Year. Clouds will keep us a little bit cooler today. Well get some breaks of sunshine, but its not going to be clear like it was over the weekend. 68 degrees by 9 00, warming to 77 at noontime today. Your neighborhoodbyneighborhood forecast when i come back. But first, katy zachry has traffic. Good morning, katy. Hi, bill. A development to tell drivers about in philadelphia. There was some Police Activity on route 1 northbound on the off ramp to broad street. That in the last few minutes has cleared, so it shouldnt delay you, if thats part of your morning commute. Taking a look right now at route 202 right at 76, free and clear of any problems on any of our majors in the area. Very few accidents. Anything that was happening was getting cleared very quickly. And in terms of area bridges, they all look good. There is some construction to tell you about on the ben franklin bridge when i see you in a few minutes. Heres what were following this morning. Captured on camera fleeing the scene. Look at this. Philadelphia police say the driver of this suv, they want to find him. He was involved in a hitandrun crash that sent a 7yearold girl to the hospital. Nbc 10s jesse gary is live outside Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. And jesse, after your last report, you called the hospital to check on the girls condition. Hows she doing now . Reporter chris, best information we have right now is that 7yearold remains in guarded condition. We do not have a better idea of what injuries she suffered. Lets take a look at our video. Witnesses say allure mclaine was struck as she struck north 42nd street late last night. One car stopped to allow her to walk across the street, but witnesses say the driver of a second vehicle swerved around the stopped car, hit the child, sped off. Her family in disbelief. Its a shame for somebody to hit a child 7 years old and just take off and dont even have no consider of life. Reporter thats her grandfather. Police are looking for a lime green mitsubishi outlander, pennsylvania license plate jky7458. Any information on that, please give police a call. Im going to call police myself and try to get an update on their search for that vehicle. Ill have that for you in 30 minutes. Live outside Childrens Hospital, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. New from overnight, three people are hurt after a chainreaction crash in philadelphia along erie avenue at m street. It happened around 1 30 this morning. Police say everyone involved is expected to be okay. The cause is under investigation. Taking a look at three things we continue to follow for you today on nbc 10 news two cities in this area will begin a new ewt to cut down on crime. Wilmington and camden are among five cities nationwide selected for the Violence Reduction network, aiming at keeping streets safer with government resources. Detroit, chicago and oakland are also involved. An investigation is under way to find out what started a house fire that killed the president of Cooper University health care and his wife. Officials say the fire was contained to an upstairs bedroom in the home of john and joyce sheridan. Autopsies will now be performed on the couple to figure out exactly how they died. And today the trial will begin for former philadelphia sportscaster don tollefson. Tollefson is accused of stealing more than 100,000 through an alleged charity scam. Investigators say he tricked people into buying tickets to sporting events, but he kept the cash for himself and the buyers never got the tickets they paid for. President obama says u. S. Intelligence agencies underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants. Despite the Coalition Air war against isis forces in syria, the islamic insurgents are still in a battle for control of a town on the border with turkey. Kurdish fighters are battling isis, but the heavily armed sunni militants appear to be gradually forcing the kurdish fighters back. Appearing on 60 minutes, the president says america is the country others turn to for help. America leads. We are the indispensable nation. We have capacity no one else has. Our military is the best in the history of the world. And when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they dont call beijing, they dont call moscow, they call us. Thats the deal. The president says isis is a terrorist network but one that has territorial ambitions and the strategy and tactics of an army. Its 5 35 now. The Philadelphia Eagles did something that no other nfl team has done in seven years, and thats not necessarily a good thing. A look at what went wrong yesterday for the birds in breaking their seasonopening winning streak. And preventing teen pregnancy. A strong recommendation this morning from one of the countrys leading pediatric groups. Brilliant sunshine over the weekend, but were already seeing some change this morning. Thats a live view from center city. 64 degrees at 5 35 with some clouds that are already moving into the area. At 5 37, we are following breaking news into nbc 10. A live picture from east win circle in upper dublin, montgomery county. A fire has destroyed a home there. It started around 3 00 this morning. No one was hurt. Firefighters are still trying to figure out how it started. A little bit of a breeze blowing this morning. Look at the flags in center city. Theres some clouds that are blowing into the area after brilliant sunshine over the weekend. Today its going to be clouds with some breaks of sunshine, but in spite of clouds that are already moving into the area, its going to be another warm day. Were starting out warm this morning in the 60s. Well see near 80 degrees this afternoon. Any chance of showers, though, wont happen today, but it is coming up. We could see them later tomorrow. 