Moving especially toward the stuk l expressw schuylkill expressway. For that opening, scheduled for 5 50 so for now take the betsy ross bridge. Ill be back in ten. Were following two breaking news stories. First a fatal fire and a man is dead after this house fire in abington township. Fires found the man in his 60s dead on the living room floor. He has not been identified. Fire officials are calling this a case of hoarding. Heres what theyre telling us. They say the hoarding made it difficult for them to fight the fire. Were gathering more information right now and well get the latest coming up at 6 30. Also breaking, shots are fired, dozens as Philadelphia Police chase down two suspected car jackers. They say the men were responsible for two separate car jackings. Officers tried to pull them over and they both took off running. Gunshots were fired during the chase. Its not clear by who. Police and swat teams later found the men hiding in the woods. No word on if anybody was hurt. Happening today the next step in the Corruption Scandal involving two local politicians, allentown mayor ed pawlowski has a date in federal court to face federal corruption charges. The indictment says pawlowski and spencer are accused of selling off city contracts to bankroll their political campaigns. Investigators began two years ago. In pawlowskis case prosecutors say he awarded work to Certain Companies on projects like city lights and city pools. In return they claim he took 150,000 in donation. Yesterday pawlowski denied the charges. I have done nothing wrong nor have i ever personally accepted a dime beyond my salary as mayor. If the mayor had any respect for the citizens he would resign immediately. Spencer is also due in court today. Three other people are named in the federal indictments including the former Reading School board president. And now to a developing story. An amusement ride tragedy in ohio. The governor has ordered all the rides to be shut down following a deadly accident. One man died, seven others were hurt. Many of them are critically injured when a ride called the fireball broke apart yesterday. A woman near the front of the line for that ride witnessed it. It was going for a minute and it was at its highest point and i saw somebody fall out of the ride and a minute later the whole row of seats full off and hit the ground. . The goovrn nvernor says other r will be able to open after safety inspections are conducted. Police take someone into custody after teens were seen throwing rocks on to i95 in philadelphia and putting drivers in danger. Only sty 10 was there to spot the damage on this suv. There was a baby inside. No one was hurt. Police took away a person in handcuffs and they say theyre interviewing them. Teenagers were throwing rocks at cars speeding on i95 northbound and commuters told us it could have been much worse. Its a bad thing. You shouldnt be doing that kind of thing, especially in the city. Get hurt. I dont want that to happen to anyone. Authorities have not said what charges may be filed in this case. If you were driving on this stretch of i9 t 5 last month and your car was also hit by a rock, police want to hear from you. A potential plan to close a 2 million budget gap would mean higher taxes on monthly utility bills for you. Consumers would pay higher natural gas and telecommunications bills. The plan would also include a new severance tax on drillers involved with the natural gas drilling. Today the full senate will vote on the plan. If the Senate Passes the legislation it will go to the house where it could face an uphill battle from republicans who dont support the plan for higher taxes. Kborn nor wolf who let it lapse into the law says he supports the plan. Happening today in new jersey, republican candidate for new jersey governor will announce her running mate this morning. Then she and her candidate will hold a property tax round table this afternoon. She is the states current lieutenant governor. Several reports say shes expected to pick carlos rendo. Yesterday phil murphy picked his running mate. Assembly woman oliver will join the ticket. She was the first African American woman to serve as assembly speaker. President trumps ban on transgender people to serve in the military has caused disruption. To each their own. As long as theyre not hurting or harming anyone, why not let them serve . I believe that many of us have more heart than heteropeople that would be willing to make sacrifices. One vet called the change discriminatory, but another said it restores the military warrior culture. Scalise is out of the hospital. A hospital statement says scalise is in good spirits and is looking forward to his return to work. For now hes in an intensive rehabilitation program. 12,000 people are evacuated as wildfires continue to burn along frances southern coast. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by the fires which first started burning three days ago and despite the size of the fire and the damage, no one has been hurt. 6 07 on a thursday morning. We give you a live picture overlooking whoa good morning, mr. Spider. Greetings. Lets check in with bill henley and get our most accurate forecast and maybe a report on that spider. Thats the first time ive seen spiders coming out of the clouds. Hopefully thats not a trend that continues. Clouds, no spiders, a live view from the hotel in cape may. It is going to be a cloudy start and mostly a cloudy day at the shore and inland. Cloudy and cool to begin with. But as we go through the day, the temperatures will warm into the 80s. At the shore, 70s this afternoon and theres a chance well see some spotty late day showers, possibly some thunderstorms this evening and even more likely into tomorrow. The lehigh valley, the suburbs south jersey in the 60s. 10 degrees warmer in delaware. Down to 61 degrees