police say this all began in charlotte county, virginia, which is about an hour and a half southwest of richmond. >> tonight, police believe the pair may be headed to new jersey. richardson was last seen driving a 1995 burgundy chevy van with the license place vmg 2332. >> police say the girl has green eyes and blonde hair and is believed to be in extreme danger tonight. the police are urging anyone with information to call 911. now to an nbc10 exclusive. new video of a store owner prying a gun away from a would-be robber. >> that same robber is accused of shooting a good samaritan in a separate crime. nbc10's denise nakano is the only reporter to talk to that good samaritan. denise is live at police headquarters. denise, what did he tell you? >> reporter: well, he tells me tonight he did not give this a second thought. he confronted the gunman, who threatened the lives of people he considers family. a good samaritan is walking

again and talking only to nbc10 about the gunman who shot him in the leg. >> i'm glad to be here. >> reporter: this grandfather, who asked we not show his face, say the folks at a and a gross rid in north philadelphia treat him like family. in this surveillance video released by him. >> i walked over to him and tapped and said, come on, come on. that's when he turn around and shot me. >> the gunman robbed two other stores a few blocks away, including the fontaine deli. one of the owners showed me video of how he and the suspect fought over the suspect's gun until cruz pried it out of his hands and chased him out the store. >> as soon as i turned, my reaction was to jump on him. got protected me and i was able to take his gun. >> reporter: as for the good

samaritan, he doesn't consider himself brave, but rather blessed for surviving and getting back on his feet so quickly. he has this message for the gunman who terrorized workers, customers and store owners blocks from the temple university campus. >> the best thing i want him to know is i'll be glad when he gets caught. >> reporter: police recovered the gone thanks to that store owner, cruise, but they're still looking for the gunman before he strikes again. if you have any information, you're asked to contact central detectives. denise nakano, nbc10 news. to our weather now. rain moving in that could impact your morning commute. some of our viewers will see wet weather and all places it will be drive. >> meteorologist sheena parveen has our nbc10 first alert forecast. >> the heaviest rain is offshore, and for the morning commute, i think we'll have some spotty showers around. but i also don't think everyone

is going to see the rain for the morning. locally we have some light rain around the jersey shore down through sussex county. near the philadelphia area and up towards trenton, parts of lower bucks company. cape may and atlantic counties, that's some pretty steady light rain. the heaviest is staying offshore right now. as we go into the morning, some of the rain you see down to our south will try to move in too, but that area of low pressure is going to be moving out to sea. your morning forecast, allentown, cloudy, 41 degrees. atlantic city, some showers around. philadelphia, some scattered showers and a chilly start to your day too. we'll take a closer look through the rest of the afternoon tomorrow. also at a changing weekend forecast. that's coming up. now new at 11:00, a big change could be on the horizon for students in philadelphia. they could start school before labor day. >> nbc10's brandon hudson spoke to parents. he's live at school district headquarters in spring garden. brandon, what did they have to say? >> reporter: jim and jacqueline, even if a change were to happen,

it's not something we so see tomorrow or even next year. the noticeable change would be in the 2018-2019 school year when city schools would start before labor day. the goal is to improve academics and attendance. as soon as we learned about philadelphia public schools idea to possibly shift the school calendar, we tracked down parents. in south philly, we met tammy and her two daughters, who attend public school in the city. >> i actually think thit's a go thing and more in line with what the rest of the country does. >> reporter: the city school district said its noticed chart ter schools starting earlier too. starting tomorrow, the school reform commission will present the academic calendars for the next two years with a big change in the 2018-2019 school yearm. t a start day before labor day and end date on june 4th. >> the school district looking at all avenues and options of how we feel we can increase attendance and improve academic performance. >> kevin geary of philadelphia public schools told us school

attendance is up 3%, which is a number they want to continually boost. nbc10 found compared to city school districts similar in size, two already began before labor day this year. >> we believe if school ends a little bit earlier, that we'll see higher attendance numbers. >> reporter: we also learned if there is a change in 2018, the average temperature doesn't change from the usual end date to the new proposed start date. when we spoke to letitia crawford, the only change she suggested was having kids go to school year-round. >> we don't have any recreation centers. we don't have no clubhouses, no boys and girls clubs. i think they really should have school year-round. >> reporter: the presentation will happen tomorrow here at city schools headquarters. parents are invited. a vote will likely happen in december. live in spring garden, i'm brandon hudson, nbc10 news. we're following breaking news out of north philadelphia. one person was shot and killed outside a chinese takeout restaurant. this happened within the last half hour. skyforce10 above this scene.

