A 25-year-old man was shot and killed in front of his three children Friday morning in West Philadelphia after a confrontation with another driver.

The apparent road-rage incident unfolded around 9:30 a.m. Friday near 52nd and Lancaster streets in the Parkside neighborhood. An unidentified suspect driving a late-2000s Chrysler nearly hit the victim's car, prompting the victim to get out of his car and approach the suspect.

The suspect then shot the victim as his three kids looked on, according to police.

The victim was hit once in the right arm. The bullet entered into his chest and he was rushed to a local hospital, where he died a short time later.

Police are looking for a black, late-2000s Chrysler 300 with tinted windows. Rear passenger door is missing moulding and there is a dent on the rear passenger-side wheel well.

This story is developing. Please check back for updates.

 New Jersey residents are scrambling to get their hands on the winning Powerball, which is up to $625M. Do you feel lucky?

Loved ones gathered Saturday to celebrate the life of a Philadelphia bar worker who was gunned down as shift ended. Police had some good news to share with the community - the suspected shooter has been arrested.

The Mega Millions drawing took place Saturday night, offering players a $625 million jackpot — the 7th highest U.S. lottery jackpot ever.

The winning numbers are: 66, 52, 60, 24, 25, and the Powerball is 5.

The estimated lump sum payout would be $380.6 million before taxes. The odds of winning are roughly 1 in 292.2 million.

No Powerball ticket matched all six winning numbers in the $562 million drawing Wednesday night, and the jackpot rose tens of millions of dollars more.

The winning numbers were 10, 14, 50, 53, 63. The Powerball was 21. Four tickets matched all five of the numbers besides the Powerball. They are worth $1 million and were sold in New Jersey, Florida, South Carolina and Kentucky.

The Powerball jackpot has been growing since it was hit on Dec. 26 in New York at just under $300 million.

Powerball is played in 44 states plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, all of which collectively oversee the game. Drawings are held twice a week. Five white balls are drawn from a drum containing 69 balls and one red ball is selected from a drum with 26 balls. Players can choose their numbers or let a computer make a random choice.

Congressman Dwight Evans now sits on the House Committee on Ways and Means, one of the most powerful committees in Washington. It oversees taxes, social security and Medicare. He says it's given him a stronger way to fight for the Philadelphia area.

A group says they have a plan that can help with gridlock on Philly streets. Rob Zuritsky, the president of Parkway, believes lowering taxes on Philly parking garages can help ease congestion and gridlock in city streets. He explains how.

The "Wings of Rescue" organization flew a plane of shelter dogs in need of loving homes. Volunteers from the Brandywine Valley ASPCA were waiting to welcome the more than 60 animals in hopes of preventing them from being euthanized. 

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner recently announced new guidelines aimed at ending the number of people on probation and parole. Despite criticism, Krasner argues that current supervision lengths are too long, prevent people from getting jobs and set them up to fail.

At least two people were killed in a crash involving motorcycles in Nockamixon Township Sunday afternoon.

The accident occurred on Durham and Church Hill roads around 2:20 p.m. Two people were killed while two other people were hurt. Officials have not yet revealed the conditions of the two survivors or what led to the accident.

This story is developing. Check back for updates.

The sentencing hearing for admitted killer Jacob Sullivan resumes Monday. Sullivan pleaded guilty to raping and killing teen Grace Packer as part of what Sullivan says was a rape-murder fantasy he shared with Grace's adoptive mother.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference with the 2016 election found no evidence that President Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. So far, just a summary was provided, leaving Democrats demanding the entire report be released.

In many ways, he's a lot like other professional athletes. He spends countless hours honing his craft, jet-setting to far-flung venues to play in front of large, boisterous crowds. He signs autographs and takes selfies with admiring fans.

But this is no conventional sportsman playing a conventional sport. This is Cormac "Doolsta" Dooley. Only 18 and not even out of high school yet, he's part of a growing industry — once derided by some parents as a mindless waste of time — that has quickly exploded into a global, lucrative profession: esports.

"Even if you win one $50,000 tournament, that's pretty much some people's wages for a year. So there definitely is a lot of money to be made," Dooley said.

A Spectator Spectacle

Competitive gaming has become so profitable in recent years that large media companies are getting in on the act. Comcast Spectacor announced Monday that it will build a dedicated esport stadium in the heart of the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.

The 3,500-seat, $50 million Fusion Arena will play host to local professional team Philadelphia Fusion — already owned by Comcast Spectacor.

"This will be the first ground-up [esports] facility in the western hemisphere," Spectacor Chief Business Officer Joe Marsh said.

