A 19-year-old man was likely headed home on C Street when he was struck and killed early Friday. Police are searching the driver of a vehicle that may have been a white or light colored sedan.

NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal brings us into the disaster zone of Houston, Texas, and outlines how local emergency crews are handling the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.

A bicyclist was struck and killed by a white Honda after fixing a bike at a friend's house hours earlier Thursday, police said.

Lorenzo Velazquez, 19, was riding the bike northbound when a vehicle going west went through a green light and struck Velazquez at C and Ashdale Streets in the Olney section of North Philadelphia at 11:45 p.m., police said.

Velazquez flew off of the bike land suffered severe head trauma when he hit the ground, police said.

He was taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital but died from his injuries shortly after midnight Friday.

Later in the day, the driver, who was not identified, and the dented vehicle from the crash were found.

Investigators said there were no immediate charges filed.

A candle light vigil will be held at 6 p.m. Lorenzo’s friends will be riding on their bikes in the 4200 block of Darien Street in honor of him.  

Three Philadelphia police officers were taken to the hospital after responding to a home in the Lawncrest section for a drug investigation, officials said.

It all started after 10:00 Friday morning when officials descended upon a home along the 1100 block of Rosalie Street investigating a possible drug operation.

Three officers were taken to a hospital related to the investigation, which officials said may involve fentanyl.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross were set to provide more information about the incident Friday afternoon.

You can watch the briefing live on this page.

Check back for updates as more information becomes available.

For parents going back-to-school shopping this weekend, the holiday will bring plenty of deals. NBC10's Deanna Durante caught up with some shoppers hoping to save some cash.

As the rain in Texas has stopped, some residents are finally returning to their homes. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal was in Texas seeing how rescue missions were underway on Friday.

The holiday weekend will see some rain on Saturday as the leftovers from Hurricane Harvey head toward our region. NBC10 meteorologist Glenn "Hurricane" Schwartz has your forecast.

While some kids are back to school shopping this time of year, some kids aren't so lucky. But one non-profit is trying to make those kids happy in other ways. NBC10's Steven Fisher explains.

Hundreds of volunteers rushed to Texas during Hurricane Harvey to help the victims. NBC10's Randy Gyllenhaal spoke to one man who described the rescue efforts he has been a part of.

A new report details apparent conditions inside of the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Delaware ahead of a deadly riot there. NBC10's Tim Furlong has been following the investigation since the riot and explains the recent report.

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The Budweiser Made in America Festival kicks off next weekend, but road closures started Sunday throughout Philadelphia. 

All roadways will re-open prior to morning rush hour on Sept. 5 with traffic patterns returning to normal.

Click here for a map of road closures. 

Click here for answers to questions about the festival, including what items yu can and cannot bring with you.

Phase 1 – 7 a.m. on Aug. 27 to 11:59p.m. on Sept. 5:

• Two lanes of Eakins Oval in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum

Phase 2 – 7 a.m. on A. 28 – 5 a.m. on Sept. 5:

• Spring Garden Street between Pennsylvania Avenue and Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Phase 3 – 7 a.m. on Aug. 29 – 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 5:

• Parking prohibited on Pennsylvania Avenue from 22nd Street to 23rd Street (south side) and Park Towne Place from 22nd Street to 24th Street (north side)

Phase 4 – 10 a.m. on Aug. 30 – 5 a.m. on Sept. 5:

• The inner lanes of Benjamin Franklin Parkway, between 20th Street and Eakins Oval
• Cross traffic on numbered streets will be permitted

Phase 5 – 7 p.m. on Aug. 31 – 5 a.m. on Sept. 5:

• 22nd Street reduced to one running lane between Pennsylvania Avenue and Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Phase 6 – 10 a.m. Sept. 1 – 5 a.m. Sept. 5:

• Outer lanes of Benjamin Franklin Parkway, between 20th Street and Eakins Oval
• 23rd Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Benjamin Franklin Parkway
• 22nd Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Park Towne Place
• 21st Street, between Pennsylvania Avenue and Winter Street
• Kelly Drive outbound, from Benjamin Franklin Parkway to Fairmount Avenue
• Outer lane of MLK Drive adjacent to Paine’s Park

Starting at 10 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 1, due to the closure of the outer lanes on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, traffic headed inbound (to Center City), from Spring Garden Street Bridge or Martin Luther King Drive, must exit Eakins Oval on the 24th Street ramp. Traffic headed inbound on Kelly Drive must exit Kelly Drive at Fairmount Avenue.

