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antiis a met tic acts. what family members are saying tonight about this hateful vandalism. >> jcc's evacuated for the fifth time this year. there's a coordinated attempt to threaten jewish centers. >> coughing and sneezing. are you feeling the blues? get to the bottom of why so many people are feeling sick. >> announcer: nbc10 starts now. >> obviously it's very upsetting and i feel sick to my stomach. >> toppling headstones one by one at a philadelphia jewish center. >> this is not just a random act. >> hate toward the jewish community from the cemetery to jccs. bomb threats targeting local centers. >> and tonight anti-semitism has
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gotten the attention of the white house. we're live in washington. >> good evening. it's 5:00. i'm keith jones. >> and i'm erin coleman. we start tonight with the december creation of more than 100 headstones as a jewish cemetery in philadelphia. family members went to mt. carmel cemetery to get a look at the damage themselves. the fbi is looking at the this as a potential hate crime. cydney long joins us live from the cemetery. >> reporter: i can tell you this afternoon as one visitor put it earlier today to lift hundreds of these gravestones at hundreds of pounds each, that is a ton of hatred as you're seeing out here but for whoever is responsible for this crime, it is sparking an enormity of love and solidarity. with each delicate flower. >> i'm trying to bring this spirit to the broken grave.
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>> reporter: hopes to bring peace, quiet and love to fellow jewish families. she and her husband lee read the names. >> there's so many people, young. the one i just did was for a daughter. >> reporter: and they placed white flowers on as much broken headstone as they could reach in their olden years and on uneven earth. this time in history feels especially shaky in light of this anti-semitic hatred. >> obviously it's very upsetting and i feel sick to my stomach. >> reporter: she was thankful her family's headstones were not targeted or pushed over. >> i'm glad i can report back to my cousins in israel and chicago and new york theirs okay. >> reporter: she still can't fathom how and why anyone would desecrate the final resting
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places of her brothers and sisters. >> it took a lot of effort. >> reporter: he remarked about teenagers who often enter the ground and he thinks president trump needs a wall right here close to home. >> there's no doubt there's an err of outrage in the country. >> reporter: now the groundskeeper here along with police instructed that no one should touch, fix or lift these headstones back into place until an investigation is complete even trash or any litter on the ground could be considered clues or evidence in this investigation. live tonight i'm cydney long nbc10 news. >> his heart breaks for the families with loved ones in the cemetery and he called for peace. >> bigotry and hatred will never ever go away but it's the government's responsibility to tamp it down. if we let it go on and on we're
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going to spiral down this slope of bigotry and hatred and we can't go there. >> what happened in philadelphia over the weekend wasn't the first attack on a jewish cemetery. just last week vandals toppled about 200 headstones in a cemetery in st. louis, missouri. some people accused donald trump of not taking a tough enough stance on the bigot tri. >> the white house did weigh in on the threats against the attacks of the community. >> casey hunt joins us live from washington, d.c. and the trump administration did come out today condemning what happened. >> some are questioning whether this was tough enough as we just mentioned. what are you hearing in washington? >> reporter: hi keith and erin. a very difficult topic that as you say the white house is grappling with today and they have been over the weekend. condemning what happened in philadelphia and what has been happening across the country. new bomb threats just today against jewish community centers, adding to this story.
