The Lehigh Valley accused of sexually assaulting two children. Dr. Korrapati turned himself in this week to face charges he molested a 5yearold girl and 10yearold boy from 2011 to last year. Prosecutors say the assault kts not happen while the doctor was working at Emergency Rooms in the Lehigh Valley and philadelphia. The decision to charge was made based on the statements of the child and from what i was told the children are very credible and are able to relay what happened to them. Were looking forward to our day in court. Our hope is that notwithstanding the type of charge this is, that everybody will keep an open mind. My client claims that he is innocent of these charges. And the doctors free on bail right now and his Attorney Says he is working but not as a physician. A new jersey nurse now has her license suspended after she allegedly used dirty syringes to give dozens of flu shots. The state Health Department announced mary rubach has voluntarily surrendered her license. Health Officials Say she reused syringes giving flu shots. The syringes are used to carry the vaccine. The actual needles were not use on the more than one patient. To our weather. The beautiful weather weve been enjoying this week. Its taken a turn. Were tracking rain ahead of cooler temperatures this weekend. Nbc 10 meteorologist Sheena Parveen is joining us with our first alert forecast. Quite a few changes in the forecast now. Tomorrow youre going to want your umbrella before you leave. The rain is up to our north and west. No rain as we go through tonight. You will see the clouds increasing. Right now we have clouds around the area. Heres a live look at center city as the sun is about to set. More cloud cover now than what we hat earlier in the day through part of the area. Temperatures still comfortable, mid did low 70s. Some areas dropping into the upper 60s, allen town and millville. Friday, a line of showers approaching. Mostly in the afternoon. But its all part of a cold front. So once it clears late friday, were talking about a big cooldown as we go into your weekend. Coming up ill show you a closer look at the timing of the rain and how cool your saturday and sunday will get straight ahead. Students on the front lines of pennsylvanias budget crisis. Dozens of kids emptied their classrooms today to protest how this gridlock in harrisburg is hurting their education. We are at 100 days without a budget. Governor tom wolf spoke this afternoon about how to break this stalemate. George spencer joining us live from our digital operations center. The students are just frustrated at this point . Yeah, frustrated indeed. As the impacts of this budget stalemate are hitting the School District of philadelphia hard. And just within the past two hours, we asked the governor how this lengthy logjam can finally be broken. Nbc 10 was with these performing arts students marching along broad street towards the School District headquarters, a noisy expression of outrage over harrisburgs budget stalemate. Late this afternoon, Governor Wolf told us he too is frustrated. These are problems for this community. Theyre also problems for pennsylvania. And whats going on here is going on in other parts of the state. And we need a state that is a real partner. Its unfortunate that the people who are put in place to protect us are destroying us. Reporter this student was among todays protesters. When the state budget expired in early july the School District was forced to take out 275 million in loans just to cover operating expenses. Leaders there are delaying vendor payments and projects. Student outrang is felt by city leaders. Its been going on a long time and we have to fix that formula. Reporter kenny insists Governor Wolf was elected to make those changes. For these students and their School District time is of the essence. The district says emergency loans will run out at the end of the month potentially forcing even more painful reductions. You can only hope that the people in harrisburg will listen to us. Reporter meanwhile the fingerpointing does continue among state leaders. The state Republican Caucus believes Governor Wolf has been the one unwilling to compromise in all of this. Late today they told us it all comes down to votes and the governor has not convinced enough legislators. This budget holdup is squeezing Early Childhood Education Centers who say the classrooms have more empty chairs than students right now. Take a look at Kinder Academy in northeast philadelphia, a brandnew facility. 