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SEPTA Strike Threat -- What Now?: SEPTA and union officials representing bus, trolley and subway workers plan to meet every day this week to try and avoid a strike. But the union boss says he can't promise that workers won't walk off the job after that time has passed without a deal.

The big sticking point between workers and the transportation authority is pension contributions.

The union says they will give the 900,000 riders who rely on the transportation system a 24 hour heads up before workers hit the picket line.

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WHAT YOU MISSED YESTERDAY

Exotic Cat Goes Missing: Officials in Delaware are advising residents to be on the look out for a missing African cat.

Boo, a large African Savannah Cat, ran away from home after being distracted by a rabbit, the animal's owner said. The man said the cat is harmless, but officials are warning people not to approach the animal and instead call 911.

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AROUND THE WORLD

School Shooter Allegedly Lured Kids to Lunch: The Washington high school freshman who opened fire in his school cafeteria, killing two friends and wounding another three, had invited them to the ambush by text message, police said.

Jaylen Fryberg, 15, used a relative's legal .40 caliber pistol to gun down the victims and then shot himself in Friday's attack at Marysville Pilchuck High School near Seattle.

Police said it was clear that Fryberg meant to target the victims. One girl died at the scene, and another died at the hospital Sunday evening.

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TODAY'S TALKER

Woman Caught on Camera Stealing Halloween Decorations: Police are searching for a woman who was caught on surveillance video stealing Halloween decorations right off the front stoop of a Philadelphia rowhome.

And this isn't the first time decorations have been swiped from the house, according to the homeowner.

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Chip Kelly reflects on the Eagles' loss in Arizona. CSNPhilly has the story.

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Round and round the stairs go inside Philadelphia City Hall. @tuesdaygjohnson captured this sun-filled shot from inside the historic building.

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Just in time for Halloween, one comedian uses his two-year-old son to scare people in a series of pranks.

A LITTLE SWEETENER

Halloween Guide: What's sweeter than candy on Halloween? How about all kinds of spooky -- and fun -- events happening in our area?

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Prosecutors in Burlington County, New Jersey are investigating the discovery of human skeletal remains during a backyard pool installation.

Workers from Budd's Pools were digging the in-ground pool at a home along the 600 block of Banks Avenue in Riverton late Monday afternoon when the bones were uncovered, officials with the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office told NBC10 Tuesday.

Randy Budd, owner of Budd's Pools, said the bones were found 6- to 8-feet underground near where the pool's deep end would be. He said the remains were old and that there was no flesh left on the skull.

Crime scene investigators from Riverton Police and the prosecutor's office came back out to the scene on Tuesday, officials said. They are looking for additional evidence in the hole as well as the front yard of the home.

There is no suspicion of foul play, according to county authorities.

Property records show the 5,000-square-foot home was built in 1900. The owners are not currently living at the home and are cooperating with the investigation, officials said.

A state police forensic anthropologist is on their way to the house to determine when and how the person's death occurred.

Students at Villanova University suffered chemical burns after touching a substance inside a science laboratory.

School officials tell NBC10 that two students were injured around 10 a.m. Tuesday after being splashed on the arms with high concentration hydrogen peroxide.

At low concentrations, hydrogen peroxide is used as an antiseptic.

The injuries were not serious and no chemical was spilled, officials said.

Evacuations were not necessary and the university is operating normally, officials said.

A driver was able to walk away from a crash without injury after flipping their car several times before hitting another vehicle and school bus.

The three vehicle crash happened around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Buselton Avenue and Princeton Street in Northeast Philadelphia, officials told NBC10.

One car flipped over several times before hitting a school bus and finally rested on its roof, officials said. A second car was also hit in the crash.

There were no children on the bus at the time of the crash, officials said. No one was hurt.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

A Philadelphia-area man accused of fatally shooting his caseworker and grazing his psychiatrist before the doctor returned fire is due in court.

A preliminary hearing is set for 1 p.m. on Tuesday to determine whether there's enough evidence to prosecute Richard Plotts for the July 24 shooting.