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here's what white house press secretary sean spicer told reporters a few hours ago. >> the president continues to condemn these and any other form of anti-semitism in the strongest terms. from our country's founding we've been dedicated to protecting the freedom of our citizens right to worship. no one in america should feel afraid to follow the religion of their choosing freely and openly. >> reporter: now there are organizations that are saying that the white house should go further. that they should lay out a plan of action to try to combat these kinds of acts and not just offer up statements. we're still waiting to see if the white house is going to take some sort of action along these lines like people like the antidefamation league are calling for. we have heard the president himself answer some questions about these kinds of incidents by pointing to his daughter ivanka who converted to judaism. his son-in-law jared kushner is also jewish. so the president has said that
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these acts hit close to home. >> thank you for that. nbc nightly news will have the latest on president trump's address to congress and the threats to jewish centers across the country. nightly begins at 6:30. >> the president also condemned today's new wave of bomb threats targeting almost 20 jewish community centers across the country. here locally we had threats at jccs in all three states. nbc jim rosenfield is following the developments. >> all the bomb threats were called in this morning, all three jccs were evacuated while police swept through those buildings ultimately finding nothing. the three in our area part of a larger investigation as you mentioned today. 19jccs across the u.s. targeted. skyforce10 was flying over the locations targeted here. the seeingle jcc in wilmington where governor carney was meeting with jewish leaders when the threats came in and in
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cherry hill where employees tell us they're scared. >> it is very unnerving. you just feel that you're not safe anywhere. >> all of these threats came by phone. police are still investigating all three local threats. live in the bringing news center, jim rosenfield, nbc10 news. >> thank you. now to another big story. the cosby sex assault trial is going take place in montgomery county. bill's legal team wanted it moved saying cosby couldn't get a fair trial anywhere. deanna durante joins us live from norristown. the defense has made is clear where it wants the jury picked, the question now is will it get its way? >> reporter: likely, no. i spoke to the pennsylvania supreme court court spokesman today. the jury that will be found out of county and brought here from the june trial will not come from the five county areas. the defense request to of it come from philadelphia is likely to be denied.
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bill cosby smiles at supporters gathered to get a glimpse of 79-year-old comedian as he enters court this morning. cosby's lawyer say he has already been convicted in the court of public opinion. defense lawyer used the words demonized and vilified to describe the way the media has treated cosby. he's been charged with assaulting one woman inside his cheltenham home in 2004. when her case went public more than two years ago, dozens of wintry mix also went public. more than 30 posing for the cover of the national magazine all claiming to be drugged and assaulted. the accusations and worldwide attention has prevented cosby from getting a fair trial any where most of all montgomery county. the current district attorney used the cosby case in one of his political ads in 2015. the judge agreed to emhe panel a jury from beyond the air but
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refused the defense's request to move the entire case out of the county. both sides avoided questions today. >> reporter: now again where this jury comes from the decision is up to the pennsylvania supreme court and because chester, bucks and delaware counties all border montgomery county the jury won't be coming from there either. once the jury is seated, it will be see ques terred throughout the duration of the trial which is set to begin on june 5th. reporting live in norristown, nbc10 news, deanna durante. >> our first alert weather as we get ready to close out february, it is warm enough to go to the jersey shore and our 60 degrees temperatures they're going to climb even higher. >> there is a threat of storms to talk about, though. meteorologist krystal klei has the most accurate weather where you live. the question is how severe are these storms, krystal? >> we're tracking that it's all about the warm air because when you have warm air and that cold air moves in that's when you run into trouble. today we are tracking the
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warm-up that will bring us to that potential. take a look 24 hour change map compared to yesterday at this time. we're 10 degrees warmer right now in philadelphia. 11 degrees warmer in mt. holly and 12 degrees warmer in trenton and allentown compared to just yesterday at the same time. we're at 50 in allentown, philadelphia 53 and dover at 53. atlantic city even getting into those low 50s today. the average in philly today is 47 so you can see about 6 degrees warmer than that. you look outside you see clouds. on radar activity just outside of chester county. overall today has been a cloudy one which didn't allow us to heat up into the 60s but we will be making it into the 60s for tomorrow. mid-60s by tomorrow afternoon. that's when we have the chance of thunderstorms on wednesday. we'll take a closer look at that
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and your first alert coming up. >> president trump upcoming budget will propose a whopping $54 billion in defense spending. the white house says cuts will be made to domestic programs and foreign aid. >> this defense spending increase will be offset and paid for by finding greater savings and efficiencies aacross the federal government. we're going to do more with less. >> the president said the money would be used to rebuild our depleted military at a time when we most need it. >> nbc10 will carry president trump's address to congress live tomorrow night in primetime and this is such an important speech we're sending jim rosenfield and lauren mayk to cover it in washington, d.c. our live coverage from d.c. starts at 6:00. >> president trump met this morning with the nation's governors and washington in discuss a range of issues. the president told the group his administration will return more power to the states and
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governors. >> billionaire wilbur ross is expected to become commerce secretary for the trump administration. the senate is set to vote on ross's nomination in just about two hours. ross's confirmation has gone much smoother than other trump nominees. former commerce secretaries have praised him including one who served under president obama. >> privacy rights, how you might get caught up in a sting as police use technologies to catch the bad guys. a controversial device. >> biggest loser host talks about the health emergency that left him unconscious for days and why are so many people sick? what's going around? i've got the answer from doctors. it's all new at 5:30.
