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Philadelphia Officer Shoots, Kills Dirt Bike Rider During Stop: A man riding a dirt bike in North Philadelphia was shot and killed by a police officer during a confrontation Thursday evening, with surveillance video showing him falling to the ground as an officer chased him. An explosive scene evolved in the aftermath of the shooting around 6:40 p.m. The incident began in the 4100 block of Whitaker Avenue near the southern edge of the Feltonville neighborhood when an officer transporting people to the Special Victims Unit saw the dirt bike rider.

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    A mostly sunny Friday on tap with temps pushing into the 80s. Temps really heat up over the weekend as the 90s are expected by Sunday. Get your full NBC10 First Alert forecast here.

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    WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY

    Deadly Overdoses in Pa. Up 37 Percent, Claiming 4,600 Lives: Fentanyl passed heroin last year as the deadliest drug in Pennsylvania as fatal overdoses continued to skyrocket. More than 4,600 people died in 2016, a 37-percent increase, according to the Philadelphia field division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The DEA is releasing its "Analysis of Drug-Related Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2016" by the end of June. 

    AROUND THE WORLD

    Comey's Testimony Gives Building Blocks for Obstruction Case: If prosecutors want the building blocks for a claim that President Donald Trump interfered with a federal investigation, legal experts say fired FBI Director James Comey has handed those over by recounting details of interactions that could show the president intended to obstruct justice. In riveting detail, Comey this week has revealed conversations with Trump that include the president saying he hoped Comey could let go of the FBI's investigation of a former national security adviser. That's coupled with Comey's statement Thursday to a Senate panel that he believes Trump fired him in May to alter the bureau's investigation of Russia's role in the 2016 election.

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      Man Claimed Fake Drugs at Bonnaroo Were 'God's Work': PD: A man accused of bringing more than a thousand doses of fake drugs to the Bonnaroo music festival said he was doing "God's Work" with the bogus substances, Tennessee authorities said Thursday. The Coffee County Sheriff's Department David E. Brady of Albany, New York, has been charged with two counts of counterfeit controlled substances. Brady, 45, is accused of attracting the attention of deputies after they spotted what looked like drugs under a tent. The deputies saw Brady toss the item behind him as they approached, and he appeared to have a bag of mushrooms hanging from his waist band as he stood up, a press release from Lucky Knott, a spokesman for the sheriff's department said.

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      Phillies Lose Again: The Phillies couldn't figure out the knuckleball as they lost to R.A. Dickey and the Braves. Get your full sports news at CSNPhilly.

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      Who's the Best TV Dad of All Time? You Be the Judge: Father's Day is quickly approaching. So who wears the crown for best TV dad of all time? Here's your chance to be the judge. Vote now in the All-Time Television Dad bracket. Vote Now.


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      Woman on Phone Tumbles Down Sidewalk Opening in New Jersey

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      A woman who was walking while on her phone didn’t notice an open sidewalk access door in front of her and plunged down the hole on Thursday, officials say.

      The 67-year-old woman suffered serious injuries after dropping six feet down the stairs and into a basement.

      Officials say she was walking down a sidewalk in Plainfield, New Jersey, before the fall.

      She was distracted by her phone as she approached the open access door at Acme Windows.

      Moments later, shocking security video shows her tripping over the access door and flipping into the basement. Passersby reach out to help her, but she is already mid-fall and disappears into the hole. 

      Martin Delgadillo was standing outside his barbershop on Somerset Street just before noon when he saw the woman plunge through the access door. 

      "She was looking at her phone — the last minute — she hit the door and fell right in," Delgadillo said. 

      The video shows the woman being taken away in a stretcher by paramedics and firefighters. She was listed in serious condition at a hospital on Thursday night. 

      Officials said the access door was open because crews were working on gas lines. At least one worker wearing a hardhat can be seen in the video after the woman falls. 

      "I thought texting and driving was a bad thing," Delgadillo said. "Now it's texting and walking." 


      Bon Jovi's Sublime NYC Duplex Is on the Market -- See Inside

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      Rocker Jon Bon Jovi has put his sublime West Village duplex on the market. Take a look inside.

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      Clinging Jellyfish in River

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      Researchers are trying to figure out why the clinging jellyfish, which have a powerful sting, found a home at Shrewsbury River. Brian Thompson reports.

      Cathedral Kitchen Students Graduate Their Four-Month Program

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      Students at the cathedral kitchen served up the right ingredients and graduated their hands-on culinary program.

