prewitt has served as the head of thomas edison since 1982. he plans to step down at the end of the year. >>> nbc10, the official station of the philadelphia eagles. >> you're looking at how some of the eagles spent the day yesterday. digging in the dirt with kids in germantown. the players helped plant trees and flowers at dignity house. a nonprofit that helps homeless families. the eagles presented the organization with a $5,000 grant. nbc10 is your official eagles station. join us for exclusive coverage of the home opener against the giants sunday. it starts at 9:30 a.m. with game day kickoff. >>> and for the fifth straight year, septa will give you a free ride to the link for the eagles' home opener. no charges to ride the broad street line to and from the game sunday from 9:00 to 9:00. that includes all fares or transfers. septa will run extra sports express trains on sunday. >>> fierce fashions hit the catwalk in center city. 16 local designers of the philadelphia fashion incubator showed off their new fall collections last night at the

. >>> thomas edison state university renames their building after george a. pruitt. served as president of thomas edison since 1982. >>> four college students, including one from our area, attacked with acid in france. how the students are doing tonight and new video of a deadly crash between two buses. the one critical factor investigators are concerned about. >>> plus, delaware first responders are better prepared to save you during an emergency. the life-saving tool that they are now carrying. >>> a chester county woman attacked with acid in france is staying there to finish her semester abroad. courtney sterling from chester springs is one of four boston college students attacked yesterday at a train station in the southern city of marseille. the school says all four are doing well. a woman has been arrested. police say she's mentally ill and this was not a terror attack. >>> nothing but a ball of flames after a taxi crashed into this barrier ramp in pen's landing. investigators are trying to figure out what led to the crash. sky force 10 flew over the scene the

here's benedict cumberbatch as thomas edison in "the current war." out and touch a doorknob or a rail, and well, you become the circuit. >> just to be clear on that point -- >> when you die. dc current, you can reach out and touch anything at any stage of the line and -- with your bare hands and it's safe. it works. and it bears the name of edison, so it's pretty. [ light laughter ] our government has been trying for some time now to get me to invent a weapon but i won't use this brain to invent anything that hurts people. for that, you can shop in pittsburgh. >> so you say westinghouse wants to hurt people. >> no, i can't say that. but you can. >> jimmy: yeah. [ cheers and applause ] love the hair. >> the hair. >> jimmy: right down to the last bit curl. perfect. thomas edison hair. very cool. that comes out november 24th, "the current war." benedict, i saw you do a magic trick on -- somewhere, online and i didn't even know that you were a a magician. but i was -- >> neither did i, jimmy. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: but i was wondering if you could

thomas edison charter school community views itself as a family, in this family feud, it was clear this was supporting their principal. >> this man is an educator. he's a motivator. he's a father to children who may not even have father. >> reporter: solemn thomas e will the leader of this charter. his feud with the school's board landed him on administrative leave a teacher sympathy sick out on friday led to early dismissal an day off for students monday. el supporters came to his rally to show their love of their principal. >> he's just great guy all around and i feel like he supported us i feel like we owed it to him to support him. >> reporter: they're anger at the school board. >> we need a new board. >> enough is enough. round round behind closed doors this dispute apparently over the direction of the school was resolved. el told his supporters he was ready to get back to work. >> there are always storms. there are always storms in our lives. many storms in our community here, many but we need to be learn how to dance in the storm. >> the chase and board president told the school

if you're interested in science, we have thomas edison's secret lab where a group of scientists havedventures in science if you have a toddler, we have baby genius. developmental values are put forward. you're a mom, you know it's hard to find shows that kids are getting something out of. >> as a mom you do get concerned about the amount of screen time. you're competing with television but also with the computer and all the games that are kind of pushed at them how do you say that this is one that's okay? >> well, we have an ethos around the channel. everything is of positive value. nothing of violence. no inappropriate language. no negative stereotypes. there is no behavior you would be troubled by as a parent and there's no commercials. >> good time to be a content creator with all of these different ways of getting content out there? >> absolutely. we're very fortunate to have a.mazon as a partner it will start in 2019. excited about that. >> want to thank you for the time appreciate that. >> thank you, becky. >> my pleasure. >> that's the show for today i'm becky quick. thank you

