. >> nbc 10's doug shimell live in milford township, bucks county. doug, you talked to the people who could see the most snow tomorrow. >> yeah. and you know, in storms like these, people here know very well what it means to live north and west. that's all they have been doing at this hardware store in bethlehem. today has been crazy, sold 80 snow shovels before 8:00 this morning and we opened at 6:30. >> reporter: mike and other customers picking up where they left off last winter. >> got like four properties. >> take a beating every time you get a good snow? >> a betting, yes. we got driveways, parking lots that need to be taken care of. yeah. >> reporter: snow blowers have been selling since september since many didn't survive last year. what about salt? >> had one guy take actually three tractor trailer loads this year so far and there's 8784 bags on a tractor trailer load. so, one guy took 2500 bags of salt. >> reporter: but somehow, laura harris still has a stockpile. >> i have probably 100 pounds of salt in my basement. >> left from last winte

i'm doug shimell. the story coming up. >>> and this just in to the nbc 10 first alert weather center. we have a severe thunderstorm warping for parts of south jersey, mostly parts of fla atlantic, cape may counties until 5:30 this afternoon. storms lining up in delaware moving east at 50 miles an hour. these could be containing pretty damaging winds. we'll keep tracking this for you coming up and the timing of the rest of the evening's showers. >>> beach battle. margate and the state of new jersey are at odds over who controls the sand. the election just added more fuel to their fight. that's next on "nbc 10 news at 5." cocoa or eggnog? toasty or frosty? exactly the way you want it... until boom, it's bedtime! your mattress is a battleground of thwarted desire. enter the sleep number bed. right now, you can save $400 on the c4 mattress set. he's the softy. his sleep number setting is 35. you're the rock, at 60. silent night not so silent? sleep number's even got an adjustment for that. give the gift of

. >> doug shimell live in the lehigh valley with more on penndot's advice. doug? >> reporter: we know there's a lot of tradition in how people do thanksgiving and get to thanksgiving. all of that tradition in the world isn't going to mean anything if they don't get there. it figures a nor'easter would hit when the maximum number of drivers would be on the road the day before thanksgiving. in penndot's lehigh valley control room, they're watching it. >> pressure is on everyone when it comes to the thanksgiving holiday travel with or without a snowstorm. >>. >> reporter: ron young is imploring drivers not to be stubborn. >> if you don't have to travel, adjust your time, leave earlier or later to miss the majority of the nor'easter. >> reporter: drivers ought to take a page from the airlines which will cancel or reschedule flights well before a storm hits so people won't be stranded when it does. >> i would say leave early wednesday. leave early wednesday. it's always better to be safe than sorry. >> reporter: but will leaving early wednesday get you ahead of the sto

nbc 10's doug shimell spoke exclusively to relatives. doug? >> reporter: we went in search of gary fellenbaum's family. his case made strangers cry, 3-year-old scottieç mcmillan allegedly dying at the hands of his mother, jillian tait and boyfriend, gary fellenbaum. his father knows his son faces a murder charge and possibly the death penalty. >> i just think my kid is being railroaded at this point. >> reporter: the evidence prosecutors outlined was staggering, of fellenbaum allegedly beating the toddler with a knotted rope, curtain rod and aluminum strip and slamming the boy's head into a wall. >> gary fellenbaum and julianne tate tied the two boys up by their feet over a door and beat them. and while they were doing that, they were laughing. >> at this point i have no comment. >> reporter: it's been upsetting for the family. >> yes, it is. >> reporter: what's been so upsetting about what you've been hearing? >> everything. because i know my son wouldn't

live in plymouth township, doug shimell, nbc 10 munews. >> thank you, doug. >>> speaking of snowflakes, look what's behind us. that's camelback mountain over our shoulden. snow is coming down there. nothing you can ski on yet. >> nope. that is camelback. not philadelphia. >> exactly. let's head out to nbc 10's brittney shipp live for us in ardmore with stormforce 10 as well. >> reporter: that's right. here's stormforce 10. one thing we've been keeping a close eye on are the conditions. with stormforce 10 we have a weather station that is attached to stormforce 10. the temperature right now 38.9 degrees. we continue to monitor it. in the last 20 minutes or so, it has continued to drop. about 2 degrees every 20 minutes. so it's definitely chilly here. we are also dealing with the rainfall. so this is the cold rain that continues to come down. it even tells us the rainfall rate at .06 an inch per hour. that's light rainfall. it's definitely been steady. again, our temperatures today mainly stayed in the 40s. now they're dropping down into the 30s. we already showed you snowfall in the poc

