george spencer is live in the breaking news center. a sigh of relief at least temporari temporarily. >> it really is. the first five weeks of this year saw huge gains for savers. people who are looking towards retirement or planning to send a kid to college, the recent drops erased all of those gains. that is until this afternoon. today's late afternoon closing bell on wall street was a sound of relief for investors for the first time since friday. the dow notching gains of more than 2%. the s&p up nearly 2% after a huge drop last week and the largest point drop for the dow yesterday. financial adviser rob wilson says painful pullback has been a long time coming. >> you're ripe for a pullback when you have seen the market be so strong. the markets have more than doubled since the financial crisis. >> reporter: he sees concerns rattling nerves after months of markets marching higher and high er. there's worry about political drama in washington surrounding the budget and debt ceiling. interest rates have also been ticking higher. and th

george: and good morning, i'm george spencer for "nbc10@issue." today, we begin with a call to lend a hand, a push for people in our area with big hearts who are willing to lend a hand to children and teens is taking on new urgency. right now, the city has more than 5,000 children in foster care, but the network of foster parents needs backup. i recently talked to advocates who are casting a wide net for new support. kimberly ali: hi, i'm good, how are you doing? george: for kimberly ali, these office hallways are the frontlines of her department's newest battle, the battle to recruit a new generation of foster parents. kimberly: we just need the help. we need the help, our young people need the help. george: ali's team is responsible for every step in the foster care process for 5,000 plus philly kids. the work has changed dramatically in recent years. after the child sex abuse case of jerry sandusky, state laws were tightened and the number of calls to ali's child abuse hotline sky rocketed. kimberly: we used to have about 21,000 calls to our ho

. >> investigative reporter george spencer found charges intended to shield immigrants from domestic violence may be having unintended consequences. >> at home, art is still adjusting to life on his own. photos document his years in costa rica and the woman he met there, a woman he would marry in 2015 after returning to the united states. >> i flat out missed her and i loved her and i finally said you know what? i'm ready now. >> his marriage wasn't even one year old when he returned home from a business trip to find the wife he sponsored into the country moved out. >> she said i've left you because you were abusive and i felt my life was in dangendange those exact words, and i was flabb ebergasted flabbergasted. >> he said there was never any physical or emotional abuse and we could find no court or police recorders to indicate otherwise. he believes the marriage was a sham and his non-citizen wife is claiming abuse to be divorced and stay in the united states. >> i am a victim of fraud. >> we tracked down other american spouses with a similar claim. this high-ranking military offic

live in the breaking news center, i'm george spencer, nbc 10 news. >>> major construction project on the northeast extension is set to begin this month. it will cover a -mile stretch of the turnpike between exit 31 and exit 44. crews will be building sound barriers, retention walls and storm water basins. the work includes replacing four main line bridges. the project is is expected to be. completed by the end of 2020. >>> turning now to your weather. we have issued a first alert for tomorrow morning. a weather system is moving into our region that could bring snow, sleet and freezing rain. what you get all depends on where you live. location, location, location. a live look at allentown. we're tracking the chances of a morning snowfall. >> meteorologist tammie souza is joining us with the forecast. it's going to be a messy morning for a lot of folks. that's why we do neighborhoods. let's take a look outside. this is your. temperature trend for tonight. today we made it to the 30s. still felt chilly. we're starting to clear the clouds out. look where the temperatures are going to hea

george spencer from love park.ve in sky force 10. >> we have been giving you a's eye view from the beginning to the end in the aftermath. . let's give you a look at 30th street been one of the trouble if. you will, if you want to call it thatf the long lines of people leaving the parade and trying to get back home. they have no major issues today. the market frank andet lines were running free day. saying travel was heavy in the morning but steady in the afternoon. then reejgional trains started septa hadet subway stop for a short while because peoplen couldn't reach therm. did hav big areas where people were crowd spots there,along route it madest the but as we start to pan left here and give you anothvely you can see that it is a bit of a distance about a mile or so away from the art museum. these guys had to walk quite a bit to get back to their spot there. to get on the train back home. what we're seeing right now, this is the clean up. so just before 6:00 right now, you see a lot of trash leftover there in fro

george spencer is breaking down what all this means for you. he's joining us live from the breaking news center. >> retirement accounts and 401(k)s have gone up and down just in the past few hours. >> it has been an extremely volatile day. for months the market seemed to be going only up. so much that many people got pretty used to seeing their retirement accounts seeming to grow only larger. the past couple days have been a real wakeup call. the market growth finally screeched to a halt. the dow dropped 666 points and then yesterday a sell off for the record books, down another nearly 1200 points. nearly 5% of the total value. the nose dive erased all the gains so far this year. >> my gut reaction of what we have seen over the past couple days being a a long-time investor is you have to be ready for fluctuations like this in the market. >> reporter: this financial adviser says he's got b many calls from concerned clients. and there appear to be a few factors rattling serveeing nerves. political and budget uncertainty out of washington, d.c. fo