62 in wilmington. Cherry hill right now is 61 degrees, while its in the 50s for pottstown. Quakertown now down to 55 degrees. Solidly in the low 60s for delaware, and its 59 degrees in clayton, while Cape May Harbor is 67 degrees. Clouds are coming in, so i dont expect temperatures to go much low lower. You can see some breaks in the clouds. It wont be total cloud cover, well get some breaks of sunshine, but there are lots of clouds that are streaming into the area. So, its not going to clear out during the day today. That will happen overnight tonight. 75 degrees, clouds and sunshine for mt. Pocono, upper 70s for allentown and quakertown. Trenton up to 81 degrees, while it will warm to 80 for mt. Holly and 79 degrees in norristown. Dover, vineland 78 degrees this afternoon. Any fog will disappear. In atlantic city, we saw some to start with. And well see temperatures climb, in spite of the clouds coming in, in wilmington, chester and philadelphia, upper 70s, near 80 degrees this afternoon. When i come back, the sevenday forecast with the timing of cooler conditions. Its about 20 minutes until 6 00 now, and this is the time of the morning we always see traffic pick up some. Lets see what katy zachry is seeing on all of her cameras. Katy . Were seeing traffic pick up in all of our cameras, but fortunately, no accidents to report in our tristate area. So, there is a downed pole in delaware, where were going to start off on Stanton Christiana road right at Delaware Park boulevard. The right lane is blocked there because of a downed pole, but they are working on it to move it from the roadway. Route 42 at the new jersey turnpike, a little bit of a blurry view, but you can tell traffic is moving smoothly in both directions. And in montgomery county, route 422, right at route 29, same deal. Traffic is moving smoothly in both directions. And average speeds on 95, as you start on cottman avenue headed into center city, philadelphia, average speeds are in the 50s. Well, the eagles suffered their first loss of the season. It was hard to watch. And suffered was the right word for what the offense did. In spite of a woeful offensive showing, the birds still had a chance to beat the 49ers at the end but fell short. Late in the second quarter, one of the few highlights, Darren Sproles returning a punt 82 yards for the touchdown. Eagles led 2113 at halftime thanks to defense and special teams. They also returned an interception for a touchdown. It came down to this, though. Late in the fourth quarter, fourth and goal from the 1. Nick foles rolls out and just throw it out of the back of the end zone, gave no one a chance. The eagles lost 26721. This was the first time in seven years that a team scored three nonoffensive touchdowns and didnt win. The eagles next game is at home this sunday against the st. Louis rams. College enrollment is dropping again. Well have the latest numbers, plus the one area of Higher Education that is seeing an increase in enrollment. And banged up on the boardwalk. Just how many people get hurt sightseeing in shore town and what it costs in court to pay for all those injuries. The usual . Not tonight. Introducing longhorns steaks that sizzle for 12. 99. Smoky double bacon sirloin. Parmesan crusted sirloin. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. At 5 45, we are following breaking news, Police Investigating a shooting in the East Oak Lane section of philadelphia. Here is a live look from the scene. This happened within the past half hour at 66th and 2nd. Police say the victim was shot in the back. Investigators are still looking for the shooter. We are also following another breaking news story. This is a live picture from east win circle and nicole drive in upper dublin county, where fire gutted a home there. It started around 3 00 this morning. Nobody was hurt. Firefighters are trying to find out how it started. And a big honor for a member of the nbc family this weekend. Msnbc talk show host Chris Matthews received an honorary doctoral degree from Lasalle University during that schools fall honors convocation yesterday. Matthews was born in philadelphia and was one of five brothers to graduate from Lasalle College high school. Hes hosted hardball with Chris Matthews since 1997. Enrollment at pennsylvanias stateowned universities appears to be dropping for the fourth straight year. Preliminary reports show enrollment has dropped below 111,000 students. It peaked at above 119,000 in 2010. Now, the Pennsylvania State system of Higher Education raised tuition 3 , trying to cut its deficit. Education Officials Say the state is trying to expand its partnerships with Community Colleges and extend tuition to schools are extra states. In the lehigh valley, enrollment is at an alltime high at the career and technical institute. According to a report in the morning call, there are nearly 3,000 students enrolled, a jump of more than 250 students this year. That Institute Offers dozens of curriculum options, including engineering and industrial technology. Happening today, new initiative aimed at preventing youths from engaging in drug abuse, delinquency and violence. The program is called communities that care. It will focus on atrisk children in montgomery and bucks counties. More details about the program will be announced this morning at the Horsham Township Community center. The nations most influential Pediatricians Group is now recommending teen girls who have sex use iuds or hormonal implants. The American Academy of pediatrics says they are effective, safe and easy to use. The group also says condoms should be used every time teens have sex to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. Roger goodell visits the headquarters of the National Domestic violence hotline yesterday. This, of course, comes after heavy criticism about his handling of the ray rice abuse case. While at that center in austin, texas, his ceo said goodell was moved to tears as he listened to stories