nbc 10's doug shimell is live at plymouth meeting. that cold air is biting, doug. >> the calendar and your mind was telling you this is still autumn but the thermometer betrayed you. >> it doesn't feel any better 30 feet in the air than it does buying a house plant on the ground. >> it's freezing and i'm from florida originally. so this is too much for me. >> keep moving, you keep warm. >> brutal midwinter cold plunged temperatures in mid-november. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> it's swamped the outreach center in norristown. >> usually this is december-type weather. for it to happen this early throws us off because we're not prepared for these numbers that are going to be coming in due to code blue. >> zack costello and jennifer dupree are spending day and night doing the hard sell with the homeless on the streets. >> we have to do our best to convince them to try to come in, come in the shelter instead of staying out there in those deadly conditions. >> but they say many of the homeless are convinced it will get warm enough aga

nbc 10's doug shimell is live in center city and joins us now with more. doug? >> reporter: well, you know, after years of avoiding government agencies out of fire of being deported it may take a lot of coaxing in order to convince undocumented workers that the coast really is clear. coming to america for madina and jing meant a big drop in everything. >> i was an accountant in the bank in uzbekistan and i came here and my first job is cashier at this store. >> when i came here, i can't speak english good, so i just work at a chain supermarket. >> what i'm going to be laying out is the things i can do. >> reporter: when they and other immigrants hear president obama is going to grant temporary two-year work permits, many feel it signals an end of wage abuse. >> employers think because you are undocumented they can do whatever they please with you. from paying very, very low wages, to not paying at all. >> reporter: the welcoming center for new pennsylvanians job trains 1,400 immigrants a year and sees a higher minimum wage as a side effect of the president's pla

live in bucks county, doug shimell le, nbc 10 news. >> thanks, doug. with the changing weather, be sure to get the latest alerts and notices to your smartphone or tablet with the nbc 10 weather çapp. it's a free download on nbc10.com. >>> today pope francis confirmed what many had hoped for and what many expected. >> yes, he's coming to philadelphia next year. and you don't really need to speak italian to understand what he said this morning at the vatican. [ speaking italian ] >> there you heard philadelphia, the pontiff confirming his september trip to the city of brotherly love. >> and who better to honor pope francis, to celebrate this incredible news than the young people of the archdiocese. thank you for being here. you are part of history today. >> word travels quickly, energizing our region and putting into motion plans to accommodate the pope as well as the millions of pilgrims who will come to our area to see him. here's the schedule of events. philadelphia will hof tst the wd meeting of families. >> nbc 10's rosemary connors was there toda

live in stroudsburg, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> thank you, doug. >>> today in the line of fire. >> two local police officers hit in an exchange of bullets. first, here's what we're working on for you right now at nbc news at 5:00. >>> new videoç released of the man police want to talk with in the disappearance of carlesha freeland-gaither. and what's being done to follow the money trail on her debit card? plus, nbc 10 just spoke to eric frein's public defender about his first meeting with the man accused of killing a state trooper. what little he can say about the case, the evidence and who may have helped him. that's on nbc 10 news at 5:00. >>> we have new video of the man accused of firing shots at police in collingdale, delaware county. lamar james and his father, tony gale are charged in the case. the men were taken into custody. police say officers arrived at the home around 6:00 in the morning to serve a warrant for the son, lamar james. that's when they say the son fired shots at those officers. two officers were hit. one had a minor hand injury, the other hit in the h

doug shimell is live in the poconos for us. while state police have said frein was a moving target during the search, you've learned one key spot didn't get checked out. tell us about it. >> well, exactly. of course it was that infamous hangar where everything sort of culminated last thursday night. state police had been asked during the press conference last thursday after eric frein's arrest had you searched that location? had you searched that facility? and state police said yes, it had been searched and cleared but we found information that says that may not be the case. when a clean shaven eric frein was taken into custody late last week, it was unclear how long he had been hiding in the old airplane hangar at the closed birchwood resort in pocono township. state police claim they had previously searched and cleared the hangar but law enforcement sources tell nbc 10 the hangar had not been searched before. sources claimed the hangar was not swept until a newly arrived team of u.s. marshals was ass n assigned there last thu

