dinardo is under arrest. he's not a suspect in this case, but we do know his family owns several properties where police have been searching for several days. they're under those properties. this is right off route 202. officers just left that scene 30 minutes ago. >> denise nakano is out there with details on this fast-changing situation. denise? >> reporter: i just spoke with investigators. they wrapped up for the night just a few blocks away from here. they'll be back tomorrow morning. they're making progress with a collection of evidence, this as investigators are honing in on one man they took into custody on an unrelated gun charge. the search for four missing young men in bucks county centered on the township. investigators worked into the evening under canopies and tents, setting down police markers. they looked for evidence of the four young men who disappeared within days of each other this past week.

family members stayed within range of the search that utilized heavy machinery in a back field. investigators are looking for any sign that will bring them closer to finding 19-year-old jimmy patrick, 18-year-old dean, 22-year-old mark sturgis and 21-year-old tom mio. the investigation focused on a farm at 2022 new hope. >> we're getting strong indications this is where we need to focus the majority of our resources. >> reporter: it's one of the properties searched the last few days, charge ding dinardo on unrelated gun charges. they searched the road on sunday where mark sturgis' car was found in a home in bensalem earlier today where cosmo dinardo lives. one of the neighbors who asked not to be on camera said the dinardos are like family. sdp >> it's been very difficult. i've been crying all day.ds spot

their missing friend and concerns about his safety. >> he's always got a good spirit. we know our friend is not safe sorks that's all we're worried about. >> reporter: i spoke with mark sturgis' father tonight. he said the family is really struggling and this is the most traumatic thing he's ever been involved with in his life. the district attorney of bucks county will return tomorrow to give a briefing at 11:00 tomorrow. i'm denise nakano, nbc 10 news. >> here's a look at how this mystery started to unfold more than five days ago. jimmy patrick was first reported missing on wednesday. just two days later, tom sturgis, meo and finocchiro were missing. they searched in the township and then it spread to bensalem. we'll bring the latest to you as this mystery unfolds.

signs of alert breaks will be on the nbc app and anything that develops overnight. we have news out of mississippi tonight. 16 people are dead after this military plane crashed a few hours ago. burning metal and a charred crateer crater is all that's left in the field. it is believed to have exploded after taking off from memphis. the weather team has issued a first alert. the radar shows a line of storms that could bring severe weather to our area over the next 18 hours. >> tammy, what is the latest on the timing and impact of these storms? >> let's get right to it. first alert has been issued for pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. originally we did not include the beaches, but at this point it actually looks like some of this might make it to the beaches late tomorrow afternoon and through the early evening. it is going to be between 2:00 and 9:00 tomorrow, so 2:00 in the afternoon and 9:00 tomorrow that we see the potential for

these widely scattered storms to turn severe. we're going to have an atmosphere that's just prime for that. it will be localized wind damage, brief downpours. those are the things we're going to be looking for. we're also going to be dealing with a hot and humidç day, somewhere between 95 and 100 degrees. right now we're taking a look at the doppler radar. we're not seeing much of anything in the philadelphia area, a little ground clutter, a few sprinkles. what we have north and west of the metro area is this line of showers and storms starting to press into the area. well, this is part of what was earlier a line of very severe storms. that has tamed down a bit, but the main body of the system is still to the west of us and it's going to move into our area tomorrow in the afternoon. so i'll break down the timing for all of this when i come back in just a little bit, and we're also going to talk about how ir re -- hot it's going to be. guys? >> be sure to download the nbc 10 app. they'll be posting the latest forecast for your neighborhood there.

you can also track the storms on our interactive radar. this just in, the "new york times" are reporting new details about donald trump jr. and the meeting he attended with the russian lawyer last year. according to the times, trump jr. was told by e mail that the lawyer's information was part of a russian government effort to help his father's candidacy. he told the paper he attended the meeting because he was interested in receiving damaging information about hillary clinton. a lawyer for donald trump jr. says his client has done nothing wrong and pledged to work with investigators if asked. u.s. army says one of its own soldiers is under arrest tonight for trying to help terrorists. sergeant k. k. khang was stationed in hawaii. the army claims he pledged allegiance to isis and tried to provide them with military documents. the fbi said khang was under arrest for more than a year. they believe he was acting alone. in south jersey, shattered glass and broken bricks flew

through a waiting room in a doctor's office after a car barrelled into the wall. it crashed through the wall at 5:00 this evening. the last thing people in the waiting room were expecting to see. >> i was sitting in a chair looking at a magazine and news and happened to look up, and i saw the car come right through the window. it was like, really? this is happening? you hear about it, then you see it. >> luckily no one was sitting in the chairs near the windows. the car was towed away. witnesses said the driver looked okay after the crash and didn't say much. white flowers were placed atop ashes where a mother died in a fiery crash this weekend. a vigil was held for latoya cooper tonight in newcastle county. boards are still covering the hole that her van left in the side of the spca building sunday morning. tonight they said a room inside will be dedicated to cooper when they rebuild. investigators are still trying to figure out how cooper crashed

through the side of the spca that morning. three cats were killed and about 11 were relocated. watch as this postal truck rams into that tree there in center city and then that tree falls just inches from that man on the sidewalk. brandon is where this happened on locust street. you spoke to the postal service tonight. they said they are investigating this incident. >> reporter: that's right, jim, they're looking into this case. the tree was right here. the post office truck was on this side when it hit it going in reverse. all of this unfolded on a busy center city street with multiple million-dollar properties where people exercise, walk their dogs and park their cars. talk about a close call. in this surveillance video, it looks like the u.s. postal truck taps the branch of a tree, knocking it over and missing a man by inches. he quickly jumped out of the way and walks away no one cnchalant.

