Chris christie having to do with gun control. Cydney long is in new jersey talking to lawmakers right now about what led to their decision. Well hear from them tonight on nbc 10 news at 5 00. And sky force 10 over the scene of a hit and run in Delaware County. State troopers in glenn mills are looking for a driver who hit a person riding a bike before 7 00 this morning. Troopers are at the hospital hoping to talk to the victim and get his description of the car or the driver. No word on the victims condition. Today a father is facing charges after investigators say he stopped a teacher who was trying to prevent his son from fighting another student. Nbc 10s doug shimell went to berks county to find out exactly what happened. We had an 11yearold boy ran up to a teacher said he was being threatened by another kid. Right after class and police say another 12yearold boy was in pursuit. The 12yearold boy then in front of the teacher came up and started assaulting the boy. He pushed him in front of a moving car in the parking lot and continued to assault him. The teenage teacher tried to break it up, according to the affidavit, when the 12yearolds father intervened. The 12yearolds father grabbed the teacher away from his son and encouraged the kid to continue. The affidavit quotes manning as saying, dont ever touch my son or i will hurt you. The father was arrested and jailed on charges of aggravated assault and terroristic threats. Being a dad myself, i think thats bad parenting and i would never teach my kid to put his hand on another kid. And police say they are contemplating similar charges against the 12yearold boy. In berks county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather. Really springlike fall day felt perfect at this Pumpkin Patch in wilmington at the brandywine river valley, where folks were enjoying hayrides, picking out the perfect pumpkin. That looked good right there. I need to get a pumpkin, im behind. A live look outside right now, temperatures are expected to take a dive. I loved it today, though, so nice. First alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp is here now with the first alert forecast. It was hard to walk through the door to work, brittney. Were in for some changes . Yes. Its going to be hard to deliver the forecast. Today temperatures warmed into the mid 70s, more than 10 degrees above our average with 65 this time of year, but tomorrow take a look at the big drop, all the way down to the 60s. Low 60s and we stay there right into the weekend. Saturday 64 degrees, as we head into sunday, 66. This is really going to be the last of the 70s for us. Our current temperatures show that throughout town were at 77 degrees in philadelphia, so we warmed up another several degrees. Temperatures inwom wilmington a 74. 74 degrees in oxford, 74 degrees in millville and dover, so its going to be a pleasant evening out. City planner shows us by 6 00 p. M. 71 degrees, mix of sun and clouds, by 9 00 p. M. , 66. Tomorrow we are going to see a cold front move in and drop our temperatures. Ill let you know how much cooler well get, plus im tracking a chance of weekend showers. After that, nice and mild. Ill go over the details coming up in my full forecast. Jim . All right. People continue to testify against chaka fattah jr. In his fraud trial. Today his former girlfriend on the stand, but fattah insists the government is still not making its case. Deanna durante, you spoke to fattah again today . Reporter i did. He says that for someone with no legal background, he certainly believes he is winning the case against him. In 2010, you know, i made more than 15,000 a month, you know, the government put my taxes for a moment, so im sure you saw that, and, you know, making more than 15,000 a month and paying your rent and running around, maybe i was at some nice restaurants, maybe i did have a few nice suits, this is one of them. Reporter outside court chaka fattah defends his spending habits. My tax bill for 2010 is paid. I am charged with paying it late. Reporter fattahs exgirlfriend says paying taxes was not a priority for her thenboyfriend. I might get them a car, if im doing well, i think its important to take care of the people i care about. Reporter the case against him is weak and he is winning. The government has proven nothing so far. Im more than confident with no law degree and, you know, and, you know, its funny how earlier this week they were saying i sit around watching law order. Were going to see how good that law order background has prepared me for this trial. Reporter one of the last witnesses of the day, an irs agent that went through a number of tax returns from 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010, and that witness on the stand showing the jury what fattah jr. Had declared as income and prosecutors also holding up checks to show additional income they claim that fattah had not declared for his taxes. Reporting live outside the federal courthouse, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Fattahs father, meanwhile, is facing several charges in a separate grand jury indictment. The longtime congressman is accused of misusing campaign funds, donations, and grant money. He also denies wrong doing. His trial is scheduled for next may. Congressman fattah is married to nbc 10 anchor renee chenaultfattah. Renee is referenced in the criminal complaint against her husband labeled as feperson e and affiliate of the fattah enterprise, alleging she took part in fraudulently selling a car to pay Closing Costs on a vacation home. Renee is on leave from nbc 10. The two Major Party Candidates for mayor of philadelphia will discuss issues facing the city tonight in north philadelphia. Republican melissa murraybailey and republican jim kennedy will talk to groups that advocate educational development, youth services, and women issues on broad street. Right now family and friends are attending the viewing for the 3yearold found dead in the woods in Haddon