68 degrees in philadelphia. Wind speeds east northeast at 8 miles per hour. Mid 50s in the poconos. 61 in reading, 66 in wildwood, 64 degrees in Atlantic City. Cooler temperatures along the shoreline. Were at 66 in lewis. Heading into the rest of today, temperatures above average. 87 degrees for philadelphia. The highs for pottstown at 86. A bit cooler in wild wood staying in the mid 70s. Same thing for Atlantic City. Moving closer too 80 degrees. I am tracking weekend rain. Ill have the details coming up in my full forecast in ten minutes. Lets check in with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter, Jessica Boyington. Brittney, watching through a lot of active zones. 95 around aramingo avenue. Losing shoulder area because of actual signs from overnight construction as well. Just something to watch for. From woodhaven to the vine 13 minutes. No problems or volume in the area. More ongoing construction on the pa turnpike between Fort Washington and willow grove. Only one lane getting by. If youre taking mass transit today, you have good news. No delays or problems for septa, new Jersey Transit or amtrak. More drive times coming up in 10. Back to you guys. 5 02 breaking news in south philadelphia. Police are expected to get an arrest warrants at any time for a man wanted in two sex assaults. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live in the special victims unit in juniata. What can you tell us . Reporter tracy, Police Investigators found red colored gloves and sneakers both of which the victim on monday said her attacker was wearing at the time of the crime. Police tape was helped by the Surveillance Video recently released. Police say it shows the suspect as he leaves the victims south philadelphia home monday morning. Steals her car, moves it a couple of blocks and then he goes back into the house and allegedly sexually assaults her. The mans mother fierce he could be killed if confronted by police. Shes pleading to him to turn himself in. You could get killed or something or anything. Ill be even more devastated if that happens. Reporter Police Believe the same suspect is responsible for a similar crime in march. In that case the victims children helped fight off the criminal and force him to leave. Working to get a better time line of when that arrest warrant could be issued and when detectives might move out to make the arrest. Well have that coming up in the next 30 minutes or so. Live outside of the special victims unit in juniata, jesse gary nbc 10 news. Some low lying areas of toms river remained underwater hours after a strong thunderstorm came through. More than 4 inches of rain fell. With the skies cleared, 8yearold Blake Whitcomb walked out to his car and watched as cars got stuck. A tow truck came and pulled the cars out and then somebody came and almost flooded the entire road. Reporter somebody driving through . Yeah. Police say the flooding stranded more than 30 cars. Fortunately nobody was hurt. Wild weather is also here following conditions in texas and other states. Vai. We have been watching these situations over the last 24 48 hours. Tracy, in texas theyre getting a little bit of relief this morning as some people are watching rivers fall below flood stage. Check out the video that came into the newsroom. A man in north texas watched as a basketball just floating right past his house on wednesday. Another symbol of the wild weaning itweek it has been in the lone star state. Death toll up to 25. Still hard to imagine seeing that floating down the street. More than a dozen people are missing. Meanwhile, in ohio a business released this video. Surveillance camera shockwing the force of the storm. The wind whipping up snapping trees. Thats an air conditioning unit you see in the parking lot slamming into cars. They confirmed it was indeed a tore nad doe. Now to maine where lightning made a direct hit. Thats a church. Defied the old saying that lightning doesnt strike the same place twice. Well, it does here in maine. The lightning knocked some of the shingles off the church and damaged the electrical wiring. Pretty scary stuff. Lightning hit that church back in 2007 and caused a problem. Im live in the Digital Operations Center vai sikahema, nbc 10. New from overnight police in chester say someone fired at least 30 shots at a group of people on west 3rd street. One person hit. They died. No word on the other victims joompt a legacy of giving. He cofounded another school along with the victim of the crash. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live. Katy, you spoke with the students about the impact louis katz is having on them. Reporter i did. Theyre going to plant a butterfly garden at the school in honor of its two founders. Louis katz is the cofounder of katz delsey school. This year marks one year where he and his cofounder were on a plane that crashed outside of boston. In honor of them theyve chosen a plant that attracts butterflies and will plant them outside the school. What are some of the things you learn sneer. How to read and how to spell. And how to behave. My favorite thing that i do in class is what they teach us were getting smarter and marter. Louis katz coowned the philadelphia inquirer. Well look at contributions he made. Reporting live along the waterfront katy zachry nbc 10 news. 5 07. The trial begins for the woman accused of burning down the home of a police officer. Investigators say that donna crock blamed the officer for her sons arrest. Authorities say last December Krupp torched the house of limerick township detective ernie morris. These are the flames caught on home surveillance cameras. Morris and his family were out of town. An odor coming from a suitcase revealed a man in a suitcase. The man said he smelled something odd but thought he was imagining things. Another person smelled the odor and called the police and they found a mans body inside. I mean its not a densely traveled road. Its kind of off the beaten path. Thats why i choose to walk back here with the animals. Its scary because you just dont know. Its just very very scary. Police say the body belonged to a man in his 20s. An autopsy will determine how he died as police work to find out who dumped him there. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bring thefully ship. Good morning. Its a mild start as we wind down your work week starting off at 66 degrees in the poconos, mid 50s. Coatsville, 64 and Kenneth Square at 67 degrees in philadelphia. 62 degrees in mount holly. Temperatures along the shore, low conditions 60s in avalon. A batch of moisture is continued to track towards the east. We were seeing thunderstorms. Once it hit the water, again, its starting to lose its steam as it approaches dover. We could see a few popup showers to the south of dover heading into the next 20 to 30 minutes. These are slow moving. Only moving at 10 miles per hour. For the rest of the area we are nice and dry. We will see a mix of sun and clouds today. Temperatures staying above average. Were getting rid of the humidity. It will be a little bit more comfortable out for you. Our wind speeds will start to shift out of the south 5 to 10 miles per hour. As far as saturday is concerned we are going to warm conditions. 87 degrees by saturday. Cooler temperatures. Rain is possible especially heading into the afternoon and then even the possibility of isolated thunderstorms. Ill go over the breakdown of the rain and when it will start and stop coming up. One week ago memorial day weekend, everyone making their plans and hitting the road. A lot of people might be heading out of town today and want to get a jump on traffic. Lets find out. Nbc 10 first alert reporter Jessica Boyington is watching the roads. Where are you going . Starting off on the vine street expressway around eighth street where we have no picture. There we go. You can see no real problems particularly in the westbound lanes. Schuylkill expressway, threeminute trip. No problems 95 on the vine street expressway. You can see some signs in the area due to ongoing construction. The scene is inactive. Thats pretty much the case all across the board. Check on our area bridges we currently have no problems heading in or out of the city on the ben, the taconypalmyra or the walt whitman. Tracy. 11 minutes past 5 00. One year later and still feeling the effects. Businesses in delaware still struggling to recover from the 495 bridge closure and the work isnt over yet. The anthrax accident that hit our area. Well have more information. P pataki is one of eight major gop candidates. The others are Ted Cruz Rick santorum, ben carson karly fiorina. Mike huckabee. For the democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are running. 5 15. Next week members will question amtrak. The House Transportation Committee will hold a hearing next tuesday. Amtraks president Joseph Boardman will testify at the hearing along with members of the ntsb and the federal railroad administration. It derailed over two weeks ago. 8 people killed, more than 200 injured. Amtrak contacted people about their belongings. They say theyre in the process of assessing, cataloging and returning personal items to passengers of train 188. We are working as quickly carefully to expedite the process. Time is 5 16. We have new information on an anthrax scare involving military labs in delaware and new jersey. A commercial lab that may have received live anthrax spores from an army lab in utah could reopen by next week. Officials say the unidentified lab will be decontaminated over the next few days. Federal officials are working to find out how that live bacteria was mistakenly shipped from utah to labs in nine states. No one has become ill. Lab workers are taking antibiotics as a precaution. Believe it or not, it was one year ago today that an engineer first noticed those pillars were tilting on the bridge the 495 bridge over the Christina River in wilmington. The bridge was closed for months as repairs were made. Businesses were cut off as traffic was rerouted. Drivers had a nightmare. The businesses say theyre trying to make up for the lost profit from last year. Septa is taking a new step after it was forced to run ads comparing hitler to islam. Septas board made the decision not to run anymore ads that are religious. This will allow them to have more control on what appears on the side of the buses. Previously a judge ruled if they ran other political ads it had to run that controversial hitler ad. Now the same people behind the septa ads, the ones with hitler also wanted to put images of the Prophet Muhammad on buses and on train stations in washington, d. C. The Transit Authority there has banned any political or issue oriented ads for the rest of this year. 5 18 whether you take Public Transit or the roads, lets check your ride on this friday morning. Hopefully its a smooth ride for you. Nbc 10s first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington has a look at whats happening out there on the highways or not happening, hopefully. Pretty empty so far on a lot of our majors. Ill show you why, 202 around paoli pike. Everything free and in the clear there. If we are dealing with anything its a lot of ongoing construction projects. Pa turnpike eastbound between washington and willow grove, that will be out there until 6 00 a. M. With not a lot of volume heading through the area you wont be dealing with a whole lot of volume. As we check out 95 right around delaware, so no problems there as well. 10 minutes headed northbound or southbound from 295 up towards 495. Well check in with mass transit coming up in 10 minutes. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Good morning. Less humidity for today. There will be a little bit more comfortable for us. Were still going to hold on to above average temperatures. 10 degrees above average. High 80s for us. Weekend rain on sunday. We are going to see rain moving into the area. Some areas will see heavier rain and ill go over that in the future weather cast. Reading, 61 degrees. 68 68. 64 in westchester. 60s in mount holly. 63 degrees in stone harbor. Temperatures in dover at 70 degrees. Well keep an eye on dover. Scattered showers. Slow moving storms around 10 miles per hour. We did see when they were off to the west of us. Thunderstorms are now continuing into the east. They are losing steam and so well just see a few scattered showers, moderate downpour. If youre waking up in dover, heading out the door, grab your umbrella. You wont need it later on. In the next 20 minutes or so youll need it. Scattered conditions scattered showers near minneapolis into omaha. Soaking rains once again for dallas down into houston. Been a rough couple of days there with those flooding rains. As we head into the weekend, we are going to stay dry today. By saturday just a few passing sprinkles and then by sunday thats when well see mild rainfall. Moderate downpours. That will be closer to 1 00 p. M. If you get up really early in the morning, by the time you head to church youll be fine. As we head into the rest of the afternoon, going out to lunch, you need your umbrella. Philadelphia, out to allentown, Lancaster County youll notice that well see this rain continuing even into your sunday evening plans. Even as we head into monday were tracking rain and cooler temperatures. Well see a nice start to the weekend staying 10 degrees above average. 77 is your average. 87 degrees by tomorrow. 87 as well. We drop down into the high 70s on sunday, then the high 50s for your daytime highs on monday. As far as today is concerned, 81 degrees in the poconos. 87 in reading. 85 degrees the high in mount holly. 80 degrees in dover and temperatures near philadelphia 87 degrees. Seven day forecast shows cooler temperatures more rain on the way monday and much cooler conditions with a high 59 degrees when you head back to work. We certainly dont want to see any flooding like theyve seen in texas. This is one of the most dramatic videos weve seen out of that state yet. As soon as the water came through the window i knew that we were in trouble. The family that captured that video talks about the moments that a wall of water came rushing into their home. 5 24. Layoffs at jpmorgan wont affect workers in delaware. No word on whether pennsylvania and new jersey will be affected. Lets find out with landon dowdy. Weve learned that Jpmorgan Chase is reportedly cutting 5,000 jobs. The wall street journal says its from Consumer Banking as the company overhauls its banking. Jamie dimon told an Investor Conference this week the average chase branch will lose one employee mostly through attrition. Over on wall street stocks could struggle again today. Futures point to a lower open. The market is posting moderate losses a among worries about the timing of the feds first Interest Rate hike. Manufacturing, Consumer Sentiment and another reading on First Quarter gdp which is expected to show that the economy is worse than previously thought during the first three weeks of the year. The dow falling 36 points to 18126. The nasdaq down 8 to 5097. Landon dowdy, thanks. Have a nice weekend. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Taking a live look outside right now. We are going to see a mix of sun and clouds as we push into the rest of your friday. Warm temperatures still on tap. Less humidity which is nice for the hair and comfort. We like the hair thing there, brittney. Good morning everyone. Route 73 in new jersey. No problems. Right around the Atlantic City expressway there are some problems in construction spots in new jersey. Im going to tell you where they are coming up. Im jesse gary live outside the special victims unit in philadelphia. Police preparing to issue an arrest warrant for the suspect wanted for attacking women in their home in south philadelphia. Well have more on that coming up right after the break. Nbc 10 breaking news. Nbc 10 news has learned an arrest warrant could be coming today in the south philadelphia sexual assault. Investigators now say theyve found a pair of gloves and shoes matching a print at the scene. Oh no a wall of water poured into a home in texas all caught on camera. This morning the family who survived this is talking about the ordeal. And here in our area humidity and storms but not the heat. It could climb near 90 again today. Already 67 degrees outside. Just about 5 30. Good morning and welcome back to nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im chris cato. We may get near 90 but a tolerable 90. Humidity. Sticky yesterday but you can feel the change when you step out the door this morning. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp is here to talk about the forecast. Brittney. Happy friday. Were getting rid of some of the humidity. Sun and clouds heading into the rest of the afternoon. A chilly start in the poconos. More of a mild start in philadelphia. 56 degrees in the poconos. 56 in alan town. 50s in quaker town. 60 degrees in doylestown. 57 in wilmington. 59 in wrightstown. Youll notice the wind speeds coming in out of the northeast with the exception if you ride along the shore, 53 in avalon 56 in lewis. We are tracking a little batch of moisture