hostage jamal denied to comment after returning to the firehouse this afternoon. >> reporter: that 15-year-old got out right away so he led his iphone to one of the firefighters to call police. >> thank you vernon now lets get live to chad pradelli with more on the man at the center of this standoff. >> reporter: we are learning new information. cheltenham police say that the suspect walked into the lamott fire company basement and fired a shot into the wall and he said quote, the next one i won't miss several members ran out and four to five did not and were held hostage, an hour later the police made contact with the gunman and he released them. >> they say he was a great guy and while he was recently fired nobody saw the alleged standoff coming he worked for the housing authority and worked for the salvation army and he was distraught from the fire company and was taken to norristown state hospital a psychiatric facility where he is being monterrored. >> when i heard there were hostages i said i hope nobody is being shot. we heard the s.w.a.t. team was up here. >> reporter: the sus

before we received a call he did fire one shot into the wall in the firehouse. no other shots were fired. police say jordan kept the firefighters in the basement while hostage negotiators took a place on the first floor. during that time we were in conversation with him by phone. neighbors locked themselves down for safety. shocking surprising, not expected. police say jordan surrounded after the hostages were freed. relatives of firefighters have said members have been under stress after they went from being a paid depth to a volunteer group a few months ago. >> these guys are here at their station, making all the calls they just had a fatality the other day. they do a tough job with no monday, no pay but they're dedicated to it, so when you get terminated or you lose that job for some reason, it's very dramatic for the firefighter. paul jordan is in a state hospital. he'll be there for three days for a member al health evaluation. charges are penning. weave oh also learned that he worked heading up disaster relief for the salvation army and even responded to t

ighter who they say today had both a gun, and a grudge all this happened at lemott firehouse at pen rose avenue and graham lane in the elkins park section of cheltenham township. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff is their life at the scene where a lot of people will alexandria are breathing a sigh of relief now. >> reporter: well, this has been a very trying day for this community some folks were told by police they had to stay inside their homes, others return home, afraid for their children who work, home at spring break but all of them are wanting answers tonight. chopper three was overhead before 11:30 a.m. as first hostage was released. alex robinson was watching on tr when she got a call. >> he said mom, he said tell them i'm okay. i said was that you? i said jamal who was hostage they were bringing up with their hand up. he aid that was me. >> reporter: jamal was one of four fire fighters held captive by a gunman identified as former fire fighter paul jordan, in the basement of the lem theott fire station in cheltenham an ordeal that started an hour were and evened with h

but the big story is the firehouse under siege this morning.matic moments before the suspect finally surrenders to s.w.a.t. teams. lets go live to chad pradelli standing by at the cheltenham police department. >> we are not naming the suspect because he is not formerly charged, i am hold that should happen in the next two to three days but currently the suspect is in the hospital. i spoke to one of the hostages off camera, he says the suspect is an all around good guy and did not see this coming. >> the suspect entered the lamott fire company and fired a shot into the wall and said the next one i won't miss. several firefighters ran out and at least four were taken hostage, s.w.a.t. team members surrounded the building and make phone can't with the suspect. >> he was upset and crying. >> about a half hour later he released the hostages unharmed. after making alarming statements he was taken to a mental evaluation facility. >> i raised up off the bed and said oh my god that is the place where my son works at. >> the suspect was terminated from t

in monday's case no call for mutual aid though a mile away, a firehouse in capital heights, maryland has an ambulance and the d.c. ambulance ended up taking the victim to a maryland hospital. what's going on? kenneth lyons, head of the d.c. ambulance says the unit is growing but still has the same 39 ambulances as years ago. >> we were doing 450, 500 calls a day. that volume has more than doubled over the past three years. >> i've been seeing stories in the past about the avalanche. to see it hit home is a reality check. >> the victim's relatives tell us he is recovering in a hospital. as for d.c. fire e.m.s.'s reaction to all of this what is the official response time in this case? they would only say that they are still investigating. reporting live from southeast washington, sam ford, abc 7 news. >> thank you, sam. this is the fourth case of a slow response involving a d.c. ambulance that abc 7 has covered in two years. as sam mentioned in march of 2013, a d.c. police officer waited 20 minutes for help after a car hit him in southeast. last may, a 90-year-old woman in southeast wa

police were called to the lamott firehouse at 11:00 this morning.ghter took four fellow firefighters hostage and chopper 6 hd was above as the suspect was taken into custody vernon odom is live at the scene where police just held a news conference a short time ago, vernon what can you tell us? >> reporter: just occurred -- just before 10:39 according to police he entered the building with a han gun and took four hostages several people working on the first floor did scurry to safety and no one was harmed we are fortunate to say this is chopper 6 hd video this morning, the suspect an exfirefighter fired yesterday by this volunteer department was taken into custody after several rounds of negotiations by telephone and directly inside of the building, he did take four firefighters hostage and through groeshations the man surrendered and one shot was fired into the

