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Snow to Impact Friday Morning Rush

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Winter's last gasp? What will likely be the last snowstorm of this winter is set to hit our area early Friday, impacting the morning rush.

FROM 60S TO SNOW

Yup, it’s March, and we often see wild swings in weather over just a couple of days. We had three straight days with highs up to 64, but wind chills dropped to 31 degrees Wednesday afternoon. So, it felt 33 degrees colder than just 24 hours before! Wonder why it felt extra cold? Our bodies got fooled into thinking it was spring. The next winter impact is going to be snow, and it’s going to be more than flurries or a few snow showers.

A SOUTHERN TRACK

The storm itself hasn’t really organized yet, so there’s not much to see on radar. But this “Water Vapor” satellite loop shows the moisture buildup in the middle of the country in the blue colors.

And the U.S. model, the GFS, clearly shows the area of LOW pressure move from the Plains to the East Coast.

The closer the lines are together, the more intense the storm. So, you can clearly see how quickly it strengthens once it hits the coast. The storm track is too far south for most our area to be hit hard, but….

A MESSY FRIDAY A.M. RUSH

The combination of falling snow, a cold night, and a dark start to the Friday A.M. rush could make for a slushy mess in some areas. Most computer models don’t show the snow getting heavy enough to cause major problems at that time. And, just as the snow starts getting heavier, the strong March sun will be “fighting” with it: snow sticking vs. melting. Snow needs to come down hard during the day in March to stick on roads. So I expect a slushy mess on side streets Friday morning, with the highways mainly wet. Low visibility from any heavier snow would make driving more difficult. Of course, it doesn’t take much to mess up rush hour in the Philadelphia area.

HOW MUCH?

The Wednesday afternoon computer models varied a bit: from nearly zero measurable snow (mostly melting) to a few inches. The best chance of the higher amounts looks to be Central and Southern Delaware and extreme South Jersey. Both areas are closer to the storm track. Here is our snowfall forecast:

THE THINGS TO WATCH FOR (“WILD CARDS”)

A couple of things could add or subtract from the snow totals:

WOULD MEAN MORE SNOW

  • Storm tracks farther north
  • Storm intensifies even more than expected
  • Heavier snow before sunrise Friday than now expected
  • Temperatures a bit lower than predicted

WOULD MEAN LESS SNOW

  • Farther south storm track (or weaker storm)
  • Snow light enough to melt even if it falls for hours
  • Temperatures stay above freezing in snow areas

Of course, stay tuned for updates on this storm, which could be the last one for a LONG time. Next week, temperatures should be going into the 70s.


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Police Arrest Barricade Suspect Armed With Knife: Officials

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A man who was allegedly armed with a knife is now in custody following a barricade situation in Philadelphia Wednesday night.

Police received a call at 6:21 p.m. reporting an unidentified man was armed with a knife on the 7400 block of Lawndale Street. When police arrived they found a man inside a home at that location refusing to come out, investigators said.

A barricade situation was declared and a staging area was established. Around 9:30 p.m. police took the man into custody. No one was injured during the incident.

Police have not yet revealed the specific charges against the man.

Contaminated Water Concerns in Moorestown

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Scientists found bacteria in the drinking water in Moorestown, New Jersey leading to concerns from residents. NBC10's Aundrea Cline-Thomoas has the details.

Mayor Kenney to Unveil Philly Budget Plan

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Mayor Jim Kenney will unveil his first budget plan for Philadelphia Thursday. NBC10's Lauren Mayk has a preview.

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'Spear Phishing' Attack Targets Main Line Health Employees

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An investigation is underway after a “spear phishing” incident impacted the personal information of all Main Line Health employees.

Officials say a “spear phishing” email was sent to a Main Line Health employee on February 16. The employee believed it was a legitimate email and responded to its request by providing the personal information of all Main Line Health employees. Officials determined the email was actually part of a nationwide phishing scheme in which criminals use fake emails in order to get personal information.

