Wilmington, delaware. We also have decent conditions in Atlantic City and in wildwood. At the moment we have no airport delays, and thats going to be the story for tomorrow as well. There is rain that is going to be advancing and moving in as we go into the latter portion of the night. It should be gone which 7 or 8 00 in the morning. Temperatures drop a little bit during the day but the wind really picks up. Ill tell you when its going to feel like winter again with the sevenday in a few minutes. New at 11 00 people tried salvaging Christmas Gifts from a home that caught fire in bucks county tonight. Firefighters even brought out bags of presents. The house is on hilton avenue. Everyone made it out okay. Investigators dont know what started the fire. A developing situation in philadelphia. Family forced out of their feltonville home when the front of the horse partly collapsed. Two people were hurt and taken to the hospital with minor injuries. This was around 9 30. Bricks and rubble just about everywhere. The red cross is helping out the family this Christmas Eve. Passengers packed their patience at the airport in the end most everyone is making it home for the holidays. Late tonight flights started to get back on track once the fog lifted. We talked to passengers about their long treks home. Reporter right now airport Officials Say they are dealing with delays but not as many as they were earlier in the day. That is great news for folks flying in and out trying to make it home for christmas. Air travelers are feeling the effect on this soggy Christmas Eve, low clouds and rain delayed flights all day at philadelphia international. A lot of dlafs getting here. Reporter over the past hours most flights have been taking off on time but not all. Officials say some incoming flights are held up. We were delayed about 45 minutes. Reporter mario flew in from denver. When we talked to him he was frustrated. Not only was his flight delayed, the airline misplaced his luggage. Maybe the bags are still in denver. I dont know. Not only that but there are christmas presents in the baggage that we did not receive. So whether or not we have it for tomorrow is anyones guess. Reporter its the second day of cancellations and delays due to bad weather. Ive seen a lot of tears and a lot of frustrated people the last 24 hours. Reporter v. J. Arrived from a business trip in canada. He was supposed to get here yesterday but got stuck in toronto. Because of visibility and the ceiling and the clouds and fog, our flight was canceled so we had to spend the night in a hotel. Reporter many are irked they tell us they are also happy to be home safe and with loved ones for the holidays. Couldnt have been snowing and wet. Could have been worse. Reporter its important to note that airlines lowered the number ever flights today and Christmas Day so planes will be packed. You want to come early tomorrow or call ahead to check your flight status. Passengers in Atlantic City say their christmas is ruined tonight. Spirit airlines canceled a 5 30 flight from Atlantic City to ft. Myers, florida. People we talked to said the airline cannot get them to florida until friday. Spirit is working with passengers getting them to their destination. Santa is on his way. The long trek from the north pole to our region is under way. The north american or norad is keeping track. He is in quebec, canada. Well keep tracking his progress. Apparently nothing will stop a philadelphia pastor from presiding over christmas services, not even a car accident and minor injuries before his services. Another car collided with the pastors car around 8 00 tonight. The people in the other vehicle were also on their way to church. The pastor had several cuts but he went on his way to perform the service. Thousands gathered in the town of bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations. Its decked out in white and yellow lights and christmas trees. Christians consider bethlehem the birthplace of jesus. Arabian churchgoer gathered in the Lehigh Valley town. Nbc 10 northampton county. People made the towns focus for nearly 300 years. Pope francis celebrated Christmas Eve with a late night mass and thousands of people gathered at st. Peters basilica. Francis said the birth of jesus christ showed the patience, closeness and tenderness of god. This is francis second Christmas Celebration as pontiff. The holy fathers visit to philadelphia is nine months away but planning is picking up during this season. Organizers from the world meeting of families say they are tackling issues large and small from housing and transporting more than a million expected visitors to storing booklets and communion wafers. Christmas is on the same day every year but we always find those lastminute shoppers. Were you among them as the stores were closing tonight . George spencer found a packed parking lot in newark, delaware. Reporter the stockings may be hung by the chimney with care but these cars, they were just crammed in this crowded toys r us parking lot as the very last minute shoppers hurried through like ty brown. You feel like you waited too long . Reporter he insists he get as rush from the rush picking up this for his daughter and he was in good company. Lots of late shoppers. Indeed. I was in line about 45 minutes. Reporter it wasnt just delaware. The depford mall was bustling, some picking up a gift, others buying for their list. There was no other time. Reporter perhaps tonights luckiest was this shopper who helped his parents select his own gift, guaranteeing hed get that he wants. What are you hoping for . I dont know. Im just hoping for the best. Reporter among the adults tonight some vowed theyd never again procrastinate this long. You order on line, go do it ahead of time. You wouldnt repeat this experience. I would not. No. Reporter unfortunately t next big event