for them to kind of make their way through the storms. so all of these storms are making their way more north than east. they will make their way through philadelphia. the loigt yellow is the severe thunderstorm watch. that's until 9:00 tonight. the darker yellow, that's where we have the warnings for all of you in the lehigh valley and berks county. that's until 5:00. we're actually going to probably see these extend ed at this point. you can see it includes allentown and richmond. i'm going to put a fan as to where it's going. we will see reading and in all of this. we'll see this moving off to the south and east. and this includes 60 mile an hour winds and nickel-sized hail. that's something you want to make sure you get indoors and avoid. when these rumble through, nobody wants to be outside.

they are very potent storms. the ones we were concerned about are just off to the east of allentown and approaching read ing. we'll talk about the storms when i come back in a few minutes. a child immigration program, jeff sessions announced the daca program will end in six months. it allows 280 undocumented immigrants who came here as children to work or attend school. that's actually more than 800,000. sessions argued the program enacted by president obama in 2012 was an executive overreach.

>> that would be an open borders policy and the american people have rightly rejected that. >> the trump administration will stop considering new applications for the program dated after tuesday. but any daca recipients with a permit set to expire before march 5th of 2018 can apply for a two-year renewal. congress has six months to take action that could potentially save the program. today's announcement affects thousands of people across our area. >> new at 5:00, tim furlong met with local students in delaware who are enrolled in daca. pz. >> reporter: around this big table, a bunch of dreamers. university students who just got the news that daca is going away. >> we're not just americans on paper. >> reporter: these students brought to the united states

when they were very young have gone on to be very successful. we are told all of them earn hoi grades and are leaders on campus. they say this country is their home. >> every single day from elementary school, we got up put on our hands ob our hearts and said the pledge of allegiance. >> reporter: they have their back. they also have fatherly advice from senator tom carper who is promised to fight with them down in washington. >> so i would say chin up. a lot of people care about you. >> reporter: today's news has shaken these students. their b parents might have brought them here illegally, but they want to be here working hard trying to live the american dream. >> because america is is my home. that's all i have ever known. and this place has given meso many opportunities. i think that it's terrifying to think that maybe you'll be sent back. >> in dover, tim furlong, nbc 10

fuse. >> just in the past five minute, president trump sent out a tweet saying, i look forward to working with democrats and republicans to congress immigration reform in a way that puts hard working citizens of our country first. there are tens of thousands of people in the dreamers program right here in our area. mitch blacher breaks down the impact that today's decision has on our communities and also the economy. >> we're look iing at the real impacts of people in our area and across the country who are enrolled in this program. first, we looked at the raw numbers across the country. there are nearly 800,000 people who applied for and approved for the dreamer program. more than 347,000 in the states of california and texas alone. now new jersey has more than 22,000. pennsylvania, nearly 6,000. delaware, around 1400. now each of those people, think about this, paid $495 for an

application fee. that means across the country, the government collected $390 million from dreamers. now let's take a look at who the people in this program are. the rouls say they have to pay taxes but can't claim government benefits. 95% of them are currently working or in school. if they commit a crime, they are immediately removed from the program. and finally, here are where those applicants are from. most are from mexico and guatemala. in non-spanish speaking country they come from south korea, brazil and the philippines. poland is the only european country on the top origin list. that's just a quick perspective at who the dreamers are and what they have at stake. >> mitch blacher live for us, thank you. we have the breakdown of what

today's decision means on nbc 10 website and app. we're following a developing story. two workers innen montgomery county were hurt after hit by a car. sky force 10 was over the scene where the crash happened had just before 3:00 this afternoon. the victims work for the township public works department. one of them was flown to the hospital. the driver did stop at the scene. >> in north philadelphia, the search forç answers continues the murder investigation in the 22-year-old temple university student. the body of jenna buehrle was found over the weekend. she was killed just off temple's campus after leaving a bar with a former student. joshua is charged in the killing, but they still don't know the motive for the crime. they also want to talk to others who could have some information about this case. >> right now, we want to talk to

