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Nice monday right . It will be a nice day with lots of sunshine in the 50s and 60s. Near perfect Easter Sunday. And a clear view this morning from the adventure aquarium. It is chilly this morning. 43 degrees in philadelphia. Look at the 30s, upper 30s for coatsville Doylestown Wrightstown and toms river. Dropping below there at 30 degrees. 44 in roxborough. Get ready for sunshine today. 6 00 this morning, 45 degrees. 51 at 9 00. By lunchtime, 64 degrees and climbing with that southwesterly wind at 9 miles an hour. Well go through it hour by hour with the future weather when im back in ten minutes. But right now well go to first alert traffic reporter christine maddela. Good morning christine. Good morning and happy monday to you, bill. Starting out right now, it is still early for the morning commute. You can see theres a lot of green on the turnpike the blue route and the schuylkill expressway and 295 into south jersey. As we take a look at one of the cameras out there, this is interstate 95 at the ben franklin bridge. Not a lot of volume out there with the Road Conditions out there. Checking on the drive times this is normal this time of the morning. A lot of green lights out there, 13 minutes on woodhaven road to the vine street expressway. Chris . A couple breaking news items. We begin with this one in philadelphia where police found a woman dead inside of her home. This is on willows avenue in the kingsessing neighborhood. Police are calling this suspicious and are not saying how she died but they are saying it is suspicious. No arrests in this case. And nbc 10 was rii first on the scene when police swarmed a north philadelphia neighborhood after officers say a teenager fired a gun and barricaded himself inside a house. Now Police Say Officers saw someone fire a gun at least five times on the street. When officers went up to him he ran into the house on north 11th street. Police say he and other people inside that home refused to come out. Eventually police talked to someone in the house and convinced nine people including a 16yearold who officers have identified as the shooter to come out. We brought nine occupants in the house out. No one had any weapons. The 16yearold hid the weapon somewhere in the property. The 16yearold did not live at this property. He was friends with the family who did reside there. Police took some of the people who were inside the house in for questioning. Kidnapping beaten and robbed all because of her job. The Philadelphia Police are hoping surveillance cameras help catch the man who abducted a Jewelry Store worker in center city on saturday. The 53yearold woman was headed for her car inside a parking garage on Chestnut Street when three men jumped out of the van, forced her inside and demanded the keys to the store and the code to the safe. When she said she didnt have them, they drove her around for an hour beating her and using her taser. They took her bank card and left her in a cemetery. The van is an older model with white graffiti on the side and back. If you have information on who that might be call police. And police in mt. Laurel are looking for this couple. Edward and nicole hatch are both from philadelphia. The couple went to dicks sports goods and cut security locks off highend baseball bats and put them in the baby stroller and left. The bats are worth close to 2800. Investigators say a few days earlier the couple used the same stroller to steal from an Amusement Park in mt. Laurel. Crews in Camden County are waiting for high tide to move this boat that was stuck on a sandbar with people on board. This video is a little dark but you can see the boat along pembroke park. It ran aground around dusk last night at low tide. No one was hurt. Well, police have an arrest warrant for a youth basketball coach who shot at another coach in philadelphia over the weekend. It happened saturday afternoon inside the aw kristy Recreation Center in philadelphia. The coach got into an argument with some fans and when the other coach intervened the angry coach pulled out a gun and fired a shot at him. There were about 70 people inside the kim at the time. Thankfully nobody was hit. The shooter drove away before Police Arrived and police have not released his name. Two people go on trial in philadelphia today for the murder of this man. Micah fisher was shot to dead on the night of his 26th Birthday Party in 2013. Police say he was the nent bystander. Police are still looking for a third suspect. And another murder trial begins today in philadelphia. James alton is charged with killing corrine elle. This was a dispute over a stolen iphone. The racketeering trial of six officers will resume this week. The six are accused of beating and robbing suspected drug dealers over a period of six years stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars and drugs from them. A seventh former officer pleaded guilty and is set to testify against his former colleagues. Six minutes after 4 00 now. The excitement is building. It is opening day in philadelphia. A live look now at Citizens Bank park where just a few hours from now we will have first