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      Holocaust Survivors Reunite After 7 Decades

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      Three Holocaust survivors came together for the first time in more than 70 years, having an unprecedented reunion in New Jersey.

      Zero Suicides? That's the Goal

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      Suicide prevention has been an elusive topic for generations. Even doctors historically shied away from the conversation, assuming psychiatrists and families would step in when the time was right.

      But stigma prevents many people from opening up about depression, leading to a deadly silence that, partially, helps to explain why people kill themselves.

      Now, mental health experts are leading a new approach to suicide prevention that asks medical professionals to do the opposite of what has been prescribed: speak frankly with their patients. It’s a core value of the Zero Suicide initiative, which is gaining traction throughout the country.

      "Good evening. Today we are here to talk about suicide prevention," said Dr. Inua Momodu, chairman of the department of psychiatry and medical director of behavioral health at South Jersey’s AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center.

      The small group of psychiatry residents sitting around a polished wood conference table each sat up a little straighter. Suicide prevention is part of their regular training, but few things can prepare even future medical professionals for speaking with patients who want to die.

      "Suicide is preventable. There is hope and there is help," Momodu continued.

      In order to find that help, doctors must first learn to ask the right questions when a patient visits the hospital or primary care office. This is where the Zero Suicide approach comes into play. It asks all medical professionals — from trauma surgeons to clerical workers — to be able to identify at-risk patients and be prepared to offer them appropriate resources.

      The initiative is still in its infancy but already making waves as more healthcare systems learn to ask the simple question: Are you thinking about suicide?

      While the approach is simple in theory, it is radical in practice. For generations the prevailing philosophy surrounding suicide went something like this: mention the word and risk planting an idea in someone’s head.

      Increasingly experts are dispelling that myth by taking a public health approach to suicide prevention. Rather than encouraging silence, some doctors are now urging people to talk about suicide. This includes doctors who once viewed mental health as the exclusive territory of therapists.

      "People need the basic understanding that it’s okay to talk about suicide," said Julie Drew, system executive director of AtlantiCare Behavioral Health. "Asking them is caring. It’s not going to encourage them to [kill themselves]."

      AtlantiCare is the only health system in the Philadelphia region that is pursuing a Zero Suicide approach. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has implemented an assessment tool for young patients that mirrors what Zero Suicide recommends for older patients and is working to normalize mental health care in primary care settings, but no other hospitals offer such a comprehensive continuum of care.

      At AtlantiCare, every patient who comes through the doors is screened for mental well-being. Direct questions are asked and, if a patient is flagged as high risk, they are referred to a coordinator who creates an individualized plan. This can include inpatient treatment at one of their 30 psychiatric beds and ongoing care outside of the hospital when they are released.

      The goal behind Zero Suicide — as the name suggests — is to reduce suicide rates as much as possible. Last year, more than 44,000 people killed themselves in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An estimated 1.1 million Americans are said to have attempted suicide. Experts say those numbers are too high.

      "We know this is a tall order," said Momodu. "We know that we will never have zero suicides, but the fact that we have [this] philosophy makes us work towards that end. We look at suicide as a disease."

      The idea behind Zero Suicide started thousands of miles away in Detroit, Michigan, in 2001. Clinicians at the Henry Ford Health System became alarmed after finding that 44 out of every 100,000 people in their region killed themselves in 2000. While that rate was not necessarily higher than in other parts of the country, psychiatrists wondered if they were failing patients.

      Prior to 2000, the Henry Ford approach to suicide was largely reactive. If someone signaled they were in distress, doctors scrambled to provide care. But thousands of people remain silent about their depression, so doctors considered a new line of defense.

      From this thinking came the Perfect Depression Care model, an early precursor to what eventually became Zero Suicide. At intake, clinicians asked patients how often they felt depressed. If the answer raised concerns, follow-up questions would be asked about diet, sleep, home life and thoughts of hurting oneself. From there patients would be referred to the right doctors.

      "Detroit is an auto industry town," said Dr. Cathy Frank, one of the leading psychiatrists at Henry Ford who helped spearhead the initiative. "It’s a zero defects world, but we often don’t think of zero defects in healthcare, at least not then."

      For a short time after Perfect Depression Care took off, the hospital system reported zero suicides in its population. Intrigued, the ambitious idea spread to the national medical community and opened the door for more doctors to speak openly about suicide.

      At AtlantiCare, all 5,500 employees underwent basic training on how to identify an at-risk patient. Someone who talks about depression or a lack of hope might be easier to spot than someone who is less forthcoming. For those people, Momodu turns to role playing.