The 60,000 square-foot arena, slated to open in 2021, also will feature a training facility and represents another revenue stream in the ever-expanding competitive gaming ecosystem.

For a city like Philadelphia, an arena will likely mean added revenue, said Robert Johnson, the chief marketing officer for N3rd Street Gamers, a Philadelphia-based company that's taking advantage of a hole in the still-developing esports market.

Just for the amateur tournaments that N3rd Street hosts, both players and spectators travel from around the country, thereby boosting local economies, Johnson said.

Last year, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn sold out more than 20,000 tickets for the grand finals of the Overwatch League, in which gamers compete in the popular Blizzard Entertainment game "Overwatch."

A professional venue in Philadelphia, according to Johnson, could attract a global audience.

"The exposure is to Philadelphia. They need to stay somewhere in hotels. They need to eat somewhere. So the economic impact is very, very high, I would believe," he said.

A Billion-Dollar Bet

"I made the switch over to N3rd Street Gamers a couple months ago knowing that the over double-digit growth year after year of competitive gaming, it's not slowing down," Johnson said.

Johnson spent years doing marketing for the NFL and NHL before making the switch to the competitive gaming world. He said the days of video games being perceived and derided as a hobby reserved for recluses playing alone in their basements are gone, replaced instead by an ecosystem that's churning out cash for those who know how to capitalize on it.

Professional-level esports are predicted to generate $1.1 billion in 2019 through a combination of sponsorship and media rights deals, game publisher fees and advertising, merchandise and ticket sales, according to gaming research agency Newzoo. Thirty-seven percent — or $409 million — will be generated in North America alone, Newzoo predicts.

Newzoo's figures don't take into account the money that could be made outside of professional-level competitions. Other avenues also exist, including the monetization of non-competitive gaming through services like YouTube and Twitch, the latter of which was bought by Amazon for $970 million in 2014.

"Still," Newzoo notes, "live streaming around non-organized competitive gaming is an exciting industry in itself, full of its own developments."

Even Google has gotten in on the action. The company recently announced its intention to launch Google Stadia, a streaming service akin to Netflix but which would instead allow people to play games without needing a traditional console.

The rise in competitive gaming has been spurred largely by changing, nonlinear media consumption habits from younger generations, Johnson said. "The eyeballs are shifting to a different medium, and a lot of that is becoming video games."

Newzoo predicts that this year, 453.8 million people will watch professional esports globally. By 2022, it expects that audience to balloon even further, to 645 million people. This has prompted traditional companies to shift their own eyeballs in the direction of esports.

Fusion Arena is only the latest in a series of moves by Comcast to capitalize on competitive video gaming. In 2017, the media giant announced the creation of the Fusion, which competes in the Overwatch League.

Last year, Disney announced a multiyear deal with Activision Blizzard to air the Overwatch League playoffs and finals on ABC, ESPN, ESPN 2 and Disney XD, bringing competitive video games to television screens.

But though traditional media conglomerates are pouring big money into the industry, there's still a lot of room for others to take advantage of the changing landscape.

N3rd Street Gamers' niche, for example, is largely in player development.

Unlike traditional sports, which began at the amateur level and gained popularity before players ever considered themselves professional, modern esports took the opposite route, Johnson said.

"With esports, it seems that it just went pro and then the infrastructure wasn't built to get people there," he said.

N3rd Street's goal is to bridge that amateur-to-pro pipeline by eliminating barriers to entry for causal gamers.

"Gaming can be expensive. A lot of the high-end PCs, they're thousands of dollars each," Johnson said.

To help ease the financial burden, N3rd Street allows people to play at its "Localhost Arena" in Northern Liberties. Here, players not only have access to modern gaming equipment that they might not otherwise be able to afford, but they're also provided with opportunities for training bootcamps.

Last year, the company also announced the creation of the National Championship Series, a series of amateur tournaments throughout the country that provides cash prizes and tracks player development through a points system.

From "Good" to "Pro"

Dooley was himself one of the beneficiaries of N3rd Street's work.

Last year, he was a 17-year-old fan of the popular EA Sports franchise "FIFA." The West Chester East High School student was good. He often beat his friends, but he wasn't a pro. Then came the Union Esports Open, in which Major League Soccer team Philadelphia Union worked with N3rd Street and Independence Blue Cross to host a tournament that would determine which player would represent the team at the eMLS Cup.

"I didn't really realize I was a top-level player until I won the Union tournament, where I beat a pro in the final who was one of the best in America," Dooley said.

Following that win, he not only got signed by the Union, but managed to sway his previously unconvinced parents. Like many older non-gamers, they didn't quite understand what all the hype was about.

