Martin. You mentioned the sunshine. Certainly thats good news. Satellite picking up on a few clouds for parts of delaware, chester county. Conditions are high and dry. Lots of sunshine for today. However the wind profile right now picking up just a little bit. West northwesterly ranging between 12 and 20 Miles Per Hour. 18 Miles Per Hour wind speeds. 20 for philadelphia and trenton 16 Miles Per Hour wind speeds for you. If you look at the bottom you will see your local neighborhood forecast. You can see the camera shaking a bit. Current temperatures right now around the philly area 47 degrees for you. Parkwood 47. Kensington 47 for you. Its all about the nbc 10 holiday Tree Lighting. 1 00 p. M. We see sunny skies and breezy. 7 00 p. M. Low 40s. Lets go ahead and time this out for you hour by hour. You will have to bundle up for the Tree Lighting temperatures. Starting at 1 00 p. M. We are seeing low 50s for philadelphia. As we get this going we will see low to mid40s for some. Midto upper 40s for philly. A pair of 4s for philadelphia. A wind will start to subside by later this afternoon into techbing hour through the evening hours. I do have a ten day coming up. Back to you. The fire chief speaking about the death of one of the departments own. They announced the death of hope. She is now one of the three firefighters who died battling flames at this home back in september. Hope has been in the icu listed in critical but stable condition since the fire. Christopher leech are the two other firefighters who were killed in the blaze. One firefighter survived those flames. Brad left last month. Medics treated him for critical injuries. Police arrested ruiz in the case. She is charged with murder and arson. Those may change. Ruiz lived in the home with her father and stepmother. She admitted she set the fire. A policy of temporarily closing put the firefighters in grater danger. We have a crew in wilmington right now getting comments. As soon as we have them well pass them along to you at 11 30. Many found themselves out in the cold last night as fire burned through their homes. We have an update from the scene. Reporter in the light you can see how severe and widespread the fire damage is to these homes. Families were inside when the flames broke out. Neighbors say they poured out onto the streets with very little to keep them warm. We were crying laying on the ground. And there were some kids who lived here. Yeah, a lot of kids lived there. Charlie brown lived on north fulton street for years and says this is the worst thing he has ever seen here. His neighbors, 23 of them, some of them children, are out of their home. It was swallowed up by smoke and fire. It took nearly four hours to get the fire under control. It got to upper hand taerg through ceilings and hard to reach spaces. There were no injuries to firefighters. Considering the windy weather it could have been worse. It helps it spread house to house. The wood is 100 years old. It is dry and once the fire gets up into there. And the red cross says its helping everyone who is displaced with clothing, food and shelter. Fire Officials Say it will likely be several days before they know what caused the fire. Nbc 10 news. Investigators are looking for the cause of a deadly fire. One man died that ripped through with stores and apartments above them. Some families who evacuated because of the fire are now back in their homes this morning sifting through the debris. There was an Early Morning fire in north philly. Our crew arrived around 1 30 there were flames coming through the roof at montgomery avenue. Nobody hurt here. This morning authorities want you to take a good look at video and pictures of the man the fbi called a person of interest in the case of a center city explosion last month. They say the man was caught on surveillance cameras a few days before the blast. The victim suffered shrapnel scars on his hands, face and chest when he opened a package left at his home and it exploded. Police are offering a 10,000 reward for any information in this case. Lets head to philly where police are investigating a breakin at a car dealership. It happened around 2 00 this evening. It was broken glass and a busted fence. Investigators trying to figure out if anything was actually stolen. They say one thing they know is that the car they used was stolen and left at the scene. Philadelphia Police Searching for a man who pointed a needle at pharmacy employees during a rob rhode island take a look. This is from wednesday morning on East Allegheny avenue. Workers confronted the man after seeing him put items in his pocket. He pulled out the needle and they stepped away and he ran from the store. Checking votes from dozens of precincts as part of the recount in pennsylvania. Those are just a fraction of the precincts across the state. They are calling for recounts in battleground states that trump narrowly won. Today a new jersey judge is expected to decide if she will apoint a special prosecutor to investigate christie. At a hearing this week bill brennan argued he knew of the scheme to