Friday. Im chris cato. Lets begin with meteorologist bill henley and his first alert forecast. A little cool. And breezy too, the winds are blowing, 7 miles an hour. Others have seen the wind die down. Its a southwest wind so that is going to lead to a warmup this afternoon. Right now temperatures are going the other direction. 50 in wilmington, northeast philadelphia 53, look at the 40s for wrightstown and doylestown at 46 degrees and its 44 in south philadelphia. You will see sunshine, youll need your sunglasses, at 6 00, 50 degrees, the sun is up and warming us up at 9 00, 55, then in the 60s this afternoon. Were not going to see 60s this weekend. Taking a turn for the the colder saturday and sunday. Got your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington right now watching first alert traffic. And bill, a few problems to start off with the Chestnut Street bridge closed over 95, to penns landing. They have diverting traffic off at front street north and southbound. Take dock to race to columbus or get on spruce over on to columbus and get by that for right now. If youre heading out the door on the vine street expressway this construction running late, so we do have the vine street expressway closed in between the schuylkill and broad street in both directions right now. That will be out there until about 5 00 this morning. Update when they pick up this construction. On to this stunning story. This morning a university of delaware student who Police Describe as obsessed faces murder charges in the stabbing death of a local psychiatrist. An Internet Post from ten months ago may provide a possible motive. That post was signed by christopher frick, the same name as the man who confessed to the killing. In the post the writer complained about the now murdered doctor and the Behavioral Health center where she worked. Katy zachry is live in our center with morenk5 on this. As you can imagine, this is just shocking, the campus of the university of delaware where the suspect is enrolled as a math major. Christopher frick you saw his picture, a senior on campus but now in jail charged with murdering his psychiatrist. Police tell us frick was obsessed with dr. Caroline ekong. Police say dr. Ekong was not aware of her patients obsession for her. Investigators say they searched fricks parents home and they found a pattern of obsession there. His classmates are stunned. Pretty astonishing someone from here would just like go off and do that. Its pretty traumatic. Coming up at 4 30 Police Reveal how long they believe frick plotted to kill his doctor for how many years. And were also finding some revealing online posts from the suspect that well share with you in the next 25 minutes. Live in the digital operations center, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. 4 03, a heist that sounds like something out of hollywood. Thieves plunder a Jewelry Store by tunnelling in through a business wall. When young kim walked into his drycleaning business he found a gaping hole in the bathroom where police say thieves created a makeshift tunnel to get into the time and gold Jewelry Store on 19th street. They stole jewels from a safe at about 100 in cash from the drycleaning store. The owner says some clothes were damaged in the process. Had to clean again all clothes again so take me about a week to clean all the things. The detectives say they are working on getting Surveillance Video and hopes of making an arrest. A woman is recovering this morning after someone shot her in the neck last night. Sky force 10 was over the scene at 20th and ra no vo street in the West Oak Lane neighborhood. Someone shot the woman in the back of the neck as she sat in that car you see. She was in serious but stable condition as of last night. Police have not made an arrest or released a possible motive. This morning were still waiting to learn the name of a worker who died when a tree fell on him in chester county. Sky force 10 was over the scene yesterday in elverson. A Tree Trimming Company was working there when the tree toppled, killing the man. No word on what went wrong. Investigators hope toxicology reports will give them clues into the mysterious death of that 3yearold Camden County boy. The initial autopsy on Brandon Creato was inconclusive meaning it offered no definitive cause of death. Police found brendans body tuesday on the banks of the cooper river in hadden township a half mile from his home. Three hours earlier his father had called 911 to report him missing. Sources tell nbc 10 the detectives believe the boys body was placed where it was found. Investigators say toxicology results can often take as long as 30 days but in this case the state lab fast tracked them. Happening today at Philadelphia International airport, the end of an era in commercial aviation. The final u. S. Airways flight will take off as that companys merger with American Airlines nears completion. Flight 1939 will depart from philadelphia at 10 05 a. M. , named after the year that the airline was founded, it will head to charlotte, then phoenix. It will be flying under the American Airlines banner. Some folks in pittsburgh are upset the plane isnt coming there because u. S. Airways was formed in pittsburgh as all american aviation. 