The FBI on Monday went public with a warning, urging people to reboot the internet routers in their homes because Russian hackers have targeted hundreds of thousands of the devices.

The FBI said malware capable of shutting down web traffic and collecting private information can come through internet routers. But it may only take a minute to make sure a router is safe by unplugging the device and waiting at least 30 seconds before plugging it back in. That simple action will reboot the system and disrupt any malware being sent to the router, according to internet security experts.

Experts from Silicon Valley say nearly half a million routers are already under attack. Hackers are using the devices as a way to get into networks and see data. And instead of trying to get into businesses, the hackers are targeting private homes.

The source of the malware program, known as VPNFilter, was traced to the Sofacy Group, also known as A.P.T. 28, Fancy Bear and Pawn Storm, according to a report from Forbes.

It is reportedly the same group that hacked the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 presidential election, the Forbes report said.

Sixty-four percent of Americans believe racism is still a major problem in our society while 30 percent said racism exists today but isn't a major problem, according to a new NBC NewsSurveyMonkey poll.

The poll coincides with the airing on Tuesday night of an MSNBC town hall called "Everyday Racism in America" on racial bias in the country.

It was held in Philadelphia, where the arrest of two black men in a Starbucks last month stirred outrage across the country. On Tuesday, 8,000 of the coffee shop's stores closed for "racial bias training."

Recent weeks have seen similar high-profile incidents involving apparent racial profiling of people doing innocuous things, like barbecuing in a park, and 45 percent of people who responded to the poll said race relations in the United States are getting worse.

A child left home alone as his father claimed to be searching for a job fell from a second-story window in Delaware County.

Upper Darby police arrested the 3-year-old’s parents for leaving the boy home alone inside the family apartment along Hampden Road Monday, according to an affidavit of probable cause obtained by NBC10.

Officers and paramedics arrived to the home around 5:30 p.m. Monday to find the 3-year-old boy with a head injury, police said. It appeared he had fallen from a second-floor window. Medics rushed the boy to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where he was listed in guarded condition.

No one could locate the boy’s parents. Officers forced their way into the home to find a window missing its pane of glass and no one else inside.

"What amazes me is how you can leave a small child alone at 3 years old, you know that child is going to get into some sort of danger," Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said.

As police waited to execute a search warrant for the apartment, the boy’s mother, Lea Rosine Dezai Epse Wanhi, showed up around 7:45 p.m. Police then called the boy’s father, Legbo Thierry Wanhi, who said he was near Love Park in Center City Philadelphia at the time. He arrived to the police station around 9 p.m.

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Neither parent speaks English, Chitwood said. Through a translator, Thierry Wanhi told investigators he knowingly left his son home alone, police said. He said he left the apartment between 4:45 to 5 p.m. in search of work. He knew the boy’s mother was at work all day and wouldn’t be home until at least 6 p.m.

"Quote claims on Memorial Day he went out to find a job," Chitwood said.

Both parents were arraigned on child endangerment and reckless endangerment charges Tuesday. Bail was set at 10 percent of $30,000. It was unclear if they have attorneys who could comment for them.

Police contacted child youth services to further investigate.

Doctors are prescribing diet pills to patients who need help fighting obesity. Many of the pills are FDA approved. So what makes these diet pills different?

Two separate Subway restaurants were robbed Monday. The first robbery was at a Subway store in North Philadelphia where a man in a Penn State shirt pulled a gun. Later in the day, a man with a gun robbed an East Falls location.

Traffic snarled along the Schuylkill Expressway in South Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon after a dump truck overturned and dumped its load across the highway.

The truck flipped in the eastbound lanes near the Penrose Avenue/Airport (Exit 347A) and Passyunk Avenue ramps (Exit 347B) before 1 p.m., dumping its load of fine stone material across all three lanes of the highway.

No one was hurt in the crash.

Police diverted traffic off Interstate 76 eastbound at the 28th Street Exit. All lanes were later reopened around 5:25 p.m.

Allergan recalled Tuesday nearly 170,000 packs of Taytulla birth control pills given out by doctors as samples because of a possible packaging error that may lead to the risk of an unintended pregnancy. 

The company issued the voluntary recall of one lot of the pills after a physician reported that four placebo capsules were placed out of order in a sample pack of the oral contraceptive. The packs consist of 24 "active" pink softgel capsules and four maroon placebo softgel capsules. 

In the affected sample, the first four days of therapy had non-hormonal placebo capsules instead of active capsules. 

"The reversing of the order may not be apparent to either new users or previous users of the product, increasing the likelihood of taking the capsules out of order," the recall notice on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website said. "If patients have concerns regarding the possibility of an unintended pregnancy they should consult their physician." 

Lot No. 5620706 was distributed to healthcare providers nationwide and contained nearly 170,000 sample packs, the company confirmed to NBC. The pill packs have a May 2019 expiration date. 

