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They say they simply do not know. They have no evidence of anyone else being in the stall and their investigation is continuing. At this moment, officers are back over at the school where she taught, Key Elementary School. They are looking at the school to see if the weapons that were used for the lacerations that were done to her body, if they came from that school or not. Well have more for you on this at 6 00. Reporting live in south philadelphia, Harry Hairston, nbc 10 news. Harry, thank you zblmpls t. Case of a philadelphia woman accused of kidnapping and sex l sexually assaulting a 5yearold girl is in the hands of the jury. After five hours, jurors were sent home without announcing a verdict. Crihristina regu srkregusters i six charges including involuntary deviant sexual intercourse with a child. All 12 jurors must agree on a verdict and decide if regusters is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on any or all of the charges. Police say one confidential informant will receive more than 1,000,000 reward if regusters is convicted. Officers say the timing is curious. Philadelphia police are trying to find the vandals who left messages of hate painted on a northeast philadelphia business. Blood red swastikas were painted on the store windows of simons kosher meats on bustleton avenue in oxford circle. The hate crime comes on the 9 11 anniversary and some say it was no coincidence. On 9 11, were concerned about things like these happening and looking into that possibility. Its a shock that in this day and age, and in this neighborhood, that this antisemitism is still going on. Detectives were on the scene gathering evidence including Surveillance Video from nearby shops. Today, america remembers the september 11th, 2001, terror attacks. Nbc 10 was there for Memorial Services at the garden of reflection in lower makefield township. 18 people from bucks county lost their lives on that fateful day. Now 13 years later, millions across the country and around the world pause to reflect on the attacks and to honor the nearly 3,000 who died. In new york this morning, the tolling of a bell followed by a moment of silence marked the solemn anniversary at the National September 11th memorial and museum plaza in lower manhattan. Family members of those killed in the attacks read the names of the deceased. A new Freedom Tower and museum honoring the victims stands in the spot that was once covered in the rubble of the twin towers. In washington, d. C. , president obama and first Lady Michelle attended a service at the site where a plane crashed into the pentagon 13 years ago today. The commander in chief laid a wreath and observed a moment of silence before delivering remarks. And now to the service in shanksville, pennsylvania, where united flight 93 went down. A ocongressional gold medal was awarded to those who died. Passengers on board the plane fought hijackers for control of the jet. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Lets talk about the weather now. Its been a hot and humid day with a few isolated showers. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen is watching the chance for showers this evening. How does it look . Showers are still going to stay in the forecast this evening. The clouds are going to hang around. The thunderstorm activity hasnt really been very widespread across the area, though. Heres a live picture view from the four cameras were seeing so far. Along the shore, brigantine area, looks pretty nice. Looks pretty good for the phillies. Clouds around. And across center city, heres a view with pretty much overcast skies which is what weve seen a majority of the day. Those temperatures have managed to get up there along with the humidity. Now, we do have a cold front that is trying to work its way through. Theres not very much moisture and lift in the atmosphere to give it all those very strong thunderstorms that we had yesterday at this time that were back off to our west. But, again, for the rest of this evening, we should be seeing a couple scattered showers, at least across the area. 83 degrees right now in philadelphia. Through the lehigh valley, the mid to low 80s. 85, Atlantic City. 88 degrees, though, in dover. Thats the warmest spot so far. 6 00 p. M. Tonight, chance of a shower. Temperatures in the low 80s. Still humid. By 8 00 p. M. , still a chance of showers around. 77 degrees. As we get closer to 10 00 tonight, well be in about the mid to low 70s. Could see showers south of philadelphia. But with de do have cooler temperatures in the forecast. Also some rain for your weekend. Ill show you timing of that coming up. A former fbi director will lead a probe into how the National Football league handled evidence in the ray rice investigation. The move comes after a report of a Law Enforcement official delivering an nfl executive a tape of ray rice knocking his wife unconscious back in april. The nfl denies seeing that tape. Nbc 10 National Correspondent Chris Pallone with the latest. Reporter the National Football league has chosen Robert Muller to direct an investigation into the leagues handling of the ray rice Domestic Abuse incident. It will be independent overseen by mr. Marra and steelers owner rooney. A report that a Law Enforcement source sent the video of rice knocking his wife unconscious. Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti said Team Officials tried to see the video before the league handed out rices controversial punishment, a twogame suspension. We called the prosecutor, called the police, we called the jets and giants security people and said, can you help us with the new charges . Nobody could help us. We did everything we could to get it. Reporter the incident is shining a spotlight on the league and the way it handles players off the field behavior. Carolina players defensive end greg hardy continues to play as he awaits a jury trial after a judge convicted him on two Domestic Violence charges. San francisco tackle ray mcdonald also remains active while under investigation for allegations of Domestic Abuse. Now many people are increasing calls for nfl commissioner goodell to step down. We all know that mr. Goodell took action against ray rice not because he saw a video, but because we saw that video. Reporter a dozen members of congress have sent goodell a letter demanding the highest level of transparency in explaining the steps the nfl took when dealing with rice. The nfl says the investigative report from former fbi director muller will be made public. Chris pillone, nbc news, new york. Our coverage of the ray rice scandal continues with nbc 10s ted greenberg. Ted, so many questions about now who sent the video to the nfl . Reporter well, jackie, ive been working all day to try to find out if the Atlantic City Police Department or Atlantic County Prosecutors Office is investigating if someone on the inside sent that video to the nfl. And i started by going straight to a. C. Mayor, don guardian. Is it possible that it came out through the Police Department . That it leaked through the Police Department . Yeah, i cant comment on that. Reporter is it something you want to know as the mayor . Absolutely. Reporter why is that . Well, i think its important that there be the public understands that there is an open book when it comes to investigations. Reporter i asked for an interview with Atlantic City police chief henry white seen here in file video, but was told he was unavailable. In a statement, though, he said he had no comment on the Associated Press story which reported that a Law Enforcement official sent a video of ray rice punching his thenfee withdra fiancee to an nfl executive five weeks ago. He said the department will neither confirm nor deny the existence of video evidence. A spokesman for the other Investigative Agency that handled the rice case had an almost identical statement. I can assure you the Atlantic City Police Department has done everything that was appropriate in working with the county prosecutor. Reporter i also wanted to find out if new Jersey State Police or the division of gaming enforcement ever had the video. A associatispokesman told me to did not. Live in Atlantic City, ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. A lot of people have been talk about this, we have new information on assault and robbery of a 12yearold delaware boy who uses a wheelchair. New Castle County Police have a better description of the two young suspects they say assaulted the newark boy and stole his keys. Nbc 10 introduced you to quan mackey earlier this year. He was exercising outside on monday in the christian green neighborhood. The two suspects ran up behind him and pushed his wheelchair into a storm grate, then they continued to punch him. Police say the suspects are between 12 and 14 years old. Investigators say a similar incident occurred days earlier with the same teens assaulting and threatening the young victim. A Burlington County man is accused of sexually assaulting kids who attended a daycare that his wife ran. 54yearold Dennis Alston of willingboro township is accused of assaulting two kids. His wife ran a daycare on timber lane called home sweet home. Two children both under the age of 12 told their parents alston forced them to perform sex acts. Investigators are concerned there may be more victims. Police in New Castle County are looking for this man, 36yearold Hunter Williams is accused of assaulting a woman in bellefonte. On wednesday, police were called to christiana hospital after a 42yearold woman showed up with injuries. The Victim Told Police she couldnt remember what happened but identified williams as the man who attacked her. If you know where williams is, give police a call. You might remember this one. A food truck explosion this past summer killed two people and hurt more than a dozen others. Now hachanges are coming to w the city of philadelphia inspects the propane tanks on those trucks. Stopping isis. We now know the president s plan of attack. Ahead this hour, nbc 10s military analyst weighs in on strikes against terrorists. And stolen jewelry. 