Grabbing a bus home for Thanksgiving? A water main break could impact where you get your ride.
A 12-inch water main broke on JFK Boulevard between 30th and Market streets — the area behind 30th Street Station where Megabus and BoltBus pick-up and drop-off passengers — early Tuesday, Philadelphia Water Department spokesman John DiGiulio said.
Crews blocked off part of the road as they shut down water to two nearby Drexel University buildings, the water department said.
The break caused Megabus, which has more than one dozen rides scheduled for Tuesday, to move its pickup/drop-off location about a block west of 30th Street, Megabus said.
No word yet from BoltBus if the break would impact its more than one dozen rides Tuesday.
No word yet on if things will return to normal in time for Wednesday travel.
Over the next few days, millions of drivers will be heading out of town and packing the roads. NBC10's Katy Zachry has what you need to know to stay safe over Thanksgiving, including taking breaks while getting where you're going.
Not having a budget for holiday shopping can cause financial stress. NBC10's Katy Zachry has advice from an expert who says having a budget for the holidays is important because if you don't, it will come back to haunt you.
Here are some additional tips:
Colin Kaepernick, the former NFL quarterback who started a movement of football players protesting during the national anthem, is now putting his support behind imprisoned Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill.
Kaepernick says he spoke to Meek Mill, who is currently serving two to four years in a Pennsylvania state prison for violating probation.
"Spoke to Meek Mill & he wanted ppl to know regardless of his unjust situation, he’s in good spirits & humbled by the support the people have shown him," Kaepernick tweeted Monday. "We'll continue to fight against the harsh sentencing practices that have affected Meek & millions of other [people of color] for generations."
Mill's legal team has been fighting for the release of the 30-year-old, whose real name is Robert Rihmeek Williams, since Common Pleas Judge Genece Brinkley put him behind bars in early November.
A PR blitz — including a New York Times op-ed from fellow rapper Jay-Z, star-studded rallies and bus ads — has called for Mill's release. His supporters argue that the rapper was sent away on the whim of a judge, against the recommendations of prosecutors. His attorneys have called on Brinkley to remove herself from the case saying she's been unjust.
Kaepernick, who took a knee during the national anthem before each game last year to protest police mistreatment of people of color, has not been signed by any NFL team this season. Last season he played for the San Francisco 49ers.
Other NFL players, including Philadelphia Eagles star Malcolm Jenkins, have continued to protest during the Star-Spangled Banner before games. Jenkins has used his protest as a platform to promote criminal justice reform. Jenkins also appeared at a Free Meek Mill rally last week.
An 11-day tropical excursion that turned into a weekslong nightmare for some travelers has ended, with relieved passengers stepping off their cruise ship, at least one of them in tears, at Pier 88 in New York City Tuesday.
The Norwegian Cruise ship left on Halloween and was due back on Manhattan's West Side on Nov. 11, but its propulsion system failed about six days later in Barbados. Passengers were stuck.
They say they were given three options: Norwegian would fly them home, they could take another cruise from Ft. Lauderdale or stay in Barbados hotels until their ship could return. More than two dozen guests couldn't fly because of medical reasons, the cruise company said, and they were accommodated at a nearby resort with all meals included.
While some say they made the most of being stuck on the island, many travelers said the trip was stressful.
Kara Kaminski cried as she stepped off the boat Tuesday; she hugged her mother, who had come to pick up the Lyndhurst, New Jersey, woman and her family. Kaminski described the trip as a nightmare -- she said her entire family was separated in different hotels. Her 10-year-old son has severe allergies and needs special accommodations that weren't available, Kaminski said, adding, "so he was the one suffering the majority of the time."
Another passenger, Kaminski's friend Diana Parada, says she was gone so long she lost her job at a toy manufacturing plant. She said she got an email Tuesday notifying her of the termination.
"Norwegian Cruise Line sincerely apologizes for this unexpected change to the ship's itinerary and its impact on our guests," the company said in a statement. "Norwegian provided extensive support and care as needed to ensure that all of our guests were comfortable and well taken care of as they returned to New York."
"The ship's technical issue has been addressed and all guests who remained in Barbados have sailed back to New York," the statement continued. "Norwegian Gem will depart this evening for her next cruise as scheduled. Norwegian appreciates our guests' understanding and patience with this unforeseen technical issue."
