Main area. I was teasing about your arm strength. That was an effective way to show us about how far the water goes. Reporter its closed from vine street where you see the flashing lights. Theres a Philadelphia Police officer that has the roadway closed. Heres where the major flooding is halfway down and it extends from here all the way underneath the Benjamin Franklin bridge. This is the bridge and this is where the water kind of stops and were not clear if its flooding further down but police have blocked it off from vine all the way down to about market. So no traffic is able to get by. Bear that in mind. You wont be able to get on 95 northbound which is right here. Thats the entrance ramp. Bear that in mind. The water extends across two of the three lanes and a little bit into the third lane. It is pretty deep because it is up on the sidewalks. Now that its stopped raining perhaps it will start to recede. Live in pens landing jesse gary nbc 10 news. A small electrical fire forced the evacuation of a penndot building in king of prussia. The fire alarm went off alerting people inside. Everyone did make it out safely. This happened an hour and a half ago. The cause is under investigation. Happening now. Crews are working to get the power back on in Delaware County after an explosion last night. This is a live picture from the scene in radner township. Quiet now. Mostly quiet, but you can see that there are still some crews out there. Thats because they do have some work to do this morning. Right now 24 customers are still without power. Nbc 10 was on the scene last night along north wayne avenue in radner as crews responded to a loud blast. The explosion happened underground at 6 00 p. M. Now underground cables need to be replaced. It impacted a few Small Businesses and some residents. The next thing i know we were headed out the door. The big explosion, i was knocked off my feet. I could feel the heat. I heard the fire alarms go off and then i just ran to the back. Like i hit the ground really hard from just the explosion, the force hit me. Crews arent sure exactly what caused the blast and theyre still trying to determine if yesterdays storms were a factor. Vice President Joe Biden will be in philadelphia today to talk energy. Biden is speaking this afternoon at pico headquarters in center city. He is traveling with secretary of energy earnest monique. This is bidens second trip to philadelphia this year. You can count on nbc 10 to be there, of course, for todays event. A philadelphia mother accused of abandoning her disabled son in the woods will go before a judge this afternoon. Nyia parler is scheduled for an extra days hearing in maryland to be returned from philadelphia. Police say parler left her 21yearold quadriplegic son in Cobbs Creek Park so she could visit her boyfriend in maryland. Her son has Cerebral Palsy and cannot communicate. A passerby found him five days later in the woods. Hes now recovering. They plan to charge parler with attempted murder. And a judge will sentence a Delaware County teacher on child sex abuse charges today. Paul hoscrwender pleaded no contest to abusing nine students. Families of two 8yearold victims say they did not check his background. That would have shown similar abuse complaints in his past. New from overnight, police are investigating a shooting in south philadelphia. Investigators tell us the victim was shot in the shoulder on jackson street. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital in stable condition. No word yet on a suspect or motive. In Delaware County the controversy continues in colwyn borough after they changed president s and ousted the manager. You are nuts. You are nuts. There were two big issues that boiled over at yesterdays meeting. First, the council now needs three people to sign borough checks in order to pay bills and former Council President paul muser says the District Attorney told him he cant be one of them. Former borough president paula brown accused them of shredding documents. Nobody did any shredding of any borough documents or anything like that. Absolutely not. Brown says she plans to take the bags of shredded papers to the District Attorneys office sometime today. Meanwhile, the council has asked the state to provide the borough with a temporary borough manager to help handle finances. The problem with progress. Real issue in communities. I dont think that we saw this coming. This morning the bummer about philadelphias construction boom and what city officials have to say about it. Wind will be picking up as the clouds move out and youll see some sunshine, too. Still tracking a few showers in the area and milder temperatures this morning. Its 58 at 5 36. Wow something sounds sweet in here need a little honey in the bowl. Yeah badabopbopbopa no . Must be the honey now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. A rainy, stormy night. The storms are moving out. The wind will be picking up. Thats going to push clouds out of here. You can see theres still plenty of clouds over center city. This is a live view of the city from the nbc 10 studios. The temperatures, not bad at all. 59 degrees in philadelphia. Thats six degrees warmer. Northeast filled seeing the rain coming to an end. Northeast philadelphia nice and dry. Showers moving out there. Very light rainfall. Not going to last. More and more sunshine during the day. 60s for allentown quaker town and reading. Clearing skies. At the shore 66 degrees from cape may, vineland dover. Middle 60s with plenty of sunshine. Rain will be long gone later this morning and this afternoon will break out into sunny skies for wilmington drexel hill and philadelphia all into the middle 60s this afternoon. There is more wet weather in our future though. Seven day when im back in ten. Jesse boyingtons last report road closures. Jesse garys report road closures. Its all because of flooding. Tell us about it. We dont have a lot to speak of in terms of volume because we are dealing with flooding. More road closures out in new jersey. Major closure here. Take 295 to get on by that for the time being. As we head out to 95 northbound around the ramp everything moving along just fine. We tend to see some ponding on the shoulders of the area bridges. As we head on out to check the rest of the bridges, betsy ross just fine walt whitman just fine. Slight construction eastbound taking out a lane on the ben. Theres not a lot of volume this morning. Speeds down to 35 miles an hour. A series of public hearings will begin to discuss possible fare hikes on new jersey transit. Part of the agencys new proposal to close an estimated 60 million budget gap. It would affect riders on trains and buses. It would be njts first fare hike when they raised fares by an average of 22 . Heres one example of how the current hike would impact local commuters. We looked at buses going from Gloucester City to philadelphia. It now costs 3. 