20,000 worth. Where thieves made off with this and much more. Plus, how you can help catch them. Remembering those who lost their lives on september 11th, 2001. Motorcyclists hit the road today in the Nations Capital for the annual 2 million bikers to d. C. Ride. The ride and rally honor the victims, survivors, and First Responders of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. As well as members of the armed forces. The event was followed by a rally on the nations mall. Of the nearly 3,000 People Killed in the 9 11 attacks, 72 of them were Law Enforcement officers. They were honored today at the officers Memorial Wall also in washington, d. C. U. S. Attorney general eric holder read each of the officers natimes and a wreath were put at the site. All 72 of those officers were from new york and new jersey. Aspirin was the suspicio su powder find on a jet in houston today. Someone called the Fire Department to report the flights powdery substance this morning. The plane was searched while passengers waited to be given the all clear. Turns out, it was crushed aspirin. Passengers were held up for about an hour. Propanefueled explosion killed a mother and daughter working inside a Philadelphia Food truck and injured more than a dozen other people. Now city council is working to change how the trucks are inspected. Nbc 10s Deanna Durante is live at the digital operations center. Deanna, what are the steps being taken here . Well, the big would create a new Inspection Team and new Inspection Training course that would be headed up by the philadelphia Fire Department. Now, some say that the july 1st explosion showed a number of gaps in the safety of those food trucks here in pennsylvania. Food trucks, of course, have been gaining popularity all across the nation. The massive explosion was set off in the feltonville section in july. A weakened propane valve is thought to be a cause of that blast. According to a spokesperson for City Council President darryl clark, the state is charged with propane tank safety inspections, but food trucks have not been part of those inspections. Clark introduced a bill today that would create a new fleet of inspections for philadelphias firefighters making it responsible on their part for checking out the trucks, but also making sure that some of the owners comply with the orders to run the trucks. Clarks bill would also put responsibility on the food truck owners, as weve said, and vendors to specific types of tanks installed making sure that theres proper ventilation and requiring operators to make repairs if there are any issues. Also, the operators have to keep those safety reports and inspections with them at all times. The Fire Department has typically inspected trucks only when problems have been reported. But clarks bill will force those food truck vendors to report the problems and make repairs immediately. We found out that there really was no inspection process, and safety course relating to the use of propane tanks. So what were doing is enacting hopefully legislation that will make the Fire Department responsible for establishing regulations around inspections, regulations around safety, ensuring that people will understand how they should and should not operate these propane tanks. Now, this bill was introduced in city council today. Clarks rep tells me that theres no timetable when it may be approved, but clark did tell us that right now, he has received very little opposition to this bill. Reporting live in the digital operations center, Deanna Durante, nbc 10 news. Toronto mayor rob ford is in the hospital with what doctors believe is a tumor in his stomach. Hospital Officials Say ford has been suffering from stomach pains for at least three months and they became worse in the last couple of days. Doctors found the tumor through a c. T. Scan but says its too early to know just what kind it is and what treatment he may have to undergo. Ford returned to work in june after a stay in rehab for drug and alcohol abuse. Last year, he admitted using crack cocaine. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well, today kind of cloudy. Weve seen overcast conditions and still a few showers in the forecast. As we go through tonight, as far as the thunderstorms are concerned, were not seeing widespread thunderstorms right now. So that shouldnt be a threat as we go through the rest of the ve enning. So for the phillies, it looks fine. For friday, though, tomorrow, were going to see cooler temperatures. The rain as it goes through the rest of the evening tonight is part of a cold front. As we go into the weekend, were going to have another round of rain. So for the first half of your weekend, at least part of saturday, well see some showers moving in. Right now, heres a live look at center city looking at the Comcast Center there. We certainly have our fair share of cloud cover across the area. Its 83 degrees in philadelphia. But with the humidity, feels for like 86 degrees. And well keep that humidity in the forecast for the rest of tonight. Locally, we have the clouds around. A few showers off to our west around washington. Well be watching those as they continue moving to the east. This is part of a cold front. Yesterday the line of storms off to the west was very severe. Now its really starting to wash out as it approaches the area. Cooler air is coming in behind it. That will take over as we go into tomorrow, through much of the area. Future weather for tonight, few showers left over as we go through the evening hours. Then were pretty much clearing up after midnight. Friday looks pretty good. Well see sunshine mostly around the philadelphia area, north of that we could have clouds lingering just to the south. Then on saturday, you see the moisture coming back up through the area. So starting off your saturday, youll notice more clouds around, then to end the day were actually going to have showers approaching. 7 00 p. M. On saturday, showers start moving in. These will come mainly overnight and into early sunday. We start to clear out for the second half of the weekend. As we go through the rest of this evening, though, warm temperatures will be staying around. Then well drop down to around 62 degrees in philadelphia. 