      The psychiatry residents gathered around his table are put on the spot regularly. They break up into teams with one student pretending to be a patient and another student acting as the doctor.

      "Remember, suicide is not always attached to someone who has behavioral or mental health needs," he warned his students before the exercise began. "When we tackle suicide as a disease, we are able to look for it rather than have it embedded inside something else."

      As the students separated into pairs, Momodu carefully followed each scenario.

      "What brought you in today?" asked second year resident Tapan Parikh.

      "Well, you see, I’ve been having some abdominal pain and my husband told me to come in," replied first year resident Dilys Ngu.

      From there, Parikh asked about what kind of pain she was experiencing and whether the pain was bad enough to impact her mental well-being. After a few hiccups and several interjections by Momodu, Ngu’s character disclosed that indeed her chronic pain has caused her to consider suicide.

      The students have heard it all before. Many of the storylines used in role-playing were born from actual conversations overheard in the emergency department. Someone comes in for sleeplessness and after some coaxing discloses they have lost their job. From there the conversation expands and might eventually lead to hints that the patient is suicidal. But coaxing is key. Without the doctor initiating the discussion, a patient might never open up.

      "Behavioral health issues are frightening to many people even if they are medical professionals," said Dr. Marilouise Venditti, vice president and chief medical officer at AtlantiCare. "But there is always a need for kindness."

      It’s too early for AtlantiCare to know how Zero Suicide is impacting their patients. The initiative has been implemented for less than two years and metrics can be hard to measure. AtlantiCare will continue to roll out implementation in stages through the next several years.

      Currently, 90 therapists are trained in cognitive therapy and one prevention coordinator liaises between patients and doctors. The days following a psychiatric patient’s release from the hospital are crucial to keeping them alive. They are statistically more likely to attempt suicide again within a day or two of their initial attempt. For this reason, the coordinator keeps in constant contact with these patients and refers them to same-day or next-day treatment.

      Every person who treats them is expected to be warm and courteous.

      "Body language can say a lot, even in a doctor," Drew said. For this reason, attending physicians must be comfortable talking about suicide openly.

      While AtlantiCare is alone in implementing Zero Suicide in New Jersey, several hospitals in other states — including Virginia, Texas, Wisconsin and Colorado — have already committed to the approach. Some use telemedicine to stay in touch with patients who live far from their doctor. Primary care physicians, especially in rural areas where hospitals are spread out, act as a first line of defense.

      As more and more clinicians turn to Zero Suicide, a new era of suicide prevention appears to be on the horizon.

      "It takes all of us to succeed," said Venditti.



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      SEPTA Aims for Safety With Platform Barriers

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      SEPTA is seeking to renovate its City Hall Station with an eye on potentially saving lives.

      General Manager Jeffrey Knueppel ordered automatic glass doors and platform barriers -- the first of its kind in the United States on a transit system -- to be installed for the Broad Street Line subway. The transit company hopes this will reduce the amount of accidental and intentional falls onto the track.

      In previous efforts to stop suicide among riders, SEPTA has placed signs for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on its subway and regional rail stations. However, the intentional suicides have not stopped and their new plan hopes to eliminate the issue all together.

      The glass barrier design that they plan to implement is similar to the structure seen at airport train terminals.

      For now, the platform barricade is only in the plans for the City Hall Station. "Final cost and renderings are not available yet, since engineers are still designing how they will make these fit within the tight spaces on the old platforms below," SEPTA’s Andrew Busch stated.

      The project should be completed within the next three years, SEPTA said. In the meantime, it is crucial for fellow passengers to take action if someone looks distraught or abnormally close to the platform edge. Anything that can engage them may be the difference in someone’s life.

      SUICIDE PREVENTION HELP: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255) is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.



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      Repo Man Kills Man, Dog Dies in Crossfire: PD

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      Gunfire rang out during a violent car repossession outside a grocery store in South Philadelphia’s Point Breeze neighborhood leaving a man and a dog dead.

      The repo driver, operating a large pickup truck, tried to pluck the vehicle from in front of the Eight Brothers Food Market at 18th and Dickinson around 10:20 a.m. Friday, not realizing a woman was inside, Philadelphia Police said.

      The woman -- who owed money on the SUV -- got out of the vehicle and called both the bank and her boyfriend, police said.

