the 2900 block here is open for traffic that the police presence has diminished here as well. some of the neighbors talking about that officer, saying show was a great police officer. some here saying they knew her from either in the neighborhood or on the job. at this point, the police not releasing identities of those found inside that house. reporting live in port richmond, deanna durante, nbc10 news. a 15-year-old philadelphia student is facing charges after he was caught with a loaded gun at school happened at samuel fels high school in northwest philadelphia. he set off the metal detectors when he tried to walk through and the school was put on lockdown. he admitted to stealing the gun but didn't know why he brought to it school. >> it makes me nervous and suspicious and makes me think of home schooling.

>> ow pare >> our parents had no problem checking our bedrooms and bags. check your children's bags. >> he said he stole the car about a week ago. dreamers and daca recipients are breathing a sigh of leaf today. >> the trump administration tried to go around the ninth circuit court of appeals in california but the supreme court handed him a setback that they won't touch it until the end of the appeals. it gave him a setback and gives a reprieve for daca now but some live in uncertainty. >> i studied and worked very hard ever since i got this country. just the uncertainty what my life might be tomorrow and my life is in then hands of these legislators, that they don't see us as humans, basically. >> the daca program will stay in place as the ongoing daca debate

stays in the court system. closer to naming its nine member board. the educational nominating panel voted on the 27 names they would submit to the mayor. the mayor has 20 days to make appointments and could request more names which would require an additional ten days for approval. head over to the nbc10 app for a full list of the 27 candidates. right now in old city, the entire neighborhood is feeling the financial burn from a massive four alarm fire that put businesses on hold. it was scheduled to be demolished this week. investigators say not so fast they still need to get inside to figure out what happened. lauren has more on the impact. the impact goes far beyond that one building, right? >> reporter: absolutely. residents next door are having to try to find new places to

live and workers who call this restaurant behind me their second home, they may not be able to get back in until may. the impact of this fire now stretching into months. at the corner, a police car blocked traffic. at the shop on 3rd street, they're rebuilding, dealing with water damage that forced them to clear out the stationary and gifts. at the little lion on the corner, they're doing what they can on the outside. >> we're eight days since this fire and been in less than ten minutes. >> reporter: he's been in a few times but his restaurant still off-limits until the devastated building 239 is demolished, making insurance claims difficult. >> there's not an assessment. we can't really file for anything at this point. >> reporter: demolition is on hold until etf agents feel it's safe enough to go inside the building where the fire started

and figure out what caused it, the delay leaving dozens of restaurant workers out of a job while the little lion is closed. >> it comes and goes. you don't know what will happen next. >> reporter: kyle blue the house manager trying to keep employees updated and helping with a fund-raiser for them. >> you grow very attached for them. i want the best for them and it's hard to see them struggling right now. >> reporter: right now, the focus is helping them while they wait to get back inside. >> that's really when our clock starts. >> reporter: we put details on our website, nbcphiladelphia.com. as far as how long all of this is going to take, the city tells me there are several factors including the length of the actual investigation and the weather. live in old city, nbc10 news. develop right now, ensa cosby, daughter of bill cosby has died.

this is a clip from "the bill cosby show," in orange pants. she died of kidney disease friday night in massachusetts. she was known to be a steadfast supporter of her father during this is legal troubles calling the sexual assault accusations against him one-sided. they issued a statement through their publicist, andrew wyatt saying the cosby family thanks many people for their prayers and beloved and beautiful ensa, who recently died from recently disease. how you can help solve a murder mystery. this is a woman killed last january based on reconstruction technology. hikers found her body in ridley state park and found a few unique looking rings at that scene. if you recognize the woman, state police want to hear from you. somebody broke into an art center and took 30 grand of power tools and the company's

van. who ever was driving it two weeks ago got into custom metal arts studio through a back door. a silver ford raptor with distinctive aftermarket items. call police if you see it. ahead, erasing medical debt and what you could do to be a part of it. could mccain be holding court in philly next year? the push to get lebron out of the wells fargo certainty. march is going to be coming in like a lion. the storm i'm tracking next on my first alert forecast. cancer challenges us.

