After talk of girls being allowed to joing boy scout troops, it is finally put into action. An all girls scout BSA troop in Germantown is forming. This troop will allow girls to earn merit badges and work toward becoming an Eagle Scout.
A t-bone crash at a Chester County intersection Wednesday morning left a mother dead.
A 2013 Kia Optima slammed into a 2002 Chevy Monte Carlo around 5:10 a.m. at North 8th Avenue and Lincoln Highway (Business U.S. Route 30), Coatesville Police said.
Monica Fiorentino died later at the hospital, police said. She was a 45-year-old mother, family members said.
She was heading to work along Lincoln Highway when she was struck by the other driver heading south on 8th Avenue, NBC10 has learned. The other driver, who was taken into police custody, was likely going too fast, investigators said.
Fiorentino's damaged car came to rest against the sign for a nearby Walgreens store. Both cars appeared to have front-end damage and debris was left scattered at the intersection.
Police spent hours examining the crash scene. The roadway reopened later in the morning.
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Police didn't reveal what charges the 22-year-old man driving the striking car could face.
The first day of spring brought plenty of sunshine to the Philadelphia region, but the clear skies will soon dissipate, to be replaced by a spring soaker.
While Wednesday's weather may have helped erase the memories of a brutally cold and gloomy winter, Thursday will bring 1 to 2 inches of rain and gusty winds that will stick around through the end of the workweek.
Timing
The rain will start to move into Delaware and South Jersey around 1 a.m. Thursday. It'll reach Philadelphia by around 4 a.m., and by around 7 a.m., the entire region will be soaked.
"Will it be heavy rain the entire time? No, but it will be coming in waves," NBC10 First Alert Meteorologist Steve Sosna said.
The rain will continue to fall steadily throughout the day, but the heaviest period will be between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., meaning both the morning and evening rushes could be slower than usual.
The rain wraps up around the time of the Friday morning commute, but there could be a secondary round of showers that afternoon or evening.
The winds will kick up again Friday night and continue into Saturday.
Strong Winds
In addition to the rain, Thursday will see strong winds gusting through the region. During the day, they're expected to reach 20 to 30 mph, and by around 6 p.m. they'll get even stronger, reaching anywhere between 30 to 40 mph.
Those strong winds could cause delays at airports.
Potential Minor Flooding
For the most part, the region will get 1 to 2 inches of rain, meaning flooding is possible, but it'll mostly be minor and reserved for small streams and urban areas with poor drainage spots.
However, residents along the Jersey Shore and other coastal spots will want to be a little more cautious. High tide is expected between 8 and 10 p.m., so the added rain could cause water to come up onto the streets, especially near the back bays.
"It could be treacherous on some of the Shore roads tomorrow evening," Sosna said.
A veteran Philadelphia firefighter has died after suffering a medical emergency while on duty with the engine company assigned to Philadelphia International Airport.
Firefighter Michael Bernstein died at the hospital Wednesday morning after becoming ill while on duty at Engine 78 at PHL, the fire department said. He was 46.
Firefighters didn’t disclose details of how he died.
Bernstein served at various fire companies over his 22-year career with the Philadelphia Fire Department. He is survived by a wife and three children.
Mayor Jim Kenney remembered Bernstein as a dedicated public servant and ordered all City of Philadelphia flags to be flown at half-staff for the next 30 days.
“Michael bravely served our city for 22 years and served our country in the U.S. Navy,” Kenney said. “We are humbled by his dedication, and we will always remember his sacrifice. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends, and fellow firefighters.”
PHL CEO Chellie Cameron also sent sympathies to Bernstein’s family and colleagues.
“Each emergency responder stationed at the Airport is a part of our family, and we stand by to support our colleagues during this time of loss,” Cameron said.
Funeral arrangement are pending.
John is a young man that likes Greek mythology and reading. He is looking for a family to love and for them to love him back. If you would like to make John’s dream of a forever family come true, or any Wednesday’s Child, contact the National Adoption Center.
One of Philadelphia's own is putting a new twist on an old favorite just in time for baseball season.
The Roots' Questlove will introduce "Questlove's Cheesesteak," a vegan-friendly version of the Philly classic, at Citizens Bank Park during the Phillies' home opener on March 28.
The Grammy Award-winning musician has worked closely with Impossible Foods, which produces plant-based meat products, since he became an investor in the company in 2017.
The cheesesteak made its debut in 2018 during the Roots' Picnic, the Philadelphia-based band's annual music festival held in the city (Here are details on the 2019 Roots Picnic).