54 areas north and west. A nfew showers. Tomorrow, cooler, less humid. Temperatures in the mid 70s for much of the area. We start off the weekend with cooler temperatures. Upper 60s possibly. And a little bit of rain. Looks a little better on sunday. Smoke alarm recall. The reason more than a million of the devices are being recalled. And what you should do if youve got one in your house. And a fast food game changer. Burger king says color is key. What they are doing overseas to change the look and taste of an american staple. Our dads a plumber. A business manager. And a stickler for homework. Im john kane running for state senate. Dad says the road to a good job starts in the classroom. [ lori ] hes a great dad who sees taxes going up but schools not getting the funding they need. [ john ] so id put back the billion dollars corbett cut from education and make sure corporations and natural gas drillers paid their fair share. Time to close the loopholes for the tax cheats. Dad thinks a lot about education. Im john kane and its about time harrisburg did too. Im john kane remembering the 13th anniversary of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. Delaware county honored its First Responders at the memorial in Rose Tree Park in media. Wreaths were placed along the memorial. Nbc 10s Harry Hairston was the keynote speaker along with District Attorney jack walen, members of city county and the council sheriff. Take a look at this display at the roxborough home of Philadelphia Police officer john tagard. For the last 12 years hes decorated his yard with 243 american flags. Each flag has a pick cur ture oe of a new york firefighter killed on 9 11. The officer works with philadelphias crime scene unit. He was at ground zero following the attacks to help gather evidence and help medical examiners identify victims and uncover remains. More than 1 million smoke and Carbon Monoxide alarms are being recalled. Kidt is recalling the alarms because they can fail to work after a power outage. These alarms are hard wired into a home connected to the electricity. Consumers are urged to call the company for a free replacement and advised to keep using the alarms until a new one is installed. Google is encouraging about 100,000 gmail users to change their passwords. A list of nearly 5 million gmail addresses and passwords surfaced on a russian bit coin forum yesterday. A majority of the passwords are no longer used but 2 are. If you have an account, change your passwords. Google should have already notified you. Im a bit of a foodie. I think you are, too, keith . Huge foodie. How much of a foodie are you . Would you bite into this . Japan designed a new burger that may shock travelers stopping to get a quick bite to eat. On the menu for a limited time at burger king in tokyo is something called the the kuro burger, meaning black in japanese. The bread is colored with bamboo charcoal. The ketchup consists of onion, garlic, and a soy sauce, and it has squid ink added in. All right. The cheese slices, well, have bamboo charcoal as well and the beef patties are made with black pepper. Im guessing a lot of black pepper. Facebook images received unmixed reaction from u. S. Fans. Would you bite in . Maybe one tiny little bite. Youd like it. You like black pepper. To a point. I dont know how much black pepper is in there. Or squid ink. Something else to think about. Maybe not the squid ink. Not maybe so much have it your way. Not today. Tonight we want to tell you about this. A battle is brewing at a sacred site in delaware. Nbc 10s tim furlong live in wilmington to tell us about it. Reporter hundreds of families in delaware might have their backyard views change a bit if the Catholic Diocese gets a go ahead for a new project. Neighbors tonight will have a say. Were live looking at all sides of the issue, keith. And stopping isis. President obama made his case to the nation for air strikes. Ahead, a former colonel joins us live to discuss the president s plan for attacking isis terrorists. The usual . Not tonight. Introducing longhorns steaks that sizzle for 12. 99. The smoky double bacon sirloin. The new spicy sriracha sirloin. And the parmesan crusted sirloin. Steaks that sizzle. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. Dont believe tom corbetts tv ad. The facts speak for themselves. Tom corbett cut a billion dollars from our schools. He took an ax to education. Twentyseven thousand educators were laidoff. Class sizes increased. And now almost eighty percent of School Districts plan to raise property taxes. Tom corbett. Cant trust him on education. Cant trust him to be for us. 140 feet of change could be coming to a sacred piece of ground in wilmington. The battleground, a cemetery. Neighbors in a New Castle County community are digging in for a fight tonight. Theyre angry over a proposal to build a 14story cell phone tower on cemetery grounds and disguise is to look like something else. Heres where the controversy is happening at the all saints Catholic Cemetery in wilmington. We have an artist rendering of what this at t cell tower could look like. There it is. Nbc 10 delaware reporter tim furlong has been talking to neighbors opposed to this plan. Tim, this plan is not sitting well with people in that area. Reporter yeah, you got to understand where these people are coming from here. On