cause gridlock for political payback in 2013. The governor denied any involvement and has not been charged in the case. A jury did convict two of chr christies aids. Went off without a hitch last night. It is one night after the game had to be postponed. Officials found it too slick to keep players safe. Fans sat for more than an hour until the sixers announced that the game would have to be postponed. Theres tho reason we are sitting at a game and we should have to find out via the news or on our phones to figure out whats going on and we are sitting in your seats and we spent our money in your stadium. The 76ers heard that frustration. They say the games can be used for the make up game. They also gave them a free ticket to another game this season. Nine minutes past 11 00 on this friday. The largest wawa now open for business. Doors opens at the store on 19th and market street. We were there for the Ribbon Cutting ceremony. The citys police and Fire Departments faced off in a hogie building competition. Here is a perk, coffee is free all day long. That is at 19th and market street. Coming up, positive Economic News out this morning, what it means for the Incoming Trump administration and possible Interest Rate hikes. We are learning more about the shooting death of a former nfl player, why authorities just released a man suspected of killing him. While we are tracking temperatures for the Tree Lighting ceremony its all about the weekend forecast. Midto upper 40s. Looking better by sunday. Details coming up. See you then. The u. S. Unemployment rate fell last year. It was mainly because many stopped looking for jobs and were counted as unemployed. The average hourly pay slipped after a solid gain in october. On the other hand they did add nearly 180,000 jobs which points to steady economic growth. It is keeping the Federal Reserve on track to raise short term rates which will happen in less than two weeks. Retired marine general is president lektds Donald Trumps pick to run the pentagon. You can see between mr. Trump and mike pence last month. Mattis is regarded as a hard liner on iran. In christie could be. If he is named it would fill to become president elect trumps chief of staff. He could finish out his term in office and lead the rnc at the same time. An election recount continues today. Trump supporters filed a federal lawsuit seeking to halt the recontinue. They say it threatens the due process of those who voted for trump. He won by 22,000 votes. It was requested by jill stein. We have details in the death of joe mcknight. The Sheriffs Department in louisiana confirms that the man who shot and killed mcknight was released from Police Custody overnight. They say the investigation is ongoing. Earlier reports said mcnight kn was killed in a road rage incident. He was 28 years old. Lets head now to tennessee where the death toll from the wild fires is up to 11. They are still putting out hot spots. The wild fires started on monday in the near by Great Smoky Mountains national park. Thousands have had to evacuate as the flames have spread to their homes and businesses. The governor declared a state of emergency to speed up relief efforts. Take a look at video from a tornado. This is from inside of the school. You can see how powerful the winds are. Knocked down trees. The tomorrows left damage all across northern georgia. Im erika martin. Well kick off with current wind profiles. We are seeing westerlies and northwesterlies. Philadelphia 20 Miles Per Hour wind speeds coming out of the northwest which is why it feels a little chillier right now. On average right now it looks like lehigh midto upper 40s. Plenty of sunshine along with delawa delaware. A few clouds autoin philadelphia. Midto upper 40s for you. Again, temperatures are pretty mild, about average for this time of the year. Satellite picking up on a few clouds moving in from twowest t east. Upper 40s for the most part. It looks like its at 46 degrees. And suburbs seeing midto upper 40s. Again, milder conditions and the winds will start to subside. Everything will start to improve. The good news is we have lots of sunshine. It looks like melbourne 44. New hope and newtown currently at 47 degrees. The wind profile a little bit of an issue with westerly and northwesterlies. Clayton 47, robinsville upper 40s and prince fon almost at 50. If you look at the bottom youll see your local neighborhood forecast. Hour by hour starting this at 11 00 a. M. I will pause this about 1 30. There is not much going on. High pressure system is really is story. Everything mixing out as the sun comes out. Plenty of sunshine. It certainly is not going to be an issue. Clouds will start to develop sunday into monday. Your morning temperatures starting at 11 00 a. M. To early tomorrow morning we start to see the winds pick up a little bit. Trenton 36. This is midto upper 30s. So its all about the nbc 10 holiday Tree Lighting event. I want to time out a few temperatures. Breezier conditions. Everything improving as the day progresses as far as the wind is concerned. Upper 40s 7 00 p. M. So good