One person was taken to the hospital after a car rear-ended a school bus in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning.

There were no children on the bus at the time of the crash.

The crash happened in the northbound outer lanes of the Roosevelt Boulevard near Cottman Avenue in the city’s Mayfair section.

Investigators say a sedan rear-ended the yellow school bus. The sedan sustained heavy front-end damage.

The driver of the sedan was taken to a nearby hospital in an unknown condition.

No one was on the school bus at the time, except for the driver, who was not injured.

The crash remains under investigation.

One person was killed in a crash that involved a school bus in South Jersey Thursday morning.

The fatality was not on the school bus.

The crash happened about 7:40 a.m. in the 800 block of E. Commerce Street in Fairfield Township, New Jersey.

The crash involved a school bus and a SUV. According to police, the driver of the SUV was killed.

The bus overturned as a result of the crash. Four students, ranging in age from 11 to 17, were on the bus and were forced to climb out of the back of the bus after the crash.

The students, along with the bus driver, were taken to Inspira Medical Center with minor injuries.

A school bus aide was taken to Cooper Medical Center with serious injuries.

The name of the deceased driver was not immediately released.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

A lockdown at a high school in Philadelphia has been lifted after there was a report of a weapon inside the school, police said.

Investigators said Thomas Edison High School on W. Luzerne Street went on lockdown about 10:40 a.m. Thursday.

Police told NBC10 the school went on lockdown after the report of a possible weapon in the school.

A search of the school did not turn up any weapon.

The lockdown was lifted about noon.

The investigation is ongoing.
 

A truck fire at a post office in Bucks County Thursday morning was caught on camera.

The fire started about 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the U.S. Post Office located at 1050 Street Road in Southampton, Bucks County.

Eyewitness Mark Marcelis told NBC10 a box-truck caught fire and was engulfed in flames.

The fire was extinguished about 8 a.m.

It was not immediately known what was inside of the truck.

There were no reports of any injuries.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

Firefighters battled a four-alarm fire in Montgomery County Thursday afternoon.

The fire broke out about 11 a.m. at a house on the 1000 block of Greenwood Avenue in Wyncote. By 12:30 p.m., it reached four alarms.

Authorities said no one was inside the house at the time of the fire and reported no injuries.

Crews remained at the scene battling the blaze after 1 p.m.

A Montgomery County high school is on high alert after "FightWeek" posts on social media spurred a series of fistfights among students.

Videos of the fights this week at Abington Senior High School surfaced on social media, and school administrators sent a letter to parents on Thursday.

The school, according to a letter sent to parents Thursday by Superintendent Amy F. Sichel, has seen five fights in the last few days. In her letter, Sichel said she was writing to set the record straight after posts on social media, some tagged "#AbingtonFightWeek" spread misinformation.

"In one case, a young man was out of control and punched our School Resource Officer," Sichel wrote. "At no time were any of the students who participated in the fights injured, and no other student or staff member was injured. There have been no weapons involved."

Sichel went on to say that all of the situations leading to the fights "began outside of school" and that administrators are continuing to investigate. She reassured parents and students that they are safe at school and said school administrators are working closely with the Abington Police Department to keep the school safe.

She blamed social media for blowing the fights out of proportion.

One video of a fight that allegedly happened at the school sent to NBC10 by a viewer shows two boys fighting in a bathroom, punching each other and pushing each other into walls, stall doors and urinals. At one point, one boy puts the other in a headlock.

In another video of a different fight sent by a viewer, two boys are brawling in a stairwell, and one kicks the other in the head before a woman -- it's unclear if she's a school employee or a female student -- and a school officer intervene.

In a third video, two girls fight before two officers break them up.

It's unclear where the hashtag "#AbingtonFightWeek" originated or exactly when the fights began.

Sichel warned that the school and police will be taking action against any students involved in fights.

"I ask that you monitor the social media activity of your children, as the genesis of several altercations involved conflicts relating to social media postings," the superintendent wrote. "Also, please share that both school consequences and charges from the Abington Police are forthcoming."

Abington Senior High School is ranked 49th among high schools across Pennsylvania by U.S. News and World Report, and 1,661st in the U.S. Its college-readiness, math and literature scores are above average in Pennsylvania, according to U.S. News rankings.

The NBC10 Investigators take you into the world of illegal gun sales and the destruction it causes families.

For weeks, investigative reporter Harry Hairston sifted through data and sat down with those responsible for getting illegal guns off the streets.  Use the interactive map above to see how gun violence is impacting the city of Philadelphia, neighborhood by neighborhood.

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Michael Hagan, Jr. loved Philadelphia.

“Michael loved the city, the vibrancy of it," remembers his father, Michael Hagan, Sr.

But a bullet would take 32-year-old Michael's life in the early morning of July 1st 2012.

"Our lives, at that moment changed forever,” said Michael’s, mother, Carol Hagan.

