Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am 20160225 : compar

Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News Today 11am 20160225

First alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking whats left of the storm system. Traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is checking on the roads. But we begin with nbc 10s tim furlong live in one area of Lancaster County, tim. Reporter yeah, vai, the good news here is from what weve heard at this point no injuries reported from the weather that came through last night which we havent heard for sure if it was a tornado but to many people what youd expect from a tornado. This is our Vantage Point. This is as close as we can get in salisbury township. You can see the scope of the damage. Two amish schoolhouses we understand one was completely destroyed. Skyforce 10 has also been over this onemile or so path of destruction. And they can clearly see a barn ripped wide open. And theres been really an Assembly Line of people trying to get chickens out from that barn, some dead, some alive, after that collapse last night. The roads around this area almost completely closed off. We had to weave and dodge to get around to our location. Right now as you come back out here i can tell you this is as close as were allowed to get. I can also tell you the National Weather service is on its way because what theyre going to do is theyre going to come out like they usually do and formally determine through the evidence if this was a tornado. Theyre going to be able to make that determination. Were going to try to catch up with the National Weather service and get more information and keep making the calls on this story. As soon as we have more information well bring it to you. Thats the latest from salisbury township, Lancaster County. Tim furlong, nbc 10. Tim, thank you. Now to Lehigh County where heavy rain from the storm left three feet of watt ner this basement from salisbury internship. The butterfield family, theyve got to pump out all that water and then clean up a soggy mess. Were also seeing damage in Montgomery County. This downed tree blocked part of Meeting House road in elkins park just before midnight and cars drove slowly through this flooding on old york road. Advise you dont do that. And a family managed to get out of this car okay after it got stuck in flooding in Montgomery County. The car was on high street in pottstown next to a swollen creek. The driver said the engine died out as the water continued to rise. The incident brought his 1yearold daughter to tears. Pretty nervous for my daughter. She was upset and crying and whatnot. Any parent would be, so i had to call the ambulance and try to make moves before, you know, anything else could happen. Crews diverted traffic around that area to prevent anyone else from getting stuck. And this tree fell onto Seventh Avenue in pine hill, Camden County last night. It also took down power lines with it. You can see emergency crews blocked off that street. In Cumberland County strong winds toppled a tree onto a day care sending it crashing into a room where babies normally sleep during the day. This happened after work hours so no one was hurt. When the tree crashed through all kids first day care in vineland, the business is now closed today. So workers can clean up debris and repair damage. And crews have been working throughout the night and into the morning to restore power to homes about 50,000 customers total loss electricity during the storm last night. We just checked and here are the latest numbers. Peco has about 7,800 customers without power still. A. C. Electric about 1700, 1600 pse g customers without electricity and delmarva reports about 200 outages in new castle county. The Severe Weather has moved on but still pretty windy out there. We take a live look at the flag atop the aramark building. Nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz is here with our forecast. Glenn. Yeah, vai, no Severe Weather during the day today despite the ominous looking clouds that you may see out there. And of course were not going to be getting anywhere near the 60s like we got yesterday. We still have some flood advisories and some general aerial Flood Warnings until 1 30 this afternoon. That stretches from Lehigh Valley all the way down through parts of berks county and western half of Chester County. Well also have a Flood Warning until tomorrow morning at 3 00 a. M. This is for the schuylkill at norristown. And this one until 10 00 p. M. Tonight this is for the brandy wine creek, one of the usual places that floods very easily. You can see some of those showers we had this morning generally on the light side, not enhancing any kind of a flood threat. We have a lot of snow showers from the lake effect back to the west, well see if any move into the northern and western portions of the area. We have gusts up to 31 miles an hour in northeast philly and trenton right now. But the purple back in western pennsylvania indication of Even Stronger winds. The wind is going to increase as we go through the afternoon. 