The day today. We are already well past that. 80 degrees in delaware, 81 in south jersey. Warming up in philadelphia, 78 at philadelphia international. There are warmer spots. It is 80 degrees and already up to 81 degrees. Record high temperatures are possible this afternoon. We will see near record heat. The forecast is just a degree or two shy of the record for most of the area. For philadelphia im expecting 91 degrees. The record is 92. It will be close to 90 degrees. Allentown 90. The same for trenton. Atlantic city, the record high both at 92 degrees. Expecting 90 in both of those areas. The dry weather is continuing too. Look at when we might see showers pull into the area. I want to come back in just a few minutes. Thank you. A fiveyearold boy was killed in a yacrash. They found open alcohol containers in a car that lost control and crashed t. Fiveyearold was was ejected from the disabled vehicle and died at the scene. Time far check on the roads. Francesca, what are you seeing out there . We are seeing a live shot. What we know so far, it is still closed from route 412 to route 33. Alternate route 145 to route 22. Now traffic is starting to freely move along. Again, here is a live shot over in new jersey. Traffic moving in the green travel times looking good there. We are also looking at a couple of road closures. This is on the westbound side of 76. It appear that is the congestion starts around the curve. Be very mindful of that. Only the right lane is closed. In delaware we are seeing two lanes blocked. This is the center lane on the southbound side of 495. Stop and go traffic. An accident here, you see along ridge pike and chemical road. Well keep an eye on this hour by hour. Lets take a look at mass transit. We are seeing a couple of del s delays, vai. Thanks. New this morning investigators are trying to figure out what caused this house fire in atlantic city. Firefighters called to beach block around 9 30 this morning. You can see them spraying water there. No unwith wone was hurt. A two a alarm fire ripped through the church. It has stood more than 100 years. The real damage is inside the church. Water damage as well as fire damage. The pastors grandson tells us they are going to clean things up and restore that church. Nine shootings have left people dead including a double shooting last night in kensington. Police think the shooting is drug related and connected to a murder that happened yesterday near by on howard street. From our lehi Valley BureauPolice Looking far person that murdered a woman in her driveway. It happened early yesterday morning. Police say they dont think this crime is random. It is the first murder in almost two years in the township. Police have a man in custody following an hours long stand off with police. They were called to Bartlet Court after Someone Called Police to say the man was alone inside the home with guns and refused to come out. The stand off ended peacefully and no one was hurt. Now a follow up to a deadly crash in Mercer County that we told you about yesterday morning. Investigators say chandler was trying to get away from police when he crashed himself into a car monday night. The crash killed 22 desha fererer ra. We just want justice. We want them to pay for what they did. They found heroin in his car. He faces numerous charges including dui, drug possession and death by auto. Police were on hand at a local Elementary School after a bear sighting caused a lockdown yesterday. Officials say they want to be extra cautious today because a black bear was spotted here yesterday. Police say the animal charged at a motorcycle officer. No one was hurt and the school happened to be right next to the woods. There is also another bear sighting on saturday less than 5 miles away. Being reck cog nieognized a community treasure. The plaza will make history this morning. Good morning, monique. Reporter good morning. This marker is about to be unveiled. It is a tribute to the lion of zion. Community leaders are surrounding. The count down is underway to watch the marker be uncovered. You can see dozens of Community Leaders gathered here in the 1,500 block of north broad street. It was the dream of leon sullivan. He envisioned a commercial strip. It was his vision of Economic Empowerment and self sufficiency. Ministers across the country opened businesses ain distresse neighborhoods. We are working to bring you comments from some of the Community Members here. Nbc 10 news. 2016 and a shake up in the race for mayor in the race for wilmington. Voters have gone against in the democratic party. The head of the Riverfront Corporation won a primary. He beat out Dennis Williams and a half dozen other candidates. He will try to shed the murder town nickname by keeping businesses from moving out. We have to bring everybody together. That doesnt do it. Getting people jobs and