A big change is coming tomorrow. Nbc 10 krystal klei is here with the forecast. Break down the timing of the storms. Yeah. A really nice day followed bay nasty day tomorrow. Here is a look at current conditions. Right now we are already at 60 degrees. Almost there at 57 and delaware up to 61. For the most port just some spotty clouds. Plenty of sun breaking through. It will continue today. Very nice day on tap with some of us making it near 730 degrees later on. If you look at satellite and radar there is nothing to track except clouds along the northern edge. We have another storm center and a lot of moisture that will be effecting us through early tomorrow all through your thursday. As a result we are under that first alert for heavy rain and thunderstorms across the entire viewing area. Well have the potential for this to become a problem. Its all through your thufrmts thursday. It looks like it will be a day long event from minute you wake up to the time you head home. This is what we are looking at, period of heavy rain. Localized flooding in areas north and west across the viewingvie viewing area. P potentially hail and heavy downpours will be a threat for areas farther south. W well get more details with that hour by hour forecast. All right. Well see you in a little bit. Local businesses are challenging the tax. They say it is often passed onto consumers. The city argued that the tax is levied on distribute tos. The prek program launched a few months ago. They want to expand it from 2,000 slots to 3,000 next year. It is on hold until the lawsuit is resolved. City council pushing administrators to target more low income areas. The nfl draft is three weeks away. There are already obvious signs that it is coming especially for drivers in center city. You cannot park on the south side starting today right beside the art museum. It runs through may 8th. The draft theater will be constructed. Next monday the situation for drivers gets a little worse when road closures start near kelly drive. Safe to say all of these changes will be an inkreens for visitors and locals. I came all the away out here to film on the rocky steps. Im doing a music video and its heart blabreaking its not happg now. I need to figure out what im going to do. I think taking the train might be a better idea. The detours and road closures are expected to last into may. Get the full list of road closures on the nbc 10 app. Traffic backed up this morning. Sky force 10 over the boulevard near fox street where several cars crashed around 930 thm this morning. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is working the roads. Here are our cameras around Spring Garden street. We have maintenance vehicles here. Part of the lane is blocked as well. This is on the westbound side. We were seeing delays on the eastbound side. They kind of turned around and went back the other direction. Well see pretty much slow going on both sides for now. Also remember for the nfl draft we have parking restrictions in effect for today. It will be in effect until some time around may 8th. There is also a crash on allentown road. Watch for Police Activity there. Around route 47 they have a plane blocked in both directions. Amtrak running on a modified schedule. New jersey moderate schedule. Nothing reported right now. Back to you. Thank you. Problems continue this morning for those headed to new yorks penn station. They are on right on a Holiday Schedule and amtrak is on a reduced schedule. On monday a transit train derailed at the station. It did so much damage it could take until tomorrow for regular schedules to resume. Testimony continues in trial of cop killer eric frein. He killed one trooper and wounded another. Yesterday jurors heard testimony. She recalled finding him on his back as he mouthed the words help me. Prosecutors say frein hid in the trees and opened fire on officers. He lead police on a 48 day manhunt. He is not expected to take the stoo stand during the trial. Philadelphia police want to talk to this babys parents after the child was nearly taken out of the stroller. It happened at a dunkin donuts. The man apparently yelled thats my baby. Thats my baby. The parents pushed him away and left. He stayed and talked to officers but no charges will be pressed if the parents are not located. A philadelphia mother is speaking out about the deadly shooting on roosevelt. The victim was a father of six. He was gunned down. His mother believes one of the clubs he worked at as a bouncer may have lead to the shooting. They targeted him. Dante wasnt a violent person. For him to be taken away from us is senseless. Police are following several strong leads. New this morning the search is on for a person who shot a man in logan neighbor had. It happened on p south war tillerson says the United States has spoken enough about north korea. It is me response to the latest missile launch. They say the north filed a Ballistic Missile into the waters off the east coast. They believe it is drills being carried out by u. S. And south korea. Right now Security Council holding an emergency meeting discussing the chemical attack that killed many. A warning some of the images youre about to see where disturbing. At least 83 people including 25 people were killed in this recent attack. Mr. Trump insists the attack was a consequence of the Obama Administrations weakness. President trump called the chemical attack rep henceable and says it cannot be ignored. Coming up, an emotional day for the royals as they honored a day for the terror attack and how they are trying to help the families heel. Triter is making a response so that fence. Thats coming up next. A beautiful