Jersey moving into bensalem. Mt. Laurel seeing heavier rain. Some precip rates have been threequarters of an inch per hour. The storms are moving pretty quickly. Also in medford lakes, tabernacle were seeing moderate rain too. This is moving to the northeast. Bensalem moving into that area right now. Bristol by 5 13. Falls by 5 21. That is where that rain is moving to. Weve seen quite a few storm reports. Center city philadelphia, the lens soaked. You can see what the weather is doing behind us. Big raindrops pounding our lens at the aquarium. This afternoon storms are the perfect reminder to get the nbc10 weather app on your smartphone and tablet. You can get alerts warnings the radar, alerts in your neighborhood. Its a Free Download like the nbc10 news app. There is a new investigator looking into a south new Jersey Police department. The cull ber land county prosecutor appointed someone to handle internal affairs in millville. After two supervisors in that department were charged with crimes this week. Drew smith explains why residents want action. Reporter lieutenant went from answering our questions about crime to having explain why hes facing a driving while drunk and reckless driving charge. His colleague, two days later, is facing an assault charge. Police say it stems from an incident at this liquor store. Theres a problem with everyone around the two lieutenants. Reporter the city administrator is not talking on camera but she says this is under review. Both lute heremain on the force without suspension. I dont think its fair. Reporter because of a transition in the Department Lieutenant ed is in charge of everyone right here. A detective said he came to work but wouldnt be talking about his arrest or the state of the Police Department. Youre supposed to help us. Protect us. Not out getting arrested. Reporter the mayor is in charge of public safety. He did not return our calls today. The if the mayor is in charge of the city he should keep an eye on whats going on in the city. The city is standing by them for now but the administrator says nothing has been made about the lieutenants future here. Drew smith, nbc10 news. Six additional suspected Child Predators in philadelphia face charges tonight. The suspects range between the ages of 24 and 50. One of the men is charged with more than 150 counts of possession of child pornography. This is video of the first part of that sting last week 21 people were arrested in bucks, delaware montgomery and philadelphia counties. Attorney general Kathleen Kanes Child Predator sections has made more than 300 arrests. New at 5 00 keeping the streets safe. It is the job of every Police Department but its become a daunting task for officers in wilmington. As nbc10 Delaware Bureau reporter tim furlong explains, Police Say Money is one of their biggest challenges. Reporter this little girl is the apple of her dads eye. Pretty much every year i lose at least five good friends. Reporter steven has seen a lot in wilmington. He hopes police are making things better. They have enough officers and things like that. Theyre not in the right place at the right time. Reporter a couple weeks ago crime sult antconsultants listed a hundred things they could do. Through the citys new Budget Transparency website, you can see the chiefs goals and the numbers hes working with. The city Council Tells me he hopes the chief is planning to implement many consultant investigations. We do have more Police Departments than other cities outside. We have enough money, we just need to see how were going to shift. Reporter the Police Department tells me they might push for more technology with this new budget. They got the Consultants Report a few weeks ago. Its possible they might have to come back to Council Later and ask for budget changes if and when they decide to run with consultant suggestions. Budget meetings and consultant reports, they dont mean much to wilmington families. They want to believe the right people are making the right moves to keep their kids safe. I hope. I wish. Reporter tim furlong, nbc10 news. Meanwhile, two Burlington County families have to find another place to stay because a massive ravine way at the ground beneath their houses. Those homes set on the edge of the Delaware River in florence township. The ground is eroding, coming dangerously close to the homes. An engineer hired by the township says the homes are in imminent danger. The odell family says its heartbreaking to have to pack up and possibly leave for good. New adventure, whatever it may be. After all, i guess you have to try to keep a stiff upper lirngs whatever you want to call it. Its going to be a hard fight. The township says its too soon to blame a county sewage pipe exposed by mondays weather. It has been leaking and has since been capped. Florence officials will work with the county to determine the cause and how to fix it. The failures of philadelphias veteran Affairs Department were center stage in washington today. Employees testified following a scaling report. This will affect lots of vets and their families in our area. It will keith. The house of Veterans Affairs wants to know more about the problems at philadelphias va. That office is responsible for processing disability and compensation