. >>> it's decision time for the tiny town of colwyn.he financially strapped delaware county borough has to make a decision that will determine if they get the state aid they need to survive. nbc 10 investigator harry hairston has been telling you about the chaos in colwyn, chaos filled with allegations of misspending, grand jury investigation going on, an investigation by the delaware county district attorney's office. harry is joining us live with more on what lies ahead in tonight's meeting. tell us about it, harry. >> reporter: well, let me tell you first of all in less than an hour council members are supposed to come here, they are expected to vote on a state proposal that if passed will help get this little tiny town right back in the finances all on track. let me tell you, not everybody here on council is excited about having the state help out. is this an historic vote? >> it's an historic vote, but i'm voting no, and they don't need me to go up there and vote no if they have the votes already. >> reporter: the council president

>> all new at 5:00, chaos in colwyn on this election day before the polls even open. jones. >> and i'm denise nakano. the nbc 10 investigators have been following the action in colwyn all day today and that's where we find harry hairston. harry, what is going on? >> reporter: well, if you know colwyn and anything about politics here, you know they are serious. first, the man i want you to focus on right now is wearing a dark suit, he is ken sexton with the election bureau here in delaware county responding to complaints made by paula brown, that's right, the former borough manager shooechl manager. she's been here all day, and as you might imagine, it's been explosive. >> paula, if you don't get out of here with that camera, i will make your day and escort you out of here. >> reporter: moments before the precinct opened for voting, paula brown armed with a camera squares off with officials. she posted the video on facebook. >> you don't know your role. >> you don't know your role! >> reporter: brown once again clashes with councilwoman. >> stop recording! stop recordi

harry hairston has been covering and following the chaos in colwyn for almost a year. he'll have a live update at 6:00. >>> pornography-filled e-mails sent back and forth between pennsylvania government officials will soon be the subject of an investigation. attorney general kathleen kane announced she'll name a special prosecutor tomorrow. she'll also reveal how the investigation of the pornographic and lewd e-mails will unfold. prosecutors, judges, and other officials allegedly exchanged the e-mails on government-issued computers. kane is facing charges he lied about leaking secret grand jury information to a reporter. >>> pennsylvania's now five months into a budget impasse, but talks continue today with governor tom wolf and top lawmakers. the main sticking point, taxes. a framework agreement between the democratic government and republican-controlled legislature nearly collapsed. republicans saying increasing the sales tax to plug a budget deficit lacks support. governor wolf told me today he's confident they'll have a deal within days. >> going five months withou

fire company. >> investigators reporter harry hairston just returned from colwyn and has the latest developments. >> reporter: that's right. investigators have combed through every area of the fire company. investigators were looking for items fire officials claimed to have purchased with taxpayer money between august of 2012 and june of this year. >> computers, tvs, some specialized equipment, generators, things like that. >> reporter: back in march an nbc 10 investigation raised questions about the fire company spending the public dollars, and in august delaware county district attorney launched its own investigation. were you able to find what you were looking for in. >> we've found the majority of equipment that we were looking for. we still have to compart notes between the actual inventory we have and the items that were on the list. >> reporter: fire department president maurice clark says he's unaware that any misuse of public money. >> i don't know. i won't know until they tell me whether it is misappropriation of fund, and if it is, let the chips fall where they may. >> re

the colwyn president says he believes the d.a.'s office investigation shows no wrongdoing. they served a search warrant on the fire house. investigators were looking for items that fire officials claim to have purchased between august of 2012 and june of this year t. search came after allegations of the misuse of public dollars. >> were you able to find what you were looking for? >> we have found the majority of equipment we were looking for. we still have to compare the notes between the actual inventory we have and the items that were on the list. >> some of the items detectives were looking for. >> in morning, police are looking for a man seen on this under surveillance video here after setting cars and himself on fire. police say november 6th, the man set 11 cars on fire in overback. now, look at the under surveillance video here. will you see the alleged arsonist running from the scene with flames on his left arm. police believe he probably has serious burns on that arm the fire also spread to nearby homes. >> we seen the fire in the back. my neighbor down the street s

