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Snowy Fun at the Elmwood Park Zoo

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Bison, elk, and even otters were having fun at the Elmwood Park Zoo in Norristown Tuesday. Zookeepers say this is their kind of weather!

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Person Rescued From Ice in NJ

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Emergency crews rescued at least one person who got stuck in thin ice Tuesday afternoon in Monmouth County, NJ.

Apartment Complex Evacuated After Pipe Freezes and Ruptures

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This is not the kind of weather you want to be chased out of your home in! That's what happened to dozens of elderly people in Camden County. NBC10's Doug Shimell has more on that story.

Skyforce 10 Over Schuylkill River

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NBC10's Christine Maddela is in Skyforce 10 flying over the Schuykill River near the Strawberry Mansion Bridge. Check out the layer of ice and snow coating the river!

Why is Snow Fluffy?

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NBC10 First Alert Weather Meteorologist Sheena Parveen explains why the snow is so fluffy.

Girl, 14, Climbing on Pipe Falls Into Icy Water: Cops

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A 14-year-old girl was taken to the hospital with signs of hypothermia after plunging into icy water in New Jersey Tuesday, authorities said.

Authorities say the girl and two friends had climbed along a pipe that leads from the shore of the Sandy Hook Bay near Leonard Avenue in Middletown out to the water. The girl apparently lost her footing and fell.

Officials initially got a call that a person was stuck on the ice around 3 p.m.; by the time first responders arrived, the girl was in the water. Her two friends were stranded on the ice but had not fallen in. 

Chopper 4 captured an extensive emergency response. Fire trucks and ambulances lined up on the street near the water and rescuers were seen climbing out to where the girl apparently fell in.

She was pulled from the water and taken to Riverview Medical Center. 

Emergency responder Jack Houston later recounted the rescue: "She managed to get herself onto an ice flow. She'd fallen through, got herself back up onto the ice and that's where she was when we made contact with her." 

"She was very cold, very wet and a little hypothermic, but I'm sure she's going to be fine," he added. 

Locals said the Sandy Hook Bay does not usually freeze over the way it has because it is saltwater. But this winter has been exceptional. 

"It's definitely tempting for kids to do it," said Glenn Burbank, who witnessed the rescue. "I wouldn't do it. You can see that it's not really safe enough to walk on, you can hear it crunching and stuff."

Houston said the bottom line is everyone should assume "no ice is safe." 

"People have just got to stay off the ice, that's the most important thing," he said. 

The accident comes amid a brief reprieve from a two-punch arctic snap that sent temperatures in Central Park diving to 3 degrees Monday morning, the coldest recorded temperature in the park in more than a decade. Storm Team 4 says a second cold snap may plunge temperatures even further Friday.

The frigid weather has gripped much of the northeast over the last week. On Monday, a 32-year-old New York City financial analyst was found dead in a New Hampshire hiking area after apparently freezing to death. 

Safety Tips: Playing on Frozen Lakes

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With temperatures this cold many are tempted to go ice skating or play hockey on local frozen lakes, but authorities warn people to pay attention and proceed with caution. NBC10's Cydney Long is in Medford with more.

Man Killed Inside Del. Community Center ID'd

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Friends and family are mourning a Delaware man who was shot and killed inside a community center Monday.

"Whoever took him from this world, they took a wonderful human being," said Tandra Mangrum.

Mangrum's son, 30-year-old Jamar Kilgoe, of Wilmington, Delaware, was inside a recording studio in the basement of the Rose Hill Community Center on Lambson Lane in New Castle, Delaware Monday afternoon. While he was inside, an unidentified gunman approached him and opened fire before fleeing the scene.

Police officers arrived at the center around 2:50 p.m. where they found Kilgoe unresponsive. He was pronounced dead a short time later.

Officials say there were children inside the center at the time of the shooting. The center was placed on lockdown and children and teachers were sent home. No other injuries were reported. The community center was closed Tuesday.

Mangrum told NBC10 she was at work when she found out about her son's death.

"There are no words to explain," Mangrum said. "He was the kindest, most humble, most loving person. He would help anybody."

Police described the gunman as a large man wearing a light-colored hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and dark shoes. They have not yet revealed whether they have any surveillance video of the suspect.

Family members told NBC10 that aside from his children and work, Kilgoe was most passionate about his music. They said they have no idea why he was targeted.