that call went to a firehouse a mile away from the scene in northwest. it took seven minutes to respond despite the fact that fire engine 20 was in service three blocks away. 911 officials say the engine was not properly logged into the system so they didn't know it was available. d.c. fire say the child was transported priority one. the secret service is calling on congress to fund the construction of a second white house. this one for training the $8 million request would be built 20 miles away from the real mansion at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. secret service director joseph clancy said agents need a true-to-life white house replica in beltsville. this comes in response to september's security breach when an armed man jumped the fence and made it inside the white house before being captured. this request came as clancy admitted he is frustrated with the troubles within the agency. he said today that he was not told about a white house incident involving two possibly drunk senior agents until days after the incident. clancy told congress he gave staff a

. >>> plus fed up over their firehouse. what's taking so long to get these jersey shore firefighters out of a trailer and back in their building more than two years after superstorm sandy? we'll talk about it after the break. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> welcome back. we're off to a cold start. temperatures mainly in the 30s. anywhere from 5 to 10 degrees colder than this time yesterday. 9 degrees colder in lancaster compared to 24 hours ago and 6 degrees colder in millville. mainly putting us in the 30s, temperatures at or below freezing. 32 in reading, 31 in allentown, 36 in atlantic city. 23 in mt. pocono. a cold within cold start. certainly feeling like winter although it is spring. it feels like 26 in philadelphia feeling like 25 in allentown, 24 in lancaster. mt. pocono, the wind chill right now in mt. pocono is 9 agrees and the wind chill in atlantic city is 27. there's that northwesterly flow. winds gusting up to 28 mile per hours in philadelphia. up to 26 mile per hours in mt. pocono. you'll feel th

the hope is to have the firehouse ready to use by the end of this year or early 2016. until then the firefighters will stay in the trailer. live in ocean city, i'm ted greenberg, "nbc10 news." >>> next all new on "nbc10 news" at 5:00 if you drive, chances are, you've hit, well too many potholes. >> but what are something like these small yellow pieces could prevent the seasonal craters from ever opening up. next, new roadway technology is being tested in bucks county. see how it could change the roads and your ride. >>> and we'll be getting colder going into your weekend. also the chance for some snow flurries. then we watch as milder air moves in. i'll show you all the details on that coming up. >>> and peco customers listen up. a rate hike could be in your future. how much more you can expect to pay. that's next on "nbc10 news" at 5:00. of a prominent new jersey couple a murder/suicide. today their family's disputing that report. cooper hospital john sheridan and his wife joyce were found dead in their new jersey home in september. >> exactly how they died has been a

the firehouse serves the area and may be moved after a few firehouse is built a few miles away. has the sorry from -- the story from orinda. >> the cost of fire protection is expensive. >> the orinda fire chief said it's a plan that makes sense for his district and the neighboring community of lafayette. building one new station that would serve the north side of beth cities. >> in the past the distribution of mutual and automatic aid between the communities was 2 to 1. they were coming here about twice as much as we were going there. now over the last couple of years it's become much more even in its distribution. >> this is a station that would be moved, nestled in the hills of north arinda for about 50 years. while they acknowledge station 43 doesn't get a lot of calls, they certainly don't want it to go away. >> our main concern is the increase in response time. the north side of orinda is already not well-served by the fire district because response times are very long to a lot of areas. and this would increase response times by two minutes. >> north lafayette has been with

the firehouse serves the area and may be moved after a few firehouse is built a few miles away. laura anthony has the sorry from orinda. >> the cost of fire protection is expensive. >> the orinda fire chief said it's a plan that makes sense for his district and the neighboring community of lafayette. billed one new station that would serve the north side of both cities. >> in the past the distribution of mutual and automatic aid between the communities was 2 to 1. but now it's much more even in the distribution. >> this is a station that would be moved nestled in the hills in north or. movement da more than 50 years. while they acknowledge station 43 doesn't get a lot of calls they certainly don't want it to go away. >> our concern is the increase in response time. orinda, the north part, is already not well served by the fire district because response times are very long to a lot of areas. and this would increase response times by two minutes. >> north lafayette has been without a fire station for three years. last years they purchased a lot with the intent of building a new st

i see a person walking in front of the firehouse there. but we're being told that someone has barricaded themselves at the lamott fire company, cheltenham township. on the 7600 block of penrose avenue. this may possibly be a hostage situation. we are making phone calls and trying to gather information, our producers, our folks in the newsroom are trying to gather as much information as they can. we do see from this vantage point, from skyforce10 there are people i assume those are police officers down there walking around on that street. but as we continue to get -- make phone calls and get information on this barricade situation, at the lamott fire company in cheltenham township we'll get that information to you as soon as we get it. >>> let's head to the digital operations center. we may have some information. among our reporters who is working this story is drew smith. drew? >> vai, very early now, but we can tell you there is a barricaded subject this is coming from montgomery county telling us that there is a barricaded subject at lam