he showed us where the tree was. >> luckily there was no car here. >> reporter: thompson said the tree was knocked over saturday in 2100 block of locust street. the crew cleaned it up today. >> thank god no one got hurt. >> reporter: thompson still can't believe it. his neighbors can't, either. >> this whole street has a lot of nice trees and we're losing them. >> reporter: did you see anything like this before? >> no. >> reporter: jerry thompson gave us his reason why the tree was so weak and toppled so easily. >> with the amount of dogs in the city, especially in this neighborhood, you have them doing business on the trees. >> reporter: one thing we noticed while out here was just how narrow this sidewalk is. i'm told this tree was about 10 feet and it landed perfectly on the sidewalk. we did find out city street team that will replant trees. live in center city, i'm brandon hugton, nbc 10 news.

a series of text messages reveals new details tonight about the death of a fraternity pledge at penn state. the text messages were shown in court today. the judge must decide if there is enough evidence against the 18 fraternity members facing charges. prosecutors said those students waited 12 hours before getting he piazza. they claim he was the victim of a deadly hazing incident and used several make their case. one said, i don't want to go to jail. hazing a is a huge thing. another one said, be sure the pledges keep quiet about this tomorrow. they're fighting back about a pipeline they claim is ripping up people's backyard. west goshen township has issued a petition against the pipeline. the township is trying to get sunoco to stop construction. sunoco sent nbc 10 an e-mail

saying it is in compliance with the settlement agreement. it's de javu and the governor said he will not sign the budget. lawmakers have been fighting how to make up the revenue. gambling funds and tax increases are all on the table. also tonight, show me the money. a local veterans charity said it was promised thousands of dollars. >> that was almost two years ago. tonight the group is still waiting for that donation. coming up next, the nbc 10 investigators ask philadelphia leaders what happened to that money. plus, back on the field. a former eagle helps a group of young football players bounce back from a devastating break-in. oh, my -- >> mother nature on command. you're going to see how a young girl practically summoned this

light show right outside her window. tami? >> we're tracking storms right here. we could see plenty of that lightning tomorrow. this is just a line of showers from very strong storms earlier this evening. what's behind it is what we're going to be concerned about. come on back and i'll show that to you.

scott brown led the city's veterans advisory commission until late may. >> now george spencer has found a local veterans charity that claims brown broke a promise. >> reporter: at the veterans comfort house in south philly, we saw a kitchen but no cook.

a neatly staffed book shelf but no readers and no residents. the soup kitchen remains nearly at a standstill after this $12,000 donation never materialized. >> for a place like this, it's very important. it's like a million dollars. >> reporter: board member john kime greeted the donation with enthusiasm. it appears to be a personal donation signed in the name of scott and his wife brenda brown and hand-delivered by brown himself. then the director of phillies advisory commission. it carried the names of philadelphia dignitaries. but as months passed, leaders tell us the comfort house kept waiting as brown's promises kept coming. >> mr. brown stood next to me with witnesses and promised me that we would still get that money. >> reporter: that it was still coming. >> yes. >> reporter: board member

bernadette heenan said the whole time leaders feared upsetting the powerful director while they still desperately kneelneeded h funding. >> we as a group felt held hostage. >> reporter: they said they never received even a penny of that promised donation. around the same time this was coming to light, the city president suddenly eliminated brown's job with the city. just days later they said they were setting up a hot line and asked anyone who paid a fee or received any type of service from the philadelphia veterans advisory commission to contact the office. why specifically did you decide is you needed to make changes? >> we make staffing decisions every day. >> reporter: when we pressed for details, the council president who oversees the veterans commission, insisted he couldn't speak about personnel matters. >> there were issues with respect to the operation. there were a couple stories about some things.

he didn't explain what those stories and issues were. for weeks we tried to track down brown himself before getting a call from his attorney who refused comment because he says brown is the target of a da investigation. as for those dignitaries listed in the memo line on that presentation check, the council president was among them. >> reporter: are you able to make sense of it? did you donate money for this? >> not to my knowledge. >> reporter: clark has no explanation for it and confirms he did not give a personal donation to brown. we got the same story when we contacted the office of jerry lindfest, councilman mark brady, councilman mark squila and all the other members we reached out to. meantime in the comfort house, it's a time of transition but also disappointment. >> i think it's wrong. especially veterans. >> reporter: they've given up all hope of getting that $12,000. for the investigators, george spencer, nbc 10 news.

