museum of art and the river. 64 in philadelphia. parts of the poconos if you're watching from there, probably seeing rain now. most of us will see rain later in the day before things clear out. brittney is back in a few minutes. >>> in the crisis in the middle east. a palestinian negotiator said his side is less optimistic about the peace talks with israel. negotiations have been going on since early last week are aim at ending the conflict between israel and hamas in the gaza strip. a five day ceasefire is due to end tomorrow. thousands of israelis rallied yesterday to show support for peace with palestinians. israel began the offensive in gaza july 8th. more than 1,900 palestinians and 64 israel soldiers have been killed. yesterday a funeral was held for italian video journalist. several hundred mourners turned out for the service. he was killed in gaza on wednesday. he was 35 years old. >>> a cave rescue in the australian alps was caught on camera. this is video of the crew bringing the 27-year-old researcher to safety. he fell mo

cooler temperatures. 58 for the morning low in philadelphia. ld see upper 40s areas north and west. this will mostly be hitting around sunrise tomorrow. through the afternoon, our average high is 86 degrees. we'll be anywhere from 76 to 79 for the afternoon high. low humidity. unseasonably cool through the day. it's going to feel really nice outside. 78 for tomorrow. 82 as we go into saturday. sunny skies. sunday looks good, mid 80s. the humidity goes up. we'll see more clouds move in. we have a chance for thunderstorms into next week, though. mid 8 0s. the humidity stays around next week. enjoy tomorrow and enjoy the weekend. john? >> thank you, sheena. >>> an eagles offensive player says he can get open against anybody. we're going to hear from him and see if the patriots agree with that. >>> when will receiver riley cooper return? he's going to tell us, how about jeremy maclin? that's next. ♪ the world famous fries you love, plus a shake of three new flavors you add. introducing mcdonald's shakin' flavor fries. shake up something new to love

. >>> plus the philadelphia skyline is set to change this morning. the letters on top of one building are going to be removed, and it's affecting traffic and causing changes to several setpa bus routes. >>> and we take another look at the center city skyline from a different vantage point. we won't see the sun filled skies that we enjoyed yesterday. some areas might even see a stray shower or thunderstorm. >>> good morning everybody. welcome back to nbc 10 news today. i'm ted greenberg. about 7:01 on this sunday, august 17th. let's say good morning to brittney shipp in the first alert weather center. some areas already seeing showers. >> that's right. showers moving into the lehigh valley stretching into the poconos. here's a live look at cape may. we're not seeing rainfall, just clouds. difference from yesterday. a cooler start, more sunshine. now we'll see a cloudy more humid day with the pocket of rainfall moving into the rest of our area. right now we're seeing light rain through parts north of reading, light to moderate rainfall milford and stret

now, the philadelphia zoo has a new strategy. as anne-marie green reports, the zoo makes its zoology with showmanship. >> a 20th century attraction trying to keep the attention of 21st century crowd. they arrive, smart phones and tablets in hand, so what's better than high definition? how about high drama? >> so we're a big cat crossing, the newest part of our zoo trail system, zoo 360. >> with shrinking budgets, more competition for ooh end tapement dollars, zoo's around the country have been trying to make the experience more exciting. >> is this what happens to the crowd typically? >> this is what happens with the crowd. everybody's just fascinated, seeing tigers in this completely new way. >> zoo 360 is a series of overhead walkways at the philadelphia zoo, that allow annulose stroll out of their enclosures, high above other animals. like us. andy baker is the philadelphia zoo's coo. >> whole idea zoo 360, zoo wide trail system, really re-inventing the way animals experience the, so by connecting areas together, just creating

the philadelphia school district. ese payments, represent an early disbursement of funds and the district will normally receive throughout the school year. the goal of this axis to allow the doors to open on day one and avoid layoffs. financially this action will assist the district with their cash flow needs, in the short term, reduce amount that the district will have to bureau, and as a result save the district four to five million-dollar in borrowing costs. over the last several weeks there has been an increased focus on the bill in the legislature that would authorize a $2 a pack, cigarette tax for cigarettes sold in the city of philadelphia. we have authorized philadelphia to inact that. with the fund dedicated to the philadelphia schools. over the past year and a half we have work toward this outcome. a long with many others were extremely disappointed and i know representative adolph joins me in that that we did not make progress on it during legislative session that concluded with the budget. unfortunately the

