jean lapinski telling us that the pennsylvania state police have told columbia county in pennsylvania over which this balloon, rather this blimp flew that it has landed. and according to what we know so far not problemmatically although we still have a lot of information to gather about this. thank you so much, jean. joining me now is paul werth, he's a spokesperson for ppl electric utilities in pennsylvania. thanks so much for joining us. we are hearing about power outag outages, how many people have lost power? >> in the area where the power lines are damaged there are about 18,000 customers without power down from 30,000 about an hour ago. we've been restoring these customers by switching them through to other sources. >> how did the power go out? >> there was damage to one of our power lines reportedly caused by the tether on this blimp. we have not confirmed that ourselves, but we do know the damage is there. we are assessing damage and beginning repairs. we also don't know right now how long it will take to restore all customers. >> and so it was something like a cable, when you

across northeast maryland into pennsylvania, where in pennsylvania we're not sure. extreme northern new jersey and then possibly extreme southeastern new york state. maybe make its way into parts of new england and connecticut, massachusetts. but if you follow the wind, they go across the northeast and then get into canada maritime. this is where they may decide if they want to shoot the system down and let it fall to get into a safe zone. but think about this. 16,000 feet, all the airports across this region are going to be high alert. it will give fits to air traffic controllers at 16,000 feet across teterboro, laguardia, jfk, up toward logan. so it will be interesting to find out exactly where this is. but again, we're not sure what the material is, that mean as lot if they decide to let it go to several thousand feet up in the air. >> my goodness, i hope this doesn't affect people flying anywhere in the northeast area. what a mess! spider marks, major general spider marks, i've got you now. let me try it again. we're talking about potentially shooting this thing

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it's floating over pennsylvania. they are very concerned about whether it will come down over a pop ulaulated area. the army where this blimp had been put out a press release. now f-16 fighter jets are track it. they are asking, as you mentioned, for help from the public if they see this blimp in the air to call 911. it's able to monitor an area like the size of texas. >> somehow it came loose on its own or was it already in the air and lost track of where it was supposed to be? >> it was mored add aberdean. this is a device that the u.s. uses to protect the homeland. it's not clear how it got loose. the two f-16 fighter jets are tracking themg. >> okay. >> that's what's being debated at the pentagon and with norad. the defense secretary is in the briefing room speaking side by side with the israeli minister. it's a very expensive piece of military equipment. it's floating over pennsylvania right now. >> two fighter jets trying to track it. thank you. >>> another alert to tell you about because republicans are hud hu

in a two-thirds majority vote by the pennsylvania senate. cane vows to remain state attorney general while she fights her perjury charge against her. we will be watching developments in harrisburg today and keep you abreast of what is next in this saga involving pennsylvania's attorney general. on the steps of the art museum, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >>> hey, everyone, i'm jessica boyington with your first alert traffic. earlier, we reported an accident scene westbound route 73 with a poll down. the poll is in the area for cleanup. all lanes opened for now. 95, right around 322, major delays there, approaching the bridge this morning. for the rest of our drive times, 95 southbound into the vine street expressway, 34 minute trip, having slow speeds on the schuylkill to the center city area. >> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> a beautiful start a. live view from sky force 10. a few clouds there, the temperatures at this hour are still falling. that's going to change, 18 minutes past 7:00. 53 degrees right now. we are heading for th

we've gone nearly 100 days without a budget in pennsylvania. the pennsylvania house rejected governor wolf's latest budget plan. today nbc 10 news headed to harrisburg to ask lawmakers where's the accountability. lauren? >> reporter: well, it is back to the drawing board now be both sides saying they need to find more revenue, find more money to pay for everything and deal with the deficit. i did hear optimism from republicans and democrats. but let's be real it took 99 days to get here. the debate lasted hours on the house floor. but the budget stalemate has been going on for three months. affecting nonprofits and schools waiting for funding and books. how much longer do you think they'll have to wait?