george spencer talked to advocates who are casting a wide net for new foster parents. >> hi, how are you doing? >> reporter: for kimberly these hallways are the front lines of the department's newest battle, the battle to recruit a new generation of foster parents. >> we just need the help. we need the help. our young people need the help. >> reporter: her team is responsible for every step in the foster care process for 5,000 plus philly kids. the work has changed dramatically in recent years and after the child sex abuse case of jerry sandusky state laws were tightened and the number of calls to the child abuse hot line skyrocketed. >> we used to have about 21,000 calls to our hot line now we're up to 34,000. >> not all end up with a child in foster care. when they do, more than half of kids are placed with a relative and older youth like teenagers need homes too. most children end p reunifying about biological families but each year 600 are formally adomted by a new family. she says her department worked hard to keep up, placing abused and neglected kids in foster care only when a

. >>> coming up at 6:00 -- nbc 10 george spencer speaks with a nurse who was slapped with a surprisehe error that's leaving her in medical debt could happen to anyone. >>> they are all the rage in offices these days. >> you may want to rethink any plans to get one of those standing desks. what doctors have discovered, next. >>> and so long papa john's. the nfl has a new pizza sponsor. details on the deal, next. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> pizza hut is now the nfl's official pizza sponsor. the announcement comes a day after papa john's and the nfl agreed to end the sponsorship. papa john's founder and former ceo was critical of the league's handling of players taking a knee during the national anthem. >>> 1 in 14 women continue to light up while pregnant. that's according to federal health officials who add that rates vary from state to state. west virginia has the highest number of pregnant smokers. california the lowest. doctors warn any amount of smoking while pregnant is a risk to the baby. >>> if you want to stave off alzheimer's, try aerobic exercise. new research finds it may h

george spencer is live in love where you were?orter: my go at this nice long look at their champions treet andjfkboulevard. and watching here in love we found some of the eagles super faithful who have made their love fheirds perm asurned ofth of reached its peak. perhaps one of the most iconic of philly vantage points love park. >> the ti dilly dilly in the >> youe this. >> no you don't. >> reporter: today we found then there are super fans. johncoatesville. tattooed on his arm. >> this makes your love of the eagles very permanent. >> of to the eagles logo had since 2005. >> i h whole the of their own to remem and h it' eagles won for the super bowl. ephis 10 o-year-old made his own out of card d board. to >> it was a little too much people >> reporter: so jacob, we're showing it to them for you. arts and crafts for the eagles. everyone here definitely feeling the eagles love today. we have complete coverage wit highlights00. stit ”oh! there's one. manatees in novelty ts? surprising. what's “come at me bro?” nd. what's not surpri

. >> george spencer. >>> also on nbc 10 news at 11:00, be there for a sort of reunion decades in the making. a woman wrote to nbc 10 looking for information on the mother she never knew. her mother died just days after doing an interview with nbc 10. our lauren mayk is bringing them together in a virtual way for a very emotional story. >> how much did you wonder about her growing up? >> every day of my life. >> sharday yates is about to see her mother for the first time in video we found in the nbc 10 archives. >> i love my baby. when i was pregnant, my baby was my second chance to start over. >> that's sharday in her mother's arms. she was 5 months old then. her mother was about the age sharday is now when she'll see her mother for the first time. >> oh, my god. >> the mother she never knew tonight on nbc 10 news at 11:00. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> we've had some great weather over the last couple of days, but we're ending the week with a pretty big ocean storm here. the flerirst alert for the enti area. 5:00 a.m. friday to saturday morning. it's got multiple featu

. >>> coming up at 6:00, george spencer brings a series, nbc10 erasing medical debt and shows you how even a small amount of medical debt can smash your hopes of living the american dream. >>> to your first alert weather, after the sunday soaker we're finally drying out today. >> the gray skies lingered a bit after the rain stopped. a live look at the scene in allentown and the ppl area, near the stadium, somewhere in that vicinity. glenn "hurricane" schwartz is tracking the conditions in your most accurate weather forecast. >> look at that. it's been a while. this is in easton. the whole area is not looking just like this but this is a great example of the improvement we've seen since the weekend. in easton, in the lehigh valley, the area with the most sunshine today. on the other hand, toward the other end of our area, it's still pretty cloudy even though it's not raining anymore. you can see on the satellite, drier air toward the northern area, to the south, it is really clear, all the way back to the rockies once we get past this cloud cover over part of the area now. that will gu