live in goshen township, doug shimell le, nbc 10 news. >>> we have breaking news. police arrested a suspect in the robbery and sexual assault of a man, this surveillance video from the case. early sunday morning a man followed the victim out of a restaurant on north 2nd street, followed him home where he allegedly robbed and assaulted him. investigators haven't said who was arrested but count on us for updated information just as soon as we learn more about this arrest. >>> a young woman from philadelphia was killed in an early morning crash. this happened at cottman and algon avenue. the woman was thrown from her car and pinned underneath the wreckage. the man driving the other vehicle suffered a broken neck. this crash closed down a stretch of cottman during the morning rush hour. investigators still trying to determine what happened here. >>> well, we now know the identity of a pedestrian struck and killed this morning along route 1 in bensalem, bucks county. it happened just after 5:00 in the morning after a spot south of old lincoln highway. police say 51-year

. >> today nbc 10's doug shimell spoke to some about their plan of action before the bad stuff comes our way this time. doug, are they prepared? >> reporter: yell, in a word, yes. many communities like plymouth township and others have vowed after last year's winter, broken equipment and no salt, never again. they rinsed out the last of the leaves and put away the lawn mowers in upper hanover township because it is now that time of year. >> i love snow. i can't help it. i'm the crazy one here. >> reporter: tom has 90 miles of road in northern montgomery county, and everything has recovered from last winter's marathon that destroyed budgets and equipment. >> normally we get about a year to two years out of a car. we were literally getting a month and a half, two months because we were constantly out plowing. >> reporter: it's $10,000 to $12,000 per blade. and it broke small town budgets. along with overtime, fuel, and the skyrocketing cost of salt if you could find it. >> we were probably over by 25% to 30% in each line item, so it was not a small amount of money. it certainly added u

. >>> doug shimell is in reading where the suspect is being held. >> doug, earlier you spoke with people who saw this crash. what did they tell you? >> reporter: well, they told us they were starting their day the way they always do, the way most of the people near that intersection always do. >> there were cars in the field, the tractor-trailer and a car was up against the sign at dunkin' donuts. it looked like an explosion went off. >> reporter: neighbors say it happened along a part of route 222 notorious for accidents. >> i heard a big bang and i noticed the two tractor-trailers right where the dunkin' donuts was and instantly all the other cars started smashing into each other, instant mayhem, people screaming. >> reporter: witnesses say the tractor-trailer lost control near route 73 in berks county. >> i couldn't believe what i saw. it was -- i only saw the one tractor-trailer and the two cars on top of each other. this looks like something out of a movie. >> reporter: neighbors and businesses watched as a stretch of road they have explained about for years claimed two more lives.

doug shimell talked to police and family members. >> reporter: when two women who had come here to shop noticed a body over there and called police, the family who lived nearby found out. her family says the last time they saw crystal goodwin she left to run errands last wednesday. when they heard a woman's unclothed body was found next to a warehouse off of south columbus boulevard on sunday afternoon, they asked police if she had a distinctive tattoo and knew it was her. >> why, why, why? >> it is just terrible. it is real sad. it is a tragedy. >> i was destroyed. going to a store on sunday afternoon. >> the body was next to a warehouse and a witness tells nbc 10 it was not there earlier in the day in plain view of the busy shopping center. >> it's disturbing because it's so populated outside everywhere but right there. >> crystal's family claims they reported her missing and say while she's had problems with  substance abuse and the police, they are convinced she was murdered. >> you don't want to see something like that. that's sad. makes you think of the people that's missing. >>

now to nbc 10's doug shimell live in the lehigh valley. covering that approaching storm. >> and doug with temperatures in the 70s today, hard to think snow but people are busy getting ready for whatever comes our way. >> it wasn't very hard for them to focus on what they have to do over the next day and a half when they know they have a nor'easter in the offing. this is what you use to keep a nor'easter off a runway. >> how are we looking? good to go? >> yes. >> reporter: brian knows the lehigh valley international airport may get the brunt of the nor'easter on the business jeesl days of the year. >> they go out, they are brooming the snow off the runways. >> inside the terminal, the poinsettia tree is almost done for the 3,000 passengers who are hoping their wednesday flight will arrive or depart before any snow gets here. the airport is begging you to check with your airline. >> they will cancel the flight rather than letting it depart and get stranded somewhere in the system where they can't retrieve the flight. they will cancel well in