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it's the device police don't want to talk about or for you to see. >> they are trying to keep it a secret. >> investigation reveals who has it and why cell phones are targeted. >> it is powerful equipment and it shouldn't be used. >> a case in a delaware he courtroom puts a secret police technology on trial, they're called cell site simulators. a controversial used to spy on
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and track cell phones. >> police in our area are reluctant to confirm they use them. mitch blacher found hundreds of thousands of your tax dollars spent on the equipment. >> i don't think that the police like it when you ask for information. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped jonathan routeenberg. in 2015 the software developed in delaware resident put in a freedom of information act request. he wanted to know how the delaware state police use a technology called sell site simulators. >> these devices actually exploit securities eventual ner bilts in the satellite cell phone. >> they're used to locate people and track information through mobile phones. >> it shouldn't be scary to ask questions about what the police are doing. >> reporter: in response to his request, the delaware state police told rutenberg they uft simulators to collect information on all phones in a given location or to track and locate particular phones.
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routeenberg has taken the state police to court. >> that may change my behavior in how i move around and how i communicate with my friends because some of those communications may inadvertently be picked up by a police. in a facebook post the delaware state police it has always sought legal authority before using the device and it does not retain third party information. beyond that police release these purchase orders showing taxpayers spent more than $935,000 since 2010 buying cell site simulators. the money went to the florida based harris corporation which make the device sting ray. >> they won't agree for an interview. the delaware state police has delayed scheduling a time to answer our questions but we did find some one who has experience using cell site simulators who was willing to talk about them. >> you have to have probable cause to use this equipment.
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>> retired fbi agent explained how and why the federal government uses these simulators. >> it's used primarily in fugitive investigations to capture violent local fugitives. >> there is a reason to keep it secret. >> if people know how to avoid detection by it, then they're going to take those steps when they don't want to be caught. >> court records show the length the agency goes to keep it secret. the state police must immediately notify the fbi of any requests to disclose information about the device. police also agree to dis-mace case if it involves disclosing information about the technology. >> you don't want to spend all this money on this equipment and then have it be useless to you. >> you just don't want the government to know how often you go to church or whether you attend an adult book store. >> do you have any reason to believe that these sting ray
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devices are being abused? >> we don't know how they're being used at all. >> reporter: it's why jonathan routeenberg is in court hoping for answers to questions he's been asking for two years. >> i think the citizen has the right to know what police power is being used. >> they made their case in delaware state court. six lawyers for both delaware and the federal department of justice were there to argue against them. the judge said he will decide in the next month if state police have to release more information about how these devices are used. >> we know delaware now. what about pennsylvania, new jersey. are those devices used there? >> in pennsylvania the state police does have their devices. they have two sell site simulators but they don't store the information and they don't monitor actual conversations. now, in jersey, we're still waiting to hear back from the state police. haven't responded to our public information request yet. >> we know you'll stay on top of
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it. >> i will. >> thanks for that. >> now your first alert weather. >> we begin with a look at the neighborhood temperatures. today was another warmer than average day. we're on the up part of that roller coaster ride we've been on for weeks. 54 society hill. 53 degrees at the airport and 52 in chestnut hill. same deal. 53 for parkwood and fox chase right now. through your delaware neighborhoods looking also nice and warm and across the board. we are tracking conditions that are mostly dry. you see radar and satellite showing we got some clouds. sometimes you've got the moisture up in the clouds, it tries to fall as rain. it does not make it to the ground. overall today we stayed mostly dry and cloudy as we start to see the sunset. then we go into tomorrow and the
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temperature continues to climb. mid-60s for us. and look at the variation here from mid-60s to around 60s for allentown and easton. mostly cloudy and dry. some isolated sprinkles early tomorrow. we should be dry throughout most of the day. 66 in robbinsvile. buena 65. we see more of that effect near the shore. egg harbor township bumping it up to the mid-60s and you see about the same in delaware. newark you're looking at a forecast high of 66 degrees. breezy tomorrow, then we start to track the big pattern change. that means the big warm-up and then a cool down. here's your wednesday morning. 5:00 a.m., the warm air is in place. this is going to feel like a repeat of saturday. what's happening is we got the
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warm air settling in, temperatures that will climb to the 70s. then we start to pull in a cold front and moisture. one round of some thunderstorms mostly north around the morning hours is possible but the strength really start to hit as we get into the afternoon as the cold front moves in. so still warm air, cold air, we got the potential for thunderstorms. the front will pass and then cooler air will start to move in behind it as we go into your thursday. let's talk about wednesday because we are looking at breaking a few records or at least tieing them. areas like philadelphia forecasting a high of 76 degrees. allentown forecasting a high of 67. trenton looking to break it and wilmington by at least a degree in those mid-70s then we do start to cooldown as we go into thursday. we'll get to that in the next half hour. >> still ahead at five, inside philadelphia's african-american museum. we'll take you for a tour.
