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Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News Today At 6am 20240622

At 2 00 this afternoon. Your neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington is tracking traffic trouble this morning. What were looking at is a video out in Burlington Township of an accident scene thats closing route 130 northbound. Obviously an area being blocked off, several cars involved and crew on the scene. A lot of activity around the area. Now, this is right at beverly road. If we can head on our to our maps ill show you how to get around that. Right now they have local detours posted. Follow the detours but if not, they are forcing traffic off around campus drive. Take campus drive and hop on to salem and get back on to 130 that way and you should be just fine. If youre heading out the door to the schuylkill expressway, around the vine street expressway, right in here headed eastbound. So to get from the blue route up to this point, that drive time still doing okay, about a 13monday trip there. Average speeds of 59 miles per hour. As for septa, were dealing with some delays. The west trenton 309 is ten minutes late, warminster 402 is ten minutes late and were shuttle busing passengers from west trenton to woodbourne station. Back to that breaking news weve been falling all morning. Four hours later, a fire at a Montgomery County Apartment Building is finally out. It took peco workers an firefighters working together to do it. Nbc 10s katy zachry is live for us in king of prussia. Katy, explain why these peco utility workers were instrumental in putting the fire out. Reporter they really were, chris. For the laugh four hours we were watching a small section of fire still burning as we zoom into the front part of of the building, you can see smoke rising from that area. In just about the last half hour, that section of fire was put out. It had been fueled by an active gas line. Peco was brought in, crews came in, they assessed they couldnt get through the groundc enough with their shovels, so they brought in a backhoe and they dug, they tell me, about four feet down. They got to the gas line about a half hour ago. Once they turned that line off, the remaining fire was extinguished. Dozens of People Living inside the abrams run apartment complex here in king of prussia were evacuated. Firefighters had somewhat of a hiccup when they first got here. Once they attached their hoses to the hydrants, they had a problem. Listen to what he says. We were only delayed a little bit when we charged our first hydrant supply line, the water main broke on us but we were able to get through that and work through that. It did not delay us at all with getting the initial water on the fire. Reporter there was a small water main break here. Aqua crews are out here as well. A lot of utility craws in addition to the firefighters out here. In all, more than a dozen units were destroyed, about 30 people were without a home and had to rely on the red cross and Apartment Management Company for overnight accommodations. No injuries have been reported. Im still trying to connect with the fire marshal whos out here. Hes looking into what caused this overnight fire. Reporting live in king of prussia, katy zachry, nbc 10 news. A shooting at a Philadelphia Bar left one man in critical condition, another facing charges and customers shaken after a close call. Police say two guys got into a fight at the last shot in port richmond. They went outside, one man pulled a gun, shooting the other. When the man ran back inside the bar, the shooter fired two more shots, narrowly missing other people. Police arrested the suspect. New information in a suspicious death investigation. The man found dead monday night recently balm a lawyer. The victim, 27yearold shazim uppal graduated from Temple University law school last month. Skyforce 10 was over the parking lot of Genesis Health care in hockessin on monday night where he was found shot to death inside his car. Investigators say the victim lived close to where he was found and yesterday police were still combing the area around the scene. 6 05. New from overnight, mixed news out of the asian markets could have another effect on wall street today. The Chinese Markets in shanghai and hong kong showed gains for most of the day. By contrast, nikkei in tokyo rose sharply and that could spark Investor Confidence here at home. Yesterday, the Dow Jones Industrial average finished more than 200 points down at 15,666 and markets around the world are jittery now because chinas economy is slowing. Yesterday, the chinese cut Interest Rates for the fifth time since november, hoping for a boost. Pennsylvania is no closer to a budget this morning, after the republican majority failed to convince democrats to override any part of governor tom wolfs budget veto. The house struck down all 14 proposals. Democrats argued this procedure violated the state constitution but republicans claimed there was Legal Authority to restore spending by individual line item vetoes. The state has been but a budget since june 30th. An update on the School Budget battle in delaware county. A judge denied governor tom wolfs request to change Charter School funding for the Chester Upland School district. At issue, the cashstrapped district is required to pay Charter Schools 40,000 for each special Education Student while Public Schools get less than half that amount. During a School Board Meeting last night, several parents voiced their concerns. We need Chester Upland Schools to open. We need them to stay open and to do that we need a fair funding formula. Governor wolf had recommended cutting the amount of funding for each student by more than half. The district is 20 million in debt. 6 06 