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balance, blue jeans, a large jacket with a baseball hat under beneath it. >> reporter: philadelphia police want you to take a close look at this person. they say he is purposely disguised. police do believe that it is a man and that he is captured on several surveillance cameras on both pine and lumbar streets in the early hours of october 20th. detectives think he's in his late teens to 30 years ago. police think he left the explosiveses inside the envelope. he left them on the victim's pine street stoop. when tinvestigators say the victim was a specified target. this was not random. >> this device was a very dangerous device, it was a destruct ive device, caused
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significant injury to the person and could have caused his death. so we're taking this very seriously. >> reporter: philadelphia police say they are offering a $10,000 reward in this case that they hope will lead them to an arrest and conviction in this case. they still have no motive on why this package was delivered to this victim. we with asked if the video was shown to the victim and they said yes and he has no idea who this person is. turning now to the weather and we are finally starting to dry out. this is a live look down the shore at cape may, where it looks like a beautiful day there, calm surf, clear skies. a different scene at penn's landing, no rain to speak of, but it's been overcast all day there. >> chief meteorologist glenn
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"hurricane" schwartz is tracking the changing conditions in your first alert forecast. >> yesterday at this time we were about 10 degrees warmer than we were. now we're in the mid 50s, 47 in the lehigh valley, some places seeing a little bit of sunshine, but the cold air coming over the great lakes, less cloud cover over delaware. we're not seeing as many gusts over 25 miles an hour as we did before, this blank area means that they're not reporting gusts as they were just a couple of hours ago. as which go through the evening, the wind will continue to diminish, 38 in philadelphia by 6:00 a.m. 34 in many of the suburbs, in parts of chester, bucks and lee
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high valley. we have mostly clear skies tonight as soon as those winds diminish, i'll let you know when we're going to get even colder than this and when the next rain is coming in just a few minutes. >> all right, glenn, see you soon. in the meantime, 20 minutes of nonstop news continues now, some closure for the family of the girl who was killed by a hit-and-run driver. >> nbc10 was the first to tell you when police found the car connected to the crime in chester county yesterday. nbc10's andrea klein-thomas spoke with jjayanne's family to. >> reporter: her death, hurt no
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one more than her family and they have strong words today about the arrest. >> i know he's not on the street, you can't hit nobody else. you can't hurt nobody else. >> reporter: it's been 13 long days for jayanna powell's parents. >> we have justice. we have justice, justice, thank you. >> now they say the healing process can begin after police arrested 24-year-old paul wo woodland. the 8-year-old later died at the hospital. >> you hit my child like she was a doll or a pet in a street and just kept going. she is north a doll, she's not an animal. >> reporter: this morning those at the house where police searched closed the blinds as which approached and denied knowing him. >> i haven't seen him in the past couple of days.
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>> reporter: after police told the public that the financial reward grew to $45,000 a body shop broke the case wide open. nbc10 learned a woman dropped the vehicle off a day after the crash. >> how can you just hit someone and just keep going? >> it's a question aesha poole is asking. >> every time he closes his eyes, he will see my baby. >> reporter: we asked philadelphia police, they tell us that there have been 45 pedestrian fatalities in the city already this year. 11 of those have been hit and runs. reporting live in overbrook, i'm andrea klein-thomas.
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sky force 10 was over the scene on i-95 in newport. you can see the buzz on the side of the highway there. not clear how serious the injuries are. this is the same area where a car and a tractor trailer crashed this morning. and fuel spilled from the truck, traffic was backed up for miles during the morning rush. president-elect donald trump and vice president-elect mike pence visited the indiana factory where mr. trump says he saved hundreds of jobs from moving to mexico. mr. trump made carrier's plans to shutter the plant a central issue of his campaign. >> companies are not going to leave the united states anymore without consequences. not going to happen. not going to happen.