Phase 7 – 10 a.m. Sept. 2 – 5 a.m. Sept. 5:

The full extent of road closures around the festival site will begin at 10:00AM on Saturday, September 2nd and remain through the duration of the event. A complete list of road closures and no parking restrictions is outlined below:

Road Closures

The entire width of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, beginning at 20th Street extending through Eakins Oval (25th Street) and behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art. - The rear of the Philadelphia Museum of Art will be accessible to Museum guests via Fairmount Avenue, to Pennsylvania Avenue, to 25th Street.

• 21st Street, between Winter & Spring Garden Streets
• 22nd Street, between Race Street & Fairmount Avenue
• 23rd Street, between the Benjamin Franklin Parkway & Fairmount Avenue
• 24th Street, between Fairmount & Pennsylvania Avenues
• Spring Garden Street, between 20th Street & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, including the Spring
• Garden Street Tunnel.
• Spring Garden St Bridge* (The City will make every effort to keep this bridge open during Philadelphia Art Museum operating hours on September 2nd and 3rd 10am – 5pm, but it may be forced to close during periods of heavy pedestrian traffic)
• Kelly Drive, between 23rd Street & Fairmount Avenue
• Martin Luther King Drive, between the Falls Bridge & Benjamin Franklin Parkway
• Pennsylvania Avenue, between Hamilton & 25th Street
• 2000 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, between the Whole Foods store & 21st Street (the
• eastern half of the block, from the Whole Foods Market to 20th Street, will remain open to allow access to the store)
• Park Towne Place, between 22nd & 24th Streets
• I-676 westbound off-ramp at 22nd Street (I-676 eastbound off-ramp at 23rd Street will be open)

No Parking:

• Pennsylvania Avenue, between 22nd Street & Fairmount Avenue (south side of street)
• Winter Street, between 20th & 22nd Streets (both sides of street)
• 20th Street, between Vine & Callowhill Streets (east side of street)
• 21st Street, between Benjamin Franklin Parkway & Race Street (both sides of street)
• 22nd Street, between Winter & Spring Garden Streets (both sides of street)
• Park Towne Place, between 22nd & 24th Streets (both sides of street)

Public Transportation and Paid Parking Information for Festival Goers and Residents

Broad Street and Market Frankford Lines:

Local train service will operate on a normal weekend schedule throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday. Race-Vine and City Hall Stations on the Broad Street Line and 15th Street Station on the Market Frankford Line provide easy walking access to the festival gates on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The Broad Street and Market Frankford Lines will offer overnight service as usual on Saturday.

Regional Rail:

Late-night train service will be available on SEPTA’s Regional Rail Lines on Saturday and Sunday nights departing from Jefferson, Suburban and 30th Street Stations. Special schedules will be posted in stations and are also available online at: www.septa.org/events. If the concert runs late on Saturday or Sunday, these trains will be held for approximately 20 minutes after the concert ends. Parking is free at all SEPTA-owned Regional Rail lots on weekends. Parking lot location information is available online at: www.septa.org/parking.

Trolley:

Trolley Routes 10, 11, 13, 15, 34 and 36 offer convenient service to and from the concert, with 19th and 22nd Street Stations providing easy walking access to Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Trolley Route 15 connects with Broad Street and Market Frankford Line service at Girard Avenue.

Bus:

Due to Festival-related street closures, SEPTA Routes 7, 32, 33, 38, 43 and 48 will be detoured from its normal routes through the Benjamin Franklin Parkway area beginning at 10:00am on Friday, September 2nd through 5:00 am on Monday, September 5th. Specific route changes are available on the System Status Page at www.septa.org

SEPTA Customer Service will extend its hours of operation on Saturday and Sunday, with phone and online agents available from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The White House says President Donald Trump will nominate a Pennsylvania congressman to serve as the nation's drug czar.

The Trump administration announced Friday that the president has tapped Rep. Tom Marino to lead the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

In Congress, Marino has worked to expand access to treatment for people struggling with opioid addiction.

The 64-year-old Republican congressman lives outside Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and is a former county prosecutor who served as U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania's Middle District under President George W. Bush.

Marino was an early supporter of the president and the first Pennsylvania congressman to endorse Trump in the presidential primary contest. He had previously withdrawn his name from consideration in May, citing a family illness.

Police have searched an apartment house in North Philadelphia near the last-known sighting of a Temple University student missing since early Thursday.

Jenna Burleigh, of Harleysville, hasn't been seen since 2 a.m. Thursday when she left Pub Webb near North 15th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Temple University police said.

