Coast. As it inches closer to the east coast. The storm is already causing a major rip current danger on the delaware beaches and jersey shore. Heres a live look at avalon where you see its causing a powerful and dangerous surf. Lets look at the heavy surf in cape may yesterday. The last weekend of the summer. Officials urged people to just look at the water and not go in it. Meantime, people in ventner watched wave after powerful wave yesterday. The beach patrol warmed swimmers about rip currents, advising extreme caution. I spoke with a lifeguard to try to explain because, of course, they might seem to listen better to the lifeguard than their better. Its like really strong. When youre in there, you feel like youre going to fall over. Staying shallow or not going in at all were the best bets yesterday. Despite the warnings and precauti precautions, two swimmers got caught up yesterday. Two people rescued in wildwood. Keep track of hurricane jose any time you want with the nbc10 app, and get instant alerts on the storm sent right to your phone. In Montgomery County, teachers in the mefactin School District are on strike. That means no classes for 5,000 students. Emergency contract talks ended without a deal. Were told pragueets are was made on sal progress was made on salary districts. The union could not agree on how much teachers should pay for their health insurance. We not want anybody to think we dont care about the kids and the education that theyre going to get here. Our group is solidly together. Were all reeling from the shock of the whole message. We will be meeting as appropriate, and hopefully within the next week. Coming up at 4 30, well have reaction from parents who are scrambling to find care for their kids as teachers hit the picket line. This morning, Philadelphia Police are looking for a couple who robbed an 87yearold woman of her jewelry and knocked her to the ground. The womans daughter told nbc10 the pair knocked on her moms door in south philadelphia yesterday morning. They asked for directions before forcing their way inside and robbing her mom, even taking the wedding ring off her finger. Threw her down to the ground, assaulted her, held the gun to her neck and told her not to scream or they would kill her. The victim went to the hospital to get checked out. Shes expected to be physically okay. Today the Drug Enforcement agency will report around 600 grams of fentanyl found at a home in Oxford Circle as well as supplies to package heroin. The number of opioid deaths continue to rise. Public Health Officials are teaming one pharmacies and drugprevention advocates to ensure volunteer units have narcan. A drug that can stop an overdose as its happening. Until now, each department has had to pay for the drug out of pocket. Today the first commuter rush since the septa derailment at Spring Garden friday. One car on the marketfrankford line left the tracks. No one was seriously hurt. An equipment problem was blamed. This is the second septa derailment in a month. Earlier an accident at the 69th Transportation Center in upper darby. 30 people were hurt. The ntsb is investigating. Septa Maintenance Work will also close part of spruce street in University City starting today. Spruce street will be closed between 38th and 40th through september 29th. The detoured route in both directions will follow baltimore avenue. Heres a look at the detour signs up along spruce. The roadway will be closed. The sidewalks will stay open. Septas replacing trolley tracks in the area. Its 4 05. A video shows the huge smoke cloud that rose from a jersey shore house fire. This is the scene on 87th street in stone harbor. The fire erupted around 1 00 yesterday afternoon. Were told despite the home being ungelf engulfed in flames, it didnt take long to get under control. Nobody was hurt. The family of a Montgomery County woman killed by her estranged husband is working to open nicoles place in her honor. Her sister says it is more than just about honoring nicoles memory. Whats exciting is all the families this will help locally in our community, the huntington area, methacton, theres a lot of people who need support. Nicoles place will open in Huntington Valley in november. Senator bob menendez is still focusing on his job during his trial for federal corruption charges. His twitter feed the past 48 hours shows tweets about health care, the new Jersey National guard, and hispanic heritage month. Before court adjourned for the weekend, we learned more about the flights at the center of the bribery charges against him. Two pilots testified that they flew menendez on private planes paid for by a florida eye doctor. Prosecutors say the flights were part of a pattern of bribery. Menendez denies the allegations and says the gifts were between friends. 