The entire viewing area today and tonight is due for heavy rainfall. I expect the heaviest downpours to come through the afternoon and evening rush. Could lead to localized flooding. We could see inches of rain. Showers now from the Lehigh Valley, bucks county, into new jersey. Theres the steadier rainfall in New Castle County, kent county, and streaming through south jersey, atlantic city. Cape may has seen a steady rainfall this morning. Theres more on the way. In fact, thats the line of the heavy downpours. Thats due in this afternoon. You see all of the showers, those are all going to arrive before this afternoon. Youll need the rain gear today. And with clouds and rain and wind, chilly. 30s now for Philadelphia Park the suburbs, new jersey at 38 degrees. 39 in the Lehigh Valley. Starting off at 39 in philadelphia, rain to start with. The steadier rain at 9 00, and at lunchtime. 47 degrees. Not much warmer than it is right now. Rain on and off and the downpours tonight. Ill walk you through it neighborhood by neighborhood so you know when to expect the heaviest rainfall when i come back in ten minutes. First, well have to deal with this on the roads Jessica Boyington has your first alert traffic. Yeah, were always already seeing problems now because of that bill. Watching the schuylkill expressway, our cameras around university avenue. We have a disabled vehicle to the righthand shoulder. The traffic squeezing by on the shoulder. Moving toward the vine industry expressway on the westbound side, well see delays. Ill keep my eyes on that. Watching camden, new jersey, a crash here on 676 northbound. The traffic thats moving this way around 76 to 676. Were seeing the crash taking out a line. On 95, drive times look okay. From south haven to the vine and speeds into the high 50s. Back to you. Thanks. O the nbc10 app. Today is a great day to download it. You can check any traffic troubles, look at the live first alert radar, see what moving into your neighborhood. The sapp a the app is a free download. 6 03. Llowing breaking News Delaware county. Crews are battling a house fire. Were worki was hurt. New this morning, police ar shooting in north philadelphia left a man in very critical condition. The shootingpe 2 30 this morning across from the mans home on colorado street. Someone in a pickup drove the plan to the hospital but crashed into the front step of a house woman in the hospital after an accid atshelton avenue at east oak la this morning. A car crashed into a pole sending a second car on top of womans condition. Happening today, philadelphia d. A. Seth williams heads back to court to tell a judge he has secured a new lawyer. This after the previous lawyer said wils pay him. Williams pled not guilty to extortion charges. And jacob arraignment in the grace packer murder case. Authorities say he strangled the girl last july, the day after high raped and beat her while her adoptive mother watched. At the hearing, prosecutors may announce that theyll be seeking the Death Penalty. In the russia investigation, nbc news confirms former National Security adviser Michael Flynn is willing to testify before congress if hes granted immunities. Granted immunity. And reports that devin nunes was helped to examine classfied information. In our area, a south Jersey Police officer faces charges for allegedly exposing himself to young boys in a restaurant restroom. The 1 boys told their mother th mingez fondled himself while laughing at them at the pennsville lamgbys wednesday. Their mother says the boys are still upset. Every time he close his eyes, he see the man laughing and shaking his genitals at him. Police said mingez was visibly intoxicated. Hes charged with lewdness and misconduct. There is also an internal affairs investigation. In north jersey, state police say a man who tried to run down a trooper with his pickup was shot and killed by the officer. Happened yesterday during a Police Investigation at the turnpike rest stop in cranberry, middlesex county. The trooper was not hurt. A delaware family remains in anguish a year after the murder of a loved one. Yesterday, marqueea bensons family made an emotional plea to find her color. Police say the 36 her killer. Police say the 36yearold from upper darby died in whats described as a vicious attack. Benson had a good job. She was a parttime student. Her family and police cant believe anyone would do such a thing to a woman with such a bright future. This is our life until eternity. This incident left an empty innocence our detective division. Investigators say it appears benson knew her attacker. In bucks county, Police Released this video of thieves robbing a jeweler in ben salem this month. Investigators say the bandits cut through the roof to get in and steal thousands in gold from safes. Police believe the same thieves used the same method to rob a jeweller in lawncrest last week. As promised, lawn leaders have announced a lawsuit to try to void the results of a special election. Democratic writein candidate Emilio Vasquez won the election to fill a state house seat. Thats after a judge kicked the first nominee off t ruling that he didnt live in the district. Democrats still won using writein votes. Republican leaders say they did so unfairly. Some of the stuff we saw, people going into the machines without signing assistance forms. Election boards handing out stamps for the candidate that they preferred. Election workers saying they cant vote on the machine. They have to go outside and get a stamp. Democrats deny wrongdoing. The gop has already asked the state attorney general to investigate the claims. The Election Fraud task force is also looking into it. 6 08. 