A crash, though. Watch in lower gwynned on west welsh at evans road. Also watching 95. Moving through girard, looking good. Times from the expressway to the vine street expressway, a 13minute trip. 5 31. Now to breaking news in philadelphias fishtown neighborhood. A 33yearold man has been found dead outside a secondfloor apartment. Police say he was shot in the head. Investigators say the shooter stayed on the scene and is being interviewed by police. Other witnesses are also being interviewed. Two Young Children were in the apartment. Police brought them out. Its not clear if they saw the shooting. Nbc10s matt delucia is on the way. Hell have a live report coming up at 6 00. Struggling to recover. Puerto rico is rebuilding slowly after Hurricane Maria slammed into the island. There is no a. C. There, little water, limited generator power. On the left you see video of the san juan airport. Hundreds are packing the airport, desperate to get off the island. On the right, a live picture of philly international where in just a few hours a plane will take off bound for puerto rico. The First AmericanAirlines Flight bound for puerto rico since the storm hit. On board, potentially lifesaving supplies for hurricane victims. Nbc10s Pamela Osborne joins us at the gate where people will board the plane. Tell us Mother Nature about tell us more about the relief effort. Ri reporter we are going to be making our way to the gate now. Were at the checkin counter. We talked to people checking in. They tell me they are heading to puerto rico this morning. We will be following them up past the security checkpoints. What i can tell you is that there are 90,000 pounds of cargo on that plane, on the flight scheduled to go out. Now some of that cargo is space for passengers belongings heading to puerto rico. A lot of it is desperately needed supplies. As you said, the situation in puerto rico is dire. There snow there is no running water. Only 5 of the island has power on. Board will be generators going to families of American Airlines employees and charities and people in need. This is part of operation puerto rico strong which represents an umbrella of companies, corporate donations, and employees who raised supplies for relief efforts, coming together to help. That help on the way in a few hours. That flight is scheduled to leave at 8 25 this morning. Well be making our way up to the gate. Were talking to someone who helped coordinate the flight, coordinate relief efforts. Hes going to be telling us much more about that when i see you back here at 6 30. Pamela osborne, nbc10 news. Thank you. Small businesses across the area are doing their part to help Hurricane Maria victims. Pizza shops, barber shops, and other Montgomery County businesses are teaming up to buy supplies to ship to puerto rico. Customers are being asked to make donations. Its horrible, and you got to feel bad. I know i do. Hopefully we can help them as much as we can. Theres my little prince. The group plans to send a truckload of items to wherever theyre needed. Tonight show Host Jimmy Fallon is joining a university of pennsylvania effort to help Hurricane Maria victims. He wrote on upenn students gofundme page that he was inspired by their efforts and wanted to help them raise 100,000, their goal. Fallon is pitching in 20,000. The students are about three quarters of the way to their goal. You can help the victims of Hurricane Maria. Call the American Red Cross at 18005966567. The number will be scrolling at the bottom of the screen if you want to write that down. If its easier, go to our free app. We have all the ways that you can donate through the American Red Cross. This weekend the florida keys will open to tourists. Repairs to the areas water and Power Supplies are being completed ahead of schedule. The key west and marathon airports have reopened. However, many hotels and tourist facilities are still closed for longterm repairs. Tonight President Trump and House Republicans will reveal details of their proposed tax reform package. It will cut corporate taxes and individual taxes, but it would eliminate certain deductions. The president will travel to indiana to promote the plan. And the republican effort repeal and replace obamacare is dead, at least for now. Senate republicans announced there would be no vote after if became clear the plan would not pass. Senator lindsey graham, one of the sponsors, said the republicans will still work to come up with an alternative to obamacare. Senate democrats called the latest bills fame euro a sigh of relief for millions of americans. This is not a day of celebration but a day to roll up our sleeves and work to make the Health Care System better. Obamacare is not working. We make that case effectively. Weve had a hard time articulating what were for until now. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says for now republicans will shift their focus to other matters. The candidates vying to be philadelphias next District Attorney took their case to the voters last night. The Philadelphia Bar association hosted this Community Forum featuring republican Beth Grossman and democrat larry krasner. It was an opportunity for the association and voters to learn about the candidates positions and ask questions about the issues. Grossman was the sole republican candidate for the d. A. s office. Krasner beat out six others in the primary. Philadelphia voters will go to the polls november 7th. 5 36. In center city, an historic moment for philadelphia as leaders unveil a statue of civil rights icon octavius catto. The first statue dedicated to a single africanamerican on city property. The ceremony comes almost 150 years after catto was killed near his south street home on election day, 1871. The mayor says its a shame more people know about rocky, a fictitious philadelphian, than they do about octavius catto. I started hearing about this man who i had never heard of. Now i find out hes one of the greatest on the planet. Im so happy to be here. To learn more about catto, go to our website, nbc10. Com. You can see a slide show and read more about his life in philadelphia on our home page. 5 37. Hurricane maria is now downgraded to a Tropical Storm, but its churning up huge waves and lifethreatening rip currents down at the jersey shore. Since saturday, well over 100 people have been rescued from beaches at the shore, and three people in ocean and monmouth counties actually died. With summerlike weather luring people to the coast, officials are warning people that the ocean is unsafe for swimming. With the nice water temperatures and weather, troubling. Our guys spend more time on the beach now than they have recently. If youre not a highly skilled, trained waterman, you have no business being in the water. Beach patrols are watching, but many surf communities are unguarded this time of year. I know its tempting, but resist it. Do gone in. Meteorologist krystal klei joins us. The rip current risk is still in effect at beaches across the area this morning. Reporter thats right. Were looking for the high rip current risk to last the next couple of days at least. Right here, this is Tropical Storm maria. It was a hurricane up until last night. Now it is a Tropical Storm. Churning up the water for days straight. On top of that, theres a hurricane lee thats way out to the east in the atlantic ocean. Helping churn the waters, as well. When you have the big waves crashing in, the pullback is stronger, the risk for rip Current Development is higher. This is Tropical Storm maria now. And maria is about 275 miles aware from our delaware beaches. It is going to be further away from us than what we saw with hurricane jose not long ago. 72 is the current temperature at the shore. 75 by 10 00 a. M. Into the afternoon hours, the temperature caps in the upper 70s to near 80. Notice the winds will be stronger because of Tropical Storm maria. 20 mileanhour sustained winds, 25 to 30 possible. On top of the winds kicking up. Were looking at other coastal impacts. The high rip current risk. Six to tenfoot waves. Voting conditions not good. Low clouds and patchy fog this morning and showers rolling by the area today. Heres the hour by hour. This goes throughout and into the midday. 11 00 a. M. Still have clouds scattered even north and west. A little more densely packed along the coast points. We go into the afternoon hour, 3 00 p. M. You see the models with isolated showers mere the i95 corridor. Better chance of scattered showers again along the coastal points. That starts to fizzle around 6 30 this evening. An isolated shot of a sprinkle near philly and then overnight. This is what im excited for. We go to thursday, 7 30 in the morning, a cold front will creep in. By thursday afternoon, the clouds, high humidity, the heat, its out of here. Instead, were talking cooler conditions. Were talking humidity that starts to drop down, as well. Making for a much more comfortable forecast by the time that we get on into the weekend. Theres a look at Tropical Storm marias tracks. Like i mentioned, hooking to the right. Its going to happen soon. Today it will make the turn. It will by thursday morning be fairly close, but by friday morning. Look how far away it is. Thats when things will look much better for us as we get to our weekend forecast. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. 19 minutes before 6 00 a. M. Well talk about the boulevard and the schuylkill. And Jessica Boyington is talking about that. Guys, we have the schuylkill expressway here near the roosevelt boulevard. This is access from the westbound side. Westbound schuylkill to city line avenue. Thats that route here. And heres eastbound moving toward center city. No big problems or delays on the schuylkill. A good thing there. The blue route, drive times looking similar in both directions. 14 minutes north or south from 95 to the schuylkill. Speeds into the mid 60s. Mass transit, septa dealing with problems on the regional rails. West trenton specifically dealing with signal problems, up to 20minute delays. Thank you. Gone without a trace. This morning, parents plead for answers in the search for a south jersey man. And youll need a fix for your heart. The hdtv couple closing the door on their hit show. Music 101. A unique Philadelphia Music program thats giving kids a chance to launch their dream career. Meet Steve Sweeney. Hes a doubledipping pension padder. Doubledipping pension padder he had two government jobs, two paychecks and padded his pension along the way. Hes a doubledipping pension padder now hes making over 300,000 a year as a lobbyist and a senator. Doubledipping pension padder so hes all set thanks to you, the taxpayer. Which is why Steve Sweeney had no problem voting to raise your taxes 145 times, including the largest gas tax hike in history. Sounds about right, coming from a. Doubledipping pension padder a sound it remember. That teenager a sound to remember. That teenager already has his own album, and he made it in philadelphia. Were highlighting a Music Education like no other. Yeah, the unique Program GivesHigh Schoolers a jumpstart on a potential career. I want to catch a glimpse of what were trying