all sides of the issue. The diocese own st. Marks high school back there and all Saints Cemetery in the same area. A while back the diocese neighbors made them put up this fence right here, then after that put up the Drainage Ditch down there that nobody seems to like. Now the diocese wants at t to put up a cell tower in the back of the cemetery that would permanently change that treeline view over there. Wouldnt be near burial plots, but it would be very visible. As far as cell towers go, it seems like one disguised as a Catholic Bell tower would be pretty nice. Its in the eye of the beholder. If you want a 14story bell tower in your backyard. Reporter thats the tough part of the hundreds of neighbors who signed this petition, the cell tower the diocese wants to allow at t to build in an undeveloped, unused spot in the all Saints Cemetery, it would be about 14 stories tall. We feel its going to degrade the value of the homes here. Its going to go up 140 feet and all the little these little homes around here are going to be dwarfed by it. Go in their backyard and look and see where this is going to be. Reporter state rep mike ramone is trying to make everyone happy. He doesnt mind the diocese making a few bucks off the cell tower and wants everyone to have better cell service. He wishes at t could make it smaller. He worries about real estate values. I want to make sure were not satisfying the need for some people at the expense of others. I live in that area. Its something i could deal with. I think its an attractive structure armp they would use te proceeds from the tower to cover the costs of running the cemetery, which is tougher these days as fewer and fewer People Choose not to bury their loved ones. They want to be sensitive to the neighbors. Many of the ninminds are alread made up. Its not just about the tower, people. Next time its going to be your neighborhood, your backyard. Reporter just beyond the backyards here, hear a sporting event at st. Marks high school. Its that close. The state rep you saw there yesterday, he put a big balloon 140 feet above the spot where at t wants to build that tower. Everyone got to see what the view would be like. Some folks didnt think it was all that bad. The folks who live back here, many of them did think it was bad and dont want this project to go forward. The land use meeting begins in 25 minutes. My colleague is there. Tune in later to see if this gets the green light, red light, or possibly the yellow light. Well keep you posted. Tim lofurlong, next 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert summer. Hot and steamy out there. I could deal with it. Nbc 10 first alert meteorologist Sheena Parveen tracking the possibility, though, of showers. Do we need our umbrellas . Take your umbrella with you this evening. We dont have too much rain on the radar right now, but theres the possibility for more showers this evening. It feels more like summer with the warm eer temperatures and humidity. Its not going to feel like summer this weekend. Were going to be a lot cooler. The cold front is trying to move through the area. See the clouds here. We dont have much on radar as far as rain is concerned. Later on this evening, still a chance of some showers. Cooler air is going to be moving in behind this. Youll start to feel it as early as tomorrow. And then over the weekend, more rain will move in and Cool Temperatures down even more. Right now, were at 83 degrees in philadelphia. And pottstown. 82, allentown. 6 76, mt. Pocono. Humidity is making it feel 5 degrees warmer than it actually is in some spots. 88 degrees in dover. So as we go through the rest of the even,ing, chance for showers. 8 00 p. M. , still a chance of a shower. Through 10 00, we could see showers through south philadelphia. Temperatures in the low to mid 70s. Were tracking rain for part of your weekend and much cooler temperatures. Ill show you the timinge iningt coming up. Stay ahead of Severe Weather and get important Weather Information delivered to your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 weather app, a Free Download you can get right now on our website, nbc10. Com. 13 years later. The emotions, the memories of the 9 11 terrorist attacks. Theyre still as ever. The nearly 3,000 who died that day including thousands at ground zero in new york. In a private ceremony at the National September 11th memorial, a bell tolled as the names of the fallen were read aloud. Their names are now inscribed on the walls around the two memorial pools if lower manhattan. Remembrance services were also held in the pentagon, the white house, and in shanksville, pennsylvania, where flight 93 went down. Here are some of the stories making headlines on nbc 10 news at 5 30. Close tabs on a philadelphia jury deciding the fate of Christina Regusters. After five hours of deliberations today, the jury was sent home. Today, the judge announced the six formal charges that reguster is facing. They detailed them. All 12 jurors have to agree on a verdict. A sixth grade teacher is dead. She was discovered at a holiday inn on packer avenue this morning stabbed multiple times. Police say she taught at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in south philly. The woman whose name has not been released was found in a hotel room with wounds to her arms and throat. According to police, two weapons were recovered, but there was no evidence anyone was with her. New at 5 