Authorities revealed new information about the father of the suicide bomber. Here is what we know. A former Libyan Security official says the father of the bomber has ties to an Al Qaeda Backed group in libya. They have announced it is clear they are dealing with a terrorist network. One involved a controlled explosion to get inside. The threat level is at the critical level with significant increase in police patrols. The military is guarding sites around the country so that more Police Officers can participate in the investigation. Jay has more from manchester. The investigation in manchester is growing. At least three more people arrested as we learn more about the suspect in the deadly blast. Intelligence sources tell s Salaman Abedi like lie received training overseas. He may have been a part of a larger cell planning other attacks the Terror Threat has been raised to its highest possible level. It is clear this is a net wovg we are investigating. It brings with it police on patrol. It signals something more significant if you look at the bomb and possibility of other attacks in england this was a very prudent step. The emotions raw as 22 families say goodbye. There wasnt a you could say was horrible and she was never horrible to anybody. The horrible images of that night are vivid and haunting. Screaming my babies. I thought the bomb had gone off in the arena. The victims embraced unwilling to brace in the face of terror. What have they done . They brought people together. United in their pain and resolve here. Stay with us for continuing coverage in manchester. We are slowly drying out. The phillies will continue their series against the Colorado Rockies tonight and hopefully getting tomorrows game in is another story. We have details on that. I have tickets to tonights game. It will limit how much temperatures will rise. Its 64 degrees right now and the average high is like 10 Degrees Higher than that and we are not going to get any where near that during the day today. We did have some rain early this morning. The last of those sprinkles have moved out but the next area is a whole lot bigger. Its a large area of rain and thunderstorms in tennessee and kentucky moving in this direction. It is going to be effecting us but not this evening. So rose mary can get the game in and it will be relatively comfortable through this time of the year. Tomorrow mornings rush, thats a different story especially the early portion of the rush may get heavy rain with even thunderstorms across the area. It will not be raining all day today rm some of it is likely to be heavy. There it is. By 6 00 a. M. Some rain around. Well have an update coming up in a few minutes. Thanks, glenn. Jury selection appears to be moving quickly in the sex assault case. His attorney stopped and thanked the people for doing their duty and reporting for jury selection. The attorneys would not answer any questions about this election process. Only one of the 11 people chosen so far is black. His lawyers accusing of trying to keep black jurors off the panel. The trial is set to begin june 5th in montgomery county. The jury in the creato murder trial resumed deliberations this morning. He preserved a relationship with his girlfriend. It claims they have little physical evidence. First day of freedom. A philadelphia man who spent 24 years behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit is out of prison. Its a blessing. Its a blessing to have my brother back home. He spent time with family members last night following his release from prison hours before. The first thing he did as you can see, was hug his mother. A judge vacated that after new evidence came to light confirming his alibi. He says whats important now is that he is with the people he loves. Pamela spent the morning with his family. Reporter we were actually up on the art museum steps. A woman handed sean her phone and said hey, can you take a picture of me doing that rocky pose . He laughed it off and passed the phone along and explained he didnt know how to do that. Thats how much things have changed. Its a blessing to be home. Sean thomas woke up with the freedom to choose what he would do for the first time in 24 years. Sean was a guest on nbc 10 news today and it was there that he shared his story and his own words. Afterwards youre free to do what you want. It was 1990. He was convicted of murdering a man. He was sentenced to life. I knew in my heart it was coming. You know, i didnt know when. For 24 years he prayed, held onto hope, to his family and his case. Attorneys got a judge to overturn the conviction on the fact that sean who was being held at the study center at the time couldnt have committed the murder. You appreciate it more better. He tells many we he is most looking forward to making up on lost time with family that stood by his side. Reporter so whats next . He tells me he needs to get new clothes. He is looking forward to spending time with his family. He and his fiance have a wedding to plan. Certainly a lot to look forward to. Im pamela osborne, nbc 10 news. There is no indication why this person was walking on a busy highway in the first place. The morning rush is over. Some times we get a lunch brush this time of day. Absolutely. Conditions on 95 have returned back to normal. 