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>> there is a recall you need to know about regarding apple sauce from trader joez. >> unsweetened apple sauces are being recalled finding pieces of glass inside. all of the products have been removed from store shelves and destroyed. >> in an effort to stop people from smoking, new jersey is becoming the first state to ban flavored ecigarettes. they are especially appealing to young people. it still needs more vote to become a law. >> next at 5:30. you probably watched it on your facebook page this morning. >> next the fallout from the oscar mix-up. >> very clearly even in my dreams this could not be true. but to hell with dreams. i'm done with it, because this is true. oh, my goodness. >> oh, my indeed.
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the red envelope mistake hollywood is trying to get to the bottom of how this happened. >> also new at 5:30. what is the deal with so many people getting sick? is it normal? >> i talked to a local doctors about why so many people are just not feeling well. >> and lift it on in. >> all this week vie and tracy are touching the hottest workouts out there and boy does this one hurt so good, too. vie is pushing really hard you know this is difficult. you can tone your body one muscle at a time tomorrow morning. that plus first alert weather, traffic and all the news you need to start your day from 4:30 to 7:00 a.m.
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>> announcer: this is nbc10 news. >> now at 5:30. does your coworker or kid have the sniffles? what is going around that's sending everyone to the doctor's office? several nasty viruss are making the rounds and they're seeing an influx of patients being hit hard. >> i went to the medical center where they say don't let this warmer weather full you. it is still prime season for getting sick. >> how long's this being going on? >> couple of days now. >> reporter: she's felt better. she's one of many people flooding into doctor's office trying to get relief. >> a little stuffy, coughing, nasal drip, which is very
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annoying. >> adults will get three different types of colds they'll get throughout each season. this is when most of us are getting sick. >> reporter: he says he's primarily seeing patients with bad upper respiratory infections smrks of them so bad they have to be hospitalized. >> our er has seen an influx in a lot of these people that are coming and have other underlying conditions such as c.o.p.d. and asthma. when they get the virus and they come in, we are admitting these patients. >> reporter: the best advice is what you probably already know. wash your hands often, cough into your arm or sleeve, drink plenty of fluids and get plenty of rest. cold and flu season is still here even though it's warm a little while longer. >> there's over 200 types of viruss that are out there and for some reason right now it's just kicking in and people are coming in with all sorts of different viruss that we commonly don't see all the time. >> i hope it's over soon.
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>> don't we all. he's also seen an increase in people with the flu over the past few weeks as well. but he also says it really has nothing to do with this roller coaster weather we've had in the past few days. you might think so but not so. >> it's going to be warming up again in the next 48 hours. the warm weather will bring some more rain with it. >> meteorologist krystal klei has the most accurate forecast for your neighborhood. >> so the warm-up started today. we really only had one day of seasonal temperatures which was yesterday. that was our cool down dip now we're picking back up. here are temperatures right now across the region. pottstown and reading and right around 50 millville through atlantic city. these temperatures were a degree or two warmer for official highs today which is about 5 degrees and some spots 10 degrees warmer than average. the clouds helped keep temperatures down just a tad today. and the green returns.
