her family many tans the mother was not running from pennsylvania, but to boston to get help. >> she figured the doctors didn't have what she needed as they did in boston. >> she has two out standing warrants she needs to handle and 12 days to get back to pennsylvania to face legal matters there. reid lamberty, wcvb, newscenter 5. phil: police are investigating a reported rape in a boston university dorm room. a woman claimed a man assaulted her early sunday morning. the alleged victim did not recognize the suspect, but he had to have a student id or friend with an id to get inside that building. bu police are are checking surveillance video for possible clues. heather:pheasant hunting where one man shot another in the head over the weekend. it happened as fish and game officials released thousands of pheasants for this season's hunting. they flocked to the stocking area for an early shot and it does present potential danger. >> a lot of folks who know the stocking schedules and are showing up at our stocking sites and really shooting at birds sort of immediately upon release. >> the

andas dragging the cable taking out power lines and 20,000 people lost power in pennsylvania. nobody was injured and no lives were lost. s were these blimp launched in december and the manufacturer said it would be almost impossible for them to come on tethered -- if they did they would quickly deflate. they floated 160 miles away. no people or property were injured or damaged. that is the good news. investigators remain on the ground and will do so for much of the day if not the week trying to figure out how this happened and how they will get this blimp with classified information back to maryland. verdict could come at any time in the alexandria murder trial, the jury began deliberations to decide the fate of charles severance, accused of killing three prominent alexandria residents in their home over the course of a decade, jeff goldberg has been following this case. follow him on twitter. he has updates from the courtroom as they happen. we will have a live report starting tonight at 4:00. police are combing through evidence after a shooting in broad daylight in northeast

ellmers: thank you to the gentleman from pennsylvania. i too want to thank him for his tireless work on this effort. this is such an important piece of legislation in dealing with mental health and putting necessary reforms in place. the gentleman has truly been an absolute champion on this issue and h.r. 2646 is such a meaningful piece of legislation and will help in so many different ways. mental health in this country is a crisis. and it is an epidemic. and there are so many families across this country that are dealing with this issue. you know, the gentleman came to my district a little over a year ago and we had a wonderful round table discussion and there were so many individuals who came to it, so many family members who came to it, to speak on this issue. and they were so appreciative of the fact that there was actually some legislation that was being developed to deal with issue. these are families that have nowhere else to go. and in my experience as a nurse and health care, but then also as my experience has gone forward in ta

well, the memes started even before it landed in pennsylvania. here's one of the blimp with 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" >> and tom brady's face with the text, let that blimp make it to new england, i'll deflate it. >> it was a funny moment but they've captured it. those. >>> 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 giant pumpkin transformed into a replica of trump's head, hair and all. >> she painted the 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, whoa, 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 altwork station a

shale tax is not flying in western pennsylvania. that's where coal is still very big. the other thing is you still need -- and i do agree with my democratic counterparts here in the sense of we need new revenue. how do we get to new revenue? republicans are for more money for schools, too. >> don't touch me, jeff. >> sorry. >> [ laughs ] >> she looks like she's gonna hit me. but the thing is, i do think and agree with george that you will see some movement on liquor, modernization of our state stores, and pensions. can we get to a point -- it's just common sense -- were new employees -- we don't get defined benefits. you get 401(k)s. >> what we do need across the board -- broader-range taxes. the idea that we're talking about doing one-time fixes again, going after poor people and working people with sin taxes -- is what we used to call them -- doing more around gaming, doing more around, you know, taxing alcohol. and i just think that, in the end, if we don't ultimately get to the table and try to put something that is more board-based, whether it's a part of the sale

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

. >>> 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

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

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after three hours it lost altitude and skipped along the pennsylvania countryside. coming to rest an anthony township, p.a. at $2.5 billion the project has been controversial. it is concerned about the ability to collect data and members of congress concerned about the cost. now with it lying in a pennsylvania field, the balloon's future may be further in doubt. the milt dispatched a security team and helicopters to secure the site. we're told the tether holding the balloon to the ground was supposed to be strong enough to with stand winds of up to 100 miles per hour at the time it broke free the winds were 45 altitude. property openers who suffered damage are tonight being told they can submit a claim to the army. lester. >> it was an amazing sight. you. >>> now to the new developments in the troubling take down of a female student in south carolina. threw her to the ground and dragged her in class was fired. and as gabe guiterrez tells us the incident is raising questions about use of police force in schools across the country. >> reporter: barely 48 hours after d

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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?