the low 80s still. allentown, philadelphia, wilmington and trenton. cooler along the coast, it will be a muggy night tonight. check out the planner 7:00 o'clock temperatures in the upper 70s. mid 70s by 9:00 o'clock. that's when we could see a shower perhaps some spots and by 11:00 o'clock, mostly cloud dough in the low 70s and of course let's check out that forecast for tonight's game taney dragons up in williamspo williamsport. first pitch right now at 7:30. 74 degrees, skies mainly cloudy. still can't rule out a shower perhaps a thunderstorm. but i think they shall get that game in on the dry side. again, here center of the courtyard city hall, tonight' pep rally hosted by mayor nutter. check the out. watch party also at 7:30. come on down and hang out. more on the forecast coming up ladder on with kate. we'll zen it back to you in the studio. >> justin drabick, thanks very much. >>> in other news night moments after he was shot in the head philadelphia police officer steven korpalski got very welcomed and unexpected help. it came from father steven

public schools have enough money to start classes on time. >>> the mid-atlantic champs from philadelphia hit the big show today. the little league world series. >>> boy, it feels more like football weather out there this morning, though. 62 degrees in philadelphia, but the rest of the area seeing temperatures in the 50s right now. 40s if you're in the poconos. can you believe that? this is a live look at cape may. a cooler cape may this morning. you may need a jacket as you head out. good morning, this is nbc 10 news today. i'm chris cato. let's go to brittney shipp for an explanation of these cooler temps. >> the poconos like you mentioned, high 40s this morning. the rest of the areas in the 50s and 60s. grab a jacket as you're heading out the door. temperatures stay ibelow average. once again as we head into the afternoon, right now temperatures are at 49 in the poconos and 57 in allentown and temperatures in cherry hill at 58 degrees and only 57 in mt. holly. closer to the shore 55 degrees and 60s right along our delaware beaches and 62 degrees in delaware city. as we head into the af

schools but the governor came with cold cash, advancing the philadelphia school district some $265 million that he hopes will allow the schools to open on time and avoid layoffs. this is early dispersements of funds that philadelphia gets through the year. >> the department of education has certified the 1% sales tax that will result money for the school district. >> they are calling on the republican controlled general assembly to return to harrisburg to authorize the city to levy a $2 a pack cigarette tax that will generate $80 million for the schools, william hite says it's still not enough and it will be august 18th before they decide to open the schools on time. >> we still need $81 million, and it changes nothing, but adds significant information in the decision making process. >> state house democrats held a hearing at city hall to highlight the delay of the package and that cigarette tax. mayor nutter was front and center. >> without enactment of the cigarette tax, the city of philadelphia will not and does not have the necessary revenues to open o

the city of philadelphia is ready for the big game. a live look here at city hall where a prep rally and viewing rally will be held at 2:00 this afternoon just before the game starts. full coverage nb xrrx 10 tim furlong reporting live from williamsport. watch his reports right here on nb xr nbc 10 news. >>> overnight ferguson police department is expected to name the police officer who shot and killed an unarmed african-american teen some time today. that's what protestvers beers hn calling for all along. it was noisy last night, but not violent. this was last night's protest in ferguson over the shooting death of 18-year-old michael brown. much calmer than the last few nights. president obama called for calm yesterday and missouri's governor tapped a highway police captain from ferguson to handle security, to take over security. we'll have a live report from ferguson coming up at 4:45. >>> new this morning from ocean county, police have arrested a man who they say carved a swastika into his neighbor's lawn. this is 45-year-old scott

it happened in the section of philadelphia overnight. ews on the scene say the man got spooked for some reason. he managed to make it to safety on his own. >>> new developments in a story being watch aed across the country. tear gas and gunshots heard in ferguson, missouri as 200 protestors refused to leave the streets in the curfew. this was not a police involved shooting. seven people were also arrested overnight. demonstration s in ferguson hav been going on since saturday when a police officer shot and killed 18-year-old michael brown who was unarmed. stay with us as we follow developments from ferguson on air and online, nbc10.com. >>> this morning, governor jay nixon will talk about ferguson at 10:30 on nbc 10. >>> from our jury say shore bureau, police are searching for this man accused of choking and robbing a cab driver in ocean county the. lacy township police released this sketch of the suspect. they say the cab driver drove him from lakewood to lacy friday morning. then the man tried to pay with a $ $100 bill. the driver refus

the aqua cam. it's staying dry at least for philadelphia. ere are a few clouds and showers that popped up in sussex county. they've diminished, brief, quick showers, currently outside, not too bad. philly, pottstown, upper 60s for the shore. dover at 71 degrees at this hour. here is your day planner for the day today. we'll start off with the clouds this morning. 72 degrees at 9:00 a.m., fewer clouds and then partly sunny by noon, 81 degrees, high today will be 84, also under partly sunny skies. looks like this week we are expecting showers. we'll show you when that's going to happen coming up. let's get a quick traffic update from jillian mele. >> good morning, tedd. we have a lot of roads closed because of the shooting investigation in tacony. ditman between levick and hellerman, that will be completely blocked off. torresdale avenue, expect to see a lot of closures. torresdale is a big road in that area. frankfurt avenue is okay if you need to use that. this is a live look from one of our penndot cameras in the area. see how big that scene

