tie the search for a driver who man over that man in the crosswalk and sped away with him lying in the street. to the rescue. good samaritans jumping in to save women under attack. the towering inferno. an eruption of flames that could be seen from miles away. >> announcer: nbc 10 news starts now. exclusive video from nbc 10, a man in the crosswalk, a driver slams into him and doesn't even bother to stop. i'm jacqueline london. >> i'm jim rosen fooel. the man is in critical condition right now. the driver is still out there somewhere. and that surveillance video

could be a crucial clue in finding hip. we are live in the kensington neighborhood,dry drew what's the latest. >> reporter: investigators are looking for the car right now. we can tell you that that victim it's unclear if he is going to survive. he lives in this home right here. we are told he headed out to this market to get something tonight. on his return trip he came within feet of his front steps when the car slammed into him. a 43-year-old kensington man appears to wait for the intersection to clear before crossing. in this video obtained exclusively by nbc 10 you can see a car comes racing towards him. the impact happens next just to the left, off camera. >> we know his body was launched 50 feet after being hit. >> reporter: just feet from his home the man's roommates saw the police lights. called him three or four times. >> reporter: the victim's phone and his glasses sat on the paste, now evidence in this hit

and run crime. conditions witnesses say the driverner never stopped either to help or to call 911 for the victim. >> he never regained consciousness. he does have severe trauma to his head, broke both of his legs. >> reporter: and thanks to good witnesses and that surveillance video we do know the car they are looking for. it is a four door sedan, sill sfler color. we're told it has a sun roof. police say if you see it it will have heavy front end damage and a smashed windshield. live in kensington nbc 10 news. new video of a group of good samaritans coming to the aid of a woman who was being stabbed inle aentown. >> oh, my god. >> bleep, bleep. >> this video right here of the frantic moments when several pulled the stabbing suspect off the victim, his own stepdaughter. you see two men there, including a paramedic trying to get a knife out of the subpoena's hand. the woman was seriously hurt.

the suspect is facing attempted murder and other charges. look at this wall of flames shooting from a building their construction in gloucester county. this is a new building being built on oldmans creek road. the fire started before 6:00. it took firefighters hours to ket it under control. opportunitically, no one here was hurt. no word yet on the cause. president trump doubling down on his desire to beef up the nation's nuclear punch during an interview with reuter's today the president said he want to expand america's nuclear arsenal. >> it would be wonderful. dream would be that no country would have nukes, but if countries are going to have nukes, we are going to be at the top of the pack. >> the president also vowed to confront russian president vladimir putin over that cup's recent deployment of a cruise missile. meanwhile the president is getting set to take the stage tomorrow at the annual conservative political action conference. today the trump administration

was well represent at cpac. chief strategist steve bannon and white house chief of staff reince priebus joined each other on stage. bannon blasted the media, which he called the opposition party and told conservatives every day is going to be a fight against the media and progressives. >> every day in the oval office he tells reince and i i committed this to the american people. i promised this when i ran. and i'm going to deliver on this. >> bannon says the media is giving an unaccurate portrayal of president trump's first month in office. at time when some lawmakers are holding town halls over the phone, democratic congressman donald for cross met face to face with his constituents in camden county, tonight. a packed room filled the oakland municipal building tonight where people asked questions about a variety of topics including the future of obamacare. the crowd was so big that dozens of people didn't even make it inside. it's the first two of town halls scheduled for the congressman.

this event was organized by senator pat toomey's constituents. the senator did not attend. meanwhile dozens of local groups helped lay the ground work for what they call long term resistance in philadelphia tonight. nbc 10 in center city where hundreds showed up to learn how to coordinate with others to make their voices heard. new at 11, new jersey governor chris christie has come under fire in the past for the amount of time he spends out of state. records show new jersey taxpayers dished out more than $300,000 to pay for the governor's security detail while he trafford last year. during his run for the presidency in 2015 it was more than double that. that kris brings his two year told to more than $700 million. a police pursuit ended in a crash. police say the suspect was taken

into custody of a slamming right into a tree. no word on injuries or what sparked this pursuit. new at 11:00, a deadly shooting outside an auto zone in north hampton county. skyforce10 over this scene on nazareth road in palmer township. police responded just before 10:00. they found body in the parking lot. the victim has yet on the identified. officers at the correctional center are pleading for help. they said today understaffing and a lack of training are putting officers at work. here's how one worker characterized the working conditions. >> right now what we have is not a prison. it is a three-ring circus. we've been screaming for help for a long time, and nobody is listening. >> the senate labor committee held a hearing today to talk about what it's like to work inside the smyrna prison. it comes after a inmate uprising and a hostage taking earlier this month. it ended with a correctional officer dead. more than 100 inmates are under

