Producing fog. Look at that, there is the zero visibility. Coatesville under a mile. Not bad yet at Philadelphia International but the temperatures are still cooling so there is a possibility we could see foggy conditions similar to what tren tan has now at quarter mile visibility. The temperatures warm. Near 60 in cape may. 56 in millville and wilmington and 57 at philadelphia. No sign of cold. Fog to start, 57 degrees. Clouds will be hanging in there at 9 00 well see rain falling, 57, a steady rain and 60 degrees, in the 60s again this afternoon. Look at the neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back. Jessica boyington is watching your first alert traffic. Right, bill. Were watching the vine street expressway this early in the morning were used to this construction. You can see Police Activity and then blocking off the off ramp. So this is around 24th east and westbound still closed right now and a few exit ramps closed between the schuylkill and broad street. 202 okay. Its foggy out. You can see drive times okay north or southbound from route 30 to the schuylkill expressway. Mass transit in the green and good to go on new jersey transit. Thanks. New from overnight police are looking for the gunman who shot three men outside a bar in north philadelphia. It happened before midnight at 27th and lehigh avenue. The victims range from 18 to 30, all three were shot in the legs. And police say they will all be okay. Now to a story you saw first here on nbc 10 police on alert after someone stole dozens of propane tanks. They were stolen from a business along Church Street and another on pennypack street both in philadelphia. Matt delucia is live outside northeast detectives with more. What do we know about this . Reporter tracy, investigators are trying to figure out who took these propane tanks and why. The main concern is what these tanks will be used for. An alert was september out to Law Enforcement agencies after 43 po pain tanks were stolen from two philadelphia businesses, one on the 2300 block of church and on pennypack street. This happened late last week, Surveillance Video captured a man loading the tanks into a dark minivan. Here is why there is so much concern. The size of these tanks. 24 of them are being described as big enough that you need a forklift to move them around. Nine are 55 pounds and the rest are 50 and under. There is more of a Police Presence around these businesses as of late and Counter Terrorism unit is also working on this case. Live at northeast detectives, matt delucia, nbc 10 news. Its 4 03, 56 degrees. One man is under arrest in bucks county after police say he assaulted children at a daycare. Take a look at the suspect, harry lawrence, police say his wife owned and operated little joys daycare, first in bristol township, later in falls township. They say he sexually assaulted at least one child and possibly morement they believe the assaults happened about 10 years ago. They reopened the case. If you know about these alleged assaults call falls township police. Today a judge will sentence a bucks county man convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 2yearold son. Cocoa wallaces son died from a fatal dose of prescription painkillers. Prosecutors say he admitted that he killed the boy to get back at the childs mother he believed was cheating on him. Investigators will check out a small plane damaged when it crashed into a farm field shortly after taking off in lebanon county. The crash sent four people to the hospital. The airport manager saw the plane take off in thick fog, heard it crash, called 911. The pilot and three passengers are suffering from injuries not life threatening. A homicide source tells nbc 10 police have a person of interest in custody on a parole violation as they investigate the death of a psychiatrist in a Center City Hotel room. Dr. Howard baker was found monday morning on the floor of his room at the roadway inn. He was naked with a belt around his neck. An autopsy determined baker was strangled. Surveillance video shows two men visited his room at different times sunday evening. Police say the second man was seen leaving with dr. Bakers back pack. Monsignor lynn waiting word whether he can walk out of prison after an Appeals Court ordered a new trial. The court overturned his conviction for covering up child sex abuse by priests. Prosecutors have two weeks to tee side whether to appeal. Plif a superior court overlearn turned his conviction of endangering a boy who said he was assault bid two priests and a teacher but the state Supreme Court reinstated that conviction. Lynn was the first u. S. Catholic Church Official charged with mishandling of sex abuse complaints. A firefighter and life guard could now lose both jobs after he was found guilty of stealing less than 8 of merchandise from a wawa. A judge found ashton funk guilty. Now the prosecutor is arguing that funk must be fired from both of his city jobs. Prosecutors say funk shop lifted 7. 