back ideas in terms of pennsylvania law. this facility, this dispensary opened seven days a week. iain? >> all right, chris, thank you. >>> a group of local protesters hoping to send a clear message to the president of philadelphia's federal reserve. members of action united dem stated at seventh arch tonight calling out reserve president patrick harker. harker backed out of a promise he made to philadelphia's working class families in the african-american community. he vowed to tour the neighborhoods and meet families about 12 months ago. harker says open meetings and tours are being discussed. his office released a statement a few hours ago saying in part "our approach is to work with community organizations that serve a common interest of creating economic opportunity for all communities and people" ♪ >> a guy on a stolen bulldozer on a rampage. police say he's taken out everything he can. what officers final hal to do to stop this path of destruction. >>> and one dad's scary surprise he shows up to big up his five-year

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

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pennsylvania's recruitment drive for volunteer firefighters and other emergency workers is continuing. delaware county put out the call for the first time. they need firefighters, police officer, emts, and paramedics. if interested, the stations are open 8:00 until 4:00. the protective association, aston township fire company, cardington is-stonehurst, prospect town, and middletown township, newtown, and brookhaven company. >>> within the hour, busses are rolling out of the nation's capital for the 20th anniversary of the million man march. the original event in october of 1995 was a call for african-american man to work for a better future for themselves and their families. asian of islam leader led the first march leads the commemoration on the national mall. the theme is justice or else, referring to the relationship between african-americans and police. >>> we're not the only ones toughing it out through wicked weather. we have damage in new england caused by the storms that roll through last night. >>> plus, the investigations into deadly shootings at two u.s. college campuses. t

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

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

. >>> there's a shortage of fire and ems personnel across pennsylvania. one local county is launching a recruitment effort. >>> and a foggy start in some parts of our area. be alert if you head out this morning, also, grab your umbrella. we could be dealing with rain on the way home today. good morning, it's 4:00 a.m., this is "nbc 10 news today." let's get right to bill henley with the first alert forecast for this friday. bill? >> happy friday. it is a little bit foggy, as you mentioned, tracy, just a couple of spots showing up. right now in bucks county and the trenton area. trenton, the visibility is down to 1/2 mile. it's not going to be an all-day affair. we're in the 50s and 60s, again, like yesterday. in fact, wilmington's running warmer this morning at 61 degrees. atlantic city is 61 while it's 58 with the fog in trenton. the clouds will break, we will see some sunshine, any fog disappears, then later today, that's when the showers will roll in. 62 degrees at 6:00, by 9:00, a little bit of a southerly breeze. bringing in a bit of additional humid

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on pennsylvania avenue for the afternoon temperature. reaching the low 70s. always dross huge crowds on pennsylvania avenue and a wonderful autumn day for that we have peak color. in our region t orange zone, that's where we have moderate color beginning to show up. we have peak color 3,000 feet up. closer to us, this area in the yellow, squlujust a few isolate showers. that includes this tree in rockville. this photo taken yesterday morning posted on my twitter page. you can share them on twitter and instagram and on my facebook page as well like this one. this photo by dr. diana abney taken of these beautiful purple berries. nice sunshine. afternoon highs. shenandoah valley. near 70s southern eastern suburbs as well. low 70s in washington. upper 60s to high 70. then tomorrow morning low 50s. lots of sunshine and then on tuesday morning a slight chance of a sprinkle. maybe a brief light shower. temperatures climbing into the upper 70s tuesday afternoon. then midweek and toward the end of the week still beautiful mild afternoon with cool mornings and dry weat

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

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

trouble.a pennsylvania judge is demanding prosecutors cocoider a new criminal complaint filed by a man in boston.the man is accusing sandusky of sexually assaulting him in the 19-80's. the judge ruled pennsylnia's statute of limitations has an exception for state employees. sandusky was an assistant football coach at penn state when the man says the assault happened.pennsylvania's attorney g@neral's office will take a new look at the allegations. this all comes as sandusky returns to court.he appeared today for a bid to get a new trial.sandusky's lawyers argue their client did not get a fair trial three years ago. he's is curreneny serving decades ininprison for ssually abusing several young boys. a woman has been arrested in the search for a man accused of shooting at a kentucky state trooper and police officer. officer.floyd cook has been on the run since saturday when he wounded the police officer in tennessee.last night -- authorities thought they spotted him in tennessee.he fled and was able to get away once his car crashed.police arrested his girlfriend -- calling her an accompli

