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Transcripts For WCAU NBC 10 News At 9am 20141206

Temperatures above freezing in all spots. 37. In allentown, 40 in lancaster. 44 in philadelphia and 50 in wildwood. So for today as we go throughout the rest of your morning and early afternoon, 11 00, showers in place. 1 00, rain should be falling. 3 00, we are looking at 54 degrees. Well talk more about the rain today and then well flipflop evening tomorrow and drop the temperatures but bring is sunshine back. Well talk about that in a few minutes. We have some new information in the breaking news that weve been bringing to you this morning. Defense secretary chuck hagel confirms that American Photo journalist luke somers is dead. Hagel released details during his unannounced visit to afghanistan today. Hagel says that some rs and nonamerican hostage was murdered during a raid led by u. S. Special forces. President obama ordered the investigation. They identify the second hostage as teacher from south africa. In terms of luke somers. Hes 33 years old kidnapped last year. On thursday of this week al qaeda posted a video showing somers and threatened to kill him if the u. S. Did not meet their demands. Earlier this morning president obama issued this statement. It reads in part, the United States strongly condemns the barbaric murder of luke somers at the hands of al qaeda terrorists during a rescue operation conducted by u. S. Forces in yemen in partnership with the yemeni government. The president also after offered his condolences to lukes family and loved ones. Two people are hurt after this car accident in philadelphias east falls neighborhood. This is a live look. This is on lincoln drive near gypsy lane. Police tell us three cars collided here just a short time ago. Both victims were taken to Temple University hospital. Theres no word on their conditions yet. Were told that lincoln drive is closed in both directions between gypsy lane and writtenhouse street. You can see theyre trying to tow those cars that were involved in the accident out of there and, of course, police are blocking off that area, so if you are going to be driving today, keep that in mind this morning. As soon as we get an update about when the roads when lincoln drive may be reopened, well let you know. New from overnight, Philadelphia Police say a driver was under the influence at the time of this deadly crash on roosevelt boulevard. The accident happened near fwbe net rode around 12 30 this morning. The driver struck and killed a 40yearold man who was walking along the road. The driver did stay at the scene and is under arrest. Authorities tell us charges are pending. Police in montgomery countying are investigating a deadly hit and run. Bridgeport police say a man was trying to cross the road at ram who and ford treats around 1 10 when he was hit by a black ford explorer. The driver initially stopped but then took off. After that a second vehicle, a green cadillac or lincoln suv, struck the victim and also left the scene. The man died at the hospital. Also new from overnight, a house fire in kensington is under investigation. Nbc10 was on this scene on jasper street where the blaze broke out around 2 00 this morning. Crews had it under control within several minutes. No one on the scene was hurt but a battalion chief got into an accident on his way to the fire. His vehicle collided with a car several blocks from the fire. Its unclear if the chief was hurt. Police say the woman driving the other car involved did not have a license. She went to the hospital but police have not said how seriously she was injured. Now to the search for missing College Student Shane Montgomery. Family and friends are not giving up hope on day ten of the search. A reward for information in the case is up to 40,000. Nbc10s Monique Braxton is live in manayunk where the 21yearold disappeared. Where do we stand on the search at this point . Reporter rosemary, as the search for Shane Montgomery enters the second weekend there is a new focus. The 21yearold was last seen here along main street. On thanksgiving morning. We were with the search team when they walked along south street handing out and posting fliers last night. College students come home and reunite with friends on thanksgiving eve. Shanes mom told us she had recently turned 21. It was his first time out. We also followed the road to manayunk where shanes roommate carried a sign. Shapes mom tells us there is now a new focus on this investigation. The authorities are now looking for southeast. If anybody was on main street that evening taking selfies in the couple of places that shane was, picks pub, kildares to see if they can find shane on any of the selfies so we get a better timeline about where he went. According to the bar tab, shane had a few beers at kildares pub before he bumped into the deejays table. He was asked to leave just before 2 00 thanksgiving morning. His family, the fop, bimbos bakery where his dad works and kildares are offering a 40,000 award for shanes whereabouts. Well have an update in half an hour. Live for now from manayunk, Monique Braxton. Today the funeral for three children killed by their mother will be held in Burlington County. Investigators say jeaninne lepage shot 14yearold, 11yearold, and 8yearold inside their house in tabernacle last month. Lepage then shot herself. She later died in the hospital. Police have not commented on a motnmotive in this case. Theres new information this morning in the Court Proceedings for accused cop killer eric frein. The hearing is not scheduled for january 5th. It was supposed to be this tuesday. Frein is charged with shooting two Pennsylvania State troopers in the poconos in september. He accused of killing one of them. Police arrested frein after vrts say he led them