it's in the 1800 block of ridge avenue. right now there are no arrests that have been made. philadelphia mayor jim kenney issued a call for calm tonight after a series of crimes. the mayor denounced those incidents during an event at the penn museum tonight. the latest violence includes a flash mob style attack at 16th and walnut in center city and racist messages sent to students at the university of pennsylvania. the mayor says there's no place for these heinous acts in philadelphia. >> we must also recognize you cannot combat hate with more hate. instead, we must work, and i mean really work to preserve and protect what you love about this great city. >> the mayor vowed that those committing these crimes will be caught and punished to the fullest extent. now to the presidential election. transition. tomorrow, president-elect trump will meet with his vice president as they fill out the cabinet. tonight, we are seeing more

signs that the trump children could play an influential role. as trump's children enter trump tower today, they enter as part of their father's transition team. and if donald trump gets his way, they'll also have access to america's national security secrets. also in the spotlight, party chair reince priebus, now named trump's chief of staff. and steve bannon, chosen as top advisor. bannon ran breitbart news, a website known for ties to extremists and white nationalists. trump advisor kellyanne conway defending him. >> he's got a harvard business degree. >> in his first news conference since the election, president obama addressed the importance of allowing for the change in power. >> i think it's important for us to let him make his decisions, and i think the american people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see. >> in response to the outpouring

of dissent from the election, obama says it's an important civic lesson. >> we ended up having 43% of the country not voting who were eligible to vote. >> donald trump in an interview calling for the hatred against minorities to stop. >> and i'll say it right to the cameras. stop it. >> my role is to make sure that when i hand off this white house, that it is in the best possible shape. >> and tonight president obama is on his final overseas visit, a trip that will include time in greece, germany, and peru. he is expected to reassure world leaders who might be concerned about the transition. dwight evans is officially a member of congress. tonight he was sworn into the house of representatives where he made a call for bipartisanship. >> i understand our differences. i am not naive. but i know that when we put aside those differences, when we

listen to each other, we make great strides. >> congressman evans replaces chaka fattah. fattah resigned after his conviction on corruption charges earlier this year. a local church is in the center of an immigration battle as a father of three tries to avoid deportation. javier flores lives at arch street methodist church. the mexican national was released from pikes detention center in august. he was given 90 days to sort out his visa case but the clock ran out today. his attorney is arguing that a waiver is deserved so his client can stay with his wife and three american born children. >> we appealed this twice because we thought the incorrect decision was made. the issue has as been in the waiver of admissibility. >> government agents are allowed to go into churches to serve

warrants but have avoided that in the past. this isn't the first time a philadelphia area church has been used as a sanctuary. in 2014, angela navarro moved into west kenz ig ton . today she is living and working here legally as she goes through the residency process. former philadelphia eagle josh huff will be back in the area tomorrow, but it has nothing to do with football. huff is due in camden county court to face drug and weapons charges. he was pulled over on the new jersey side of the walt whitman bridge earlier this month. he admitted to police that he had marijuana, a handgun, and bullets in the car. new tonight, 13 people are facing charges in the destructive celebrations after penn state's win over ohio state. thousands of fans packed downtown state college last month. some people pulled down street lights and traffic signs, causing up to $30,000 in damage. police say 11 of the people charged are penn state students. some of them are facing felony riot charges.

they could face further disciplinary action from the university. authorities say there is no credible threat to new york city's annual thanksgiving day parade. this after a magazine published buy isis suggested it would be an excellent target for a terror attack. the magazine includes a virtual how-to on inflicting maximum tragedies. it directs lone wolves to rent a truck and drive into a crowd. a legend lost. renowned journalist gwen ifill passed away today after a battle with cancer. ifill will be remembered as one of the nation's most prominent black journalists and political commentators. the pbs news hour host covered seven presidential campaigns and moderated both the 2004 and 2008 vice presidential debates. she also moderated a democratic debate between hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders last year. before joining pbs, ifill worked for nbc news.