now you see heavy rain up towards the philadelphia area. if we zoom out a bit, you can tell the motion is continuing to move up towards the philadelphia area, near trenton as well. we are basically going to continue with the blanketed rain with heavier rain int county, we have heavier rain up now and even lightning around millsboro. there is thunderstorm activity in southern delaware and farther to the south and west. heavy rain around washington. this will move up into the area as we go through evening. more showers in the forecast. some of us have the potential to see strong storms. we will take about what can expect that and a time line for when the rain will end. that's coming up. tfrjts, the demise of revel. two years ago, it opened as a shiny symbol of atlti hos. >> in a down economy, can you look for anything nicer or newer re inspiring openg up rightnow? tthis i >> it's horrible. it's terrifying. >> newest is a $2 billion shell. nbc 10 news explores what went wrong and what the future holds as three casinos prepare to shut their door

the representative he said was here if philadelphia and met with dr. te on monday and in that conversation the house majority leader told dr. hite that the tax bill is a priority and he would do everything he could to get that bill passed. that is what led, in part, to hite's decision to open schools on time. live at the school district's headquarters, christine maddela, nbc 10 news. >> students who sat in on the news conference began chanting. they walked out yelling no education, no life. they wanted to come to at announcement to show they care about the school district and want to fight for their right to a quality education. they called on law makers to fund the schools. >> count on nbc 10 for continuing coverage of the philadelphia school budget crisis. we are crunching the numbers and posting the latest developments on nbc10.com. >>> the feel h-good story of th day. the tape taney dragons won the first game. >> tim furlong is live in williamsport. you just spoke to the head coach? >> reporter: not the head coach of this team. we spoke with mone's

they are the first team ever from philadelphia to get this far. the team had batting practice yesterday. and while the kids swung their parents look on including the parents of star pitcher mone davis. >> with her playing sports, a lot of driving putting off a lot of everything, work, vacations. >> i want them to show everybody, you know, how great they are and perform well, and have fun and enjoy the experience. >> everyone says of course the first goal is to have fun but these kids, they also want to win, too. the dragons make their little league world series debut playing tennessee today at 3:00 p.m. and if you are trying to find somewhere to watch. hey, you can show your support by cheering on the dragons from philadelphia city hall later on today. a pep rally starts at 2:00. then broadcast on big screen in the city hall courtyard at 3:00. i know what i am ' doing today. >> look what i found under the desk, attain i t. >> and just your size. >> it is, and it is on my side of the desk, too, i'll share go taney indeed. >>> much more to cover here

we will rebound nicely into the aft nap. 85 for the high for philadelphia. rtly sunny but humidity levels stay low so don't worry, still pleasant and great looking beach day at the shore. lower 80s and the poconos mid 70s could be that shower around in the morning. coming up in the full forecast, we'll talk about the nice conditions for now. and when our next chance for showers return. that's coming up in few minutes. natasha? >> justin, thank. see you soon. an investigation is underway into a gruesome discover will he in the delaware river. fisherman found human remains floating in the road this morning. "eyewitness news" in southwest philadelphia. marine union removed those remains. right now the medical examiner is working to try to identify the victim. >> and search is on for a gunman who shot and killed a 27 year old man in carol park. "eyewitness news" her at 55th and lansdowne just before midnight. philadelphia police say the victim was shot in the throat. there's in word and a mow tough find are hype this shooting a septa police officer did suffer min

the vine. tracy? >>> we continue to follow breaking news from overnight. a philadelphialice officer lucky to be alive after he was shot in the line of duty in tacony. 14-year veteran of the force, officer stephen korpalski was grazed in the head by a bullet. he's going to be find. it happened as he and other officers responded to reports of an armed man. skyforce 10 is over torresdale and magee, where it happened. the suspect opened fire on the police, they returned fire, shooting and killing that suspect. live team coverage is straight ahead. >>> nbc 10 is on top of breaking news all morning. we were first on air with this around 2:00 a.m. philadelphia police officer stephen korpalski is in stable condition after being grazed in the head by a bullet. officers responding to a call in tacony when a suspect started shooting at them. they returned fire, killing the suspect. >>> i dug up some numbers on police-involved shooting in ia thisth involved shooting in the city this year, the first in which an officer was wounded, the second in which a suspect was killed. in 2013, t

she was last seen in the park in philadelphia. >> fly eagles fly, we have a preview of the eagles and bears contest tonight in philadelphia. >> let's go over to david murphy. >> reporter: we have cloud cover out to the west of us, temperatures are comfortable, 54 in allen unto. 66 in philadelphia. 60 in trenton. the upper 60s in sea isle city and elsewhere along the coast. 78 degrees by 9:00. 78 by noon, 84 at 3:00 p.m., 81 at 6:00 p.m. just a light breeze 6 to 1 miles per hour overnight. tonight will be comfortable up at musikfest we'll wind up with a 72-degree temperature at 8:30 as allen jackson takes the stage. opening acts before that, i could see the end of the concert slipping into the 60s, cool and comfortable, of course during the day at musikfest lots of sun. we have the weekend call including the shore and the poconos outlook coming up. >> reporter: we're starting with a problem in washington township, gloucester new jersey, we have delsea drive shut down between cross skis and barns borough road. there's debris still there and accident investigation on going. another morni