"They didn't like me playing that much. Even when I'd be sick from school or something, sometimes my dad would just think I was faking and take the controllers because he didn't want me playing," Dooley recalled with a laugh.

But then they saw the crowds — and the prize money. Dooley was now able to come to his parents and say he wanted to quit his job as a bus boy making $5 an hour plus tips in order to play FIFA.

It's been a whirlwind since.

Now he gets flown to Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Paris and Bucharest. He's pretty certain he'll qualify for a tournament that takes him to Berlin. Today, he's competing for a triple-figure pot in London. Last week, a tournament win scored him $10,000.

Not bad for a high schooler.

"It is completely surreal," Dooley said. "When I look back at this time last year, I was working hard like most high school students, just at a restaurant or something, and now flip the scripts onto a year and I'm making a good bit more money than what I was making there doing that."

All that was born from one video game tournament.

Niche Goes Mainstream

Even excluding the win bonuses, players at these tournaments — even at the amateur or semi-pro level — can still benefit from the exposure to sponsors and even college scouts who might be watching in the crowd.

This embrace of esports by institutions of higher learning — to date, 135 accredited U.S. colleges are listed as being a part of the National Association of Collegiate Esports — underscores another indication of esports' staying power: it has permeated into everyday life, with no sign of stopping any time soon.

Soccer superstar and French World Cup winner Antoine Greizmann has embraced the "take the L" celebration found in "Fortnite." Lakers player Josh Hart has taken to the court in his own custom Fortnite shoes. Former UFC flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson has his own channel on Twitch.

Some gamers have become transcendent millionaires. Last year, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins became the first professional esports player to grace the cover of ESPN Magazine.

"It's becoming mass-audience, it's becoming more pop culture," Johnson said.

These days, it's no longer a question of whether or not competitive gaming can catch on in the mainstream. Increasingly, it is the mainstream.

Disclosure: Comcast is the parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns this TV station.

One person is dead and two are unaccounted for after flames tore through a Philadelphia home overnight.

The fire quickly consumed a standalone home along Rorer Street, near Kensington Avenue and Cambria Street, in the Kensington neighborhood around 4:35 a.m. Monday.

A 50-year-old man was pulled from the first floor of the burning home, Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel said. He died a short time later at the hospital.

Two other people, who neighbors say live in the home, were unaccounted for Monday morning.

Firefighters got the blaze under control after about 40 minutes. They were waiting for daylight and to determine how stable the charred building is before entering the home to search for the unaccounted residents, Thiel said.

Firefighters haven’t revealed a cause of the fire.

Red Cross House is hosting the Red Cross Red Ball fundraiser to raise money for families that lose their home in a fire. The facility provides shelter, financial literacy, case workers and other tools that help families in their time of need.

A man having a drink at a Philadelphia bar turned into a killer at last call early Thursday.

On Monday morning, police named the man they say killed a barback inside Delmar Bar and Lounge along West Chelten Avenue in the city’s Germantown neighborhood just after 2 a.m. Thursday.

Officers arrested Robert Lumpsin Friday afternoon. He remains jailed on murder, robbery and related charges.

Lumpsin shot the barback, Jeffrey Johnson, once in the chest, police said. The 58-year-old died a short time later at the hospital. Johnson had worked for several years as support for the bartenders at Delmar, often talking Philly sports with patrons, neighbors said.

As Johnson was leading patrons from the bar, the man had lagged behind. Once the others left the bar, the remaining man presented a gun.

The gunman rifled through Johnson's pockets and took about $200 from the bartender, police said. The gunman ran off east on Chelten Avenue, police said.

The killer stands around 6-feet, 1-inch to 6-feet, 2-inches tall with a thin and athletic build and close cut black hair. His most descriptive feature is a long goatee that is long-enough to braid, police said.

Neighbors told NBC10 they recognize the shooter from the neighborhood. They say he used to hang out at a bar around the corner.

Police haven't revealed if the killer planned the robbery or took advantage of an opportunity.

It was unclear if Lumpsin has an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

Some of Johnson's coworkers left heart-shaped balloons outside the bar Thursday morning. They say Johnson had worked at Delmar dating back to the tavern's previous location.

At least a half-dozen USPS mailboxes -- the big blue ones -- were left in the middle of a New Jersey highway after a fender-bender Monday, authorities say. 

Authorities say a tractor-trailer apparently rear-ended the truck that was carrying the USPS mailboxes, which were old, empty and being transported to turn into scrap. They fell off the truck on Interstate 280 eastbound, in West Orange, after the accident around 9 a.m.

An aerial view showed quite an unusual scene. 

