. >> reporter: and i'm deanna durante live from 30th street station where some of those passengers areoming early this morning to try to get back home. we'll give you an update what's being done to help those people aboard the derailed train as well as passengers who have been stranded here all night. ♪ "smash me. dear god, smash me into a million pieces" little miss puffytail thinks every time someone enters this room. for while the people who come in here can use quilted northern, a toilet paper that works so well they can completely forget their experience... ...little miss puffytail can never forget. she can dream. dream for the sweet, sweet swing of a careless elbow. quilted northern. designed to be forgotten. >>> 4:45. >> disastrous mess. never seen anything like this in my life. most personnel will say that as well. >> sky force 10 is live over the scene this morning of the mess that mayor michael nutter just described. you can see crumpled train cars here. absolutely mangled. a deadly train derailment in the port richmond section of philadelphia. it happened around 9:20 last ni

deanna durante, "nbc 10 news." >>> more than 140 people were rushed to local hospitals. we've been working to get updates on the passengers. they've been spread out over the local hospitals. monique braxton is live at aria frankford. give us an update on what you're seeing this morning. >> reporter: hey, vai. nurses and doctors are now changing shifts so that means a new group is arriving here at the aria frankford campus to care for those who were injured in the derailment. we just got off the phone with several of the hospitals. six medical facilities caring for 140 injured. aria campuses have received 75. our camera was rolling when two dozen arrived at the frankford campus. i talked to one patient walking on crutches. he had a broken leg. he told me he was exhausted, walking in pain and he had been up all night long. he said it was frightening, dark and dirty. now they just want to go home. a doctor says the medical staff voluntarily mobilized for the level three mass casual tia letter. over at temple medical center they told us they received 54 of the amtrak passeng

nbc 10's deanna durante live tonight. deanna? >> police say it was the disposal of smoking materials, they say the lit cigarette or cigar thrown near a pile of trash made that building go up very quickly. >> and that thing was long gone before the fire companies got here. >> it was more police fire and ems than they'd ever seen. >> i saw the smoke, fire engines coming up. excuse me, and police and everything. they had the road blocked off. i couldn't get up there. >> the fire started when smoking materials were discarded near trash and recycle bins. the plastic bins dry brush and trash caught fire fast and officials say a fuel tank also near the deck where the group gathered exploded. the two men managed to rescue two juveniles. but the three women, 52-year-old sally rimmel and her sister were trapped. a family member said the women were unable to escape through the same area the men crawled through. police say the women died before firefighters arrived. >> reporter: and the west caln township manager told me the fire department

nbc 10's deanna durante explains. >> all it takes is a willingness. doesn't take money.t takes time. if you really are serious about changing the landscape of the criminal justice system you really have to get involved. >> reporter: bradford gray heads the montgomery county public defender's office. with more than 40 full and part-time employees the case loads are heavy. >> as public defenders an lawyers, we can't do it alone. >> reporter: lawyers can argue why a person should not be charged with a crime, explain away why the person behaves a certain way. with limited budgets and resources, bradford gray says the roll wroutout of a program participatory defense, is making a difference in lives of clients. those that can't help themselves. the idea is to use community members, church leaders and social justice organizations to help gather information and insight into a person including their mental health status or other background. >> once they gathered all that community intel and data and information, they would bring it to the d.a. and they would get a better picture

deanna durante with the latest on this story. how did this all start. >> reporter: well, aqua says it was an aging pipe and it just burst. that cleanup has been going on since about 2:00 this afternoon. you can take a look behind me and you can see the road here still closed on the 500 block of ashborn road. and aqua p.a. announced the estimated repair time to have water service back on is now 8:00 tonight. >> i just saw a burst. >> you were here before. >> well i was looking out the window and all of a sudden i just saw a burst. >> for almost two hours, residents watched in amazement. >> this is unbelievable. i've never seen anything like this in person. >> around 1:00 this afternoon, sheltonham township says the pipe blew. it is a cedar pipe delivering water to about three dozen homes. >> we all have kids and, you know -- >> need water. >> i hope we have water. >> reporter: for school buses and drivers of all kinds, it's still closed off. parents need to figure out where alternate bus stops need to be. and the cleanup will take