. >> coming up george spencer continues our series nbc 10 responds erasing medical debt with how evenedical debt can smash your hopes of living the american dream. >>> new this morning, a life threatening health scare for a popular movie director. kevin smith tweeted he had just suffered a massive heart attack. he said the doctor who sieaved s life said his coronary artery was 100% blocked. >>> i'm meteorologist bill henley. six minutes before 7:00, and we're still looking at clouds over ocean city, new jersey a. that's a live view. the fog we had first thing at the shore and in easton has disappeared, but you can see the clouds that are still overhead. the clouds in philadelphia starting to break for a bit of sunshine. look at those winds. that's a shift in the wind from what we had over the weekend. no longer seeing east or northeasterly winds. they're out of the northwest today. so that's drying air that's coming, and going to allow the clouds to break for some sunshine. we'll see more as the day goes on. all the temperatures are pretty much in the same territory, which is mild for

. >>> coming up at 6:00, george spencer explains the steps you can take to navigate medical bills if you don't have the means to pay them and how you may be able to. stop that debt from destroying your credit. >>> no one likes us has become philadelphia's battle cry, but we're betting eagles fans will like this. >> the super bowl. speech has unspired a new brew. find out how you can get your hands on it and who you'll be helping while you raise a glass. >>> and it seems the tooth ferry isn't as generous as e she used to be. how much she's leaving under pillows now. >>> delaware residents are just saying no when it comes to e-cigarettes. the study finds delaware has the lowest rate of e-cigarette use in the united states. researchers examined tobacco laws across the country and found states with the strongest policies against fak use have the fewest spoke smokers. oklahoma has the highest vap rates. >>> it seems the tooth fairy is is tightening the pursestrings. according to a new survey, the average price for a tooth is down to $4.13. that's an 11% drop from a year before. overall th

. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, nbc 10 george spencer explains how unpaid bills are shopped around from one collection's agency to another. we'll hear from a company working to help people avoid the pitfalls that lead to fell debt the. >>> citi group says it will refund hundreds of millions of dollars to credit card customers after admitting it overcharged them for interest. citi apologize and promised to pay back nearly holders. the average rhee fund will be $190. the bank said it failed to reduce annual interest rate charges for cardholder in good standing over a five-year period. those customers had no way to know if they werlg able for the cuts. citi said it will now notify card holders with a check in the mail. >>> happening today, jackie robinson's original signed baseball contract will go up for auction in new york to celebrate black history month. take a look. these are the historic contracts. robinson inked with a minor league team back in 1945 and then the brooklyn dodgers two years later. historians found the documents in a safe dee deposit box in brooklyn a few years back. e

. >>> tonight at 6:00, george spencer speaks with a nurse who was slapped with a surprise medical billerror that's leaving her in medical debt could happen to anyone. >>> you can call them the royal fab four of britain. little bit of lighter news now. today the duke and duchess of cambridge along the prince harry and megan markle make their first public appearance. they took the stage in london on he behalf of the new forum. it showcases the program set up by the foundation which was established by harry, his older brother william and william's wife kate to support their chosen charities. >>> three astronauts are back on forth after a 5.5 month mission on the international space station. the two americans and one russia landed this morning. the temperature was below freezing so crews quickly wrapped the men in thick blankets. niem space was highlighted by robotic experience, school teacher pep talks and a greeting from pope francis. >>> coming up, opening your home and your heart to a child who needs guidance and love. you're about to meet a man who's proof that families come in all sh

george: and good morning, i'm george spencer for "nbc10@issue."a hand, a push for people in our area with big hearts who are willing

t.j., we have blue from amy, green from robin and george and yellow from spencer. >> okay.ar color over the years. now, what we'll do is take note. we'll take note of your answers on monday and come back and see who did best. >> we'll crown a winner. >> thank you, t.j. we will tay in the super bowl spirit because jimmy kimmel got players together for an nfl edition of mean tweets. >> i never liked rashad jennings. he don't have good vision as a running back and he slow. because you sound like a kid, i'm going to be polite and encourage you. stay in school. >> boo, gerald mccoy is lazy. as you spell mccoy m-c-o-y. but you're the lazy one go peyton manning is the only nfl player that looks like the mascot of the team for which he play, #horseface. perfect. >> that is so mean. [ applause ] >> i love how they're good sports if stay in school. >> you can see more of jimmy kimmel's mean tweets tonight at 10:35 eastern right here on abc. and some keys. anybody lose any keys? >> we are now doing a live lost and found. >> how you ever lost these, well, tory johnson is here to help.

spencer. >> thank you, robin roberts. good morning, george and you guys and you, of course.me's up initiative started by that group of celebrity women including oprah, reese witherspoon, well, in just over one month, guys, they have now raised over $20 million in donations, give it up. thank you to everybody who has made a donation. all of that money going to a legal defense fund aiding victims of sexual harassment and workplace misconduct. the announcement made during the 2018 makers conference during a time's up panel that featured natalie portman, ava duvernay and others involved and here's a little sound from natalie portman. >> how empowering it is to be in a room to be on the same team, to say we refuse to be pitted against each other, there's not only one spot. we're going to make room for all of us. >> women helping women. and, by the way -- [ applause ] can't we all just get along? by the way already a thousand people have actually sought legal help from the fund which is open to any of you who need help seeking justice. and that is great news. >> it is. >>> also in