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fourth floor. it is the first time that we're seeing d.j. since he took that plea deal last month. he's also changed his appearance. the images of how brendan enjoyed his three years and three months on this earth were powerful. within moments of d.j. creado entering the courtroom, there was silence for a moving tribute to 3-year-old brendan. these are the faces of a happy toddler, silly smiles, laughter at halloween, love on christmas, in his pjs after a bubble bath. prosecutors played the 14-minute video collage moments before his own father, d.j., would be sentenced to prison. despite a packed courtroom of family and dozens of detectives, ublgd hear a pin drop. prosecutor christine shaw read a statement from d.j.'s grandmother on his mother's side. >> sometimes i take a deep breath and i try to smile, but on october 13th, 2015, when brendan was murdered, i lost a piece of me that i will never get back. >> reporter: the judge asked if d.j. had anything at all to say.
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>> no. >> reporter: creado too took a plea deal, admitting he recklessly deprived brendan of oxygen but never said how or why he did it. the judge sentenced d.j. to ten years in prison. outside, no one from the prosecutor's office or the boy's mother, sam dinoto, would comment. both d.j.'s attorney -- >> he absolutely believes this was a plea that was too good to turn down. he's going to do ten years instead of potentially the rest of his life. >> reporter: along with his parents and grandparents -- >> the wrong person is sitting in jail. >> reporter: say he didn't kill his little boy. >> something happened to brendan that night. he was stolen out of thin air, and i hope some day we get answers. it won't stop until i find answers or i die. >> reporter: now, d.j. creado was initially arrested on that murder charge january 11th of 2016. we can tell you that the judge will give him credit for that year and nine months that he's already served. on top of that, he only has to
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serve 85% of his sentence, so he's 24 now. he could get out of jail before he is 30 years old. we're live in camden tonight, i'm cydney long, nbc 10 news. to this now. today, more aid is arriving in hurricane-ravaged puerto rico at the same time president trump is defending his response to the destruction there. >> all appropriate departments of our government from homeland security to defense are engaged fully in the disaster and the response and recovery effort. >> the president made the comments while speaking in washington today. the white house has been criticized for not responding to the crisis in puerto rico quickly enough. the president is expected to survey the damage on tuesday. vice president pence will head there late next week. nbc 10's erin coleman joins us now. she's been following today's developments in puerto rico. erin? >> keith, believe it or not, tourists who were on the island
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when hurricane maria hit are still trying to get home tonight, including two from our area. meantime, it has become a logistics nightmare getting supplies to the people who need them, the situation becoming dire. thousands of shipping containers filled with critically needed supplies that have just been sitting at san juan's main port are finally starting to get to the people who desperately need them, but it's slow going. and while some have been critical about the u.s. response, the white house says there are enough resources on the ground, including 10,000 federal relief workers and 7,200 troops. the acting secretary of homeland security, elaine duke, arrived in puerto rico just this afternoon. >> i'm extremely proud of the governor and the work he's done and i'm extremely proud of our people in the government, and that is -- [ inaudible ] we have much work to do. we'll never be satisfied. that's why we're here. >> reporter: but at the cruise port, mounting frustration.
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thousands, mostly tourists, stood for hours to board a royal caribbean cruise ship heading to florida, including amy timpinaro from new jersey. >> you literally cannot get off this island. if this ship didn't show up, i wouldn't be home until the middle of october. >> i've never experienced anything like this. it's extremely surreal. i don't think reading about it would really illustrate how bizarre of a situation it is, coming from a fairly normal, stable background, i never imagined that there could be so little security in america. >> reporter: for the people who -- >> now, hospitals are struggling as well. doctors there say they are running 100% on generators, which is not sustainable. they say the power has to be fixed now or the whole system is going to fail. jacqueline? >> all right, erin. and happening now, several groups republican in center city demanding that the federal government do more to help the people of puerto rico. this is a live look at the rally at thomas payne kblaz across from city hall. organizers are calling on leaders in washington to speed
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up and increase relief efforts in puerto rico. a basement in camden county has become a donation hub for hurricane maria victims. the woman who lives at this home in collingswood has been gathering supplies for puerto rico over the past week. she says she's been overwhelmed by the response. if you are trying to figure out how to help people in puerto rico, you can tap the nbc 10 app now. there we have the very best ways to get your money into the right hands. plus, you can find help if you're still having a hard time connecting with loved ones on the island. it was a great day to walk to class. nbc 10 in camden near the rutgers campus, where people were enjoying the sunny and breezy day. beautiful out there. same kind of scene, too, at the jersey shore. there's a live look at the waves crashing in cape may. a view we're not used to seeing, actually. some people on the sand, not too many, though, walking. if you were waiting for it to feel like fall, it is here. you're going to like the weekend's forecast.