98 of stuff from a wawa back in september. Taxi limo drivers in philadelphia continue to press authorities to regulate Ride Sharing Services like uber x and lyft. They made their case to the District Attorney yesterday. The meeting followed a protest that clogged streets. The d. A. Says he is not sure he has jurisdiction on this. They asked to me with me, they had a protest in front of my office and i couldnt park in front of my office, so i thought before they did that again i would take the opportunity to meet with them. We are hopeful that he will help the lawabiding drivers and our main concern is regulate uber x and lyft. They say they are stealing their customers. The cab es contend those rides are cheaper since uber and lyft drivers dont have to say the same fees as the cabbies do. Christmas is coming early to kids around our area thanks to septas annual yule toy drive. It starts at 8 00 at santa elves will stuff a bus full of toys and then deliver them to charities in the septa service region. Septa has been holding the drive for the past 34 years. Eight minutes after 4 00. The drive this morning is going to be challenging. Thick fog has settled in for much of the area overnight. Primarily in pennsylvania. Watching some spots in delaware and south jersey too. Track rain for later this morning and this afternoon its going to be raining, in fact, some of the rain will continue into tomorrow morning. But then were in for record temperatures, the temperatures take off records will fall for our area tomorrow, in fact, we could set a record for the month of december. Fog in doylestown, 51 degrees. Clouds over philadelphia, 57 and 56, so warm this morning. Thats in millville, 56 degrees. The wind is light, warm air is coming into the area and its bringing along moisture and thats giving us the fog this morning. Look at that zero visibility. Dense fog in reading, blue bell has quarter mile visibility along with allentown, youll find fog in the pocono mountains. In new jersey across the delaware not so bad for mount holly and wrightstown, shouldnt be a problem at this hour in Philadelphia International or wilmington, but the fog is starting to thicken up in millville down to a mile and a half. Thats the deal with fog. Then the attention turns to rain. So far it is dry, might see a little mist coming in with the fog. Theres the rain lining up to the south moving through virginia and into the carolinas. The temperatures in spite of the rain will be moving u. 60 this afternoon for reading, any temperature climb will help to get rid of the fog for allentown and quakertown, the rain later this morning and this afternoon for doylestown, trenton and mount holly. Rainy at the shore but mild for atlantic city, vineland and dover in the 60s today. No sunshine today for philadelphia, fog to start with, 63 degrees this afternoon with rain moving in. Rainy conditions later this morning and afternoon for westchester and wilmington. Well look at how much rain you can expect when im back with the futurecast. Bill, thanks. At 4 09 a look at your ride to work or wherever youre going. First alert traffic reporter Jessica Boyington is watching the roads starting in new jersey. Where are you looking . Checked 295, tracy and were looking okay. We seem to have lost our feed. 38 to the black horse pike 13 minutes. 42 freeway you can see in the green, were five minutes northbound, so if youre heading into philadelphia this morning from 55 to the walt whitman bridge were okay. All the area bridges speaking of that, we saw headed to the walt whitman bridge no problems there. No scheduled openings and were all clear into philadelphia from the ben franklin bridge. With all of this fog we dont have any delays but well check back and keep you updated. Ill be back in the next ten minutes for those. Well see you then. Thanks. Right now the search is on for a jewel thief. Hear how the bad guy got away with a bag full of diamonds, plus well tell what you the gems are worth. And if the you think this light display looks stunning from sky force 10 you have to see it from the ground. Find out the special reason the home owner does this each year. Coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why theres delsym. Delsyms advanced time release formula helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. All night. Or all day. But these liquid gels are new. Gels and go. Mucinex fast max. Its the same difference. This one is max strength and fights mucus. Mucinex fast max. The only cold and flu liquid gel thats maxstrength and fights mucus. Lets end this. The time is 4 13. Police are looking for a thief who stole nearly 350,000 of loose diamonds. He swiped them from a guy carrying the bag. The intersection is about three blocks from jewelers row. A Justice Department report says Philadelphia Police are making progress in trimming back the use of deadly force. You might recall commissioner Charles Ramsey asking for a federal review of policies after an increase in police shootings. The feds recommended more than 90 changes and yesterday ramsey announced almost all of those changes are being made such as training, tactics, and third party investigations. Incoming commissioner ross says he hopes to have all of the changes in place by the middle of next year. The thing people forget i have been number two for eight years. Ive been part from the beginning. I want to highlight that for a reason that people expect this dramatic change in leadership i talked about this in terms of passing the batons. We have one of the greatest chiefs in the country. Data showed a drop in officers using deadly force despite more of them facing gunfire from suspect. Robert durst will stand trial in los angeles for the murder of his friend susan berm. He will be extradited from louisiana where he is jailed on weapons charges. He was the