into a manhunt in late october. If convicted he faces the death penalty. Police in south jersey will resume an investigation into the shooting of local rapper beanie sigel. Right now 40yearold sigel is in Critical Condition following surgery. The rappers real name is dwight grant. Last night police told us they found a honda min many any van they were looking for in connection to the shooting but its unclear if they have any other leads. According to investigators, the gunfire broke out sometime during a fight at sigels house yesterday morning. Sig sigels brotherinlaw was hurt but not shot. Sigel who is from south philadelphia had been on probation. Officials released him from federal prison in august after he served two years for tax evasion. Sigels probation is set to end today. Investigators say revenge is the reason a woman torched her neighbors home in montgomery county. Her neighbor happens to be a police detective. According to police donna krupp blamed detective ernie morris for her sons arrest in june. Investigators say she was convinced that morris told state police where to find her son who had an active warrant. According to investigators krupp started the fire at morris home in lower pots grow ive township thursday morning while he and his family were away on vacation. Investigators tell us the detectives Home Security system caught the whole crime on tape. We spoke to a neighbor who lives a few doors down and is disturbed. Anybody that can set someones house on fire and ruin everything they ever owned, but killing the cat just hurts my heart. Thats the real killer for me. I just, you know, its indescribable. Krupp faces a list of charges, including arson. She will stay in jail unless he comes up with a Million Dollars for bail. Now to a developing story related to the cosby scandal. Police in los angeles say they will investigate claims that bill cosby molested a woman when she was 15 years old. Judy huth and her lawyer Gloria Allred met with detectives last night. Huth is claiming that cosby forced her to perform a sex act on him at the playboy mansion in 1974. While more than a dozen women have accused cosby of sexual assault, the comedian has never been charged with a crime. The adopted son of Jerry Sandusky is on a mission to stop child abuse. Yesterday Matt Sandusky told a conference in philadelphia that child abuse is the single worst Health Epidemic facing children. He says his biological father physically abused him, then his adoptive father Jerry Sandusky, sexually abused him. Matt founded a nonprofit to make sure child abuse issues stay in the national spotlight. What i am doing now is to keep that conversation going, is to be that voice that doesnt let it fade away and doesnt let it die until every survivor has been helped. Matt came forward with his allegations during the 2012 trial that resulted in a 45count conviction for Jerry Sandusky. Sanduskys wife dottie maintains her husband did nothing wrong. Matt says he is not in contact with any of the sanduskys. A travel nightmare and tragedy. Passengers stabbed onboard an amtrak train. Now police are trying to figure out what motivated the attack. Plus, a thief puts a store clerk under his spell in order to pull off a robbery. Well show you how he did it, next. This morning were learning more about racial profiling guidelines expected to be announced by the Obama Administration soon. A u. S. Official says the home leftha land Security Department would be exempt. That means they would still be allowed to consider race and ethnicity while checking people at airports and borders. But the guidelines will restrict the ability of the fbi and other Law Enforcement agencies to take those factors into account during their investigations. Lets head to cleveland, ohio, where a family of 12yearold boy shot and killed by a Police Officer is sue for wrongful death. According to cleveland. Com the lawsuit cites the city and two officers as the defendants. It says police acted recklessly when they confronted tamir rice outside a rec center last month. The boy was reaching into his waistband for what police later discovered was a pellet gun. The rookie officer who shot him thought the gun was real. In michigan, a man is facing charges in a stabbings of four people aboard an amtrak train. The violence broke out last night. Police say they got a call from somebody onboard that train about a suspicious person. By the time officers arrived at the trains next stop the attack had been carried out. Police arrested the suspect. The victims were taken to area hospitals. Investigators have not commented about a motive. Young people all across philadelphia are reacting to recent grand jury decisions not to indict Police Officers in the deaths of eric garner and mike cell brown. Students held a diein demonstration. They dropped to the floor to symbolize the deaths of the two men. Across town in kensington dozens of students left class and marched through the streets of philadelphia. Dont shoot. Cant breathe. Dont shoot. In new york city marchers were on the move again last night. They held a diein rally in popular bryant park underneath the Christmas Tree. Thursday night Police Arrested hundreds of protesters in new york. A large crowd took to the streets of boston last night. They reasoned to speakers demand an end to excessive source by police. In washingtons chinatown district demonstrators blocked traffic. And in florida marchers interfered with cars on the causeway a South African prosecutor plans to appeal the conviction and sentence of Oscar Pistorius this week. The olympic athlete was found guilty of the equivalent of manslaughter and five years in prison for shooting and killing his girlfriend. Prosecutors say he should have been found guilty of murder. If their appeal is successful, pistorius would face