30, a Philadelphia Police officer was arrested today after investigators say he assaulted his wife. Officer Joseph Griffin turned himself in to police today. Hes accused of threatening and assaulting his wife in june at their northeast philadelphia home. Griffin is an eightyear veteran of the force. Police commissioner Charles Ramsey has suspended him for 30 days with the intent to dismiss. Philadelphia police are looking for a tree wrio of thie who broke into a Washington Square home and stole thousands of dollars in jewelry and the homeown homeown homeowners identities. Investigators believe two men and a woman got into the south jessup street home on labor day. They took a safe with passports, birth certificates, Social Security cards, 1,000 and about 20,000 worth of jewelry. Police are also looking for two men who robbed a gamestop in the Strawberry Mansion section of philadelphia. Investigators say the armed suspects stormed into the store on west lehigh avenue last night and demanded the employees open the cash registers. Its not clear how much money they took, but they did get away with a customers cell phone and about 16. President lays out plans for stopping isis. Will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria as well as iraq. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. In minutes, we talk live with retired colonel rick kiernan about military action. And 60 million gift. See what the free library plans to do with the donation that will go far beyond the walls of its main center city branch. First, heres whats coming up on nbc 10 news at 6. Still breaking now. Nbc 10 is making calls, talking to police, about a philadelphia teacher found stabbed in a hotel and locked in a bathroom stall. Whooping cough. Just diagnosed at a local high school. The symptoms parents need to look for. Count on nbc 10 news at 6. Representatives from the local Airport Community held a ceremony to remember the tragic events on this day 13 years ago. Nbc 10 at Philadelphia International airport where service was held to remember all of the innocent victims who perished that day in new york city, washington, d. C. , and shanksville, pennsylvania. Switching gears now. A 25 million grant means big changes for the free library of philadelphia. Renovations are planned that will make the library more user friendly. The William Penn Foundation is giving 25 million for renovations. The Main Library Building downtown will be overhauled. Five neighborhood branches will also see improvements. The plan is to remove several floors of outdated book stacks in the Main Building to create a new common area. The branches will get new technology and unique programming aimed at their communities. The gift is the biggest ever received by the free library of philadelphia. Making the case for military strikes. President obama told the nation how he plans to stop isis terrorists. Next we talk live with our military analyst about putting american troops in harms way. Sheena . And cooler temperatures are about to move in. Also, im tracking rain for part of your weekend. Ill show you the timing of that coming up. Plus, all new on nbc 10 news at 6, he says he did it, and hes not sorry. Why lesean mccoy is defending the 20cent tip he left his local restaurant. Hunt down terrorists who threaten our country wherever they are. That means i will not hesitate to take action against isil in syria as well as iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency. If you threaten america, you will find no safe haven. Theres been a lot of reaction to the president s speech. He laid out his plan to degrade and defeat isis militants. Almost 40 countries have agreed to help the u. S. , at least one of our biggest allies isnt quite on board. Colonel rick kiernan is nbc 10s military analyst. He joins us from our digital operations center. Colonel kiernan served in the u. S. Army for 26 year, germany, vietnam, saudi arabia, and awarded two bronze stars and pentagon spokesman for the army during the first gulf war. As always, thank you for joining us, colonel. My pleasure to be here. Thank you. The president talked about a longterm, openended conflict, something he vowed to avoid during his came ppaign for the white house. Do you see a timetable . We have to look at a longterm strategy. You want to share the information that you do have a plan, you do have a strategy, with the american people, and that i think sets up the resolve and the determination that we have in order to do three things. Number one, we want to defend what we have. Second, we want to deter. And finally, we want to defeat the isis. That being said, we dont want to go ahead and show our cards too much because the intelligence and the morale of both sides can be affected. We heard president obama talk about a Broad International coalition. Some of those partners, though, a arent on board. Germany and the uk say theyre not keen on direct military action. How will that affect our efforts . There are questions of who inside syria will help us out. We look at it two ways. The two countries you mentioned, of course, are nato members. Nato has been around more 50 years. Most of the contributions day have made in the past, as member nation, has been what we call burden sharing. Theyve done that in iraq, theyve done that in afghanistan. There are some other members of the coalition who will probably support either monetarily or with equipment. But i think