doug shimell is following the latest from the scene in south philadelphia. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: police say they believe the mother and two girls are expected to survive. the search for the driver continues. >> it's so disturbing to know someone was hit and keep going. >> the shattered red passenger side mirror in the middle of broad and dickinson matched the car witnesses saw. >> the lady driving a car, car had a moon roof and it was i think a 2 -- 98 to 2000 red honda. >> is she okay? >> a witness recorded the scene on a cell phone after police say the red honda hit a mother, her 6-year-old daughter and infant as they crossed the street. >> it doesn't appear at this time with the information that i have that the car slowed down and stopped. instead, the car fled eastbound on dickinson from broad street. >> reporter: it was a scene witnesses say they cannot forget. >> hearing the young child screaming and crying was pretty disturbing. i don't know if i'll be able to shake that. >> reporter: and the detectives say they are still checking area re

doug shimell reports from west chester university. >> reporter: the point of college isn't to let risk or mosquitoes dictate where you go to learn. >> places are dangerous here, too. it's not just overseas. >> reporter: a veteran of study abroad at west clefter, matt feels travel warnings of the zika virus are that, warnings. >> being held back by anything that could happen, impossibles of things that can happen can prevent you from reaching your potential in a lot of ways i think. >> you'll have a fantastic time. >> reporter: this geology senior is supposed to go to costa rica with 16 other students for spring break in march. >> most of us committed to the trip. regardless of what's going on we've already invested so we're going to go anyway. it would have to be a travel ban to stop us from going. >> we don't want them to be lulled into a false sense of security that everything's going to be safe and good. >> reporter: study abroaddri bb directors say it's a threat to pregnant women, the trip is on. >> tipping point will come if there's a direct travel ban or warning to that particula

. >> doug shimell spoke to the mayor who talked to the officer today. live in allentown. >> reporter: the mayor says he was in good spirits, surrounded by a lot of his colleagues, and expected to make that full recovery. right now, crews continue to board up the windows of the housing authority unit that were shot out during a gun battle that brought a murder investigation to a close. >> reporter: gunfire came from inside the apartment as detective is came to serve a warn tuesday night allentown police say one of their own was hit in the arm as they returned fire. >> individual went inside. >> did receive wounds from the exchange of fire and after a brief stand-off, able to secure him inside the apartment. >> reporter: always spec in the murder of a woman found stuffed inside a recycling container. >> see the guy by himself, first time without the girl. >> reporter: tom says he would see the suspect and the victim walking to the store almost every day. she always wore black pants and black and white sneakers. >> when they said she was in the dumpster, t

i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. ♪ >>> fire inconvenienced beatles fans tonight.he beatles cover band was playing but the lights went out because of the fire and hundreds had to be turned away. >> let's bring in glenn schwartz in. a cold night to be outside but a taste of what's to come. >> yes, it is going to be so much colder over the weekend than it is tonight. this is just the appetizer to the main course. we still have some wind out there. it's blowing strong enough to make these temperatures feel even lower. it's already in the teens. north and west, 12 degrees in lancaster, 8 in mount pocono. 21 in philadelphia. we don't have the 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts we saw earlier today. but there are several places gusting over 25 miles an hour and with those kind of temperatures, that's pretty brutal. as we go through the rest of the night we're going to see temperatures drop to about 14 degrees in philadelphia by 7:00 a.m. doesn't really go up very much by 11:00 a.m., does it? and over the weekend we're talking more about dangerous cold and we have the first alert

doug shimell reports. >> reporter: there have been travel advisories before but travel agents say this one is different. >> i think this one has were in the industry a little more concerned just because nobody wants to see a family so affected. >> reporter: at rogers travel in way they had one client cancel a tripthe caribbean because of the fear of the zika virus that can cause birth defects. >> if people are saying hey, you know, i want to go to the caribbean, it's cold, it's miserable, i want to get out of here, we can say that's great, you're not expecting a child, are you. >> reporter: a recent travel industry survey shows most vacationers are not canceling plans to the caribbean. >> some airlines are working with you. if you are an expectant mother and kind of allowing you to change your tickets without penalties. >> reporter: travel agents caution you to check the travel insurance you may have purchased for your trip to make certain they did not just recently exclude the zika virus from coverage. doug shimell, "nbc 10 news." >> lawmakers are now calling for an investigation to f