working so that we are all living the same kind of existence is how we get People Living together and thats what we want to do. I will be tired. If the next mayor wants advice from me i will roll my sleeves up. I love this city. Purzycki will be in the november general election. Bonnini will face laugherty. He is used to be the states lieutenant governor. For a full list of race results tap the free nbc 10 app. The mayor will speak at the united nations. Kenny will speak at the 2030 conference. Today is the first day of the threeday global event. It is to support the u. N. s goals and prove peoples lives around the world. Coming to america, up next, what they are saying about how many refugees could be coming, bill. Look at the sunshine. Brilliant blue skies. There is even a chance of a few rain drops. Ill go into details when we come back. When it comes to risking Social Security on the stock market. Pat toomey wrote the book. Im. Ive got a whole chapter in my book where i. Specifically lay out how i think we should. Reform Social Security. Toomeys plan requires wall street and bankers to manage. The accounts. Collecting fees out of your Social Security that could. Total billions. Fees they collect, even if the market crashes and. Seniors lose everything. Pat toomeys looking out for wall street, not pennsylvania. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. City administration talked about the goal of anonymity because no official announcement has been made yet. The increase is about 30 from last year. Highlights from syria, iraq and afghanistan. There plans to host a summit next week. Clinton is still recovering from pneumonia. She is expected to return to the co campaign trail. They gave donald trump several. He unveiled a new paid family leave plan but according to Kristen Welker he is still. Reporter he is flexing his muscles. The polls have gone up amazingly well. I think well be victorious. Reporter new York Democratic revealing tuesday he opened an inquiry into trumps charitable foundation. We have been concerned they may have engaged in impro pryties. Reporter dismissing the probe as a left wing hit job. A 25,000 donation the trump donation made in 2013 to pam bondy who was considering a fraud case. Bondy and trump denied any connection between her money and her decision. Never spoke to her about it at all. Reporter the Trump Foundation alleged by paid 20,000 for a 6 foot tall portrait of trump. President obama campaigning in philadelphia. The other candidates foundation took money other people gave to charity and bought a 6 foot tall painting of himself. He had the taste not to go for the 10 foot version. Reporter this weekends health scare reminding voters of their primary battle. Hillary is tough. I was like going i was about to celebrate and then i look and she is right there. Reporter clinton vowing to release more medical information in the coming days. Trump is expected to do the same in an appearance in dr. Oz on thursday. Collin powell is becoming the latest target of an apparent hack. It shows he wrote to an aid that donald trump is a national disgrace. Powell admits Hillary Clintons attempt to equate her email practices with his. Powell confirmed that the emails are authentic and he says the hackers have a lot more. Donald trumps running mate mike pence is scheduled to make an appearance just outside. It starts at 7 00 p. M. Chelsea clinton makes two stops to rally support for her mother. She spoke during a Panel Discussion about making the Glass Ceiling and womens issues in raleigh. She moved onto talk to voters. Prominent republicans are gathered together for a unity breakfast following that states primary. Chris christie says it is important to get donald trump elected as the next president. And right now Tropical Storm julia is bringing heavy rain to the northeast coast of florida. We are giving you video from jacksonville where winds and bands of heavy rain threaten homes as well as businesses. Some areas could see as much as 6 inches of rain by the end of the week. It is likely to weaken to a depression later today. We certainly could see rain in our area over the coming days. The Tropical Storm stays out of our picture. Sunshine and temperatures warming up. A nice sunny view. Its cool this morning. Not as cool as the last couple of days. We already warmed through the 70s and into the 80s. We are on track for summerlike ha heat this afternoon. Well feel 90 degrees this afternoon. Clouds increasing this evening. We could see isolated showers in the area. For now we are just watching. Temperatures up to 82 degrees. It 186 in. The temperatures climbing and are definitely warmer than yesterday at this time. Its up by 2 degrees in philadelphia and 4 degrees warmer for trenton. So these numbers are headed towards the low 90s this afternoon but its just going to peak at the 90 degree mark. 2 0089 zrees. We should hit the 90 degree mark. It is 80s at 6 00. A few more clouds around this evening. Some of the clouds building. It is 72 degrees with clouds coming through the evening hours. Plenty of sunshine. Warming into the middle 80s at 2 00. Near 90 degrees this afternoon. Cooling into the 60s this evening. Partly cloudy skies at 10 00 this evening. 