"No one believed me when I told them the 'meat' was not beef, but plant-based," the Tonight Show musical director said.
This is not Questlove's first venture into the food industry. His book, "Something to Food About," became a New York Times best-seller in 2016. He is also an active member of the Food Council for City Harvest and No Kid Hungry.
"Questlove's Cheesesteak" will be available at every Phillies home game this upcoming season. Live Nation will also serve the cheesesteak in 40 of its venues across North America.
It's finally the start of spring or - for those who want to impress their fancy friends - the start of the vernal equinox.
As you celebrate the end of what was a bitterly cold winter and bask in the milder weather that spring brings, you can impress those fanciest of friends even further by peppering your conversations with some of the following interesting facts:
What's the vernal equinox?
It's one of the two times of the year when the Earth's axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, according to the National Weather Service. This results in a nearly equal amount of daylight and darkness.
Furthermore, days will be getting longer than nights, a phenomenon that will continue until the autumnal equinox in September, according to the NWS.
It's not technically spring ... yet
Okay, so yes, the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere is Wednesday, March 20, but the key word here is "day."
Technically, spring doesn't actually start until 5:58 p.m. ET. Think of it like your birthday: even if you were born at, say, 10 p.m., you'll still want people to be wishing you a happy birthday before then.
Spring's the same way; just because it technically doesn't start until nearly 6 in the evening doesn't mean we don't celebrate the sun's warm rays before that time. So, uh, happy birthday, spring!
Keep an eye out for the "super worm equinox moon"
The first day of spring also coincides with the last super moon of 2019: the "super worm equinox moon." A supermoon is a full moon that has reached its closest point to Earth, making it look bigger and brighter than an average moon.
This latest supermoon gets its name based on the fact that it comes at the time of the year when snow starts to melt and worms start emerging from the ground.
The moon will be completely full at 9:43 p.m. ET. According to NBC10 First Alert Meteorologist Steve Sosna, there will be some clouds over the Philadelphia region around that time, but you should still be able to see the super worm equinox moon if you look up at the sky.
Beware the "onion snow"
While the start of spring may signal milder weather, that doesn't mean we can't still get some winter weather sticking around. Cue, the "onion snow."
This is a nickname for late-season snow that falls despite it being spring, according to Sosna. It's usually not heavy and, tough uncommon in Philadelphia, it can fall in the northern and western Pennsylvania suburbs and the Lehigh Valley.
Philadelphia health officials believe seven additional people have contracted the mumps at Temple University, sending the new tally from the outbreak to a new high.
The total number of cases now stands at 74, James Garrow, spokesman for the Philadelphia Department of Health, said Wednesday, with 71 in Philadelphia and three from surrounding counties. A day before there were 67 cases.
Health officials confirmed 15 cases through laboratory testing while 59 others were listed as probable. The university has more than 40,000 students enrolled and 4,500 staff members, according to school data.
Probable diagnoses are used in cases where a person in the community experiencing the outbreak shows mumps-like symptoms. Garrow said since the viral infection can't be cured, there's no reason to spend money to carry out confirmatory testing.
Mumps can be easily spread among people in close quarters through kissing, the sharing of cups and fluids or competing in sports, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, tiredness, and loss of appetite. Swelling in a person's salivary glands causes puffy cheeks, a signature feature of the disease.
The outbreak prompted Temple University to change its immunization policy for incoming students by requiring them to have received two doses of the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine before entering school. The vaccine decreases your risk of contracting the virus by about 88 percent, the CDC said.
The vaccine's effectiveness can wane over time, however, meaning a booster shot may be necessary to keep up the body's defenses against the virus. City health officials previously said that may be why the number of cases is blooming.
Health officials recommend students who may be infected limit contact with others for at least five days and seek medical care.
Charlie is a blind, 11-year-old golden retriever who has turned his new puppy companion into his own tiny 'seeing-eye' dog.
Charlie and Maverick are two golden retrievers that are taking social media by storm with their story — a 4-month-old puppy helping a blind dog "see" again.
Their owners, Chelsea and Adam Stipe, used to live in Lancaster, but now reside in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Adam Stipe has had Charlie since he was a puppy, his wife said. The older dog has adapted well to being blind and still loves to play and take walks.
But the story of his own personal seeing-eye dog started back in 2016 when Charlie had to have his left eye removed because of glaucoma, which was causing the dog discomfort.
Only a year later, Charlie began to lose sight and experience pain in his right eye, so his owners decided to have it removed as well.
“For us it was a no-brainer, empty our retirement plan to care for this dog because he makes us happy,” said Chelsea Stipe, owner of the dog.