Shot dead on 4th Street, Hagan’s body was left on a sidewalk. His killer has never been found.

“Somebody killed my son for a few dollars. Couldn’t he have just robbed him and let him live? That’s how bad these guys are. They don’t have respect for life," said Hagan, Sr.

His son was one of 285 homicide victims by firearm in 2012.

That number went down to 198 in 2013, up in 2014 to 207 and rose again last year to 233.

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Authorities believe many of these homicides — and other gun crimes — were committed with illegal firearms.

"I like to think that when I purchase a gun from a criminal or someone else that shouldn't have it, then I'm saving a life," an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF tells hairston.

 In an exclusive interview, the undercover agent shared some of his experience buying undercover guns.

"I've gone into homes where it's like an open flea market, where you had 15, 20 guns spread out on the table and he had 10, 11 people were there —  everyone buying or purchasing the guns," the agent said.

The ATF agent tells us guns are being sold in every single neighborhood. According to federal agents, some of the illegal sales are done in cars, out in the open on a neighborhood street and even at a business in Center City.

The undercover agent says he stumbled upon the owner of a barber shop in the 1100 block of Chestnut who was illegally selling assault rifles.

“In the basement, there was a shooting range," the agent said. The business is now replaced by new construction.

The most recent ATF report from 2014 shows in Pennsylvania, the feds recovered 8,929 illegal guns. One third of those — 3,187 — were found in philadlephia.

Sam Rabadi, the special agent in charge of Philadelphia's ATF field office, tells us at least half the guns on the black market in Philly are stolen or from straw purchases in Pennsylvania.

The other half comesup I-95 from states in the South. Law enforcement calls that stretch of interstate The Iron Pipe Line.

Drugs from Philly are taken down South and traded for guns where illegal purchasing is easier, Rabadi said.

In just the last three years there have been more than 19,200 crimes using firearms, according to Philly police.

Authorities were unable to tell us how many illegal guns were involved in these crimes — and the ATF says illegal guns keep coming to town.

"It's constant. It seems like it's never ending. Sometimes it feels like an uphill battle, like we are never going to win the battle," said the undercover agent.

That outlook frustrates Hagan’s mother.

"It makes you sad and angry that it just keeps happening over and over again and that these guns are out on the street,” she said.

Since Hagan’s murder, his family is determined his death not be in vain. They tell us they are working to make the city safer by speaking out against illegal guns — and pushing for tougher sentencing.

“When you lose one of your children to gun violence it, you know, it never heals. It just don’t.”

If you've been meaning to visit downtown Philadelphia's iconic LOVE sculpture for some photos, your days to do that may be dwindling -- at least for awhile.

And skateboarders, longtime stalwarts of the park although it's not technically legal to skate there, will soon become a thing of the past.

Tourists and other selfie-snappers will get their park back eventually, but as the park's multi-million-dollar renovation nears and its days as a concrete oasis become numbered, skateboarders are cramming in their last-chance laps. New green space included in the park's renovation will eliminate much of the stone and steps that make LOVE a perfect place for skateboarding.

The skaters who frequent LOVE Park are expressing their discontent with the park's impending revamp on social media using hashtags including "#lastdaysoflove" and "#phillyhasnolove."

A group of skateboarders, all young men, many who said they'd been skating at the park near-daily for years, looked on wistfully Thursday as construction workers began to put up fencing around parts of the park.

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The major renovation is set to commence sometime this spring, with a ceremonial groundbreaking scheduled for Wednesday at 11 a.m. A spokesman for the city's Department of Parks and Recreation said Thursday that he didn't yet have an exact date for when the whole park would be shut down.

The entire renovation, which will add green space including grass and a variety of flowers, and include additional crisscrossing fountains, among other things, is expected to take at least a year and some change and cost $16.5 million.

The LOVE sculpture will be removed for a period but later reinstalled close to the same spot it's in now, according to PlanPhilly.

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The skateboarders, who flock to the park by the dozen some days, say they feel like they're being pushed out by the renovation.

For some skaters from rougher sections of the city, LOVE Park has been a haven that kept them off the corner and out of trouble.

"I didn't have any friends till I came to this place," a 23-year-old skateboarder from Germantown who goes by Q. Three said on Thursday as he looked around at the shiny silver fences breaking up the park. "I could've been in all kinds of street stuff."

For Mark Jackson, 24, from Hunting Park, skating at LOVE has always been an outlet for him, too.

"It's everything," Jackson said as he stood with Q, holding his skateboard.

They'd get chased out of the park by park rangers and police sometimes, they said, but in a city rife with drugs and guns, skateboarding -- even where it isn't legal -- was always a better alternative.

"Nobody comes to the park unless we're skating," Q. added. "This is our place. We shovel [snow], we fix the cracks."