parents held a rally yesterday outside thomas edison school in support of thomas ell. this followed a sickout that closed the school monday. it focused on the pal's fight to give teachers and staff a raise that the board had promised but took back. the president of the school board apologized to parents saying both sides worked out their differences. >>> at the jersey shore, a state is asking a judge to reverse his decision on this saved dozens of firefighter jobs in atlantic city. the state and city cannot afford the firefighters' salaries, that's what the state says. new jersey took over the city's finances last year. the judge blocked the layoffs in the ruling last month. he said letting go of at least 50 firefighters would compromise public safety. >>> we're learning more about a top-secret visit to our area by facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. he's been spotted ordering cheesesteaks at pat's, but he wasn't here to eat. he was in delaware discussing how the social network could help others respond to natural disasters. zuckerberg posted this picture on his facebook pag

. >>> it's a thomas edison charter school community is as they like to call themselves a family, this was a heck of a family feud. nearly 200 men, women and children who rallied at the school playground monday night made clear they support their principal. >> this man is dedicated, he can have moved on a long time ago. but he decided to chews us and we choose him. >> reporter: shalom thomas el is the leader of his successful charter he views himself as both an educator and agitator. but that mindset led el to clash witness edison board last of last week over the direct of the school. board members placed him on administrative leave which led to a teacher sympathy sick out on friday. which in turn led to early dismissal for students and a day off for the kids monday. el supporters came to this rally to show their love for their principal. >> i feel like we owed it to him to support him. >> and anger at the school board. >> we need a new board. >> yup. >> enough is enough. >> the dispute was resolved behind closed doors. el is now back. turning this into a celebration of sorts after an

so even thomas edison had an early movie of uncle tom's cab cabin. >> it was banned in the south so you have to read it to be able to protest it. they were producing literary tracks and stories about slavery taking the uncivilized people and people that were idling and making them productive and teaching than christianity and teaching them to have skills and organized a family life. it fed into the literary industry of time in the speaking industry. they thought back. >> the man that wrote used to be a slave trader do you know anything about that? >> he was affected by the of it all and became an abolitionist in both she wrote the song amazing grace. >> the team 61 dot civil war starts. give us a snapshot of the population and its culture etc.. >> in 1861 it was the richest part of the nation, extremely wealthy and elitist. those persons that were at the treetops were slaveholders on the state level as well as the national level and the south had the industrial revolution. they wanted to hold onto it. it was the place that had a large population of almost 4 million people at the time. i

family students and staff at thomas edison charter school gathered to rally behind salome thomas el.ard placed him on a leave of absence last week but wouldn't say why. a couple hours after the rally word came that el had been reinstated. the school board apologized and says disagreements they had with him should not have escalated to this point. >> facebook founder mark zuckerberg visited delaware for an important talk on disaster response. he posted this photo from the state's emergency management agency yesterday. zuckerberg talked about facebook's ability to help keep communities safe in times of crisis and also brain stormed on how to better coordinate the social network's tools with government officials. >>> before that zuckerberg did what most tourists would do, he stopped by pat's king of steaks on sunday for a bite to eat. his facebook post says he traveled all the way to philadelphia for the best cheesesteaks in the land. zuckerberg did not explain why he chose pat's over geno's or any other steak joint in the city. pat's says he ordered his steak whiz wit. >> all right. it

salome thomas el wall placed on a leave of absence from thomas edison charter school but the school board has not disclosed why. today parents were busy making signs ahead of a rally in support of thomas el tonight. they say he was loved and respected by his students and his staff. >> we want answers to why this happened, why the embarrassment to this principal, okay. i don't know what they're going to say but they better have a good one because this is not right. >> the school which is well known for its champion chess team says it does not comment on personal matter -- on personnel matters. >>> a somber ceremony this afternoon marking the one year anniversary of a house fire that killed three wilmington firefighters. the day of the blaze september 24th has officially been declared a day of remembrance for lieutenant christopher leach, senior firefighter jerry fickes and ardythe hope. three portraits were unveiled that will hang at each station where these men and women served. leach and fickes died at the scene after the first floor collapsed. hope was critically injured and died severa