now. Happening today, a whistleblower and his attorneys will inspect a closed frat house at penn state as part of their hazing lawsuit. Attorneys for James Vivenzio say he will go through the former Kappa Delta Rho house room by room with a video camera to show where abuse allegedly took place. c he claims as a new from a tornadoty member he was beaten, burned with cigarettes and forced to drink urine and hot sauce. He claims penn state ignored his complaints. The school sus pnded the frat until 2018. And sad news to pass along this morning. Investigators say the young woman who was severely burned in a massive fire earlier this month in trenton as died. She had burns to 80 of her body. Investigators blame gasoline cans stored in one of the homes as the cause of the fire. An investigation is still under way. 13 people were displaced after five row homes burned in that fire. Today, a medical examiner in allentown will perform an autopsy on indy car driver justin wilson. The driver died monday night. A piece of flying debris from a crash at Pocono Raceway on sunday hit wilson in the head. Hes the first indy car driver to die in an ontrack accident in four years. A judge will formally sentence convicted Movie Theater gunman james holmes to life in prison today. A jury convicted holmes of killing 12 people and wounding donees in aurora, colorado in 2012. They couldnt agree on the death penalty. Holmes will receive life without parole. Surviving victims and family members of those killed spoke ahead of todays sentencing. Now nbc 10s first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. Were getting closer to sunrise. Sun is coming up at 6 23. We have a cool start. A good deal cooler with yesterday. Bright sunshine, brilliant sunshine, well see the temperatures climb into the 80s this afternoon. The humidity stays low. This weekend, the temperatures are going warmer. In fact well be getting close to the 90 degrees mark over the weekend. Not today. Look at the numbers right now. Allentown, 57 degrees. 66 in northeast philadelphia. In the clear for Atlantic City at 58 degrees. You see a few scattered clouds over Citizens Bank park. Those clouds clear out. Bright sunshine for the rest of the day and forc the beginningf the ball game this evening. It will be another beautiful evening for baseball, hopefully with a better outcome for the phillies tonight, 79 degrees at 7 05 with northwesterly winds blowing down to 7 by 10 00 this evening. Really nice and comfortable. In fact, it ill with be nice and comfortable all day long. The radar completely clear. The nearest showers, there are two lines. One barely visible off to the northwest. See some storms offshore. None of those will come anywhere near us today. Stand by with your sunglasses. 72 for mount pocono, upper 70s in quakertown and reading. Just in the low 80s for norristown and trenton while doylestown warms to 79 this afternoon, 79 for Atlantic City, cape may and rehoboth, 81 with plenty of sunshine for dover and vineland and nothing but sunshine as the clouds will thin out for drexel hill and philadelphia, 84 this krafterno. 80 for westchester. Weekend will be warmer. The humidity should stay low on saturday. It starts creeping back into the area on sunday that will lead to some changes on monday. Full sevenday forecast when i come back in ten minutes. Okay, bill, ten minutes after 6 00 now. Lets get you updated on the roads, including a fatal accident in Burlington Township. The roadways are still closed on route 130 northbound because of this accident scene. Now an active accident investigation scene. What you can see behind me is the seriousness of this crash with one person dead. Also roadways completely blocked off. Cars just manninged in the area and crew actively on the scene right now. Now, again, this is route 130 on the northbound side, right around beverly road. Now, they are forcing traffic off right now around campus. They do have local detours posted. But if you want to take campus when you get off, get back on to salem and then head back on to route 130 northbound and youll get around that scene just fine. Not a lot of traffic in the area also. As for the blue route, right around 320, everything isc movg along, whether youre going northbound or southbound right in here. You can see all leans open and no detours in the area. As for the pa turnpike, moving along there as well. Still looking at great drive times, 22 minutes westbound or eastbound from route 1 up towards valley forge. Well did a check in with mass transit in Burlington Township when i come . 3hc in ten minutes. 11 minutes past 6 00. Were following breaking news. We have word into the newsroom of a Police Involved shooting at 61st and master in philadelphia. We have launched skyforce 10. We also have nbc 10s Monique Braxton on her way and our assignment desk is making phone calls. Also, blindfolded and barefoot, thats how the man accused of trying to take down a train headed for paris appeared in court. More questions remain about the moroccan man and who funded his alleged terror plot. Hunger doesnt take a break. The program thats making sure food is on the table for some south jersey children. 