Fire rips through a Senior Living facility in west chester. At least 20 victims were taken to area hospitals. Dozens of others wrapped in blankets, left in the cold, afraid and unsure of whats next. Theyre nice, warm, loving people who are just here for a nice, safe place to live. Nbc10 news will bring you every angle of the story from brave rescues to finding shelter. Thanks for being with us. This is nbc10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Weve got you covered on the breaking news and the effort to connect seniors with family or another place to stay. First we want to get you ready for your day with a check on the first alert weather and traffic. Bill . The winds is blowing. Guest winds, you see it in this camera nicely in cape may. The entire area is dealing with the winds that have gusted now to 25 Miles Per Hour in allentown. Seeing guests in mt. Holly and trenton. Steady winds for the rest of the area. Feels like in the low 30s now. Pottstown, allentown, lancaster, below freezing and 35 in wilmington. 39 the feelslike temperature for philadelphia and millville. You have to bundle up. 40s for philadelphia, 50s later today. The winds will settle a little bit, but breezy into the afternoon hours. 50 the high at the shore. Ill break it down hour by hour as the day goes on when im back in a few minutes. See you then. This morning, pulled into the cold in the dead of night. A fire breaks out at a Senior Center forcing some into hospitals and so many more into temporary housing. Katy zachry is live at the barclay friends nursing home in west chester. She speak with people who watched the flames and jumped in to help. Dray clark is at the goodwill fire company. D dray, families were sent there to find out if their loved ones were safe. Tell us more. Reporter yeah, we moved from our location about a mile up to the road to this location. Youre right. This is where we were told family should come to check on loved ones. Some relieved to learn their loved ones will be okay. Well talk more about what happened last night inside of the Senior Living center. Workers found themselves in the middle of a mad dash, a scramble to get the elderly out of there as quickly as possible by any means. They wheeled them out in wheelchairs or rolled them out on stretchers. Officials say they saved a lot of lives because of their Quick Reaction in getting those people out of harms way. Certainly it is still difficult because many of those workers are concerned about whats going to happen to patients who no longer have a place to go and their own jobs as we approach the holiday season. A relief to know, but people worried about whats going to happen next. Cant stress it enough, family told to in here to the goodwill fire company. Its on east union road here, to check on the status of the people here. Not much activity inside now. But officials are on standby to lead you in the right direction. Live in westchester, nbc10 news. Heres a closer look at where barclay friends nursing home is in on North Franklin street off the west chester bypass. Witnesses saw the billowing smoke, didnt think twice about rush information to help. Katy zachry is live with that and part of team coverage. You witnessed stories of heroism this morning. Reporter i heard them firsthand. As you were tossing to me, you mentioned that people first smelled smoke around 10 30 and rushed out here. Seven hours after this fire broke out, we are still smelling spoke. You can still see it in the air. This isville a very, very active scene. Were a block from the scene where the fire broke out inside barclay friends nursing home. As you can hear and see, a lot of moving parts to this investigation. As we pan out and focus in, this is some of the medical debris devices, just items left by after this neighborhood street was turned into a triage center. We got here as firefighters were trying to put the fire out. There was a sea of nursing home residents in the neighboring streets around barclay friends nursing home. They were cold, scared, many in need of medical attention. We spoke to people inside the nursing home when the fire broke out. They ran toward the danger, not to safety. We started running to see where the fire was coming. We started to evacuate people from the back to the front. From the front to the back. Reporter a brave pair of workers there. The initial reports were that 140 people were rescued from the burning building. About 20 were injured and taken to nearby hospitals. Were trying to get that confirmed. A few hours ago, investigators were not releasing number of victims or the cause of the fire. Were awaiting an update. At 6 00 well have that for you. Reporting live in west chester, katy zachry, nbc10 news. And you can count on nbc10 for every development this morning. We have sky force 10 in the air in the next ten minutes. Well look at the damage left behind. Switching gears, ready, set, race. The philadelphia marathon weekend is here. There are events happening across the city for runners and nonrunners, as well. We have live coverage of the impact. And Jessica Boyington has the