how fake drugs could end up in your medicine cabinet. we begin in port richmond. where an elderly man was found dead inside his home tonight. police showed up to the crime scene about two hours ago. detectives found blod on the first and second floor. neighbors stood outside watching and wondering what happened. police are investigating this as a suspicious death. if we get more information we'll bring it to you. to the latest onts man hunt for an escaped prisoner. the accused murder has been on the loose for nearly 24 hours. >> huggens was one of four teenager prisoners who escaped from a juvenile facility in egg harbor city. the other three were captured this morning. he's still on the run. >> live in bridge ton. father

following the search. where it continues now. >> we know 18 year-old michael has family here in the bridge ton area. police are not telling us how they might have gotten all the way here from egg harbor city. tonight police are calling him dangerous. >> think about her. if you don't think about anybody else. >> reporter: she is calling on 18 year-old michael hugens to think about his mother. the accused killer remains on the run after breaking out of the youth detention center. shortly after midnight. nearly 24 hours, dozens of officers have been on the lookout as the search extended 30 miles away. >> i would pray that you would turn yourself in. before any tragedy happens. that your mother would have to suffer. >> reporter: investigators say he along with three other teens over powered guard and stole his car. home surveillance shows the teens slamming into a jeep. as they drove away from officers.

they eventually crashed into a home. before taking off on foot. reverend runs the church a few days down from the family. he's also hoping the teenager decides to do the right thing. >> so nobody gets hurt in the situation. >> reporter: three of the teens were caught earlier in the day. but huggens broke away. he's accused of killing lee during a robbery. in 2016. lee's family talked to hus tonight. >> i want them to catch him. he needs to be locked away. >> 16 schools were closed today because of the man hunt. we have learned now that all of the schools will reopen tomorrow. with the normal schedule. for now we're live in bridge ton. nbc10 news. >> be the first to know if there are breaking updates on this story. we'll bring them to you of course or down load the nbc10

app. now to the latest on a car crash in south jersey. see the car wedged under the back of the fed ekts truck? the car driver sped up when they tried to pull hm over. and ended up slamming the stolen car into the tractor trailer. this was on route 130 this morning. neefr river ton road. the passenger in the stolen car was killed. the teenage driver is in critical condition. new video shows a woman who gave birth just hours after being shot. the victim mother recorded this video inside her hotel room. >> brandon hudson is live outside the hospital tonight. the family has been through a lot in the last 24 hours. >> that's right. it's been a long 24 hours. this is supposed to be a happy moment. they were in the hospital room in shock. the other children saw a as a neighbor shoot their own mother. >> i'm traumatized. a lot of emotions.

>> reporter: feeling emotionally and physically tired. she mustered up strength to talk about giving birth hours after she says she was shot by her neighbor. >> with the help of my family and loved ones. >> reporter: she shared her thoughts on a cell phone video from her hospital room. her mother sent us photographs of the gun shont wounds. police say the bullet traveled through the 21 year-old mothers left leg. and into her right leg. her mother said last night started with an argument between her daughter and the neighbor. >> as soon as my daughter closed her porch and went into my porch the laity swung her door open. and came out and shot my daughter. >> reporter: officers arrested cox outside the home. in the oxford circle section. cox went to jail. and she went to the hospital. she gave birth to her dau after two this morning. >> how have the last 24 hours been for you? >> hard. many kids and my grand kids are

going to be traumatized. they got a long recovery. i have to put them in therapy. we have to go to therapy. >> the mother said this isn't the first time the neighbor pulled a begun on her daughter. and the two have had several confrontations since halloween. now to your first alert weather. check out the nbc10 radar. the rain getting closer and closer tonight. >> chief meteorologist tammie souza is here. >> it looks leek we'll see scattered showers through the night and early tomorrow morning. much of the area is quiet. little bit of activity in bucking county and approaching lancaster. also beginning to approach burkes county. you can see out towards rich land, we're seeing just some very light showers and sprinkles. the clouds have moved in. here's that line of showers that will come through. this won't be a total wash out. there are showers behind it.

