Vine is open. Not worrying about the construction. And also watching in upper moreland for a crash on county line road around newtown road. Katie, back to you. Fourth straight day of heavy rain is expected in houston. The death toll from harvey is at least three. Could be nine right now. President trump will tour the coast in Corpus Christi where harvey first made land fall as a hurricane. Stretching the resources of response teams. Hundreds of volunteers using boats to save people from in the water and from rooftops. The death toll appeared to jump yesterday with news a van carrying this elderly couple and grandchildren was swept away by floodwaters officials have not confirmed it. When it comes to search and rescue; just about any vehicle that can cut through high water is being utilized. These guys are heros to me. Were no heros or anything. Just here to help people. Tens of thousands are filling area shelters. Including houstons Main Convention center. Mayor called it a total care operation. Houston emergency crews getting a much needed lifeline from anyone with a boat who is willing to help. We sent randy jillen hall to houston. And he saw firsthand how ordinary people are becoming heros. This is highway 290 leading into houston. We find this group of volunteers from usa texas heeding the call for help. Got word of a stranded neighborhood nearby in desperate need of supplies. Try to help as many people as we can. Get water to the people who dont want to leave. Houston has tons of friends and family here. Trying to do what we can. Piloting the boat, takes a right turn at the underwater traffic sign. Current picks up and motor boat chugs along. Pass by the underpass, traffic lights are consumed bid water and on to a highway onramp and suddenly see poking out of the flood the top of somebody east car. You can see this highway taking cars all the way under water. Trying to get to a neighborhood where a number of people are stranded. A lot of people trying to get here. A warning from other rescue teams the current is too strong. Another boat up ahead just flipped over. We turn back. Disappointed theyre not going to stop here. Theyll try another route into the night trying to save anyone they can as rain keeps falling for the fourth straight day in houston. Randy jillen haul, nbc 10 newgy its never been this bad. Never been flooded in my neighborhood. I had no idea we would not be able to get back. The family is looking on the bright side. So far theyve heard a few, if any, injuries in their hometown. Here at home local response to the disaster zone in texas keeps flowing. Yesterday the Salvation Army in philadelphia sent first of crews to the flood zone. Spoke with bob mires that directs Disaster Services for the local chapter. The crew headed for texas will focus on emotional and spiritual health. Whatever we can do in the early days and help someone emotionally and not just physically, steer through the crisis that just unfolded in their life. The better off in the longterm. Like the american reds v rcr and other relief organizations they are urging you to make a donation. More volunteers in an Emergency Response truck will depart Center City Philadelphia for a flood zone later this morning. The local red cross has committed a dozen volunteers and three trucks to the relief effort. Working with other churches here and across the country to raise money and supplies for harvey victims. Think how you would feel if you woke on the schuylkill until your living room. What you want people from around your country to do for you. Right now collecting donations to directly help victims rebuild sg. Nbc 10 and telemundo with host a relief drive. You will be able to call, text, or log on online and donate money to aide the people affected by harvey. Provide updates online and social Media Network throughout the day. Count on continuing coverage of Tropical Storm harvey. Tell you what President Trump has to say about the Emergency Response happening there. Plus hear from the people who survived Hurricane Sandy and now living through harveys devastation. Stay with nbc 10 online and on air. Log on the app to see pictures of houston before and after this historic flooding. Get instant alerts sent to your phone. We are facing our own Weather Threat today. Nbc 10 issued a first alert as the storm gets set to bring heavy rain and wind to the jersey and delaware shore. Nbc 10 joins us live in ocean city maryland. Said to feel the impact of the storm soon. Youre with storm ranger helping track the storm, tell us what youre seeing. , right, right now still waiting for the storm to approach the area. Light mist in the air at the moment. The rain is moving in our direction right now. Bring storm ranger down here. Own mobile radar set up and running so we will be able to track this storm as it moves into our area later on this morning. And into the day. Now, here on the peninsula and ocean city particularly where we are looking at two main issues, strong wind and rough surf. High wind watch in i feeffect t morning. Gusts to 50mileperhour. The Ocean City Beach patrol has taken down life guard stands so they dont blow way and the other issue a rough surf. High surf advisory from maryland all the way to delaware beaches and up the jersey shore. The National Weather service high risk of rip currents to at least early tomorrow. What the storm could do if it becomes Tropical Storm irma, we are waiting to see. Ocean city police says services are monitoring the storm. We will be out here monitoring it as well throughout the morning for you. For now, live in ocean city maryland. Matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Thanks for that. Check back in shortly. For now, bill henley. Hes been talking about this since yesterday. That storm tracking it headed our way. Bill . Starting to see the surf kick up at the jersey shore. View from avalon this morning. Surf is going to be rough and matt mentioned the rip current risk will