the place that has the greatest a lot of rain, cookstown 1 .71 inches, white hall 1.57 inches. we're now up to 60 degrees in parts of the area. 64 in parts of delaware, you saw all the fog, and we were down to a half-mile visibility in coatesville and less than two miles in blue bell. the biggest issue may end up being the fog itself. and meteorologist sheena parveen has more on that and the next round of rain. >> and for tonight we're going to see that heavy rain taper off, a lot of that heavier rain moving away, for the rest of tonight, we'll be seeing just some light showers primarily. as we go through tonight, rain tapering off, and the low

clouds, we already have those around, but as we go overnight, the fog is going to keep developing and it's going to become more dense which means lower visibility as you're driving, it will be a little bit hard to see. for tomorrow morning, we'll have dense fog for the morning commute. even though the rain is tapering off tonight, don't put the umbrellas away just yet. here's a look at future weather. right now we're seeing that heavier rain mostly offshore, along our new jersey points we're still seeing that rain. later on this evening, we're looking at lighter rainfall across partses of new jersey by 12:30, we're seeing things drying out quite a bit. but we do now there the thick fog. light showers in the morning, along with the fog and by 11:00 a.m. we can see the approach of some thunderstorms. the visibility will be dropping as we go overnight. now we're looking at 11:30 tonight.

some areas could be around zero miles of visibility. close to zero around the philadelphia area. tomorrow morning looking at pretty dense fog, almost zero miles of visibilities most part of the area. make sure you take your time and give yourself extra time too. we'll talk about when the rain is finally going to end coming up. >> download the nbc10 app to get the hour by hour forecast for your neighborhood right on your smart phone. coming up, nbc10 bureau reporter cydney long is going to have a report about why this rain is good for the garden state. the police commissioner telling nbc10 today. the boy was just minding his own business when he was killed. monique braxton is joining us

from may fair. >> r. >> reporter: we have been in touch with detectives all day long and we can tell you that ian wellesley was walking along with his friends and he was shot. we talked to one of his best friends from school. >> he was kind, he was sweet. if he saw anything was wrong, he would try to fix it. >> reporter: that's how frank myers a fellow freshman described ian wellesley. donna dressler heard the gun fire right outside her door in mayfair and rushed who help out. >> i heard pop, pop, pop. i went out and covered him with my shirt to try to keep him from

going into shock. >> most students learned about wellesl wellesley's death when they arrived at school. >> that's my friend, i known him understand i was in sixth grade. >> reporter: we came here to talk to the wellesley family, right now they're asking for privacy. but right now detectives are combing this busy tap in searche and a reward is being offered of $20,000. now to the trump transition, this afternoon, there's another new name for the president-elect's cabinet. elaine chad has been picked for labor secretary. her selection comes a day after the president-elect elected

georgia congressman tom price to head health and human services. he's been one most of the outspoken critics of the obama care health care law. we spoke with local doctors about how the president-elect's appointment could affect health care in the future. mr. trump's hunt for secretary of state has him meeting with mitt romney for a second time today. romney was the 2012 presidential nominee. romney was critical of donald trump during the presidential campaign. there is now controversy this afternoon about a detail from the president-elect regarding the burning of the american flag. nobody should be allowed to burn the american flag. if they do, in must be consequences, perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail. the supreme court ruled in 1989

that flag burning is protected by the first amendment. house majority leader kevin mccarthy said that there are mo plans for the trump administration to take action against flag burning. police announced a new reward in the case. 8-year-old jiana pool was walking home with her borother earlier this month when someone hit her and fled the scene. >> i don't get a prom, i don't get a graduation, no marriage, no grand kids. no nothing. so just turn yourself in. make it better on everybody. >> investigators have released a

