Factor. This is the second crash at that location in the last six months. The mangled mess of metal was unfortunately all too familiar for commuters at the 69th street transportationen center overnight. We have a team of reporters dedicated to this major story this afternoon. Cydney long is working to learn more about the passengers injured. Lets begin with Steven Fisher live in upper darby where the ntsb is now investigating. Reporter the crash behind me habit changed much behind me. You can see whats going op. But the ntsb is out here investigating trying to figure out how this happened. Until the train with the caution tape can be removed, the line will continue to experience some delays. This was the scene just after midnight at the Transportation Center in upper darby. Emergency crews raced to the station after an occupied train from the high speed line crashed into a parked train. There was a a train coming out of norristown, which is coming east into the terminal and it struck a parked train that was sitting there for the morning. For a a short time, the transportation hub came to a halt. 42 people were injured and had to be taken to various hospitals. When youre going a certain speed and you cant control its scary. My daughters picked me up and drive me. Im not going to ride it. As the ntsb investigated, we spoke to officials that said the norristown line was running every 20 minutes. A little slower than usual due to the crash. It takes a little longer. We caught up with bill at the 69th street station. The crash is concerning, but he doesnt have a choice. Theres been no information about how fast that train was moving when it crashed. We do expect to learn more at the ntsb. Some of the 42 injured are still being treated a at the hospital while others were lucky enough to go right home. You spoke with doctors about the injured passengers and how medical crews prepare for events like this. Thats right. In the attending trauma surgeon told me the train accident injuries could have been far worse. No concussions here. Still they simulate or train on these emergency or disaster drills here every other week to be prepared. I dont know. My face hit the wall. The impact sent 42 passengers to sixen different hospitals. We know the engineer is one of two patients that was released. Four people remain in serious to critical condition. Theres blood everywhere. The driver is all banged up and there was this one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad. Most passengers are improving and dozens have been released. Most ly numbness to the limb, which at the end had no cause that was found from brain injury or spinal injury or nerve injury. So things that were just consistent with bumps and scrapes. In a a statement today, the councilman is sending his thoughts and prayers to all of the 42 injured septa passengers saying safety must be top priority for all transportation riders within our transportation network. Were live in university city, im cydney long, nbc 10 news. This is the second train accident at 69th street in six months. A market line train hit two out of service trains in february. Four people on board the trains were hurt. We check ed with the ntsb. The report on that crash has not yet been e relowested. And how that could have happened. Turning to our weather, tracking a steamy and stormy night. The radar shows the threat for thunderstorms that will move in from the west. Some could be severe. Lets take a live look outside. The phillies are taking on the marlins in a doubleheader. The weather is feeling more like miami tonight. They enjoyed cooler temperatures today. The heat is whats helping fuel the threats. 24 hours ago we put out this first alert for these severe storms. Were keeping it for the same areas. The lehigh valley, suburbs ask and philadelphia. As the storms go toward new jersey and delaware. They are likely to weaken because of the time of day. As they weaken later tonight damaging winds and small hail possible in parts of the area. The storms are a lock way away but they are pretty powerful. Especially ones in new york state. Its a long way from here. 170 miles to the lead iing edgef those storms. These are severe thunderstorm warnings. There has been damage in western pennsylvania so its something were going to have to watch. Here we are at 8 00. It could be farther to the east. Its showing quite a bit of weakening. The clouds come through. But the threat of severe storms diminishes later on tonight. The biggest threat is north and west. More on the timing of these storms and what comes after that just a few minutes. Well see you then. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with local ties to a missing sailor aboard the u. S. S. John mccain. One of the members is from cherry hill. The naval destroyer collided with an oil tanker. A a total of ten sailors went missing. Today the commander of the fleet says bodies were discovered in a compartment of the warship. Lauren mayk is in cherry hill where the missing saylor went to high school. A lot of people are holding out. Hope tonight. Reporter hope and prayers here tonight. Family and friends say that Kenneth Smith planned to go into the military for a long time. He want thes to be in the navy like his dad. He was serving in the u. S. Navy on the u. S. S. John mccain when the collision happened. The navy warship was on its way to singapore. Among loez serving, 22yearold Kenneth Smith. His mother in michigan called him kenny and said he moved to cherry hill with his father. Here classmates say he attended cherry hill east high school. One tells us hes always wanted to go into the navy to follow 234 his furs footsteps. In cherry hill, they are offering prayers as the search for the missing sailors continue. This after the ship collided with a semicall and oil tanker. Badly damaging