Chelsea said she always wanted to add another puppy to their family, and getting one during her pregnancy would be the perfect way to make sure their child had a dog to grow up with.
On New Year’s Day 2019, the family got a lively and friendly puppy named Maverick.
Although Charlie wasn’t a fan of Maverick at first, the blind dog eventually got comfortable with the puppy.
“They’re both pretty crazy and special. They’re definitely our entertainment,” Chelsea joked.
As the two dogs became friends, Maverick began to notice that something was different about Charlie.
“When they would play, Maverick would realize that Charlie would lose the toy sometimes, so (Maverick) would pick it up and put it back in front of him to re-engage playtime,” Chelsea said.
Even during walks, the two dogs learned how to support each other.
“They almost turn into little sled dogs where they’ll walk together,” Chelsea said.
Chelsea submitted the dogs’ story and pictures to WeRateDogs, a social media account with millions of followers across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
WeRateDogs contacted Chelsea saying that they loved her dogs’ story and would post Charlie and Mav.
The post of Charlie and Mav on March 18 immediately gained hundreds of thousands of likes across social media with people commenting how much they adore the dogs.
“It was crazy, it was not what I was expecting,” Chelsea said.
Within an hour of posting the pictures, WeRateDogs reached back out to Chelsea saying she should consider making an Instagram account for her two famous pups.
Once Chelsea made the Charlie and Mav Instagram, the account gained more than 20,000 followers in the first day.
“Everything has just been so positive and loving and I’ve even had people reaching out about their dogs who had glaucoma,” Chelsea said.
A driver apparently desperate for a cold one is wanted by police after surveillance video showed him crashing his car into a Newtown Square store overnight and stealing two beers.
The driver slammed into a beer distributor on the 100 block of South Newtown Street Road Wednesday shortly after 4 a.m. He then pushed his way through the wreckage and snagged two cans of Bud Ice before fleeing the scene.
If you recognize the suspect or have any information on the incident, please call Newtown Police at 610-356-0602 or dial 911.
One of Philadelphia's own is putting a new twist on an old favorite just in time for baseball season.
The Roots' Questlove will introduce "Questlove's Cheesesteak," a plant- based version of the Philly classic, at Citizens Bank Park during the Phillies' home opener on March 28. Vegetarian and vegan versions will be offered, Questlove said in an Instagram post.
The Grammy Award-winning musician has worked closely with Impossible Foods, which produces plant-based meat products, since he became an investor in the company in 2017.
The cheesesteak made its debut in 2018 during the Roots' Picnic, the Philadelphia-based band's annual music festival held in the city (Here are details on the 2019 Roots Picnic).
"No one believed me when I told them the 'meat' was not beef, but plant-based," the Tonight Show musical director said.
This is not Questlove's first venture into the food industry. His book, "Something to Food About," became a New York Times best-seller in 2016. He is also an active member of the Food Council for City Harvest and No Kid Hungry.
"Questlove's Cheesesteak" will be available at every Phillies home game this upcoming season. Live Nation will also serve the cheesesteak in 40 of its venues across North America.
A family’s home is now unlivable because of a dangerous problem next door. Safety crews in Philadelphia are concerned that the Kensington home could collapse, due to a gaping hole in their basement as well as "careless and unlawful" renovation work next door.
It's the first day of spring and a popular amusement park is already hard at work, preparing for summer. Morey’s Piers is paying tribute to the iconic sightseer tram cars with a new kind of ride.
For the umpteenth year in a row, candidates seeking elected office in Philadelphia municipal elections pulled their ballot positions for the upcoming May primary out of a coffee can at City Hall on Wednesday.
The coffee can, hopefully sprayed with disinfectant, is the same one that's been used every year to determine the ballot spots. It even has it's own Twitter account ... or two.
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A day earlier, numerous legal challenges poured in to the city Board of Elections against many of those local candidates for offices like City Council, sheriff and register of wills.
In a year when nearly 100 people filed petitions to be on the May ballot for those local offices, including 42 candidates for City Council's seven at-large seats, lawsuits were to be expected.
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But there are challenges to candidates' petitions — which are the voter signatures a candidate needs to collect to be on a ballot: 750 for Council district seats and 1,000 for citywide offices like mayor and sheriff — and then there are Devon Cade's challenges.
Cade, a Democratic candidate himself for a City Council at-large seat, filed 30 separate challenges against fellow candidates.
Between the lawsuits and the coffee can's once-every-four-years' 15 minutes of fame, it was another wacky week in the world of Philadelphia politics.
