Becoming a sound track for life. Just those songs, like, good on a date night type style. Reporter news of the death spread quickly on social media with many hoping it was a hoax. I was shocked. Yeah. Totally shocked. Reporter sadly, it was true. Its excitement in my voice, but on a sad day here, prince has passed away. Reporter d. J. Bryans show played princes songs back to back. The fans blowing kisses today. Miss prince, man. Reporter paying only imagine to the music, the artist, the icon who stood out from the rest. If you dont like princes thing, thats fine, hell still his thing and youll like it. You know it. I think everybody does. Reporter another thing is prince always used his platform to send a message, and some fans today said thats what they respected the most about him. Reporting live in wilmington, nbc 10 news. Thank you. Prince was found dead inside his minnesota home early this morning. Nbc has more on his, his life, and his iconic career. Reporter the body of the 57yearold singer was discovered this morning here at his home in suburban minneapolis, no details yet released, but nearby outside of princes studios, a small group of fans assembled in the rain to honor the artists memory. As a singer, song writer, and instrumentalist, the man born prince rogers nelson, inducted into the rock n roll hall of fame in 1984. A musician. I live for that. Its creating songs. Reporter the minneapolis native sold more than 1 million records worldwide. Hits including when doves cry, little red corvette, draws on his influences like the beetles. One of his biggest hits made the lyrics party like its 1999, a part of pop culture, seven grammys, a golden globe, and Academy Award were part of princes legacy. As recently as 2014, he turned into a show stopping eight minute performance on saturday night live. Think of someone who is ageless, across the spectrum of his career, he seems so youthful even now. Reporter prince brought an energy and innovation to his sound that made a man standing just 52 a giant popular music. For more on prince, his career, and how hes being remembered, look for coverage on our app and post your thoughts and memories on our twitter and facebook pages. Well be checking in on social media and sharing some of your comments at 5 30. Right now, a Delaware Community in shock. A 16yearold girl dead after a fight at Howard School of technology. We are live in wilmington with more on the victim and what led up to her death. Reporter well, police are still trying to figure out what wor were the events that happened in the main floor bathroom inside that high school. The School District says the girl died after receiving serious injuries in the fight, but police say they have not determined her cause death as of yet. Im so upset that the young lady lost her life today. Things like this shouldnt happen. Reporter what did happen has not been fully explained, though city officials released statements offering prayers for the girls family. They have not said who was responsible and what led to a fight in the bathroom where a 16yearold die. The sophomore was taken to the hospital via state police chopper. School Officials Say medics arrived this morning. Classes were about to begin with students say they placed in lockdown. It hurt when you know her personally, and she was not one of my schoolmates, but in and out in the streets like that, would have been her. He worked with the victim through outreach programs and said she was to return this summer to work with other students. After the attack, the school was closed for the day, and students were sent home. Those who know the girl say they heard the fight was over a boy. Its very sad because too much shooting and stuff going around. Reporter now, investigators tell us they will still be interviewing witnesses well into the evening trying to figure out what happened in that school, and they tell us an autopsy is planned for sometime tomorrow. Reporting live, nbc so news. Thank you. Howard high school, by the way, was to host a debate tonight between the candidates. Ironically, the debate focused on public safety. Its now been cancelled out of respect for the victim and her family. Now to decision 2016, the road to the white house continues through pennsylvania today. Three more president ial candidates have stops in the state. Voters in pennsylvania head to the polls in less than five days. If the candidates dont have a second to waste here, a live look in reading where Bernie Sanders is holding an event today. He will have made three stops in pennsylvania. Nbc 10s Randy Gyllenhaal is live in oaks Montgomery County where sanders is headed next. Randy, set the scene for us. Reporter well, there have been a lot of supporters out here since 11 00 this morning, waiting in the sun rs just opening the doors here, and look at the crowd. They are starting to go through security. More than a thousand people right now. The speech is set to begin here in Montgomery County, about 7 30 tonight, the senators first visit to the philadelphia suburbs. Despite the tough loss in new york, Bernie SandersCampaign Volunteers hit the crowd in p. A. Saturday or sunday . Sure. Reporter signing up the faithful at the rally. Want to fight that much harder. I was personally that much more amplified to recruit volunteers, saying, okay, guys, we have to work now. Reporter time is running out, sandsers down in delegates, and pennsylvania could be the last stand, a rare chance for the state to have a significant say in the primary. Im used to just my counting, so it is exciting, and its not over. Its by no means over. Amy is one of many in the crowds saying bernie or bust. Refusing to vote for Hillary Clinton if she wins the nomination. Ied out blue no matter who, and as the race went on, and, you know, i knew a lot about secretary clinton