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the wounded. >> everything shut down immediately. my husband heard people talking, trying to figure out what their next move was. >> she spoke to us over facebook. she decided to keep their family in their rented home four blocks away. their plans to go to a festival scrapped. >> police are outside. police are being very vigilant. a lot of streets are closed off. they are not permitting anybody in the major plazas. >> spanish investigators call this a clear act of terror. they have already made arrests. isis is claiming responsibility. >> last year i was this nice and there was also car attack. >> reporter: outside a spanish restaurant in philadelphia, european tourists told us they're not surprised. >> i think it's getting more popular for terrorists. >> reporter: with four days left in her vacation, she says she wants her family to be safe.

>> it's a very unsettlining feeling. >> they told the people not to be alarmed if they hear controlled exemployes. th explosions. jim. >> drew smith, thank you. president trump went on twitter to respond to the attack in barcelona. he wrote the united states condemns the terror attack and will do whatever is necessary to help. barcelona is the latest european city to experience a terror attack carried out using a vehicle. dozen have died in france, germany, sweden and great britain. we have seen it here in the u.s. as well after a car plowed into a group of protesters in charlottesville charlottesville, virginia. police put up barricades. >> reporter: they used buses. they have since left. in cities like philadelphia they use buses, other vehicles and

these flower pots that you see across the street to prevent those type of vehicle attacks. you can see the dinner on block party that was going on behind us at franklin square. it's the same buses that dropped the people off here that protected them. now they proceeded, i will say some people got dropped off here at franklin square. europe had its fair share of attacks. bigger american cities disguise their barricades to prevent those kind of attacks.

they have been using the barricades and flower pots since 2007. abc 10 news. >> as we get new information on the terror attacks in spain, be first to know by signing up for breaking news alerts. download the abc 10 app and we'll send them to your phone. we'll get live coverage here on nbc 10. look for her reports starting tomorrow. turning now to your first alert weather. the radar shows lev rain and storms just outside our region. that rooifs here tomorrow. our weather team has issued a first alert. >> this first alert is for the entire area. it's going to come at different times. 2:00 p.m. and the areas north and west. all the way to 11:00 p.m. down

towards cape may as the line of thunderstorms moves on shore. tropical downpours, frequent lightning and strong gusty winds. it will be a lot of rain. it will be localized flooding with some of these downpours. you can see on the radar we have thunderstorms already in pennsylvania. there's mplenty more back to th west. as we go through the rest of the night we may see some showers or remnants of those storms in central pennsylvania before daybreak. much of the morning is on the drier side. clouds will increase. it's going to be incredibly humid during the day tomorrow. the feels like temperatures going up into the upper 90s to near 100 degrees. you can see the threat of thunderstorms across much of the area for much of the day. look at dedelaware. feels like temperature over 100 degrees.

we'll have more on those thunderstorms and the rest of the weekend forecast in a few minutes. the eagles flew away with the win. you saw it only on nbc 10. fans excited to have it back home. the gates opened and fanned started running to their seats. they had to love this win. >> reporter: no question about it. it was a football night. the birds get the win 20-16. somewhat of an ugly game but for some of the younger first time fans it was nothing short of a party. fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, first timers and. >> just pretty much my second time coming to an eagles game. >> reporter: we ran into >> reporter: we ran into 8-year-old adançw/