its houll. She has faith in her sons train ing and tells us, quote, men and women like my son are what makes america and the world great. Ive just been talking to one of kennys friends here who tells me he is one of the best people se she knows. If anyone can make it out of a bad situation, its him. Live in cherry hill, lauren mayk, nbc 10 noews. The Vice President says President Trump is send iing a message of resolve and commitment on afghanistan. During a nationally televised address last night, the president recommitted the United States to the 16yearold war. This afternoon the president left for arizona where he will hold a a rally later tonight. During his speech, President Trump gave few specifics about his strategy for the war in afghanistan. Vice president mike pence weigh ed in on the issue this morning on the today show. Were there to help the afghans win. The president made a commitment were going to be there until we win. The american troops with new rules of engagement are going to be able to accomplish that just like they are doing in iraq and syria. Democratic leader nancy pelosi slammed the strategy saying its low on details, but raises serious questions. The president s strategy for afghanistan was on the minds of a lot of people at a veterans a job fair. The congressional delegation hosted this event at wilmingtons university campus. The president raised more questions than he answered about a path forward in the war. People need to know some of the details. Thats going to be very important. Especially since we have been involved for 16 years. The big issue is is going to be the details. Senator tom carper says he does agree on shifting strategy away from a timebased approach to a strategybased on conditions ob the ground. The final stage of jury selection is underway in the corruption trial of bob menendez. The panel could be seated by the end of the week. The democrat was charged in 2015 with accepting gifts and Campaign Donations from a florida eye doctor. In exchange hes accused of using his position to lobby for the businesses interest. Everything he did was legal. More concerning news about the growing opioid crisis. Across the country a new study found that medicaid patients continue to get opioid prescriptions even after an overdose. Researchers track more than 6,000 recipients treated for nonfatal overdoses of heroin or prescription pain kkillers. While there was a drop in rates after an overdose, a High Percentage of patients continued to get opioids from their doctors. Our digital team is committed to covering the epidemic and its impact on our area. You can take a look at their awardwinning reports right now on the nbc 10 app. Its philadelphias soda tax driving customers out of the city. A new study shows that appears to be the case. The marketing from catalina look ed at sales. That firm found that sugary drink sales fell by 55 while sales at storesen wept up about 38 . The tax is raising 39 million so far. Below the 42 million projection. We reached out about the l study and they tell us they are not gbuying it. They said while we think catalina is dramatically overstating the drop, we did expect e retail sales would be down in the first few months because initially people are upset, but they do the math and realize the cost of gas or the pure inconvenience doesnt make it worth it. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf was republicans to return to harrisburg and balance the budget. He made the comment during a radio show in pittsburgh. They support a plan that passed the senate last month. That plan relies on borrowing taxing consumers, utility bills and expanding gambling. House republicans say they are trying to come up with a revenue package that doesnt increase boar e rowing or taxes. Students and teachers at an Elementary School in mansfield will get a fresh start when the school year begins. 200 volunteers are sprucing up Morton Mcmichael Elementary School. Its part of the School Improvement project. They will renovate the teachers lounge into a recess room. In center city the boys and girls club stuffed this van with donated School Supplies. The back to school vans was parked outside the center for three hours today. Volunteers collected notebooks, pens and backpacks from flows and other contributors. The supplies will be delivered to kids at boys and girls clubs in philadelphia. If your travels take you to university city, watch out for rod closures around pennsylvania. Students are moving in and there are some closures to help the move go smoothly. Sproous street will be closed between 38th streets on saturday. The e closures on spruce extend. Turning to our weather, todays heat and humidity didnt make it any easier for local sports teams sweating it out as they get ready to start their fall season. Students are trying to stay cool before the start of school. Its tough to be out here covering the people here. You can sew over here we have the Mens Soccer Team also now training for the fall sports season. You see what they are doing out there wherever you are, whatever youre doing today, you are no doubt feeling the heat and the humidity. What more could a College Student want. The pool over here, shallow is over there. Reporter its still cooler outside than his unairconditioned house. Hes proud of his Outdoor Living space. This is a fivestar hotel. It comes with a bed. Reporter she has a job to do. Mental toughness. Shes a runner for the university of delaware with so much other stuff on her plate, she had no choice but to run during the heat. It was cooking out there to. Just baking into your skin. Its like the humidity. She ran down the road. This is like 230 degrees. It makes a hot day even more intense. But everyone has a job to do and they all just kind of find a way to do it. Back life at the university of delaware, i was on that turf field. It is sizzling hot. At 5 00 were going to talk to the goalie ob the team who is wearing these big foam pads. Were also going to talk to the trainer roaming the sidelines. In what is pretty intense heat. Its pretty nasty. Were live in delaware, tim furlong, nbc 10 news. You need the shallow end right about now. Another Weather Threat for later tonight. Thunderstorms heading to our area. Lets get to meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Because they are so far away and were getting toward the end of the day, the farther north and west you are in our area, the higher the chance of severe storms. Number one threat, secondary threat in philadelphia then delaware and south jersey is much lower threats. Thats why they are not in the first alert. 