NO, IT’S NOT BECAUSE I’M JEALOUS
Here’s a trade secret: Most meteorologists hate most weather apps. They are the incredibly popular and wildly misused forecasts that make meteorologists seem less accurate than they really are. Rather than explain it myself, I’ll let one of the nation’s most respected TV meteorologists, Dan Satterfield do it in his great blog.
(It’s better for him to make specific accusations than for me to do it-I have a history with one of the companies mentioned. He also uses a phrase that’s perfect for the subject, but one I couldn’t get past the censors).
THE PROBLEM WITH (MOST) WEATHER APPS
No matter how much computer models improve, human forecasters can still “beat” them. The numbers that come out of various computer models are called “guidance” in our business. The top synonym for “guidance” in the dictionary is “advice”. It’s not the final word. It is a piece of advice to forecasters: “this is what the_____model suggests as the high temperature”, for example.
Different models will give different “advice”. No model is perfect. Almost all models have some sort of bias: consistently too warm or cold, too fast or slow with fronts, over-developing storms, etc. Then it’s up to the forecaster to take that all into account and make a decision. Statistics show that human forecasters can “beat” the computer models at all forecast periods (tomorrow, next weekend, etc.). So, as Dan said in his blog, you are not getting the best forecast possible when you check out most apps.
And will those apps get better? Probably not much, if at all. Who’s there to monitor those thousands of forecasts? If a particular weather model is used for the app, it will make the same mistakes OVER & OVER. The main U.S. model, the GFS, has had a bias of being too cold the farther you go out in time. It also takes a current extreme weather pattern and forces the numbers to get closer to average after about 5 days. All the time! And it’s been making the same type of mistakes for more than 20 years!
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to get around the idea that your possibly favorite forecast was straight out of a computer? There is! And we have it!
OK, so what’s so different with our app? I’m happy to tell you, especially because it is so much work to do what we want to do. Like other apps, we get detailed, automated forecasts for all parts of our area via our weather partner, The Weather Company (formerly WSI Corporation). Those forecasts are known as “default” forecasts. If we’re too busy with tornado warnings, for example, the automated forecasts will go out to nbc10.com and our app. But that happens less than 1% of the time.
On a normal day, we write down the “default” forecast from The Weather Company for Philadelphia. We also write down the forecasts from other computer models, including the most accurate in the world overall, the European. We have exclusive rights for some of the data from the European that shows what their “advice” is for the high and low temperatures and precipitation chances for each day. Then, based on an understanding of each model’s biases, and with many years of forecast experience, we change the “default” numbers to our own. We go out to 10 days. That forecast goes immediately into nbc10.com and our app.
That’s for Philadelphia. That is not where it ends-it’s just the beginning. We then make similar adjustments to FIVE other forecast areas: PA suburbs, Lehigh Valley & Berks, inland New Jersey, the Jersey Shore, and Delaware. Below is a map of our forecast breakdowns, so you know which area you live in (or travel to).
So, now we have in effect made 45 forecasts: 10 days for Philadelphia, and 7 days for 5 different areas. 10+35=45. But we’re not done. If we want to truly call it a “Neighborhood Forecast”, we have to go into more detail. We then chose 3 different neighborhoods from each area. 3x6=18
Our simple math is: 45+18=63
Yes, we do make 63 separate forecasts EVERY DAY. We try to figure in the effect of sea breezes, fronts that only affect parts of our area, the “urban heat island effect” of Philadelphia, the cooler, sandy soils in New Jersey, the effect of east winds on the higher elevations North and West of Philadelphia, etc. Sometimes a couple of degrees will mean the difference between rain and snow, and those differences will show up in our Neighborhood Forecasts. There are times when the forecast numbers will be close, but other days (especially in winter) where you’ll see 20-30 degree spreads across our region. Of course, our forecasts won’t be right all the time. We can’t be perfect-but we can be the best. And we strive for that every day.
This process takes hours, and a lot of concentration while the phones are ringing, promos are taped, and on-air graphics made. The web people are asking for a blog on the coming storm. The producers want to know whether the weather is important enough to be the lead story. The promo people want us to tape something for the 4pm news. Reporters want to know if lightning will affect their live shots, and we often check any scripts of weather-related stories for accuracy.
