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Loved Ones Honor 4 Bucks County Murder Victims: Hundreds of family, friends and community members in Pennsylvania gathered for a vigil to remember four missing young men who were killed and had their remains buried on a sprawling family farm. The vigil was held Sunday night at the Garden of Reflection 9/11 Memorial in Lower Makefield Township and included prayers, music and the lighting of candles. Matthew Schuler, a former contestant on NBC's "The Voice'' and a Bucks County native, sang the song "Hallelujah.’' The event honored Jimi Taro Patrick, 19, of Newtown Township; Dean Finocchiaro, 19, of Middletown Township; Mark Sturgis, 22, of Pennsburg, Montgomery County; and Tom Meo, 21, of Plumstead Township.  "In light of recent tragic events in our County, it is more important than ever that we gather to reflect and remember that we are a community and together we are strong," an organizer for the event wrote. Patrick's grandparents released a statement thanking authorities who took part in the search as well as the parents of the victims. "These parents gave us the strength and resolve to persevere and accept the fact that the victims were no longer with us," they wrote. "We, as a group, made the decision to forgo the death penalty for the defendant in return for locating our grandson.” A preliminary hearing for the suspects, meanwhile, is scheduled for July 31. Suspects Cosmo DiNardo and Sean Michael Kratz, both 20, will face District Judge Maggie Snow at Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown.

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Monday is expected to be sunny with temperatures in the high 80s but humidity won't be as high. Pop up showers or thunderstorms are possible for Monday. Tuesday is expected to be warm with temperatures nearing 90 degrees. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are expected to be hot with temperatures in the 90s. Wednesday could see some thunderstorms. Thursday and Friday are expected to be sunny and humid. Get your full NBC10 First Alert forecast here.

WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY

2 Drivers Hurt When Race Car Crashes on South Jersey Track: A race car struck and seriously injured two people Saturday afternoon in the pit area of a race track in Camden County, New Jersey, according to emergency officials, with one of those injured flown by helicopter to the hospital. The car crashed into the pit of the Atco Dragway on Jackson Road, striking two other people who one emergency official described as drivers of other cars who were in the area waiting. The crash did not occur during an official race, Waterford Township police Chief Daniel Cormaney said. The accident happened about 12:15 p.m.

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AROUND THE WORLD

9 Dead, Man Missing in Arizona Flash Flood: Nine people died and a 27 year-old-man was still missing Sunday after a furious flash flood tore through a group of family and friends cooling off in a creek in the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Gila County Sheriff's Detective David Hornung told The Associated Press that the group from the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas had met up for a daytrip along the popular Cold Springs swimming hole near Payson in central Arizona and were playing in the water Saturday afternoon when muddy flood waters came roaring down the canyon. The group had set out chairs to lounge on a warm summer day when miles upstream an intense thunderstorm dumped heavy rainfall on the mountain. Search and rescue crews, including 40 people on foot and others in a helicopter, recovered the bodies of five children and four adults, some as far as two miles down the river. The victims ranged in age from a 60-year-old woman to a 2-year-old girl. Authorities did not identify them. Four others were rescued Saturday and taken to Banner hospital in nearby Payson for treatment for hypothermia.

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Princeton Grad Student Imprisoned in Iran: Iran has imprisoned a Chinese-American Princeton University graduate school student for 10  years, accusing him of "infiltrating" the country, and detained President Hassan Rouhani's brother over allegations of financial misconduct, authorities said Sunday. News of the detentions comes less than two months after relative moderate Rouhani beat a hard-line opponent to win reelection by running in large part on his record of pursuing greater engagement with the West. They were announced by the judiciary, a pillar of hard-liners' influence. The Chinese-American dual national was identified as Xiyue Wang, a 37-year-old history researcher, according to Mizan Online, a website affiliated with the judiciary. Wang is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in the Department of History at Princeton University, according to Daniel Day, the Assistant Vice President in the school’s Office of Communications.

