Elyses. Nbc 10s Rosemary Connors is live at penns landing. Whats it like out there . Jim and renee, the fireworks just starred, literally within the past minute or two. Theyre going off right now. Eyes are fixated on the sky. People here are enjoying this new years eve celebration. No doubt old city is going to be crowded tonight. Earlier this evening, we checked in with some of the restaurants. They tell us they are ready for the rush. Definitely one of our busiest nights of the year. Reporter new years eve is an open invitation at revolution house in old city and the bartenders are ready for the revelers. A lot of champagne for our toast at midnight. Foodwise, theyve been prepping dough for the pizzas and sandwiches. Reporter the kitchen will be busy and the Wood Fired Pizza oven will be in heavy use. Also a challenge because we make all our breads all our sandwiches out of the dough. Its not just made for the pizza. So to gauge Something Like that its always fun. Reporter while the restaurants roof deck at second and market streets may give patrons a birdseye view of the fireworks, some prefer to see the show from the water front. Well go and see the fireworks at penns landing and having dinner at ralphs in south philly. Reporter its become a tradition for tim and his son. You like the fireworks . Yeah fourth of july and new years. Yay reporter out here live along the water front, the fireworks, the show itsle with under way. Its tradition for many families out here. I think watching these beautiful lights in the sky makes you forget how cold it is. It is chilly out here this evening. The next Fireworks Show is at midnight. The organizers tell us that they expect about the same crowd for the 6 00 show and the midnight show, about 20,000 people. For the people who will be coming later on these folks got here within the hour. To get a front row seat, your best bet is get here by 11 00. Reporting live from penns landing, Rosemary Connors, nbc 10 news. Happy new year rosemary. Thousands of spectateors will turn out tomorrow for a philadelphia new years day tradition. Nbc 10 with golden crown as they practice their moves. Declining membership, soaring costs and more elaborate productions have forced changes in this years event. Tomorrows route will be shorter and the oldest troupe will not be performing. You might have trouble getting around center city and south philadelphia tomorrow. Expect road closures as the mummers make their way down broad street tomorrow. Septas making a number of changes to accommodate partygoers. There will be allnight Subway Service for new years eve and Regional Rail will have extra trains leaving center city after the celebrations. All right. Look at that. Lets take another live look at the fireworks here over penns landing. This is the First Showing tonight. The 6 00. What kind of weather can we expect for the midnight show . Lets check in with nbc 10 chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. How is the new year going to start off . As rosemary was saying its already cold and it will be colder as we head towards midnight. Looking at Citizens Bank park. You can see the penns landing fireworks in the distance. You dont have to be right there to see the fireworks. You can see them from all over the place. Its 30 degrees right now but only 22 in allentown. Thats pretty cold for this time of night. 26 in millville, 28 in dover and Atlantic City and with the wind, it feels like it is 16 in allentown. That is mighty cold. 19 in lancaster. By midnight the temperature is down into the teens. Allentown, quakertown reading 18, 19 degrees. These are not the low temperatures for the night. This is just at midnight. Plus, we have a little bit of wind. It will feel a few degrees colder than this as we go through the midnight hour. You have to prepare for that. We also may have to prepare for a weekend storm. More on that in the sevenday in just a few minutes. Glenn, well check back with you shortly. Its certainly not too late pfor all you new years eve procrastinators. Theres a lot of them out there. If you havent figured out your plans yet, check out our nbc 10 mobile app. It has a list of events going on around our area. Now for an update on an nbc 10 investigation into a local ambulance and transport company. Since august weve been reporting on keystone Quality Trans port. Today the nbc 10 investigators obtained the public utility commissions complaint against keystone. Its accused of more than 20 Violations Including a bus with a broken door an unsecured battery in another bus. The company is also fined 509 for all of those violations. Keystone Quality Transport has 20 days to answer the allegations. The companys attorney tells us theyve not had an opportunity to review the complaint. A deadly shooting has police in bridgeton, new jersey under the microscope tonight. We now know two officers opened fire during a traffic stop. Nbc 10s mitch blocker live in bridgeton with cell phone video that may shine light on what happened. Mitch . Reporter jim and renee, police and the prosecutor here in Cumberland County theyre not saying much about this shooting or the investigation ongoing. Witnesses who recorded the traffic stop they are sharing cell phone video in the hopes that it will provide some answers. It was a Bridgeton Police stop tuesday night. It is expletive filled as those recording it react to what they are watching. They just killed that dude. Reporter 36yearold reed was shot and killed tuesday. We dont know why he and the driver of this black jaguar were pulled over. The video does not capture gunshots. It appears to show the aftermath of the shooting as Police Search the car. A gun was recover. Thank you very much. Reporter Jennifer Webb mccray reluctantly with went on cam ranchs dontera camera. We issued a press release. The investigation is ongoing. Reporter eyewitnesses werent as quick to hold back. The cop was saying dont move dont move dont move. The next thing you know we heard six gunshots. One on the drivers shot straight through the front wind shield as if it