wednesday but not so for your thursday. We are under a first alert for thunderstorms moving through the area. This is just the start of the morning. Well track it out through the entire day coming up. Careful joe, theyve got you outnumbered. The dinosaurs extinction. Dont listen to them. Not appropriate. Now im mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter. Why dont you sit over here. Something for everyone is awesome. Find your awesome with the Xfinity Stream app. More to stream to every screen. Happening now ended just after 10 00. Democrats had enough votes but Republican Leaders threatened to change the rules to allow for simple majority vote. It could happen on friday. White house officials and lawmakers hope to resume talks today on reviving the Republican Health care plan that failed two weeks ago. He held a late night meeting. They failed the agree on a white house proposal to help opt out of obamacare mandates if it can prove it will lower premium costs. They wouldnt have to cover Mental Health and emergencies. A top official from the Obama Administration said she did nothing wrong when she asked to see the names of said aiding of President Trump caught up in surveillance. It is a common request but she says she never leaked the names for political purposes. The allegation is that some how the Obama Administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. Thats absolutely falsehood. President trump and his team have said there are leaks when it comes to national security. Republicans want rice to explain her actions under oath. And britains royal family remembers the victims of the lond london terror attack. They joined the victims families for a special service this morning. A Police Officer and two others were killed last month. The attacker who mowed dough pedestrians before stabbing an officer was shot by police. Take a look. The ad features kendal jenner. As black lives matter protesters walk by she joining them. At the end of the ad she comes face to face with a Police Officer and offers him a pepsi. He offers her a smile, but there are few smiles on social media. Pepsi says the ad shows the spirit of harmony. No comment yet from jenner. Hundreds taking part in the chickfila road trip. It is a way to beb fit their community and getting the chance to win free chickfila for a year. Participants are being bussed around town to make a difference. To give back to the community is to help those in need or those who are less fortunate or maybe who need a meal or cle cleaning up a park. And this afternoon they will return to chickfila with a party. The new store set to open for business tomorrow. In Montgomery County will open a food pantry for students today. It started after the universitys factuality and staff saw students going hungry near the end of the semester especially when funds are low. A beautiful shot here. Clear skies. A light breeze and plenty of sunshine. Got to enjoy it while it lasts though. This will not be the scene tomorrow. Here is a look at neighbor nood temperatu neighborhood temperatures. Upper 50s for the Lehigh Valley and 62 in areas across the jersey shore. Plenty of sun across the region right now. Take a look. 62 center city. It is 62. We have the 60s. We are climbing to near 70s by this afternoon. We keep ahold of the sunshine. Today is a great day to take the lunch break out on the fpatio. Im saying this a lot, focusing on it because we wont be saying this for the next few days. It is 65 in westchester. Low and mid60s for the Lehigh Valley. In new jersey 66 trenton and nearly 70 for vorheese. Some areas could see lower 70s by the time we hit those official highs later this afternoon. So radar and satellite right now looks very good. You can see a little gray coloration to the north. Thats just clouds rolling on by. What we will see happen here tonight increasing clouds and quickly moisture starts to pop across the region. We go through our forecast. By 7 30 in the morning we have strong thunderstorm potential starting to develop during the morning commute. This is not a beautiful forecast. It starts early. We already had all of this passing through. Around 3 00 or 4 00 we have pockets of heavier rain. Especially south where we have a bit of warmer air thunderstorm potential is warmer we could see severe storms. Thats when we start to get damaging wind concern and the flooding concern on top of that. This mold has been updated. It is going pretty strong here. I dont think we are going to see as widespread as severe sore strong storms but i think well see a few cells that do create problems. You can see it brushing a against the shore. When you get the reds a and oranges you start to get concerns. Its not looking quite as bad in the afternoon. If you have a lot of energy and strength you ring out the atmosphere. Still isolated activity. Then really its getting spotty by 11 00. We dry out for the most part but isolated light rain showers are still possible for the phillies home opener. It is 49 for first pitch. We stay around the midto upper 40s. Breezy to windy conditions means it will likely feel closer to the low 40s throughout the game. Make sure youre bringing the jacket along for the home opener. Storms heading our way is part of the system creating destruction. Reporter its an ugly day here. We have seen one suspected tornado. It is damage in the wake of the weather system. This morning the residents are cleaning up after a possible tornado ripped through down. Storm chasers catching the formation on video. Suffering a direct hit his fire stagts now destroyed. Firefighters worked through the night to clean up the debris. It didnt spare the towns