." >> election day involved police in colwyn, delaware county. here's why. >> if you don't get out of here with that camera i will make your day and force you out. >> paula, if you don't get out of there. that is a poll worker firing back at the former pole watcher paula brown who was armed with that camera. she was arguing and also claims of election misconduct. that led to sheriff deputies having to stand watch at this polling place. brown clashed with precinct officials saying she will challenge the results of the balloting. in the end four democrats won seats. >> the allegations against bill cosby had an impact only a local race. this morning the newly elected montgomery county district attorney is a career prosecutor who has been involved in the reopened investigation of claims the comedian committed sexual assault. nbc 10's mo next to braxton is here with more on what could mean for the future of the case. walk us through this. >> reporter: the district attorney's office in montgomery county, kevin steele will lead 100 prosecutors and inves

we'll see why police had to be called to colwyn again and why the aftermath of the election is far from over. next, a wild scene in one delaware county town. one delaware town i should say. people victimized by vultures and they can't seem to gain the upper hand against the birds. >>> 4:25. and we have good news for eagles fans. linebacker kiko alonso will expect to return, he does expect to return, sunday night against the cowboys. he missed the last five games with an injured left knee. he knows it's a big deal to play in the big "d." >> it's very important. when you miss time it's never fun so i'm anxious to get back out and play. >> he and our producer have the same hair, by the way. i want to put that out there. same hair stylist. he injured, alonso did, the same knee that caused him to miss all of last season in buffalo. thank you for freezing that, too, so we can soak it in. >> it will be the birds and the boys on nbc sunday night football. you'll only see it here on nbc 10 your official eagles station. >>> from eagles to another creature. our delaware news bureau, vultures we're

." >> in colwyn, police had to get involved in the election day process. here's why. >> if you don't get out of here with that camera i will make your day escort you out of here. >> claims of misconduct led to two deputies standing watch at the polling place. in the end four democrats won council seats. former bureau manager and poll watcher paula brown, the woman behind that camera, said she plans on challenging the results. we'll have more results throughout the newscast. you can read the list of races from across the county. >> happening today tom wolf will visit the port of philadelphia, the governor plans to announce a strategic plan for the port. philadelphia's port is among the leaders in handling perishable items, and cocoa. the bethlehem city council will vote to approve new guidelines for redeveloping a vacant building. if approved the 21 story martin tower would be used for homes, offices and shops but some residents and business owners are worried about the guidelines that could let big box stores move in and impact smaller businesses. supporte

. >> the colwyn fire department says he believes the laechlt's investigation will show no wrong-doing. investigators were there when they served the first warrant. investigators were looking for items that were purchased between august of 2012 and june of this year. the search came after allegations of public dollars. >> were you able to finds what you were looking for? >> we still had to compare the totes between the actual inventory we have and the items that were on the list. >> some of the items detectives were looking for included computers, tv and generators. >> and good morning, everyone. jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. we are checking out route 422 eastbound right around oaks. these are our cameras, you can see, multivehicles involved around five vehicles or so reported in this accident scene, traffic moving by to the right-hand side. look at the drive times. we'll have more updates on this at 6:30. for now, let's get a check on the forecast with bill henley. >> not raining yet. the clouds have moved in. this is a live view from sky force 10 in the air the war

reporting live in colwyn, harry hairston, nbc 10 news, back to you guys. >> continuing to follow developments. thank you very much. >>> from delaware county now to philadelphia, all eyes are on the mayor's race. nbc 10 was in old city as democratic mayoral candidate jim kenney cast his vote. we talked to kenney about the prospect of becoming the 99th mayor in philadelphia's history. >> i'm interested the fact this race is symbolic, i will be representing the 99%, not the 1%. >> kenney's opponent voted, republican melissa murray bailey, who says she has no regrets in running in a democrat-controlled city. >> we're going to as many voting locations as we can to shake hands with the people who are coming out to support me, and also to encourage them, especially in the morning, to go back to work and tell their friends to make sure they come out and vote today. >> speaking of people coming out, take a look at this, murray bailey was greeted by former d.a. and former democratic mayoral candidate lynn abraham. you have a little under three hours to cast your vote. polls in pennsylvania and new jers