Township. Its been more than a week since brendan creatos body was discovered by a k9 unit by the cooper river. Tonight Haddon Township is holding a fundraiser in memory of the little boy. Some of the proceeds will help the families affected by his death. A Delaware County man is charged with trying to lure children at a playground. Daniel lee was arrested after concerned parents called police last night. They say he was talking to children at the playground of wayne elementary. The children became scared when lee started talking about going to a cabin in the woods. Situation where the system absolutely worked, that we were notified by the parents of the children immediately after the incident occurred, where they called 911, which initiated a Police Department response and as i stated, within two minutes, police officers, specifically officer charles and christopher gluk located the individual. Lees parents say the 26 year old has autism and regularly interacts with children. Police want to hear from you if you have had problems with the suspect. Stopping hate before it becomes a crime. That was the focus of a conference at the National Constitution center today. Members of Law Enforcement, the department of justice, the fbi, and the Antidefamation League addressed hate and hate crimes, prevent, and reverse the behavior before someone gets hurt. I think its fair to say the threats we face as a nation have likely never been greater or more diverse and the expectations placed on Law Enforcement have never been higher. The more knowledge we can collect and share, the better we can fulfill our mission and protect our communities. The meeting focused on stopping the spread of hate. A u. S. Service member is the first to die in action in an attack on isis. Dozens of u. S. Special forces and iraqi troops raided a compound in northern iraq. They freed about 70 isis hostages, but an american died in the raid. The person has not been identified. U. S. Combat troops rarely take part in direct combat. They are usually limited to training and advising iraqi and kurdish forces. I took responsibility, and as part of that, before i left office, i launched reforms to better protect our people in the field. After months of anticipation and political feuding, former secretary of state and president ial candidate Hillary Clinton was on capitol hill testifying once again about the 2012 attacks in benghazi. Nbc 10s keith jones monitored todays hearing. Keith is live in our Digital Operations Center with the latest. Keith . There are new allegations now Hillary Clinton could have done more to protect the diplomats on the ground. Shes testifying before the committee on the 2012 attacks on benghazi. Republicans say eight previous investigations are incomplete. The committee spent nearly a year and a half with more than 4. 5 taxpayer dollars investigating why four americans died in the attacks. Clinton is being grilled why she didnt personally see hundreds of request for more security, including a request from ambassador chris stevens. Took those requests where they belong, to the security professionals. Over 600 requests, youve testified here this morning you had none of those reach your desk. Is that correct . Thats correct. Clinton tells lawmakers ambassador stevens knew the danger. She says this investigation is just a stunt to derail her political campaign. Live in the Digital Operations Center, keith jones, nbc 10 news. New video tonight of four men wanted for robbing a small store in south philadelphia in the middle of the afternoon. The men walked into the star mini market about two weeks ago, one man pointed a gun at an employee and demanded money. A second man held the employees hands so he couldnt go anywhere. They took cash and cigarettes. A store owner put up a fight. Look at this video, one suspect waits in the back where the owner is standing, a second suspect goes to the front, confronts an employee, and demands cash. Look at the top of the screen, you can see the store owner fighting back against one of the suspects. The second suspect kicks that store owner several times before leaving. The store owner is okay. October is National Bullying awareness month, and to spread the word and the importance of antibullying, philadelphias District Attorney visited a north Philadelphia Elementary School today. Spoke to students about bullying and urged them to stay in school. The children were deputized as assistant District Attorneys against bullying. Many of the shootings that we have, the homicides, are still the result of someone feeling disrespected and not knowing how to resolve conflict in a healthy way. So coming to schools like this school to talk with some great kids about their own experience with being bullied or bullying others helps us prevent crime in the future. Since january of last year, williams has visited more than 25 inner city schools to share his message and spread awareness about the importance of speaking up. Police in sweden say a 21yearold man attacked people inside of a school with a sword, killing a student and a teacher. Police say the man wore a mask and knocked on the door of the classrooms. Stabbing the people who opened the doors. Police shot and killed that suspect. The motive for the attack still is not known. In st. Louis, police are investigating the seventh churchrelated arson in a little more than two weeks. Someone set fire to the door of the rectory here at a church early this morning. No one lives at the rectory and no one was hurt, but all of the fires appear to be started at exterior doors. The first six happened at predominantly black churches, this one wasnt. Officials believe the string of arsons is connected and firefighters are reaching out to the community, desperate to get a tip to lead to a suspect and end the string of fires. Every tip counts and one tip might effect another one. They can only do so much. Its up to the community now or his family or whoever knows him to turn him in. Some tips