claims. The report from the office of the Inspector General described allegations of mismanagement as well as data mimgsanipulation. Today the Committee Heard from several whistleblowers who worked for the department. Ive never worked for any other office in the country, but if any are worse than philadelphia, thats scary to me. It also addressed allegations of big payments to executives. The group will also exexamine who, if anyone will be held accountable for all the problems there. Some Montgomery County Elementary Students got a very important lesson outside of the classroom today. Nbc10 in plymouth township. These first graders spent the day planting flowers, watering a butterfly garden and cleaning up a creek bed. Their efforts were all part of earth day. You learn lots at desks on computers and also need to learn from being in our world and our environment. There were 150 students parents, grandparents working in that park today. Theyre celebrating earth day in chestnut hill, too. Students are collecting trash from School Grounds over a 24hour period. Why . So they can see how much waste the school generates on any given day. The hope is this exercise will lead to more recycling and come composting and maybe cutting down on personal waste. Turning to life or death. Thats the question a boston jury has to answer the fate of surviving boston bomber. Well take you to boston to hear what the jury was told about Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The arguments to spare his life. Take a good look at this. Seems like a boat dock but its not. Wait until you see what all this water is actually covering and why. Encourage news about a former rutgers football star paralyzed during a game. See why erica lot of hard work appears to be paying off. We follow the aftermath of severe storms. A tree knocked down in westville. Sheena parveen has the forecast straight ahead. Take a look at the live picture of the beach in cape may. Severe storms are moving across the region here. Intense winds are causing damage across the region as well. Counted on nbc10 for the track of the latest severe system. Moving north in the meantime. Coldblooded killer and americas worst nightmare, how prosecutors are portraying the Boston Marathon bomber during the penalty phase of the trial. Several victims took the stand, manying breaking down as they spoke. Also Video Viewers may find disturbing. Reporter this is video actually taken here at federal court in a holding cell three months after the bombing when Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being held here for his arraignment. Never before seen video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from his cell before his arraignment. We know from the freeze frame of video the government shared yesterday, that tsarnaev stared straight into the camera and stuck up his middle finger. The prosecution says it shows hes unrepent ant for what he did. Wednesday the defense showed clips which they allege show a very different picture. It shows tsarnaev hopping up on the bench, scratching his head checking out the scars on his face and holding his fingers out in a v shape before very briefly flipping off the camera. The defense suggested tsarnaev was not necessarily looking into the camera itself but looking at himself in the reflective glass that covers the surveillance cam in the cell. There was also emotional testimony from the relatives of two of the victims as their smiling family photos were shown to the jury. Sean colliers brother and stepfather described a young man who said he always wanted to be a Police Officer. Colliers chief testified what made him a Police Officer was not the uniform. It was not the badge. It was the character within him. Boston University Grad lingzi lu lus aunt says her mom decided it was better to bury her here instead of china. She had only been here for seven months. She planned to stay here longer. She felt part as boston so we felt she should stay here. Reporter a ball room dancer who lost a leg in the bombing stopped at the defense table on her way off the witness stand and glared at Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. A mere one or two feet away from him before finally walking out of the courtroom tsarnaev never looked up. For more coverage of the penalty phase of the Boston Marathon trial bombing, watch nbc news at 6 30 right here on nbc10. School teachers in berlin are coming under fire. They assigned children a math problem calculating a plane through mountainous terrain. The assignment came during the final math exam. Berlin said in a statement, they agreed, there had been a lack of sensitivity. A mother and daughter with ties to our area decide in that crash, yvonne selke and her daughter emily graduated from Drexel University in 2013. Millions of turkeys and chicken are being euthanized because of avian flu. The birds have not gone into the food supply. The centers for Disease Control says its highly unlikely this flu strain will jump from birds to humans but still theyre taking preliminary steps to prepare a vaccine for humans. The u. S. Department of agriculture is working on a vaccine for the birds. A judge cleared the way for a proisrael Advocacy Group to display a political ad with the phrase