Why would they let him move in here . Reporter neighbors in the area had no idea the convicted rapist was living in their building until police put him in handcuffs. Thats crazy. Should go to jail for life. Thats disgusting. Reporter according to the criminal complaint, police say the boys father contacted police this week. They made the arrest on tuesday. They also say a marijuana grow operation was found inside that suspects apartment. Live in allentown, randy gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Caught on camera. An off Duty Police Officer and teenage son foil a violent robbery inside a busy south jersey drugstore. Happened monday night at the cvs store in runnemead. Sergeant dan murray tackled the man after he held up the pharmacist at knifepoint. The officers son and another man jumped in to wrestle and subdue the guy. The suspect had 11,000 worth of stolen painkillers on him. He held a knife to the pharmacist and demanded that she gave him medication. Oxycontin. I catch him as hes trying to flee out the front door. I tackled him. My son jumped in and helped me. The suspect, matthew donahue, will be in court next week. The fapharmacist was not hurt. The deal is off. Tonight the future of trump taj mahal once again in limbo. Hours ago there was word to save the bankrupt casino until the casinos de facto owner backed out. Hes promising to funnel tens of millions of dollars to the taj anyway. Nbc 10 Jersey Bureau reporter Ted Greenberg . Reporter a source close to the situation tells me the trump taj mahal will remain open for now, but tonight the casinos 3,000 employees are still facing an uncertain future. The signs informing customers about the taj mahals planned closure this weekend were taken down, put back up, then removed again over the course of a day that started with word of a deal that later collapsed. As of last night, everything was in place and it seemed to have blown up today. Reporter in a statement, the president of the citys main casino union said both unite here local 54 and the taj mahal ceo signed the agreement but then learned at noon billionaire investor and taj debt holder carl icahn had backed out. The agreement was written up by mr. Icahns attorneys. Just doesnt make a lot of sense to me. Reporter however, in this letter to Trump Entertainment Resorts today, icahn pledged up to 20 million to keep the taj mahal open through the companys bankruptcy process. Icahn gave no explanation, though, for backing out of the deal as the union alleges. Having the taj mahal close is not going to anure to anyones best interest except rival operators. Reporter votes in the Legislature Today on a package of bills to stabilize atlantic citys financial crisis including a significant tax break for the taj disappointmen reporter i tried to get answers from Trump Entertainment Resorts about if the taj will indeed stay open beyond this weekend, but i have not yet received a response. A worker inside just told me employees are still waiting for official word from manager as well. Live in atlantic city, im Ted Greenberg, nbc 10 news. Thank you, ted. New at 6 00, the fight for philadelphias second casino license not over yet. Last month, pennsylvanias gaming control board approved a new casino to be built near philadelphia sports complex. Another developer, bart bla blackstein proposed it be built at broad hill at the old inquirer building. Two people in philadelphia have won the battle to stay in their homes. Nbc 10 spoke with cristos in august. He and another woman filed a lawsuit against the city claiming it illegally seized its property and numerous others. The city announces they were dropping both cases but he says he will continue with the lawsuit. What a difference a day makes. Taking a live look at the camden skyline on a much cooler, dare i say colder, evening than last night. What can we, pe expect for t evening . Lets head to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist sheena parveen. Its going it be colder as we go through tonight. Some areas a couple degrees colder. Already through the lehigh valley, actual temperatures are now freezing in pottstown. 32 degrees there. 36, allentown. 37, northeast philly. 38 degrees in philadelphia. But we still do have that wind outside. So the feelslike temperature at or below freezing. Much of the area feeling right now like the mid to upper 20s. Feels like 30 degrees right now if philadelphia. So as we go through the rest of your evening tonight, temperatures keep on dropping. Winds will diminish a little bit. Tomorrow still kind of a cold and breezy day. 7 00 p. M. , 37 degrees in philadelphia. 