but america is more tolerant of trial and error we know about thomas edison but the people know that he was fired by the telegraph office and lost money in the iron business is in the company and henry ford failed completely the first time dr. seuss was rejected by 27 publishers an old pro was fired from her first job they called her an unfit for television. [laughter] they all failed and tried again. where you can write the script of your own life in america. [applause] so when a pessimist like me says bearden some government regulation i hope you will ignore me to prove me wrong. that is the show for tonight from loss biggest and freedom fest. go live the american dream. [cheers and applause] >> the new "wall street week" ." spirit welcome to "wall street week," the program analyzes the week that was and held position you for the week ahead. i am marie bartiromo. coming up in just a few moments, some of the biggest vos is in the start of will joint our round table talking about companies. and first dagan is standing by with headlines. dagan? >> maria, the u.s. economy putting on 10

thomas edison charter school in wilmington the principal was back on the job after he was briefly putn leave by the school board. a rally support was held outside the school. he said he was overwhelmed by all the support that he receives. >>> there is a new statue in center city making history. >> philadelphia leaders unveiled the statue of octavia this morning. it's the first dedicate ed d to single african-american on city property. hundreds cheered. it comes 150 years after he was killed on south street. he was also instrumental in desegregating streetcars in philadelphia. the mayor called him a true american hero. >> my hope is that every child in philadelphia and every child in america will know as much as octavia as they do about george washington, bnk min franklin. >> the city leaders 15 years to make this statue a reality. you can read more about his life in philadelphia right there on our home page. >>> the statue is located on the southwest apron of city hall. >>> today a local teen became the garden state's hero. the 16-year-old found jordan's cause for paws. the organizati

that is more people than one thomas anderson -- when thomas edison turn on the first lightbulb becausepopulation growth. we are working with companies who look at these problems. they see market opportunities and design solutions. >> in terms of the entrepreneurs you talk to, what was the biggest challenge for them? have a social impact, but to make money. >> every business designs solutions to problems sets. that is how we all make money. these entrepreneurs choose to solve problems sets that most people think are impossible. the solution to societal challenges is to solve harder problems. >> what is the answer when it comes to automation, and the extent to which it is going to take employees out of the equation? the statistics are scary. 47% of theed states, jobs that exist today one exist in 2035. where are future jobs going to come from? foundation says all net new jobs will be created by entrepreneurs. we don't know what those jobs are going to look like. we know these entrepreneurs will impact partnership. they are the job creators are of tomorrow. >> give us a concept of the tim

. >> host: steve jobs you compare him at one point to alexander graham bell's and thomas edison.how so? >> guest: well both were, all three of those men were incredible innovators but they were also incredible self promoters and incredible marketers. one of my favorite stories about or one of the most useful stories is before the telephone took off he had to sell this thing. basically people regarded it as a novelty, a toy and he would do inventions and do demonstrations and he would start giving lectures about what it could do and present could do this stuff and slowly but surely people got interested in it. he was selling it and doing these demos which are part of apple's mythology building machine and these demos are integral and i've a chapter that talks about that too. and the same with edison. edison was a smart guy, a great adventure but a giant team whose names are all but lost to most people other than technology and the like but the people that really sort of did the brutal work, the trial and error and the film at work in the light old. the light old is a lot like the

also, improving the quality of its career programs, reinventing the county's thomas edison high schoolology to attract more students, also, they're encouraging more sde take part in internship programs, and more folk on making sure students are both college and career ready. the reports said by the year 2020, nearly 2/3 of all jobs will require training beyond high school. montgomery county school said, it's all for the those new recommendations. jim? >> somebody is excited for christmas. >> i guess so. got a little ahead of ourselves here. >> stand, i know him. the holiday season around the corner, free ticket goes out by the way of an online lottery that runs from october 12th to 16th, winners will get notification on the october 30th, the christmas tree lighting will take place on november 30th, president trump's first but if you can't get a ticket, you can watch the ceremony on the hallmark channel on december 4. >> it really is >> great event. >>> coming up. storm recovery efforts still region on consent island. >>> a local family with three children gettingel from a local organiz

