. >> delaware bureau reporter tim furlong joins us from rehoboth. tim? >> reporter: perfect day to shop outdoors, night, too. some of the stores are only open on the weekends, but a lot of stores, most of the stores like this one, this tea shop, they are open every single day leading up to the holidays and you can see they are absolutely decked out for the holidays. looks great down here and all these businesses and restaurants got a nice early gift from mother nature, a very warm weekend so they can lure holiday shoppers down here. >> we should be needing this by now. >> reporter: this time last year they did, but this year at the ace hardware in lewes, the shovels and rock salt sit and it's too late or too early to sell the summer stuff. >> hard to sell beach chairs this time of year. >> reporter: nobody else seems too bummed by the warm temperature, certainly not the guy with the top down on the jeep or people still enjoying the beaches mid-december. >> oh, yes, this is wonderful, this is a nice break. >> reporter: the restaurants are bustling, becomi

we're live, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> thanks. that time to rush around nbc 10 at center city at this post office today. for what's expected to be the busiest delivery day for the year for the postal service. the agency was protected to handle 30 million items today alone. if you haven't shipped your gifts yet, the postal service says you can use priority mail express on wednesday to get them delivered on time. >>> if you still have some christmas shopping to do be sure to check out the nbc 10 app for a holiday gift guide. you can find out which stores are offering extended hours and also get weather updates to help you plan ahead. >>> we're following two developing stories right now. philadelphia police are investigating after a body was found at this motel. police say the body of a 75-year-old man was found with a piece of cloth wraps around his neck at the rodeway inn this afternoon. we'll keep you updated as soon as any information comes in. >> [ bleep ]. >> whoa! >> septa has suspended the bus driver in this video. you see th

tim furlong caught up with the hero hound and her grateful owner. >> the dog's name is precious. >> cute name for a tough pup. on saturday night, would-be burglars didn't see the beware of dog signs. they tried to kick in the door to the home. the homeowner's sister was home alone. she knew to let the pit bull out of her crate. >> before she knew it, the door was being kicked open. she unlocked the cage and the dog went after the person. >> my sister said she heard, oh, crap, they have a dog. and took off. >> good girl. >> steph nif tells me precious is a sweet, loving dog but is trained to attack if the home or the owner is threatened. the burglary lass are lucky they got to their car before precious got to their legs. her home is literally a a few homes away from the police department. there have been similar break-ins on her street. a stray bullet hit her house a couple years back. she didn't get a look at the people, but saw the sedan with tinted windows. this is an active investigation. if you have any information, submit an anonymous tip or contact police. >> the burglars didn't ge

if it goes away, we're going to have a problem, i'm sure. >> reporter: tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> justice under fire. we have new reaction this morning now that we are hearing the controversial comments one supreme court justice made about black students. >>> plus, another milestone in the united states' new relationship with cuba. what's being done to step up communications between the two countries. >>> what a difference a year makes in the pocono mountains. last year, ski resorts were busy with more than a foot of snow by thanksgiving. you saw the video a moment ago. this year? not so much. a resort, the snow making guns used to get around the lack of snow will not work because it's been too warm. instead, visitors as you saw are in light jackets, swimming in ñ lining. it will be this way for a while, right, michelle? >> at least through the seven days, temperatures above normal, 70 degrees. so warm today and tomorrow, warmth continues at least through friday of this week, and went we have a reality check at the end of the workweek. outside, cloudy skies, waking up to partly cl

delaware bureau reporter tim furlong was there for that verdict. >> where is the justice? >> reporter: one woman posed that question to me on her way out of court. many who had seen this video of corporal tom webster kicking lateef dickerson in the face, thought there's no way the jury would acquit webster, but three men and nine women on the jury, including two black women and one hispanic woman did find webster not guilty. >> wrong, period, flat out, wrong. for me, i don't have a response to this, because it's beyond belief. i don't know how a jury in this community, 12 people, could reach that decision. >> reporter: webster was allowed to leave through a different door so he didn't have to face my questions. a couple years back a grand jury chose not to indict webster, but in the midst of other racial problems involving police in other parts of the country a second jury did indict webster. the night in 2013 it seemed dickerson had complied to get down on the ground, but the jury agreed with webster's lawyer's version of what happened on the video. >> when you broke it d