9 00 p. M. To 11 00 p. M. , temperatures keep on dropping down. About the mid to low 30s. Then many areas by 11 00 p. M. Will already be in the 20s. Ill show you which areas can expect the coldest morning temperatures and even Christmas Day forecast. Thats coming up. New at 6 00, a Development Battle in the main line is heating up. More changes could be coming to cricket avenue in ardmore. Lower merion township recently no notified residents for an application to knock down houses and build 14 townhouses in their place according to mainline media news. Some people already upset about another redevelopment in that same area. Authorities in bucks county trying to figure out whos behind a sex video making the rounds on cell phones throughout Franklin Roosevelt middle school. The d. A. Says the children on the video are between 11 and 12, not clear if they attend the school. But police confiscated several students cell phones as they try to figure out where the video came from or whether it is a spoof. Was it a mechanical problem . Distracted driving . Or a dimly lit bus stop that caused the death of a 16yearold bucks county student . Friends continuing to mourn the loss of minete zeka who was hit while boarding a school bus. Officials are checking cell phone records of the 18yearold driver and doing bloods tests and using a computer act to recreate conditions and visibility at the time of the accident. This child it does not appear was doing anything wrong. She was crossing the street and assumed people would stop. Good drivers stop and obey the rules. This guy for whatever reason did not. Investigators are trying to determine if any charges are warranted against the suv driver. President obama made it official that Philadelphia Police commissioner Charles Ramsey will chair his task force on 21st century policing. The president signed an executive order creating the group and announcing its members. The mission . Find ways to strengthen trust between local police and communities they protect. An initial report is due on the president s desk come march. This was the scene less than an hour ago outside Philadelphia School district headquarters in spring garden. Students holding a diein protest against violence. Demonstrators have staged protests like this across the country in recent weeks. Theyre in response to the killings of unarmed black men by police in new york and missouri and the resulting grand jury decisions. New at 6 00, we hear from a judge who once oversaw the treatment of the iraq war vet responsible for a killing sfr i in Montgomery County this week. He said bradley stone didnt exhibit the potential to be violence. Stone murdered his exwife and five family members monday before taking his own life. Montgomery county Veterans Court once treated him after a second dui offense. Today the judge who oversees that court issued a statement that reads in part, mr. Stone did not have a record of violence and he showed no violent tendencies while in the program. Our Court Community is at a loss to explain his actions. Delaware, the state has decided the fate of Charter Schools up for renewal. Five of them made the cut but the Reach Academy for girls is not among them. It will close at the end of this academic year. Officials will meet with students and families to help them choose a school for next year. Meanwhile, north philadelphias Wakisha Charter school will close its doors tomorrow. Wakisha was supposed to shut down next tuesday but School Administrators decided to move that date up to tomorrow. They say dwindling student and teacher numbers are the reasons theyre closing early. Something new is coming to the city of allentown. A new Office Building is going up in the Lehigh County community. It will be 15 stories tall with retail space, offices and apartments. The cost of the project, 130 million heres where its going on. The five city center will span an entire block of walnut street between seventh and eighth across from the ppl center. The building will be the largest city Center Project to date there. The ride sharing company, lyft, is coming to pennsylvania. Just not philadelphia. Lfyt uses smartphone apps to dispatch drivers who use their own personal cars like uber. Approved the company and application to operate in the state, but the Parking Authority regulates taxis in philadelphia and considers Ride Sharing Companies unlicensed cabbies. I picture myself right there blake shelton, Miranda Lambe lambert, and Carrie Underwood. Why delaware is suddenly a destination for alist stars. Tim . Reporter and cigars, beaches, and reconnecting families. Coming up, were finding out how the thaw in the u. S. cuba relationships could possibly affect you. And i have your christmas forecast. Will it be a White Christmas or just a wet one . Ill show you what im tracking for the holiday. Details ahead in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert forecast. New at 6 00, take a look at this woman right here. Police say shes about a rob a rite aid in Montgomery County. The store on north broad street in hatfield township. She went in there last sunday. Investigators say she showed a cashier a device she had taped to herself and said it was a bomb. The