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that's sprinkles falling across the area. most rain not making it to the ground. we're in the 70s saturday and the thunderstorms rolled through and dropped us down to a more seasonal condition. today we made it to 54 in philadelphia. from 66 to 76 degrees the problem is we've seen this before with that warm air, we bring in moisture and another chance of thunderstorms. we'll take a closer look at that and track it out hour by hour coming up. >> cleanup continued today where saturday night storms downed trees, ripping some of them right out of the ground. the national weather service was out there yesterday and said no tornado blew through just powerful winds. >> here's some of the top stories we're following on nbc10 news at five. the case will stay in montgomery county, but the jury will come from some where else. cosby is accused of sexually
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assaulting adrian in 2004. >> who damaged more than 100 grave stones as a jewish cemetery. the fbi is now involved in that investigation. police, relatives even strangers were at the cemetery today and try to understand why someone would do this. right now police have no leads. >> a total of 21jccs across the country received threats including three here locally. governor carney was actually meeting with jewish leaders when that thread came in and the cats jcc in cherry hill all three locations were evacuated and given the all clear by police. >> earlier today in germanytown 180 interfaith leaders came together. it was part of a previously planned program called coming together. in light of what happened at the cemetery over the weekend they spoke out against intolerance and hate. they vowed to repair and replace all of the damaged headstones.
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>> put out a statement today in response to the vandalism saying in part, quote, in recent weeks our country has seen a new wave of anti-semitism on the rise. it's wrong and it should deeply concern not only jews and catholics but all people. >> here's a look at some of these stories make headlines county by county across our region today. governor chris christie unveiled his final budget as governor tomorrow. the budget gives him the opportunity to help shape his legacy. he's been under democrats and republicans from everything from his policy to his early show of report to president trump. a hospital in camden county is honoring a former ceo by renaming a building after them. that was recently overturned and ruled a double murder. to honor them both the building at 3 cooper plaza is being
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renamed the john and joyce sheridan health center. >> tonight a delaware community mourns the loss of two off duty officers killed in a car crash over the weekend. dover patrolman, robert dufant was with the department for two years, cadet watts served six months. dufane hit a sharp curve and hit a utility pole. >> the man behind the wheel has turned himself in. police say recar dough patterson hit 17-year-old antwon junior back in may. patterson is charged with driving under the influence and reckless driving. the action prompted legislation to reduce speeds on that road. >> a failed attempt to blow up a mailbox outside a home over the weekend was likely the work of a kid. that's what police tell us. the bomb squad and bomb sniffing
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dogs were called out to the ocean county home saturday morning. turns out it was a couple fire crackers tied to an aerosol can that never went off. >> in response to recent changes no-to-immigration laws a text start-up based in philadelphia is offering legal assistance to low income immigrants practically for free. >> the company is called border wise. it breaks down the application process for green cards. takes about half the time that it would to fill out a paper application. normally the company charges $500 but now any immigrant making under $30,000 a year only has to pay $1. >> given the recent things that have gone on with the administration that anybody who has the ability to get legal, who has the legal way to get legal should get legal. should get their green card and we don't want the money to be the obstacle for them. >> this is only a promotion for the company. you do have to take advantage of it now.
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we have a link for border rise on our website, nbc10.com. >> so this now western pennsylvania mother charged with drunk driving. after crashing with her young daughter in the car. the franklin county woman started the car by having her 8-year-old daughter blow into an ignition meant to keep her mom from driving. >> next at five it is the oscars moment people are still talking about tonight. getting to the bottom of how it happened. >> also ahead a college student drills a half-court shot. that's a $38,000 prize but technically, that will now net him nothing. we'll explain next. >> and health scare. what sent bob harper from the biggest loser straight from the hospital for days. clr
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. >> the wells fargo will be rocking tonight with the best team in basketball coming into town. the 76ers play steph curry and the warriors. >> it is a sixers white out. kevin hart will ring the bell. >> imagine being given a prize and then having it taken right away from you. >> reminds you of the oscars last night. >> this guy had a layup knocks down a three-pointer. he's rolling so far.