4 06. The eagles will regroup after the loss in kansas city that came down to the last play of the game. Down by a touchdown, the birds recovered a desperationyon side kick desperation onside kick. Carson wentz making a final shot for the tie but knocked out of the back of the end zone, tipped away. Wentz threw for more than 30 passes in the game. His teammates said thats way too many. Thats not ideal. Low 30s probably where you want him at. 30, 30 runs, 30 passes, if you want 60 plays. We have to take the pressure off carson. Obviously more balance is usually the way to go. It was the nature of the game. The birds play their home opener against the giants this coming sunday. Coming up at 4 30, youll hear from eagles head coach Doug Peterson after the first meeting with his mentor, chiefs coach and former birds head coach, andy reed. 4 07. 69 degrees outside. And we are watching for the dangerous rip current down the shore. And around here we have clouds, we have fog, sprinkles, mist. Just about everything. Lets check in with bill henley. Fancy new music. Pops right up there. Absolutely. Brought it back from vacation with me. This is cape may. Check that out. Live scene. Clouds are overhead. We saw the heavy surf yesterday. Its still churning. You just have to look at that ocean to know not to go into it. The wind isnt all that strong. Jose is still a long way offshore. Jose is going to stay offshore. The winds will be picking up later today. The strongest winds at the shore will be tomorrow. Fog, you mentioned that, too. Look at easton this morning. Socked in. That thick fog not limited to easton, however. Zero visibility right now at coatesville and hazelton, one mile in quakertown. Not an issue for blue bell, south jersey, delaware, fog free. Clouds are starting to move in. Those clouds are coming off of jose. 69 in philadelphia. 60s, middle 60s for the Lehigh Valley and suburbs. A little bit cooler, allowing fog to form. Warmer at the shore. 70s. Jose way offshore. A hurricane but weakening, and will be weakening the next few days. Its going to feel like its getting stronger because the storm will come closer to us. Stays offshore but comes clouds enough to spread clouds inland. That starts today. The clouds will bring showers especially later today. The shore will be the first to see them. Were not looking at allday rainfall. Were certainly not looking at temperatures into the 80s for most areas like we saudi arabia. Dry at 9 like we saw yesterday. Dry at 9 00. A shower in new jersey. Toward noon, breaks of sunshine will start to disappear in the Lehigh Valley and berks county. Low 70s, thats at lunchtime. Not all that warm. Here are some light showers moving into the shore. You see cape may to the south getting a few of those light showers. Just a few sprinkles at times. Then some breaks of sunshine late in the afternoon. Thats at 4 00 today. The heavier showers, those will start moving into coastal sections, potentially tomorrow morning. If you want to really play it safe, bring an umbrella. I think most of the day you wont need it. Definitely not heading into the water. If youre at the jersey shore, the delaware beaches, high risk of dangerous rip currents not only for today but much of the week, as well. Well take a closer look at jose and where hes heading when i come back in a few minutes. Thank you. Stay out of the water. Not just today but throughout the week. 4 10. Lets look at the commute to work or schedule. 76 in jersey. Jessica boyington has you covered with first alert traffic. Watching in Gloucester City around the cameras in market street. Everything looks good so far. You see both directions here, if youre headed northbound or southbound, northbound specifically where youre moving. Toward philadelphia, headed toward the walt whitman bridge. Good to go so far there. The rest of new jersey roads are clear, too. 295 goes for the new jersey turnpike. The north and southbound sides clear there. 42 leading up to the point we saw around 76. The northbound and southbound sides are clear there, as well. Well end with the bridges. Everythings clear. The ben franklin and walt whitman, we watched approaching that from the 76 camera. Headed to the walt, youll be fine. The burlington bristol bridge is clear, too. I checked with the tacony palmyra. No openings at least for now. Thank you. A hateful message targeting a local college student. What was found written on her front door and how the university is reacting. Pushing for peace. The events happening across philadelphia this week in an effort to bring people together. And at 4 11, the winner is we will show you the emmy moments that are getting all the attention this morning. Plus, the surprise guest. , 88doooooorw today is the first day of National Hazing prevention week. A new poll on hazing asked do you think College Students involved in hazing should be criminally prosecuted. You see the results 25 say yes. 5 say no. 66 say it depends on the situation. Right now 14 Fraternity Brothers are facing criminal charges in the death of Timothy Piazza at penn state. His parents will be on the today show this morning for a town hall on hazing. Republican congressman pat meehan will also participate. Catch the full hazing in america town tall this morning on the today show after town hall this morning on the today show after nbc10 at 6 00. Today in trenton, governor Chris Christie will discuss the Opioid Crisis with executives. Hell be announcing details of his new Opioid Initiative over the next few days. The governor plans to spends 200 