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i'll tell you right now. >> the deal announced today does not include carrier's plant in nearby huntington, indiana, that plant will move to mexico costing the city 700 jobs by 2018. and the recount in pennsylvania where the process will move forward in about 75 precincts in philadelphia. that's just a fraction of the nearly 1,700 precincts there. that will begin as early as tomorrow. the green party's request to have the machines inspected for m o . it's the first candidate driven recount in the u.s. since 2000. experts say the outcome is very ju unlikely to change following the
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recount. counties have until 8:00 p.m. on december 12 to finish the recount. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with hundreds of parents having to find a new pediatrician after a doctor was arrested on child porn charges. >> reporter: first of all, i just checked and dr. kennedy is actually still in jail after his arrest and we at his office here today have been seeing parents come in and out of this pediatrician office. some didn't want to talk to us, others told us they are sad, they're angry, they're even scared about what to do now, how to keep their kids healthy and safe. at personal care pediatrics, the doctor was not in tied. dr. david kennedy was in jail in montgomery county. he's facing charges of sexual abuse of children.
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>> i'm sick and want to cry. >> reporter: amber monroe has two children who were patients here. >> i feel sick that my children were that close to that and i didn't even know. >> reporter: nbc10 has learned the state medical board has him posed an impede suspension of dr. kennedy based on the charges. today amber monroe was picking up her children's shot records and is moving to a new doctor. >> reporter: we talked to other parents who are also moving to a new doctor, a process that's not always easy, logistically or emotionally. >> mary cannon has six children, the oldest two know about what happened. >> my 17-year-old is disgusted, she's absolutely disgusted because she knows that she was supposed to see him on monday and we didn't see him. >> reporter: she says her 13-year-old is trying to process
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it and knows there will be more questions in the days ahead. now one family i spoke with said they do plan to stay here because they like the nurse practitioners and as for those leaving, they told us they were upset it's going to cost them $25 per child to transfer their records. we weren't able to verify that number. our office has referred the parents to an attorney that we haven't heard back from. an arson act is caught in the act in kensington. he goes to the back of the house and takes something out of his backpack, moments later the home's garage is on fire. police believe the arsonist may have suffered burns or damage to clothing. a good portion of gatlinburg, tennessee remains an evacuation zone as well. fires continue to burn in that area. but there is some good news today, firefighters see the
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winds of calm and they don't expect the fire to spread as quickly as in previous days. so far seven people have been killed in the wildfires that has destroyed hundred of businesses. dolly parton is creating a fund to help victims. >> we want to offer a handup for everyone who was affected by the fires. the dollywood family will provide $1,000 a month to all those who were affect bid the fires. we have nom new details on the death of a woman killed in a crash with someone who was being chased by philadelphia police. police have identified the victim as 5-year-old carol isom. police say she was killed after her car was -- two men are in
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police custody, the second car sped away. >> it's just an absolute tragedy, you know we have a strict policy about police pursuits. >> rosemary connors is looking into pursuit policies in philadelphia and whether officers followed protocol last night. happening now, a proposed 11% property tax hike is being debated in montgomery county. the increase would go toward raises for nonunion workers, funding for the county college and the county surplus fund. new details in the case of a 2-year-old boy who died in kensington. the child's mother is now charged with endangering the welfare of a minor, the boy is
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identified as zahire. governor jack markell will present an award for excellence in matt mathematics and science teaching. some employees in new jersey's second largest employer are about to get a raids in pay. officials say the pay raise is in response to higher costs of living in the new york metropolitan area. british aviation experts will examine the black box that was carrying that brazilian
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soccer team that crashed. the team was on its way to the finals of a prestigious south american tournament. crash investigators aided by dramatic cockpit recordings are trying to find out what caused the plane to crash. albright college will require all students to live on campus or in college approved houses. research shows that students are happier and have higher attention rates if they live on campus. there are a few exceptions, including students living with a parent within so many miles of a campus. radner township launched its new parking app called wo ourks sh. it means no more sprinting back to your car before your time runs out. when your parking meter is about to expire, the app will send a
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tex message to remind you and you can pay the meter from where ever you are. operation safe holiday is aimed at cutting down on the number of alcohol related driving deaths and crashes throughout pennsylvania. police will use sobriety check points, roving patrols and regular traffic safety patrols to focus on impaired and unbuckled drivers. >> please don't be dead for christmas. this is the time of year to celebrate with family and friends. but if you have been drinking, don't get behind the wheel of what will be a couple thousand pound missile going down the street. you could kill yourself, you could kill someone else. >> during last year's christmas and new year's travel period there were 65 crashes across the state and there were also 18 deaths. today people around the globe are uniting in the fight