outer loop at pennsylvania avenue is where the crash started. we're now hearing from police a truck went down off the roadway. a section of suitland is shut down. more details coming up. >>> we're also following a developing story in washington state where a mine has exploded. what we're learning about several injured worker and whether the dam was compromised. >> looking at the current temperatures where a lot of you are waking up in the 50s and 60s. cooler weather. whether it stick around. amelia has your answer at 5:11. >>> if you think traffic is bad, >>> welcome back at 5:09. two people are critically injured after dam blew up. it was in central washington. investigators are working to find out why. six workers in total were hurt. the structure itself didn't have any structural damage. however, this is in the rural part of the state. some people don't have cell service or power right now. >>> our area has some of the longest traffic delays in the nation, but there's always somebody who has it worse, but here it is. this is a traffic jarjs h

well, the memes started even before it l lded in pennsylvania. re's one of the blimpith lionel richie's face and the caption, is it me you're looking for? >> hello. >> hello. >> this one, showing the blimp in that famous "free willy" scene and the caption be free. >> and tom brady's face w wh the text, let that blimp make it to new england, i'll deflate it. >> it was a funny moment but they've captured it. >>> an ohio artist combining the spirit of halloween with the presidential election season. take a look. this is -- that's her with her great creation, the trumpkin. a giantumpkin transformed into a replica of trump's head, hair and all. >> she paintedhe face on then she used a 30-inch wig to complete the look. kind of realistic, yes, no. >> some would say the only thing to match something that big, his ego. >> oh. whoa, whoho whoa. >> some would say. >>> well, next what do you think your boss might have to say about a desk when you can actually lay down and do your work. no, we're really not kidding. there actually is one. >> it's called the a

in the western pennsylvania pacific we called them typhoons. you might think strength is determined wye wind speed but we also look at central minimum pressure to determine the ultimate strength, the strongest system ever, tropical system, typhoon tip, 870 million bars in 1979 but there is pennsylvania trish, lowest pressure so far, 879 millibars making it the fourth strongest cyclone ever recorded on the globe. as far as our standard, hurricane scale of intensity it is a category five which starts at 157 miles an hour, wind went up to 200 miles an hour with patricia. so really off the scales. why is patricia a so strong? it has very warm surface temperatures, ocean water of 87 degrees, incredibly warm and that water is very deep. light wind sheer, that is wind higher up in the atmosphere they are strong and cause thunderstorms in the hurricane. if they are light they can grow in strength and abundant a atmosphere moisture fools that hurricane and that has been present as well. as of the latest advisory from the national hurricane center, penns

pennsylvania has gone 113 days and counting without a state budget. and no progress to report on budget negotiations. nbc 10's lauren is joining us. and schools could be reaching a crisis point. >> reporter: yeah, here in this district, they get about 40% of their revenue from the state. and they are on the verge of having to borrow money to get b by. but in philadelphia, they have reached that point, they are past it and are worried they won't be able to borrow any more. philadelphia schools are still open for the business of learning. but it's day 113 without a state budget. leaving the district to question whether it's allowed to shut down. have you figured that out at this point? >> no. so we're still analyzing everything from harrisburg. >> superintendent william hiatt tells me they are looking at options. >> we don't know, i mean, what exists in terms of our ability to close or not, if, in fact, we have to. naturally, it is hour wish to remain open, for children to be educated. >> but, that takes money, something philadelphia schools are borrowi

showers, light showers, a band of them crossing pennsylvania moving through western pennsylvania right now, those light showers could be here by midday. we do have some clouds already this morning. so temperatures are up compared to yesterday morning. 50s and low 60s, dover at 60, 61 at philadelphia international, trenton is 55. the wind is calm, the skies are going to be clouding up this morning. that will lead to scattered showers. but certainly not an all-day rainfall. 59 at 6:00, by 9:00 we'll see mostly cloudy skies, 63. then up to 70 with some scattered light showers at lunch time today. hour by hour future cast when i'm back. jessica boyington has your first alert traffic. >> we deal with ongoing construction in the morning hours. usually picking up between 5, 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning. our big one so far the vine street expressway closed both directions so east and westbound pretty much from this point where it meets the schuylkill expressway to broad street. that will be until about 5:00 a.m. if they end early we'll let you know but that's going to be in place until thursday