95 northbound where that earlier accident was located near the Bridge Street exit. You can see everything is right on time and on schedule. Travel speeds now in the 60s. Its always great news. And again, this is where we show the delays. This is southbound, northbound. It will take you 14 minutes. We are right back on schedule. Look at these travel speeds. It is beautiful, 60s. Always great news do expect typical slow downs. Youre looking at an accident at lower gwynedd. Thanks for that. Police investigating a murder in cobs creek. They say its unusual there were no 911 calls after a man was shot in the head here. A person eventually found the victim around 1 00 this morning and called for help. Take a look at this picture of a bank robber in northeast philly. They say he hit the same Republic Bank twice in the last five months. He went into the branch yesterday and demanded cash. They got the false alert. They tell us it should have never gone out. They also received more than 69,000 calls about the false emergency. When in rome the president and the pope exchange me san tris and gifts. This is despite clashing burg t during the campaign. Spreading the wealth, a family has big plan frs their lottery winnings and they do not include a lamborghini. I hope you enjoy the dry weather today. We are in far lot of rain tomorrow. Well let you know how long it will last and whats in store for the holiday weekend. Thats next. President trump is in brussels today. The president called his visit the honor of a lifetime. The two men have vastly different viewpoints on many world issues. Rnchs President Trump was asked about his meeting with the pope. We had a fantastic meeting. Reporter they couldnt be more different. The pope lives a modest lifestyle and President Trump is more lavish. According to the vatican they discussed immigration, health care, the persecution of christians. Openly in the past. One of the main issues is trumps proposal to build a border wall. There was a light moment the pope really lit up when he met the first lady and asked if she feeds him a certain desert. This was about the positive optics that could help turn the page on a number of controversies he is battling back at home. His next stop brussels. Nbc news. Lets talk Severe Weather now. Heavy rinds toppled this tractor trailer. Strong winds and rains also pounded the austin area. There are a number of toppled trees and damaged homes. And we are going to get some of the rain from that system. I think well be in the cold and stable part of it. It will get rain as opposed to Severe Weather. A few breaks in the clouds. More breaks up in the lehigh valley. Most of the area is pretty cloudy and is likely to stay that way. We have that northeast wind at the shore. Ocean temperature 59 degrees. Coastal flood advisory. 62 at stone harbor, 62 at ocean city. So the whole area is on the cool side today. It will be on the cool side as we head through the weekend. The heaviest rain will be the morning rush especially the beginning part of the morning rush. The temperatures cooler than normal until the weekend when it warms up a little bit. We also have showers coming in for sunday and monday. You can see we have more clouds coming up from the north and west. Look at all of that moisture moving in our direction. We are going to see some of those results. We get up near 70 degrees. Peaks of sunshine and a little more sun in allentown. It cools down at the shore with wind coming in off of that ocean. 11 30 tonight. Everybody is cloudy. We are not seeing any rain until after midnight. Not just rain but fairly heavy rain across much of the area. Not especially chilly but wet. 8 00 a. M. It is wet everywhere across the area. As we head towards the noontime hour we have steady rain breaking up but we have the chance of thunderstorms. There it is. Philadelphia 63 degrees. It is 65 at wilmington. Up to 79 in philadelphia. So here we are this afternoon. Lots of clouds through the evening. Here comes that rain tomorrow morning and then tapers off a little bit. It wont be raining all day tomorrow. It is not likely it will be raining at all on saturday. It looks like the best day near the holiday weekend. It is 72 at the shore. We have showers coming in later sunday and another chance of showers on monday in most of the area. A tradition in Delaware County takes to the stage. We are going behind the scenes talking to the people who make the magic happen in just a few minutes. Chris christie addiction is a disease. It can happen to anyone. Help is within reach. All you need to do is ask. Vanessa i was a fullblown heroin addict, selling my soul to get high. But i got help, and you can too. James i just know i didnt want to feel that pain anymore. I got help. You can too. Aj most people think addicts are beyond help. When i see an addict, i see hope. Chris christie dont suffer. Dont wait. Call 844 reach nj or visit reachnj. Gov. Getting set to kick off the 42nd season for the entire family. Since 1976 they have set the standards for live musicals performed by young people. Joing us this morning is emily. She the stage manager for the upcoming childrens theater show. You have been working with the program for the past few years now. Yes. It is awesome they have given us the opportunity to express our artistic interests and help guide young kids of the program. So when i ask you what madagascar jr. Was about you were like i like to move it move it. Yeah. It is a Family Friendly show. We do six that are awesome for kids of all ages. And you were saying in terms of protection and the set its a moving piece of art. It is very grand to say the least, yeah. Well have moving set pieces; really beautiful scenic art. What makes this different . What masets it apart . For me it has always been the heart. I always have a home there. It was to keep paying it forward. What else should we be looking forward to . It is the 42nd season. It is like no other. We both worked at many theaters. Its right up there with the highest theaters in the philadelphia area. The technical aspects, we both work in the scene. No one knows it. Yeah. To other grander productions and here in the area. Yeah. It is brilliant. It is a philly regional premier. It is very epic. Well have a chorus on stage. It will be very different. It will be really epic and really great. Thank you so much. And we do have more information, the 42nd season begins july 5th. There are six dhirns theater show. Tickets are now on sale. You can tap the nbc 10 app. Coming up, imminent attacks, following the concert bombing. Just ahead, details on the new arrests in the case, plus, with what we are learning about the suspect and his ties to terrorists. Drinking, drugging and driving. We take a closer look at the increase in impaired drivers on our roads. Thats coming up in a live interview. Right now new developments in the terror attack in manchester. They say the father of the concert bomber has ties to an Al Qaeda Backed group in libya. There are now four people under arrest. 