remain high today. First showers in south jersey. See them approaching vineland. No heavy rain. Light showers for cape may. Few spots moderate shower in central delaware and southern delaware. Most of this is well to the south. Going to be moving into the area today. Now, this morning, it looks less likely its going to become a Tropical Storm. Still going to feel the effects from this system. Gusty winds along the coast and some potentially heavy rainfall and thats for much of the day today and delaware and south jersey and stretch into the rest of the area too. Heres our hour by hour forecast and 8 00 this morning. See the showers just started to move into wilmington. Maybe a few sprinkles in philadelphia, but steady rainfall for most of delaware. Few scattered showers at the 8 00 hour in south jersey. Not bad. The wind will be increasing even without the rain. Get heavier downpours at 11 30. Approaching the jersey shore and then right on through the afternoon the rain in delaware and south jersey. Some of it reaching into philadelphia. Now, the further to the north, going to have a tough time using your umbrella all day long. Well get nice breaks in the showers, but the potential for heavy rainfall will continue into the evening hours. 8 00 this evening and starts pulling away overnight tonight. And winds will be lessening as well. By tomorrow morning, we will be dry. Today is the day for first alert tropical affect. During the day today and into the evening. Saw in the hour by hour forecast. High winds and high surf and heavy rain will be felt along the coast. Take a look at the wind aspect of this when i come back in just a few minutes. Thank you. See you then. 11 minutes past 4 00. Tuesday morning. Lets get you to work. Jessica boyington standing by with a look at that. Possibly krurks construction at hour. We have construction from 30th street up to blue route east and westbound side. Right now checking out some construction around belmont avenue. Looks like the camera is frozen. Cones in place. Losing lane there is too. There is the eastbound side. Theres also construction on the westbound side. Once you get to city line avenue, you start to pass that there. We had earlier construction that look likes its starting to clear around girard. East and west drive times still okay. Crash in upper moreland. Watch for this around county line road. 422 looks good. Everything still green. Eight minutes on the eastbound side from schuylkill. End here on 295. Just around route 30. 295 up here. White horse pike down there. No big problems or delays. Katy, back to you. New insight into a local fathers decision to plead guilty toll his fathers death. The deal he made and what he says about the night the child died. Tradie ining a fan favorite how fans are reacting this morning. V. Rescue from harvey. Animals caught in the storm are finding a new home in north jersey. Animals caught in the s finding a new home in north jersey. male 1 its a Little Something ive done every night since i was a kid, empty my pocket change into this old jar. Its never much, just whats left after i break a dollar. And i never thought i could get quality Life Insurance with my spare change. Neither did i. Until i saw a commercial for the Colonial Penn program. Imagine people our age getting Life Insurance at such an affordable rate. Its true. If youre 50 to 85, you can get guaranteed acceptance Life Insurance through the Colonial Penn program for less than 35 cents a day, just 9. 95 a month. Theres no medical exam and no health questions. 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The manhole cover has been replaced and streets are reopen. Somerdale is expected to have cars back working. Think this guy slashed the tires on all patrol cars. 52 tires deflated. Repair clue crews worked around the clock to get the fleet back on the street. Why a south jersey father made an unexpected guilty plea in the death of his son. Onli only nbc 10 spoke with his attorney. He admitted his recklessness caused the death, but attorney maintains still does not really know what happened the night the child died. I believe him sincere in his wondering what happened and his desire to find out what happened. Im not convinced he did what the prosecution says that he did in the trial. Which is suffocating. Right. He will be sentenced september 29. He could spend six years behind bars with time served. 4 17. Several homeowners are telling sunoco clean up your mess. Put you are sandbag structures after a drilling spill this summer. Sandbags are still there. Bags arent just an eyesore, but hazard. Homeowner Christina Johnson says its kept away people who fish in that section of the creek. When you have a company thats telling you that theyre safe and theyre careful and they take care of things and this is what happens before the pipeline goes in, its a major concern. A spokesperson from sunoco says the sandbag structures have remained in the area in anticipation of the restart of construction. Well continue to work to minimize any impact to chester creek. Sunoco has said the drilling spill is not toxic. In pittsburgh for the First Time Since september 11 attack. People without plane ticketed will be able to go right to the airport gate. Security change begins next week at Pittsburgh International airport. First airport in the country to let visitors close to the shops and terminal gates. Tsa testing the program in pittsburgh only. Not clear in other airports will eventually make the change. 4 18 this morning. Temperatures similar to yesterday. Cool and watching the rain bill told us about yesterday. Now its inching closer. Find out the timing for everyone. Walk out now, feels comfortable. Temperatures are solo. Here, start to see the change were starting to see already. Wind is starting to pick up first above building level. Eventually going to make it down to the ground. Wind at the ground are rather light now. That changes during the day. Well see steady winds of 18 miles an hour in philadelphia. 