we look at it two ways. We look at the region which is most affected. In this case, of course, iraq and syria. But its also exacerbated by the fact that they have had some problems in syria, and that the Syrian Rebels are trying to work within a civil war situation in that country. So i think this is probably the best first step that can be taken, but i think we have to caution ourselves in this era of instant messaging and things happening very quickly that it takes a long time to put down a force such as this. Speaking of a long time, the president s been in office now six years. Hes been vowing to end the u. S. Wars over there now. Explaining why we decided to engage in a new one. In your opinion here, is there another strategy or really have we exhausted all options before this decision . I think the National Security team and, of course, give good advices to the president , the commander in chief, but i think also we have to remember you usually start out with a diplomatic resolution, a diplomatic strategy. Then you go to an economic, as weve done with putin and ukraine. Then i think your final one is military. Because it shows the demonstration of force and power. And in the case of the enemies that we deal with right now, that can sometimes be the only thing that they would respect and worry about. Secretary kerry echoed the president saying it will take time to eradicate isis. This is a longterm project. Colonel rick kiernan, thanks so much for your insight. My pleasure. Thank you. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Sheena Parveen. Well, warmer, more humid day today. So it still feels a little bit like summer outside. A few showers in the forecast as we go through the rest of this evening. But as we go into tomorrow, because the showers are part of a cold front, well cool down quite a bit. Its not going to feel like summer as we go into the weekend, especially. Now, we do start off the weekend with some rain in the forecast, and the temperatures saturday may not even get into the 70s in some areas. Ill show you that in just a minute. Right now, heres a live look outside. Looking at the art museum along the schuylkill river. Looks pretty good right now. We dont have any thunderstorms in the area, but a few showers in the forecast as we go through the rest of the evening. 83 degrees in philadelphia. 85 northeast philly. 88 degrees in dover. That is the warmest spot on the map. 85, Atlantic City. 82, allentown. 76 degrees, pretty comfortable in mt. Pocono but we have the added humidity. Were seeing the clouds across the area. A few showers around washington. Not as Much Development this afternoon as there was yesterday. Way back off to the west. We have a cold front moving through, and yesterday at this time, it was a lot more developed than it is now. There was a lot more moisture. Some strong storms. And right now, its kind of washing out as it moves through, so a few showers left over in the forecast tonight. Cooler air is coming in behind the cold front. So that will start to move in as we go into tomorrow. So were in the 80s. Take a look just back off to our west. Not even at far away. Take a look at the temperatures right now. 58 degrees in detroit. 53 right now in chicago. Remember, chicago is one hour behind us. So were seeing Cool Temperatures off to the west. And we will continue to see this cool air trying to spill in as we go into tomorrow. So a big difference as you see that cool air just spilling down from canada. Little early in the season for this type of temperature change. Future weather as we go through tonight, we pretty much stay mostly dry, but again, a few showers do remain in the forecast. Then going into tomorrow, well see clearing conditions. A little bit of cloud cover down to our south, though, but the cloud cover, in fact, does move back up to start off the weekend. Saturday well be dealing with clouds around. Showers start to move in late in the day saturday. These showers even may go to the overnight hours, part of your sunday, but then we start to clear up as we go through sunday afternoon. For tonight, though, early showers. Less humid late tonight. 62 for the low in philadelphia. 54 areas north and west. A little bit cooler as you wake up tomorrow morning. Through the afternoon, 74 to 77 degrees. Less humidity. More sunshine the farther north you go. The clouds will try to linger south of philadelphia tomorrow. Then they move back up for saturday. Cool with rain around. So for saturday, with the cloud cover and the rain, we may not get out of the upper 6 00s in some spots. Next week we pretty much stay in the 70s. Change is coming to divorce laws in the garden state. Reporter it ensures a level of fairness and predictability in Divorce Proceedings that can be anything but. But how new jerseys new alimony laws might affect you even if youre already divorced. Next. And all new on nbc 10 news at 6, new jerseys governor vetoes a big change to the states beaches. Lawmakers call the bill a matter of public health. Why governor christie disagrees. You can vote for the High School Blitz game of the week for next friday september 19th. The choices are delsea on the road against camden. George washington and northeast, or a showdown between archbishop wood and west catholic. To cast your vote, go to nbc10. Com or facebook page. Also call or text your onetime vote to 6106244111. The game with the most votes will be featured on the