6 15. We continue to follow this breaking news just in. Police investigating a policeinvolved shooting. Two cruise are on the scene in west philadelphia. Skyforce 10 is headed there as well. Monique braxton will bring you more information once we have it. Today is movein day for the class of 2019 in Widener University in chester, delaware county. Staff members and upper classmen will help the students move into their dorms. Expect traffic delays and some lane closures if youre in the area today. School is almost back in session for many kids in our area still at summer camp now. Their next meal is being made by hundreds of volunteers. Without them, the kids might not have anything to eat. Nbc 10s matt delucia went to find out why and whos reaching out. Reporter to understand how this happens thank you. Reporter you should know what goes into putting this food on the table. I got it. I got it. Reporter inside a warehouse in pennsauken at the food bank of south jersey, teams of volunteers are hard at work. Good to help out. Its fun to help out. Reporter helping because throughout new jersey one in five kids doesnt know where the next meal is coming from or when. And thats the case for at least 1,600 kids at 45 different summer camps. Folks like louise goldson just cant accept that. We get to go home and eat, why shouldnt they. Reporter where would these children be without they wont eat. Reporter workers at the food bank started the Summer Meals Program last year. Kids from lowincome families can usually get free lunch while school is in session. Then there was a void. Summer is Vacation Time for a lot of people. Hunger doesnt take a break. Hunger doesnt take a vacation. Open your lunch. Reporter at this camp in pennsauken, every bite now comes with a smile. They are truly a blessing. Without them, the kids wouldnt be able to have any of this. c reporter full stomach, courtesy of full hearts. In pennsauken, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Matt, thanks. 6 17. Another update on traffic including the fatal accident on route 130. In Burlington Township. All the traffic has been diverted around that because it is still closed. You said a fatal accident. Lets get an update with Jessica Boyington. Jessica . Chris and tracy, we still are watching video from the scene of a deadly accident. Now its an accident investigation scene. You can see from the cars and the mangled vehicles involved that the seriousness of this accident. Again, 130 because of this is closed on the northbound side. Thats at beverly road. Now all lanes right now are closed and detoured. They are automatically detouring all cars off on to campus drive. So now if you get off of campus, head back on to salem and pop right back on to 130 right beyond that scene and youll do just fine to get around that. As for the 42 freeway out in new jersey, things are moving along. Were starting to see the traffic heading northbound from 55 up towards the walt whitman bridge. Thats about a fiveminute trip. No real problems or delays there. Were starting to see the typical delays for the morning. The tacony palmyra, no problems, the ben franklin bridge and the betsy are all clear. No problems on the walt whitman bridge as you can see headed from the 42 freeway as well. Well check in with mass transit in the next ten minutes. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist bill henley. 19 minutes after 6 00. Four minutes away from sunrise. You can see the clouds that are over the city. Those clouds will be thinning out. Already seeing a little glow of sunlight on the building. That complete cloud cover and the clouds will be out of here as the day goes on. Whats already out of the picture . The humidity. Nice and low at 53 clers. We are running cooler than yesterday. Done by 6 degrees in philadelphia. The rest of the area is even cooler. Getting ready for sunshine at the shore. It will be right around 80 degrees this cafternoon. A but full day, not only at the shore but inland. Where we see temperatures right now, approaching their coolest part of the morning which is just after sunrise. 60 degrees in kennett square, Washington Township in wrightstown at 60 degrees. And 50s for coatesville, quakertown and allentown. 57 right now. And 50s now in millville, Atlantic City at the airport, mount holly and woodbine. Delaware is right in the lower 60s. A really pleasant start an a nice sunny day. The thin clouds you can see moving through the area right now. Theyll be out of the picture during the day today. Enough sunshine to warm us to the low 80s in philadelphia. Our weather stays quiet, the tropics are heating up. We are tracking Tropical Storm erika, just barely a Tropical Storm with 40 mileanhour winds, moving to the west. Expected to take a turn and this will likely take it towards puerto rico. By later impacting puerto rico and the computer models take it into the bahamas this evening. Thats saturday evening at 10 00 saturday evening. Well be watching erika as it makes its way towards the bahamas. For us, sunshine, grab the sunglasses. It will be a warm afternoon but nice and comfortable with northwesterly winds at 10 miles an hour. The beautiful weather continues tomorrow. 50s in the morning, low 60s in center city. Up to 84 in the afternoon. Lack at friday. Doesnt that look nice, too. 86 the High Temperature. Will be warmer on saturday. The humidity will stay low on saturday but starts creeping up on sunday, leeing to a chance of showers and thunderstorms later monday. 6 21. The Police Involved shooting skyforce 10 is now over the scene as Police Investigate at 61st and spruce in cobbs creek neighborhood of philadelphia. An officer shot a man in the stomach. Police have taken the suspect to presbyterian hospital. Were working to get you new details. Nbc 10s Monique Braxton is on her way to the scene to try to get you a live update in the next few minutes. While most women are overjoyed as they prepare to soontobe mother has mixed emotions. Im anxious and excited for hannah and im dreading what it means for olivia. The tough day ahead in the delivery of conjoined twins. And a live look at the linc where theyre getting ready for comedian kevin hart. Before he hits the stage, you can take part in what he calls his rocky moment. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Mr. President , w

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