39 degrees outside. Wet, wet, wet. A look at soggy broad street from our Kimmel Center campus camera. More wet to the come according to meteorologist bill henley. We saw thunderstorms overnight and some of the heaviest, steadiest r may. This is a live view. The lafayette hotel. The wind ie is more rain lining. Showers in the Lehigh Valley through bucks county and intora. South philadelphia getting a break, so is wilmington. The rain is lind ddletown and s information to new jersey through vineland, morris river, and atlantic city, seeing moderate showers. Cape may, temporarily a threag and more showers to the southwest. This is all coming into play this morning. This is going to be here this afternoon. And this line of showers will produce heavy down powers. We could see more thunderstorms, too. We could wind up with two inches of more or more of rainfall by tomorrow morning. Hour by hour, first thing, look at the rain coming back for allentown, reading, wilmington, dover, and at the shore. The entire area seeing rain during the afternoon hours. At 4 00, this is when well get the heavier downpours. In chester, delaware, and northern New Castle County in delaware. Watch how it spreads at 4 00 and 6 00 this evening. The downpours from Lancaster County into chester, into delaware and south jersey. Moderate rainfall extends to trenton and the shore and into the Lehigh Valley. Heavier downpours this even, at 9 30 this evening, look at rain from Mercer County through ocean and burlington counties and Atlantic County in new jersey. It is lighter rain, but we could see moderate showers in philadelphia. Thats by 9 30 thisby 11 00, th. The heavier rainfall moves out. And then its really tapering off tonight. This time tomorrow, well see showers in the morning. First thing, just before sunrise. Once the sun comes up, well have a better view of the mostly cloudy skies and then during the afternoon, thats 2 00 in the afternoon, you subcommittee breaks in the clouds you see some breaks in the clouds. We will see sunshine break through during the day on saturday. Sunday, thats a different story. The weekend forecast with the ten day on 10 when im back in ten minutes. See you then. Ten minutes past 6 00 a. M. On this friday. Find out whats happening there on the schuylkill. Yeah. We have a camera focused on it. What are you seeing . Yeah. A disabled bus on the schuylkill. Cameras around university avenue. Its on the westbound side. Traffic right here coming away from the south philly area, away from the stadium area. You see it aeps to the righth shoulder. Only one lane getting by. If you head toward the schuylkill expressway on the vine westbound, youll see delays moving through. Watch for a crash on the p. A. Turnpikes northeast extension. At the southbound side, you see where the yellow is. The accident at the Lehigh Valley. Watch for delays moving toward new jersey. In camden, theres a crash here on 676 right around 76. Where that splits off to get to the vine industry to 676 before it becomes the vine street expressway over the ben watch through the rthbound. Area. Here on 42, this is moving through stepford around our cameras at route 41. No problems or delays so far. Definitely more traffic moving on the northbound side heading toward philadelphia. Thank you. Septa has a new strategy to keep riders safe. And were getting an exclusive look. Next, nbc10 takes a ride on the rails for an inside look at how officers are working to stop a recent rise in violence. And at 12 after 6 00, rockwell recovered. A break in a decades old case of a fame out painting stole famous painting stolen from a Camden County home. Later, a crackdown at penn state. The tragedy thats sparking change on campus and new rules for students. A rainy friday morning. First alert radar, you see more rain headed our way. It will be an allday rain with heavy raint times. Meteorologist bill henley will have more coming up. The fbi will give us more details about a valuable painting recovered decades after it was stolen in Camden County. The Norman Rockwell piece that was swiped from a house in cherry hill more than 40 years ago is now back with its rightful owner. Tipster alertede fbi to the paintings whereabouts. The person who had the artwork nect to theft and will not face charges. A photo of a little girl holding a stuffed bunny has gone viral. I think youll understand why when you see it. This is the sweetest story. The 3yearold lost one of her eyes to cancer. S rted to realize that she was different from other kids. The mom was like, what am i going to do. She asked a doll maker to create a stuffed animal that looked like her daughter. And you can see the girl clearly loves her new oneeyed bunny. How sweet is that . The mom was looking for ways to make her feel better. Someone said you need to show her something that she can identify with that has one eye. The dollmaker said shed never had that kind of request, and it was touching for her to do that. There are so many doll companies, you wouldhi with the idea already to come up with dolls that look like the owners. Right . Such a great idea, too. There are probably so many kids not just her who doesnt have an eye. There are probably so many kids, a broken arm or anything. Something that would touch a lot of different kids. Thats a great idea. Parts gavee a mr. Potato head. There you go. What would your doll have, a tiara . Big, fuzzy hair. It was hard for me through first grade. We could talk about this all a weve e to get you to work. Watching wet roads. Northeast extension headed sout andund the Lehigh Valley. You see through the map system thats red. A minute ago we were into the yellow. Seeing delays, more delays past the Lehigh Valley. Checking in with the bridges. Watch for construction. Theres single lane traffic over the Burlington Bristol from a crash earlier this morning. Now they have construction there. The betsy ross bridge is clear, so is the taconi palmeira. To the schuylkill expressway here, university avenue. Watchi abus. I had people tweeting that drove past the scene saying its a disabled septa bus. Watching for this into the righthand shoulder. If you are headed westbound past the scene, youll see delays. Again, this is heading out of south philadelphia toward the vine street expressway. Ill have updates on the schuylkill on the septa bus thats disabled when i come back and more updates on the rest of the roads. All right. Thanks for that. 6 18. Lets update you on the rain and storms tracking through the neighborhood. Bill . Showers and thunderstorms overnight. All day long, the wind will be blowing. It will combine to keep things chilly. 