captioning company >> a pennsylvania mother arrested after setting off an amber alert. now one of her friends is speaking out. >> police say a wrong way bars. what happened after an alleged drunk driver got behind the wheel. >> game day in indy as the pats prepare for the colts. both players and fans motivated to get that win. >> a popular business that has been open for more than 100 years deciding it's time to close down. >> announcer: this is 7 news today in new england. >> 7:30 this sunday morning. thank you for joining us for 7 news today in new england. i'm kris anderson. >> i'm nancy chen, we've plenty of news but first we want to get a check of your sunday forecast because it's actually kind of cold out there yet again today. >> it is, much colder in the city of boston than yesterday morning. yesterday morning we were at degrees, right now at 34. in many of the suburbs down to the middle to upper 20s this morning. little bit of a breeze, it's not tremendous, about 5-10 miles but it does add a chill to the air. windchill factor here, willful factor in worcester a

it's not completely down yet but it's doing touch and goes in pennsylvania. it's a norad rep just said the same thing, the blimp is doing touch and goes. that's from our own martin fin, producer. they didn't want to say more than that and they're working on the latest location. rick is headed to that location. he's on the road in our rapid response vehicle. also funny. rick, what's up? >> we're not move that fast yet because it's pretty heavy traffic on i-280 west. about 140 miles from pennsylvania where we're now hearing -- yeah, well -- >> oh, there's the truck. >> we're actually in a ford. but we are headed that way. and we're now hearing from the chief meteorologist of whio that norad is saying the run away military blimp is down outside of bloomsburg, pennsylvania and that law enforcement is securing the scene. this is on twitter. we haven't been able to confirm it but we do know police in columbia county have been getting 911 calls about power outages and problems associated with this blimp and that tether that's been dragging along the ground as you've

it's just in the country, just east of muncy, pennsylvania, which is in northern pennsylvania. a little east in state. you can see part of the blimp in the frees on the ground there. it was confirmed within the last hour by state police that the blimp had finally come down. after traveling quite a ways. it traveled 150 miles almost directly north from aberdeen proving ground, northeast of baltimore up into pennsylvania in the muncy area there. this has been posted all over social media this afternoon. we will show you some of the posts that people have been making. this is one of the best ones right here. this was taken by somebody who saw the blimp fly directly overhead. they turn and you will see the traffic lights, they flash for one moment and then they are out. the glitch was knocking out power to tens of thousands of people this afternoon. especially in northern pennsylvania there. here are power crews working on the situation. the blimp is called an aerostat. it had a tether that was supposed to keep it attached to the ground. but instead it broke free. but the tether wa

cherry had driven her son from pennsylvania all the way to boston after doctors in pennsylvania said she needed -- or he needed serious trauma care. police documents indicate the 37-year-old mother felt she was getting the run-around from doctors in pennsylvania and drove her son to boston. now she faces child endangerment charges out of piston, pennsylvania. she also has several open warrants here in massachusetts related to prostitution and some driving violations. those span over the course of about 13 years, but she is expected to be arraigned here in roxbury sometime today. in the meantime, i should also add, dcs now has custody of that little boy. nicole jacobs, "wbz this morning." update this morning. >>> 5:34 now. today, the governor is holding an open house of sorts to outline a plan for utilizing some of massachusetts's real estate holdings. more than 300 potential developers are expected to attend. the governor's office says the event will focus on leveraging state real estate through public and private partnerships. >>> 5:34 now. a day of rememberance and tribute in west

you can see those cloud, a few showers northwestern pennsylvania, mess of those showers should break up but we will get included from the front, that front passed through our region later on this evening but maybe bringing a sprinkle. wind calm, so that morning work out you have planned outside should be good. over the next few hours should be good. temperatures in the morning, temperatures rapidly climbing to 70 around lunchtime. then cloud will thicken up early to mid afternoon but still keeping temperatures well above average with highs in the mid 70's just like yesterday. seventy-six for philadelphia lower 70's at the shore and 60 in the poconos. meisha is liking this forecast but it will feel good and cool down. we are talking 60's. we will get to that in a few minutes. >> thanks, justin. i will relish the 70's. i love it. this is what i do not love an accident, we have an accident early this morning on route 309 northbound near waiverly road. you can see it blocking right lane. it is not causing too many slow downs but it certainly will if it toss than the move out quickly. tha