pesky showers behind it. and then behind that we have another system that will effect us and very windy conditions. all that for the weekend. which i will out line neighborhood by neighborhood. new at 11. an animal shelter is apologizing again after it euthanized another family pet. >> it's happened twice now in the last two months. nbc10 drew smith spoke to the cats owner and shows us what's next for the shelter. >> reporter: cody's home is feeling empty. tonight. the cat he adopted with his girlfriend is not coming back. >> i must have cried like ten times today. just thinking about stuff he does. and it's really upsetting. he didn't deserve that. >> reporter: the cat got out sunday. he usually comes back. but everyone so, he had a chip. so a shelter could id him. when a neighbor brought the pet to the animal rescue league. the director says two scans missed the chip. it was only after he came

looking a scan on cat lifeless body found it. >> it was really hard to hear. at this point we want answers. and people to be aware of what's going on. >> reporter: in a statement the shelter explained the reason to put down the cat was a difficult one. >> i have a hard time believing that. >> reporter: changes are in the works. this comes just a month after the same facility euthanized a collared cat. less than a day after taking it in. is the the shelter fired a worker for bad judgment in the case. >> it seems like they're not really taking their job seriously. there needs to be changes. >> the shelter apologized to the entire community. for what it calls a terrible situation. new at 11. you may have had the same

problems i did tonight. problems with your cell phone. customers have had problems tonight making phone calls. the fix, at&t says restart your phone. some users said turning off lte and putting the phone in airplane mode for ten seconds al did the trick. >> a fire fundraiser that philadelphia restaurant community coming together for one of its own. more than 30 restaurants served up their best dishes at head house square on south street. proceeds from the fundraiser will go to the displaced workers from the restaurant south street and society hill. just destroyed in the fire last month. that stood there for 40 years. to the lee high valley. dozens of people are showing support for an injured state trooper. a mobile blood droif drive was held. he was shot multiple times during a traffic stop last week. kelly's wound required emergency

surgery and blood transfusion. a legal victory for philadelphia. a federal judge ruled the government cannot with hold federal funds because of philly sanctuary city status. the mayor praised the ruling. >> this is our tags money. it doesn't belong to donald trump ob jeff sessions. >> sanctuary cities limit corporation with government enforcement of immigration law. the justice department is reviewing the ruling and determining the next step. five nation tour of asia a success. he made free sdp fair trade a point of emphasis. the president said he spoke with leaders in china about the danger of north korea. both nations agree the north must eliminate nuclear weapons program not freeze it. >> i smoke the truth about the ev evil crime of the north korea

regime. and will not hold the world hostage to nuclear blackmail. >> biden spent the night at the center talking about his new book. titled promise me dad. the bok chronicles the challenges biden endured following his late sons cancer diagnosis. tonight event was moderated be award winning screen writer. the fate of philadelphia school reform commission will be decided tomorrow. and historic vote on whether to disband the src will take place at school district headquarters. two weeks after mayor kenny backed a plan to dissolve the commission in favor of the school board. it's been in charge of school district operations for the last 16 years. tomorrow meeting is set for 4:30. if you are planning on getting a

glimpse of christmas village this weekend. you have to make other plans. a plan preview of the holiday attraction has been cancelled because construction took longer than expected. the christmas village will debut thanksgiving day. from thavrngs giving to christmas. this will be the tenth year for the largest holiday attraction. phony foopharmaceuticals. tonight the nbc10 investigators take us inside the fight against counter fit drugs. and what's being done to keep them out of your medicine cabinet. coming up. plus, not even children are off limits. why hackers have started targeting schools across the country. and how they're threatening to harm students. and blocking the border wall. the owners of a popular game ask the customers to chip in.

