News today first look at 4. Im tracy davidson. Im rosemary connors. The first day of fall. At 4 02, autumn begins. Well say goodbye to summer but have the temperatures stick around. Not so fast. Meteorologist bill henley has it in the first alert forecast. Well extend summer and temperatures unusually warm for this hour. Instead of being in the 50s, were in the 70s in philadelphia with a north wind at ten Miles Per Hour as jose is spinning offshore. 74 degrees at 10 00 this morning. The winds up to 11 miles an hour at that time. The lehigh valley, 65 degrees now. Youll see plenty of sunshine here at 7 00. 61 degrees. And into the low 70s at 10 00 this morning. A whole area will warm nicely into the 80s this afternoon. Partly sunny for new jersey and delaware and especially at the shore. Well be in and out of the clouds, high of 80 this afternoon. Lots of sunshine for the suburbs, philadelphia, lehigh valley, middle 80s. Even warmer over the weekend. Ill break the forecast down hour by hour when i come back in a few minutes. First, well see how the traffic is looking. Katy zachry has an update from the first alert traffic center. Thanks. If you are making your way through philadelphia, the biggest story we have is that the vine street expressway is closed in both directions between broad and the schuylkill expressway. Our cameras out there show a dark scene, but you see some construction vehicles in the roadway. Taking the place of what we would normally see cars at this time. Lets look at your drive times, everything in the green which means there are no major obstacles, crashes, everything is running at smooth speed. 76, 95, and 476, no major problems there. On 76, a few things that down, p the brakes. Its construction youll find in the gulf mills area and also when youre making your way through belmont. Other than that, you should be free and clear on expressway. Back to you. 4 32. Tracking hurricane maria. Were getting a new aerial view of the absolute devastation in puerto rico where people are still grappling with the aftermath of that monster storm. You see thousands of homes are destroyed, neighborhood neighborhoods under water, three Million People are waking up without power this morning. It could be months before crews completely restore the electricity. President trump has promised federal help and will says hell visit the island. Airplanes plan to start resuming flights as early as this morning, and theyll help more relief supplies get to the area. Now to the radar. Hurricane maria is impacting turks caicos right now, delivering hurricaneforce winds. People in philadelphia are step information to help hurricane victims. Thats right. Matt delucia live from the parkway to tell us more about organizers at the puerto rican day parade. Theyre noting to turn the event into a Fundraising Campaign . Reporter thats right. The Puerto Rican Community in our area sees this as a big opportunities to help loved ones in need. That will happen here along the ben franklin parkway on sunday. This year an even bigger purpose. There is a large Puerto Rican Community in the philadelphia area. Because of that, many have loved ones who live on the island. The slapped was hit hard that island was hit hard by hurricane this summer. Its been tough, in some cases impossible to reach friends and family by phone or internet because of the outages there. Now a new campaign will try to help the area rebuild. Its called Unitas Puerto rico united for puerto rico. The group gathered to help make this a successful fundrr heres why ive talked to my dad two days ago, but the lines are down. I havent been able to communicate with him. Ive got faith that hes going to be all right. We want to help whether its donating money, going and helping out with the salvation army, with the red cross. Reporter with that parade planned for sunday, it is timely in that it is both a celebration of culture and an opportunity to all come together to help those who are desperately in need. For now, live in center city, matt delucia, nbc10 news. All right. Thanks. Today at noon, philadelphia state lawmaker angel cruz will give us details on another Hurricane Relief effort for puerto rico. We know that he will be hosting a telethon and other Fundraising Efforts to aid the island territory over the next few weeks. Well keep you post on that. Victims in Tropical Storm jose are still trapped on nantucket this morning. Take a look. For days now, jose has lashed the massachusetts coast with wind, coastal flooding, beach erosion, and thats led to quite a few travel problems. All flights are canceled, and ferries are not running. Lets head to south florida. A 10th patient from that nursing home has died more than two weeks after Hurricane Irma swept through. The facility in hollywood, florida, lost its air conditioning during the storm on september 10t las week. The ninth died on tuesday. As we mentioned, the latest is up, theres a 10th victim. The state has suspended the license there. Authorities are determining whether or not to file charges. 4 36. Developing now, south korean media reports north korea may test a Hydrogen Bomb in the Pacific Ocean soon. Would be a it would be a step closer to fulfilling kim jonguns vow. Theres more namecalling between the u. S. And north korea, this time kim jongun taking aim at president trump. In an official statement he called him a frightened dog, a gangster, mentally deranked, and dotard, a person who is elderly who is weakminded or senile. That was in his response to trump mocking kim jongun as a rocket man on a suicide mission. The president has offered tougher economic sanctions on north korea. The sanctions would end all u. S. Business with countries that continue economic ties with north korea. In other news this morning, federal investigators say the engineers of two different commuter trains that crashed last year both had severe sleep apnea. One crash, you may remember, happened in hoboken, the other in brooklyn. Transcripts made public yesterday showed neither engineer was diagnosed before the