The FDA's recall notice said Allergan was notifying customers by letter of the potential issue. Customers with the recalled pills should contact their physician to return the pills. 

In a statement, Allergan said an investigation at the packaging site found no units with the defect. 

Consumers can contact Allergan at (800) 678-1605 on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET for more information.

First, say sorry. Second, promise new training.

That's how Starbucks executives went about their apology tour of Philadelphia in April. The pledge came three days after a  store manager at one of their Center City locations had called police on two black men who were waiting for a colleague to talk business.

Their subsequent arrests became a national embarrassment for the coffee titan. So CEO Kevin Johnson and COO Rosalind Brewer came to Philly to apologize to the two men, whose lawyer then issued a brief statement. Starbucks and the men are now "engaged in constructive discussions" to make the incident "a vehicle for positive social change."

The executives also said the company would require all of its employees to undergo "unconscious bias training." Starbucks' 8,000 stores in the United States closed Tuesday for training.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross used another term, "implicit bias," in discussing his officers' actions during a Facebook Live.

But what exactly is unconscious bias? Can training prevent it? And in the context of the two men’s arrests, does the term even apply?

Unconscious bias, or, as it's technically known, implicit bias, is a snap judgment that psychologists have found to be an uncontrollable reaction.

Two experts in race relations — an anti-racism lecturer and a longtime University of Pennsylvania professor — both believe the term is being misused in the Starbucks incident.

Author Tim Wise, who has written seven books on race in America and has lectured for years on the subject, said there is cause for concern when the use of implicit, or unconscious, bias is used as a way to smooth over incidents like the Starbucks arrests.

"It’s also the way corporations use it and the concern a bit with the way Starbucks is using it, to paper over the horribleness of it," Wise said.

Sometimes, racism is just racism, he said. Implicit bias is something different. 

"It's not a decision that takes 15 minutes or 18 minutes, as the way this incident played out," he said of the time between when the Starbucks manager first encountered the two men and when they were led out in handcuffs by police. "It makes me think this was potentially explicit rather than implicit."

Chad Dion Lassiter, a professor of race relations and president of Black Men at Penn at the University of Pennsylvania, doesn’t like the way the Starbucks incident has been framed around the idea of an uncontrollable thought process.

He said the arrests are an outgrowth of longheld systemic racism, whether people want to call it that or not.

"I don’t know what unconscious bias is," Lassiter said. "What we do is we try to reframe it to anything but what it is: white institutional racism. Calling the cops, saying they trespassed, having no evidence they’re committing a crime."

If one does believe in implicit bias in personal interactions, an example would be a woman clutching her purse tight when a black man gets on the elevator, or a white driver reacting differently during a road rage incident depending on the race of the other driver.

"It could explain why a cop fires on a black kid instantly instead of on a white kid," Wise said. "It could explain a road rage reaction that has different outcomes when it involves a white driver and a black driver."

Lassiter said it's all about skin color, and dates back centuries.

"Implicit bias is an outgrowth of white supremacy," Lassiter said. "When you’re black, you’re seen as suspicious."

As far as the term goes, unconscious bias is a layman’s phrase for the actual psychological condition known as "implicit social cognition." 

The terms unconscious bias and implicit bias are basically interchangeable, Wise said, with unconscious being the preferred term in the corporate culture because "less people understand what implicit means."

Training is never a bad idea, according to Wise, who has lectured at more than 1,000 colleges and companies over 25 years. But he said a one-off day doesn’t exactly instill great confidence in greatly improving the way staff treats certain customers in snap decision-making situations.

"A company like Starbucks has plenty of turnover," Wise said. "I'm a little worried about not just Starbucks, but any company, doing one-time training. Unless you were to have the same people there forever, you have to continually train people."

Unconscious bias training emerged in the last 20 years as companies, including giants like Google, sought to improve corporate culture and outward appearances. It has not been limited to racial interaction, but also gender and age-related relationships.

The origin of implicit bias in a person is believed to be as early as the formation of childhood cognition, "from the moment that socialization in a racialized society takes hold," Wise said.

One day of training will not undo 20-plus years of conditioning, he said, describing many of Starbucks’ employees.

The effectiveness of such training, and other like-minded programs that promote diversity, remains a well-studied topic in the business and psychological professions. Forced training is less effective than voluntary training, according to one recent study.

Lassiter said organizations like the Philadelphia Police Department and corporations like Starbucks use terms like implicit bias and unconscious bias to dance around what’s really occurring.

"We can't be afraid of black bodies and faces that make us act in an irrational manner," Lassiter said. "It goes back to the woman (store manager). What makes you think they were doing anything wrong?"

For black people, that question is incredibly taxing on everyday life, Wise said.