She transfered from Montgomery County Community College this year and majored in film and media arts, Temple spokesman Ray Betzner said. 

"She literally started classes on Monday," Betzner said. 

Burleigh's family contacted Temple police when the 22-year-old woman never came home Thursday.

"We need your help in finding Temple student Jenna Burleigh, who was last seen on August 31st at 2am," Temple police wrote in a tweet. "Please share any information."

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A detective with Philadelphia police told NBC10 early Saturday morning that a search at an off-campus apartment house in the 1700 block of North 16th Street is believed to be related to Burleigh's disappearance.

The apartment house's address is listed on OffCampusPhilly.com as for rent to Temple students. It is unclear whether Burleigh lived off-campus or commuted from her family's house in Montgomery County.

Police officials could not be reached overnight to provide an update in the ongoing search.

Burleigh's sister posted to Facebook Friday asking for help in finding her sister.

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A Temple University spokesman said the school as well as multiple law enforcement agencies are working together to find Burleigh.

"Temple Police have been working with the family, as well as coordinating resources with Lower Salford and Philadelphia police on the investigation," spokesman Bradon Lausch said in an email. "This includes conducting interviews, reviewing surveillance footage and canvassing local businesses."

Check back for more information on this story as details become known.

We start this Saturday morning with sunny skies, as we expect clouds and rain to roll through our region. Plus, we have your Labor Day forecast.

Firefighters had their hands full as they tried to contain a massive barn fire in Berks County.

LANCASTER — There were no flowers, no words of comfort, no eulogies in honor of the deceased. There were no tears shed, no somber prayers and not a single family member standing graveside.

There was just Pauline and Noah Zimmerman, a funeral director and a couple of men who had backed a truck carrying 600 bags of cremated human remains right up to the edge of a large, freshly dug hole in the ground just outside Lancaster city.

On this July day, at Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery along Lincoln Highway, the men were performing a ritual that has become increasingly common in Lancaster County and the surrounding area: a mass interment for the "unclaimed."

"There's not usually a service. They just get placed and my husband, Noah, then fills in the grave," says Pauline Mellinger, a caretaker at the cemetery.

Indeed, on this day, the workers placed the 600 plastic bags containing the remains in the burial site, got in their truck and pulled away with the funeral director. "They must have wanted to get them off their shelves," says Zimmerman.

She and her husband are used to the indifference of those performing the task. Some time ago, a funeral director preparing to inter the cremated remains of 1,000 people made this request of Noah: "Dig the grave deep."

He knew there would be more.

And this summer there were.

Explaining the unclaimed

Until their burial, the unclaimed rest in black cardboard boxes inside a metal cabinet at the Lancaster County morgue in East Hempfield Township. Their cremated remains are organized neatly on shelves according to year of death.

The boxes serve as a reminder of the disconnectedness, and sometimes the coldness, of society. These are the people who have died alone and have no surviving family. These are the people whose relatives can't afford to claim them, or in some cases simply choose not to. These, in some cases, are victims of the opioid epidemic. 

"Sometimes we can't find the next of kin, and some people honestly can't afford to pay for the burial costs of their loved ones," says Lancaster County Coroner Dr. Stephen Diamantoni. "But more sadly, some don't care enough about their family members to provide a proper burial. One man we contacted said, 'I never liked my dad. For all I care, you can throw him out the window.' That's sad to me that someone would have no emotional attachment, or at least no sense of responsibility."

"One man we contacted said, 'I never liked my dad. For all I care, you can throw him out the window,'" recalls Diamantoni. "That's sad to me that someone would have no emotional attachment, or at least no sense of responsibility. And then it's the taxpayers who have to foot the bill."

The president of the Pennsylvania State Coroners Association, Charles E. Kiessling Jr., says the number of unclaimed bodies being cremated is growing faster than coroners can figure out what to do with them.

"Almost every week I hear that someone is running out of room to store all their unclaimed bodies. It's a problem everywhere," says Kiessling, who serves as Lycoming County's coroner.

Kiessling says he spent a lot of time recently trying to find a relative of an elderly woman who had died in his county. But when he found someone, that person wasn't interested in claiming her aunt.

The relative told Kiessling: "Put a bone in her and let the dogs drag her away for all I care." Reflected the coroner: "I think the relative maybe was unhappy the elderly woman left all her possessions to her church."

Across the state, hundreds of boxes of ashes remain unclaimed. They are sitting in morgue storage lockers and in funeral homes awaiting interment, en masse, in a pauper's grave, without fanfare.