We can’t make those forecasts earlier in the day. We have to wait for the latest computer model data. So, for example, the period from 2-4 p.m. is constant, detailed, high-pressure work.
We could just sit back and let the computer models and default forecasts take over, and then go on TV implying that we’re giving you our own forecasts. But, now that we have the technology to deliver detailed Neighborhood Forecasts, we will not settle for anything but our best effort. And you shouldn’t settle for it in other Weather Apps, either.
Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz
Chief Meteorologist, NBC10 Philadelphia
The neo-soul singer Rolling Stone called one of “10 New Artists You Need to Know” - Leon Bridges - announced on Twitter Monday morning that he will be performing as part of Philadelphia’s Wawa Welcome America! July 4th festival. Want Mas? VIVA MÁS, the Philadelphia Latin vocal group, joins the all-Philly connected, 350+ performers in this year’s eight-day Wawa Welcome America! festival. Leon Bridges and VIVA MÁS will be joined by Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr., Empire’s Yazz the Greatest, Brotherly Love, the Philly POPS, USO Show Troupe, and a special celebration of the Sound of Philadelphia for Kenney Gamble and Leon Huff featuring legendary hit-makers The O’Jays, Harold Melvin’s Blue Notes and The Intruders backed by The Sounds of Philadelphia Orchestra directed by Henri McMillian, Jr..
Yo! The parkway stage is not the only place to see celebrities. In front of the globally famous Independence Hall, Philadelphia-born How to Get Away with Murder actor and Scandal producer, Tom Verica appears at the Celebration of Freedom Ceremony on July 4th at 10 a.m. The ceremony will honor Philly’s “Everyday Heroes” alongside Hamilton’s Leslie Odom Jr, Kenney Gamble, Leon Huff and the Philly POPS.
HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
The fun on the parkway starts earlier this year, 12 p.m., with Party On the Parkway. This free daytime family event at Eakins Oval will get everyone dancing with performances by Kidz Bop Kids Live – the No. 1 Kid’s Album Artist in the U.S. – plus an opening DJ set and beatboxing with the kids with hip hop legend Biz Markie who has toured extensively as a fan favorite on the Yo Gabba Gabba Live Tour.
The Wawa Welcome America! July 4th Concert also begins at an earlier time, 5 p.m., with Biz Markie djing between sets to keep the crowd going throughout five hours of non-stop live entertainment (two more hours than before) with the July 4th grand finale fireworks (also starting earlier this year) at 10:00 p.m., presented by Comcast NBCUniversal and Pyrotecnico..
Leon Bridges is no stranger to performing for large lively crowds like the one expected at this year’s Wawa Welcome America! July 4th Concert. His Coming Home tour has sold out appearances across the country including in Philadelphia. His local ties go well beyond the City of Brotherly Love—Bridges recorded the soundtrack for the sports drama thriller film, Concussion, starring Will Smith. Concussion was filmed in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
The 26 year-old Fort Worth, Texas native and Columbia Records artist released his debut album, Coming Home, to critical and public acclaim. The album was nominated for Best R&B Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. Most recently, the young and talented artist performed a tribute to Ray Charles at the White House for President Obama.
VIVA MÁS is what happens when you deliver both Philly Soul and Latin Heritage. Eddie, Eli, Raul, Michael, and Eric from Philadelphia’s own VIVA MÁS work with the producers who introduced Grammy-award winner Jon Secada and Latin popstars Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias.
The festival will be broadcast on NBC10, Telemundo62, Cozi TV, TCN, and TeleXitos. Events will also be live-streamed on the NBC10 and Telemundo62 websites. Festival guides that will help residents and visitors navigate the events throughout the week will live on the NBC10 and Telemundo62 mobile apps.
A Philadelphia law firm is threatening to sue the Navy if it doesn’t act quickly to take responsibility for water contamination on and around local military bases. That includes coming up with an abatement plan as well as testing and then monitoring the health of 70,000 residents in affected communities.
The intent to sue notice was sent Friday on behalf of the Giovanni’s, a family of 5 living within 300 feet of the now defunct Grove Naval Air Station.
