Time headed southbound from woodhaven road up toward the vine street expressway. These are the southbound lanes right in here. The accident was here a moment ago. Police got on the scene, cleared it out of the way. Now we have residual delays there. Now that were moving into rush hour, i dont see it clearing out of the way anytime soon. Well probably add 10 to 15 minutes to the commute just to start. A fuel spill in Chester County on gap newport pike and north guernsey road. 422, still looking okay. An eightminute trip. Everything is green, eastbound from 29 up towards the schuylkill expressway. Currently no problems or delays so far for mass transit. Well have more updates for you for the philadelphia majors to come. Vai . Thank you, jessica. Now lets get back to the heat. As you heard bill say earlier, it will be hot and humid today. Because of the weather, some schools are dismissing classes early. Matt delucia is live in the philadelphia neighborhood of tacony where a charter still will let out at noon. Good morning, matt. Good morning, vai. Its warm and muggy already. Only going to get worse as we get throughout the day. Several schools are closing early because of the heat. The problem is you have a lot of schools in the area that have older buildings and they dont have air conditioning. Those rooms can get very hot. The safety issue is in play here. As bill said, the temperatures are expected to get into the 90s again. We could have a heat wave and the feelslike temperature could be hotter than that. Hot weather comes just as many schools are opening up this week. That includes philadelphia schools which started yesterday. Right now philadelphia schools are scheduled for a regular, normal day. We have been reaching out to them to see if thats going to change. As of right now it is still on schedule for a regular day. But lets get to the list of schools that are closing early. The list right here, Trenton Public Schools and Trenton Catholic academy. Closing early today. Hamilton township schools in new jersey, they are having an early dismissal as well. The Keystone AcademyCharter School, thats where we are right now here in philadelphia, also closing early. Philadelphia schools as we mentioned still operate on a normal schedule right now. You have all these schools that are starring this week and you have kids going into the classrooms, a lot of the schools are updated, theyre modern, they have air condition. Those that do not, thats where you have to be worried. Right now its not too bad. Warm and muggy. As those temperatures rise, that situation could change rapidly. Now live in the tacony section of philadelphia, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. 6 03. A Philadelphia Traffic Court judge acquitted in a ticket fixing scandal faces a new legal challenge. Federal prosecutors charged Michael Sullivan in a Tax Evasion Case involving a restaurant he own. If convicted he could get up to a year in jail. He and five colleagues were charged in a ticket fixing scheme. Four of the junes were convicted of lying to authorities. Sullivan was not one of them. First criminal charges, now theres a push to suspend the law license of Pennsylvania Attorney general kathleen ckan. The states Attorney Ethics Office is calling for the state Supreme Court to suspend kanes law license, arguing a conflict of interest. Kane faces charges for allegedly leaking information from a grand jury probe and lying under oath. We have reached out to kane for comment. Shes not responded to our latest attempts. She has denied wrong doing in the past. A man who helped homeless addicts in camden get drug treatment is accused of running an operation that sold heroin and crack cocaine. Harold miller was a Program Coordinator at josephs house, a homeless shelter. He was charged with drug conspiracy in a federal indictment last week. The shelters director says miller no longer works there. Happening today, the murder case against a woman accused of kidnapping and enslaving mentally disabled people in philadelphias tacony neighborhood will be in court. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is live in front of the federal courthouse in philadelphia with more. Monique, tell us. Reporter hi, tracy. A federal Court Spokesperson told us that linda weston will be appearing here in federal court in just a couple of hours for whats being called a change of plea hearing. Weston pleaded not guilty last year to kidnapping mentally disabled adults and holding them while stealing Social Security and other government benefit checks. You may recall the shocking discovery of four adults found chained inside the basement of a tacony Apartment Building in 2011. The conditions were atrocious. Some were attached to a boiler pipe. During the investigation, it was revealed weston and her codefendant allegedly moved those adults to texas, virginia and florida wrenn she thought authority