tim furlong went to the school to see how teachers are talking about the situation. >> reporter: the leader of the islamic academy in newark wants everyone to know he agreed with president obama sunday night when he said -- >> isil does not speak for islam. they are thugs and killers. part of a cult of death. >> reporter: here at this school just like any other school they have book fairs and the little kids work on their letters. >> tell me the next letter. >> reporter: here they also talk about the news and they say teachers make sure that kids know what isis is and how they try to radicalize people over social media. >> they tell them what's right, what's wrong, what's correct and what's evil. we draw the line and our children understand. >> reporter: the president says muslims in america need to be part of the solution to terrorism working with law enforcement if and when they learn members of their community are radicalizing. the leaders of this mosque tell me they work hard to learn more about members and their intentions. muscle lumps i spoke with tell me they're absolutely co

tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> count on nbc 10 for coverage of the fallout from chip kelly's firing. john clark will have reaction from players and more on who might replace chip kelly. that's in less than 15 minutes. >>> police are investigating a deadly shooting in west philadelphia. the victim repaired cars along red field street. investigators say a customer pulled a gun during an argument with the victim this afternoon. the gun went off during a struggle and the man was killed. police are still looking for the gunman. >>> new at 6:00, a call for action from philadelphia's new mayor. one week before his naught. ten community groups announced the platform of the first 99 days of mayor kenney. they did it outside city hall. calling on the mayor elect to enact eight policies if 4 his first 99 days in office. addressing equal education, community, health and safe communities, immigration reform, fair work. some are issues that kenny showsho showed commitment to, others he has yet to take a position on. >> i appreciate, we are certainly in line with the things they suggested but i can

nbc 10 pubureau reporter, tim furlong, explains the new law. >> i view it as the same thing, just likeg a glass of wine. >> reporter: she's the one who proposed decriminalizing marijuana, now the 19th state to do so. >> crack, heroin, cocaine, something like that, again, i would not be having this conversation. >> reporter: to be clear, marijuana is not legal in delaware, but caught with an ounce of it, you likely face a $100 civil fine, not the pre-law change of $150. you pay the fine like a parking ticket, no prison sentence, and no criminal record. the law is pretty clear, it would still be illegal for anyone under 18 to have any marijuana, and nobody will be allowed to sell it or use it while driving. there are also a number of restrictions on where you can smoke marijuana. if you're caught with marijuana committing another crime, there's circumstances in which you find yourself in trouble. supporters of the law say it basically allows people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their home and keeps people from getting a criminal record from having just a tiny bit of marijuana, a c

coming up at 6:30 this morning, nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter, tim furlong, has more on how this mergerd affect our region. >> who doesn't love this kind of weather in december? it's every retailer's dream. >> businesses are cashing in on this warm weather. the one thing you may find in stores now that you probably would only see in the summer. >>> they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but this may only be worth one. woah. coming up, what happened to the driver of the bmw after a metal beam went through the windshield. >>> you don't need layers today, it's warm, 70 degrees this afternoon, starting at 50 in philadelphia, above normal for our normal high for this time of year, so enjoy that. it's going to last a few, too, into our zempb dseven day. it's dark, partly cloudy skies, light winds, and we are going to see mild, mild air. temperatures are warmer compared to this time yesterday, and six degrees warmer in philadelphia, four degrees warmer in allentown, and five degrees warmer in lancaster, and five degrees warmer in millville compared to 2 had 4 hours ago, putting us in th

delaware bureau reporter tim furlong has the story. >> reporter: you can see from an nbc 10 viewer's drone just how big this fire was at the jerusalem missionary baptist church. the drone was directly overhead when the roof collapsed. >> fire coming out of both sides of the building. minutes after that the front of the building collapsed and everything fell. >> reporter: this is still a very active scene. firefighters not ready to say what started the fire or whether it was intentionally set. neighbors tell me this is the second fire here in the last two weeks. >> i don't even know. i can't fathom two fires within two weeks. unbelievable. >> it's just weird that in two weeks it's on fire again. they just started cleaning it out today. this morning. >> reporter: the church sits next to some niewer homes that were also damaged and across from a lot that was a former chicken restaurant. that was cleared to make way for new affordable housing. its church and its pastor have been at that corner for a long time. >> this church has given a lot of hope to this neighborhood. provided a lot of