hamas killing jews on buses in the big apple. The judge said the ad is protected by the First Amendment. Metropolitan transportation told the judge it could incite violence. Some are calling them antiislam. It will offend many people. Well irs First Amendment rights so i dont agree with the content but i agree this is especially new york city, were allowed to speak what we think. Similar ads ran in San Francisco and chicago in 2013. Ads with a similar message are on septa buses in philadelphia. Septa lost its fight to keep ads off their vehicles. A judge in that case also cited freedom of speech. Now to texas where a guntoting granny turned the tables on a guy who tried to rob her. Check this out. Jill turner was parked outside her Doctors Office in ft. Worth monday when a man asked for directions. She rolled down the window and the man put a knife to her throat and demanded money. The 78yearold grandmother reached into the purse and pulled out her gun. I said, you back off or ill blow your head off. His eyes got big and he back backed up and took off walking down the street like nothing happened. Turners advice to others here. Be aware of your surroundings. Dont roll down your window even if you fear coming across is rude. A train station in sydney, australia, looks more like a stream after a storm there. Timelapsed surveillance shows water flooding the stations train tracks. You can see debris being swept away by the water. The region has been dealing with wind and rains for two days. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power. We still have the high wind so radar showing showers around and were seeing winds across the area. Very windy. Near beach haven we have light to moderate rain. Now the heaviest is moving toward stafford township and ocean county. It is quick moving. Starting to clear out of our shore points. Other areas of berlin county light to moderate rain imbedded here. Well see this in mercer county. Mercer county across 295 were seeing some heavier rain and also the gusty wind. More rain moving into philadelphia across major interstates, lower marion. Thats a little heavier. Weve seen periods of rain. Some have been strong across the area. A live look across Citizens Bank park. We could have a few lingering showers but the Severe Threat should be out of the area by then. Another batch in baltimore, it will continue moving in this direction. Most likely northern delaware but it could continue to move across i95 and the i95 corridor. Well still be watching for lingering showers. Take a look at the storm reports. All these blue circles, these are wind damage reports or high wind reports. Even across the Lehigh Valley weve seen high winds today. Winds currently are gusting near 25 to 30 miles an hour. South jersey and delaware, philadelphia gusting near 23. Up in the poconos, 23mileanhour wind gusts. As far as peak wind gusts we saw 75mileanhour wind gusts at the airport. Lehigh, 55mileanhour winds. North phil y 48mileanhour winds. Same in new castle in delaware. It has certainly been a windy day. The wind toes some damaging. That caused some trees to go down across the area, even Power Outages in parts of south jersey. Future weather showing the rain starting to clear out for the most part by 8 p. M. Again, we could have a few lingering showers. I think the Severe Threat should be done by then. We continue drying out and temperatures will drop. Well get colder going into tomorrow mornings. Some in the 30s. If you put jackets away you might need them for the morning hours. Tomorrow afternoon well still be on the cooler side. Some models are showing clouds moving in with a few passing sprinkles and thats about it. We get colder as we go into thursday night. We have early rain around chance of a thunderstorm around. 40 for the low in philadelphia. Tomorrow windy and chilly. Temperatures only reaching the mid50s. It will be coolary cross the board, staying windy tomorrow and friday. Temperatures cooler especially lows in the 30s. Afternoon highs staying around 60 into the weekend. Thank you very much. We have new video of former rut gersz Football Player eric legrand making huge strides. It shows him bending forward while sitting in his wheelchair. The tweet reads, getting these back muscles stronger little by little. Still as motivated as ever believe. Legrand is an inspiration to the injured and athletes alike. The spinal cord injury he suffered during a game left him paralyzed below the shoulders. In february i interviewed him. He said initially doctors gave him zero to 5 of regaining neurological ability. Look at him now. Today the vatd can confirmed the pope will visit cuba on the way to the United States this fall. No dates were given. Pope francis is credited with helping restore diplomatic relations between the u. S. And cuba. Franciss visit to cuba would be a way for him to push that process forward. It will include a stop here in philadelphia for the world meeting of families. And the world meeting of families will take place at the Pennsylvania Convention center from september 22nd through the 25th. Nbc10 will bring it to you live. Unless you have to file an extension, the headaches of tax season are, fortunately, behind us. But new details about just how many taxpayers ran into