o.j. simpson did his time for the crime. he appeared contrite as he apologized for the robbery that put in prison in the first place. he just wanted his stuff back, but he says he wishes he made different choices. >> it's been nine years making no excuses about anything. i. am sorry that things turned out the way they did. i had no intent to commit a cri crime. i do have some real friends. >> one of his robbery victims testified today. he said he's been aen friend of o.j.'s for more than 25 years and said he never pulled a gun on him and he thinks o.j. served enough time. o.j. served nine years of his sentence which had a maximum of 33 years. it has been about 20 years, more than that, since the imfa mouse

chase. he was a fame football player and led police on a chase after the murder of his ex-wife. simpson is hired a dream team of lawyers to defend him in the highly publicized trial in 1995. a jury found him not guilty in the murder of nicole brown anden ronald goldman. a new generation got a chance to relive the trial the past year. "the people vs. o.j. simpson" aired with cuba gooding jr. playing the role of simpson. he made america ab oscar for the trial of the century. one of the prosecutors in simpson's original trial talked about the decision by the parole board. >> the fact that he's 70 years old, 70-year-olds tend to not be e resit vous in terms of violent crimes. so the world and miami is a little safer because o.j. simpson is 70. >> "nbc nightly news" with lester holt will go in-depth

with christopher dar don and team corring the relows. that's after our news at 6:00. o.j. simpson grant ed parole. he'll get out of prison in october. he plans to move to florida to spend time with his family. keith jones, nbc 10 news. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with the dangerous heat. we spoke to a a doctor who said there have been extra patients coming in with heat illnesses today. these guy hs to be extra careful as they worked outside in center city. a lot of breaks and lot of water a must. several people were forced to wait outside in the heat when they were evacuated from the pepsi building in northeast philly. sky force 10 was over the scene late this morning. people at the beach aren't get ing much relief from the heat. you see them on the beach there and a lot of people in the surf as well. our first alert team is working for you helping you beat this

heat across pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. >> let's begin our team coverage with tammie souza. >> it's dangerous out there. we talked about it for several days. it's a cumulative effect. so this heat gets more and more dangerous. we have the first alert continuing for pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. everybody is under a warning, advisory or now the city is under a heat emergency. the feels like temperature is easily between 100 and 110. e we saw a few today near 114 was the feels like temperature. heat exhaustion and heatstroke can set in quickly. right now it's actually 95 in philadelphia. 93 in dover. 92 in vineland. it feels like 113 in dover when you factor in the moisture. it feels like 98 in

philadelphia. so they are not getting much relief at the beaches. the biggest thing we have to be concerned with is is the overnight lows. they are not really going to be refreshing. 78 will be the overnight low in philadelphia, but it's going to feel well into the 80s. we're going into another day of intense and dangerous heat tomorrow. we'll talk more about that and the the chance for thunderstorms to kind of break all this heat when i come back in a few minutes. while parents are at work and kids are at camp and it's a a conscious effort to e key them cool, let's go live to cydney long in medford lake. balancing safety and fun is a tall task when fooel dealing with the extreme and oppressive temperatures. for families out here enjoying a beach day here or campers downstream, it's top priority.

at the jcc camps in medford, there's safety in numbers. with 1300 campers, 600 staff and mother nature making it feel like 100 degrees, how does that it feel? so there's some planning involved. >> we always talk about if it's a super hot day and how many shade accommodations they need to make. >> in the midst of the heat wave, it's carnal day. >> going on bounce houses. >> it's all about the water. splashing in from the water slide, jumping and diving or just sneaking below the surface. balancing on the polar bear and other inflatables is fun too. don't forget this this kind of water. not just at lunchtime. but giant jugs at every turn. >> i feel thirsty because the weather is really hot. >> we have someone designated for ice and water. his job is to drive around and