she is now facing child endangerment charges out of piston, pennsylvania. she also has several open warrants here in massachusetts. the latest two driving violations and prostitution that spans over a 13-year time period, but she is set to be arraigned here in roxbury at some point today. in the meantime, the department of children and families has custody of that 2-month-old little boy. we're live in roxbury, nicole jacobs, "wbz this morning." . >> thank you, nicole. >>> 6:35 now. today the federal aviation administration is implementing it is part of the administration's effort to address a rising number of unauthorized drone sightings near airports and public venues. >>> florida police are looking for the person who opened fire festival. one person was killed, five others hurt. the shots sent thousands running through the streets. the organizers posted a statement on facebook saying happened. >>> the navy is bringing in devices to find the wreckage of a ship. it will listen for pings from the black box of that sunken cargo ship. meanwhile, there was a me

by saturday night, those showers enter pennsylvania. forth western pennsylvania and those showers are due in hear sunday morning. for today, though, dry. look at these temperatures, 74 to 77 degrees this afternoon. 65 is the normal high temperature this time of year. tomorrow we'll be 63 after a school start and 49 degrees in the suburbs. the real cold arrives saturday morning. 39 degrees in center city. we'll see plenty of readings lower than that. 64 saturday afternoon, clouds arrive sunday. there is a chance of source, especially likely in the morning. early afternoon hours by late in the day, we see sunshine, the temperatures will warm up to 66 degrees, it will be dry for monday and tuesday. another round of showers possible wednesday. >> all right. bill. equal under the law. what the irs has decided about same-sex marriages that will put those couples on the same footing as heterosexual couples. >>> plus, say it ain't so, a lego shortage. we'll tell you why the company says it may not be able to make enough to fulfill every wish on

at the pennsylvania convention center and tomorrow from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. >>> no theme music for her but mary lee is back. the great white shark has returned to the jersey shore. researchers tagged her three years ago, we told you about her story. yesterday the 16-foot, 3400 pound shark was spotted near ocean city. she gained popularity in the spring and has her own twitter handle. she spent most of the summer off the coast of florida, georgia and the carolinas. >>> 4:27 the time. 55 degrees, a few clouds overhead but they will not last. we'll see some sunshine today but big changes ahead for the weekend. jessica boyington is in the first alert traffic center. happy friday there, jessica. >> happy friday it is, bill. on 295 now around sloan avenue in hamilton. moving along nicely north or southbound, but we do have an update on the vine street expressway construction. >> a university of delaware student is in jail accused of killing his former psychiatrist. coming up we'll share with you an online rant we found that could implicate the suspect

issued out of pennsylvania. along with three default warrants in massachusetts. a nurse at children's hospital called police after she checked in a baby that matched the deskrings of the amber alert. cherry was then arrested at children's. dcf is also investigating this case along with law enforcement in boston. >> new at 11:00: a naked man is rescued from the boston harbor this afternoon. boston police say he jumped into the harbor after he was spotted near an ice rink. doctors say he is now being treated for hypothermia. right now no word on his condition. >> patriots fans ready for a grudge-match in indy. tb 12 and the patriots counting down to kick off against the colts for the first time since the afc championship game. major off season headache for tom brady and the team. now we have the latest. >> if you think about it, rivalries don't exist that much in the n.f.l. anymore. the patriots and colts certainly have the makings of a modern-day version around the league. if there was any need to add more fuel t

