Five more officers are awaiting trial. Look at this gridlock in center city. Taxi and uber drivers wanted to make a statement and protests created traffic problems this afternoon. Nbc 10s lauren mayk. I was stuck in this. It took me an hour to get three blocks. Absolute gridlock. Reporter yeah, it was a mess. It is 6 00 rush how now, when you expect to see a lot of congestion around city hall. Things came it a standstill earli earlier, a sea of cabs and drivers getting out to argue they are playing by rules, competitors arent. Reporter the line of cars leading up to and around city hall didnt really have anywhere to go. But they had something to say. They come from the problem is fair share. We need fare share. Im licensed. I never think to pay my rent. Now i think to pay my rent, feed my kids. This is a problem. Reporter taxi and limo drivers including some for uber black, they feel uber x is hurting business. We wanted to give a message to the people of philadelphia. Reporter the message came with roads clogged. Were you concerned this might be dangerous today . How . What town . Reporter people stopping cars, a lot of traffic . Contusion . All of the driver ares professional drivers. Reporter there were a lot. Never seen a taxi related demonstration ever be of this size. I think we were all caught off guard. Well be better prepared in the future. I dont know how you prepare for ma many cabs. Reporter one driver ended up in handcuffs after he wasnt cooperating with a traffic officer. 1,721. If its limo, you dont pay nothing. Reporter this man outside city hall watching as it all played out. Hes a driver for uber and lyft. They have their right to protest. Im not against that. But, at the same time they have to make an opportunity for others to work. Reporter both sides argue they are just trying to make a living here. Now, the drivers who came out in force today wanted to get a meeting with the d. A. That did not happen but hoping for a roundtable with city officials. Live in center city, lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. Uber release the this statement in response to the taxi dpribtax drivers protest. Understandably frustrated because the philadelphia parking authoritys outdated rules make it harder to earn a living when the public has shown they want more affordable options. We believe statewide reform of the ppa that allows for regulated ride sharing will benefit riders and drivers. To our weather now. Tracking cooler temperatures and some rain on the way, too. Timing could just miss the morning rush. Glenn hurricane schwartz johning us with his first alert forecast. I dont think well have to worry about rain for the early portion of the day but perhaps afternoon russia affected. We have, well, cooler conditions today than what weve seen over the last four. Four Straight Days of record high temperatures. 50 degrees right now. Feels certainly cooler but the average high is 44. Were going to be going down. Weve got rain coming tomorrow, and then a cool shot. First one and the only one probably the entire month. Temperatures tonight, holding fairly steady. Upper 40s to near 50. No rain during the night tonight or first thing tomorrow, but could be periods of heavy rain. Ill show you timing of what areas hit hardest with the seven day in a few minutes. Tonight search for a missing teenager is now a murder investigation. 15yearold Nicole Angstadt disappeared two weeks ago in Cape May County. Her pbody was found yesterdayy. Cydney long has been in middle township. Police have made arrests but charges no the related to the murder, whats that about . Reporter jim and jacqueline, that is correct, individuals are charged with other crimes. Investigators are not detailing specifically how this teenager was killed or how many days her body was inside the home. They tell us her murder was no random act. Reporter 15yearold Nicole Angstadt spent some of her final days alive, according to police, with three men who are now facing a number of charges. Angstadt was last seen two days after thanksgiving, her family reported her missing that monday, two weeks ago. But it was this monday that investigators shifted their focus to this vacant home. We are hearing that it is a 15yearold missing girl. Reporter today, the communitys fears and speculation came true. An autopsy ruling manner of death as a homicide. Police say angstadts body was in the crawl space. They arent revealing how she was killed. Its sad. Its somebodys child. And now shes gone. No matter what the circumstances were, you know, im a father, grandfather, i feel for them. Reporter detectives back at the home, where on tuesday they carried out extensive amount of evidence. Divers focused on the homes inground pool, water dark and muddy. I want answers. I feel like justice because the family deserves that. Its scary. Its close to home. Reporter police say angstadts murder was not random. The victim was struck with a handgun eight days after reported missing and allegedly sexually assaulted while alive by a suspect who is twice her age. And we just got the mugshots of those these individuals from left to right. You can see charles, 32, charged with Sexual Assault of the young victim. Derek powers, 23, and laquan harris, 20, both charged with armed robberies. All being held in the Cape May County jail. We did reach out to the victims family but asked for privacy. They had no comment. Cydney long, nbc 10 news. Battle for a pennsylvania budget heats up today with a threat from House Republicans to governor wolf. Gop house leaders say the governor has 24 hours to get the votes he needs to pass the plan. If he doesnt, republicans say theyll vote on an interim spending plan this weekend. Pennsylvania has been operating without a budget since july. There are new signs budget battle is taking a dire toll on philadelphias schools. Schools could have to close at the end of january. In a letter from the superintendent, he says philadelphias schools could run out of money on january 29th, without a new state budget. Today, the School District told parents should start thinking what to do if parents cannot stay open beyond january. Recommendation for them to start thinking of what they could do with their children if this does happen. Philadelphia schools do have to close, about 130,000 students would be sent home. The fight to get a new teacher contract in allentown is over. Todays School Leaders in the parkland School District agreed to a threeyear contract for the 640 members. 