Trafrers head out. But with Mother Nature mess with your weekend plans . Were starting out cold and cloudy this morning. But bill is tracking some rain in the sevenday forecast. Good morning. Welcome to nbc 10 news tonight. Im tracy davidson. Winter officially starts on sunday. You mentioned the rain. Lets get right to metrologist bill henley. It does feel cold, especially with the wind blowing. The temperatures are above freezing for most of the area but just enough wind to blow clouds in the area and make it feel like its freezing. 29 degrees is the wind chill right now if philadelphia. It feel like 28 in fillville and 28 in the pocono. S. Trenton, 36 degrees. Clouds will be thinning out during the day after a cloudy start and a blustery one. Will b up to 39 degrees with breaks of sunshine at nunluncht. Kay city zachary is looking out for us this friday morning. A pretty quiet morning for drivers along 329. No issues or accidents to report in lehigh valley. As we take a look at your drive times on 76 between the vine and the blue, both directions 12 and 13 minutes. You cant beat that. Sit 5 30. Were going to see that creep up no doubt. New accident into our system for the new jersey drivers, walnut avenue and lakeview avenue. And also on the Garden State Parkway, a stretch of southbound is closed between sea aisle boulevard and the exit for avalon. You can take route 9 around that. Heading out for the holidays we take a live look at traffic on i95 in south philly. Its going to be a whole lot different at the airport ]3i reporter you bet we are. One of the reasons that today will be the busiest day at airports across the country is many schools get out today. So the parent consist grab the children and head to the relatives house frs the holiday. Look at what we see here. A lot of traffic. Just look at the number of people going up thats ka later right there just to check in at the counter and check in at the get and depart. We have seen septa trains already running dropping some people off here. Now aaa is predicts 94. 5 million american wills travel by air and on the road this holiday. That is a slath increase over last year. Weve been reaching out to airport officials here in philadelphia. Were still awaiting a call back. But aaa tells us that air travel during this yearend Holiday Season may decline slightly. So if you havent decided whether to travel the holiday, there is still some time ahead. Youve got a couple of days to think about it. Were going to search around to find out what days are best for you and when you can get the best deals coming your way at 6 15. Rive from now at the airport, monique braxton. It is 5 34 busier than black friday. Thats whats ahead for shoppers this weekend. Tomorrow is known as super sad. But today starts a marathon stretch for in stores. Jesse gary is live in haverton county outside one of them. Reporter good morning to you. Some of the employees of this kohls store arrived a short time ago and theyre getting the store ready to hope in less than 30 minutes and once they open, theyre going the say open continue usually until christmas eve, 100 hours without close pg. The goal for retailers is to finish the Holiday Shopping strong. Target is staying open until midnight on some days before christmas eve. The National Retail federation predicts holiday sales will be up 4. 1 over last year. Were going to try to talk to some the first customers who arrive here to take advantage of the shopping and selling marathon that begins at 6 00 a. M. Well check in with you in 30 minutes. Live in hafrson, jesse gary. Today is an important deadline for online shoppers. According to experts, its the last day to order gifts that will make it to you in time for christmas by using standard shipping. And of course you can count on nbc 10 to keep you up to date on the stories and all the news from across our area. That include these three stories well be monitoring for you today. First well be there as a newly elected state senator in montgomery country announces legislation against Police Officers using force. And four of the five Philadelphia Public School stafferers accused in a cheat scandal are scheduled to be in court today. The teachers and the principal are facing charges after Officials Say they took part in a cheating operation to raise test scores on a state standardized exam. Well bring you more details about new years celebrations happening in the philadelphia area. Theyll announce the plans for the city this morning. The featured events will include fireworks and the mummers parade. A picture posted on social media puts the paramedic in the hot seat. This morning, his boss says he is not happy. A breezy start making it feel colder this morning. It feels like its below freezing while the actual temperature here at nbc 10 is 37 degrees. Bundle up if youre heading out the doors. The temperatures feel like theyre below freezing. Look at the clouds overhead. The wind blowing mere at the nbc 10 studios. 62 humidity. No sign of any fog this morning. Nothing falling from the skies but the clouds are with us. At least to start with you the see some breaks to start with. Its not going to be a huge warmup this afternoon, 33 degrees for mount pocono, upper 30s for allentown an redding. Northeast philadelphia and mt. Holly in the 40s. Sunshine is coming up at 7 13 in cape may. Going to be at 43 degrees this afternoon, 42 for dover and youll see partly cloudy skies during the day in philadelphia, a cloudy start and then breaks of sunshine, right at 41 for wilmington and chester. We mentioned earlier this is the busiest travel day of the Holiday Season. Hopefully they get there on time. A lot of people trying to get where theyre going. Katie zachary is monitoring the roads. First, taking a look at camden. Were not seeing evidence of it being the most heavily travel day of the year. Not a lot of cars out here. Fortunately no accidents to report in any of the on any of the majors in new jersey because this one just cleared in the last two minutes, the Garden State Park way between sea aisle boulevard and avalon. An update to an accident in white marsh montgomery county. Barren road is closed. 