Commissioner to find out exactly what happened. And if they are looking for the shooter. Also knew from overnight, the red cross is helping a family after a house fire. A firefighter showed us this video from a cell phone when it started on glenolden. Crews got it under control an hour and a half later. Four people made it out safely but the house is heavily damaged. We are covering breaking news in Burlington County this morning. Crews are battling a fouralarm fire in mt. Holly. The fire broke out at 3 00 this morning. And we just lost that live shot. But it happened on a commercial building on homeman street. We did a little digging and figured out the fire is at an automotive supply shop. There are no reports on injuries. Were going to continue to follow the story and live updates from the scene as soon as we get it. People across the country and around the world are welcoming 2015. About 1 Million People crowded into new yorks times square to usher in the new year. The Waterford Crystal ball dropped right at midnight. And a ton of confetti dropped on people below. And the big new years party in this area was along penns landing. Revelers braving the subfreezing temps to watch the fireworks show. One of two shows yesterday evening, welcoming in 2015. And the windy city ringing in the new year with fireworks. This display lit up the sky over Historic Navy pier. And people around the world welcomed 2015 a few hours ahead of us. In the uk crowds gathering along the thames river in london to watch the fireworks. In paris, people taking on the art and light show at the art de triomphe triomphe. Back here at home. The celebration still into the new year as they do every year as philadelphia gets ready for a longtime tradition, the mummers parade. This year its all about the new shorter route. The parade will start at city hall. And head down broad street before coming to an end at washington avenue. Nbc10s jesse gary is live. Jesse, youve covered several of these mummers parades. Whats going on right now . Reporter whats going on right now, the weather and conditions. You see that flag the median flag. Its parallel to the ground. Thats how much the wind is blowing. Very cold. If youre headed out to the parade bundle up. Its always good idea for thermal if youre standing outside. The avalon spring band made the final preparations. The 56man group started working on this years parade last january. Theyre usinging a space alien scene for the 115th mummers parade. It took time to convince members that was the best way to go. A lot of time. A lot of hard work. A lot of heated discussions and meeting of the minds and now were going to put this up on the street and show people what we can do. They have put some things on the streets overnight. You can seat preps on the parkway here and the Convention Center. Coming up in the next 30 minutes, well take you to the Convention Center to show you whats going on inside. At 5 04 there are other things to prepare for. A new year means new laws will be on the books for most of us. In pennsylvania gas taxes will go up almost a dime a gallon. That is to increase transportation funding. And on monday a new law takes effect in pennsylvania designed to make it easier for gun owners to challenge local firearms laws in court. Also in pennsylvania a new law takes part in aim to protecting children from abuse. All like doctors, dennists and social workers will have undergo more education in recognizing child abuse. Those are obligated by law to report any abuse or neglect. In delaware a new law is aimed at keeping your identity safe. They require businesses to destroy unnecessary documents that contain personal information. And in new jersey the minimum wage will go up 13 13 cents to 8 38 an hour. Last year the minimum wage jumped a full dollar. 5 05 now. A man is in custody after barricading himself in a home when officers tried to serve a warrant on him. Police say they were trying to serve the suspect a warrant at a home along south 56th street. But the man got away and ran into another house. A s. W. A. T. Team surrounded the place. The man surrendered a short time later. Two allegations into the Veterans Affairs office according to the the Philadelphia Inquirer results of a probe by the specter general is not until late february. Those were initially set to be released last fall but after a stream of whistleblowers came forward the investigation expanded. Some va employees claim mail at the center have been shredded. And also dates on records have been changed to hide a backlog of patients. Officials deny any wrongdoing. Its 5 06. A short break in the weather has not helped workers search for body and debris from airasia 8501. Now so far crews have recovered only seven bodies from waters near the suspected crash site. Early this morning, soldiers loaded white coffins containing the remains of four of those victims on to a plane heading for their identification. The jet disappeared sunday with 162 people on board in the middle of a flight from indonesia to singapore. Announcer now your nbc10 first alert weather with meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Good morning. And happy new year. A cold start for us. And really our temperatures are going to stay cold throughout the rest of today. Barely getting out of the 30s. Were also tracking a wintry mix as we head into saturday evening. And more warm conditions expected to linger as we push into saturday night and definitely into sunday. A live look outside right now, we see clear skies. We see plenty of sunshine once the sun coming up. 30 degrees in philadelphia. Winds out westsouthwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. It feels like 19 degrees. In some locations like the poconos it feels like the Single Digits feeling like 5 degrees. 22 in reading, 19 in philadelphia. Feeling like 19 in Atlantic City. 15 in dover and 27 in wildwood. Your actual temperatures are 25. And mt. Holly in trenton, 26. 21 degrees in allentown, a cold 23 degrees in quakertown. 24 in pottstown. So if youre going to get out early for the mummers parade you definitely want to bundle up for that. Your thickest jacket if you can. The wind speeds coming out of the southwest, moving at 16 Miles Per Hour in philadelphia. 