it was the most important for us to get it back up and operational. >> that was deanna durante reporting from philadelphia. >>> hey, every golf course has to have at least a few hazards but very few have one like this. oh my goodness. a massive sank hole opened up on this course in branson missouri this morning. it's 100 feet deep and growing. officials say it may have been caused by recent heavy rain causing a cave below the course to cave in. feel bad for the poor landscape folks. >> how do you get around that? >> i don't know. that's a big one to solve. >> right, especially with the holiday weekend we got going. >> a lot of folks will want to get out and maybe play a little bit of golf or anything because it's going to be so nice out there this weekend. >> great news. >> not only next week when we have to deal with the heat wave and a lot of people thinking maybe i should get the serviced before next week. windows open for the weekend. folks really enjoying things. we're getting real cool air that will start making its way into the area from a little weather front that's cross. storm

reporting live from port richmond deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> thank you deanna. the ntsb just announcing the train engineer agreed to talk to them sometime over the next few days. brandon bostian's facebook page was changed following the crash, a black triangle and not a picture. he suffered a concussion in the crash and doesn't remember what happened. the engineer agrees to be interviewed. a couple of the train cars are now at the amtrak facility in bear, new castle county. one of the cars is wrapped. one is on its side. and one of them appears to be upsidedown. now, you see the pick hers here of these cars. they will have their wheels and their brakes examined. not clear yet whether all the train cars will move to delaware. >>> we have continuing coverage of the investigation into the derailment in a few minutes, we catch up with a man who witnessed a crash 70 years ago at the same spot in port richmond. >>> and now to other news tonight. the national spotlight will shine on camden next week. president obama is going to visit camden on monday. the president wil

nbc 10's deanna durante joins us live from 30th street station tonight with calls for safety changes. deanna? >> reporter: yeah the amtrak is actually responding right now to an emergency order, a modified order that the federal railroad administration has just passed down asking that amtrak actually demanding that amtrak make signage changes to alert conductors and engineers to speed changes. also telling them that they need to take a look and identify dangerous curves along the northeast corridor. >> amtrak has some infrastructure that is so old it was built and put into service when jesse james and butch cassidy were still alive and robbing trains. >> reporter: banning together 23 democratic senators now urging the appropriations committee to increase funding for amtrak to install positive train control. senate democrats say amtrak's aging infrastructure is in dire need of repair and has a multibillion dollar backlog of repairs and maintenance issues. >> you get what you pay for. >> reporter: in a joint press conference in d.c. today, local senators say amtrak can't make all the re

nbc 10's deanna durante for today's tourism expo. >> we are a pretty well kept secret. >> it's small and a mile north of philadelphia. it's challenging for tourism officials to attract visitors from their own backyard let alone international travelers despite having a museum state and cathedral. >> we are small, our marketing budget is small. not much we're able to do. >> at least not alone. that's why those in the business of getting your business are joining forces. this room is full of hospitality, attraction and information about the upcoming world meeting of families. >> from the very small to the very big attractions are hoping to use today's events to not only leverage their efforts to lure in visitors for the papal visit, but also the democratic national convention. >> reporter: industry representatives are taking advantage of the bureau under the campaign, those who are joining forces getting the word out together as to what the county has to offer. >> many many attendees coming in from vietnam. yes. well, it's a very religious country. and this pope is a rock star. >> we do