2 00 staying in the 80s this afternoon. Well liengly see the temperatures peak at 90 degrees. 74 degrees with a few clouds this evening. The jersey shore will likely stay dry. I am watching some showers. Look, northwest ern pennsylvania you can see the clouds building. In the ohio valley thats rain moving towards our area. The hour by hour forecast shows at 6 00 this evening a chance of zaterred showers in scattered into the lehi area. It is barely making it into chester county. It stays into northern new jersey as it heads to the east. It thins out later in the evening. We will get clouds coming through and a slight chance of a late evening shower coming through in phil iadelphia. It is abnormally dry for much of our area from south jersey into Central New Jersey and even into the lehi valley for upper lehi and North Hampton counties. The abnormally dry weather doesnt look like it will ease much until we get into the weekend. Later in the week there is a possibility of showers. For today 91 degrees. It is 1 degree shy. It is 91 in new jersey. It turns cooler tomorrow. It is 70s and the humidity comes way down thursday and friday. Temperatures climbing over the weekend and here comes your chance at showers and thunderstorms for sunday afternoon with high temperatures in the low 80s. Ill break down the forecast for the weekend when i come back in the next half hour as well as a ten day trend. Look forward to that in the next half hour. Thank you. Up in smoke. It sounded like a bomb went off. A womans designer handbag catches on fire inside a new jersey shopping mall, find out what caused it to explode. And dont forget to vote for your High School Football game of the week. Call or text your vote to the number on the screen or go to nbc10. Com. We could all use a little peace in our lives. This weekend youll be able to find it. They are presenting the fourth peace day concert. Thank you very much for coming. This concert is about finding peace through music. Tell us what thats about. First of all, good morning, vai. Thank you for having us. We choose the peace day, International Day of peace, to really spread the love and hope and try to bring children younger and older generations, multiple culture heritage, to bring them together and call for nonviolence and nonconflict and really have experience of people who, you know, play together. Your message is really a simple one. In this time which we live it is challenging to find peace. Why do you think people find peace in music . I think its a universal language . Any language will be really move b ed by music. You performed in peace concerts in the past. Tell us about your experience in doing that. Long story very short, i got robbed last year by two men. I played the piano, they tried to be very nice and they didnt take anything out of me. They tried to support me and then they left without hurting me. Wow. You disarmed them with your piano. I talked about that at her event. I think music can change peoples soul. Yeah. It has the ability to lift souls, yes . Yes, i think so. How does that happen . Is it your particular kind of music where its classical . The peace . The one with the robbers, happy birthday. I played for them at 4 00 in the morning, happy birthday. Its a classical. Yes. You must have found out it was his birthday. They were very impressed with him. I had a poster on the wall. I think everybody has a dream. I would like to present this opportunity to the children to be play that state that dreams come true. And also a person had gone through 1u67 a difficult time who has overcame that difficulty but really doing very well successfully and thats one of the things. You have a great role model. We thank you for coming and sharing that story with us. Thank you very much. Peace day concert this saturday, september 17th. Concert begins at 5 30. For more head over to our web site on nbc10. Com or tap the nbc 10 app. Appreciate it tha it. Thank you. Who may be responsible for this privacy breeach. A designer handbag explodes at a mall and find out what caused all of that smoke. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Donald trump says he alone can fix the problems we face. Well i dont believe thats how you get things done in our country. It takes democrats and republicans working together. Thats how we got health care for 8 million kids. Rebuilt new york city after 9 11. And got the treaty cutting russias nuclear arms. Weve got to bring people together. Thats how you solve problems and thats what ill do as president. Fourteen americans killed in a San Bernardino mass shooting. But after this tragedy when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns he voted against closing this loophole for terrorists and with the gun lobby. Katie we have to do everything in our power to keep guns away from terrorists who threaten our way of life. Im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message because we cant risk our families safety on a loophole. Its a sunny and pretty warm day for a walk to class. We are in philadelphia. Saw students there walking in shorts and flipflops. Its going to happen. It is still summertime. Heading for the 90s this afternoon. 91 in philadelphia. Plenty of sunshine for the suburbs. Looking for cooler temperatures youll find it at the shore. It is warmer than the last few days. The humidity a bit higher at the shore but the rest of the area not all that high. 90 in the lehi valley and plenty of showers in delaware. What we havent seen lately is the rain. That changes this weekend. Well have more when we come back. Hackers linked to russia released what they say are files. Simone biles and others were among those whose information was compromised they say the athletes are allowed to use the medicines due medical need. Gymnastics confirm biles did not break any rules. Peres was rushed to the hospital yesterday. They say he regained consciousness. Peres condition does remain serious. Hold ago hearing on obama care. Health insurance premiums have increased and expected to be higher in 2017. The heads of several Major Insurance Companies are expected to testify about those increases and kpaptexpected to talk about many are pulling out due to reported losses. A car rams into three Phoenix Police officers. It threw one officer several feet up in the air. The second officer had a broken leg and third had minor injuries and was able to arrest the driver. They believe the driver targeted those officers. A monmouth woman says a vaporizer in her purse exploded. She was at a raceway mall when black smoke started pouring out of her handbag. She discovered the ecigarette caught on fire. Terrifying, scary. It sounded like a bomb went off. It was 9 11. I thought someone possibly dropped something in my bag. That was the first thing that came to my mind. There have been explosions or fires in ecigarettes. Many linked to lithium batteries. When you break out the feather duster it could be more than just dust. It may contain harmful chemicals. They tested samples from homes. They found evidence of 45 toxic chemicals used in home furnishings. They can be inhaled, ingested or absorbed through the skin. They may have been linked to cancer and reproductive issues. Samsung says it will update on the galaxy 7 phones. It will prevent the phones from overheating. Right now the update is only available in south korea. Samsung recalled the phone. Progress plaza just made history. Monique braxton is live where a Historical Marker was just unveiled noting the importance to the community. Tell us more about it. Reporter hey, vai. Take a look over my shoulder. It is a tribute to the man called the lion of zion. It mark it is citys First Shopping Center owned by aft African American investors. He envisioned the businessed paving the way for Economic Empowerment and self sufficiency. It will be there long after all of us are gone as a memorial to the man with the idea, revere reverend leon howard sullivan. Reporter they opened businesses like these in distressed neighborhoods. Live in north philadelphia monique braxton, nbc 10 news. Thanks. They are ramping up sources for those dealing with autism. It is now a law of delaware. We were at autism delaware as they signed a new law that would create excellence for autism. It will connect with schools in the medical field and social services. The network designed to better train professionals. This plan was used in the making. I think the most important work we do is leeing fewer people in the fringes of society. They say in the state Public Schools the number of students with autism jumped almost a thousand percent since the early 90s. It will help adults with autism as well. A new report shows nearly one in ten new jersey students missed too much school. They advocate for children of new Jersey Research absentee hichl. More than 130,000 kindergarteners, that means they missed about 18 days of classes or more. They say they are more likely to fall behind but many districts are working to encourage regular attendance. This week we have a weds child success sforly for you. John now has his forever family. We invaded the crew to check out the studios here at nbc 10. You want to come and check out our place . We start with selfies in front of a certain poster. This young man is our wednesdays child. This is john and his brother brandon