7 00 p. M. To 2 00 a. M. , locally damaging winds, lightning and small hail. The storms quite a bit away even west of williams port. But theres some nasty thunderstorms. The worst of it going up into new york state. The orange areas, those are severe thunderstorm warnings that are in effect right now. That it leading edge is going 50 miles an hour. But even at that speed, it doesnt get to reading until 7 10 p. M. So its got to hold together for quite awhile. Even the western portions of the area. We do have more clouds and showers back behind that. But thats a cold front thats bringing relief from the heat. Theres 6 00 and its still far away. 7 30, 8 30 showing you hour by hour with these computer models. And storms coming into this portion of the state but this is one of the cases where the timing helps us and overnight tonight there could be a few more showers. But theres no guarantee theres going to be any rain in parts of delaware and south enginejersey the way this is setting up. There is a guarantee that theres going to be relief from the heat. And krystal klei will tell you about that. Thank goodness. Were look iing at the storms breaking the hot spell we have been under today. Take a look at what it feels like across the region. Most of us feel like were around 100 degrees. All the way down to the jersey shore, 99 is what it feels like right now. We drop into our philadelphia neighborhoods. Check this out. 95 for the feels like. But some spots triple digits. 101 for parkside. The l hospital is reading at 110. We have a pair of 105. Thats because we have very high humidity. Very warm air. Those two combine and make it feel hotter than it truly is and its soupy outside. Tomorrow, way better conditions. Look at the temperatures here. 85 e degrees for fair mont tomorrow. Things really do feel much better. A little uncomfortable. Today they have been oppressive. But humidity completely falls off and were looking at nice conditions. Well talk about the tenday coming up in the next half hour. South enginejerseys wine c running on empty . Theres an increase in demand for wine in our area. Still ahead at 4 00, why the thirst for more has the state offering incentives to keep the cropsen plentiful and business booming. Also second time around, why bill cosbys Defense Attorneys have the advantage when hes retried. And shelter from the storm, the flood damage ta has people climbing to safety. First heres a look at the closing bell on wall street. The dow posted its best day since april. Take a look at this new video. Its a tornado caught on camera right here. You can see the twister tearing through a town in northern china. All that debris in the air, strong air spent that swirling around. Right now theres no word on any injuries. Closer to home, Severe Weather swamped parts of the midwest. Flooding caused by heavy rain forced some to seek shelter. You see them there. These people in missouri needed a a boat to get them to safety. Police reported more than 100 calls for water rescues. Creeks in the area rose to record levels set back in july. Parts of our area could see heavy downpours and damaging winds tonight. Weather tracking the threat for thunderstorms. They are out there. And they are incredibly severe in new york state right now. Not everybody is going to see a thunderstorm around here. Thats why the first alert neighborhood weather is so important. Im tracking what you can expect, plus the big koldown coming in your most accurate weather forecast. Also what caused a septa train to crash b injuring dozens of passengers. 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These ladies enjoying a little ocean breeze for some relief from the heat. Perfect to be right there near the ocean. Not everyone will see severe thunderstorms tonight. Thats why neighborhood weather is so important right now. Were getting you prepared for whats to comp. Meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here now with more on the threat in your most accurate weather forecast. This is a really good example of how neighborhood weather works. The first alert that we issued for the severe storms was 24 hours ago. Damaging winds and small hail, and now just minutes ago the Storm Prediction Center issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the exact same area that we have alerted since yesterday. For the possibility that the best chance is further to the northwes northwest. The closest one is 150 miles away. Heres the hour by hour. Thats north of harrisburg. Thats several is hours away and it weakens toward us. So we are seeing it weaken closer to philadelphia. Thats why philadelphia is not in the watch right now. It has the threat for the thunderstorms later on this evening. And jersey shore is going to keep with the clouds. Maybe a couple showers in the morning. Everybody is going to be seeing relief from the extreme heat and well show you an incredible forecast. Coming up in a few minutes. Today bill cosby returned to the Montgomery County courthouse where a judge declared a mistrial in his