about the challenges victims of abuse face. After pledging millions of dollars to support, goodell also promised to increase education and awareness about Domestic Violence issues to players, coaches and staff members. California governor jerry brown has signed a bill making his state the first in the nation to define when yes means yes. It adopts requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sex assault reports. Under the bill, someone who is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep cannot grant consent. But lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal. This morning an american doctor exposed to ebola in sierra leone is at the National Institutes of Health Hospital near washington. He was admitted yesterday to a special Isolation Unit for observation. Officials say the doctor has not necessarily contracted the virus and hes in isolation as a precaution. Here in our area, the Philadelphia Union and Temple University teamed up to help fight ebola, encouraging people to kick ebola in the butt. That was the fundraiser. The challenge involved kicking a slightly inflated ball at someones behind, really making a donation. Thats what it was all about. Proceeds benefit charities responding to the outbreak in west africa. Its 5 47. A new study finds that a stroll along the boardwalk has been costing some south jersey communities some big money. The report finds in the past five years, 1. 8 million have been paid out because of injuries that people claim they received on the boardwalk. And the report says just this year, towns and their insurers have paid nearly 800,000 to deal with those types of claims. Some of the suits involve claims on wildwoods boardwalk and atlantic citys promenade. Well, its a celebration of puerto rican pride in philadelphia that drew quite a crowd over the weekend. Hundreds of performers and youth groups marched up the ben franklin parkway for the annual parade, now in its 52nd year. The parade also attracted politicians like philadelphia mayoral candidate ken trujillo, the first latino to run for mayor in philadelphia. Now, in the governors race, incumbent tom corbett spent part of the weekend in pittsburgh. His campaign tells us corbett is working on behalf of all pennsylvanians and will continue this if hes reelected. Corbett also announced the birth of his second and third grandchildren, twin boys, elliott and theodore. On wednesday, corbett faces off against democratic challenger tom wolf for a second debate. This one will be held in philadelphia. Next week, the candidates will square off again for the final debate in wilkinsburg, which is just outside of pittsburgh. Toxic gas and ash have forced soldiers to suspend Recovery Efforts today on top of that japanese volcano. At least 31 people died after mt. Ontake erupted saturday. More than a dozen bodies have been removed from the mountain so far. Authorities say at least 250 people were hiking at the volcano when it erupted. Many of those hikers were initially trapped, but they have made their way to safety hours after the eruption. 5 50 right now. September is National Preparedness month, and this morning the red cross is helping to keep you and your family ready for an emergency. The red cross is working with Wells Fargo Bank and peco this morning in center city to pack Emergency Preparedness kits for the community. Local dignitaries will also help prepare the 400 kits to be donated to people in the point breeze section of philadelphia. The red cross is also urging all families in the area to have a kit and an emergency plan in place, should disaster strike. Yesterday was a pictureperfect day to enjoy the outdoors and enjoy some delicious food, too. Nbc 10 was at the manayunk Food Festival along main street there, and there was food for every taste bud there. Also lots of activities for the kids. The festival kicked off manayunk restaurant week, which runs through october 10th. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. We are in the final days of september, and it felt like summer yesterday. 86 degrees yesterday afternoon. We saw brilliant sunshine, but clouds are already moving in. So, were seeing some changes this morning. Its still warm outside, 65. Thats ten degrees above normal for this time of year in philadelphia. There are some 50s to be found. Pottstown is at 58 degrees, but northeast philadelphias 64 right now. And look at the 60s recorded in delaware river, newbold at 62 degrees. There are a few spots that have found the upper 50s this morning. A little bit chill ier in quakertown, quakertown 55 degrees. Thats a little better for the end of september, the beginning of fall. There are a few showers creating a little bit of rainfall to our west, but most of the system thats coming in with clouds is producing wet weather to our south. So, we will stay dry today. But we are getting the clouds off of those showers, and those are going to be around for most of the day. So, clouds, some breaks of sunshine, 68 degrees at 9 00, upper 70s at noon, and then 80 degrees at 4 00 this afternoon. Not as warm as yesterday but close. And the sevenday forecast, well see some sunshine to start with tomorrow and then clouds will be building with a chance of some afternoon showers on tuesday and a better chance of seeing some scattered showers on wednesday. That will keep the temperatures lower. 