Chopper 4 showed at least five large blue USPS mailboxes on the highway near the ramp for exit 9. Some were tipped over or leaning precariously, others were open in the front -- and papers or some similar sort of debris were in the road. A USPS spokesman said the mailboxes were originally from Livingston and had already been placed with new ones. 

No injuries were reported. Chopper 4 showed a heavily damaged sedan stopped behind a truck, the one that apparently had been carrying the mailboxes, on the highway, though State Police couldn't confirm if that vehicle was also involved in the accident. The highway was shut down for a few minutes so crews could move the heavy mailboxes off to the side of the road.  

Not surprisingly, traffic appeared to be rubbernecking in the area. 

A nearly $40-million project to repair deteriorated bridge spans along the busy Schuylkill Expressway is starting next week and it could be affecting your drive well into next year.

The rehabilitation project of the Interstate 76 viaducts, or bridges, in two parts of the highway starts with temporary lane closures coming to a more than 1-mile stretch of I-76 in Philadelphia starting April 4, the Wolf Administration and PennDOT announced Friday.

The I-76 Viaduct Repair project to rehabilitate the deteriorating four-lane roadways will take place in four phases over two years and will require single-lane, or even full-lane, closures as well as weekend closures, PennDOT said.

The rehab project includes work on the 6,120-foot-long stretch of I-76 along the Schuylkill River from the Arch Street rail bridge to University Avenue in Philadelphia and a 345-foot long structure over Route 23 and Arrowmink Creek in West Conshohocken, Montgomery County, officials said.

“Pennsylvania’s ongoing bridge inspection program has been closely monitoring these heavily-used, 60-plus year-old structures to ensure that they continue to function as designed,” Gov.Tom Wolf said. “Their analysis of the hundreds of structural components that comprise each viaduct points to the need to address the inevitable deterioration now so as to safely handle the demands of tens of thousands of motorists who use the Schuylkill Expressway each day.”

The project by contractor J.D. Eckman, Inc. of Atglen, Chester County, is estimated to cost nearly $39.8 million.

Stage 1, with I-76 eastbound closures in Philadelphia, begins in April and is expected to last into July. PennDOT hopes to complete the second stage of eastbound reconstruction of the 289-span viaduct by the end of the year.

Before Stage 1 begins, the contractor will work on both the eastbound and westbound sides of I-76 Thursday through Sunday in Philadelphia to clear draining inlets and complete surveying of the roadway, PennDOT said.

• Thursday, April 4, through Sunday, April 7, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning: Eastbound I-76 will be reduced to a single lane between the I-676 and University Avenue interchanges.
• Thursday, April 11, through Sunday, April 14, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. the following morning: Alternating eastbound or westbound single lane closures will reduce I-76 to one lane between the I-676 and University Avenue interchanges.
• No on- or off-ramps within the work zone are scheduled to be closed during these preliminary construction activities.

Closures in Montgomery County won’t start until May at the earliest.

“Repairs to the structure in West Conshohocken Borough are expected to begin in May or June 2019 and will be completed by November 2019,” PennDOT said. “These repairs will be done using single lane overnight closures seven days a week between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Once the initial work is done in Philly, more extensive lanes closures, including periods where the road will be closed entirely at night, can be expected.

Per PennDOT:

During repairs to the Center City structure, one side of the expressway at a time will be reduced to a single lane or closed completely overnight. In addition, one side of the expressway at a time will be reduced to a single lane during weekend daytime hours a minimum of 10 times eastbound (in 2019) and 10 times westbound (2020) on non-holiday and select weekends.

Allowable times for these restrictions on I-76 are as follows:

• Weekday Nighttime Single Lane Closures Eastbound or Westbound: Monday nights through Friday mornings: 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• Weekday Nighttime Full Closures Eastbound or Westbound: Monday nights through Friday mornings: 11 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• Weekend Nighttime Single Lane Closures Eastbound or Westbound: Friday nights through Sunday mornings: 9 p.m. to 10 a.m. and Sunday nights through Monday mornings: 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
• Weekend Daytime Single Lane Closures Eastbound*: Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. to Saturday nights at 10 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. to Sunday nights at 9 p.m.
• Weekend Nighttime Full Closures Eastbound**: Friday nights at 11 p.m. through Saturday mornings at 10 a.m., Saturday nights at 10 p.m. through Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. and Sunday nights at 9 p.m. through Monday mornings at 5 a.m.
• Weekend Daytime Single Lane Closures Westbound*: Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. to Saturday nights at 10 p.m. and Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. to Sunday nights at 11 p.m.
• Weekend Nighttime Full Closures Westbound**: Friday nights at 11 p.m. through Saturday mornings at 10 a.m., Saturday nights at 10 p.m. through Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. and Sunday nights at 11 p.m. through Monday mornings at 5 a.m.