"Some medical research says this is actually harder to deal with because it is something that could happen at any time," he said. "If someone places a burning cross on your front lawn, you’re not like, 'Was that racism?' But if someone follows you around the grocery store, or if you’re pulled over for a tail light out, you find yourself asking, 'Is it really because a tail light was out, or is it because I’m black?"

"Black folks know how to cope with the burning cross, as horrible as that is. They’ve done it for hundreds of years," Wise said. "Now, every time they go out, it’s like, if it can happen at Starbucks, it can happen anywhere. It’s exhausting."

The culture, spirit and economic importance of Africa will bring hundreds of thousands of people to South Philadelphia in June for the Odunde Festival, the largest African festival in the nation.

Sunday, June 10, Odunde's big street festival will begin at 10 a.m. at 23rd and South streets. The festival features a marketplace loaded with vendors from selling merchandise from many African nations, the Caribbean and Brazil.  

At noon, the festival will hold a procession from 23rd and South streets to the Schuylkill River, where an offering of fruit and flowers is made to the Yoruba goddess of the river, Oshun.

But before the fun, the festival will focus on critical issues for African development. A delegation of African diplomats will meet with Gov. Tom Wolf and Harrisburg lawmakers on June 7, and Odunde will sponsor events on U.S. investment in Africa on June 8.

At 3 p.m. on June 8 the Global Interdependence Center will host its annual African Business Roundtable, featuring officials from Ghana, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire and Liberia, as well as U.S. and Pennsylvania officials.

On Saturday, a Philadelphia street will be renamed in honor of Odunde founder Lois Fernandez. And other festival events begin earlier in June. 

Here's Odunde's Complete 2018 Schedule

Note: Some events have sold out. Check the festival schedule for updates.

June 3 – I Am Bumi Brunch
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ms. Tootsies, 1312 South St., Philadelphia

June 4 – African Yoga
6 p.m., Art Sanctuary, 628 S. 16th St., Philadelphia

June 5 – My Story: Influential and Powerful People in Philadelphia Tell Their Stories of Success in Their Own Words.
5 p.m. to 8 p.m., African American Museum, 7th and Arch streets, Philadelphia
Registration required; click here to register.

June 6 – African Pottery Class
6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Expressive Hand Studio, 9th and Bainbridge streets

June 8 – African Business Roundtable
2 p.m. to 5 p.m. , Federal Reserve Bank, 6th and Arch streets, Philadelphia
Registration required; click here to register.

June 8 – VIP/Dignitaries Reception
5.30 p.m. to 8 p.m., African American Museum, 7th and Arch streets, Philadelphia

June 9 – Lois Fernandez Street Re-naming Ceremony
11 a.m., 23rd and South streets

June 10 – Odunde Festival
10 a.m. to 8 p.m., 23rd and South streets

The Odunde Festival offers a number of food trucks and other vendors along Grays Ferry Avenue and South Street. Entertainment and music stages can be found at the intersections of Grays Ferry Avenue and Fitzwater Street in addition to Grays Ferry Avenue and South Street. Porta-potties can be found at 24th and Bainbridge Street and at 21st and South Street.

For more information on the festival, click here.

A woman was found shot in the head inside a Pennsauken Township, New Jersey home Tuesday afternoon.

Police responded to a home on the 2200 block of Gross Avenue around 12:50 p.m. after the victim’s boyfriend reported finding her on the floor inside the home. When they arrived they found her unresponsive. Police say a bullet had struck her above her left eyebrow and exited through her head.

The woman was taken to Cooper University Hospital where she is currently on life support. Police did not find a weapon at the scene and it doesn’t appear that there was any forced entry. Investigators are questioning the woman’s boyfriend.

The city of Philadelphia will begin kicking people out of two camps full of homeless people, many of whom are victims of the opioid epidemic.

An investigation is underway after a man tried to lure a teen girl in Wyndmoor, Montgomery County.

The 15-year-old girl was running in the area of Carlisle and Patton roads Sunday morning when a man in a black SUV yelled for her to come over. 

The girl ignored the man and ran home as he followed her for about a quarter mile. 

“Occasionally he would go slightly ahead of her and stop and wait while leaning out his window and continuing to yell to her to come over,” the girl’s mother wrote on Facebook.

When she reached her home, the girl ran inside and told her father. When the girl’s father ran outside, the man drove off so fast that they could hear the tires screeching, according to the girl’s mother.

The suspect is described as a man between the ages of 30 and 40 with a light or short goatee. Police say he was driving a black, Crossover-type SUV with a spare tire on the back.

If you have any information on his whereabouts, please call 215-836-1606.

