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Transcripts For WCAU NBC10 News At 5pm 20171120

Is not much. From clothes to walkers, donations have come in. We went running to see the building on fire. Her mother was one of the lucky ones. Her 85yearold mom escaped wearing old her nightgown. They are still looking for hearing aids try ing ing to understand the medications needed and looking for a new place for their mom to live. Its a lot of work. She needed 24hour care. The atf is joined by a team of local investigators trying to figure out how the fire. We know it began into the back of the building. The flames ripped through the top part of the building before the Fire Department could arrive. Talking to people inside the home and neighbors who live in the surrounding area trying to figure out how it started. Reporting live, deanna durante, nbc 10 fuse. It was bitterly cold when the fire broke out. So what role has the weather played in this investigation. Reporter the winds have been the enemy here. The winds helped to speed the flames that night. We know it was cold. We know it was windy. And investigatored had hoped to get in the building once the fire was out. That was delayed until today because it was too dangerous to have investigators go in because much of the building doesnt exist. It was structural issued combined with the wind made it difficult. Deanna durante reporting l e live. Download the nbc 10 app right now for free so you dont miss updates on this or any other breaking news story we cover. You can sign uhuh to have alerts sent directly to your phone. Turning to the weather, chilly and windy start to the workweek. Looking live now you can see the tlags there on top of the building innen center city. Still it was a beautiful day. Plenty of sunshine in wilmington. A few folks out enjoying the scenery there. Hold on to your hats out there. The wind is really whipping around today as we take a look at the top of the buildings. Lets head outside to krystal kl klei. Shes is braving the cold temperatures. It feels cold out here. Im really getting into the spirit of the holidays being out here at the river rink because they are getting ready to kick off winter fest. You can see behind me there are crews at work. This is a new warming zone they are calling it has additional seating. As you can see the crews are at work adding to some of the boxes that have large trees. If you have been out to this, its such a fun experience. If you want to get into the cheery mode, this is where you come. Decorations up and it will be ready this friday for the kickoff event. Lets talk about conditions because if the decorationsen respect putting you in the mood, the temperatures are pl take a look at the feels like. 39 degrees right now in philadelphia. 41 in will ming to be. It feels like 38 in pottstown. Why is it feeling colder than it is . The winds are still up. Not quite as strong as they were yesterday, still a little breezy. Were going through your hour by hour pushing the clock back to 7 30 this evening. 37 in pottstown. If we continue overnight, we drop down to the upper 30s and 40s. Thats a southwest push thats going to keep temperatures fairly mild into tomorrow morning. Mid to upper 30s for us. Then further south near cape may some 40s in the forecast for tomorrow morning. Then tomorrow really we are going to see a warmup through the day. Were back out live here. This is at the blue cross river rink getting ready for the rink. The official tree light iing isn december 1st. A new warming zone. Youll be able to try this out coming up this friday. Im live out here. Krystal klei, nbc 10. A man shot dead in the middle of the street and right in the middle of the day. It happened on the corner of engineermantown avenue and pike street. Police say the man was shot in the head, the neck and the hand around 2 00 this afternoon. Investigators are still looking for the gunman. A school. Community is is mourning after one of their teachers was killed in a house fire. Counsellors were on hand today. She taught third grade at the school. She died in a fire sunday morning. Neighborsen couldnt get to hawkins. Investigators are still working to figure out what started sundays fire. Now to the Sexual Misconduct allegations against Alabama Senate candidate roy moore. The first woman to accuse moore is speaking out in an nbc news exclusive. He left the room and came back in wearing his white underwear. He touched me over my clothing what was left of it. And he tried to get me to touch him as well. And at that point, i pulled back and said that i was not comfortable and i got dressed. E he took me home. He said moore assaulted her when she was 14 years old. She first told her story to the Washington Post earlier this month. At least eight other women have since come forward with accusations against moore. My sorrow that others have had had to go through this. But heres the pewty of what has. Happened. The support has been amazing. Women and men have come forward to tell their stories that have never had the ability to do so. Because of my courageous actions. Moore has denied the allegations, but the republican is under growing pressure to. Drop out of alabamas senate race. L dont you love talking about it on a monday morning. The birds flying high after crushing the cowboys last night in dallas. Lets face it. The birds have locked up a playoff spot. Marshal harris is here. I hosted that post game show. Many fans talking about a super bowl already. They have a pretty good argument. I would say so. 91 the eagles have the best record in all of football. And a very much clearer vision of a trip to possibly the super bowl. The eagles were down 97 at the half. But they dropped the hammer after halftime. The birds scoring 30 unanswered after the break on the way to a 379 victory over their arch rivals. Doug petersons post game locker room speech was just released by the team. He was focused on keeping his team from getting complacent with all that winning. Coaches and players, youre the best team in