let's go to nbc 10's deanna durante who's joining us now live at 30th street station. deanna, i understand you've been talking to some passengers who are stranded at this point? >> reporter: yeah, that ripple effect being felt here at 30th street. you can see it looks pretty quiet here right now. obviously the scene in port richmond playing a major role on travelers in the northeast corridor. i just spoke with a man who just got off of a new jersey transit train. he is bound for indianapolis. he went to atlantic city for a few days, was coming back here to philadelphia. but his new jersey transit train stopped in cherry hill. they were told that there was an accident. they had to get off the train and they are busing passengers here to 30th street station. also inside announcements being made for those passengers who are trying to get to atlantic city on new jersey transit trains. they are being taken to cherry hill via bus where they will pick up a train. i talked to an amtrak representative. she says right now she doesn't have much information to give passengers. she'

reporting live in port richmond deanna durante nbc 10 news. >> all right, deanna. nbc 10 has gotten confirmation on another victim, about two victims in fact. 47-year-old laura finamore from new york. the other is a man from italy. the other six include a philadelphia ceo and a naval academy midshipman. eight families all grieving today. nbc 10's doug shimell is live at center city with more on that. doug? >> reporter: we have been in touch with bob gildersleeve's family this morning by phone just after they had gotten the phone call. bob gildersleeve's father told nbc 10 he'd been called to the philadelphia medical examiner's office to identify his son. >> my name's marc gildersleeve help me find my dad. >> reporter: it was after their heartbreaking search friends and family confirmed the father of two from baltimore perished in the crash of amtrak train 188. >> we are blessed for our time with him. >> reporter: at medgar evers college in brooklyn new york they mourned the loss of their dean of student affairs derrick griffith, also a passenger. the 42-year-old ha

. >> deanna durante is on scene. >> one resident tells me it sounded like a volcano. now the 500 block of ashborn road here in sheltonham township is expected to be closed until about 1:00 this morning. we're told right now, about ten customers without water. however, the township says that could fluctuate as those repairs continue throughout the evening. we have learned this water main blew around 1:00 this afternoon. a resident tells us she was standing in her driveway when all of a sudden she saw brown water just shooting into the sky. the video you're looking at obviously shows the clear water there. we're also told that water did seep into possibly one home. the township also tells us they are now flushing out the sewer lines because they say that all of this put mud into the sewer system complicated repair work here. the 500 block of ashborn road is going to again, remain closed until about 1:00 this morning. reporting, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >> well you can see more of the video of the water main geyser by tapping on the nbc 10 news app. >> well, we want

deanna durante is live to ex- explain. what did we learn? >> reporter: the ntsb says ail note cell phone was used last tuesday, it still has a lot more work to do to determine if the phone was used at the time of the derailment. the ntsb says it has the cell phone of brandon bostian and record shows calls were made and texts were sent and data was used but it says now it must look at the times the phone was used and match the times with information from the train's data recorder. and train cameras to determine if the phone was used while the train was being operated. the ntsb says there were no issues with the rail signal system. and the ntsb confirms what nbc 10 news told you yesterday that bostian was heard on the radio, talking about a stopped septa train minutes before the crash. investigators are finishing up documenting of the train equipment and railcar damage and are still talking to those who were aboard the train. philadelphia's police commissioner says his detectives remain working as a support role to the ntsb and says at this po

nbc 10's deanna durante was in delaware county to see it for herself. deanna, while the focus is on philly, the suburbs will also play a critical role. >> reporter: yeah they will bauds about 2 million people will be here on the parkway for the mass by the pope and they need to stay somewhere, they need to eat somewhere, and many of them will be filling hotels and restaurants in the burbs which is why in delaware county they're already warning resident residents be prepared for delays. >> basically in the five-county areas we're going to be moving very slowly no automobiles in the city of philadelphia or anything close to the proximity of city of philadelphia. >> reporter: the chair of the delaware county common council says expect gridlock and lots of people when it comes to the third week in september. suburban hotel rooms are selling out months ahead to the pope's scheduled visit to philadelphia. if you're expecting to come in and out of the city pektexpect delays. >> the issue of millions of people in one setting, could 95 be shut down at the time bu

deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> and the first funeral was held today. u.s. naval academy midshipman justin zemser was laid to rest. members of the academy gathered with friend and family on long island to say good-bye. he was traveling from annapolis to his home in new york when he was killed tuesday. he was a member of the navy sprint football team, the jewish midshipmen club and the semper fi society. today his fellow midshipmen at the academy lowered the flag to honor him. his funeral included full military honors. his commander officer called him a phenomenal young man. his fellow cadets agreed. >> very humble very passionate young man. it's really all i can say about him. he was great. nothing is overinflated that you hear about him. >> there will be a private memorial service at the academy on sunday. >> zemser was one of eight people who died in the derailment. the eighth was a man from italy who was in the united states on business. some of the injured are still in the hospital. temple is treating nine victims, five in critical condition. five patien

nbc 10's deanna durante has been on this story since the night of the accident. deanna live now at 30th street station. >> reporter: yeah, lawmakers in d.c. got together today to say that they blame republicans for the lack of funding they say that amtrak is asking for. a group of democrats including those from our area stood together asking more money be given to the rail service. >> amtrak is playing a game of railway russian roulette. >> reporter: strong language from capitol hill. senate democrats blamed republicans for slashing am trab funding requests. they listed bridges and tunnels saying they're decades old and in need of repair now. >> republican road block toward greater safety in our transportation system and republican road block toward a better quality of life. >> reporter: the lawmakers say amtrak has a $21 billion backlog on maintenance and repair and says the $2 billion it asked for should be granted. republican controlled house panel agreed to give amtrak $1.1 billion a day after the deadly derailment in philadelphia. >> no brainer. look at the v

nbc 10's deanna durante has been reviewing a report just released by investigators. >> reporter: thetsb says the engineer of that amtrak train had used his cell phone, made calls, sent text messages the day the train derailed. however, they say, they are still working to confirm whether or not he was using that phone at the time he was operating the train. also today, the police commissioner of philadelphia says at this point, his detectives have not sent anything to him that shows him there was any criminal activity involved. >> right now i'm not aware of anything that is going to result in criminal charges, but it is possible. i mean a d.a. can review this. there could be something i'm not aware of. that would lead to that. >> reporter: philadelphia's police commissioner says he has not yet been notified of blood or toxicology results of brandon bostian. he confirms the department got a subpoena for the blood and cell phone records. it has possession of the cell phone and records show calls were made texts were sent and dat qua wasa was used but the ntsb cannot say if the phone was

deanna durante is live. what do people here think about this?>> well they also think that the religion does not promote violence. in fact, they say they promote peace and are urging people to continue on that path. >> without this contest, would this have happened? >> he says he's not advocating the violence that erupted outside a texas arena last night. but he does say the organizers of an event offering cash for those who best draw the prophet mohammed wanted to make it on the national stage. >> i think she incited the violence, and i think she got what she wanted media coverage. >> says the organization wins when violent acts occur. he protested peacefully he says when that same organization, the american defense initiative won the right to place anti-muslim ads on septa buses. >> may be part of the motives of those behind this. >> says the best course of action is not to ignore the hate speech but to talk about it in an educational manner. he says true muslims do not react violently. the religion teaches peace. >> they are ignorant of the ko

deanna durante live with the findings of the official investigation. >> what caused the fire? >> well police are saying it was the careless disposal of smoking materials. that fire just down the road here and people from the community are stopping by saying they're stunned at what happened there. >> the fire moved fast according to police and firefighters on the dry, windy weather fueled those flames that moved quickly through the trailer home. where family members had gathered on the back deck. >> i saw the smoke, fire engines coming up. excuse me. and police and everything. they had the road blocked off. >> lives down the road over the town line in honey brook. he says he's never seen so many emergency personnel in one place before. >> it's a small area. now you're seeing stuff like this happen. >> police say the three women who died are related. two sisters, 52-year-old sally rimmel. and sally's daughter angel rimmel. police say two men were able to rescue two juveniles from the back deck of the home. the manager tells me the honey brook fire company was the first to respon