elementary school. Inside during the storm a School Custodian who managed to escape unhormed. The scene of an ef 5 to nay do in 2001. No one w the concern is not only for tornados and heavy rain but also hail. Predicted hailstones the size of golf bo golf balls. This will continue throughout the day and moving into the carolinas. Atlanta. A new threat that has nothing do with smoking. A new Group Getting the disease that never touched cigarettes, the warning signs and where you can go for free screenings. New attractions, the group the meping pay for opening day. Its time, america. Theres work to be done. Its not going to be easy but theres grit inside of you. And if you need extra motivation the grad fund at Strayer University can help push you forward. Because up to your last year of classes could be on us. Thats right. On us. Today is the day. Strayer university. Lets get it, america. This year alone nearly 50,000 people in the u. S. Will be diagnosed with oral cancer. You may think if you dont smoke youre safe from it but think again. New people getting the disease. An oral cancer patient, april is oral Cancer Awareness month. Both of you have important mess annals about the disease and how to know if youre at risk. Tell me about the disease and why its so dangerous. When we think about that we think of people who are smokers and who are older because those are the people who would get it. We are seeing it happen in younger people and really almost anybody is at risk because we are finding it is caused by a virus. You were diagnosed of cancer of tonsils but youre not a smoker. No. I had trouble swallowing and was going to the beach the next day and noticed a lump on my neck and thats how quickly it came about. Within two weeks was seeing. And tell me what youre doing. Tell people about what happened to you. Yeah. I think being out there and telling people that once you see something or feel something to go see a doctor. In my case it was having trouble swallowing like it was something stuck in the back of my throat and seeing the lump on my neck. Those are the most common, trouble swallowing, pain in the ear. If you think about it those symptoms can be relatively commonly caused by other routine causes of sore throats. People dont often go to cancer as their first diagnosis when they see Something Like this. I wouldnt necessarily think if i had a lump in my throat or my neck that it is necessarily cancer. Tell me how people with get screenings if they think they have got the disease. Great. So this is kaCancer Awareness week. They are hosting free screenings next week april 12th and the following wednesday, april 19th. Anybody can register. They can call up and we would be happy to see them. How are you feeling . I feel great. Im doing well and thriving thanks to the team at jefferson. Doing great. You look great. We are glad youre healthy and with us. We appreciate you coming and educating us about this situation. There are two free screenings you can go to this month. Head to Jefferson University hospital on the seventh floor. The other is at jeffersons location at 1,200 old york road. All of this available to you on the nbc 10 app. Thank you. An amazing rescue story out of colorado. Is anybody here . A peaceful kayak trip turned into a nightmare, how they were saved and what they are saying to their rescuers. And the names for babies that are so unpopular they may not exist for much longer. Well lay out some of the list a little bit later. We start with a live look outside right now. There are some clouds but its a great day to be out dodoors. You can see the storms are on their way headed eastbound. They could be powerful when they hit tomorrow. Krystal klei is here with the most accurate forecast. There is already a firstly letter because of the threat, right . Yeah. We are already watching some of that more Severe Weather. It is down to the southwest of us. It is heading our direction. We put that in effect for tomorrow. Lets focus on today for a minute. Today is very nice. We are at 57 degrees right now in allentown and 58 in redding. Those are the cool spots ton th board. It is the same in dover. We have very nice temperatures. We have seen a lot of sunshine. Well hang on the mostly sunny side of things. There is a look at satellite. The grayish color we do have clouds hanging by. Overall plenty of sunshine to go around. Temperatures boost up through the 60s. Here is the look at radar and satellite for whats to come. The storm center spinning around near st. Louis you can see the extension through chicago and then look to the south. We are looking at some of that strong to Severe Weather. When you get that youre talking damaging winds. It doesnt look like a threat to us. It is as we get into tomorrow with thunderstorm that is develop in our area. Today we stay warm. We stay pretty sunny. Tomorrow its thunderstorms and showers that move across the area. Not everyone will get if youre thinking the ohm opener still light rain and chilly conditions. Well go through all of it right into your weekend coming up in a few minutes. All right. Well see you then. Keep the nbc 10 app handy. Well update you instantly of dangerous conditions in your neighborhood. You can watch as the rain moves in. Right now a 70,000 reward is being offered to the person who can help police solve a quadruple shooting that killed three people. On monday at least 25 shots are fired. Detectives tell us the surviving victim is not cooperating. They are not looking for witnesses to interview. Police are urging anyone who knows anything about the shooting to contact them. And in wilmington the trial continues for three girls charged in a