2. 4 pay raise and stipends for coaches go up at the same rate. Student advisers get a 5 increase employees choose from two Different Health plans. Police believe they found the slasher threatening people in center city. First told you about this yesterday. Homeless man is behind bars. 26yearold Kyle Stephens arrested in north philadelphia this morning. Security guard recognized him and called 911. Investigators say stephens cut an attorney in the face with a blade as he walked on a sidewalk. Injury wasnt serious. 15 minutes earlier he slashed a temple student who was out jogging. Hes also okay. Stephens was kicked out of a homeless shelter this week, after he punched another man. South jersey, more than 200 cameras installed along the Atlantic City boardwalk. The Casino Redevelopment Authority is back the projecten police and Public Safety officers monitor the video. Reshaping north broad street and spring garden. A glimpse of what to two New Buildings will look like. Going to show you a rendering of hanover north broad, locations for two sixstory apartment buildings at broad and callohill streets. Its expected to take two years for the project. Former home of the Four Seasons Hotel in philadelphia opened under new name, logan hotel, off the ben franklin parkw parkway. The logan put several Million Dollars of renovation into it. Logan has nearly 400 rooms. Some soldiers helped detain a teenager trying to rob a Burlington County cvs with a large knife. Police say that teenager walked into the store saturday and passed the group of soldiers. The soldiers walked back into the store and confronted the teenager. He ran away but the soldiers ran after him and caught up and held him until police arrived. Tonight arrest in a cold case murder in allentown. Police arrested and charged john edinger with a murder of a store owner in 19 98. Shot and killed inside his store. During the investigation, edinger named a suspect. He confessed to the crime. Next on nbc 10 news at 6 00, thieves are targeting one hot item from front lawns. Crime alert in south jersey. Also, dozens of dogs and cats need a home. A local Animal Shelter plans to shut down the time left to clear the shelter. Rain going to be moving in tomorrow and then actual cold snap. Is it going to last until christmas . First alert forecast next. Announcer this is nbc 10 news. Hard to find holiday decoration is a hot item for thieves in south jersey. The a star shower, laser light projector that lights up houses without having to string christmas lights. Numerous thefts reported across the country, including 11 stole. From eight homes in vineland this past week alone. Two swiped from karen alvarezs house. We were mad. My husband was mad because people dont shouldnt not be doing stuff like that especially on holidays. Star shower started at 40 bucks but most stores completely sold out. Police believe criminals might be trying to sell stolen ones on craigslist for 100. A south jersey Animal Shelter plans to shut down as soon as it finds hundreds of animals a home. It lasted a decade. Doug shimell takes you inside the facility as it tries to clear the shelter. This place is the only refuge for dogs like bubbles here. Reporter when jay miller volunteered he didnt know the dog he saved would save him, too. She was thrown out of a car into a puddle, thats where we found her. If it wasnt for the staff and this place, bubbles wouldnt be here. And shes the best part of my life. Reporter 50 dogs and 90 cats at almost home Animal Shelter. Ten years after they opened as a temporary facility when Camden County was supposed to expand its shelter, almost home says it will have to close. My daughter had cystic fibrosis, she died in 2009, and this was her dream. Reporter the director says they have placed more than 6,000 animals but now that Camden County has completed its shelter, the six towns that funded almost home will send animals to the county. A woman just came and brought plea a small check and was crying because we helped her with a litter of kittens when no one else would. Reporter a veterinarian technician and one of 15 staffers. Im heart broken. You put a smile on the face for the animals. We dont want to be sad. Reporter almost home will stop accepting animals january 1st and have three months to place cats and dogs. Volunteers and staff say they are not going to leave until every pet has a good home. Help us to help us help these dogs because these dogs deserve it. They deserve havent had much in life and deserve as much as anyone. Reporter doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Nbc 10 trying to clear the shelters throughout the year. Every saturday morning we bring a pet on to our newscast thats up for adoption. Watch this saturday for the featured pets. Tonight, a philadelphia family settling into a brandnew home called the pope house. Habitat for humanity constructed the house. The Wilson Family became the 188th family to buy an