replenish all the water and ice all day long. >> there's water, ice and plenty of shady areas. these may feel a drop it cooler. >> we have laser tag with super soakers. nurses are on standby and alert. they have their own golf cart to be as responsive to anyone overcome by the heat. >> and while the beaches across the deval lee fold in the added layer of heat, this blanket of heat they are also folding in extra sets of eyes in lifeguards on the water. more on that coming up at 5:30. for now live in medford lakes, cydney long, nbc 10 news. >> if you are too hot and need help, call the heat line. the number is on your screen. the corporation for ageing will have people standing by to help until midnight tonight. that line will also be open

tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. until 11 p.m. have the nbc 10. app with you to find out where the cooling centers are in your neighborhood. we posted them county by county and how to recognize the symptoms of heat exhaustion and heatstroke. >> to this now, john mccain is reaching out to supporters for the very first time since the announcement of his brain cancer diagnosis. >> he's thanking his well wishers and colleagues doo. let's go back to keith jones with what he's saying about the future. >> today the arizona senator and former republican presidential candidate took to twitter and wrote, i greatly appreciate the outpouring of support. unfortunate ly for my sparring partners in congress, i will be back soob. standby. he said nobody saw the diagnosis coming.

>> i started getting emotional because i can't think of anything i have done politically and in many ways personally that was worth doing without john. >> e he said above all else, mccain's passion is having a voice for his country. mccain is a a type of brain tumor. typically doctors treat it with radiation and chemo, but the cancer tends to return. neurologists says the senators questioning during the james comey hearing was an indicator that something was wrong. >> i think it would arouse my curiousty of the president of the united states said we had that thing, owe know. >> he was interviewing jim comey one month ago and his line of questioning and reasoning was very confusing. and that was definitely the first sign of his problem.

so the first indication is speech. >> about 15 to 18 months with standard treatment. but new treatments are in the pipeline including new drugs. there are clinical trials for new medicine that boosts the body's immune sl. we'll see which path they choose to go. live in the breaking news center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. >> senator mccain is scheduled to receive the liberty medal in october. that award honors men and women who have worked to secure liberty for people across the world. joe biden will present the award. he tweeted his support last night. incredible progress in cancer research and treatment in just the last year offers new promise and new hope. you can win this fight, john. nbc 10's lauren mayk spoke with the director of senator mccain's 2008 presidential campaign. what he is saying about the senator's diagnosis is ahead at

5:00. new details about a shooting involving police officers last night. within the last 40 minutes, we learned a man has been charged with attempted murder and can show you what the shooting looks like. today septa police relowsed video from body cameras. when officers arrived on east somerset street, they found a man holding a gun to a woman's neck. that street erupted in gunfire. this is only some of that video. the police chief said he wanted to release the footage so the community could see and hear some of what led police to shoot. >> three septa officers fired at the suspect. that suspect was shot in his right shoulder and both legs. the shooting is under investigation.

20 minutes of nonstop news continues with the site of the bucks county killing spree. . the parents of one of the accused killers. >> sky force 10 was over the property in morning where police and federal investigators search one final time before they packed up. deanna durante is joining us lye from there now this afternoon. investigators may have closed this chapter, but their work is not over yet. >> there's much more to do in the case. e we sat down with the police chief who says his department is not a small one, but they were working around the clock along with state and federal investigators. they do want to say thank you. >> we weren't preparing for something like this or the magnitude of people we had. >> the task of unearthing was tough enough. the sheer number of law enforcement, heat and around the clock work. police say they needed

everything from food to portable toilets and askeden community members to step up. >> the water we probably got i would say upwards of 300 to 400 cases of water from the public and different stores and outlets. >> the the police chief believed he worked in philadelphia and chester county. e he spent every waking minute at this farm alongside the families of those killed. investigators, some who gave up vacation to help in the search. >> it's not supposed to happen here. >> at first residents showed fooer afraid of what happened. they came to him locking for answers. he wasn't able to give them. >> this is not the form for this area at all. they were locking for closure and reasons and reasons why. l really couldn't give them any of that. >> the chief says he's grateful for the fire department and