company. >> packed day. >> her dad is a firefighter at the firehouse across the street. >> yes, we doron hill, probably going to be at the front of the bar. >> and then the 12th we do thing called saint aldrich's support child cancer awareness, so everybody has their head shaved. for the month afterward you come in, don't be surprised if the entire stuff is bald. >> sign you up for that one. >> really? i don't know. >> so you guys have good food here. obviously with saint patrick's day coming menus change up. tell us what you brought us, we like, tweak it little bit and big fan of trying to put pork into everything, and so, basically i take pork butt, and i put it in corned beef brine, and then after i brine it in the corn beef brine, i grinds it down, i make it a patty like burger. corned chief burger but corned pork burger, make it a melt, like you would your rube begin wow. >> i like the bread too. >> light toasted row, swiss cheese our i am per nation of -- >> this of course a lot of people are going to be ordering. >> yes. >> some of the other foods you have on the men knew. >> d

10 years ago at age 16. >> his mom loved the fact he came to the firehouse.e came a safe place to hang out not be on the street and it kind of ended up guiding him into what he wanted to do. >> spending a decade serveing his community both as a firefighter and for the past four years part-time police officer with darby borough. council members got to know him well. >> he was very quite. he was a quiet kind of guy. he never said too much. but he always had that smile. he would look at you and smile. i mean, he was a good guy. >> reporter: he shared a home with his girlfriend and few new of their apparent troubled relationship according to his boss darby borough's police chief. >> domestic problems there to the point there was a complaint filed last august for terroristic threats on this -- on the individual that's in custody. >> filed by him? goodbye him against her. there was a pfa filed against her. >> pf. protection from abuse order filed by hudson. police had been to the home before. hudson was shot once in the chest saturday afternoon apparently with his

one of ocean city's firehouses was flooded by sandy and ever since the firefighters have been staying in temporary quarters. nbc10 jersey bureau reporter ted green burg isberg is live for us. >> reporter: every city-owned building here that was damaged by superstorm sandy has been fixed except for this fire house. some firefighters say the long wait has gotten them sick. >> we've been in it too long. >> reporter: ocean city firefighters say they're tired of being stationed in a trailer. >> just time to get back into a regular station. >> reporter: 2 1/2 years after superstorm sandy flooded their fire house at 29th street and west avenue the trailer is still home base for about 15 professional firefighters during every 24-hour shift. >> it's unacceptable. >> reporter: station 2's damaged building now only houses department vehicles. the trailer sits next door. >> guys that have had some respiratory issues. they're stationed here that they never had before. >> we've had the air quality and the trailer itself tested on two occasions. it came back with no problems. >> reporter: so what's

previously before our arrival before we received the call it did fire one shot into the wall into the firehouse. no other shots fired. investigators say jordan had just been fired last night after a long-running dispute with fire officials and showed up today distraught. shocking surprising. >> nothing like this happens around here. it's a quiet community. swath teams rushed through an open door and cleared first floor to stage no negotiations. police say one hostage was freed shortly before they got there. he released the last three and gave up. we had a short conversation with one of the victims. this man's mother says she saw the whole thing unfold on live tv. that's when i was like, wait a minute. i raised up and said, oh, ply god, that's the place where my work at. i didn't know that it was him until like later on when i saw them bring the hostages out and i seen a bald hair eye with his hands up. he hauled him away to a state hospital for investigation. meanwhile everyone is happy that this ended please peacefully. jordan will be under state mental evaluation for up to 72 hours. charges a

there's a big clause in the frill law called grandfathering like fire stations and schools we add nor firehouses and schools in san francisco it's our belief this is grandfathered in without meeting the requirement. >> if we can include that sorry. >> thank you for that information but i i know that we learned a lot in the hearing yesterday my concern would be the potential costs on whether it's the city's general fund to the customers and the huge increases because of this i hope that our board can do our part in helping to resolve this. >> thank you supervisor tang okay supervisor john avalos's. >> just whether it makes sense about the language of new facilities on 2k3wr5rg9d in and good to express that as well. >> tb it is part of our pleadings we'll include that. >> at this point in time open up for public comment seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor avalos. >> we can file that. >> we'll take a motion to file. >> so moved arrest we'll take that without objection. madam clerk, any other business before this committee? >> no, mr. chair. >> thanks everyone we're 1yr7bd

he held four firefighters hostage inside their firehouse here.ppened just north of philadelphia. the guy fired one shot into the wall of the firehouse before hostage negotiators got him to surrender peacefully. no one was hurt. >>> tuition at virginia tech is going to be going up next year. the board of visitors voted for a $500 hike to the undergrad tuition. room and board will cost about $300 more. tuition for grad students is going up as well. in state they'll be paying more than $500 more. out of state will be paying about $1,000 more. virginia tech says these hikes are needed to cover a $6 million loss in state funding. >>> we now know the identity of a man killed in a confrontation at the gates to the nsa. what the fbi is now telling our chris gordon next. >> reporter: a staff member here at laurel high school body slams a student. we have the video. >>> breaking news about that deadly incident that to occurred at the nsa gate. this is a look at the man who died ricky hall and he is from baltimore. hall and another man had come from a hotel