80 of the children who were supposed to taped the school are now at home or at a lowerquality center. They say its all because state funds that helped parents pay for the school are held up in harrisburg. Theyre calling saying, im going to lose my job. Theyre saying, im using a different babysitter every day. Teachers who were planning to work here are also out of luck because the center cant pay them. Stay with nbc 10 as we continue to track the budget back and forth in harrisburg. We take you inside the statehouse to demand accountability from lawmakers plus keep tracking all the ways this fiscal stalemate impacts you and your family. Paramedics in Camden County taking too long to get to patients in need. Thats according to a new report made public this afternoon. Nbc 10s keith jones joining us live here in studio with the breakdown of these dhas. Half the time you have to wait more than eight minutes. Thats the national average. New Research Conducted by the Camden County department of Public Safety analyzes four years of data. If you live in pine hill, for example, youll most likely have to wait more than eight minutes for a first responder. In winslow township, more than eight minutes 77 of the time. Cherry hill, 59 of patients had to wait. Haddonfield had the best numbers. The liaison to the Camden County Health Department free holder Carmen Rodriguez says the delays are astounding. How can we say that the health and basically fair of our residents is being protected when we look at this report . Researchers say every year more than 300,000 americans die from sudden cardiac arrest. For every minute those patients go without treatment, theres a 5 to 10 decrease in survival. Keith jones, nbc 10 news. A drug suspect is now indicted for hitting two new jersey state troopers with his car to avoid being arrested. Juan gutierrez valencia of Burlington County is charged with assault and resisting arrest. Prosecutors say the man sold crystal meth to an undercover detective in july last year and then crashed into the troopers when they tried to arrest him. A former boy scout leader in Delaware County will spend the next 20 years in prison for distributing child porn online. A judge sentenced Garrett Conover this afternoon. He pleaded guilty to one count of child pornography distribution after he was arrested trying to get back from canada in 2012. Hed been a troop leader 1999 to 2011. New information this evening on last weeks Sexual Assault and robbery of a Temple University student. Police say a suspect is in custody. Investigators arrested him on an unrelated probation vice. They say that suspect is the same person seen on Surveillance Video they released on friday rfrt victim says she was on her way home from the library when a man grabbed her from behind last monday. It happened blocks away from the temple campus near carlisle and master streets. Police have not released the suspects name. New report from philadelphias controller shows just how bad the popes visit was for business. More than 80 of businesses that responded said they lost money that weekend. As a Business Owner i was disappointed because i had this expectation of people coming in. As a philadelphian, i wasnt disappointed because i truly believed that philadelphia rose to the occasion. 108 businesses responded to the survey. 90 indicated the papal visit put their businesses behind yearly projections. One restaurant said it borrowed money to make payroll. 75 of those asked say the citys event coordination hurt their business. The Mayors Office deannounced the validity of the survey and accused the controller of playing politics. If youre mapping to drive on eastbound i76 late tonight you might want to think again. Highway crews are shutting down the roadway between University Avenue and 34th street to resurface the bridge over the schuylkill river. I76 east will shut down from 10 00 tonight to 5 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning, again on friday, and then again next week. These two men allegedly robbed a Delivery Driver in kensington. Back on september 18th, a fast food delivery man was dispatched to a home on North Hancock street. He says he was waved over by two men. One of them pulled a gun and demanded his money and wallet. The men used the drivers credit card at a gas station and then a walmart, both are still on the loose. A Montgomery County man is charged with harassment and invasion of privacy, accused of hiding a video recorder inside a public bathroom. David gardner is now out on bail. Pennsylvania state police say he placed the recorder inside a restroom at an airplane part supplier business in northampton. Police found that device in july and they arrested gardner yesterday. There will soon be new signs outside bathrooms in city buildings. This afternoon the Philadelphia City Council Approved genderneutral bathrooms. The new bill requires all singleoccupancy Public Restrooms to have baseball labels on the door as genderneutral. No more men or women signs on the doors. The mayor is expected to sign the bill. Next on nbc 10 news, one new jersey town plans to stop Domestic Violence before anyone gets hurt. Were love with details on a new specialized unit to try to keep families safe. Tracking rain for the end of the week. Still a warm day. Then wig cool changes as we go into the weekend. Well take a look at the details coming up. Mr. P. E. T. A. Fights for the rights of animals including metal ones. How the group wants to get involved to save the jersey shores famous elephants. One Police District