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Daughter of Doctor Dragged off Plane Speaks Out
The daughter of a doctor who was dragged off of a United flight spoke out for the first time, saying her family was "shocked and sickened." Crystal Doa's father suffered a concussion, broken nose, and lost his two front teeth when he was dragged off of an overbooked flight.
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Easter Weekend Forecast
Easter weekend will bring temperatures in the 80s, but can we expect any rain in our region? NBC10 chief meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz and NBC10 meteorologist Tammie Souza have the details.
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New Jersey Veteran Receives Mortgage-Free House
Earl McCracken, an Iraq veteran, is a Purple Heart recipient. Now, McCracken got a little bit of help from one organization after they donated a house to him as part of their program to bring homes to wounded veterans.
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Local Russian Community Speaks on War, President Trump
Local communities have mixed thoughts on the actions of President Trump and the implications those actions could have. One local Russian community has equally mixed thoughts, and some are fearing the worst.
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Ralph Natale Speaks on Life of Crime
Former Philadelphia mob boss Ralph Natale lived a life of organized crime before leaving the mob. Now, Natale is speaking about his previous crimes, remorse, and how stayed in the family.
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Local Reaction to President Trump's Foreign Policy
Taking a look at President Trump's doctrine and the message it's sending here and around the world. NBC10's Keith Jones talks about the headline making military action already authorized by the President.
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Summerlike Easter Sunday on Tap
We will see the comfortable mid-60s Thursday through Saturday before a 20-dregree jump on Easter Sunday when we could see mid-80s in some areas. NBC10 First Alert chief meteorologist Glenn 'Hurricane' Schwartz has your neighborhood forecast.
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Celebrating a Special 90-Year-Old Rower
Friends of Lydia Turner surprised her with a special celebration of her 90's birthday. Turner is an active member of the Wilmington Rowing Center. She shared some of her secrets to longevity.
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Bike Bandits Shoot at Kids With BB Gun
Bike bandits in New Jersey shot a 15-year-old boy in the head with a BB gun, and then rode away on the boy's bike. Now, the parents are alerting other residents about what happened.
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Easter Sunday Rain?
Let’s get hopping with this Easter Sunday forecast…We’ve had an unseasonably warm and dry stretch of weather this Holy Week, but all eyes are on Easter Sunday as a developing low and frontal boundary threaten to dampen Easter egg hunts across the Delaware Valley.
Photo Credit: Getty Images
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Stolen Tools from Philly Non-Profit
Philadelphia Community Corps, a non-profit career development center has been robbed of its power tools.
The organization helps young people aged 18-24 get job training and helps rebuild blighted neighborhoods by renovating and deconstructing vacant buildings.
The director of the non-profit noticed tools and a generator missing when he stepped foot onto the job site on 52nd and Haverford Thursday morning.
At first glance he thought workers from the night before didn’t put things away until he realized the West Philadelphia job site had been burglarized.
Greg Trainor tells NBC10 that all power tools used in the demolition were stolen, over $2,000 worth of tools and a generator.
Now workers must finish the demolition project in two weeks, using only hand tools.
“This is really hurts their chances of hiring more people,” Trainor said.
Philadelphia Community Corps is asking for donations to help replace the tools while police investigate the theft.
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NJ Airport Ceremony Pays Tribute to WWII Veteran
A ceremony at Newark Liberty Airport on Thursday honored a WWII veteran from New Jersey who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year.
A host of parties took part in the Newark ceremony for Master Chief Petty Officer Raymond Haerry as his remains were being transported to the Dallas area.
Haerry, a New Jersey native, was aboard the USS Arizona when it was bombed during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 1,000 crewmen on board the ship died. Before his death in September, Haerry recalled the horror he felt swimming past the burning remains of his shipmates as he escaped the destroyed ship.
Staff from Newark Liberty, including from American Airlines, the TSA and the Port Authority took part. Among them were the Port Authority police bag piper, honor guards and Port Authority Police Chaplain Rabbi Mendy Carlebach.
Before American Airlines flight #2321 departed just after dawn, the airport’s aircraft rescue and firefighting unit honored Haerry with a water canon salute. Water poured over the plane as it taxied out to the runway, the morning sun lighting up the sky.
Photo Credit: Port Authority
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Deadly Incident Evacuates Pa. Hotel
Police evacuated part of a Lehigh Valley hotel after they discovered a mysterious substance and a dead man inside a suite after another man turned up sick in a hallway.
The Lehigh County Hazmat Team was called to the Staybridge Suites on Star Road in Upper Macungie Township, Pennsylvania Thursday night after a powdery was found in a suite where a man was also dead around 9:30.
