With the U.S. prepping for a face off against Belgium at the World Cup, Waffle House is calling for Americans to support their team by boycotting a breakfast favorite.
The chain has called for a boycott of Belgian waffles using it's Twitter account to express its disdain for the deep pocketed waffle.
While the chain has never served Belgian waffles, it does serve an American-style version, which according to Entertainment Weekly has a smaller grid pattern and creamier flavor.
Other businesses also got in on the fun, with Bojangles starting #BeatBelgiumWithBiscuits.
The U.S. will face Belgium at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the second round of the World Cup.
The stakes are much higher this time around. Belgium has not reached the quarterfinals since 1986 and the U.S. team has already exceeded expectations by emerging from a tough opening group and wants to ride that momentum.
Tuesday's winner will face either Argentina or Switzerland in Brasilia on July 5.
The northbound side of the Roosevelt Boulevard was shut down following a serious accident that injured two people early Tuesday morning.
The accident involving a motorcycle and a minivan happened on Roosevelt Boulevard at Oxford Circle around 6:45 a.m.
The driver of the motorcycle is in critical condition and was taken to Temple University Hospital. Another person was also injured, according to police.
Northbound sides of the Boulevard were shut down while the accident was cleared. Police also closed down side streets that lead to the Boulevard for a short time.
Check back for updates.
Graco is recalling harness buckles used on approximately 1.9 million infant car seats manufactured between July 2010 and May 2013. Some consumers reported having difficulty or having been unable to open the buckle, which was the reason for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) investigation and the outcome announced today. As a solution, Graco will provide a free replacement buckle.
"Both NHTSA and Graco investigated consumer concerns in an effort to address the issues with the buckles used on certain infant car seats, Laurel Hurd, President of Graco Children’s Products. "We are pleased to announce a solution that we believe is in the best interest of consumers and underscores our shared commitment to child passenger safety.”
Although there have been no reported injuries associated with this issue, Graco encourages consumers to order a buckle replacement kit and install the new buckle as soon as it arrives. While waiting for replacement kits, parents and caregivers should always continue to use an appropriate car seat. If no alternative is available, the affected car seats may be safely used until replacement buckles are available. Consumers can verify if their infant car seat is affected by this recall and order a replacement kit by entering the model name and date of manufacture on GracoBuckleRecall.com or calling (877) 766-7470. This information can be found on the white label located on the bottom of the infant car seat carrier. Graco will provide a free replacement buckle to any consumer who has an infant car seat not included in this recall, but would like to update their buckle to Graco’s current buckle design.
“Child seats are very effective at protecting children in crashes, and Graco is one of the industry leaders,” said Chris Sherwood, biomechanics engineer and former senior research engineer at Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. “Graco has an experienced safety team, state-of-the-art research and development facilities, and internal safety standards that exceed federal requirements. Parents and caregivers should feel confident in choosing Graco car seats.”
Police are looking for a man they say tried to rape his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint inside his Holmesburg home early Monday morning.
Philadelphia Police say 57-year-old Albert DiPrimeo held a gun to the head of his ex and demanded sex while she was at his home on the 7900 block of Marsden Avenue overnight.
The woman was able to escape DiPrimeo's grip and run to a neighbor's house, where she called 911.
SWAT and police were called to the scene, where it was initially believed the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home with a gun.
About two hours after they arrived, police noticed DiPrimeo's car was missing and made their way inside the house. The house was empty.
Now police are looking for DiPrimeo.
They say DiPrimeo has a long rap sheet. His most recent arrest was in 2010 for illegal possession of a firearm.
Neighbors tell NBC10 that DiPrimeo has been a troublesome neighbor since he moved into his home in February.
Anyone with information on DiPrimeo's whereabouts is urged to call Philadelphia Police. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Just three days after he kissed the bride in a dream wedding at Einstein Medical Center, Pedro Ortiz underwent open heart surgery on Monday. The Philadelphia man and his bride, Shawna Ortiz, were racing against the clock as they fought to be pronounced husband and wife before Pedro underwent the risky procedure.
On Monday, Shawna received the news she had been hoping to hear: the operation, which gave Pedro an implant to support his heart as he waits for a transplant, was a success.
“Pedro did great, no complications,” Shawna says. “[He’s] in a little pain… [but he’s] nodding and making hand gestures.”
This procedure marks another triumph on a long, bumpy road for the newlyweds. Since Pedro's diagnosis of congestive heart failure, the couple have lived in-and-out of hospitals. As he was about to undergo open heart surgery, Pedro made one request: to marry the love of his life. The couple applied for a marriage license on June 20 but was initially rejected by the Marriage License Bureau.
"I mean, prisoners can ask for a last meal. Why can’t we ask for a marriage license?” Shawna asked.
After working with Einstein Medical Center and the Marriage License Bureau, Pedro and Shawna were finally able to receive a marriage license.
“He was crying for half an hour, he was so excited,” Shawna says. “I had to calm him down so his blood pressure wouldn’t get too high, but it felt like we had just won the lottery.”
