Christine madella, nbc 10 news. Tonight, the cdc says its sending special Response Teams to the dallas hospital where a nurse became infected with ebola. The team will help workers improve their techniques as they care for nina pham. Now, the nurse became sick while treating thomas duncan. Hes the first patient who became infected in the u. S. The cdc says any hospital that treats ebola patients will get a special Response Team going forward. The people who shared an apartment with duncan arent showing any signs of the virus. They will remain quarantined in dallas until monday. Meanwhile, a man from lebanon, pennsylvania, wants the u. S. To ban all flights to and from ebolastricken countries. Hes launched a white house petition that has more than 26,000 signatures. Ebola is nothing new to one doctor in our area. Doctor matea schnell has been working on years for a vaccine for the virus. The work he does here is then sent to washington for testing. The doctor says a useable vaccine is a
Out for fog. Parts of our area have dense fog this morning and we are chilly, again, but were looking ahead to another warm up. Its 4 30, good morning. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Ium consider chris cato. We like the idea of a warm up. That sounds good. Lets get to bill henley and his first alert forecast on this veterans day. Fog once it starts warming up disappears. Its cooling down and seeing thick fog in new jersey and parts of delaware, too. But not so much in pennsylvania as this live view from the loews hotel in center city. Toms river seeing dense fog this morning and zero visibility, in fact, in toms river. Its been very thick for Atlantic City, as well. Just improved in the last few minutes. Now, sixmile visibility there. But slowly getting thicker in dover, down to threequarter mile visibility this morning. Look at the temperatures. Back into the 30s for pottstown and 44 in northeast philadelphia at the airport and into the middle 40s right now in center ci
Lets get to meteorologist bill henley. Good morning, bill. Improving conditions throughout the day. Starting off with low clouds and fog. Low clouds into the city and dense fog in parts of new jersey. Very thick. Right now its down to zero visibility in some areas. Some moisture blowing past the aramark building and one of the elements that helps fog to form and we got that this morning. Now down to zero visibility at Atlantic City at the airport. If you have a flight out this morning, there may be delays. Check with your carrier. Georgetown a half a mile visibility and dover has been in and out of the fog so far this morning. Were into cooler temperatures north and west pottstown and allentown back in the 30s and 40s in the i95 corridor and 47 degrees at Philadelphia International. Watch the temperatures climb and that will clear out the fog. Partly sunny, 50 at 9 00 and into the 60s at noontime and climbing. Your hour by hour forecast. First alert traffic reporter katy zachary has yo
Pink shirt. Were told the suspect is driving that tan forward for escape with new jersey license plate h66ebc police are looking for that tonight. We will stay on top of this story. In the meantime if you have any information youre asked to call 911 immediately. Also, breaking right now, a man who killed a baby and her grandmother is sentenced to death tonight. Jurors in Montgomery County deliberated his fate for 3. 5 hours this evening. He reportedly showed no emotion in court. He was convicted last thursday of stabbing 61 year old grandmother to death and then killing her 10 month old granddaughter back in 2012. We hope it can bring a little close shower for the vennas this has been a difficult two yours for them. If he had expressed remorse that we would have we would have had a better chance to save his life. But that wasnt his strategy and accordingly here we are. Prosecutors say he plotted to kidnap the child for ransom money to feed a gambling addiction. He killed the grandmothe
Grandmother to death and then killing her 10 month old granddaughter back in 2012. We hope it can bring a little close shower for the vennas this has been a difficult two yours for them. If he had expressed remorse that we would have we would have had a better chance to save his life. But that wasnt his strategy and accordingly here we are. Prosecutors say he plotted to kidnap the child for ransom money to feed a gambling addiction. He killed the grandmother when she got in the way. We received dire warning tonight from the world health organization. It says that ebola must be contained within two months or west africa could see 10,000 new cases each week. The cdc says it has a new plan to help u. S. Hospitals handle ebola. The agency will immediately dispatch response tomorrow to any hospital with a confirmed case. Weve also learned that 76 people cared for ebola patient Thomas Duncan in dallas. They are all being monitored. Meanwhile the nurse who was infected while treating duncan i