issues with the irs because of faulty phones. Why tax season left many taxpayers with few answers when they needed them the most. Helping philadelphia communities through city schools. The plans being discussed tonight that go well beyond the classroom and its prek through 12 students. First Alert Weather Team continues to track showers as they move through the tristate area. A live look at Citizens Bank park. Game time is 7 05 and a few showers could still be in the area. A lot of people looking for help filing their taxes didnt get much help from the irss phone line. Turns out the overloaded phone system hung up on more than 8 million taxpayers this season. For those who werent disconnected, only 40 got through to an agent. Many people were on hold for more than a half hour. Some legislators say Taxpayers Services were cut to help pay for president obamas health law and the services needed for that program. We continue to follow storm damage from this afternoons severe weather. Also ahead, a lot of Police Activity on the main line today. Ahead, why police and fbi officers spent the day at Rosemont College and why they say this video is no reason for residents to worry. New information about that coyote caught after a porch attack in new jersey. What officials are saying Health Officials, and the well known spot where another coyote was spotted. An active afternoon weve seen. Fastmoving storms knocked down trees and power lines across the area. Youre still tracking them on radar. We still have showers around the area. Gusty winds around the area, too. As far as those severe storms those have left the area. We still have the potential for high wind as we go through the rest of the evening. Moving into the philadelphia region, we have a little clearing. Northeast philly bensalem mt. Laurel we still have showers also moving into lower Montgomery County. Also one shower we are keeping our eye on locally heavy rain, right around 55 moving south of glassboro. Well watch this heavy rain in pitts grove. Well be watching that shower as well. For the rest of the area were mostly seeing periods of light rain. The shore has pretty much cleared out and were watching more moisture around baltimore. That must be moving into northern delaware soon. As far as the wind today, the high wind we have storm reports across the area. Philadelphia, New Castle County and one of the highest wind gusts weve seen today, 71 miles an hour in the philadelphia area. That was at philly international airport. In reading, berks county we saw 47mileanhour wind gusts. Damaging winds. Trees down today. Some areas without power. Well talk more about the rest of your evening tonight where the rain is heading and much cooler weather that will be moving in. This afternoon storms are the perfect reminder to get the nbc10 weather app on your smartphone or tablet. It is a Free Download. So easy. All you have to do is like the nbc10 news app. It is sentencing day for the woman found guilty of murdering her husband and then stuffing his remains into tupperware. Ted greenberg was in the courtroom for an Emotional Exchange between the judge and the convicted killer. What she did to my brother is what a butcher did to an animal. Reporter raymond called loretta a loretta an animal. What she did to my brother, horror movies and nightmares are made from. I live in both. Reporter the 63yearold sobbed constantly during her sentencing today for the 2007 killing. Last month a jury convicted her of stabbing danny to death in their mays landing home and keeping his remains when she moved. They were found in a pair of plastic containers at a house in vintner nearly two years ago. How do you live with a corpse in your house . Reporter the judge sentenced burrows to 55 years in prison meaning shell likely die behind bars. The intent is that the defendant is never to be let loose to rome among society again. Reporter loved ones believe she didnt like her husbands plan for the couple to move to florida. Then later spread lies about him running off there with another woman after he was already dead. Burrows lawyer maintains danny pushed and chased her during an argument just before the deadly stabbing. I pray today that everyone continue to try to heal from this horrific, horrific situation. If there was ever a reason to bring back public execution, i think she should be first in line. Reporter according to the sentence burrows would have to live to be 110 years old before shes eligible for parole. Her lawyer plans to file an appeal by the end of the week. In mays landing, david greenberg, nbc10 news. The fifth full day of jury deliberation of pedro hernandez, accused of killing pace in new york city in 1979. The today the jury requested to see a list of all witnesses called during the trial. Jurors also heard testimony from two psychiatrists. Eaton paetz was 6 years old at time of his disappearance. His body was never found. Hernandez confessed to killing him three years ago but they say his confession was it is raping of a mentally ill man with a low i. Q. It is easy to get and can be deadly. A warning tonight from local police and hospitals, synthetic marijuana is not as safe as many people think. People are dying from it at a rapid pace. Deanna durante is live in allentown