affordable home through habitat for humanity philadelphia. The family finished 350 sweat equity hours building and repairing other homes and going to workshops as well. They could not be more thankful to habitat to be home for the holidays. Thank you for giving me a home and a place for my mommy and my sisters. I love all of the staff and i hope you have a merry new year. Hope he does, too. Part of the new home was built with wood from the 2014 Christmas Tree at rockefeller center. Look at that. Such a great gift. For children, too, you always want them to have the very best of everything and a home for the holidays. This tile of year, how great is that . This time of year, used to snow, cold temperatures. Not the case. No, not even close. As a matter of fact, looks like well have the warmest december ever recorded in the philadelphia area. Been shy in the rain department. Well get some during the day tomorrow, heavy at times. At least parts of the area. Getting a cold blast but its going to be brief and the only one of the whole month the way it looks because were going to be warming up so much, well probably set more records late next week. Right around Christmas Eve perhaps. Weve got cloudy skies now. Weve had clouds all day. Kept temperature down a bit. 50 degrees, wind winds southeast at 9. We are in the 40s to near 50 degrees. With all of the clouds, temperatures still nine degrees above average during the day today for the high temperature. And the average high is 44. Got up to 53. There are all of the clouds around for much of the day. No rain with them. The rain is coming into ohio valley. Starting to increase now in ohio. Not very impressive during the day today. But it should increase some tomorrow. As we go into the morning rush, not much more than a sprinkle perhaps. And then, then it really starts to build up. Late in the morning, towards midday hours from philadelphia southward, thats the best chance of getting some heavy rain. Of course, its not going it stay heavy all day. Greatest amounts, again, look like theyre going to be to the south and east. Lowest amounts toward the Lehigh Valley and poconos. We all dry out during the day on friday. And then we get chilly. We get to say windchill for once this month. How much rain . Not much. Through the midday hours tomorrow. But by the time its over, this models giving about 3 4 of an inch to philadelphia and close it an inch and a half farther to the south. The other thing thats happening, that cold air that comes in, comes in friday. Youll feel it saturday, sunday morning and then it just goes away. Mild air builds up to the pint of record levels again. Cloudy, patchy fog late tonight 47 for the low in philadelphia. Not very low. And then tomorrow, rain develops, generally after the morning rush,ing abouting heavy, especially to the south. Mid to upper 50s. Well above average. Then we cool down friday. Its windy, even windier saturday and colder. Windchills saturday, saturday night, windy on sunday. A lot of sunshine there. Look at that temperature go up next week. By wednesday, we could be near record again. Im Danny Pommells from comcast sportsnet. Sam bradford speaks about his future with the eagles. How can the secondary slow down arizonas wideouts. This is the xfinity sportsdesk brought you by exfunty, home for the most live sports. Danny pommells with you again. Eagles have a colossal game with the Arizona Cardinals sunday. Every game is big for sam bradford, unsigned beyond this year. Bradford asked about his future. Kind of like i tell you guys every time you ask Something Like that, ill get into that in the offseason, think about that in the offseason. Im not too worried about whats going to happen three, four months down the line. We have a big game against arizona and thats all im focused on. I do like it here. Its different than anywhere ive been before. I do enjoy it here. Eagles have a significant task at hand, dealing with a juggernaut in the Arizona Cardinals. John clark has more on arizona and what they bring to the table. Reporter eagles won two in a row for the first time in two months. Now trying to win three straight for the first time all year. Cardinals may be the most talents team they face this season. Clip kelly says arizona has best threesome of receives, fitzgerald, floyd, brown, they can really stretch the field. And the cardinals offense, they lead the league in total yardage, most yards per attempt, and big plays of 20 or more yards. Big test for the birds secondary. Huge challenge. Theres one every week, so i mean this week is, you know, a good team coming in, receiving core is outstanding. Weve got to come up with a game plan for them how to slow that down. Everything is a test until you go there and next opponent is the toughest. Yeah, definitely toughest test. For us, you know, sticking to game plan, making sure we dont give them chunk plays and stop the run like we always do. Everybody has to win their matchup. You cant roll help to one guy because other guys are more than capable of winning. Reporter Byron Maxwell has not practiced but does expect to be out there tomorrow and expects to play on sunday night. At the nova care complex, john clack for comcast sportsnet. Catch sundays game here on nbc 10. Thats a look at sports. Im Danny Pommells. Story for tomorrow, rain, saturday wind, wind and cold. We start warming up until record level late next week. Rebound before christmas. The news continues now with nbc nightly news with lester holt. Breaking news news tonight, hung jury in baltimore. Calls for calm in a city ravaged by violence as the first officer charged in the death of freddie gray walks free in a mistrial. 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