cashier handed over the cash. Officers are still looking for the robber. The white house said today it considers the hacking of Sony Entertainment a Serious National Security matter. Officials also said theyre planning a proportional response once investigators determine who was responsible. Yesterday, sony canceled the release of the interview the movie after hackers threatened attacks an theaters that showed it. The writer of the interview is from west philadelphia. Dan sterling graduated from germantown friends school. Now that cuba and the relationship could have closer tie, what happens next . The announcement had many people dreaming of vacations and those cuban cigars, but will that become a reality . Nbc 10 delaware Bureau Reporter tim furlong live tonight in wilmington. Youve looked into this for us. Reporter i have. Most of us grew up always thinking cuba was 90 miles away from florida but off limits. Tonight that is definitely changing. We had multiple calls the other day asking when are they coming . Reporter the owners of this wilmington cigar club saying everyone here is getting ansty hoping theyre going to get hands on cuban cigars. Some smokers arent ready to forgive cubas past. Chris coons isnt there either. I know Many Americans are excited for the prospect of having cuban cigars for the first time in their lifetimes or access to cuban resorts. This should be about human rights. Reporter group tours and educational tours to cuba for quite some time but are tightly planned or monitored trips. They know theyll be busy if and when Congress Lifts travel restricti restrictions. Just a matter of waiting to see when that will happen. Reporter will mington city councilman, sammy, wasnt allowed to make side trips to find the family he never met. Sammys mom had told him of the cruelty of cubas dictators and how they tore families apart for decades. The castro regime didnt suffer from the embargo, only the people did. Reporter and the president can do a lot of things but is going to need congressional approval to change the travel restrictions. Tonight whether youre in delaware, pennsylvania, or new jersey, i wouldnt pack the bags for havana just yet. Well keep you posted. Live in wilmington, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Delaware senator chris coons is headed to west africa to visit american troops helping fight the ebola outbreak. Coons says its important to g to liberia and thank the u. S. Forces working in that region. He plans to see facilities that troops have finished building but dont yet have ebola patients. New at 6 00, plans for another Country Music festival in kent county, delaware. Blake shelton will be among the headliners at the big barrel music festival. The threeday event will be held next june at the woodlands of Dover International speedway. Miranda lambert, Carrie Underwood also among the other big acts. Tickets already on sale. 99 for a weekend pass. Big barrel, the third Country Music festival in kent county next summer. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. Cold and windy today. Still breezy right now through the area. Making it feel colder and we do get a little bit colder tonight. But we do stay dry. So that is the good news. And the storm that weve been watching all week, thats going to stay to our south over the weekend. So the weekend will be mainly dry, great news if youre running holiday errands. Rainy, though, into next week. That starts with monday and does carry into your Christmas Eve forecast. Ill show you that in just a second. Heres a live look at Blue Mountain ski resorts. Snow borders, skiers still out there at this hour. The coldest spot on the map is mt. Pocono. Of course. 30 degrees there right now. Mostly cloudy. With the wind, feels more like the teens in mt. Pocono. Feeling like 19 degrees. 38. Thats the temperature in philadelphia. 36 allentown. Freezing in pottstown. 32 degrees there. Areas north and west will be in the 20s come tomorrow morning. 35 in millville and atlantic city. 37 right now in dover. And all these numbers will be dropping off as we go through the overnight hours. So, low temperatures as we go through tonight, into tomorrow morning, 23 for mt. Pocono. 26 allentown. 27 for the morning low in quakertown. Trenton, even doylestown, norristown in the upper 20s. Mt. Holly coming in around 30 degrees tomorrow morning. Closer to the shore, temperatures should be right near freezing. 