subject of a hbo series which examined the death of two people. During the finale he blurted out on a hot microphone that he killed them all. A new executive order in kentucky will no longer require the names of county clerks to appear on marriage license forms. The governor issued the order yesterday. You remember county Clerk Kim Davis refused to give licenses to samesex couples. Davis said it went against her religious beliefs, she spent five days in jail for failing to perform her duties. The governor says the new forms are created to ensure the religious beliefs of everyone in kentucky are honored. It sure looks like christmas with this unbelievable light display in wilmington. About a half Million People have seen this on our Facebook Page so far. So nbc 10s keith jones went to talk to the home owner about the special meaning behind this display. I want you to try to count the lights. Better yet probably not a good idea. The guy who started this tom smith says there are 600 to 700,000 lights. See for yourself. He also says this free holiday tradition is about more than christmas. All of the colors, the lights on display, moving attractions to children they play. You started putting up lights. Meet tom smith, wilmingtons st. Nicholas. Doing this for 33 years, nearly 700,000 lights spread across two acres. It takes two months for tom and his family. That tree up there, my wife fell off that shed down there. She said whats broke . She didnt break nothing. So big now police direct traffic around his house, take a look at sky force 10. You can see it from i95. Denise did, coming home from a wake. Its very sad before christmas, him and his wife have been together 37 years. She insisted they stop for a dose of joy. This time of year with everything i think sometimes we forget were so into giving big presents we forget about other peoples feelings with all of the other stuff going on in the world, this is just beautiful. For tom, the holiday lights have an added meaning. Worth the price of 4,000 electric bill. He says his parents can see them from heaven. Thats my boy. Thats what thats what they say. A warm holiday forecast you can bet this is a hot spot. Its on pryor road here in wilmingt wilmington. I would tell you the street number but you probably wont need it. No, probably not. Hey, if the you think that your display tops that let us know. You can post video on the nbc 10 Facebook Page. Wed love to see it. We could be in for record breaking temperatures on christmas eve. Other parts of the country dealing with another extreme. Take a look at this damage in california from strong winds. You can see a roof being ripped off of a building and several tractortrailers toppled over. Forcing road closures. No one was hurt but the area is expecting more severe conditions today. And then look whats happening in utah. Christmas mike conditions for sure. A snowstorm dumped up to two feet of snow in parts of the state. Many are happy about the storm ts bringing much needed storm drought relief. In other places where snow is the norm like chicago its going to be mild but rainy. Making it feel more like spring than winter. Nice when you have a white christmas. Were not going to have this. Were not. Were going to have a wet christmas. A merry one. Its fantastic. Its great. Hasnt been like this in four years. Experts say el nino when temperatures in the pacific are unusually high is behind the extreme temperatures, across the country. Were seeing our own extremes, bill. Yes, in fact, were going to see a big warmup the next few days. Well get a warmup but were starting off with fog, its just cool enough to produce fog and low clouds. No fog across the delaware. Thats in the clear, but many of the pennsylvania suburbs are socked in. 57 degrees, even warmer than yesterday at this time. Up by 2 degrees compared to yesterday. Look at the low clouds and this view from south philadelphia, from lincoln financial field. Those clouds will not be clearing, in fact, though its dry right now, we will see rain coming up from the south, look at the clouds for the entire east coast, the rain extends into alabama and into the gulf coast. That moisture is going to be arriving later this morning and staying with us into this afternoon. The first showers right now are just reaching into southern delaware with steadier rainfall in virginia. The futurecast shows those showers moving in this morning by 9 00 well see rain in philadelphia. By noon time not a lot of rain on the ground, less than. 1 inch in philadelphia but steadier, heavier downpours into the afternoon. 5 00, some light rain, and close to a quarter inch in philadelphia. More showers late tonight into tomorrow morning. Maybe a quarter inch or more, half an inch is possible in wilmington and closer to an inch of rain in allentown over the next 24 hours. So youll need your umbrella later today. Showers that ended yesterday are going to be returning later this morning. Warm conditions, 60s this afternoon. Weve got record temperatures on the way for tomorrow. Possibly christmas day, too. The sevenday forecast coming up in the next half hour. Bill, well see you then. 20 minutes past 4 00 right now. Heading out on the roads lets check the conditions including 309. Jessica boyington has a look at that. Right. Were looking at fog right now. So at the intersection of 309 and route 202 you can see behind me visibility is very poor. Now not a lot to worry about in terms of traffic and volume but definitely reduced visibility in the area with all of that fog. On 95, drive times are doing great. Southbound from woodhaven to the vine street expressway 14 minutes, no problems there. We have ramp closures and construction ongoing but now this is a new part of that construction, 95 northbound to girard avenue, and the ramp to 95 southbound is closed this morning with that construction. Route 42 also dealing with construction, scheduled until about 5 00. On 42 southbound between 295 and 55, two lanes closed so thats for another half hour or so. Solemnly swear. These are the newest members of the Camden County police department. 