were on to her. The victims told police they were also beaten. One had children while being held captive. Weston was also charged with murder and discussions are under way in several states, including the u. S. Attorneys office regarding the federal death penalty, seeking that in a statute. Well let you no he what happens when she appears in federal court today. Live outside the federal courthouse, Monique Braxton, nbc 10 news. And this morning, were learning more about the taxi cab crash that killed two people that came to philadelphia for the made in america festival. Police say the cab driver likely had a green light. This all happened early monday morning in center city. Witnesses say the driver hit the couple as they were crossing broad street at arch. Theyre trying to confirm how fast the driver was again at the time of the crash. Amanda digirolomo died as well as her friend. The company ceo di, united ceo resigned. The feds are looking into whether the airline tried to influence the Port Authority of new york and new jersey by creating a special flight between newark and an airplane near the South Carolina home of david sampson. Investigation sprung from the socalled bridgegate scandal that allegedly involved christies allies ordering lane closures on the George Washington bridge as political pay back. Parts of the fire burning in woodland and manchester townships. Crews continue to strengthen and monitor the fire lines until they get enough rain to extinguish the flames. Health officials are urging people with breathing problems to stay inside. I justc came from the store. And everybody was saying go back in. Its much nicer in the store, in the food store with the air conditioning. Dont come out. Its awful air. No homes have been threatened and no injuries reported. Officials say the fire will continue burning until a significant amount of rain moves into the area. It is 6 08. Funeral services happening tad for the Philadelphia Police officer who was killed in offduty hit and run crash last month. A view for officer lamar poole is scheduled at First District plaza at 9 00 this morning followed by services at 11 00. Police say poole was riding his motorcycle in Oxford Circle august 30th. Thats when they say louis vogwell hit and killed officer poole and then took f÷k4jy a tow truck driver followed him and boxed him in until police got there. Hes now charged with murder. Now your first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 6 08. About half an hour away from sunrise. On our way to another heat wave. Hot and humid, back into the 90s this afternoon. Rain, we need it. We will get it. Heavy rainfall due in tomorrow will drop the temperatures as we head towards the weekend. Right now, this is about as cool as its going to get. 68 degrees in the pocono mountains, 70s for northeast philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mount pocono is 67, this is the view from the french manor, a few scattered clouds. No sign of wet weather yet but thats a possibility this afternoon. Humid already higher. Look at that in philadelphia. 91 . 100 humidity in dover. A steamy start. Satellite shows a few high clouds to the west. Its this afternoon as the heat builds that we could see scattered showers. At noontime, maybe a sprinkle in the Atlantic City area. Good chance that that wont happen. As we go into the afternoon hours, well get breaks in the clouds. Thats 2 00 in the afternoon. Well be in the 90s then. With the heat building during the day, spotty showers and possibly some thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours. Then heavy rain, thats due in for tomorrow. If youre heading out today, stand by for another hot one. Fleetwood, 92. 91 in pennsburg, camel back tops out at 87 degrees today. Low 90s for new hope, morristown, bordentown, all up to 93 with scattered showers later today. Not at the shore. It should stay dry for most areas. Ventnor city, cape may, rehoboth, 85 degrees this afternoon. But its back into the 90s for malvern, wilmington and woodstown this afternoon. Steamy today, then the rain comes in and that will drop the temperatures for the weekend. Things are looking much cooler, more comfortable, too. Saturday 83 degrees. Then a scattered shower is possible on saturday, up to 78. Full sevenday forecast when im back in ten minutes. Well see you then, bill. 6 10 this wednesday morning. Come to the tv right now so you get an idea of your drive times and trouble spots. Especially if you take the schuylkill expressway. Jessica boyington is watching that. We are watching the schuylkill right now but we still have good news. Were not seeing much of a backup yet, whether youre going east or westbound. These are our cameras looking live around belmont avenue. We have a 13minute drive time. Still, if youre heading into the Center City Area from the blue route up to the vine street expressway. No problems there. We have an accident out in Chester County, involving two tractortrailers and a fuel swale at north guernsey pikec d Chester County gap newport pike. We have a 22minute trip eastbound or westbound from route 1 up towards valley forge. Thanks. 