live in plymouth township, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> doug, thank you very much. we have a photo we just got in from chester county. a few flakes have fallen out there. a viewer sent this shot from coatesville. see a little bit of snow on the porch there. please send us your pictures as this snow begins to fall in parts of our area. stay with nbc 10 for the coverage, of course, of the winter weather. >>> small towns battered by the cost of last year's winter are adding money to their budgets for this winter season. plymouth township, they added a new $100,000 plow and salt truck to a fleet that was beaten up by endless snowstorms. in upper hanover township, public works crews hooked up new plow blades to replace ones used by too much use. many cities are trying to build up road salt reserves after running out next year, but it's costing $10 to $12 more per ton. >> every order that we make, normally we order 200 to 300 at a time, we're looking at a $2,000, $3,000 cost difference from last year per load. >> right now we have about 1,200 ton of salt and about 400 ton

live in bucks county, i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >> that's a lot of people, doug. thank you. >>> look at the pennsylvania turnpike, traffic looking good now, one of the many roads and high ways this could get dicy when the snow starts falling tomorrow. nbc 10's rosemary conners is live in norris up to this afternoon. >> tell us what road crews are doing now to get ready for the prethanksgiving day storm. >> reporter: renee and jim, they are stocking up their salt piles an making sure that their road equipment is ready and taken care of. we are expecting to get an update on penndot's game plan at 5:00 here and of course, bring that to you. their goal is to make sure that everybody is safe. in addition to the department of transportation crews, truck drivers know the highways out there are the best and so we spoke to one driver today who says that even he isn't going to be taking any chances with the weather tomorrow. >> be ready for the unexpected. >> reporter: conditions are clear today but tomorrow will be terrible for traffic. the best advice is to slow down and

. >>> nbc 10's doug shimell spent weeks with investigators as they searched for frein. tonight he spoke with frein's defense attorney about the case ahead. >> we talked to one of eric frein's two new lawyers who says after a seven-week long manhunt, they have a lot of catching up to do. >> i met with him two days ago. we met for about 2 1/2 hours. >> reporter: it was their first face-to-face meeting between the accused fugitive sniper eric frein. and his newly appointed public defense co-counsel michael weinstein. >> i need a rapport with him. i do that with every klein, not just eric. i need to establish a rapport and have him feel comfortable with me. >> reporter: he says there was little talk of the manhunt or the arrest. >> it appears that he just surrendered. >> is that from a defense standpoint significant. >> everything in this case is significant. how it plays out in the end, i don't know. >> reporter: we did ask michael weinstein about the weapons, laptop computer and the other items police seized in the abandoned hangar where eric frein hid. >> at some point w

in winfield, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> kenneth bae's sister says the american freed from two years captivity in north korea enjoyed pizza after returning to the united states. he said that he was in better shape than his family expected. the missionary was released along with matthew miller from california kravm both were flown in to washington state around midnight. they were accompanied by the director of national intelligence james clapper and his intervention led to their release. >> i want to thank you for supporting me and lifting me up and not forgetting me. >> reporter: bae had been held more than two years in a labor camp for alleged anti-government activities. miller, who did not speak to the media, was arrested last spring after reportedly ripping up his visa at an airport. he was charged with espionage and sentenced to hard labor. >>> flight attendance at american airlines rejected a five-year contract forcing the airline and the union for cab and crew workers in to binding arbitration. it was a close decision, just 16 votes blocked the contract. the rejection of the co

i'm doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> lunch was served for veterans at delaware tech in wilmington today. the event honored all vets on staff, students. we met one veteran back in school after becoming a drug addict. the 61-year-old now hopes to become a kons you are acounselo others take back their life like he did. >>> driving home from a funeral, a crash kills four members of an amish family. the van that the family rented was hit by a cement truck. 22-year-old elizabeth esh died today, just one day after she delivered a stillborn boy. brothers emanuel and elvin died at the scene. the van turned into the path of a concrete truck which then hit another vehicle. no charges have been filed. >>> investigators are trying to solve the mystery at the jersey shore after a parrot was stolen from the cape may county zooç d later found by the side of a road. the gray parrot decision appeared sunday. the cage was latched but not locked. zoo officials say the parrot could not have flown away because his wings are clipped. he was missing for just over a day until two women brought the bird to the

