At 98-years-old, Emma Green admittedly doesn’t leave her Mount Airy home too often these days. Yet she’s already made up her mind that she’ll be out of the house on November 8, 2016.

“I’m gonna vote,” she said. “I haven’t missed voting since when I started.”

It’s a tradition that Green began in 1968 when she voted for Hubert Humphrey, the former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate who ultimately lost to Richard Nixon. For Green, it’s a practice she has never taken for granted.

Green was born in 1918, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to a family of farmers. The granddaughter of slaves, Green grew up during the Jim Crow era, a time of discrimination, racial segregation, disenfranchisement and terror for African Americans.

“Back in the day we had fields to go to,” Green said. “I picked cotton. I cut ditch banks. I was raised on the farm and my parents were poor.”

Green remembers the hardships she and other African Americans faced while living in the deep south during the first half of the 20th Century.

“It was rough,” she said. “I saw the Ku Klux Klan. I never got to see things that I wanted to see when I was growing up. We had separate places to eat. Separate places to drink and all of that. We couldn't be with the whites. It wasn't nothing for us to walk down the street and see a black man hanging and it makes you want to cry now.”

With Jim Crow laws and disenfranchisement restricting the ability of many African Americans to vote at the time, Green was more focused on trying to make ends meet as both a farmer and a maid than politics. Green says one president in particular stood out to her however due to the impact he had on poor black farmers.

“The first president that I really remember was [Franklin D.] Roosevelt,” she said. “They used to make black people plant a lot of cotton so that they could get a lot of money for it. So when he came in he made them plow that up and paid us for it.”

It was that experience that influenced Green’s loyalty to the Democratic Party, which she still holds to this day. Yet it would take a move to the north and the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting, for her to become politically active.

“I married and met my husband,” Green said. “He was in the service for 23 years. When he retired we moved to Philadelphia in 1965.”

Green and her husband moved into a home on Limekiln Pike in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy section that she still lives in to this day. She remembers just how different it was for her living in the north in comparison to the south.

“You could sit down and eat anywhere you wanted to and you didn't have to ride in the back of the bus all the time and you could drink out of different things when we used to drink out of separate ones for black people,” she said. “We all were just like human beings altogether.”

After moving to Philly, Green worked as a factory worker in Southampton, Pennsylvania where she made airplane parts. She also was a foster grandparent and caretaker until she retired in 2006. Through it all, she had four children and a total of 26 grandchildren and great grandchildren. No longer having to face voter disenfranchisement, she voted for the first time in 1968 and has voted during every presidential election since then. For Green, the most memorable election was in 2008 when she voted for Barack Obama.

“I never thought I’d live to see a black president and a woman running for president,” she said. “My husband died in 2006. He didn’t get to see it. I never thought I’d see it but I did.”

Green plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November and hopes she’ll help deal with a problem in her neighborhood she says has gotten progressively worse since she’s lived there: gun violence.

“When Obama came in the first thing he tried to do was get them and do away with these guns and get them under control,” Green said. “Congress wouldn’t go along with it. So I hope they’ll go along with Hillary if she tries to get control of them. In the street, everybody you see has a gun now and they started killing kids that are playing in their yard. And that’s bad.”

Green also had strong words for Donald Trump, in particular his campaign slogan, “Make America great again.”

“I mean, a lot of these young people don’t understand what Trump is for,” she said. “He’s talking like he’s talking to everybody but I know what he means. He’s talking about making this a better country. He wants to put black people back. He thinks they’ve gone too far. He wants to bring them down. And they can vote for him if they want to but they’re gonna be sorry.”

Yet regardless of who they support, Green is adamant about younger people voting, especially given all she and members of her generation had to go through to gain that right.

“Please go vote,” she said. “If you don’t want to vote for yourself, vote for me. Because I had to pay to get my voice heard and you’ve got the opportunity to get your voice heard and don’t have to pay? Just vote. If you don’t vote you don’t have the right to say anything."