20 took the oath. Among them a mother and stepson who went through the academy and graduated together which is a first for the department. We help each other, help the community and to show them its all about love and family. Its always an adventure around i look forward to it like greatly. The chief says there are already six sets of parents and sons in the department. 4 22. Off the bench at least for now. There are new details about the pennsylvania Supreme Court judge at the center of a porn email investigation. Learn about his temporary punishment. Also an update about the pageant error that went viral. What Steve Harveys future as a host. Mike . Janet . Cough if you can hear me. Dont even think about it. I took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. Yeah. But what about mike . He has that dry scratchy thing going on. Guess what . It works on his cough too. Cough guess what . It works on his cough too. What . Stop dont pull me spoiler alert she doesnt make it only mucinex dm relieves both wet and dry coughs for 12 hours with two medicines in one pill. Start the relief. Ditch the misery. Lets end this. 4 24. New information this morning, a Miss Universe pageant executive said hed welcome steve harvey despite his blunder crowning the wrong winner. Steve harvey mistakenly announced miss colombia won Miss Universe. He corrected the mistake and gave to the miss fiphilippines. Here is a portion of her post. I was able to bring happiness to my country after becoming Miss Universe for a couple of minutes. Because of that the Latin Community are being talked about in every corner of the world. A bowl game to forget. Temple owls wrapped up their best season in decades with a loss in florida. The owls faithful showed support in the rain at the boca raton bowl. Temple was down but showed fight with this touchdown. The owls went for and seemed to recover the onside kick but temple fans couldnt believe it. The owls lost to the zips 3217. Temple ended 104. Temples Football Team showed its pride and class with this tweet to its fans. Right after the game the caption read, thank you, owl nation, what a ride. 56 degrees, clouds over the city and areas of thick fog at 4 26 this morning. The hour by hour forecast is the ahead. Jessica boyington is watching the roads. And bill, were having a hard time seeing in this camera here. Not a lot of traffic but some foggy conditions. As you can see up in the tree tops when cars move by, a little bit damp. We have construction to talk about, though, other than the foggy conditions out there and ill go over that when i come back. Prechristmas emergency. Find out why this girl from new jersey called 911 and hear the important lesson that she learned. [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] [coughing] coughing disrupts everyones life. Thats why so many people are turning to delsym for longer lasting cough relief. Delsym has an advanced time release formula that helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. Thats three times longer than the leading cough liquid. All night. Or all day. Propane tanks stolen, dozens were taken from two philadelphia businesses. Now police and Counter Terrorism on alert. Off the bench. The Supreme Court judge at the center of a porn email scandal wont be deciding cases at least for now. And be sure to take extra time as you head out the door because the fog is thick in some spots and rain is on the way. We have you covered. Just about 4 30. This is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Lets get right to meteorologist bill henley, talk about the fog and the rain. What are you seeing . A lot going on. Were not going to see sunshine and were going to see slowdowns too. Thick fog as warm air surges in with moisture, its giving us visibility below the quarter mile mark for coatesville down to zero visibility. Lancaster reporting dense fog. Trenton dense fog. It ends in south jersey not bad, light fog now in millville. Everybody is getting the warmth. 57 in philadelphia, look at the 50s for allentown and read, and near 60 at this hour in cape may. So a warm start and a warmup during the day though rain will be moving in, 58 degrees, the fog will ease as the temperature climbs into the 60s this afternoon. Still in the upper 50s at 9 00. Steady rainfall later this morning. The heavier downpours are set for this afternoon. Neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Jessica boyington has your traffic. The foggy roads, a lot of construction to worry about in addition to the fog this morning, bill, on the vine street expressway, they are starting to let cars through earlier than normal. You can see these are around broad street actually. West and eastbound its been closed with