let's go back to harry hairston, harry?rter: i'm talking to someone with the atf, alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosive agencies. those federal officers have been on the scene all day. they confirmed they are still there at this time. here's the big thing they are looking for right now. as for that weapon to be recovered, once they have the weapon, atf will stay involved with this case, although this has happened in philadelphia. their concern is determined where that weapon came from. the or gin of that weapon to find out how it got into the individual's hand and that could be a situation they're looking at about small purchases where the individual may not have been able to purchase this weapon or their own, did someone purchase it for them. how many other people may have been involved in helping the individual to get this weapon. that will brings stiffer penalties to this individual under federal laws for the violation of firearms act so right now it's to find that weapon, track that weapon, trace that weapon, see how

back to you guys. >> harry hairston, thank you very much. many of you learned about today's campus scare through an alert through our nbc 10 news app. you can get these news alerts, as well, for big stories like this and weather alerts, too. download the news app right now for your smartphone or tablet. >>> right now at 5:00, police are investigating the discovery of a woman's body in hamilton township mercer county. it was found in the park off civil street after 9:00 this morning. an autopsy is being conducted to determine how the woman died, but police say it appears to be a homicide. the victim is believed to be about 40 years old. she has not been identified yet. >>> two people died this morning after a car plunged into a canal in montgomery county and crashed into the schuylkill canal. five people were in the car at the time of the crash. two of them died. we still don't know the extent of the injuries of the other three people in the car and detectives are still working to find out what led to the wreck. >>> a police chase comes to a

nbc 10's harry hairston live on the ground. >> harry, do we know how this officer's doing right now? >> reporter: the latest we have on the officer is he is in stable condition at presbyterian hospital with a broken foot, he's expected to be okay other than that. now they are not releasing much information about the officer, all we can tell you at this point is he is a veteran officer, they are waiting to make sure all of his family members have been notified. listen, as you said, this officer was chasing someone after they broke a window to a car. actually three car windows. you're looking at the video right now, it all started about 1:30 at 53rd and spruce. what we're being told is the police officer saw the man get out of his own vehicle, get over to the suv and smash three separate windows with a baseball bat. the officers started giving chase, his partner in a police car was giving a parallel chase, the two tangled and next thing you know the officer was hit by his own police car. here's lieutenant walker. >> plain-clothes officer along with the offender tried to run around the

the council will have 30 days to vote it up or down. . >> harry hairston, thank you. >>> the mysterious death of a 3-year-old boy continues to hang over a south new jersey town. >> brendan creato's body was found a few hours after his father called 911 to report him missing tuesday morning. cydney long is live in haddon township. where does the investigation stand right now? >> reporter: jacqueline and jim, i can tell you it is at a touch of a standstill, that's because right now haddon township police headquarters, as well as their parking lot, has been somewhat of a home base for county detectives as they come and go into the community to gather information here. we're told they are still doing so today, but we have not seen one detective, not here or at other locations at the center of this investigation. there is an eerie quiet in haddon township. it's now been more than 48 hours since a k-9 unit led police to 3-year-old brendan creato's body on the base of the cooper river, and unlike yesterday when detectives and crime scene investigators spent a second day in the woods, today we

harry hairston's here with what you need to know before you spend your money. >> reporter: the heating cooling maintenance men ed, chris, and al. we asked all three to check out this furnace but didn't tell them they were being recorded. and we didn't tell them we already had the company, the new jersey home owner uses already look at it first. marcus muller works for hutchison heating and cooling, the company charges $65 for a checkup. he went over the furnace to see if there were any problems. >> i'd say the furnace is in good working order. >> reporter: let's see what three companies think, first up, over the phone ed carr quoted us $115 for a checkup. ed is right, the furnace was built in 2012. after spending less than five minutes looking at it and not even turning it on, ed gives the heater a clean bill of health. he did say the outside needs a cleaning. >> has some -- doll it up. >> dirt is a biggest enemy. >> reporter: because he didn't have to do anything to the furnace, ed didn't charge us. >> i didn't do anything but tell us it doesn't need servicing. >> reporter: next, crt

harry hairston is here with the state's proposed plan. harry, what is that plan? >> here it is right here. this is the 120-page report released just this week. inside, tough recommendations to save the borough, but at least one colwyn official says it's too demanding and he doesn't want it. the state says this is the guy to save colwyn borough. >> our role is to try to get them back on track. >> steve and his team at consult solutions were hired by the pennsylvania department of community and economic development to come up with a plan after the colwyn council asked for the state's help. they spent months analyzing the borough. the report states colwyn's elected officials are incapable of running the borough in a responsible and consistent fashion. >> are you surprised they survived as long as they have? >> yes, but surviving -- survived partly by not being able to pay a lot of their bills. >> the biggest problems in colwyn were financial accountability and recordkeeping. >> basically every other government we've dealt with already has that and is doing that prope