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Mark Pepe, 21, and Collin Underwood, 22, two Temple University students who skate at LOVE every chance they get, lamented the loss of a place that, to them, feels like home.

"Skaters take better care of the park," Underwood said.

Pepe added, "During the snowstorm, I was out here with other people shoveling off the steps."

Both young men said they've known skaters to repair cracks in the pavement and clean up graffiti in the park.

"It just shows the skaters put more love and care into this park than the city did," Underwood said.

Pepe said his dad started bringing him to the park to skateboard when he was in 4th grade.

"It keeps a lot of kids out of trouble," he said.

The skateboarders said that Paine's Park, a skatepark opened on 24th Street near the Art Museum in 2013, is nice to have, but it isn't the same as LOVE Park, which they said is where some pro skateboarders, like Bordentown's Ishod Wair, have cut their teeth.

"Even if you build a skatepark, you can't make a skatepark as good as this place," Underwood said.

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#1: QUICKIE FOR FRIDAY A.M. RUSH
The first snow threat comes early Friday morning, as a small rain event turns into a small snow event. I use the term “event”, since it’s just not big enough to be called a “storm”. A couple of inches of snow is a storm in Atlanta, but not around here-especially when the roads are warm at the start.

WARM AIR/WARM ROADS-BUT NOT TOTALLY
We got up to 56 degrees Thursday-after 62 Wednesday tied a record. So the roads are warm. The air is still warm, so precipitation will start as rain all across our area. If the change to snow would happen in the middle of the day, we could be pretty sure it would melt as it hit, and problems would be minor at best. But the change to snow is expected near the start of the A.M. rush (4-7am). And it could change from a fairly heavy rain to a fairly heavy snow quickly. I’m talking about the big, wet flakes that stick to everything. When it comes down hard, it can reduce visibilities to near zero, making it hard to see the traffic ahead. That’s not so minor.

ONCE THE SNOW STARTS
This is more like a spring snow, with rain changing to wet snow, and temperatures remaining at or above the freezing mark. Roads can’t be pre-treated, since the rain would just wash away the chemicals. So, if the snow comes down hard for a while, roads could get slippery-especially the less-traveled ones. Any heavy snow won’t last very long, so it may be best to just pull over and wait it out if you run into a snow burst.

Since it’s not really a storm, the snow will end quickly, between 8 and 10am depending on where you are. And the sun will come out, pushing temperatures back into the 40s. That will melt the snow that just fell, and the afternoon rush will be nice and dry. So will the weekend-nice and dry.

Here is the snow forecast map from NBC10:

Some spots in the white area could see locally higher amounts. And the farther away you get from the ocean, the less snow you will see. It’s what we sometimes call a “backward storm”, since the N&W areas usually see more than the shore……(OOPS…I didn’t mean to call it a “storm”)

#2 MORE OF A REAL STORM-BUT PROBABLY NOT HUGE
Computer models have been showing signs for more than a week. An Arctic blast will be moving into the area by the middle of next week. The possible storm is just ahead of that. But, unlike our blizzard from a couple of weeks ago, this set-up is far from classic. There will be multiple storms developing between Monday and Wednesday, and not one single, big storm. In fact, the biggest one will probably move out to sea Monday. The one on Tuesday has more potential to bring us snow.

Here is the computer forecast map from the overall world’s best model-the European. And it’s not just the EURO, it’s the “ensemble” of that model. It’s an average of the 51 times the model is run twice a day. So, it’s “the best of the best”:

The LOW is in a favorable place, and the rain/snow line is far enough offshore to make us predict snow for Monday night into Tuesday. But it’s not a real intense LOW, which would be needed to give us a big storm. It’s still too early to talk about amounts, but it does have the potential to give much of our area accumulating snow.

Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz
Chief Meteorologist, NBC10 Philadelphia

Police said GPS in stolen cellphones helped them track an armed robbery suspect 26 miles from the location of the crime.

It all started at the Verizon store on Columbus Boulevard around 8 Thursday evening when witnesses said a man with a gun burst in, tied up employees and customers, then took off with the stolen phones.

Police said they were able to pinpoint the getaway Jeep with GPS in the stolen phones and chased the suspect as he sped up to 100 miles per hour first on 76 then i-95 into Delaware.

"I saw a car speed past.. and then I saw a police car right on him.. and I was like Oh My God, what happened?," Iman Dawson told NBC10's George Spencer.

The chase ended as the Jeep sped onto a quiet cul-de-sac in New Castle. With nowhere to go, the suspect crashed the Jeep into a drainage ditch.

Skyforce 10 hovered overhead as police surrounded the Jeep with guns drawn then were able to take the driver out.

He was then loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital for treatment. There was no word about the extent of the injuries he sustained.

Police could be seen searching the Jeep after the ambulance drove off.

The suspect's name was not released.

Police from Philadelphia to Wilmington were involved in the incident.