gwen ifill was 61. foul on the play. some young football players become victims of a crime. how it could dash their dreams for gridiron glory. how did it happen? new information about what went wrong just before a plane crashed in the south jersey neighborhood. a twist in the case immortalized on netflix. could one of the stars of making a murderer find himself a free man? and some spotty showers around. some around for part of the area tomorrow morning. i'll show you who can expect that. plus we'll take a look at that weekend forecast. that's next.

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the pilot and his passenger were both injured but have since been released from the hospital. new at 11:00, a youth football team gets a hit no one expected. >> thieves targeted the young players, threatening their gridiron dreams. nbc10's keith jones reports from south philadelphia. >> reporter: let me walk you through this one. the person or people responsible couldn't get up over this chain-link fence. what they did was they peeled it back, bypassing the lock. >> i thought that we wouldn't go and play on saturday. >> looking into his eyes, now explain this. his team shed broken into and ransacked. bins overturned. all of the items stolen were donated. about how much money do you think you guys have lost? >> i think it's about $2,000. >> reporter: anthony meadows coaches the new sigma sharks. they're set to play for a championship saturday hopefully. thieves grabbed their first down markers, pylons, a generator,

even a machine that paints these lines. >> it's not the helmets and shoulder pads. however, if we don't have the field equipment, we can't play the game. if the field is not lined, we can't play the game. >> reporter: it's coach's job to explain this to his disappointed players. >> how did it make you feel in. >> horrible. >> i just feel bad that we can't have our proper stuff to play the game. >> is it tough to look at now? >> yeah t really is. >> reporter: because in his mind, these thieves stole from kids. now they're working with the high school who owns the field and police. >> this one done by adults. for them to take stuff and, you know, more than likely somebody is going to try to sell it somewhere and earn money from it for nothing. and it's taking away from the kids from our community. >> reporter: if you know anything about this crime, make sure you call police. these kids' hopes of a championship on saturday depend on it. reporting in south philly, keith jones, nbc10 news. >> just not right. well, bring your umbrella in the morning so we're ready for anything? >> it's going to be a rainy day, sheena. >> not a rainy day, but the morning hours for some

neighborhoods, i think we'll see some spot it showers in the morning. the weather pattern not really clearing out for the morning commute. later in the afternoon, we will see more clearing. a live look at the radar. most of the rain is still confined to the shore where we had earlier this afternoon where some of that rain was, in fact, pretty heavy. now it's a little bit lighter for cape may and atlantic counties, but it's still steady. so it's been fairly steady all day long. it goes up through parts of ocean county, some embedded more moderate showers here. but this is what we have currently. tomorrow morning, the moisture that you still see to our south, that's going to continue moving up. so i think again we'll see some spotty showers for the morning commute. not for everybody, but for some of you, early in the morning just keep that in mind as you're heading out the door. we also have cool temperatures. tomorrow will be a chilly day. mostly the mid-to-upper 50s. after that we're talking about the 60s for the rest of the week. and going into the weekend, we're going to have a weather system approaching along with a cold blast of air. so there is a chance we could

see a wintry mix through part of the area. of course we're still many days away from part of your weekend where we do expect that. so we could be seeing some changes until we get there. but of course we'll be updating you every day this week on that. here's future weather. the rain kind of hanging around for tomorrow morning. 7:00 a.m., we'll have some spotty showers aunder roe. the heaviest rain will be offshore. it doesn't look like a heavy rain event for the morning. in the afternoon we see a lot more clearing, and then wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, all looking nice and dry here. and as we go into the start of your weekend, we will be dry. it's the second half of the weekend that we'll be watching for that wintry mix i just mentioned. for the lehigh valley tomorrow, lowest chance of some spotty showers. 60 for the high in reading. 54, bethlehem. westchester coming in 59 degrees tomorrow. 56 for fairmount. if you're in our new jersey neighborhoods, expect mostly the mid-to-upper 50s.

