Hes charged with sexually assaulting four girls under the age of 13. Police say it happened e repeatedly over a period of 16 years. Police arrested the pastor wednesday after they say the victims came forward to say what happened. Now that hes in custody, we have an obligation to the victims. We want to make sure the victims are protected. How long has he been abusing children . He kept to himself. I know hes married. Its an outrage that a religious organization. Women are grown up and can slap the guy. Children are helpless. While the allegations are unrelated to his roles in these administrations, leadership has determined this to be the. Proper course of action at this time until there can be a full investigation. Thomas is the founder of a popular yan Music Festival that traveled the country for decades. It has Police Questioning could there be more victims. Thats what were hoping to find out. If victims are out there, we urge them to come forward. Hes the same that testifyie in support of a family accused of starving their four adopted sons nearly to death. It made National Headlines in 2006. Thomas return ed to the Jackson Family who was convicted calling them people who have a heart for children and for god. Hes not in jail. Hes hospitalized for an underlying condition not related to his arrest. Were told hes being guarded by Burlington County department of corrections. So far, no court date has been set. Were live in medford township, cydney long, nbc 10 news. A u. S. Senator and former art saturday night live star is e resigning. Al franken announced he will be leaving office, but not before he took a parting shot at president trump. I am aware theres some irony in the fact about his history of Sexual Assault sits in the oval office. President trump said he hadnt heard franks speech. The president has previously denied all claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. Also in his speech, he criticized republican support for Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. Moore has been accused of Sexual Misconduct against teenage girls. He denies those allegations. At the jersey shore, investigators want to find whoever tossed a cat into a trash chute b send iing the pet plummeting ten stories. It landed in a trash compacter below. Ted greenberg explains how the animals survived thank s s to a machine mall tungs. My heart hurt. Reporter she says shes still disgusted after Authorities Say this cat was tossed down a garbage chute at the Atlantic City highrise. The cat survived the fall, found alive inside a trash compacter ten stories below. My stomach is sick. Thanks god the cat is is okay. Investigators are confident thats one of the hind legs d g dangling from a trash bag in this video. As a woman carry it is to the chute on the tenth floor sunday night. The woman has seen leaving moments later empty handed and returns with a man bringing more garbage bags. The woman is also seen bringing what appears to be a litter box the trash chute. This is just atrocious. Someone who does not want their animal needs to take it to the shelter. Reporter the compacter got stuck and malfunctioned after trash backed up inside. The cat discovered shake b but unhurt when she was found inside around noon on monday. Something intervened and saved that cat by sticking in the trash compacter. If it did it not get stuck, the cat wouldnt be with us stoed. They are trying to track down the people seen in the video. They will be charged with animal cruelty facing tines and potentially jail time if convicted. Its one of the lowest lows that can happen to an animal. Ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. New at 6 00, a new Jersey School bus driver is charged with cruelty after he admitted to slamming the brakes for no reason and breaking a childs leg. Police arrested the draifr this morning. Police say moore admitted to hitting the brakes and causing several students to be tossed from their seats. An update to our news at 11 00. The coown er hitting parked cas says it was all an accident. The driver of the bus thought he hit a bump. The company is addressing the incident internally and has contacted its Insurance Company and police. Turning to your first alert neighborhood weather. A cold night out there tonight. A live look at Wells Fargo Center where fans should bundle up tonight. Its dry tonight, but you could see the first flakes of the season tomorrow. Lets bring in meteorologist tammie souza. Time out the flurries for us. It looks like its going to be tomorrow evening as late as saturday morning. You have plenty of time to get the snow brushes. I dont think this is going to be a shoveling event. You might have slight accumulations. The ground is still too warm. Look at where we were today. 44 in allentown. 45 in trenton. 47 in wilmington. 48 in Atlantic City. So temperatures are well above freezing and were sitting above freezing. 3 in allentown. 