High School Blitz saturday night at 7 00 right here on nbc 10. New jersey has the fewest number of divorces in the nation. Thats according to census data. But for couples who do split up, sweeping changes are now in effect. Especially in cases involving alimony. Nbc 10s south Jersey Bureau reporter cydney long will explain. Reporter it is one of the items single father and i. T. Manager, mark, of Medford Lakes feared during his divorce two years ago how long and how alimony payments to his ex might affect his financial future. My choice to take a one lump sum payment to my ex in order to avoid paying alimony for extended period of time. Reporter but thanks to legislation signed into law this week by governor christie, there are five ways in which alimony payments in new jersey will be different than in the past. First, how long an exspouse has to pay is not indefinite or to extend beyond retirement. Instead if youre married nine years, you pay nine years alimony for any number of years married less than 20. Where judges once focused on maintaining a similar lifestyle after divorce courts now really have to take into consideration the fact that its more expensive to run two households after a divorce. Reporter family law attorney Amy Goldstein helped draft the legislation. Some 80 of her divorce cases involve alimony payments. Cohabitating with a new partner will now be defined as an intimate relationship. It doesnt necessarily mean you have to live under the same roof to lose your monthly alimony check. Under the new law, theres no reduction option. Reporter and new jerseys new alimony laws might also affect you even if youre already divorced. For instance, if you lose your job or income, or upon collecting retirement. You cant just say, oh, i reached 67 and im going to keep working but i want to stop paying the alimony. Reporter factors that will streamline the predictable financial future and proceedings that are unique to each failed marriage. They can start to plan because they know what the judges will be basing their decision on. Reporter from south jersey, cydney long, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 is breaking down the alimony laws in our other two states. In pennsylvania, the courts cant award alimony unless its necessary. The Court Considers all relevant factors in determining the amount and duration of any award because alimony is based on the specifics of each case. In delaware, family court may order alimony on a casebycase basis as well. Either party may receive support if he or she is dependent on the other spouse or is unable to support themselves. Alimony cannot last for more than half the length of the marriage if married less than 20 years. Coming up next on nbc 10 news at 6. Local students exposed to a lifethreatening illness. The warning about the contagious infection, and the signs you should look out for. Well, we could be in for some wet weather just in time for the weekend. Im tracking rain thats going to be moving many. Ill tell you exactly when its going to arrive in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. And lesean mccoy defending the 20 cent tip he left at a local restaurant. Why he says hes not sorry. Next on nbc 10 news at 6. Friday morning on nbc 10 news today its the new virus thats getting kids sick across the country. Were talking to an emergency room doctor to find out what you can do to make sure your child stays healthy. After a hot and humid day, temperatures are going to drop fast. What to expect for your weekend. Plus skyforce 10 is flying above all of this mornings breaking news. Well see you back here tomorrow morning from 4 00 to 7 00 a. M. On nbc 10. Right now at 6 00, jury deliberations will stretch into a second day in the trial of a woman accused of kidnapping a girl from a philadelphia school. Jurors havent reach add verdict, but they did have a question for the judge this afternoon. Nbc 10s Christine Maddela was inside the courtroom and christine, what did the jurors want to know . Reporter well, just before 2 00 this afternoon, the jury sent the judge a handwritten note asking the judge if they could see one of Christina Regusters statements she gave to authorities. The judge then turned them down. I spoke with attorney tom klein and asked him why the judge would deny the jurys request. Tom klein represents the victim and her family in their civil case and isnt bound by the gag order in this criminal trial. That statement was not actually evidence before the jury, but rather the statement was something that was read through the evidence of one of the police officers. Reporter and is that why the judge is able to deny that request . It is customary that when a jury asks to see something that they actually havent seen, physically, that the judge will tell the jury to rely on their recollection from the testimony. Reporter this morning, Christina Regusters sat emotionless as the judge read out the six charges against her. Aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. Involuntary deviant sexual intercourse with a child involving serious bodily injury. Kidnapping. Unlawful contact with a minor. Unlawful restraint of a minor. And concealing the whereabouts of a child. Those crimes ranging from rape, to endangerment of a child, are all separate individual crimes with individual elements that the commonwealth had to prove to them beyond a reasonable doubt. Reporter now, the jury has been att