4 06. New this morning Philadelphia Police want help in finding this missing woman. 75yearold joyce laury suffers from alzheimers, dementia and schizophrenia last seen yesterday around 5 00 p. M. After she left her home near second and Church Street in old city. If you think you have seen her, call police. A janitor strike that would have impacted dozens of buildings has been averted. The union reached a tentative agreement yesterday, the 2800 custodial workers clean about 170 buildings in the city. They threatened to walk off the job if there wasnt a new agreement before the contract expired at midnight. Emergency road work will continue this morning in old city as jessica showed us, crews working to fix that fourfoot crack in a column under the Chestnut Street bridge. Its expected to reopen this weekend. Take a look here. You can see the crack the department of transportation noticed during an inspection in april. They were going to begin repairs next week but a pedestrian spotted the damaged column on wednesday, they thought it had grown so Police Closed the intersection just to be safe. Drivers will have to use the detour but pedestrians are still allowed to walk over the bridge. Fix it completely, not patch it up. Fix it. Thats dangerous. We find a bridge or aspect of a bridge that we find to be unsafe we dont hess tight close the structure. The project will cost about 80,000 that comes out of pen dots budget. Happening today firefighters will install smoke alarms in as many as 240 homes in Strawberry Mansion district. The Fire Department and the Insurance Society of philadelphia teamed up for this event. It kicks off at 10 00 a. M. Eight minutes after 4 00, its dry in philadelphia but i am tracking some showers. They are falling to the north coming with a cold front which is really going to kick up the wind. Well see sunshine so the clouds will be moving out. That wind increases this weekend and is turning colder for both saturday and for sunday. Right now 45 in reading. Scattered clouds and shy of the 60 degree mark in cape may at this hour. No showers here, thats a nice clear view across the delaware from the adventure aquarium. Well see plenty of sunshine during the afternoon, the few clouds with us this morning will not last. There are the showers you can see a line of showers, thats the cold front pushing into the pocono mountains. The showers look like they are going to miss most of the philadelphia area, but the poconos getting light rain now in the scranton area to the north of allentown this morning. So, expect it to be dry and mild this afternoon. 60s for allentown, reading and quakertown. Well see sunshine for trenton, mount holly 67, and middle 60s for doylestown and norristown and along the coast mid to upper 60s today with partly to mostly sunny skies. For philadelphia, a nice warmup today to 68 degrees. Thats right around normal for this time of year. Westchester 64, 67 in wilmington. Does turn cold over the weekend. A close look at the cold air when i come back in ten minutes. Ten minutes after 4 00. The schuylkill expressway was a mess yesterday afternoon. Some people may still be trying to get home after that. Hopefully things are clear this morning. Pretty much all clear right now. Were dealing with spots of construction right now on the schuylkill right around Spring Garden street on the eastbound lanes you can see this road sign here, creating lane restrictions so we have the left lane lost. Traffic moving because theres not a lot of volume so far. Eastbound drive time still great from the blue route to the vine street expressway. 12 minutes so no increase there. If you are on the schuylkill expressway getting off at the city avenue exit watch out because theres traffic lights on flash out of the city avenue bridge before president ial boulevard so at the bottom of the schuylkill off ramp. When i come back im going to go over mass transit. We will look forward to that mass transit. It is 10 after 4 00. A disturbing discovery at a construction site. Taken her down. Its real. It was unusually thought to be a halloween decoration, but it turned out to be a very real horror story. And why a College Professor suspended for speaking at a protest against security changes that she is being punished for exercising her First Amendment rights. More than 5 million speak for amope pedi perfect. Discover the latest innovation new amope pedi perfect with diamond crystals. Remove hard skin effortlessly for soft beautiful feet in an instant. Amope, love every step. A discovery in ohio has led to murder charges. The body of a woman was at first mistaken for a halloween decoration. Contractors working near the area found the body and then they realized it was real when they tried to move