Plotts, 49, was in the psychiatrist's office inside the Sister Marie Lenahan Wellness Center on the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital's campus in Darby, Pennsylvania when he took his doctor and health care case worker hostage, prosecutors said. The man was allegedly upset over the hospital's ban on guns.

The situation eventually escalated and Plotts allegedly opened fire on the staffers using .32 caliber revolver. The man's health care caseworker, 53-year-old Theresa Hunt, was hit and killed. His physician, Dr. Lee Silverman, was grazed in the head and thumb before firing back with his own weapon, injuring the suspect.

Plotts is charged with first and third-degree murder, criminal homicide, reckless endangerment and related charges.

While you may think you know your tea, Peter Marino has you beat. He's a walking encyclopedia of just about everything there is to know about the beverage that we enjoy both hot and cold. No wonder he and his wife Manelle, a fifth-generation tea merchant, opened Capital Teas in 2007, a high end tea shop/bar that may have you rethinking supermarket tea bags. With a new location in Center City, the Philly native discusses tea, sniffing bars, and his diverse resume.

You've been a former nuclear submarine officer, attorney, consultant, real estate developer among other things. Is the tea business just as exciting?

Yes, it's exciting in its own way. The tea industry is growing very fast in the United States right now, and it's really fun to be part of a revolution in taste. You may not know this, but tea is the second most-consumed beverage in the world behind water. And we, in the United States, are now catching up with the rest of the world and experiencing the wonderful taste of tea. Capital Teas is really proud to offer something at the forefront of that taste revolution. I think that in any business, to be successful you need to have extreme product knowledge, a passion  for what you do, the ability to think quickly on your feet, and to innovate. We innovate every single day here, we think on our feet, I'm totally passionate and I learn every day.  I learned a lesson a long time ago in the navy which I apply to everything I do and I certainly do at Capital Teas. That's 'Don't expect what you don't inspect.'

Right now, Capital Teas is mostly in the DC area. What was the reasoning behind opening a Philly location? 

Well, I grew up in the Philly area. I went to St. Joe's Prep here in Philly. My parents and one of my younger brothers still live in the area. And I ran a business called XRT here in the 1990s. I was very proud to run that business, a very successful software company, and it was great to be based in the Philadelphia area. Subsequent to that, I moved to the D.C. area and lived in Annapolis for over ten years so when we started Capital Teas in 2007, it was there. Finally, now that we're back in Philly, I consider this a homecoming. I'm proud to add Philadelphia as our second major city focus after Washington, D.C. and to reacquaint all of my old friends and acquaintances with Capital Teas.

Your wife's family has spent a long time in the tea trade. Is your own family into any certain business?

I always enjoyed tea. I grew up appreciating tea. My grandfather was in Toronto and my father grew up there so they certainly had a strong tea tradition there, but I didn't know then what I know now about tea, I continue to learn every day, and my passion grows for tea every day. My family has a long background in the tech sector. My father's been a computer pioneer since the 1950s and we're all pretty entrepreneurially oriented. In fact, my youngest brother also runs and operates his own company. Overall, I think I like doing things that improve or enhance the human experience while giving us the flexibility to create new experiences and I'm very happy to do that with tea right now.

How is Capital Teas different from other businesses you've started?

This is the first consumer business that I've run. All the others were B2B businesses so it's a lot more fun now because we have a much broader demographic of customer and we meet the public, educate them, enjoy their presence. It gives us the flexibility to create new experiences for everybody that comes in. It's something to greet somebody, to take them through one our sniffing walls in our stores, to show them the different tastes, nuances, and smells of tea. And when they leave, they shake your hand and you say 'Wow, they really learned something.' Whether or not they buy something, they've had a great educational experience and we aim to do that inspiration; our mission is to educate people and inspire lives through the wonders of tea, one cup at a time.

What inspired you to go into business/entrepreneurship?

I've always had a strong and fervent desire to create new things, to forge my own path, to build upon past experiences, to venture into new arenas. I'm not afraid to take some pretty significant risks when I believe there's a reasonable chance to succeed. I credit much of that to the family in which I was raised and, an example, my dad who's now 85 recently purchased a new business with one of my younger brothers and he's working daily to make that business better. So, I come from this line of entrepreneurs. I suspect I'll be doing the same 35 and maybe even 50 years from now and I think that sort of entrepreneurship keeps us alive and fresh, and I must say it's a lot of fun.