and his parents james and jose over there. The crew rolled out the red carpet for our guests allowing themselves to see themselves on tv. John getting a chance to be a tv news anchor. Now back to the today show. John was seen by jim and jose who have already adopted brandon. John seems to love his new family and the fun things they do. I like to go to six flags. Six flags . Are there rides at six flags you like to do . I do all of them. All of them . Uhhuh. Is there a favorite roller coaster . My favorite roller coaster is green lantern. They know kids like john can spend all of their teenage yeared in foster care. I think it was meant to be. We have so much in our personal lives. We have great jobs, great education and great cultural background. We wanted to share that. Theres not a day that doesnt go by that they dont put a smile on my face or full out belly laugh. I want to thank this program. Without you a lot of these children wouldnt be exposed. Every tuesday i get an email feed saying thats new wednesdays child. I view that on facebook because i want to encourage others to do what we did and adopt. We group hugged it. Plenty of other kids out there like john. We thank jim and jose for bringing their family out. They are helping make the dream of any wednesdays child come true. Call 1866doadopt. The magic man takes a bow. Peace out ladies and gentlemen. John got quite the applaud on americas got talent. He talks about the hometown fans that could make him a winner. The magic will happen this evening at Citizens Bank park. The phillies will play and temperatures will be cooling down. It will be a warm start but later in the evening with mostly clear skies. 70s ahead. There are some days that require an umbrella. Ill show you when to expect the rain when i come back. Another amazing magic show. Reporter im here on the red carpet here. This is where john had his final performance of americas got talent. It was moving. It was inspirational and completely unexpected. Magic saved my life. Reporter it was the hail mary magic trick shared in front of a live audience. It could land him in the Winners Circle of americas got talent. His latest magical marvel. Knowing that light will work its way out. Reporter the judges as impressed as they have been at every turn in the competition. Youre someone we would all be proud to say the winner of this show is john. That was real for me. That was so cool. Thats my entire life put into four minutes. Hopefully america likes it. Philly, i have never been more proud to respect philly and represent the eagles. It has been so cool. I thank every one of you guys for watching and tuning in and supporting me for 11 years. It was awesome. I love you guys. I hope you like it. Reporter jacqueline london, nbc 10. We are cheering for you. Jacqueline london will be at the live finale. Shell have live coverage for you all day long. Tune in to see who wins starting at 8 00 p. M. Some of you may have seen joe biden at the eagles game. He told me, you have got to get on the wince wagon. We got hope in philly. Yes, in deed. That is giving wentz a little shout out yesterday. Wentz number 11 jersey has been the top seller according to f fanatics. A match up for the chicago bears. The birds are on the road for monday night football slated for 8 30. It is a genetic disease that effects one in 12 African Americans. This year a famous name is carrying on an annual tradition in hopes of raising awareness of the disease. Kenny is here with us this morning along with zamoria. She is the widow of walter e. Brandon. Welcome. Thank you. I havent seen you since july 4th. Yeah, it was great. Tell us why it is such an important cause for you to support. Ill tell you my own story if you bear with my. My son, who is 37 years old now, when he was born and the doctor said he is fine, healthy and everything but they said he has sickle cell trait. I said where did he get that from . He said his mother doesnt have it so you have to get tested. So i got tested and i had sickle cell trait. Mind your im well into my 40s by this time. So at that moment i said to myself, i said i really want to support this sickle cell awareness program. And so we have been working on this here for many many years. This year im putting a little more time into it and supporting the programs. So many people dont know their status. They dont know whether they have to trade or not. Your situation is very tender and a very personal story because of your husband. Tell us about having to care for someone who sickle cell. It because journey. He had many complications related to the disease. The work i do now is because of the experience i did with him, dealing with a man to who had a lot of pride and didnt really want to ask for help and understanding what that meant and not taking it personal. He was my teacher. Have you seen a lot of