it. Police found an i. D. Card nearby and they were able to identify the woman. A man is now in custody facing murder charges but neighbors are worried for their children. Help, do something. We got kids out here that play. No kids should have to see that. None. And now we have to pretend it was something else. Police have identified the victim as a 31yearold woman from that area there. A 27yearold man is accused of killing her. A father charged with beating his son to death at a church in new york is expected in court for a felony hearing today. Bruce leonard and his wife are charged with firstdegree manslaughter. Police say a counseling session with the 19yearold son lucas turned physical and then lucas died after suffering what they call blunt force trauma. Authorities say his 17yearold brother was also beaten and is still in the hospital. Three other Church Members were arrested. The u. S. Airman held a hero for helping sthoop terrorist attack aboard a train in france has been released from the hospital now after being stabbed outside a nightclub. Spencer stone was stabbed during an argument with two men. The incident was not related to terrorism or what transpired in paris. No arrests have been made. Suspended over free speech. A College Professor says shes being punished for exercising her First Amendment right. Divya nair is a professor at the Community College of philadelphia, she says she was suspended for speaking out against increased Police Presence on campus. This comes after administrators added new security measures following threats of a man on the campus with a gun last week. Students and staff protested the security measures which include more Police Patrols and students having to show i. D. When they enter the building. The school says this isnt a freedom of speech issue and nair violated her contract. But protesters say otherwise. Only a few hours after our protest dispersed that she found out she was suspended without pay. We recognize the police as oppressive racist institution. This speaks to the increasing militarization of the campus. She will remain suspended as the School Investigation continues. Scheduled for today in the federal tax and Bank Fraud Trial accused of misusing federal education contracts and loans to pay his personal expenses. He denies the charges. He is representing himself in court and says prosecutors have unfairly targeting him adding that the governments case is weak and she eager to prove it. In the next few weeks, the details regarding these issues will become clear. Something that i think people need to know is that i wouldnt do anything wrong to the Philadelphia School district. Fattah jr. Faces jail time and a fine up to 13 million. His father congressman chaka fattah is charged in a different case, his trial isnt scheduled to begin until next spring. And here are more details on the charges against him. According to the federal indictment, fattah senior is accused of misusing influence, stealing taxpayer money and donations. He is also accused of accepting a secret Million DollarCampaign Loan and taking a bribe from a lobbyist who wanted to be a u. S. Ambassad ambassador. He has denied all those charges. Congressman fattah is married to nbc 10 anchor renee fattah. She is labeled as person e and affiliate of the fattah enterprise. The feds allege that she took part in a scheme to fraudulently sell a car in order to pay Closing Costs on a vacation home. She is not charged with a crime and she denies any wrong doing. Renee is on leave from nbc 10. A town in south jersey is trying to put brakes on drunk driving expanding an initiative that leaders say is saving lives. It builds on a program that started in december called dont take the risk. Theyre teaming up with uber and be my designated driver to provide safe rides to people who are under the influence. Here is how it works. An evesham township resident can get a free ride from uber or be my db. Protect our children, first shouldnt be driving when they are drunk. The program does not use taxpayer money instead businesses and some anonymous residents donated to pay for the rides. If you are not an evesham resident it will still get you home safe for a price. 19 minutes after 4 00. It is a cool morning but were going to see a warmup during the day. Live view of boathouse row will stay dry. 56 degrees right now in philadelphia. And thats a taste of what its going to feel like this weekend. Well see temperatures topping out near 56 degrees saturday and a little chillier on sunday. Right now we are having a few clouds pass by. The only showers in the region are passing to the north this morning. They are in the pocono mountains. The temperatures in the 40s and 50s to start. A little chillier than yesterday. Pottstown 45. North and west you can see 43 in collegeville, and 40 in gilbertsville and falling at this hour. There are some clouds around so that will slow the cooling of the temperatures. Satellite shows clouds moving into the area, but the back edge is in western pennsylvania so the clouds will swing through during the day. We may charlotte with clouds but well break out in sunshine during the day. Thats going to lead to a warmup. The only showers moving through the pocono mountains, expect those to stay to the north. Well see clearing skies today, lots of sunshine and this afternoon some rain showers to the west. But look what happens as we head into tomorrow morning. Thats when we get a chill in philadelphia. Thats saturday. 