good evening. hurricane jose is threatening part of our area. you can see both storms churning on the first alert radar. maria is rapidly incense tensif with winds of 100 miles an hour. meantime, jose is churning in the atlantic off the jersey shore. >> we've issued a first alert for the shore and delaware beaches from now through thursday. we're expecting heavy rain, wind gusts and coastal flooding. >> our first alert weather team is tracking both of these threats with live team coverage. ted greenberg is feeling jose's impact this evening. we will begin with glenn "hurricane" schwartz.

>> hurricanes are big things. it's not just a point or a line on a map. it covers a huge area. thunderstorms are developing right near the center and that shows that it's still a tropical system. it's tracking to the north the closest point is 200 miles from the center to atlantic city. and we're still being impacted by it because it's been sitting around for days and it's going to keep spinning. jersey shore and delaware beaches are the first to be warned. we have moderate flooding and beach erosion as a result. the model is in agreement that it will move straight to the north and then to the northeast. in the meantime, maria continues to intensify. we're on the verge of a category

5 pretty soon. more on that coming up. >> all right, glenn. there are dangerous rip currents in cape may but conditions will deteriorate. crews are building up the dunes and there may be tidal flooding. ted greenberg was with those crews today. he is live in atlantic county. what are the conditions like there now? >> reporter: jackie, a bit breezy. we're just about an hour away from high tide here on the ocean and that could bring the first of several rounds of coastal flooding, especially in back bay areas, even before the storms, some beaches were already in rough shape. crashes waves getting bigger

tonight at the jersey shore as jose churns in the atlantic. >> the ocean looks really fierce to me. >> fortifying dunes in north wildwood, a key mission for crews, the didnunes facing more pounding surf and beach erosion from jose. >> hopefully the sacrificial sand will go and not our infrastructure. >> reporter: strong, gusty winds along with four rounds of water coming potentially during tuesday evening's high tide. this man deciding to leave west wildwood and head home to willow grove. >> i like to be in my real house and my real bed and get my car out of here mainly. >> i don't mind storms.

i'm not afraid of them. >> kathy is staying at the beach this week but jose is changing some of her plans. >> we were supposed to go on a boat ride today but we declined because of the way the ocean was so we decided not to. rsh and because of that threat of flooding, we want to let you know that atlantic city residents and visitors can park for free at the parking garage at mississippi and fairmont avenues in atlantic city. that's starting right now through 6:00 a.m. on thursday. >> hurricane maria is expected to bring much more devastating conditions to puerto rico. there are long lines of people waiting to buy generators as maria could wipe out power across the entire island. hurricane irma caused massive outages when it hit over a week ago. three people were killed. and today in philadelphia,

people were raising money for hurricane victims at this puerto rican flag-raising ceremony. the money will buy food and generators and water for people on the island. in florida, tens of thousands of people are still without power and air conditioning because of irma. power crews from our area remain in florida tonight. workers are still there trying to get people back on the grid. still ahead, all new at 6:00, a country star rescues two brothers from hurricane irma and brings them to philadelphia. only nbc 10 talked to the brothers about their ride on kenny chesney's private chejet. that's coming up in about ten minutes. >> keep the nbc 10 app with you and trackhoe say and maria on our live radar. your nbc 10 investigators are getting answers after another derailment this weekend.

this is the latest in three separate incidents since february. for the first time since this latest derailment, septa is answering questions tonight. mitch spoke to them in the past few hours. what did they tell you? >> reporter: jim, the head of operations is eager to talk safety and answered our questions directly admitting that septa's latest accidents have been serious and the railroad has issues to fix. >> you understand why people are wondering about septa's safety right now? >> completely. >> reporter: scott is in charge of making sure septa riders get going safely. in the last nine months, approximate 4 people haven't. >> what is septa doing to make sure that its railroad is safe? >> he can assure you, we've taken every precaution possible in light of all of the incidents that we've had to make sure that everything is running as safely as we possibly can. >> reporter: first, a february

