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WCAU NBC10 News Today At 530am June 22, 2024

South of this area we have alert more construction on 95 harrison avenue and academy road. Allow extra time if that your route to work. Ill smore have more details cop in my next traffic report. 62 people have been killed in a car bomb in baghdad and isis says its behind the attack. It vowed to carry out more attacks. We will continue to follow this breaking news and bring you updates as we get them this morning. We also have this breaking news from overnight. The ceiling of a concert venue in minneapolis partially collapsed during a show sending at least two people to the hospital with minor injuries. Police say other injured concertgoers were treat at the scene. Right now fire officials are investigating the cause of the collapse, as well as the overall Structural Integrity of the building. 69 degrees at 5 32. Preparing for the pope. Today transportation officials are expected to release more information what will happen on the ben franklin bridge during the papal visit. Monique braxton is live in camden. What can you tell us ahead of that announcement . Reporter can i tell you in less than five hours the plans are laid out. They include a walking tour from camden to philadelphia to the parkway where pope francis will hold the sunday mass. hmg nour now, we took our questions to the Delaware Port Authority and that organization is still ironing out security and operational plans they tell us but also stressing things are moving along smoothly, especially for you that the key road closures on the philadelphia side of the bridge have been released. One subject they likely will not address, according to the spokesperson, is the complete security plan on the ben franklin bridge. We are still refining those plans, and there are elements of those plans that simply are not ever going to be disclosed. Reporter on the philadelphia side come it comes to the green zone area. That is the tolls are going to still be in place on the bridge but the construction is going away. We will have more what we can expect in the press conference in a few hours. Live from camden, monique braxton, nbc10 news. Monique mentioned philadelphia unveiled their plan last week and what they call the traffic box. Inside the green you can leave the city but not get back inside that box. Schuylkill expressway and vine street expressway and city avenue will also close. Tap on the nbc10 news app for all of the closures and transportation changes. If you havent download it yet, do it before you leave the house today and youll be the first to know about traffic and security plans when they are announced later today. 5 34. Overnight a spray of gunfire from two weapons left two men injured in west philadelphia. Investigators say a pair of gunmen opened fire at a home on chancellor street after 11 00 last night hitting two men in the feet. We dont know their condition. And police have not found the shooters. Two of the four suspects that police say are responsible for a violent Home Invasion and robbery are expected in court today for a hearing. Investigators say jarmaine wallace and his brother forced their way into a home in june and pistolwhipped a child and demanded the mother unlock a safe. Now the third suspect is a minor and police are still looking for the fourth suspect. This morning, police want you to see video they think could help them find a hitandrun driver who dragged a man along a Gloucester County street. Surveillance camera recorded this incident around 1 00 a. M. Tuesday morning on quincy qort court in glassborough. Two people come back and two people come out of the house and confront the people in the car. The driver takes off and dragging one of the guys down the street. Police say a woman was driving the orange dodge neon. The man who was hit is okay. 5 35. Happening in Montgomery County today the flower town Farmers Market will open in springfield township. The opening was delayed from last week to replace dropped ceilings in the new location for the market. Dozens of vendors lost their leases at the Farmers Market last july. A local family and the county pitched in to help them find a new home. Also happening today, the gloucester premium outlets is kicking off its weekend long grand opening. The congressman norcross and a mayor is host ago Ribbon Cutting for the Shopping Center today. Shoppers can expect free Family Friendly events and Live Entertainment at the outlets all weekend. A lot of people excited about that big facility opening there. From the bureau hall to the firehouse. Criminal investigators raided a volunteer station in colin. We will tell you what they took and what happens next for the already troubled Delaware County boro. We will go through your forecast neighborhoodbyneighborhood when we come back. Ava and i needed a little vacay. But we needed to watch our spending. Meaning i needed to watch nikki. Shes the spender. Im the saver. So, mobile banking from td bank helps me keep track. For both of us. She was just browsing. We gotta go. Im ava. Im nikki. And we bank human at td bank. What . Regard beautiful start this morning. The temperatures are falling. We have just a few thin clouds moving through the area. Thats a live view looking past the comcast looking from the Comcast Center past liberty one and two. A few scattered clubhouse aoudse will keep on moving and nice and bright today. Pretty good warmup from 69 degrees right now to the middle 80s this afternoon. But as we go through the day, the humidity will be falling. Satellite shows few thin clouds. They will clear out of here and then its a nice warmup. A quick warmup. Low 80s by lunch time. But pocono mountains, a high of 75 degrees with plenty of sunshine. Very low 80s for allentown, quaker town and reading. Brilliant sunshine for doylestown and trenton and mt. Holly. 