48 in philadelphia. Pretty uniform temperatures across the area right now except for the 36 in the poconos. And you can see were in the 40s throughout the day. Very windy. And also a few showers around. Well see when it gets even colder and whats going to happen othver the weekend with e sevenday in a few minutes. The weather is effecting flights at philadelphia airport. We checked a few moments ago, right now 28 flights have been canceled so far, 43 are delayed. And to check the status of your flight call 1800phlgate. Time now for a check on the roads with nbc 10 first alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington. Jessica, any problems out there midday . Oh, theres a few problems. Were doing a bit better than we were this morning of course, vai, were on the schuylkill expressway where were seeing biggest delays eastbound around montgomery drive. You can see the drive time is a 31minute trip from the blue route to the vine street expressway. Average speed in the 20s because we have rolling work crews in the eastbound lanes taking out some lanes so traffic is slow by the scene. Reports of flooding on University Avenue southbound. Thats closed between civic center boulevard and 34th street. And also in cherry hill township, not weather related, but we have a collapsed sewer grade causing some delays because the right lane is closed. This is weather related because of all of the regional rails on septa are dealing with fewer cars, so you might be crammed in your car today when you head out the door, vai. Thank you, jessica. Crews have repaired a pothole on interstate 95 northbound that damaged more than a dozen cars around midnight. Pennsylvania state police say drivers could not see the pothole because it was covered with water. The cars had to be towed away. One person had minor injuries aaa urges everyone to assume all potho puddles are potholes. You need to slow down as much as possible and hold the Steering Wheel firmly to avoid losing control. We of course have more advice from aaa on the nbc10. Com and the nbc 10 app. Strong winds may have caused a tractortrailer to flip on its side on the George Washington bridge. This is in new york city. The overturned tractortrailer led to traffic backups for more than an hour last night. There was a tractortrailer ban on the bridge in place because of 50mileperhour winds. Authorities are looking into how the 18 wheeler bypassed that ban. The coast guard says the storm may have been a factor when one of its boats capsized off the coast of new york this morning. The vessel was trying to help a fishing boat that ran aground near rockaway beach. Waves up to 12 feet high hit that coast guard boat. The crew was wearing protective gear and slammed ashore. The helicopter lifted the fishermen from the other boat to safety. And during the storm we are getting a ton of photos and videos of heavy rain, of wind and damage from you, our nbc 10 viewers. You can watch all those videos on our mobile app and send us your own if you have some. Just download the nbc 10 app on your phone or your tablet. And take a look at this picture. You can see flames rising from several boat fires at a marina in cape may county. The boats caught on fire last night at Minmar Marina in ocean view. No reports of any injuries here. We expect to get some more information from new Jersey State Police a little later today. And happening today in pittsburgh, suspended Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael eakin faces a hearing in connection with a pornographic email scandal. He could be removed from the bench if a judge finds he violated conduct rules because of inappropriate emails. Experts say todays hearing could resolve those charges. Eakins lawyers called the hearing a major step in the case. A pennsylvania judge says Comedian Bill Cosby has no right to a pretrial appeal in the sex assault case against him. Cosby wants the charges thrown out. Thats because he says he had a deal with former Montgomery County District Attorney bruce caster that he would never be prosecuted. But a judge ruled earlier this month that no such deal exists. Cosby is accused of drugging and molesting a former Temple University employee in 2004. Camden County Church will hold a forum today after someone stole black lives matter signs from outside the church twice in a period of two weeks. Vandals ripped down the signs at the church in cherry hill. Church Officials Say the goal of the signs was to prompt discussion. Organizers say the meeting will address the current climate of race in america. And it is open to the public. A face from campaigns past is making news again. Former president ial nominee mitt romney is speaking out about republican frontrunner donald trump. See why he says a new trump bombshell may be coming. And were learning about a possible pick to be president obamas Supreme Court nominee. See why observers say his selection would put republicans in an awkward position. Glenn. Yeah, colder air is moving in. Its going to get our weekend off to a colder start. But then more changes are on the way. Ill show you what to expect ahead in my sevenday forecast. Im not dying but im not living either. They were willing to sacrifice their lives for their country. Was the support for them when they returned home . Were you surprised by these findings . Not at all. Today at 5 00 nbc 10 investigators expose new gaps in veteran aid asking philadelphia v. A. Employees if they have the care they need to take care. An nbc 10 investigation today at 5 00. We are continuing to track the aftermath of severe storms. Experts from the National Weather service will investigate whether this was caused by a tornado. And well bring you another update coming up in about 15 minutes. In decision 2016 republican president ial hopefuls square off in texas tonight for their last debate before super tuesday. Thats when voters in all 11 states all head to the polls. And it is just five days away now. About half the delegates needed for republican candidate to win the gop nomination are up for grabs. Donald trumps convincing victory in a Nevada Republican caucus was his Third Straight win. And