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>> tammie souza is tracking the cooldown. >> it certainly is very comfortable. i have to tell you, right now we are generally in the upper 60s to low 70s across the area. beautiful blue sky, a few high, thin clouds out there. 71 in philadelphia right now with a west-southwest wind of 14 miles an hour. let's go to allentown, where it is just up to 70. it was 68 last hour. we're looking at northwest winds to 10 miles an hour. and in avalon, 68 degrees with a west wind at 7 miles an hour. so we are slowly edging into where we should be this time of year. the temperature generally in the low 70s across the area. now, we are going to have a few changes tonight and tomorrow morning. we have this very vigorous area of low pressure that's going to spin by to the north of us. we have a dry air mass in place, but we could see some scattered showers moving into the region, so this is something we're going to be watching very closely for tonight and tomorrow morning. you can see the spin right here just to the north of toronto. so, let's check your wake-up weather. 56 is what you'll wake up to in philadelphia. we're going to be looking at 52
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in the pennsylvania suburbs, 48 for the lehigh valley. how about we go out to delaware, 53 there, 54 in new jersey and 56 along the jersey shore. clouds will move in overnight. i'm expecting to see some sunshine break out once again tomorrow, but sandwiched in between are those showers, so we'll time that out for you when i come back in just a few minutes. we have breaking news in the local sports world. pete mackanin is out as the manager of the phillies. the team announced today mackanin will manage the final three games of the season but will be released next season. mackanin will then become a special assistant to the general manager. he managed two-plus seasons for the phils, and he says he was honored to do so. >> sure, you'd like to inherit the best team in baseball and just push the buttons. and one thing that i'm most proud of is i believe that a lot of players have improved under my watch, they've played better, and they've learned some things from me. and that to me is just as important as winning. >> the phillies currently have
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the second worst record in baseball. pete mackanin has a record of 172 wins and 237 losses as manager of the team. but again, he'll have a chance to improve on that record. a live look here at citizens bank park in south philadelphia, where mackanin will manage the phils in the last three games of the season against the mets this weekend. first pitch tonight at 7:05. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a bucks county woman accused of killing her ex-boyfriend and blaming that crime on her new lover. investigators say the woman spent two days trying to cover up the crime scene in washington crossing. nbc 10's deanna durante is live in doyles town where investigators just announced the charges. >> reporter: investigators are not talking about a motive or saying if this is anything more than a woman scorned. in these court documents it lays out the fact that the 33-year-old murder suspect had a fight with her 64-year-old boyfriend, he kicked her out of
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the house, and then that night prosecutors say she shot him. >> not likely here. it doesn't happen very much in this area. you don't see a lot of bad things here. >> reporter: this bad thing has been the talk of washington crossing since the body of 64-year-old michael mcnew was found inside his house. >> girlfriend, motorcycle, people, i don't know. >> reporter: the girlfriend is 33-year-old jennifer morrissey. she's in jail today after being charged with the murder. police say mcnew kicked her out, and in the hours before the killing, the pair exchanged text messages. the d.a. describes morrissey's side. >> "you have a choice, touch my stuff or i cut your throat. i'm gonna stab ya." >> police say at the time, morrissey's phone was hooked up to the home's wi-fi and they say in the two days following the crime she went to tleethz cover it up, making it look like a break-in and telling police her current boyfriend was to blame. on her facebook page, she listed
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him as her current fiance. >> there was a relationship between mr. mcnew and ms. morrissey, and it is not disputed that ms. morrissey did have a boyfriend other than mr. mcnew. >> reporter: now, no charges right now for that current boyfriend. prosecutors are not saying if this is a closed case or not. we can tell you that sources tell us that mcnew supported morrissey financially. sources tell us that he even paid for legal fees from a previous criminal charge. tonight that 33-year-old murder suspect is in jail without bail. reporting live in doylestown, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. we have more breaking news just into the newsroom. police arrested a suspect accused of a murder in phoenixville last night. investigators say keion carpenter was taken into custody in philadelphia within the past hour. he's accused of chasing down a man and killing him in a popular area of the chester county town. nbc 10's steven fisher has been following this story all day long. she'll are a live report coming