to. Do the first thing is give him a soundcheck to make sure he sounds good. Hey, at night welcome to inner Power Records, a fully functioning Music Production house run by and for the future sounds of philadelphia. The Afterschool Program targets High Schoolers with an interest in music and a dream of becoming the next big star. If you had to be a music video, which would you be . Katy perry roar, because inner Power Records was born in 2012 and teaches the ins and outs of music. From writing and composing to recording and performing. I learned how to make music, make beats, instruments. It makes me want to keep doing it. His passion is mentoring young artists. He pushes them to learn and grow and realize what they can achieve. When you say record label, especially to kids in the inner city, their eyebrows raise. Okay, you can see the thoughts running through their head about what they can potentially do music is big in the inner city. Arts is a way to escape reality and or put down the reality on record. Some students are already recognizing their dream. I owe the first album to the program. Its done well. Available on line. The point is i got purpose inner Power Records is always looking for volunteers to help students work toward getting their break. To learn more about the program, learn more on the nbc10 app or nbc10. Com. Interesting. Nice to put a positive spin on something that people can do that might be a little bit of a hidden talent. Nice. More than just learning how to make music. You have to learn the business of making music. Cool. Well check the forecast, guys. We have temperatures today that will be humid again. I know youre sick of me saying this. We love you, but im sick of it. Falllike conditions close to the forecast. One more day of this stuff. Heres the live view looking over philadelphia. This is actually looking over the ben franklin bridge, one of our new cameras that we have. And you see that grayish color to the sky. Thats because yet again we have high clouds that are in place. Low clouds, i should say, and we could see some patchy fog again through our morning hours. Although it doesnt look like it will be quite as densely packed as yesterday. On the radar and satellite, not showing off super well, but we have clouds in place especially over the southern part of the viewing zone because thats where the dew points are higher. Dew points indicate the ability to hold more moisture, and that does end up leading to more fog and cloud coverage. Our maria potential path. Maria playing a big factor in the clouds weve been seeing and impacts at the coastline today. Lets talk about the track. All the computer models in good agreement that maria today will move a little more to the north before hooking right right on through your thursday. From today through thursday, still pretty close to us, meaning ripple effects. Winds up, spot shower, and rough seas with the high rip current risk. As we go friday into and wanted into the weekend and saturday and into the weekend, maria is out of here. Well be allowed to clear and look at nice conditions. Whats happening is were very warm and humid today. We have a cold front thats going to move our direction. Its going to knock the warm, humid conditions out and bring in cool, crisp conditions into your thursday. Check this out. Another cold front will move in, as well, that passes by friday. Not only will we cool things thursday but more so in time for your weekend forecast. Lets talk heat of today. 89 degrees in center city, the high for today, 86 in summerton. Because of the fwaact the humidy will be high, it will feel more like the low 90s by this afternoon. 87 in lansdale. Kutztown, youre the same. A mix of clouds and sun, similar to yesterday. Not quite as cloudy as areas farther south especially along the shore and delaware beaches New York Stock Exchange trenton, 8 and dwaer breaches. Trenton, upper 70s to low 80s. In delaware, 86 for wilmington, cooler farther south with spot showers possible out there. Wind gusts are also going to be something to watch. Into the afternoon, gusts 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour at the shore. Not as strong inland. Tomorrow as the cold front moves in, check this out we go from 15, 20 Miles Per Hour winds up to close to 30 mileperhour gusts. By tomorrow afternoon, thats not because of maria so much as it is because of the fact that were tracking a front moving through that will bring the falllike conditions. Well talk about those with the ten day on coming up. 5 50. And well look at 202. Jessica boyington, what are you saying . Yeah. 202 and route 29. So far, so good. Both directions okay. You can see cars making their way out when we approach the 69 hou69 6 69 the 6 00 hour. Seven minutes the drive time moving from this point around 29 to the schuylkill expressway. Speeds still into the 60s. Weve been watching a crash this morning at lower gwynned at welsh and evans road. Checking with the admiral wilson boulevard. Here is the ben franklin bridge toll plaza. This is moving through camden. Coming from jersey, heading up over the ben franklin bridge area, just fine and good to go heading out the door. Approaching the ben franklin, tacony palmyra, the burlington bristol bridge, with no openings now, also clear. Thank you. A cult favorite for fixer uppers is going off the air. Its final season, fixer upper. Joanna and chip gaines announced they need to take a break from the hdtv show. Theyre healthy, the marriage is fine, all is well. They just want to spend more time on their family and business. The show launched in 