6 11. A bit of luck and observant lower merion Police Officer rescued a man trapped in his car close to ten hours after he crashed. Well tell you what the officer heard that may have saved a mans life. Today is the day many apple lovers dream about. The unveiling of new apple products. We have the skin know on tny on announcement. We live in a pick choose, choose, choose. But at bedtime . Why settle for this . Enter sleep number. Right now all beds on sale Sleepiq Technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. You like the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. So your sleep goes from good to great to wow only at a sleep number store. Dont miss the final days of the biggest sale of the year with the c2 Queen Mattress just 599. 99. Ends sunday know better sleep with sleep number. 6 15. Were expected to learn ]ore about the plane crash that killed Philadelphia Inquirer coowner louis katz. Katz and six others died when the jet overran the runway and crashed into massachusetts in may of last year. A preliminary report suggests the crew did not do a complete safety check before takeoff. New information about plans to repair the p. A. T. H. Trains in north jersey. They are getting 6 million in grants to make repairs from hurricane sandy. Some will be used for flood barriers and concrete walls. Happening today, Athletic League officials in texas are set to meet and investigate the two actions the actions rather of two High School Football players accused of assaulting a referee during a game that happened last week. Two students from John Jay High School in san antonio tackled the ref during a play at the end of last weeks game. The school suspended the students from the team and placed an assistant coach linked to the incident on administrative leave. The players allege racial slurs were directed at them by the umpire. The students allege that an assistant coach said, that guy needs to pay for cheating us. School officials call the incident shameful but said the football season will not be canceled. We expect to hear more today about a tentative settlement that would pay the parents of freddie gray 6. 4 million. The city of baltimore says it has agreed to pay that amount to settle all claims surrounding his death. He died from a spinal cord injury suffered in Police Custody in april. His death led to the arrest of six officers. The city board that oversees spending has to approve the settlement and it meets today. Macys will close up to 40 stores early next year because of slow sales. They did not specify which stores will close. Employees will be offered positions at nearby locations and those laid off will be offered severanoffer ed perchs severance packages. New apple products will be introduced today. Well watch the event and tell you about apples new gadgets on nbc 10 news this morning. Siri is everywhere. 6 18. Lets check your ride to work, the vine street expressway. Lets check in with Jessica Boyington and the first alert for traffic center. We are starting to see a little bit of volume that were not used to this at time on the vine street expressway around 24th street. If youre in this righthand lane, heading towards 30th street station, that might be what this traffic is from. We still have a threeminute drive time in total from 95 up towards that point. The eastbound lanes doing just fine heading towards 95. We did have an earlier accident scene on the southbound side. It is cleared and out of the way. We have residual delays that we cant quite recover from it. From woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway, were out to a 31minute trip. Youre at least already right off the bat going to add 15 minutes 20 your commute this morning. Watch out for an saturday scene in Chester County involving two tractortrailers and a few spill at north pikec and guernsey ro, where they meet. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 19 minutes after 6 00. Getting a better view as we get closer to sunrise. The clouds are starting off over center city. No rain with these clouds. It would be nice if these clouds stayed over us. Wed stay cooler today. I expect the clouds will clear. Its a warmer and muggier start. Look at the humidity, 91 . The temperatures 76 degrees right now. A few breaks in the clouds in the pocono mountains. This is a view from camel beach. Once the fog come s sun co up, the fog will distate. This line of showers to our west moves into the area. Well see the first showers pop up this afternoon. Futurecast showing 4 00 this afternoon, isolated downpours. Those could produce heavy rainfall in the area. 5 00 this afternoon, a few spots on the radar screen. Mainly quiet this evening but by tomorrow morning, the clouds are building into the area. You can see that line of showers just to the west due in tomorrow afternoon with heavier rainfall. Today, the clouds will be thinning out, hot and humid. Scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and back into the 90s today. But well be nowhere near the 90s, thanks to the rain. We need the rain. Were down by inches over the last couple months. 