25 mile an hour winds in wildwood. The gusts at the shore, winds 3545 miles an hour. Thats as the system comes up from the south, which could still become a Tropical Storm. Really looks less likely today, but were still going to see the effects from that. That includes a continuing high risk for rip current today. Dangerous and potentially life threatening. Rain coming in less likely the average swimmer is going to be out and about, but be careful and use caution. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s. With the rain coming in, not much of a warmup today. 66 in tars dale. Youll need your umbrella today. Look at the rain to the south. Continues in virginia and the carolinas. Still plenty of moisture offshore. This one is with us all day today. Completely separate from harvey. Still spinning tremendous moisture into the houston area and louisiana. May have some of that moisture over the holiday weekend. Not today. Rain tomorrow and drying out for our area. Heavy downpours for houston, those will continue during the day today. That will slowly ease out of that area come thursday. For today, heres a look at your rainfall totals. 9 00 this morning. Just some light showers in the area by 9 00. Not a lot of rain this morning. Really get started as we go flu the day. 3 00 in the afternoon and thats when well see heavier downpours. 7 00 this evening approaching an inch in parts of south jersey. By tomorrow morning, when this one is pulling away from us, 10 30 tomorrow morning will be drying out. 10 30 in the night. Looks like more than an inch possible in avalon and egg harbor. 4 21. Lets get you to work on this tuesday morning. Start with a look at 42. Jessica boyington standing by with a look at that. Flashing lights behind you. Watching the 42 freeway around the Atlantic City expressway. Does look like we have flashing lights. Maybe a construction vehicle moving out of the way or so. Not blocking any of the roads. Heres the southbound side. Moving down the expressway. Looks like he went towards the black horse pike and northbound side with no problems right now. Watching a crash on upper moreland. A disabled vehicle popped into our system here. Out in limerick. And also still trying to watch some of this construction around the schuylkill expressway. Were finding scattered spots. Still with lane restriction looks like they might have pulled some of this up. Around belmont, we had cones in the center lanes. Still watch for some of that construction around city line avenue. Some near the vine street expressway area. The vine street expressway is open too. Good news there. Counting the days. Nbc smash hit this is us comes back september 26. Right now, you have a chance to see the show live in los angeles. Heres the deal. Nbc 10 teaming up with 933. Giving away two tickets to the shows taping in la. Also giving away daily prizes this week. Shoot a video telling us what the show means to you. Upload it under contest. Deadline the this friday. Winner announced later an friday. The path of a missile, north korea causes a scare above japan. The panic it triggered. Nones on the run. Two women caught on camera holding up a bank. Its what they are wearing that is causing so much attention. Jumping in to help. What a brewery is doing to give back to those impacted by Tropical Storm harvey. Allnew, whats lurking in the water. Health hazard beneath the surface of the houston flood. Expected to see a lot more of this with more rain pouring down. Clean waters on the way. Makers of budweiser have stopped beer production to pump out clean water. Shutdown beer production so it could produce cans of clean drinking water. Company is sending more than 150,000 cans of that water to the flood zone. New this morning, one of the few countries that has a working relationship with north korea says pyongyang needs to stand down. Indonesia is the latest country to condemn yesterdays Ballistic Missile test. Look at the path of the missile. Flew over the northern japanese island of hokkaido. Japans prime minster called the act a significant threat. Even triggered alarms in major cities. Pentagon is still in the process of assessing that launch. President trump yesterday rolled back an obama era policy that banned Police Department from using surplus military vehicles and equipment. Practice was first stopped that the vehicles were unnecessarily intimidating to crowds. Nbc 10 reported on the issue in 2014. What location departments had in their arsenal. War wick says the equipment is needed. We took possession to continue to protect the community. To protect the community, protect the Police Officers who are trying to protect the community. According to the defense department, no local department has more surplus military gear than the philadelphia Police Department. Rising waters trap people and a storm that continues to bring devastation. We continue to follow the impact from Tropical Storm harvey as it brings more rain to the already ravaged houston area and President Trump is set to arrive there in just hours. Temperatures in the 60s. Rain has just started to move in to cape may. Thats the first of the potentially heavy rain during the day today. Thats just light shower activity now. The wind picks up and rain will be coming down. We issued a first alert for the jersey shore and delaware beaches. Your neighborhood forecast is just ahead, but first, Jessica Boyington is in your first alert traffic center. Watching the vine street expressway moving through center city. Good news to report again. Right around 24th street. Were open. Both directions there, but thats not all the construction we have to worry about today. Highlight some of those spots after we come back. nnynnncwcwnwnwnww . Qoowvoo rain and wind on the way. Nbc 10 issued first alert. Storm gets set to impact jersey and the shore. Helicopters rushing in to save people trapped in the floodwaters. Heading to texas, visit the