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WCAU NBC10 News At 4pm February 20, 2017

County residents and alerting residents on social media. Theyre worried hell strike again soon. Come back live here. The victim in this case is physically okay. The suspect was wearing a mask and police are releasing a atm surveillance video. Theres a 20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in this case. If you have any of the information, you should probably go ahead and call Crime Stoppers or New Castle County police. President trump appointing retired Army Lieutenant h. J. Mcmaster as his next security adviser. Abs local connection to our area. Hes a philadelphia native and a graduate of the valley forth military academy. President trump made his announcement from his maralago estate in florida. Now this comes after President Trump spent the weekend interviewing potential candidates for the position. He also held a campaignstyle rally with thousands of supporters in the city of melbourne, florida and today the president is criticizing the media over a recent comment he made about sweden. He tweeted out this morning. Give the public a break. The Fake News Media is trying to say that large scale immigration in sweden is working out just beautifully. Not. Suggesting that an attack happened the night before in sweden. You look at whats happening last night in sweden, sweden. Who would believe this . Sweden. They took in large numbers, theyre having problems like aaa online frenzy to figure out what the president meant. He later tweeted that it was based on a report that aired on fox news. It says theres a connection between the increase of immigrants in swedens and a spike in crime akrs the country. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with protesters rally in center city against President Trump and his policies on president s day. Groups across the country held not my president rallies to mark the holiday and one month of the trump administration. Nbc lauren mayk is joining us live in center city with more on the message the groups were trying to send today. Reporter the rally has cleared out at this point but there are some chalk messages left over here on the ground and this was not about one specific issue. We saw signs about immigration, about lgbt rights and also about russia and some of those signs and hats and tee shirts they were left over from other rallies as more people make activism part of their routine. No hate, no fear reporter rallies like this are getting to be regular stops. Her no wall, no ban, no fear, no hate sign is recycled from a previous one. Do you find yourself going to a lot of these . I think im going to be, yes. I think this is just the beginning. Reporter she and friends protested together back in the 1970s against the vietnam war now theyre back together again. Im scared. I have never been squared. I was angry with nixon which was my part time to vote. I was angry with bush. I have never been scared and im scared. Reporter the gathering on this holiday labeled a not my president s day holiday. Reporter what are you hoping this does . It lets them know we have a voice and were not going to go away. This is my fourth rally protest in four weeks. Reporter and had you been to them in the past . No. Reporter melissa hall brought her kids today. Were going to go over the National Constitution and learn more about the constitution today. Reporter some are taking involvement to a new level. Like emily miller from south jersey. Her mom joining her to sell those hats like the ones from the womens march to help fund a run for office. When i was little i said i have something to fight for because this countrys very important. Reporter now this rally was not one of the really big ones. Couple of hundred people as opposed as opposed to a couple of thousand. One woman explained to it to me like this, with so many rallies it is sort of like tag teaming when you can make it to one, you do and then for the others, someone else picks up the baton and goes to that one. Live in center city, im lauren mayk, nbc10. Protesters are showing up here in london over President Trumps visit to the uk. British lawmakers whether to downgrade the president s visit and remove its royal seal of approval. Another petition supporting the visit has been signed by close to 300,000. A new raeks today from vpt on the resignation of michael flynn, the Vice President said in belgium today he was disappointed he got inaccurate information from flynn about what he discussed on calls with a russian ambassador. We honor general flynns long service to the United States of america and i fully support the president s decision to ask for his resignation. It was the proper decision. It was handled properly and in a timely way. Flynn resigned after reports came out he discussed sanctions with russias ambassador to the u. S. That call made before President Trump took office. Vice president pence also said president s decision to ask for his resignation was the right one. Unannounced visit in iraq. The United States does not intend to seize iraqi oil which shifts away from a controversial idea proposed by trump in september. This visit comes during key battles against isis militants. Secretary mattis has just a week to send the president a strategy to accelerate the fight and defeat isis. Turning to first alert weather. A cool down from our record temperatures yesterday but still this is not what you expect to be wearing outside in february. Families in valley forge are wearing light coats if anything at all. Skiers, theyre out there, soaking up that sun today. Looks beautiful there. What about the shore . Well, beaches kind of bare but a beautiful afternoon. Big difference from yesterday, though when these beaches were filled with people enjoying some 70 degree temperatures. Took you a while to realize yesterday, i really dont need pay jacket. I know. Its hard for that to sink in. Chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz has your most accurate forecast. I know your favorite place is sweet charlies ice cream and that line over the weekend was down the street. Thats a shore sign that its warm outside. It has been an incredible weekend thats for sure and even though its much colder today, its still more than 10 degrees above normal. The flags showing indications of the cooler air trying to come down. Its 57 in philadelphia. Thats still 12 degrees above the normal high. Wilmington is 60. 