Main Line Health set up resources to help employees including a call center to answer questions and provide information on how to monitor their financial accounts. Officials say no patient information was released or compromised during the incident. The IRS and the FBI are all investigating.

"The safety and security of Main Line Health's employees is our priority, and we are establishing resources to provide our employees with as much support as possible during this time," said Jack Lynch, President and CEO, Main Line Health. "We are currently conducting a review of internal policies and procedures to identify ways in which to enhance existing safeguards to help prevent incidents of this nature in the future.  Identity theft and other forms of electronic fraud have become increasingly prevalent, and I want to urge our colleagues at other health care organizations as well as our regional business partners to take immediate action to educate their employees against phishing attempts.”
 

Fiery Lehigh County Crash Kills 5

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Five people died in a fiery crash as their car collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 222 in Lehigh County Wednesday afternoon.

Police say a Subaru Impreza with five people inside was traveling north on Route 222 about ¼ mile south of Grim Road in Upper Macungie Township around 4 p.m. Suddenly the driver crossed the center grass median, traveling directly into the path of a tractor-trailer traveling south on Rt. 222 causing a head-on collision, police said.

The impact separated the Impreza into two parts and both vehicles were engulfed in flames. Police say two of the five people inside the Impreza were ejected. All five people who were inside the car died from their injuries. The Lehigh County Coroner's Office ruled the deaths and accident and planned autopsies for Thursday, hoping forensic evidence could help identify the victims.

The big rig driver, an Allentown man, suffered minor injuries. Rt. 222 was closed for several hours at the scene of the crash.

The Upper Macungie Township Police Department and the county coroner’s office are all investigating the accident. Anyone who witnessed the crash should call Officer Joshua Forrester at 484-661-5911 x-352.
 

Chick-fil-A Creates 'Cell Phone Coop Challenge'

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Many of us are guilty of paying more attention to our screens than each other at the dinner table, but one fast-food chain is trying to discourage distraction and encourage interaction with a new challenge.

Chick-fil-A locations across the country have started doing the "Cell Phone Coop Challenge" to get customers to put down their phones and spend more time with their family and friends while they eat their chicken sandwiches and waffle fries.

To participate, customers silence their phones and put them in a small, square box called the "coop." If everyone at the table finishes their meal without taking the phones out of the coop, they receive a small Icedream cone.

The challenge has quickly caught on at more than 150 locations around the U.S. after Brad Williams, a Chick-fil-A operator in Suwanee, Ga., started the concept, the company says.

“We have families who aren’t successful the first time and come back to try again. We even have people asking to take the boxes home with them! Our whole community is talking about it,” Williams said.

News4 in Washington reached out to a few Chick-fil-A locations in the DMV to see if there are any that have started the challenge.  

"We've seen that the cell phone coop has gone viral and we're trying to think of something ourselves," said Paul Novak, the director of operations at the DC USA Chick-fil-A.

Other area Chick-fil-A restaurants said they might start the challenge in the near future.



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Newspapers: Christie Should Resign

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A half-dozen newspapers in New Jersey called on Tuesday for Gov. Chris Christie to resign from office, the same day the governor joined Donald Trump at a rally in Florida.

The Asbury Park Press, Bridgewater Courier-News, Cherry Hill Courier-Post, East Brunswick Home News Tribune, Vineland Daily Journal and Morristown Daily Record, all owned by newspaper chain Gannett, published a joint editorial asking Christie to step down from the Garden State's highest office.

"What an embarrassment. What an utter disgrace," the editorial boards said in unison. "We're fed up with Gov. Chris Christie's arrogance. We’re fed up with his opportunism. We’re fed up with his hypocrisy. We’re fed up with his sarcasm. We’re fed up with his long neglect of the state to pursue his own selfish agenda."

The papers added that they were "disgusted" that the governor endorsed Trump and for traveling out of state using taxpayer money to campaign on the billionaire's behalf.

They also took umbrage for the governor refusing to take off-topic questions after announcing a nomination for the state's Supreme Court. 