fight that lead to the death of a 16yearold girl. She died of sudden cardiac arrest. She had a preexisting heart condition. All three teens are being tried as juveniles. And the air force says a pilot is safe after a National Guard plane crashed this morning. The plane was on a Training Mission with another jet when it went down in a wooded area not far from joint based andrews. The pilot ejected and parachuted to the ground. Happening now Chris Christie is about to speak about plans to turn the hall into a Hard Rock Hotel and casino. He is joining hard rock officials at a briefing in Atlantic City that touk about t to talk about the details. This morning we are two weeks away from the opens of the museum of the american revolution. The museum says the donation from comcast and foundation helped it exceed the 150 million fundraising effort. It opens april 19th. Comcast is the Parent Company of nbc 10. People here in our area and across the country remembering philadelphias most popular reenactor. You probably knew him as ben franklin. He talked about the founding father in old city. He even married his wife, a betsy ross impersonator in full wardrobe. He didnt just act the part. He lived it. There is something very important about being a mascot or something but really bringing history to life. He was 75 years old. He shared the same birth date as ben franklin, january 17th. The white house is doubling down on the effort to revive the gops failed health care bill. The president is optimistic. The House Speaker is cautioning that nothing is in writing or up for a vote yet. Reporter for the second night in a row the Vice President and other Top White House officials rallying to revive stalled effort to repeal and replace obamacare. At the table moderate and conservative members of the gop. Overnight striking a note of optimism. There was an agreement that the progress we are making the certainly progress. They are good discussions. President trump telling nbc news they are confident they are strike a deal. The president and i remain confident that working with the congress we will repeal and replace obamacare. A possible compromise allowing states to waive regulations if they can row vied lower costs and premiums. One source says it could moderate who argue it could drive up costs. With Health Care Still up in the air judge neil gorsuch is one step closer after debate ended late tuesday. Overnight political reporting he plagiarized several authors and an academic criminal. They called it a second second smooer smear. A show down set for thursday with republicans to use the Nuclear Option needed to approve gorsuch. Also in the spotlight, ivanka trump speak out in a rare interview. I would say not to con flat lack of public announcement with violence. Critics say she should speak out more on gay rights and climate change. Where i disagree with my father he knows it. I express myself with total cand candor. Reporter she serves as special assistant to the president. Ivanka pushing back when asking about criticism. If being con pli sit is wanting to be a force for good and wanting to make a positive impact then im conflicted. Th. This next story could have turned out a lot different. A family stranded is calling rescuers angels. Jay and julie and their two teenaged daughters headed down a river when their kayaks capsized. It shows the churning water tipping the kayak. They lost their paddles and most of their clothes before washing up on a river bank. They were stranded for two days before help arrived. I believe that god was watching out for us. We had all sat down to pray and then a helicopter comes down into our canyon. These guys were our angels. That i were great. Everyone including their dog survived. Bye bye baby names. Three dozen names expected to become extin kt. They have yet to be registered on the database in 2017. Here are examples. On the boys side, dean, dennis, jeffrey. There are fewer girls names angela, deborah and maurine. They say amazon beat out twitter and you tube. Amazon will make it available to prime members. Last year twitter streamed the game games for free. A new partnership between the team and uber. They designated uber as the ride share app. They pulled trips going to and from citizens park. Those rides must begin or end in philadelphia and the offer is from 1 00 p. M. To 8 00 p. M. On friday. And speaking of the home team, be sure to watch our welcome home philly special this friday at 2 00 p. M. That takes you right up to the home opener against the nationals at 3 05. Its a broadway smash thats knot now playing in philadelphia. Coming up well talk to three cast members and how they have putting romance in their work lives. We are looking it a quiet first alert radar. A beautiful wednesday. We are in first alert for thunderstorms. Well talk about the specific threats coming up. Time to leave your troubles outside. Cabaret premiered last night. Joining me is three performers of the show. Two locals are also performing in this version. They are both from westchester. Tell us a little bit about the show. It was in this little bubble of good times. You know, it is before the great depression. Thats where it tell us about your part. I am one of the swings. I cover all of the kit kal girls. In this show the swings get to be part of the kit cat band. In every show i get to play cabaret. Maybe this time and cabaret. And you and another cast member are married in real life. Tell me how that plays out in the show and what it does to you. Tell us about your innocence. We are both members of the kit kat club. It was a blast. Tell me what its like to be back home and performing in front of the family and friends. It is full circle and i feel very lucky. My parents came out last night. It was fantastic to have them in the audience. They must be so extremely proud seeing you back there. They are. And all of the money they play for yeah. Thanks mom and dad. We look forward to it. Cabaret runs tonight through sunday night at the academy of music. Tickets start at 20. You can get more on nbc 10 or on nbc10. Com. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having us. All right. Lets shift gears. We have a lot to talk about. Today is a beautiful day. If some how youre able to have the day off you can certainly spend the afternoon outdoors. Temperatures creeping closer to the 70sment y. You can see spotty clouds out there at this point in the day. We may see a few dlouclouds. 70 in philadelphia this afternoon. Mid60s for the Lehigh Valley. Squeeze into the 70s for delaware. Still very nice and sunny through the rest of today. Overnight we start to increase clouds and pretty quickly we pull in the moist dhur too. We have the storm center that will track from west to east. That will combine with part of this system thats providing more Severe Weather that we need to see those thunderstorms we are so concerned with. The biggest threat for serious damage will be a little sut of us by tomorrow. It does include southern portions of delaware and southern bargss on the credit level. Today 6 30 in the evening. Still looks pretty good. Maybe tonight dinner on the deck forecast. Then we go through to the morning hours. That started around 4 00 or 5 00 a. M. Those showers and thunderstorms moving through. There could be some strong to severe thunderstorms. Now, what does that mean . It means its worse than a few strikes of lightning. It is more potential for damaging wind or the hail to fall through the area especially like i mentioned, the southern zones. This might be going a little too widespread. It is showing off where the higher threat is. It continues. You can see through the day we have still got that potential. It is starting to break apart a bit and hanging mostly in the southern zones. It means flooding is a concern as well. As we get into the afternoon it looks like we might start to sbring out in the afternoon. Still though, pockets of heavier rain are possible through 3 30 in the afternoon. Spotty rain through 11 30 at night. Things should die down early friday but still lingering light rain on friday. Here is Severe Weather threat scale we have been talking about. Flooding right now, we are putting it about a midlevel threat. Really this is the north and west. In fact a flood watch has been put out for new castle area and areas north or west . It is under that flood watch. Damaging wind right now. Storms roll through in the morning. It means being outdoors not a good plan. This is more of a low level threat but there is the possibility of larmer hail to develop and for tornados. We are putting that at the lowest level threat. It does not look likely. We cannot rule it out when we get this kind of formation ruling through the area. Like i mentioned, friday not looking the best. We are at 49 degrees. We warm to 58 saturday and 65 by sunday. The weekend much better and warmer than your friday will be. This weeks wednesdays child is a teenager with a big heart and love of sports. He needs a family to share his overwhelming joy of life. I want you to meet zachary. Zachary is a High School Freshman who loves basketball. Who better to shoot around with than the harlem globe trotters. I want you guys to meet zach. Good. Whats going on . How you doing . How you doing . I play a lot of other sports. Thats obvious. He has bigger plans for his life. When i grow up i want to be an accountant. You good at math . I am great at math. He needs a forever family to begin that journey. He has a wonderful sense of humor. He loves to go out to eat. He love to play cards. He has taught me many different card games. He says playing cards is something that will make him feel good. A lot of love. Zachary has a huge heart. It is important for him to please people. He has a lot of love to give. 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Passover begins on monday night. Cherry blossom festival continues today. The Japanese House and gardens is treating guests to drummers and a key tasting today. It will be nice out there for it. Good day to do all of that. I was hoping to check it out this weekend. Yeah. A lot of people out there. Lets talk about the forecast. It will be good by the weekend. Today is night, up to 70 degrees. Thunderstorm threat tomorrow, lingering light rain friday and much cooler and windy as well. You need a jacket for that game. The weekend you can get back out. Looks like it will be nice. Yeah. Thanks for watching nbc 10 at 11 00. Im vai sikahema. From krystal klei and all of us here on nbc 10 have a great day. Enjoy the weather out there. Hillary is someone gonna tell me, or am i gonna have to guess who scooter thinks you are . Brady you know whats funny . People are always mistaking bridget for somebody else. She has one of those those familiar faces. Nicole ii cant say that im not flattered, but i would have remembered if i met you before and you just must be mistaken. Roman well, it is about time you dropped in. Everybody else in the family has been by to make sure im holding down the fort. Ciara yeah, mom said you were running things while grandma carolines out visiting kim. Roman yeah, im just kind of getting my bearings, but i do know enough to take care of my favorite niece. Whatll it be . Burger . Fries . Ciara um, actually, im gonna wait on ordering. Im meeting someone. A date. Roman really