. >> harry hairston will have more on how domestic violence cases are tracked and the problem this is causing. >>> as mayive fire forced local businesses to close their doors. now a year later new hope. we'll take you inside the south jersey farmers market where life is slowly getting back to normal and what it means for the future of the shopping landmark. >>> at 6:00, she's one of the shore's most historic attractions. lucy could be getting a makeover as long as she's willing to fight against elephants being in the circus. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >>> right now at 5:30 a push to happens. south jersey today. gloucester township police and the county prosecutor unveiled a new program call ed home involvd violence intervention strategies. >> there's a question now, who's keeping track of the violence? we sent the nbc 10 investigators to look into it. investigative reporter harry hairston is live at the digital operations center. >> we dug into the numbers to see how domestic abuse is tracked in the delaware valley. we found it isn't tracked that well. some of the most up-to-date number

nbc 10's harry hairston joins us live from west philadelphia with the story. first off, how is that officer right now? >> reporter: well, the officer's doing okay. i'm going to give you a bit more about the officer in just a moment, but i just want to share this with you, new information we just got in about the suspect. we have his name, we're going to hold that until he's formally charged, but he is 30 years old and from the bronx and an uber/lyft driver. back to the officer, he is in the hospital right now at the presbyterian hospital with a broken foot and fractured toes, as well, but this all happened about 1:30 this afternoon. take a look at this video, folks. we'll show you what the police say this individual did. he got out of his car this afternoon around 1:30 and officers saw him take out a baseball bat and break out three windows on this suv. i'm told a plain-clothes officer first saw this and gave chase, eventually on foot, then a marked vehicle got involved in a chase and it was a parallel chase and at some point the plain-clothes officer tackled

harry hairston joins us with the latest and the latest twists, harry? >> that's right. right now colwyn does not have a borough manager position. the council eliminated that position last spring in what some called the colwyn coup. a team hired by the state to fix colwyn's financial failures says the borough needs a manager. >> make a motion to do that. >> reporter: it was a night that came to be known as the colwyn coup. council member fred lesser made a motion to remove the borough's manager position. that government did away with the position of a borough manager. mistake or not? >> we do think it's a mistake. you do need someone, an administrative person, a borough manager, to run the operations. >> reporter: that's one of the big recommendations part of a report that details changes the team believes need to be made in colwyn if the borough is to survive. steven mullen is president of the company hired to help colwyn get back on track. >> we wanted to make sure the operations side of the government, our recommendations is the operations side be sort of outside of t

harry hairston served as the emcee tonight. >>> we don't have much in the way of rain on the radar. but we have a lot moreheading this way. the one thing we have around, the clouds still and we have increasing winds and cooler temperatures. but take a look at the rain heading our way. we have more to the south. we have more that will be developing as we go into the end of the week. right now, though, temperatures are dropping outside. mid-60s philadelphia. low 60s north and west. those winds are starting to pick up too. straight in from the north pulling that cooler air down. the winds are sustained now around 15 miles per hour for the area. you'll need a jacket and umbrella. a cooler and breezy day. by noon, still about the mid to low 60s. we could see a few showers around. you're definitely going to notice the changes tomorrow. now into friday and saturday, we have a first alert weather day as we end the week because we expect more heavy rain to move in and even stronger winds than what we'll see tomorrow. flooding is possible, especially along the shore. beach erosion and possibl

nbc's harry hairston served as emcee. he died sunday from a brain aneurism. he was elected as the local want chaer president of the naacp in 1996. he eventually served on the board of the national organization. mondesire was 65. >>> severe storms, hail and strong winds. the evening rush turns dangerous. coming up, how quickly we will try out and how cool temperatures will get. >> how this philadelphia musician was busted allegedly trying to meet up with a teenage boy. >> plus pennsylvania's budget battle now costing local people their jobs. where salaries are being slashed and pink slips handed out. >>> a philadelphia musician is charged with trying to engage in a sex act with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy. it turns out 69-year-old charles cohen was actually meeting an upper providence township police officer and he was arrested in the wegman's parking lot. he is a jazz musician that plays at local venues and he's involved in a number of sex crimes involving a child. >>> social service programs are running out of time as the budgets continue in har

news >>> nbc 10 investigators are looking at domestic violence numbers and coming up at 5:30 harry hairston will have more on how domestic violence cases are tracked and the problem this is causing. pennsylvania's budget battle on this 100th day without a budget. the school district of philadelphia is operating on borrowed money but it runs out at the end of this month. about the deadly home invasion last month in lower moreland township, montgomery county. police say the suspect, nadir abule-ali and smith are facing second-degree murder charges for allegedly killing 53-year-old kevin brown, the ex-girlfriend's father. >>> lehigh valley, an emergency doctor is charged with sexually abusing two children. dr. korapotti lives in bethlehem but practiced medicine at several lehigh valley hospitals, accused of assaulting a 5-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy from 2011 to last year. the doctor says he's innocent. >>> a man who helped foil a terror attack on a french train was stabbed overnight. spencer stone became involved in a dispute last night that led to a physical confrontation. stone is sai