. >> steven is accused of killing, valerie marrow, working as a part-time colwyn police officer at the time. investigators say he began stalking a and air harassing her after he broke off the the relationship. the his attorneys say he pleaded guilty in the up related stalking case in montgomery county so he could focus on his murder trial. >>> we all know this, fire, gas pumps don't make for a good mix and that played out at broad and girard. sky fox over the scene yesterday in north philadelphia around 2:00 in the afternoon where temple university police cruiser burst into flames at b p gas station. fire officials have not told us what started the fire just yet but we do know no one was hurt. >>> 4:36. president obama wants you to like him. what our commander in chief is doing that proves once and for all he is just like you and me. for the girl scout meeting... okay. for the soccer team... for the girl scout meeting... how many meetings are you having?! giant just dropped prices on thousands more items. which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. my giant. foods food workers demandi

he was working as a part-time colwyn police officer at the time.e began stalking and harassing morrow aft she broke off their relationship. roz could you ski's attorney is he he pleaded guilty in the unrelated stalking case in montgomery county so he could focus on his murder trial. >>> only only fox tonight, rats bigger than cats invading one south philadelphia row home. they are in the bedroom, they're in the kitchen and the family tells us the rats have taken over. they want some answers from the philadelphia housing authority but said sheathe couldn't get anywhere. tonight they called fox 29 news. >> we sent our chris o'connell to south philly to investigate. chris is here now with what he found. >> reporter: guys, if you get creeped out by rats especially big ones, you might want to cover your eyes for thiss one. a south philly rat problem getting worse by the day a family says a house opened by the philadelphia housing authority is so infested with giant rats, they want to move out. >> i'm terrified. i'm scared. sometimes i don't want to slee

00, only on 10 investigators are there as delaware district attorney's office served a warrant on colwyn's fire company. allegations of misuse of public dollars are investigators looking for items that fire officials claimed to have purchased between august of 2012 and june of this year. >> were you able to find what you were looking for? >> we found the majority of the equipment we were looking for. we still had to compare the notes between the actual inventory we have and the items that were on the list. >> some of the items detectives were looking for included computers and tvs and generators. the fire company president says he believes the d.a.'s investigation will show no wrongdoing by the company. >>> a new jersey trooper killed in the line of duty got a monument dedicated in his name today. werner foerster was killed 40 years ago during a traffic stop on the new jersey turnpike. today officials dedicated a memorial in east brunswick in his honor. this woman was convicted of murder and escaped a u.s. prison and remains on the fbi's most wanted terror list. officials are offering $2 m

colwyn and certainly upper darby as well. this started back on octobe october 23rd. quickly another one, another one, another one this whole violent week and it was so bad in fact they had to give a warning to all of these pizza delivery shops in the whole ar area. >> we called every speeza delivery place in upper darby and told them they had to be careful, 911. number two, they should consider going with two guys in a car instead of just one because of the series of robberies that were occurring. >> reporter: they actually called in a federal violent task force in order to track these guys downton bring them all in. one of the suspects was arrested after victim spotted his stolen car. so authorities now have an 18-year-old in custody his name is lamar williams and also a 20-year-old tyrone beauford from philadelphia. along with that 17-year-old his name isn't being released because he's a juvenile. so now all of these crimes stopped recently. we've also learned that one of the suspects may be dead because he was shot and killed in a big shooting in chester that happ

. >>> coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6:00, it's do or die time for the tiny town of colwyn.t 6:00, we'll explain the big decision it's making that could impact its financial survival. >>> plus, new clues in this frightening fire truck crash that was caught on surveillance video. what nbc 10 has uncovered about the investigation. glenn? >>> i'm tracking the return of rain, when it's headed your way and how long it's going to stick around next on nbc 10 news at 6:00. >>> nbc 10 news starts now. >> right now at 6:00, get your umbrella ready. nbc 10 first alert weather tracking the rain that's set to move into our area. here it is on radar and it will not be moving out for a while. here's a live look at the philadelphia museum of art. dry out there right now, but that's expected to change later tonight. good evening everyone, i'm jim rosenfield. let's get straight to nbc 10's chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz, who's tracking these changes. glenn, we're looking at a wet week ahead. >> at least the first half of the week, all the way through wednesday once this rain m

we are watching an accident scene on 95 around colwyn street.burlington-bristol bridge. no openings as of yet. little volume on the bend, due to ongoing construction. >> thank you, jessica. today a federal judge in delaware couldry dues bail for the secret service agent accused of sexting an underage girl on duty. lee robert is due in computer for a hearing this afternoon. he is accused of soliciting sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. he is currently suspended from duty. >> if we don't get it, shut it down. >> today some workers are striking. subcontracts, baggage handlers, cabbage cleaners want better benefits. we will have another update if 25 minutes and, of course, you can always get the latest news and the weather with the nbc 10 a app. have a great day. we'll see you in about a half 94. . [ female announcer ] business travel isn't just about the going. it's also about the going home. . . . recharging, do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. >>> it's 8:00 on "today." coming up, fighting for family leave. >> as a