In 2003, the Giovanni family moved into their Poplar Road home and used their private well water for 11 years. When they learned it contained high levels of PFCs -- more than 40 times times the EPA’s health advisory level -- through EPA testing in 2014, they were given bottled water for six months and then hooked up to Warrington’s public water supply, only to find out last month that too had toxic levels of the same chemicals.
"The drinking water and health of almost 70,000 current residents, and untold numbers of past residents, to say nothing of workers at the facilities themselves, has been jeopardized” said environmental attorney Mark Cuker. "Some have been exposed to PFCs from both private and public water supplies."
According to the EPA, "PFOA and PFOS pose potential adverse effects for the environment and human health" including but not limited to kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, ulcerative colitis, pregnancy induced hypertension, high cholesterol, and other diseases.
The notice of intent does not say if any Giovanni family members -- three adults and two children under the age of 18 -- have suffered illnesses they believe are connected to water contaminants. But it does say for all those years the Giovanni's, like many other people in the community and certainly on the bases, drank, bathed and brushed their teeth with water they thought was safe and blames the U.S. government for improperly disposing of solid waste or hazardous waste for decades.
PFCs (perfluoochemical compounds), specifically PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) and PFOS (perfluorooctanesulfonic acid), are found in firefighting foam used on Willow Grove Naval Air Station and Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster, as well as more than 660 other U.S. military facilities.
People who worked on local bases have organized through a private Facebook group over the last four years. They've tracked well over 100 cancers they believe are connected to chemicals on the base. Workers there, both enlisted and civilians, consider themselves the ground zero victims, drinking water from what's been a Superfund site since 1995.
"It’s almost ignorant to believe that the military did not know of this," said Paul Lutz who at 43 suffers from multiple myeloma. Lutz served at Willow Grove as a Flight Engineer from 2000 and officially retired in 2014. "Somebody had to order the chemical. Somebody had to review the hazards. Somebody had to say, 'How does it work, what does it do, how do we store it?'"
The Giovanni’s notice of intent says waste from the two facilities got into the groundwater, polluting public and private wells in Warminster, Warrington and Horsham townships.
“Despite the facilities’ presence on the National Priorities List (NPL) for more than two decades, direct EPA oversight has failed to prevent ongoing PFC use and disposal at the Facilities, failed to prevent or abate contamination or migration of these toxic contaminants to local public and private drinking water sources, failed to prevent or abate drinking water contamination by PFC’s, and failed to prevent ingestion and bioaccumulation of PFCs by the local population, including sensitive subpopulations of infants and children. These failures for more than two decades have left the Resident family, their neighbors and workers at the facilities exposed to toxic hazards from solid or hazardous waste.
The intent to sue is a 60 day notice to the Navy, asking them to agreement on a plan of abatement and health monitoring. If that doesn't happen within the time frame, Cuker says his law firm plans to file lawsuits in federal and state courts on behalf of the Giovanni’s and residents of the other townships.
“People continue to be exposed to high levels of PFCs in surrounding groundwater” says Cuker, “from the chemicals migrating downstream from the Willow Grove site to Park Creek, Neshaminy Creek, and other waterways.”
Just last week, an investigation by The Intelligencer showed water contaminated with PFCs was still being released from the Horsham Air Guard Station (former Willow Grove NAS), into Park Creek which connects to Little Neshaminy Creek.
Paul Lutz, married father of three, is on his second round of chemotherapy and trying to get healthy enough for a stem cell transplant. He wants anyone who worked on the base from the time PFCs were introduced to be notified about exposure and included in any testing and health monitoring. Lutz would also like everyone who worked on bases to be tested not just for chemical exposure, but for cancer.
"This is technically friendly fire," Lutz said in an interview Friday about the water contamination.
Another law firm, Weitz & Luxenberg, which works with consumer advocate Erin Brockovich, is talking with people both on and off the bases about filing suit as well. They announced an investigation into the water contamination last week and expect to send a team down in the next two weeks to talk in person with members of the community.
Cuker’s environmental law firm, Williams, Cuker, Berezofsky, represented families in the Toms River children cancer cluster case and negotiated a multi-million dollar settlement that was divided among 69 families. The case became the subject of Dan Fagin’s Pulitzer prize-winning book, Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation.