with more on what officials are concerned about. Reporter the coroner says eight people have died this month and this hospital has treated more than 30 patients just since april 1st. An ambulance brings in another patient. Sacred heart is reporting 30 cases since the start of the month. Doctors say overdoses from k2 or synthetic marijuana make people so combative they need to be knocked out for the safety of doctors and people trying to treat them. There are all these negative side effects and thats what were seeing. Were not just getting euphoric high or the munchies you traditionally saw with marijuana. You get all these bad side effects. Reporter it can cause breathing problems and muscle loss. Those who dont walk out of the hospital have been left on breathing tubes or worse, the morgue. Eight people have died from suspected k2 overdoses and hospitals not just in allentown are reporting those overdoses. The dea makes them illegal. They dont make the name k2 illegal. They make the active drug in them illegal. The guys on the streets are taking the compound that was legal, change it to a new compound thats not illegal. Then what happens, according to doctors here is that that new compound can be purchased and can create even worse side effects that people are not expecting. Reporting live in allentown, deanna durante, nbc10 news. New information about a fire at a Penndot Office building in king of prussia yesterday morning. Penndot tells us they think an electrical problem caused that fire. Theres now heavy electrical damage to the entire building. Crews are working to restore power to that building. No one was hurt. Fire officials are still investigating. Were learning more about a Philadelphia Parking Authority worker killed on the job today. Jeff bayers died when a Parking Authority tow truck backing up hit him. Skyforce10 was over the south philadelphia lot where it happened around 7 00 this morning. The lot is between oregon and snyder avenue. Bayers was from maple shade, Burlington County. He worked for the Parking Authority for 13 years. Mayor nutter spoke about the tragedy this afternoon. Told by the Parking Authority, great worker you know, loved by his colleagues. A number of Parking Authority personnel who were at the hospital. As we have more details, well share them. Our prayers go out to his family. Nbc10 was on the ground at the scene. He was 60 years old and the father of three. Police are still investigating. New at 5 00 partners at factcheck. Org have been looking at comments made by governor christie. He said there have been some months during the Obama Administration where more people have gone on Social Security disability than have gotten a job. According to factcheck. Org, thats true of every Administration Since 1986. Throughout the election season well be working with factcheck. Org to make sure what you hear is accurate. If you may have seen a lot of Police Activity today. Heres the proof. Our nbc10 cameras were there as the fbi set up shop at a Delaware County college for a drill. What they were doing there and why its important. And going green by saving energy. All have you to do is look up. How one state in our area is near the top of the list when it comes to homes and businesses using solar power. Tradingin or selling your car truck or suv . Webuyanycar. Com takes the hassle out of selling in just 3 easy steps. One, get your free online valuation. Two, book an appointment. And three, pick up a check at your nearest buying center. Find out how much your car is worth at webuyanycar. Com there is no royal blood in this country. Nothing is reserved for anyone. Its all just out there. Waiting. For someone to reach out. And take it. And the ones who do. These are the kings and queens of america. There are now 11 days until 40,000 runners compete in the broad street run. You can still win two bibbs to join our website. Click on the app to enter the sweepstakes. A reminder nbc10 and telemundo 62 will broadcast the entire race start to finish on sunday may 3rd beginning at 8 a. M. New at 5 00 what youre about to see may look real but its only a drill. Federal agents ran a multicrime scene exercise. The idea is to look as real as possible. They dismantled explosives as if they were real and preserved evidence found outside. Special agents we spoke with told nbc10 the learning never stops. This is something we deem with all the time. Pretty much our standard call out across the nation. Its important they get a chance to spread their wings, to work out and do things they dont normally do and normally see. Criminal Justice Students from rosemont were given the chance to help out, too. Tonight new information about the coyote that attacked a man and his dog. The disturbing find that Health Officials are confirming about the animal. Yet another coyote has been spotted in one of the most highly populated places on earth. Im also tracking rain around the area still gusty winds and that wind will stay in the forecast too. Ill show you when all this moves out and the cooler temperatures coming for the rest of the week. Thats coming up. Here are stoeshz making headlines on nbc10 news at 5 00. Two Burlington County families are being forced to pack up and leave because an eroding ravine is