the roommate and e see what he has to say. >> he's the only person facing charges in the crime. now to new information in the case of a body dump ed on a street in trenton. the victim has been identified as 43-year-old lillian durham. her remains were found in a trash bag before 5:00 last night. the cause of death has not been determined. no arrests have been made. it happened at a home on cambridge street just after midnight. police found the victim outside. someone shot him multiple times a after he got into a fight with two men. he's in stable condition. >> hurricane irma, an historic

hurricane is churning in the atlantic as it inches closer and closer. 500 emergency response shelters have been set up. people are stocking up on batteries and medicine. no one is ever fully ready for a category 5. now is the time for residents to make their emergency plans. tammie souza joins us with the littest storm track. >> i got to tell you throughout the island and in florida, people have cleaned out the stores. youen couldn't find a generator in the state of florida to save your life. people are taking this seriously. this is a monster storm.

look how big the eye is on this. bigger than the island of st. martin. this is going to move right by there. this is going to be devastating for a lot of these islands even if it doesn't make a direct. this is going to become hurricane jose. it's going to be fish food. it's going to follow in the tracks and it's going to get caught up in the same system that will eventually turn irma off to the north and the east. and across land. so let's take a look at the track as to what's going on here. this is going to be a pretty big deal. right past st. martin, the cone does go over both parts of the dominican republic, but if the track stays in the center of the cone, it will be to the north. not that it makes that much difference when you have a hurricane the size of texas moving past you. then maybe a quick landfall on cuba, maybe category 4 as it goes through the straits. this could stay a 5.

my thinks it may make a hard turn and it could be the worst hurricane they have seen in florida. we'll talk more about this and how we could see some of the rain coming up in just a few minutes. some vacationers are cutting trips short because of irma. we went to philadelphia international where travelers just in from puerto rico told us they are happy to be back home as the hurricane moves closer to the island. >> my thoughts are we need to get out of here. >> because of what's churning in the atlantic. >> yesterday we try ed ied to g flights back home a little early, but they were all sold out. >> a lot of people at the airport trying to get off the island. >> for those that live there, they are getting ready.

stocking up on supplies and groceries. the national guard has already been activated in puerto rico more than 200 fema troops already on the ground. >> we feel bad for our new friends we met there and watching them board all the windows. it was scary. >> reporter: many of the stores were closing up as hurricane irma now a category 5 churns ever closer to the island. >> the workers and the hotels that they were going to stay in the hotel and ride it out. we were a little nervous. it's good to be back. >> coming up at 5:30, we're taking you live to miami to see how south florida is preparing for this catastrophic category 5 storm. he said he had a dream and woke up to find his wife dead on the floor. >> how a newlywed faces charges for murder, but he says cough medicine is to blame. new at 5:00, cracking down on excessive drinking. a penn state fraternity pledge died from hazing and now a local university shutting down two

fraternities. we have reaction from students. it's back to school for students from across our area. we are there as kids boarded the bus this morning and made memories. that's next all the 5:00.

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we're back with live look at the radar.

tammie souza is tracking thunderstorms that are threatening our region tonight. that's on the left-hand side of the screen. and also tracking hurricane irma, a category 5 storm that could bring catastrophic damage do puerto rico and south florida on the right there we're going to check in in just a moment. the latest on the north korea threat. for the second straight day, south korean warships conducted live fire exercises at sea. the latest show of force comes after north korea tested what they claim was a powerful thermonuclear bomb. it's small enough to be loaded on a missile to reach the united states. vladimir putin weighed in on the crisis for the first time. he warned againsting military force against the country. >> we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country, family north korea, but as i said, we have many options to do so. >> u.s. officials tell nbc news the white house plans to pressure other countries,