news there. Be sure you bundle up. Tree lighting temperatures starting this at 11 00 a. M. And pausing this at 1 00 or 2 00 p. M. Upper 40s to low 50s. So milder temperatures and breezes will start to die down. You do have to bundle up. Our weekend forecast looking pretty good by tomorrow. Temperatures will start to kind of get a little bit cooler by sunday. Notice that we have midto upper 40s. Lots of sunshine however but it will be a gusty saturday. I do have the ten day on ten coming up in just a bit. Well see you shortly. Thanks. Unique approach to preparing students for high school. Well tell you about the School District thats giving kids a crash course on life beyond the classroom. The governor denied any involvement and never been charged in the case however as we reported earlier a jury did convict two of christies aids for experience. A special prosecutor looking into christies alleged involvement. In other news this morning an organization dedicated to helping abuse and neglected kids in our area. Joining me this morning is ann. She is the executive director of casa youth advocate. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for inviting me. Sure. Tell us about the work that casa does. It stands for Court Appointed special advocates. So just to give you a real persons perspective on what that means, if you could imagine a ten or 12yearold child sitting in a courtroom all alone with lawyers on both sides of the courtroom, a judge in front and this child knows that all of those people are talking about him but he doesnt know what they are talking about. There are social workers milling around. He knows they are talking about him but he doesnt know what they are talking about either. He doesnt know where he is going after the hearing. He knows he is probably not going back with his family, but he has no idea whats going to happen to him. There is no one there to explain to him whats going on, whats going to happen, whether he is going to be okay or not, what will happen in the future, how long he will be there. Thats what casa does. We provide that one single caring consistent adult in a childs life that can really make all of the difference in the world. I have to imagine it must be incredibly overwhelming for a child to be in that circumstance, certainly farn adult and then you a child or teenager there. Right. Everything is very bewildering. People are talking in big words using language that even you and i might not understand if we were not part of the Child Welfare system. So its really critical that there be an advocate, someone that the child can turn to and ask what is going to happen to me. And then advocate for what should be happening for that child. And tell us where some of the funds go to. The funds go to support the training and recruitment of volunteers. Last year we had over 90 volunteers. They are supported by lawyers who work with up to 25 volunteers to make sure that they understand whats going on in the courtroom and that they have the tools they need to advocate for the one child or sibling group they are assigned to, so make sure they have the support they need to do that. And this is pictures from previous galas. If you have still interested in going to the event we do have tickets available. Here is the information. Well pull it up on their screen. The casa youth advocates gala in delaware county. It runs from 6 00 this evening to 11 00 this evening. Again, they still have tickets. It goes to a great cause. If you would like more information go to our web site, nbc10. Com or check out the nbc 10 app. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you for the work that you do. Thank you so much. Good luck today. Thanks. Today is the last day for camp out for hunger and our nbc 10 morning team visited xfinity live not too long ago. There is vai sikahema dancing. Bill henley and Jessica Boyington spoke with preston and steve. They have been collecting nonperishable foods. It will help thousands facing hunger in our area. We will be posting more pictures and video online on the nbc 10 app and on social media. Okay. The sun is out today but its definitely colder than yesterday. Here is a live look at the blue cross river rink and the tree there f. Youre heading down tonight for the Tree Lighting you will want to bundle up. Erika martin will have more on the chilly weather for our weekend activities just ahead. Here is a live look at Citizens Bank park. The phillies do have a lot of fun in store for their fans tomorrow. Well give you details on that coming up. narrator attention medicare beneficiaries. alex if you have medicare or will be covered soon, here are some important things you should know. First, if you think medicare covers everything, you may be in for an expensive surprise. Second, you could be responsible for thousands of dollars in outofpocket costs. Which brings us to number three. A Medicare Supplement insurance policy from Colonial PennLife Insurance company can help you save money by helping to pay the bills medicare doesnt. So you have affordable coverage with the