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Phillies Beat the Brewers: The Phillies won 5 to 2 against the Milwaukee Brewers. Get your full sports news at CSNPhilly.

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Pop Star Films New Video at Delaware Bar: A recently released video by pop star Kesha was filmed almost entirely in a Wilmington, Delaware, bar. The News Journal reports that the video for the singer's new song "Woman" was shot at Oddity Bar, when she was in the state for last month's Firefly Music Festival. The only portion of the video not filmed at the bar is a short opening sequence of Kesha driving. That was filmed in the Brandywine Valley. The video was released Thursday in coordination with an essay about the song and video written by Kesha and published by Rolling Stone magazine. The song will appear on her new album, "Rainbow," which is due out Aug. 11. It features appearances by Dolly Parton, Eagles of Death Metal and the Dap-Kings. Read more.

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Two more people, including a teenager, were shot in Philadelphia overnight bringing the total number of gunshot victims in just over 24 hours to 13.

Police responded to the 400 block of Cheltenham Avenue in the Lawncrest section of the city around 11:30 p.m. Sunday to find a 15-year-old suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, arms and legs. Medics rushed the boy to Einstein Medical Center where doctors listed him in critical condition but expected him to survive, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.

"This (boy) was shot right in front of his house while family members were sitting on the front steps… enjoying the evening," Small said.

About 10 shell casings littered the sidewalk outside the boy’s home, investigators said, believing there were two shooters.

As police investigated the teen’s shooting, they were called to N 19th and W Jefferson streets in North Philadelphia were a man was also shot.

The overnight shootings brought the bloody total for Saturday night into early Monday to 13 shot and three dead.

A man shot one of his neighbors to death in the Frankford section of Lower Northeast Philadelphia and left another on life support and another man died in a multiple-victim shooting in southwest Center City as gunfire erupted throughout the city Sunday morning.

The Frankford shooting left a 69-year-old resident of the 4700 block of James Street being questioned by detectives.

A man also died in a quadruple shooting early Sunday at 22nd and Fitzwater streets in Southwest Center City. Responding officers found four gunshot victims stretched over two blocks of Fitzwater from 20th to 22nd streets.

"We woke up at like midnight last night and heard about 11 gunshots, like one after another, and then we just ducked behind our bed for like 15 minutes," Cassie McGoldrick told NBC10.

All of the victims, including the dead man who was 28, are in their 20s.

Another person died around 7:30 a.m. Saturday when officers found the man face down in a parking lot on S 4th Street just north of Washington Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Gunfire also rang out early Sunday during an apparent robbery at N 29th Street and Ridge Avenue, at a strip mall along Harbison Avenue near Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia along Kingsessing Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia and on Cumberland Street in the Fairhill neighborhood. 

None of the people involved in any of the shootings was immediately identified by police.

The deadly shootings added to a trend of an uptick in killings in the city. As of Sunday, there were 168 homicides in Philadelphia, up 20 percent from this same time last year and the highest total of homicides in Philadelphia at this date since 2012.

"This is just indicative of the wanton violence that we deal with, particularly in these big cities, with young men, in particular, resolving their conflicts with guns," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. "We spend a lot of time trying to keep young men alive."

Police continue to work on strategies to curb the deadly violence.

"We will never throw our hands up, we will continue to find new ways to work with our partners and collaborate as well as develop new strategies," Ross said.

Just because the kids are home for summer break, does not mean they have to stop learning. There are ways to make learning fun with educational games and activities that help them retain what they learned during the school year.

Joe Biden's memoir is coming out Nov. 14 and will be called "Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose."

Flatiron Books, which acquired the book in April, announced Monday that the former vice president will promote the book as part of his "American Promise Tour." Two days before the book is released, an interview with Oprah Winfrey will air on Winfrey's OWN network. His tour opens Nov. 13 with an appearance at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.

Biden's book centers on 2015, when his son Beau died and he decided not to run for president even though he believed he could win.