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against aids. >> many are marking world aids day with free testing. organizers say it is important for people to be aware of the virus and get tested. >> probably about 10% of people who are living with hiv don't know if they have it. so it's important that people get tested and know their status. the cdc recommends that people between 18 and 64 get tested-year-old. >> there will be speeches from people battling aids along with a panel discussion of experts. right now a red ribbon is on business play in front of the white house to honor world aids day. as for our weather, taking a live look at eighth and market
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in center city right there. we are finally drying out today. dry pavement out there, no umbrellas, but we're also in for some colder weather, let's toss it over to glenn to find out just how cold and wet. >> we are in december and the average high temperature just keeps going down every day. some of the wind is bringing in some of that colder air, we're going to be seeing gusts over 35 miles an hour both friday and saturday, we saw gusts to 30 plus today. we have got no rain expected through sunday, some next week, though. and then the real winter chill arrives next friday. that's when it's really going to be feeling like winter. now as we take a look at the skies, we can see the skyline for a change, yesterday was different, wasn't it? we have a few peeks of sunshine through there and there's no precipitation anywhere in the area. most places are in the 50s, except when you get north and west, we're in the 40s right now. and in philadelphia itself, it's
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52 degrees, officially at the airport, but it's only 49 in west mt. airy, 50 in chestnut hill and andorra. you can see these clouds grad l gradually moving down from the northwest with the colder air coming over the lakes, and there's more sunshine today in southern delaware and in extreme south jersey. as we go through the evening, we're going to see these clouds break up as the wind diminishes, that's going to allow the temperature to go down, by 8:30, we're already down into the 30s in exton and redding. and later tonight we're in the 30s across much of the area. by tomorrow morning, it's mostly clear, 33 in allentown, 31 in quakertown. and then the wind starts picking up again. you start getting those gusts up over 30 miles an hour. but the temperature's not going up very much either, you see?
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that's near noontime, we still have the low to mid 40s. and most folks are not going to get to 50 degrees tomorrow. the average high for this time of the year is 50. so this is more typical of early december. and if you're headed toward the riverrink for the tree lighting, the temperature is of course going down as we head toward it, but seasonably chilly, the wind will be less at 7:00 than it will be at 5:00. those colder winds bringing in chilly air that's going to cover much of the country by this sunday. we start to warm up a little bit earlier next week, but look what happens behind me, the first arctic air of the season starts coming into the country. by thursday, it's spreading and by friday, it's here. so next friday and into next weekend, that's when we're going to see the coldest air. now for the weekend itself, it's
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dry, every day, a little bit colder every day, and in many cases by sunday, the temperatures do not get out of the 40s. and then wait until you see those really cold temperatures for later next week in the 10-day. >> okay, can't wait, glenn. frustrated fans after the 76ers postponed last night's game because of a wet mess on the court. >> it was disappointing. because the kids were really excited. they have never been to a sixers game. >> still ahead on nbc10 news at 4:00, how the sixers are trying to clear the air. how the nbc10 responds tame helped her get a refund when the company wouldn't budge. and lesson learned, why a preschoolteacher is facing charges for what she was
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a daycare worker in allentown is facing charges this afternoon while authorities say she thought 3 and 4-year-olds to curse at other children and took a video of them doing that. giles was a bus monitor at creative minds academy in allentown. state regulators have revoked the center's license too. kayla the sloth bear
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celebrated a birthday today. visitors even got to sing happy birthday to her. and speaking of animals, take a look at this great dog smiling, dressed as one of santa's helpers. and nbc10 wants to see your holiday pictures. you can send them to us through faceback, twitter or instagram and you can also e-mail them to us. the sixers haven't been too hot on the court in the last two years, now they have a slippery, wet, pr problem i'll tell you what happened and what the team is doing for frustrated fans. cool air is coming in for the weekend, and then much colder air later on in the 10-day. i'm tracking those changes and our next chance for rain too. in your first alert weather forecast. pm
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right now at 5:00, problems on the court. a wet mess at the wells fargo center last night forced the sixers to cancel last night's game against sacramento. it's how the team handled it that has fans frustrated. >> reporter: that game never happened. >> it was disappointing. because the kids were really excited. they have never been to a sixers game. they never even seen the stadium. >> reporter: they sat in the stadium watching the mop up.