22 victims have been identified. Authorities are not releasing their names just yet. Jay joins us live from manchester with more on the mood there. I have to imagine it is sort of a roller coaster of emotion. They are also in mourning and theres this fear. Youre absolutely right. Describing it perfectly. We are one of what are several memorials that are across this city. They feel like being together is part of their healing process. A lot drawn together by what is overwhelming sadness for those lost but also the concern that the terror level has been raised here and now there are reports in the Manchester Evening News that the bomb maker in this incident may still be on the loose here. It is something that intelligence agencies are dealing with as they continue their investigation here. So a lot unfolding in this case. You said four people arrested, one of those a brother of the suspect in this attack. There is a Second Brother police say they are looking for that may have ties to everything thats gone on here. It is a very active investigation, one that is going to take some time. They dont want to leave any stones unturned here. Okay. Thank you very much, jay. All right. Back here in our area the morning rain has moved out making way for cool and cloudy weather. Some shoppers bundled up as they left trader joes. They were out and about. Everyone will need their umbrellas very soon. Glenn hurricane schwartz has the details on that, glenn. Yeah. Despite all of the cloud cover we are not going to get any rain this afternoon or this evening but we will be getting it by tomorrow morning. We have overcast skies across a good bit of the area. A few peeks of sunshine especially in some of the northern suburbs. Allentown is warmer than philadelphia. It is 66 degrees. We continue to see the northeast wind. The entire area in the 60s. We had some rain overnight. A few leftover showers and things are pretty dry but not for long. We have thicker clouds getting ready to move in and theres the rain. In Eastern Kentucky moving our direction. It looks like it will time out to get here by the morning rush tomorrow but not by this evening. We are dry this afternoon. Maybe a few peeks of sunshine. The rain comes in late. It comes across the entire area by morning. Some of it on the heavier side especially between 4 00 and 6 00 a. M. That is when we expect the heaviest of the rain. This evening you can see the cloudy skies until well after midnight when that heavy rain starts to come in. Well see how much of that rain will linger into the weekend coming up in a few minutes. Thanks, glenn. Checking out our nbc 10 headlines jury selection begins in the bill cosby sex assault case. The defense is arguing that the prosecution has a racial bias because there is only one black jury member of the 11 already chosen. Prosecutors denied the accusations. Prosecutors argue creato killed his threeyearold son to prevev a relationship with his girlfriend who did not like children. They have little physical evidence connecting their clients to the boys death. President trump met with the pope today following their brief initial greeting. The president and pope met pry vaultly. The go men even exchanged gifts. Happening now in washington the secretary of education is testifying before lawmakers about her budget. The plan slashes funding for the Education Department by 46 . They say funding is still there for programs with moving results. Mulvaney is set to testify this morning. The president s budget kuts, more than 3. 5 million by making increases on border security. She needs a forever family to guide her through her life. Lets go. Lets dig in there. Today we came to philadelphias iconic bakery. He wants to learn how to bake a cake. Thats it . Perfect. She wants to be a hair stylist some day. To love a home where she might pursue gardening. She could be an only child or have siblings. It would be just fine. What matters most is having a family that makes her a priority. A family that doesnt curse that much. That doesnt curse. Good. Thats important. And you like to have cats and what else . Horses. Real horses or wooden horses . Real horses. Have you ridden them . Yeah. You would like to do them some more . Yeah. And a dog. A dog . Yes. Like a small dog. You dont want a big dog . Yeah. What about brothers and sisters . Maybe one small brother. I want one big sister. She is like a lot of 15yearold girls. She loves her friends, loves to laugh, go to the mall and do her hair. She is a happy girl. She enjoys socializing. She is a girl that would really thrive in a family that would be warm and welcoming and give here a lot of attention. If you would like to make her dream come true or the dream of any wednesdays child go to nbc10. Com and search wednesdays child. You can also call 1866doadopt. This morning a new winner of the voice. Take a look and listen. You did it. Chris took the title for team alisha. He wins 100,000 plus a recording contract. The next season will be here and there are big changes in the judges seat. We know miley sigh rus will be back and for the first time an idol. Gener Jennifer Hudson will be replacing alisha keys and gw gwen stefani. This is part of the widener nbc 10 leadership day. Joining our news director was arthur schwartz. They talked about ways to grow their leadership skills. Local organization dedicated to helping opportunities learn how to manage money. Bank of america is donating 100,000. The check was presented today at Wright Elementary School in north philly. Now to an exclusive. The smith family had that moment we have all dreamed of. They want a 429 million jock pot and they want to help people in their community. They decide