56 in trenton, 54 in allentown i dont see any cold air anywhere close by but we do have winds coming out of the north, the northwest at 10 to 15 miles an hour and that will bring colder air in. You will need a jacket by tomorrow morning. Not the heaviest one but certainly more so than this morning when we were in the 40s at 6 00 a. M. But temperatures dropping, fairly quickly through the night tonight, some places even down into the 20s by tomorrow morning which is actually close to average for this time of the year, but were going right back up and well see some more 70s this week. New video of this afternoon of some golfers trying to get around an unusual obstacle on a course in upper hanover. A plane that crashed right on the butter valley golf port yesterday still sitting on the fairway today. Some golfers in a cart there and when weathers much better than average you do try to play around Something Like this. The plane went down around 2 yesterday afternoon that straddles the berkz Montgomery County line. All new on nbc10 news at 5 00. Early this morning northbound lanes were closed for hours in mt. Laurel. This tractortrailer flipped causing a big mess. Luckily no other cars were involved. That crash happened in the very same spot this one did friday, only this one happened in the southbound lane. Breaking pieces of the truck off into the road and causing an hours long backup. Man say police started a fire. Surveillance footage shows him trying to open car doors back on february 12th. The deli caught fire just a few minutes later but it wasnt caught on camera. One of the delis walls was damage. The race for philadelphias district is getting more crowded. Barely a week after the scandal plagued Seth Williams, his former number two through his hat in the ring today. Investigator George Spencer was there for that announcement. Questions swirling around this candidate as well. He admits he is on a repayment plan for a unpaid tax liens. Instead he focused on experience that he says puts him far ahead of the pack. Let me share the worse kept secret in philadelphia. Reporter he knows people have been talking about him ever since District Attorney Seth Williams said he would not seek reelection among ethics violations surrounding unsupported gifts asking voters to judge him by the accomplishments of the District Attorneys office not the mistakes of his former boss. Please, do not try to put spillage on shabazz by the failings of Seth Williams. Reporter but he faces questions of his own. He admits to owing 190,000 in tax liens to the irs and others. He says hes on a repayment plan but wouldnt get more specific for us. Im not going to get into how the debt originated, with all due respect or that aspect and ill tell you why. The purpose of this here is not to indicate whether i was a perfect businessman. Instead he says he has the experience to take the d. A. s office to the next level. This race is important. Reporter encourages voters to pay close attention to the unfolding race and yet often in the post president ial race exhaustion, few voters actually show up for d. A. s races. For an elected office here in the city that has a tremendous impact on folks on a daytoday basis, voter turnout tends to plummet. He noted today that he is the first africanamerican candidate to enter this race but he said he believes his own past as both the prosecutor and defense attorney puts him ahead of the other candidates, race aside. Democratic voters will ends up making that decision in the may 16th primary. Thanks. Earlier this month Seth Williams announced he would not be seeking reelection for a third term in office and the fbi is looking into 160,000 worth of gifts williams received and did not report. He also received a record ethics fine. Williams said the scrutiny on him has become too much of a disattraction. There are now 7 candidates running for d. A. The others are michael undermier, rich knee grin, theresa carr and joe khan. New details in a deadly stabbing from Atlantic City over the weekend. Police announced an arrest. Jose lopez stabbed a man and woman. The woman died the man is still in the hospital. Investigators havent said anything about a possible motive. Tomorrow in newark, new jersey, the two officials found guilt in their involvement in the bridgegate scandal will learn their sentence. The most serious charge, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and that carries a possible 20 year sentence. Back in 2013 which prosecutors say was politically motivated. Students in bucks county are fighting back after someone found a kkk flier in their community. This morning students walked through town with signs promoting love, peace and racial justice. It comes after someone found the kkk flier in front of a home on doylestown on friday. The students responded with their own message. No response and the Community Stay silent