. >> he was a big success story for the firehouse. joining when he was 16 he's everybody's friend. he's got this infectious smile and is goofy and fun to be around. everybody at the firehouse loved him. >> reporter: the unnamed girlfriend has been hospitalized in an unrelated medical condition. so she is being restrained with hudson's handcuffs as she waits for a bedside arraignment. live in darby township jesse gary "nbc 10 news." >>> it is 6:37 and 35 degrees outside. today leaders in philadelphia will start a new push to make food trucks safer. this comes after that deadly explosion in north philadelphia last summer that killed a mother and daughter. today city council members will hear new testimony in the bill that calls for regular inspection of food trucks including checking on the propayne tanks. last fall several council members tried to get the food truck bill passed but it didn't make it through council. >>> and happening today, citizens bank park will give a preview of the enhanced security measures that are being put in place this season. for the first time all fans ha

we build a firehouse not for just the members that are there but for the next 100 years. >> reporter: if the neighbors lose appeal, construction could begin in the summer. mike mibach, ktvu fox 2 news. >>> after four years of drought california is preparing for another long fire season and just in time california has 5 new fire engines. they will go to fire departments around the sacramento area but will be able to respond to other parts of the state. they are four wheel drive and they have watertack water tanks, tools and equipment. >> urban rescue capability, medical capability. hazmat capability. structure fire fighting. >> the tanks carry a thousand gallons of water. the engines cost $400,000 each and will be used to fight firealize over the state. >>> -- firealize over the state. >>> -- fires all over the state. >>> a bill will offer aid to farmers and others hurt by the drought. $600million will go towards flood control projects. >>> drought is bad news. i am just taking a guess here, no rain -- >> hard to talk about the same thing every day. yeah. [ talking at the same time ] >

previously before our arrival before we received a call, he fired one shot into the wall in the firehouse of lamott we started negotiations and s.w.a.t. went into clear the first floor so the hostage negotiators could get into the building and talk to him. durthat time we were in conversations with him by phone. he gave up to the s.w.a.t. team without a fight there was no problems, all hostages were released unharmed he is unharmed. >> reporter: again, this is the fire marshall coming to talk to us no one was injured. a lot of people rattled but nobody physically injured during the drama that took place here this morning, we'll talk to the fire marshall now, if we can get our camera in here to talk to him live. >> real quick i think you are aware of what happened here today, in the basement a few members were down here with them. they were held at gun point and a successful conclusion and the member was terminated early and the members a great bunch of guys and a good fire company distraught right now right i'm sure more will follow. >> i understand one shot was fired during the siege. >>

you know he knew from being in the firehouse he wanted to help people.ce but this is really close to home. >> reporter: there was a woman in the home at the time of the shooting she has not yet been identified. police say the plan to file charges in this case will come very soon. >>> developing at this hour, officials say a powerful earthquake hit the south pacific nation of poppa new guinea. the 7.7 quick triggered a tsunami warning for papua. it caused strong shaking on land but no word of any injuries or damage at this point. after a chilly weekend we're finally going to feel more spring like temperatures on the way. the question will it stay dry and will these temperatures last last? meteorologist justin drabick joins us now with a the first forecast. hey, justin. >> this time of year you get a little of everything. we'll talk about spring like numbers in the temperatures but also some spring showers. now today was cool. we had full sunshine but we even get to near average. 45 was our high temperature today. that's good 12 degrees below average for t

the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession. because of that, san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant, it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> we're trying to get back to the staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007, 2008. we're 659. we're in thing in the aggregate struggling. >> the goal is to continue to grow it. not take the money and hire and watch the firefighters leave. >> san jose will be in competition to get the federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money the last two years. >>> the trial of the alleged boston marathon bomber began today with his attorney saying, it was him. 21-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev is accused of helping to set two bombs that killed three people and injured 260 others near the finish line of the race in 2013. but in her opening statements, dzhokhar tsarnaev's attorney said the suspect's brother was the ringleader. he was killed in a shootout with police shortly after the

you need to back up this is a unique position for the san francisco fire department we have one firehouse on treasure island and 43 fire stations in the city of san francisco if this would have happened anywhere else than treasure island we'll close those fire stations and move the cops companies to the neighboring fire stations like we have to move out for a certain amount of time we can't leave treasure island vacant we have to have our company there in march we've been having complaint of mold and sent out a mold company they recommended we vacate the building immediately we remember validating the it building been with twenty-four hours our health and safety of the members comes first one vanltd we moved them to the training facility where we had to relocation the recruits and moved the firefighters into classrooms so to declare an emergency at this point we didn't think necessary we did research and called mold companies turnout they say we don't recommend you redo this and accident architects said by the time you rebuild this building tear it down we spoke to tida they said we can't