. >> and with doug shimell joining us from lower macungie to tell us where he is. >> and almost five hours in the snow continues along hamilton boulevard along lower macungie township. it is a light flakey snow and ice pellets and the temperatures are hovering in the low to mid-20s, and penndot had come through to do salting, but they had another truck through with the plow blade, because we had an inch and a half of accumulation since 1:30 or 1:45 this afternoon. and some of the drivers out, and kwheked the p p&l's utility site for outages, but they have 6f 5-plus people with outages, but they are expecting to get those 65 people back up soon. and there is a slight uptick in the one to two-car minor accident, but all things considered with the holiday and the lighter rush hour, things are pretty good. live in the lehigh valley, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> and now, the traffic lighter than normal because of the federal holiday, but a lot of headlights, and the traffic is moving along pretty well in i-95 from the south philly wells fargo camera. they have been reducing the speed

in northeast philadelphia, i'm doug shimell.0. >>> two children are hurt after a car flipped on roosevelt boulevard. these pictures were taken this morning. moments after the impact. you can see the mangled nissan pathfinder on its side. police say the driver lost control north on the boulevard near broad street. a 7-year-old boy and the driver were thrown from the vehicle. another 7-year-old boy was trapped inside. all three are in critical condition, four others were also hurt. >>> new tonight, a south jersey church says they will not be intim dated after someone vandalized their black lives matter signs overnight. members of a unitarian universalist church in cherry hill put up another sign today. police were called to the church this morning after an employee noticed the signs were gone. a frame that held it up, was also broken. church members put up the signs last month during martin luther king jr. weekend and they say this is the second time the church signs have been vandalized. >> this is vicious. this is angry. this is

nbc 10's doug shimell talks to students whether they going to change their plans because of the outbreak. >>> one of philadelphia's most iconic spots including a face-lift. a brief reprieve for skateboarders. >> one, two, three. >> the city broke ground on a project to redesign love park. work slated to begin in spring. love park will close at that point. and when it reopens next spring, here's what it's expected to look like. more green space, a new fountain and dining as well as renovated welcome center. the project expected to cost $20 million. next few days skateboarding will be legal in love park. a premier destination for borders in 1995. the mayor today said the skateboarding ban will temporarily be lifted until monday. >> this particular period of time, before we get into the ground, we want people to come from around the country, hopefully around the world, come back for one more spin on your board here in love park. >> for the love sculpture, where is it going? well, for now, moving to dill worth park through the summer. >>> local catholics recognizing beginning of lent today a

live at lehigh county, i'm doug shimell. >> and our vehicles are also out on the roads tonight on 476 heading north towards qua quakertown, bucks county. we will go to nbc's deanna durante. >> she is joining us live from montgomeryville with the conditions where where you are, deanna? >> yes, i checked in with the montgomery officials, and the township police are responding to 12 accident scenes throughout the county. route 309 southbound here, and salt truck came by in the last five minutes, and you can see the roads and where they are wet and salting, and you can look in the turn lanes and see how much snow and flush there is, and you can see on the sidewalk, you can see how much snow has come down since 4:00. not a lot of accumulation, and less than an inch, but penndot is warning people to take to the social media it is snow and ice cover and prepare for black ice, because you can't get rid of all of this stuff while the precipitation is coming from the grou ground. also, we talked about the accident scenes, the closest one is on route 309 not far from where we are, two miles sout

doug shimell joining us in allentown with what he's found out. doug. >>> >> reporter: crime scene detectives continue to take evidence out of that allentown housing authority unit. a three-day long murder investigation, an investigation that ended in a barrage of bullets. >> we heard a lot of shots. >> reporter: everyone in the altown housing complex heard the gun battle. >> real terrifying, i had my grandson with me and we were scared. >> reporter: the man detectives were serving a warn for opened fire, hitting one officer in the arm. the suspect was also hit. he was a suspect in the murder of a woman found sunday in a small blue recycling bin, barely two blocks away. >> used to walk up my street every day. >> reporter: the neighbor had an uneasy feeling about walt somewhere the woman he called rose when he didn't see them together. >> she always had black slacks on and black and white sneakers on, but here when he said she was in the dumpster, they said black and white nikes, that hit me in the head. >> we're so thankful this morning this office