Today is International Overdose Awareness Day. Tune in to NBC10 at 7 p.m. for Generation Addicted, our Emmy-nominated, in-depth special report giving an inside look at the heroin and opioid epidemic in our area.

Casey Johnson watches lives change right in front of him on a regular basis.

And it happens in an unlikely place: a courtroom in South Jersey. For the last two years, Johnson, a drug and alcohol counselor, has served as the court advocate for Gloucester Township's Project SAVE -- Substance Abuse Visionary Effort -- initiative, a program launched in 2014 to help people battling drug addictions -- often to heroin or prescription pain medication -- get the help they need.

"This was a different feeling," Johnson said. "People would come into court broken ... really kind of at rock bottom. So they're receptive to change."

On Wednesday, to mark International Overdose Awareness Day, Gloucester Township Police and officials announced that they're expanding the program, which they say has seen many successes since its launch in 2014.

Gloucester Township Police Chief Harry Earle said that now, advocates in Project SAVE will be on-call to meet people at the time they're arrested. Before, Johnson was the program's only advocate, and he would meet people when they came to court.

"We will now have a SAVE advocate respond to our police headquarters to meet personally with those under arrest who likely have an addiction," Earle said Wednesday after a moment of silence at 1:29 p.m. to commemorate the some 129 people per day in the U.S. who die of drug overdoses. "It is well known that a person suffering from addiction will likely feel desperation at the time of arrest, and it is at this important time of first contact that a relationship be established with a SAVE advocate."

According to police, of 158 people offered participation in Project SAVE in the last two years, 131 accepted help and engaged in some form of treatment. Of those, 24 percent fully completed treatment, and 17 of them remained arrest-free since completing the program.

Prosecutor Daniel Long, who has handled cases of people involved with Project SAVE, said officials in Gloucester Township decided to start the program because they continued to see the same people coming through the system time and time again.

"It's eye-opening for them," Long said. "So they're sometimes ready to get help."

Police said people who want help with addiction don't need to be arrested to take advantage of Project SAVE. Anyone who wants more information or help can contact 856-302-7051.

Lawrence "Larry" Curry, who retired in 2012 after 20 years in the Pennsylvania Legislature, remembers his childhood obsession with trains.

It was an obsession nurtured when his family first moved to Jenkintown decades ago and he would visit the Jenkintown train station on Greenwood Avenue.

"I would get down here to see the trains. I loved to see the trains," said the well-respected retired official, who also previously served as a Montgomery County commissioner. "So I have a kind of tie to this place."

Now, he and the station will be connected for decades to come. State and local officials joined Curry, his wife Shirley and their extensive family for the dedication of the Greenwood Avenue Bridge in Curry's name.

The bridge was built in the last four years to allow car traffic over the busy SEPTA train tracks that feed up to three train lines daily. Its location in Montgomery County is also important: It connects Cheltenham and Jenkintown.

"The bridge has become symbolic of the link between communities, between Jenkintown and Wyncote and Cheltenham, and Abington on the other side," Curry told the crowd gathered next to the tracks on the Cheltenham side.

State Rep. Steve McCarter, who was elected as the 154th Legislative District's representative following Curry's retirement in 2012, introduced a resolution to have the bridge named in his predecessor's honor.

The 154th district is made up of Jenkintown, Springfield and Cheltenham.

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More than $2 million in additional federal funding to combat the heroin and opioid crisis is coming to Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy announced.

The announcement came Wednesday, on International Overdose Awareness Day. Pennsylvania will receive an additional $1 million to supplement Prevention for States grants it's already receiving, plus $490,000 for better tracking of opioid-involved deaths. The money is part of $53 million in additional funding the federal government is awarding to 44 states as part of the ONDCP's aim at combating the heroin and opioid epidemic in high drug-trafficking areas.

Prevention for States helps state health departments implement strategies to prevent prescription drug overdoses by improving safe prescribing practices, one of the pillars of ONDCP's strategy.