million on improving the states approach to opioid treatment and prevention. Christie made the battle the focus of his second term in office. Tonight the mayor of summers point will hold a meeting on the opioid epidemic. The police chief and Mental Health expert will join the mayor. They will discuss how to recognize opiate abuse, the impact, and help thats available. And philadelphia crowds will come together for peace this week. Peace day philly hopes on thursday. There are events halling already. These are happening already. This happens every year on september 21st. There are events focused on mindfulness and standing up against discrimination and concerts. There was one held yesterday. Another one on thursday with the goal of making a difference. Organizers say this year people are getting involved like never before. People are standing up. People who have never stood up before for equality, for social justice, for refugees are really standing up and getting involved. More details on peace day philly are on nbc10. Com or check our nbc10 app. 4 15. Constitution day will be observed today in philadelphia and across the nation. The National Constitution center will hold its annual festival filled with special programs. Among them, a naturalization ceremony like the one you see here. Admission to the center is free today. Meanwhile, last night the ben franklin bridge was bathed in red, white, and blue to commemorate two special dates. It was 30 years ago when the bridge was first illuminated. And it was 230 years old yesterday when the constitution was signed. A celebration of puerto rican heritage begins today in philadelphia. The city will begin the celebration by raising the puerto rican flag at city hall. One of the guests will be oscar lopez, a puerto rican political prisoner who was pardoned by form president obama. 4 16. Puerto rico bracing themselves for maria. Everybody keeping an eye on whats happening here weatherwise. Right. Were watching jose for starters. Right . Yeah. Maria is the next threat, however, that could be impacting, having some impact on our area possibly next week. For now, were starting to see clouds from jose. Jose is still a hurricane. Its weakening. It is offshore. Its going to spread clouds inland and possibly showers. Yesterday we saw that. Rough surf, still going. And thats not going to change today. Its going to get rougher likely tomorrow. The winds today, this afternoon especially, thats when it will be stronger and this evening, ramping up. The delaware beaches and jersey shore will feel the winds and get a few scattered light showers. Most of the day, however, its going to be dry. Were in the clear right now for showers. Theres jose. Still a long way from us. The clouds are just off shore. Now joses on the move. Jose is going to stay off shore. Its going to come close enough to give clousds aus clouds and today. Well dry out as it pulls away later there week. Where is jose going . And how strong . Right now, the winds are at 90 miles per hour. Moving to the north at nine miles per hour. Its a category1 storm and coming our way with the possibility of some heavy surf, not only for us for today but into tomorrow, especially tomorrow. 78 degrees this afternoon. A slight chance of a shower today. A better chance of some rain on tuesday. The wind will continue into wednesday. By thursday, we are drying out. Friday, the temperatures are in the low 80s for friday, saturday, and sunday. Then were dry right on into next week. Thanks for that. 4 18. Lets get you to work early on this monday morning. Jessica boyington. Looking clear . Right, still early, so a lot of things are clear. 295 and cameras around the black horse pike. Both directions look good. Southbound drive time moving from route 38 toward this point to get to the black horse pike, look at the average speeds, into the 70s. People are flying out there. And its a 12minute trip. No big problems so far. At least even through the work zones. Route 202 looks good, as well. You see green on the drive times here. 11 minutes on that southbound side from the schuylkill to route 30. Speeds are still up there also. Now service is being detoured starting about 5 00 this morning for septas route 40 and 42. For the most part, Everything Else is on time. P patco also on time. Thank you. 4 19. In the Lehigh Valley this evening, you can get free vaccinations for your child at a backtoschool fair in bethlehem. Health officials will vaccinate students who are not covered by insurance at the middle school. Students can get Free School Supplies and books. An acid attack. A woman goes after four College Students. One of the students is from our area. How the attack unfolded at a french train station and why investigators say they had no warning. Up for sale. Why an iconic magazine is looking for a buyer. And all new at 5 00, outrageous lies that ended the hopes of job hunters. A look at some of the worst mistakes made on resumes and what you can do to keep your name in the running when it comes to your job search. In bucks county, a happy homecoming for two dogs who were in a storm drain. Residents heard them barking and called 911. You see the