the philadelphia phillies are 2008 hoarse champions of baseball! presented by lexus. >> it was a bumpy ride for the birds. breaking down the positives and negatives from the eagles second preseason game. >>> and this is the team that has taken philadelphia by storm, the taney dragons continue their quest for a little league world series title. >>> hello and welcome to the lexus sports zone. i'm lesley van arsdale. we have a lot to talk about tonight but we're going to start with the philadelphia eagles who played their second preseason game friday night and just like any preseason match up there

there's a look at the philadelphia art museum where the made in america concert is happening. iladelphia, 74 degrees. 68% humidity. winds at 7 miles an hour. we are warmer than yesterday at this time. 72 in mount holly. low 70s in atlantic city. temperatures in stone harbor at 74 degrees. a mild evening in wilmington. the rest of tonight all this mild air we saw today will continue to shift to the north. warm air moving in even hot air sunday and monday lasting until tuesday. moist air is coming up from the south. that's going to contribute to the high humidity levels as we head into tomorrow. it will feel uncomfortable out. make sure you are drinking plenty of water. a closer look at the satellite radar. the clouds are hanging around. mostly cloudy skies tonight. same thing as we head into tomorrow. we are watching the energy moving through parts of kentucky and tennessee. the future weather shows we'll continue to see a lot of this moisture to the north and sliding over to the east moving closer as we move into sunday. showers in the early morning hours in allentown and aroun

the publisher of the "philadelphia record" apologized to the asian community and jimmy tayoun is is the former city councilman who represented the first district which includes chinatown. >> i wanted to choke him. >> reporter: that's the reaction from the publisher of the "philadelphia public record" when he saw this caption. racial slurs referring to asians were used if place of real names. jimmy tayoun followed the editor today because he did not follow proper procedures. >> you put question marks or xs where names are missing. the rest of us would be chastised for not catching it. >> it doesn't address the issue of making sure that people have the right sensitivity. >> reporter: attorney yu is the former head of the philadelphia human rights commission. she says the caption is disrespectful and the paper waited too long to release an online apology. the picture was taken last week at a chinatown restaurant at a political fund-raiser for city councilman mark squila. we spoke to the councilman on the phone since he's out of town. he told us he demanded tayoun make a personal apology an

also happening today, the delaware valley gets to cheer on the philadelphia's taney dragons, and the little league world series. now, there will be a pep rally and a watch party at philadelphia city hall tonight at 6:00. now, the team is resting up for today's big game after beating nashville four to nothing, in williamsport, on friday. mo'ne davis pitched a shut out, the first female player in little league world series history to do so. dragons will face texas tonight. >>> in the meantime, another group of young baseball players are already world series champs. this video taken yesterday after they won the 2014 cal ripken ten year old world series in winchester, virginia. they beat a team from southeast lexington, kentucky by a score of nine to one. congratulations to the marlton reds. >>> well, call it -- caught on camera, wild police chase have officers pursuing one of their own patrol cars, that's ahead. then supposed to spends months behind bars, but just days after sentencing, the california woman who flew as a stow-away is out of jail. why officials let her go after just three

more information on the timeline of philadelphia's pitch to the dnc. a and when they will make a decision which city will host will be on our website, nbc10.com. >>> pope francis says would he make a trip to philadelphia next year, he made the comments during a trip to south korea today where he gave his first speech in english. >> peace is not simply the absence of war, but justice. >> nbc news asked the pope if he will come to philadelphia and he said yes. and mentioned world family day, which will happen right here in philadelphialy next year. the archdiocese of philadelphia released a statement saying -- . the archdiocese of philadelphia released a statement saying -- >>> new at 4:00, the son of u.s. congressman fattah pleaded not guilty to 23 charges today. as nbc 10 first reported last week, a grand jury indicted fatah on charges including fraud and filing false tax returns. harry hairston just left the courtroom where fatah made his appearance. >> reporter: a short time ago, i caught up with chaka fattah, jr., as he left the federal courtroom, fl