32 in millville. Theres a bit of a breeze that makes it feel quite a bit more chilly. No rain or snow in philadelphia or or south jersey, but we do snow showers that are off to the west. These are not the ones that are going to affect us. Thats a big system thats coming up out of the south. Ill give you a look at that and time out your neighborhood when i come back in a couple minutes. Strike teams are battling wildfires in Southern California for the fourth straight day. Winds are picking up again leaving behind rubble and ash. A text alert was sent to 12 million Southern Californians. The widest ever issued by the state office of emergency services. More than 200,000 families have been evacuated. Today the California Department of forestry and Fire Protection issued a purpole flag, thats te highest possible wildfire danger level. It has never been issued before. The latest on the los angeles inferno coming up on nbc nightly news. Lester holt anchors live from Southern California and talks to a fire captain who escaped the fire with some of the most treasured possessions. Chester county woman says she was assaulted by a man in a road rage case and it happened as the womans two kids were in the backseat of her car. Lisa oneill was driving on route 29 in month ggomery countn monday. As she pulled into the Providence Town Center the man was following closely and she cut him off accidentally. He blocked her car with his, got out and approached her car. She tried to apologize, but he punched her any way. I rolled down the window. My Immediate Reaction was to say im so sorry. He became enraged and screaming. And at that point, im like theres kids in the car. Please stop. It was shocking that he was doing that. And with that, he leaned in and hit me right here. Police are asking for your help in searching for the man described as a large man with thinning white hair dressed in a dark suit. He was driving a dark gray or navy chrysler 300. They find mismanagement in the Parking Authority cost the Public Schools 78 million. The district is supposed to get the money from fines. According to the audit, some of that money was going to pay large scale increases for executives. Today the Council Passed a resolution asking the governor, General Assembly and the mayor to return to local control. Around the country, were observing a day that will live in infamy. E we pause to remember the attack on pearl harbor. President trump signed a proclamation this afternoon in recognition of todays anniversary. Several survivors were on hand for the ceremony. 2300 american servicemen were killed when japan airplanes bombed pearl harbor 76 years ago. It led the u. S. To enter world war ii. A squadron of planes flew over new jersey to honor the fallen. The now decommissioned battleship wassed into service one year after the pearl harbor attack. Now on the nbc 10 app, you can watch archival video from the date that will live in infamy. Just search pearl harbor. New at 6 00, safety upgrades are coming for people who walk across one ofs busiest streets. A live look right now at broad street from our Kimmel Center campus camera. Its implementing raised intersections. The rendering showed the raised feature with raised crosswalks slightly higher than the street. Its led to force drivers to slow down. Up next at 6 00, an nbc 10 news exclusive. Only we talk to the man fighting to get meek mill free just seconds after he visited the star in prison. And we will keep following the breaking news we brought you at the top of the newscast. A barricade at a bucks county home. A live report, next. A man barricade inside a home. Lets go live to brandon hudson. Hes the scene. What are you learning . We are right in front of the blocked streets. Theres a large perimeter around this situation. Police are directing traffic. I saw some home oowners walking home because of the barricade around 2 45. Police went to serve warrants at a house. Weapons were inside that house. They called in the s. W. A. T. Team. Well bring you more information on this situation as we it on air and on our nbc 10 app. And online at nbc 10. Im brandon hudson, nbc 10 news. Now to an nbc 10 exclusive. Only we talked to meek mills attorney who is fighting to get the star free from prison. Plus the latest in his fight for freedom. How is meek mill doing at the correctional falt . Frustrated. Reporter his lawyer just came out of a visit and came over to our trucks to give us an update. The report that he has a job in there cleaning windows and serving food. Thats a negative. What he is doing since being locked up on that probation violation. Reading, thinking, contemplating. Reporter he says he believes superior court will straighten this out and let him go home. Hes never seen anything like this in his career. A probation period where someone is is locked up for not even committing a crime. Nobody would be treated that way. We reported that meek mill had pushed for an investigation into the judge who locked him back up and i asked about a published reporting he actually backed o out of helping agents secretly record a conversation with that judge. Youre doing your job. Theres no scenario to comment on details of an fbi investigation. He remains behind bars. Well continue to keep you posted. Tim furlong, nbc 10 news. Our coverage of meek mills case continues on the nbc 10 app. See a time line of how he ended in prison and see how he will be the first to know any new twists in this case. Turning now to your first alert neighborhood weather. A nice ice skating conditions as we take a live look at the river rink on penns landing. At least it is dry. That could change tomorrow. Some neighborhoods could see some flurries. Lets bring in chief meteorologist tammie souza. Flurries, really . We could see some flurries and the purple colors there on the ice rink generally we use the purple shades in our snow forecast. Were look iing at a beautif evening. Were going to fall from 43 where we are now and a feels like of 37. Because we have a little bit of wind out there. 