now the investigation into what happened. terror cell in spain. new arrests tied to the attacks in barcelona and cambrils. police looking for at least one man who may have been the driver of the van that barrelled through barcelona killing and injuring scores. this as we learn more about the california man who was killed as he celebrated his first wedding anniversary. all that, plus boston prepares for tens of thousands who are expected at a so-called free speech rally. a seattle seahawks player gets support from a teammate after he chooses to sit during the national anthem. i ve got a blank space and taylor swift goes dark. the singer s social media account a blank space with rumors flying that she might be ready to drop a new album today, saturday, august 19th, 2017. from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on this saturday morning. i m craig melvin. i m sheinelle jones. dylan dreyer is here, as well.
police made more than two dozen arrests there and chris has more on the developing story. reporter: in boston, thousands on the march spreading a message of unity and equality. love, not hatred. reporter: a response to the demonstrations planed to drown out a rally not far away on boston common. organizers called that a free speech rally but would attract hate groups. i was thinking that we should show up to let the protesters of the free speech rally know they are in the minority. reporter: it attracted less than 100 people and broke up in less than an hour. spread a narrative that where white national neo nads szi tha ridiculo ridiculous. reporter: police led the free speech group off the police wagon and on foot. nbc boston jonathan was in the middle of it. two trump supporters escorted out. here we go. are you okay? what s your name. reporter: with the free speech group gone, counter protesters burned a confederate battle flag on the steps of the state h
the area, we do have a first alert out now. the first alert is for range and snow in the lehigh valley, including berks county and the pennsylvania suburbs. this is not going to start until sunday afternoon and sunday night. so right now we re just giving you a heads up, until then we re going to be nice and dry. again, keep in mind, this is mostly north and west of philadelphia where we re talking about, we do expect some accumulating snow, this would be again late sunday, changing to a wintry mix overnight and into the early morning hour before some areas, mostly pennsylvania suburbs see it change over to rain, that will be your morning commute on monday. here s a look at what s happening now, over weather pattern is dry, so its ushering in this cold air that we have been seeing all day today. even a new lake-effect snow flurries that the great lakes, that high moves right over us, and that s going to keep us dry for tomorrow. and as we go into sunday, making room for our n
passenger and the female officer. reporter: the officer on the driver s side fired two rounds and the driver was hit. the officers break the window because the driver is unresponsive. and begin cpr. police recovered two weapons from the car. as soon as he woke up, he got shot. even. if you saw a gun, y all could have freeze, and i m going to do x, y and z ask y all took it upon yourself to kill that man. the car involved also fits the description of a car involved in several robberies in the area. part of the investigation we ll look at that as well as the two weapons found inside the car to see if they have one suspect in custody. back to you live here at the scene, according to court records, terrance thomas was au waiting sentencing on gun and drug charge cans stemming from an incident back in september of last year. it was also on probation after charges of assaulting a police officer in the district. this is the second death by gunfire in as many months on the
afternoon. overall it will start to move out and then we ll be left with just clouds. as for temperatures, we re not cold enough for snow or ice in most of the area. upper to mid-30s in the suburbs, pottstown, 36, lancaster 39. areas like philadelphia and wilmington right now at 40. we will talk more about christmas eve, hanukkah forecast and christmas day coming up. see you shortly. thanks for that. police investigating a van crash on i-95 in bensalem bucks county that injured 15 people. passenger van veered off the road. they helped to free some victims from the van. some injuries are serious but not life-threatening. all lanes of 95 south were closed for a time but have since reopened. two men in the hospital following a pileup in philadelphia. nbc10 was on the scene on emerald street in kensington, a truck ended up on top of cars at 2:30 this morning. no word on the victims conditions or what led to the pileup. right now many of you may be preparing for a holiday