people who wanted to bring food to the scene. it went to help feed and hydrate those who were working as well as the families of those who lost their lives. he also says from the bottom of his heart, he wishes he could tell everyone thank you. deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> loved ones gathered this morning to say a final farewell to one of the victims of the killing spree. a funeral mass was held for 21-year-old tom meo. another victim will be remembered tonight at a service in bucks county. the memorial gathering begins at 7:00 p.m. at fleur funeral home. the digital team continues to work every angle of this major story. to read more about the suspect's criminal mihistory, tap the nbc0 app. nbc 10 has brand new surveillance video of a woman climbing into the driver's seat of a cab before she took it for a joyride. at one point police say she

picked up a few passengers including a woman and her toddler. steven fisher is live at this station where that it cab can was stolen. >> it did happen here in the parking lot. i want to draw your attention to this surveillance camera. it shows the cab driver helping his customer and the customer steal ing his car and no good deed goes unpunished. >> reporter: e he walks her to the atm and become outside to the parked cab. over the next hour and got bizarre. the driver and the the woman were just off camera around the back of the cab. around 11:30 after arriving, you can see this woman is visibly upset and started pounding on the hood of the cab.

>> that woman wasn't done after stealing that cab. >> she picked up the female as a fare. she not only stole the cab, but then it it was acting as a cab driver and picking up passengers. >> a half hour after the cab was stolen, police found the driver in the cab outside the 25th district. but she wasn't alone. she picked up a 23-year-old woman and 10-month-old baby. >> a young mother says people can't just assume when it comes to ride sharing. >> you have to be aware of your surroundings when you're hopping in the car with strangers. >> pretty unusual job to steal a cab and pick u passengers like you're a cab driver. >> nobody was hurt and police will be checking to see if the woman was under the influence of any time last night. she has been charge d with

stealing that cab. >> a man who shot a police officer seven times will spend decades behind bars. the officer survived and is back ob the streets patrolling. they call him a career criminal and randy gyllenhaal will have reaction from the fellow officers. e he'll have that part of the the story new at 5:00. >> happening right now, the city board of judges is vote oingts choice for district attorney. there are 13 candidates. urged support they will replace seth williams. he pled guilty last month. today jeff sessions says he will continue to do his job

despite trump. he said in a "new york times" interview he would never have appointed sessions as attorney general if he knew he would recuse himself on the russia investigation. >> sessions should have never recused himself. and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told e me before he took the job. >> once sessions stepped down, ts the justice department selected robert mueller as special counsel to investigate russian interference in the 2016 election. now this morning, attorney general jeff session was asked to respond to the president. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general. i have something that goes yobd any thought i would have had for myself. e we love this job. we love this department and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> in the meantime, the president defended his son's

meeting with a russian lawyer, but trump repeated he did not know about the meeting at the time and did not need the russians help with getting any dirt on hillary clinton. >> but that if he had known he probably would have said go ahead and do it. >> former campaign manager paul manafort is on the witness list to testify next week. >> another day of dangerous heat and trying to stay safe and keep cool. >> take itting a life look at the skyline from our camera at lincoln financial field. >> we are not getting relief from the heat. >> i'm going to go over what we have in place. what we're looking at, as far as the feels like, we are actually

locking at temperatures that the feels like is hot. i'm going to dive on in here. for tomorrow the neighborhood, this is what we're looking at. in philadelphia, the temperature between 9 7 and 94. and that feels like is going to be in the mid-and upper 90s. . in the suburbs tomorrow, we're locking at the 90s with a feels like in the 90s and allentown, look at that. 93 and 93. so maybe not quite as bad tomorrow, but it's still going to feel intense.

