We all received the communication at the same time. It went well. Reporter many, but not all schools have central air. So district officials were concerned about concentration in hot classes. At kids in preschool, its making for a smooth start to all that is brandnew. Theres the high anxiety, not being around mom and dad anymore. Who are they leaving us with. Reporter now, some parents added that their afterschool programs in the district dont take place, dont take effect, i should say, until midseptember. We did try to ask the district about this, and also about how many schools have central air conditioning. But considering today was the first day, they didnt get back to us by phone, or emails. Were live in trenton, im cydney long, nbc 10 news. We talked to the School District of philadelphia. They say they will continue to monitor the weather. But at this point they have no plans for an early dismissal. Meanwhile, the school bells were ringing at hills Freedom World academy. This is
Ships, airplanes, you name it, is too low. Reporter but analyst ed trazinski said it would be expensive. The devil is in the details. Reporter trump did address the cost without going into detail, saying the government would cut waste and bureaucracy. Now, coming up at 5 00, well tell you more about his message here in philadelphia today, as well as what one general told me about the change hes seen in donald trump. Live in center city, im lauren mayk, nbc 10 news. Prior to trumps speech, a group of Pennsylvania Veterans denounced the republican president ial candidate. Hillary clinton supporters say trump would endanger national security. You hold awesome power, the greatest military in the world. You need to demonstrate a restraint with that. Its not a car you can take out for a ride and nuclear weapons, you get to see how fast it gets to 100. The group also condemned trumps recent comparisons of inner cities to war zones. Chelsea clinton is campaigning for her mother in pennsylvania
We say good morning to our meteorologist for our first look at the first alert neighborhood weather. Crystal, i cant wait to see the sun. Well still be waiting, right . Thats right. Good morning, ted. Happy sunday, everyone. Forecast son the tail end of this system. Sunshine is in reach here. The thicker cloud coverage, the rain is just now off to the east of us. Now we do have clouds overhead. Its not showing up great on radar. Some of these are low lying clouds, low hanging which means that again it looks like the top of the higher buildings in center city are cut off because of the clouds and also fogginess still expected this morning. And some of the mist conditions that weve seen in the last few days repeating as well. So were going to start out with another gray morning. Temperatures, some of us are just slightly warmer than what we saw yesterday morning. 62 in philadelphia instead of the upper 50s. Were 51 mt. Pocono. Lancaster at 60 degrees. Atlantic city at 63. With that sligh
Rana novini in the concourse section with the gathering there tonight. Reporter sibila, friends, family, Community Activists are all here for a funeral that is just getting under way. People have been posting these signs around the Islamic Center that says justice for wally. His son was granted a visa to attend his fathers funeral while his body will be taken back to he was shot and kill on august 9th. A man, guzman, grabbed an officers gun from the holster and shot wally, killing him. Activists are concerned about the nypds use of those holsters. They were new models, which are safer for the Police Officers and for the public because it is more difficult to snatch a gun from the new models. Theyre not being used. New ones . That would be in the public interest. Reporter the nypd issued a statement to us saying it got a new safer holster in 2014 and so far about 8,000 officers have been trained to use that holster. They say theyre working to train more officers on that holster. The hol
We begin with superbugs. When antibiotics were first discovered in the 1940s, they were hailed as lifesaving wonder drugs preventing infections, but new strains of bacteria that are called superbugs have evolved, adapted and built up resistance. What does this mean for the future of modern medicine . That is this weeks cover story. They are called superbugs, strains of bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics. They cause infections in 2 Million People in the United States each year and kill 23,000. Since they were discovered about 70 years ago, antibiotics have saved millions of lives, but they have been overused causing bacteria to evolve faster and leaving medications ineffective. If current antibiotics fail to kill bacteria and doctors can stop infections, many procedures like organ transplants, chemotherapy and major surgery could become higher risk. How did we get here . Nearly onethird of prescriptions for antibiotics are unneeded and incorrectly prescribed. For some ge