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

jeffrey lory didn't have to go far to find his man. staley has been on the coaching staff since 2007. he was running back coach in 2013. staley played for the eagles from '97 to 2003. >>> the eagles wrap up their season tomorrow at the giants. pat schermer will act as head coach. there are no play-off implications for either team, the game still holds plenty of value. >> we're not going to the play-offs, so this game doesn't mean anything some people say. it's an addition. a new man comes in, do you fit a system or do you not. because you quit because you're not in the play-offs or do you keep on going? i do think it's an audition game for a lot of players. >>> it is philadelphia day at the staples center in los angeles. the flyers and sixers both with games there today. we start with the flyers and kings. first period, flyers turnover turns into a three-on-one for the canes. you can guess how this ended up. 1-0 l.a. later in the peter, kings with a man advantage. 2-0 at that juncture. the flyers do get on the board but fall 2-1. >>> t

ceo jeffrey lurie said doug is a strategic thinker who knows how to get the best out of his players. all these factors were what initially attracted us to doug and we believe he is the right man to help us achieve our ultimate goal. a source has confirmed former lions head coach, jim schwartz is in town in regards to the eagles defensive coordinator opening and reported he has gotten the job on the offensive side and pederson is planning to hire eagles frank reich to handled the offense in philadelphia. >>> up three, 10 seconds remaining, carmelo anthony, leave him alone, he can do that. puts a three down to drain, sends the game to overtime. sixers up in ot and finishing one of 16 assists for smith. sixers down three and inbound, covington banks it in to send the game to a second overtime. too much carmelo in this one. he will back down covington and hit the fade away j as sixers fall 119-113. >>> the nhl will not hand down supplemental discipline to ryan white for this hit on tomas jurco of the red wings last night so he will be available when they host the maple leaves tomorrow ni

police found the man along jeffrey road in willow grove just before 7:00 tonight. so far no word on any arrests. and no one's in custody for the stabbing death tonight of a man in west philadelphia. police found the victim with multiple stab wounds here behind this wal green's at gross and vine streets. he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. >>> we're learning more about the house fire in wilmington that claimed the lives of three young children. they both died yesterday after flames ripped through their home here on monroe street. their mother christina is in the hospital in critical condition with serious burns to nearly half of her body. her husband and father of their two girls spoke to nbc 10 today about the tragedy that devastated his family. >> they were innocent. >> fire officials are still investigating the cause of the fire. they say the house did not have any working smoke detectors. >>> a bucks county basketball coach could face up to 90 days in jail for allegedly head butting a referee during a game. you may recall this video right here. today t

this is a day after jeffrey lurie said the club would not hire a general manager so the title of this person is unknown. lurie stressed the importance of a collaboration when it comes to building the eagles roster. they have to replace chip kelly as head coach but he got a ringing endorsement from arguably the best coach of all time, four-time super bowl winner bill belichick of the patriots. >> it's disappointing. chip kelly to me is a good football coach and he does a great job and he's done a good job with that team. he'll end up somewhere and do a great job there. a lot of the players that were on the eagles that are no longer on the eagles aren't doing too much for anybody else, either. >> i'm going to try to do a sports kwa scast with that mono voice. pat shurmur plans to carry on some of what kelly left behind in this final game in new york. >> we started something in motion here. the players are used to doing things a certain way and very many, many of the things we're doing is -- it's right so we'll try to keep it as business as usual as it can be in a very odd week and put o

here's jeffrey laurie, arriving in philly this afternoon. doug peterson went to kansas city with andy ried on his staff. he was andy's quarterback's coach here with the birds. he was the quarterback also in andy's first year until mcnabb was ready to play. here big red on doug's interview with the eagles. >> that's what happens. kind of a neat thing for the guys that have that opportunity. only 32 in the whole world. you have an opportunity to do it, it's kind of a nice complement to your hard work and endurance in some cases, right? >> former giants coach tom coughlin is up next for the eagles. the bird will interview him tomorrow. giants fans are worried. he led the giants to two super bowls, 12 playoff wins. only six coaches are more in history. he's had three straight losing seasons and here's csn's preand post game analyst. >> i view it as a feeling out process. when you interview for a head coach sometimes you interview a lot of candidates to pick their brain and get ideas about organization and try to talk through the process. i kind