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Nbc 10 is the only place to see it live. I got a behind the scenes look to see what we can all expect new years eve. This is the work before the wow that comes on new years eve in philadelphia. That is what we do. Convert oohs and aahs. The fireworks on the waterfront. While the 12man crew spends four days making it happen. Every year we develop new things overseas. We have the manufacturers design shelves just for our liking. This year we have special naught kells, shells that go out into the water. They think wow, the river lit up. With 4,000 pounds of explosives, crews are setting each one of these off by hand and the entire show is computerized. Timed out to the exact fraction of a second when each fire work will go off. Everything will match and look beautiful. It will will go to the music. It is a labor of love for these guys who come back every year. We consider ourselves painters. The paintings do not last long but i feel like we leave an impressi impression. Everyone out here
Good morning. Good morning, savannah. Lets get to some of the headlines in the news. At the top, this issue of russia, the investigation being held by the intelligence committee. Youre a former prosecutor. I want to call on that expertise. Given what we know about devin nunes, that he went to the white house, in the midst of an investigation of the white house, can he stay in that job . Does he need to step down and recuse himself to maintain credibility . Thats a judgment for him to make. The intelligence committees on the house and the senate side, have been set up to be bipartisan. And they are bipartisan. And i think theyve done a great job over the years in investigating matters and ov overseeing the intelligence committee. But has he shot that by virtue of his actions . He goes to the white house in the middle of this investigation and wont say who let him in. Savannah, i dont think he shot that credibility thats been developed over three decades on these intelligence committees
All this wet weather is expected to bring much needed cooldowns to our region. Good evening, im denise nakano. Lets go straight to karen thomas who is tracking these storms. Where is the heaviest rain falling right now . Reporter the heaviest rain just pushed out of central delaware and is on the move to parts of south jersey, specifically into parts of western Cumberland County. Theres a lot of lightning and convection embedded in this system. Weve got heavy rain moving through philadelphia right now. A little bit of lightning, but the heavier convection is right here. Wow. We can see this here. Kent county, delaware, just pushed through a little while ago. Were talking about two inches of rainfall an hour as the system is moving quickly, but it was sort of a onetwo punch for parts of kent county. Dover, smyrna, talbot, milford. So ponding and weve got some flash flooding going on there with poor drainage area. This system is continuing to move to the east. Thats why we say cape may,