. >> that's what started this career, you know, in the firehouse he wants to help people.e deal with a lot of bad things if the fire service really close to home. >> police confirm there was a woman in the home at the time of the shooting, she has not been identified. >> responding to the germanwings air disaster by mandate that at least two people stay in cockpits of domestic and international airliners n germany meanwhile a community is mourning the loss of 16 students and two teachers killed in in a plane crash. cbs news correspondent chris van cleve has more. >> cold rain, biting wind, grim backdrop to the sadness hanging over germany this palm sunday. sixteen students and two teachers from the town of about 30,000 died tuesday when germanwings flight 9525 crashed into the french alps. outside their school, a sea of red and white con dolan cents hundreds every candles flowers, messages, surround pictures, showing the smiling faces of young lives lost too soon. >> people keep coming to the school to reflect on the lives this community has lost, mourning in silence. one

the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession and an audit shows because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> it's essential, we're trying to get back to the staffing. peak staffing was 758 in 2007 and 2008. we're currently 679. ? the goal is to grow our firefighter and police force, sustainably and continue growing it. not simply taking money to hire and then losing the money a year or two later and watching the firefighters leave. >> san jose will have competition to get that federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money in the last two years. >>> a woman who was killed in a shootout with arizona police officer the weekend has been positively identified as one of the suspects in the murder of a penngrove woman investigators believe that 37-year-old stephanie hill was one of three people involved in the killing of 84-year-old olga denelli last thursday. hill was also being investigated

the drama an folded at the lamott firehouse at pen rose avenue and graham lane in the elkins park section of chelten had ham township. "eyewitness news" reporter alexandria hoff is their life with the very latest, alexandria. >> reporter: chris, this is a volunteer fire company it hasn't always been this way but it is now what that means is that these fire fighters dedicate their lives to this community and this station and that is where four members were when they were confronted with the former co-workers. elkins park area of cheltenham held its breath for more than an hour as gunman held four fire fighters captive in the basement of the lamot t fire company. >> doors are opened you can see kid coming up there playing with the fire. >> reporter: ordeal began around 10:30 aaron greer snapped photos from across the street. >> i was taking pictures out of the front window obviously not going outside not sure what was going on. >> reporter: police say former fire fighters paul jordan who work as a salvation army and more recently the the philadelphia housing authority had return to the stat

. >> the republican party will hold a so-called firehouse primary that includes all gop candidates. they wanted to hold a leg rar filing deadline. they went to court and lost and the primary is april 25th. voters will have to come to a canvas and choose the sheriff and two supervisor seats. >> police are asking for your skmp locking for a woman who may have abandoned a cat in loudoun county. they show a silver suv pulling into the parking lot. the woman gets out of the car with a cat in her hand. she is seen in the store with no cat. a short time later, they fountain 8-year-old tabby abandoned in the parking lot with a bag of food and a bowl and a pillow sham. >> more kitty. >> hopefully he gets a home soon. >> progress of an historic mission. they are making history. >> a consumer . >>> an historic space commission off to a good start. the spacecraft with a crew of three successfully docked at the space station. this will be the first ever year long stay. astronauts hep to better understand how the human body reacts and adapts to space. school kelly and two russian cosmonauts are o

. >> the republican party will hold a so-called firehouse primary that includes all prince william county candidates. they wanted to hold a regular primary and missed a filing deadline set by the state board of elections. they went to court and lost. the republican voters will have to come to a party candidates and two supervisor seats. >> i woman may have abandoned a cat. they show a silver suv pulling into the parking lot in sterling. it was wednesday afternoon. that woman right there gets out of the car with a cat in her hand and seen inside one of the stores without the cat. a short time later they found a tabby abandoned with a bag of food a plastic bowl and a pillow. >> i hope that cat finds a home. >> i hope so. >> from earth to outer space. the progress of a historic mission involving a u.s. astronaut and a russian cosmonaut. >> a consumer alert. check your >>> an historic space mission is off to a good start. they have docked at the international space station. this mission will be the first ever attempt for a year long stay at station. the purpose of this is to better understand

. >> coming up, people who live near a bay area firehouse outraged by a rebuilding project. >> feel like we have been walked over. >> the efforts to stop it from getting torn down and why firefighters say it is necessary. >> plus bay area health officials report the first cases of west nile. three birds were -- where three infected birds were found. these stories and much more coming up new at 6:00 p.m. >>> a high school senior came up with an unusual way to ask a girl to the prom. it ended up getting him suspended. he says he has no regrets. >> yes. >> reporter: sure, he could have asked her straight up. but that is been done before. he is a creative one. >> never thought deeply into it till like two weeks ago. >> reporter: thursday morning he decided to be that guy who road in on the horse and become the night in shining armor. >> nothing happens at this school so when somebody brought a horse here it was exciting. >> reporter: he called up his friend who had a ranch and asked him to borrow the horse. he had an idea to go on campus and ask his friend to prom. she said yes. but the scho