A swarm of police descended on a Delaware neighborhood Tuesday after a man barricaded himself inside a home to harm himself, police and witnesses said.
Officers were called to the Lawrence Avenue home in Newark around 1 p.m. They were asked to perform a welfare check on a man who may have been suicidal, police said.
As officers walked up to the home, they heard gunshots. They pulled back and called for backup.
Neighbors said they watched the man's wife leave the home with a gun in her pocket. She later threw that weapon in the grass. She was then taken into custody.
At least a dozen law enforcement officers responded to the neighborhood to form a perimeter and evacuate residents living nearby. Busy Kirkwood Highway was shut down as a precaution.
Eventually, police moved in and pulled a middle-aged man out into the driveway. He was suffering from a stab wound to the stomach. Police believe the injury was self-inflicted. The man's condition was not known.
They said a person was taken into custody, but would not identify them.
The investigation remains ongoing.
SUICIDE PREVENTION HELP: The National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255) is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
A man is in custody for questioning related to the killing of a driver Monday in Plymouth Meeting, Montgomery County.
The man, identified by a source as 31 years old, is one of the two people that local police would like to talk to about the death of the still-unidentified man found dead inside a car.
Police said the car was running with its headlights and wipers Monday evening on near the West Ridge Center on Ridge Pike and Lynda Drive. Inside the vehicle they discovered the body of a man who was slumped over.
Sources said the victim was stabbed multiple times. His death is being investigated as a homicide. Detectives searched for evidence in the parking lot of the Outback Steakhouse across the street from the strip mall where the victim was found.
Surveillance video shows two people come from the Outback lot and appear to get in a car.
Neighbors say they've seen an increase in crime recently in an otherwise quiet neighborhood.
Niahla weighed six pounds, nine ounces when she was born Sept. 26 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
She looks like your typically snuggly newborn in her hospital crib. But after four weeks at HUP, the baby girl was still not ready to go home with her mother Colleen Peebles.
Niahla is battling an opioid addiction.
"I got pregnant with my daughter and everyone is like, 'You've got to stop taking it, you've got to stop taking it,'" Peebles told NBC10 Investigators during an interview at HUP's neo-natal intensive care unit. "I'm like, 'I'm OK.' But I'm not okay."
Peebles said she became addicted to pain killers after back surgery. Despite her pregnancy, she couldn't break her dependence on Percocet.
Now sober, the new mother watches on as her addiction is causing a second withdrawal.
"I know how it feels and how it felt when I went through withdrawal and to see my daughter go through that – I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy," Peebles said.
Niahla is not alone, her doctor says. In fact, according to Dr. Joanna Parga-Belinkie, a neonatalogist at HUP, babies are being born addicted more than ever.
Parga-Belinkie is speaking from first-hand experience. She doesn't have raw numbers.
That's because, in the midst of America's opioid epidemic, the smallest victims of the disease are not being counted in real time in Pennsylvania. Their suffering and long healing process is not tracked in any public database.
Children's advocates and medical experts believe newborn addiction should be classified by the state Department of Health as a "reportable condition." Such a designation would help dedication of resources, treatment and funding, the experts say.
"It would underscore the message that this is a public health crisis that is directly and dramatically impacting infants," Cathleen Palm, of the Center for Children's Justice, said.
Several states already are tracking where and how many infants are born opioid-addicted. They include California, Ohio, Tennessee and Vermont.
Health officials in Tennessee believe the oversight helped guide policy that led to a leveling-off of newborn addiction.
"Folks pay attention to these data," Tennessee Deputy Health Commissioner Michael Warren said. "They think about it in their communities and they use that to drive local interventions."
In Pennsylvania, the state's top health official, Dr. Rachel Levine, said there is no timeline for changing regulations to require newborn addiction be reported and tracked.
"I think whenever you can have more timely data that's of benefit," Levine, Gov. Tom Wolf's acting health secretary, said in an interview. "But I think it’s important not to underestimate the importance of the data that we do have."
Levine said the state's ability to track infant addiction is limited to federal Medicaid records, of which the most recent data is from 2016.