tim furlong spoke with that victim and has the story you'll only see on 10. >> reporte >> if i were to do it again, i would have them delivery it at my work. >> reporter: jessica wishes she sent the gifts to her office. you see it didn't go so well when the ups guy dropped them off at her home, she says the guys in this tan hyundai with south carolina tags watched the ups guy pull away, then stole the packages, mostly baby toys, off her step. it's not clear if they hit any other houses. >> if they are tailing a ups truck, they clearly have a mission and are trying to get as much as they can. i know these are just things, but these are things i purchased meaningfully for my family during the holidays. >> reporter: police have already recovered some of jessica's gifts, helped out by the great surveillance footage shot in her driveway. the price of this technology keeps coming down. might be time to move surveillance cameras up on our holiday wish lists. jessica hopes everyone learns from her story. new castle county police put out a video, they suggest requiring a signature for all deliv

tim furlong gets the pulse of the community on the deal. >> reporter: in delaware you can drive on theupont highway, we take our kids to dupont hospital, tee it up at the dupont country club, or get a fancy dinner at the hotel dupont. even paid to put the pretty stone on the rockford park water tower way back in the day. in many ways, they have defined delaware. but now with news of a dow/dupont merger, this company and its role might never be the same. there will be a ripple effect across the state. >> every element of the economy is potentially affected, retail, real estate, schools. >> reporter: the original factory here are now a museum and library but if the merger goes through, there are questions and concerns about the current properties, including the large experimental station over that traffic bridge up there. of course, there are the workers who go to those facilities. 7,000 dupont employees here in delaware, 500 dow workers, as well, for that matter. dupont says it's cutting 10% of its global workforce. no word on what happens to the building or employees once the new dow/d

tim furlong reports. >> just another day in the united states of america. >> reporter: that's how thebc covered the shooting in california. don't be mad, they are right. this was our sixth mass shooting in a week, we've had 355 so far this year, we have 5% of the planet's population, but 31% of its mass shootings. >> i want you to read through these stats about gun violence in america. >> reporter: this woman read through the stats on my ipad, she has her theory about the shootings. >> people don't focus on mental health, i feel mental health and gun violence or violence period, there's a correlation between that. >> i would like to have a brief moment of silence. >> reporter: moments of silence, well wishes, condolences, all nice but useless gestures. they haven't stopped the killing. >> our thoughts and prayers are not enough. >> reporter: that's the cover of the new york daily news, too, god isn't fixing this, surrounded by tweets offering prayers but no solutions. hillary clinton tweeted, "we must take action to stop gun violence." something her husband and recent presidents from

tim furlong with that story. >> reporter: the reasons some patients still have allergy issues, rightthe door, warm weather's been great, some of us like to stop and smell the roses but in december that comes with a price. >> seeing allergies lingering longer into the late fall early winter than we've seen. >> reporter: the docs are seeing seasonal allergy issues, one mom says her kids have symptoms. >> congestion, runny nose, itchy eyes. >> reporter: owner of the pharmacy here tells me the a weird year, fluctuating temperatures messing with people's heads. good snowfall would be a good thing for allergy suffers. >> as temperatures go back up, pollen counts going back up and molds going back up. seeing a consistent base of patients coming in for the seasonal allergy medications and nasal sprays and antihistaminan. >> reporter: warmer temperatures might be keeping flu numbers lower, more time outside wore with windows hope helps fight the spread of the flu. here come the holidays. tell kids about healthy habits before grandparents start rolling in. >> sanitize, not sharing cups and gla

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong joins us live from outside the courthouse with more. tim? >> reporter: jacqueline, the word i keep hearing here is surprise, people saying that on the way out of the courtroom. they believe the video evidence against the officer was clear. take a look at the video, thomas webster kicking a has been in the head, lateef dickerson had gotten on the ground as ordered, but you see webster still kicks him in the head, dickerson was knocked unconscious and had a broken jaw. a first grand jury chose not to indict webster, but in the midst of so many other episodes of racial tension around the country decided to send it to a second grand jury. webster was indicted and charged with felony assault. the defense was he needed to use that level of force, the jury including two black and one hispanic woman ultimately sided with webster. his lawyer said it's all in how you see that video. >> fact of the matter is, is that when you broke it down into milliseconds, you could see the gentleman moving his hands up and down and we all know tom was in fear. >