we see a couple showers across central pennsylvania ahead of the cold front. that will move eastward tonight bringing more clouds in here this afternoon, most of the showers should break up and we could get a stray sprinkle. high of 76 for philadelphia, lower 70's at the shore, mid 60's in the mountains. tonight, thursday night football on cbs in the west coast seahawks at 49ers. 68 degrees at kick off under clear skies. that extended forecast. warm today. then we are back to the fall weather and 60's over the weekend. >> justin, thank you. >>> lets get a check of the stories our sister station kyw news radio 1060 is following. celebrating a a seal of approval philadelphia police department gets an accreditation. >>> more than 130 films and 30 countries will be shown at 24th annual philadelphia film festival and bill wine has a movie recrew. check in two, three, four times a day on kyw news radio 1060 on your am dial. >>> coming up we will have latest clueness the death of the the south jersey boy. plus new developments in the shocking road rage killing of the

but a lot of them took the path and went to pennsylvania. and then, of course, a number of them, once they got there, they are looking for the cheap land and a lot of them kind of leave pennsylvania eventually and move out into other areas, spreading out. but the pennsylvania germans are still very well-known today. >>> hi, i'm sarah gant and i am a costumed interpreter here at the museum in stanton, virginia. we're at the 1740s american settlement also known as the back country of the american colonies or the colonial frontier is what we also call it. it would have been west of the blue ridge mountains. so people had already settled in this area about maybe a decade or so before 1740s. so people had already started to move a bit west, settle that area. there were land grants that were gib and families would be recruited to come down and settle the virginia area. occasionally it would be one man coming out here and settling the area but most of the time it would be families. on average, we say about 4 to 9 people. and they would have establi

we've all seen the safety call bocks along the pennsylvania turnpike. they're available in case of emergency. but statistics show that few have ever used one and now that money is tight and everyone has a cell phone, one lawmaker says let's just get rid of it. save the money. lose the safety boxes. ♪ >> reporter: with the constant budget challenges in pennsylvania, lawmakers are always looking for ways to save money. one of the latest proposals is to eliminate the thousand or so safety call boxes along the pennsylvania turnpike. designed as a safety measure, pretty much every mile of the pennsylvania turnpike the safety boxes use is way down. and the bill sponsor told me that technology basically makes the boxes useless. >> at one point, they served a purpose but now in the day and age when everyone has cell phone you have to imagine how many people are actua actually using. what's the cost to maintain them? >> reporter: representative lawrence made a strong argument for removing the boxes. but here at the king of prussia rest stop, there were pretty

the pennsylvania police department took out felony warrants for cher eafter getting from pennsylvania hospital that cherry did not take her son who was suffering from severe dehydration to the emergency room. cherry toll the police in massachutes she just wanted take her son boston hospital sew for best possible care. dcf told us in written statement department investigating incident with law enforcement. as dcf social look into the matter custody of the child has been transferred to dc cherry morning in roxbury court. turning forecast. if you don't heat on just yet. tonight might be night to turn it on. our cram smut jamaica pond can sigh very, very windy outside. it was also chilly our meterologist it is going to be freezing for most of our area. tonight. yes. freeze warning expanded earlier this afternoon up into southern new hampshire. include nashua just name few that was expected different national weather service different times lines for when warnings are usual united boston the cape the island still not under that freeze warning. at least not yet. those areas will be spared t

in pennsylvania? it was a dirty system. >> yes. >> it wasn't one person who went to jail. >> i'm just using your argument. there's not been one single example of private prisons causing corruption. i just gave you one off the top of my head. i didn't even need google for that one. you're just wrong. that's just incorrect. >> okay. i'm arguing if you can find it, great. i'm saying people have been looking for those examples. >> let's move on. >> i admitted that it's an example of corruption. i said lobbying. >> okay. let's talk about lobbying. through lobbying and campaign contributions -- >> i overlooked the one. >> i'd be willing to put good money on the fact that there's more than the one that i just thought off the top of my head. candidates. >> yeah, lots of money. >> that's true. >> lots of money. >> to both sides. >> which did this become a democratic and republican thing? >> i didn't say that. i just said they give to both parties. the prison guards union in california alone gives more money to