pitch as the phillies take on the Boston Red Sox to begin the 2015 baseball season. Can you believe its here already . Pretty exciting. Watch that game right here on nbc 10. Thats this afternoon. Were giving you everything to be all set for it. Katy zachry is live at the ballpark this morning. Final preparations are underway for todays opening game right . Reporter yeah, there are some people not a lot, but some people at Citizens Bank park getting ready for when the first pitch is thrown out at 3 05. Chris, if i had this seat for when the first pitch is thrown out, i would be really in the best shape of any fan in this entire stadium. So while Citizens Bank park may look to you at this time the same there are quite a few changes fans will find this year. Now, thousands of fans got an early jump on the action this weekend when the phillies took on the Pittsburgh Pirates for their traditional ondeck series. It was the first time the team has been back on the field since last season. And this season, though fans are in for a few changes. Let me lay out one of the biggest ones. New metal detectors are in place. Fans will walk through immediately where the tickets are scanned as part of the enhanced security measure tested last year. In the next hour well talk to the director of security here at Citizens Bank park about why these new walkthrough metal detectors are put in place. And well let fans know the exciting changes to expect throughout the year. See you in 25 minutes. Reporting live on the field at Citizens Bank park katy zachry nbc 10 news. Got to love the smell of the fresh grass. Thank you, katy. You can see all the opening day excitement including the game here on nbc 10. Join keith jones and jaqueline london at 2 00 p. M. For the welcome home phillies series. And then well check your tweets on how youre getting ready for the season opener. Include philliestalk. After countless busted brackets, it all comes down to tonights top two seeded teams battling it out, the Wisconsin Badgers ended kentuckys student perfection and will take on the duke blue devils tonight. Duke is trying to give head coach Mike Krzyzewski another title. Nine minutes after 4 00 this morning. We have clear skies and calm conditions. A live view from here at the nbc 10 studios. Right now 30s in allentown. 36 degrees in northeast philadelphia philadelphia. Temperatures are above freezing for just about everyone. Cape may is dry this morning with plenty of sunshine. Youll need the sunglasses today. Not seeing a lot of wind just yet, but it will be picking up throughout the day. Its already picking up to the south, dover with a 13mileanhour breeze. Radar showing us completely clear today, but tomorrow youll need the rain gear. Doesnt look like much through indiana, illinois and into the carolinas, but it will come together as rain and possibly some thunderstorms for us for tomorrow. For today, hour by hour forecast, 61 degrees at 11 00. At that hour allentown will be in the 50s. 64 in dover. Then look at the warm up. From 11 00 this morning, 4 00 this afternoon, here come the 70s today. And the clouds stay off to the north and west making it a beautiful opening day at Citizens Bank park. Sunshine will be bright and temperatures into the 70s this afternoon. Winds still light right now and picking up at times to 17 miles an hour. Your baseball forecast for today when im back in ten. Ten minutes after 4 00 now. Well get an early check of the highways and biways. This is a live look at route 73 at interstate 295 in mt. Laurel. Things are moving along quite nicely out there. Thats really what were seeing throughout our area. Nothing really to slow you down at this hour. Still a lot of green on our maps. But i do have an accident in Montgomery County right now. And that is in new hanover. We have an accident near swamp picnic road that authorities are responding to, but its not a heavily traveled area. If thats your neighborhood, you are going to have to be on the lookout for the crews. If youre heading on the bridges right now, all the bridges are in the clear. Chris . A manhunt underway in indiana this morning. Two women and three children were shot inside a home there. Well tell you how police say the suspects got inside. And Easter Services came to a sudden stop at this church in new jersey when the roof collapsed. Well hear from parishioners who saw it all happen. 4 13. Well bring you back to breaking news we told you about in south jersey. Police are investigating an apparent crime scene. Were still trying to get information on exactly what is going on here but if you take a live look at the picture here you can see one detective and one investigator on the scene looking at something on the ground. We saw earlier dozens of evidence markers. The type of set up you would see in other cases where police found a number of shell casings, but at this point we cant confirm there was a shooting or any bullets were fired. We are still trying to get information on what happened here outside of a business in Camden County. Just near the border of camden and hollingswood. And a developing story in indiana now, police are looking for three suspects who