freedom to choose a plan that best meets your needs and budget. And no one chooses your doctors but you. You can be covered for visits to doctors, specialists, hospitals, and more. So now that you know more about your choices when it comes to a Medicare Supplement plan, call now. bright music it is the place to be tonight. If youre heading out for the Tree Lighting this evening youll want to dress for the weather. To tell us more about what the weather will be like we check in with erika martin. We are definitely having a chillier start to the day. They will start to die down just a bit. More sunshine in the forecast for today. These clouds mixing now. If you look at the bottom youll see your local neighborhood forecast. It is all about tracking the an. Wilmington currently at 50 degrees. Delaware seeing much warmer temperatures and more comfortable. 50 for oh dedessa. We do have the westerlies and northwesterlies keeping things chil chillier. Already seeing lots of sunshine upper 40s to low 50s. 6 00 p. M. In the mid40s. Winds will start to die down but they will have a northwesterly component. Winds will start to kick up into tomorrow. Lehigh valley seeing a few clouds mixing in. Clear skies 10 00 p. M. Upper 30s. I do have a ten day on ten, back to you. Thanks so much. 11 32 right now. Lets check out some of our other headlines. American red cross helping 23 people, adults and children who lost everything in this fire. Fire burned through eight homes last night. The fastmustving blaining fastmoving fire started around 8 00 last night. Police investigating a breakin in southwest philly. It happened this morning. Investigators are trying to figure out if anything was stolen from the lot. They do know the car the burglars used to get to the dealership was stolen and left at the scene. Today philadelphia Elections Officials will start recounting Election Results in dozens of cities. They are pushing for a state wide recount. Hearing for that is set for monday. Now to the latest on that ill fated flight that killed nearly an entire brazilian soccer team. It may provide clues about what may have caused the crash. We have a closer look. Reporter the crash site is hard to reach. We tread through columbian doctor jungles. Twisted metal, the entire wing flipped over, trees torn from the ground by the force of the crash. Columb Columbian Police escorting us closer. The broken plane, a life vest, mangled seats. That six people survived this seems incredible. Almost an entire soccer team wiped out. They told us the pilot was four minutes from the airport. We found another clue to what happened. We climbed to where the tail of the plane hit the top of the hill. This is terrible. The pilot flew across that valley trying to get to the runway. He just didnt make it. No one can comprehend. One local man told us in the wreckage he found a cell phone with multiple missed calls. He doesnt know who that phone belonged to. Back to you. This morning cubans lined the streets to hon for castro. He died at the age of 90, a decade after stepping down as president. They have nine days of mourning. Castros ashes will rest in the far eastern city of santiago decuba. One year ago a married couple opened fire at a holiday party. The couple was killed in a shootout with police. Buzz aldrin is recovering in a new zealand hospital after he had to evacuate from the south pole. The former astronaut was visiting avisi visiting avisi visitivisi visitivisi visiting when he got sick. The engineer who fell asleep just before a deadly Train Derailment is suing the railroad for 10 million. He filed the lawsuit today, three years to the day. He blames metro north for negligence and claims they value on time performance over riders and workers. Federal investigators found the engineer was exhaustion from undiagnosed sleep apnea when he nodded off and lost control of the train. Kerry met with pope francis. They havent said what they discussed. Kerry is in rome to participate in a dialogue on security. Later he will meet with the Russian Foreign mi. They are trying to make things easier with mentoring through singing and acting. We have a look at a unique program. All right. Lets begin. Its a balance between somebody who is a little tough but extremely passionate about what she is doing. For the next couple of weeks you might want to refer to her as annie sullivan. It took months of preparation. It was work i wanted to be a part of. For jacqueline and other seniors the curtain is ready to fall on their high school theatrical career. Before they take the final bow they want to give back to those just getting started. I want to prepare myself for high school and prepare myself for college. He is focused on his role as al aladin. He will take a field trip to see the miracle worker. A High School Theater program is all about building confidence. Tom weaver has been part of it for 40 years and for the past 20 he has taken a focus on School Theater 101 bringing 8th graders. They will ask questions about the content of whatever show they just saw, which is very exciting. The goal to