Police focused on the suite after another man – staying in the same room – was found sickened in the hallway, Upper Macungie Police Chief Edgardo Colon said. Medics quickly treated the man.
"It's unknown if he was affected by the same chemical, the same substance – there seems to be some level of intoxication – he had to be decontaminated and he's being evaluated at the hospital," Colon told NBC10.
Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim identified the dead man as Emmanuel Ramirez of Maywood, California.
A large contingent of firefighters, medics and police responded. As crews worked to find more clues, emergency responders cleared guests from some of the rooms.
"It was a very slow, and deliberate, and safe process that they take whenever there is a suspicion of specific chemical compounds of this nature," Colon said.
Guests returned to the their rooms overnight as investigators worked to find out what caused the man’s death. Grim said Ramirez's cause of death was pending toxicology results.
Photo Credit: NBC10
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Ceiling of NJ Church Collapses Days Before Easter
The ceiling of a church in New Jersey collapsed during Holy Week, leaving piles of debris scattered over church pews just days before Easter Sunday.
The collapse at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Passaic happened less than a week after members of the congregation noticed the ceiling was sagging, a spokesperson for the church said.
On Thursday morning, the church cleaner heard it crack and when she went to get the secretary part of the ceiling caved in. Nobody was inside.
Parishioners were scheduled to fill the pews below for Holy Thursday later that night.
“Please keep our Parish in your prayers,” a message posted to the church’s Facebook page Thursday read. “During this Holy Thursday we aren't able to use our Church.”
Passaic Mayor Hector Lora, who had his first communion at the church, said the damage is heart-wrenching, but he's looking at the bright side.
"One of the things that I see in this unfortunate situation is the other side, which is a blessing," he said. "It occurred at a time when the building was empty. It is obvious that this was going to happen at one time or another. It gives us another reason during this Holy Week to be thankful that no one was injured."
Masses for the rest of the week will be held across the street at the gymnasium to accommodate the crowds.
A sign on the door says Easter services will be held in the church parish hall.
The magnitude of the damage to the nearly 100-year-old church has yet to be determined. The Diocese of Paterson plans to send insurance investigators to the church over the next few days. The church will have to pay whatever insurance doesn’t cover.
The church is taking donations on its website to help with the expenses.
A spokesperson for St. Anthony's said members worked Thursday to build a tabernacle at the parish center for Holy Communion.
Photo Credit: St. Anthony Church
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Timeline Emerges of Last Days of Judge Found Dead in Hudson
As tributes continue to pour in honoring the late Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam, the pioneering black Muslim judge who rose from humble beginnings in a family of seven children to a trailblazing appointment on New York state's highest court, investigators are beginning to reveal a timeline of her last days.
Abdus-Salaam, the first black woman appointed to New York state's highest court and the first Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. judge, was found dead in the Hudson River off Manhattan Wednesday afternoon, a day after she was reported missing, authorities said.
After an unrelated news briefing Thursday, Robert Boyce, the NYPD's chief of detectives, said her body showed no obvious signs of trauma and though there was no early indication of criminality, the investigation is ongoing.
Boyce said Abdus-Salaam spent the weekend with her husband in New Jersey; the husband last saw her Sunday night around 7 p.m. According to Boyce, Abdus-Salaam spoke with her assistant Tuesday morning; that appears to be the last time anyone heard from her before her body was found near West 132nd Street and Henry Hudson Parkway roughly 30 hours later.
Boyce said investigators are focusing on what happened in the hours after she spoke to her assistant; they're also looking for any video that may lend insight to the probe. Police say Abdus-Salaam had her MetroCard on her when her body was pulled from the water; it had last been used at 42nd Street on Monday. Though there were no apparent signs of trauma, investigators don't know how long she was in the water, Boyce said, which could an impact. A medical examiner is conducting an autopsy to determine how she died.
Calling Abdus-Salaam's death a surprise to everyone, Boyce said investigators have a long way to go. Shortly before Boyce briefed reporters on the investigation, NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill joined the chorus of those mourning the death of the 65-year-old Manhattan resident.
Abdus-Salaam was elected to the Supreme Court of the State of New York in 1993, where she remained until 2009. She was serving on the New York State Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York State, before her death. She was appointed to the position by Gov. Cuomo in 2013.
In a statement Wednesday, Cuomo called Abdus-Salaam a "pioneer" and a "force for good whose legacy will be felt for years to come."
Others recalled Abdus-Salaam as an inspiration to all who had the good fortune to know her. Chief Judge Janet DiFiore recalled her "personal warmth, uncompromising sense of fairness and bright legal mind."