tim furlong has more on the fire and the lessons we can all learn. >> reporter: this newcastle county for the holiday, except for this house, now covered in a tarp. officials say a holiday decoration started a fire here that caused about $100,000 in damage. luckily no one was hurt. i caught up with the chief of the fire department and his dad, both long-time firefighters. they are supercareful putting up their own holiday lights because they've seen the damage it can cause. >> anything involving electrical can be dangerous. >> reporter: i asked the chief for his best safety tips. >> if it says it's indoor lighting, use it indoors. >> reporter: he also says not to go all clark griswold, plugging too many things into too many cheap extension cords. the chief says to inspect your lights each year. if the lights look worn, throw them away. you know how your lights are packed tightly in the box? when you pack them away after christmas, pack them loosely and try not to crimp the wires. some of the cables are okay but they're not made to take a real beating. know when it's time to replace th

tim furlong. >> thank you very much. john clark joining us later with more on what players are saying about this big change. >>> coming up next, more coverage of today's charges against bill cosby. nbc 10 on the ground and in the air as cosby arrived at his cheltenham home after leaving the police station. we are there live with more on how you're reacting to the news. >>> plus, flooding has devastated parts of the midwest and the danger isn't over yet. water still rising. that's next on "nbc 10 news at 5:00." >>> tonight, bill cosby free on $1 million bail. now that he's facing felony charges in montgomery county. prosecutors filed three counts against him of aggravated, indecent assault. accused cosby of drugging and assaulting a former temple university employee inside his home in elkins park back in 2004. this is the first tim charged after dozens accused him of sex assaults. cosby was arraigned two hours ago. then, he had his mugshot taken at cheltenham police department. his next court appearance set for next month

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong is live in wilmington. tim, this will have a big impact not only on workers, but the entire state. >> reporter: that's right, keith. growing up around here we knew the dupont family, it was a great employer for many years. over the years the numbers have gone down, the company has spun off many parts and now as it prepares for a merger, employees at five major sights, including the main headquarters got the e-mail they'd been dreading. >> so i'm being measured in what i say publicly. i have very strong feelings about this. >> reporter: delaware senator chris coons trying to keep his cool about the news, the ceo sent an e-mail to the 6,100 delaware employees letting them know about 1,700 people will be out of a job, basically making major cuts in a plan for a megamerger with dow. >> share holder value or stock market value at the cost of tearing apart the long-term value of one of america's most prominent, most successful research and development communities. >> reporter: this is a major blow to families, not

nbc 10 bureau reporter tim furlong is live in wilmington where employees learned the news four days after christmas. tim? >> that's right, an e-mail was sent to employees, saying he didn't want to hit them with the information now, but the company has to file the plan with the state by the end of the week and so for hundreds of families it's tough to take and potentially life changing. >> it is really awful news, frankly. >> reporter: that is delaware senator chris coons reaction to this e-mail dupont sent to employees today letting them know 25% of them, 1,700 people, will be losing their jobs in the next few months. >> i'm angry. i'm concerned. >> reporter: senator coons clearly unhappy with the development. congressman john carney calling it a punch in the gut. dupont is planning to merge with dow, creating a company that would split into three parts, the smallest one would remain in delaware. it's not clear where the agricultural division would be. delgz has that part of its business in newark. they have halted work on a new $135 million research facility there. >> it's a tough one. y

tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> john clark with the inside story on the eagles' shakeup. >> players had a lot to say about chip. >> reporter: yeah. really the guy who was the most open and honest about why chip kelly didn't work out here in philadelphia was tackle lane johnson. lane was chip kelly's first draft pick when chip became eagle's coach. lane adjusted from college to the pros but saying chip did not. lane thinks it all started to go wrong when chip got full control of personnel and howie roseman was demoted. >> we knew it wasn't, you know, sunshine and rainbows. >> reporter: lane johnson says the team was affected by the strain in the front office between chip kelly and howie roseman. >> i think the big of the thing was the power struggle at front office, i don't think they were happy with chip and howie. there was a lot of tension which didn't need to happen. when you feel it up there, it does trickle down to the team and that's what led to him being released. >> reporter: lane says he likes chip, he was drafted by him but feels kelly needed to be more open and take suggestio

as nbc 10's tim furlong shows us, he didn't stop there. >> you see the ups guy dropping off gifts to this home, yeah, the guys who pulled up a couple minutes later watched the ups guy, too. >> if they are tailing a ups truck, they have a mission and trying to get as much as they can. >> reporter: jessica said she tracked the packages so knew they'd been delivered, that's why she knew something was wrong when they weren't there when she got home from work. two people show up, two people jump out and steal all the packages just delivered. this story shows why it might be a good idea for more of us to get surveillance cameras. jessica's came from costco. the chances of catching the bad guys goes way up. police haven't caught the guys yet, but they already recovered some of jessica's stolen gifts. most of the items were baby toys. new castle county police just made a video about so-called package pirates. jessica says she wishes now she had had those gifts delivered to her office. she hopes all of us learn a lesson from her story. >> i look at this as an opportunity for us to lose a coup