5 41 right now. Delayed again, a group of local students will have to wait a little longer to see their experiment in space. And a controversial Christmas Tree is now being embraced. Well tell you about the plans today to turn the tree into a Holiday Center pieces. Pgpg. 5 44. Tackled on tape. Look at this video. The suspect caught on camera pluf and his son will be in court next week. It happened on monday night. The sergeant tackled the armed robber moments after he held up the pharmacist at knife point. The officers son and another customer both jumped in to wrestle and sup due the guy. He held a knife to the pharmacist and demanded that she give him medication. I catch him as hes trying to flee out the front door. The suspect has 11,000 worth of stolen painkillers on him. And were also following all of the news from across the country this morning. Security experts believe north korea likely had help carrying out the cyber attack on sony entertainment. The white house has not publicly said who it thinks is behind the attack but theres evidence it was carried out with a sophisticated actor with malicious intent. Today, president obama will hold his end of the News Conference and tonight the president and the first family will head to hawaii for the holidays continuing a sevenyear tradition. Mean while students from Ocean City High School are getting a Second Chance at a space experiment but it will not happen today as scheduled. The relaunch from cape canaveral, florida has been pushed to january 6th. The original rocket exploded shortly after it launched back in october. A paramedics picture creates a firestorm this morning. The fire commissioner is sounding off about this picture. Derek sawyer says hes unhappy with a racially charged photo the one of his paramedicsinstag. Theyre investigating. The picture shows two black men pointing guns at a white officer and the message on the post says our real enemy, need to stop pointing guns at each other and the ones that are illegally killing innocence. I expect my member to act in a professional manner. The paramedic who posted the picture works in southwest philadelphia which shares the same building as the 19th police district. Now the picture surfaced as anger continue to spread over the killing of unarmed African American men by police. Protests have been popping up all over the country in response to the death of mike. Brown in missouri and eric garner in new york. Just yesterday president obama made it official naming Charles Ramsey as the chair of his task force on 21st century policing. The goal of the task force is to find new way to strengthen trust between local police and the communities they serve. An initial report is due on the president s desk in march. In the meantime items from the protest are now part of an exit in washington, d. C. They include a press pass, tshirts worn by protesters. And following weeks of civil rights protests around the country, wilmington is hoping to build more trust with its community. Last night, Police Officers, judges and state leaders anxioused peoples questions about safety and the use of force by Police Officers. Were here to facilitate a conversation around a lot of the peoples concerns about whats been happening around the country and what are we doing to make things better. The city says this will be the first of several events the designed to foster a better relationship between the public and members of the criminal justice system. A lawmaker will introduce a bill next month banning nearly all gift to Public Officials and employees in pennsylvania. Senator lloyd smuker began working on the bill after news broke last year that state lawmakers had taken money from an undercover informant. Pennsylvania does not limit such gifts but other states too. Bogus bills are showing up pennsylvania. Its the work of an international counterfeit operation based in uganda. The suspect allegedly made more than 2 million from the scheme. His ring unraveled when a fake 100 bill passed through a pittsburgh coffee shop last december. Luxury cars stolen and then sold on the black market, 29 men are facing charges. Detectives say the suspects stole luxury cars in new jersey and new york and sold them in west africa. The suspects played a variety of roles. Investigators were able to recover 160 of the stolen ca 16 worth more than 8 million. Looks like another day a lot like yesterday. The wind is blowing, it feels cold outside and weve got clouds overhead. This is a life view from the nbc 10 studios. Its been a steady breeze plowing. The temperature is very close nowhere we were yesterday. Feels, though, like 29 degrees in the city. And look at the pocono mountains. Theyre taking advantage of the cold weather. Theyll be able to use the snow making equipment right on through the weekend. Nothing will be falling from the sky through the weekend. Pottstown is 34, 34 degrees right now if boilstown and ricetown is 36 degrees. The radar completely cloer. Dont expect to see any activity in our area today, despite the clouds. But well be watching to the south over the next few case. You can see some rain moving through texas and into louisiana. The storm systems High Pressure is going to keep them to the south through the weekend. But early next week thats going to change. Sunday afternoon, completely dry. The clouds are to the south and those will be building. By early monday morning well see rain falling to the south that could be here monday afternoon. But for today youll see breaks in the clouds. Clouds to start with, inshine poking through the clouds in the afternoon. Temperatures will move into the 40s, just barely into the 40s this afternoon, but the wind 10 to 20 miles an hour, making it feel like its in the 30s. Tomorrow, 30 to start with, 40 in the afternoon and a little milder on sunday. Winter arrives just after 6 clock sunday evening and then a warmup for monday, tuesday and wednesday as rain moves in. The temperatures climb. 