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the fans are getting crazy. runs all the way back to half-court, throws it up, knocks down the shot to win $38,000, but before these guys celebrate, turns out he's not even eligible to win because get this, he played basketball in high school. that's the reason. >> oh, my goodness. he didn't know that was in the fine print of the contest rules so he lost a lot of money but the university of luisville is playing for his books and food next year but not the $38,000 and that is not easy. i don't care if you played last year. >> think about how much that could've helped him out with tuition and room and board. books are books. but i'd be disappointed. next at 5:00. a fitness guru you're going to recognize. what caused the trainer on the biggest loser to have a scare. >> we take you inside the african-american museum and it's
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new exhibit. >> and as those temperatures climb we're tracking the next round of thunderstorms in your forecast. we'll take a closer look at when it could hit your neighborhood coming up. prodders, shuckersers, and sniffers, [ inhales ] all giant produce is triple checked. farm, crate, and store. we're focusing on fresh... ...so you don't have to guess. my giant.
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a month long celebration of black history month continues with the story of the african-american museum of philadelphia. >> the museum is a treasure trove of african-american history. here's just a sampling. >> the committee was a vital part of the underground railroad. >> reporter: patricia is the president. stories of the african-american experience are the foundation of this remarkable place. >> we're located just two blocks away from the liberty bell so so
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many of our virters come to the museum as part of their exploration of philadelphia's histo history. >> reporter: to brand new photographic exhibits example the contemporary in unique ways. >> one's called harlem, usa. historic look at harlem who is one of the pioneers of african-american photography. we're pairing that with the church of broken pieces. both of those exhibits look at african-american neighborhoods and african-american identities. we can't just talk about culture. we want to talk about art. we want to present the beauty of the african-american experience as well as those really tough stories that come along with our history. >> similar tough stories are being written today for people of all races and in many cases particularly african-americans. >> that's part of our charge. we want to present the story of
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african-americans presence in america in an unvarnished way. that's the only way that we can teach our children the integrity of the story. >> there is so much in that building. we couldn't get it all into that piece but i encourage a lot of folks to go check it out. great place. >> there we go. >> let's get the most accurate weather forecast in town with meteorologist krystal klei. >> march just two days away and we're already enjoying spring-like weather. >> you think we're already in april going to may but temperatures are going to climb once more before we wrap up february. here's a look at some of our delaware neighborhoods. today started the warm-up. you can tell because we're in the 50s instead of the 40s like yesterday. further south you see low to mid-50s as well. some of our beach spots little cooler in the upper 40s thank to some of the cooler air from the
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ocean. overall, though, temperatures climbing over the next couple days. philadelphia 66 tomorrow. and 76 on wednesday. also note the icon. that's when we pull in the thunderstorm. we saw it this weekend after the line of storm moved in and the cold front. 50 thursday and 43 on friday. very similar forecast for dover up to 73 on wednesday and allentown will go from 60 tuesday to 70 wednesday and even at the shore. while it will be a lower forecast 56 to 62 by wednesday and dropping off to those mid-40s to your friday. so we're seeing another up and down on that roller coaster. the problem with the up is the cold front moving through so we have issued a first alert for those storms on wednesday. this will be for all our neighborhoods similar to what we saw on saturday. wednesday afternoon into the evening that we're tracking those storms passing through. strong to severe thunderstorms are in the forecast with severe thunderstorms that means the possibility of damaging wind,
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hail and frequent lightning as well as the heavy rain that comes with that line. let's track it out with your hour-by-hour forecast. starting today we just see clouds that linger overnight. we go through your tuesday morning maybe a few sprinkles along the shore, mostly cloudy but dry day. the first round of rain could see a few spot stronger storms popping up. 10:30 overnight into the early hours of your wednesday. 7:00 a.m. we start to see the next spot area of some thunderstorms developing at 11:00 a.m. on your wednesday but the best chance that comes in later part of the day. 3:00 p.m., there's the line and you see the reds, orange and yellows. that indicates the strongest storms. they pass through and continue even into the nighttime hours on your ten daily on ten. 76 wednesday, there's the drop down 50. we are windy both days. we stay in the low 40s your friday and saturday and we do see another little climb into early next week with another
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chance of showers. >> thank you, krystal. fitness trainer and host of nbc biggest los"biggest loser" is r from a serious heart attack. he was working out a a gym in new york city when he collapsed. a doctor inside the gym performed cpr. the 51-year-old spent eight days in the hospital and still isn't cleared to fly home to california. >> from olympic medals, the oscars shocker for the best picture. what the academies saying today about what went wrong? >> patients privacy concerns. what this bucks county nurse is accused of doing is patients undress?