81 degrees the High Temperature tomorrow with showers and thunderstorms. We could see one or two inches of rain tomorrow and isolated areas could even see more than that. By friday, it will be drying out. The temperatures stay lower for friday, saturday, sunday even cooler, 78 degrees. Theres a chance well see scattered shower on sunday, then clearing out for monday and tuesday. So nice and comfortable highs in the 70s and low 80s. Beautiful, thanks, bill. 6 21. Out of jail and soon back to work. The kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples gets a heros welcome after being released from jail. Shes making it clear that her fight against samesex marriage is far from over. An a Delaware County family trying to help two stray dogs has their family pet mauled to death. A Montgomery County man was trapped for hours after his car plunged off an embankment in lower merion township on monday. This was the scene at grays lane and millcreek road. The driver says he lost control and went off the road and through a dense patch of trees and into trout creek. That happened nine hours before a Police Officer unknowingly approached the scene. He was greeted by the victims cries for help. He lost his car in there at 7 00 p. M. And nobody saw him until that Police Officer heard him. If that Police Officer wasnt coming by, im sure he could have been in there for another day until somebody saw him. Rescue crews are calling this a miracle since the victim was trapped inside the car out of plain sight from the road above it. The victim is expected to make a full recovery. Im Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Were doing okay but were seeing more jams than normal with everyone back to work and back to school. On the blue route right now, right around 320 where you can see taillights are having brake lights. We will check in with the schuylkill expressway and 95 and where thats jamming up. Lets get a check on todays steamy forecast with meteorologist bill henley. Cloudy, too, at least to start with. Look at that view from center city looking past the comcast center. Low clouds starting things off. Sunshine will break through the clouds. Well be back into the 90s this afternoon. Right now its 74 degrees at 6 26. And 90s will happen early this afternoon. But cooler weather is on the way with muchneeded rain. Well go through the forecast hour by hour, just ahead. Preparing for the pope means getting out of town for some or being ready for slowdowns. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live in radnor to explain. Hi, katy. Vai, here in radnor township they are expecting traffic congestion,c detours, delays, u name it. Starting in just about an hour, police will be putting forth their plan for keeping the Community Safe during the papal visit. Damage control. Theres a shakeup on the president ial campaign trail and it has democratic candidate Hillary Clinton issuing an apology. This is nbc 10 news. Preparing for the pope. Today people hoping to score tickets to see the pope will have another opportunity to get those tickets. And for those outside of philadelphia hoping to steer clear of all the papal activity theyre getting help from their community officials. c and get ready for another hot and humid day. You can see it there. Over center city. Changes are on the way and youll start to see them a little bit later on today. Good morning and welcome to nbc 10 news today. Im vai sikahema. Im tracy davidson. 6 30. Lets get right to meteorologist bill henley with his steamy, first alert forecast. Bill . The steaminess is with us. Clouds will break, well get sunshine and the temperatures that are warm to start with, well get hot again this afternoon. Day three into the 90s. Its our sixth heat wave the season and should be the last one. Temperatures will be coming down considerably over the next couple days. The clouds are starting to break. This is a live view from here at the nbc 10 studios. We will see sunshine, to send our temperatures into the upper 70s by 8 00. Middle 80s with sunny skies. Clouds start to build during the heat and humidity of the afternoon. 