To close in less than two years. We are going to continue to stay here, monitor developments, and try to talk with some of the striking workers and other taj employees coming up at 5 00 and 6 00. Im ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. Sounds like theyre fired up. Now to the attack on a philadelphia playground. A boy on a Basketball Court chased and beaten and forced to strip naked by a group of gunteeming teenagers. The attack actually happened last month. But Police Released the details today, along with an important clue. Monique braxton is following the story for us. Police are hoping Surveillance Video can help find who did this, monique . Reporter thats right. It happened in broad daylight. This is where the victim was chased from. Not far from the playground you see here. The omni rec center and Basketball Courts. Everyone we spoke with is shocked. Its sad, first and foremost. How do our kids get ahold of a gun. Especially a teenager. Reporter thats how people here are reacting to the re
Right now, meteorologist bill henley with your community forecast. Right in the middle 60s for new jersey, Lehigh Valley and delaware. Starting off with clear skies, well see a lot of sunshine today. High clouds that will start moving this afternoon in the Lehigh Valley. 77 degrees at 10 00 and were back into the 80s just a little bit warmer this afternoon, 87 degrees for philadelphia. Middle 80s for new jersey, Lehigh Valley and delaware. Ill go through the forecast hour by hour when im back in just a few minutes. Lets see how the roads are looking on a friday morning. Jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. Thanks, bill. Were watching an accident scene in pottstown right now on south charlotte street and queen street. Watch for maybe Police Activity there. Also watching the vine street expressway. We are closed or at least had the beginnings of that construction east and westbound in between broad street and the schuylkill expressway. Some of the exit ramps are starting to op
Ill check in with more of the area bridges when im back in the next ten. Tonight the eyes of the world are on rio as the city hosts the 2016 olympic summer games. Billions of people are hr t c Opening Ceremony. Nbc 10s matt delucia is live this morning in the digital operations center. Matt, High Expectations for tonight. Absolutely. 3 billion estimated viewers from around the world. A lot of eyes on rio tonight. Crews have been making lastminute touchups and cleanups around the convenient use and inside the olympic stadium. The Opening Ceremony tonight is in americana. It promises to be different than anything weve seen before. We got to see a small glimpse of the rehearsals last night. Brazil has been keeping much of the ceremony a big secret. What we do know, Michael Phelps will join in the ceremony. He will be carrying the flag for team usa. This has to be one of the coolest things ive ever done. And athletes from 206 nations and a refugee team are in brazil to compete in 31 sports
Will surely be packed this weekend and many people are getting the spots as we see. We have team coverage, janet reyes is live and first well check in with Melissa Magee. There are storm concerns for the start of the weekend today. Reporter that is right. We are tracking the strong showers and storms that will move in later this afternoon and into the early evening hours. Right now warm in philadelphia. 82. And 81 in allentown and 75 in the poconos and 76 at the coast in cape may but the humidity is a big difference, its definitely higher than where it was earlier yesterday in most of the delaware and life. You have the warmth and humid air in place. We are tracking the cold front on stormtracker 6 live double scan this will work its way into a warm and juicy air mass ripe for strong showers and storms. From a west east direction well watch the activity break out. Future tracker 6 showing you 3 00 this afternoon we have a lot of scattered activity north and west of the i95 corridor, bu
But warmer weather is on the way, plus im tracking a chance of showers throughout the weekend. Ill have the details in my first alert sevenday forecast. Right now authorities are in a wooded area of the pocono mountains hoping theyve cornered the man accuse of shooting two state troopers and killing one of them. Nbc10s matt delucia is live in the operations center. Tell us what happened over night and what were learning this morning. Rosemary, the manhunt continues this morning and police have been narrowing their focus to a neighborhood in canadensis, Monroe County now its entered day eight, people in that area are hope this will end very soon. Hundreds of state and local Police Last Night continue to follow leads in their search for eric frein. A search that intensified as gunfire was reported near canadensis. That is where freins parents live. A pennsylvania Law Enforcement source says that gunfire did not come from state police and was not related to the manhunt. Still, many homes