threatening their homes. The ground is eroding coming dangerously close to home. Today an engineer hired by the family says the backyard banks are in imminent danger. Members of philadelphias Region Affairs were in washington today, they testified in front of a Senate Committee about claims of mismanagement and missed payments to executives. Concern from doctors in the Lehigh Valley, dozens of patients are showing up in local Emergency Rooms overdosing on synthetic marijuana, also known as k2, spice and other names. The Lehigh Valley cornerer in says at least eight have died from suspected overdoses in recent weeks. Embattled Pennsylvania Attorney general Kathleen Kane is looking to get her message out through someone familiar with capital politics. Shes hiring the man who served as ed rendells spokesman when he was governor. She announced today that chuck ardo will become communications add adviser for her, the seventh spokesperson to work for kane since she took office two years ago. A grand jury recommends she be charged with leaking seek material to a newspaper. Happening in about half an hour, Philadelphia City council will host a meeting to brainstorm ways to improve schools without spending more money. The plan is to turn some poor performing schools into communitybased schools. That involves partner with colleges and hospitals to bring Educational Opportunities and Health Services to the community. The schools will become places where the entire neighborhood can benefit. Weve seen in Model Research the health care aspects of childs life can increase dramatically, dropout rates have decreased. Daryll clark says she borrowed the Community Schools model from cincinnati where its been working. Tonights meeting is open to everyone at Philadelphia Community college in Spring Garden at 6 p. M. We have new information on a coyote attack. It attacked a man in north jersey this week. Police say the animal tested positive for rabies. It bit a man walking his dog sunday in Bergen County. Authorities set traps after officers discovered dens near a school. It was the second coyote attack in Bergen County this month. Check this out. A coyote led police on a chase. Officers tried corralling it for three hours and in the end the animal was able to get away. We have showers around the area, also seeing gusty winds. Heres what we have currently on radar. Heavy showers moving across the ac expressway. This is in parts of camden county, around waterford. Locally heavy rainfall but moving into parts of Burlington County. Tabernacle, 5 57. Southampton, 6 03. That will continue moving to the northeast and around the philadelphia area. We just have light, patchy rain through Delaware County, lower Montgomery County. Still seeing rain across 476 and parts of bucks and mercer county. I think we should be fine by the start of phillies game but we cant rule out a couple of lingering showers. You see the clouds a drizzle in here but were also watching more rain down to our south. New castle county around middletown moving in from areas in maryland more rain here. Some of this locally heavy. That will be moving into salem county very soon. Temperature this is wind speed, actually. Wind speeds have been gusting near 20 to 30 miles an hour. This is continuing. Dover seeing wind speeds close to 30 miles an hour. Philadelphia 23. This continues up into the poconos. Now as far as those high winds today, because we did have damaging winds. We saw trees down poir outages across the area. Some peak wind gusts in the area, 71 miles an hour at philly international airport. Lehigh, 50mileanhour wind gusts. Northeast philly knew castle delaware close to 50mileanhour wind gusts. As we go through tonight, the winds will still be with us. I dont think theyll be damaging winds since these storms are pretty much clearing out but it will stay windy over the next few days. Future weather taking the rain clearing it out by 7 00 8 00 tonight. The Severe Threat will be over. Overnight tonight we clear out, too. Temperatures drop off. 7 00 tomorrow morning, well be in the thirds in many areas so you will probably need the jacket when you step outside. Through the afternoon, its still going to be a chilly day, mid50s and windy. Maybe a few sprinkles but tomorrow is going to be a windy and noticeably colder day through the afternoon. Tomorrow night we clear out of any clouds around. Temperatures drop even lower than what well see tonight. Tonight, the rain any thunderstorms around will be clearing in about a few hours, i would say. Yashz north and west through the Lehigh Valley, you could be in the mid30s. Through the afternoon, winds gusting near 30 miles an hour and temperatures, mid50s. Its going to be a shock. Fridays, mid50s. The wind does stay with us through the start of the weekend. Its going to stay windy. As we go into next week we still stay in the 60s but mostly dry until about wednesday. A Fallen Philadelphia Police honored in hair business rurg. Two house members offered a condolence resolution. It commemorates the life and service of Robert Wilson iii. His family and fellow officers received a standing ovation this morning. Officer wilson was shot and killed trying to stop a robbery at a gamestop in north philadelphia. The officer was in the store