Sexual Assault case. That happened two months ago. The comedian had a new legal team who has made a major change in how this case will play out when its retried in march. Deanna durante explains. Unlike the case ended in a hung jury, its bill cosby and his staff. The comedian sat quietly in court as lawyers met in chambers talking about the time line and the new defense would want to go five hours away to pittsburgh to select a jury. They defended Michael Jackson of his child molestation charges. Now the civil rights attorney legal experts expect they are the ones to cross examine the accuser in the case who says he drugged her and sexually assaulted her in 2004. Constand is expected to take the stand at the retrial. Because both lawyers are out of state, both will need to be sponsored by sam silver. He defended u. S. Representative and graham spaniard. The district judge says a local jury may not react well to out of town litigators saying cosby should have a lawyer from the area at his tiable. But the new defense lawyers have a record of everything prosecutors did the first time around. They can examine what they said and if theres anything inconsistent, they are going to point that out. Hoping to challenge their credibility. And thats why he says the defense has the upper hand when it comes to a retrial. Some speculate it could be to buy more time or perhaps the lawyers for the defense just wanted out of the case or cosby himself want ed to shake things up. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. Heres a look at the other stories were following county by county. A town shipman pleaded guilty in connection with a hitandrun that killed a a woman earlier this year. The 35yearold apologized to the family of the 32yearold of allentown. She was walking to a corner store when she was hit february 28th. She died a week later. A bank robber on the loose, police say this man tried to rob the td bank yesterday afternoon. He ran off after demanding money but he didnt get any. Call police if you can put a name to this face. Neighbors will get to make their voices heard during a town hall. For those who couldnt get tickets, it will be streamed live on the facebook page. A a New City Park was dedicated today in wilmington. The park at third and canal treats. It was designed by the city that took 300,000 and renovated old br playground equipment. A state trooper is helping to make sure girls are stocked up for the upcoming year. State police post ed these photos on their facebook page. The corporal delivered backpacks full of School Supplies to these girls. A toast to this. Wine from south jersey in high demand. And vineyards are working to satisfy your thirst. The incentive from the state to keep crops plentiful ask your glass full. Plus a mothers cries over her newborns cries. How the emotional response can impact bonding. A plea for the safe return of their dog who is stolen while the owners are in the backyard and its caught on camera. Also the High School Blitz returns to nbc 10 this friday. And e we need you to choose our first game of the week this season. The choices are pennsbury and academy park. Right now lasalle has a commanding lead. So to cast your vote, visit nbc10. Com or the nbc 10 app. You can also call or text your choice. Were going to announce the winner thursday night at 11 00. 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Doctors say babies have neshs and overemotional moms tend to be more detached by their mothers by the time they turn 1. Une emotional moms are unable to comfort them. Researchers hope the research will lead them to a better understanding of that important bonding process. A a football tradition is sticking around at lincoln financial field. Were not just talking about the eagles. The announcement about the army and navy game and its future here in philadelphia. Were tracking thunderstorms, but who is going to see them and when. More on the timing and the big cooldown coming our way in the most accurate first alert weather forecast. Theres a a push in new jersey to encourage grape growing because wine from the gartden state is apparently in high demand. Lawmakers are considering incentives to get farmers to grow more grapes. They include low interest loans from the Economic Development authority and tax credits. Camden county freeholder was also a lobbyist for wine growers says vineyards are struggling to keep up with demand. When the state of virginia got behind, in the ways were asking new jersey to do the same thing, the number of wineries quadrupled. Wine makers in new jersey say their soil can grow grapes for fine wines that win blind taste tests all over the country. Get ready for more football in philly. The army and navy game is coming back to lincoln financial. The football event will be played here in 2018, 19, 20 and 22. The cadets are scheduled to play this fall. Philadelphia has hosted the big game 86 times. Thats the most of any other city. Pop star shawn mendes will bring his illuminate world tour to then center. Charlie poout will be the opening act. Taking a look at the wells fargo center. Its a good thing that concert is inside because theres a a chance of rain tonight. Even thunderstorms in parts of the area. Lets get the latest from glenn hurricane schwartz. Sometimes we have bad timing and the storms are on top of us right at this time of day when its the hottest and most humid. They hold together. Today we may have an advantage with the timing. Because its coming later. But the area is getting it first. Lehigh valley and seuburbs especially, thats from 7 00 p. M. To 2 00 a. M. We put the first alert out for those areas 24 hours ago. And now theres a severe thunderstorm watch for pretty much that area until midnight tonight. It does not include philadelphia or delaware counties. Includes every other county in