especially china into helping end that crisis. there's a warning for pennsylvania lawmakers. today governor wolf said he will have to start freezing spending if they fail to pass a package to balance a nearly $32 billion budget. he said his decision day is september 15th. many things are in jeopardy if a spending plan is not agreed upon. hurricane irma now is strong category 5 storm headed into the caribbean. >> reporter: you can see the sun is is shining, but this is the calm before the storm. the rain has been on and off all day and this is one of the 500 emergency response shelters that

have been set up all throughout the island. inside people have been preparing meals and getting ready for those who might be displaced by hurricane irma. >> we have generators and enough to go to the hospitals. our hospitals will continue to work 24 hours a day. >> fema is on the ground. >> but we have done everything that is possible to be done at least in the city of san juan. >> a live look here. showing you the storms in the green and yellow and red moving into our area. a live picture from our camera atop the building facing west philadelphia you see the dark

clouds moving into the area. >> first alert meteorologist tammie souza has been tracking these storms live on the air since we went on at 4:00. >> the heaviest rain is in berks county. we have issued a first alert for the lehigh valley and berks county. that's where we have the greatest risk of severe weather. we have seen it starting up to the north and west. this will continue through 9:00 tonight. damaging winds up to 60 mile an hour winds with hail. we have even seen twornds off to the west. we'll be on grd to see if we get anything spinning up from any of the storms. you can see the e severe thunderstorm watch.

you can see it in richmond and reading. but they are moving very slow olympic they are not moving quickly through the area, they are just very intense. e we put this up several times. you can actually see some of the heavier rain and the intense hail cores associated with them. that's the slice through the storms vertically. speaking of the hail, these are the hail tracks on our radar and satellite. we have overlay laid it with the satellite imagery. so very heavy rain is making its way through parking lts of lanc county. we'll see if it makes it into chester county and delaware county. here's the line of storms and you can see behind it a weaker line. once this makes its way through the area, we're just in for scattered storms on and off.

a very summer like day. we're going to e get the storms rolling through. the entire area is going to be watching for gusty winds and strong storms. temperatures in the 70s. and it looks like we quiet down for a very pretty but cooler than normal friday, saturday and sunday. generally in the low to mid-70s. here's irma. behind it is jose that will be fish food. i'm concerned about the virgin islands. the eye of this storm, actually bigger than some of those islands. here are all the models. you can see most of them take a track up the florida peninsula. we may get the remnants as early as nx week.

here's one forecast model right up the eastern side. there you go. em remnants to us. the other forecast model that comes through goes right up the western side of florida. it could take another major hit. that may happen as early as this sunday. we'll talk more about this in the next hour. >> many students from across the area are unwinding from the first day of school. students arrived bright and early. more than 800 students from go to this school. a lot of people marked the occasion with some photos. parents took pictures before they boarded the bus for their first day at middle school. >> tomorrow students in camden

county, public schools some charter schools and camden and head back for class. and tomorrow septa is offering philadelphia public and parole y'all students a free ride. students get free weekly passes from school. septa says they want to make sure students can get to school tomorrow to pick them up. college students are heading back to class. tonight a renewed push to. keep them safe on campus. this all comes after a temple university student was murdered. student says they know what to do to stay safe, so why are some not following the rules. what they told us ahead. and helping her hometown, the hurricane harvey relief effort that beyonce is hosting right here on nbc 10.

international speedway is collecting items for victims of hurricane harvey. they are looking for baby supplies, cleaning supplies, nonperishable items and cases of water. the hotel will be donating loads of towels and toil tries as well. drop them off today and tomorrow at the ticket office. houston native beyonce host a telethon to help with the harvey relief efforts. the hand in hand benefit will air here on nbc 10 next tuesday at 8:00 p.m.

oprah, george clooney and jamie fox just a few of the celebrities expected to participate. proceeds will go to a number of organizations in houston including the united way, save the and habitat for humanity. it's all eyes on irma waiting hours just to get gas and groceries. people in florida aren't wasting any time getting prepared. a live report is next. we're also live on the campus of temple university. e we spent the day talking to students. we have some common sense safety tips for you and also why some students simply choose not to follow them.