doug shimell is live in south fill we more on the victims, also doug, you have a description of the car? >> reporter: yes, we do. of course that is what detectives say they got from some of the pieces left in the intersection. they opened broad and dickenson now but the afternoon was shattered with the sound of screams. >> oh, my gosh. >> reporter: captured on a witness's cell phone, a family scattered around the intersection of broad and dickinson street. >> be okay. >> reporter: chris had just parked near his office. >> i heard the young girl screaming and crying and i saw the mom, she was laying on the ground unconscious. and i saw them holding the baby in -- it was like pretty disturbing. >> reporter: police stay a late 90s red honda hit a mother, her 6-year-old daughter and infant as they crossed the street. >> it doesn't appear at this time with the information that i have that the car slowed down and stopped. instead, the car fled eastbound on dickinson street from broad street. >> reporter: all three were rushed to area hospitals while police search for a female hit and run driv

and doug shimell has more on the inconvenience some will face. >> reporter: with each barricade thatent up they could feel themselves being cut off. >> going to cause congestion and backup. >> reporter: the proposed 40-day closure of the falls bridge is for $400,000 in stopgap repairs to the rusting underside of the 1890 structure. >> the safety factors are getting to a point we didn't feel comfortable with so. we decided to do something now. rather than wait until it was beyond repair. >> reporter: but that bridge is the chief way many patients get to the pharmacy at ridge and midvale. >> people want to be safe. on the other hand we're going to lose a lot of traffic to the store, all of us here. >> reporter: and slice's pizza makes money over the falls bridge. >> that's our sneak through the back way, and all of a sudden everything is going to have to funnel through the city avenue bridge which means delays and a lot of traffic. >> even engine 35 and ladder 25 have to figure out a new route to fire calls. they all basically know they don't have a choice. >> we have to grin and bear

doug shimell is live in chestnut hill to fill us in. pun intended, doug. >> reporter: i noticed that one. you know, you remember a year ago seems like you couldn't drive more than 10 or 15 feet without cracking a vertebrae. penndot says whether it's cobblestone or asphalt they are on the way. >> this is a prescription we may see more. >> the ground is way behind schedule opening up under penndot's feet. >> potholes are everywhere. they are on 611 filling them finally. >> reporter: the lack of winter has delayed pot hole season way past where we were this time last year. >> i hope they -- it doesn't get so bad as before. >> reporter: penndot says this week's massive rain is accelerating the process. >> you have cracks in areas that water can penetrate, it's going to freeze and thawing, that creates gaps under the pavement. >> for the consumer this is is obvious you are going to need to replace a rim. >> the casualties are starting to roll into rick's car care center. he says just because winter is late, a february pot hole does just as mu

. >> doug shimell is joining us live where students and protesters making their voices heard. doug. >> reporter: yes, the protesters say they show up at these student forums because it's going to be the neighborhoods that are left with this stadium, not the students. >> where is our community. >> i'm sorry guys but -- >> reporter: they feel they have been shut out of temple's decision over a stadium. >> they have a chance to have voices be heard but most of the students aren't going to be here when the huge stadium, the community members living here for 30 years will still be there. >> why in 2016 are we talking about a stadium, why is this suddenly a priority. >> temple student government convene add q and a forum with the president and athletic director. >> whether it's tuition rates going up or anything of financial status, we just want to make sure that students' concerns are heard and questions answered. >> reporter: activists with the 15 now minimum wage group say they do not see the logic in a new stadium. >> we've kind of been bet the response temple don't have enough m

doug shimell, "nbc 10 news." >> thank you. let's travel north with our coverage from new hampshire continues. voters could change the course of the presidential campaign. this is a live look at hudson where the polls close in less than two hours. george spencer is also in new hampshire. george, this is a big night. what's the anticipation like where you are? >> reporter: keith, if yesterday seemed busy it's a different level. only the streets the canvassing teams and sip wavers making presence known and in campaign headquarters across this state each team knows that tonight's results could be make or break. >> it's really steady, very good. >> reporter: the large number of undeclared new hampshire voters seem to have made up their mind, the turnout is on track to set a record. >> i totally decided once i heard ted cruz speak himself and that's who i voted for. >> i believe in what bernie stands for and i felt that i needed to go with my beliefs. >> reporter: donald trump could score his first election win, the front-runner has