Earlier this month, Cuker’s firm reached a settlement with the chemical company Solvay over allegations of PFOA water contamination for residents of Paulsboro, New Jersey. Preliminary testing among a small group of children under 12 showed elevated cholesterol levels, according to Cuker. Part of the settlement allows for blood testing of up to 5,000 Paulsboro residents this summer.
We are awaiting response from the Navy on the intent to sue notification.
A woman died from her injuries after she was struck by a hit-and-run vehicle on Roosevelt Boulevard, according to investigators.
Police say the unidentified woman was walking across Adams Avenue on the crosswalk at the Boulevard when a speeding mini-van went through a red light and struck her, knocking her 50 feet down the road. The driver of the mini-van then drove northbound on the Boulevard, officials said.
The woman died from her injuries. Police say they found a college ID on her though they have not yet revealed which college.
Police say the mini-van is silver or white in color and also has heavy damage. They continue to investigate.
A driver jumped the curb and struck a group of people – possibly breaking limbs – outside a popular South Street hoagie shop overnight.
The 21-year-old driver somehow wound up smashing into Primo’s Hoagies at 326 South Street a little after 1 a.m. Tuesday, shattering a glass panel in front of the hoagie shop.
The car struck three men and one woman. All four were rushed to Jefferson University Hospital in stable condition with possible broken arms and legs, said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.
The 21-year-old driver and her passenger remained on the scene and spoke to accident investigators, said Small.
Police didn’t expect to file and serious charges but the investigation continued early Tuesday as officers blocked off the 300 block of South Street.
Primo’s, which has a four-star rating on Yelp, was closed at the time.
Just because school is out doesn’t mean children can’t get the same free or reduced-cost meals they rely on during the school year — families just need to know where to look.
This summer, the USDA plans to serve millions of free meals to children at approved summer food service program sites.
Any child 18-years-old and younger can eat free at designated summer meals sites across the country.
To find a location in your community, call 1-866-3-HUNGRY, or 1-877-8-HAMBRE for Spanish, or find a meal by ZIP code at: http://nhc.fns.usda.gov/nhc/nhc-main-page
The drive time on the Schuylkill Expressway from the Blue Route to the Vine Street Expressway ballooned to more than 100 minutes during the morning commute Tuesday after a multi-vehicle crash involving a SEPTA bus.
The crash occurred in the eastbound lanes of near Girard Avenue around 6:15 a.m.
No one suffered serious injuries, said Pennsylvania State Police.
Initially a lane and the shoulder got by as crews worked to clear the scene but after more than an hour, crews completely closed the roadway leading to Center City as they worked to move vehicles out of the way.
After 90 minutes or so, crews had the wreck moved over onto the shoulder but long delays continued.
Bike advocates are pushing the city on new, enhanced bicycle lanes that will keep cyclists safe in Philadelphia. Funding has been approved, but the installation process is taking longer than expected.
The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia and a local political organization, 5th Square, held a press conference Tuesday encouraging Philadelphia officials to get started on building protected bike lanes. The lanes create a barrier between cyclists and vehicles with the use of blockades like curbs or planters.
Randy LoBasso of The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, said the organization proposed 30 miles of protected bike lanes throughout Philadelphia, located on various main streets throughout the city. $300,000 was then set aside from transportation alternatives programs funds, or TAP funds, for the lanes.
"These grant-funded street upgrades can and must be installed quickly and with as much physical protection as possible as a first step toward make our city's transportation network safer for everyone," said 5th Square co-founder, David Curtis.
The money is good until 2018, explains LoBasso, and the city said it may take that long to install the lanes.
Philadelphia is the largest U.S. city without physically-separated bike lanes, the coalition said in a release, and reports the lanes "have been proven to make streets safer for all road users."
For more information and a map of proposed streets, visit the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia's website.
A woman was handcuffed, stabbed and shot before being dumped in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, homicide detectives said Tuesday. Investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying her.
Police said a driver found the woman's body around 8:30 a.m. along Georges Hill Drive near the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in West Philadelphia.