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up on nbc 10 news at 5:00. investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire that destroyed five condominiums under construction in camden county. one of the condos collapsed during this morning's fire along jarvis road in sicklerville. no one was hurt. a four-car crash shut down a stretch of kelly drive for a stretch of time this afternoon. it happened around 1:00 along boathouse row. you can see those cars were blaeyd damaged. fortunately, no one was seriously hurt. the road is back open. president donald trump is pitching his tax plan to an audience eager for the proposed change. the president addressed the national association of manufacturers today in washington. this week he released the out lines of a nearly $6 trillion tax cut plan. it would deeply reduce taxes for corporations, simplify tax brackets, and nearly double the standard deduction used by most tax filers. >> and at the very center of that plan is a giant, beautiful,
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massive, the biggest ever in our country, tax cut. >> the president wants to sign the tax plan into law by year's end. now to a developing story out of cuba and a warning to any american traveling to the country after a series of attacks against u.s. diplomats. right now, both u.s. officials are calling them health attacks. they caused hearing loss and nausea to those diplomats. the u.s. is only keeping emergency personnel in cuba and it's pulling more than half of its embassy staff back to america to keep them safe. camden county is taking its fight against drugs on the road. nbc 10 was at penn medicine in cherry hill, where patients were invited to discard unwanted medications in a new mobile drop box. they're part of a new effort to reduce drug addictions in camden county. >> we're hoping to gather opioids that might be hanging out in people's closets, in
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their medicine chest. that becomes a big source of diversion and the beginnings of dispensy. >> the boxes are being placed at different events and locations throughout the county. help is on the twooy pennsylvania in its effort to fight the opioid crisis. the governor announced the state has been awarded a $6 million federal grant. pennsylvania will use the money to expand and enhance treatment services throughout the state. and opioid addiction is touching almost every town. there's an increasing concern now about the smallest and most innocent victims. >> nationwide, the number of babies born already exposed to opioids has increased sharply. 9-year-old hagen knows firsthand what it's like to be in a house with heroin. he lived with his mom and stepfather until they were both arrested. hagen missed school and had to take care of his two younger brothers and infant sister, who was born addicted. hagen now lives with his father and stepmother and loves riding
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his bike and playing with legos. he spoke to nbc's kate snow about that tough time in his young life. >> yeah, they gave my little sister drugs. >> reporter: your baby sister? >> yeah. >> reporter: how's that make you feel? >> terrible. well, not terrible for me, just mad and feel sad. >> nbc news is telling the stories of the people impacted by the national opioid epidemic. watch special coverage of "one nation overdosed." that's all next week. right now there are new details in a deadly police-involved shooting in trenton. there will be no charges against the two officers who gunned down a man in self-defense. a grand jury made that decision today. the shooting happened back in november 2014. police say the officers were responding to a home invasion when they suddenly came under fire. a shoot-out broke out. the officers ended up hitting darnell stafford. he died at the hospital later
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that day. lawmakers say they're making progress on a solution to fund the pennsylvania budget. a spokesman for house republicans says there could be a breakthrough next week. that's when the state senate reconvenes. the gop spokesman called input from democratic governor tom wolf helpful. lawmakers passed a $32 billion spending plan this summer, but they're stuck on how to close a $2.2 billion revenue gap. a heads-up if you shop at whole foods, the grocery store chain is investigating a credit card security breach. whole foods says the information of customers who bought meals or drinks at its in-store restaurants or those bars were exposed to hackers. it is important to note, the data breach did not affect its main checkout registers. whole foods most recently acquired by amazon.com, but no amazon shoppers were affected either. so, what do you do if the breach compromises your information? nbc 10 responds reporter harry hairston will explain what you
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need to know, coming up at 4:30. today in delaware, a student who brings a deadly weapon to school doesn't have to be suspended right away. that's according to a new law signed today. it gives local school boards the power to decide whether or not a student should be suspended for bringing a deadly weapon to school that's not a gun. this is after a student at the brandywine school district had to be automatically suspended for accidentally having a knife in his backpack. a live look at philadelphia's 30th street station. there is a renewed push to give the station a new name. state representative w. curtis thomas and others today called on amtrak to comply with a federal law to rename the station after late congressman william gray. president obama signed a bill in 2014 to rename the station as a tribute to gray. amtrak has yet to make the change. william gray passed away in 2013. he helped get millions of dollars to refurbish the station in the 1980s. amtrak told us today it looks forward to working with gray's family to honor his legacy.
