abuse of the justice system. >> meek mill is being held tonight in chester. deanna? >> reporter: al sharpton says the rapper is the face of many who are in prison. he says the 30-year-old is in good spirits and worried about his mom and his son. he's been on probation for nearly his entire adult life. he was not charged with a new crime but for doing wheelies on a dirt bike. >> you're really exposing a rutlessness in the system that should be changed and i would appeal to her to look at this

and to really examine, does she want to go down as the type of person that would do that. >> meek mill represents many people that don't have lawyers like joe who is one of the best in the country and who don't have the ability to get people to stand by him like jay z or even people like me. that is why all of us are going to draw the line in the sand. >> reporter: now al sharpton says he's vowing to attend every court appearance that the rapper has in philadelphia. his lawyers tell me that they have until december 5th to hear from the judge on whether or not she will reconsider or recuse herself before they plan to take this to a higher court.

you were here long before any of us were here, although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago, they call her pocahontas. >> the president was referring to senator elizabeth warren. she made the remark during a ceremony at the white house honoring native-american veterans. senator warren has said before that she is part native american but never provided proof. the white house says the name is not a racial slur. warren fired back today. >> donald trump does this over and over thinking somehow he's going to shut me up with it. it hasn't worked in the past. it is not going to work in the future. >> the white house also says the real issue is, quote, senator warren lying about her heritage to advance her career. all new at 6:00, an nbc 10 exclusive, a local lawyer working inside the white house decides to leave his post and now he's giving his first

television interview with new insight into the white house that you've never heard before. ethics lawyer jim shultz shares the politics behind the white house walls. >> and lauren mayk is live in the breaking news center with more on that. lauren? >> reporter: jacqueline and jim, he plans to be involved here in pennsylvania but he is leaving a job that had him at the center of things in washington. he saw the administration from transition through the fourth year and he called crowd noise affecting the president's agenda. why are you leaving? >> well, i have served my time. >> reporter: back in philadelphia and back in private practice, jim schultz reflecting on a job he only planned to stay in for about a year. >> through those doors, walking on that property every day is just such an honor and then no later how late it is at night

looking over the illuminated white house is just something i'll never forget. >> reporter: schultz served on the office of white house counsel, ethics, an issue under scrutiny from the beginning. >> did they tell you what they were willing to give back or did you tell them that you had to do this? >> it's a combination. >> reporter: the job came with challenges like an empty office like no hold-overs to show you the ropes. >> when you come into the white house day one, it's erie walking into the executive office building and you can hear a pin drop and, quite frankly, you're jockeying to get furniture in your office as well as moving a policy agenda forward. >> reporter: schultz left last week when one particular policy is talk of topic. >> it's tax reform.

>> the mueller probe is crowd noise at the end of the day. >> reporter: schultz says he hasn't been contacted but it does take time away from other goals. >> you only have so much time in a day. if you're having to deal with crowd noise related to mueller and russia and other things, that certainly puts the white house staff not focusing on things that are advancing the agenda. whether it's a probe or not a probe, the probe issi existing. the probe exists and folks are being questioned and it seems to be moving forward. time. implications. a press release and that is part of working for president trump. jim? >> lauren mayk, thank you.

senator al franken says he's embarrassed, ashamed and tremendously sorry. he's responding to accusations from multiple women who say he behaved inappropriately with them. >> i've been trying to take responsibility by apologizing and by apologizing to the people i've letdown and i'm going to work to regain their trust. >> franken spoke today as he returned to work for the first time since the report surfaced. four women came forward to say franken touched him inappropriately. tonight, dozens of people and at least one in our area are accusing massage therapists at massage envy of sexual misconduct according to a buzzfeed report who says the company and franchisees mi mishandled 180 cases that were reported.