pennsylvania. And as you can see, the leading edge of the showers are way west of harrisburg. And even though the showers are moving east fast, this first line is weakening. Thats in the middle of the night. These areas in the orange are severe thunderstorm warnings. If you take this leading edge, its moving east. Its still enough to get to reading until after 7 00 tonight. So thats why there isnt much of a threat for a couple hours at least. So there are some tornado warnings right now and some showers back towards cincinnati. Were not totally out of it until we get through tomorrow morning. But heres the latest futurecast. These update regularly. It does show some rain and thunderstorms coming through this evening. But weakening as they get closer to the philadelphia area. This latest run does keep some of it together and so we do see some rain overnight. Expect it to be around tomorrow morning. Sol showers toward the shore in southern delaware tomorrow morning to start off the day. But thats just the begin. Ing of the changes coming in and krystal klei will tell you about how the temperature and humidity are going to change. Roigt now, we are still feeling the hot and humid conditions. Take a look at the feels like conditions. A a lot of us feel like we are at or above 100. 103 in vineland. It was at 104 just a bit ago. 97 in philadelphia. And coatesville at 93. Atlantic city at 99 e degrees. We have seen e into the neighborhood temperatures some spots feeling at 105 and above. Really uncomfortable conditions now. The storms will break the hot spell. Look at the threeday outlook. 81 thursday. And 79 by friday. Best yet, we are looking at the humid itty just dropping day by day. Were looking dry conditions out there and sunny as well across our neighborhoods. And look at the lehigh valley. Low 80s to upper 70s consistently. Well have clouds in new jersey. And well be at 86 in delaware. Look at that. That drop to around 9 to 80 degrees. Plenty of sunshine and low humidity. Temperatures are going to be nice. As we move along into your weekend, we stay dry. We have sunshine saturday and sunday. And 78 both days. So you got to get outdoors this weekend. That weekend looks perfect. Really not a typical august at all. That was not a mistake. That may be the longest stretch we have seen all summer. For the most part, below normal temperatures and a lot of rain. Not nearly as hot or dry as last year. So this is a very unusual stretch were going into. Youll keep an eye on it. To this now a dream come true for a boy battling cancer. His special invitation from the eagles and the dolphins today. Also tipping the scale as new jerseys senator bob mai menendez corruption trial gets underway. How a guilty verdict could give republicans an advantage on capitol hill. From Fertility Services to prenatal education, weve helped the two of you get this far. And were proud to now join all three of you, as you continue the greatest journey youll ever embark on. Aetna. You dont join us, we join you. If what you see is what you get. Then youve hit the jackpot. You cant fake steak. Longhorn steakhouse. Tonights special, the Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. A centercut sirloin with a side, plus a starter, or dessert. And for lunch, try one of our new burgers. Like the bbq bacon burger. 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The Leukemia Society played a a huge role in helping him enjoy a well deserved break from his battle with cancer. He got a video message from one of the eagles inviting him to come out today. Ifrs invited by lls as a random act of light. They played me a video at my house inviting me to this practice. So i was pretty excited. As it got closer to today i just didnt believe it. Son is going to undergo a bone marrow transen plant next month. He will not give up his fight. It was a fantastic day for a brave young boy. We wish him the best. Dont forget the eagles and dolphins will play here on nbc 10. Keith jones and i will start coverage at 6 00. A onehour pregame show, kickoff at 7 00 and nbc 10 is your official station of the eagles. Back over to you. Pretty inspiring. It really is. Very cool it was an eagle who invited that little fan to really enjoy an incredible day for him. We have another 90 minutes of news ahead. Heres keith jones. In a matter of minutes, we could learn more about what caused a septa train to crash early this morning. Dozens of people were hurt. We are live as the ntsb prepares to update us on this investigation. And take a look at first alert radar. We have a line of storms moving our direction for sorm neighborhoods it means the threat of Severe Weather. Ill track down which were look ing at, coming up. A navy sailor with ties to our area is missing following the crash involving the u. S. S. John mccain. What his father is telling nbc 10 as he awaits word on his son, thats next at 5 00. Right now at 5 00, investigating a septa train crash that injured dozens of people. Any moment now the ntsb will hold a News Conference update ing us on what may have caused the train to crash at the 69th street Transportation Center in upper darby this morning. Good evening, im keith jones. And im jacqueline london. It hurt 42 passengers just after midnight. Four people are in critical condition. Its unclear just how fast the train was going when it slammed into the parked train. One man on board explained the chaos. Mitch blacher is live in center city the ntsb News Conference will begin any moment now. What kinds of questions will investigators ask as they try to figure out what happened . Reporter this marriott has become the command center as we await that News Conference. The question we anticipate them trying to answer is how that collision could have taken place when the train itself was equipped with train safety and slowing technology