the first alert weather team is tracking severe storms heading into our area. tonight this is a live look in south philadelphia at the navy yard. what you can see out there in the distance is hazy skies. trust me, there are grey skies hovering over the city. and the red is what we have to worry about the most. >> tammie souza is tracking the timing of all of this in your most accurate weather forecast. >> the red is you see the most intense rainfall. you would see the gustiest winds, hail, if you got a brief tornado it would be in that

segment. this is the doppler radar. you can see we have added a little raes. we have added more severe storm warnings. as well as berks county and the lehigh valley. so we're seeing the storms now begin to lean a little bit to the east. and that's going to bring them into. the philadelphia area. you can see they are traveling more northward than they are eastward. we have the severe thunderstorm watch until 9:00. these warnings are until 6:15 for chester county and montgomery county. westchester, we go out to allentown and reading and we have severe thunderstorm warnings still going because of hail and 60 mile an hour winds that's the potential with this. those are until 5:45. you're going to be watching this as it moves across the area. this is our 3-d representation that's starting to get taller and fill in.

so they are alreactually gettin little more intense. we'll be watching it closely. i feed to check out what's going on and i saw a red box pop up. >> we'll check in with you in just a little bit. for at 5:00, we're watching hurricane irma. the massive storm is the size of texas. you can see it churning in the atlantic ocean as well. it's one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic. >> florida residents are bracing for irma this weekend. look at the long line. this is for gas in south florida. and that line is for groceries. some waited for hours just to fill up and buy food. here's what we know right now. irma, a category 5 hurricane is

roaring toward the rbi caribbean islands and florida. they have all declared states of emergency. we are doling with keith jones with there's a mandatory e evacuation for all visitors. what's the mood like there? >> reporter: i don't want to down play it, but it's kind of here we go again. the folks who live here are hardy people. how often during category 1 hurricanes and 2 hurricanes even they are holding hurricane parties. they are out in the wind toasting the wind. not this time around. the state of the emergency that begins tomorrow morning at 7:00 for visitors and the residents have to get out on thursday. those not heeding the warning is a precares thing because bridges

could be watched out. they are being told you are on your own. >> i got to recognize the elephant in the room. we were hired by nbc the same week consistently receiving each other's e-mails. it's a pleasure to talk with you on tv finally after all this time. but please be safe down there as this hurricane approaches. >> we will. we have handled these before. not this, the last major hurricane was hurricane andrew. so we know the drill. but a lot of folks and nerves starting to increase here. >> we hope you get positive reporting from you the next time i see you on tv. keith jones for nbc in miami, thank you very much. >> irma is is threatening to hit the caribbean islands and puerto

rico with catastrophic force. authorities are warning everyone to protect themselves. >> keith just mentioned this was like andrew. it was the last category 5 to strike florida. it doesn't matter if this downgrades to a 3 or 4. it's the size of texas. there's wobbling going on. it may be that we're going to see a replacement. we can see the 185 mile an hour winds. it's expected it will brush them. when you have something the size of texas, you have force winds that will be brushing them. this could be devastating. this is florida's biggest nightmare. to have a cat 5 that's approaching that's this size, even if it picks up speed when it makes that turn. we're watching it move to the west.

this is just a projected path. this is subd and then it's going to turn. it looks like everybody in southern florida and everybody in cuba could be in danger here. it would be the west coast that's not seen a midge hurricane since 1921 in the tampa area. this could be devastating ing i it reaches there. >> now remember you can get the latest updates on irma 24 is/7, any time. just download the nbc 10 app and have phone aletters sent is directly to your phone. right now at 5:00, tonight students on high alert at temple university. they started classes learning that a temple student was murdered. investigators say jenna buehrle

was beaten and strangled to death. the suspect is accused of using a ridesharing service to transport the body 100 miles to his grandmother's house. >> we spent the day talking to students. they feel safe on campus, but this can happen any time, anywhere, this can happen to you. as for talking to police, they say they have some common sense safety tips for you. those include things like this. this emergency call box. they want you to use this. that's on temple campus. the main message tonight is be on alert. >> maybe going home to strangers, that whole thing. you want to go home with anyone