That means new parents like Colleen Peebles and expectant mothers like Flossie Fagan — and their babies born addicted — are going untracked.
It remains a mystery how many young women like Fagan, who is pregnant and battling opioid addiction, are living in Philadelphia currently. And it'll remain unknown how many children, like the soon-to-be born child Fagan is carrying, are living with addiction until stronger oversight is put in place in Pennsylvania.
NBC10's Deanna Durante is in Plymouth Township with more information on the 31-year-old who was found dead in his parked car with multiple stab wounds.
The Philadelphia Eagles are in the holiday spirit and have surprised a local Philadelphia family with new furniture for their house.
Talk show host Charlie Rose has been fired by two networks over sexual harassment allegations. NBC10's Lauren Mayk spoke with a legal expert about options employees may have when their bosses cross the line.
More than 42 years ago, two boys disappeared from a state facility in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey.
They were never seen again.
Now, the FBI has joined up with state investigators and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to look for new clues in the mystery that remains unsolved.
On April 7, 1975, Steven Anderson, 17, and David Williams, 12, disappeared from a sprawling residential facility now known as the New Lisbon Developmental Center in Woodland Township, Burlington County.
"Many search efforts were done, but they were unable to find anyone," Detective Paul Vanaman of the state Department of Human Services police told NBC10.
New resources and expertise prompted authorities to re-trace the steps of the original investigators as well as run additional tests in the hopes of uncovering new information.
But FBI Special Agent John Mesisca said investigators also hope to find new witnesses from long ago as well.
"Memories fade. Witnesses die off," Mesisca said. "[But] it could just be that one phone call, that one bit of information that leads to a conclusion in this case."
Anyone with information regarding this case is asked to call the Atlantic City Resident Agency of the Newark Office of the FBI at 609-677-6400 or their nearest FBI Office. Tips can also be submitted online.
The remains of two victims have been recovered from a burned out senior living community in West Chester Tuesday, five days after a massive fire broke out, officials said.
Special agents with the the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team, Pennsylvania State Police, and Chester County Fire Marshal’s office located the remains of the first victim inside the Barclay Friends Senior Center Tuesday morning. The second was found Tuesday afternoon.
With two found, two more people living at the senior community ravaged by a five-alarm inferno last week are still presumed dead.
Family members of all four victims had been notified, but the identities of those who were found was not released, officials said.
“The thoughts and prayers of the men and women of ATF are with the families of the victims during this difficult time. Their losses only strengthen our resolve to provide answers to them as a result of our investigation of this tragedy” said Special Agent in Charge Donald Robinson.
Robinson is spearheading a team of more than 60 investigators.
Investigators continued to sift through the rubble of the Barclay Friends Senior Living Community in an attempt to recover the rest of the remains.
A large crane and other excavating equipment was brought to the fire location as investigators also search for a cause of the fire.
The fire erupted shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday while most of the 137 residents were sleeping. The blaze started in the back of one of the buildings, ripped through the center and all the way to the ceiling, creating a "raging inferno," Hogan said.
Flames tore through the senior living community's personal care wing with such speed that hundreds of first responders rushed into the building without securing their breathing equipment.
Several firefighters described their helmets melting and cracking from the intense heat.
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Most of the residents were bedridden or in wheelchairs. Senior home staff and outside neighbors rushed from room to room in the facility, wrapping residents in blankets and sweeping them out in to the frigid night in wheelchairs and even in beds.
One of the elderly women rescued is the Robinson's aunt. She is safe with relatives, but Robinson said it's a reminder of how many community members were touched by the fire.
“We’ve all got a piece of this,” he said. “We’re depending on each other and we will be here as long it takes to get some answers for the families."
Paramedics took 27 residents to nearby hospitals for treatment. Some of the injuries were described by authorities as "serious." Six residents are still hospitalized as of Tuesday night, authorities said.
Of those that were rescued without injury, 102 have been placed in other facilities and 31 have been taken in by family members.
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The cause of the fire remains unclear. ATF investigators made attempts through the weekend to enter the destroyed wing, but their efforts were hampered by unsafe conditions and high winds Sunday.
Parts of the complex burned for more than 24 hours and unstable walls teetered over the scene.