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tonight, nbc10 responds, erasing medical debt, across our region, more than 1 million people have doctors bills and related expenses so far past due they've gone to collections. today, nbc responds announced a major mission to erase that debt. >> across the country, donating

$150,000 to wipeout medical debt, including 2 million from the philadelphia area. >> george has more on this mission. >> so many of us have personal stories about the impact of a medical bill whether cancer care or ambulance ride or doctor visits. for a substantial number of debtors, those bills go beyond a burden, can even lead to bankruptcy. >> reporter: the rivera family has plans. >> our dream is to have a home with a backyard so our kids can play in the backyard. >> reporter: that american dream might be dashed. last year, her husband, martin got sick and the bills piled up. now, they can't afford to pay off their medical debt. collection agencies are regular callers and they owe $5,000.

>> when you're getting collection calls, the stress is off the charts. >> reporter: 15% of people in our area are feeling the stress. a collective debt . michael studied the problem and the harassing tactics. >> they will send threatening phone calls and threatening letters that look like you will go to jail if you don't pay this right now. >> reporter: for many, it's a contributing factor in a broader financial meltdown. this attorney sees it playing a role in medical bankruptcy. >> it's part of the puzzle 50% of the time. >> reporter: half your clients. >> half my clients have some sort of medical debt. >> reporter: the financial devastation is heartbreaking because they have no choice.

>> it's not for a luxury expense. it wasn't to go to hawaii or buy a car, it was for a necessity they needed. >> reporter: for the riveras and their plans, medical debt means lots of waiting. waiting on the backyard for the kids and waiting for that stress to lessen and waiting for their piece of the american dream that feels like it's passing them over. >> we're a victim of our circumstances. whatever they decide to impose on us, whether it be collections or credit marks, there's nothing we can do. we're kind of stuck. >> reporter: nbc's donations forgive $2 million in local medical debt is not something you can sign up for. we're partnering with a nonprofit rip medical debt, a charity that buys these bills out of collections and then forgives them. it's a random and anonymous process. only you will know if your debt has been forgiven. if you get one of these envelopes with the rip logo

coming to you in your mailbox. the big reason it's random because of privacy laws. you can't share the medical information with us. it's random. people can't sign up to have their bills paid, just hope they get one of those envelopes. you can help if you want to help people erase their debt. >> exactly. that's the easy part. go to nbc10.com and click on this story and find a way to change someone's life by making a donation like we did. a ten donation can pay up to a thousand dollars of medical debt. a big impact and you will find answers to frequently asked questions about this issue. >> people are going through their mail right now to see if they see anything yellow in there. thank you. nbc10 responds erasing medical debt continues tomorrow. harry hairston shows us how one woman is struggling to get out of medical debt following a devastating car accident. new at 6:00, change in the public unions in the public

sector. >> whether state government workers who choose not to join a union should still pay a portion of union dues. justice neil gorsuch is expected to be a pivotal part. in 2008, it was deadlocked, 4-4, following the death of justice scalia. >> how do you go about courting the king of basketball? pretty creative. a company rented three billboards on a highway near the cavaliers quicken loans arena. it shows a crown on it. it says, complete the process, getting the idea? the final one says loud and clear #phillywantslebron. >> it was a late night idea, let's take out a couple billboards. let's do them in philly, if we do them in cleveland, he'll find

out about it. if this in any way helps him come to philadelphia it will be a great investment. >> the company says it hasn't heard from lebron yet. the billboards will be up three months in an in that time hopefully he will see them or someone will tell him about them and maybe he will like the idea. >> can you stand the potential here, nfl super bowl champs, lebron possibly coming to philly. this is insane. this is a position the sixers could really use, glenn. >> that's right. combine him with simmons and embiid, you have a guaranteed trip to the nba finals. >> yep. >> what about the weather, how's that looking? >> no guaranteed trip to the nba finals. i have a guaranteed storm coming later in the week. you can see, we have nice conditions. we finally ended the day with sunshine in the philadelphia area. areas north and west had it

earlier. that is a sign for things to come tomorrow. look at that sky behind me. nice and clear. a terrific tuesday across the entire area. we do have rain and wind to end the week, along with a coastal flood threat, part of the same storm that is going to be developing and strengthening out in the ocean just past us. 50 degrees in philadelphia now. we have clear skies. took a while. clear in the suburbs, clear in new jerse new jersey, clear in the lehigh valley, clouds the most in the jersey shore and parts of delaware. temperatures dropped a little bit. 50 degrees in odessa and delaware, 50 in middletown, 57 here and a light northwest wind in lewis and keeping the beach

into the upper 40s. all those areas get well into the 50s tomorrow. you can see the clouds moving out from left to right, and let's look farther to the left. there's nothing out there. a couple thousand sand miles of dry air, why we're guaranteeing this beautiful day tomorrow. moisture will build up fast in texas and move up this way, like so many storms have during this month of february with over 6 inches of rain in philadelphia so far and record amounts of rainfall in atlantic city for the month. we have a southwest wind warming us upsets us up for rain coming in, not snow. this is thursday morning, still to our south. by afternoon, it is in, and the east wind is coming in. the stronger that east wind the longer it lasts, the farther it comes, the higher the tides get.