really. it's just crazy. we don't want to let loose affect her safety. >> have a friend if you're going to get. really drunk. but i don't know if sto going out, but always have a backup plan. >> we checked in with several area schools including drexel, lasalle and temple. they warn students to stay in areas where there's lots of people. always know someone where you're going, avoid dark streets and use any volunteer services at night. reminders of what happened over the weekend are still on a few street corners. a temple student now dead after leaving a bar targeted by a predator. for this freshman only on campus

two weeks, she already notices some of her classmates' behavior. >> they think they are invincible. it won't happen to me. i don't need to worry about that. it can happen to anyone. >> it certainly can happen anyone. students say as soon as this happened, moms and dads were calling them. i can guarantee you a bunch l of conversations around the dinner table. we're live at temple university, nbc 10 news. absolutely. thank you for that. help now for our four-legged friends. an update on the local teen who visited texas to rescue animals after harvey. the pets now needing a home in our area. plus a newlywed who says cough medicine made him kill his wife faced a judge. and nbc 10 news today starts at 4:00 a.m. new an wednesday morning, electronics and how a library is blending the old with the new as they show kids how to

incorporate both into their learning. join uses for nbc 10 news today from 4:00 to 7:00 a.m.

a first alert is in effect tonight right now tracking storms. a live look at west philadelphia. tammie souza will have more on your most accurate first alert forecast in the gray skies that are slowly moving into philadelphia. here's a look at some of the stories making headlines county by county across the region

today. police in upper darby need your help finding whoever is responsible for abusing these two dogs. these pitbull mixes were found at penn pine park. officials say they were used in dog fighting and were below half their normal body weight. both are being treated right now. there's a $500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. the man who claims he killed his wife after drinking toof cough syrup stood before a judge. he could face the death penalty if convicted. police found his wife stabbed to death inside their home on friday. he called 911 after the attack say iing he woke up from a drea after drinking too much cough syrup and found his wife's body. to a broken water main led to this massive sink hole in montgomery county. it swallowed up a street and sidewalk. sky force 10 flew over after it

formed this morning. at last check, about 20 customers were still without water. and lawmakers in atlantic county will consider a proposal to rename a street in honor of the late former mayor and state senator jim whalen. they are expected to vote. e he died at the age of 68. animals stranded by harvey are in our area and today they were up for adoption. the providence animal center rescued more than 30 cats and dogs. these animals have been through a lot. now they have been checked by a vet, they are ready for a forever home. there are even more harvey animals up for adoption in westchester. they took it 30 cats and dogs in louisiana. five of those dogs have already found new homes. tonight dozens of animals are from texas will arrive in

westchester. i'm john clark from csn. you have an exciting historic start. another top prospect makes the major debut. it's the e emotional tweet his sister sent out. she's really proud. that's next. and i'm tracking storms, severe weather moving through the philadelphia area. allentown have seen it. we'll talk about the timing in your neighborhood, when i come back. and coming up at 6:00, using your house to keep a better eye on crime. how police in one local town may want to recruit you.

a big day for the phillies. one of the top procespects is

suiting up to take on the mets. crawford makes his major league debut. the dream becomes reality saying less than two hours time. >> we are watching on csn. phillies fans have hoped for the future now. >> crawford was for the last three years by baseball america. the phillies top prospect. tonight making his major league debut. he's going to play and take a look at a his older sister. hugging her brother saying she's in tears that she's so proud that they bonded over playing catch. he worked his butt off to become. here's jp late this afternoon. >> i'm just happy tor here.