But instead of a small ceremony, the nurses and staff of Einstein decided to throw the couple a dream wedding, complete with a cake, decorations, dress and wedding arch.
The two professed their love for one another “in sickness and in health” in front of their friends, family and the Einstein team on Friday. They spent the weekend together at Einstein as husband and wife before Pedro underwent surgery.
“[Our wedding] really was the best day of our lives,” Shawna says. “It was a dream come true.”
As she waits for her husband to open his eyes, Shawna looks forward to their long married lives together. "I hope he wakes up soon. I miss him.”
The newly discovered remains of an American soldier who once helped track down millions of dollars-worth of stolen jewels after World War II are finally headed home to Delaware. The homecoming comes 62 years after his plane went missing over Alaska.
Colonel Eugene Smith, fondly known to his relatives as "Uncle Gene," loved investigating crimes and solving mysteries, according to Smith’s nephew.
The height of Smith’s mystery-solving career was in 1946 when he acted as the lead investigator on the Hesse jewel heist, court martialing the three U.S. officers responsible for the $2.5 million (approximately $31 million today) theft.
"As a kid, I always imagined him recovering artifacts that the Nazi Germans had taken," Smith’s nephew Brian Gorman said. "Later, I learned that he actually found jewels [throughout Europe] that American officers stole from a German estate. He brought them to justice."
Along with Smith’s remains, those of 17 other service members have been recovered and their identities confirmed from the crash site of a C-124 military aircraft. The plane collided into Mount Gannett in Alaska on Nov. 22, 1952. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is working to bring the remains of the men and women home under full military honors.
For “Uncle Gene,” this dignified transfer will occur on July 24.
A "Good-Spirited Trickster"
Born in County Cavan, Ireland, Smith immigrated to the United States when he was 13 years old. He settled in Wilmington, Delaware, with his father, mother, and seven brothers and sisters.
"He was known to be a bit of a good-spirited trickster, always playing with and teasing the younger kids," Gorman said.
The playful immigrant felt a loyalty to his new country, joining the Delaware National Guard while in high school. He went on active duty with the Army, and in 1942 was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the military police, investigating crimes during World War II.
After being tasked with the Hesse case, Smith became chief of the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. Later, when the Air Force was formed, he switched branches to become a senior Air Force investigator. In 1952, he was named the director of the office of special investigation for the Alaskan Air command at Elmendorf Air Force Base.
With 11 crewmen and 41 passengers, he left Seattle, Washington, by plane on Nov. 22, ready to take up his new position. The group never made it, hitting a patch of inclement weather that forced the plane 20 miles off course to its inevitable crash.
Smith’s family was notified of the accident as they were sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner. They waited as a recovery mission was attempted, but the storms that had caused the plane to go down also buried it beyond detection by search parties.
For all intents and purposes, the plane was lost — for six decades.
“He was the uncle we never met, but we never missed him,” Gorman said. “Stories of him always filled our house.”
Smith’s sister Peg even created an area in her dining room to remember him, placing his desk with his nameplate “Eugene Smith: Colonel USAF” and service ribbons in a place where all could see them.
The Discovery
In June 2012, an aircraft was discovered on Colony Glacier during an Alaska National Guard training mission. The recovery effort, headed by JPAC, has been ongoing for three years so far, with investigators collecting artifacts and remains for analysis. With each year, the top level of the glacier recedes further, revealing more evidence of the wreckage and keeping the search alive.
"We will continue operations until the glacier reveals all of its secrets to us," says JPAC Public Affairs officer Lee Tucker.
DNA testing has allowed investigators to identify the collected remains.
At the end of May 2014, the results were confirmed: Colonel Eugene Smith had finally been found.
“After 62 years, we finally had something positive to bring back to the family,” Gorman said. “The entire family was ecstatic.”
The Air Force Mortuary Specialist brought Smith’s family a book filled with the history, findings, and pictures of artifacts from the plane. The family even received pieces of the plane recovered from the crash, which now hang in a shadow box by the rest of Smith’s service medals.
Gorman and his cousin Jim will travel to Hawaii at the end of July to accompany their “Uncle Gene” as he is escorted from JPAC facilities back to Wilmington. Though all that was found of Smith was a piece of his skull, he will receive a full casket complete with his rank and uniform.
Smith’s remains will arrive in Delaware through dignified transport on July 24, and he will be buried with full military honors at All Saints Cemetery beside his parents and some of his siblings the following day.
"We’re finally bringing Uncle Gene home," Gorman says. "This last mystery is finally solved."
An 83-year-old grandmother’s body was found in a freezer inside her Philadelphia home after a family member told police she’d been dead – and in the deep freeze -- since January.
Neighbors along Lee Street in Hunting Park said they hadn't seen Andrea Carrasquillo in a while, but because she didn't venture out much, that didn’t strike them as unusual.
Police roped off a good portion of the 4500 block of Lee Street while they went into the home on Tuesday.