. >> customer appreciate day of all days especially so close to the firehouse.el very connected to the community and enjoy being i part of it we pitched in and helped out any way we could. >> i think it's great i think it's great. >> a tremendous act of kindness inspired by a crime that offended so many. by severity and social media and quick thinking customer was able to get a picture of the car the girls were driving in. >> with help of license plate police were able to track down the owner of get away car and find out it was her daughter involved. us with the star joy aired why the infamous social media post guess what the rest of the girls came forward. >> four others turned themselves in and wanted to talk about the crime and said it was a mistake. >> anything about this video they posted. >> they were talking about the video they did post. they saw themselves and they're embarrassed. its with a dare. >> as she mentioned from the binning liz hope doesn't want to press carriages again the girls that could look at misdemeanor larceny. she wants them to learn

honey hill fair house may be moved after a new firehouse built just few miles away. here's laura. >> the cost of fire protection is expensive. >> the fair chef here steven said it's plan that makes sense for his district and the neighboring community of lafayette. building one new station that would serve the north side of both cities. >> in the past the distribution of mutual and automatic aid between this east towns was 2 to 1. coming here twice as much as we were going there. now over the last couple years it has become much more even in the distribution. >> this is the station that would be moved necessary el in the hills in north for more than 50 years. while residents acknowledge station 43 doesn't get a lot of calls they certainly don't want it to good away. >> our main concern really is the increase in response time. north part of orinda already not well served by the fire district because response time very long to a lot of area and this would increase response time by 2 minutes. >> north lafayette has been without a fire station for three years. last gyro o

the city had to close firehouses and reduce staffing during the recession.a city audit shows because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city wins the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 new firefighters. >> it's essential, we're trying to get back to staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007/2008. currently we're 679. there's a number of areas in the city that we are in the aggregate struggling to get to. >> the goal is to grow our firefighter and our police force, sustainably and continue growing it. not simply taking money to hire and then losing the money a year or two later and watching the firefighters leave. >> san jose will be competing to get that federal money but the city has been successful in getting grant money the last two years. >>> a change at the 49ers museum in levi stadium drawing attention from fans. janan de la vega. >> reporter: a lot of fans think that the 49ers' dissatisfaction with harbaugh and his coaching is the reason for the change at the museum. so

fire broke out eventually causing three buildings to collapse. 250 firefighters from 50 different firehouses around the city responded to the scene there. >> we thought it was a bomb and then my manager actually thought the car ran if to the restaurant. >> and i saw the whole storefront it's on the street. >> new york city mayor bill de blasio says everyone has been accounted for after that explosion. >>> a rookie d.c. firefighter is facing charges for possession of unregistered firearm and ammunition. andre was arrested wednesday. police say an unregistered handgun along with ammunition were found in his apartment. he's the third d.c. firefighter to be arrested in three weeks. >>> a veteran who was nearly killed during a carjacking is thanking police, a tipster and news 4 for help finding the suspect. we broke the story back in november after he was shot and robbed. fbi agents arrested rakeem solomon yesterday. a video showed the potential sus suspect and a person remembered sighing the story, called police wednesday with information and that led to an arrest. >>> right now police are askin

large piles of trash were dumped in the back lot of the firehouse. >>> two teenagers are fighting for their lives after a fiery crash in great falls. they were in a car that veered off georgetown pike after the driver swerved to avoid a deer. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey spoke with a neighbor who says it's not the first time he's had to rush out to help. >> reporter: you can see the path cut by the honda civic as it came flying off georgetown pike coming to rest right here where it rolled over and then things got even worse when it burst into flames. it was around 12:30 this morning when john was awakened by the sound, a sound he's heard before. >> i heard a noise, a huge crash, i immediately looked out the window and saw a car upside down over there. >> reporter: he dress and raced outside, but by that time the car was on fire flames shooting up through the trees. the driver and three of the four passengers had escaped but one woman was trapped inside. fennell and the driver searched for a way to get her out. >> screaming in the car, he and i managed to reach in and gra

fire department has problems that go beyond the death of a man outside a firehouse and the fatal smoke incident on metro. >> i thuns there's a staff shortage. i understand we have vehicle problems. i understand that, you know we've had some ems challbassys challenges. >> reporter: he takes over from the interim chief who had been credited with restoring department morale. >> firefighters respected him. i would like to see him stay on in some role. it's a disappointment but, you know they all serve at the pleasure of the mayor. >> we're very thankful to chief jones, but chief jones will be moving on. we'll follow our normal separation procedures and he'll be on administrative leave. >> gregory dean starts on may 1st. until then a new interim chief will be in place. jim and erika, that means by the time he takes over there will have been four new chiefs in less than a year. >> doesn't speak well for the system itself. i'm concerned about this administrative leave thing she just said. what's up with that? chief jones wasn't even at the announcement today. who did he make so angry? >> a lo

