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Breaking news, interchangeably termed latebreaking news and also known as a special report or special coverage or news bulletin, is a current issue that broadcasters feel warrants the interruption of scheduled programming and/or current news in order to report its details.

Its use is also assigned to the most significant story of the moment or a story that is being covered live.

It could be a story that is simply of wide interest to viewers and has little impact otherwise.

Many times, breaking news is used after the news organization has already reported on the story.

When a story has not been reported on previously, the graphic and phrase "Just In" is sometimes used instead.

WCAU, channel 10, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal, and operates as part of a television duopoly with Atlantic City, New Jersey-licensed Telemundo owned-and-operated station WWSI (channel 62).

Both networks are owned by NBCUniversal, a division of the locally based media firm Comcast.

WCAU maintains studios on Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd, along the Philadelphia/Montgomery County line, and its transmitter is based in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the fifth-most populous city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1,567,442 and more than 6 million in the seventh-largest metropolitan statistical area.

Philadelphia is the economic and cultural anchor of the Delaware Valleya region located in the Northeastern United States at the confluence of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers with 7.2 million people residing in the eighth-largest combined statistical area in the United States.

Weather forecasting is the application of science and technology to predict the state of the atmosphere for a given location.

Human beings have attempted to predict the weather informally for millennia, and formally since the nineteenth century.

Weather forecasts are made by collecting quantitative data about the current state of the atmosphere at a given place and using scientific understanding of atmospheric processes to project how the atmosphere will change.

In journalism, local news refers to coverage of events, by the news, in a local context that wouldn't be an interest of another locality, or otherwise be of national or international scope.