      The woman's 32-year-old boyfriend showed up and pistol-whipped the repo man, investigators said. The repo driver hears glass shattering and thinks he's being shot at so he used his own gun to fire back in self-defense, police said.

      The boyfriend died a short time later at the hospital, police said.

      As many as 19 bullets were fired during the exchange, police said.

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      The dog, which didn't belong to anyone involved in the repossession, was struck by a bullet and died, investigators said.

      Police recovered guns from both the truck driver and the woman's boyfriend. 

      Police took the repo driver into custody as they continued their investigation. It was unclear if any charges would be filed.



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      Philly Guy Hopes Showing Up Gets Him Eagles Tryout

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      Rashaun Sligh, a former Temple University football player, is looking to get a tryout with the Philadelphia Eagles. His strategy? Standing outside the team's facility with a sign and football in hopes of getting noticed.

      Dad Helps Mom Deliver Baby on I-95

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      A father helped his wife deliver their baby parked on the side of Interstate 95 in Delaware overnight.

      New Castle County EMS said paramedics responded to the birth inside a car in the southbound lanes of the interstate, not far from the Sheraton Suites Wilmington in Wilmington, around 3:20 a.m.

      The mother had kept the newborn — the couple’s second child — warm as they waited for medics. Once medics arrived they cared for the mom and child before a Minquas Fire Company ambulance took the family to the Labor and Delivery Center at Christiana Hospital.

      Medics did not release the names of the couple to the media.

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      School Saga Continues: Lower Merion Taking Heat Again

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      The lead plaintiff in the ongoing battle to have Lower Merion School District lower its 2016-2017 tax rate says the district has yet to abide by court rulings, and taxpayers are going to pay the price once again.

      Attorney Arthur Wolk, who is also a township resident, filed a motion Wednesday that claims the district is about to vote on a new budget for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year that incorrectly applies the previous year's millage rate. He said using that old rate ignores court rulings that found Lower Merion must lower its previous budget.

      "The status of the case is they lost twice and they’re not being honest with the taxpayers," Wolk said.

      The district has asked for Commonwealth Court to re-consider their appeal, which that court rejected earlier this year.

      The entire tax mess remains in limbo, and at the heart of Wolk's newest motion is the millage rate system upon which an entire municipality's tax revenue is based. Wolk is arguing that the district is using a millage for the new budget that is based off the rejected 4.4-percent tax increase last year. 

      In turn, the new budget's tax rate is higher than the district claims. He also claims the rate again goes above an annual cap set by the state Department of Education without the district holding a referendum that asks for township voters' approval.

      A spokesman for the district said in a statement that Wolk continues "to press baseless claims" while the appeal process continues.

      "The District has repeatedly and explicitly demonstrated the justification for its proposed millages and has acted transparently and lawfully at every step of the budget process," according to a statement from district spokesman Doug Young.

      The district's board of directors is expected to vote June 12 on final approval of the 2017-2018 budget, which takes effect July 1.

      Wolk believes that because the district is using the wrong millage, the proposed 2.99-percent increase for taxpayers is actually 5.04 percent.

      The district, in the statement, however, argues that the proposed tax increase for the next school year is 2.48 percent, which falls below the state cap and doesn't require a referendum or use of any exemptions.

      "This is further evidence of the District's commitment to fiscal responsibility during a time of uncertainty and unprecedented enrollment growth," according to the district statement. "In fact, tax increases over the most recent three-year period (including 2.48% proposed for 2017-18) are among the lowest in the last 25 years of District budgeting."

      In rejecting the 2016-2017 tax increase of 4.44 percent, Common Pleas Judge Joseph Smyth ordered the district to give back roughly $4 million to taxpayers. That amount was ordered held in escrow while the district appealed Smyth's ruling. A three-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court ruled not to overturn Smyth.

      The district asked that the entire nine-judge Commonwealth Court re-consider the panel's opinion. An appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court could follow if the lower appeals court decides not to re-consider.



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      White House Sends Mixed Messages on Battling Hurricanes

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      As hurricane season begins, and scientists predict the Atlantic Ocean could see another above-normal year, the White House is sending contradictory messages about whether it supports funding for better weather forecasting.

      On the one hand, President Donald Trump in April signed a bipartisan Congressional bill that protects improvements to hurricane forecasting and tsunami warnings from budget cuts.

      On the other, the president's proposed budget for 2018 fiscal year, released in May, would slash funding for those very programs, operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service. NOAA accounts for much of the 16 percent reduction to the Commerce Department, of which it is a part.