for his long-time firehouse friends, it's a sudden void. >> he's everybody's friend. he's got this infectious smile. and he is just goofy and he is fun to be around. >> reporter: sources tell us the couple had a history of domestic problems. at the darby borough police station tonight we watch residents dropping off food for hudson's fellow officers, who are mourning a true community servant. >> he grew to love serving people. and that's subsequently how he ended up being a police officer. >> sources tell us hudson's girlfriend was hospitalized after questioning with an unrelated medical condition. he is expected to be arraigned at her hospital bedside tonight on previous domestic charges as the investigation into her boyfriend's killing continues. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> and now to our weather. it is not a bad night for walk in center city but some people may see showers and possibly even flurries tomorrow morning. nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen is here with what we will wake up to on your monday morning. sheena? >> yeah george. s

. >> reporter: some next to firehouses and others so rusted there's no choice but to close them. >> atsome point you have to do your job. >> jake corman helped pass a bill that raised more than $9 million to fix the state bridges. the state had to do what it could without help from washington. >> it was clear they weren't moving very fast and instead of waiting and allowing our infra infrastructure to crumble, we went out ahead of them. >> the state senator isn't alone alone, from the state secretary and we would love for the federal government to act to ed rendell. >> the main villain in this story is the federal government. >> pennsylvania's past and present leaders want washington to act. >> i think they are right that they've done their job and they need the federal government to do its job now. u.s. congressman mike fitzpatrick represents box county where the sellersville fire department has to drive six miles around the weight-restricted bridge to reach half the borough. i'm committed to finding the resources to invest in the infrastructure and this is the year to do it. the cong

last week the firehouse won. this week? drum roll. >> who won? >> gypsy soul won. interesting. >> shredded kind of meat. >> bacon in there. >> you get the spice on the back end. >> it's really good. every monday. they'll do another one all for the world fire police gales. next monday is vegetarian. >> meatballs on monday and now chili on tuesday. what a great job. >>> you got the better deal out of this. we have rain on the way. this morning it's dry but there are a few icy patches. look at the rain coming out of the gulf of mexico. trying to get up toward chicago here coming in toward cincinnati. in our neck of the woods it's into southwestern now. by later this morning probably 10, 11:00 when we'll see the rain move this from the southwest. get ready for a wet night and a wet start to your wednesday. a couple of the breaks in the clouds right now. i think it will abneat sunrise in the -- be a neat sunrise in the the next 40 minutes. not a lot of wind. it will turn to the southeast at 5 miles an hour or so as far as the icy areas, you see these temps 30 in frederi

the city had to close firehouses and cut staffing during the recession.shows that because of that san jose is not meeting its goal of responding to 90% of fire calls in eight minutes or less. if the city win the $3 million grant it could help pay for 14 million new firefighters [we're trying to get back to staffing. our peak staffing was 758 in 2007, 2008. currently we're 679. there's a number of ideals we're struggling to get to. >> we want to continue to grow our force, not lose the money a year or two later and watching them leave. >> san jose will be in competition to get the federal money but the city has been successful in receiving grant money in the last two years. >>> your time 5:34. a woman killed in the shootout with arizona police officer the weekends -- weekend has now been positively identified as one of the suspects in the murder of a penngrove woman. it's believed 37-year-old stephanie hill was one of three people involved in the killing of 84-year-old olga danelli last thursday. in fairfax last month, there was another crime, a theft. the

in addition vandals dumped large piles of trash in the back parking lot of the firehouse. >>> the head of the secret service tonight says there was no crash in connection to that alleged misconduct involving agents earlier this month at the white house. director joseph clancy told a senate committee today the vehicle involved was moving at just one or two miles an hour knocking over plastic barrel. clancy says the inspector general is looking into the allegations. the off-duty officers in the car had been drinking mep said the fact it took five days for him to learn of the allegations is unacceptable. >> if it is determined that any one of our employees concealed information about this alleged incident they will be held accountable. our submission too important for this to happen. it undermines my leadership and i won't stand for it. >> clancy says some of the surveillance has been dubbed over since the agency has a policy of not keeping the video for 72 hours. he says his staff is working with manufacturers to see if they can recover any lost footage. >>> tu's hearing came six months