in the shore. Society hill is at 67 degrees and 68 at philadelphia international. Not a bad start. Well see a warmup in spite of those clouds lingering for most of the day. But during the afternoon theres a chance well see popup showers and thunderstorms. A better chance com coming in for tonight and tomorrow. A few spots on the radar, most of the area just looking at those lingering clouds for later today. Its part of the same system thats already producing rain to the north and this to the west. Its part of the same system even though theres a break in the precipitation here and then that activity to the west that could lead to some downpours for tomorrow and into saturday morning. The forecast rain total for first thing on saturday morning so through the day on friday well rain and into friday night and by saturday morning more than an inch on the ground in philadelphia. Closer to three inches in dover and along with that rain comes the potential for some strong storms. First alertd for storms and flooding for all neighborhoods starting tomorrow morning and into saturday morning. Thats when severe storms are possible. Heavy rain and flooding rain is also possible leading to rising rivers and creeks. This morning, a no fog to start with, just a little clouds. Visibility is in the good range. The temperatures will be climbing but things will be drying out over the weekend. Look at that weekend forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Ten minutes past 6 00 a. M. Lets get a look at your morning commute. First alert traffic reporter has you covered. Right here is the bridge toll plaza, so no problems. Traffic is moving along nicely. Every once in a while, we start to see some traffic heading over the bend but for right now everything looks to be just fine. Checking with the rest of the bridges, by the time you head out the door you shouldnt see more delays there. You can take the betsy ross, but for right now, but it will be clear any second. And route 202, ten minutes on that southbound side from the schuylkill to 30 and well end here with septa buses. So within the next hour or so well start to see that, but amtrak, new Jersey Transit are all on time. Thank you. Better watch out what you drink. Coming up, the cocktail problem thats sparking a new warning for tourists heading to mexico. And an Award Winning restaurant in philadelphia. Thousands of dollars to settle a court battle over tips and the gift of life. Up next, the husband who found an alternate way to get his wife into the front of the transplant list with her life hanging in the balance. Jason my dad taught me to play the piano when i was three. Ever since, its been my passion. Going somewhere like the Juilliard School seemed impossible. Now, i am able to dream bigger. Joe hi. This is Pennsylvania State treasurer joe torsella. Our state treasury is proud to offer the pa able program, a savings plan for people with disabilities, including jason. Open a pa able account today by visiting our website at paable. Gov. Jason start saving to dream bigger today. Police investigating an overnight shooting found guns left in a lot. The semiautomatic weapons could have easily been found by kids playing in the neighborhood. The swat team was called in to safely remove the guns. Two people are facing weapons charges. A Philadelphia Restaurant has agreed to pay 230,000 to current and former workers who say they were forced to hand over tips to other employees. The owners settled the Class Action Lawsuit in june. A former server filed the suit because she said she had to five 5 per shift to the silverware polishers. Her lawyers argued silverware polishers have no contact with customers so they shouldnt be tipped. The nursing home and Affordable Housing for people with disabilities, residents say their concerns are just not being heard. I mean, we want some help. Like Little Things like trying to get things fixed when things are broken down. We can always be more responsive to tenants needs and so were going to have a meeting on next monday with all the residents. Manager says that next mondays meeting theyll put together a blue print to address the residents concerns. And to delaware and a mans gift of life for his wife. A Kidney Transplant Program helped save the woman and in exchange her husband saved a strangers life. Mary getting sicker by the day. So now the tenyearold Kidney Transplant Program, she and her husband learned about paired donation. Essentially, if you need a kidney, a Family Member or friend can get you one by donating one of theirs to a stranger with a match around the country and thats what her husband did for mary. The fact we agreed to this interview is not so much i want to say im a wonderful guy. The fact is there are hundreds of thousands of people waiting for kidney transplants. Usually donators and recipients dont meet but they had dinner with the two straungers in california and they got to exchange thank yous. Lets find out how the roads are looking. How the commute is looking at route 309 and the pennsylvania turnpike. Jessica boyington has that. Watching that around fort washington, everything looks good and pretty empty actually. Checking in the transit, rail service is currently expended between beacon and Atlantic City because a bridge is stuck in the open position. So well watch that for you. Right now 95 moving through delaware looks good. Drive times here still green. From 295 to 495 and well end here on the 42 freeway right here near the atlantic expressway. This is northbound here. Right now, no big problems or delays. All right. Thank you. 6 18. 