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the holiest day of the jewish calendar, yom kippur, starts tonight at sundown. the day of atonement is a time of intense prayer and fasting. the ritual dates back thousands of years with jews confessing their sins to god and asking for forgiveness. yom kippur concludes the high holy days that begin with a new year celebration of rosh hashanah. turning now to our first alert weather, a gorgeous fall night ahead as we take a live look down broad street from our kimmel center campus camera. the sun there peeking through the buildings in center city, casting those shadows that we see. cooler out there than we've been used to, for sure. >> it is cooler. and if you're at work during the daytime hours and then you don't leave until the sun goes down, you have to remember to get your jacket, or else you'll be cold when you step out. i learned that the hard way yesterday. it is beautiful during the day, but it really does dip down when the sun goes away, tammie. >> i had to dig down the bottom of my bag for a sweater to put on last night when i left, but
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you know what, it's not cold. it's crisp at night. it's cool. it's appropriate, but it isn't cold yet. we're not going to go into that. we're not sliding into winter that quickly. 71 right now in philadelphia, beautiful blue skies. 68 in the pennsylvania suburbs, where it's 69 in south jersey, 70 in the lehigh valley. and if you go to delaware, 71 degrees. so we're above, a degree or two below where we should be this time of year, which is about 73 degrees. here's where we're going. we'll drop down to 67 by 7:00 in the city and we'll see clear skies, a beautiful crescent moon, and 62 by 10:00 this evening. it looks like we'll be in the 50s in the city, but out lying areas once again, a very refreshing 40s. that's what's going to greet you. so, if you toss your window open, make sure you've got the extra blanket on the bed as well because it will be chilly tomorrow morning when you wake up. doppler radar not picking anything up in our area. those clouds still trying to make their way into the area, bumping into that ridge of high pressure, which has pretty much just had everything falling apart, dried everything out. but you can see we have a line
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of showers making our way in our direction. and here we have an area of low pressure that's spinning around to the north of toronto. all the showers are ahead of that cold front. but you notice they're really kind of having trouble staying together. some of them already sort of weakening as they approach philadelphia. so i think a lot of this is not going to make it into our area. the cool air certainly will filter in for tomorrow, but i think that the rain showers -- look at what happens overnight, about midnight. they kind of spread apart. they're hitting a drier air mass, and they're not really coming in as a line. they're not formed as a line. by tomorrow morning, you'll wake up again, you're going to be in the low 50s across philadelphia, the 40s in the outs llying area. a west wind and could pick up a spotty shower, a wrap-around instability shower, maybe even into tomorrow afternoon, but these will be widely isolated. we're only going into the 60s tomorrow. some areas might not even make it out of the upper 50s, so that's going to feel like fall. sunday morning, the coolest of the mornings. look at this, could be 42 in
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allentown, 49 in philadelphia, a little warmer out along the beaches. that's where we'll see the mid-50s. and on sunday, we're going to make it up close to 70 degrees. so, here is your weekend outlook. on saturday, an isolated shower possible, maybe early in the morning and maybe in the afternoon. 66 in philadelphia, 69 in south jersey, 67 in delaware. on sunday, pretty much right around 70 degrees for everybody. a little bit cooler along the jersey shore, but we get our sunshine back. and on monday, it looks like a beautiful, seasonal fall day, in the low 70s with plenty of sunshine. guys? >> tammie, thank you. soaking up the last of the warm weather at the jersey shore before taking flight for the winter. >> and we're not talking about summer tourists. still ahead at 4:00, where these monarch butterflies are putting on a show at the shore this weekend. book backlash. who's rejecting a set of dr. seuss books from the first lady, calling them "racist propaganda." and getting by with a little
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it's been on the decline with the closing of the refineries and there's no jobs in the community. if there's no jobs, there's no education, there's no food on the table. what's important is the children. steve sweeney... he fought for 'em. this is where he's from. steve sweeney's been here since the beginning. steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. it would've never been done without steve. it was a pride in building this port and then knowing that we're coming back.