they say shot three women and three Young Children inside a home in indianapolis. All five are in the hospital with serious injuries. The kids were just 6, 3 and 6 months old. The shootings happened at 9 30 this morning. They believe the gunman knew the victims and were invited inside. And its 4 15 now. Happening today in the city of philadelphia, well officially mark the end of the mourning period for murdered Sergeant Robert wilson iii. Mayor Michael Nutter and other top officials will close the 30day mourning period for Sergeant Wilson who was killed in the line of duty on march 5th. Investigators say he was inside the gamestop store in north philadelphia buying a gift for his son when two men tried to rob the store. Wilson stopped the robbers but died in the shootout. Prosecutors do plan to show Surveillance Video from inside the store during the trial for the two men. Authorities have charged Carlton Hipps and Ramon Williams with wilsons murder. They are due in court next month. The Philadelphia Police department begins a new train this morning to give them a Perfect Union workshop. They will launch this program at the National Constitution center designed to show new recruits and remind seasoned offers about concept of fair and impartial treatment. Ramsey cochaired president obamas Traffic Force on community policing. Well, government officials, lawmakers and medical professionals will announce new details about the Successful Use of narcan in gloucester county. The drug reverses heroin overdoses and so far Police Officers there have used it to save the lives of more than 40 people since last september. And the Justice Department is now looking into the case of a delaware family that may have been sickened by pesticide at their condo in the virgin islands. The esmond family was staying at a resort last month when they became very ill. The epa is investigating to see if a pesticide used to fumigate their room is to blame up. The two teenager sons and father are still in critical condition. The wife has been released from the hospital. Well, a rock climber survived a 55foot fall at a bucks county state park. The man was repelling at Ralph Stover State Park when he fell yesterday afternoon. He was flown to Temple University hospital with serious shoulder ankle and other injuries but otherwise is expected to be okay. The cause of a roof collapse under investigation this morning at a church in north jersey. I want happened during the middle of Easter Services yesterday. Parishioners say the ceiling at the Korean United Methodist Church began to bulge and suddenly collapsed on top of them. We were like singing and then we were moving and the middle part fell and it collapsed. And we just ran to the door. God saved me and my family and everyone in this church. One person was seriously hurt. 13 others had minor injuries. And Easter Sunday fight to save this church from being demolished. Parishioners will meet with city leaders in philadelphia later this week to try to stave st. Laurentis church that has been on burke street since 1982. They say the building is unsafe and will be demolished. Church goers are appealing the decision and awaiting a final ruling from the vatican. I hope the pope gets involved and saves our church. The archdiocese estimates it will cost 3. 5 million to renovate the church. Supporters say the number is actually much lower than that. A chilly start this morning. Clear skies, sunshine is on tap for this monday. And its going to be a mild one. Right now most of the area is above freezing. Look at this in the 40s for philadelphia. 43 degrees and calm right now. We will see some wind during the day today, but not a lot. It will be a nice breeze blowing at the ballpark with a southwesterly wind this afternoon. It could go as high as 15 16 miles an hour. It looks like a great day for opening day for the phillies. Sunshine 72 degrees at 3 00. Thats when well see southwesterly winds at 15 miles an hour. Not as strong at 6 00 but still present at 12 miles an hour and the temperature is still really nice for a ball game. Perfect weather for opening day. Satellite shows we are in the clear this morning. Clouds are to the south. Just some scattered clouds. Thicker clouds are moving through virginia. With those clouds for tomorrow we will likely see some showers this morning. The showers that we will see tomorrow morning are to our west and moving to the midwest. It doesnt look like much right now but its going to be coming together with more impressive looks tomorrow. Today you will need your sunglasses and it will be nice and mild today after a chilly start this morning. You need the jacket first thing. 