      "This budget would ensure that (NOAA's National Weather Service) becomes a 2nd or 3rd tier weather forecasting enterprise, frozen in the early 2000's," said David W. Titley, a retired rear admiral who oversaw the satellite and weather programs at NOAA and is now a meteorology professor at Penn State School of International Affairs. "This budget is the opposite of making America great:  It will make us more vulnerable and less prepared to face extreme weather in a changing and never-experienced climate."

      The bill signed by Trump, the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act, requires that NOAA protect its Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program, establish a plan to improve tornado warnings and develop meteorological forecasts for varying time frames, from two weeks to up to two years. 

      But the proposed budget, in the broadest terms, halts NOAA's cutting edge work, such as trying to extend weather predictions beyond 14 days, and makes large cuts in its tsunami warning system, its climate research and its efforts to develop and test unmanned aircraft and undersea vehicles, among other areas, Titley said.

      U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the second ranking Republican in the Senate, in May called Trump's budget proposal "dead on arrival." Such proposals are more statements of priorities than legislation, he said, and both Republicans and Democrats criticized the cuts as too steep and questioned the accounting.

      But if the budget has little chance of passing Congress, it does indicate the White House's priorities.

      Rick Spinrad, a former chief scientist for NOAA, said that the cuts to research in particular would virtually guarantee that the United States would see little or no progress in the ability to improve forecasts of hurricanes' intensity or tracks.

      "If we are satisfied that the current forecast capabilities are adequate, and that we are willing to accept the consequent losses of lives and property, then these cuts will be without consequence," Spinrad said. "More realistically, of course, without the needed improvements in observational systems, research on hurricane physics, and investment in high performance computing we will continue to see coastal communities and businesses suffer devastating losses."

      Another former NOAA scientist, Scott Weaver, who is now a senior climate scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund, said Trump's budget disregards science and its ability to protect lives and property.

      One example: a $5 million cut to programs for more reliable weather and storm forecasts through advanced modeling. It would slow the transition from models to real-life warning systems, hurting families and business owners preparing for severe storms, Weaver said. 

      "Weather is essentially bi-partisan," Weaver said. "Improving weather forecasts, there's really broad agreement that that's something that no matter what political background you come from is important and necessary. So that is why this budget is so striking in that context — because it's just so outside the bounds, it's unbelievable."

      The United States has lagged in accurate weather forecasting — the European model, for example, predicted Hurricane Sandy's trajectory correctly while the America model put it out to sea — and the cuts would derail U.S. efforts to catch up, Weaver said. 

      In response to the criticism, the White House Office of Management and Budget countered that the budget was consistent with the intent of the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act and recognized the value of accurate and reliable weather forecasts to American businesses and communities.

      "That is why the 2018 budget preserves the proper and appropriate weather forecasting capabilities for the National Weather Service (NWS)," it said in a statement. "This includes continued support for the current generation of weather satellites that provide critical data to weather models and targeted increases in funding for the systems NWS personnel rely on to produce and disseminate forecasts to the public."

      Weaver said, however, that although the budget for maintaining the adminstration's current satellites increases slightly, the Trump administration will review the programs for 2019 and beyond.

      "And so basically what that's saying is that in the later years, we're not going to be interested in developing any new satellite missions to replace our aging satellite infrastructure," he said.

      The budget and the Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act appear to be in agreement on the satellite programs. The act requires NOAA to consider buying commercially provided weather satellite data rather than launching government satellites.

      One of Florida's U.S. senators, Democrat Bill Nelson has sought backups for NOAA's fleet of aircraft designed to fly in and around hurricanes. The Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act does require NOAA to have a reliable alternative but the budget does not fund it.

      "The administration's budget is literally betting the house on there not being a big storm this year," Nelson said. "By cutting money to improve hurricane forecasting and failing to invest in a backup for the hurricane hunters, it's a risky and reckless bet that could endanger lives and property."

      Florida's second senator, Republican Marco Rubio, and the mayor of Miami-Dade County, Carlos Gimenez, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

      For this year's hurricane season, which began on June 1 and continues through Nov. 30, forecasters from NOAA predict a 45 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 35 percent chance of a near-normal season and only a 20 percent chance of a below-normal season.

      An average season produces 12 named storms, six of which become hurricanes, three of them major with winds of 111 miles per hour or higher, according to NOAA.

      Forecasters this year predict a 70 percent chance of 11 to 17 storms powerful enough to be named. Five to nine could become hurricanes, and two to four of them major hurricanes.