it's a dream kol trou. i have worked so hard and so long. to be here with this team and some of my good friends on this te team. >> it looks like they have found a couple of them and maybe more. >> it sounds like from the csn newsroom there that crawford is a huge hit and going to be one of those guys. >> everybody was excited over here for the debut. >> john clark live for us in south philadelphia, thank you. we're watching some severe weather make it through the area. and right now we have warnings for the upper portion of montgomery county in chester

county as well as berk. s county. we do have a severe thunderstorm watch. that's the lighter shade, but these warnings many of them go until about 6:15. basically these are for anywhere from large hail. we have had reports in the lehigh valley of nickel-size and marble-size hail and 60 mile an hour winds. you want to make sure you have the kids ask pets indoors. if this is headed towards your neighborhood, there's a lot of intense lightning. with such a warm day out there, we don't want anybody outside involved with lightning or hail or damaging winds. those are the hail cores. we're going to continue to watch all the hail tracks as they make their way through the area. already they have made their way into the lehigh valley and berks county and headed towards

chester county. we'll see a chance of rain for tomorrow. this is a fairly intense line of storms that started yesterday. it did bring tornadoes to parts of ohio. we have winds out of the southeast. we'll see more sunshine than clouds. temperatures will be in the low to mid-70s. that continues right on through saturday and sunday. the big story is hurricane irma. this is a record setter. it's the most intense and powerful hurricane on record

from the national hurricane center in the atlantic basin. not the gulf of mexico but the entire atlantic basin. it is going to be moving past st. martin and the virgin islands. see how big the eye is. it is a scary thing that this is going to be moving past them over them. you're basically going to be looking at the effects being within 70 miles of that eye. that's going to affect everybody. it makes a hard turn at some point on sunday. could get further into the gulf. could do it over the tip of florida. could do up the east coast. they are watching all closely. this is the biggest nightmare. look at the spaghetti models all in agreement. we're going to florida. so this one could be another big mess. it will move quickly. it's going to zip across

florida. right on up into parts of the tennessee valley bringing us some remnants by the time we get into the middle part of next week. let's look at your ten-day. 72 with a chance of rain. a decent weekend ahead. the middle of next week maybe some rain courtesy of uirma. a crackdown on a local college campus. two fraternities are shut down here at lehigh university at least for now. coming up, we'll tell you why.

just one week after fall classes start, two fra fernties have been suspended. >> it's excessive drinking. steven fisher has mixed reaction from students all new at 5:00. >> it was back to classes today for many lehigh university students, but there's no going back for fra fernties, at least not for now. >> not shocked at all. i know that stuff goes ob here.

temporarily suspended for underage drinking violations. >> especially off campus. lehigh university says excessive drinking can lead more vulnerable to injury and reckless behavior and death. they died at after the penn state situation. they will start cracking down more. it's almost impossible. >> while some are taking changes in stride, compromise would go a long way. >> they have had a zero tolerance policy instead of working with the students. >> i'm a senior so i deal with it. but it's unfortunate for younger guys. >> the penalties these frats could face are serious.

all new at 6:00, more eyes watching your street. how police in one town want to use your house to catch more criminals. but first, broken dreams. local students fear deportation after president trump's ruling today. and i'm tracking storms. these severe storms are making their way toward philadelphia. i'll break it down and let you know when they will be arriving, coming up.

breaking weather news right now, we are tracking two threats tonight. hurricane irma is setting an all-time record for strength in the atlantic with 185 mile per hour winds. the category 5 hurricane is to slam puerto rico. but first a severe storm threats for our area. we could see damaging winds, heavy rain and hail this evening. good evening, i'm jacqueline london. the storms are rolling through the lehigh valley and berks county headed for philadelphia. let's take a live look at the skies in west philly. the clouds are growing darker by the minute as the storms roll toward the city. let's get to tammie souza. let's time the storms out in our area. >> right now, they are already

in the lehigh valley making their way to chester county also into parts of upper month ri county. that's where you until 6:15. the lighter shades and that is until 9:00 tonight. that's where we're looking at these storms heading right now and they do have 60 mile an hour winds that have been reported in some places. this is all going to be coming your way within the next hour. so you. want to make sure you have the kids in and want to be out there. there's a lot of intense lightning. all of this is going to be moving through your area. if it