A SEPTA train struck and killed a pedestrian Monday morning causing the suspension of a busy Regional Rail line.

SEPTA stopped service between Lansdale, Montgomery County and Doylestown, Bucks County on its Lansdale Doylestown Line after a Doylestown-bound train struck and killed a man just north of the Fortuna Station on Cowpath Road in Lansdale around 9:20 a.m., SEPTA said.

Service remained suspended for more than two hours as the agency and police investigated the death.

The Cape May County Park & Zoo is welcoming two new, fluffy members to their family.

Two snow leopard cubs were born at the zoo on May 19, and now they’re old enough for you to see them yourself.

According to zoo officials, the cubs will be fully out and about in their home starting Tuesday.

If seeing them isn’t enough, the zoo is asking the public to help name the cubs. They are planning to hold a naming contest throughout the rest of the summer for the cubs.

The Zoo is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. throughout the rest of the summer. For more information, click here.

Philadelphia leaders want to hear from the public about the city's plan to protect cyclists (and bicycle lanes) along two busy downtown streets.

The city’s Office of Transportation & Infrastructure Systems planned a “Public Listening Session” from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Monday at The Philadelphia School along South Street to discuss creating separated bike lanes along Lombard and South streets.

Under the plan, flexible vertical posts would separate bike and vehicular traffic from 22nd to 27th Street along Lombard and 21st to 27th Street on South.

It would also repaint crosswalks and existing bike lanes and shorten how far pedestrians would walk to clear vehicle traffic.

Organizers planned the event to give people the opportunity to ask questions at an informal discussion about the coming change.

Emotions for and against the plan run high. Fliers have begun popping up in the southwest Center City neighborhood complaining that the lane posts would prevent drivers from being able to use the bike lane for loading and unloading as well as passing stopped vehicles when a cyclist isn’t in the lanes. Detractors claim the bike lanes could add to traffic congestion.

The Streets Department says protected bike lanes are safer, can encourage more residents to hop on a bike and reduce the number of people who ride on the sidewalk.

The city says that parking and loading can still take place on streets with the protected bicycle lanes by adjusting the space between each plastic post.

Though bike lane supporters and detractors are invited to the discussion, the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia reminded people on its blog that the meeting is not a debate.

Philadelphia plans to begin rolling out protected bike lanes by 2018, according to the Streets Department. Other cities like New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh already have the protected bike lanes.

A hot air balloon went down right in the middle of a Montgomery County road Sunday night after the pilot ran out of fuel.

State police and Marlborough Township police responded around 8:30 after the colorful balloon went down on Gravel Pike (Route 29) in Green Lane.

There were no apparent injuries as the colorful balloon deflated on the roadway after contacting some overhead wires, Marlborough Chief Darren Morgan.

The area is full of trees and not many flat open spaces, Morgan said.

“I guess the luck of the draw” that the pilot found a spot to land without further incident besides blocking the road for about two hours. 

Police are searching for a suspect who they say shot another man in West Philadelphia's Overbrook Park neighborhood Monday afternoon.

Police say the unidentified suspect shot a man on the 7400 block of Ruskin Road at 1:08 p.m. Monday. The suspect then ran into a home on the 7300 block of Malvern Avenue, according to investigators. A barricade situation was then declared at 1:48 p.m.

Police eventually entered the home but could not find the suspect. They continue to investigate.

The shooting victim was taken to the hospital. Officials have not yet revealed his condition.

Too often students and teachers are forced to put the brakes on learning because they lack the tools to succeed.

From new technology to something as basic as pencils, there are schools all across our area that lack supplies to provide our children with a quality education.

NBC10 and Telemundo62 is giving students and teachers the supplies they need to flourish in the classroom. Through July 29, you can donate money or supplies to support a specific teacher's project through our program.