a military blimp goes on the run, floating from maryland to pennsylvania before crashing. the sensitive technology that was on board. haley: we' ve already had a few do you think when you are president you'll be paid as much as if you were a man-male... this is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. but there are so many examples where that doesn't happen. i'm going to do everything i can to make sure every woman in every job gets paid the same... ...as the men who are r i'm hillary clinton shelley: today family and friends said goodbye to a nine euro void known for his kindness. christopher chester died while walking to a neighbor' s house to deliver cookies. he had a genetic heart condition which causes the heart to enlarge. a fund was created to help pay for funeral expenses, something that this family needed help with. >> sometimes its 5 and sometimes it's 25. people have donated hundreds of dollars that we don' t know us. >> i have seen such good in people that i have never seen before in my life. it has absolutely restored my faith in humanity. i can' t

tonight, the helium-filled blimp is on the ground in pennsylvania but it caused havoc from the heavens and became a social here's chip reid. >> reporter: the unmanned blimp housing a state of the radar system. after a three-year test period it's supposed to track the skies over the atlantic for incoming cruise missiles. today what was being tracked was the blimp itself. around 12:20 p.m. ist somehow detached from its mooring at the army's aberdeen proving ground in maryland. it drifted north through pennsylvania for hours trailed by two f-16ss while military minds tried to figure on the a way to bring it down. it finally deflated deflated and landed in a wooded area in montour county, pennsylvania, in two parts, first the tail section then the rest of it. the blimp is massive, more than 230 feet long and flew with thousands of feet of its steel tether dangling below, drag along the ground, knocking do power lines and cause tens of thousands of outages. it was rainy and wind nemaryland today, but the tether, just over an inch thick, was designed to withstand hurricane-force wind. in feb

. >> the so-called bonnie and clyde bank robbers were caught today in pennsylvania. phil: the hyde park woman accused of killing her uncle is sentenced to a 20-damon tall evaluation. she had to be carried into the courtroom after refusing to appear. >> a senior crashed after phil: it happened child shop. now we are hear frght people -- from the people whose lives he touched. we go now live to pea body. reporter: somehow the teenager lost control of his car and pole. it cut short a promising young life. >> he is always nice and always polite. i cannot believe it. reporter: he was a standout, an honor student at malden catholic and a hard working employee at tasty foods. >> he was one of the most respectful young men i had the pleasure to work with. he was always so nice to everyone. >> he was always busy and always doing his work. reporter: the 17 yierld was coming home from his job delivering pizza. his car slammed into a telephone pole a sum met street. summit street. he was the only one in the car. >> you are never the same after something like this. reporter: grie

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

this is a video of a lightning strike captured with a cell phone while on the pennsylvania turnpike. yesterday's storms sparked a tornado warning, and now there's a big drop in temperatures for our weekend. first alert meteorologist michelle grossman is in the weather center with that weekend forecast. >> good morning, ted. yeah, a big difference in temperatures. 15 degrees cooler compared to yesterday. we were at 80 degrees yesterday. we are at 65 today. chilly this morning, temperatures in the 40s, grab the fleece, the jacket as you head outside this morning. we are cloudy now in philadelphia and looking at 42 degrees in mount pocono. that's chilly. 56 in allentown, 52 in philadelphia, and 51 in atlantic city. it is breezy too. factor in the breeze, cooler than what it actually is. 15 miles per hour winds in philadelphia, 12 miles per hour in dover, and just higher than that in spots with winds up to 20 miles per hour in some spots. now, as we plan our saturday, plan on a good one, sunshine returning, partly sunny at 10:00, by 1:00, sunny, 65, and by 4:00, 65 degrees as well. breez

host: jerry from pennsylvania. fichter says, if they actually came together and performed the tax code, it would further revamp the economy. let me job your attention to a piece this morning from "the washington post," involving a tragedy. the headline is "yelled little odd couple of the demise bipartisan hope." and a bicycleed accident on september 19. he was doing a triathlon. his bike swerved to the other side of the road, he was hit by a car, and died instantly. the white house and the president releasing words of remorse. from reading, pennsylvania, republican line. good morning, welcome to the program. caller: good morning. people who own their houses, and do not pay taxes, they get social security. pass that.even ignore it completely. we are going to have a lot of problems. if you remember years ago, they were fighting for the same thing. i think a flat tax is good because it will relieve everybody. the rich, they will pay the same thing as the poor or middle class. i think donald trump's idea is very good.