in Camden County trying to stop Domestic Violence before it happened. The Specialized Team will operate in the community to try to predict future problems before anyone gets hurt. Nbc 10s cydney long is live in gloucester township to explain. Reporter you might consider it a Community Policing approach to an svu, special victims unit. It will assign two specific officers to Domestic Violence crimes from First Response to court, to identify the victims most at risk, to work with their families, to send a strong message to perpetrators. Times and they did not come. Reporter Britney Gerard doesnt know what else she they could have done to save her twin sisters life. Amy, a young nurse, murdered in a Domestic Violence incident in philadelphia in august 2014. I now realize it was a goodbye message preparing for her death. Reporter it was months after amys death britney and her mother witnessed and stopped to help a woman being beaten by her boyfriend in gloucester township. With the experience that we found, and charged within minutes that night. Reporter and now Gloucester Township Police launching hivis, homeinvolved violence intervention strategies, a fourpronged approach to stopping the epidemic by means of designated Domestic Violence detectives who will handle a case from start to finish. Every crime will be assessed on paper for a level of danger. A score of extreme will result in a number of actions, including periodic victim home visits and greatly enhanced patrol of the victims residence. They send out the officers, they do the followup, they know that restraining order that you had asked about earlier, piece of paper. But its a tool. Reporter Womens Centers and state lawmakers hope it is the seed that spreads county and statewide. My mother is a survivor of Domestic Violence. And as a child, my brothers and i did witness the violence in the home. Reporter the gerard family hopes its one that saves lives. I do not want anybody else to go through what our familys gone through. Reporter the Program Unveiled today here at timber creek high school, because this is where amy gerard graduated in in the meantime, Assembly Woman gabriela muscara plans to lobby for this type of program to take hold statewide. Lucy needs luck and may have found from it p. E. T. A. A couple of week go we told you margate needs 35,000 for repairs to the jersey shore hand mark. Today p. E. T. A. Sent a letter to the committee in charge of lucy offering to pitch in and pay for all the repairs. But there is a catch. P. E. T. A. Wants to decorate the sixstory structure with a message about elephants and the circus. We called lucys director who told us lucy would love to accept help but they need more information about p. E. T. A. s message to make sure it doesnt scare off children. A delaware fall tradition gets the ax for the second year in a row. The longrunning Punkin Chunkin was supposed to be held at dover speedway in november but organizers cant find Insurance Companies to cover them. The Nonprofit Organization was sued a couple of years back after a volunteer spotter was paralyzed after rolling his atv. Delaware might lose this event for good to neighboring states that cap insurance liability. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Another day in the 70s. Tomorrow will be in the 70s too. Except that will come with some rain in the afternoon. Heres a live look out at the link. Very nice evening outside. Were going to see clouds increasing. Tracking rain into tomorrow. Mostly through the second half of the day. Dont forget your umbrella tomorrow. Still warm, some areas close to 80 before the rain moves in. Kind of a warm breeze from the south. Were looking at a big cooldown as we go into the weekend. So were talking about a 15degree temperature drop from tomorrow into saturday afternoon. Philadelphia right now 73 degrees. Nice conditions outside. Mostly cloudy skies at the moment. Elsewhere temperatures comfortable, around 70 for the Lehigh Valley. About the upper 60s through south jersey and delaware. Tomorrow well be warmer than today and youll notice those winds picking up too. A warm breeze in from the south. In the meantime no rain tonight. Well stay nice and dry. The rain is up to our north and west. The rain you see over the great lakes, this is the area we can expect to move in tomorrow. So it still has a ways before it gets here. Heres future weather and temperatures. Overnight tonight we do stay dry. Temperatures mostly dropping into the upper 50s or so. By 9 00 tomorrow morning already in the mid to upper 60s. Clouds around. I think well be mostly dry in the morning hours. By afternoon, 4 00 p. M. , we should start to see showers flaring up through Lehigh Valley. And there you see it, philadelphia and surrounding areas could be getting into the upper 70s, close to 80. So warm ahead of the rain. Watch what happens when the rain moves through. Temperatures quickly dropping into the 60s. This is all part of a cold front at 6 00 p. M. By evening commute tomorrow well have rain, keep that in mind before you leave. Take it a little slower on the roadways. 