Here's how you can get involved:

CHOOSE A SCHOOL PROJECT TO SUPPORT

Make a tangible impact in a local classroom. We've teamed up with the popular fundraising website DonorsChoose.org to connect you with local teachers who are trying to raise cash for specific projects.

Examples of projects include the quest for flexible seating for students to get away from the desk, art supplies to allow their creative minds to flourish and 3D pens to illustrate STEM concepts.

Visit our special Donor's Choose Supporting Our Schools website here to pick a program to support.

TEXT TO GIVE

You can start supporting a school by simply sending a text message. Text "BACKPACK" to 40403 to raise money for the United Way's Backpack-a-Thon event. 

Each year, United Way and Cradles to Crayons volunteers collect and stuff thousands of backpacks with school supplies for children across our region to begin school ready to learn. This year, we will stuff and distribute 30,000 backpacks to area children in need to help them start school ready to learn.

DROP OFF SUPPLIES IN PERSON

Want to pick up a few extra school supplies while shopping for your own kids? You can drop them off at a special event on July 29.

NBC10 and Telemundo62 will be collecting the supplies from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kennedy Plaza in front of Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

You'll be able to meet members of our news team, sign up for giveaways and more. All the supplies collected that day will be donated to the Atlantic City School District.

Thank you for helping NBC10 and Telemundo62 make an impact in our community!

The Elmwood Park Zoo is now allowing guests to hand-feed North America's largest mammal: an American bison.

The American bison, also known as the buffalo, is the national mammal of the United States.

Now zoo-goers get the unique experience of feeding a bison through the only Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accredited zoo to allow it.

On Monday the Elmwood Park Zoo announced that Xfinity will be the sponsor for “The Bison Feeding Experience.”

“Xfinity is about innovation in entertainment so we’re thrilled to bring this fun, interactive experience to families visiting the zoo,” said Comcast Regional Vice President of Marketing Carolyne Hannan.

The Xfinity sponsorship is also supporting the Zoo’s “The Bison Express” which allows guests to get on a caboose that traces the American bison’s history.

According to the Elmwood Park Zoo Facebook page, the zoo will hold “The Bison Feeding Experience” daily from 12 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. The experience costs three dollars for members and four dollars for non-members.

Xfinity is a division of Comcast, the parent company of NBC10.

As kids enjoy their summer break and time off from school, it can be challenging to keep them learning and following their summer reading guidelines.

In the tri-state area, local libraries are hosting programs and events aimed at solving this issue. 

Find out which libraries near you can help with keeping students engaged over the summer.

Philadelphia:

Free Library of Philadelphia

Temple University

Chester County:

Chester County Library & District Center

ADayInOurShoes.com

Montgomery County:

Montco Public Libraries

Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library

Upper Perkiomen Valley Library

Bucks County:

Bucks County Library System

Upcoming Bucks County Library Events

Delaware County:

Delaware County District Library

Delaware County Library Children's Events

Lehigh Valley:

Allentown Public Library

Lower Macungie Library

Emmaus Public Library

New Castle:

New Castle Public Library

Camden County:

Camden County Library System

Burlington County:

Burlington County Library System

Atlantic County:

Atlantic County Library System Calender of Events

Gloucester County:

Gloucester County Library System

Cape May County:

Cape May County Library

A fan paid to see Dave Matthews Band in Philadelphia but was rejected at the door due to her tickets being counterfeit. She contacted NBC10 Responds when she failed to get a refund on the tickets she purchased. NBC10's Harry Hairston has the story.

Customers across the country, including some in our area, panicked when bridal retailer Alfred Angelo filed for bankruptcy and closed all of its stores. NBC10 Responds reporter Harry Hairston talks to one local woman whose family paid for eight dresses for her sister's upcoming wedding and is now unsure of what to do.

Watch George Spencer's interview with Jeff Mudgett tonight on NBC10 News at 11.

For Jeff Mudgett, one day in early May was a moment of truth, or at least the next step in his pursuit of the truth.  Years of research and debate were coming down to this day in a Yeadon, Pennsylvania cemetery.