York County Coroner Pam Gay says the number of unclaimed bodies hit 39 last year, double the number in 2014. And that's a big problem.

"We're not like Lancaster," says Gay. "We don't have a morgue. We share eight slots, eight drawers with York Hospital in a city of 44,000 people. We're moving people in and out all the time," she says.

Because of the lack of space for unclaimed bodies in York County, the coroner's office typically cremates them in a week or less — sometimes before even a relative can be located.

"We can't wait around. There can be insect activity, which is a biohazard," she says. "Everyone who handles the body has to have personal protective gear."

The county works with several funeral homes that discount the rate of cremation for them. Even with the discount, the cost to the coroners' offices can be from several hundred dollars to $1,000 for each body.

The costs to York County of dealing with unclaimed bodies have risen from $4,300 five years ago to $12,000 in 2016, Gay says.

Dauphin County already has 16 unclaimed bodies this year, one more than in all of 2016. If the office determines the deceased is a veteran, it pays to transport that body to Indiantown Gap for a military funeral, says Jill Payne, from the Dauphin County Coroner's Office. 

Running out of room

Coroners in Lancaster, Dauphin, Chester, Berks, Lebanon and York counties say the number of unclaimed bodies their offices have handled in the past five years has increased from 20 to 100 percent.

Diamantoni says his office has already cremated 20 bodies that were unclaimed by relatives this year _ nearly as many as in all of 2015, when the office had 22 for the entire year, the most to date.

Diamantoni says he might ask the county for more money in next year's budget to cover the rising costs of handling and cremating unclaimed bodies. The taxpayer-funded office has spent $6,500 so far this year.

The coroner says that when the number of boxes in the cabinet of unclaimed remains reaches 45, he will need to find a burial site. It might be Mellinger Mennonite Cemetery. It might be a plot donated by another cemetery.

In Lebanon County, Coroner Jeffrey Yokum reports his office has gone from a low of a single unclaimed body in 2010 to seven last year.

Chester County's chief deputy coroner, David Daugherty, says his county has experienced about a 20 percent increase in the number of unclaimed bodies over the past five or six years.

The county reached an all-time high of 17 unclaimed bodies last year, Daugherty says.

"The way it's going, we will potentially go over our line item for our budget, which is $6,600. It really depends on the rest of the year," Daugherty says.

The Berks County Coroner's Office was left with 20 unclaimed bodies last year, the most ever. This year they've already had 12, at a cost of $750 each for disposal, according to Jonn M. Hollenbach, the assistant chief deputy coroner.

"It's not just the cost of cremation the coroners are dealing with," says Kiessling. "It's the man hours trying to track down relatives through data bases and social media."

Frustration among coroners

Lancaster County's chief deputy coroner, Eric Bieber, says his office uses search engines, social media and public documents to try and locate family members of the deceased.

Sometimes it succeeds. Many times it does not.

And even if coroners do manage to find a relative, that does not guarantee they will claim their relative.

And that's frustrating to some coroners, including Gay, of York.

"Just because we can't find a relative to claim them, or a relative won't claim them, they still deserve to be treated with respect at their passing." 

"I can see when a young couple who have three or four kids can't take on the burial costs for estranged parents or grandparents, but sometimes we have people who are well off who just don't want to be bothered," she says.

"Sometimes we see someone who refused to claim their relative post a GoFundMe page to pay for funeral expenses," says Gay, "but they never come in to claim that person."

York County may file a lien if the person left an estate, and they can hold back the death certificate if relatives refuse to pick up a body of a family member, but that's as much leverage as they have, Gay says.

With each passing year in Lancaster County, the morgue shelves have become more loaded with urns. The shelf for 2017 is already full.

Diamantoni says the coroner's office eventually will hold a ceremony to honor the dead who have been unclaimed by their relatives.

He says they will try to make more of an effort than has been done in the past.

Maybe this time there will be a minister and the public may be invited.

"Just because we can't find a relative to claim them, or a relative won't claim them," he says, "they still deserve to be treated with respect at their passing."

It's been 20 years since Princess Diana died. But many Philadelphia-area natives may not know that she had a connection to the City of Brotherly Love. It all links back to a chance encounter at a funeral.

A teenager was hit by a SEPTA train Saturday afternoon near the Malvern station along a Regional Rail line, authorities said.

The condition of the 16-year-old, who was not identified, remained unknown at 1 p.m. The incident happened about 12:40 p.m., SEPTA officials said.

A large crowd reportedly gathered around the train station, which is along Paoli-Thorndale line.

Check back for more information as details become known.