30s for the Lehigh Valley, 36 in the suburbs. Delaware is 39. 37 in south jersey. 39 in philadelphia international. The same for andora, manayunk. Port richmond in the 40s. Through the day, rain. Look at the temperatures at the bus stop this morning, 30s with rain showers. 41 in philadelphia. Stand by, grab the rain gear. Youll need it especially late morning and afternoon hours. Well get a break from the rain right now at Chester County, berks county. The rain is not far away. You see the showers that extend from the Lehigh Valley into south jersey. This will be here this morning, this is this afternoon. That will bring the possibility of heavy downpours. By tomorrow morning at 9 30 in the morning, the rain will be done for us. Will be out of here. By then we could see two inches, 2. 5 in wilmington. 2. 75 in south philadelphia. Closer to three inches for Egg Harbor Township. A long event through the day and into tonight. A lot of rain coming in. That could lead to localized flooding during the afternoon and evening commute. 49 this afternoon. The rain and wind will keep things chilly. The rain ends first thing in the morning. Drying out during the day with late day sunshine, 52. If we get a little bit more sunshine, the number will go higher on saturday. It will be warmer on sunday. 60 with the high after a morning low of 40. Monday back to clouds monday afternoon. Rain due in on wednesday. Tuesday on. Wednesday, shaping up pretty nice. 61 degrees. Dry day. Thursday the showers come back. Theres a chance of showers on friday. The phillies home opener. The second day will be nicer on saturday. Dry, too, partly sunny, 55 in the afternoon. Both evening games. By sundays, well see by sunday, well see sunshine and 62. Looking forward to the home opener. Thanks. The plan to make the trip down the shore faster is slowing down. The delayed timeline for a new ezpass lane. The transportation crisis. The grim traffic prediction for one of americas most congested cities after a highway overpass collapse. I simply made it my mission to inspire creativity wherever i travel. And a rushed retirement. The mistake that may have spoiled crayolas secret reveal of its next discontinued tomorrow. A move to cut down on traffic heading down the shore wont be ready for the summer. The cape may Bridge Commission planned to have ezpass lanes running by june 1st, but they delayed construction. The ezpass toll lanes will be gradually installed over the course of the next four to five months. Today a Memorial Service will be held for trailblading journalist trail blazing journalist claude lewis. He was the first person color to write a column for a major philadelphia newspaper. He founded the National Association of black journalists. The Memorial Service is set for noon at villanova university. And comcast executive david cohen received a top honor last night. The distinguished performance and Management Award which cohen received. Comcast is the Parent Company of nbc10. Good morning, everyone. Jessica boyington watching the roads. An update now on the schuylkill expressway. These are cameras around university avenue. We earlier were watching for delays because of a disabled septa bus to the shoulder. It just cleared. Were watching resillual delays. Residual delays. Traffic moving philly toward the vine street expressway. Ill have updates on other slow spots when i come back. Now, a first alert weather day. Lets head to the nter. Bill henley has that. Its been rainy. The rain take a break right now in cape may. The winds, theyre still blowing. Gusting to 25 miles per hour. That ik 35 at the shore. Yes, we have a first alert for heavy rainfall. Most likely this afternoon. Ill walk you through it neighborhood by neighborhood ahead. Ahead, a boyfriends revenge. Why police say he killed his girlfriends beloved dogs and how she tricked him into confessing. And a phone booth revival. The proposed plan to put them back in action in philadelphia to help communication in a more modern way. Tracking storms. A first alert to prepare you for the heavier rain and wind. Thats moving into the area for our friday. Handcuffed and shackled. This man is behind years of rape in Delaware County. Why a trip to the Grocery Store led to his downfall. Swallowed up by waves. A sailboat takes a dramatic turn sparking a rescue at sea. Good morning, 6 30 on this final day in march. This is nbc10 news today. Im vai sikahema. Im tracy david science. You see on the first alert radar, its going to be a soggy friday. The storm system heading our way has already done damage across the south like bringing down lines on houses and cars. Meteorologist bill henley has the most accurate neighborhood first alert forecast. We had downpours, even thunderstorms overnight. Heavy rain is due in, and its going to affect the entire viewing area. The first alert is for today and tonight. Heavy rainfall, but the heaviest downpours i expect will be coming through during the rush. Could lead to localized flooding. Ape longterm event. Weve seen showers, still going on in the Lehigh Valley and dry this Che