If you have any information on the shooting, please call the New Castle County Police Department at 302-573-2800.

The Rose Hill Community Center is a nonprofit community agency. Several programs for local children take place there, including the New Castle Boys & Girls Club as well as the Head Start program, a free preschool program for 3 to 5 year-old children from low income families.
 


Record-Low Del. River Water Level in Philly

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The water level of the Delaware River at Philadelphia was at its lowest point in almost 22 years Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Weather Service released a graph showing Sunday’s water level in comparison to the average water level.

"The river level fell to -3.4 feet mean lower low water (as shown by the red arrow on the graph). The last time the river level was that low at Philadelphia was on March 15, 1993," a spokesperson for the Weather Service wrote. “The red line on the graph indicates the actual water level, the blue line is what the water level should be based on the normal tidal fluctuations and the green line is the departure or difference between the two." 

The spokesperson says the low water levels were caused by strong northwest winds that pushed ocean water away from the New Jersey and Delaware coasts, drawing water out of Delaware Bay and the tidal portion of the Delaware River.
 



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Home Invader Ties Up Elderly Woman: Police

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A Delaware man was arrested after he allegedly tied up an elderly woman during a home invasion.

Dustin Niebert, 26, of Ellendale, allegedly broke into a home on the 6000 block of Melody Lane in Milford, Delaware around 3 a.m. Monday. The homeowner, a 91-year-old woman, was sleeping at the time, police said.

Niebert went into the woman’s room, tied her up and then stole jewelry and cash before fleeing in the woman’s car, according to police. The car was later found abandoned a short distance away.

A family member, who hadn’t been able to reach her by phone, arrived at the woman’s home around 3:30 p.m. Monday afternoon and found her still tied up in the room. The woman was taken to the hospital where she was treated for non-life-threatening injuries before she was later released.

Investigators say they received several tips which eventually led them to Niebert. State Police arrested Niebert around 2:15 p.m. He was taken into custody and charged with robbery, home invasion, assault and other related offenses.

Niebert was also charged for shoplifting and was arraigned on a Kent County Superior Court capias. He was committed to the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in lieu of $10,500.00 cash only bond.
 



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Officer Donates iPads to Students With Autism

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Philadelphia Police are saluting an officer who is helping local students in need.

Officer Sammy Sanchez raised over $8,000 to donate iPads to six Philadelphia schools that work with kids with autism. The Police Department highlighted Sanchez’s efforts in a Facebook post Tuesday.

“Sammy raised this money while also raising his son who faces some of the challenges of autism,” a spokesperson wrote. “Having seen what a great help a program called "Proloquo2Go" (available only for for iOS) has been for his son, Sammy made it his personal mission to get as many iPads into Philadelphia schools as he could.”

Sanchez used the money to buy 36 iPads. He was also able to load the iPads with Proloquo2Go software, which costs $200.

You can learn more about Proloquo2Go here.
 



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Ice Causes Roosevelt Blvd Crash

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Icy road conditions caused a car accident in the Oxford Circle section of the city Monday night.

The unidentified driver was traveling on Roosevelt Boulevard at Devereaux Avenue when the vehicle slid on ice.

The driver lost control and struck a tree. The driver was taken to the hospital. Officials have not yet revealed his or her condition.

All northbound outer lanes of the Boulevard reopened after investigators wrapped up.
 

Trial Begins in Butt-Injection Death

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Jury selection began Tuesday in the trial of the so-called "black madam," accused of giving an illegal buttocks injection that led to a woman's death.

Prosecutors say one woman died and another came close to dying after Padge-Victoria Windslowe illegally injected silicone into their rear-ends during voluntary "pumping parties." Windslowe is charged with murder, possession of an instrument with crime and other related offenses. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Windslowe, 44, was arrested in early 2012 when police raided a home on East Pastorius Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia before an alleged "pumping party" was about to begin.

She allegedly played a role in the fatal butt-enhancement procedure performed on 20-year-old British student Claudia Aderotimi at the Hampton Inn near Philadelphia International Airport in Feb. 2011.

Police say Aderotimi flew from London to Philadelphia after seeing Windslowe's internet posting advertising body enhancement. Aderotimi did not know that Windslowe was an unlicensed and untrained layperson who was using local hotels, according to investigators.

Police say Aderotimi was injected in her buttocks with a needle filled with silicone. After the injection, Aderotimi experienced chest pains as the silicone traveled through her system and into her blood stream and organs, according to investigators.