if you are in delaware, you could see 56 degrees for a high. in wilmington, 61. here's your ten-day on 10. tomorrow morning, not a big deal. we'll be clearing out wednesday, thursday, friday. starting the weekend nicely. temperatures in the 60s here. then we go into sunday. we will be watching this very closely because like i mentioned, we could see a wintry mix for part of the area. more details as we go through the rest of this week. but then we really cool down into next week. only staying around 50 degrees for a high temperature. and if you haven't heard by now, it is nbc10's severe weather week. tomorrow we're heading to philadelphia mills mall. join us from 11:00 to 5:00 to check out our high-tech equipment like storm ranger 10. >> sheena, well, imagine this. lost baggage, a think of the past. >> that would be amazing. the new technology designed to make sure you always know where your bag is when you're flying.

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new twist in the netflix series "making a murderer." a federal judge ruled today that brendan dassey should be freed from prison while the state appeals a ruling overturning his conviction. dassey confessed to helping his uncle, steven avery, kill a photographer in 2005. but just a few months ago, a judge ruled his confession had been coerced. but wisconsin is appealing that ruling. the state's attorney general now plans to file an emergency motion to block dassey's release. how about this? lost luggage is about to become a thing of the past thanks to some new technology. delta is using microchips in its luggage tags. the chips transmit a gps signal that allows you to track your bag the second the tag is placed on it. you can track the status of your bag through an app on your smartphone. united and alaska airlines are

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>> announcer: this is sports desk, brought to you by xfinity. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. hey, i'm john clark from csn. the eagles are a six-point underdog heading to seattle on sunday. that's the biggest underdog the eagles will be all season. it is a tough spot because seattle is looking really good right now. but the birds have found their winning formula. yesterday against the falcons, they controlled the clock with the running game.

208 rushing yards, their most in a game in two years. ryan matthews is back. his best day as a bird. here is doug pederson's speech to the team in the locker room. >> that is a team effort right there. that is a team effort. we talk about it every single week and every single day. you guys kept chopping, and you kept chopping, and you kept chopping. no matter what was faced, you kept chopping. >> good stuff. the second greatest center in flyers history behind bob clark, eric lindros goes into the hockey hall of fame tonight along with former flyers coach, the late pat quinn. tonight, big e. is inducted, and he thanked flyers fans more than any other fan base. flyers' management was there. ron heck stall, clarky was in the crowd as well. eric ended his speech with a special moment with his brother, bret. >> bret played in the island,

and we always had a dream of playing together. unfortunately, it didn't come through, but i would like to close this chapter in my life with you beside me. [ applause ] >> some brotherly love in the hall. sixers tonight in houston. joel embiid's first game in the nba on the road. joel embiid hustling in houston. take a look at this. going for a loose ball. into the seats. he had a real quick start. dunking off the inbounds there. he finishes with 13 points, 10 rebounds. but james harden steals the show. my goodness, 23 points in the first quarter. 33 for the game. sixers lose 115-88. they are now 1-9. how about villanova, now number 3 in the country taking on number 15 purdue. from half-court, he's going to find a window. we are tied at 39 at the half. but the cats are going to pull away. chris jenkins to eric pascal for

the dunk. purdue has a couple of chances to tie it late, but nova holds on. 79-76. josh hart, game high 24 points. temple, down three late to new hampshire. shiz austin jr. can't tie it. temple loses at home to new hampshire, 57-52. st. joe's hosting columbia. charlie brown driving baseline. there is charlie brown. peanuts there. st. joe's wins 85-65. they crushed them. pitcher jeremy heldicson accepted the philly's qualifying offer of $17 million for one season, so he's coming back. i'm sure we all would. i'm john clark. we're right back. ♪ my hero zero. ♪

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a rainy morning? >> yeah, for some areas. i don't think everyone's going to see rain for the morning commute, but i think we will have spotty showers around. just keep that in mind when you head out tomorrow. maybe have the umbrella in the morning just in case. then we'll be clearing in the afternoon. 56 for a high. it's going to be chilly, dry through saturday. sunday we are watching a weather system. we'll keep you updated. >> have a good night. >> good night. thanks for being here. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- billy bob thornton,