it is accumulative. it's still out there. it's wearing you down. we also have a code orange. this is unhealthy air once again. for the elderly, anyone with respiratory illnesses, take it easy outside. that's something you want to keep an eye on. right now, we also have a rip current threat. if you're going out to the beaches, be aware of that. follow what the lifeguards say. don't swim alone. pay attention because we do have a moderate threat along all of our new jersey beaches. now let's take a look at what's going on as far as perhaps the radar out there. . we have a couple showers and storms that have tried to. pop up in the area. not a whole lot going on right now across the area. you can see the beams sweeping, but it's also in the north ask west. if we slide that way, you can get a pretty good idea that we have this line of very strong storms coming in toward our area. in fact, a lot of that activity is going to turn severe possibly by the time that we e get into

saturday. tornado reported in places like buffalo today. so we have to keep an eye to the sky for saturday. so let's take a lock at what's going to go on over the next ten days for you. we're basically going to cook again tomorrow. we have this emergency in place. heat emergency for the city. the excessive heat warning for the suburbs. and we are going to see 97 tomorrow. dangerous heat with a feels like at times that could exceed 100 degrees. 92 on saturday with those strong thunderstorms coming in in the afternoon and evening. 90 on sunday. then we see some showers and storms scouring out the air. it becomes pleasant by the time we get to tuesday. >> back to you. >> a local student's life forever changed after a night of partying two years ago. >> why the student's family says the fraternity turned its back on a brother and how they are seeking justice. fueling the real estate market? take a closer look at lebding

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want to take you to breaking news in new castle county. 12 people including children are hurt after a school bus crash hear in delaware city. the bus has been removed from the scene, but you see that other vehicle involved in that crash and the debris on the side of the road. sky force 10 flies over the scene. it happened around 3:30 on river roads. the fire department says none of

the injuries is considered very serious. but 12 hurt after the school bus crash there. gender reveals are the hot new trend for parents, but sometimes they don't quite go as planned. >> that mom is okay. the baseball reveal was hit right back in her face. the ball was supposed to reveal blue or pink chalk, but the ball never burst. the couple is expecting a baby boy in december. >> can't we just make things simple. >> the gender reveal parties are cool, but that's a little dangerous. >> be careful out there. >> our hot stretch of weather continues. we're not getting any relief from the heat until next week. >> we have an excessive heat warning in place and heated a voiz ris.

i'll be back to tell you how it's going to affect your neighborhood and when we can expect some relief. and a lesson on lending. what buyers need to know about their finances before hitting the market for a new house. also saving money on your meal, the new app that just launched in our area that's b meant to keep cash in your pocket when you go out to eat at 5:00.

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we won't see any relief from the heat until next week at the earliest. >> we're keeping you prepared for any dangers to keep a look out for. >> tammie souza has more on the excessive heat warning. it's not letting loose any time soon. it's for all of pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. if you're in the city of philadelphia, you have a heat emergency. this is through 11:00 tomorrow night. the heat is being absorbed into the pavement and really warming up and held in the pavement. feels like is 110 at times. we have even seen it higher than that in some places. the heat exhaustion and heatstroke is our biggest concern for all of you. hydrate, wear comfortable clothes, stay in the shade, air-conditioning if you can. perz only early in the morning. the pets are not used to the

heat. 102 in vineland. feels like 98 in philadelphia. we'll be back to let you know when this is going to break in just a few minutes. >> all this week, we have been looking at what's driving the red hot housing market in the delaware valley. >> we turn to lending and how interest rates are adding fuel to what's going on. erin coleman is here now. we know interest rates are low. that has a lot of people wanting to buy right now. >> but the problem is getting the mortgage to be able to take advantage of those low interest rates. sometimes that's easier said than done. >> reporter: they are on the hunt for the perfect home. e we first introduced you to them earlier this week. >> i think we have beenen frpt

th fortunate. >> particularly when it comes to financing. >> if peoplen aren't ready, they are losing the house. >> a loan officer with britain mar trust. with a hot housing market where homes are selling within hours of being listed, the difference between getting a home and mis. ing out is in the the numbers. buyers need to know how much they can can can afford and get prequalified before starting their search. maybe they have to get their down payment funds togts. >> what buyers are looking a at now is interest rates are e low. it's a good time to stop renting and start buy iing. >> the president of the greater philadelphia realtors association says low inventory and high prices means the market is is tight. so buyers have to be prea pa paired.