>> i'm monica malpass on inside story a rescue plan for a just stall and delay for the philadelphia schools? let's get the inside story. >>> good morning and welcome to inside story, let's meet our insiders this week. nelson diaz, attorney and former judge. good morning, sir. jan ting, good morning. >> sharmaine matlock-turner, good morning. >> good morning. dr. hite said governor this is not helping me out here, i planned on that amount of money, it's not new money it's early money. on the one hand you might not have to do a delay early, but if you don't know you're going to have money for your staff in january, you have to lay them off in the middle of school year. what's the point. >> i keep being upset with how they play with the children of our school system. it's not new money, it's postponement, some people are calling it a lone, because you're getting it early and paying it back into the system. the governor is not using his authority to call them back. >> govenor corbett is in campaign mode education is his weakest issue, event -- he needs to make a gesture, a parent compares it to

>>> this was the scene tonight in pennypack park in northeast philadelphia. homicide detectives are searching for clues and interviewing people. they want to know why a female jogger was found dead this morning. was it an accident or a case of foul play? >>> the latest in the probe of the death ofw÷w connie mcclain-murray. her body was found in the park this morning. dann cuellar is live at police headquarters. dann, what is the latest here? >>reporter:a lot of new information tonight. they are working the case hard and heavy. they do believe this to be an apparent homicide and possible sexual assault. could it be the work of a serial rapist that remains on the loose? >> it happened near the crispin area in pennypack park. they questioned people that may have seen anything. they want to know about anyone that is known no frequent the area. >> we have young kids that get high. that is all the trash that you find there. >>reporter:the body of connie mcclain-murray was found at 6:00 by a woman walking her dog. she didn't have a cell phone. she had to stop a septa

a live look outside right now at the philadelphia skyline. e are going to see temperatures at 70 degrees in philly. humidity is at 87%, wind speeds out of the northeast at 6 miles per hour. throughout the rest of our region we can see it's mostly cloudy skies, not seeing a whole lot of rainfall, reading right city and then for philadelphia we're seeing a mix here, just with the radar, you can see that here to the lehigh valley. stretching into the poconos. we've already seen clearing throughout parts of philadelphia. the heaviest amounts of rainfall has pushed off heading towards new york. this entire system tracks to the northeast. this morning we're still dealing with a moderate to heavy rainfall coming down in allentown. if you live in that area and you're heading out the door, you'll find wet conditions. if you're closer to the çi-95 corridor, you should find wet roads, drier conditions. the lungering showers will start to clear up as we head into the rest of your morning commute time. as we push into the afternoon, we'll see more sunshin

the morning. mainly to this point south of philadelphia. e frontal boundary just to the south of us and that's allowing some of the clouds and showers around those areas to still stick around at this hour. it's not going to be around all day. as the morning moves on, we'll get more sunshine in here. outside right now, temperatures fairly comfortable, 66 for philadelphia, mt. holly, 60. we're in the low 70s for dover and atlantic city, like we said, around mid-60s at this hour. futurecast shows we'll be dry throughout the day today. a mix of sun and clouds. dry also for most of wednesday. it's not until thursday. we start to see some of the showers moving. notice up here at williamsport for the game on wednesday, they could get a chance of showers up there. we'll watch that fairly closely. thursday is when the showers will return. could see a chance of isolated thunderstorms along with that. it looks like we'll be looking at a pretty nice day ahead of us for the weekend. looks like showers thursday and friday like we said. it looks like this

he was previously arraigned the a philadelphia hospital. but prosecutors said that this return to delaware county required another arraignment. now he's charged with the july 31st of mercy hospital campus. he was there to see a caseworker when he allegedly was upset about signs at the hospital that prevent firearms. teresa hunt was shot and killed by plots. >>> now from the jersey shore bureau. a woman who was supposed to be caring for an elderly man in atlantic count stiy is now char with kill him. police say the two pawned the jewelry that they stole from the home. johnson was charged and leased. police are still looking for brown. >>> in the casino crisis in atlantic city, new jersey governor chris christie has made a move. he said he will lead a bipartisan summit september 8th to talk about the challenges of the city. nbc10 has learned that revel is still talking with potential bidders. revel told a bankrupt court judge that it is negotiating with bidders that it has not identified. >>> happening today, former nfl player aaron hernandez

the vigil begins at the art institute of philadelphia at 23rd and market. the crowd will walk through the river trail to hear the art museum for a moment of silence. >>> now to philadelphia's bid for the 2016 democratic national convention, city leaders say they're confident they put their best foot faushd orward in a tw pitch. we were there last night when the dnc site selection committee made the final stop on the trip. the mayor and former governor made a pitch. >> if i were to grade how we did, i would give us at every venue and every stop, every interview we did 100 out of 100. >> i think they leave, go back to their respective areas knowing that this is a city that clearly can put on a major national convention. >> the economic impact has the potential to be huge. 2016 democratic national convention could bring $345 million to the city and philadelphia is considered the front-runner of five cities that want to host the event. philadelphia's up against columbus, brooklyn, phoenix and birmingham. the selection committee will make the decision by the end