Attorney Adam Bonin, an election law veteran, said state law that allows for the "adversarial nature" of candidates or citizens challenging the validity of petition signatures is unusual.
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Bonin, who is challenging two Council candidates' petitions this year on behalf of citizens, said other cities in most cases either allow candidates on a ballot simply by paying a filing fee, or utilize a local Board of Elections to review candidates' applications.
As for Cade's mass filing of lawsuits, Bonin said, "Lawyers only have so many words to describe stuff like that. Wackadoodle?"
Cade did not respond to a message seeking comment Wednesday.
After the old Hard & Hardart coffee can was done its work, the ballot order was set. City Commissioner Al Schmidt posted the lists for all the offices, which can be found here. And here:
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And here's a full, sortable list of all the candidates in the May 21 primary:
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This year's Lehigh Valley Auto Show will bring in more than 50,000 people over the next four days. Here's a preview of the annual event.
Police and policy makers are looking at ways to stop packages from being stolen off of doorsteps. NBC10 Responds reporter Harry Hairston shares some alternative ways that you can guarantee your packages are protected.
A woman with dementia wandered off at her nursing home, fell two stories, and died. Now the family of Barbara Jones-Davis is suing the nursing home where she stayed. Find out more about Assisted Living Residences here.
Kiernan Clark is used to being in the hospital. Having been diagnosed with Hirschsprung’s Disease, an illness which affects his colon, the 8-year-old boy has underwent 43 surgeries. And he’ll be forced to spend his birthday on Friday at Wilmington’s A.I. duPont Hospital for Children where he’ll also likely stay for the next month.
“It’s going to be a long month but we’ve been through it before,” Clark’s father, Kevin Clark, told NBC10.
To help cheer him up, Kevin is asking for the public to send his son a birthday card. He made the request on social media and hopes people will respond.
“I’m trying to get him better and hopefully this whole thing will put a smile on his face and it will make me feel a lot better seeing him smile," he said.
Despite his situation, Kiernan is constantly considerate of other kids dealing with illnesses. The third-grader has gathered up Christmas gifts and delivered them to sick children for the past two years.
“It was all his idea. He has all the credit for it,” Kevin said. “I picked stuff up and I drive it there but it’s all on him.”
If you’d like to give Kiernan a birthday card, please send it to the following:
Kiernan Clark
Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children
Rockland Road, Wilmington, Delaware, 19803
Floor 2, West Room 6
Technology that could silence illegal scam and spam robocallers has passed a major test and is now just months away from arriving on your phone.
On Wednesday, AT&T and Comcast announced they had completed the first-ever exchange of "authenticated" calls between separate networks. Both companies hailed the test as a milestone ahead of rolling out new caller ID authentication for all phones nationwide by the end of the year.
A Comcast spokesman told NBC Bay Area the calls were made using ordinary phones and phone lines on Comcast and AT&T's digital networks. The calls were verified using the new SHAKEN and STIR standards created by a coalition of phone service providers and technology firms.
It's known as "caller ID authentication." Here's how it works: calls made from authenticated phone lines will come with digital "tokens." When your phone receives a call with one of these tokens, it will display the caller's true phone number and a "VERIFIED" notification, so you know you can safely answer and trust your caller ID.
Spammers and scammers, who mostly use computers to generate fake caller ID and often operate overseas, won't be able to access the digital tokens. Any calls you get from them will show up as "unverified" or can be blocked altogether.
The FCC has ordered all U.S. phone service providers to make caller ID authentication available on all phones and phone lines by the end of this year. Comcast and AT&T said Wednesday that other major phone providers will be conducting similar tests, ahead of the nationwide rollout anticipated over the next several months.
Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns and operates this station.
The owner of a New Jersey estate hopes to build a megamansion at the site that would be bigger than the White House.
“Lloyd Estate,” as the proposed development is known, would rise at the intersection of Undercliff and Lloyd roads in Montclair, plans filed with the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission show.
The 60,000-square-foot home would house a bowling alley, a movie theater, two elevators, a basketball court and a billiard room, according to NorthJersey.com.
The White House, by comparison, is 55,000 square feet.
While rumors had initially swirled that Justin Bieber owned the property, it is actually owned by a Montclair resident who founded Comodo, a cybersecurity company, NorthJersey.com reported.
Some residents who live near the property say the proposed development is far too big for the neighborhood.
“It’s a monstrosity,” resident Gail Shepard told the outlet.
The land was already mired in controversy prior to this proposal. Many locals were outraged after two historic homes that stood at the site were demolished last month, according to the outlet.
The owner will have to secure a zoning variance before plans for the megamansion can move forward.