football right now, but we have a long way to go. First half, a little bit. Defense kept us in there. You guys kicked butt. Eagles having a good time. They have a onegame lead over the vikings and saints for homefield advantage. They are 82. The four other times they started 91 they went on to the super bowl or nfc championship game. Im marshal harris, nbc sports philadelphia. Remember nbc 10 is your official eagles station. The eagles play the bears on sunday. Nbc 10 is your allaccess pass for coverage before and after the game. It starts at 9 30 sunday morning with Eagles Gameday kickoff. Make sure to watch eagles game plan followed by eagles game day final right after nbc 10 news at 11 00. We have breaking news in the past minutes. The ntsb released a preliminary report into the plane crash that killedlies great roy halladay. It showed that the plane was rising and falling in the moments before the crash. That confirms what witnesses said in the time shortly afterwards. Crews are still going over the wreckage. Halladay crashed his plane on november 7th off the gulf coast of florida. It has been exactly two months since Hurricane Maria hit puerto rico. Bill clinton arrived on the island with supplies and Solar Energy Equipment donated by the clinton foundation. Despite efforts, they have a long way to go before it can fully recover. 50 of the island still has no power. 90 of residents now have Running Water because of the conditions that leave 140,000 people left the island. Now today Puerto Ricans are celebrating discovery day. So some local students are learning about the island before kicking off a fundraiser. Puerto rico was discovered on november 19th. Students celebrated the National Holiday with food and music. Sixth graders sampled chicken, plan tans and spanishstyle macaroni salad. Prior to the hurricane, not a lot of people knew they were citizens. I think thats one of the things. We wanted to understand these are fellow americans who are in need. Also to learn that america is a very diverse nation and has people from all walks of life. After lunch students were entertained by members of the Puerto Rican Institute of music in philadelphia. A lot of people going to be traveling this week for thanksgiving. Many of them will be taking a flight. Be prepared to wait in line. Ahead at 5 00, why this is the busiest thanksgiving the airlines have seen in a decade. Plus your Holiday Travel forecast. And fighting a common but dangerous medical issue. How penn state researchers are re lugs newsing the way that doctors treat concussions. A major breakthrough in the fight against cancer. The treatment developed right here in philadelphia that helped save this young boys life. Thats new at 5 00. Sdplnchts a cancer breakthrough made in our area. Leukemia patients given months to live are now cancer free. Aundrea clinethomas introduces us to the 9yearold whose parents let doctors take a chance when no other options were on the table. This is celeb ri offense. Should i open this one . Getting blood drawn is still hard for usa back at the Childrens Hospital for his annual checkup. Im always nervous on lab days. In 2011 before his third birthday, he was diagnosed with leukemia, also known as all. He was active, healthy, eating, playing, he had really no outward signs of being sick. Reporter too young to understand, they told austin he had kacancer coaties. I felt like i was looking in on someone elses life. This cant be happening to our son. Reporter chemo, radiation and a bone Marrow Transplant followed, but none of it worked. Enrolling austin in a Clinical Trial was their last hope and a long way for their home in wisconsin. We had less than six months with him. Reporter dr. Steven oversaw the trial. We had no idea going into this whether this would work at all. Reporter celling are taken from a patients own immune system. Were reprogramming them to see the cancer. Reporter the cells are reprogrammed with a modified version of the aids virus. They go back into the patient, go on the hunt, grow to the level they need to control even larger amounts of cancer and put those patients in remission. Reporter there are wide ranging side effects. Some so severe it can put patients in intensive care. You want to have that one last hope that this is going to work and this is going to save him. Reporter less than one month after receiving treatment, austins cancer was gone. Kim got the news while austin was trick or treating. I was crying and my mom was there. Im yelling at the lady at the door, my son doesnt have cancer. And she was all excited and crying and then offered me a beer. Hi, how are you . Good, how are you . Good to see you. Reporter uaustin is among te 90 of children in the Clinical Trial whose cancer went into remission. The results still prompting. The fda approved the first gene therapy in the United States for children and young adults up to 25 years old with all. But doctors are hesitant to call it a cure. This is early on and we know that theres the potential for side effects that we havent seen yet. Reporter uaustins cancer hs been in remission for four years. Im outside, swimming, im going on the trampoline. Life for this sometimes camera shy 9yearold has returned to normal. I tell people the only thing i had to hold on to was hope. And i do in miracles. Reporter aundrea clinethomas, nbc 10 news. Thats resilience right there for sure. Coming up at 11 00, well introduce you to the local man who is the very first person ever to receive that treatment. His courage reopened the door to save more lives and now were also asking whats next for this Breakthrough Cancer treatment. Turning now to the weather. Cold, windy. Tammie souza is here. Beautiful sunset taking place. 48 was the high today. We should be about 54 this time of year. Continuing that below average trend. No rain and our highest wind gust was 30 miles per hour. It was a breezy day. Look at the 61 in ra pid city. That warmth is headed our way. Right now were sitting at 46. So were still on the cool side. Its going to be a chilly night. 