on the philadelphia turnpike. was just hours away from this home in mayfair after taking a trip across country. >> philadelphia police now say a 65 year old man found dead last week was beaten to death inside his own home. this is the having tim lee stanley. evidence reveals he was verbally beaten inside his house at mole and cherry streets. his body was found there on friday police found no signs of a forced and tree which leads them open to the possibility that stanley may have known his killer or allowed the killer into his home. >> everybody is just has been completely shocked. first of all somebody even died and now we know it was actually malicious attack. so that's terrifying. >> stanley was a member of a synagogue in spring garden. he's being remembered fondly there tonight. those had new him say he had a deep knowledge of jewish history and music. >> next at 11:00 o'clock, pole dancing on the boardwalk. it's raising more than a few eye brows tonight. up next, see the video of this new shore attraction tha

the game. we have pep rally in philadelphia at city hall. game be loud cast at the big screen, city hall courtyard, starts at 3:00. that's going to be packed i bet. >> i got my popcorn ready. game time 3:00. let's do this. another auto recall to tell but this morning, this time from ford, on the other side. >> also ahead, stores offer a lot of perks if you use their credit cards. but is it worth it? we'll take a look at which cars can ends up costing you even more down the road. >> and talk about getting caught red handed. police officer drivers by a car, and sees something suspicious hanging out of the trunk. see what the thief tried to get away with.h. when we come back. >> a lot of fans will be shaking it tonight, opening up the parking lot at noon, eight hours. >> luke i luke! have a great show. give us the buzz if you're up this early. tell us more. we'll be right back. good morning, family. >> ♪ >>> police individual joe from uncle county north carolina shows car dragging a safe stole friend a pharmacy. investigators say, the driver sma

>>> right now on nbc 10 news today, a part of the philadelphia skyline will disappear this morning. you can say good-bye to the pnb letters in center city. >>> a state imposed curfew couldn't stop unrest in ferguson, missouri overnight. officers fired at protestors who refused to obey. >>> looking at cam dem aquarium, our weather is coming to an end. >>> thanks for being with us. it is 5:30 a.m. on the this sunday, august 17th. wet weather is already moving in the area. first alert meteorologist brittney shipp is tracking that. good morning. >> showers you shapushing into poconos. here's a live look at the city skyline. we'll see clouds increasing on this mostly cloudy start on this sunday. you can see where the rain is moving in. mainly combined to poconos. we're going to see more shower activity moving into the lehigh valley area. temperatures range 84-87 degrees. after the a.m. showers we see more clearing. i'll go over the exact details and break down your day hour by hour coming up. >>> 5:31 and happening now. a part of the philadelphia skyline is changing as crews get ready to

good news is in one was injured. >>> new details tonight in the philadelphia, school budget crisis, a pennsylvania law maker is calling for an investigation into the conditions of the schools. state senator vincent hughes release aid report on the conditions today. he said funding cuts in the past academic year has had a negative impact on the quality have of education in the district. senator hughes is urging his colleagues to pass the cigarette tax to help fund the schools. >> this is clearly unacceptable, cigarette tax must be done, it must be donnas soon as we come back to harrisburg. it must be done in a context that we prepare ourselves to do much more for the funding of public education for low income school district like philadelphia. >> senator hughes say parents upset over quality of education in the district should file a complaint with the pennsylvania department have of education. >> some members of the philadelphia federation of teachers stopped by the district headquarters today to express concerns about the upcoming school year. they say additional budget cuts means th

along the shore, mid-50s. around philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs tomorrow morning, the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. locally, we are dry. we have some clouds passing through. if you look way off to our west, we have two weather systems we're watching. one around missouri, up near canada and both of these features will come together. and that's what will give us our chance for rain on sunday. future weather, we stay dry as we go into saturday. going to be a nice day all the way through the afternoon. then into sunday, you notice more clouds starting to move in early in the day. we could start off with a few early showers. later in the day, we actually start to clear out from north to south. so we'll see some improvements as we go through the day on sunday after the clouds and the rain. your shorecast for saturday, 81 and sunny. sunday, chance for showers. in the poconos, start off nice. sunday the chance of showers. mostly clear and cool. tomorrow, sunny and nice. we're starting off the weekend really good. then on sunday