doug shimell just arrived at the scene. what have you learned? >> well, police say it was around 2:45 this afternoon, that a man in a dark colored sweatshirt with a hood on and potentially a ski mask walked into the front door, the all star hair studio and opened fire and ran. he hit two men. both taken to area hospitals, in critical and stable condition. this may be a continuation of a shooting that occurred last night, a little after 8:00, when someone put five rounds through the front window of the hair salon when there were young children inside. investigators say they believe the shooter last night, and the shooter this afternoon are the same person and detectives tell us they have some leads and they are making their way around reading to pursue those. live in reading, doug shimell nbc10 news. >> and we're following more breaking news out of the lehigh valley about missing mom jessica padgett. her body has been found and authorities say she has been murdered. her body was recovered on her stepfather's property. he's charged with her murder.

s from stroud township, doug shimell. >>> skyforce 10 over the 1800 block where police were called to help with an eviction and animal removal. when they arrived, they found two guns rigged as booby traps. those guns did not go off but it was a dangerous situation. >> the building suffered severe structural damage over time. it was his way of maintaining security of his property but obviously that's not an okay way to secure your property. >> the building owner was take noon custody and will face charges that include reckless endangerment. >>> the nbc 10 jersey shore bureau is following new developments in the atlantic city casino crisis today. some 200 employees showed their commitment to saving the taj mahal casino. they marched to the mayor's door step with a 12,000 signature petition in hand. workers anticipated handing over the signatures but instead, a handful were invited into the mayor's office to talk about their plea for concession. they hope those concessions will entice billionaire carl icahn to rescue it and save some 3,000 jobs. >> what are benefits without a job? you ha

. >>> nbc 10's doug shimell is examining the impact of the president's announcement and what it could mean for people who work in our area. >> doug is live in center city. this could be a game changer for a lot of people. >> reporter: it really could, after years of living on low wages and as you heard living in the shadows, the advocates for undocumented workers say this is a liberation of sorts but one that will not take jobs away from other people. >> are you looking for work? >> reporter: they see 1,400 immigrants at the welcoming center a year in center city. with president obama's immigration announcement, the center expects many more undocumented workers to come ut of the shadows. >> you have to be apply. you're not going to be automatically granted status. secondly, it's temporary. it is not a green card. it is not a path to citizenship. >> it's not going to be an'sy road to a job with the announcement tonight. >> reporter: peter gonzalez is the welcoming center's ceo and says the expected surge of new workers with permits will hit the job market like everyone else. >> just li

live in bucks county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> the pope is coming. to philadelphia. >> excitement filled the city of philadelphia today. pope francis announced he will attend next year's world meeting of families. today's historic announcement means the eyes of the world will be on philadelphia. >> tens of thousands of visitors will travel here just to see the pope. for the city it already means a big boost in business. cydney long spent the day checking out local hotels. what did you find? >> reporter: i can tell you, hotels right here in center city, some 11,500 as well as well beyond the city will be swiped up in no time. those hotels are right now trying to figure out they're inventory. this as rooms are being blocked off by corporations, visitors as well as media outlets to start. hotels may not be your only option to see history in the making. >> we are such a beautiful city, historic city. we're a city of neighborhoods with diverse cultures but we're warm and friendly and welcoming. >> reporter: president of caldwell banker real estate in cent

doug shimell live in goshentown. >> power outages, can you really prevent an out age? it's like around inkblot test. to some you see shoveling. to others -- >> you keep your fingers crossed. >> we were out for about four days. >> reporter: neighbors live it. >> we actually stuck it out four, five days and then the fifth day we kind of had enough and went down to my daughter's. >> i'm hoping it's not going to happen again. let's put itç that way. i know we're one of the last ones to get taken care of when there is an outage because we're a small cell. >> reporter: peco replaced a pole off a summer storm outage. the utility tells nbc 10 it has invested $500 million in tree trimming and outage-resistant power lines. >> the wire will hold up the tree or tree branch to minimize the impact of a potential outage on customers. >> reporter: on rose lane they want to believe. do you place a lot of faith in it? >> you take it all with a grain of salt. you hope they've gotten things taken care of. >> reporter: and just in case, no doubt some of the residents on rose lane and els