nbc 10's deanna durante was there and joins us live from center city. so much to discuss. >> reporter: many schools may be closed during the third peek week in september when the pope visits. some schools encouraging families and parents to come here, 2 million people expected to be on the parkway for the papal mass alone. >> looking at the issue of millions of people being in one setting. could 95 be shut down at the time? people in bumper to bumper traffic? what do you do? how do you handle that? >> reporter: officials are learning from each other a few months before the papal scheduled visit and world meeting of family events begin. the topic today, large crowds and keeping kids safe especially as we approach the visit the entire world will be watching. >> public transit will be the only way that they're going to be able to move in and out of the city of philadelphia. and it's going to be you know every bus and every train that comes into that platform are going to be full of people. moving one after another. >> reporter: because not everyone can sta

"nbc 10's" deanna durante is live at 30th street station. passengers are still trying to figure out how to get back home right? >> reporter: they are. the american red cross is assisting a number of them at this point here down near the market street side of the train station which has been blocked off from the general public. we're told that they've assisted about two dozen people so far this morning and that they are trying to get them transportation back to where they need to be. we have watched not huge crowds of people coming here but one or two coming in with amtrak personnel come to go 30th street station. it's been a very frustrating night not just for passengers aboard the train but other passengers who have been stranded here at 30th street all night long. some of them not even fwheeg had happened until they either got to wilmington delaware or here in philadelphia and found out they wouldn't be going anywhere for quite some time. >> no choice to get off. there's no way to go any further. we've been here since probably around 11:30

here's nbc 10's deanna durante. >> called my mom. >> darius griffin says he's not surprised by the outpouring of support and heartache from students and faculty who knew his dad. >> my dad was a great person. and he was everything i'm not. >> he was a dean at melvin evers college in brooklyn. students there say he would make sure they had whatever they needed. food books, clothing, even if he paid for it himself. >> to be loved and -- always respected him. >> he said if he knew the last time he'd talk to his dad was the last time they ever spoke, he would've said more. >> i never told him this but he's everything i wanted to be. >> nbc 10 news. >> a scholarship fund has been created in his honor called the dr. derick e. griffith scholarship fund. the goal to continue supporting students who have overcomma major obstacles as they look toward a brighter future. >>> and now turning to the latest on the investigation, nbc 10 learned there's new video showing the train seconds before it derailed last tuesday. it's part of the investigation. that probe into what went wrong could take a year or long

nbc 10's deanna durante explains. >> joy is getting a new hand. >> put your wrist through here. >> one she can pick up a ball bubbles and cookies. >> i might be able to swim better. >> and the people who made it are high school students. >> i have a test platform for an activated 3d printed hand. >> if you're trying to figure out what that is they'll show you. >> it isn't mechanical it relies on her moving her wrist forward to open and close the hand. >> there we go. >> and he needs a more sophisticated electronic hand. >> and does different things with his arm, flexes different muscles, fingers or groups of fingers will activate. >> prosthetics were out of our financial reach. >> when parents heard about the work these west town school students were doing, they hoped these kids cold help their kids. and although neither project is finished, the kids are going to be working through the summer. and their teacher says the parts are printed for pennies on the dollar, but the technology is what the students have to learn for themselves. >> fist bump? >> and making a few dreams come true th

deanna durante has been posted there all night. what's happening now? >> if you take a look at me we are at the station. we have seem people wrapped in blankets, arms, legs casts. a gentleman in a wheelchair. a few moments ago we spoke with a woman on board the train. she says she injured her hip when suitcases fell on her and the police were helping her and her husband. she does not speak english. she was talking to us just a little while ago explaining about the injury. now we can tell you passengers have been here all night. we spoke to one woman who we originally talked to around 1:00 this morning. she said her ride just got here. she's finally going to get herself back to new york city. another woman we interviewed, she said she was visiting with her husband and that she was heading to new york. now she just wants to go back home. >> given what happened i think it's safe to go back home. i'm actually going back to washington. >> reporter: now you can see amtrak personnel bringing in some more passengers being escorted through with the pris and amer