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

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

voters will fill three open seats on the pennsylvania supreme court. two other state appellate openings and several local races, including philadelphia mayor. election day is tuesday, november 3rd. >>> it was chilling surveillance video of a child's abduction. now the woman who took that child from school and sexually assaulted her has learned her punishment with the kidnapper told the girl's family before her sentencing. >>> plus, the search for a missing cargo ship turns tragic. rescuers have found the body of one person onboard, but find out why they are still hopeful they could find survivors. since 1961, pearle vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. that was dr. stanley pearle's vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. today, doctors like lisa hamilton perform eye exams that can help detect diabetes. because we care for you... and your eyes. this is genuine eye care, in your neighborhood. this is pearle vision. >>> we're going to go back to the breaking news we told you about at the top of the hour. take a look at this,

in pennsylvania the number one won, bumm letter back, the knows popular costume. other favorites an eagle, makes sense, bacon, and of course our rocky. people in new jersey just can't seem to get enough of the jersey shore either, because they search for snooki costumes, more than anywhere else. other popular costumes in the garden state are angry birds, michael jackson, and santa claus. >>> and people in delaware apparently they did not do enough searches to come up with the list, sorry, delaware. the hess toy truck coming back for the holidays even though no more hess gas stations. weaver look at the icon you can truck right here that will begin zero sale next month. you can buy it on line or at kiosks at the willow grove park and cherry hill malls. now this is the first hess truck that won't be sold in gas stations, because hess sold its stations last year, but you can still get the truck, at least. >> still to come this morning, training exercise turns into real life emergency. see a swimmer saved all thanks to quick thinking rescuer. also, oscar pistorius is

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

the pennsylvania lottery. bring your dreams to life. >>> more break news. skyforce 10 live in wilmington, delaware, police are investigating a shooting here. happened in the past 30 minutes on north monroe street. victim, in i critical condition. police are looking for the gunman and possible motive. >> inside that car right there, 20-year-old man, michigan police pulled observe for driving drunk. watch that, another suspected drunk driver sideswiped the car. no one was hurt. both drivers under age and face dui charges. >>> a school in our area became the latest to take away honorary degree granted to bill cosby. lehigh announcing rescinding the degree it awarded cosby in 2004, that comes after renewed alleges from women who allege cosby sexually assaulted them decades ago. cosby has denied allegations and never criminally charged. sell other schools have already pulled degrees from cosby. >>> researchers say, they have found new benefits to breast-feeding your baby. doctors in boston say, breast milk contains biomolecules that fight infections and reduce i

i read the other day that 50% of the entire landmass of pennsylvania will have to follow the epa rules with water use and they will have to give permits out for building everything. it is stoking, it is repressing, the ability for us to grow, and the energy sector faces perhaps the greatest threat, whether it the federalas were lands that exist and the waters where regulation makes it harder to lease on federal lands to be able to grow the economy. regulations need to be fixed and that gets us closer to the 4% scenario, but we need to embrace the energy revolution as well. [applause] so here is what i believe. i believe we need to lift the ban on crude oil exports. it was designed in 1973 during a time when we had an oil embargo. it might have made since then, but i am not sure that it did, but it doesn't make sense now. we should sell our oil to the world for lower prices for us and for greater jobs in this country. not that band, it makes sense. lift that bad as it relates to exports. if it is not a free trading country, it takes forever to get a permit. there is gas right under wher

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. >> reporter: shotgun blasts in the pennsylvania countryicide, side. to let the last of the helium escape and then the delicate job of cutting it out of the trees. the mile-long tether that snagged utility lines, causing 30,000 to lose power, also cut into the sections and carted away. >> it's very steep terrain down there, there's a stream and it's heavily wooded. >> reporter: it may take military helicopters to lift the report the blimp cost $235 million. a test program for a 360-degree airborne radar. but it was turned off in april and never spotted a protester flying a gyrocopter to capital hill and they still can't explain how it got free and travelled across pennsylvania. and coming down here of all places, where the amish still spurn all things modern. >>> we also have a big recall to tell you about today. 300,000 accords. the airbags can be deployed without being in a crash. if a door is quote forcefully slam would the ignition on, the side airbags could deply. they're aware of 19 minor injuries resulting from the faulty airbags. >>> a sky dive

the pennsylvania lottery. bring your dreams to life. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> three years ago today hurricane sandy hit the jersey shore and left a path of destruction in its wake. you see those images over and over and over. three years later, the path to rebuilding is still uncertain for so many. >> the state says progress is being made, but they know more has to be done. nbc 10's ted greenberg joins us from our jersey shore bureau. so many people still suffering from the storm three years later. >> yeah, they really are, jackie. this is still a very stressful situation for a lot of folks who are displaced by sandy and for many are still in limbo. in communities slammed by sandy exactly three years ago, the sound of construction is still everywhere. >> still not restored to what it was. >> very much up in the air. >> reporter: his family continues to deal with red tape involving the amount of recovery money they'll get to elevate their house and renovate it a second time since the storm. >> extremely frus