got a full moon on thursday, too. that make the tides higher as well. coastal flooding is a threat with this, along with some of the heavier rain, especially thursday night and into early friday. the ground is wet and there could be some localized flooding. on the backside of this storm, intensifying offshore here could pull enough cold air down to make a change over to a wintery mix especially up toward the lehigh valley. wouldn't necessarily last very long and service temperatures aren't that cold but the colder air comes in behind it and we dry out and it looks like just in time for the weekend. be nice to have a dry weekend once in a while. over the next few days, it's mild, especially wednesday and the rain comes in thursday. everybody gets the rain. it's mostly into the afternoon.

it gets heavier thursday night. wednesday, it's a pretty good day, too. on the 10-day on 10, average high is 47. many of these days are well above average, especially wednesday, march comes in like a lion on thursday, with that storm along the coast, with the east winds and with the coastal flooding, behind that storm, friday, saturday, and sunday, gusty winds. this is going to be a huge ocean storm, it's going to last for a while out of the ocean. we should still get dry weather saturday and sunday and more wet weather coming later next week with another storm. the nhl trade deadline passed today. we'll hear about the strategy and aaron talks about being the phillies opening day starter.

this is sportsdesk, brought to you by xfinity. it will change the way you experience tv. >> from nbc sports philadelphia, the nhl trade deadline passed at 3:00 this morning. the flyers just a point out of first place in this division didn't make any deals. ron sticking to his game plan. >> we're not making emotional decisions. we're in this for the long haul. our objective is to win the stanley cup. we are not going to do something that gives us a little better shot this year, maybe 2% better shot this year that will hurt us down the road.

we're sticking to what we planned four years ago and we're not deviating. >> flyers didn't make any trades but they did pick up a player, signing 36-year-old defenseman on waivers from the senators and he brings playoff experience to the flyers winning two stanley cups with the blackhawks. phillies named aaron nola as the starter. he spoke about getting that opportunity for the very first time. >> it's exciting, an honor to be named that. it's one game. there are a lot of other games i want to pitch throughout the season. >> he earned it. unequivocally the right choice, an absolute gamer and grinder and stud and we're proud to handcuff hahave him on our roster. >> sixers may have a new familiar face on the roster.

hawks officially named ilyasova. he will sign with sixers. he played 56 games last season and asked what his return would mean for the team. >> he's really good defensively. i don't remember the last time our team took a charge -- >> the what's old is again new. that's sports. i'm marshall harris. >> all right. coming up tonight at 11:00, a woman coming on vacation ends up in handcuffs. >> how something in her suitcase made her an unsuspecting victim and how it could happen to you. new video seems to show a woman getting punched by an officer. at 11:00. - [narrator] look around.

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nice to enjoy a couple dry days before the wet weather comes back again. >> tomorrow will be a spectacular day from start to finish, well above normal temperatures. we have another day that's dry on wednesday. then it goes downhill. on thursday, in the afternoon, especially is when the rain comes in, then the wind picks up. friday, some heavy rain, coastal flooding is likely. we don't know the degree of it yet, will it be minor orm,@ moderate, depends on how long the storm lasts and how strong those winds are. right now, it looks like the storm would be out of here by the weekend, even though the leftover wind from the storm in the ocean could still affect us. >> no extreme cold i see on your forecast. >> yeah. now, we're going in march and it gets harder and harder for the

snow to stick in. >> so it's going out like a lamb even though it's coming in like a lion. >> that's your prediction? >> see you here at 11:00. tonight -- did authorities fail to act? president trump slamming deputies who remained outside during the florida scoot shooting and ng thi aim. >> i really believe i'd run in there, even if i didn't have a weapon. and for the first time, hearing the school officer's side of the story. why his attorney says he's no coward. the murder victim killed while streaming on facebook live. tonight, the police manhunt for the gunman. the major credit card company refunding hundreds of millions to customers. do they owe you money? deadly tornadoes and massive flooding cutting a path of destruction from texas to michigan. tonight, millions bracing for a new storm threat. and why a star basketball player missed a free throw on purpose. >> that's noty