get incoming freshmen to start right away. It really inspired me. Everyones chemistry on stage made me want to be part of that. And to learn more about acting. How does it help in terms of confidence and other skills . Before i ever did theater i wasnt that confident. Going into it after doing a couple of shows it is cool to see how many people like kind of look up to you. To become someone else and in turn find yourself. I think the show will do just that. It will hit a nerve. Reporter matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Lets head to washington now where they are hoping by launching a new app. The app called 1,600 is available. When users point their the app focuses on the face of George Washington and builds a white house on top of it. You can watch the annual easter egg roll. Coming up, let there be light. We are talking about the Tree Lighting right here at the blue cross river rink all happening this evening. Well give you more details ability the li about the live event and more coming up. Now, do you have milder conditions but the winds are a little bui little bit of an issue. Be sure you bundle up. I have more on the other side of the break and of course your hour by hour. The nbc 10 morning team will be here. We will be broadcasting a live half hour special. It is called nbc 10 presents a holiday Tree Lighting. Tracy davidson, bill henley and Jessica Boyington and vai sikahema will be live. You with watch it live right here on nbc 10. The holiday fun continues tomorrow when the Philadelphia Phillies welcome a number of special guests to help with their Tree Lighting. Joining me this morning is scott. He is here with francis, a senior merchandise manager. Thanks for being with us. Thanks for having us. So a lot going on tomorrow. Tell us about it. It is something we do every year. We open up kind of the holiday sale and getting everybody in spirit. Santa claus will make his first appearance. Lots going on. A lot of special appearances at the store during the day. Fans get a chance to take sel e selfi selfies. There are live rein deer as well, right . Yes. We have great promotions and door busters. Up to 80 off. Great gift ideas. Tell us about the bobble head here. It is only available it the ballpark. I think it will be the hot items. Really cool piece. This is a way for fans to get down and celebrate and buy gifts for their loved ones and have a good time. Have a good time and support the phillies and meet and greet with some of the celebrities in the house. Including some of your own. Yes. Thats right. Yeah. So why is it important to do these kinds of events to bring the Community Together . One, we certainly want to keep baseball in their frame of mind. Its never too early to start thinking about spring and warmer weather. It is just around the corner. Next week the winter meetings. It should be a busy time. You know, again, people like to give those phillies gifts. This is a great place to go and check them out. I always look forward to my mother. She gave all of my sinlings and me tickets. It is something we always look forward to. Youre not alone in that. What should people be looking for for deals . In addition to the door busters we have gifts for everybody. We have really nice jewelry. Okay. All kinds of stuff, great new shirts and guy gifts and toys and games and everything. From kids to adults people cant go wrong when they head out there tomorrow. Yeah. Ill get all of my Christmas Shopping done. There you go. The Tree Lighting with santa claus tomorrow at Citizens Bank park. It begins at 10 00 in the morning. Here is whats going on. You have the reindeer on the main concourse, book signings and the Christmas Tree and holiday lighting. Keith jones and erin coleman will be there. If you would like a complete run down of the event go nbc10. Com or check out the nbc 10 app. Thank you so much for being with us. We look forward to being there tomorrow. Thank you. Go phillies. Im erika martin. The cameras shaking quite a bit and the flags are as well. Dont forget to look at the bottom your screen. We are seeing 20 Miles Per Hour wind speeds. Millville 18 along with wilmington and dover. As the day pro guesses we will certainly see winds subside quite a bit. Neighborhoods right now mainly in the upper 40s for the area. Park side 48. Temperatures are about right for this time of the year. We are normally seeing low 50s. Atlantic city 50 and this is currently at 48 degrees. Nbc 10 holiday Tree Lighting. At 1 00 p. M. Well time this out for you. Lots of sunshine. It will be a little breezy. Upper 40s by 4 00 p. M. And low 40s by 7 00 p. M. With westerly winds. Be sure you bundle up. Tree lighting temperatures, we started this at 11 00. Notice we are seeing low 50s and upper 40s. So again, temperatures are pretty mild. It is the winds that are a little bit of a factor. 