. >> you like them, edison, thinking of thomas edison.lgic. >> -- flannery is from what i understand engaging in a top to bottom view he is may engage in significant layoffs. in peltz's guys get on the board i think that is indication they will shed even more assets. that this will be restructured in a moderate callaway. you will see a much smaller ge, a much more defined ge for the future. i think the stock will change on that. i think the stock should, if they go this route, that is a route that could jazz up the stock. if you look at all analysts reports, they say this thing is lumbering giant. they don't give it a lot of credence. if you putt peltz on the board, there will be radical change. that is what he pushes for. he constructively engages but he also pushes for a fairly radical restructuring of any company he gets involved with, including this. and here's the interesting thing. i think they have a good relationship. liz: we're about to get cut off. you and i have a great relationship. thank you for the story. >> wish they would

we got a kick out of the next match up, high school of the future and thomas edison. the future and past collide, get it? futures mark mccoy off to the races. no one to beat but the imagine neighboring yiimaginary tackler at the goal line. >> bishop shanahan at westchester. fits his way in from the ten yard line. bishop shannon, 42-7 the final. >> northeast uses the ground game to get it done. across the goal line, vikings win 33-18. strawberry mansion scoring off with plum bow. takes the pitch, great blocking. watch the movie clicking on the safety there. 26-6, strawberry mansion. >> the crusaders ran on to holy spirit's turf. holy spirit comes off firing. one of four t.d.s. comes back in double overtime for the 43-35 victory. chopper 6, high above vine land and cumberland, check out the block. that's captain noah stand alone. steve anderson for the touchdown, scores five times on the night. vineland crushes cumberland 60-6. >> a one handed interception taking it in for a pick six, knocked out of bounds inside the five yard line. overbrookploverbrook comes back. eric

. >> bill gates, part thomas edison, part henry ford, part holden caulfield from "catcher in the rye.ped out of harvard to design computer software with his friend paul allen. they came up with a system that operates 90% of the personal computers today. >> microsoft was making a lot of money then. they were charging $200, $300, $400 for, say, a word processing package that really was costing them about 50 cents to print on floppies. >> hard working, modest, easy going, it would seem to a fault. of course, he does have at least one secret. but we'll fix that. is it true that you can leap over a chair from a standing position? >> it depends on the size of the chair but this chair, probably so. >> yes! >> i took a step before i did it. >> that's okay. >> bill gates wasn't just one thing. he was a brilliant guy. had great parents. family values. but he was a killer. he basically was a ruthless guy, and so was microsoft. >> no, no, no, no, no. somebody's confused. somebody's just not thinking. > there's no way. >> we'll figure it out. >> you guys never understood. you never understood the

long time, principal of thomas edison charter school of wilmington was put on leave. school board did not inform the community of prompting a teachers sick out and outrage among the parents. >> he is just a great guy, all the way around and i feel like he is supporting us so we owed to it him to support him. >> they are always storms, there are always storms in our lives, and many storms in our community here, many. but we need to be able to learn how to dance in the storm. >> all trying to move forward. the principal and the school board members met behind closed doors, hammered it out, resolved all of their issues. school board president apologized to the community and said everybody involved is ready to move forward. >>> it appears that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg won't have to appeal in court to day he was supposed to testify after announcing a plan last year to change shareholder structure of his company. that plan would have allowed him to keep control of facebook and free up billions of dollars for his charitable efforts. on friday, he dropped those plans, mea

i've been on the phones -- >> parents rallied outside of thomas edison school in support of the principal. it followed a sickout staged by teachers that closed the school on monday. the dispute focused on ell's fight to give teachers and staff a raise that the board had promised but took back. the president of the school board apologize today to parents saying both sides -- apologized to parents saying both sides worked out their differences. >>> today a civil rights icon will be immortalized at city hall. the statue of actioctavius catts set up. it will be the first statue in the city's collection dedicated to a single african-american. the memorial won't be too far from former mayor frank rizzo's statue. the statue was the center of a controversy and protest last month by those who see rizzo as a symbol of racism. officialsing too suggestions -- officials took suggestions. and one of the ideas was to built an african-american statue near the statue. but the catto statue was planned long before this happened. >>> 6:07. let's give you a live look at center city and the airmark building. w