If we could somehow transform the earth’s atmosphere and oceans from 1957 to 2017, there still would have been a Hurricane Harvey. It still would have dumped tremendous amounts of rain on Texas, and caused disastrous flooding. But……

1. Would it have been as intense a storm as the 2017 version?

2. Would it have moved as slowly, leading to much more rain?

3. Would it have had produced as much rain each day?

A new study suggests the answer to all three questions is “NO”.

It is surely no coincidence that Harvey hit at the same time that part of the Gulf of Mexico measured its’ warmest water temperatures ever recorded. The connection between warmer water and more moisture to produce rainfall is clearly established. It’s simple physics.

This new study shows the track of Harvey plotted over the map of Ocean Heat Content (OHC). This is eerily similar to what happened to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005:

The prime author in the AGU paper, Kevin Trenberth, says:

"Record high ocean heat values not only increased the fuel available to sustain and intensify Harvey," he says, "but also increased its flooding rains on land."

A more intense hurricane means stronger winds. When stronger winds collide (or “converge” in meteorological terms), it leads to more upward motion, which in turn leads to heavier rain.

A hurricane moving over extra warm water has more overall moisture than if the same storm moved over colder water. More potential moisture (“precipitable water”) leads to heavier rain.

And when hurricanes move more slowly, it means more hours of rain, which increases the total. (There is increasing evidence that hurricanes that do develop in the future will have weaker steering currents, meaning slower movement). Even though several studies show fewer hurricanes overall, there would be an increase in the most intense hurricanes. Stronger. Slower. Wetter. A bad combination for future hurricane seasons.

Roseanne Barr apologized to Valerie Jarrett for a racist tweet Barr sent out on Monday. Barr blamed the sleeping medication she was on when she sent the tweet out. ABC abruptly canceled Barr's eponymous hit sitcom Tuesday afternoon.

Starbucks' move to close thousands of stores on Tuesday for racial-sensitivity training is a major step in opening a national dialogue on racism, civil rights leaders, policy advisers and people affected by discrimination said at a town hall in Philadelphia Tuesday that aired on MSNBC.

"I think this country is overdue for a truth and reconciliation process in every corner," said Heather McGhee, who is president of a public policy organization, Demos, that helped Starbucks prepare for the training.

Tuesday brought another example of a corporation dealing with racism: ABC canceling its hit show "Roseanne" hours after the show's star, Roseanne Barr, tweeted a racist comment about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett's appearance.

Jarrett, who participated in the town hall, called it a "teaching moment" and said other corporations should follow the example set by ABC and Starbucks when confronting racist behavior.

A hazmat situation caused by apparently leaking medical waste drew firefighters outside of a Philadelphia International Airport terminal Wednesday morning.

The Philadelphia Fire Department’s hazardous materials unit responded after a small package was outside of Terminal C before 8 a.m., airport spokeswoman Diane Gerace said.

The response didn’t impact airport operations, Gerace said.

The package contained pharmaceutical waste and appeared to be leaking as it was off-loaded, firefighters said.

The package was contained and the situation was placed under control by 8:45 a.m.

No injuries were reported.

Restore, the first medical marijuana dispensary in Philadelphia, opens in the Fishtown neighborhood Wednesday.

A 10-month-old infant who was taken by his father in New Jersey Wednesday morning has been found safe.

Police said Reign Berry was found safe in Paterson a few hours after he was taken from his home by his 30-year-old father, George Berry. 

The father, who violated a restraining order taken out by the boy's mother by kicking in the door to the home, is still on the lam.

Authorities said the man also punched the mother in the face before taking the boy and driving off in a Chrysler Town and Country minivan.

The van was also located. It's not clear where George Berry may have been heading.

An Amber Alert was issued for Reign Berry, but it has since been canceled. 

Are you feeling the LOVE?

Philadelphia held an official ribbon cutting and grand opening of the redesigned LOVE Park at 15th and Arch streets in Center City Wednesdaymorning.

The $20-million of upgrades were first revealed when the park reopened in time to host the Christmas Village last holiday season.

LOVE PARK, officially named John F. Kennedy Plaza, was upgraded over a couple of years. Robert Indiana’s iconic LOVE statue even was moved out of the park for a time. But the statue, with a fresh coat of paint, is back and so is the fountain but it will now light up with color when it is officially turned on Wednesday.

Talk about love, there is something else new coming to the park: a handful of wedding permits will be given out by the city, a parks and recreation spokesman said.

There will also be food trucks and festivals hosted in the park in the coming months.

One aspect of the new LOVE Park, which features grass and plants that lacked in its previous form, which isn’t ready yet is the new visitor’s center. Construction on the center featuring a restaurant and restrooms continues as the city hopes to have it be ready by the fall.

Critics say the new LOVE Park lacks the grunge and grittiness that helped make it an international skateboarding destination over the years while others say they appreciate the new, greener, park.

Police are investigating a possible blast site in the mysterious explosions happening across Bucks County.