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow evening the rain making its way to the shore and the delaware beaches clearing starting through the Lehigh Valley and that clearing continues into saturday. Look what happens to the temperatures, saturday by noon only in the low 60s or even upper 50s. So were going to have a cool weekend in store. By sunday, still cool, still sunny. Eagles game sunday, by fourth quarter, topping out in the mid 60s. Low temperatures tonight, upper 50s, philadelphia mid 50s. Areas north and west in our suburbs, new jersey and delaware. Tomorrow warm and breezy, near 80 in areas. Showers mostly in the afternoon hours. And around the time of the evening commute, that cools us down for the weekend. So that cold front will drop temperatures into the mid 60s saturday and sunday. The 70s return as we go back into next week. Coming up in sports, good news to pass along on bangedup birds. And from tampa, the flyer Season Opener next. This is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity. Your home for the most live sports. Comcast sportsnet with you again. In just over an hour from now the puck will drop on the flyers season, trying to avoid a lightning strike. It will be a bannerraising ceremony for the Tampa Bay Lightning tonight as they raise the banner on their 2015 eastern conference championship. The flyers know the players and the crowd will be ramped up for this home opener which makes the first ten minutes of this game that much more important. We want to come out here and spoil whatever theyre going to do, their celebration, whatever they may have. Well probably be in the locker room for a bit. Got to make sure we keep our mind on the game, on the task at hand, play good hockey. I think right now, especially early in the year, i think the focus has to be on us. I think i used the term the other day, either 90 , 95 about us. Thats probably about right. Reporter no matter what the flyers play here, it has been a tough place to play. The flyers have dropped their last seven in a row and have not won in this building since february of 2011. Guess whos fliered up as well. The eagles put this message up supporting their south philly neighbors. Dont miss the hourlong edition of flyers pregame at 6 30, puck drop at 7 30. Eagles, good news, starting johnson were both at practice, full participants, as was byron maxwell. Demarco murray ran for 30 yards on this carry last week. Only had six yards on his other seven totes. After the game murray said hed like to see the rock more. Today he was asked if hes frustrated with his season thus far. I wouldnt use the word frustration. Obviously, you know, you wouldnt like to be 13, youd like to play every game, youd like to have the ball bounce your way a couple more times. But i dont think im really frustrated i would say. But just got to continue to play hard and work as hard as you can and eventually hopefully the ball will roll your way. The vote is tighter than a pair of medium shorts on Shaquille Oneal for our High School Football game of the week. The Voting Results so far. The final two choices neck and neck. Cast your vote at nbc10. Com. Also call or next next. Well announce the winner tonight at 11 00. Your immune system doesnt work the way it did when rock was young. So we made fluzone highdose vaccine. For people 65 . With a high high higher dose of antigen. Its significantly more effective than fluzone vaccine in preventing flu. Fluzone highdose vaccine is approved for people 65 and older. Its not for anyone whos had a severe allergic reaction to any vaccine component, including eggs, egg products, or to a prior dose of any flu vaccine. Tell your doctor if youve ever had guillainbarre syndrome. Side effects include pain swelling and redness at the injection site; muscle aches, fatigue, headache and fever. Other side effects may occur. If you have other symptoms or problems following vaccination, call your doctor immediately. Vaccination may not protect everyone. So, if you hopped around the clock, ask your doctor or pharmacist about fluzone highdose. Fluzone highdose vaccine. Remember your umbrellas tomorrow. Rain in the forecast. For all of us here, the news continues with nbc nightly news with lester holt. Have a good evening. Developing news tonight. A political shocker. The powerful congressman likely the next speaker of the house suddenly pulls out of the race. Now chaos and confusion and a big mystery in washington. New evacuations as rivers swell to a breaking point. High alert in cities along the carolina coast, bracing for that Flood Disaster now barrelling their way. American hero stabbed. The usairman who risked his life to stop a terrorist attack abaerd a high speed train in france stabbed multiple times here at home. Police hunting for his attackers. Is this fair . A Domestic Violence victim sentenced to jail for not showing up at her alleged attackers trial
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