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. >>> and, a big change is coming to the philadelphia skyline. the iconic letters, are being removed from a center city building, this morning. >>> well, good morning, everyone, today is sunday, august 17th, i'm elizabeth hur, and the time right now, 8:00 here in center city philadelphia. let's head over to meteorologist, carol erickson in the eyewitness weather center. good morning to you. >> good morning to you, liz. a lot of even numbers out there. 8:00, 07 degrees, and we're going to eight a. so there go the even numbers. we are looking at some pretty nice weather out there, as we move on through the rest of the day, not stellar, but still fairly nice moving through the rest of the afternoon, we do start with some clouds, however, center city philadelphia, notice that, billy penn, he's keeping a watchful ion what will be the changes to the pnb bank sign, as we move through the morning, we head out now to the allentown, or rather the reading area. notice, that the roads, if you look far enough into the distance, you'll and able to see couple ev

in the 90s in philadelphia. e showers during the late afternoon and evening hours will cool things down tomorrow evening. and then as we head into the weekend, there's a chance we'll see some showers back into the area. no showers today. nice and warm. 88 degrees. 90 for the first time in a month in philadelphia. sunny and hot with late day showers possible. nice weather. much more comfortable and less humid conditions thursday and friday. a warmup for the weekend. upper 80s saturday. back to the 90-degree mark on sunday and monday. >>> several traffic problems within the past hour. some cleared but now a new accident on 95. >> let's get an update about where that is with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter jillian mele. >> we can't get it right today so many accidents. one happens and one clears. this accident just happened. 95 northbound approaching the commodore barry bridge. drivers are having to merge into two lanes on 95 northbound. the accident on 95 southbound approaching route 320 cleared in the last few

we haven't resolved the problems from the city of philadelphia from the school district of philadelphia that got us into this situation. and let's be -- let's be totally accurate, we've been looking at a situation like this for decades when it comes to funding. 55% of the funding comes from the state of pennsylvania. >> reporter: governor corbett went on to tell me he is calling on superintendant hite to open philadelphia public schools on time. tomorrow, we will find out if the superintendent does just that his announcement is scheduled for 10 a.m. live, christine maddela, nbc 10 news. >> thanks, christine. >>> today, i asked philadelphia city council president, daryll clark, about the fate of the next academic year for city schools. while he doesn't know what dr. hite will do tomorrow, he says any school day missed is a problem. >> don't open the schools, it will obviously create a lot of problems for the parents and obviously, the personnel and the signal will send to the stability of our school district will not be the type of signal that we like to send. >> again, superintendant hi

. >>> now to the philadelphia school budget crisis. later this morning we should learn if lack of funding would delay the start of the school year. the superintendent will give a budget update later this morning. ka katy zachry is live at school district headquarters with the latest. >> we'll learn if teachers or other personnel will be laid off or if the school year will operate on a shortened time table. all options on the table according to district leaders because they're operating with an $81 million budget shortfall. the issue here, we're talking about it for weeks now is the cigarette tax. a 2 there per pack tax that would generate enough money to fill the current budget gap. lawmakers in harrisburg still need to vote to approve it and that vote is not scheduled until after schools are slated to open september 8th. governor corbet says he rejects the tax and this situation is because of his failed leadership. he says it is years in the making and needs to be resolved locally. >> we have been looking at a situation like this for y

it turns out that there is money on the way for the philadelphia school district. and despite the $265 million advance from governor corbett, the crisis looms large. vernon odom is live with more on the big announcement. >> reporter: it's always a very complicated story this time of year. but there is still loose ends to be tied up in the days ahead before the opening of philadelphia public schools next month. >> as usual when the governor comes to town, there were protests outside of his philadelphia office for funding for schools. he is advancing the school district $265 million that will allow schools to open on time in september. this is not new funding but early dispersement of funds that philadelphia would get through the year. >> while it helps to open the doors on time, revenue from a cigarette tax will provide funding that will last all year long. >> they are calling on the republican controlled general assembly to go to harrisburg and approve a cigarette tax that will generate more than $80 million for the schools. superintendant william hite says it's not

the philadelphia should be proud. >> reporter: history now in the books.he first urban philadelphia team to make it to williamsport and its star mo'ne davis showing her appreciation after being the first girl to pitch a shut out in the little league world series and for that we still beef in dragons. >> congratulations, keep up the good work. >> it was wonderful. it just made me cry. >> reporter: and is what a parade without a rally, right a lot of pride on displays here today, beasley. >> there was. interviewing these kids, they are at the 13 years oldy felt like i was interviewing, you know, some of the phillies, but better. the parade ended at fdr park. fans formed another caravan to the podium. >> our young people with support from adults can do anything that they want to do and that is what is all about, but a long day for 13 years olds and dragons say it was hot as dragon's breath. >> it was a nice parade. it got kind of hot at the end. >> when i was on the float i was really exhausted. i felt like i was almost going to pass out. >> reporter: players