or blows it off as one angry white person that that is an invitation for them to move in and organize and recruit and have a bigger presence. The students are encouraging doilztown businesses to place their signs in their windows for the rest of the month. Schuylkill expresswkyforce10e while crews cleared this skin. Starting today pennsylvanias department of health will accept applications for medical marijuana growers, processors. Its all part of the States Program that will offer marijuana to patients who are residents of pennsylvania. The dead looirn to apply is march 20th. If you have questions for pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf about the state budget and how it might impact you, he wants you to ask them on facebook. The governor is hosting a facebook town hall at 2 00 tomorrow afternoon. You can post your questions right now on his facebook page. New castle county the skating club of wilmington should reopen today after a Carbon Monoxide leak made members of a hockey team sick over the weekend. A parent shared this picture right here showing the athletes saturday night. Firefighters found high levels of Carbon Monoxide at the rink. Nine players and a coach went to the hospital. The skating club suspects a link to the rink is to blame. Today body cameras onthejob. Police in Mercer County is introducing the new program. The chiefs says the cameras will help in the departments investigation and adding a another level of transparency to the department. At last check the highest bid on ebay on 7,500. The sign was part of the trump branding removed from the casino this month as part of the agreement with the buildings new owner. Its one of five casinos that have closed in Atlantic City since 2014. This week an ac church will offer up some prayers for the towns businesses. Back to our first alert weather here in our area, everyones wondering what the heck happened to winter with these mild temperatures out there breaking some records over the weekend . Look at that. The crowds are out there. Meteorologist krystal klei is live in independence mall. A big difference from the february of last year. Reporter yeah. I have to admit after a weekend where both saturday and sunday i got outdoors. Im a little spoiled right now. On this very still nice and mild february day. Even though conditions are not quite as warm as they were over the weekend. Lets talk about warnl february conditions we have been dealing with, though. Right now we are tracking the coldest low that we have seen so far this month on the 10th at 22 degrees. Not even in the teens in february. As for the warmest high, well that was 70 degrees just yesterday. Hopefully you were outside to enjoy that one. Look at the calendar over the month of february. The orange color indicates above average day, of course the blue below average days. Theres only five days below average and the range of low averages starting the month of 41. You can see right now were trending again above average which is 45 degrees for today and we filled out the calendar for the rest of the month with our forecast. We continue above average. As for snow totals thats another where were below average and those conditions. Tracking eight inches so far. What we have seen this season for snow totals, 26. 2 last year in philly. In allentown look at that difference, 25 inch difference between this year and last season and you see its a pretty wide range between wilmington and Atlantic City as well between 20 inches last year and only around five to seven this year. So overall weve seen less snow than is normal for this time of year. We have also seen temperatures at least in february much warmer than is average for what we should be at. Were going to continue talking about the stats for your february and well track through the tenday forecast talking about the big warmups. Thats still to come. Thats coming up in just a bit. All right. Out in independence mall. And it does seem its hard to make up the difference between last year and this year as we head toward march. I know. The ice skating rink was packed. People were out there loving it. Today is a little bit cooler than it was over the weekend. Im sure there were more difficulties over the weekend and later on this week, its going to be every bit as warm as it was over the weekend, at least across much of the area. You can see your own seven day forecast at the bottom of your screen, by the way, different neighborhoods, different forecasts, not just for philadelphia any more. Philadelphias 57 degrees with a 12mileperhour wind. We got sunshine across just about the entire area. Still 60 degrees in and were still way above average. That average High Temperature is 45 degrees. We were 68 saturday, 70 sunday for a record, today a mere 57. Tomorrow were going to go down but not even down to the normal and then wednesday we start going back up again. And by thursday and friday, its closer to 70 again. Here we are in some of the normally cold spots. On a day after a cold front comes through, in february, and its still 60 degrees inning lan dawn, pretty amazing, 54 in allentown, 53 in easton. And we have warmer weather coming later in the week back to near 70 degrees. Its mainly dry this week until saturday when we were going to be getting some thunderstorms i think and then much cooler weather at the shore. Dont expect 70 at the shore because of the wind coming in off the ocean. Lot of dry weather right now and thats what were going to be seeing tomorrow. 53 in fairmount, 50 in chestnut hill, 49 in shh wanksville. This is the coldest day of the week and its not very cold. 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