what could be a big change on the pennsylvania turnpike. what's meant to keep you save that lawmakers could soon remo remove. ♪ vince mazzeo- fighting to save atlantic county. chris brown's attacks? the press calls them "embarrassing" political "posturing." the truth? chris brown and will pauls opposed the atlantic city rescue plan, even though it would save thousands of our jobs. we already know they're propped up by north jersey casino interests. and pauls even wanted the vote to allow north jersey casinos "this year." now they brag about helping atlantic county. but there's a word for politicians like that. hypocrite. >> two police officers, a firefighter and a resident all injured tonight aft a fire in north philadelphia. on the 1800 block of taylor street. it happened right around 8:00 o'clock. two plane clothes officers were among the first to arrive. they race flood that home to search for people but the smoke was just too heavy for them. a firefighter is also injured. parentsly some type of debris hit him in the face. and someone

this is bloomsburg, pennsylvania. that kind of mid ships from the right of your picture to the left. what an incredible sight. we learned that some very sharp eyes and perhaps bored to tears student at the local school was the first to spot this looking out the window. we suspect and this is sure being borne out on social media where this has taken over twitter. we suspect a whole lot of different views will come in of this. both still and moving images. but what an incredible thing. there's no way to know what you're looking at given the profile of this. in the sky. had you not heard that they were tracking this up the east coast. again, when we first came on the air to say we had this untethered airship, jim miklaszewski, we said at the time it was at 16,000 feet. >> that's right. >> that puts it up there in the altitude with certainly general aviation. and some commercial aviation. so, tom costello reporting the faa rerouting flights around it but then something, jim, took this thing down to a lower altitude where

in pennsylvania the number of students who opted out tripled last school year. scours who took the test dropped 31% in math and 9% in english. in delaware, scores also slipped, barely half of delaware student who is tested are proficient in english, less than 40% score proficiently in math. >>> pennsylvania lawmakers are pushing for a bill to allow vehicles to go through red lights when sensors fail. the house voted in favor of the measure. if approved by the senate drivers would be allowed to proceed carefully through intersections after they stop if they are caught at a light that won't turn green. >> happening today, secretary of state john kerry is headed overseas to try to calm the mideast crisis on two fronts. kerry will meet with leaders and officials from israel, the palestinian authority, and russia. some of those meetings will be held in europe. kerry is trying to restart talks between the israelis and the palestinians who engaged in deadly violence over the last month. it's unclear if he will also try to convince russia to stop supporting the syrian g

we are now at 107 days without a budget in pennsylvania. that's more than a quarter of a year, now to a developing story, secretary of state john kerry plans to travel to the middle east in an effort to ease soaring israel-palestinian tevenlths israeli security forces have been put on high alert. they confirmed the growing rates of stabbing incidents. one incident took place yesterday as nbc cameras were rolling. a man with a knife ran past the security checkpoint, israeli police shot him, killing. . in recent weeks, eight israelis have been killed while plun hundred palestinians have died. nbc news talked to a new jersey rabbi with ties to the area. >> kids are being cold not to go on buses and to only be in safe places. >> the ambassador at the united nations are meeting later today in hopes of organizing an emergency meeting about the violence in israel. >>> praun is set to award the highest military honor to a retired army captain who foiled suicide bombers in afghanistan. army officials credited him with keeping a suicide bomber from c

today is day 100 without a budget in pennsylvania. as republicans and democrats continue to battle over taxes, caught in the middle of the budget impasse are countless students and their families. katy zachry spent some time taking a look at some empty chairs. more empty chairs there than students these days because of the budget situation, right? >> reporter: that's right. the second you walk into kinder academy behind me in the northeast, you realize something is not right. that's because they are missing dozens of students. entire cl assrooms, in fact, ar sitting empty because of the budget impasse. 80 families rely on state funding to send their children here. the state funds are the only way they can ensure their kids get high quality early education. but until the budget is worked out in harris burg, that money is tied up in politics. >> we have 80 families who are waiting -- they're on our wait list to come through the door. but because of the budget impasse they cannot come in. >> reporter: so where are these 80 children going