      "The outlook reflects our expectation of a weak or non-existent El Nino, near- or above-average sea-surface temperatures across the tropical Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, and average or weaker-than-average vertical wind shear in that same region," Gerry Bell, the lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, said in a statement.

      How climate change is affecting hurricanes is still under study. In a report released in March, NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory said it was premature to conclude that human activities, and in particular the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, have already had a detectable effect on Atlantic hurricane or global tropical cyclone activity.

      But it also said human activities might have caused changes not yet detected, because they were too small or because of observational limitations or not yet modelled. 

      Climate warming will likely cause hurricanes in the coming century to be more intense globally and to have higher rainfall rates than present-day hurricanes, it said.



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      Police Block Broad Street After Double Shooting

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      Philadelphia Police blocked off a section of busy Broad Street after a double shooting Friday afternoon.

      Gunfire rang out around 12:45 p.m. on North Broad near Haines Street leaving a 20-year-old woman and 20-year-old man critically injured with chest wounds, police said.

      Private vehicles took both gunshot victims to Einstein Hosptial, police said.

      SkyForce10 captured officers blocking off Broad between 68th and 69th avenues.

      No word yet on a possible motive in the shooting.



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      Missing Korean War Vet to Be Laid to Rest in NJ Hometown

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      Sixty-six years after a soldier died as a prisoner of war during the Korean War, his remains are coming home to South Jersey.

      The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday that it had identified the remains of Army Pvt. Walter Piper of Williamstown, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

      Piper was just 21 when he went missing when the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, supporting Republic of Korea Army attacks against units of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces (CPVF) in the village of Hoengsong, an area known as the Central Corridor in South Korea, withdrew and headed toward Wonju, South Korea on Feb. 13, 1951, the DPAA said.

      "On Dec. 26, 1951, Piper’s name appeared on a list provided by the CPVF and Korean People’s Army (KPA) of allied service members who died while in their custody," the DPAA said in a news release. "Two returning American prisoners of war reported that Piper had died while a prisoner at the Suan Prisoner of War Camp Complex in North Korea. Based off of this information, the Army declared him deceased as of June 18, 1951."

      Between 1990 and 1994 North Korea returned 208 boxes of commingled human remains from at least 400 U.S. service members who died during the Korean War. Using DNA analysis that matched Piper’s brother, dental records and circumstantial evidence, scientists positively identified Piper’s remains, the DPAA said.

      Piper, who graduated from Glassboro High School, will be buried with full military honors in his hometown on June 17. Visitation is open to public at Farnelli Funeral Home at 504 N. Main Street from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. with burial to follow at the Gloucester County Veterans Memorial Cemetery, according to his obituary

      There are still 7,745 Americans who served in the Korean War that remain unaccounted for, according to the DPAA, which is using modern technology to identify more fallen heroes.



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      Arrest in Shooting of 6-Year-Old Boy

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      A man has been arrested in the shooting of a young boy in Wilmington, Delaware Tuesday afternoon. 

      Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki and Wilmington Police Chief Robert Tracy announced Friday the arrest of 41-year-old Chelsea Outlaw of New Castle.

      Jashown Banner, a Kindergarten student at Thomas Edison Charter School, remained in critical condition at A.I. duPont Hospital for Children.

      The 6-year-old boy and his 31-year-old mother were inside an SUV at a stop sign on the 700 block of E. 6th Street when an unidentified gunman got out of another car and opened fire. Irene Turner, a woman who lives in the area and witnessed the shooting, told NBC10 she heard seven gunshots.

      "I was sitting right there in that chair and it happened down there," Turner said. "The white van backed up and flew down the street real fast."

      The boy was shot in the head while his mother was cut by glass on her arm.

      "When he got shot it went across his nose and mouth and it was bleeding," Turner said.

      The boy's mother was taken to St. Francis Hospital. She was later released.

      Outlaw, who police said has an extensive criminal record, has been charged with attempted murder and other charges in the shooting. 

      He remained jailed on $2 million cash bond.



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      Swimmers Pulled to Safety in Ocean City

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      Ocean City lifeguards came to the rescue on Friday as dangerous rip currents threatened swimmers in the ocean. Now, beach goers are being warned of the conditions. NBC10's Ted Greenberg reports.

      Historians Dig up Duffy's Cut Looking for Remains

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      A story 185 years in the making started to come to life on Friday as historians started to dig up an area called Duffy's Cut. That's where they believe Irish immigrants were murdered years ago.

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