already, but the more i read, the more i realize i simply cannot hold my nose. Reporter sanders spoke earlier today and reading, railing against wall street and calling for a change in how business is done washington. At the end of the day, if we are going to address those issues, we are going to have to take on some very powerful special interests. Compared to Hillary Clinton, he does much better in general election than Hillary Clinton does. I think he would be a better general election candidate. Reporter you can see crowds making their way into the rally here to go through security. As we said, the senator is speaking live now in reading and making his way over here to Montgomery County for the final speech of the night, Randy Gyllenhaal, nbc 10 news. Thank you, randy. On the republican side, john kasich two stops in the area today. He held a town hall at penn state campus, and little bit later on tonight, a gop dinner king of prussia. Lauren mayk was at the event with a live report to message for pennsylvania voters just ahead. Today, the son of ed snider shared his fathers final words for his family and fans everywhere. I cant thank the flyers enough for everything theyve given to me and my family. [ applause ] the stories that shaped todays heart felt tribute including the time he kicked donald trump out of his box. Could a forest fire in the pinelands fuel an apocalypse in new jersey . Its a dangerous pit. Reporter how those whole the plains are weighing in on a new National Report that paints a doomsdaylike scenario. Modres the cost of living the pay stays the same. I have to work extra hours just to make ends meet. Its a big struggle. One person that really gets this is katie mcginty. She came from a workingclass family. She was ninth of 10 kids. She gets it. Shell fight for equal pay for equal work. Katie mcginty will protect Social Security and medicare. Thats why president obama and Vice President biden support her, too. Shell make a heck of a senator. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. What a Wonderful World a memorial in music. Today, the grandson of ed snider used the peian e know to pay tribute to the founder. One of many poignant moments at the memorial ceremony. John . Reporter thousands here at Wells Fargo Center to honor and celebrate the life of ed snider, hearing speeches about his passion for life and flyers and his family. What a Wonderful World reporter what a Wonderful World was fitting to end the ceremony. Ed has made it a better world for thousands of kids through his youth hockey foundation. Before snider hockey, i had no hope in life. I was lost. Quite frankly, i did not see a reason in living. Reporter she gave a stirring speech, the first graduate from eds foundation to go to college. Mr. Sniders spirit will be very much alive in each and every Success Story that comes from each and every participant of snider hockey. Reporter eds passion throughout his life was his flyers and nothing would come between him and his team and watching his team. Did you know that ed snider once kicked donald trump out of his suite at a hockey playoff game . [ applause ] it had to do with the fact that the donald would not stop talking to ed the game. [ laughter ] reporter ed would never let his team get push around or his family. The home of the liberty bell and the rocky statue, the home of pats and ginos, philadelphia is where eds spirits is endures through charities and foundations and so much else. He left quite a legacy, and at 6 00, hear from two of eds faif players, bob clark, and bernie, emotional today. John clark, see you then. What a touching tribute, john, thank you so much. Speaking of sports, happy to hear this, four games, the flyers got into the playoff series with the capitals last night. The fly guys scratched out a 21 win to stave off elimination and head to washington for game five tomorrow night. Should the flyers win, its back home sunday. Tickets for a potential game six at home go on sale tomorrow. Right now at 5 00, police are going door to door in a south philadelphia neighborhood notifying residents about an attempted sexual assault. It happened yesterday. A 19yearold woman was walking on wharton yesterday when a man started to follow her. The victim says she grabbed pepper spray and the man grabbed her from behind. According to police, she sfraed him in the face and got away. Today, classes resume at robbinsville. A Public Memorial Service for steven mayer is scheduled for tomorrow. Today, officials confirmed to nbc 10 the 17yearold driver did call 911 Tuesday Morning after the accident. She pulled over just outside road middle school. She allegedly told dispatchers she believed she hit someone on robbinsville. The girl was on the way to the high school for a class trip. Local and National Leaders are taking new steps now to fight the heroin epidemic. Delaware governor signed a bill today creating a Drug Overdose review commission. Members will attend facts and circumstances surrounding deaths that result from prescription, open yoid, fehertial, and how best to prevent future Drug Overdose deaths. On capitol hill, members of a National Force to combat heroin epidemic announce 15 bills they hope to solve the problem that are designed to reform the prescription process of opoid, and come up with alternatives to incarceration. The group hopes to urge Council Leaders to bring legislation to the floor. Nbc 10 digital exclusive, generation addicted takes a hard look, and find it now on the app and nbc10. Com. Happening elsewhere, survivors of ecuadors massive earthquake say they are growing more desperate for food and water. Yeah. Help pouring in from all over, including people here in our area. Everybody trying to pitch in. This restaurant in north philly is joining the fight to help out the quake victims, collecting