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just one day after actress julia louis-dreyfus announced she was diagnosed with breast cancer, a real veep reached out to her. >> former wife of vice president jill biden tweeted "jill and i and all of the bidens are with you, julia." that sketch is from something they put together for the 2014 correspondents' dinner. awesome. louis-dreyfus is already trying to shift the conversation to breast cancer awareness. october is breast cancer
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awareness month. and on monday, the "today" show is hosting pink power today, a two-hour phone bank to answer all of your questions about breast cancer. we talked with co-anchor hoda kotb about the phone bank and how it will help answer questions that maybe you were too worried to ask. >> one day you hear don't get a mammogram. one day you hear you've got to go get one. well, i think these experts together are going to help sort of sift through that and give you a clearer picture of what you should do if you are a woman in this kind of situation or know somebody who's there. i think it will be a valuable kind of learning tool for all of us. >> the pink power today phone bank starts monday at 7:00 a.m. on the "today" show, but you can ask your questions on social media right now using #pinkpowertoday. you can also e-mail pinkpowertoday@nbcuni.com. tap the nbc app for more information. so, no one likes piles of dirty laundry just laying around the house. >> i hate to break it to you, except maybe certain kinds of insects.
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still ahead on "nbc 10 news" at 4:00, the stowaways that experts say are sneaking into your clothes and why your washing machine may be pulling double duty this weekend. and buyer beware, a credit card data breach affects some whole stoodz customers. nbc responds reporter harry hairston complains what you need to know if your information was compromised. and feeling like fall. yep, it's here! that crisp, cool air. how long's it going to stick around? oh, we might have showers on the way, too. come back. i'll time those out for you. and ahead at 5:00, sandy relief fraud. the new information we learned today in the growing scam we've been following for years.
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now he's making over $300,000 a year as a lobbyist and a senator. double-dipping pension padder! so he's all set - thanks to you, the taxpayer. which is why steve sweeney had no problem voting to raise your taxes 145 times, including the largest gas tax hike in history. sounds about right, coming from a.... double-dipping pension padder! right on 4:00, "nbc
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responds" talking about your credit compromise. >> another retailer is hacked and customers are on edge. this time, that hacking involved whole foods. nbc responds reporter harry hairston is here with what we all need to know about this. >> this is something that a lot of people are on edge. listen, folks. the company says it's launched an investigation after it recently received information about unauthorized access of credit card information. now, it says the problem was with transactions at tap rooms and full-table service restaurants located within some stores. whole foods says charges made at those special shops use a different payment system than the one used at the checkout counters where you pay for your groceries. now, the company points out, the cards used at the primary store checkout systems were not affected. but still, as you might imagine, some customers are on edge. >> i'm definitely going to monitor my checking account a lot closer, not that i don't do that already, yeah. what can you do? >> i'm just thinking you're
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going to purchase something, and the next thing you know, you know, your whole life can be kind of turned upside down. >> it's very disturbing that we don't have the security with the use of our credit cards that we would expect. >> and some tell us they would like stricter oversight by the government and companies held accountable for problems. now, whole foods tells us transactions on amazon.com have not been impacted. we checked with the pennsylvania state attorney general's office. the a.g. says it encourages consumers to consistently monitor credit card statements and bank accounts for unsanctioned withdrawals or suspicious activity. coming up at 5:00, i'll have a whom n whole new warning for you, what you need to be wear of when we pairing your credit. i'll tell you the do's and dont's and protecting yourself from schemes, at 5:00. >> this hack is not at the register by the groceries. >> just to be clear, yes. >> but you have to use your
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credit card in the tap rooms and everything else. >> so, you know? >> they'll get you. >> catch-22. >> good information. thank you. the perfect day to pick out some fresh fruit and veggies. nbc 10 here in philadelphia, in a neighborhood where the food trucks were busy on a sunny and clear day out there. there were clear skies for people climbing to the top of the lighthouse in cape may. this is cape may point state park where people were looking down from the lighthouse and others were looking up for some bird watching. to the poconos. look at that picture-perfect scene at camelback resort. barely any clouds in the sky at all. i don't see any right there. definitely sweater and jacket weather when you head out this evening. >> no question. nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist tammie souza's following the cooldown and crisp is the word. >> and that's down the road. many of us woke up with a chill