70s this afternoon. Ill show you how long thats going to last with the sevenday forecast in the next half hour. All right, bill. 20 minutes until 4 00 now as you get ready to make your monday morning drive. Well see if there are officers out there having you look at your detour. Well look at the traffic out there with christine maddela. No obstacles out there. Interstate 95 at delaware route 1, the Road Conditions are good and the showers bill was talking about are not in the area now. So everything is looking quite nice. Taking a look right now with a lot of green on the map, interstate 76 at the conshohocken curve between the blue route and the vine will take you 13 minutes this morning. The same if you are heading westbound. If you are driving in new jersey right now, the 42 freeway, new jersey turnpike, 295, they are all looking pretty good. Chris . And we have a headsup for drives on i95 in northeast philadelphia this morning. Starting tonight, 8 00 p. M. The northbound lanes between new state road and rhawn street will be reduced from three lanes to two. This is all part of the ongoing project to widen the highway there. And a major magazine makes a total aboutface on a story that made national headlines. The Rolling Stone officially retracts an article about the gang rape at the university of virginia after an independent report on the journalistic practices. Well tell you what the report found. And the big dance can cost some big money. Youll see what the average family will spend on prom this year coming up. Hello baseball season. Citizens bank park looking prime for opening day. Hey, its 42 degrees now, which isnt bad considering what it felt like a couple weeks ago. By this afternoon, youll be thrilled. About 70 degrees and sunny. Perfect opening day of baseball weather. Cole hamels is going to be out there and you can watch at 2 00 and 3 00 p. M. And the Rolling Stone magazine is apologizing following an independent report by Columbia University that found the magazine environmented basic and routine journalistic practice. The Police Investigation produced no evidence that the attack ever happened. Rolling stones publisher says he will not fire anyone and says it is an unusual episode. Today in new jersey the public gets a look at the proposed 245 million settlement with exxon mobil. They asked to clean up plus near Oil Refineries in north jersey after a 30day public commentary the environmental officials are expected to approve the agreement. The judge still has to rule on the offer and lawmakers are trying to overturn the deal. Residents in Camden County have a chance to speak directly to county officials that they put in office. On wednesday the preholder board will begin a series of townhall meetings with the first beginning in winslow townships. Residents can ask questions and get answers directly from constituents rather the residents can get answers from the representatives. The beach replenishment project in ocean city could be completed early by midsummer. The army corps of engineers will dredge sand and pump it along the shore on the south end of town. Originally the work was supposed to end after summer but they are finishing ahead of time. And part of the Community College in philadelphias 50th Anniversary Scholars Program is open to students graduating from city high schools this year. And who have family incomes that qualify for federal pell grants. They must also meet other requirements. Well, its prom season and that means teens across the nation are picking out the allimportant dresses, tuxedos and Everything Else for the big day. According to visas annual Prom Spending survey the average family will spend just over 900 on prom. The study also found that families with annual incomes of 50,000 or more will spend an average of 800 on prom. Families of incomes of less than 25,000 will spend close to 1400 on prom. Right now preparations are underway for the annual white house easter egg roll. 35,000 people are expected to join the first family on the south lawn of the white house today. This years event focuses on fitness with several performances, activities and the popular egg roll event. This year marks the 137th edition of the annual tradition. Chilly start this morning but our skies are clear. Right now 42 degrees at 4 27. Christine maddela in the first alert traffic center. Good morning christine. Good morning, bill. The roads are also clear. Heres a live look at interstate 95 near cottman avenue and the longterm construction project. You can see the construction cones out there but no crews to slow you down. Ill have a look at the drive times when we come back. A suspect on a motorcycle allegedly led police on a chase across two counties and it all came to a crashing end. Well tell you what consequences that suspect is facing. Breaking news this morning, a woman is found dead in a local home overnight and her death is being called suspicious. And it is almost time to play ball. Fans are welcoming the phillies back for opening day as the National Past time returns to phil. And fans wont need a heavy coat or umbrella for the game. Things will be sunny and mild today. How about this for a monday right . It makes you ready for monday. Good morning this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. We had a fabulous Easter Sunday and are looking forward to a great opening day for the phillies. Meteorologist bill henley is here with the first alert forecast. Good morning bill. Pressure is on but we have a winner today. A lot of sunshine even though its chilly right now, most of the area is well above freezing. And nice and dry at cape

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