a local youth football team is getting back on the field thanks to some former pros. it's a follow-up to a story we brought you last month. thieves stole helmets, shoulder pads and other equipment out of the team's storage shed. today the nfl players alumni association presented the chester township cougars with a check for $3500. a former eagle was there to present the money. we are tracking storms that could turn severe tomorrow afternoon. >> let's go to chief meteorologist tammie souza for what you can expect. tammie? >> we're watching that in burks county. it's actually moving more northeast right now, off in that direction, than it is toward philadelphia. but it will sag in our direction overnight, so you kind of get the general motion of where everything is going right now. it's staying out of the area but it will start to move in this

direction because you can see it's slowly moving eastward, but it's also start to go faing to apart. this line of storms produced a lot of damage earlier today in parts of the ohio valley and the midwest. this was all associated with a big storm system that is still kicking off severe storms coming out of parts of the midwest and right through ohio where they had a number of tornado warnings earlier today. all of this activity is going to make its way in our direction. what it's associated with is a frontal boundary and this is the first of several little disturbances that are going to move by. watch what happens. as that frontal boundary sag nz our direction, we start to pick up some of these stronger storms and that's going to happen tomorrow in the afternoon. let's time it out for you. watch what happens, here it comes, it's going to sag through. once it's gone, it looks like wednesday will be a decent day. maybe just a few instability showers, but then we get a bit of a break before we hit thursday. thursday will be another busy day. it will abe a hot day tomorrow, too. we get showers coming in

tomorrow night, still well into the 70s after midnight, then tomorrow morning we wake up. we'll be about 83 degrees by 10:00 in the morning. it will be a hot and humid day. here in the afternoon, here comes a few showers and storms making their way through the area. we see that between about 2:00 and perhaps 8:00 or 9:00 tomorrow night. any storm could turn severe, could have heavy rain, could have damaging winds associated with it. now, on wednesday we have some isolated showers. we hit the low 90s, so it is going to be a hot day. not quite as oppressive, though, as we're going to see tomorrow and on thursday. now, as far as the risk, this is sort of our death con of risk. this is where we'll be tomorrow, with a marginal risk. isolated and severe storms are limited in duration, it's limited in coverage, and it will be low damaging winds anywhere from 40 to 60 miles per hour.

89 was our high today. highest wind gusts 29 miles an hour. we should be at 87 this time of year. we are a little bit above that and we're going to feel a lot more above that. today i put us to nice and comfortable. tomorrow we're at oppressive with our feels-like which is going to be between 95 and 100. thursday we'll see a feels-like that will be way up there near the dangerous level above 106 could be the feels-like, the heat index. 94 tomorrow, 92 on wednesday. we could see strong storms tomorrow. a break on wednesday. more strong storms. 97 fire hior a high on thursday. we see that oppressive heat rolling in there. we get a break and a nice weekend to follow. for some kids lightning and thunder can be a scary occurrence. that's not the case for a 10-year-old girl from texas who posted a video on youtube where she even called her own shots. take a listen.

>> lightning strike right in front of me. oh, my -- >> jocelyn sanders' mom said her daughter was watching this storm for about 30 minutes when she predicted the lightning strike. her mom said jocelyn regularly records thunder and lightning. >> that's quite the light show right there. more to come tomorrow. it's not every day people are fighting over a tennis player's sweaty towel. >> that's why this video from wimbledon has gotten so much attention. now we learned the teenager in it is from delaware county. we'll hear from him, next.

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>> he lost this wrestling match of a towel thrown to him by one of his favorite tennis players, jack stock. he told me what finally happehae finally got to meet his hero. >> he got the towel taken away and he said, we've got to get a picture, and he was apologizing. then he opened up his bag and gave me another towel. >> stock also gave peter his autograph and took a picture with him. john? baseball's home run derby. we'll show you how many balls he got. he was fighting for them. and carson went down the shore paddle boarding with his dog. we'll show you the eagle's bonding trip. that is next.

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i'm john clark from csn. the big winner at baseball's home run derby tonight, jlmb. he may have won the derby but you be the judge. jo ellen b. got two baseballs. look how big that hand is. it's like us holding golf balls. pat neshek may be traded before long. he thinks the phillies are closer to being good than all of us think. >> we've lost like 2500 games. if we win half of those, we're right in the thick of it. if we get a guy or two to get those wins, i think there is a good thing in philly. if i'm not there, it might be good, too.

today they worked out and bonded. >> the plan is to go back to north dakota somewhere and bring those guys up there. ♪ >> there's beautiful summers up there. believe it or not, there's beautiful summers. >> we've been here literally the entire time you have. >> it was fun getting together with those guys. country music and redheads. >> a little anchorman theme. i'm john clark. we'll be right back.

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an active day tomorrow. >> mainly in the afternoon is the best chance of some strong storms moving through the area. also very hot and humid. it will feel like 95 to 100. >> we'll see you tomorrow. thanks for joining us. >> 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 -- gal gadot. barry manilow. and featuring the legendary