live in feasterville, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> all right. and more damage to show you. take a look at this. the scoreboard at gloucester city high school took a hit today. sky force 10 catching the aftermath of today's quick moving storm in camden county. >>> and this is what it was like to drive on the schuylkill expressway around lunchtime. the windshield wipers couldn't move quickly enough. no matter where you live, you saw rain today. this afternoon, the rain let up quite a bit in delaware. drivers faced wet roads, but no major issues in new castle county. check out the high water in berwyn, chester county. the driver in this car needed to be rescued. >> nbc 10's mitch blacher has been up in sky force 10 for the past two hours looking for storm damage. >> mitch, what have you found? >> hey, jim and jacqueline, we're taking a look at some of the most dramatic cleanup that we have seen. just over bucks county. this is a barn where at least half of the roof has been completely ripped off. it's getting a little dark. if we can zoom in a little bit, you can actually see

. >> doug shimell spoke to the mayor who talked to the officer today.ive in allentown. >> reporter: the mayor says he was in good spirits, surrounded by a lot of his colleagues,nd

i'm doug shimell for nbc 10 news. >> now, looking over in new castle, the traffic is moving well there. >> and we have tim furlong there checking on the conditions there. >> and yes, the snow has not kept people away are from the christiana mall here. popular for people today, and you can see, we didn't get more snow here, but it is a coating. we were driving down from wilmington, and the roads were bad. but i like this spot, because you can see the snow coming with the fine mist across with the wind, and in is where delaware route 1 meets up with 95 and churchman crossing and you can see the salt truck coming by and nothing to plow now. but like glenn said, the road surface and the travel lane is not bad, but down to the sides and the untreated roads and the on ramps, and the off ramps, and looking at the on ramps coming down from the malcolm plex, you could see there it is coated at this point. so you have to be careful. there are slick spots, and we were coming down from wilmington, and we had to take it slow, 25, 30 miles per hour, and most people are slow coming up. we talked to t

. >> nbc 10's doug shimell joining us live from feasterville with more on that story. doug?> reporter: when you look at the size and the tree, that the tree company just finished carving up, it is very easy to believe that this storm pushed through here and shredded the roof on ray angle's house was being pushed along at 60 miles an hour. the only way to get a giant tree off ray angle's house was with an equally giant crane. it is the aftermath of a storm that essentially cut the feasterville house in half, all pro telled by wind. >> it was getting harder and harder and hearder. and then boom, the tree went down. >> reporter: ray angle says he watched, but there was little he could do. >> i was standing back there. dummy. i should have moved out of the way. i was under the eve and it hit the corner and smashed everything down and went across the whole roof. >> reporter: two bedrooms and his son's apartment all crushed. the house uninhabitable. and the first of likely many nights in a hotel. >> it didn't hurt anybody. and it didn't hurt the dog. and it didn't cause any damage

. >> reporter: in fiesterville, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> to sky force 10. mitch blacher surveying the damage from the air. >> he is live in philadelphia's holmesburg section. what can you see from your vantage point? >> as the weather starts to clear, i want to take you down into holmesburg. we're hovering above the holmesburg boys and girls club where part of the roof has been completely ripped off. if we zoom out a little bit, you can see the damage that landed in the backyard. we're told that as many as 350 kids in this neighborhood will be affected. their programs canceled. at least until they can repair this damage. lni is on the scene investigating. at this point, we're told there are no injuries. we'll be continuing to survey the damage across the area in sky force 10 throughout the 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00. live in sky force 10, mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. >> okay, mitch. >>> and floodwaters left a driver stranded in chester county. take a look at the pictures from route 30 in berwyn. that red car, it isn't moving. the road had to be closed. >> now to n

doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> meanwhile today in washington president obama and house speaker paul ryan are set to meet. this will be the first face-to-face the men will have since the wisconsin lawmaker became speaker of the house last october. the men are expected to discuss issues like isis, the budget and the nation's heroin epidemic. >>> and people who dislike snow got a welcome news from pennsylvania's most famous groundhog this morning. punxsutawney phil did not see his shadow. according to legend that means there will be an early spring. thousands stood on cobbler's knob to hear phil's forecast translated by his human handlers of course. >> is this current warm weather more than a trend or chance this winter has come to an end? >> that's exactly what punxsutawney phil told those guys. this is only the 18th time phil has seen his -- not seen his shadow. though with clear skies in the area his shadow should have been visible. analysts in 2011 looked at records and found the groundhog's prediction was wrong about two-thirds of the time. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with