nbc 10's deanna durante is live to explain. deanna? >> reporter: yeah, i spoke with that victim.ays he's had to change his whole way of life. and although the thieves took a lot of cash from that gas station, they also stole his cell phone, his lifeline to his wife and family who are in nepal. >> the video was shocking a gas station worker is taken by surprise. he's pushed to the ground and held at gunpoint as a masked gunman steals whatever he can stuff into his pockets. this is the second time this week the man has been robbed. these images are from a security footage on monday. and they show the same man being led into the station by a man who is masked and armed with a gun. >> there's indications that it's either the same guy or they knew each other. because by his account, they look different, but said the same thing. >> so you're out of the hospital and okay though? >> the victim has left the state for work. he was briefly hospitalized after being beaten in wednesday's attack. but says more than anything he just wants his iphone back. it had the only photographs of his wife

outside of police head kwartquarters, deanna durante, nbc 510 news. >>> and the archdiocese is talking about news about the archdiocese who is at the center of a em bezment. they say he bought a castle at an artificially low price with the intention of selling it at a higher price netting more than $4 million according to a british newspaper. >>> and now they say that this investigation will not hamper plans for the pope to the meet with the world meeting of organizations, and they call it troubling, but they say it does not affect it. all funding is separate from the archdiocese. >> and now the nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> a hot and humid end to the work week and will more warm weather be around? >> our meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is going to be telling us about it. >> well the humidity is going to be coming back over the weekend even though we don't have showers around the area to today, because of the drier air mass. temperatures in the mid-80s and from philadelphia northward and much cooler to the south the closer you are to the water. it is an exceptional warm may

reporting live deanna durante. >> 11 crash victims are still being treated at philadelphia hospitals.ive are at temple university hospital, two in critical kegs. two patients are critical at hahnemann, three at area and one in fair condition at university hospital. >> to this developing store. the manhunt is over for suspected serial killer the in the nation's capital. police don't ting the suspect was working alone when he killed four people in the mansion in d.c. police arrested the prime suspect. took five other people into custody. nbc's dan schennman has the latest. >> reporter: darryl dylan wint was cap cured in a car with three others in the washington, d.c. area. early arier in the day investigators traced cell phone records his girlfriend. she said he had left and was back if d.c. after he was spotted at a maryland hotel more than a dozen police officers followed his car and a box truck travel aring with him. moments later the passengers in the car and the driver of the truck were all taken into custody without incident. he's been charged with four counts of first-degree murd

nbc 10's deanna durante has new information on the investigation. what new insights today? >> we can tell you that investigators are still here in philadelphia. and they're looking at things like the number of injuries people have and train speed. this as one of the sons talks about his dad. >> he was a single parent. raised me all of his life. and -- >> darius lost his dad aboard amtrak 188 a week ago today. >> dr. derek griffith was the dean at edgars college. the bronx native dedicated his life to helping others get an education. his son says he wants answers in the derailment. and investigators are searching for them as well. the large scale presence of the ntsb has declined the agency says many field investigators are still in philadelphia and they're taking a look at train wreckage, documenting every piece of it. taking a look at crew performance, as well as the injuries sustained by more than 200 people aboard. some thrown from the train, others found inside the rail cars. and we've learned the ntsb has been gathering more video video that shows the train seconds bef

deanna durante getting local reaction. >> reporter: they're saying you can't ignore the actions of thei, but instead you can fight it with tolerance and education. >> there is no justification in the koran or in the life of the prophet mohammed for muslims to respond in such a manner. >> he says the shooters who police say planned to storm a texas arena are not true muslims, the faith preaches against violence. >> these people may claim to be muslims. what they've done is the actual antithesis of our faith. >> reporter: he's familiar with the defense initiative. he stood in protests of the ad running on septa buses last month. they were anti-muslim. he was aware of the group's planned cartoon contest to award $10,000 to the artist who best depicted the prophet mohammed. >> if anything we should do is -- make it an opportunity to educate people. >> reporter: he says the best way to fight the offensive actions isn't with violence instead it's to bring people of all races and religions together peacefully and talk about the issue. >> reporter: talking peacefully isn't this group's goal ac