might be gift returns. Toys r us accepts returns within 90 days of purchase if you have your receipt. That can vary from store to store so check. Reporting in newark, george spencer, nbc 10 news. Christmas came early for some children in south philadelphia tonight. State lawmaker Jordan Harris gave out bikes to local students at the fellowship hall. He started this last year and loved seeing the joy on the childrens faces. Our goal was for 10 years from now somebody to remember that we gave them their first bike. I remember my first bike. Most remember their first bike. Hopefully these young people remember. With harris says the bikes are also a great way to get students more active. New at 11 00, a woman fights off an attacker who tried to sexually assault her in west philadelphia. Witnesses told police a man knocked the woman down and dragged her into an alleyway. He had a knife and tried to assault her. She managed to fight him off with a stun gun. She tased the guy and he ran away before police got there. A tragic accident in ocean county. Neighbor backed out of a driveway and hit and killed a 2yearold girl. The Prosecutors Office is investigating. Calls for justice tonight from the family of a woman run over and killed right before the holiday. A pickup truck or tow truck hit 33yearold Theresa Pozzi as she crossed state road. Witnesses said the driver was speeding and didnt even hit the brakes. Police continue to search for the driver. Im just so its every mothers nightmare. If anyone who can please help us find whoever it was that did this to my daughter. We would greatly appreciate it. Police hope a surveillance camera may have captured the crash on video. Police down the jersey shore say more women have accused a neurologist of inappropriately touching them. Only nbc 10 was there as authorities brought the doctor out of his office in handcuffs charged with criminal sexual contact involving three women. After our story aired more than ten additional women have come forward. Check throughout cell phone video of a log cabin as it burned to the ground. One person was hurt. The fire started before noon. It took several hours to fight this fire and the cabin collapsed. An ebola scare, one of the workers may have been exposed to the virus. The worker is a Lab Technician in atlanta who may have come in contact with a small amount of ebola. Cdv monitoring the worker. Now to the sony switch. It released the film the interview on line before the controversial movie hits theaters tomorrow. Sony originally said it was canceling release of the kmed bea plot to assassinate the leader of north korea after hackers threatened to attack theaters that showed the movie. The movie was released on a variety of platforms including youtube and google play. About 300 will begin showing it tomorrow including two in delaware. Next at 11 00, tracking santa. Norad giving us an update. Sure doesnt feel like Christmas Eve. Near record warmth now. Let you know when its going to feel like winter again with my first alert sevenday forecast. Plus, a holiday surprise. A christmas one military wife will never forget. Keeping an eye on radar as more rain expected to arrive overnight. First alert meteorologist is minutes away. Were also keeping an eye on santa. Norad locked in. Santa is in canada and well keep you posted. A mix of modern and traditional music during tonights service at hope church in camden county. The ban played while the choir stuck to classics. For the fourth Straight Year a group called abc men helped families in need with Christmas Gifts in southwest philadelphia. The Organization Says it has 89 people who needed help. Miss philadelphia one of the sponsors attended. She handed out gifts and put smiles on the kids faces. 45 philadelphia Taxi Companies file add federal lawsuit against ubers ride sharing service. The Company Operates in philadelphia despite being banned by the parking authority. The taxi company suit claims uber is creating unfair competition. New castle authorities investigating this accident at a nursing home this afternoon. The 89yearold driver of an suv crashed into a parked car outside the Retirement Center and it sent the parked car into the lobby of the building. Two residents of the nursing home were hurt. Both are in stable condition. The maxi family in Gloucester County call this is year their best Christmas Ever. And heres why. Oh, my god those are tears of joy there. Sergeant first class richard maxi surprised his wife and daughter at their home in gibbstown. They thought he was still overseas but thanks to a letter from his daughter and commander allowing a 7day leave sergeant maxi was able to make it home for christmas. My daughter keeps on writing i wish you were here for christmas. And i just, when i got that letter i cried. I literally cried. Hopefully this will be her best present, best christmas. Santa doesnt need come. We have our gift right now. Yes, but sergeant maxis daughter is hoping that santa will bring her one more present. She wants an iphone so she can video chat with her dad when he goes back overseas on monday. Were nearing the end of a first alert weather day with lots of fog and rain, massive delays. All during the day. But things have finally, finally quieted down. We have a thunderstorm possible and some heavy rain briefly as the front comes through. A windy Christmas Day on the way. Right now look at that. We can see the buildings in center city, most of the day. We can barely see across the river so. Things have improved but look at that temperature. 62 degrees. The record high for today 64. The winds south at 14 action weve got a 10mile visibility so no fog issues. Look how warm it is. 53 in the poconos, 59 in allentown and reading and pottstown t warm air has come up through the entire region. Its 64 bensalem. 