investigation in floyd's death. to newcastle county and a commune on edge. a kidnapper is on the loose. >> he struck at two apartment complexes in the county. tonight one of those residents give management an earful. we are live in pike creek with details. brandon? >> reporter: jacqueline and jim, days later and people say they are still scared because of these kidnappings. force r for the first time tonight we heard from the president of one of the apartment complexes. he toll me they are talking about security cameras, locks on doors. they have had state police drive through this property more than ones but the people who live here say they want to see those safety changes as soon as possible. >> it's just safer to call us. >> reporter: midway through this packed two hour safety meeting in pike creek a concerned woman called out management of arun dolea apartments where a masked man kidnapped a woman earlier this week. >> what are you doing at the

apartments. >> reporter: she wasn't the only one who voiced concerns. >> i was going to go home around that time. that could have been me. >> reporter: she says she moved in there two months ago. after the kiddi napping she fears if for her and her daughter's safety. >> i'm scared. >> reporter: she also told us she is considering buying a gun n. both kidnappings the women were sexually assaulted by a man armed with a gun. >> it's scary. share your concern and i share your fear. >> reporter: at tonight's meeting the apartment management told the crowd he is looking at security cameras and locks on the outside doors with a four digit code. he has also spoken with delaware state police. >> he will provide with us his recommendations as to what we

can do differently at the property. >> reporter: the management group that runs top i will hill apartmentst was not at tonight's meeting. the people at the meeting some of them walked out with this brochure, safety precautions from the police. police have a vague description. they say he is a white man, 5'8", drive as dark colored suv, has a dark accent and he speaks out loud about his plans before he follows through on them. nbc '0210 news. protests and violence in southern california after a controversial video surfaced showing an offduty police officers pulling a gun on a group of teenagers. the video there shows the officer strungling with a 13-year-old boy. another teenager then pushes him over a bush. that's when the officer pulled out a gun and fired a single

shot into the ground. no one was hit. police say the struggle started when the officer got angry at the teenagers for walking on his lawn. >> i thought i was going to die like right now because i thought he was going to shoot me because he was like mad. >> the shooting triggered protests that turned violent overnight. police arrested two teenagers involved in the struggle. the officer was placed on administrative leave. his actions are under investigation. a philadelphia man is leading a push by luis muslims to raise money for a vandalized jewish cemetery. tariq saw these headstones topple over in a cemetery in st. louis over the weekend. more than 150 were damaged. he helped launch an online fund-raiser. it has raised more than $100,000 to fix those graves. >> i wanted to do something. and i felt that every human being has the right to rest in peace after they are laid to rest. and no one should be worried about their loved one's grave being desecrated. >> he tells us he has received

more than 100 messages from jews who say they were moved by the muslim community's support. up next, putting his foot down. new video shows the unusual way a thief is committing crimes in the pennsylvania suburbs. a new school of naught. it's an nbc 10 investigation. how philadelphia schools are taking a different approach to discipline. heros in blue. the police officers who saved a man from that burning car. glen? we have got a potential for record warmth tomorrow. and then thunderstorms for part of the weekend. i'll tell you the timing for your neighborhood and the impact on your weekend plans in the most accurate forecast, coming up.

new tonight, policing our schools, and the culture shift in our region's biggest district. >> i look at the data and i'm look wow we are locking up

10-year-old children for coming to school with a pair of scissors. >> the focus now is on arresting fewer students. >> today at 5:00 the nbc 10 investigators showed you school districts where suspension rates were far above the national average. >> our region is home to a program changing the narrative on school discipline. >> reporter: these days shawn allen walks the hallways of his high school with certain maturity. for him the past four years at parkway northwest have been a second chance after a freshman year mistake that could have gotten him arrested. >> i just grabbed a random book bag and threw my football equipment into it not knowing the knife she told me to hide from my little sisters was in bag. >> you bought that knife to school? >> yes. >> >> reporter: that was grounds

for automatic arrest, mistake or not. but the summer before allen's run-in, the deputy police commissioner was considering a change. >> let me look at what we are doing as a department. when i look i was like wow. >> reporter: that data showing philly police arresting 1600 of the district's students each year. and 80% of those students were black, even though black students make up only 51% of the district's total enrollment. officials say for many students, even relatively minor offenses led to arrests and disengagement. the start of the so-called school to prison pipeline. philly police and educators alike believed something had to give. >> we had to change our approach. we had to change how we were talking with youth. >> reporter: the superintendent says that change was a deep cultural shift. first they threw out the zero tolerance rules. then partnered with the

department of human services and others. the team focused on targeting and treating the root causes of behavior problems. he says the student climate in his schools got better even at a time when district budgets were at their worst. >> we think about this as a money problem when it actually is a mind-set change. it's a behavior change. >> reporter: most importantly, the district says, student arrest rates plummeted from that high of nearly 1600 to a little more than 700 in the first year, to fewer than 600 last year. bessel took the results as a full time calling, retiring from police work to study how philadelphia's model can be taken nationwide. >> my goal, and i'm very honest about that is trying to get law enforcement to see this from a different place. >> reporter: allen was among the very first success stories in the arrest diversion program. but nearly being arrested was