48 in westchester. Philadelphia at 43 degrees. However we do have to take into consideration those winds right now westerly and northwesterly. So notice here it feels like it is going to be a little bit chillier than the actual temperatures at 1 00 or 1 30. It will feel like 47 degrees. By 4 00 p. M. It is 45 degrees there. At 7 00 p. M. It will feel like the upper 30s. Overall it is not going to be the coldest night. It is certainly not going to be the warmest as well. Looking pretty decent. Your hour by hour forecast starting at 11 30 a. M. Notice clouds will start to clear out. Overall a really nice stretch of weather keeping everything high and dry. Futurecast outlook. This is really important. We will stay dry for the next couple of days. By monday into tuesday im tracking two systems that could get here. Notice monday into tuesday widespread rain showers. Another system approaching wednesday into thursday. Ten day on 10. It looks like a mixed bag and of course tracking cooler conditions next thursday into friday. Its the season of giving and some children in philadelphia will get a very special treat this weekend thanks to the generosity of our next guest. Kelly is the founder and ceo. She is hosting her first 3k walk and fun day for kids in the logan sections of philadelphia. Thanks for being with us. Thanks so much for having me. You guys put on events all across the city. Tomorrow it will be focused. Yes. Whats in store for the children . We are doing to have a beautiful fun day. We are going to walk and teach kids about nutrition and health and wellness. I have a lot of my friends that own their own companies and will talk to the kids. Yes. And something fun to do for your family before the Holiday Season shifts into high gear. Youre the ceo. I am. So youre sort of hoping to spread some of your insight into how to start a business. Absolutely, to any young girl that needs that motivation. It is good to have somebody from your community. And all kids are eating free tomorrow. Yes. And why focus on the children in these neighborhoods . Thats where you need to start at. Thats where the base is. I feel the more you start, the younger they are and the more inspired they get. It is important to start at a young age. Exactly. So you mentioned there will also be vendors related to wellness. Yes. My friend is a nutritionist. She will talk about what to do and exactly thats going to tie into the walk around the park. Wonderful. We have more information you can pull up. If youre interested you can join her and members of the community for the 3k walk and fun day. They will walk through which is directly across from the cafe. 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Cable cant offer speeds this fast at a price this good. Only fios can. Today wilmingtons Fire Department is mourning one of its own. The fire commissioner announced the death of hope. Hope was in the icu and listed in critical but stable condition earlier this week. They tell us the department is working on a funeral for her. She is now one of three firefighters who died battling flames back in september. We within the past hour he talked about hope telling him she planned to retire in january and she wanted to pursue a career in nursing. The chief was overcome we motion. Take a listen. We love her and we will always remember her and maintain her honor. Ruiz is charged with two counts of firstdegree murder and arson. She admitted to setting the fire at the home she shared with her father and stepmother. In other news today in mo h montgomery county, the trees for troops kicks off. Pennsylvania is one of 26 states where Christmas Tree farms donate to families across the u. S. It runs through sunday. The annual winter fest runs from 6 00 to 8 00. You can get into the holiday spirit with ice carving, snacks, live music and a visit from santa. Santa and his elves were there. A lot of events happening this weekend. At least the weather sounds like well mostly cooperate. Thanks for watching nbc 10 at 11 00. Thanks for watching. From erika martin and all of us here at nbc 10 have a good one and a great weekend. narrator attention medicare beneficiaries. alex if you have medicare or will be covered soon, here are some important things you should know. First, if you think medicare covers everything, you may be in for an expensive surprise. Second, you could be responsible for thousands of dollars in outofpocket costs. Which brings us to number three. A Medicare Supplement insurance policy from Colonial PennLife Insurance company can help you save money by helping to pay the bills medicare doesnt. So you have affordable coverage with the freedom to choose a plan that best meets your needs and budget. And no one chooses your doctors but you. You can be covered for visits to doctors, specialists, hospitals, and more. So now that you know more about your choices when it comes to a Medicare Supplement plan, call now. bright music [knock at door] jj youre here gabi hi jj i was starting to worry youd changed your mind. Gabi im sorry im late. I hate to. Take care of something, but. Jj shouldnt i be giving you flowers . How about we put it with the others . Close your eyes. Gabi whats going on . Jj close your eyes. Gabi okay. Jj come on. Gabi [laughs] you did all this for me . Jj this is all just the beginning