84 for Atlantic City and cape may. A bit cooler for rehoboth but brilliant sunshine there. You need your glasses. 82 wilmington. Westchester 81 and 84 this afternoon for philadelphia. Look at the weekend forecast when i come back in ten. It is almost the weekend. One thing to look toward to. Yes hopefully, your morning drive will be a good one. Brittney shipp is watching the roads for us. Schuylkill and conshohocken curve. No major problems to report. I want to remind you about alert i brought you ten minutes ago. Water main break flourtown road between joshua and thomas road. The little stretch is going to be closed. One way to plan around that is use an alternate street and that is germantown pike. Ill monitor the situation and another update in 20 minutes. A deadly explosion caught on camera. We are following this breaking news from overnight out of china, where the death toll continues to rise following this warehouse fire. No place like home. A new jersey native currently living in space finds the unique way to beat that homesick feeling. The picture he tweeted from space that shows his hometown like never before. Breaking from overnight. The death toll continues to rise after explosions in philadelphias sister city in china. A live look at that blast seen this in tianjin china. The smoke is still rising. Several explosions. At least 44 people killed. Hundreds hurt. A heavy Industrial City south of beijing. That is expected to go up on the death toll. Keep you posted on the developing story throughout the morning. How about this explosion . Last night, we brought you this as breaking news at 11 00. Two trucks collided, bursting into a ball of flames in the middle of the new jersey turnpike. That halted traffic for hours along the stretch of the road there in north jersey. Tracy strahan is from wnbc and joins us with an update. What is the situation out there now, tracy . Reporter chris, i have to tell you not what anybody wanted to see this morning on the turnpike. We want to show you live here. A heavy presence of emergency vehicles where those two trucks collided. Now lets show you the video that made the rounds on social media. Multiple explosions reported. Not just on the roadway but in the residential areas when the tractortrailers collided around 8 00 last night. New Jersey State Police confirmed to us they collided on the outer roadway of the northbound lanes and backed up traffic nearly nine miles as First Responders rushed to the scene here. The flames and heavy smoke gave people quite a square nearby. A lot of people were running back into their homes on fear of what happened. One person reported on instagram saying the whole sky was black and the collision sounded like fireworks going over. Chopper 4 was on the scene and new Jersey State Police have not confirmed what both of the tractortrailers were carrying but believe it or not expedite a despite all of those flames both drivers suffered minor injuries. Back live here. The residual delays are still under way for the morning commute and delays backed up several miles now and looking at the oncoming lights. Doesnt look like a smooth drive on the turnpike this morning. Tracy stay hand for nbc10. A good headsup from her on the scene. Thank you. This from the nbc10 investigators. The Delaware County criminal Investigation Division raided the fire company in colwyn. Questionable spending was being investigated. Colwyn fire leadership said there was no wrongdoing. I walked in. I says do anybody have a warrant for this . And the female agent showed me the warrant which said they were there to in reference to monies, bank statements, checks that were written. The Council Meets tonight and nbc10 will be there to ask members of council about the status of the fire company. The list of bill cosby accusers continue to grow. Three women came forward yesterday afternoon detailing allegations saying that cosby sexually assaulted them. Two of the women were actresses and third is a flight attendant. With these new allegations now, nearly 50 women have accused cosby of Sexual Assault and or rape. Cosby denies the allegations and has never been criminally charged. A top missouri official is keeping a state of emergency in place in the city of ferguson for at least another day. Keeping a statement of emergency in place in the city of ferguson for at least one more day. Authorities put that state of emergency in effect monday after police shot an 18yearold near protests marking the oneyear anniversary of Michael Browns Police Shooting death. Police say that 18yearold had fired shots at officers. In the meantime, two music stars let a march through north philadelphia yesterday as part of the black lives matter movement. Grammy nominated singer janaelle mone and the man with the cane is hiphop artist jeanette. More than 150 protesters chanted against police brutality. Organizers also said they wanted to spread the message of black joy. Coming up on 11 minutes before 6 00. Getting closer to sunrise. There are a few clouds that are moving through the area. Look at that dramatic view. The view from the lowes hotel in center city. The clouds wontl4 p hc clearing out of here and no sign of any wet weather with these clouds. 