some donations to send to ecuador, one of two local restaurants sending supplies. Humanitarian aide is pouring in from around the world, distribution is slow. This is scene in the town of manta today, the line a mile long for hours just to get food and water. The death toll from the disaster has soared to 570 people. More than 7,000 were injured. If you would like to help, heres what you can do, Tierra Colombiana collecting donations now through saturday. They are asking for nonperishable items like canned food and bottled water and first aid kits, blankets, sleeping bags, and tents. Lets talk weather now. Temperatures warmed up, but rain is on the way. I know. We have your first alert neighborhood forecast, and, sheena, gends on where you live with the rain. Yes. This neighborhood forecast is specific it. We can tell you which areas will be seeing the rain and which areas are seeing it lingering into part of your weekend. At the bottom of the screen, your seven day forecast no matter where you live, we have your specific seven day forecast, so thats always at the bottom of the screen for you femmewise, though, warm this afternoon, and 72 now in philadelphia. 72 in allentown, and closer to the shore, Atlantic City at 67 degrees, and 67 in wilmington, but rain is on the way. A live look at center city, its hazy. Humiditys increasing overnight tonight, clouds increasing too. The rain, thats just off to the west. Looe heres a look at the radar now, no rain around at the moment, but if you see all the green on the map, that is the rain that we expect as we go through the day tomorrow. Its just off to our west, and it stretches down to the gulf coast states moving in our direction. Well be seeing this move in as we go into mainly tomorrow amp anding. If we zoom in here, though, the areas pretty much dry right now. We are seeing clouds moving in, and theres rain just off to the west in parts of p. A. , but going into tonight, we could see showers moving in to part of the area, mostly overnight tonight. Lets look at future weather. So as we go through time here, tonight, we could see showers try to move in overnight, but tomorrow morning, most of the morning commute is dry, some rain just up to the north and west of the lehigh valley, moving into the poconos, and looking at 6 00 p. M. Evening commute, scattered showers, a chance of thunderstorms too, and that chance increases throughout the friday night. If you have friday night plans, keep in mind we expect showers and thunderstorms around later in the night, friday, some of this could be lasting overnight, saturday, 1 30 in the morning, we see the system lingering, 8 30 saturday morning. A new jersey in delaware, you could see rain lingering by saturday afternoon. That rain just to the south of philadelphia finally clearing out as we go into saturday night. So really depends where you live. Tomorrow, though, everyone can see or expect a chance of showers and 77 degrees, showers, upper 60s in wildwood. Dont forget the umbrella. Still a warm day. Trenton at 80 degrees tomorrow. Morristown at 80 degrees with late day showers and philadelphia, cant rule out a thunderstorm, and wilmington with showers around, and 76 degrees, late day showers, and pennsylvania, tomorrow, if youre in the area, were looking at temperatures near 80 degrees. In the pennsylvania suburbs, about the mid to up 70s. Lehigh valley, mid70s. This weekend, philadelphia, clearing saturday around 70 degrees, pennsylvania suburbs are dry, and saturday and sunday, midsixtys, and these are the areas where we expect the rain to be lingering to start the weekend. In south jersey along the shore or delaware, expect showers to start off your weekend with highs in the mid sixtys. A closer look at the forecast coming up. Philadelphia mayor wants every child to have the opportunity to attend free kindergarten. We have new details on how the city could make that happen. More specifically, how the city will pay for it. Is it the next big thing . A philadelphia mom is a step closer to winning the today show competition. An invention you might use every day. Modres the cost of living the pay stays the same. I have to work extra hours just to make ends meet. Its a big struggle. One person that really gets this is katie mcginty. She came from a workingclass family. She was ninth of 10 kids. She gets it. Shell fight for equal pay for equal work. Katie mcginty will protect Social Security and medicare. Thats why president obama and Vice President biden support her, too. Shell make a heck of a senator. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. The commission on universal free kindergarten in philadelphia deliver his final recommendations today. The report outlines recommendations for how the city can expand affordable prek for 3 and 4yearolds who do not have access. Giving priority to children in neighborhoods with the highest concentration of poverty and areas with the shortage of prek slots. Potential Funding Sources include property texas, wage tax, sales tax, or parking tax. Majority of members support the sugary drink tax charging three cents an ounce, the tax allows the city to invest 250 million to create 6500 new prek slots over the next five years. Grants awarded to schools across delaware today are aimed at achieving common core state standards. The delaware governor delivered news about the grants today in dover. The money will be used to pay for learning activities that support teachers and help students meet state requirements. Back in philadelphia, the mayor District AttorneySeth Williams attended the fifth annual prayer for peace breakfast. Nbc 10 at the crystal tearoom in center city, the event hosted by the Second Chance foundation. The organization worked with young people that made mistakes in the past but proven they deserve a Second Chanc