it's happening across the

nation. cyber criminals targeting schools. threatening to harm children. and hold their personal information for ransom. a group call lg itself the dark over lord hacked into the computer net work and security camera system of a school district in montana. authorities say the cyber criminals threatened to release students social security numbers. addresses and phone numbers. when school officials didn't pay up. threatening text messages ensued. >> threats mostly about killing children. and graphic ways they were going to kill children. >> why? why us? why is this happening to us. >> similar attacks have been reported from iowa to georgia to texas. increase their cyber security budget. >> hackers aren't just targeting schools. they're going after homes, too. from security cameras to baby monitors. the morning team will show you how to protect the technology you depend on. that's all new tomorrow morning

on nbc10 news today. block the border wall. the maker of the popular game called cards against humanity plans to do that. by buying land on the u.s. mexico border. customers who sign up for a $15 holiday promotion received a plot of that land. it's called cards against humanity saves america. the promotion sold out in a few hours yesterday. the chicago based company says it plans to make building a wall time consuming and expensive. new tonight. phony pharmaceuticals. counter fit drug makers are getting more sophisticated and dangerous. >> it is a total dark zone. no quality control. >> reporter: now the feds show the nbc10 investigators their biggest haul. >> it looks normal enough. >> reporter: we watch mail order drugs being tested firsthand. >> local investigators tell us count fitters are going to new

length to trick buyers into thinking that their product is authentic. investigative reporter discovered even the most alert patients can be duped. and the consequences could be deadly. >> my cholesterol control is 170 something. >> reporter: walking near his hometown. chris recounted his 15 year battle against high cholesterol. and the counter fit drug scare that nearly derailed it. >> the first thing i thought of what what was i taking. >> reporter: a cautionary tale for anyone taking prescription drugs. especially as counter fitters are getting trickery down to a science. >> it's going to be difficult if not impossible for a consumer to detect this is fraud. >> reporter: walker is the assistance special agent in charge of security investigation. he agreed to open his department evidence locker and for the first time, he showed us these

boxes of counter fit prescription. seized from two philly street level dealers. >> consumers will get counter fit products and they work. or work to some degree. the reality of it is they have no idea what they're putting in their body. >> reporter: most purchases begin innocently enough at the computer. with patients looking frg medicine at a discount. and most drugs are simply mailed nd to the united states. like any other parcel. the investigators worked with pfizer counter fit lab in connecticut. to order prescriptions online. so we could see the process from start to finish. >> so the medicine arrived in this. looks normal enough. >> reporter: the supposed viagra pills arrive from canada the in the bubble padded envelope. pfizer director of investigation noticed red flags. the blister packaging rather than a standard bottle. and a mistake in the logo

printing. sure enough a quick lab tt concluded for $130 plus. we got phony medicine. >> this is a fail. which means counter fit. >> reporter: the lab tests 1,000 samples a year for concerned customers. law enforcement. and investigation. nearly nine out of the ten samples turn out to be fake. from phony arthritis medicine. to pills full of led and toxin. and a knock off cancer drug with no active ingredient. providing false hope to a dying patient. >> they'll take a chance. this will be the cure. now, they get this product and there's nothing in it. >> reporter: walker says buying from regulated, american pharmacies is your best bet. to stay safe. ironically enough he did exactly that. in 2003 rite aid pharmacy told

customers its authorized distributor for lipitor may have provided counter fit pills. the pharmacy sued the distributor. but a confidentiality agreement cannot disclose the out come. the experience of taking what he believes was phony medicine left him with lessons learned about avoiding counter fit. >> i don't buy it online or order it from other countries. it's a significant difference in price. but what are you going to do? >> protecting yourself from counter fit drugs doesn't mean you can't order prescriptions online. for a list of verified online pharmaci pharmacies look for the link with this story on nbc10.com. >> it's the time of year when you have to wear the heavy coats at night. we spot the these ladies dressed warmly in center city. soon they'll need umbrellas too.

