bloomquist is off and we begin with breaking news from mercer county. an investigation is underway at hamilton township postal will facility after several people got sick. new jersey correspondent nor muchanic has been gathering more information and joins us live at the scene with more, nora? reporter: hi there rick what we have been told is workers became sick and at 10:00 o clock this morning one passed out we are told and six or seven people became dizzy and nauseated. now they are being treated on the scene right now by emt s. these people have not been transported to the hospital, and other employees here, that is them waiting on the lawn right now but this situation to clear. let s go to aerials from chopper six. this was the scene this morning as hazmat crews responded. fire fighters in full hazmat gear and breathing apparatus first examined a postal vehicle, and then a red car and then eventually two of the first responders in hazmat gear went inside the building wh
reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. what a crushing way to of responsibility to decide whether someone lives or dies. tonight a boston jury who saw every gruesome picture, heard every heartbreaking story of loss and suffering, has spoken on the fate of marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev unanimously voting he be put to death for his crimes. four died over 200 injured. some of those who survived are speaking out about the verdict. nbc s pete wims has been covering this story from the start. he s outside the courthouse now. pete good evening. reporter: lester good evening. the jury deliberated just 15 hours after four weeks of testimony in this pep at phase of the trial, rejecting a plea from defense lawyers to send him to prison for life. dzhokhar tsarnaev becomes the first person in the u.s. sentenced to death for an act of terrorism in nearly two decades, since timothy mcveigh executed for bombing the oklahoma city federal building in 1995. we send a message, a
uprising. the ousted president is already serving a 20-year sentence on charges he had a hand in killing protesters in 2012. the search is over for the eight people on board a u.s. marine helicopter that crashed in nepal. military officials are now hoping to remove the victims from the crash site today. marines and nepalese army soldiers were on board. their bodies were found in the mountains near kathmandu yesterday. and the chopper was part of the relief mission in the earthquake hit area. weather conditions hampered recovery attempts yesterday. we are now hearing from the parents of one of the u.s. marines killed in that crash. chris norjek was the pilot and the mom and dad spoke about their son from their home in kansas. he s just an amazing individual. my son is my hero. he s with any now and always will be. well there are 300 u.s. military personnel in nepal supporting the earthquake aid mission. fairfax county s urban search and rescue team members are back
evening but sue is here to tell us how things will warm up for this weekend. good day everybody we re in the middle of the month on this friday, may 15th i m karen hepp in for lauren beyond son. good morning. lots going on with the radnor switch is on saturday. how is weekend weather. completely different. from was we will of today and yesterday. enjoying low humidity? it will in the last. it will be sticky by sundayes specially so right now we have 72 percent relative humidity. 55 degrees with the 7-mile an hour breeze out of the south/southwest and your sunrise time is now 5:46. how delightful is that. temperatures elsewhere 45 degrees in pottstown, 40 in mount pocono, 49 in lancaster. there is 50 in trenton and atlantic city. forty-five in millville. 52 degrees in wilmington. we have cloud cover overnight so it is a little milder then it was yesterday at this same time and this is part of the storm is tell that will we will be watching for the weekend. that is the th
hashtag, fox 29 is 50. so we can put this all on the the air. you can be part of the celebration. how about people turning 50 this year, if you are turning 50 know someone in your life embarras them a bittle bit. we will send a big 50th shout out to them first. but please get their approval first don t be telling everybody in the office that they are 43 right, sue. right yeah, really a good idea because you will pay for a long time afterward if you don t like it. we will go with another double digit day to day. first of all it is friday. we don t expect humidity to be kicking in until the weekend and we should be in the mid 07 s by end of the day. 55 degrees right now southeasterly breeze at six 74 percent relative humidity 567:89:46 is your sunrise time these nice long days, 55 as we said here but 40 s to the north and west of us, and even to the south of us, 48 degrees in wildwood, 45 in millville, and of course our shore towns gearing up for next weekend which you ma