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nbc10 was at the ceremony of charlotte lucy burkett.he thanked the teachers and students who encouraged her all along the way. >> when i first started i thought, i can't do this. i can't do this. but my english teacher and my history teacher said you can do it. i said but this isn't what i had in school. they said you can do it. and i did it. >> burkett plans to do some traveling now that she's completed her studies. >>> phillies tickets go on sale to buy tickets for every one of the 81 regular season home games. the home opener is april 7th. >>> and south jersey's soccer star carli lloyd is taking her talent overseas. the olympic medalists has signed to play with the english team in manchester city. she'll begin playing for a new team in the spring. lloyd said it's a chance for a long-held ambition. >>> now, to the stories we're following for you on "nbc 10 news today" at 6:00. >> overnight police chase. this is the end of the line for several suspects after officers chased a car through west philadelphia and on to the schuylkill. >>>

but for 71-year-old charlotte burkett it's been nearly a lifetime. >> all my kids graduated.y grandkids graduated. i said i want my diplomat wall too. >> after having four children, nine grandkids and four great grandkids, some of them cheering her on tonight, she can now call herself a high school graduate. >> it means a lot to me to see my momma graduate. >> because when she should have been graduating she had me and the main thing she wanted us all to do was to get out -- >> the single mom left simon greats in the 11th grade after getting pregnant in 1960 leaving just one and a half credits shy of graduation. she is now graduating from ben franklin high school. >> it's beautiful. it's exciting i thought it was going to be hard, but the kids was so so nice to me. you know some of them called me mom. some called me grandma. i liked that. >> reporter: bootsy burkett tells me tonight she has no plans on going to college but she does have plans to do something every high school girl always dreamed of doing, lucy, going to her high school prom. she'll be doing in may. >> does ch

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but for high school defensive coach rich burkett it was something else. >> i've been around this gameoached for 46 years. it's tough to find kids who really love the game. kids play the game. they enjoy the game. >> that love which began in boyertown. >> a special place in my heart. that's where i met my wife. just playing high school there and friday night lights i have great memories of that. >> reporter: in houston covering the super bowl, bill rohrer fox 29 news. >>> and it will be a cold weekend here locally but in houston for the super bowl temperatures are going to be in the 70s. we'll talk about the bitter coldings the weekend update and, yes n super bowl forecast. it's dry, it's quiet but it is cold. we have winds out of the west northwest continuing to usher in some of the that colder kind of arctic air headed right for us. the coldest day of the weekend will be saturday. that high pressure right on top of us. we'll keep a lot of sunshine but once again, it is going to be cold. temperatures right now, 30 in trenton. 33 millville and atlantic city. wildwood and dover 34. 19 r