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong is live at the church. tim, investigators closer to figuring out what started the fire? >> reporter: they are not really saying much at this point, but i can tell you this, even in the heavy rain today investigators worked hard out here trying to figure this thing out. you can see they did take a lot of the lumber and bricks, moved them over to the empty lot to our right because they want things to dry out a bit so they can try to check things out to see what happened, what started this fire and if you were with us at 11:00, you know how big the fire was. the pastor of the new jerusalem church isn't ready to call the fire an accident, hate crime, or anything else. he does find it peculiar this was the second fire in the last two weeks. this is a picture from the first fire. >> all of a sudden we heard a boom. what's going on? >> reporter: the whole neighborhood is still talking about the fire we first showed you last night. this is a viewer's drone video directly over the church when the roof collapsed. it d

in wilmington, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> nbc 10 news at 5:00 is next. >> here's keith jones. >> allew on nbc 10 news at 5:00, a principal you're about to see was brought into a troubled philadelphia high school to make a difference. now he's facing trouble after allegedly pushing a student. what students are saying in his defense next at 5:00. >>> and we have a colder night in store for the area, then a pretty nice weekend with another warmup. forecast coming up. >>> plus, the local connection to the california killings. a south jersey community remembers one of the victims. we're getting new information on the weapons used by the suspects, as well. that's next on nbc 10 news at 5:00. when a moment spontaneously turns romantic, why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. plus cialis treats the frustrating urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical cond

tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> much better reading is happening in delaware these days, by the way, thanks to one of the winners of the nbc 1021st century solutions program. we'll show you the work they are doing to set kids up to thrive. >>> and ronda rousey has been laying low since being knocked out in a fight last month, but tonight she'll be wearing a ball gown on the arm of a south jersey marine. we'll explain why coming up. >>> and on this mild december night, rittenhouse park is packed. everyone is just hanging out, but i'm finding mixed emotions about these mild conditions. i'll give you the details after the break. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> ultimate fighting championship star ronda rousey says she'll be at tonight's marine corps ball with a marine from south jersey. the video went viral earlier this year. >> you are my celebrity crush, like, i love everything you do and i think that you are a phenomenal person. >> the ball is tonight in washington. marine jared hasher grew up in camden county, he's been certain all along that his date, his crush, would show up tonight. and this

delaware bureau reporter tim furlong spoke to the woman who furlong spoke to the woman who says her dog saved]f >> reporter: stephanie says precious can be a sweet pit bull, but when guys tried to kick in the front door to rob the house, stephanie's sister was there alone and knew precious would handle it. >> before she knew it, the door was being kicked open, so she unlocked the cage and the dog went after the person. my sister said she heard, "oh, crap, they have a dog," and took off. >> reporter: stephanie was at work when this happened, her kids were with a babysitter. stephanie said there has been break-ins on the street. she said her front lights were off and beware of dog signs aren't exactly well placed. despite the fact the house is literally blocks away from the police department, maybe the burglars thought it was an easy target, they thought wrong. >> i have the dog trained to attack if i do command him, her to attack. the dog don't like men anyway, so -- >> reporter: stephanie says she wants to share her story partly because she hears so many negative things about pit buls.

. >> tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> a winter wonderland created by a sewage plant. >> that is real snow despite the weather at state college. that national weather service says a layer of fog mixed with condensation of a sewer plant created this dusting of kind of i cky smell. >> i'm not responsible for a sewer plant with snow. i want to say that right now. we are starting off with wet weather. not snow. we have rain showers moving through a few showers moved through boathouse row. the wind is calm. at the shore, well, the rain is missing. cape may, the showers will sweep through the area. cape may will miss them. we're in the 40s. we're obviously looking at rain. 51 degrees north cape may is 48 strooes degrees. behind these bright showers, they're moving at the northeast at 30 miles per hour. moving through west chester and abbington. we will be drying out, warming up, too. 58 to 61 degrees this afternoon we're still on track for record triumphs this weekend. 66 degrees on saturday. 67 on sunday, in spite of cloud moving in. the clouds took over during the day on sunday. >> that will l

tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> also new at 5:00, 13 former officers are suing the camden county police department. they say the department denied them jobs because of their race and age. the officers were laid off of the camden city force when the county force replaced it two years ago. the lawsuit says black and hispanic applicants were passed over in favor of 150 new officers who had no training and had to attend the police academy. the suit says they were younger and white. today county spokesman dan keashen sent us a statement that reads in part, "the suit has got more fiction in it than a harry potter novel." >>> time for a check of our weather. let's turn to first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. >> it's almost the middle of december. by this weekend we'll be around 20 degrees above normal for this time of year. we'll show you that in the seven-day forecast, coming up. for now, though, you have seen the clouds increase today, but no rain with any of these clouds. if we take a big picture look at the northeast up into new england, down through the carolinas, we don't have much

if they have an opportunity to prevent that, they should. >> reporter: in odessa, tim furlong, nbc 10bc 10 news at 5:00. >> the youngest victims of abuse have a new place to go for help. the collaboration between doctors and police that could save lives. >>> and breaking developments in the california mass shooting. the new information about the plotting behind the murders in san bernardino and the part social media played in the massacre next on nbc 10 news at 5:00. >>> today on nbc 10 news at 5:00, halloween's over and these guys aren't looking for a treat. the robbery that turned violent at a local burger king. >>> and fighting for the kids. pre-ks struggling as pennsylvania's budget stalemate goes into another weekend. the extreme measures some are taking to stay open. >>> plus, breaking now, inside the lives of the california mass shooters, a first of its kind look at the apartment where authorities say they plotted their mission to kill. >>> nbc 10 breaking news. >> as of today, based on the information and the facts as we know them, we are now investigating these horrific acts

i'm tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> homeland security is preparing to roll out a new terror alert system. it said today it will do so in the coming days. it will be the third terror alert system put in place since the september 11th terror attacks. a color coded system you'll recall was replaced by the national threat advisory system four years ago. homeland security says the change is needed to better inform americans. >>> looks like a beautiful day out. take a look this guy right here. we found him with shorts in a t-shirt. not bad for december, right? beautiful day out there. let's head down the shore. a live look at cape may where people are no doubt enjoying these above average conditions for this time of year. it could be a nice night to get out for some decorating if you haven't done it yet. putting decorations up is a chore but so much better when it's nice out. >> i'm a procrastinator. >> we all are. >> glen, it's really nice. >> it's okay, you can prokra procrastinate more bus this weather pattern isn't going to change very much. we have a lot of clouds that have moved up the c

tim furlong, party is a no go. >> reporter: before the reception, dover had big new year's eve nights. >> singing, dancing, shows, things on the street. >> reporter: these teenagers wanted to have one tonight, planned for months, got artists and musicians to play for free, had a fireworks company set, then tuesday city council voted at the last minute no party. >> after months of planning, yeah, i'm pretty disappointed. >> reporter: on the phone today dover's mayor tells me he would love to see a party and insists the city did what it could, but probably started planning the event a little bit too late. he says the is needed to be dotted, ts needed to be crossed a whole lot earlier than they were and says it just wasn't going to happen. city government says the kids missed deadlines and didn't finish paperwork regarding liability and permitting. the kids tell me they believe some city leaders didn't want it to work. >> had they been checking on us and more involved, we would have known what we were missing and still needed. even though we know we didn't fail, you feel like that. they

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong talked to fans today about what's shaping up to be a very meaningful december. >> reporter: the eagles shut down shady mccoy, they also finally threw some long balls and had guys not drop them. are the eagles now a legit contender? >> beat arizona, they are good, but right now just kind of average. >> reporter: there's the problem the eagles created for themselves, we never know which team is going to show up. a good one will have to show up sunday night. that seems to be the consensus on sports talk radio. we don't just want to know if the eagles can win their weak division, we want to know if they can compete with the big boys. >> even though they could lose the next game and do it, i'd like them to beat a good team. >> reporter: the win gave us hope for the playoffs but also something as eagles fans also want, a reason to get out of the basement, put on our eagles jerseys, sit down in front of the tv and enjoy meaningful late december eagles football. it also means sunday night business bump for bars all over the region, including in newa