crashes. Sleep apnea causes shortness of breath throughout the evening and makes people tired during the day. Both engineers say they have no memory of the crashes. Federal regulators decided that its up to Railroad Companies to choose whether to test employees for the hundreds of protesters hit the streets of st. Louis overnight. This time many were right. Organizers called for the white usch stadium. O march from thats where 50,000 people gathered for a billy joel concert. The entire time they chanted white s now to the stories making news around the region. In camden county, a Police Officer there admits that he had a baby with a 15yearold. Police say detective Rafael Martinez jr. Had a relationship with the teen for about a year. Martinez was charged with sexual assault, and hes been suspended without pay. In delaware county, another push to stop the controversial pipeline from running through back yards. A Homeowners Association in thornberry filed a motion in court to stop the work. The planned pipeline would bring natural gas from western pennsylvania to delaware county. And in montgomery county, students in the Methacton School district go back to school today after a teacher strike canceled classes all this week. The strike ended wednesday. Students were already scheduled to be off yesterday because of rosh hashanah. Now to delaware. The New Castle Airport is receiving millions of dollars in federal money. Yesterday, senators announced the 5 million grant to improve airport infrastructure. Officials hope the investment will lead to more flights at the airport including a possible return of commercial flights. You may remember Frontier Airlines used to operate out of delaware. The airline withdrew all of its flights from there in 2015. Today is moving day, so to speak, for this young seal still recovering from a serious injury. The seals flipper had to be amputated following a boating accident in april. The Marine Mammal stranding center treated the seal, taught him how to swim without his flipper. Hes do not fine and will hes doing fine and will join six others during a trip to an aquarium in buffalo. The Catholic Historical Research Center of the archdiocese of philadelphia has a new home. The center which is basically a museum moved into the former our lady of Ransom School in the northeast. It used to be at st. Charles however, there wasnt enough roof room for wasnt enough room for all of the collections belonging to the church. Your cash could be at risk. The device weve found across the area designed to steal your bank account information. From the farm to the city, should farm animals be allowed in those areas . Welcome back. Im katy zachry. A crash is affecting things on 95. 95 northbound between ridley park and route 420, theres a crash there between exits 8 and 9. Lets look at the map. Its just out of our map view. What were also learning is that 95 southbound at those exits, 8 and 9, theres a subsequent crash. It sounds like one of the krasht, northbound or southbound crashes, northbound or southbound, happened first. There was a residual crash right after it. 95 northbound and southbound around ridley park, there are crashes. In terms of how it is delaying you, it seems that the shoulders are beinging the crashes have be t shoulders. It might delay you, cause you to tap the brakes, but not too much. The other delay were followi v expressway. 676 through philadelphia. It is closed between broad and 76 in both directions. 4 43. 72 degrees. Clouds are moving through the area while showers are just offshore of new ines in souther delaware with moving on shore. These are a few raindrops that will reach the coastline coming off the jose. This batch of rain is going to push to the south. So the chance of seeing some sprinkles this morning is going to disappear during the day today. Sunshine is going to break through the clouds. Were in for a pretty good warmup. 72, mostly cloudy at philadelphia international. Breaks at sunshine at 74 at 10 00. Into the 80s this afternoon for philadelphia. The suburbs will warm into the 80s, too. 66 degrees nowment upper 70s at lunchtime. Low 80s with the northerly winds keeping it comfortable even though its going to be a warm one. Lehigh valley. 65. It will drop more to start with this morning. The temperatures are still falling this morning. The sun is not coming up until 6 50. Once it comes up, theres the last morning of summer. 77 degrees by lunchtime. As fall is moving in this afternoon, the temperatures will be in t80s. Ow 66 in new jersey. The shore, mostly cloudy to start with. 68 at 8 00. Warming to the upper 70s to near 80s this afternoon. The clouds stronger at the shore. Mileanhour wind. Jose still spinning off shore for the shore. Delaware, clouds, sunshine, and 80s by lunchtime. At noontime, its 80 degrees and goes warmer than that by 4 00 in the afternoon. Fall arrives at 4 02. A look ahead to show when the warm weather will finally break and it will finally feel like fall. Thank you. 4 45. Ahead on nbc10 news today, protecting your wallet, where thieves are installing devices designed to steal your debit card number. Plus, looking for love in all the wrong places. The fanatic takes a swing and a miss at romance. The video youve got to see this morning. This is a skimming device. Philadelphia police discovered it at a local atm machine. It includes a camera that captures pin numbers. Investigators found the devices on banks in philadelphia, bucks, and montgomery counties. Police are looking for two men they believe are responsible. Atm users tell us because the devices were at banks, they were caught offguard. There were scams before with gas stations. Before i swipe a card, i grab it and pull a little bit or something. Here, i never even thought about it to be honest with you. Police tell us the best precaution you can take is to cover your hands as you punch in your pass code. That way if theres a hidden camera on the skimming device, it wont be able to get into your bank accounts. No sweep for the phillies. The team came up short