west goshen pleaded guilty to assaulting nine women. >> i felt broken but because i had my daughter encouraging me, i made the call. >> reporter: massage envy has more than 1100 franchises in 49 states. the company says the incidents described in the reports are heartbreaking. "even one incident is too many. that's why we will never stop reinforcing to our franchisees the importance of a safe environment". the father and grandmother of a 3-year-old girl are facing charges after the child shot herself. philadelphia police say barbara mcgill and terrance williams have been arrested. williams said he was running late and asked his mother to lock up his gun but she fell asleep and the little girl found the gun and shot herself in the thigh. now surgeons are hoping to save her leg. firefighters spent more than two hours working to free a man

stuck in a trash truck in philadelphia. residents heard the man screaming and called 911. tonight, investigators are still trying to figure out how that man ended up trapped in the compactor section of the truck. he's now in the hospital in critical condition. turning to your first alert neighborhood weather, a pretty warm night for the end of november. a live look at center city where conditions are calm and it's a comfortable night to ice skate out there. and this warm trend is sticking around for a while, right? >> yeah. a couple of days of the temperature going up and then it will start going back down. but nothing dramatic for a while. this is in allentown, the ppl center, and we have clear skies there and clear skies in the southern part of our area as well in wilmington. it's been that way all day.

nothing more than a few high, thin clouds coming down from the great lakes.ç no precipitation associated with them. that's about it. keeping the temperature up a couple of degrees overnight as a result. it's 52 degrees in philly now but it's already down to 43 in pottstown and 41 in millville. when we see that, we know that it's clear and calm and low humidity. those places go down the fastest. it will be going down towards the 30s by 11:00 in philadelphia and down towards the freezing mark in many of the suburbs and lehigh valley and tomorrow morning, it will be in the 30s as well. more on the warming and when it's finally going to get cold around here, coming up. a bomb scare at a south jersey neighborhood where workers found something curious inside a house. the crew was replacing a heater. they were digging out the floor of a home this morning and that's when they found what looked like a mortar. a weapon used to launch explosives. the bomb squad showed up to take

it away. fortunately, no one was hurt. to the engagement news taking the world by storm tonight. >> prince harry is officially getting married to american actress meghan markle and tonight the happy couple is sharing just how that proposal happened. >> i could barely let you finish proposing. i said can i say yes now. >> and then i had the ring in my finger and i said can i give you the ring? she's like, oh, yes, the ring. >> coming up on "nightly news" more from this interview with harry and meghan. that's at 6:30 right after this newscast. up next right here, all new at 6:00, community demolished. why the eagles defense wants to football than the dominating performance that has them dancing like this yesterday.

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all new at 6:00, homes are being wiped off the map. >> the houses are in an area of the jersey shore that floods frequently so thousand they are being demolished.

another bay front community that has disappeared. ted greenberg has this story from cumberland county. >> reporter: heavy machinery moving bay point closer to extinction long-time resident kate and mike nelson are watching as their neighborhood along the delaware bay in this small section of lawrence township disappears around them. >> well, it's mixed feelings. >> reporter: 20 homes are being torn down here, the houses sold through the superstorm sandy blue acres buyout program which purchases properties plagued by flooding, demolishes them and preserves the land as publicly accessible open space. the hurricane left bay point on life support. >> we've lost a lot of our friends and and quaint tanss. >> we give them a price and

negotiate with the homeowner. >> it's beneficial because then the government doesn't have to continually pay to rebuild these houses. >> reporter: today, new jersey has spent about $42 million on demolitions statewide. the number of properties taken down by the program will have topped 500. >> it's an optional program. they are not forced to do this. >> more than a dozen already vacant lots will be pulled out as well. bay point joining the handful of other bay shore communities in cumberland county, including sea breeze to virtually vanish in recent years. >> i don't want to leave the money. it doesn't mean as much to me as being here all these years. >> reporter: the nelson refuse to sell choosing instead to stay. putting a high value on views soon to be unobstructed. ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. the annual campout for hunger is under way hosted by

xfinity live. >> they collected enough donations to fill a tractor-trailer with food. bow allen was up early to help with the cause. >> philly is an amazing not only to me but my family as well. any time we have the opportunity to give back, i want to take full advantage of that. >> the goal is to exceed last year's haul of more than 40,000 pounds of food. let's turn now to your first alert weather. a mild evening after a sunny day. a live look at the franklin parkway. it's dry and not too chilly at all tonight. >> we're expecting to have warm temperatures as the work week wears on. this is showing center city where it will warm to the 60s this week. let's bring in first alert meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> we'll be about ten degrees above average that he is on wednesday. that's the one day where we're

