Notice the clouds increasing and the rain moves in at 10 00 p. M. More details on what to expect in the full sevenday forecast. But first well go to first alert traffic reporter Christine Maddela. Good morning. Happy friday. Well take a live look outside right now with our photographer on the scene of this crash since we started this morning. So before our newscast at 4 00 a. M. Theres peco crews out here. What happened was a car hit a utility pole and also flipped over in this intersection of Germantown Pike. And because of that utility pole being hit, you can see the low hanging wires and the utility pole leaning. So peco has to go in and fix that. That is taking so long to repair the wires. Germantown pike one westbound lane is open on the eastbound side. Both eastbound lanes are open. So you can get by but because theres a heavy presence of peco crews, it is going to take some time. This stretch, the peco crews are on Germantown Pike near pleasant road. On the maps you can see a sl
Tomorrow and tonight and for the procession to the cemetery as well. As we get another glimpse now of mourners gathering to pay their final respects from skyforce10. We have information about street closures and detours related to the officer wilson funeral services. Its all on the nbc10 news app. Your weekend is about to get off to a soaking start. Nbc10 first alert weather is tracking rain thats just hours away and it will be heavy at times. Our nbc10 live Sky Cam Network keeping a quloes watch as the storm moves closer. Can you see clouds already building in the area. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking the rain from the weather center. If youre going to stay out really late tonight is the rain going to interrupt your plans. Citizens bank park. The clouds are there. Its kind of chilly. Not baseball weather yet. We hope it warms up. Its in the 40s across the entire area except for 36 degrees in the poconos. Temperatures are a little below average after hitting that 60degree mark a c
Thats a question researchers are asking today after they found a human gene with a power to protect brains from the dreaded disease. Here with more, dr. Robert malilo, president of the International Association of functional neurology and rehabilitation and he is cofounder of brain balance achievement centers. Great to have you here, doctor. Great to be here. Gerri tell us about this gene. For all of us aging babe bp boomers i think this is good news. This is good news. Basically weve identified a gene that regulates basically selfdestruction of our brain over time. Meaning that this gene, when it is turned on it protects us against what we call oxy date tiff stress, which is basically stress on the brain and that causes degeneration. Gerri good news, it is inside your body. When youre a baby you have this bean. It is inside your body all the time. Could we find a way to flip it on and off . I think so. That is really the key thing. Youre talking about nongene mutation where the gene i
Diagnosis. Cervical cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease that despite radiation and surgery would have taken her life for months. That would have been where the story ended. Somewhere in the hospital Henrietta Lacks lived on, at least some of her did. Before henriettas death her doctors to a sample of her tissue to study inside a test tube. When they looked closely, they discovered something unusual for cells. Hers not only survived but thrived and multiplied in the live. In fact, henriettas cells were so resilient they were replicated again and again and again in laboratories all over the world and went on to become the most widely used cell for for human cellular and molecular biology. Those cells known as hela are the basis of breakthroughs. Jonas salk used them to develop the first vaccine for polio. Medical advances in vitrovertization, cell biology, Cancer Research and all things to hela cells. Since hela were not the first cells to be widely replicated but also s
And wall street is reacting big time. And a b. A. R. T. Strike, the deadline for a deal is one week from today. Were going to hear from a b. A. R. T. Director about how well the negotiations are going and how well is the backup plan. In the meantime, neighbors in oakland are on edge after a woman was killed by the very violence she was working to prevent. The 66yearold judy solomon was gunned down blocks from her home on wednesday afternoon. Now, her neighbors say they have had enough. They have been talking about hiring private security for months now, but as kpix5 dawn lynn tells us. Reporter they have the highest rates in the country. Bill is partthat statistic. His house was broken into twice in one year. I feel cut and run or stay and fight and the urge to stay and fight won out. Reporter staying means paying. The Oakland Police department is stretched extremely thin. Bill and his neighbors are planning to pay into a pool and hire private Security Patrols. Judy solomon worked hard