progress for the treatment of the disease . Not as much as we would like to see. It is about research and whether theres money to back that research. Thats lot of things on the horizon as far as coming out with drugs for People Living with the illness. There is also Research Going on that will be involved with Childrens Hospital in philadelphia related to gene therapy and of course bone marrow transplantation which is a method people can go through if they have an exact match for people to be cured from the illness. And youll be involved in the annual 5 k run and walk. Tell us more about that. This is the 19th annual kick off on saturday, september 24th. And so all of those persons out there, you come on out and participate because this is a wonderful day to spread the word about sickle cell, not only the trait but also with the disease. Its not a bad thing to know your status. Well be out there september 24th right across from the museum. We appreciate you coming out here today. We want you to come out every year and remind us how important this is. The 19th annual waller e. Brandon circle cell 5 k walk and run. For more information head to our web site on nbc10. Com or check out the nbc 10 app. Thank you very much. Always good to see you both. Now you know. This is part of the Philadelphia Community of leaders. So we are joining in with zamoria. And this is related to the sickle cell. It is our annual fundraiser. We are excited. This is our 19th year. We look forward to being here for the 20th anniversary. Thank you. God bless. We have got sunshine from the shore. A live look at cape may. Live look here. Ocean city at 78. For wilmington bright sunshine. Northern delaware, 80s. Marsh marshalton up to 80 degrees. Later on thats a possibility. For now neighborhoods warming into the 80s. It is 86 degrees already in white hall. A hot summer day today. There is a cooler trend that starts tomorrow after we peak in the low 90s today. The next couple of days will be gorgeous. The humidity will be coming down after we get clouds tonight and a chance of some showers. Clear right now. The rain in fact a lot of rain is to the south. This storm will linger in the southeast earn u. S. We are mainly dlry with one exception. Some of the showers in the allentown area quickly fall apart. The forecast is looking sunny and hot today, 91 degrees. A slight chance of a shower comes through and refreshing breeze tomorrow. The humidity will be coming down. Friday morning cooler and 58 degrees below temperature. Into the 80s this weekend. Saturday looks good. Sunday showers and thunderstorms a possibility later in the day. High of 82 degrees sunday afternoon. Those cloed clouds and breaks of sunshine, the clouds will linger into monday. More sunshine likely in the afternoon. There is a chance well see showers continue into monday. Another dry stretch for tuesday 85 degrees. Warmer on wednesday up to 87 and in the middle 80s for thursday and friday. Well be right back. Y242cy y5yy coming up at 3 00 kate di ledecky pay a visit and a local woman said she had to wash her washing machine every time she used it, how nbc 10 row responds to fix the issue when repair workers could not. We are entering into the final week of summer. It is a week from tomorrow that autumn starts. Temperatures into the 90s. Fortunately the humidity wont be extreme. You can see a few scattered clouds over philadelphia. Thats a live view. Nothing more than a few scattered clouds. Le Lehigh Valley at 85 degrees. Look at northeast philadelphia airport, it is 87 degrees. Well get close to a record high of 92 which has been on the books since 95. A little hazy on the high ryeson. Horizon. Thanks for watching from all of us here at nbc 10. Well clear the haze tomorrow. Thats good. Pat toomey started his career as an investment banker. Then, a wall street wheelerdealer, overseeing stock trades in new york, london and tokyo. Next, toomey moved to hong kong to work with wealthy chinese investors. In the senate, its no surprise toomeys been siding with wall street. Voting to allow banks to continue making the risky investments that wrecked our economy. Pat toomey. Hes for wall street. Not Us Senate Majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Abe yeah, i got the file you emailed. Fingerprints and dna match. Milo harp is orpheus. Ill make sure both names are on the poster. With any luck, they werent headed this way. Eve you know what . You take the baby. Maybe she just needs some lastminute adjustments on the dress. Ill be right back. Nicole okay. Marlena all right, [laughs]t the show on the road. Oh, my gosh. Brady [sighs] paul nervous . Brady no. Maybe a little. No, i mean, i got nothing to be nervous about. Im marrying the love of my life, the mother of my child. Todays a great day, right . [objects clatter] eve oh oh, god oh, god [yelling] [suspenseful music]