even then it can get frustrating. >> there might be three or four other people competing for the same thing. >> but getting that mortgage to be able to compete at all may be tougher than you think. >> lenders are very hesitant to make any loans because they are not sure they are going to get paid back. so they are tightening up. you need to have a credit score that shows no dings on your record. >> reporter: that's where staying local in some cases can help. >> you're working with a local lender, i happen to know where all the grant programs are. so people can get money for down payment assistance in closing costs. we have $10 million we have allocated to lend for people. that's all new to the industry. >> for some people buying right now is not an option. having enough money for a down payment is is even harder because the housing prices are high. it's forcing more people to rent. we are taking a closer look at

the rental market and what's happening there because of the housing market. tomorrow it's all wrapped up together. >> a a huge domino effect. >> that was one thing that i thought was interesting. they know where to go. they know about the grant programs and say sit down and have a face to face meet iing i you can. it may help. >> they trust you. >> get to know them, exactly. here's a look at the other stories we're following county by county at 4:00. bucks county police need your help to find a man accused of trying to lure children into his car. it happened monday evening. police say the suspect approached a 12 and 13-year-old boy and tried to get them to go to another fishing so the. spot. some local firefighters braved the heat to help their neighbors. firefighters handed out fire

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activity limit access weight gain, as you might imagine. it also e lowers the risk of having a c-section. we have an excessive heat warning in place also some advisories and heat emergency. look at the numbers behind me. it feels like triple digits. when that's going to go away in your first alert forecast coming up. when the kids are away, the adults will play. the grown ups only party tonight at lego land in montgomery county. plus the reason for smiles, tears and cheers during a a special surprise at school. that story new at 5:00. ♪ end of throat surgery. guided you through recovery. joe tastes just as sweet to us, as it does to you. we join you.

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the cost of a a college education continues to climb. rutgers is the latest school to approve a tuition hike. it will cost 1.85% more for in state undergraduates.

that's $266 more a year starting this fall. students living on campus will now pay just over $27,000 per year. >> a local family is filing a lawsuit against a fraternity. the suit claims a boy almost died and has permanent injuries from 2015. the suit says fraternity brothers did not call for help for almost ten hours after he was injured. this comes as 18 students at penn state face criminal charges following the death of a fraternity member there. timothy piazza died in february. he fell down the stairs in the frat house after a night of drinking. prosecutors say students waited hours before they called for help. so checking your facebook feed could end up costing you money. you could be charge d for readig news articles. facebook is working on ways for news organizations to charge readers. the site says the plan right now would be to charge you after you

read ten articles from one organization on facebook. facebook is expected to start a pilot program in october. lego land is giving adults a chance to be a kid again. they are hosting a lego night. >> they will get the chance to experience all ten lego play zones and meet a a master builder. it's at the plymouth meeting. >> that's remarkable. >> i loved legos. i want to build something. i wasn't putting together anything like that. >> talk about our weather. dangerous heat out there. a live look at the spray park. >> is the water even on?

>> it's still wet right now. there's a girl enjoying it. >> anything to cool off. >> i have to tell you when you showed the lego pictures. that was all water scenes. and the water was on there. you have to seek relief anywhere you can get it. let's take a lock at what's going on in ocean city. no relief at the beach unless you're in the water. it feels like 101. the dew point at 70 degrees. 9 a 5 degrees and it feels like 90 and delaware has just been a cooker all day long. 93 right now in wilmington. feels like 101. dew point at 72. let's go ahead and look closer at what's going on in delaware. generally we're looking at the feels like temperature of 101. look at nu yark. it's 107 at the feels like.