What do you think best sets you apart from other tea shops?

There are many great tea shops in America, but very few of them have gone beyond a couple stores. So, we are now in a unique spot with our size. We can maintain the intimacy of a small tea business, but with our multiple stores, we have the ability to source some amazing teas, great teaware, superb packaging to help all of our clients, and to build a team that is knowledgeable and educational to serve the public. We've also established a bit of a unique spot by wholesaling to some amazing restaurants. We sell tea to quite a few top restaurants on the East Coast; we hope to extend that presence pretty dramatically into the Philadelphia scene which I know is full of amazing and great restaurants. We pride ourselves on continual innovation. We're always trying to be at the forefront: we are the first to embrace a multisensory experience in the store with a sniffing wall, we are the first to come up with brewing tea in beer and wine. We have several innovations coming in the near term. Within a month we will be the first specialty tea company of our type to release K-Cups with a high-end, organic specialty tea. We try to be at the forefront and innovate every day.

Do you have a bitter rivalry with coffee sellers?

No, not at all. We respect all beverage purveyors and I'm not ashamed to say that I like french-pressed coffee. I also like craft beer and fine wine. All of these things are about cultivating an amazing taste and having the cultural experience behind the beverage and I think that coffee is great too, but tea has a big advantage. I tease my coffee industry friends that they sell one flavor in varying intensities. We sell over 200 flavors in teas and infusions which have totally unique taste profiles. As we take customers in to explore the tea world, we have an awful lot to offer them.

What has been your favorite memory with Capital Teas?

My favorite memory with Capital Teas is that for the past few years, I've been asked to be the kickoff speaker at the business boot camps of the World Tea Expo, the biggest international tea conference in North America; it's typically in Las Vegas or Long Beach. I've been able to educate and inspire hundreds of people from dozens of countries on what it takes to start and to succeed in a tea-related business. These are entrepreneurs and smart people who love tea and I've been able to be their lead speaker. There's nothing more memorable than watching the graduates come back the following year and to tell me the successes that they've had. Imparting this lesson and helping them succeed really is memorable for me. And one would say, 'Why would you wanna help a competitor grow?' I don't consider any of them competitors, I consider them all colleagues in the same business of advancing the tea sector so I enjoy doing that and I'm proud to be able to participate in that way.

What's the most exotic country you import tea from?

I think that the definition of exotic depends on your own life experiences. Certainly, if you live in Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka's not necessarily exotic  to you, but we import teas from 18 countries, many of which I've yet to visit. I truly hope to visit all of them in the coming years. I think the most significant for us is Sri Lanka because it goes to the heritage of Capital Teas. My wife's family has been in the tea business for five consecutive generations and we actually import tea from the estates that her great-great grandfather started planting in the 1870s. Today, Sri Lanka is the world's second-largest exporter of tea and we've forged a strong relationship the Sri Lankan tea industry. We even had a chance to tour the Sri Lankan Tea Board through one of our stores in Bethesda, Maryland. In fact, they were fascinated by the way we put tea in beer. Since Sri Lanka's civil war ended, they've seen amazing growth in the past decade and their climate growing conditions allow for some really wonderful teas that we're happy to import.

In your opinion, what is the best way to enjoy tea?

I think the best way to enjoy tea is to make it part of your daily ritual. It's not something just to have on a special occasion or when you're sick or with your grandparents or when you're going to high tea. I personally can't imagine a day without tea. I drink many, many cups of tea every day. It's more than just the health benefits attributed to tea. The way I look at tea is it infuses well-being so I want to be infused with that well-being myself and encourage others to do the same. As tea becomes part of your daily ritual, you begin to not only love it, but to be passionate about it. So, wether it's in a formal setting, in your car, at your breakfast table, or even sipping it as you run, I think making it part of your daily life is a life-enhancing experience.

The Philly branch of Capital Teas is located at 1804 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Philadelphia police responded Wednesday evening to a stabbing inside a hotel room.