Last year, state health officials cited Barclay Friends and its owner Kendal with fire safety violations, including a failure to maintain corridor smoke doors. The violations were recorded in the facility's nursing home section, which was not touched by fire.
A provisional license status for the nursing home was lifted in February following a new inspection, but at least one fire safety violation remained, state records showed.
A 6-year-old boy is on the road to recovery after he lost part of his leg when he was struck by a school bus in Camden County last month. NBC10's Aaron Baskerville has the emotional story.
NBC10's Steven Fisher is in Easton outside the Lehigh Valley courthouse where a Pennsylvania State Trooper testified against the man accused of shooting at him during a traffic stop earlier this month.
Whole Foods in Marlton is expected to be twice as busy this Thanksgiving due to a new partnership with Amazon. NBC10's South Jersey Bureau reporter Cydney Long caught up with shoppers to find out how they're planning for the holiday.
After 45-year-old Patrick Hannaford collapsed and stopped breathing mid-game, police officer Brian Volk jumped into action and gave the player CPR, saving his life. NBC10's Ted Greenberg has the story.
Many parents were left frustrated and angry Saturday after their Toys R Us purchases were canceled by the company.
Some customers shared three coupon codes online that were intended for use by Toys R Us credit card holders. An apparent glitch in the system allowed customers to stack the coupons and use them together for one massive discount.
The codes allowed 25, 20 and 15 percent combined off the total purchase.
Shoppers were ecstatic about the savings. But the next day, some customers received emails saying that the orders were canceled due to items being out of stock.
Rachel Myers received one such email and was "furious" about the way the company handled the mix-up.
"They sent me an email saying that the products that were ordered were currently unavailable and were removed from the order. So I went back online and guess what? All of them could be added to my cart but not with the discount previously offered," Myers said in a Facebook message.
The company later issued a statement saying that the deal was simply "too good to be true," and orders that should not have qualified for the deal were canceled.
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"Over the weekend several promo codes intended only for our credit cardholders were improperly shared online and quickly went viral," a representative said.
Many patrons argued that it was the company's mistake and that they should honor the deal. Others felt it was "shameful" to knowingly redeem the codes and likened it to stealing.
"Hundreds of people rushing to take advantage of a sale that wasn't meant for them. So yeah, let's everyone riot and hope the only kid store left closes because hundreds of people cheated the system," customer Kelly Wakeman said.
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Some lucky buyers reported being able to pick up their items in-store at the deeply discounted prices.
"My order got canceled due to 'incomplete or incorrect information and lack of availability,' both of which were untrue. I explained the situation to the customer service desk and showed them my confirmation email. Even though the item was full price in store, they honored the online sale price and the stacked coupons from the glitch," Rachel Arrieta said.
Another source of anger stems from pre-authorizations on credit and debit cards. Toys R Us said customers have not been charged for the canceled transactions and will need to contact their bank or credit card company.
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NBC10 is bringing the #NBC10Mornings Team back on the road Wednesday mornings.
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The latest stop for the #NBC10Mornings crew is the Wawa at 3025 Lincoln Highway in Thorndale, Chester County on Nov. 22.
NBC10 First Alert Weather meteorologist Bill Henley and NBC10 reporter Dray Clark were at the Wawa during the morning news shows and NBC10 anchors Tracy Davidson and Vai Sikahema and NBC10 First Alert Traffic reporter Jessica Boyington will later join them to meet viewers and sign autographs.
The first stop was the Wawa at 8240 West Chester Pike in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania on Oct. 25. NBC10 celebrated with giveaway mugs as Wawa gave away free coffee, food samples and branded merchandise.
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On Nov. 1, the NBC10 Mornings Team was at the Wawa at 332 S Black Horse Pike in Williamstown, New Jersey.
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On Nov. 8, the NBC10 Mornings crew was the Wawa along Easton Road in Horsham, Montgomery County.
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On Nov. 15, the morning crew was at the Wawa at 7912 East Roosevelt Boulevard (at Borbeck Avenue) in the Rhawnhurst section of Philadelphia.
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Be sure to tag us on social media in the photos you post from the event and use the hashtag #NBC10Mornings.
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In May, the morning team showed up at Wawas in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware on Wednesday mornings to meet and chat with viewers during the morning show.
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