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>> you probably missed the biggest mistake in awards history. the mistake even had steve harvey offering up support. reports on "moonlight" winning best picture. >> sorry. no. there's a mistake. "moonlight," you guys won best picture. >> the envelope mix-up at the academy awards was almost unthinkable as recently as friday. >> this has never happened, so it's really -- >> you don't want a steve harvey moment. >> but theory became reality for
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the pricewaterhousecoopers account who carries duplicate set of winners envelope into the oscars sundays. >> this is not a joke. "moonlight" has won best picture. >> was reminiscent of steve harvey reading the wrong name of miss universe in 2015. presenters fay dunway were accidentally given the wrong card a duplicate of the won that awarded emma stone best actress earlier. >> i had that card so i'm not sure what happened. >> it's investigating and issued an apologize to the films, presenters and oscars viewers. >> the folks from "la la land" were so gracious. >> it was a moment of grace, a moment of selflessness that we see too little of in america today. >> they were so gracious toward the other winners and i think it
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was a fantastic moment. >> one for ever linking la lands" and "moonlight" in a chaotic and unforgettable chapter of oscar history. >> back to steve harvey. he knows a little something about this kind of mistake. today he tweeted, went to sleep early last night so what did i miss? call me warren beatty. i can help you get through this. you may recall harvey accidentally announced the wrong winner of the 2015 miss universe pathent. >> ard-mile-per-hour native been who cowrote the songs city of stars. the tune took home the oscar for best original song. the 31-year-old thanked his mom who was his date to last night's big event. breaking news in skyforce10. it's where car crashed into a home. take a look at that scene.
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you can see the lights in the distance. the car went into a garage we understand on new castle drive. so far we don't have reports of any injuries but as we get closer you can see that car seemingly in that garage. firefighters around. as soon as we know more about this we'll make sure we get it to you in a live report. >> jim rosenfield and jacqueline london. >> coming up new at six. calls for president trump to do more to address a wave of anti-semitic acts across the nation. the white house is saying after jewish community centers were threatened in our areas and around the country today. >> plus new at six. violating patients. what this bucks county nurse is accuse of secretly doing while patients as young as 17 were getting undressed? >> plus another taste of spring is coming for your work week plus tracking pobably strong to severe thunderstorms in my most accurate first alert forecast.
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>> desecrated grave stones. the latest in what has many concerns about a growing pattern of anti-semitism. >> staying quiet. we're live in washington where calls are growing for president trump to stay and do more to fight this rise in hate. >> plus photographing patients. new at six. a bucks county nurse accused of violating patients' privacy.
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>> announcer: nbc10 news starts now. >> right now at six. a wave of hate around the nation crashes into our area tonight. >> this is so senseless. >> three ploel jewish centers evacuated after threats today. and hundreds of headstones toppled and damaged at a philadelphia jewish cemetery. >> the universe of human rights of our jewish brothers and sisters here were dishonorablered. >> good evening i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm jacqueline london. the fbi has joined the investigation into this cemetery vandalism. >> george spencer is tracking that investigation and he speaks with people whose relatives are buried there. >> reporter: from skyforce10 overhead you could see the cluster of toppled grave markers scattered across this cemetery. on the ground we found some broken at their base, others simply pushed off their foundation. >> it gives you a bad feeling.
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>> reporter: for steve harken the vandalism carries a message. i don't think it's just kids that were doing a prank. the fbi joined the case calling it a civil rights investigation. this jewish cemetery sits in a cluster with several other cemeteries but it was the only one targeted sometime saturday night. nothing of this scale before, though? >> no, no. >> reporter: cemetery administrator in the past any vandalism was just one or two headstones, not the 100 plus discovered yesterday. this cemetery which opened in 1890 has no guard and no security cameras. >> it's a lot of area to put under cc tv. >> many of the overturned tombstones are clustered here away from roads and lights. the entire lot is fenced but as you can see here it certainly's not enough to keep anyon
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