hudson essentially grew up at the firehouse. he started at age 16. fire chief said he celebrated his 26th birthday last week. karen. >> thank you jenny. >>> this morning ntsb and faa are investigating a deadly plane crash in our area in chester county. faa say a piper plane took off from the brandywine airport sunday afternoon. it is a small plane but it sputtered after take off and then went into a nose dive crashing just 2 miles away near a retirement home at saunders lane and andrew drive if you know that area plane burst into flames. the pilot and passenger were both killed. people were stunned. >> i did hear a bang earlier when it happened and i looked out and saw a pickup truck and then i saw three people run into that yard. >> we have a lot of black smoke up in the eras we passed the retirement home there you just saw flames 20 feet up in the air. >> west goshen police say one of the victims was right from chester county. names have in the been released as they are notifying family members. >>> big fire at a popular bakery in north philadelphi

hudson essentially grew up the firehouse. he started volunteering at 16. fire chief celebrated his 26th birthday just last week. mike and alex. >> terrible. >> 6:40 on this monday morning. >>> we're waiting for officials to release the names of the pilot and passenger killed yesterday in chester county. faa says the piper pa 28 plane took off from the brandywine airport, and went in the nose dive crashing 2 miles from the runway near a retirement home at saunders lane and andrew drive-in west goshen. the plane burst into flames. residents were of course, shock. >> i did hear a bang earlier when it happened and i looked out and saw pickup truck and i saw you three people jump out and run into that yard. >> we have black smoke up in the eras he passed the retirement home there, he saw flames 20 feet up in the air. >> well, west goshen police tell us that one of the men on board was from chester county. the ntsb and faa are investigating the cause. >>> popular north philadelphia bakery was heavily damaged in a fire over the weekend. i bet you know this place.

firehouse to the most recent fatal smoke incident in a metro tunnel that exposed a lack of training and problems with radio communications. dean couldn't be specific about reforms he wants to bring about, but he did say one of the things he plans to bring to d.c. is a data-driven method of evaluating response times and ssmss. >> we took this approach in seattle, and we have seen these goals with our citizen ts and it became a national base we hope we can bring here. >> reporter: he says he's well aware of other problems in the department including the staffing shortage. >> i will be prioritizing our recruitment, training and retention of our highly qualified people. >> reporter: as for when the new fire chief might start implementing any changes, dean says it will be at least six months. >> i'm going to sit down and start listening and learning before i start making commit commitments. >> reporter: the new chief starts his job on may 1st. he will have to be confirmed by the d.c. council. he'll earn just over $197,000 a year just ten grand more than his predecessor. coming up at 6:00 you

fox is on quite a bit in the firehouses there. and i think i say things at times that get them on him a bit. and so i wanted to give a shoutout to the evanston illinois fire department. >> it's your favorite fire department. >> i'm proud of my son proud of them and thank you all for your service. >> so evanston fire department leave joe alone. anyway, thank you, joe. and thank you to your son in the fire department as well. straight ahead, the watch is over. he made the call. yes, president obama finally called prime minister netanyahu. what took so long? do you fly? this one is scary. could terrorists bring down your plane by hackinged into the in-flight entertainment system? on the record [announcer] if your dog can dream it purina pro plan can help him achieve it. ♪ epic classical♪ music stops ♪music resumes♪ music stops ♪music resumes♪ [announcer] purina pro plan's bioavailable formulas deliver optimal nutrient absorption. [owner] come on. [announcer] purina pro plan. nutrition that performs. now with the xfinity tv go app, yo

the alarm status says if it's juan alarm, sirred number of firehouses involve. two alarms.to a five-alarm fire so firefighters from all over this part of manhattan and beyond coming down to fight what is now an absolutely enormous fire in the east village. the picture we're seeing now makes it look -- did make it look at is things were calm there but i guarantee you there are many many firefighters on this at the moment. lex is a block away and was there when it happened. what did you hear and feel? >> we-i was talking to my roommate, and literally our whole apartment shook and we last our balance and i had to grab on to my dresser, and we thought it was some crazy thunder, we went to the window, which overlooks second avenue on her side of the apartment, and literally it looked like the basement of the building exploded. most of it was across the street. a couple people laying in the street. they were still alive, motiving, but didn't look good. and we did not realize it was a building collapse or fire until smoke started pouring out, and it's literally rising to the heave

you know, he knew from the firehouse he wants to help people. we deal with a lot of bad things in the fire service but his is really close to home. >> police confirm there was a woman in the home at the time of the shooting. she has not been identified. >>> ukee, with deadline set for tomorrow, the nuclear talks between iran, the us and five other countries are at critical moment. as michael bert reports, there is progress, but both sides are still trying to break the gap. >> with a deadline less than 48 hours away, to reach agreement on the framework of an iran nuclear deal, secretary of state john kerry, is in switzerland where leaders from iran, the us and five world powers, remain lost in tens negotiations. if we're going to get this done here over the next few hours, iran has got to take deep breath, make some tough decisions. >> world leaders want iran to agree to key provision that is would prevent the county from getting nuclear weapon for at least a decade. in return, iran is seeking immediate relief from crippling sanctions, also loomi