it was a 1878 american eclipse that inspired a young inventor, thomas edison. he took a trip to wyoming and attempt a experiment to study the sun's outer atmosphere. it failed but allowed him to think about the principals of light and power. the very next year invented the incandescent light bulb. who knows what discoveries this year's eclipse will inspire but it's already generated an enthusiasm for astronomy, aast rophysics andast robiology. that enthusiasm was converted to stem education lessons. we have the privilege of hearing from a panel of witnesses who helped make the day a success i tharj our witnesses and look forward seeing their inkredsable photos and videos. and hearing what's next for solar science. it's human nature to seek out the unknown and discover more about the universe around us. we have an extraordinary opportunity to turn enthusiasm for the great american eclipse into a renewal of american physics and astronomy that lasts far beyond the two minutes of totalality. we yield back. >> thank you and i now recognize the chairman of the space

his name is thomas edison charter school in, wilmington and he was placed on leave last week. the school board didn't tell the community prompting the teach tours hold a sick out. they didn't have enough teachers. they could in the hold classes kid had a surprise half day. the parents were outraged. >> he is just a great guy all the way around. he is supporting us. we owed to it him to support him. >> they are always storms, there are always storms in our lives. many storms in our community here in wilmington. many. but we need to learn how to dance in the storm. >> reporter: he weathered this storm, growing pains, the principal and school board members, met behind school closed doors, hammered out their issues, and resolved them. and school board president apology guyed to the greater community, and they say that everybody is ready to move forward on this one, guys. >> all right, let's move forward. you got it. >>> did you stay up and watch monday night football. you saw the beginning of the game, members of the dallas cowboys and owner himself lock arms and took a knee befor

general electric's restructuring, they have dropped the thomas edison division to the europeans.ndustrials? christopher: we think they are growing opportunities. there is private equity money looking to go to work to buy divisions and units. we will see strategic dispositions and acquisitions of companies. corporations are sitting on tons of cash. globally we think there is opportunity for growth. companies can reposition themselves and tighten their belts and do better. tom: let's come back with chris and gina. those in this hour. bloomberg businessweek's reinvigorated. i am getting a huge buzz on it from the young set. they like the article on mr. zuckerberg and his many challenges. nfle he needs to own and football team. that would fixes problems. ♪ what did we do before phones? they save us from getting lost, getting hungry, and getting tired of places like this. phones changed everything - shouldn't the way pay for them change too? introducing xfinity mobile. where you can pay for data by the gig, and share it across all of your lines. no one else lets you do that. see how m

>> all the estimates are that you will see more new technology in the next 10 years than from thomas edison that. let's assume they are off by 50% , 70%, so what? still an enormous change. you don't notice the change every day. it is outrageous, my iphone only had 10 gigabytes of upload capacity. we didn't have cell phones 20 years ago. of the stuffe any that we take for granted. you don't notice the change. most of the change is presented in a way you are comfortable with. you still have your phone. you still hit a few buttons. it just does more. but you don't have to learn much more. that is when technology gets adopted easily. nejra: let's take a look at the markets now. quick check across the assets, starting with equities. we are seeing european equities trading water. the ftse 100 pretty much flat after u.k. retail sales data not taking a jump. perhaps stronger sterling having something to do with that. the dax higher by 0.2%. the 10-year yield unchanged now at 1.33%. brent crude higher as well, along with wti, after inventories, expectations, and moving on quickly to look at the fx m

the historical biopic about the birth of the electrical age stars benedict cumberbatch as thomas edison and michael shannon as george westinghouse. the movie premieres sunday at the toronto film festival, with a limited release in november and wide release in january. in hollywood, i'm rick damigella. (robin) and here's a live look outside... at the bay bridge toll plaza. (james)( tiffany ) welcome back. checking in on your morning forecast. (james)the cooldown continues this morning as temperatures slip into the upper 50s and low 60s. skies are relatively clear inland, but clouds and fog are present over the bay and coast. this afternoon expect partly cloudy skies with temperatures inland reaching the low 80s. highs at the bay shoreline will be in the mid 70s while coastal communities will enjoy low 60s. as for this weekend, the return of high pressure will mean warmer temperatures. look for upper 80s to mid 90s for the inland valleys and low 80s by the bay. beyond that, there are some indications we may see some showers next tuesday morning, but we'll have to wait and see. sunrise in