* Maximum allowable weekend daytime single lane closures is 10 times eastbound and 10 times westbound.

** Anticipated weekend overnight full closures is 10 times eastbound and 10 times westbound.

Overnight right lane and shoulder closures also may occur on the westbound side throughout 2019 and 2020 for construction activities to repair support columns on the underside of the viaduct.

In addition, on- and off-ramps within the Center City work zone will be closed and detoured in coordination with the scheduled lane restrictions and full closures. Ramps that will be impacted include:

• University Avenue/Exit 346B Westbound On Ramp
• University Avenue/Exit 346B Eastbound Off Ramp
• South Street/Exit 346 Eastbound On Ramp
• South Street/Exit 346A Westbound On Ramp
• South Street/Exit 346A Westbound Off Ramp
• South Street/Exit 346A Eastbound Off Ramp
• Walnut Street/Exit 345 Eastbound On Ramp
• I-676/Vine Street Expressway/Exit 344 Westbound Off Ramp

NBC10 will continue to monitor the viaduct reconstruction project through the end of 2020.

Philadelphia police hope surveillance images help capture the apparent road-rage killer who gunned down a 25-year-old man in front of his three children in West Philadelphia last week.

The apparent deadly confrontation unfolded around 9:10 a.m. Friday near 52nd and Warren streets — a short distance from Lancaster Avenue — in the Parkside neighborhood, Philadelphia police said.

A driver in a dark mid-to-late-2000s Chrysler 300 with black-tinted windows nearly hit the car Shaquille Mack's car, police said.

The mother of Mack's children and the other driver got into an argument, police said. The 25-year-old Mack, in an attempt to diffuse the situation, got out of his car and approached the driver of the Chrysler, family and police said.

Someone in the Chrysler then shot Mack as his three kids and their mother looked on, family said.

Mack died a short time later at the hospital.

The Chrysler driver sped off on Girard Avenue toward 54th Street, police said. It was unclear if the shooter was driving the Chrysler or a passenger as the shooter never left the vehicle.

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The condition of the Chrysler could hold some clues, including the molding missing from the right rear passenger door and a dent toward the back of the right side of the sedan, investigators said.

Police urged anyone who spots the car to call 911 immediately since the suspect is considered to be armed and dangerous. A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter. 

The number of suspected cases of mumps continues to increase at Temple University, officials announced Monday.

A spokesperson for the Philadelphia Department of Public Health says there are now 16 confirmed and 83 probable cases of the mumps at Temple, bringing the total to 99.

The university has 40,000 students and more than 4,500 staff. The North Philadelphia school is offering free vaccinations to students and staff this Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Mitten Hall's Great Court on 1913 North Broad Street. 

Suspected cases of mumps have also popped up at Drexel University and two Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, school districts.

A Drexel University graduate student is believed to have the disease, Dr. Sabir Sahu, the school's Dean of Students, said in an email message to students on Friday. The student lives off-campus.

In Montgomery County, there were 20 suspected cases of the infection as of Friday afternoon. Dr. Richard Lorraine, the county's medical director, said none of the cases have been confirmed positive through laboratory testing at this point.

Among the probable cases are two students: a high schooler from Abington Senior High and an elementary student from North Wales. Both districts sent home letters to parents warning them to be on the lookout for symptoms.

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.

It can take nearly two weeks for mumps symptoms to manifest in an infected person. There is no cure for the virus, but the vaccine has an 88 percent chance of preventing a new infection, the CDC says.

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. Philadelphia health officials previously said that may be why the number of cases is blooming.

When Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Aaron Nola cracks open a cold one to celebrate the start of baseball season this week, we have a feeling we know what beer it'll be.

The young star announced on Monday a new role he'll play for Yuengling Brewery: brand ambassador. This makes Nola one of the first active Major League Baseball players to ink a partnership deal with a beer brand.

Yuengling has been a sponsor of the Phillies since 2017, and other beer and liquor companies have had advertising partnerships with teams and leagues for years. But until last year, the MLB, along with other professional sports leagues in America, discouraged its players from endorsing alcoholic beverages in recent decades. 

As part of his deal, the Pottsville, Pennsylvania-based beer company said Nola will make personal appearances at special events to promote the beer. Phillies fans will also be given a chance to win a Yuengling home vending machine and participate in other social media sweepstakes and giveaways.

Aaron Nola joined the Phillies’ roster in 2015 as a first-round draft pick. He rose to near-superstar level last year when he finished third in Cy Young Award voting. He and his teammates will face the Atlanta Braves in their season opener Thursday, March 28.