>> what do you think of carson? >> well, he's a good player. sometimes i think he does bad things. >> makes me remember the days with hi dad. it's a little different now. i love it. he loves it. we surprised him. he couldn't get changed quick enough today. >> reporter: from the concourse to the stands. high energy for the pre-season home opener. unless you're young brentley here. >> he's excited. he's kind of shy right now. >> can you give me a go eagles? >> say go eagles. >> reporter: he's a little puckered out. one person that wasn't, nbc 10 visika. eagles alum were recognized. what does he do? he starts throwing hands. he's a former boxer. you might remember back in 1992

against the new york football giants, up at the meadow lands taking a punt return to the house. 87 yards and up against that goal post. can't miss. next game, august 24th. that's next thursday opinion birds take on the dolphins right here. that's where we're live. keith jones, nbc 10 news. also coming up in sports, john clark has more highlights. we'll hear from carson on his thoughts of the game. the dolphins come to lincoln financial field. for the second week in a row the eagles malcolm jenkins held up his fist during the national

anthem. he promised to kocontinue the protest from last season. he and his tell me mate chris long criticized the president this week for his response to the violence in charlottesville. long did not hold up his fist during tonight's anthem but did put his arm an jenkins. president trump did not address charlottesville directly today but he did reignite the debate over confederate statues and memories. he wrote removing them was foolish and an attack on america's history and culture. more cities around the country are tackling this debate. white supremacists groups marched around the statue of robert e. lee and protested plans to move it elsewhere. several groups are calling for the removal of the frank rizo statue. those against the statue say the former mayor and police chief

was racist and should not be celebrated. yesterday man was arrested for throwing eggs at the statue. last night protersters gathered outside chanting tear it down. the artist said erase whing wha don't like about the past is not a good idea. >> let's get rid of the sculpttures of people that didn't like in life or that we don't approve of. that's a bit of a dangerous place to go. up next, face-to-face. the family of a road rage victim confronts the man accused of killing her. don't look down. how family relives the terrifying moments. a bridge began to open while they were driving over it. it's going be a wet friday. what about the weekend? see when the skies clear up in your neighborhood, next.

the family of a teenager shot and killed in a road rage confrontation came face-to-face with the man. investigators say the two played o high speed cat and mouse game as they merged into the same lane on route 100. today 50 of roberson's family and friends showed up. there were only 12 seats. >> never made contact. took our daughter's life. >> we lost a good soul. >> today he waived his preliminary hearing. he's due back in court next week. a follow up to a story we broke here on nbc 10 today. two men pleaded guilty to defrauding new jersey and health insurers out of $25 million. authorities say they used a network of recruiters, doctors and state and local employees to

get reimbursed for phony and unneeded prescriptions. pharmaceutical representative pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud. he admitted to fwgetting more tn $11 million. if you see someone going into an abandoned building in camden police want you to call them. there's about 1500 empty buildings in the city. boarded up windows and doors aren't keeping people out. the properties are magnet for crimes and safety hazards rp. maybe you crossed a drawbridge before but imagine crossing one when the road beneath you starts to rise. that's what's happened to family vacationing at the shore. they were traveling on the middle thoroughfare fridge when the bridge started to open. the family feared their car would fall backwards or worse into the water below. >> i said to my husband, i think the bridge might be opening.

>> i don't know why. i don't know what made me do it. i don't know how it went from my brain to my foot. it did. it was an immediate reaction. >> his reaction to punch the gas. they made it to the other side but the impact bent the frame of their car. according to police radios were not working and the bridge operator was blinded by sun glare. some good news for septa riders. the transit agency is offering new digital services. commuters have access to free high speed wi-fi along with ten new interactive kiosks that offer realtime transit information. check out this video.

it's an example of what their days were like. they were assigned a treat. they set up games and act as block supervisorsupervisors. learning that lead and create meaningful relationships. back to our weather. it's about to feel like florida. dangerous storm will be moving in. that's why we're assuring the first alert. glen has a look at what's coming our way. >> i think tomorrow will be the most uncomfortable day that we've had this summer, at least in the form of humidity. the flags are showing it. the southeast wind are just pushing that florida like air up here. that's going to help set up the stage for the storms. first alert for the strong storms for the entire area starting early afternoon in the lee high valley and ending friday evening down toward the shore. tropical downpours could be localized brief flooding.