63 in dover. We have fog right at the jersey shore with those southerly winds. Very high humidity. A little bit of fog in the poconos and a lot of fog still in coatesville. Chester county thats one of the foggiest places all day. Look at the visibility. Unrestricted in many parts of the area. There is that sea fog against the ocean that will continue until the wind shifts into the west tomorrow morning. So, waking up real early at the shore may be dense fog, we also have some showers thats going to be the last place to see the rain end because we have to get this through our area. Its going to come through during the night, could get a briefly heavy shower, even a thunderstorm. But its not looking that impressive at the moment. And the latest futurecast shows showers moving through and mostly gone by 6 or 7 00 a. M. Except for the shore. And then the sun comes out. Remember that . That ball in the sky that makes us feel good. Well, were going to see a lot of it tomorrow but were also going to feel a lot of wind during the day. Wind gusts up to 35 miles an hour. Once the sun comes out things are going to be pretty clear for the rest of the day. So, when you get up in the morning, if its cloudy, its not going to stay that way. If its mild its not going to stay that way either. Gradually getting into sunshine during the morning hours, the temperature gradually going down toward the afternoon and then more significantly of course at night. For the rest of the periods of rain, very mild in the 60s for most of the night. 55 by daybreak. Once the wind turns into the west, cooler air starts to come in. Temperatures falling, a little bit during the day tomorrow. Not a drastic drop. The sunshines going to help fight off the colder air trying to come in. Wind gusts to 35 miles an hour as temperatures drop into the upper 40s. Then on friday, look at these temperatures compared to the average high of 43, were way up there friday and saturday, lots of sunshine, sunday, the showers come in and then next week is a different story. Its going to feel more like wintertime with some rain and wintry mix possible on monday and could even be cold enough for snow by new years eve. Thats a long way away. It will not be 62 degrees. Big changes coming. All right. A take on the phillies future. Weve been hearing from Jimmy Rollins all week long and hes going to talk a little about maybe why we should be optimistic about one of the big pieces for the phillies future. And one eagle who saw the late season struggles, saw hem coming. Hear what hes got to say. James and makayla are this weeks wednesdays child. Call or visit nbc10. Com and search wednesdays child for information how to begin your adoption journey. Hi. The eagles continue to prepare for their Season Finale sunday against the giants, casey matthews, though, not at practice. He got an early christmas gift, very early this morning after 3 00 a. M. His wife gave birth to their first child, a son they named braylin. Matthews is part of the defense that has been the achilles heel especially late. Its the collapse that cost a playoff spot but Malcolm Jenkins could see the writing on the wall. The biggest thing was especially early in the year we got a lot of wins we probably shouldnt have gotten. Even the ones that we didnt get, the losses we had were really close and we felt like we were one play away, one play away. But we never corrected the problem so. When i say were on borrowed time if we continue to play the way we did eventually its going to catch up to us and has. A few days ago phillies insider sat down with Jimmy Rollins for an exclusive interview. While the phillies are in rebuilding mode, he pointed out to ken giles as a reason fans should be optimistic. Just hope that what he has its its taken brad lidges slider and then adding a little more velocity to it but this guy likes to throw his fast ball at 99, 97. 100. He loves it. But he doesnt live by it. Hes a pitcher. Hes like okay, you got on that last time, now you have to deal with this and he excited me. Penn state is back thanks to the lift of the bowl ban. The lions take on Boston College saturday at yankee stadium. Earlier James Franklins team visited the home of nbc Rockefeller Center going to the top of the rock. Penn state taking in all of the sights and one of the perks of playing in the pinstripe bowl, things like this get to happen. Lucas and hamilton in an elevator at yankee stadium, surrounded by a bun. Of world series trophies. The team tweeted this earlier, one of the many rewards of playing at the home of the yankees. That will do it for sports. Were back after this. Santa is on his way. Here is a look at santas location now, he is in michigan. So far he delivered 5 billion gifts to children and kids, if youre still up its time for bed. So he can deliver at your house. You have to be sleeping. Before he can come down the chimney. Hes going to shed the extra layer. Sweating, ill tell you. The temperature is in the 60s right now. Its about the warmest Christmas Eve on record. And by tomorrow morning it wont be as warm as it is now, but its still not going to be that chilly for this time of the year. Temperatures falling a little bit during the day. And were going to be seeing a lot of sunshine. And a lot of sunshine friday. And saturday. Temperatures way above average. All the way through the weekend. And then things start changing. By next week its going to feel more like winter and only about 30 degrees colder new years eve than Christmas Eve. This is the end of december were looking at on saturday. Its hard to believe. 58 degrees the average high is 43. And 58 is nowhere near as warm as it is right now. Unbelievable. All right. Thank you. Thats nbc 10 news at 11 00. For all of us here we thank you for watching. Merry christmas. See you tomorrow. Good night. Now, a special christmas presentation from nbc news. From the vatican in rome,