>>> the philadelphia school system remains in jeopardy. we're expected to find out today what kind of cuts will need to be made to open school this fall. plus, the call to find out where all the money for the schools go. and sue serio tracking some thursday thunderstorms. so do we need an umbrella? >> eventually is the one word answer to that. and we may not just need it today. some changes to our forecast coming up from the weather authority. >> all right, sue, thank you. and a disappointing lost for the taney dragons, but don't count them out just yet. they've got one more chance to stay alive in the little league world series, and we know they k good day everyone, it is thursday, august 21st, 2014. disappointing lost as we mentioned yesterday, sue was just saying, she stayed up to watch the entire dream. i don't know how you are feeling about it. >> sad for them. >> i glow and they put up good fight. as we said yesterday at this time, we knew it was a tough team, that they were facing from las vegas, and they proof to be right. they have

that's the question philadelphia police are working to get answered tonight. the woman's body was found this morning. she was last seen just last night. good evening, i'm dawn timmeney in tonight for iain page. >> i'm lucy nolan. let's straight to dave schratwieser live at police headquarters tonight. dave? >> reporter: police say the victim went out for a jog monday night and never came home. her husband and daughter searched for her for several hours. couldn't find her, and then filed a missing person's report. it was just after 6:00 a.m. tuesday when a passenger by walking his dog spotted the body of a 4684 old woman in pennypack park. near the crispin gardens athletic fields just off holme avenue near convent. >> she was pronounced on the scene. right now we're calling it a suspicious death. we're waiting for the medical examiner's office do an autopsy. >> reporter: homicide detectives dispatched to the scene inside the park. police say the woman went outer for a jog or a walk monday night and didn't return to her home on tolbert street off the back of the

last night at the watch party in center city philadelphia. all eyes watching at the courthouse in city hall. mayor nutter hosted the party. the crowd was were down but not out. take it from the drand mother mo'ne davis. >> i believe she's going to win. >> go mo'ne. >> how sweet is that. we're all behind mo'ne davis. another watch party tonight. we're waiting for details and keep you posted on that. live in the digital operation center, tracy davidson, nbc10 news. >> the mother was there, her work schedule prevented her from going to williams but she didn't miss one second of the action. nbc10's matt delucia has the wake-up call for us in williamsport. we'll go there live to check in with matt in about 30 minutes. stay with us for that. >> you to the unrest in ferguson, missouri, protesters once again hit the streets there but in smaller numbers and there was no violence. thunderstorms in that area did have a and in keeping the crowds down. police say things were relatively quiet. they did arrest six people but that was way down from the night

for tonight, partly cloudy, 66 the low in philadelphia. 59 north and west. tomorrow mostly sunny, warm day. highs in the mid-80s. not too bad on the humidity side. there are the showers and storms. thursday, thursday night could affect the eagles game. kind of rainy and cool on friday. the cool weather with the east wind continues saturday. and it's going to be only a slow warm-up later in the weekend. >>> philadelphia's pride. our taney dragons getting ready to take on novato. a win tomorrow night will put them in the world series title game come saturday. >>> and take a look at this. it does not get much bigger than this for any athlete. check this out. taney star pitcher mo'ne davis right there on the cover of next week's "sports illustrated." that is amazing. and here is comcast sport net' john clark. what an honor. >> she is a great cover girl. mo'ne has become a household name not just in philly, but across the country. we're going to hear from mo'ne on being the "sports illustrated" cover girl that is coming up next in sports. >>> xfinity sports desk,

the forecast. center city philadelphia net is the clouds this morning.t is in the necessarily what you need to see on a holiday weekend but it is what we have and we are looking at just a little bit brighter weather in atlantic city. the last place today that we will see any of these showers and storms a lot of the day at the beach will be fine and we will be dry but still an isolated shower or thunderstorm, even earlier then this evening cannot be totally ruled out. the first place we are likely to find any shower or thunderstorm would be up through reading area, allentown, through the the poconos, and 78 degrees right now, we have have these clouds in place and you won't be finding any of these showers until later on. notice that we are, right now, dry in our area completely, but notice that there are showers by williamsport and this is a line of some showers that will be moving through and we will be watching for those later on this afternoon. temperatures in the 70's and getting in the middle 70's right now. already 77 degrees down in wildwood. humid

the 80-degree mark. inland, right now it's 69 in philadelphia. own a degree in the last hour. 50s for pottstown and allentown. philadelphia, upper 80s today. at 7:00, sunshine. 68 degrees. 73 at 9:00. and then 83 by lunchtime. it will go higher this afternoon. i'll show you how warm it will be in your neighborhood when i

just yesterday the philadelphia fire department released their findings on the case. after consulting with the fire marshal, the cause is ruled as undetermined because while they know where the fire started, any and all evidence of what started it was destroyed by the inferno. and another live look in southwest philadelphia where that service will begin shortly. this tragedy, of course, touched people beyond the 6500 block of gesner and this funeral is open to the public. there's even a police presence out here as these loved ones prepare to say good-bye. live in southwest philadelphia this morning, i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> people in philadelphia came together to remember a murdered woman whose body was found stuffed in a duffel bag and left on the sidewalk. a crowd of people walked in memory of laura araujo last night. friends, family and community members marched from the art institute where laura was a recent graduate to the art museum. there they held a candlelight vigil for the 23 year old. >> she was just so wonderful and we want to have her life celeb