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in the air! it was crisp out there, felt like fall. hey, if you've got your punkin, i call them the punkin pictures -- if you start carving your pumpkins, send them along. i love to share them on the air. i love looking at the creativity this time of year. philadelphia, blue skies, 71 degrees, winds out of the west and southwest at 14 miles an hour. so, what we're going to be watching is the clear skies give way to some cloud cover overnight tonight. we have this area of low pressure that is beginning to spin past us to the north, and there's a cold front that will trail through the area. now, that will bring in much cooler air for tomorrow. if you thought today was refreshing, wait until tomorrow and even sunday morning. that's going to be very refreshing air, courtesy of canada. but we could see some showers, and i don't think we'll see a storm, but i think we'll see some showers triggered late tonight and early tomorrow and maybe as this swirls by, even tomorrow afternoon, so just put that in the back of your mind that you may possibly need to carry the umbrella with you at
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some point tomorrow, but they will be such isolated showers, not a washout or a downpour for anybody. look at these numbers. in philadelphia tomorrow, we're going to be in the mid-60s. if you go to reading, we're going to be in the low 60s. if you go to stone harbor, maybe the mid-to-upper 60s. and in wilmington, the mid-60s. a very big difference from what we just saw last week. it does look like we have a nice warm-up ahead next week, so we'll talk more about that with your ten-day on ten when i come back in a few minutes. here's a look at some of the other stories we're following county by county at 4:00. in burlington county, a mass honoring and praying for all police officers who serve the county and new jersey. the entire student body, faculty from holy cross academy in del ran was at the blue mass. there were 70 police officers there, including new jersey state troopers. >> in new castle county, it's been a friday to remember at one school in will maketon. the students and staff at harlan elementary were surprised by one of those big checks.
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there you go. this one's good for $10,000. burlington stores is providing the money to buy supplies for each teacher's classroom. a celebration at st. joseph catholic school in downingtown. they were awarded the blue ribbon school of excellence by the department of education. they are one of 342 nationwide schools to get the award. today is national coffee day. >> and if you haven't celebrated, there is still plenty of time to do so. nbc 10 in center city, coffee fans grabbed a free cup of joe at wah-wah, one of many retailers offering free coffee today. national coffee today, it's not an american creation, it's known as international coffee day in other parts of the world. it was first celebrated in japan back in 1983. still ahead at 4:00, a surprise signal for queen bee fans. ♪ lift up your people, texas, puerto rico, to mexico ♪
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>> get it, jackie. >> this beyonce song is catching on and helping hurricane relief efforts. and lights out. the shocking information parents need to know about with this nightlight recall, coming up next. you've haefeeard the warnin time and time again -- don't text and drive. the new cell phone feature designed to keep you safe, next.
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ey is facing an epidemic fueled by opioid painkillers. vanessa: in honor of september being recovery month, we want you to know that recovery from addiction is possible, but you need to know the signs. they can be hard to spot: social withdrawal, financial problems, irritability. christie: if you see these signs occurring together or suddenly, you may have cause for concern. the signs you spot today... vanessa: ...could save a loved one tomorrow. christie: call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj.gov.
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right now, a night light soother for little kids is being pulled off the shelves because it could shock them. skip hop is recovering 207,000 of these moonlight and melodies nightlight soothers. the lights play music and project images, but the wall adapter can break and cause an electric shock. parents can contact skiphop for a replacement. the best way to bring back memories, not bedbugs from your vacation, do your laundry. we shouldn't have to say that. bedbugs are attracted to dirty
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clothes. a new study found the critters were twice as likely to creep into suitcases with dirty clothes than those with clean laundry, and it didn't take much dirt. the clothes had only been worn for just a few hours before attracted bedbugs. experts say if you can't do laundry before coming home, keep them in a sealed plastic bag. well, it's feeling a lot like fall. maybe wash that fall blanket or jacket before you put it on. we're going to need it, because look at this. 50s are headed our way. 70 in philadelphia right now. we're not going to get those 70s and 80s back as we saw earlier in week. no, no, we're tumbling. i'll tell you how chilly we'll be. monarch butterflies on the move. >> i've never seen so many butterfli butterflies. >> i'm ted greenberg with where the colorful creatures are putting on a show at the jersey shore. nfl protests. the president is calling out players, putting one eagle in the spotlight. how malcolm jenkins is responding all new at 5:00.
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>> and nbc 10 is your official eagles station. on sunday, the eagles are in los angeles to take on the chargers. don't forget to catch our hour-long pregame show sunday morning starting with "eagles game day kickoff" followed by "eagles game plan." and after sunday night football, stay with nbc 10 for "eagles game day final."