A Washington, D.C., native, Abdus-Salaam graduated from Barnard College with a degree in economics in 1974 and went on to receive her law degree from Columbia University in 1977 as a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow.
The president of the New York State Bar Association, Claire Gutekunst, said Abdus-Salaam grew up poor in a family of seven children and "rose to become one of the seven judges in New York's highest court, where her intellect, judicial temperament and wisdom earned her wide respect."
On her block of West 131st Street, Abdus-Salaam was part of a nonprofit called Project Brownstone, which helps under-served youth.
"She was amazing because she really inspired the kids," Project Brownstone Founder Earl Davis said. "She was able to show them something that was outside of their realm."
To those who knew her on a personal level outside the courthouse, it's that spirit they will miss the most.
"It's shocking," Davis said. "I just don't understand what happened."
Photo Credit: AP Images/NBC 4 New York
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NBC10 Responds: Timeshare Trouble
NBC10 Responds and Harry Hairston help a woman who regrets getting a timeshare while on a tropical honeymoon.
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2 Die as SUV Slams Into Parked Big Rig on Roosevelt Blvd.
A horrific crash that claimed two lives closed a stretch of the busy Roosevelt Boulevard Friday.
An SUV slammed into a tractor-trailer parked along the outer lanes of Route 1 northbound near D Street in the Feltonville section of the city before 8 a.m.
A 25-year-old woman and woman in her 40s who were riding in the SUV died at the scene -- their bodies under sheets on the asphalt -- and the male driver was taken to Einstein Medical Center where doctors listed him in stable condition, Philadelphia Police said.
As SkyForce10 hovered overhead you could see the tractor-trailer and a badly-damaged SUV -- crews tore it apart to rescue the victims -- blocking the roadway. Investigators said the big rig driver wasn't in he cab at the time.
The outer lanes of the Boulevard remained closed for hours as police investigated, finally reopening after 2 p.m.
The truck was legally parked along the roadway, accident investigators said.
Photo Credit: NBC10 - Aundrea Cline-Thomas
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Delaware School Passes Safe Haven Policy for Immigrants
A new policy passed makes the Christina School District the first in Delaware to provide a safe haven for its immigrant students.
In a 4-2 vote Tuesday night, the Christina School District Board of Education in Wilmington approved a new policy that outlines steps employees can take to safeguard K-12 students who are in the country illegally, in event of a request from an immigration agency.
The policy reads that its goal is to “provide enrolled students and their families the promise and reassurance that their right to a public education will be protected and free from disruption by enforcement efforts related to their undocumented status.”
The “safe haven” policy does not provide absolute protection for students, but puts measures in place to make sure agencies go through the proper channels and prevent students from being directly taken out of the classroom.
The policy clearly defines the role of Christina School District employees when faced with a request from ICE for student information.
In that situation, administrators are not required to accept or block the request, but rather declare that the request falls under the power of the superintendent.
Employees cannot resist if immigration agents enter the school, but have to work with the agencies to minimize any disruptions to the school and report the incident to the superintendent.
The new policy hits home for the school district. Staff in the district estimate there a few hundred students at the school are in the country illegally, while about 22 percent of the students are Hispanic or Latino.
Brett Tomashek, an ESL teacher at the district’s elementary school, said “when they are in my classroom and they are in my care…they are in the care of Thurgood Elementary. And it follows then that they are in the care of each and every one of you on the board."
It has been a three month process to get policy passed.
The initiative was first pushed in February by board member John Young. His first proposal of the policy was revised twice after some board members feared that allowing employees to resist federal agents would put them in harm’s way and subject them to arrests.
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$1,000 Reward for Information after Cat Shot and Killed
The Bucks County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is offering a $1,000 reward for information regarding the shooting and killing of the neighborhood cat in Bensalem.
The society says that Scooby - an orange tiger stripe cat- was shot this past Monday between 2 and 4 p.m. in the area of the Creekside Apartments in Bensalem.
“This kind of cruelty inflicted upon an innocent animal is completely unacceptable and clearly against Pennsylvania anti-cruelty laws,” said Linda Reider, executive director of the Bucks County SPCA, asking for any help to could lead law enforcement to the killer.
Scooby was know for coming and going from his apartment home and playing with the children in the apartment complex.
Any tips or inquires in the case should be directing to Officer Nikki Thomspon, who is investigating the case. She can be reached at the SPCA’s cruelty hotline at (215)-794-7425x107.
Photo Credit: Bucks County SPCA
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