against the team with the best record in baseball, the dodgers. Rhys hoskins launched this lead. L. A. Scratched out a winning run on this infield groundout. Phillies dropped the series 54. But fillephillies fans got a s. I love the fanatic. He tried to woo the sideline reporter. You oh. Spills water all over you. His bell g derstand how that can happen. Then he had a toast and dried her off. Goodness. She was a good sport. Hes streaking earlier this year. People love the charades. They do. So cute. Just so fun. He did pull out all the stops. He had flowers, champagne, tablecloths. He tried he tried. Hes first class all the way. Absolutely. A nice guy. Weve all met him. Fanatic. Yeah, work thursday for years, the fanatic. Cant imagine him going to another team. Nope, hes ours. That would never happen. Listen, this weather eventually will be going away from us. This morning, still feeling a warm breeze. An eight mileanhour wind in philadelphia. Five at the shore. A warm summer morning and a warmer fall afternoon. 60s for the lehigh valley. 72 in philadelphia. South jersey in the 60s. Some areas in the low 60s. At glen, 67. Every one of the neighborhoods warming to the 80s this afternoon. Wont be completely cleave. We have clouds moving completely clear. We have clouds moving in. Showers are trying to move in. Theyre, virtually all, staying off shore. A few sprinkles in southern delaware. You might see a sprinkaxle alon the shore, but dry for the rest of the day. The system is weakening, thats jose. Still barely moving. And on the move, moving out of the Dominican Republic and toward turks caicos, maria, a stronger storm with 125 mileanhour winds. A cat3 storm. Maria will be heading into the open waters. It will stay away from us fortunately. Causing big problems in the caribbean. 85 this afternoon. Friday afternoon, 85 degrees. Friday afternoon, fall arrives. Heres first fall weekend. Look at sunday, 90 after a low of 66. Lots of sunshine all day sunday and a sunny day on monday. 89. Theres a chance of late day showers on tuesday and into wednesday. Not looking at a lot of rain. Following the showers, the temperatures come down for thursday, friday, and next weekend, too. A chance of showers next saturday and sunday. The temperatures in the very low 70s. Well take it. Were not into winter yet. Yes, its warm and humid. Lets check 95 for starters with first alert reporter katy zachry. I checked before coming out here. We are still following a crash on 95, both north and southbound, the same stretch, just opposite directions of 95. This is ridley park. You basically have a crash i95 northbound and southbound at ridley park and route 420 at exits 8 and 9. It will cause you to tap the brakes. Still, on 95, a major thoroughfare, be aware of that. That is not 95 at 420. Sometimes the cameras we dont operate are changed up unbeknownst to us. Construction in chester, not far really from the crash on 95. This is on the local roads in chester. Chestnut street is closed between 95 and 12th street for some bridge repair there. In about ten minutes well look at area bridges. If any are opening in the near future. Thank you. 4 52. Ei, ei no. One city split. And giant aspirations. The rival over the weak spot. The birds focusing earning a win. One rainbow is magic. Even more magic would be two. Three rainbows are impossible. Unless they were made by you. Lucky charms. Now with 3 new rainbow marshmallows. Theyre magically delicious be a powerful force. Nature valley oh hey its me mom, catching some side eye. First rule of motherhood. Someones always judging. Breastfeeding, didnt work out. Guess what . Worlds still turning. Yeah, i bribe my kids. How else you think stuff get done around here . Moms special juice, its wine. Now if you think thats shocking, check this out. Good old fashion yoplait®, its not made with cage Free Norwegian hemp milk. And guess what . She loves it. Good morning. A few minutes before 5 00 a. M. Theres a crash on 95 affecting the northbound and southbound lanes at ridley park. Youre going to find a slight delay between ridley park and route 420, between exits 8 and 9 on 95 northbound and southbound. Initially it came in as two separate crashes on both sides of the road. Now were learning it may be one crash affecting lanes in both directions. Ill stay on it. Well let you know what we find out. Lastly, a live look at the intersection, route 420 is the roadway closer to you. And 95 is the roadway under it. Were not seeing any delays. Again, well stay on top of this. Well check back with you shortly. Thanks. Farm animals in the sun city, some calling it strange. One City Council Member in wilmington says his residents should have the right to keep a therapeutic farm animal with them at home just like people in the country can. At the William Penn High School in new castle, students feed and care for goats and chickens. The teacher says the interaction with the animals has allowed many students to blossom. Yes, i see the value of animals working with people from all types of backgrounds emotionally. The councilwoman who sponsored the bill says she realizes there their are questions on health realize theres are questions on health conditions. The vote will be delayed so issues can be worked out. You know what that music means. Tracys dancing to it. On the chair, on the desk. The eagles can go 20 in the devotion with a win in their home opener against the giants on sunday. A little competition. The biggest is Odell Beckham jr. Beckham had only four catches last week but is recovering from injuries. The rookies need to step up. I think all of the guys are already. Even if youre inactive like i was, i played like i was a starter, knowing i wasnt, but i gave everything i had to get myself better and to get things better. We all practice like were going to be the guys they call up. Join us for exclusive coverage of the eagles home opener against the giants sunday. It starts at 9 30 in the morning with eagles game day kickoff. Looking forward to it. 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