nbc 10's doug shimell looks at the final campaign rush. >> reporter: tom wolf has a ten point lead on governor tom corbett why bring in a president who's popularity is 32%? the same reason the governor brought in chris christie to make sure the faithful show up. ♪ >> reporter: the president can still draw a crowd even with his relatively low approval rating. and they spelled out what the democrats have to do to help tom wolf maintain a double-digit lead and win the golf's office next tuesday. >> governor tom wolf. >> reporter: the candidate said it. >> if we want the election to deliver on the promise of those three things -- education, jobs and fairness -- guess what we have to do. >> vote! >> that's right. tuesday we have to vote. >> reporter: and the president laid a guilt trip on the audience about it. >> four years ago the democrats lost the governor's race in pennsylvania by 20 votes per precinct. 20 votes. that was your cousin paoky not voting. >> reporter: in bucks county, the incumbent republican governor brought hi popular republican from next door to help to keep pennsylv

nbc 10's doug shimell joins us live from west caln township. doug? >> reporter: scotty mcmillian's family only lived in this mobile home barely three weeks and neighbors say the only sign they saw of the kids, occasionally the boys would peek out of that window. >> see the holes in the wall? that's not from kids playing. that's from gary fellenbaum taking that little boy's head and smashing it into the wall. >> reporter: it was graphic and only got worse. >> they whipped scotty. that's a homemade whip. >> reporter: a knotted rope, curtain rod, and aluminum window strip prosecutors say they were all allegedly used until 3-year-old scotty mcmillian stopped breathing tuesday night. >> gary fellenbaum and julian tait tied the two boys up by their feet over a door and beat them. while they were doing that, they were laughing. >> reporter: scotty's mother, jillian tait, and boyfriend, gary fellenbaum were charged with murder. >> why was he abusing them? he felt they had disrespected him. a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old. >> reporter: neighbors in the mobile h

nbc 10's doug shimell picks up the story and he spoke to the officers who saved the child's life. >> officer steve and gene knew what they were responding to was not going to be good. >> we received an emergency call that there had been a shooting in darby township. >> reporter: none of what they heard on the police radio heading to the scene saturday night sounded survivable. >> went to the garage and found an adult male holding a child in his arms. >> k-9 officer was the first one there and said a 10-year-old boy had accidentally shot himself in the face with his father's .357 caliber revolver. >> i scooped the child up. ran for a police car, placed him in the backseat. had the officer get in the backseat with the child. >> as soon as i pulled up i observed the officer with a boy in his arms. >> he knew he didn't have long. >> i kept referring to him as kid, kid, stay with us. stay with us. there was blood on his chest and head. i immediately started compressions. >> we shut down every intersection on the way to the hospital. it was a clear shot from the scene to the hospital. time

doug shimell is there at temple university. we'll bring you the live picture there as soon as he arrives. >>> we'll be remiss without mentioning a number of races, especially in new jersey. the senate race between cory booker and jeff bell. we could mention a few high-profile races as well in delaware. democratic senator chris coops will take on republican challenger kevin wade for u.s. senate. stay with nbc 10 for complete coverage of the races in your community this election day. we'll have live updates beginning at 8:00 tuesday night. i'll be covering the corbett campaign in pittsburgh while luann kan will be in york covering that race. >>> switching gears entirely now, to the gridiron, the philadelphia eagles may have beaten the philadelphia texans this afternoon but it was not all good news. they suffered big injuries on offense and defense. we're talking about quarterback nick foles. >> reporter: this team has been dealing with offensive line injuries and are hit in two key areas. first of all, we'll start with nick foles

nbc 10's doug shimell live in plymouth meeting. doug, who have the volunteers found as they went door to door? >> because this cold was so frigid and early, the volunteers say they lucked out so far. they worry is this weather a sign that this may be another bad winter to come for their clients? 24 years of delivering food and meals on wheels volunteer june jenkins says she worries about her clients in this sudden cold. >> sometimes they're sitting there all wrapped up, cold and you're asking them did you put the heat on today? they don't even think about that. you're warm? >> yes, i'm warm. >> reporter: jesse slaton is 95 years old and has the heat on in his norristown row home. >> i have my thermostat set on 68 degrees. that's day and night. you felt it when you came in. >> here you are, jesse. we always make sure they have heat, that the heater is working and they also have their food, that their steps are cleared in case it snowed. >> i appreciate the meal on wheels coming. they come in, they check on me, because that day i fel