Police say Aderotimi's friends, who were in the hotel during the procedure, alerted Windslowe about the medical emergency. Windslowe allegedly told Aderotimi and her friends that she should drink more fluids and to call an ambulance if she needed to. Police say Windslowe then ran off instead of calling police or checking to see if Aderotimi was okay.

Aderotimi died a short time later at a Delaware County Hospital from a pulmonary embolism caused by complications from the butt injection, according to the Medical Examiner. A pulmonary embolism is a blockage of the lung's main artery or one of its branches by a substance that has traveled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream.

One of Aderotimi's friends, Theresa Gyamfi, said she traveled with her friend to the U.S. and had also received a similar injection in November 2010 from the same woman.

Gyamfi identified Windslowe as the woman that injected both of them.



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Businessman Charged With Child Porn at Airport

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The vice president of an international business was arrested at Philly International Airport over the weekend after authorities found child porn on his laptops and cellphone, officials said.

Ivan Teobalelo Zubiaga, 50, of Waxhaw, N.C, is charged with 25 counts of child pornography possession, obscene and other sexual materials and criminal use of a communications facility.

Zubiaga, who is the executive vice president for Raedlinger’s Primus Line, Inc., arrived at Philly International from Munich, German Saturday following a business trip.

During a baggage check, authorities searched his two laptops, a cellphone, hard drive and several thumb drives and turned them over to Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for further investigation. HSI agents then found a large volume of child porn videos on the devices, according to officials.

While being interviewed by police, Zubiaga allegedly said he was the sole user of the laptops. He also denied knowing any of the children in the videos while admitting he downloaded and watched child porn for approximately ten years, police said.

"Those who possess child pornography fuel the appalling exploitation of innocent children," said District Attorney Jack Whelan. "Those who engage in this criminal behavior should be forewarned that law enforcement is actively working to locate and arrest them. I would like to commend HSI, and our local law enforcement for their collaborative work on this case.”

Zubiaga was arraigned Feb. 14 and remanded to the Delaware County prison after failing to post 10 percent of $250,000 bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 25.
 



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Frozen Building in Danger of Collapse

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Officials are monitoring a frozen building in West Philadelphia in danger of collapsing.

The Locust Medical Center building at 52nd and Locust streets became encased in ice Monday morning following an early morning fire.

The fire broke out around 4:45 a.m. Monday. Fire crews struck a second alarm shortly after arriving on scene. The building houses doctor's offices and other medical facilities.

The fire was placed under control just before 6:30 a.m. Monday. No one was hurt, but a combination of gusty winds and extreme cold made knocking down the blaze difficult.

Water being used to fight the fire froze to about an inch thick on sidewalks, cars and trees nearby. On the building, which was constantly doused with water, an even thicker coating of ice blanketed walls and power lines. Adjacent properties, including a restaurant, were also encased in ice.

After the property froze over, officials with the city's department Licenses and Inspections classified the building as "imminently dangerous."

"The ice that's put on this property adds a lot of weight and we establish collapse zones and we just
have to stay out of it's way," said Philadelphia Fire Department Deputy Chief James Bonner. "We have to keep it contained to the building it's in and make sure the building doesn't fall on us." 

An L&I spokesperson told NBC10 the fire marshal is now investigating the property.

"Once the investigation is completed and cleared, the Department will take the appropriate action," he said.

The spokesman also told NBC10 the owner will have the opportunity to demolish the property.

"If the owner cannot take immediate action then the city will demolish it," the spokesman said. "Normally within ten days. However, if the building conditions warrant immediate action prior to the ten days, we will curbside bid the property for demolition."

On Tuesday, the building's owner told NBC10 he plans to demolish the house as soon as possible.


Refreezing, Bitter Cold and Snow Ahead

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More brutal winter weather is ahead this week with re-freezing on roads, bitter cold and snow in the forecast. NBC10's Sheena Parveen has the details.

Police Tracking Snowblower Thefts in New Jersey Town

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Police say the wintry weather has caused a surge in snowblower thefts in one New Jersey town.

The Lodi police department says at least four snowblowers, left in backyards by homeowners bracing for the next storm, have been stolen.

Police have not identified any suspects and say local pawn shops came back negative for stolen snowblowers. They believe whoever is stealing them may be selling the machines, which range anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, for drug money.

