tonight. >>. >> reporter: the crime scene here, detectives are inside the home although it's still early in the investigation, they have been able to develop a theory in how the boy ended upshot in the head. >> it's hard to imagine. but police believe a 2-year-old boy shot himself in the head. the city's neighborhood. >> it makes me sick. >> police rushed to the home after someone reported hearing gunfire. by the time officers arrived, this boy's father had rushed him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. sky force 10 shows the father's car outside the hospital. now a part of what's become a a homicide investigation. there were several people inside the home where the shooting

happened, including the boy's mother. >> it appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. being found by kids and we have tragedy. they need to take guns and throw them away. >> neighbors now sharing memo memories of the boy who would often run up and down the block with a big smile on his face. >> when my kids were outside, he would play with my 2-year-old daughter. back live now, you can see a police officer sanding outside the home while inside that investigation is now happening as we e speak. police will only say it's part of their ongoing investigation. we're live in the city's, drey clark, nbc 10 news.

breaking news from south philadelphia. police are investigating after someone reportedly stole a jersey left at the growing memorial for roy halladay. sky force 10 is flying live over the e memorial. people started placing items outside the ballpark following his death in a plane crash tuesday. halladay's small aircraft crashed off the coast of tampa. a preliminary report on the cause of the crash is expected next week. roy halladay was 40 year old. turning now to your first alert weather, a cold night outside right now as we look live at center city from our campus camera. >> if you think it's cold now, wait until tomorrow morning. we have issued a first alert at 4:00 a.m. feels like will fall to the teens and 20s thanks to gusting

winds. you'll need the winter jacket tomorrow. >> a big difference out the door tomorrow compared to today. >> this is our first hard freeze in philadelphia, delaware and south jersey. also in pennsylvania. and this is going to be tomorrow evening at 7:00 through saturday morning. we will be in the 30s much of tomorrow. it's going to feel colder than that. the growing season will come to an end. it will be somewhere between 5 and 15 degrees. it's going to be bitterly cold out there.

31 in philadelphia. 20 in mount pocono. 34 in millville. here's a checklist. locate the winter coat. check the pilot lights you have on anything at home. we'll go through your neighborhood in a few minutes. >> let the dreams of summer begin. wake up with us before you venture into the cold tomorrow morning. nbc news today starts at a.m. with the weather and traffic you need to start your day. now to the nation's capital where today the senate unveiled its new tax overhaul plan a week after the house did the same. republicans are racing to pass new tax legislation by christmas. today nbc 10 went to the white house to find out how that overhaul will impact your

family. >> we're turning the battleship around slowly. >> lauren mayk spoke to kellyanne con way about whether the plan would hurt people in her home state. she joins us live at the white house now. >> reporter: for a lot of people, this would really change the way you do your taxes. it could make it a lot simpler, the standard deductions going to go up rnd the plan, the number to go down. but in places like new jersey, e deducting things is a popular way to get your tax bill down and that would change. reside residents will remind you higher taxes. now a new plan from washington could change how residents here do their taxes and what they

pay. >> the tax package will benefit millions of american households by reducing the sheer percent of taxes you pay. >> kellyanne con way is council to the president. the president said we'll find middle class taxes. this it's a place where property tax bills can top $10,000. the cap you'd be able to deduct under the house plan. >> will all middle class taxpayers? >> every time president obama and others raise taxes, did anybody make that argue you shouldn't raise all our taxes because we make more or less money. >> reporter: the big benefit will be a higher standard deduction. 24,000 for couples.

details on deductions still being worked out on capitol hill. but conway says they are aiming this. americans could see how this would affect him. she told me that he has said he will not do that because he's under audit and will release them when his lawyers say that e he should. live in washington, d.c., lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. >> you can watch the entire interview from the white house right now streaming on the nbc 10 app. while you're there, get a breakdown on the senate tax plan and what it could mean for you. senate candidate from alabama is facing accusations tonight. e he had an inappropriate encounter with a teenage girl. a woman claims roy moore initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 and he was 32. his campaign denies the charge.

