System and they wanted him to show how easy it was. The victim prize for helping 20,000. But first he would need to fork over 14,000 of his own cash. If something is too good to be true its too good to be true. Nobody makes 6,000 with a quick turnover of money like that. A russian american drove the conartist and his car to withdraw from different banks first and second first niagara and then fwrov parx casino where the victim got a sizable cash advance on his credit cardch the men made their way down the street and distracted the victim and left him broke in the parking lot of Dunkin Donuts escaping in a white mini van. My thought is theyve done this before and im sure theres other victims out there. What we dont want is a victim tomorrow. Bensalem Police Believe the suspects african accents fake and the kahne the man was using a prop. At the wawa where it all started, customers had a lot to say about the scam. You have to really respect older people and i think its dishonorable. What
To david murphy and find out what to expect today. Reporter its a fairly comfortable first day of school for philadelphia publics and other kids. We have cloud cover to the south. I could see getting early sun from philadelphia into the early suburbs most of us will pick up additional cloud cover, but it will be brighter to the north than to the south 68 in philadelphia, 59 in reading, cooler up north still in the low 70s down at the shore. As we head outside the door to catch that school bus, 66 degrees by 6 00 a. M. 68 by 8 00 a. M. Partly cloudy skies with clouds thicker down south than up north. As we roll through the afternoon, 70 degrees by 9 00 a. M. , 73 by noon, high is 77 degrees thats fairly manageable in the classroom as you get out of school. 71 by 6 00 p. M. Cloudier to the south than to the north. Matt, theres rain in the forecast, ill have the details coming up. Thanks, david. We begin with video that came into the newsroom. A driver crashed into a north Philadelphia Re
Weatherrelated problems impacting us. We have light volume on the schuylkill expressway. We have a lot of issues, some accidents new this morning, new jersey turnpike northbound past 168 an accident involving the tractortrailer. The tractortrailer was going over an underpass, it top was sheered off, they have to off load it to another tractortrailer. Kind of a messy situation. The inner drive is closed on the boulevard southbound at tyson avenue watch for an accident closing the inner drive. Not that far off we have another messy accident in northeast philadelphia shutting down bustleton avenue, closed between long shore and harbison avenue. Eu89 brought down a it brought down a pole and you may want to use leonard avenue, the boulevard southbound is blocked in the inner drive because of the an accident. We have video of that accident, its our developing story, a driver crashed into a northeast Philadelphia Restaurant and then simply fled the scene. It happened at the jade harbor Chine
Her state senate seat tomorrow. She lost her primary bid so she would have been out of office in december. We did ask about her pension, her taxpayer funded pension. Were told shes going to be keeping that. Part of this plea deal. Well explain how thats come about coming up tonight at 5 00. Nbc 10 is learning new information today about this Campaign Controversy caught on camera. We first showed you that video of a man accused of swiping Campaign Signs last night on nbc 10 news at 11 00. The accused of the husband of a delaware state senator up for reelection. Today he turned himself into police. Is anyone talking about the political friction . Reporter renee not the people i want to hear from. I invited all the players to talk about this story tell their side. Not the key players. It started this intersection with signs like this for the republicans, signs started disappearing. So a couple of activists staked it out and at 4 00 a. M. They caught the sign swiper. What are you doing thi
Project. But after a protest that consumed the day, most of the fences ended up on the ground like this. Protesters took over peoples park in berkeley on wednesday and put construction of the new Student Housing project on hold, for the day, at least. Were not going the stand and let something so culturally significant be taken away from us. Reporter last week a judge ruled they could move forward that would provide housing for 1100 students and low income residents. Students thrive when they can live close to campus. And for too long, too many of our students have had to live distant from campus or in inadequate and extremely expensive housing in the city of berkeley. Two years from now well be looking forward to students moving into the dorms here. The park 60 of the park will remain as open green space. Reporter but protester says peoples park is not the place for the housing project. I know berkeley needs housing. But not here. This is the most densely populated part of town alread