road closures that happen during the race. Some starting today. We start with pamela osborne, live in center city. The health and fitness expo is almost ready to go. Tell us about that. Reporter yeah, were a little more than 24 hours away from the big race weekend. Between now and then, 30,000 runners are expected to drop in to the center to pick up bags, bibs, and shirts. The Half Marathon starts tomorrow at 22nd and will full marathon starts sunday at 7 00 a. M. Theres prize money up for grabs for finalists. This is so much more than a race. Some of the money raised will go toward cancer research. Now tomorrow, were expecting a little bit of rain. When you come in to pick up your items, you can also pick up accessories. They have everything from hats, gloves, to jackets to keep you warm, keep you cool for tomorrows race. Live in the expo center, pamela osborne. And there are road closures to tell you about. First alert traffic reporter, Jessica Boyington, has that. Its always tough for people in and out of the city when we have a race involved. Closures in place starting today and lasting until sunday. 9 30 a. M. Today, they will start the closures, lasting until 7 00. At least by sunday you, know at least 26 miles of closures in place. Listen up, the lanes of the ben franklin parkway will close at 9 30, lasting until 3 30. They will open by the time the evening rush is in place on saturday. Tomorrow, around 2 00 a. M. , theyll start with the noparking restrictions and start to y start towing cars. Parts of logan circle closed, center city, 676 to the vine street expressway westbound ramp to 22nd street, the eastbound ramp to 23rd closed. That will be there until 2 00 p. M. Everything. Open everything will open up, but then starting again on sunday. The marathon and no parking signs. The ramp to North Washington will be closed. Spring garden, ben franklin parkway, mlk, and falls childbr all of the closures in place. Thats not all of it. If you need more information, go to nbc10. Com. In other headlines, a philadelphia neighborhood is heartsick and angry over the stabbing death of an elderly man. 80yearold Robert Girard was known for sitting on this bench talking to friends outside his home in port richmond. On wednesday night, his granddaughter found him naked and dead inside this house. Detectives say someone jabbed girard several times. The neighbor has an idea of who did it. This morning theres a bipartisan call for an ethics investigation after a radio host accused senator al franken of forcing her to kiss him more than a decade ago. The senator also apologized for a photo that showed him groping the radio host while she was asleep on a plane. President trump tweeted saying, the al franken is really bad. Speaks a thousand words. Where do his hands go in pictures two, three, four, five, and six, while she sleeps . Leann tweeden says the minnesota senator assaulted her in 2016 while they were entertaining u. S. Troops overseas New York Stock Exchange addition to groping on the plane, she said franken, a former saturday night live star, forcibly kissed her while rehearsing a skit. He put his hands on the back of my hand and mashed his face against it happened so fast. He mashed his lips against my face and stuck his tongue in my mouth so fast. Franken apologizeded and called into an ethics investigation into himself. When talking about the groping photo, franken said, theres no excuse. I look at it now and feel disgusted with myself. Isnt funny. Its completely inappropriate. Meanwhile, happening now, local executives, concerned citizens, and leaders are waking up after spending a night on the streets to help homeless teens. This is the event that started last night with a candlelight vigil at the basilica of saints peter and paul. The group spent the night sleeping outside in the cold to experience the challenges that Homeless Youth face every day. I was homeless there at that park. I know how it is. So it is hard being cold, not knowing where youre going to lay your head or get your next meal. The event breaks Covenant House that helps homeless kids escape the streets. Im meteorologist bill henley heading out now. The temperature says 45 degrees, but thats only part of the story. The wind is blowing, outside this morning, it feels like 30s for most neighborhoods. At 8 00, 40 in philadelphia. Feels like 33 degrees. The wind will still be blowing at noontime. Feeling like 39 while temperatures are at 45. In the suburbs, sunshine and winds, making it feel like 30s for much of the morning. Into the early afternoon hours. At lunchtime, feeling like 37 degrees. Temperatures up to 44. The valley on track for sunshine. Feels like 30 at 10 00 this morning. Up to 45 degrees at 2 00. Thats when it will feel like 40s. The wind will still be a factor for new jersey. The wind blowing into the afternoon hours. Temperatures peak in the upper 40s. The feelslike temperatures this morning in the 30s and low 40s this afternoon. At the shore, you wont escape the colder winds either. 