The woman, whose believed to be in her 20s, had her hands handcuffed in front of her body. Detectives said she was stabbed multiple times and was shot once in the back of her head.
Homicide Capt. James Clark said the woman had defensive wounds on her hands.
"I believe she was in a fight for her life, and unfortunately she lost," he said.
Detectives believe the woman was killed in another location and her body dumped in the park.
Fairmount Park is one of the largest municipal park systems in the United States, covering more than 9,200 acres throughout the city.
The murder sparked concerns that it was done at the hands of the infamous Fairmount Park rapist. Police have connected him to at least three attacks -- including one murder -- between 2003 and 2007. He was never caught or identified.
Police said they don't believe the woman was sexually assaulted.
The public is being asked to help police identify the woman. She has black skin with a medium complexion, standing 5-foot-6-inches tall and a thin build. She was wearing a white top and multicolored skirt.
The woman had three tattoos: the word "Loyal" across her chest, "Ka$h" on her right wrist and a rose on her right thigh.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 215.686.TIPS.
Two men dressed in fluorescent work vests worked their way into a Philadelphia home and made off with a slew of personal items.
Surveillance images released by Philadelphia Police Tuesday show the men in action around 1:50 p.m. on June 3 at a home along Pilling Street near Orthodox Street in the city’s Frankford section.
You see one of the men – wearing a green hard hat and bright yellow hoodie – knock on the door while his accomplice in an orange work vest and white hard hat slowly moves along a driveway while appearing to talk on a cellphone.
After waiting a brief period – as people walk by on the sidewalk, you see the man in yellow climb around into a garden. The man then entered through a second-floor bedroom window and made off with several personal belongings, said police.
The two men then fled the area, said investigators.
Anyone with info or who recognizes the "workers" is asked to contact Philadelphia Police.
Knowing that the ride from western Montgomery County to Norristown can be a long one, especially on public transit, the county is making it easier for people to receive public law services.
The Montgomery County Public Defender will open its first satellite office at 364 King Street in Pottstown, Pennsylvania Wednesday.
The goal of the office is to "make it easier" for adults and juveniles in need of one of the county’s 45 full- and part-time public defenders to access and to meet with an attorney, said chief public defender Dean Beer.
The office – in a building that houses other county services – will be open just one day a week (8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.) to start to see how much demand there is for legal services.
"We will see what kind of response we get over time," said Beer.
Townhomes and multi-unit building construction outpaced newly built detached homes in Montgomery County at the highest percentage ever, part of a trend that helped contribute to a 15-percent increase in overall residential construction in 2015.
Seven out of every 10 new homes built last year were attached or multi-family, according to a new housing analysis released by the county. Attached homes are generally townhomes while multi-family units are condominiums and apartments.
Affordability, lacking availability of land, and a growing interest among buyers in town center-type living are pushing the booming townhouse and condominium construction, Montgomery County’s section chief of planning Scott France said in an interview.
The report last week by the county planning commission showed 1,838 housing units were built last year, which were characterized as representing “an improving housing market and indicate a strengthening economy in the county."
The new housing stock jumped from 1,605 in 2014, and is an increase of more than 800 from the 1,016 new units that were built in 2012.
“It’s been awhile since the Great Recession, but it’s been a long while recovering from it,” France said. “What we’ve seen the last four or five years is a steady increase.”
He described the growing pace of townhome construction and sales “as a shift in the market and customer habit.”
He said home buyers look to Montgomery County for its parks and trails, restaurants and retail, but they are now looking for those things at closer proximity to their front door than previous decades when big lots and frequent driving were parts of suburban life taken for granted.
“We’ve seen people more open to denser construction and developers more willing to integrate residential into (mixed-use) areas,” France said.
Smaller residential footprints are also seen in the county’s detached housing construction. Detached homes are not necessarily getting smaller in size, but the plots of land area.
“Developers are trying to fit more housing on a plot of land. And people are more amenable to not having an acre or a half acre,” France said.
Russian government hackers breached the Democratic National Committee's computer network and accessed to the group's communications and databases, NBC News has confirmed.
The sophisticated Russian group, which has also targeted the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, targeted research units within the DNC and had access to all of its communications since at least last summer, including chat and email applications.