. >> let's begin with nbc 10's delaware bureau reporter tim furlong. people liking this weather? >> reporter: i know i sure am, as it gets dark here, i can tell you getting more festive as the holiday lights come up, but getting chillier. let's keep this in perspective. mid-december, take a look at the slasher sign, you see it's 5:03, wait for the temperature, it's 51 degrees. not bad, we'll take it. we don't usually have our bare pigs in the sand on the final page of the calendar, don't usually have shorts on our legs or top down on the jeep either, but, yes, this is december in r rehobeth and getting warmer. >> we just moved from georgia. >> i love it, but i don't love it. it's christmastime, so i feel like i'm in florida or something, but i love -- we all love the beach weather. >> reporter: this santa at the christmas store is way overdressed. the surfing santa has it right. it is nice, the sounds of the waves, crashing and the cha-thing at beach businesses who appreciate the warm weather when they want people to come down here for holiday shopping. they say their only bad po

tim furlong shows us who's back on the bandwagon. >> reporter: after a big win, everybody's back on thedude's barbershop in wilmington. >> i think they are an average team. >> good team? >> no. two topsy-turvy right now, man, guys is up and down. >> reporter: some fans tell me winning against the patriots was a fluke and yesterday was a good one but against a mediocre team but sunday night it's must-see tv when the eagles take on the very good arizona cardinals. it's gut check time for the birds. >> all the anger us fans have, our players need to pay with that. >> reporter: this was the first thing i saw when i walked in, yuck, a guy trying on a cowboys jacket with super bowl listed on the sleeve. also lots of other teams' gear but each eagles win means more people buying eagles jerseys for christmas. >> demarco murray jersey a lot, cox, and sproles. >> reporter: they are now running out of barwin 98. >> if they can beat the cardinals, if they can make the playoffs, we should definitely pick up sales and sell the rest of this stuff out. >> reporter: nbc and the nfl showing the eagles lo

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter tim furlong explains why. >> i don't care who's right or wrong, it wouldce to have something, though. >> reporter: monica pretty upset over not having the new year's eve party she wanted to bring her kids to tonight. there were going to be performers and fireworks, businesses were going to stay open late. >> a lot of times people don't normally walk up and down downtown, and when you get in here they start to see other businesses that popped up. >> reporter: at the last minute the city council pulled the plug on the party these young ladies and their friends on the city's youth committee planned. they missed deadlines and didn't finish paperwork. the mayor would love to see a party down here tonight and insists they did what they could to make it happen but said they probably started planning the event too late, the is needed to be dotted, ts needed to be crossed a whole lot earlier than they were and says it just wasn't going to happen. >> what they did was dead wrong. >> reporter: one council member is pretty fired up, his daughter is on the committee an

delaware bureau reporter tim furlong was there as firefighters battled the blaze. live in wilmington where investigators are sifting through the debris behind you, tim? >> reporter: jacqueline, last night i was here and there was some hope, talk at that point that the church might be able to be saved, wibut you can see thas not going to happen, they've been tearing down the walls today. a family built the church decades ago by hand by literally combining two houses and gutting it into a big church. this is what remains of their blood, sweat, and tears. this was the loss of the pastor of the church to take. seeing the bricks of the church crumble. last night we showed you a viewer's drone video of the fire that ripped through the church from directly overhead you can see the roof collapse. the crew at the restaurant across the street watched it happen. >> all of a sudden we heard a boom and we were like what's going on? oh, my gosh. then we went out there and the church just fell. >> reporter: the families from the damaged town homes next door still aren't allowed ho

hi to go out and get her a nice big one. >> reporter: in newcastle county, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >>> philadelphia mayor jim kenney, mayor-elect, i should say, continued to build his team today, adding one more person to his administration, picking the director of planning and development. it's a new position approved by voters in the november election. he will coordinate several different offices, including zoning and the division of housing and community development. >>> the eyes have it, kids all over are testing out new tablets and computers santa left for christmas. now a warning about what too much screen time could mean in the long run. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> more and more kids in the u.s. are becoming nearsighted. now a group of doctors may know why. too much screen time on computers and electronic devices. eye doctors say the condition is more common when you focus for a long time on something close to your eyes and don't get enough natural light. the solution, a 20-second break every 20 minutes. >>> monday is an off day for most teams in the nfl, but that didn't sto

tim furlong is there with all the parking lot craziness coming up. nbc 10 is your official eagles station. our coverage continues right now. >> announcer: you're watching nbc 10 news playoff push presented by chick-fil-a. >> reporter: i'm jacqueline london outside the tunnel at lincoln financial field. so much to talk about in the next half hour, including a wonderful story about young gaven toney born without arms and legs. he had the dream of his life come true here at lincoln financial field. we'll tell you about that. he doesn't allow a disability to slow him down. let's talk football. joining us from comcast sportsnet is john clark. what a night, john. >> reporter: jackie, this is quite a night. as you can see, a lot of the players behind us, out in their all-black uniforms. eagle fans love their birds in all black, especially in prime-time games. it's interesting, because of what happened in the nfc evaluate games, the redskins won, giants lost, basically tonight is not a must-win for them. it basically comes down to the eagles beating the reds