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breaking news. president donald trump's embattled health secretary has resigned. health and human services secretary tom price has been dogged by criticism over a pattern of booking costly charter flights for official travel. again, tom price out as health secretary. to this now. beyonce is stepping up to raise relief money for people reeling from hurricanes in the caribbean and the earthquakes in mexico. >> she is out with a surprise single that we've been listening
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to in the breaks. take a listen ♪ lift up your people, puerto rico to mexico ♪ >> the song features lyrics in english, spanish and french. in english first, beyonce sings "lift up your people from texas, puerto rico, the islands to mexico." she's donating all proceeds to relief efforts. >> it is catchy. >> mm-hmm. the white house is responding to a school librarian in massachusetts who rejected a shipment of dr. seuss books donated by the first lady. the librarian turned down the books, questioning melania trump's choices as cliche. the first lady donated books to one school from each state for national read a book day. the school district says the librarian was not authorized to reject the books. the white house released a statement that reads in part, "turning the gesture of sending young school children books into something divisive is unfortunate, but the first lady remains committed to her efforts on behalf of children everywhere."
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switching gears now, riding high on last season's success, "snl" returns this weekend. "saturday night live" season 43 kicks off with ryan gosling hosting and jay z is the musical guest. >> good lineup. gosling's second time hosting. it appears he had a little bit of trouble getting past security at 30 rock this time, at least that's according to "snl's" latest promo. take a look. >> all my life i knew i could host "snl." that thrill, that rush. and when i hosted, it was magical. but you only got part of me last time. this time i'm going to give the world my soul. i'm going to give them something they'll never, ever forget. >> okay, but you're still going to need a visitor's pass to get upstairs. >> you run a tight ship. i respect that. >> hey! >> that's the way out?
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that's the way out. i don't know why i thought -- got that. everyone's doing a cracker jack job. i'm going to tell loren as soon as i get upstairs. >> all right, if that doesn't make you want to watch, what does? don't miss the "snl" season premiere with host ryan gosling and musical guest jay z, tomorrow at 11:30 right here on nbc 10. taking a live look over the ben franklin parkway, a gorgeous day, and it is feeling like fall out there, tammie. >> oh, it is feeling fantastic out there! if you love fall and love the leaves changing and pull out the boots -- i got my boots on right now. do you have yours handy? we're going to need them now! it's the time of year to be able to do that, wear those great sweaters. summer is gone, although there are a couple of 80s in my extended forecast. right now out in avalon, the surf is still dangerous. we're still going to be looking at rip currents through the weekend that are going to be on the dangerous side, even though maria has moved well east of us. 68 right now out there along the beach and winds out of the west
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to 7 miles an hour. elsewhere around the area, it's 60 at mt. pocono. the showers you see in our realistic sky, they are far to the west of us, but they will be sweeping through here, at least in an isolated form overnight tonight. it's 71 right now in philadelphia, 71 in wilmington, 73 for all of you. in vineland. it's 69 in mt. holly and 70 in atlantic city with a 69 in trenton. so, we are just below where we should be, which is 73 degrees this time of year. it's going to be 44 in allentown tonight. we'll do a pair of double nickels here in philadelphia, so it's going to be a little bit warmer because of all the warmth that has been radiated out into the pavement, and we're looking at 49 in wilmington for tonight and 50 for atlantic city. what we are watching is the doppler radar. and you know what, we have got these showers, which are going to be on the way into the area a little bit later on for tonight. so we're going to be watching these very closely. they're probably going to sort
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of fall apart. we're going to be only seeing scattered showers but more importantly, what we're going to notice is the cool air. you see all these dotty clouds coming out of canada? that's indicative of extremely cold air. that's what shows up on a satellite image. and so, all of that is going to be spilling into our area. we're going to be watching it behind this cold front. this area of low pressure stays to the north, but the cold front sort of pushes those isolated showers through the area and ushers in a real fall-like feel for tomorrow. so, this is where we are. overnight tonight maybe a spotty shower moves through. you wake up tomorrow morning, 40s in the out lying areas. we're going to see those low to mid-50s across philadelphia. then we only get up into those low and mid-60s for highs tomorrow. some places, like mt. pocono, allentown, you're not to make it out of the 50s tomorrow, but a spotty shower is possible in the afternoon. the coldest night is going to be saturday night into sunday morning. plenty of 40s around the area, maybe 51 in the heart of philadelphia, but i think many of us in philadelphia are going
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to be feeling the 40s. hour by hour we go into sunday and we're going to be getting up there close to 70 degrees. don't forget, you can track your whole weekend and those showers if you download our app. your neighborhood weather is right there, so you can see what's going on at your place. for tonight, 56 in philadelphia, 54 on the jersey shore, 55 in delaware, and we'll see those clouds increasing. for tomorrow we're going to be looking at only 66 in philadelphia, 68 in the lehigh valley and 68 along the jersey shore. your ten-day on 10, it does warm up. that's the good news. if you're jonesing for 80s, we'll see 66 tomorrow. we do have that big suicide prevention walk on sunday. we'll see 70 there, 74 monday, 75 tuesday. look at all these sunshines. oh, yeah, and a pair of 80s by the time we get to the end of next week, so maybe summer's still kind of hanging around a little. guys? next at 4:00, getting ready for a monarch migration. where you can catch them at the jersey shore before they make their way south for the winter.