his campaign tells breitbart the story is is a smear. the special election for this race is a little over a month ago washington. several republican senators have called on him to quit if the accusations are true. new from chester county tonight. a a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a car in the parking lot of the first presbyterian church. this happened yesterday. sky force 10 flew over the church today. police say she's a 36-year-old woman from philadelphia, but they are not telling us her name at this point. police have not made any arrests. police in allentown are investigating third homicide in a week. the latest victim a 19-year-old man killed right across from allentown city hall. police say paris lane was shot multiple times last night. he was found in a parking lot of the hamilton towers. candles were left outside his home where a memorial grows while a family struggles to understand what happened. >> nobody should ever have to

bury their child. >> police are still searching for the shooter. prosecutors say they may seek the death penalty in the prison riot in delaware even though that punishment is not allowed in the state. 18 prisoners are charged in the uprising back in february. one corrections officer was killed. others were held hostage. delaware supreme court ruled last year that the death penalty was unconstitutional. but prosecutors say if lawmakers reinstate capital punishment, they will seek it in this case. new video shows a man stealing from a philadelphia synagogue. police say the man walked into. the synagogue in society hill last month and he took a bike sitting by itself, walked out with that. police are still looking for the thief. famous philadelphia movie e director was onset today in the lehigh valley. if you look closely, you can see

him in the distance. he's wearing a baseball cap. the movie is being shot at the former allentown state hospital. samuel l. jackson is one of the stars of the movie. up next, all new at 6:00, a piece of holocaust history packed away for decades found in an attic. this ordinary jacket tells an extraordinary story of survival. and later coming up in sports, the future of the eagles defense gets a little clearer tonight. the move the team just move to lock up within of its stars. so i'm calling to see if you can help me save on my energy bill. we can do that. great. i live in a post-war, pre-war, mid-century home

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montgomery county man honored for preserving his father's world war ii legacy. he was recognized in center city last night. his daughter was there to accept an award for his generation donation to a conservation center ensuring key pieces from stories like the one you're about to see never fade away. tonight we go inside the new center filled with thousands of items from victims of the holocaust. we focus on one piece in particular. what would normally been an order jacket. the experience anything but ordinary.

>> this is not hollywood. two weeks after american troops e freed prisoners from the atrocities in germany. spring of 1945. >> a 6-year survivor finally out of prison stripes. >> this is where the jacket was. his son's suburban attic. >>. he's there on the right. >> hanging from what looks like an old tree. for hours. >> that's ott toe hanging by his arms from a post. punishment for exactly what lost to the passage of time. >> the will to survive. >> after the war, he said his father eventually made it to new

york city where he was married, worked as a jewelry salesman and raised three children, including his orphan niece and nephew. whom he adopted after their parents died. >> what was sort of the family lure about this jacket? >> it was part of the overall package of memories, knowledge, conversation, awareness of what he had lived through. >> reporter: to e see the jacket for ourselves, we traveled through a secure location in maryland. a brand new conservation center not yet open to the public. but a place where research and prz vags, an outpost of the holocaust museum in washington, d.c. inside a climate-controlled vault that bares his name are items from a dark past. we were shown case after case

after case, filled with prison uniforms, stars of david, artwork, and his prison uniform and the brown corduroy jacket. >> this is the jacket we saw in the footage he was interviewed by the army. >> this first patch here you can see is his prisoner number. that matches up with the records that we have on hand. you also see on the front of this jacket as well as on the back it's marked klb. >> reporter: a place thanks to audio interviews done in 1946 where we know just how close he came to death. >> it's usually said that the fact that he survived was primarily a matter of luck. >> reporter: 70 years later that story of luck and tattered outware preserved for decades to

come. before his death this spring, his adopted brother peter arrai arraign arranged to donate the clothing and a million dollars to the conservation center. >> in a way, he would have faced him. >> e yes. >> from foster care, who knows what. >> it's a full circle. >> we are very, very luky. we'll never forget the american people into the american army. >> that vault is home to some 18,000 objects and pieces of art. in the next decade, the collection is expected to double in size. all of it eventualliable online for researchers. you can see other items donated from families from our area right now on the nbc 10 app. we do have a first alert issued for our first hard freeze of the season. outside we have some cloud