91 degrees at 2 00, i expect it it go hotter than that in some areas. Well go through the forecast neighborhood by neighborhood to show you when thats going to happen when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has first alert traffic. We just want to watch out if youre in new jersey today. More specifically in pennsauken township where we have that water main break on route 130 southbound at route 90 with the right lane closed. Expect volume around that area. Other wide in new jersey, were in camden on the admiral wilson boulevard around 676. All these cars are headed up towards the toll palaceza. You can see it right back in here. Headed towards the ben franklin bridge. No delay yet but as you hit the toll plaza, more traffic heading over into the city. Other than that the rest of the bridges are doing just fine. Lansdale, accident on east main street and greenwood road. The rest of the majors, were starting to be slow across the board. The schuylkill expressway, 19minute trip. Were almost adding 6 to 7 minutes eastbound in the Center City Area. 36 minutes on 95 southbound from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. We had an earlier accident around allegheny and we havent quite recovered, including all that rush hour, youre adding a half hour on to your trip. Vai . Thank you, jessica. We are, of course, preparing for the pope. Today youll have two more chances to get a tech tote see the pope. The first 10,000 tickets for the festival of families will be available at 4 00 this afternoon and 8 00 tonight you can logon to try to get a ticket for sends mass on the parkway. Tickets for the popes saturday speech at Independence Hall on september 26th went online at noon yesterday and by 12 02 you were out of luck. 394,000 people visited the world meeting of families website at noon. If you didnt get a ticket to that event, thousands of other tickets are being given to parishes with large immigrant populations. The popes speech that day will focus on immigration issues and religious freedom. Just as fast as the tickets sold out sold out, they were free. Minutes later we found several people posting their tickets on ebay and craigslist for as low as 100 bucks but as high as 1,000 a ticket. People who live outside philadelphia are also preparing for the pope. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live in radnor township. Its expected a lot is going to change here in radnor township. For starters they have one of the few septa Regional Rail stations that will be running the weekend of the papal cvisi. On top of that they have a trolley stop that will be operating. Theyre expecting crowds upon crowds of extra people here. Businesses are concerned. Schools are concerned. Radnor Township Police have gotten an influx of calls wondering about traffic congestion, delays and detours during the papal visit. Today, starting this morning at 7 30 theyre offering several Public Meetings to announce their plan for that last weekend in september. Theyll also be using their Emergency Operations center which is separate from the 911 dispatch center. It acts as support for the extra officers who will be in the field trouble shooting problems. You should see double the police presence. Youll see heavy presence of our public works division. Officers will be on traffic posts. We want to get you to and from efficiently but safely. And im hearing from some businesses located in the area. They are concern because their employees, many of them who travel from philadelphia into radnor township are not able to take Public Transportation that weekend, a weekend when they are expecting an influx of customers that are going to be short staffed. That first meeting at the police department, the community center, begins at 7 30 and there are two others scheduled throughout the day. Reporting live in radnor township, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Officials will hold a Ribbon Cutting ceremony to mark the grand opening of the official world meeting of families merchandise popup shop. Its in the aramark tower lobby in center city. It will sell tshirts, hats, rosaries and prayer cards. Here are three things you can find on the nbc 10 website an our nbc 10 news app right now. We posted a map showing you where the new septa stops are in relation to the papal event. Well also show you where there are jumbotrons being placed around the city. We also have a list of items that will not be allowed in certain areas. This Delaware County family claims animal control made them keep a stray dog that later attacked and killed their family dog. The agency is now under investigation. The family says they founded it a stray rottweiler and took it home. When animal control arrived, the family says officers showed them a second dog believed to be related to the other stray and forced them to keep the second dog overnight. The family says both dogs attacked and killed their pet louie. Attorneys for animal control say the family was warned and officers offered to introduce the dogs to avoid an issue. It does not appear as they Delaware County animal control did anything other than act carefully, consistently and in a caring manner. Now, the Chester County spca stopped taking animals from Delaware County animal control. Animal control is now suing the shelters saying it conspired to put them out of business. 