90 for a ride. Under the proposal it would jump 35 cents to 4. 95. Well have more on it after next months hearing. The time is 5 41. New developments in the push to safe a Century Old Church in philadelphia. This morning help for supporters fighting to keep the archdiocese from demolishing this Historic House of worship. At 5 44 we want to get you back to breaking news. Flooding. The lanes on Delaware Avenue have been closed this morning between vine and market but we are hearing from nbc 10s jesse gary that those lanes should be reopened relatively soon. That may be happening. You see that bus there. Be sure to check back in with us. Jessica boyington will have updates in the first alert traffic report. Jurors of the Boston Marathon bombing trial will hear more evidence before making a life or death decision. The sentencing phase of the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will begin this morning. He was found guilty of all 30 counts. It will be up to the same jury to decide whether he should be sentenced to death or spend life in prison. Also today, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is in havana to lead a trade delegation with top cuban officials. Most trade still illegal but the meeting is an attempt to explore ways for new York Companies to do business in cuba despite the long standing u. S. Embargo. President obamas Senior Adviser will join philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter today for conversation at city hall. Valerie jarrett is in town for the lead on leave empowering working families across america tour. Shes expected to highlight a sick leave law passed by the city council this year. The Obama Administration wants congress to give every worker access to paid sick time. You dont want to have young people coming into the workplace, employees who are not well. The next time you go into a restaurant, just think about it. If that restaurant doesnt provide paid sick leave for their workers, do you want to eat somewhere where food is being prepared or served to you by people not feeling well . , no of course not. According to the white house, 40 million americans dont have a single day of paid sick time. From getting a drivers license to getting an education, immigration advocates are calling for changes in pennsylvania. Groups from across the state made a trip to harrisburg for immigrant advocacy day. They met to push for pro immigrant policies. A few key issues were discuss the ed. Among them were raising the minimum wage and fair funding for education. Young people have a hard enough time getting into college. You add that them being undocumented and theyre being charged high tuition rates. Bypassing the dream act we can make sure that students have somewhere to go after high school. The pennsylvania dream act offers in state tuition rates to immigrant students even if they are undocumented. Those students must graduate high school in pennsylvania or have a ged. A new partnership between two schools will make it easier for students to earn a college degreer. Delaware Valley University and Delaware Community college signed an agreement for the dell Val Community plan. They can earn a bachelors degree without having to move on to another school. New this morning in philadelphia, a School Budget crisis. William hide is asking Pennsylvania State lawmakers for more money. Height says the state has not adequately funded Public Education in philadelphia and the district cant make any more cuts. According to a report released by Rutgers University philadelphia is the most under funded major urban district in the country. Height says hes optimistic about getting more financial help from the state. Police in north jersey say they have captured the coyote responsible for attacking a man in bergen county. Late last night the Norwood PoliceDepartment Posted a message on its Facebook Page alerting the community that the coyote will be tested at a state lab. The attack in norwood comes two weeks after a coyote attack in saddle river. Saddle river is about ten miles away from norwood. The coyote in the saddle river attack toewsed positive for rabies and was euthanized. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Cloudy skies and a bit of rain in the area. Clearing skies as the wind picks up. Southerly wind. 59 degrees. Running warmer than yesterday. Beach avenue the rain for the most part stays in land the last couple of hours. Its been dry. Clouds are starting to thin out overhead and were on our way to a pretty nice spring day, but heading out right now, theres still some showers moving through Burlington County and farther to the north and west. Portions of montgomery and bucks county seeing a few sprinkles right now. Nothing like the heavy rain we had overnight. A few scattered showers to our southwest. Might still see a rain drop or two to start with but no heavy rain this morning. Look at the clearing skies to the west. That will clear the way for sunshine for us today. A nice warmup from the 50s into the 60s this afternoon. It will be breezy. The wind kicking the clouds out will be out of the west anywhere from 10 to 20 miles an hour. Tomorrow, dry start. Showers are back in store for us. Possibly even a thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon. High 66 degrees tomorrow and then behind those showers. The wind picks up and it gets chillier. 