today give back so they formed the smith foundation. They gave away 100 book bags filled with supplies. They are helping to build a church in bridgeton. In haiti they building a threeroom schoolhouse. We didnt go out and buy those fancy cars, lam boborghin. The family is now taking grant applications for the nonprofits. If you would like to fill out a grant go to our web site, nbc10. Com. We have a link to their foundation. In a live interview with the general mesne manager well explain why you need to make the switch by the end of the year. Drunk and drug driving are, we have a closer look at the danger on our roads. Dry weather for now. Get ready for this rain moving in. Ill let you me what to expect for memorial day weekend. Thats coming up next. Its the sixth largest in the country. Septa moves millions of passengers each year. He has seen several changes over his career with septa. Thanks for being with us. Its great to be here. So it was last psasummer whe septa rolled out the cart. I have tested the cart. I remember seeing you there. Yes. Easy, no problems to use and you want to make sure everybody has it by the end of this year. Well, we have 120,000 key card users. We slb moving more and more people onto the system. It is really smart for them to move nouchlt we keep making it. This are going to. Hopefullily the ens of the year. I have toerk bs abdomen people dont need to panic skbret. Kwp. This is the in if a will little greks. It is kind of an easy ride onto transit riders. Of the theft spreks huprotectio. It could be heartbreaking to not be able to get another one for free. This one we can turn off the card and you request get another one. Fill us in ton the late ers. A lot of really great things coming, a lot of vehicle purr chases. So a lot of things that our customers are really going to be exsigh excited about. Certainly it was rolled out last summer. Whats the latest . Very proud of our employees for how they found and located that situation and averted a major catastrophe. So give kudos to my employees for their role. The railroad is strong and healthy and running with positive train control. As far as i know we are the only ones running with that higher form or signal safety. Our have a great sing the safety fact lor the. Its humaner are new loek for the first time multicars. You should be able to carry more people. It will be very comfortable. All right. A lot happening. Thanks for being with us. Thank you, rosemary. We had rain early this morning. A few breaks in sunshine. It is 64 in philadelphia. A little more of a break in the lehigh valley. In delaware it looks like they are playing became. Dont. The phillies the rain back. It is 67 in odessa. It is only 5 in georgetown. It is 61 in lieu wis and even cooler right at those delaware beaches. It is 59 degrees with wind coming in off of that 59 degree ocean. Toe we have weather coming in. Most of the day friday is dry. Saturday looks dry. Sunday some what cooler. Rain most likely later in the day. Monday scattered showers. Its certainly not a picture perfect weekend but its far from a washout. We have clouds farther up to the north. Here comes the thicker clouds, the rain. Theres no doubt that it is coming in but its also coming in aftermidnight tonight. There it is. You get up tomorrow morning the streets will be wet. Your lawn is going to be wet. There is more wet weather coming in during the day. It wont be raining all day but there is a possibility of thunderstorms developing 83 on saturday. Late into monday some showers. Driving is getting more dangerous and the beyond a reasonable doubt yord are taking to the streets being we have a preview of stories youll see today on nbc 10 at 4 00. Across our area Impaired Driving on the rise. You are under arrest for dwi. It is unbelievable pain and anger and traus ration. If. If no one wants to drive they respect going to drive. I cant even wake them up some times. Doing damage on all roadways. I wanted to tell them i lived them so where did you the most successful we wanted to. They are catching a drinkive druf almost once again. We also wan pd to final but their for but how they go on and how they are remembering their family members by talking about the issue yeah. And showing up and trying to make a change. We heard this in the clip a moment ago, its not just drinking and driving rngs its drugging and driving, so to speak. Absolutely. Thats a huge fine. We heard about drug driving, legalizing marijuana medically as well as recreationally. These are the issues their antenna are rafrpd up. They say the biggest drug they are finding right now in drivers is marijuana and opiods, legally prescribed prescriptions. They become as lethal as a drunk drive. We. Also, they were traped to attack drunk drivers. The drug driver you have to do it takes clonger. By ff there are thousands of peopl people and your investigation shining a lot of all of this. Yes. 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For the second year in a row philly pops will present the memorial salute. You can see the show for free. You do have to sign up for tickets before the concert. You can get details on nbc 10 or check out the nbc 10 app. Comcast and nbc 10 are proud sponsors. Cant believe memorial day weekend is here. Yes. It is a tremendous thing. If you have a chance to go see it and the weather cooperates it is a great event. And the forecast, i cant really say it is great. Tomorrow high of 66. Heave i ha heavy rain for the part of the morning rush. More showers coming especially sunday afternoon. A chance of left over showers. Most of that day should be dry. That day is fairly warm as well. So we can get really chilly nasty weather this early in the season. This really isnt that bad. All things considered. I feel like we had a memorial day. It took about four and a half hours. Stay home and go to philly pops concert instead. That will do it for us. My girlfriend loves artists. To be unique. 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