to buy a Birthday Gift for his son. While he was inside two men tried to rob the store. Officer wilson drew fire away. Ramone williams and Carlton Hipps are charged with murder. It could end up costing the nfl 1 million. A federal judge in philadelphia gave final approve to a plan to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed by retired players. The lawsuit accused the league of hiding what it knew about concussion ricks. The nfl denies the claims. Lawyers for the players say the settlement will help the families get money or medical attention sooner than if the case went to trial. As weve been telling you, today is earth day. Putting Mother Nature first isnt about recycling or planting trees. Its also about saving money and resources. Next, one state in our area is near the top nationally when it comes to solar power. Why more and more homes and businesses are going green off the electrical grid. Live look at Citizens Bank park. Some passing rain is still a possibility tonight. The phillies are honoring earth day with Citizens Bank red goes green day before tonights game against the miami marlins. It celebrates sustainability while bringing fans awareness to many opportunities to live if a cleaner, healthier environment. Speaking of evert day, more and more people are installing solar panels on their homes and businesses. In new jersey some are installing them on a daily basis. Are they doing it for the environment or their wal ent . Heres nbcs brian thompson. Reporter if you want to see solar panels come with me into barrys backyard. The house over here. Reporter a virtual sea of rooftops covered with panels. Barry took the plunge signing like most people no money down lease. I wanted a fixed cost where its the same amount of money every month. Reporter on cypress drive we counted 12 homes have installed panels since last summer. At end of the street so did john. I saw everybody else getting them so something must be good about it. Reporter the promise, roughly 20 savings on your power bill if you lease. Barry showed me how much power his panels produce during daylight for his refrigerator. I can run it for four hours in a 15minute period. Reporter 15 minutes of solar equals four hours on your refrigerator . Yes. Reporter new jersey ranks three in the nation for home and business solar installation about 34,000. Every day crews from many companies, this is princeton based nrg is adding to that. We saw some homeowners figuring out their savings, theres the threat about global warming. If it costs me the same and im going green, im a happy camper. Reporter the tax credit has been a big part of the success. The challenge, when that tax credit expires at the end of next year will Solar Panel Prices have come down enough to keep this industry sizzling . Brian thompson, nbc10 news. Next on nbc10 news at 6 00 high winds and heavy rains descend on the delaware valley. They took a lot of trees down with them. Nbc10 is surveying the damage across the region. A lot of damaging winds have moved out. We still have rain on the radar. Coming up, ill show you when all this will move out and how chilly its about to get into your weekend. Plus caught on camera. A brawl breaks out inside a septa station involving dozens of students. What septa is doing now to crack down next on nbc10 news at 6 00. 5n right now, destructive storms leave behind a big mess in our area. This tree came crashing down on a home in south jersey. We also found this uprooted tree in Montgomery County. Storms barelied through in Late Afternoon bringing high winds and heavy rain. Most came and went very quickly. This timelapsed video over the ben franklin bridge shows how conditions changed in 30 minutes. Lets get to nbc10 first aleert meteorologist sheena parveen. Are these storms still lingering over parts of the area . Not those storms that caused that type of damage but we still have rain lingering and gusty winds still around. Well keep an eye on this for the rest of the evening. The radar is looking much dryer than it was before but we still have heavy showers were tracking. This in central parts of Burlington County moving towards woodland. New castle county seeing heavier rain moving in toward middletown. South of 95. It should be remaining south, moving into salem county. This one will continue to bring rain into parts of south jersey. I think it should be the end of it, the last batch of rain we see around the i95 corridor. Then well see more clearing as we go through the next few hours. As far as todays storms, earlier this afternoon we have storm reports. All the blue circles, this is wind damage from Burlington County, parts of philadelphia, even into new jersey and New Castle County in delaware even parts of the Lehigh Valley. One of the highest wind speeds we saw today was at philly international airport. 71mileanhour wind gusts. Damaging winds. You saw the video trees have been down this afternoon because of it. Coming up ill show you where those showers are headsing that we have now and also the cool air moving in. Some areas will be in the 30s tomorrow morning. Straight ahead. See you soon. Lets go to nbc10s George Spencer in Gloucester County where that tree came crashing onto that house. Was anybody home when that happened