38 degrees to start with thursday morning, just 58 degrees on thursday afternoon. Well see sunshine on friday but a repeat in the temperature department. Over the weekend the numbers start to climb a bit. Low 60s for saturday and sunday with partly sunny skies. A bit warmer with lots of sunshine monday. Just before 6 00. When volume starts to ramp up lets get a check on traffic. Jessica, there have been a few accidents out there, right . A few accidents. Mostly what were dealing with is not volume, its flooding. Were looking at a live picture of where jesse gary was reporting on Delaware Avenue with Police Activity between vine street and market due to road flooding. You can see it taking out all of the shoulders there with the police on the scene. No lanes getting by. Northbound im just getting word is open. Southbound is closed. Heading over to our maps ill show you more closures. One in new jersey on route 130. Closed in both directions on brook lawn. You want to take 295 to get on by that. As we take a check out in delaware everything moving along fine on 495 right around philadelphia pike. So theres no problems there. All lanes moving and looking dry. Vai. Thank you, jessica. Some neighborhoods in philadelphia are booming with new construction and with that some problems come along. This is a digitally exclusive story. This is all over neighborhoods in the city and the Streets Department estimates there are 1700 of these city wide. They wreak havoc on your cars. Theyre opened up to connect lines to new row homes. A real issue in the community. Were all for, again, the community being built up and we love whats happening to the gentrification of the neighborhood but at the same time we need to maintain the neighborhood to keep up the values. Honestly i dont think we saw this coming. As you can recall it was a sustained period of time where there was literally no construction going on. The market tanked and all of a sudden we come out, we emerge from the downturn in the economy. The market picks up and we have unprecedented construction happening in the city. We need to adjust to that. The Council President said they needed to adjust. Go to nbc10. Com and our mobile app. Find out why it could take months to have the construction ditch fixed. The new owner of atlantic citys revel casino is now allowed to cancel leases. A bankruptcy judge ruled that glen straub can renegotiate with renders or find new tenants. Revel closed its doors in november. Straubs Polo North Country Club bought revel earlier in the month for 82 million. State officials in delaware have reached a 2. 75 million settlement with a former poultry vaccine plant accused of contaminating wells in mills borrow ten years ago. The agreement with intervet is the largest ever for delawares hazardous cleanup site plan. Cleanup costs could top 10 million. Philadelphia Historical Commission will soon hold a hearing on the fight to save a Catholic Church in fishtown. Supporters of saint laurentus church says they have accepted the nomination for a hearing to decide if the church should be declared a historic building. Theyre trying to keep the archdiocese from demolishing the 133yearold church. The diocese says the building is too expensive to repair. Judges described julia wolfes work as powerful and they say it evokes pennsylvania coal mining life around the 1930s. She describes herself as a beautiful renegade. Banking on tebow. Well show you how area businesses are trying to cash in on the eagles newest quarterback. Counting down to one of the oldest races in the country. What you need to know about the penn relays where some of the fastest runners in the world are competing. Later this week thousands of young runners will be in philadelphia for the penn relay. The university of pennsylvania has hosted the relay at Franklin Field since 1895. More than 15,000 runners from high schools and colleges all over the country and around the world are expected for the relay that begins on thursday. The penn relay, by the way, is the oldest and largest track and field competition in the u. S. If youd like a full schedule including Ticket Information go to our website, nbc 10 dotcom. Local businesses are trying to cash in on tim tebow. Retailers are waiting for shipments of his number 11 jersey to come in. Other partners at the Philadelphia Business journal say retailers wont be stocking up. Thats because jersey sales suffered when he signed with the new york jets a couple of years ago and he barely played. Eagles fans however theyre optimistic. I believe that well be winning the super bowl this year. With tim tebows help . Yes. Of course. You think they should have a ton of tim tebow jerseys in there. A ton. Why not . Youll buy one . Of course. Why not buy two or three. Well, a manager at the modell Sporting Goods in center city says they will receive a shipment of tebow jerseys and will reevaluate the stock if hes not cut. You can sort of play russian roulette with these things. Yeah you know. The fans should pick one up anyway. Just get one. Youre watching nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 news today at 6 00 a. M. Starts right now. Nbc 10 breaking news. You may have heard this while you were sleeping. Light anythingning lighting up the delaware skies. Flood waters beginning to recede. Theyve opened up some lanes that have been closed. Good morning this is nbc 10 news today. Im rosemary connors. Im vai sikahema. You dont have to worry about it much longer. Thunderstorms rolled through our area overnight bringing heavy rain and flooding in some parts of our area. Lets get right to nbc 10 first alert miggs bill henley. Bill . Vai, more than 2 inches of rain yesterday. That was a oneday record. Its no surprise we are minor flooding. Take a look at this view from cape may. The skies are already breaking. Clouds will thin out. Sunshine is going to take over. The last few showers, tracking them now in parts of the area in new jersey. Moving into ocean county. Now light showers montgomery and bucks county. You can see no sign of the heavy rainfall that we had overnight. Temperatures will hover around 60 degrees. Well see lots of sunshine and 65 degrees with westerly winds picking up as we go into the afternoon hours. That is going to keep us in the 60s. Well go through it neighborhood by neighborhood when i come back in ten minutes. Lets check in