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i want to direct your attention behind us. these monarch butterflies are soaking up the last of the warm weather at the jersey shore before heading south for the winter. >> so pretty, and they are attracting plenty of people who want to get a their beauty. nbc 10 jersey shore bureau reporter ted greenberg shows us where they are putting on a show this weekend. >> beautiful sight. >> an eyeful of color. >> it's quite amazing. >> reporter: that marie victor
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says makes her heart flutter. >> we just happened to come down the street and said, oh, my gosh, there they are. >> reporter: clusters of monarch butterflies, filling up on nectar in cape may point. >> they're everywhere. >> reporter: putting on a local show for locals and jersey shore tourists. >> it's incredible. i was shocked, actually. i didn't believe -- i've never seen so many butterflies. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands pass through every fall on their long migration to mountains in mexico. >> it's just a phenomenal thing to think, you know, their task. >> reporter: there are so many monarchs, it's almost as if it's impossible not to see them, and experts say the outlook for the weekend looks good as well. >> we've had a cold front pass, winds out of the northwest. our best days are always under these weather patterns. >> reporter: for more than a quarter century, the monarch monitoring project has counted and tagged the butterflies to track their migratory trip and speed. >> there suddenly seems to be a lot kind of drafting in and moving into this area. >> reporter: the monarch population in north america has
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significantly declined over the past few decades, but this year looks encouraging. >> it seems to be a little above average so far, and we could still see the peak of the migration ahead of us. >> reporter: potentially bringing sights -- >> enjoy your journey south. >> reporter: -- even more spectacular. ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >> they are beautiful. >> gorgeous, and big. >> mm-hmm. we are working on several stories for "nbc 10 news at 5 0 5:00." here's erin coleman. >> we continue to follow breaking news. just a short time ago, police caught a murder suspect in philadelphia. he is accused of killing a 20-year-old in chester county. nbc 10's steven fisher has been following this story all day and is talking to investigators right now. what he's learned in a live report, all new at 5:00. the local puerto rican community remains on edge as they try to help their family back on the island. we spoke to a man whose mother went down to celebrate a friend's birthday only to live through this nightmare. we'll have more on the ordeal to bring her back home. paulsboro's a very proud community.
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it's been on the decline with the closing of the refineries and there's no jobs in the community. if there's no jobs, there's no education, there's no food on the table. what's important is the children. steve sweeney... he fought for 'em. this is where he's from. steve sweeney's been here since the beginning. steve spearheaded the whole project and really brought it to fruition. it would've never been done without steve. it was a pride in building this port and then knowing that we're coming back. that breaking news, a murder suspect caught about 30 minutes ago in philadelphia. police say this man shot and killed a 20-year-old after an argument. nbc 10's steven fisher just finished talking to investigators. >> he joins us now live in chester county with how officers finally tracked down that suspect. steven. >> reporter: well, erin, this
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all happened just in the last hour. we find out that carpenter was, in fact, arrested a short time ago in philadelphia, but this all started right here behind me at the children's plaza, which is just off one of the main roads here in phoenixville. police also tell us that is where those fatal shots were fired. the talk on main and bridge streets in phoenixville still surrounds last night's deadly shooting of 20-year-old joshua mitchell. >> i couldn't believe it. i was completely shocked. >> reporter: mitchell and 21-year-old keion carpenter knew each other. last night they met here at the children's plaza just off the main drag through town around 10:00. police say an argument ensued and witnesses recall hearing gunshots. >> i heard two loud sounds. boom, boom! i thought it was a gun at first, then thought it's got to be a firecracker. i can't believe somebody actually got shot. >> i got
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