10 Miles Per Hour in Atlantic City. Cold conditions settling in over much of the nation. Nashville, 24 degrees. Little rock at 36. Dallas 32 degrees currently. And as we head into the rest of today, well continue with plenty of sunshine as High Pressure stays in control. But then we do have changes. Well see a few more clouds heading into friday. Especially friday evening. Then as we approach saturday it will be a mostly cloudy start to the day. By 6 00 p. M. , we are tracking the possibility of a little bit of snow. Maybe a wintry mix. Sleet moving into parts of the Lehigh Valley and poconos. And switching to rainfall because were actually going to see warmer air moving up from the south as we head into sunday. Sunday, our temperatures could get close to 60 degrees but we are going to see rainfall lingering throughout sunday morning heading into the afternoon by sunday night. As far as the day is concerned. 36 degrees by 11 00 a. M. 31 degrees by the afternoon and early evening. Were down to 39 degrees. Well barely make it into the 40s today. Our average for this time of year is 41. So this is pretty close to average, today and tomorrow. Even on saturday. But take a look at what happens as we head into sunday. A big time warmup. Its short lived. Temperatures dropping back into the 30s with an arctic blast of air. It is just about 5 10 on this new years day. There were some scary motels out wet when wicked weather suddenly struck. Take a look. A camera captured chaos. Tents and debris were tossed in the air. Well have the details. Plus a new years celebration goes horribly wrong overseas. Well tell you what happened that caused these festivities to turn tragic. 5 13 a. M. Happening today, ongoing work on a broken water main in philadelphia will lead to a road closure. Montgomery drive will be blocked off between Martin Luther king drive and the schuylkill expressway from 6 00 this morning and 4 00 this afternoon. A woman and her two children are thankful for the Camden Police officers who rescued them from a housw avenues yesterday avenue. They got the mom and kids out through a window and on to a roof of the house and then they lowered the family into the arms of other officers. No word yet on what started that fire. A group of neighbors in philadelphia put their lives on the line to rescue a woman from a fire. A neighbor tells us he heard the neighbor screaming for help. He and others broke out some windows and went in to get her. We screamed is anybody in here. Anybody in here . We heard her scream. We didnt know whether it was coming from upstairs or downstairs. So once we seen the silhouette of her, you know like in the back, we just ran in and got her out. Im sure shes thankful for neighbors like that. Firefighters arrived minutes later. The woman was taken to the hospital to be checked out but she is expected to be okay. 5 14 this morning, we have video from a Deadly Police shooting in camden county. G a man. Authorities say two officers shot jerane reed. They say a handgun was recovered. The Prosecutors Office is investigating. This weekend, the director of the fbi plans to attend the funeral of an nypd officer killed in an ambush. The service for officer wenjian liu is scheduled for sunday in new york. Liu and his partner ramos were shot and killed inside their patrol car. Bill de blasio and new York City Council announced yesterday that the streets near their homes will be named in their honor. A weekend shooting in which Los Angeles Police came under fire, 19yearold james brooks was taken into custody in las vegas yesterday. Prosecutors say two ever 0s drove their car in the line of fire when gang members were shooting at rivals in anothere an 18yearold is already charged in this case. People took to the streets of San Francisco to protest the killing of africanamericans seven celebrating on new years eve. You can see the protesters gathered around here around 150678930 this morning. Several had weld across the country including a peaceful diein in boston. New years eve partiers got more than they bargained through. A dust devil whipped up tents there. Set up for the big game in pasadena. You may have noticed, though a costumed cow is not there he goes. No problem for the cow, thank goodness. On new years eve celebration turned to tragedy in shanghai china, where a stampede killed 35 people and 45 taken to the hospital. Witnesses say it may have been triggered by someone throwing fake money from a window out on to the street. In a new years speech today, north koreas leader kim jongun reached out to south korea, speaking in what appeared to be a prerecorded Message Broadcast by state media. Kim said he is open to a highlevel summit with south korea. On monday south korea also proposed resuming stalled talks to with its neighbor to the north. 5 15 now. The nbc10 investigators have some new information about this airport emergency at Philadelphia International that happened last march. It turns out the pilot should not have been flying this plane. A new report government reveals the takeoff in march, it reveals the captain had taken a sedative and narcotic under doctors order after a stress test. He wasnt supposed to fly after 60 hours but he got in a cockpit after 45 hours. These drugs have the ability to impair ones attention. Technically, he was illegal to fly because of the medication. Report says the captain and first officer did not enter necessary data into the planes computer. And the pilot warned the planes Warning Signals before takeoff. Two passengers had minor injuries when the plane slammed back down on the runway after briefly lifting off. Us airways declined comment on the report saying theyre waiting for the government to finish its investigation. Announcer now your nbc10 first alert weather with meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Good morning, its a cold start on this new years day. We are going to see temperatures staying in the high 30s. The low 40s, just a little below average for us. A brief wintry mix is on tap as we head through the rest of the weekend. Warm conditions to round out the second part of the weekend. A live look outside. Clear skies. Plenty of sunshine today in philadelphia. 