we have somt showers and thunderstorms in central pennsylvania already. more back to the west. it's a pretty vigorous system. you can see the spin in the upper atmosphere. that's proof that it's a pretty strong system. as we go into the day tomorrow, we're starting off pretty quiet. it may be around and very humid. then any sunshine is going to help this line of thunderstorms intensify. there's 2:00 right by the lee high valley. as we go to 4:00, 4:30 it's come into northern and western suburbs. by 5:00 to 6:00 into the philadelphia area. could get pretty nasty here. gusty winds with this. as we go through tomorrow evening, this computer model is just crushing areas of southern

delaware and jersey shore. that would be enough to cause flooding in those areas. they may get hit the hardest out of this. as we go through the night and into saturday morning it's out of here. feels like temperature in the morning not too terrible. by 4:00 in the afternoon computer models are showing some places feeling like over 100 degrees. we haven't seen numbers like that in a while. that's just the one day. the humidity will be down somewhat on saturday and sunday. still kind of hot. kind of humid but it's august. at least the showers and thunderstorms from tomorrow are not in the forecast for the next couple of days. the shore is going to be seeing some pretty good weather too. still looking pretty good for the eclipse.

it may be clouds in some areas that are expecting to see a total eclipse. this is the tropics very active. you can see all of these weather systems here. got a tropical storm harvey. there's the caribbean. it's going right in there. that's something that we're going to have to be watching over the next several days. the tropics have become very active. >> all right. want to go to some breaking news in center city. you're looking down on the statue of frank rizzo. we have just learned the statue has opinion vandbeen valundaliz. someone spray painted the statue pm can't make out what is written there. police officers are nearby. we understand we have seen that on camera at times. again, some people have been calling for the removal of this statue saying the former mayor

and police chief was a racist. back to the eagles now. they win their first pre-season home game and the birds newest player had quite a night. we'll hear from him in a live report.

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john clark talking to players about the big win. >> reporter: they won their first pre-season game at home. he was not the star of the game. we will hear from him coming up next in sports.

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i'm john clark. the eagles win their first pre-season game at home. they beat the bills 20-16. a late touchdown. you got to love mike trout. how dedicated of fan is mike trout? it's pre-season. he was sitting here in the front. his angels play in baltimore tomorrow. he wanted to see the debut of jeffrey.

it's very important to get this time down. the eagles had four drives for the starters. three were sluggish. the last one was good. carson was 5 of 6 for 50 yards. doug petersonlikes what he sees. >> his route running. he's a big target. we missed on him early a couple of times. we were able to come back to him later in that hurry up tempo drive. he's going to be one we get into a rhythm of the game. obviously a big presence out there. i was excited to see him in live action tonight. >> how about ronald darby. he was with the bills last friday morning he was traded here to the eagles. take a look at this. in his debut shady shook him a little bit. he had a pass defense. he had a big interception. very, very impressive for ronald

darby. hopefully the side of the field he covers will be known as darby burrough. very impressive. here is ronald darby after the game. >> i just wanted to come out there and play fast. i knew it was my debut. i wasn't expecting them to try me as much. they were coming after me. i wanted to make a good first impression and build from that. >> take a look. the most impressive running back for the eagles, corey clemons. it was a good homecoming. he bought 200 cheese steaks for

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: back to our breaking news. the statue of frank rizzo has been vandalized. it was spray painted tonight. we see police officers and vehicles there on the scene. this amid calls for the statue to be removed because some feel the former police chief was

racist and should not be celebrated. tonight the statue was vandalized by spray paint. eggs have been tossed at the ta chew in statue in recent days. tomorrow will be a different kind of day. it's going to be the most hue mid day of the summer and some strong storms coming through during the afternoon and evening hours. that sets us up for a dry weekend. kind of hot, kind of humid but not nearly as humid as friday and decent weather for the eclipse monday. by the time the eagles play next thursday start getting comfortable. >> better than tonight. >> heat an humidity. that's our news. have great 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 -- rami malek, kathryn hahn,