The hackers appeared to have specifically targeted the DNC's opposition research unit, which is tasked with compiling unflattering information on Republican opponents, including presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.
A young Philadelphia woman who survived the Pulse nightclub massacre Sunday said gunman Omar Mateen "wasn’t going to stop killing people until he was killed, until he felt like his message got out there."
Patience Carter, 20, who graduated from University City High School and attends New York University, was wounded in the Orlando shooting and "laid there for hours and hours" bleeding on a bathroom floor, hoping police would come save her.
Carter and another survivor, Angel Santiago, spoke Tuesday afternoon from Florida Hospital in Orlando. They were among dozens injured in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. At least 49 others were killed, and a handful of survivors remain in "grave condition," officials said.
Carter opened with a poem, saying "my healing process is writing."
"The guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy," she read.
Carter was shot while at the club with two friends, cousins Akyra Murray and Tiara Parker. The three were on vacation together.
"We were all having the night we dreamed of, going out on the first night of vacation," Carter said. "We just went from having the time of our lives to the worst night of our lives all within a matter of minutes."
She and Murray fled the club as gunfire erupted but ran back inside to look for Parker, who survived. Carter said they became trapped in a women's bathroom as Mateen wandered around shooting and talking on the phone to police. Authorities have said Mateen pledged his support to ISIS during a 911 call.
"People were getting hit by bullets, blood was everywhere and there was a moment when he stopped shooting in the bathroom," she recalled, saying Mateen tried at one point to fix a jammed assault rifle.
"The motive was very clear to us who were laying in our own blood and other people’s blood," Carter said. "He wasn’t going to stop killing people until he was killed, until he felt like his message got out there."
She said victims were draped over toilets and strewn across the floor. Murray, who turned 18 in January, was among them. She is the youngest confirmed victim in the weekend attack.
Carter believed she, too, would die and prayed it would be quick.
"[I was] begging God to take the soul out of my body because I didn't want to feel any more pain," she recalled.
A bullet shattered her right femur and entered her left leg. Carter remembered being pinned beneath another victim and said she owes her life to someone who blocked her from the spray of bullets.
"If it wasn't for that person shielding me, I wouldn't be sitting her today," she said.
Finally, it was over. Officers blasted their way into the club and a SWAT team member lifted her from the floor. Carter said she grabbed Murray's cellphone on the way out, hoping she'd have the chance to return it to her friend at the hospital. She never did.
Carter now struggles to reconcile relief with guilt, as she details in her poem:
The guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy
Wanting to smile about surviving but not sure the people around you are ready
As the world mourns the victims killed and viciously slain
I feel guilty about screaming about my legs in pain because I could feel nothing
Like the other 49 who weren't so lucky to feel this pain of mine
I never thought in a million years that this could happen
I never thought in a million years that my eyes could witness something so tragic
Look at the souls leaving the bodies of individuals
Looking at the killers machine gun throughout my right peripheral
Looking at the blood and debris covered on everyone's faces
Looking at the gunman's feet, under the stall as he paces
The guilt of feeling lucky to be alive is heavy
It's like the weight of the oceans walls uncontrolled by levees
It's like being drugged through the grass with a shattered leg and thrown in the back of a Chevy
It’s like being rushed to the hospital and told you're going to make it, when you laid beside individuals whose lives are brutally taken
"Give me all the 20's in the register."
That's what a man simulating having a gun told a clerk at a Northeast Philadelphia Wawa last month, according to Philadelphia Police.
Investigators released surveillance video Monday of the early morning heist on May 22 at the convenience store at 6935 Castor Avenue.
The suspect approached the employee simulating he was armed with a weapon in his jacket pocket and demanded that the clerk "give me all the 20's in the register."
After the suspect received an undetermined amount of money he fled on foot and was last seen on a driveway between Rutland Street and Castor Avenue.
Luckily no one was hurt.
Police described the suspect as being around 25 years old with a thin build and scruffy beard. He wore a dark hoodie with stripes, black pants, white sneakers, and carried a black book bag at the time of the robbery.
Police asked anyone who spots the suspect to call 911 immediately. If you have any information call Northeast Detectives at 215-686-3153/3154.