picture of the car that hit g ooig ooirk iann. krchris christie says that e state -- the governor noted that the executive side of the state house hasn't had a major upgrade since 1958 and workers and tourists shouldn't have to worry about feeling safe there. >> and we whether make sure that the entire building is once again a place that we can have people be proud to come and visit, and proud to be a symbol of the government of our state. >> the governor says the portion of the building used by the legislature will not be affected. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with tragedy in south america. >> 26 people are dead when a charter planepro

soccer team crashed in the mountains. >> we now know this afternoon that at least six people survived that crash, three of them were members of the soccer team the plane was carrying. the plane went down during heavy rain, you can actually see the wreckage strewn cross the mountain side. the members of a brazilian soccer team were on board traveling to a game in columbia. video shows the team at the airport waiting to board their flight. members of soccer team real madrid held a moment of silence for the brazilian soccer team.

>> all brazilians this morning wake up with the bad news and everybody feels bad, so bad. >> one of the more incredible stories we're hearing is that a member of that soccer team who chartered that flight was hurt in the game so he wasn't ieven n the flight. he says his injury is the only thing that saved his life. we have new details about a woman killed by a septa bus in center city. she was pushing a baby stroller as she crossed 23 and chestnut streets at 5:00 yesterday at the same time the bus made a left on to chestnut. she died at the scene, the 9-month-old baby and passengers on board the bus are all okay. to control overtime

spending, engine 6 in wilmington's little italy neighborhood has been taken out of service. the city down to 20 firefighters right now. the firefighters union says it's time to hire more. >> it's a roll the dice -- it puts people's lives in danger and it needs to stop. >> we did reach out to the fire chief through the mayor's office, at this point, no one has responded to our questions. city residents elected a new mayor, it's unclearill police a a man broke into a bucks county home. police identified the man after they saw surveillance video of him in a car in philadelphia. here are the 9/11 calls made

after an attack at ohio state university. >> 911 what's your emergency. >> i'm at ohio state at watts hall and there is is guy shooting people. >> authorities say ohio state freshman plowed his car into a group of people. he then got out and began stabbing people with a butcher knife before police shot and killed him. he wrote on his facebook page that he was tired of seeing muslims killed and tortured. new video shows a pair of suspects wanted for an act of politically charged vandalism. surveillance cameras spotted two men walking through the fresh market at chestnut avenue on friday. if you recognize the men, you're asked to call philadelphia police. the white house says an announcement is expected soon on whether the u.s. will send a

delegation to fidel castro's funeral on friday. his younger brother and successor raul has visited the urn containing castro's ashes. tomorrow the urn will begin a three-day journey through cuba ending up at his hometown. the country saw cuba's former leader as a comrade as a former enemy of the united states. it's observing three days of mourning for fid deael castro. today district attorneys across pennsylvania took a step that we haven't seen in any other state. >> by having an independent

agency doing the investigation, you remove the criticism about conflict of interest or bias in the investigation entirely and you will get a better investigation. >> when shots were fired by police, chester county police tom hogan says an outside agency will come and investigate. and where a separate agency doesn't exist law enforcement agencies can rely on other counties or state police to investigate. so the public knows what will happen and how each case will be handled from the start. >> the officers on the scene should render aid. >> while it's poll city in chester county to get medical help right away, it has not been policy state or nationwide. he also says the new uniform approach will allow pennsylvania residents to obtain information

on police-involved shooting cases as well as get updates on the investigation. and that's because district attorneys are pledging to update the public right away and to continue updating them giving them correct or new information as the case goes on. also hogan tells us in cases where you have several police involved they will be separated after the shooting until they are individually interviewed from investigators from that outside agency. >> national guard troops are being sent to tennessee as several wildfires spread there. and we're getting some of the first video of the damage there. thousands of people near the popular resort town of gatlinberg have been evacuated. one of the fires is right at the edge of the dollywood theme park. the park hasn't been damaged but a dozen cabins operated by the park have been destroyed.