tim furlong is there with all the parking lot craziness coming up. nbc 10 is your official eagles station. our coverage continues right now. >> announcer: you're watching nbc 10 news playoff push presented by chick-fil-a. >> reporter: i'm jacqueline london outside the tunnel at lincoln financial field. so much to talk about in the next half hour, including a

tim furlong explains the new law. >> i view it as the same thing as somebody having a glass of wine.reporter: she's the one who proposed the decriminalizing marijuana in delaware, now the 19th state to do so. >> talking about crack, heroin, or cocaine, something like that, again, i would not be having this conferring. >> reporter: to be clear, marijuana is not legal in delaware, but caught with an ounce of it, you face a $100 civil fine, not the previous $1150 fine, pay it like a parking ticket, no prison sentence, no criminal record. the law is clear it's still illegal for anyone under 18 to have any marijuana and nobody can sell or use it while driving. there's a number of restrictions on where you can smoke marijuana. if you are caught with marijuana and committing another crime, there's circumstances in which you find yourself in significant trouble. supporters of the law says it allows people to smoke in the prooivacy of their own ohm and prevents criminal records from having a tiny amount of marijuana, a criminal record that prevents them from getting a job years down the road.

nbc 10 delaware bureau reporter, tim furlong, explains the new law. >> i view it as the same thing as somebody having a glass of wine. >> reporter: this woman proposed decriminalizing marijuana in delaware, now the 19th state to do so. >> crack, heroin, cocaine, something like that, absolutely would not be having the conversation. >> reporter: to be clear, it's not legal in delaware, but if caught with an ounce of it, there's a civil fine, not the $1150 fine, pay the fine like a parking ticket, no prison sentence, and no criminal record. the law is clear it's illegal for anyone under 18 to have any marijuana, and nobody will be allowed to sell it or use it while driving. there's a number of restrictions on where you can smoke marijuana. if you're caught with marijuana and committing another crime, there's circumstances in which you could find yourself in significant trouble. supporter of the law say it basically just allows people to smoke marijuana in the privacy of their home and keeps people from having a criminal record that prevents them from getting a job years down the road. >>

. >> tim furlong shows how this unusual weather could be affecting your health in both a good and bad way. >> reporter: you know all of the otdly warm december weather we've had? if allergies are bothering you, it might be the reason. if flowers and grasses don't shut down neither will your allergy symptoms. >> congestion, runny nose, itchy eyes. >> seeing allergies lingering longer into the late fall early winter than we've seen because of the weather. >> reporter: at the first day pharmacy in north wilmington, selling a ton of seasonal allergy medicine. >> temperatures go back up, we know that the pollen counts are going back up and molds are going back up. >> reporter: a lot of snow great for the pocono ski resorts, stores that sell snowblowers. even a little snow would be good for allergy suffers, get readings down. on the flip side, extra outdoors time helped keep the flu case numbers down but that might change during and after christmas week. >> getting toward holiday season, get crowds in malls and traveling you see transfer of the flu symptoms. >> reporter: allergy suffers pra

. >> let's begin with nbc 10's delaware bureau reporter tim furlong. people liking this weather?reporter: i know i sure am, as it gets dark here, i can tell you getting more festive as the holiday lights come up, but getting chillier. let's keep this in perspective. mid-december, take a look at the

live, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. >> as you may know, this incident comes a week after someone threw a pig's head at a north philadelphia mosque. someone in a pickup truck tossed the animal's head at the building. no one has been arrested in this case and just today delaware county police force showed its support for the muslim community. >> the police department stood side by side with muslim leaders. the police superintendent says the department has worked with the islamic community to address concerns and today was the day he wanted to go public with their relationship. muslims were there to denounce isis and affirm their status as americans. >> several leaders supported plans and freedoms. that's why we are here and we are proud to be called americans. >> the islamic center in upper darby opened an invitation for the community to visit the center and order the mosque. >>> now for a story on the east and west coast, country's two largest school districts appeared to get the same threatening message but reacted in opposite ways. los angeles shut down every school in its district whil