derailment and then on saturday a train derails while switching tracks. >> why do we keep seeing these accidents? >> there's going to be different reasons for each time of accident. all of the accidents are still under investigation so i'm not really at liberty to say that there's one particular theme. >> reporter: sour says septa has changed some procedures and is working closer with employees and unions, asking for feedback from those on the tracks every day. he also says an investment in more training is coming. he told us after each accident he gets an unforgettable phone call. >> immediately my mind goes to is anyone hurt because we don't want to hurt anyone. >> reporter: motivation to make sure we don't see scenes like this again. >> what will you do to make sure it doesn't happen again? >> we've taken some immediate steps. we looked at our training process. ultimately, it's our employees out there moving the equipment. they are seeing everything day to day. they are the eyes and ears of

the operation. >> septa transports more than 1 million riders a day. right now, federal investigators are looking into three of those accidents. no one was killed but at least four people had to be hospitalized. jacqueline? >> mitch blacher getting answers to something that affects so many. there is a teachers strike and they have been working without a contract since january. there are no negotiations scheduled. >> governor christy took a step forward in the opioid addiction. >> i can tell you that the solution is going to come much faster after today than it would have if we didn't have today so we're hopeful. that's going to be up to the scientists significantly greater than mine. >> that promise came after he hosted a round table with pharmaceutical companies from around the country.

christie along with kellyanne conway discussed the new approach to saving lives. the company leaders promised to work towards developing a new nonaddictive pain medicine that could replace the current opioids. >> $370,000 worth of heroin and fentanyl was seized in a drug bust as part of a joint operation by the dea and local police. and a man is charged with assaulting a sheriff's deputy after an outburst in court. andrew spencer was in court waiting for his turn in front of the judge and that's when police say he started yelling. the judge stopped what he was doing to have spencer removed. the deputy removing him says spencer elbowed him and bit his arm. right now, the eyes of the world are on president trump. today, the commander in chief hosted high-level meetings with world leaders ahead of his speech to the general assembly

tomorrow. this will be the president's first major address to other world leaders and it could set the tone for u.s. foreign policy going forward. the president previously criticized the u.n. calling it defective but today praised it. he said they still haven't reached their full potential. stay tuned to "nbc nightly news" with lester holt right after this newscast with a breakdown of what to expect from president trump at the u.n. this week. students in delaware are rallying to save a program that let's them go to school without being deported. university of delaware students hosted this rally in support of the daca program on the campus in newark today. they say president trump's decision to end the program has threatened their future. the daca program is for young, undocumented immigrants brought to this country by their parents as children. they are allowed to go to college or work without the fear of deportation. president trump is working with democrats on a deal that would save that program. tonight, philadelphia is

defending its soda tax with a new report that shows that the tax is not killing jobs. new numbers show growth in the wages of employees who worked in the beverage industry. wage tax collection is up 4% in the second quarter this year compared to last year. but today the city controller criticized these new numbers saying, quote, the beverage tax is killing grocery businesses and is jeopardizing future access to fresh food stores in our city. up next at 6:00, kenny chesney become as hero after saving two boys from a hurricane and bringing them to philadelphia. how he pulled it off and earned two new fans. well, two hurricane threats, hurricane maria right there and plus hurricane jose is closer to us. i'm tracking both in my most accurate first alert forecast. the struggle of getting

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right now at 6:00, we are tracking trouble in the tropics. hurricane jose is impacting the

jersey shore while hurricane maria could be trouble in the caribbean, including some islands battered by hurricane irma. two teenage boys are safe after escaping the devastation that irma left on their caribbean island. >> once they landed safely in a private jet, they learned that the person who owns that jet is one of america's biggest country music stars. >> and here is their story, new at 6:00. >> at first it was just this constant whistling. >> reporter: they were on st. john as they hid in a shower stall with their grandfather. their house blew down around them. >> the wind picked up the bottom of the house and flew it on top of the rest of the house and closed it like a sandwich. >> reporter: they are now safe here in philly staying with their mom and their grandfather secured them space on a boeat s

st. croix. the owner of the jet wanted to remain anonymous. >> i might start listening to country music. >> reporter: they found out that the plane belongs to this guy, kenny chesney. ♪ the storm caught his own house on st. john and he's spearheading efforts on the island. >> we went through hell, yes, but there are still people going through hell. we need financial resources. we need human resources. we need food, drinks, water. we need help for the virgin islands. >> reporter: in the short term, they are going to stay safe with their mom here in philly and download music from their new favorite singer. >> kenny chesney, thank you so much. i really want to meet you in person. i want to shake your hand and let you know that we're here partially because of you. >> reporter: in nbc 10 news. >> what an ordeal when they talk