a minimum of 15 years in jail. Police in london are looking for a thief whom they say used hypnosis to rob a liquor store. Check out the surveillance video. Watch the shopkeeper in the white shirt go into a series of transes. Each time the man who is wearing the dark shirt passes by his arm and makes hand gestures near his face while the shopkeeper is frozen the robber goes through his pockets stealing several hundred dollars in cash before leafing the store. Detectives consulted a magician on the case. Thats the truth. Magician told the cops that the thief probably made a hypnotic suggestion to the shopkeeper during an earlier visit to the store. Up next, well introduce you to this weeks wednesdays child and will todays rain dampen your holiday preparations . Michelle grossman is tracking the wet weather. Not if youre going to be shopping indoors. Great day to be inside. Spend that money. You just may need the umbrella from the parking lot, too, at the mall. Live look outside. Looking at the beaches. Its going to be a great day. Lots of clouds. Rain in spots. Heavy at times. Well talk more about that but then sunshine returns for the second half of your weekend. Well talk about that, too, coming up. Chlts lets check in with this weeks wednesdays child. He is a bright and creative boy who has a lot of love to give. Hes hoping to share that love with a forever family. Nbc10 introduces us so zamir. Reporter he is a brilt and caring young man who loves fashion. He has a passion for modeling and design so he took him to discover all about it at philadelphia university. He had a grate time learning all they had to show him and got right to work on his designs. This is probably how it would look. Reporter hes 11 years old and excellent student. Hes already focused on what he wants to do in the future even though he likes to be in the spotlight, he has a caring way towards others. When i think about him, devoted kid who cares about what other people feel. He cares deeply for other peoples feelings. Reporter he has a bright smile and his happiness is infectious. Hes very social and he knows himself in a lot of ways. He knows what his likes, he knows his dislikes. He knows what hes interested in and he can tell you about it. Reporter he knows what a family would mean to him. For somebody to care for you even when you do something wrong and have somebody to take care of you when you need somebody to. Reporter the ideal family would provide support and help him to reach his goals. We are looking for a twoparent family, for him to be the youngest in the home, also a family that can honor and respect him and encourage his creative side. Reporter he is ready to be a part of a loving home. He ask this weeks wednesdays child. You can make the dream of a forever family come true for any wednesdays child sponsored by the dave thomas foundation. Go to our website nbc10. Com and search wednesdays child or you can call the National Adoption center at 1866doadopt. Now your nbc10 first alert weather. All right. Good saturday morning. Im meteorologist Michelle Grossman. Were waking up to a gray day. Were going to see the clouds in place, even fog and mist and rain throughout this saturday but it will be mild before we flipflop things on sunday. So our first weather headline, soggy saturday. You need the umbrella as you head out today. Sunny on sunday. Sunshine returning. Cold temperatures as well but with windy conditions. More rain and snow of is on the way. Looking around tuesday and wednesday for a coastal storm that could impact us. Looking outdoor, walking of tut door to clouds and fog and mist. 44 right now in philadelphia. Winds out of the southeast at three miles per hour. About seven degrees warmer than this time yesterday. Another big story is the fog today. Fivemile visibility in philadelphia. Look to the nor and west. Worse there. Quarter mile visibility in mount pocono, 2 1 2 mile visibility in pottstown and 1 1 4 in lancaster. If youre flying out today you might want to call ahead and see if your flight is on schedule. Blue on the map, that means we are chilly outside. Were not cold, which is good news because what were seeing falling from the sky is rain because temperatures are above freezing. 32347 allentown. 40 in pottstown. 44 in philadelphia. 46 in dover. 48 in Atlantic City. Radar, air is dry. You can see lots of moisture back to the west. In our immediate area you see rain in the poconos. All of this will fill in as we go throughout the next couple of hours. Were going to see rain heavy at times, just not steady over the next few hours. All of this rain needs to come up and it will move through throughout the afternoon and etching hour. Future cast, there it is. Around 1 00, youre out and about doing your errands, bring the umbrella with you. By 5 00, same story as you wrap up your saturday night. Around 10 00 or 11 00. And then we start that drying process overnight. We see the skies clear. Were doing the see the temperatures dip overnight. Were going to see the winds picking up. Today, rainy and mild. 5255. Winds out of the south at five to ten miles per hour. Winds calm today. Overnight, picking up and sunday well see a pretty windy day. Tonight, temperatures into the 30s. 38 in philadelphia. 32, north and west. That rain ending around midnight. Sunshine on sunday for the eagles game. 43. Temperatures starting out in the 40s for the game dropping into the 30s. By monday, more clouds. Rain comes in late. 40 degrees tuesday. Thats going to be the interesting day. Coastal storm, rain and wind. 48 degrees. By wednesday, could see some leftover rain. Some snow showers as well. Temperatures cold though. Only in the upper 30s. Still in the 30s on thursday. Up into the 40s on friday with partly sunny skies. 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