>> more on the rain headed our way for the morning and the weekend. >> you might need the umbrella later on tonight. or even before you go to work. if you're a predawn commuter. wf clouds in place. not seeing rain across philadelphia yet. the high today 53. three degrees shy of where we should be at 56. no rain yet in the rain gauge. and our highest wind gust was 22 miles per hour. so not too bad. temperature wise. but the rain is now going make its way across the area. knocking on the door of the lee high valley and burkes county. not making its way yet into philadelphia. clouds place. and several lines of showers coming through. these will be sper rattic. tonight and tomorrow. they're associated with the really large storm system. a lot of heavy snow in canada. for the u.s. some rain and thunderstorms. so here's what's going to go on. watch this yar of low pressure as it passes us. and when the cold front comes

closer it will drive the showers through over night into tomorrow morning. we'll be watching that rain as it moved through at 3, 4, 5:00 in the morning. and the front is through. maybe an afternoon quick shot of wrap around showers. highs tomorrow in the lower 50s and very windy on the backside. on friday, what we'll see a high that will be in the upper 40s. and low 50s. winds that will be out of the north and they turn to the south. warming us up into the mid-50s on saturday. here comes another system. it should come in after the half marathon. it will be with us all afternoon and evening. we have plenty of wind behind that for a raw sunday out there. how windy you ask? s tomorrow night we could see wind gusts to 35 miles per hour. on friday and saturday somewhere between 20 to 30 miles per hour. and then we have get into sunday. and sunday we can see wind gusts between 45 and 51 miles per

hour. a breezy day. it you're going to be running on saturday we'll see clouds out there. a high that's around 50. showers starting late morning. on sunday, we'll see clouds clearing sun shoin. but windy. your ten day on ten. 57 tomorrow. and windy. 51 friday and sunny. 56 on saturday. the rain moves in midway through the day. in the afternoon and evening. could be quite wet on sunday. we'll be looking at windy conditions and monday atd windy conditions and look at this, march ahead to your holiday. it will be windy. and raw for thanksgiving.

john clark joining us now. >> two things people seem to love. carson wentz and puppies. >> super bowl win. that too. that could come. carson wentz loves dogs and says he's obsessed with dogs and took

the love and threw his foundation he donated $120,000 to bring service dogs to those who need them. people with physical and cognitive disability. he visited the dogs and the people who can't live without them. he describes it as emotional. we'll bring you that story tomorrow night. on nbc10 news after thursday night football. tonight, next we hear from the quarter backs on the show down with the cowboys sunday night. plus who's always there the earliest at the eagles facility every day. the sixers are going to pay robert covington. hear the deal he's getting. sixers in la. that's next.

the eagles are healthy going to the show down with the cowboys. remember last the eeg lts had a ten point lead in the fourth quarter in dallas. and lost in over time. the bird learned a lot from the game. here are the quarterbacks on the big match up sunday night. >> this week is a big week. obviously division that will riva and a lot riding on it. so to speak. i know it's a big week. and we don't take it lightly. >> it's hard to say any time you play the eagles it's another game. especially playing the way they're playing. people count us out. it puts more into the rivalry and we're ready to go. >> you have heard how hard carson wentz works. johnson told me he is usually tired by the end of the game week and needs sleep. ronald said when he came in for rehab over two months he came in at 5:00 a.m. guess who was there? >> wentz will be here early. every time i came.

he was in the locker. like what time you get here. >> bye week fts great. it was good relax and get away. catch up on sleep. >> he has rested now. it is on sunday night eagles cowboys right here on nbc10. sixers robert covington is getting paid. a four yore extension. $62 million. he gets a $14 million bonus this season. not bad. sixers at lakers tonight. remember joel embiid tweeted at ben simmons. dunk all over lonzo ball so his dad runs on the court to save him. it happened. we'll right back.

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well we'll be looking warm up tomorrow. it will be windy. a few showers coming through tomorrow and tomorrow morning. cooler with sunshine friday. we'll see rain coming in on saturday. it will be the afternoon and evening so the first part of the day the half marathon should be okay. marathon will be windy on sunday. and downright chilly by monday. >> all right. i'm jacqueline london. >> i'm jim rosenfield. the tonight show is coming up next. have a dpraet great night. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- gary oldman, gigi hadid, darryl strawberry, musical guest macklemore,