“It was straight out of Alfred Hitchcock. It was scary,” Mudgett said.

Anthropologists and archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania were excavating the gravesite of Mudgett’s great-great grandfather Herman Webster Mudgett, more infamously known as serial killer and con-man H.H. Holmes.

“He’s evil personified! And I decided rather than running away from it, I decided to try to make something worthwhile of coming up with the truth,” Mudgett said.

Some credit Holmes with killing more than two hundred people in the late 1800’s.  Most of the killings are believed to have taken place in a building Holmes owned in Chicago, dubbed the “Murder Castle.”  But he was only convicted of one murder.  In 1895 he was put on trial in Philadelphia for the murder of his business partner Benjamin Pitezel and was sentenced to die by hanging.

This is where Mudgett and others say the mystery begins.

According to newspaper accounts, Holmes was marched to the gallows at Moyamensing Prison where he was hanged. The prison was located on 1400 South 10th Street in Philadelphia before it closed in 1963 and was demolished in 1968. Holmes’ body was eventually interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Yeadon. Holmes requested his casket be encased in concrete so no one would steal his body. However, an 1898 newspaper article sparked the conspiracy theory that Holmes somehow escaped death at Moyamensing and ended up in South America.

Fast-forward to 2017 with Mudgett standing in what many believe to be the grave of his murderous relative.  Descendants of Holmes were granted permission by a Delaware County judge to exhume the remains.

“It actually brought tears to my eyes,” Mudgett said. “And I was sitting there, trying to figure out, ‘why am I crying for this monster of a man?’”

As they dug, the group found a wooden box.

“We dug down to 10 feet and we found a fake pine box,” Mudgett said.

Mudgett told the NBC10 Investigators there was nothing in the box and he was ready to give up but the team continued to dig. Next, they ran into the cement reported on in 1890’s newspaper accounts.

"And we found the cement sarcophagus, which many of the newspapers described back then. That’s when the hard work began,” Mudgett said.

After breaking through the cement, the team from Penn found what they were looking for.

“They carefully opened it up and we found a skeleton of a man, which we removed and took to the university,” Mudgett said.

Before the remains were taken away, Mudgett held the skull in his hand.

"To see that skeleton and that skull with the brains still inside, which is a phenomenon that the scientists still haven’t explained, scared the heck out of me," Mudgett said.

Once the remains were taking to Penn, the tests began to see if the bones were that of Holmes.

“We were there when they took the DNA samples from the skull and, you know, put them in the proper packaging. They took some comparison DNA from me,” Mudgett said.

But Mudgett’s crusade to see if Holmes was actually buried in the grave has another angle.

"Here was a moment that could possibly change American and English history. And it was staring us in the face," he said.

Mudgett believes his great-great grandfather is not only H.H. Holmes but also Jack the Ripper.

"As of yet, I still haven’t seen anything which would cause me to change my mind regarding my theories that H.H. Holmes was Jack the Ripper," he said.

While there is skepticism among Holmes’ experts about the Jack the Ripper theory, it is another reason Mudgett and his team spent time searching for and finding the tomb where Holmes was believed to be buried.

The great-great grandson is currently starring in a History Channel show entitled “American Ripper.” The premise of the show has Mudgett connecting the two notorious killers as the same man.

“Jack the Ripper was the J-V compared to H.H. Holmes. In my opinion, the world should be trying to prove Jack the Ripper was H.H. Holmes, not me proving Holmes was Jack the Ripper,” Mudgett said.

The last piece of the puzzle seems to be the DNA taken from the found remains and Mudgett. Those results are not yet in.

"I have my beliefs, I have, you know, doubts. I want to see those DNA results to come up with a firm conclusion," he said. "I’m waiting for them right now. I could get a phone call as we speak, right now."

As for the remains, a lawyer for Holmes’ descendants told a judge they are still at Penn awaiting more testing. He believed they could be returned to Holy Cross Cemetery in late July.