6 37. Happening today, were watching to see if the kentucky clerk at the center of a samesex marriage fight heads back to work. This is kim davis as she was released from jail tuesday to the sounds of the rocky theme song eye of tiger. A judge orred her jailed since thursday for defying a court order to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. The judge released her because her deputy clerk started issuing licenses. She thanked her supporters. I just want to give god the glory. His people have rallied and you are a strong people republican president ial candidate ted cruz and Mike Huckabee were among those who showed up to rally behind davis. She says shell be back at work thiweek but its not clear when or if she will start issuing marriage licenses when she does. In decision 2016 today republican president ial candidate jeb bush will begin rolling out his First Television ads. We have an important choice to make about the direction of our country. You want the Bush Campaign says it will spend 500,000 for broadcast and cable ads that target New Hampshire voters this comes as a number of polls show the former Florida Governor slipping in the fight for the gop president ial nomination. On the democratic side, Hillary Clinton now shes she is sorry about the email controversy. Clinton apologized for using a private server. She says she should have used separate accounts for work and personal business. That was a mistake. Im sorry about that. I take responsibility. Clinton is now showing her lighter side on the campaign trail. Shell be on the ellen show tomorrow and will appear on the tonight show with jimmy fallon next week. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Its a steamy start this morning. Clouds have moved in overnight. Low cloudiness will not last all day. Well see the clouds break. It will be another hot afternoon, hot and humid, back into the 90s for day three. A heat wave will break with heavy rainfall for tomorrow. We could see some muchneeded rainfall but its really going to be coming down, one, two inches possible. Some areas might see a little bit more of that. Then it turns cooler in the wake of that rainfall. Temperatures are cooler within 72 degrees in reading. Philadelphia with the clouds, 76. Cape may already seeing sunshine at 73 degrees. Look how nice and clear it is, the sun just starting to come up right now. Completely dry on beach avenue. It will likely stay dry at the shore. Inland we could see spotty showers and thunderstorms later in the day. We will see all day long is a muggier start. In fact, humidity is even higher this morning than yesterday. 97 for pottstown and mount holly, dover at 100 humidity. A few scattered clouds to the west. Those clouds will be increasing this afternoon. The cloudiness to the west, thats the rainmaker. But before that moves in, you will feel the mugginess through the day today. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast calling for another hot one for bethlehem, pennsburg, fleetwood, all into the 90s. Some scattered showers possible in new hope, bordentown, souderton at 91 this afternoon. Should be shower free for rehoboth, ventnor city, 90s in millville and low 90s for wilmington, malvern and woodstown. The temperatures nowhere near the 90s, 83 on saturday. Cooler on sunday with a chance of some showers. Sevenday forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Well see you then, bill. 20 minutes before 7 00. A minute ago i was looking at jessicas monitor. Lets check. We still are seeing major delays. We just had a disabled vehicle right here on 95 around cottman avenue. It just pulled out of the way. We still are stuck with a 38minute drive time from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. Thats typically about a 12minute trip. Youre automatically going to took on 20 to 25 minutes right off the bat for your morning commute. Lansdale, watch out for an accident scene on east main street and greenwood road. An accident involving two tractortrailers now a big cleanup with fuel spill in the area and slippery conditions, reports of that out in Chester County on gap newport pike and north guernsey road. Mass transit, currently no delays or problemsc this morni. Well have another update in the next ten minutes. Vai . Thank you, jessica. Up in flames. You look out the left window you see smoke, you look out the right window, you see smoke. Thats pretty scary stuff. A plane catches fire on a runway just before takeoff. Ahead, well hear from passengers who had to run for their lives. 