was high up like he was trying to shoot the boy in the head. Reeds cousin told us he had a 3monthold son. He was a good kid. He had a troubled past but after that he became a good person. I love my cousin. You know everybody has their bad times. As an individual and as a person he had his bad times. Reporter youre looking at what has become a makeshift memorial outside where this shooting occurred. Were told the driver of that black jaguar is still in police custody. He is being questioned. The prosecutor here in Cumberland County says more answers will be coming in the coming days. For now, live in bridgeton, mitch blocker, nbc 10 news. Thank you, mitch. Chester county prosecutors are planning to seek the Death Penalty for a couple accused of murdering a 3yearold boy. Gary fellenbaum and jillian tait appeared in court today. They systematically tortured and beat the child over a twoweek period. In november 3yearold Scottie Mcmillan was found dead. The crimes allegedly happened inside the couples trailer home. His 6yearold brother was also abuse abused. New at 6 00 a warning for parents tonight, Pennsylvania HealthOfficials Say a person who likely has meeseles was at the please touch museum earlier this week. The state Health Department says anyone who visited the museum from 3 30 to 5 00 on monday may have been exposed measles. The same person was at the cvs pharmacy in wayne on sunday night. For more information on measles and who could be at risk, visit nbc10. Com. The new year will bring in some new laws throughout our area. Pennsylvania wholesale gas taxes are going up by almost a dime a gallon. Well have to wait to find out whether retailers will pass on the cost to their customers. On monday a new law takes effect thats designed to make it easier for gun owners to challenge local firearms laws in court. In delaware a new law is supposed to keep your identity safe. It requires businesses to destroy unneeded documents that contain personal information. In new jersey the minimum wage goes up 13 cents to 8. 38 an hour. Its an incremental raise. It was a frightening sight, a plane crashed at the Philadelphia International airport and we found out that the pilot shouldnt have even been in the cockpit in the first place. Ill show you a new report that i got from the faa. It details exactly what happened and were going to hear from an expert who says were lucky no one died. Ill have your new years eve forecast and also tracking a storm thats headed this way for at least part of the weekend. Details ahead in my exclusive nbc 10 first alert sevenday forecast. Hes the man behind some of the most iconic songs in music history. And he wrote them right here in our area. What could threaten a plan to honor him at his home . Three, two, one, happy new year its just after 12 00 somewhere, right . The place to be at noon today was Fairmont Park the Childrens Museum of philadelphia hosted an early bird new years celebration for thousands of kids and their parents. New years eve in times square may have the big ball drop but bethlehem p. A. Has the pete chick drop. Today a 4. 5foot tall 85pound yellow peep chick drop followed by a Fireworks Show. Commissioner Charles Ramsey and the d. A. Seth williams made their annual plea asking people not to fire their guns into the ear as they celebrate the new year. In 1998 a stray bullet hit this man in the head paralyzing the right side of his body. The pilot shouldnt have been flying. Thats the new revelation from an faa report on a plane crash at Philadelphia International airport. The report says the pilot had a sedative and a narcotic in his system. And also he ignored key warnings that his plane wasnt ready to fly. Nbc 10 investigator Harry Hairston has been digging through the documents. Reporter thats right, renee. This faa report points the finger at the pilot for the cause of the accident. It goes on to say the captain should have never been in the cockpit. Technically he was illegal to fly because of the medication. Reporter i share the faa report of our last marchs u. S. Airways crash with attorney and aviation expert arthur wolk. He took midazolam and a narcotic under doctors orders. It further states that the captain was not supposed to fly for 640 hours but got in the cockpit only 45 hours later. These drugs have the ability to impair ones attention. And of course now we have an incident that relates to ones failure to attend to the business at hand which is to make sure the airplane is properly configured for takeoff. The faa report goes on to state the captain and first officer failed to enter necessary data into the planes computer before takeoff. Should that plane have ever left the ground given the information in this report . Oh, no they should have never commenced to takeoff. Reporter theres information that the pilot ignored the get airborne. Was that something fixable in the air . Well it was but you dont do that. You simply do not take off. You dont take off because you dont know what the cause of the problem is. Reporter the report shows the flight reached 70 feet before the pilot believed the plane was not safe to fly. Moments later within running out of runway the pilot makes the emergency landing. The crash damages the planes tail and destroys the front landing gear. How dangerous could that have been . That could have been a horribly fatal accident. Reporter now, two of the 149 passengers on board that plane suffered minor injuries. U. S. Air declined to comment, stating that theyre waiting for the ntsb to finish its investigation. The ntsb tells me just moments ago that investigation should wrap up sometime next spring. For the investigators, Harry Hairston, nbc 10 news. A plan to convert the former local home of Oscar Hammerstein in a tourist attraction felling on deaf ears tonight. His grandson wants to turn the Highland Farm in doylestown bucks county into a music and education center. Neighbors say they dont want the traffic and noisy construction this project would bring. The hills are alive with the sound of music the sound of music one of the famous musical penned by hammerstein while at the farm. Its where the partnerships of rogers and hammerstein was born. A zoning hearing on the project scheduled for next month. Now your nbc 10 first alert weather with chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz. This morning was the coldest morning of the month so far. And tomorrow morning will be even colder. Weve got new years eve and new years day cold out there. We still are looking at a wintry mix for at least a part of saturday for a part of the area and its going to be briefly wet and warm. One days worth, thats it. We have clear skies out there. And the great visibility. 