40 degrees now. 45 at 10 00. Feels like 37 degrees at 10 00. The winds will ease up a little bit, but not completely for the shore. Delaware, 42. Dropping to the 30s by 8 00. With bright sunshine, temperatures climbing to near 50 this afternoon. Like the rest of the area, dealing with the chilly winds through the morning hours. 36 degrees the feelslike temperature for delaware. The trend for tomorrow is a nice warmup. It will come with rain. Then the rain moves out and temperatures come down heading into next week. The ten day on 10 when im back in less than ten. See you then. Left in the cold. Nbc10 news today following breaking news throughout the morning. People forced out of bed and into the cold as a fire rips through a Senior Living facility. Donation dos and donts. The season of giving, and how to make sure your charitable cash is getting into the right hands. Carson cares. The leader of the eagles sees firsthand the difference his foundation is making. Every day, Technology Becomes much more personalized. Like this. And this. ai device welcome home, gary, how was your day. And like this. Introducing specifi, our digital investing platform thats built around you. Just answer a few questions, and specifi will provide a tailored investment portfolio. It continually manages it, so if the market changes, it adjusts accordingly. Ask us how specifi can help you reach your potential. Facing down flames. A fire turns a Senior Living facility into an inferno and leaving people to rescue those bedridden and in wheelchairs. Matt delucia is in sky force 10 over the barclay friends nursing home. Helpful to get a perspective of where the current facility is and where the place where they were taken, the seniors, is. Reporter thats right. The Ambulance Company is just a few hours from where we are. Theres a lot of darkness in the area. Firefighters have their lights on there with the ladder truck. You see just the extent of the damage through the roof there. Mostly smoke. Not much in the way of flames in the past hour that weve been around here. You see the response. At the bottom right, you see the firefighters in the front of the building. The good news is that we are starting to see a little bit of sunlight at daybreak of the horizon of where we are. Hopefully that will bring more natural sunlight to help firefighters with the effort. Well be here in sky force 10 over the next hour. Live on the scene, matt delucia, nbc10 news. 5 48. The other big story this morning, getting ready for the holiday weekend. In a few days, highways will be packed with people heading to thanksgiving dinner. The key word, packed. Were looking ahead to the roads. Meteorologist steve sosna with the outlook. Good morning. What were dealing with are the busiest airports. Im lanling them for you. Thanks to google flights, we can track the cities with the most congestion in the airports. New york city, boston, chicago, orlando, ft. Lauderdale. If you dont like crowds or lines or if you need to get to the airport, give yourself a lot of extra time. The lines can be long. Miami, san francisco, los angeles, and the Honolulu Airport isnt so bad after all. Headi ining through the week, t is rain there. Another problem spot. Northeast here this weekend, if you are traveling, expect that. Much of the week will be nice and quiet across the midwest through the northeast. The one problem spot will continue to be the northwest. Back to you. Thank you. Trjtss t its the season of giving. Matt delucia has the dos and donts of donating. Your cash ends up in the right hands. Reporter thousands of charities to choose from, all willing to take your donated dollars. Among the real organizations, there are always phonies. You really need to do your homework on the charity. Reporter the bucks county manager Michael Bannon said he was even surprised at what he found. When i got into my Consumer Protection job and learned about this industry, i realized i wasnt doing it the right way, and i totaled reorganized my charitable donations. Reporter he says its good to have a few goto charities that you have done your homework on and continue to check up on them. Charity regulator and give. Org break down organizations to let you know if theyre worthy of your hardearned bucks. It gives you a instantsnapsh the charity and how theyre spending your money. Reporter scam artists can be persuasive. Thats what they play on. Sad but true. Reporter the top tips first, know your charity. Make sure its legit by contacting them directly. Dont share personal information with someone who contacts you by phone or email. Check them out first. And do your research on those Charity Information websites. Some places offer a Tax Deduction or writeoff. Theres a trick to separate fact from fiction. Ask for the 990 to be mailed to you. If they hesitate to send you paperwork, theres a red flag. Reporter sending cash or wiring money, a big nono. Mike is most comfortable with writing a check. Make sure your good deed isnt punished. Matt delucia, nbc10 news. Coming up monday, has the sports fan in your life been hinting theyd like a carson wentz signed jersey for the holidays . Well show how to make sure youre getting the real thing. Thats monday on nbc10 news today. Im meteorologist bill henley. Gusty winds this morning. Bringing the chill back into the area. The wind strong, trenton, winds Strong Enough to make 30s and 40s feel like the low 30s. Many neighborhoods in the 30s in the suburbs, chester county, west callen township, atglen, malvern, 39 degrees. 