskins beat eagles yesterday for the fourth time. chris baker is talking trash, literally, calling the birds trash. >> everybody picking on [ bleep ]. >> a lot of eagles fans want the birds to try a different option at right tackle. big v will be there sunday. he had a rough debut, the rookie gave up a few sacs. the birds have other veteran options but they aren't worrying about the rookie. >> regardless of whether it be a rookie or a veteran out there playing, i can't get caught up in that. i'm not going to necessarily worry about that as much.

my focus is to get v ready to go. east now ghe's now got a full g under his belt. that's valuable experience he can learn from going into this week. >> the vikings are coming sunday. they have the most sacs per game in the nfl. so a tough assignment again for the birds' offensive line. the eagles have a really tough schedule coming, they'll face all four first place teams in the nfc over the next five weeks. >> we have to move forward. we have no other choice. this schedule gets aggressive fast. so, you know, we've got a good group, the group understands that. you know, we've just got to keep going. >> the birds could be without benny logan. doug pederson says he has a significant strained groin, he's week to week. i'll tell you what, he may miss the game on sunday. observing this is okufur looking

forward to play, hopefully ready for the season opener. it is nine days away, jim and jacqueline. i know you're excited. >> moving around pretty good there on the court. >> he's getting there. >> john clark, thanks. now for a look at what's coming up tonight on nbc 10 news at 11:00. it's the local senate race getting national attention. >> tonight senator pat toomey and katy mcginty face off for their first debate. what happened, tonight at 11:00.

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>> i think i turned mine on on the way here. we're going to be in the 80s the next couple of days. record highs for part of the area. sum certifica summer is going to come back. it will stay dry with those warm temperatures too. rain chance comes back thursday and friday. and look at the weekend, that's going to cool us down for the weekend. about, let's see, a 24-degree difference from wednesday to saturday, so maybe a little bit of a shock there. >> i can't imagine anyone would be unhappy with that. you get two days of that last taste of summer, and then after that, fall comes and you can enjoy that, go on the hay rides, go find a pumpkin kpatch. >> hopefully you'll enjoy the warm weather. it will start to feel like fall again, the weekend nice and cool. >> i just hope you didn't carve your pumpkin yet, in the heat. thanks for watching, i'm jim rosenfield. >> i'm jacqueline london. up next, "nbc nightly news" with

lester holt. see you back at 11:00 tonight. have a good evening. enjoy this beautiful weather. >> good night. tonight, trump's rigged charge. down in the polls, donald trump goes all in on unsupported claims about large-scale voter fraud. inflammatory accusations that have democrats and republicans pushing back hard. plus, new hacked e-mails from hillary clinton's campaign manager. new campaign trouble from wikileaks. isis showdown. a pivotal battle begins. richard engel inside the command center as americans and iraqis open a massive offensive on the islamic state's center of power in iraq. olympic star's tragedy. american medalist teenage daughter killed in the crossfire. tonight charges after a fatal encounter in a parking lot. and the doctor will see you now. instead of going to the doctor's oic