The stabbing occurred around 5:30 p.m. inside the Ramada Inn along the Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philly.

The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and wasn't immediately rushed from the scene.

As SKyForce10 hovered over the hotel, you could see Philadelphia Police cars and an ambulance responding to the scene.

A car struck two people along a Delaware County street Wednesday afternoon.

The crash happened where E Chester Pike (U.S. Route 13) intersects with Acres Drive in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania around 4:40 p.m.

No word yet on the extent of injuries.

The crash caused traffic to slow in the area as investigators tried to figure out what happened.

The husband of a Democratic incumbent lawmaker now up for re-election in Delaware stole Republican campaign signs under the cover of darkness, according to police.

And Republican party supporters, concerned about a series of recent thefts of GOP party signs, captured the heist on cellphone video.

Middletown, Delaware, police issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for misdemeanor theft charges for Dana Long following the thefts at Middletown Odessa and Silver Lake roads.

"My husband is the man depicted in the video," said state Sen. Bethany Hall-Long (D-Middletown) in a prepared statement.

Police say Dana Long stole signs with slogans such as “Delaware Needs Jobs, Vote Republican” and “Fix the Economy, Vote Republican” written on them.

Hall-Long, who took office in District 10 in 2009, is currently running for re-election against Republican challenger John Marino, a retired New York City police officer. Hall-Long served in the state House before serving in the Senate.

"Sadly, this race has become tough and personal," said Hall-Long. "I was not aware that he had allowed his frustration over the campaign attacks to get the better of him. Of course I'm disappointed and wish that it had not happened."

On her campaign website, Hall-Long says that she married her high school sweetheart Dana, a U.S. Navy veteran, 27 years ago.

Hall-Long withheld further comment citing potential legal action by the GOP.

Wednesday’s incident was the third time the Republican signs placed along Middletown Odessa Road went missing, according to investigators. On Sunday about 28 went missing, were replaced and by Tuesday morning were missing again.

Police said that local Republicans put the signs back up and waited to see if anyone came by to take the signs. The Republicans captured him removing the signs and returning to his car around 4 a.m. Wednesday, according to investigators.

In video the local GOP supplied to NBC10, you can see a man rush back into his car after being approached by the Republican advocates.

“Those aren’t your signs, bud,” said one man.

“There’s no name on these signs,” replied the man with an armful of signs.

The GOP says that the signs do state that they are the property of the Republican Party of Delaware.

Long, 54, surrendered to police Thursday morning.

The leader of Delaware’s Democratic Party denounced any theft of signs.

"The bottom line is that this is not a Republican or Democratic issue -- this is a campaign issue happening by all parties, and it must end," said Democratic Party chair John Daniello.

"Each campaign season, we deal with candidates removing their opponents signs. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable. There are more positive ways in which to support your candidate regardless of party affiliation," he said. "Candidates, their supporters, and their campaigns must lead by example and discourage this behavior. We understand that this election is coming to a close and tensions are high, but Democrats shouldn't waste their time on such senseless acts."

Delaware Republican Party chairman Charlie Copeland called the incident a "new low" in state politics.

"It is unfortunate that the 2014 political campaign is marred by this event, and Republicans and Democrats alike should condemn this type of behavior across the board," said Copeland. "It simply has no place in the democratic process. We are better then this."

A bat-wielding woman and gun-wielding man attacked a man along a Philadelphia street over the weekend leaving the man hurt.

Philadelphia Police released surveillance video from the attack along Carpenter Street near 2nd Street in the Queen Village neighborhood in hopes of tracking down the suspects.

In the video, from around 2:40 a.m. Saturday, you see the woman strike the man with a baseball bat just moments after the duo approached and said something to the victim. As the victim tries to flee you see the man shoot him in the back of the leg causing the man to collapse in the street.

After the gunfire, the suspects ran off toward Front Street.

The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.

Earlier, police said The male suspect, armed with a handgun, told the victim, "you know what you did, you son of a b****!"as the woman hit him with a bat.

Police asked anyone with information to call 215-686-8477 or contact police online.