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>> we were sitting in the stadium and we were actually googling to see what was going on. so we finally figured out something was wrong with the floor. >> demarcus has come out of sacramento's locker room. the wood sits over the flyers ice, it was extra warm and humid outside. the king's twitter person was ripping the sixers over this. but the sixers are just a tennant in the middling. they'll be able to come for the makeup came and they'll also be able to -- there's no talk about any free food. aaron's group spent a ton of dough last night while they waited. >> reporter: a source tells me everybody knew about the floor problem but thought it would be handled by game time. as for the communication issue,
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we heard it was logistical. the building staff and the team staff, they had to wait until that happened before they could make any announcements to the fans in the seats. i'm tim furlong, nbc10 news. a look now at some of the stories making headlines on nbc10 news at 4:30. this is the person police say delivered an explosive package to a stoop in center city. 62-year-old jim alden opened and detonated it. he has shrapnel scars to his hans, face and neck. and police have charged 24-year-old paul woodland with involuntary manslaughter of jayanna powell. two straight days of rain, it's finally open. here's a live look at boathouse
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row. cameras have been shaking all day out there from the high wind. we're dry for now, but the start of december is bringing in some cooler air. >> chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the changes in your first alert weather forecast. >> we have been spoiled by this warmer weather over the last several days, so when temperatures get to normal this time of year, it's getting pretty chilly. 52 degrees in philadelphia, you can see many of the areas reporting mostly overcast conditions and we do see some sunshine and peeks in lehigh valley. you can see these clouds advancing during this afternoon, spreading pretty much all the way to the coastline. and the temperature trend, while the official high for today is 63, that occurred just after midnight. and then we're going back down pretty close to average, average is 50 degrees, so the
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temperatures over the weekend are going to be what we would consider to be pretty normal for this time of the year. and it's going to cool down in the evening, which again is normal for this time of the year, 34 degrees by 6:00 a.m., in many of the p.a. suburbs, bucks, montgomery and chester counties. and tomorrow it's going to be a little bit colder than today, still pretty windy. we'll tell you when some real winter type temperatures are coming in with the 10-day. acme announced today that it will open a supermarket in the snyder plaza shopping center near the penns port and whitman neighborhoods. it will include a beer and wine shop along with a variety of locally grown products. the store will also have a starbucks. some homes are -- the
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holiday tradition is presented by fairmount park conservancy and philadelphia parks and recreation. it features six of the city's historical houses all decked out for christmas. washington, d.c. will be aglow tonight when the first family lights up the nashviltio christmas tree. it will be the 94th pageant of peace ceremony. a star studded lineup of performers will join the first family, including james taylor, garth brooks and tricia yearwood. and for the biggest and best tree lighting in philadelphia, be sure to tune in tomorrow 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. it will be filled with great musical performances and special guests and you do not want to
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miss it. sweet candy makers calling it a scientific break through. why nestle could be cutting the amount of sugar in some of its most popular sweets and why it's actually a good thing for candy lovers. plus fashion on the field and it's all for a good cause. why the cleats for your favorite nfl players are serving a different purpose for this week's games. ok! impaciente!