73 degrees wednesday afternoon. Then sunshine reappears for thursday. Up to 74 after a morning low of 59 degrees. And then the clouds reappear later on friday. Theres a chance well see some scattered showers friday evening and into early saturday, and then cooler conditions sunday. Just a few minutes until 6 00 a. M. Now. Lets see what awaits you as you hit the road for your beginning of your workweek or school week. Nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter katy zachry is in for jillian this morning. Bhar you seeing, katy . Fortunately, no accidents to report, so fingers crossed, right . This is a live look at 476 right near macdade boulevard after some overnight construction cleared on 476 near broomall. Theres really no incidents on 476. And taking a look at your drive times on 476 between 95 and 76, and then also 422 between oaks and 202, green lights in both directions. Today a local High School Football player will return to the hospital for his next round of chemotherapy. Last night, the Community Came together to let him know hes not in this alone. Yeah, hundreds of people came out to a Fundraising Concert at ardmore music hall in ardmore. The money raised will go to michael shelly, a freshman at Marple Newtown high school who was diagnosed with lymphoma. A lot of people in the crowd showed their support by wearing tshirts, you see them there, they have shellystrong. This is video of 14yearold michael here. He recently came home for a week and was able to lead out his Football Team on to the field at a home Football Game there in Marple Newtown. Were all pulling for michael. Now, its time to vote for the High School Blitz game of the week. Your choices are st. Joseph against vineland, a Catholic League battle between Cardinal Ohara and Archbishop Carroll or bishop shaan haen and west chester henderson. To cast your vote, go to n nbc10. Com or our facebook page. You can also call or text your onetime vote to of 610624411. As always, the game with the most votes will be featured as our gayt week on the High School Blitz, airing saturday nights, 7 00 p. M. Right here on nbc 10. Abandoned properties and overall eyesores. Well tell you about a plan in a local city to hold Property Owners accountable for dangerous and unsightly buildings bringing down the block. Thats ahead in our countybycounty coverage. Plus, the push today to keep people coming back to the jersey shore now that summer is over. And dont forget, you can always wake up with your favorite nbc 10 personality before you even turn on the tv. You can download the nbc 10 morning app to your smartphone. There youll find headlines, a live stream of our morning newscasts, and you can even set your alarm to wake up to the voice of an nbc 10 personality. Everything you need to start off your day right. At three minutes before 6 00, we have new information about that breaking news were following for you in philadelphias East Oak Lane section. A shooting that happened on 66th near 2nd. We just spoke to police, who told us it started as a robbery. Thats when one of the robbers told the other to shoot the victim and he did. Investigators are still looking for those robbers. Taking a look at the stories were following for you county by county this morning. We begin in kent county, delaware, where a driver is facing drug and weapons charges after first getting pulled over for not wearing a seat belt. Authorities say when the officer stopped matthew trentley on us13 in kent county, they found an assault rifle, brass knuckles, marijuana and Drug Paraphernalia in the car. He is facing several charges, including carrying a concealed Deadly Weapon and is being held on 13,000 bail. In chester county, a proposed crackdown on abandoned properties in the city of coatesville. They want to change the City Ordinance to penalize banks and lienholders for failing to maintain these properties. It follows a fine imposed on those owning abandon and unkempt properties. And in atlantic county, a new push for tourists. Heres a look at one of the do ac commercials. Its being rolled out as part of the new Marketing Campaign for atlantic city. Later today, the mayor actually will come to philadelphia to promote the campaign. Commercials will soon be on tv in the philadelphia market. People always looking for a deal. Maybe do ac. Youre watching nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 news today starts right now. Take a good look. Police want to find the driver of this car. The driver hit a little girl and then kept going. Under investigation. The ceo and president of Cooper UniversityHealth System and his wife die in a house fire. And clouds are moving in, but the rain will hold off. Well get your forecast hour by hour. Good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. And im vai sikahema. Lets get right to nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley. Its, what, a weekend of fall and still feels like summer today. Yeah, certainly was yesterday, and its a warm start this morning. We should be in the 40s and 50s. Were in the 50s and 60s right now. About ten degrees above normal, and thats in spite of clouds that are coming into the area. Cant see them yet. The sun is about an hour away from coming up, but we will see cloudiness more so than over the weekend with just some breaks of sunshine. 64 degrees right now in philadelphia. Pottstown is in the 50s. Its in the 50s for millville. We saw some areas of light fog in south jersey there quickly disappearing. A cool, dry start at the bus stop this morning. 50s in the suburbs, 60s in center city with a nice afternoon but a cloudy one, too, with some breaks of sunshine at lunchtime, 77 degrees and 80 degrees, unusually warm for the end of september. Got your hourbyhour forecast, show you whats going to happen for the rest of the day when i come back. But first, katy zachrys in with traffic. Good morning, katy. Good morning, bill. We have had a pretty good morning, no accidents to report. I hesitate to say that not to jinx it, but well start with a live look at i76 right near 476, where you can see free and clear of any problems. We are seeing a few more cars on the roadway, so its slowing things down a bit, but not to account for any delays. In fact, you can see 76 westbound from the vine to the blue route only 14 minutes. 476, 95 in the trouble spots, they look good as well. Taking a look at