68 degrees out side. Lets take a live look outside as we enter another cloudy day. Boat house row there. Bill, tell us about the cloudy skies and whats to come today. We made it into the low 80s yesterday. We got some sunshine. Less likely to see the sun break through today. This is penns landing. Plenty of clouds over the stadium in delaware. The temperature 71 degrees in delaware. The rest of the area in the low 60s. And at the shore, the temperatures with cloudy skies are holding at 69 degrees for Atlantic City while upper township is 62 and Cape May Point is 71 degrees. Warming into the 70s at the shore, well still see those on shore winds. But inland more of a southerly flow. That does two things for us. Brings in more humidity and the moisture will be building and that could lead to a late day shower or thunderstorm. The clouds moving in right now, most of the day i think will be dry. The showers to the north and the storms to the west, thats part of the same system thats going to impact our area greatly tomorrow and into the weekend. Theres a potential for some very heavy downpours coming in for tomorrow. For today the clouds will be in and out. A slight chance of a shower this afternoon and early tomorrow morning a few showers to the north. But the storm system that were watching by early tomorrow morning will still be moving toward our area. By tomorrow afternoon well start to see some showers and thunderstorms. There is a potential for some severe thunderstorms. A better chance those storms will be to our south but we can still see heavy rainfall especially friday night. This is 10 45 friday night. Look at those downpours into the suburbs and reaching into philadelphia too. Its quite a bit of rain thats going to be moving toward our area. Potential for strong storms and tul a neighborhoods and the rainfall and storminess could produce some flooding rains, rising rivers and creeks will be on the rise as well and some of that wet weather will linger into the weekend too for saturday. Clouds will linger. The showers more likely in the morning than the afternoon. 77 degrees for philadelphia. 70s for the suburbs. Late day sunshine breaking through in the lehigh valley. But sunshine youre looking for, sunday is the day. Into the 80s with the humidity coming down and plenty of sunshine that will continue into next week. In fact, well see the heat building, returning next week to normal summertime levels. If not, a little bit hotter. A look at that with the 10 day on 10 coming up in the next half hour. You can be the first to know when Severe Weather is moving into your neighborhood with the nbc 10 app. You can get an alert sent right to your phone. The app is a free download. Tsa screenings at the airport are changing again. Coming up, the items that youll want to start packing at the top of your bag. And honoring smoking joe. How the boxers family wants to semet his legacy in philadelphia history. More than three hundred businesses will be celebrated tonight. Theyve been named best of the main line. Included on the list, the best coffee shop and when i asked the owner why he thinks the reader chose his shop, he says they offer a different kind of experience. I buy the coffee directly from farmers. We roast right in the shop every single week so the coffee is as fresh as fresh can be. They have like a different kind of blend from a different kind of country from south america or latin america like every day so its nice to have the variety and the craftsmanship behind it. And because they liken the coffee making and drinking experience to that of wine, they have free tastings on sunday afternoon. So congratulations to them. That Party Tonight benefits behavioral health. Its always nice. And tracy received the best of honor award for the best tv news anchor and also got a shout out for her facebook page. Thank you and congratulations to everyone. I interviewed that man, the owner and his wife, fascinating story how they decided to open the coffee shot and tonight, bill henley will be there. The family of smoking joe fraser is pushing to have a section of glenwood avenue renamed joe fraser boulevard. The gym is on the corner of broad. He won olympic gold and defeated mohammed ali in 1971. 6 26 and you can see cloudy skies. Thats a live view for you. 68 degrees in philadelphia. Im tracking some heavy weather for tomorrow, a first alert has been issued that continues into the weekend. Your first alert forecast just ahead. Reporter im in abington downship. Fire crews still on the scene of a fatal fire. Well update you on what happened here. Still ahead. 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Still at 71 degrees at 8 00 and then into the upper 70s and it will climb into the 80s today but mostly cloudy skies, even a chance of a late day shower or thunderstorm. Thats a possibility for philadelphia too. Most of the day will be dry. 78 degrees by lunchtime with those southerly winds picking up bringing the temperatures up and also bringing a little bit more moisture into the area. So a mostly cloudy day. 80s ifffor the lehigh valley. Sunshine will be breaking through for the weekend before the weekend gets here though, were in for some heavy rainfall. In fact, first alert has been issued. Ill go into that when i come back in ten minutes but first your first alert traffic. And were watching the schuylkill expressway right now. Everything looks good for the most part. Just typical right here. Westbound is where were seeing this slowdown, so a little bit of a backup mernling together when were trying to get to city line avenue. So a little bit of a delay there. Also watching the blue route for any delays. 15 minutes in both directions. Here at mass transit a few delays and some suspensions too. Westbound service into philly running about 13 minutes behind. Back to you. 68 degrees outside and were following breaking news in Montgomery County where an overnight fire claimed the life of a man inside. Were live on scene in abington township with new information about what the firefighters found in that house. Tell us mor