firefighters pulled them from the tight situation. The firefighters joked they were grounded for a month. They found the owners, and they have been reunited. New, Rolling Stone magazine is for sale. The cofounder is selling his stake to best position. The magazine is considered the bible of rock and roll with some of the most iconic covers in publishing history. In june, Rolling Stone settled a defamation lawsuit brought by a College Fraternity that said the magazine falsely reported a campus rain investigation. Danger on the shore. Hurricane joses impact is already being felt along the jersey shore and delaware beaches. The warning for swimmers as the storm whips up powerful waves. Start to go see clouds from jose starting to see clouds from jose in our neighborhoods. The neighborhood forecast ahead. First, Jessica Boyington with traffic. Were watching 295 in west stepford. Here we are at route 130. Smooth sailing, but that could change. Tracking hurricane jose. The storm is whipping up waves and causing dangerous conditions off our shores. What you need to know. Off the job. Teachers go on strike in one district. Attacking students. A local woman and three others get sprayed with acid while traveling in france. How it plays out. 4 26. Good morning, this is nbc10 news today, first look at 4. Im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Hurricane jose impacting the jersey shore shore and delaware beaches. We begin with meteorologist bill henley and the latest on joses track. Hurricane jose will stay off shore. It is a big hurricane with strong hurricaneforce winds near the center. Farther away youll get tropical stormforce winds. Not today, tomorrow is most likely to see some at the jersey shore and the delaware beaches. For now, were seeing a few clouds move in. The nearest showers are nowhere near us. Theres a chance well see showers later in the day, especially as clouds start moving into the area. But were already seeing rough surf. Well see more and more wind during the day, especially tomorrow. The worst of it, the jersey shore and delaware beaches. Moving inland, effects will be lessened. Later today through thursday morning. Thats when high surf, dangerous rip current risk will continue. Minor coastal flooding, especially tomorrow is a possibility. There could be some beach erosion, as well. And the potential for some damaging winds tomorrow. For today, were starting off with temperatures in the 60s. Muggy outside. Going to be another warm one, though. Not as warm as yesterday as clouds move in during the day. Sunshine, more likely to see some this morning. 69 in philadelphia right now. 68 degrees, a few sprinkles in new jersey. Its 67 degrees in the Lehigh Valley. Well get a warmup, 70s for most areas, possibly up to 80 if you get a break or two of sunshine in delaware. This afternoon, this evening, a better chance of scattered, light showers. Ill break it down coming up in a few minutes. First, Jessica Boyington and first alert traffic. Thanks. Cherry hill on route 70 and kings highway. So far, so good. No problems at the intersection. Roads are dry, too. A good drive on route 70. 95 through delaware is okay. Looking on our drive times here, everythings green. 11 minutes northbound. From 295 to 495, not seeing any increase. All speeds into the 60s in the northbound and southbound sides. Also well check with mass tlansity. Service transit. Service will be detoured for 40 and 42 this morning. Patco, amtrak, and new Jersey Transit on or close to schedule. Thank you. Bill henley warning viewers hurricane jose causing problem as it moves closer to shore. Its whipping up waves and causing a rip current danger. Katy zachry with more. Hows it look now . Reporter i dont know if the cameras picking it up, but its lightly misting here in Atlantic City along the boardwalk. A very slight wind. Conditions yesterday resembled more of what hurricane jose is doing well off the coast. People notice, if you look at our video, just how rough the surf was and how strong the waves were yesterday. Lifeguards along the new jersey shoreline were advising people not to go in the water and if they did, no booger boaringie b going in as deep as your knees. It was a noticeably stronger surf and bigger waves. You did see people in the water, but they were staying close to shore. They tell us you could feel the current pulling Different Directions when you were in the water. I knew it was rough by the foam and how murky the water was. We spoke with the lifeguard to try to explain to her because, of course, they might listen better to the lifeguard than their parents. Reporter funny how kids will listen more to a lifeguard than their own parents. In this case, it was really important to get the message out to anyone in the water yesterday of the strong rip current and the strong waves. And kids we did talk to said they could feel the force of the surf when they were in the water. Coming up in the next half hour, we talk to some people here at the beach who said theyre taking some serious precautions, planning against what hurricane jose is going to do to the area. Youll hear fromhe
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