cover. 59 degrees was our high today. that was shortly after midnight. we spent much of the day in the mid-50s. no rain and the highest wind gusts at 19 miles per hour. for tomorrow, what we have is we have a freeze warning for tomorrow evening at 7:00 through 10:00 on saturday morning. we're going to see lows friday fight into saturday morning between 15 and 25 degrees. and a windchill between 5 and 15 degrees. so everywhere that you see shaded in purple and that includes philadelphia and delaware counties, all of delaware and south jersey, just shy of the ocean itself is where we're expected to see the first freeze. that will be the end of the growing season. radar picking up a few isolated showers moving through the area. we have a weak front that's pushing through. we're watching a bigger front that's making its way through the great lakes area and behind that cold front we're going to see the very cold air spilling in for tomorrow. so here are the isolated to scattered showers through 10:00

tonight. we see the temperature about 48. that's at 1:00 in the morning. we're still pretty mild. here comes that cold front. as it passes, temperatures will fall. tomorrow morning we'll be in the 30s in philadelphia. 20s in the outlying areas. we hover in the 30s throughout the day. by 2:00 maybe we're in the mid-30s. then we fall off to the 20s by about 8:00 a at night when the freeze warning goes into effect. so our high for tomorrow is going to be shortly after midnight tonight. on saturday, you're going to wake up to the coldest morning yet. we're going to be in the mid-20s across philadelphia. and look the at this. as we go through starred, maybe we make it up close to 40 degrees. the feels like, the windchill is going to be fierce. let's check out what it's going to feels like. 45 in philadelphia. tomorrow at 8:00 in the morning, it's going to feel like 25, which is why you have to bund. l the kids up and bring the pets in. 8:00 tomorrow night, it will feel like 13. if you're out having fun tomorrow night, it will feel like 9 degrees in philadelphia.

your ten-day on 10 isn't going to warm up any time soon. the next two days, they hit mainly tomorrow after midnight and midday on saturday. the overnight lows will be bitterly cold below freeze iing. sunday we warm to the 40s. maybe a shower in the afternoon and into monday. and then the remainder of the week ahead, it looks like it's going to be in the 50s. nbc sports philadelphia, the eagles fork over a big new contract to one of their key defensive players and the sixers and flies in action. all that and more, next in sports. cancer is smart.

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good to see you again. the eagles may be off, but the money is always working. defensive tackle breaking in big bucks with the any contract today. he inked a four-year contract extension worth $48 million with $26 million guaranteed. he had 17 tackles and 1.5 sacks in 9 games. news that could impact the eagles next game against the ow cowboys. ezekiel elliott got a suspension domestic violence. he could miss the game koens the eagles on "sunday night football" here on nbc 10. football here on nbc 10 tonight, the cardinals hosting the seahawks on "thursday night football." kickoff at arizona is is set for 8:25. let's turn to the hardwood. the surging sixers in search of

a win. embiid back in the line up. simmons continues to shine averaging 18 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists per. here's head coach on the historical start from his career. you come back in and you're looking at his stat seat ask you're like, he just really makes people work on the statistics department. look at his lines. he's got so much more to give. the fliers and black hawks are on the ice tonight. just two wins in the last seven games. the family of roy halladay release d a statement following his crash in a plane on tuesday. that statement included an announce there will be a public memorial service in clooer water next tuesday. that's sports. back to you. now for a look at what's coming up on nbc 10 news at

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update to the breaking news. someone has been arrested for stealing a jersey from memorial for roy halladay. people start on tuesday. one last check of the weather. cold in center city. even colder tomorrow morning. >> it's kind of sad when your daytime high is sortly after midnight. that's what we're going to see. we're going to wind up for much of the day tomorrow in the 30s with a feels like in the 20s and the teens.

so get ready for the big chill. it will last through the weekend. >> thank you for watching at 6:00. i'm jim rosenfield. >> and i'm jacqueline london. up next "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. s tonight. bombshell allegations against u.s. senate candidate roy moore. the alabama republican accused of fondling a 13-year-old girl when he was 32. other women saying moore pursued them when they were teenagers. there are loud and growing calls for moore to drop out of a critical race. also breing tonight, star comedian louis ck accused by five women of sexual misconduct. his movie premiere canceled. another scandal rocking hollywood as the avalanches of accusations against notable men continues. senate republicans unveil their own sweeping plan zlfrm. the big chill on the way across a huge part of the country. it's about to get dangerously cold.