Across the river in New Jersey, an additional $727,688 in federal funding will go toward the Data-Driven Prevention Initiative to fight opioid misuse and overdose by improving data collection, developing new strategies to avoid addiction and helping communities to develop better prevention programs.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia M. Burwell and ONDCP Director Michael Botticelli said the money falls in line with the government's three pillars in fighting the opioid epidemic: attacking opioid misuse and dependency through the medical community, expanding assistance to medication-assisted treatment and making lifesaving overdose antidote naloxone more available.

"We can help states, communities and families push back even harder against the opioid epidemic," Botticelli said. He and Burwell also called on Congress to approve the $1.1 billion in funding that President Obama requested to go toward finding the epidemic next year.

In Pennsylvania, state officials this week also announced additional efforts to combat heroin and opioid addiction in the form of 25 Centers of Excellence offering addiction treatment slated to open throughout the state by Jan. 1. Of those, eight are in the Delaware and Lehigh valleys:

•    AIDS Case Group/Sharon Hill Medical, Delaware County
•    Community Health & Dental Care, Inc., Montgomery County
•    Family Service Association of Buck County, Bucks County
•    Pathways to Housing PA, Philadelphia County
•    Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and Perelman School of Medicine Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia County
•    Public Health Management Corporation, Philadelphia County
•    Reading Hospital and Health System, Berks County
•    Neighborhood Health Centers of Lehigh Valley, Lehigh, Northampton Counties

A Montgomery County man drowned off the coast of Maryland Tuesday while swimming with his son, according to officials.

Charles Poole, 45, of Trappe, Pennsylvania along with his 16-year-old son were swimming in the ocean off the coast of the Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland. Officials say Poole and his son were swimming south of the lifeguard protected area during powerful and rough surf conditions.

While his son managed to swim back to the beach, Poole struggled in the water. Other swimmers found him unresponsive and floating in the water and brought him back to the shore. Lifeguards then performed CPR on him but he remained unconscious. He was taken to Atlantic General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

“With offshore storms present, surf conditions are very powerful and rough,” said Liz Davis, the Chief of Interpretation and Education for the Assateague Island National Seashore. “We advise visitors to swim in the lifeguard protected area until surf conditions calm and improve.”

A man drowned after he tried to swim across the Delaware River Wednesday, according to investigators. 

Officials received a 911 call reporting a person jumped in the river near Linden Avenue in Philadelphia around 5:35 p.m. The Philadelphia Fire Department and other units responded to the scene and searched for an hour and a half but didn't find anyone.

The New Jersey State Police later found the unidentified man's body in the river near the Hawk Island Marina in Delanco, New Jersey.

Officials believe the man jumped in the river and tried to swim across to the New Jersey side but ended up drowning. They continue to investigate.

A man was shot and killed while he was standing with his son outside a community center in the Mantua section of Philadelphia Wednesday night.

Police say Piere Burbage, 29, was standing with his son on the steps of the Mantua Haverford Community Center on the 600 block of N. 39th Street at 8:26 p.m. when an unidentified gunman opened fire.

Burbage was struck once in the chest, once in the left arm and once in the lower back. He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:56 p.m. The man's son was not injured during the shooting.

No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.

Eagles long snapper Jon Dorenbos' magical ride continues.

The 36-year-old was one of five acts to get voted through to NBC's America's Got Talent finals Wednesday night after performing another jaw-dropping magic trick Tuesday.

His tricks have progressively gotten more and more intricate on the show. The first two times, he went with card tricks before doing an impressive shattering-glass trick the last time. 

On Tuesday night, Dorenbos went even further. This time, he made all the judges snap or throw velcro footballs onto a giant map. Then there was a locked wooden chest and quarters and a lot of moving parts, but it was all very impressive when he wrapped up the trick and left the judges speechless. 

And, of course, after it was over, he dropped a "Go Birds!" in true Philadelphia fashion. He'll play in the final preseason game on Thursday night. 

Watch the entire trick below: 

Lincoln Drive was shut down after a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday night.

Officials said four vehicles were involved in the accident at Gypsy Lane. Officials did not immediately reveal if anyone suffered serious injuries.

