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And now, Preston and Steve's news updates with Kathy Romano.

Today is Wednesday. It's October 30th. Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning. A young child was rushed to the hospital after a firework went inside, went off inside their Philadelphia home on Tuesday. Relatives say the doctors are trying to save the girls three fingers. It happened at 440 inside the home along the 700 block of North Marvine Street. Police say the 11-year-old girl was playing with the firework when when went off inside the home. It's unclear where the child got the fireworks or if it was

illegal. A retired nurse happened to be in the neighborhood and was passing by when she saw the

chaotic scene. She was able to get to the girl and wrap her hand in order to help with the

bleeding. The child was transported to the hospital where she's listed in stable condition.

Police say there's damage to the second floor bedroom and the drywall where the explosion occurred. Acting police commissioner Christine Coulter says with mischief night

tonight it's likely others will be tempted to play with fireworks and she warns them not to do it.

Earlier this summer, a nine-year-old girl suffered serious injuries to her arms, body, and face

when an illegal explosive was detonated in her hands inside her Kensington home.

Well, fireworks part of your mischief night stuff? No. Yeah. It was never. I know in some areas it was. We wanted to keep it kind of quiet. Yeah, yeah. You know, for whatever, you know, egging and shaving, creaming and toilet papering and all that stuff. You didn't want to draw attention to that. Yeah. So, but I guess maybe it's different to some areas.

A woman in Norristown-O County is accused of stealing over $617,000 from her employer and using the money to pay for her daughter's weddings. According to authorities, 58-year-old Carol Snyder of Green Lane, was arrested and charged after she stole money from her employer, Hardy Machine in Hatfield Township.

William Hardy, the owner of the company, was alerted to the potential thefts when the issuer of

the company's credit card called to say the payment was overdue.

Hardy believed the credit card to be inactive for several years.

Further investigation revealed a total of 1,758 unauthorized and non-business-related purchases made between 2012 to August 9th, 2019. No, it's only a thousand. 2012, 2019. She was buying stuff for the wedding for that long. It was two daughters. Two daughters. So it's two separate wedding. They'll understand, right? Everyone loves a wedding. Yeah. Come on. Oh, all right.

Right?

Sure, I'll pay for both your daughter's wedding.

I guess I'm a softy, yeah, Kathy.

I'm a softy.

According to investigators, Snyder made credit card purchases and wrote unauthorized checks

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