have come in, but police say its not enough to crack the case. From our jersey shore bureau, a man who brought millions of dollars in fake chips to a poker tournament is going to prison. A judge today sentenced Christian Lusardi to five years in prison. He also has to pay nearly half a million in restitution to the bor ga da and haras. He flushed the chips down a toilet. The borgata had to cancel a poker tournament after the chips were found. Investigators say 800,000 of fake chips were put into play before the scheme was busted. Iron man is coming to Atlantic City, taking place september 18th of next year. The iron Man Organization has been looking to expand in the northeast. The group says Atlantic City is an aconic east coast location the athletes and supporters will love to visit. The role here is to augment the nongaming attractions for this city. We have a terrific city, this is a terrific destination, we have to continue to do everything we can to identify the next best event and this is the kind of thing that we support wholeheartedly. The competition begins with a 1. 2mile swim in the back bay, then the athletes will ride a 56mile bike course and finally run 13. 1 miles. Im tired just talking about it. Tonight, Ocean City Council will hold a preliminary vote on an ordinance that would ground drones within five miles of its airport. That area basically covers the entire community. The proposal argues drones threaten privacy and safety. Violators would face fines or 30 days in jail. Long beach township has already outlawed drones flying in its community. A new study that measures distracted driving using handsfree Voice Technology in cars against smartphones. And the results may surprise you. More than half of pennsylvanians surveyed think voiceactivated technology is less distracting than a handheld cell phone, however, hands free is not risk free. Studies showed reaction times slowed for up to 27 seconds after drivers stopped communicating with the system. That means they could travel the length of nearly three football fields before becoming fully engaged in driving again. Drivers 54 and older became more distracted than other age groups. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Good evening. We have a few changes on the way as we get into the next 24 hours. We did see a warm day today, temperatures at 77 degrees. As we head into tomorrow, well drop close to 15 degrees, so a lot cooler tomorrow. Also tracking a weekend shower and temperatures will stay pretty close to the average after that, closer to the mid 60s. So a live look outside right now, just a few clouds for us. Lots of sunshine, as well, today. So really enjoyable, still 77, our humidity down to 38 . Wind speeds out of the southwest at 11 Miles Per Hour and the rest of the region at 70 degrees in the poconos, 75 in dover, 72 in wildwood. You can see the warmer air coming up from the southwest, but thats going to change with the cold front and thats why the temperatures are going to drop into tomorrow for the end of your work week and set us up for a pretty cool weekend ahead. So your future temperatures show we are going to see this cool and mild air shifting to the south, this cold air coming down towards philadelphia and new york, most of the northeast, and thats going to linger into tomorrow and saturday. So theres the cold front that sweeps through as we go into the rest of tonight and into tomorrow, thats going to help bring in cooler air, which will stay around as we get right into the weekend, saturday and sunday, in fact, its going to be a chilly start to your weekend as we head into saturday morning youll notice temperatures in the 40s for philadelphia, into the mid 30s for allentown, stretching out to harrisburg, dover, and Atlantic City. Keep that in mind as youre making your plans, we are going to see a cooler start to the weekend by saturday morning. Radar shot shows we have a few clouds streaming by, isolated showers that have popped up mainly near the poconos, but you can see as they continue to travel south they are pretty much dying out. Also breezy conditions into the rest of tonight, wind gusts up to about 27 Miles Per Hour for philadelphia, up to 27 in the poconos. Well stay breezy into the overnight hours and as we head into tomorrow its going to be a breezy, cooler start to your friday. Youll really notice the difference, especially as we get into the afternoon, temperatures in the 70s today. By tomorrow we are barely going to make it into the low 60s. The next thing were tracking is a few sunday showers as we head into the weekend. This is mainly going to be in your overnight hours, Early Morning hours on sunday. Maybe as youre going to church you might want to keep your umbrella handy because were going to be dealing with a few light showers. Maybe another round closer to 5 00 p. M. , but really were only expecting about a tenth of an inch, so light, light rainfall expected for us. A big drop in temperatures as we head into tomorrow. We do expect temperatures to stay in the low 60s with the cooler wind from the north. 50s for the poconos, 60 degrees for pottstown and a big difference from what we saw today. High today at 77, average at 65, tomorrow we drop down to the low 60s. 62 degrees on your friday. Take a look at saturday, 64 degrees. Its going to be a chilly saturday morning start. Were tracking a chance of morning showers on sunday, high of 66 degrees, so right around average. Then we cool things down into next week, stay below average at least monday and tuesday before temperatures start to recover heading into wednesday. Well, if youre a dog lover, you know about this guy, the todays show friend named wrangler has become a fixture in new york. I think hed be great friends with your dog, brittneys dog, sheenas dog. Today wrangler made a trip to philadelphia. How did we miss this . I wish i had seen him. At the end of the summer the show made a promise if the bitter account made 3 million followers wrangler