about the house falling around them. >> just terrifying. >> and kenny chesney wanted to stay anonymous. his sox are going to be on repeat now. our continuing coverage of hurricane jose, the jersey shore is bracing for coastal flooding and beach erosion. it's already triggering wild waves, as you can see in this live camera in cape may. we're expecting heavy downpours starting tomorrow. let's bring in first alert glenn "hurricane" schwartz with more on this. glenn? >> jackie, as you can see, that's a very large storm. so even though it's going to pass well east of us, we're going to be impacted by it. you canç see some of the high clouds at the shore right now. thunderstorms developing right near the center. it's not about to die out. it's centering around 380 nils southeast of atlantic city and

probably pass as close as 200 miles offshore. that's very fortunate. it moves over the warm gulf stream first and it's going to take a while to weaken. it does weaken up in this area but we see the track and it starts coming back. if it starts coming back some more, it may reintensify later in the week. we'll take a look at that later. the biggest problem is with the coastal flooding, especially tomorrow evening. moderate coastal flooding is pretty significant. you have street flooding if you're going to have heavy rain at the same time. you can see the core of the storm still well off shore but it's spinning some of those outer bands of heavy rain our way and there's one of them coming in tomorrow morning, perhaps part of the morning rush at the shore and just inland. some of the rain could be really heavy and causing flooding.

in the meantime, north and west, it's not a bad day. a little breezy. a couple of showers. hardly know that there's a hurricane out there and it's going to spin around out there for days and that's going to be a different kind of problem. there's maria down just about to smash into the caribbean. this island right there, that is dominiqua. there's the eye 30 miles away from practically destroying this island, just like barbuda got hit. the eye is very small compared to other hurricanes. 130-mile-an-hour winds and with the way the satellite looks, it could be a category 5 very, very soon. it's headed right over puerto rico. and then as it goes out east of the bahamas, it could somehow interact with jose and what they call where it starts rotating around each other. really weird thing is about to

happen. here's the puerto rico track. it looks pretty good up towards the eastern bahamas and after that, that's when you've got the question.

marshall here from csn. the eagles are back with the giants and however issues made from yesterday's game, the overwhelming theme being the lack of a running game. the rusher is carson wentz.

the birds calling just 13 run plays and free agent la garret blount was known for a five yard penalty. >> there's a lot of things that 11 guys are out there playing football and they have to make their goal and they have to get out there and execute everything for the running game. it's not doing so well right now. we have to figure out what is going on to fix it. >> no run game means plenty of pressure on carson wentz. there were 46 passes and the eagles are not going to be able to be under that sort of duress. >> do i want them to drop back that many times? no. at the same time, i've got to look at the whole picture, the whole pie and focus in on the

running game and getting that going will give us a better balance moving forward. >> i'm not overly concerned. that will be a big part of our offense going forward. >> yesterday, those raiders lit up the scoring board. and moving it on the jumbo tron as the raiders beat the jets 45-20. the phillies hosted the dodgers. 43 games over .500. the best record of baseball. plenty of eyes will be on his first trip back to philly last year. chase had multiple standing ovations. highlights at 11:00.

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one last work at the weather, you can see the surf churning up and it's going to be the situation for the next couple of days. >> we have first alert in the shore areas all the way into thursday, the ocean is going to be very rough. we're going to have showers and downpours coming in. and even though jose is going to track well off shore, at least a couple hundred miles off shore, it may not intensify any more than it is right now and as we go into the rest of the week, we do have the threat of some showers tomorrow, not a whole lot from philadelphia north and west and then it gets kind of warm and kind of dry all the way in through the weekend. not exactly football weather by sunday. >> not at all. >> we're talking about close to 90 degrees by then. >> an interesting term for jose and maria.

>> it's called a fujiwara. they do a little dance when they get too close together. >> we don't want to see that. >> i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm jack tonight, not again. another monster hurricane is taking aim at caribbean islands left devastated by irma. the storm now an extremely dangerous category 4. it could hit as a category 5. a major storm emergency. and eyes also on another tropical system, this one threatening the northeast. al roker is here. high drama as an unpredictable president prepares to address the world at the u.n. what will he say about north korea and iran? acid attack. american students burned in a bizarre incident at a train station in france. hazing in america. our special look at a growing concern on college campuses. tonight an anguished dad who says hazing pushed his son to suicide. and the