confident it will get to 60 degrees and maybe a little more above. as we go through, we find the temperature dropping quickly tonight. we have clear skies right now and it is going to stay that way pretty much through the night. yesterday, 42 in mt. holly. had 1 in vineland. these areas are cooling very quickly when you have clear skies, light wind and low humidity. happens all the time. philly international, 52. we already have more than a ten-degree difference between city and suburbs. and it's pretty big difference within the city limits. it's only 43 at parkside. it's not that far away from the airport at least by air but a different kind of atmosphere and you have cooler air to the north

and west where it's not quite as much as we got in the rest of philadelphia. could see temperatures even though they are cooling down in other parts of the country, i just want to show you how warm they are. you notice way above average. st. louis at 68. omaha, 66. bismarck, north dakota, 52. 46 in philly. there's no cold air to immediately threaten us. but that's going to change. the closest rain not until north dakota. just the fact that it's raining in north dakota is a little strange for this time of the year. now, there's wednesday. that's the warmest day, even tomorrow afternoon, pretty mild for this time of the year. temperatures drop about ten degrees on thursday especially

lehigh valley. other areas drop into the 50s but we're going to be seeing some changes here. watch what happens as we go through this week. we have a little cool down coming later in the week. then over the weekend and into next week, the mild air comes back and now we're talking about december 7th. that's ten days away. look at this giant area of frigid air and it's coming right down in our direction. we get our first real taste of winter temperatures and it may stick around for a while. i'm john clark. live at the wells fargo center. la brown james is in town by

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xfinity will change the way you experience tv. >> hey, everybody, i'm john clark. we're at the wells fargo center. lebron james and the cavs are in town but this morning lebron james was talking with reporters about his favorite nfl player. listen to the king. he's on the wentz wagon. >> my favorite player right now is carson wentz. i told my brother that earlier in the season that i just love the way he plays the game.

the way that he's able to drop it and then run outside the pockets to make passes. he's a very smart player. >> and here is lebron's good friend ben simmons warming up. he will return tonight and play against his mentor lebron james. for 6ers coach not to compare ben to lebron just yet. >> anytime names like lebron come up, magic or like -- it's just so reckless. i get it. i understand it. but ben, you know, hasn't done and we haven't done anything yet. >> all right. how about the eagles, of course, the best record in the nfl and now the really part of their

schedule two trips out west. they crushed the bears yesterday and for the first time in team history they won three straight games by 28 points or more. but even though they beat the bears 31-3, they are not satisfied. >> as far as my emotions, we're therapists and as far as the team goes and defense goes, everybody on the defense, with the sideline they got their field goal. >> and sunday night football right here on nbc 10, eagles and seattle, the eagles are actually favored against the seahawks. we'll have post coverage right after and kelly introduced today as the new football coach at ucla. so chip is back to college.

i'm john clark live at the wells fargo center. we're right back.

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all right, it's quiet at the linc right now. there's been so many victories, it's going to continue to roll right on. pretty warm in philadelphia. >> good news for 6ers fans who may not need their coats at all walking into the wells fargo center. it's so mild. 52 degrees. >> it will be cooling off pretty quickly during the night and take a look at these numbers going way up. wednesday up near 60 and even through the weekend and into the middle of next week, temperatures are above normal. very little rain. but ten-day and beyond, that's when winter temperatures come back and as far as the eagles and 6ers are concerned, check out my blog on facebook and twitter. it's called the end of

negadelphia. >> up next, "nbc nightly news." see you at 11:00. tonight, president trum april kused of using a racial slur at an event honoring native-american war heroes. >> you were here long before any of us were here. although we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago. they call her pocahantas. >> the president referring to elizabeth warren who tonight is firing back. also tonight, critical week in the fight over your taxes. a cliffhanger in congress. britain's prince harry and his bride to be american actress meghan markle, their first interview on the royal engagement. >> just an amazing surprise. it was so sweet and natural and very romantic. he got on one knee. >> tonight, princess diana's personal