road crews in delaware county are working around the clock to kleclean up the leafy s in haver tourn. glenn "hurricane" schwartz will have the latest track on that rain in a moment. let's go to cydney long in hamilton township, mercer county. cydney, all this rain may be too much of a good thing for the garden state? >> reporter: it's a very good thing, in fact while many of us may not want to be out on this rain, raw weather. it comes at a good time. new jersey has been on the verge of elevated drought levels and having possibly to conserve water, the question is will today's rain will enough? a steady flow of ponding water

races down state street. and with a swell of wind and rain, drivers are concerned. >> i went through a pile of leaves but it wasn't bad. >> windshield wipers were on full blast. >> basically i dropped off the kids at school, it was my son's teacher's birthday, so we brought in balloons so they got soaking wet. >> there's another reason to celebrate with new jersey, with 12 of 21 counties in a drought watch, tioday's soaking is overdue. the rainfall is worse than in other areas of the state. >> we need rain, i don't have a problem with it. i'm not working today, so i'm not out in the rain. >> as street sweepers work to

make sure highways are clear, some are working as a team. it's a bit of an uncomfortable battle where mother nature is taking no break. >> it's 49 and raining, it's better than being 9 degrees. >> reporter: dozens we talked to had that sentiment, they'll take that rain and today's mild temperatures all day long. we also checked in with hamilton county police asking if there's an uptick on slip and slide accidents, we're waiting to hear from them. >> okay so they'll take the rain now, but i guess they better get used to some more to come. >> we have a lot more hours of rain over the next 24 to 30 hours, it's not going to be raining all the time, but we do have more on the way.

we're going is to be seeing a lot of pictures like this, where it's tough to see the sky line of philadelphia, lots of drops on the windshields, lehigh valley, with the best weather cloudy and 65 degrees. as you can see, the heaviest of the rain has moved out, we're not really going to add too much rain during the night tonight during the rain gauge, this is mostly just light stuff that is patchy around the area, a little bit of drizzle at times. it's just not going to clear out. but we do have another area of moisture down near memphis, that is going to be factoring in as we go into tomorrow. we showed you the rainfall in the lehigh valley a little while ago, this is at the airport, just shy of an inch. this is rittenhouse, society hill, kensington 1.3 inches, and closer to that in dora a.

and the temperature has been rising especially in delaware, 63 in odessa right now, while it's 58 in wilmington, 66 in georgetown, many of these areas are going to be 70 degrees or higher tomorrow. the visibility is down a bit, coats town, blue bell, visibility is down to zero. 57 in philadelphia, by tomorrow mo among. here comes that next area of rain later on adventuriduring t morning. in the afternoon, that's when we have 25 possibility, and we also

have that possibility of temperatures getting up pretty close to 70 degrees. the rain threat continues into tomorrow night, and so not going to have to be able to put the umbrellas away for a while. so even in the cool spots tomorrow, let's say allentown 68 degrees, 66 in fairmount, newark, 67 degrees, and rehoboth beach, 71 degrees. and as we go into the end of the week, we're going to be seeing the temperature go down, but we start to dry out and then you can see how cool it gets saturday and sunday, and then more rain coming in next week. we have breaking news, a guilty plea from the driver from the crash that injured tracy morgan. he was a truck driver for a walmart and his truck crashed

into morgan's van two years ago. but kevin roper hadn't slept in nearly 30 hours at the time of the crash. he'll take part in a three-year intervention program followed by 3 hu00 hours of community servi. a viewer says that canceling his internet service nearly ruined his secret. . >> bills just kept coming even after he was disconnected. and philadelphia rolls out the red carpet for a prehistoric paradise. that's next on nbc10 news at 4:00. first a look at the closing bell on wall street, the dow, nasdaq and s&p all finished up for the day. blrk

er. two key people behind the jurassic park movies were in philadelphia today. >> the exhibit includes some of the most life like dinosaurs you will ever see. visitors to get to get an up-close look at the dinosaurs. the pail less thl less tha pale perfect one to open the exhibit. >> it is the first place a dawn saw skeleton was actually put

together in this world and it was put together right across the street at the academy of science. >> jurassic world's exhibition runs through april, so life like. we may be finished with some of the heavy arreiest rain. >> let's take a live look from storm force 10. >> be prepared to hit the brakes because of foggy conditions tomorrow morning. it may be hard to see the cars ahead of you. i'm tracking what you can expect for your commute and when we'll finally dry out in your neighborhood weather. the changes the city controller wants to make months after the report. that's next.