They found Carrasquillo’s body, just as the tip caller had described -- folded into a freezer about three feet high and 18 or so inches wide.
According to one of the lead detectives on the scene, Carrasquillo lived with a son, who told another family member that his mother died of natural causes in January. The son allegedly said he got scared, wasn't sure what to do and tucked her body into the freezer.
Carrasquillo's body was intact with no signs of trauma, according to the detective. An autopsy will be performed to determine how she died.
Police want to talk to the son, who is a pizza delivery man. He has not been seen today.
A warrant is being issued for his arrest.
Officials have identified the teenage boy who drowned in a creek in the Juniata Park section of the city on Monday.
Officials say 15-year-old boy Ruben Polanco was with two friends inside Tacony Creek near Fishers Lane and Wyoming Avenue around 5:30 p.m.
As they crossed under a bridge in 10-feet of water, Polanco, who did not know how to swim, began to panic and went under. The friends told police they reached out for him a few times but lost their grip. He then disappeared into the water.
Police and fire rescue quickly responded to the scene. SkyForce10 was above the water as crews pulled Polanco out around 6 p.m. He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m.
With the summer just beginning, police warn children and adults to stay out of the creeks, despite the warm weather.
Loretta Luff was sitting inside her Langhorne home watching the Phillies game Sunday, her 6-year-old Dell laptop in her lap, when she began to smell something and heard a strange sound.
"The battery just exploded and it blew the laptop over," the 72-year-old said.
Luff looked down and realized to her horror that not only had her laptop exploded, but her shirt was on fire.
"Then I realized the rug was burning," Luff said. "So I took my shirt to smother that out. Then all these little fires started popping up so I was hitting them."
Luff was able to bring the fires under control after pouring a bowl of water on the flames. Firefighters responding to her residence on the 200 block of Comly Avenue were able to put out the remaining hot spots. When the smoke cleared, burn marks were left on her desk, carpet, shirt and even her dog's bed. The responding firefighters picked up the metal shards from the laptop that were scattered across the floor.
"They couldn't believe what they saw," Luff said.
Luff was taken to the St. Mary Medical Center where she was treated for chemical burns to her arm, chest, foot and face. She was later released.
NBC10 tried to contact Dell's corporate office but the media number did not work and we received an error message when we tried to send an email.
Luff said she has not yet talked to anyone from Dell. Meanwhile, fire officials continue to investigate the cause of the explosion.
Emergency crews rushed to a grocery store parking lot to rescue five children who were left inside an SUV in Philadelphia’s Port Richmond neighborhood on one of the hottest days of the summer.
Witnesses told police that the woman driving the car left it running with the children inside while she went in to buy groceries at the ShopRite in the 3700 block of Aramingo Avenue. That was around 11 a.m.
One of those witnesses called police, who quickly responded. They pulled the children out of the car, which was unlocked and had the air conditioning on, according to an officer at the scene. The youngest children were 6 months and one year old. The three other kids were ages 6, 8 and 9. Medics checked them all out at the scene and said they were in good shape.
The woman is identified as an in-home daycare operator named Karin Thompson. A check of records from from the State Department of Public Welfare show that no violations and no complaints.
"She is a very trustworthy individual," said Shannon Black, mother of the six-month-old child "And I'm proud to trust my kids in her hands."
Thompson faces charges for leaving the children alone in the car, according to police.
Police are searching for a missing Delaware woman who may have been abducted.
Nefertiri Trader, 33, was last seen on Monday around 4 a.m. outside her home on the unit block of Freedom Trail in New Castle. According to police, a witness claimed he or she saw Trader being forced into her vehicle by an unidentified person. The vehicle then left the scene.
Trader is described as a black female, standing 5-foot-6 with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen inside her silver 2000 Acura RL with a Delaware registration.
If you have any information on Trader’s whereabouts, please call Detective B. Shahan of the New Castle County Police Department at (302) 395-8110 or email her at bshahan@nccde.org.
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With temperatures expected to hit 96 degrees and 62% humidity expected, a heat advisory has been issued for parts of the area on Wednesday from noon to 8 p.m.
The National Weather Service issued the advisory for Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester, Montgomery and Bucks counties as well as parts of South Jersey.
Elderly people, those with chronic medical conditions, people taking medications, those with a mental illness, pregnant women, small children and those who work in a high heat environment are the most at risk in extreme heat.
Here are some tips on dealing with the heat:
Early signs of heat stress include decreased energy, a slight loss of appetite and nausea. If you’re experiencing any of these symptoms, go to a cool environment, drink fluids, remove excessive clothing and rest.
Serious signs of heat stress include unconsciousness, rapid heartbeat, throbbing headache, dry skin, chest pain, confusion, irritability, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle cramps, staggering and difficulty breathing.
If you experience any of these symptoms, make sure you get medical attention immediately. Also be sure to move to a cool area, remove excess clothing and have someone spray you with water while waiting.