a pennsylvania air national guard chinook helicopter is said to lift the hull pieces out, carried to a new clearing loaded on to military vehicles and driven to an undisclosed government facility. >>> today another former mayor of philadelphia testified in the chaka fattah jr. fraud trial. john street told a jury he hired fattah jr. as a photography consultant during his campaign. rendell gave similar testimony yesterday. fattah is aiming to show his business was legitimate. >> asked me to come and explain his business relationship with us and our campaigns and activity, and i thought it was a fair thing to do. >> that would be former governor ed rendell. federal prosecutors say fattah jr. had a shell company which he used to fraudulently funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans to bankroll a luxurious lifestyle. fattah jr. is the son of congressman chaka fattah, who is married to nbc 10 anchor renee chenault-fattah. >>> police arrested a penn student accused of starting a fire in a fraternity house. the sophomore allegedly started the fire inside a closet at the house last f

for the past seven years, i've served on pennsylvania's second highest court. and the bar association has given me their very highest rating. i want a judge who understands regular people. i was the first in my family to graduate from college. my dad was a coal miner. my mom- a factory seamstress. i want a judge with integrity. me too. and that's why i'm running. i'm christine donohue. it's time to bring integrity back to the supreme court. >> developing now on "action news," residents are waking up to the aftermath of a drivers crash course through north philadelphia. >> a massive apartment fire forces hundreds out of their homes and two new jersey firefighters were hurt. >> rather than about a -- bah hum bug, it's boo hum bug. a north jersey school is saying no to halloween. >> let's go over to david and karen for weather and traffic, they are outraged over that. >> reporter: the story is still coming. it will be a bright start once we get past sunrise. the showers and sprinkles don't look like they will amount to very much. later this evening, you might see

in pennsylvania, the average student debt in 2014 was mort than $32,000. accounting for price water house coopers is the largest company to date to offer this benefit. in 2016 it will begin paying $1,200 a year toward a young employee's student loan debt for total of six years. according to the society of human resource management, only 3% of companies currently offer this form every debt relief. but that number could grow. that is because employee turn-over costs american businesses as much as $11 billion a year. so, it is no surprise, that companies want to keep employees happy. and with 71% of undergraduates leaving college in debt, offers to lighten the load appeal to a lot of employees. in the meantime, there are other ways to get some help with your student loan payment. a career in public service can typically result in a portion of your debt being forgiven. learn more at student aid.ed.gov. i'm jill schlessinger, cbs news. >> trick-or-treat remembers going to be out on the road of course tomorrow night. it is not all fun and games if you aren't car

in pennsylvania it's much more liberal. the only place you absolutely cannot carry is in a courthouse. it's up to each state to set those dials correctly. where you have trained people, people who are background checked, we owe it to let those folks be in the mix, god forbid something jumps off, let's have them around. >> you something through the process to lawfully obtain a gun, right, so why would you be against more restriction or more regulation? perhaps it's another one, two, three hurdles to pass through? >> well, can we just -- >> more regulation of what? >> let's start at the beginning. the process to get a gun in pennsylvania is if you're going to a federally licensed dealer, you pass your background check, the three of us could walk out in ten minutes with whatever we want. jonathan f he has a rifle in the car, could sell one to me now without a background check. if he has a land gun, we have to get a background check. that's the process. there's no waiting period, no license or restriction, no training period. y

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i mean, pennsylvania's my home state. i wanted to see pennsylvania do well. i still do. i wanted to see harrisburg thrive, and it looked like it was thriving. now, when i got here, my news director had said to me that it looks like harrisburg is going through some financial issues. we don't know what those issues are yet, we don't know how bad it's going to be, but i had been a reporter in madison, wisconsin, which is another capital, and i had done a lot of capital reporting, and he said i need someone here just in case. i said, okay. it was like a homecoming for me too. few nobody knew what was going -- but nobody knew what was going to unfold over the next three years. and it was, it was something that i could never have predicted, and i don't think anybody could have ever have predicted what was really going to happen. and after four years and more than 2300 reports on -- 200 reports on city, i decided that i was going to write book the try the teach people what happened in harrisburg in the hopes that other places, other cities won't go down same path. so this is a