The joint editorial came a day after an editorial from the New Hampshire Union Leader, the influential newspaper that endorsed him ahead of the state's GOP primary in February, said it was wrong to give the New Jersey governor its support. The newspaper also took issue with Christie's endorsement of Trump.

"Boy, were we wrong," the paper's publisher said.

The editorials were published hours before Christie, who dropped out of the race on Feb. 10, took the stage with Trump at a rally in Florida. The Governor stood behind the former "Apprentice" host and and found himself the subject of social media ridicule for his seemingly vacant gaze

Christie hasn't yet responded to the editorials. 



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Sports Authority to Close Stores

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The Sports Authority company is going bankrupt and leaving workers in the Philadelphia region out of work.

Drexel's $3.5B Plan to Transform University City

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Drexel University and Brandywine Realty Trust unveiled Schuylkill Yards, a $3.5 billion new neighborhood that will be constructed over two decades and create a community focused on innovation.

Brandywine was officially named master planner on Wednesday for the development that will span over 14 acres and, at build out, consist of five million square feet of office, lab, residential, hotel, retail and open space.

Schuylkill Yards is a bold vision that seeks to achieve many ambitions and is another sign of progress in an area that skeptics and other observers thought might never have happened during their lifetimes.

It is the creation of a new, mixed-use neighborhood in what had long been a desolate area of the city. More than that, it connects to other anchors, provides a network of open and green spaces within a sea of concrete, will attempt to attract companies and residents and, once completed, fill a massive gap in the city and provide another economic engine to Philadelphia.

“We’re always looking for game-changing projects and this project, Schuylkill Yards, is a game changer for the city, the region and a game changer for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” said state Sen. Anthony Williams. “The innovation will have a national impact.” Read more about the plan on PBJ.com.


For the latest business news check out PBJ.com.



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A Wawa 1st: 'Compressed Natural Gas' at the Pump

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The Wawa in Paulsboro, New Jersey will open up a CNG fueling station Thursday.

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Ban on Feeding Wild Animals in Delaware?

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A city-wide ban on bird and wild animal feeding may soon be in place in Wilmington, Delaware.

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High School Impostor Pleads Not Guilty

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Harrisburg police say Artur Samarin posed as a teenage high school honors student but is actually a Ukrainian man in his 20s.

Arrests in Murder of Transgender Woman

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A man and a woman face murder charges in the killing of a transgender woman last month.

Philadelphia Police announced Thursday the arrests of 19-year-old Jose Pena and 24-year-old Tiffany Floyd in the stabbing death of 25-year-old Maya Young.

Young was found at late on Feb. 20 along the 4800 block of Penn Street with multiple stab wounds to her neck and chest, police said. She was lying on the street when officers arrived and died a short time later at Aria Frankford Hospital.

Officers arrested Floyd, who lives on Cloud Street, on Tuesday and nabbed Pena, who lives on Pratt Street, on Wednesday. Both face murder and conspiracy charges.

The motive for the stabbing wasn't revealed.

"Maya’s name and memory now join an ever growing list of trans identified people who have lost their lives at far too young an age to violence," Nellie Fitzpatrick, director of Philadelphia's Office of LGBT Affairs.

Young is the first transgender person to be killed in Philadelphia this year, Fitzpatrick said. Last year, two transgender women were killed.

Keisha Jenkins was killed during an October robbery in Hunting Park. London Chanel was stabbed to death inside an abandoned home in May. Charges were filed in both cases.

Jenkins and Chanel's deaths were part of a spike in homicides of transgender people across the United States. Twenty-three trans and gender-nonconforming people were killed in 2015.

"We must work to increase opportunities for jobs and career paths, access to meaningful health care and the coverage to go along with it, housing and education," Fitzpatrick said.



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Police Arrest Home Invader Who Posed as Water Worker

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One half of a pair of armed robbers who posed as utility workers, burst into a home in Point Breeze and assaulted a woman has been arrested, according to police.