blrk

fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sister can live stream it... ...while his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month online for the first year.

cable can't offer that. only fios can.

. better grab that umbrella and hold on tight. the rain came down fast this morning. >> a live look at the ben franklin bridge. a lot of headlights out there, and the roads could still be wet for drivers, and you probably want to allow that extra time for your commute tomorrow morning. heavy fog is facing drives tomorrow morning. >> some of the heaviest of today's rain tapering off, nbc10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> the areas of yellow and red

and they're continuing to move out to sea. we do still have a little bit of rain in the area, that's generally on the lighter side and that actually may be breaking up some of the fog. it's when the rain ends that the fog is going to become more dense. there's that heavier rain offshore, and patchy areas of rain or light drizzle in the area. there's that ben franklin bridge. there are cars that you can almost see there. by tomorrow, you may not even be able to see this much when you tune in to bill henley. coatesville, 1-mile visibility now, they'll be around zero in the morning. also pottstown, blue bell, almost better quakertown and allentown where the rain ended a little bit earlier. dover ten miles, atlantic city at two miles.

we're going to see this rain go through hour by hour through the night, you won't see any heavy rain, so it's not going to add up to the rain totals where much, it's just going to be damp. and by tomorrow morning, there's the next area of rain just getting started to come in, while the timing on that, along with the rest of the forecast in just a few minutes. >> download the nbc10 app, where you can track the rain in your area and get interactive radar and weather alerts are sent directly to your smart phone. be careful of any potholes that could be hiding under puddles and come in contact with your tires when you least expect it. >> back in may the investigators expose questions about repair delays and inaccurate records.

investigative reporter bill spencer tells us that the controller is calling for changes. >> reporter: on this rain-soaked tuesday, we stopped by the intersection of ford and greenland drive, it's a place where investigators say a single pothole sat unrepaired for 473 days. it's the most extreme example that drivers like tyrone nixon feel. >> i busted a tire coming around this area before. >> reporter: so you experienced it personally? >> yes, and not just in this area, all or over the city of philadelphia. >> the nbc10 investigators prompted this review of pothole repair and response. we reviewed tens of thousands of records and sloppy recordkeeping meant some weren't closed out for more than a year. but after the review, the

controller recommends the street department better keep up with its 121 mile a year repaving goals, to prevent potholes in the first place. >> the city was assuring in future years, they're going to have to take care of not only past problems, but future problems. >> streets being resurfaced on a regular basis is going to make it so you have fewer defects. >> he's pleased with the 78% success rate for the city's three-day repair process. #. >> it's hard for the city to apply a standard of how long it should take. >> carol says that issue has also been addressed. >> the mayor's initiative to do management, i think we're going

to be in a good place. >> reporter: as for that routine repavering, the city says the funding is for that is largely out of its control. but city leaders plan on being back to meeting their benchmark in three years. we have this just in, a third person has died from the tennessee wildfires. tennessee officials confirming that information within the past 20 minutes. the fire has burned dozens of homes, forced thousands of people to evacuate the resort town of gatlinberg. dollywood officials say the park has not been damaged but dozens of cabins operated by the park have been destroyed. children can wear it on their wrist. >> and it can connect them to their loved ones during an emergency. >> the wearable safety device for children that's putting

parents' minds at ease during dangerous situations.

fios is not cable. we're wired differently. that means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. so in the 3.7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. ...his friend can download 13 versions of the perfect song... ...his sister can live stream it...