45 in wilmington. 44 in vineland. Its 45 in mount holly and Atlantic City at 45 this hour. Overnight tonight, were going to dip to 36 in philadelphia and coatesville and wilmington. And mount holly and trenton. A popular number. 32 allentown. And 38 for all of you in dover. Clear skies and a basic cold night. Heres what you need to know. Were going to have a couple more rain days ahead of us. Early wednesday morning, we could see rain moving through the area. If youre an Early Morning commuter, saturday afternoon and night, well see the chance for rain once again. Thanksgiving will be unseasonably cool but mostly sunny. Theres a bonus. Another big chill. Its going to be cold and windy. Were going to have a blst of cold air coming sunday through tuesday. It will be a chilly eagles game. We have some lakeeffect snow. Oured weather maker north of minnesota and wisconsin. Thats going to drop on through the area combining with moisture coming up the east coast. And bringing us that rain chance for early on wednesday. Well drop down into the 30s. And then here comes the rain. It should be out of here by the midpart and half of the morning commute. And then temperatures will kind of start to tumble. Look where we start on thanksgiving day. Its going to be cold and only make it into the low to mid40s on thanksgiving. 44 the suburbs. 43 for the Lehigh Valley. 47 along the jersey shore. 47 for all of you in delaware. Ill be back with your tenday on 10. Thank you. If you have been thinking about getting a pet, this weekend may be your perfecten opportunity to do so. Just look at these faces. The spca is offering free pet adoptions this weekend. Its part of a campaign called home for the pawlidays. They are available in new castle. Available animals will be outside the pet smart. That pup was adorable. All new at 5 00, she was disappointed when her brand new coach started peeling apart. My heart just went, i dont like this. The manufacturer wouldnt call it back, she gave Harry Hairston a call. The important step she took to help make this an open and shut case. Holiday meal countdown. How hol tiers are working overtime to feed thousands for thanksgiving. The important lesson students are learning in the process. Support from the music world continues to pour in for meek mill. Drake is speaking out on the p rappers behalf. A judge sentenced him to two to four years for a probation violation. His lawyers filed a motion to have the judge recused. This is the scene last week in chester city. A packed crowd chanted in support of meek mill. Supporters say the. Rapper sentenced for violenting probation is too harsh. Were getting brand new ip sight into how hes feeling in jail. Well have that part of the story all new at 6 00. It is hard to believe. I cant believe it. My stomach is growling thinking that thanksgiving day is almost here. A lot of people still have Grocery Shopping to do. But all of that food can get expensive. Take a look at this spread. Everything you see on this table was made into a basket for local families in need. They were put into trucks today. More than 2,000 baskets delivered to local families. The effort will feed more than 12,000 people across the city. They fired up the ovens at the Salvation Army today. They are preparing more than 4,000 thanksgiving meals for local residents. Once they are cooked, the meals will be delivered to families on thanksgiving morning. Its part of a project called thanksgiving to go. Some students packed. Up boxes. The items were all donated during discover Charter Schools annual holiday food drive. The principal tells us its a tradition that teaches the students important life lessons about giving to those in need. A new police chief has been on the job for six months and crime is up from last year. The chief tells nbc 10 his plan for reducing that crime by breaking through to teens. Im meteorologist can krystal klei. Winter fest, for those going out of town, ill have the details in your travel outlook for those staying in town, ill let you know when you can get on this rink and how long it will last. Once joined at the head, now healthy enough to head home for the holidays. Two baby girls that spent more than a year at the Childrens Hospital of philadelphia finally get to leave. How their story is is making history, all new at 6 00. The countdown to thanksgiving is on. Right now, we are only three days away to turkey day. Thats on thursday. Now is the. Its also time to pack your bags and get ready to hit the road or hit the skies if youre traveling this holiday week. Lets get out live to Philadelphia International airport. The Group Airlines estimate more than 28 million will fly this thanksgiving making it the busiest Holiday Travel weekend in more than a decade. Thats thanks to cheaper than usual air fare. 22 Million People will drive to their destinations. We are tracking changes in the weather as thanksgiving quickly approaches. Krystal klei is at the blue cross river rink and will have your travel forecast in a moment. Were going to begin with chief meteorologist tammie souza in the studio. Shes tracking the cold temperatures across the region tonight and the changes leading up to thanksgiving. Sglds well have changes going on out there. It was a chilly day. Well below average. 42 in the pennsylvania suburbs. 45 in delaware. 44 in south jersey. Along the jersey shore, 45 degrees. We have clear skies for the most part. Its going to become quite chilly tonight. Lets head out there to bucks county and Lehigh Valley. Reading, 43 degrees. We will be. Dropping into the low 30s in these areas tonight. So beware of that. Its going to be quite chilly. Not like a couple nights ago. Now we get to philadelphia at the airport, its 46. Were going to fox chase at 47. If youre parkwood, youre at 46. And bustleton youre at 46 degrees. So the temperatures holding steady, but we will drop into those mid to upper 30s across philadelphia tonight as well. Heres where were going over the next few hours. Well

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