Police say Tillman Byrd was located Wednesday at a home in West Philadelphia's Mill Creek neighborhood after an anonymous tip call investigators received when they released surveillance video identifying him as a suspect in the home invasion.

The violent robbery unfolded the morning of Feb. 14 about 8:30, when police say Byrd and another man knocked on the door of a home on Mole Street near Ellsworth and told two women there they needed to check the pipes. One of the women, a 39-year-old, told the men the pipes were fine, and the pair left -- only to return minutes later, force their way in at gunpoint and demand valuables.

Police said the men beat the 39-year-old woman with a handgun and ransacked her room before fleeing from the house. The woman had to be treated at an area hospital for injuries to her face. A 68-year-old woman who was also home at the time was uninjured, police said.

Police said Byrd and the second robber were captured on surveillance video parking on the women's block. After receiving the tip days after the home invasion, detectives eventually tracked Byrd down at the house on Moss Street.

Byrd faces charges including aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, illegal gun possession, theft, terroristic threats and impersonating a public servant. Court records show he was arraigned on Wednesday and is being held on $600,000 bail.

The second suspect remains at large. Tipsters should call 215-686-3013.



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First Alert Weather: Some Snow, Then a Taste of Spring

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Friday's commute will be messy in some areas with slushy snow, but we're in for a mostly dry weekend and some warm, spring-like temperatures next week. NBC10 First Alert Meteorologist Sheena Parveen has the full forecast and snow totals.

Woman's Decomposed Body Turns Up in Overbrook House

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Philadelphia Police were investigating Thursday afternoon after the decomposed body of a woman was found in a house in Overbrook.

Police said the woman's body was found inside a house at 53rd and Jefferson streets.

The circumstances surrounding the woman's death were not immediately clear, and police were at the scene investigating about 5:45 p.m.

NBC10 is working to obtain more details.



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Mitt Romney Slams 'Phony' Donald Trump

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Mitt Romney criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, calling him a "phony" and a "fraud." NBC10's Rosemary Connors is in the Digital Operations Center with the details.

Christie Responds to Drama Over Trump Endorsement

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Chris Christie is responding to the media firestorm over his endorsement of Donald Trump -- including his blank stare as he stood behind Trump on stage. NBC10's Cyndey Long talked with Christie at a news conference today.

Family of Wheelchair-Bound Man Shot By Officers Sues Police

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The family of a wheelchair-bound man shot to death by police in Wilmington, Del. last year has filed a lawsuit against the police department.

Video surfaced last fall of the deadly encounter between 28-year-old Jeremy McDole and Wilmington Police officers on Sept. 23. Police met with McDole, who was reported to be armed and suicidal, on the 1800 block of Tulip Street after they responded to a call shortly after 3 p.m. that day of a man possibly suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The one-minute-and-19-second-long video, recorded by a witness on a smartphone and posted to YouTube, shows McDole, in his wheelchair, being confronted and eventually shot by police officers.

Multiple gunshots can be heard in the clip. In the aftermath of the shooting, Wilmington Police Chief Bobby Cummings said he believes the officers were justified in using deadly force and that they recovered a .38-caliber handgun at the scene.

"The officers perceived what was a threat and they responded and they engaged," Cummings said. Four officers were involved in the shooting, officials said. They were all placed on leave after the shooting. The Delaware Attorney General's Office is continuing to investigate.

McDole's family denies that he was armed and says police did not need to use deadly force against the man. In filing their suit, they said they believe race played a factor in his killing.

"Why couldn't you tase this man out of his wheelchair," asked his sister, Letesha Green, in the days after the shooting. "Why couldn't you use rubber bullets to get him out of the wheelchair?"

Richard Smith, of the NAACP of Wilmington, said on Thursday as the McDole's family announced their suit that the police used excessive force.

"They shot this man so many times, his body raised out of the chair," Smith said.

Tim Crumplar, the family's attorney, said McDole never posed a threat to the officers.

"There was no threat to them or anybody else," he said. "The only threat that day was to Jeremy McDole, and we know how it ended."



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