...while his mom downloads how to set a dislocated shoulder. get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just $79.99 per month online for the first year. cable can't offer that. only fios can.

we have a recall alert for you that involves gree humidifiers. they're sold under 13 different brands including ge and kenmore. the company first recalled these a few years ago but people kept using them so it's reissuing the recall now. the device looks like a watch that kids wear, but it's actually a cell phone and a gps locator. it's called teeny tell. >> all you do is press this middle button and it says the name. >> after it says the name of the person she wants to call, she just hits call. >> i call my parents or my babysitter to say i'm there. >> it has a gps tracker so i can

use my phone to see where they are. >> the tinie teller costs about $40 to buy and about $10 a month to operate. nbc10 at commonwealth charter academy where middle school students channelled their inner engineer. the students had fun while learning in the process. well today's rain may be tapering off, but there's more on the way. i'm tracking the next round of showers and possible thunderstorms in the first alert neighborhood weather.

scalpel. i have no idea what i'm doing. i'm just a tv doctor. i never went to college. (scream) i don't do blood. but now, thanks to cigna, i can do more than just look the part. is that a foot? we are the tv doctors of america. and we're partnering with cigna to help save lives. by getting you to a real doctor for an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. doctor poses. cigntogether, all the way.

now to black friday and

cyber monday has past, we're now to giving tuesday. >> the idea of giving tuesday was launched in 2012. it's since grown into a global effort. last year $117 million was raised for charities in more than 70 countries. a south philadelphia school chose giving thursday to conduct a unique drive. the nonprofit organization called funds to organizes, will then buy the shoes when the drive is over. the money the school receives will be used to buy new equipment like smart boards and 3-d printers. of course it is the last holiday season for the obamas. one of the things visitors will notice is life sized replicas of the president's pups beau and sonny. and as always, the ginger bread

white house has a place of honor in the state dining room. it is made up of 150 pounds of ginger bread. so cool. look at this little girl and the santa claus throw back to before her time. she's sharing a milk shake with santa at an old-fashioned diner there. share your note tphotos with us instagram and facebook. and to nbc10 friday at 7:00 p.m., the morning team will be live at the blue cross riverrink at penn's landing to bring you the holiday tree lighting live. there will be special performances by special guests. >> hopefully the rain will move

out by then. >> hopefully by then for us it will be good. >> tomorrow night in new york, there's a possibility of some thunderstorms, but by friday night, we're in really great shape. there's not going to be any rain anywhere near theone place not p toward the lehigh valley and the poconos, that's about the only place that is relatively drive. it's been an extremely wet day. but most of the rain has moved offshore. we're not going to add a whole lot to the rainfall totals based on what is coming in tonight. but this is just part of the next system moving up through memphis and bringing more rain to gatlinberg, tennessee, they need some more, they had horrible fires last night. we show you some of the rain totals in philadelphia and the lehigh valley, most of them over one inch. but in new jersey, not quite as

much. west collinsberg, three-quarters of an inch. so we have had a significant amount of rain, but not as much as, look at this, central new jersey, the area that needed it the most, the area in the severe drought, the area we told you was likely to get the heaviest rain, trenton over an inch, hamilton township, yardville, over one inch as well. it's princeton, 59 degrees in philadelphia, we have gotten up to 60 so far. don't see much of the skyline left. but you can see we have got rain and lower visibilities in most of the area and it is just a nasty kind of day. here's the hour by hour as we go through the night. we start to clear out. if we clear out, there's so much

moisture on the ground, those clouds are going to come back in. tomorrow, we're going to have more showers and thunderstorms coming through. there we are tomorrow night and some of that activity here in new york. but we're -- you see that? coming through tomorrow evening, we may end up with the heaviest of the rain that's left over tomorrow evening. tonight, we have the areas of rain, it's a mild night, very mild night, drying out, allentown and quakertown, with the rain continuing in tliatlan city tomorrow morning. we have a dense fog warning for atlantic city, as we go through the day, we have some thunderstorm symbols in exton, atlantic city, redding, all those places getting possible thunderstorms tomorrow, but everybody really warms up. it is going to be a warm day. but it's also going to be a foggy start.