not his biggest wake up call. >> my leg was hurting really bad. >> that's what they found out was cancer? >> yes. >> reporter: he says he brought the coping skills learned during that intervention program to his life and death battle. now cancer free and finishing high school, he believes all doors are open for him and for his unblemished record. >> i don't have to worry about having a criminal record at a young age, and i don't have to worry about people looking at me different as if i was a young criminal. >> reporter: for the investigators, george spencer, nbc 10 news. breaking news right now out of washington a. white house adviser reportedly asked the fbi to dispute media reports that president trump's campaign advisors were in touch with russian intelligence agents during the election. this was first reported tonight by cnn. according to a white house official chief of staff reince priebus made the request after

the fbi told the white house it believed a "new york times" report describing those contacts was inaccurate. such a request would violate long standing justice department protocols. this is video you don't see every day. take a look. watch as a thief's foot slammed slams dew through the ceiling this montgomery county store and then he re pell into the place. police hope someone will recognize his distinct climbing gear and clothing. investigators want to know if it's the same thief who recently broke into other stores. a mother and daughter wounded in the boston marathon bombing was honored tonight for the father bill atkinson humanitarian award ceremony. the mother and her daughter have both gone on to help other survivors. keith is a proud villa nova

grad. nice night there on campus. wherever, really. >> nbc 10 found guys playing ball making the most of a day in the middle of winter when they can play their game in shorts and t-shirts. according the glenn's most accurate forecast they will be able to keep that up for a couple more days. >> two more days. if you missed the opportunity to get outside today you have got another chance tomorrow and another chance for most of saturday. not all of saturday. look at the temps. at this hour, 11:00, it's still 61 in pottstown, northeast philly 62. the average high is 46. now we've got up to 73 today. we are going to 74 tomorrow by the end of the month, our calculations show we are going to end up with the warmest february ever recorded in philadelphia by a lot. that's beating a record by over two degrees. if we beat it by two-tenths of a

degree that's generally big deal. isolated showers by the poconos. not much going on out there. more action out west. look at this snow out in minnesota. winter is not totally over everywhere. here we go through the night tonight. into tomorrow. got decent amount of sunshine, pushing temperatures into the 70s again. not expecting any kind of rain, as you can see. so you have got an incredible day there. we've got clouds on saturday. couple of showers north and west early. then there's that cold front that we have been talking about. that is coming in, hitting the redding area around 4:00, the philadelphia area between let's say 5:00 and 6:00, and right at the shore, 7:00 to 8:00. and that's it. it's a short thing, but it's a gusty thunderstorm, and you are going to want to plan around it. the rest of the day is okay. 74 in fairmount. 72 in at that coney.

redding 72. they could easily be 75 tomorrow. could be some records set. but not at the beaches. new jersey, 59 degrees, with the win coming in off the ocean. and then over the weekend thing change dramatically. okay? we're really warm on saturday with that brief gusty thunderstorm. so not all day. and then all day sunday it's dry. much colder, and windy. but we're not expecting any kind of precipitation. and those temperatures are close to average for this time of the year. we'll be right back. fios in the house!

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the sixers traded a big man, but it was not okafor, it was early innen. the sixers get anderson, bogut and a protected first round pick. it is likely going to turn into two second round picks. early innen tweeted out, philly what an amazing journey it has been, to embrace a kid from boston, coming out of kentucky the way you did is something i will never forget. i never caught theed the love here. and that won't change. thank you to everybody that's believed in me and supported through, #the process. here is the process on losing his best friend. >> best friend. i'm happy for him. you know. i think he is going to get a chance to star. i think they are going respond to him and pay him a lot of money.

>> speaking of jojo, he is going to miss the next four games. the sixers are aiming for him to return next friday. joelle still had swelling in his knee today. he is not ready. he was originally told he would miss two or three weeks with the bone bruise. he says the team could have been more open with you sixers fans about the injury. >> i wasn't that happy with the way it was kind of handled before. i was told i was going to miss three or four weeks. i wasn't happy with the way it was handled. i thought keeping my name out there was going to literally have people think about me all the time instead of just saying when i was going to be back. >> take this for what it means. ben simmons moments ago on snap chat said he is not in a good mood. not a good day. vor check will be ready for as a's flyers pens game. we'll be right back.

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okay, two more days of 7-plus, near record tomorrow. brief thunderstorm saturday afternoon. much colder sunday. and then warms up again. >> a long lunch break outside tomorrow. >> definitely. >> have a great night. >> good night. [ 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 -- susan sarandon, elijah wood, musical guest little big t