Lincoln Drive was shut down in both directions at the scene of the crash.

A big rig slammed into a firetruck bringing traffic on Interstate 95 to a screeching halt for hours early Thursday and leaving five Philadelphia firefighters hurt.

The tractor-trailer crossed lanes and slammed into the stopped firetruck in the southbound left-hand shoulder around 3 a.m. under the Chestnut Street overpass/Penn's Landing Tunnel in Old City.

"It was chaotic out here," said NBC10 photo journalist Pete Kane who witnessed the wreck in his rear-view mirror.

The wreck left five Philadelphia firefighters from Ladder 16 and the big rig driver with minor injuries. Doctors at Hahnemann Hospital treated the firefighters while the truck driver went to Jefferson Hospital – all in stable condition.

The firefighters were responding to a minor crash when the big rig came across the lanes and slammed into the fire truck, said Kane. Despite the crash, firefighters could be seen running to help out other motorists.

"Normally when I come up to an accident the firemen are the ones going to help people, it was just so eerie that they were the ones needing help, but they went back to the cab to make sure the tractor-trailer driver was OK, make sure the people in the car were OK even though (the firefighters) were injured themselves, it was something different to see." Said Kane. "When it happened it was like something out of a movie, when you look in your mirror and you see a tractor-trailer going across the roadway, not knowing what’s going to happen next, it was very chaotic out here at the time. These firemen, they were hurt, but they also did their job."

The wreck caused a major backup as motorists stuck behind the crash and bailed out onto Center City Streets.

Around 6 a.m., crews allowed the left lane to snake by to clear out the backed up cars. They then cleared the crashed vehicles and got the roadway reopened shortly after 7 a.m.

Angels baseball center fielder Mike Trout was involved in a chain-reaction car crash that injured at least two other people Wednesday night on the 55 Freeway in Tustin.

The crash was reported around 8:50 p.m. on the southbound 55 Freeway near McFadden Avenue, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Trout crashed into a vehicle while he was trying to slow down for another car crash ahead of him. Firefighters extricated one person, who was taken to a hospital in Newport Beach, Orange County Fire officials said. A second person was injured and was taken to a hospital in Santa Ana.

Trout was not injured.

"I have spoken with Mike this evening and he feels fine," Angels general manager Billy Eppler said Wednesday. "He is at home with his roommate and is planning on traveling with the club to Seattle."

No other details were immediately available.

Trout did not play in Los Angeles' 3-0 win Wednesday over the Cincinnati Reds. The 2014 AL MVP Award winner is batting .319 with 25 homers and 21 stolen bases this season.

Port Authority Police arrested a New Jersey man after a records check showed he owed $20,000 in E-ZPass tolls and fees.

Police said they observed Levert Caldwell III pass through a toll lane on the Outerbridge Crossing in Staten Island Tuesday morning without paying. 

The registration and insurance on his Jeep were both expired, and further checks exposed the allegedly delinquent fees.

The Tinton Falls resident faces charges of larceny and obstructing government administration. 

Bimbo Bakeries is recalling several types of Entenmann’s brownies and muffins over small pieces of plastic that may be in the pastries.

The plastic pieces pose a choking and cutting risk. At least one injury has been reported.

The voluntary recall affects one type of Entenmann’s brownies and one type of Entenmann’s muffins sold in the tri-state area.

Entenmann’s Little Bites Fudge Brownies with a best by date of Oct. 8, 2016 were sold in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Entenmann’s Little Bites Chocolate Chip Muffins with the same best by date were also sold in the three states.

The products were distributed to retail stores in the past two weeks. The recalled products have since been removed from store shelves.

Consumers who have purchased the recalled products should dispose of them or return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.

Entenmann’s Little Bites Chocolate Chip Muffins and Entenmann’s Little Bites Variety 20 packs were also affected by the recall, but the affected products were not sold in the tri-state area.

For more information on the recall, go to the FDA website or the Bimbo Bakeries website.