the visibility goes down and some places the visibility down near zero. so leave some extra time for that. >> an nbc10 viewer tells us he tried to c tried to cancel his internet service, but the bills kept coming. >> how harry hairston and the nbc10 responds team helped him get back hundreds of dollars.

i really did save hundreds on my car insurance with geico. i should take a closer look at geico... geico has a long history of great savings and great service. over seventy-five years. wait. seventy-five years? that is great. speaking of great, check out these hot riffs.

you like smash mouth? uh, yeah i have an early day tomorrow so... wait. almost there. goodnight, bruce. gotta tune the "a." (humming) take a closer look at geico. great savings. and a whole lot more.

now to nbc10 responds. trying to disconnect his internet turned out to be a costly endeavor for one viewer. >> he said bills were coming month after month after month and this man tells us canceling

his internet service nearly ruined his credit. daniel valvo says he had internet service with a company called wind stream communications, he tells us it was the only service available in his area. back in october, valvo moved and cancelled the service. >> they sent me a return slip for the modem and then the next month after we moved i got a bill from them. i figured it was a mistake so i waited. >> reporter: then he got the bill. he then sent valvo a copy of the return slip it sent him. but the company said it had no record of his cancellation. >> it was like talking to wall. the bills kept coming. >> reporter: valvo says that it

kept getting worse. >> i had collection agencies calling me. once that happened i contacted nbc10. >> reporter: we looked into valvo's complaint and three days after we called, he heard from wind stream. >> they said your bill is cancelled. >> reporter: wind stream said this was an oversight on our part and we have forgiven the bill. the take away here, whenever you can set the service, make sure the company gives you confirmation in writing that, confirmation should include the date and time you cancelled, plus the amount of your final balance. and if you're canceling on the phone, get the customer service representative's name so you can refer to that. our recovery counter is at 2

$220,514. and coming up tomorrow on nbc10 responds, sometimes our stories have an impact beyond the money. this one involves d.c. new yo s results that never arrived until we got involved. next at 5:00, why is a perfectly good fire truck not being used in wilmington? >> nbc10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong goes to city leaders to get answers. plus, millions of patients are waiting to find out what happens next with their health care. now a new member of donald trump's administration could give them some answers. next at 5:00, we asked some local doctors what this could mean for their patients. and the reason is still falling across parts of the area, coming up, i'll show you

how long it will last plus we're talking about some dense fog for tomorrow morning, that's next on nbc10 news at 5:00. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's 10 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 150 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today.

comcast business. built for business.

just listen to that. right now at 5:00, a dreary day for drivers. it was a bwet mess out on the

roads today. >> tonight the rain has tapered off in philadelphia and many other parts of the region, but the rain could linger a little bit longer here in cape may and parts of the jersey shore and more showers are moving in for tomorrow, the first alert weather team is keeping track of all of it tonight. >> nbc10 chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz has the details. >> the heaviest rain has moved pretty enough straight out to the east, but we have another area of lighter rain that's moving up from the washington, d.c. area, that's the lighter stuff and that keeps things moist, at least for a time this evening. you don't see any kind of heavy rain in the area, and so if you get a little bit of a burst of moderate rain, it's not going to last very long and then taper

often to drizz off to drizzle. by tomorrow morning you may not be iable to see the ben frank learn bridge. the visibility is going down in allentown, coatesville is sup to two miles. and in northeast philly, we're at 5, and philadelphia international we're at 2 1/2. meteorologist sheena parveen has more on that. >> the major concern isn't going to heavy rain, but it is going to be dense fog, that's something we will be watching through the overnight hours,