deanna durante is live at the crash scene. >> reporter: well, we spoke to the ntsb and sources, they tell us there is no radio traffic that shows communication between the amtrak 188 engineer and septa engineer. a lot of talk about about this projectile that hit a train and may have hit an amtrak train. this was in the last 15 minutes or so the ntsb saying the fbi asked to look at damage to the windshield of that amtrak train, the fbi ruled it did not come from gunfire. however, the ntsb now saying in the last 15 minutes, they are not ruling out something else hit that train. >> there was no rush to judgment in this matter. >> for the first time the philadelphia district attorney addresses the involvement of his office in the investigation of derailed amtrak 188. eight people died when a train flew off the tracks last tuesday night. minutes after a septa train was hit with a projectile. that incident is part of the case. but sources tell us they doubt it played a role in the fatal derailment. we have learned brandon did contact dispatch to alert them to a stopped train on the tracks.

nbc 10's deanna durante live. >> this is a story we'll see only on 10. >> reporter: it is.ice inside are working on evidence they managed to get from inside a bristol township gas station. two armed robberies happened there this week. and they say that although the thieves took a lot of cash they also took the victim's cell phone, which is his lifeline to his family in nepal, people he has not been able to reach since the earthquake. >> reporter: the video is shocking to watch. an armed gunman storms into the pioneer gas station on wednesday, takes a gas station attendant by surprise and forces them to the ground as he ransacks the register. but once the cash is taken with the victim on the floor, the thief takes his iphone, his only way to communicate with his family in nepal. >> the phone contains pictures of his wife who is in nepal missing after the earthquake occurred. and he has no way to contact her. he has no way to retrieve those pictures without the iphone. >> this video, the crime is just one clue police have recovered from the scene. it may be the most important

nbc 10's deanna durante takes us to the new site. >> reporter: it was no the projects brian haligan had in mind when he bought this hotel. a place that sat vacant for months. >> we requested a deal with the hospital. >> with the hospital paying and doing the renovations itself, the deal was a win-win until late january, the deal fell through and the farmers market down the street had just been evicted. >> let's see if we can make it work. i wasn't interested if i could only do half of the vendors. >> brian offered it to everybody. >> all our existing customers will be able to you know go down and continue shopping with us. and we'll get new customers from that area. >> it was very lucky that we had the opportunity when we did and they had an opening when they did. so just -- >> the move isn't without its issues, the costs are big. especially to fit this building for each new space. >> i understand your costs. but maybe i can help out. >> and montgomery county is helping, too. >> the county stepped in with a loan of about $250,000 to help them with their move to help them with start-up c

. >> deanna durante, a reporter for nbc's wcau, gets a rumor from one of her police sources about a manning naked down a hallway in an apartment building. >> he said, hey, can you help us out, put these surveillance pictures on tv? >> police are concerned that because the suspect is nude the crime may be of a sexual nature. and because the incident happens at an off-campus housing site where a few students from a nearby university live, the police are eager to unravel the mystery. >> we tried to keep the serious tone because he broke into an apartment where single young women live. they didn't know, were they dealing with someone who has a sexual predator background or were they dealing with just some kook they didn't know. >> so not only do the police release the surveillance tape to the media but they post it on the internet. and with a quick click of the mouth this invader's bare essentials debut around the world. >> he was able to walk right into the front door. at the time he's not dressed like you would expect an adult man to be dressed at 4:00 on a friday afternoon. >> the suspec

let's go to nbc 10's deanna durante who's joining us now live at 30th street station. deanna, i understand you've been talking to some passengers who are stranded at this point? >> reporter: yeah, that ripple effect being felt here at 30th street. you can see it looks pretty quiet here right now. obviously the scene in port richmond playing a major role on travelers in the northeast corridor. i just spoke with a man who just got off of a new jersey transit train. he is boundor