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a new study out of brown university revealed that white wine could reduce the risk of melanoma. each drink per day of white wine increased the risks of the deadly form of skin cancer in white women and men. beer, red wine and liquor, they did not significantly affect melanoma risk. if you've got a sweet tooth for chocolate, you're going to want to hear this one. >> nestle says they made a scientific break through. they can reduce the sugar in its candy by 40%. less sugar can be used in chocolate without affecting the taste. nestle says they'll start using the new process in 2018. players are raising awareness for their favorite charities this weekend. we go inside the eagles locker room to find out how the players
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fashion on the field is making a statement. glenn? windy and chilly for the first day of december, but even the colder weather is tracking in on this thursday. where things come from? how they get here? what they're packed in? it's a lot of stuff. and these things add up. that's why we recycle. [vo:]it's nice to know that raymour and flanigan is proud to be a leading recycler- 17 million pounds of recyclable materials every year. turned from trash into treasure. so in the future, we will all have a more beautiful world. ♪
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the philly pops are making 200 bicycles for the children of families stationed at joint ft. dix in lake hurst, new jersey. >> one of the things that's so fantastic about this whole effort is there's been a tremendous outpouring of local community support. we have partners with the philly pops and the bikes donated by
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bellevue. so when the cowboys and vikings kick off week 13 in the nfl tonight here on nbc10, nfl players will be wearing customized cleats. it's all about a social campaign. >> the idea is to raise awareness to issues important to players. today in the eagles locker room, players were showcasing their cleats. ma malcolm gener and others like jailen watkins support causes that have impacted their family. >> i'm wearing one cleat for prostate cancer, one more colon. my dad is dealing with colon cancer right now, my grandfather, prostate, we just found out recently so when this opportunity came up, this is the one that was actually pretty
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good for me and my family. >> a bunch of us talked about the best way to share that message and came up with wha vee we thought illustrated the gospel. a . >> we get you set for birds-bengals, eagles game day kick off starting at 9:30. tonight, the cowboys taking on sam bradford and the vikings. coverage begins at 7:30, join us after the game for nbc10 news. we had an overcast day today. >> skies look better than they did yesterday. we can actually see the skyline behind us. >> and we have certain had our share of rain being in that drought, getting up to two inches and it was soaking rain
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so that really helped a big deal. the wind was blowing stronger than it is now. it's going to be blowing more during the daytime hours, the sun helps to trigger that. this is the direction, it's generally out of the west and some of the temperatures in new jersey, 50 degrees or a little bit higher. yesterday at this time, it was 60 plus. but of course it was raining, 50 in clayton and washington township and pittman and mull can hills, and vorheess, pemberton, florence, even robbinsville and princeton, and new jersey at 47 degrees. you can see these clouds earlier in the day just spreading down toward the coastline. this is the radar and satellite. there's nothing on the radar. those clouds are fairly thin, and they're not producing any kind of rain or snow.
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and tomorrow, we're going to see more sunshine, considerably more sunshine than today, but it's also going to be chilly. places like chestnut hill won't even get to 50, swanksville, 49 for the high. allentown only 46 degrees, easton 46 degrees. some of these areas of south jersey and delaware do get into the 50s, dover at 52, newark at 52, nobody getting any kind of rain and tomorrow for the christmas tree lighting, the wind is going to be up there, if you're hanging around late in the afternoon, i'll be doing the weather out there. and then it will be dying down, just like today, as soon as the sun starts setting . but by 7:00, a little bit of wind, it will feel like upper 30s. so come prepared for some colder air and the colder air is going
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to spread over much of the country by sunday. this is just seasonably cold. the arctic air is going to make its first, first appearance, in the entire country. there it is. by thursday, the whole middle of the country is just freezing. and it comes to the east later next week. so we're going to feel that chill. and this weekend, well, it's going to be chilly, but nothing like next weekend, next weekend, i think is going to be colder than what we have seen this weekend. and here's the 10-day forecast, you can see the windy conditions the next two days. relatively cool for this time of the year. generally dry through monday, but tuesday and into thursday, a wetter period and then look at friday. really strong winds bringing you in some of that arctic air. and the first shot of arctic air is really tough on the system. >> it gets your attention.