2013. It follows the couple as they redo houses in waco. Its fantastic. The final season premieres in november. Soon you could be saying more with twitter. What do you think . Weve been talking on twitter about the idea with viewers. Companies testing a 280character limit for tweets, double the current limit. A small set of users have the doublecharacter limit. No word on when it might reach the rest of the twitter verse. We would love to know what you think. Do you need more characters to say what you have to say . Do you need more than 1 4 0 characters . Weve asked that question on our twitter, and this theere are ou addresses. Let us know what you think. Just for emojis i need more. The desperate search for a missing south jersey man. Also, the eagles quarterback making a promise on the sidelines. Why carson wentz could soon be paying up to the rookie kicker who made that recordsetting field goal. Then, all new at 6 00, the story of war, love, and loss captivated millions. Now shes speaking out about the National Anthem protest. Coming up at 6 00, what the american snipers widow says the nfl has taken from her. Hey grandpa. Hey, kid. Really good to see you. You too. You tell grandma you were going fishing again . Maybe. vo the best things in life keep going. Thats why i got a subaru, too. Introducing the allnew crosstrek. Love is out there. Find it in a subaru crosstrek. Four minutes before 6 00. A south jersey mans parents are looking for answers after their son went for a visit to a friend in maryland and then suddenly disappeared. David smith went missing nearly two months ago. The 28yearold from salem county went to visit a friend in maryland august 5th. The next morning his cell phone went dead, and he was nowhere to be friend. The friend dropped him at a property that her family owns about 30 minutes west of baltimore. Police searched the 22acre property by air and on the ground, but his family still has no idea what happened to him. The uncertainty is at times paralyzing. Every day that passes is the feeling that there has been criminal activity, becomes more and more real. Police found david smiths car at the friends house. His father is the paster of sharp county United Methodist church which has helped to raise 5,000 for information that leads to finding david. Now well take you state by state and county by county for stories across the area. In millville, cumberland county, people say the sound of Police Sirens makes their hearts race. Happens way too often. People living here say violence and gunfire are nonstop, and theyre tired of living in a constant state of fear. Police met with residents to discuss their concerns. The police chief tells us officers have arrested 75 more people this year versus last year. In lehigh county, an update to a story we told you about earlier. Allentown city council is now postponing a new effort to oust mayor ed pilowski. They had planned to meet to dc what they called his to discuss what they called his obstruction of council, but its been postponed. He was indicted for allegedly directing a paytoplay scheme in which city contracts were traded for campaign donations. To bucks county, parks casino hopes to become the countrys largest employer after a job fair today. Parks wants to fill 200 positions as it opens a new expansion this winter. The fair starts at 8 30 this morning. The casino on street road in ben salem. And a Grocery Store chain has announced it will increase its presence in camden and burlington counties. Aldi will be adding a store in voorheis. Also planning to expand and remodel in eastsham and stratford. Now to the kick that may cost quarterback carson wentz a payche paycheck. Eagles fans cant get enough of the video. Rookie jake elliott nailing the game li gamewinning, recordsetting field goal to beat the giants. Wentz miked up on the sidelines. Thats when we found out this little gem about how much he thinks that winning kick is worth. Guys a superhero if he makes this. Ill give him my game check. Ill give him my game check if he makes it. I dont think hes saying that to anybody specific. Just saying it out there, throwing it out there. He says it twice in fact that hes going to give up his game check to the rookie. And of course he makes it, and the question is will he follow through. By the way, that check, how much do you think its worth . About 31,764. Coming from csn. Might not want to face stuff you say that people say crazy stuff on the sidelines. Nbc10 is your official eagles station on. Sunday the eagles are in eagles station. On sunday the eagles are taking on the chargers. Dont forget our hourlong pregame show sunday morning starting with Eagles Gameday kickoff at 5 30 followed by agency game plan. Then eagles game many. Then the eagles game day finals. 30,000 and change. Now for more of the stories on nbc10 news today at 6 00 mother murdered. A woman is killed while house sitting in Gloucester County sparking a murder mystery that has neighbors worried about their safety. Massux des, Puerto Ricans line up to escape the island mass exodus, Puerto Ricans line up to escape the island as a new theyve is deployed from philadelphia. And who is wooing amazon and 50,000 new jobs to the area. 6 00 a. M. Good morning. This is nbc10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Its hot. You may be down the shore and tec tempted to get in the water, dow dont. Dont. Meteorologist krystal klei has the most accurate weather forecast. Yeah, looking at high rip current risk in place. It has been since sunday. It will likely continue at least through thursday. Today, hot