7 00, and that is snow falling in northwestern pennsylvania. We wont get the snow but the cold air thats in northwest pennsylvania, thats moving in for sunday morning. For today, becoming sunny. After some clouds well clear out. A breezy day today with afternoon temperatures in the 60s. And this weekend gusty winds for saturday and there you go, 57 the High Temperature on saturday. A little chillier on sunday. Thats a nice rebound after morning temperatures sunday in the 30s. Full sevenday forecast coming up, chris, in the next half hour. 30s, all right. Guess were ready or well have to get ready. 4 4 21. If you are ready for the morning drive what awaits you on 422. Nbc 10s Jessica Boyington shows us that. Chris, yeah, we have ongoing construction on 422 so i picked this camera to show you 422 but they moved it and turned it around. The off ramp to trooper road, construction off of there. So watch out for that. We are doing okay still on the main stretch of the highway eastbound from 29 to schuylkill expressway, still 8 minutes so no problems there. The rest of the drive times in the philadelphia area no problems on 95 and the schuylkill into center city, the blue route southbound and the vine from the schuylkill expressway into 95 actually is about a 15minute trip. No problems or delays for mass transit. When i come back in the next ten minutes well check in. Nbc 10 and telemundo invite you to celebrate dia del nino. Well valley music, well have dancing, lots of fun and games. You can also meet some of us, take photos. Go to nbc10. Com to buy tickets. Get a 4 discount by using the promo code 4ninos. It was a rally for a stricter gun law, supporters gathered to back a bill requiring universal background checks for gun buyers in pennsylvania. Youll hear what they had to say and what the bill would do if its approved. Plus, a shark sighting. Well fill you in on the great white that observers say has made a comeback to the jersey shore. This, a house bill that would require universal background checks for anyone who buys a gun in pennsylvania. Supporters held a rally in norristown. The legislation would require all firearms including private sales to be done for a background check to be done. During the purchase authorities would check out the buyers criminal background and would check information about whether the buyer had ever involuntarily been committed to a Mental Health facility. I think there is more control over vehicles than guns. So i mean, theres a lot of issues we need to look at. All of the polls show nearly 90 of all pennsylvanians, gun owners and nongun owners support universal background checks. Its the legislature, frankly, that is out of step with the people of pennsylvania. Now this bill was first introduced in 2013. But it did not pass. The grand opening of a New High School building and campus in philadelphia. The school began as k4. Its been popular, grown over seven years now k12. The Ribbon Cutting will be this morning at 10 00. Also today in philadelphia, thousands of students and parents expected to take part in the philly high school fair. The event lets them connect with more than 100 public, 3r50i69, charter and catholic high schools across the city. That will be held today from 3 00 to 7 00 p. M. At the Pennsylvania Convention center and tomorrow from 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. No theme music for her but mary lee is back. The great white shark has returned to the jersey shore. Researchers tagged her three years ago, we told you about her story. Yesterday the 16foot, 3400 pound shark was spotted near ocean city. She gained popularity in the spring and has her own twitter handle. She spent most of the summer off the coast of florida, georgia and the carolinas. 4 27 the time. 55 degrees, a few clouds overhead but they will not last. Well see some sunshine today but big changes ahead for the weekend. Jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center. Happy friday there, jessica. Happy friday it is, bill. On 295 now around sloan avenue in hamilton. Moving along nicely north or southbound, but we do have an update on the vine street expressway construction. A university of delaware student is in jail accused of killing his former psychiatrist. Coming up well share with you an online rant we found that could implicate the suspect further. The amope premium foot disccare line,atest from to see why women are admiring their beautiful nails. They have good reason. 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