. >> doug shimell from our sister station in philadelphia reports there may have been a key place that was supposed to be searched but search teams didn't look there. >> reporter: with a clean shaven eric frein was taken into custody last week, it was unclear how long he'd been hiding in the old airplane hangar in pocono tonship. state police claim they'd previously searched and cleared the hangar but law enforcement sources tell nbc 10 the hangar had not been searched before. sources claim it was not swept until a newly arrived team of u.s. marshals was assigned there last thursday. when the marshals saw eric frein walking in the open near the hangar and arrested him, it culminated a search that grew from the bloomingwood police barracks to the birchwood airfield well to the south. nbc 10 e-mailed state police asking how long they believe frein had been in the hangar and why it allegedly was not searched. but a spokesperson e-mailed back that they, quote, cannot answer any further questions. >> frein now has two court appoind public defenders assigned to his case. >> and he has a prel

doug shimell attended one long-standing tradition that salutes local veterans. >> you spoke to those who served. who are they saying about the tribute the community paid them today? >> they are humble. they say they deserved because they could. their thanks comes in the form of all those people along the parade route. while they were fighting world war ii they didn't feel like the greatest generation. >> i got shot down over the oil fields in romania and ended up being in a prison camp. i was captured. there was a man that wanted to put an ax in my skull. >> the veterans day parade in media showcased the world war ii vet. gladys fleece weliz is one of tn accepted for service. >> when these young women come up to me and tell me i have paved the way forç them, that'a wonderful feeling. >> reporter: pretty emotional, i'm guessing. >> yes, when i see gladys, the world war ii era. there are not many vets left. >> reporter: they saw nothing but thanks through the streets of media. >> to explain to them that today is about people that make their life easier and protect them. you have to s

live in the digital operation center, i'm doug shimel, nbc so news. >>> next at 5:00, we continue to follow breaking news in the abduction investigation. >> nbc 10 has reporters across philadelphia and in maryland right now because the fbi is chasing clues out of state. the victim's bank card was used there yesterday. >>> in just the last ten minutes we learned more on what happened in the sunoco gas station near washington lane. police are still on the scene here. they tell us a 32-year-old was shot four times, twice in the shoulder. after he got into a fight with someone here at the gas station, that man didn't wait for an ambulance. he was taken in a private car to chestnut hill hospital where right now he's in critical condition. police are still looking for evidence at the scene. they have not made an arrest. reporting live in skyforce 10,

doug shimel was on the trail as crews searched for frein and more on the digital footprint left behind. >> reporter: how was eric frein able to stay hidden for seven weeks? a new search warrant obtained by nbc 10 details what police believe was the fugitive sniper's secret weapon. when investigators went through the abandoned airplane hangar of a closed virtual resort in pocano township where frein was captured, the search warrant states a laptop computer and two thumbdrives were found. not long after eric frein was taken on to the barracks, court documents say he told police he used unlocked wi-fi accounts while on the run and accessed the internet. but did that in some way help him elude police all that time? the warrant doesn't say and state police are not commenting. >>> coming up next on "nbc 10 news" at 6:00, breaking news. >> police release this photo of a man using carlesha freeland-gaither's bank card in maryland. we have live team coverage on the man police are calling a person of interest. >>> that was a warm wednesday, but big changes are on the way. i'm have the details in

live in chester county, doug shimell, nbc 10 news. >>> the man accused of abducting a philadelphia woman last week will return to our area this week to face charges. delvin barnes is currently being held in virginia on a separate case. he'll be picked up tomorrow by the fbi. on wednesday he'll be in pennsylvania to face a judge for the abduction of carlesha freeland-gaither. police believe barnes is the man seen in surveillance video grabbing the woman off the germantown street. the two were found three days later in maryland. >>> to this now, house of cats. we're talking dozens of cats founded aban doned inside a house in voorhees. >> starving and living in filthç efforts under way to safely remove the animals. >> reporter: some of the details are disturbing. we just found out some of the tiny kittens had bite marks on their faces and throats. this from older and starving cats. now animal rescuers remain on the property here this afternoon. along with the veterinarian, a man who identified himself as the owner's brother would not speak on camera but one neighbor says he is relieved the