Friends and family are mourning a young girl who drowned at a pool in Wildwood, New Jersey.

Police say the 6-year-old Philadelphia girl, identified as Isabella Grattic, was visiting the Nantucket Inn & Suites at 4100 Ocean Avenue in Wildwood with her family members back on July 8. 

Grattic was in a pool at the motel around 4:30 p.m. when she entered the deep end and went underwater before she was found several minutes later. Several tenants at the motel took the girl out of the pool and began rendering CPR. Grattic was then taken to the Cape Regional Medical Center where she was pronounced dead several hours later.

Police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding the girl’s death but they continue to investigate. Posted signs at the pool where the incident occurred stated no lifeguard was on duty, something Grattic's grandmother told NBC10 she hopes will change.

"The attorney general, the governor, has to understand that he has to make a state law, a state law that any pool that's open to the public, that there must be a lifeguard, it's mandatory that a life guard be on hand," Helen Williams said while in tears during a vigil for the girl Monday. "Isabella had no help."

Zenobia Cofer and her husband started looking for a home in West Philadelphia almost a year ago. They've looked at more than 100 properties, but they are running into the same problem: the price.

“I can’t even afford the neighborhood where I grew up,” Cofer said.

Philadelphia has always been seen as the bargain between New York and Washington D.C. There's a new normal now, however.

The housing market is hot, which is great for sellers, but it’s difficult for the everyday family to compete with out-of-town real estate investors who can make an offer over the asking price.

The median price for homes sold in the first three months of this year are up 9.7 percent from last year, according to Bright MLS, a combination of nine Realtor organizations covering Greater Philadelphia. The median is up 25.9 percent from three years ago.

“If you have a $50,000 income, you’re going to be able to afford a $200,000 house no problem, but that $200,000 house you could get in 2000, is maybe $300,000 today," said Susan Wachter, a real estate and finance professor at Penn's The Wharton School.

Many would-be home buyers, especially Millennials, are being priced out of the market, and it’s having a ripple effect. Home ownership is at a 50-year low.

“It’s new for us that Philadelphia should be a market where it’s so difficult for Millennials to become homeowners,” Wachter said.

"The main thing right now is that prices have increased steadily since 2006 at a rate that we have not seen before historically. The rate of price increase has exceeded wage increases exceeded income increases by far so we've got a crunch here."

In addition, housing supply is low. Homeowners are staying in their homes and renovating rather than moving out.

So, while Philadelphia is still very affordable compared to Washington, D.C. and New York, it is becoming less affordable over time.

The news came as a shock to Cofer who is fighting frustration in finding the right place to raise a family. Others are likely sharing the same angst.

Residents in a Philadelphia neighborhood are keeping their bug spray on hand after they say thousands of cockroaches crawled out of a manhole and began invading their street.

"When I tell you thousands of them, there were thousands of them," Pat Wall told NBC10.

Wall and other neighbors say the roaches began crawling out of a manhole at the intersection of Salmon and Plum streets in the Bridgesburg section of Philadelphia Sunday night and haven't stopped since. At one point, according to Wall, there were so many that she couldn't see the ground.

"When I tell you all the neighbors down this end were out here spraying and stomping, it was a horror story that I couldn't believe I was living," she said. "And they were flying all over. Never had to duck a flying roach."

Wall said it's the worst roach infestation she's ever seen.

"Everybody is out here with spray cans spraying bugs," said Paul Basfort, another resident. "They were stomping them and they were running right out of there."

The Philadelphia Water Department plans to check out the street Tuesday. A spokesperson for the company told NBC10 they received three calls from homeowners Monday about the inlet.

"We'll open that and see if we can identify as to why there are so many right there," said John DiGiulio of the Philadelphia Water Department.

The Water Department plans on cleaning the inlet and says the manhole may have food and trash that attracts the insects. Roach infestations also tend to occur during warmer months.