69 degrees. The humidity is dropping and with we are on our way to a beautiful summer day. 80s this afternoon with humidity even lower than yesterday. Look at that. No clouds in the sky over cape may. A live view. About 20 minutes before sunrise and sunshine will warm temperatures into the 80s for cape may. But 60 in pottstown. Millville 61. Right in the middle 60s for wilmington. And in Montgomery County, down to 63 degrees in glenside and blue bell at 61 along with collegeville. Collegeville now down to 59 degrees. Eagleville at 61. Gilbertsville in 61. You need your sunglasses today. Bright sunshine at the shore and not a single cloud. You can see some of the thin clouds if you look closely that have been moving through philadelphia and those will clear out. The dry air was that was flooding into the area yesterday, the nice breeze will still be a factor today. The humidity will stay low into tomorrow as well. As far as showers, none nearby. Nearest showers through michigan and we will stay dry through the weekend. Sunny and low humidity and low to mid80s this afternoon. Not as breezy but still a nearly wind to keep the humidity low today. And tomorrow. So another comfortable one. Though, it will be warmer tomorrow afternoon up to 88 degrees. After morning low of 62 degrees. One of the indications of humidity coming back in is rising morning temperatures. Low humidity friday. But as the numbers go up, saturday that is an indication of the humidity coming back into the area. Look at the afternoon temperatures. 90s for saturday and sunday and hot, humid conditions for monday and tuesday. Could lead to storms late day wednesday. 10 minutes before 6 00. Lets check your ride to work on this thursday morning. So far, so good. I dont want to jinx us but hopefully no problems popping up out there. Nbc10s first alert traffic reporter Brittney Shipp is going to break it down for us. No major problems but just a few minor problems. U. S. 1 at roberts avenue. On this camera it looks clear, just to the south of this area we have reports of a vehicle fire. So that is u. S. 1 northbound at roberts avenue and ramp is closed. This is the way you take to work. You definitely want to allow extra time to get to your destination. We also have a water main break flourtown road closed between joshua and thomas road. Ill have another update coming up in about ten minutes. We told you this was coming and now it is official. Starting soon, youll have to pay more for tolls at two area bridges next month. The Bridge Commission last night approved toll hikes for the tacony and burlington bristol bridges and tolls from 2 to 4 for drivers who pay cash and ez users will pay 3. New tolls take effect september 15th. A knnew fight surrounding fd trucks. An online petition launched monday and already has 1,500 signatures. Philadelphia city councilwoman Jenny Blackwell introduced a bill that limits the number of food trucks around Drexel University and charges owners of those trucks a hefty fee. Right now about 25 vendors. The bill lowered that number to 10 and it charges the owners 2,700 a year for parking. They say it would bring revenue to the city. No word if the petition would save the food trucks. A valuable painting by picasso is headed back to france. It was painted in 1911 and stolen from a storage room in 1998 but no one realized it was missing until years later. It was found earlier in a year in a shipment to the u. S. And mislabeled as a 37 dollar art craft nasa is conducting a hot fire test for one of its four engines that will power its new space launch system. This afternoons test is expected to last 535 seconds. The amount of time the engine would fire during an actual launch. Officials say the new space launch system will hopefully someday take astronauts to mars and other deep space destinations. Speaking of astronauts, a new jersey native spending a year in space is giving us a unique view of his hometown. This is a photo that scott kelly tweeted of west orange, new jersey, from outer space. He said, quote, after 300 days in space and 15 years i finally got a picture of my hometown. He is one of two astronauts on a year in Space Mission at the International Space station studying the medically and psychological space effect on humans. His identity twin brother is being monitored on earth. We know philadelphias plan, at least most of it for the popes visit but how will the pope impact drivers across the river . Monique braxton is working on that story for 6 00 a. M. Reporter in about four hours the Delaware Port Authority and new Jersey Transportation officials will lay out their plan. We will have a preview for you after the break. Would you like a picture with the pope . Or something that looked a lot we will tell you where these livelike cutouts are popping up ahead of the popes visit to the city. Dunkin has a dark roast coffee thats deliciously roasted just right for a bold start and smooth finish thats never bitter. Put down the dark roast youve been putting up with and reach for the one you deserve. The Coordination Commission for the 2016 Olympic Games hays Water Quality is a high priority. The commission finished an inspection yesterday and they say they will stick to the World Health Guidelines recommending bacterial but not viral testing. A study came out last month showed dangerously high levels of viruses in all of rio olympic water venues. In the meantime, youll see a new face in thezgsu coverage the 2016 olympics and definitely not new to tv. Ryan seacrest will host late night coverage of the olympics for nbc. The American Idol works on several shows including e from the red carpet. I cant believe the summer games is that close next year. Even closer to this historic moment. Preparing for the pope. Pope francis isnt scheduled to arrive in but he has already popped up on phillies games and battleship new jersey. A cardboard cutout of a waving pop has cut out and meaning the families are trying to build excitement for the papal visit and people are posing next to the cutout. They describe pope francis as the peoples pope so expect to see popups of him where everyone can see him. You can always buy one of these popup pope francis. He is not waving in that one. We have one in the newsroom and should bring it out. This one is sold online for 160. We saw them when we went over to st. Joes prepare. 160 for cardboard . Im a shopper. That thing has been in our newsroom eight months now and sometimes still startles me when i walk in and the pope is standing there. Something you dontv ic g

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