meadow glen, 106. you feel like 103. and e we get out here towards lewis beach and because of the direction of the wind, you're getting a a little bit of relief. you feel like 91. so maybe there are a few places at the beach that are comfortable. stay inside. or the shade. r or turn on the air-conditioning. stay hydrated. wear light colored clothes and sunscreen and exercise early. the only thing is special care for the pets. shade and fresh water. everything is quiet across the area. we don't see them popping up like we did yesterday. across pennsylvania, we see storms jgenerating. we'll see them die off tonight. e we may see something clipping the northwest area up toward the

po poconos. but that's about it. it's going to be saturday that we're watching for storms to roll through here. so tomorrow we're going to roll right into the mid-90s. we won't see much in the way of showers or storms. saving that for saturday. it will be late in the day. still be in the 90s on saturday. we could get strong storms making their way to our area. >> where to get relief, not the city. 97 is going to be the high tomorrow in the city. 90 along the jersey shore. 92 on saturday. 85 on the jersey shore. the chance of a thunderstorm, 90 on sunday. 85 on sunday. we're locking a at monday, 87 and 81. take a look at your tuesday. that spells relief. 77 along the shore. guys? >> speaking of hot, one of the hottest places in the area now in the delaware state fair.

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the dangerous heat has people sweating it out at the delaware state fair. >> tim furlong explains now why

he spent the day there. >> last noigt at 11:00, you're going to feel like 103. >> i thought away at the folks horror for the delaware state fair. morgan is a fan of his new fan. the animals like their fans too. even the bigs know the deal about staying hydrated. their owners taking extra special care of them on days like this. >> they are running around trying to keep pens clean. >> reporter: what about the strategy for humans? >> drinking water. >> keep the fans moving and the products selling. >> reporter: the crew in the moose lodge booth slaving over the hotter grill making their moose ears. >> it's heaven on a stick. >> almost too hot for the deep fried oreos. don't choose the hot coffee when you can go iced. >> ahead of a lovely girl.

>> reporter: it's never too hot to meet the snake lady. >> 138.2 degrees. >> reporter: this heat is e legit. even though everyone is having fun, you have to take the threat seriously. the rides don't even open until after 5:00. that's a good. thing. the ride operator says on days like this they have to be extra careful. sometimes the seats on the rides get too hot for kids' legs. it will be hot for the shows, but with a little plans and a dash of common sense, you'll have plenty of fun at the state fair. tim furlong, nbc 10 news. stay cool, everybody. we're working on several stories for 5:00. >> here are keith jones and erin coleman. >> he shot an officer and was sentenced to possibly 100 years in prison. >> we'll hear from the officer himself. wait until you hear what he thinks of the sentence. and we still have dangerous heat out there. it will continue for the next couple days.

it will be even warmer tomorrow. we'll talk about that when i come back. what better way to stay cool than playing bingo in the air-conditioning. i'm rosemary connors. coming up at 5:00, we're checking on our senior citizens in this heat. >> and these teens are ecstatic about tens of thousands of dollars coming their way. the reward they have earned for what they are doing in our community new at 5:00. ♪

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first alert for excessive heat is in effect. scorching temperatures feel like they are in the triple digits. granted parole after nine years behind bars. o.j. simpson will be freed from a nevada prison. the moment that caught everyone off guard. >> it's sentencing day for a man who riddled a police officer with bullets. why the punishment doesn't fit the crime. >> it doesn't take much to work up a a sweat in the sweltering heat. temperatures feel like the triple digits out there. >> taking a live look at the plaza in center city. if you're heading outdoors this evening, it's important to keep water handy in this extreme heat. no water popping up there right now. good evening, i'm erin coleman. >> we have team coverage of this dangerous heat wave. rosemary connors shows us how

people are coping with the places in heat. >> we're going to see several more days in the 90s. it's going to linger through tonight and tomorrow night. we have issued a first alert for this dangerous heat. this is for the entire area. pennsylvania, new jersey, delaware, city of philadelphia. >> it could be between 110 at times. in parts of delaware, heat exhaustion and heatstroke are the main concerns and tough pace yourself because there's an accumulative effect. it builds up day after day. right now 94 in philadelphia. 89 in vineland. 93 in dover. 94 in trenton. we're down to 94 in atlantic city. let ho