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>> and some areas could easily see a quick changeover from rain to snow as the arctic air comes in. >> are you finished with all these firsts for the season? >> we're just beginning and it's only december. a viewer tells nbc10 she paid hundreds of dollars to have new carpet installed. >> but when she noticed a problem, she spent months trying to get it first. find out how harry hairston and the nbc10 responds team got her money back. hey julie, i know today's critical, but i really... ...need a sick day.
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it was installed. >> she was having a headache and i said, listen, it's good to talk about it. she says she became frustrated when she said the company blamed her for causing the problem. >> you can see where it's going flat. >> reporter: paula james tells us she spent a pretty penny financing new carpet with empire. but says one week after empire installed the carpet, she saw it was matting. >> i thought this was ridiculous, i spent all this money and i should be having better carpet. >> reporter: she said her inquiries to empire went nowhere. the representative from empire said that she could fix the carpet by vacuuming it twice a day. she couldn't believe what empire said was causing the problem. >> they said it was because of
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my mother's wheelchair. >> i know i'm not the only one that has a wheelchair where carpet and it don't do that. >> reporter: james argued for four months and then decided to call nbc10 responds. two days after we contacted empire, the company called james. empire told you what? >> that they would replace the whole carpet for free. >> reporter: but there was a catch, empire wanted james to sign this document before they would make good on their promise. they requested nbc10 responds to not tell her story and prohibits james from complaining to any other consumer advocacy group. and empire came up with a new document offering to refund the money instead. in an interview before she signed james had these words for nbc10 responds.
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>> thank you so much channel 10. >> now so far, empire has not responded to our request for comment about the demands it made on james. in all james was refunded $886, that's the amount she had paid for the carpet. our recovery counter is now up to $220,820. >> she signed the documents and got the money and she's happy. >> if you have a consumer complaint for nbc10 responds. get in touch with us and we will respond to you. coming up on nbc10 responds, it's the season to give, but before you donate your hard earned cash be sure it's going to those who need it most. find out how to check out charities, that's tomorrow on nbc10 responds. we have learned new details about the victim of that deadly
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accident. the crash happened after two suspects drove away from police and slammed into two separate cars. the family tells us more about the victims and the police tell us about the chase that led to her death. and we'll talk about the cooler temperatures headed your way. caught on camera, nbc10 has new video of a person that police want to question about a center city explosion. why police are still unsure about a motive in this crime.
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good evening, i'm keith jones. >> right now at 5:00, caught on camera. tonight nbc10 has new video of a person police want to question in the package explosion that injured a man in center city. >> cydney long joins us live with new details. what have you learned here, cyd? >> reporter: police tell us they have shown both those still images and the surveillance video to the victim in this case and he says he has no idea who this man is or who would want to harm him. >> this is a person of interest. this person drops off the package at the residence. >> reporter: this is the person
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police say doisguised his appearance. watch the stop left of your screen, he hand delivers an envelope, containing what police call a home made bomb to the victim's pine street doorstep. >> this device was a very dangerous device, it was a destructive device, caused significant injury to the person and could have resulted in death. >> 62-year-old jim alden sured shrapnel scars to his face, head chest. >> until we solve this crime, we're keeping our minds open and that's how your conduct a good investigation. another this time we have not determined a motive. >> reporter: police have combed through hours of surveillance footage. police believe the man is asian. >> the elmer fudd type of hat with the ear flaps down. >> we're not suggesting he is the person that manufactured the
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