jeffrey lurie introduced pederson yesterday. he was the eagles quarterback at the start of the donovan mcnab era. pederson said he is ready to be the birds' skipper. >> this is not an andy reid football team and it's not a doug pederson football team. this is a philadelphia eagles football team. i get it. this city hasn't won and this organization hasn't won in some time. it's my job to turn that around. i. >> pederson is married with three sons, the oldest is a quarter back at a university in in alabama. his youngest kids will finish school in kansas city. john clark of comcast sports net asked pederson about sam bradford. >> i do like him. i liked him when he came out of college. he's a good fit for the organization. he came on strong at the end of the season and did some nice thing things. >> coming up, you'll hear jeffrey lurie and eagles fans sounding off on the new head coach. and the racially-charged comments about an eagles player by a sports radio host that had him quickly issuing an apology. >>> it's soon back to schoo

you'll see his interview on nbc 10259 o'clo 2:00, we'll also hear from the owner and chairman jeffrey lurie. >>> and we're hearing more about how the prisoners released from iran were treated in captivity. nbc's keir simmons reports their recovery will be a slow process. >> reporter: this morning jason rezaian is enjoying time with his wife, mom and brother. they said he asked about baseball and basketball team over dinner. >> he knew how the warriors were doing. that's how big a fan he was. >> reporter: in that notorious prison, jason said at one point he spent 49 days in solitary confinement. his only exercise in an 8 x 8 foot concrete yard. amir hekmati, reunited with his sisters and brother in law describes being tortured by iran's revolutionary guard. >> he was in solitary confinement in a one meter by one meter cell for a very long time, deprived of sleep. >> reporter: psychologists at the u.s. base are assessing the men's state of mind. a representative of freed prisoner saeed abedini, jailed for three and a half years, tells nbc news saeed has yet to see his family. another ma

eagles owner jeffrey lurie fired chip kelly late last month. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. >> we had our first measurable snow this season yesterday, and we've got something bigger coming in the seven-day period. a winter storm. and it looks like it's going to be affecting pretty much the whole area. some details remain to be seen. it's bitter cold now, cold plus wind. and that's going to last all the way into wednesday. this is not just a few hours of real cold. we've got sunshine out there now. but it's not warming things up very much. 23 degrees, 23-mile-per-hour sustained wind making it feel like 7. 14 degrees colder than at this time yesterday. see what's going to happen here with the hourly forecast. look at this. as we go through the afternoon, even by 4:00, it's 24 but feeling like 11. by 8:00, 20 and feeling like 7 and by midnight feeling like 4. by day break could be feeling like around zero or close to zero. right now with 23 in philadelphia, it's 19 in pottstown and pretty close to the low 20s elsewhere. but w

if you win, you would be richer than tiger woods and eagles owner jeffrey lurie. you'd have to win two powerball jackpots to equal oprah winfrey's fortune. and warren buffett and bill gates are in a league of their own. we found one store luckier than most in our area. this sunoco station on lancaster avenue has sold a couple of two million tickets. employees hope that streak continues with tonight's powerball drawing. the manager suggests buying tickets at lunchtime rather than the evening because the rush later in the day has been so busy. the line has wrapped around outside of the store. when it comes to strategy, most people say the higher the jackpot, the more tickets they buy. >> as it gets higher i get more and buy from different locations. >> i used to do birthdays of the kids and -- but i stopped doing that. so what i do is -- >> that wasn't lucky? >> no, i find out just let the computer pick it and hope the computer picks it again when it's time to win. >> reporter: one store manager tells me he's sold 500 powerball tickets to one person. tonight's drawi