30 degrees but it feels like its 21 with that 11 mileanhour wind and its 11 degrees colder than it was at this time yesterday. The temperatures have just been going straight down over the last four days. 33 was the official high 39 degrees for tomorrow. And the average is 41. Its 30 now with the wind chill of 21. 16 degree wind chill in allentown, others in the low 20s. And so its certainly not going to warm up by midnight. These are the temperatures. Its going to feel about 7 or 8 degrees colder than that because of a little bit of wind. For the mummers tomorrow, in the morning, its going to be in the 20s. The wind will increase a little bit. Late in the morning, pushing the wind chills again, into the lower 20s in much of the area. But it is dry. It will continue to be dry. Different story out west with this big storm producing snow in las vegas and parts of southern california. That dont normally get it. As we go through saturday, dry in the morning, dry in the early afternoon but later in the afternoon or evening, the moisture starts to come in. It may be cold enough for at least a part of the atmosphere to start as sleet, maybe a few hours of it in some places. Philly southward is mainly rain. By later saturday night, it is rain everywhere. Warm air surges to the north and sunday, especially in the morning, is really wet with a good bit of rain. For tonight clear, very cold 23 for a low in philadelphia. 15 north and west. Tomorrow sunny. That breeze is going to make this temperature feel, again, colder than that. It will feel like about 30 degrees. Friday is dry and kind of cold, again, saturday is dry in the morning and early afternoon, late in the day, that mix, maybe some sleet. Changing over to rain. A cold day on saturday an a warm day on sunday with the rain mainly in the morning, tapering to showers and then much colder air returns for next week. Good evening, im danny pommel from Comcast Sports net. A couple of notable names are leaving town. One comes as a surprise another one many expected to fly the coop. Details next in sports. Thank you cable. For the slower internet upload speeds. For making me wait longer to share my photo albums. Thank you cable, because if we never had you. We wouldnt know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. The numbers dont lie. In Customer Satisfaction studies, fios is rated 1 in Internet Speed and reliability, and hd picture quality. So join the millions who enjoy the difference fios makes. Get a fios triple play online at an amazing price guaranteed for two whole years. Plus now get 400 bonus with a two year agreement. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. Live and in your living room danny pomle is with you once again. Tom gamble is no longer with the eagles organization. The gm released the following statement, we thank tom for his service over the past two seasons. I appreciate all tom has done for our scouting department and our team. Gamble game to philly two seasons ago. His father harry was Team President and gm in the 1980s. Tom gablible had been a hot name in other team searches for gms. Chip kelly was asked about his credential credentials. I think tom does an outstanding job. If he has the opportunity to do that, i would support him in anything. If i could give him any help in that situation be i certainly would. To baseball now where the phillies continued their busy offseason, trading outfielder marlin bird to the reds for Minor League Pitcher ben livly. The 37yearold bird has oneyear left with an option for a second season. Lively was ranked as the eighth best prospect in the reds organization. Some Excellent College hoops today, temple opening up conference play again the defending National Champions uconn. We have more drama than a soap opera. Owls up late. Dengle misses and purvis leaks out for the gametieing dunk. We go to overtime. In o. T. Off the inbound, he throws it down temple back up two. Final seconds, uconn for three and the win . Huhuh. Daniel hamilton is fouled. Three free throws and a chance to win it misses all three. Temple escapes, 5753. Strike up the banned for sixth ranked villanova opening up big east play against butler. Fourpoint game at the half. Nova turns it on. Money from outside. Here is some work underneath. Nova wins 6755. The kids are living the undefeated cats who are 130. The ice now, the flyers are moving forward. Matt reed replaces michael rofel. The winter classic this year is in washington, d. C. At nationals park. Thats sports im danny pommel. Stick around. Well be right back. For glenn and all of us here at nbc 10, thanks for watching ip renee chenaultfattah. Im jim rosenfield. We leave you right now with new years in sydney tokyo and more. See you at 11 00. Happy new year everybody. Happy new year. T test on the broadcast tonight, battling the elements. Bad weather holds up Recovery Efforts in the airasia crash. And each minute that passes will only make a somber duty tougher. Tragic accident a young mother shot dead inside a walmart when her child gets ahold of the gun she was carrying in her purse. Frozen nation 80 f the country experiencing below freezing conditions and bad weather socking parts of the west already may have lives. And the final countdown. Its already 2015 in much of the world. In just a few hours it will be our turn and despite the cold people are ready to party. Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new