26 possibly for vineland. That spot tends to get quite a bit colder. For chester, westchester, upper 20s. Voorhees, 28 degrees. Morning low around the philadelphia area should be around 30 degrees by the time you walk outside if its near sunrisepy. Across the area, clouds moving in. We should be staying dry. Snow off to our west. Thats not expected to move in. The snow weve been looking at all week for this weekend is going to stay far to our south. Into friday, we stay dry. A dry, cold day to end out your week. Then into the weekend, the storm we have been watching that now looks to stay farther south. Thats where you see the clouds and moisture. Through saturday, we should be staying mostly dry. Even into sunday, things do look mostly dry at this point. So not too bad of a weekend forecast. But it will still be cold. For tonight, cold and breezy. Temperature around 26 north and west. 30 degrees for philadelphia. Then tomorrow, still cold and a little breezy. Not as windy as today. 40 to 43 degrees. We stay dry. Most of the weekend we stay dry. Temperatures in the low 40s. Winter officially starts this weekend. The rainy stretch starts monday, tuesday especially as we go into wednesday. So as of now, your Christmas Eve does look rainy. Also mild. Temperatures in the mid 50s. This will carry over through the overnight hours into Christmas Day. Dont worry, santa will make it out there. If the moisture hangs around christmas morning, we could possibly see flurries, very light snow showers. Thats still seven days away. More details on that as we get closer. All right. Thank you, sheena. A Second Chance will come a little later for local students disappointed when this unmanned rocket blew up in october. Remember this . A group at Ocean City High School had science experiments onboard the Orbital Sciences rocket when it burst into flames. The students rebuilt their experiments and the new batch was supposed to be onboard a space x flight set to liftoff tomorrow. Today space x delayed that flight until next month. Hi, im amy at comcast sportsnet. The eagles discussing r. For the first time this season. The flyers welcome back a familiar face to the ice tonight. All that and more coming up next. Hi, im amy fadool from comcast sportsnet. The eagles will get their first look this season at Robert Griffin iii on saturday against the redskins. Kirk cousins played in their first meeting back in week three. R. G. Iii coming off his strongest performance of the season last week against the giants. He came out there with a little bit of confidence, the old swagger you saw. He ran the ball aggressively, put the ball on the money, threw it accurately and had a better understanding. He looked real sharp. Kind of looked like old vintage, old in his prime, not that hes out of it, but the guy everybody remembers from his rookie year. Thats who you have to assume youll see saturday. Desean jackson has 957 receiving yards this year. 250 less than jeremy maclin. Its been an up and down season for djacks. He said part of the problem is the quarterback carousel in d. C. To not have the stability at the quarterback position is tough having, you know, more quarterback and another quarterback and another quarterback. So just trying to dieal with tht and trying to find a leader as far as in the quarterback position. You know, was really hard because, you know, weve just been through three quarterbacks. Cant afford that. Still at the same time have to go out there and whoevers behind center just got to support them. It was the trade that rocked the phillies fan base. The teams alltime hits leader Jimmy Rollins moving on to the dodgers. Now a week later the deal has yet to be finalized. Csnphilly. Com is reporting the deal is still on but the holdup with the padres and dodgers getting their trade done. That involves matt kemp and his health. Flyers return to the ice tonight hosting the panthers and the return of Vinny Lecavalier back on the ice. He last played on november 29th. That will do it for now. Amy fadool from comcast sportsnet. Coming up at 11 00, highend vehicles carjacked and shipped out of new jersey to overseas. Tonight, details of operation jacked. Cold out there tonight. Yes, cold tonight. Some areas in the 20s as you wake up tomorrow morning. Afternoon highs still in the low 40s tomorrow. Same thing across the weekend. So far the weekend is looking to be on the drier side. The storm weve been watching all week will be staying south of us. Into next week, a rainy pattern sets up. Christmas eve looks rainy. Christmas day looks cold. All right. Thanks, sheena. For all of us at nbc 10, thanks for watching. Im renee chenaultfattah. Im jim rosenfield. The news continues now. On our broadcast tonight, whos to blame for the withering continuing electronic attack on Sony Pictures . Publicly the white house wont say, privately the feds are pointing to north korea. And what does that mean for National Security . Trouble from within. A scathing new report on what the secret service has to fix right away starting with the fence around the white house. Inside cuba, while some americans remain suspicious, cubans seem to embrace a new era of relations with the u. S. And the change can already be felt in the streets. And joining the team. How a 9yearold boy became the most celebrated member of a College Hoops squad. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this