she is supposed to return to pennsylvania and answer to charges there. paul burton wbz news. >>> paul thank you. tonight we now know the two people killed in this fire in chicopee were actually a mother and son. investigators tried to figure out what sparked the fire. firefighters say by the time they arrived on sunday the home on montcalm street was engulfed in flames. three people in the home were able to escape. >>> taking the air out of the colts the patriots beat indianapolis in plays like this. brady to gronk with the touchdown helped seal the deal. it was the first paths colts matchup since the birth of deflategate but tonight the colts may be feeling deflate nateed by the game and by the play some people consider the worst in history. do you ever live this one down? reporter: the absence is no. s after that play the colts pretty much heed the pate rots to win. the worst play in the history in just a second. in the 3rd quarter tom brady finds wide open open gronkowski. six plays after the worst play. finds legarrette blount second touchdown of the

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north of reston to potomac river up the pennsylvania line. there are other areas of the scatter showers but they are lighter in comparison. a break in the action over the district. port to the north and south as well. so a little closeup. here is the lightning in the case right there north of leesburg. that is the heaviest area we'll see. that area through locustdale is moving over the eastern foothills of the blue ridge. this is powered along by hurricane patricia. the cold front is to the west. there is a light chance of more showers tonight and the isolated thunderstorm when the front passes by. the rainfall is noticeable. our future cast shows the line that is coming through tonight after midnight. again there could be lightning here. the winds are out of the south heading to the overnight hours. clearing trend move from the rest. tomorrow we have the westerly winds. it will warm us up. cooler air behind the front is not coming in until tomorrow night. winds will gust up to 15 to 20 miles per hour at times. friday lower 60's. sunshine sat

frank: police in pennsylvania put out the alert fearing for the safety of the child. newscenter 5's reid lamberty explains how the mother and baby ended up here. friend (on phone): she was just attention for her child as she possibly could. reid: tiffany cherry, says a friend who spoke to us over the phone, is a 36-year-old mother who drove over 300 miles to bring her sick infant son to one of the nation's best hospitals where he was born less than three months ago. friend: she made a decision in her heart as a mother. reid: it was an act of love, says the friend. friday afternoon cherry took her son quavai to a health clinic near wilkes-barre, pennsylvania. doctors there said the child was severely dehydrated and in need of medical attention; but rather than taking her son to a hospital in pennsylvania, police say cherry decided to drive to boston. friend: she didn't like the medical advice she was getting. she would never let her child get dehydrated or abduct her child. she wanted to get the right medical attention for her baby. reid: an amber alert was triggered f

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. >>> and we continue to follow that breaking news in pennsylvania. a military balloon that broke free from its tether here in maryland spotted flying above homes. we're working the latest in the newsroom and we'll keep pushing out alerts on the nbc washing>> breaking stories right now at 4:15. a runaway military blimp causing chaos from northern maryland all of the way to central pennsylvania. it's now on the ground. nbc's jim miklaszewski says nor norad it soared 150 miles to the north and a heavy cable struck power lines and caused outages and we'll keep updating you on the story throughout the afternoon. >> also this afternoon, storm team 4 issuing a weather alert. we have the chance for some strong storms and some wind gusts this evening. chief meteorologist doug kammerer will have an update for you in one minute. >>> we are tracking more breaking news in northeast washington right now. a report of a shooting involving a metro bus. news 4's pat collins is there live. what do you know, pat? what happened? >> reporter: we are at an extensive crime

back in the spring the governor put narcan in the hands of police all over pennsylvania. wolf says the move has already saved more than 300 lives. the product is generally sold as a nasal spray and can reverse the effects of a heroin overdo overdose. it has saved more than 26,000 lives over the past 20 years nationwide. what's knew it participating pennsylvania pharmacies can now dispense the product without a prescription. that means anyone with a friend or a family member hooked on heroin can purchase the narcan and have it handy in case of an overdose. >> we have a good samaritan law here in pennsylvania that encourages people who see something, a person struggling to go to that person's assistance. and this is a way for people who see someone who is suffering an overdose to go to that person's assistance. it's trying to -- to make available to the broadest possible group of people something that we know can save lives. >> reporter: of course in new jersey, governor christie has been championing the use of narcan as part of a policy to treat drug abuse as a sickness, n