48 in north wales. Warring ton just dropped to 39. 39 in bedminster. Bundle up, the cold is with us. The wind feels just above freezing in allentown or potstown. Not much warmer in wilmington and trenton. Youll feel the chill at noontime. It will feel like 39 degrees. The temperature at 46. Peaking in the upper 40s. The wind making it feel chillier. The good news, a lot of the sunshine today. Tomorrow, a different story. Weve got a storm moving in, and thats going to bring us rain during the day on saturday, into saturday night and sunday. A long way to go. By saturday morning, clouds building. This is 7 00 saturday morning. Look at the rain to the west. That moves in late and continues into the afternoon. So big changes ahead for the weekend. Today, sunshine, breezy and chilly. 48 the high. Upper 50s tomorrow. Rain moves in in the afternoon, but warm weather doesnt last. Then 40s, peaking in the 50s, and dropping thanks to winds that will bring in chilly weather for monday. By tuesday, oneday warmup, 56. Warm for this time of year. Then 40s for wednesday and thanksgiving day. And just the low 50s for friday and saturday. Warmer for sunday. Thank you. If youre heading out, well look at 422 for you. Friday usually typically a light day on the roads. I got a suspicion that some folks may be getting a head start on the holiday. Jessica . Normally a light commute, but weve had a lot going on so far. 422, cameras at route 29. A crash on the westbound side. Everythings kind of getting by. Just a second ago, it was a mess. Now they have it to the shoulder. It looks like one of the vehicles that came to the scene is kind of getting out of the way. 422 westbound, an accident there. Closed in pennsauken northbound approaching the circle before 38 and 70. Right now they are diverting traffic around the scene. This is what of course, now theyre moving the cameras on cue. This is what the scene should have looked like. Theyre diverting traffic off let see if we can get to. It Police Activity on the scene diverting the traffic around that intersection. Youre being diverted from 130 northbound and heading to route 38 or 70 for now. Back to you. Youll love this story ahead, carson wentz makes a trip to see how a service dog is changing the life of a young girl. Nbc10 the official station of the philadelphia eagles. Carson wentz is a dog lover who knows the impact of service animals. His foundation donated 120,000 for canine partners in west chester county. It places dogs with people dealing with a range of disabilities. Wentz didnt just write the check, he visited the group to hear how the dogs have made a difference in peoples lives. When a service dog can bonds its owner and provide a serious quality to a new level, its impressive. Hes going to help me. Aw. The medical alert dogs can sense migraines, seizures, and i do i do bicycle diabetic shock before they happen and can provide comfort for people suffering from depression. All the more reason we love carson wentz. For sure. Absolutely. Nbc10 is the only place to see the showdown between the leagueleading eagles and cowboys. Our exclusive coverage begins early in the day. Starts at 9 00 a. M. 9 30 a. M. On sunday. Then join us at xfinity live for a watch party at kickoff time. 8 30 p. M. , kickoff, nbc10 news and eagles game day final will follow the game. Dont forget to share your eagles fan pictures with us. We want to see them and may share them. You can share your snaps on facebook, twitter, or upload them to our nbc10 app. A great weekend. Now to more of the stories were following today at 6 00 a. M. Breaking news, heartbraching fire. Flames roar through a Senior Living facility in west chester leaving people scared and shivering, residents trapped in beds and wheelchairs waiting to be rescued. Close to two dozen people in the hospital. Dozens taken to shelters or other facilities after being rescued. We have you covered with all of it. Good morning, this is nbc10 news today, im tracy davidson. Im via sikahema. Were following whats next for people who were hurt or lost their home along with the stories of those who came to the rescue. Were also expecting an update from First Responders and investigators any moment now. Well bring that to you when we get it. First to meteorologist bill henley and the most accurate neighborhood weather forecast. Seeing sunshine in about 45 minutes, and we need it, too. This is the view from cape may. Clouds blowing through. Strong, gusty winds. Flags getting a workout in philadelphia. Winds gusting to more than 20 Miles Per Hour. Makes it feel like its in the 30s for most neighborhoods. 32349 philadelphia. 34 the feelslike temperature in wilmington. Mt. Holly, trenton, millville, pottstown, not much better. Feels like freezing in allentown and la