Anyone with information can call Crime Stoppers at 209-369-CRIME.  



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Carnegie Mellon Mistakenly Admits 800

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Ben Leibowitz called up relatives to tell them he got into Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious graduate computer science program. He even went out to dinner with his parents to celebrate.

Then he got a second email saying he hadn't been accepted after all.

About 800 other Carnegie Mellon applicants experienced similar swings of ecstasy and agony Monday - first rejoicing that the Pittsburgh institution had selected them for its master of science in computer science, then being told the acceptances were sent in error and that they had been rejected.

"It was brutal. I didn't get much sleep last night," Leibowitz, of Stamford, Connecticut, said Tuesday. "Now I have to clean up the mess. I'm calling all my relatives, I'm going, 'I'm sorry it's not happening.'"

Carnegie Mellon spokesman Kenneth Walters said the "Welcome to Carnegie Mellon!" messages were the result of "serious mistakes" in the university's process for generating acceptance letters and that it would conduct a review to prevent another error.

"We understand the disappointment created by this mistake, and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication," Walters said.

The university sent a follow-up email to the rejected students Tuesday afternoon, saying its system had "incorrectly flagged" applicants as being admitted.

Dozens of applicants shared snippets of their rejection emails along with hints of their own disappointment on a message board for people applying to graduate programs.

Carnegie Mellon's computer science graduate school tied for No. 1 with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley in U.S. News & World Report's most recent rankings.

The university said in the erroneous messages that it accepts less than 9 percent of more 1,200 applicants - or about 100 people - into the master's program each year.

But all the technological know-how and selectivity in the world couldn't prevent the university from joining the list of high-profile institutions that accepted applicants when they didn't mean to.

In December, Johns Hopkins University mistakenly sent nearly 300 undergraduate applicants welcome messages when they were actually rejected or deferred.

In February 2014, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent thousands of students a mistaken email about financial aid saying they were receiving the information because they had been admitted.

In 2009, the University of California at San Diego sent acceptance emails to all 46,000 students who applied, including 28,000 who were rejected.

Elisa Davis, a consultant who helped Leibowitz prepare for the graduate admissions tests, said she'd never heard of erroneous acceptance letters at the graduate school level, in part because the process is much more personal than for undergraduates.

"People need to put care into things that affect other people," Davis said. "I'm very disappointed in them."



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Bar Fight Turns Into Deadly Stabbing

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A bar fight, possibly involving a recently fired employee, spread onto a Philadelphia street leaving one man dead and another in the hospital.

The argument began inside Che Bar & Grill along Stenton Avenue in Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood.

“We believe that both of the victims, as well as the perpetrator, were all inside of this bar and that’s when an argument started,” said Chief inspector Scott Small.

The argument then spread outside the bar where one of the men, believed to be around 30 years old, pulled out a knife.

A 29-year-old stabbing victim died. A 27-year-old suffered multiple stab wounds to his side that left him in critical condition.

“We believe he is going to survive his injuries,” said Small.

Employees at nearby Einstein Hospital called 911 around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday after the two victims arrived in the emergency room.

Police later returned to the 6300 block of Stenton Avenue where they found personal items, a cellphone and blood on the sidewalk outside the bar. A Philadelphia Police crime camera and business surveillance cameras possibly captured at least part of the incident, said investigators.

Police said the suspect was last seen driving off in a gray Buick LeSabre.

Witnesses told investigators that the dispute possibly had to do with a recently fired employee. Small said that police were working to verify if that was actually the case.



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Airline to Serve 'Spirit' of Philly-Atlanta Route

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A discount airline is about to offer Philadelphia travelers another way to get to one of America’s busiest airports.

Spirit Airlines, the self-proclaimed “Ultra Low Fare Airline,” plans to offer nonstop service from Philadelphia International Airport to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport beginning June 18.

“This is exciting news for travelers in the Philadelphia region and beyond, especially in light of upcoming major events that will be taking place in Philadelphia,” said Airport CEO Mark Gale Tuesday. “We are very pleased that Spirit is expanding service at PHL and giving travelers more low-fare choices to Atlanta, a key destination. More affordable low-fare flights spur competition, which is great for the flying public and Philadelphia International Airport.”

As of Wednesday morning, the Philly-Atlanta flights cost less than $60 each way on Spirit.com.

Spirit already offers service to and from Atlantic City International Airport as part of its Atlanta services.
 

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