40 at 9 00 and 38 by midnight. We are going to drop down into the 30s. Youll need the puffy coats. A couple things to focus on. For this first snow, its not going to be a real big deal. A light shower in philly. Steadier snow in south delaware and enginejersey. A little slushy accumulation on grassy areas. Were going to continue to watch these trends as they unfold tonight at 11 00. Ill have the newest information from the forecast models. We are watching some spotty showers off to the west. They are getting snow in the northern mexico mown mountains. And by saturday morning, this brings snow all the way into philadelphia. A rain snow mix in parts of delaware. It doesnt move out of here until sunday morning. This isnt a lot of snow, but its a consistent snow is shower event. This is our rapid precision model. And this one basically brings in a rain snow mix early saturday morning. Brings maybe philadelphia. Maybe we get flurries here and then its out of here late on saturday. How much snow . That one only brings in a meager inch or so perhaps to some areas in south jersey and along perhaps south delaware as well. 42 tomorrow. 40 on saturday. 38 sunday. 42 on monday. Next shot of snow will be tuesday night and wednesday. Then it gets cold and another chance of snow towards next weekend. Im john clark live out here in california covering the eagles. Great from practice today. Well show you why. Well hear from the birds and big sixers trade. Its all next. Im john clark live at angels stadium in anaheim, california. Eagles practicing now for a second day. This is a great sight. Zach ertz is out there practicing. Hes been cleared from the concussion protocol. Thats huge going into a big nfc matchup against the rams. This is a statement game in the nfc. Its big. Rams have been playing good all year. So we dont have to put things in per spelktive. Everybody knows they are a good team. It will be a good challenge for us. We need to learn from what happened last week. The eagles have been welcomed here into anaheim by mike trout and the angels. Every single eagles player found in their locker here at angels stadium a special note and bobble head of mike trout curtesy of trout and the angels. Not bad at all. Big sixers news. Okafor has finally been traded. Take a look at him in action. Jaleel and nik stauskas go to the knicks. He was the number three overall pick three years ago but did not fit into the sixers plans. So now he will face joel embiid many times a year for many seasons to comp. Sixers, lakers, tonight. Well have that at 11 00. Im john clark live in anaheim, california. Back to you. Tonight on nbc 10 news at 11 00, harassment in the parking lot at the king of prush ya mall. What a mother found ob her car windshield after taking her son to see santa. Thats after thursday night football. What do you think . Hey, think ben will like it . Yeah, was i the only one hearing the angelic music . Im serious, i never know what to get him. Just tell me you got him fios too. Sigh. Mrs. Layne, fios is a 100 fiberoptic network. That, plus this sick console, hell be like whaaaaaattt. Your new tech is best on the 100 fiber optic network. So get fios. Now just 79. 99 per month with a 2year price guarantee with a 2year agreement. A live look now. It is going to be a cold night. Were going to drop down around the freezing mark. And right now, it feels like the 30s outside. Desfiet spite the fact its still in the 40s. Thats because were dealing with the windchill out there. For tomorrow, were going to see highs that are going to be in the 30s and 40s. Feel like the 30s. Well see a rain snow mix starting in the evening and lingering into saturday morning. Another go of light snow on saturday. This should affect south delaware, but we could see snow showers as far north as philadelphia and the suburbs. Stay tuned on that. We clear out and chilly on sunday. And then we have another shot or another chance for a shot of snow midweek next week. And the following weekend. Youre going to be keeping your eye on that. Next, nbc nightly news with lester holt. Well see you at 11 00 after the game. Tonight, inside this frantic firefight. A growing inferno here in Southern California. Hurricane force wind gusts fanning the flames. New fires exploding and new evacuations. A major freeway shut down. Its a race to save homes and animals. And were where firefighters battling on the front lines while even their own homes burn. I asked them to go by and check my house. And he texted me back saying, sorry, you know. Tommy, its gone. An incredible display of duty and honor amidst this growing tragedy. Its happened again. Another Deadly School shooting in america. Students killed as an attacker opens fire. Al franken says hes resigning from the senate but not before taking se