his rivals as well as the Party Establishment are concerned time may be running out to slow his march for the nomination. But we talked to a Political Science professor at Rutgers Camden who says shes not sure how long trumps success will last. What we dont know is how good trump will be at picking up delegates in a whole bunch of states. Voter turnout is going to be the works for super tuesday. The republican candidates will meet tonight for a debate in houston. And it will be two hearings next month over challenges to knock republican president ial candidate ted cruz and john kasich off the ballot in the pennsylvania primary. Marco rubio supporters questioning the signatures collected to get kasich on the ballot. Theres a similar challenge about ted cruz and another over whether hes qualified to run for president because he was born in canada. Voters in our region will start heading to the polls in about two months. Pennsylvania and delaware hold their primaries on april 26th. And new jerseys is june 7th. The republican president ial frontrunner is hitting back after mitt romney suggested a bombshell is lurking in the tax returns donald trump has so far refused to release. Romney was the gop nominee in 2012. He said in an interview that trumps delay on releasing his returns suggests he has something to hide. Trump endorsed romney four years ago, but has been deeply critical of the former massachusetts governors performance as a candidate since mounting his own run. On twitter, trump said romney is now playing tough guy after blowing an election he should have won. And on the democratic side Hillary Clinton continues campaigning in South Carolina today. And a rally yesterday she criticized gop candidate ted cruz over the issue of Social Security. Ted cruz actually called Social Security a ponzi scheme. You know, its one of the most important social programs that our country has ever put in place. Clinton picked up Senate Minority leader harry reids endorsement yesterday. Nbc news confirms the white house is considering nevadas governor as a replacement for late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. Governor sandoval is a republican, but his record does match president obamas on many key issues. For instance, he supports the Supreme Court samesex marriage decision and backs abortion rights. Sandoval is a former District Court judge and state attorney general. He was the first latino candidate elected to statewide office in nevada. Republicans controlling the senate say they wont schedule a vote or even hold hearings on whomever president obama may name. The president vowed again yesterday to select scalias successor before a new president is sworn in. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. Well, its not exactly the calm after the storm. Its a pretty windy day out there. And its likely to get even windier. Gusty winds throughout the area, throughout the afternoon and even tomorrow as just a few showers around, some this morning, maybe a couple this afternoon. But colder air is coming to the entire region. We were showing you this camera yesterday. And it was shaking like crazy because the wind was so strong. So far not as windy, but thats a sustained wind at 25 miles an hour. Thats still pretty significant. 48 degrees with the cloudy skies and it feels like 40 degrees. The temperatures across the area are in the 40s and theyre going to stay pretty much in the 40s during the day. Theyre not going to go up much, not going to go down much. 36 in mt. Pocono. The wind direction is straight out of the west. And these are the sustained winds. 22 miles an hour lancaster, 23 northeast philly, 20 millville. And as i said Even Stronger winds in western pennsylvania may make those gusts even higher this afternoon. Woe had some showers come through earlier today. There were a few back to the west, so dont be too surprised if theres a late shower here or there this afternoon. Its not going to add to any kind of flood threat. And there are some snow showers in western pennsylvania. Some of them could make it over the mountains, especially into some of the northern and Western Areas and the poconos later today. This is the radar estimated rainfall. You can see quite clearly the line of heaviest rain. Last night we saw these thunderstorms going right up the same line called training. And this is the result of that. Some very heavy rain from Lower Bucks County through portions of philly and camden and salem counties down into delaware. And the radar estimates of 2. 5 inches of rain. A lot of that came in a relatively short period of time. 2. 7 inches in part of Lancaster County, closer to 2 inches in parts of bucks and Montgomery County. Still have some flood advisories to the north and west until this afternoon as conditions gradually improve. Now, as we go through the afternoon there are the temperatures holding in the 40s. Maybe a couple of snow showers up toward the poconos. And then things kind of quiet down a bit. Go through the day today, its going to be windy. Chance of a shower in the afternoon. Temperatures holding in the 40s. And wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. And the sevenday forecast as you can see it gets colder tomorrow. So those are colder gusty winds. And then a cold morning on saturday. Chilly day, but look at sunday. And look at monday. And tuesday and wednesday. The mild air returns. All right, thank you, glenn. The local chapter of the red cross is getting ready to launch a campaign aimed at reducing fire deaths in our area. And for more on this wer

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