30 degrees. Wind speeds out of the westsouthwest at 16 Miles Per Hour. You couple that with the cold air, feels like its only at 19 degrees. As you step outside in the poconos feels like 5 degrees. 13 in allentown, 17 in pottstown. 17 in mt. Holly. Feels likeltb7n 19 in Atlantic City and feels like 16 in dover. 18 in toms river, 28 in Atlantic City. 34 in mildwood. 23 in dover. Temperatures in quakertown at 23 degrees. 25 in coatesville. And were at 15 degrees in mt. Pocono. Wind speeds will continue to stay breezy today. In Atlantic City 16 in philadelphia, 10 in wilmington wind speeds in Lehigh Valley into the poke knowconos its still going to be breezy. By 8 00 a. M. Same thing, 33 by noon. Todays high only at 39 degrees. Right now, conditions show we are going to see plenty of sunshine. Just a few clouds throughout parts of the region. We are going to keep our eye on this next system because this is going to bring us wet conditions as we head into the weekend. Heres our motto, today were fine. And friday were fine. Then as we head into saturday youll notice the clouds really start to increase. By 7 00 p. M. , were dealing with a possibility of a brief wintry mix in the poconos. Parts of the suburbs. And then we are going to see all of this moisture turning to rainfall, as our temperatures continue to warm heading into sunday. By sunday afternoon, were expecting temperatures to post close to 60 degrees. And we should be done with all of the rainfall as we head into your early afternoon hours. As far as todays concerned, sunny and cold. Temperatures range between 37 and 40 degrees. Wind speeds out of the southwest, 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. Another breezy day on tap. Just a cold day but average is what is expected. By friday 43 degrees. Wet conditions expected same thing on sunday. We warm up but dont stay warm for long. We drop right back down to the 30s by monday. At 5 20 we are following breaking news in Burlington County. Crews are battling a fouralarm fire in mt. Holly. Heres a live look. We have our nbc crew on the scene there. The fire broke out after 5 00 this morning. This is heavy smoke, thick smoker inside that building. These flames are still raging and crews are on the scene there. So far, there have not have been any reports of injuries. Were going to stay on the scene. Just a quick Google Search that we did at this address sos aerosafety device company. Thats the name of the Company Listed at this address. Were going to try to find out more information about this commercial building as well as the fire fight going on right now. Well bring you updates throughout the show. One new years eve tradition may be disappearing. You may not hear about the first baby born in the new year at local hospitals. Well tell you why coming up. Plus after most people in the area have theyre just starting to party out in the midwest. Well show you how they celebrated on the west coast. The west coast got in on the new years eve fireworks action. In seattle, the display lit up the sky behind the citys iconic space needle. What a beautiful view. Organizers planned for 20,000 people to ring in the new year at this celebration. And in San Francisco, hundreds of thousands of people gathered along the water front for fireworks over the bay. Another gorgeous sight out there. Workers set off the pyrotechnics from double barges in the water. People had to bundle up there, though temperatures were in the low 30s. A story you would normally see in any newscast on new years day has gone by the wayside as hospitals put privacy first. Many hospitals are no longer releasing or limiting information on new years baby. Usually hospitals tell us which newborns came first in the new year, but now hospitals arent releasing that due in part to prevent abductions and identity theft. We do have statistics on the number of people who have signed up for insurance at the federal marketplace. Nearly 300,000 people from pennsylvania new jersey and delaware selected a plan during the first month of open enrollment. That includes people signing up for the first time. And those who reenrolled. 2014 was a big year for philadelphia hotels. The Hotel Business in the city had its best numbers in more than 25 years. As of last night, occupancy for center citys more than 11,000 hotel rooms hit 76 . Thats the highest rate since 1949. Tourism Officials Say the city has become a major destination for vacations and conventions. Announcer now your nbc10 first alert weather. And im first alert meteorologist Brittney Shipp. Its a very cold start to the morning on new years day. Ill let you know what to expect as you head into the rest of your thursday. Plus im tracking wet conditions over the weekend. And firefighters are battling that freezing temperature this morning as we follow breaking news. Here you see a ladder truck pouring water on the flames there. The commercial building. Well have an update. Plus thousands of people getting set to line broad street for this years mummers parade. The first time the tradition will march in a different direction. Announcer nbc10 breaking news. That breaking news were following is a major fire a commercial building in Burlington County. This has been burning for hours, you can see the smoke and flames are still going as fire crews attempt to put out that fire. Well have an update. And the new year is off to a violent start in one part of chester county. Police are investigating a shooting in chester that claimed the life of a young man. Well hear from the victims mother. And 2015 but we are off to a cold start out there. Taking a look at 28 degrees at 5 30 this morning. We are riding a winter roller coaster with temperatures going up and down but on this morning, youll want to bundle up. Good morning, thanks for joining us on january 1st 2015. Im christine maddela. And im chris cato. Yeah, here we are, a new year and cold weather just like we expect in january, right . Right. Meteorologist Brittney Shipp joins us with the first alert forecast. People going to mummers parade are going to want to dress in layers, right . Definitely bundle up. Its cold. Its freezing in much of the area as we take a look outside right now. We are going to see clear skies which gives way to plenty of sunshine later today. 28 degrees in Atlantic City. 25 in mt. Holly. 21 in