6 45. Philly native kevin hart is taking his comedy act to the shore. Fresh off last months soldout show at the linc, hec announce plans for a new years eve stop at city hall. Tickets go on sale sat noon. The preliminary competition for the miss America Pageant continues today in Atlantic City. We also learned a familiar face has returned to the pageant. Vanessa williams is serving as head judge. You might call she won the tight until 1984, becoming the first black miss america but she resigned after a nude photo scandal. The winner of this years miss America Pageant will be crowned sunday night in boardwalk hall. 13 people were injured when this British Airways jet caught fire the aa las vegas airport yesterday. We have new pictures this morning showing a huge hole in the side of the jet. The takeoff was aborted. Cell phone video shows the smoking plane off in the distance. 159 passengers and 13 crew members had to be evacuated. The plane was headed to london. Everybody was trying to help other people. Everybody that got off before me, as soon as they hit the tarmac, they just sprinted. Because behind us are giant flames. The 13 people injured are all expected to be okay. An investigation into what caused the fire continues. Police near atlanta released a 911 call made by a mother as she says her two sons tried to kill her and her husband. Take a listen. Please send someone to my house. My children are trying to kill me. Just before 8 00 saturday morning, Yvonne Irving huddled in her upstairs bedroom to call for help. She tells a dispatcher that her sons drugged them. They are trying to strangle us and shoot us. They put xanax in our food. They tried to attack us. They beat me up, they beat him up. Theyre trying to kill us. Investigators reported a strong smell of gas when they arrived, a sign they say that the brothers planned to burn down the house. 17yearold Cameron Irving and 22yearold Christopher Irving had been charged with two counts of aggravated assault and two counts of first degree arson. We are now just two days away from the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9 11. Homeland security is looking at what weve learned since the tragedy and how to prepare for the next threat. Members held a hearing at the 911 memorial and museum in new york city yesterday. The Police Commissioner said we now face a greater likelihood of attack than we have in years. He says al qaeda continues to plot major attacks from overseas while isis leaders continue to use social media to encourage lone wolf strikes. Some of the president ial candidates will take sides over the battle in the iran nuclear agreement. Ted cruz and donald trump are expected to back those opposed to the deal. And several more democratic lawmakers came out in favor of the deal, giving the president enough votes to block a Senate Resolution of disapproval. Locally senator corey booker and chris carper and coons is behind the idea. Toomey and menendez are opposed to the idea. Vicki gardner is out of the hospital. Gardner was the woman being interviewed when a gunman shot and killed a reporter and photographer from a local tv station. Gardner was critically wounded but is expected to make a full recovery. Alison parker and adam ward were interviewing gardner live on the air at the time of the shootingc a former employee of wbdj took his own life. People living near this wildfire in Southern California are being forced to leave the area. The flames are within several hundred years of homes. The fire started yesterday and has already burned 80 acres in orange county. But is 70 contained. Officials are unsure how this fire started. Just about ten minutes before 7 00 right now. 74 degrees outside. President obama heads to michigan today to announce new funds for apprenticeships and to continue his push for Free Community college. The president will try to build on his proposal to make two years of Community College as universal as high school. A white house Progress Report released just within the last hour praises the Community College of philadelphias april anonsment that it would offer Free Community college to local graduating seniors from lowincome families. Theres a new dance class near ft. Worth, texas. We love this story. Put smiles on young girls faces. Take a look. Those 6yearolds are part of the wheelchair dance class. The little girls all have spina bifida. The class gives them the chance to let loose and have some fun without worrying about someone questioning their chair. We get to wear makeup. We wear this pretty mermaid stuff and we can dance. It was like so happy. So happy. You have nieces around that age, right . Yes. The girls wore those beautiful mermaid tails for their big recital number under the sea. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Very cute. Very cute. Listen, nine minutes before 7 00. Not so nice, the weather were starting off with. Very muggy and cloudy skies over, at least for now. There are breaks in the clouds. The skies are brightening up a little bit. Look at the humidity, 91 . Thats definitely higher than yesterday. The temperatures are warmer. Clouds over Citizens Bank park will break, well get sunshine into the 90s during the day. Its going to be a warm evening for baseball as the phillies take on the braves once again, 87 degrees. Very muggy to start with by later in the evening. Showers and thunderstorms are possible during the game. Isolated shower or thunderstorm but i dont think it is beginning to be lasting all that long. Theyll be popping up during the afternoon. Radar, nice and clear for now. To the west you can see the line of showers thats moving our way and that will bring us the potential for some heavy rainfall during the day. Scattered showers this afternoon. Thats 4 00 this afternoon. As we go into the evening hours, not a lot of activity. But come tomorrow, its a different story. Clouds building in the morning at 7 00 and you can see the line of showers to the north and west. That line will be developing and producing some heavy rainfall tomorrow afternoon. We do need the rain. Well finally get it. Hot, humid conditions with scattered afternoon showers and thunderstorms. Low 90s this afternoon. Come tomorrow, goodbye 90s. 81 the high with that steady rainfall. At times it will be heavy. 1 to 2 inches of rain is possible thursday. Friday, it will be drying out. Partly sunny, low 80s for friday and saturday. A bit cooler sunday with a chance of a shower. 78 degrees the High Temperature. Here comes sunshine with really comfortable weather, low humidity monday and tuesday. Terrific, bill. Thanks. Eight minutes before 7 00. If youre heading out the door, lets check the roads, including 42 which is usuallyc a busy ro. Were on the 42 freeway. This is our camera out in deptford, new jersey where were starting to see the increase in this drive time. Thats up quite a bit. So just past this point at 55 from the walt whitman bridge. It goes back beyond that. We have the northbound lanes headed toward philadelphia, possibly to 295 with a little bit of a jam. Accident involving two tractortrailers and a fuel spill. Be aware of the cleanup in Chester County on gap newport pike and north guernsey road. Mass transit, currently no problems for new Jersey Transit or patco but thorndale train 501 running 13 minutes late. And woodhaven road up to 676, a half hour delay. Some schools are closing early because of heat and humidity. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live with what students and parents need to know. Matt . Vai, the school year has just begun but some in our area are not taking any chances with the temperatures. Ill explain, next. Im katy zachry live in radnor township. Coming up, some of the communities outside of philadelphia that are going to ab effected by the papal visit. Well, today theyre starting to roll out their plan to keep people safe. Well highlight one of them, coming up. Im katy zachry live in radnor township this morning where police are expecting an influx of people here for the papal visit. Not only do they have a septa Regional Rail train that will be operating in and out of philadelphia, they also have a trolley line that will be operating. Radnor police want to minimize the effect that all of the extra crowds will have on the commune. So today there are three meetings to lay out the townships plan for traffic control, congestion and road closures. At each meeting they will talk about xroo security measures they are encouraging everyone to follow. Well be at the meeting and have the latest coming up on nbc 10 news at 11 00. Reporting live in radnor township, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. Im matt delucia in the tacony neighborhood. Another hot and muggy day . Store. Some schools are closing early because of that. Some of the older buildings dont have air conditioning. That can cause the buildings to become very hot. Hamilton township schools in new jersey and the Keystone AcademyCharter School hpd me are having an early dismissal as well. Well keep an eye on any other early dismissals for you as well. Live in the tacony section of philadelphia, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. And Jessica Boyington with your first alert traffic. Back to work, back to school. Were seeing jams pretty much everywhere. Were on the schuylkill expressway right now, right around city avenue. We have a 20minute drive time headed westbound into the king of prussia area. Give yourself extra time before you head out the door today. Its a muggy star at the bus stop, a warm one, too. 73 degrees in the suburbs. Bus stop time, 80 degrees in philadelphia. And climbing into the 90s this afternoon. Yes, here comes heat and humidity. Last day in the 90s, though, well get muchneeded rainfall. If not later today well get it tomorrow. That will be good. We need it. The today show is up next. Local update in 25 minutes. Always get up to the minute information with the nbc 10 news app. Have a great day. Good morning. Breaking overnight. Drama in las vegas. 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