53 degrees on tuesday. Wednesday, christmas eve, steady rain, 60 degrees. Expected to be a very busy travel day but were not seeing it on the roads just yet. Maybe people get a late start. Katie zachary has our eyes on the traffic cameras. I think theyre sleeping in. Heres a live look at 95 right near the Philadelphia International airport and were not seeing any extra volume that we normally see at this early morning. So maybe its friday, Everyone Wants to sleep in a little bit before they go on vacation. Taking a look at your drive times along 422 between routes 29 and 76, eight and seven minutes in both directions. We are also following a new accident into our system in mo den that. This is mo den that road is closed between union street and overhill road. The case of the escaping bob cat. Today a new legal challenge for rockys owner after she failed to keep him contained. And more fun for fans, well tell you about the changes the new owners of the wilmington blue rocks are promising when we take you county by county up next. Ring ring . Progresso its ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. Its our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. Apology accepted. Im watching you soup people. Make it progresso or make it yourself some people think vegetables are boring. But with green giants delicious seasonings and blends, we just may change their minds. Ho ho ho green giant 5 minutes before 6 clock right now. The search for shane. It has now been three weeks since Shane Montgomery was last seen. His family is asking for help from a nonprofit Diving Organization to take another look at the water. His uncle says the family is not hold up well as christmas approaches. You can hear from shanes uncle and read why if fbi may have to soon pull back from the case all in our nbc 10 app for iphones right now. Taking you county by county now for a look at the news happening in your neighborhood. The top story in bucks county is still the death of a teen hit and killed at her bus stop this week. Friends added to a memorial for the 16yearold in ben salem last night. An suv hit and culled her as she crossed to board her school bus on wednesday. Theyre checking the cell phone records of the 18yearold driver and waiting for blood test results as well. And something new is coming to allentown skyline, the new Office Building is going to be up in the lee high county community. It will be 15 stories tall with retail space offices and apartments. The cost of this project . 130 million. And heres where its going up. The five city center will span on entire block of walnut street between 7th and 8th street. The building will be the large ers city Center Project to date. And in burkes county theres another celebration this weekend for reddings socall Charlie BrownChristmas Tree. Theyre holding a decorating party for the tree tomorrow. Residents can place ornaments and decorations on the tree tomorrow at 4 00 and then the tree will be lit up ats about 5 30. The city will also be taking donation to help the homeless and support the recreation commission. And in ocean county a woman will make her Court Appearance after her pet bobcat escaped her home three times this year. Rocky has been held at the popcorn park zoo in lacy since its last escape in stafford township. She could lose permanent custody of the animal because of those inciden incidents. The new owners of the wilmington blue rocks are promising fun time for fans. One of the owners is the son of the man who founded the blue rocks 20 years ago. He wants to make the stadium a full walkaround concourse with kids play area we want to be the positive light that shines through. A little bit of a dark time in wilmington. And the city owners also have teams the other cities and they have built ferris wheels and zip lieps in their ball parks. New project should be finished by the start of the 2016 season. There are plans for another Country Music festival. Black shelton will be among the there he is. Hes among the head liners. The threeday event will be held next june at Dover International speedway. Tickets already on sale. Big barrel will be the third Country Music festival in kent county next summer. About 100 for a threeday event. Seems like a really good deal. All those stars and blake and miranda together . Thats cool. Nbc 10 news today at 6 00 a. M. Starts right now. Ready, set, shop. Final push to christmas is on and some stores are opening early to help the lastminute shoppers out there. This is a live look al kohls in haverton where doors are about to open and theres nobody in the parking lot yet. Maybe youre getting ready to hit the road. Its going to be a nice day to travel. Were dry today. Good morning this is nbc 10 news today. Im tracy davidson. Were wondering about the changes as we get close to the holiday. Morning, bill. Before you step out the door to do anything, bundle up. The wind is blowing. Were seeing winds of 10 to 15 miles an hour right now. Even though the temperatures are above freezing, thats enough wind to make you feel like it is below freezing in philadelphia. 30 degrees right now. 27 currently the wind chilled for wilmington, millville and Atlantic City and it feels like 19 degrees in the mountains. The actual temperatures really not that bad for this time of year. Right now 37 degrees in philadelphia. The temperatures will come down a little more by 9 00 this morning, 34 degrees. But then the upper 30s by lunchtime and low 40s, very low 40s this afternoon. Your neighborhood by neighborhood fordast when i come back in ten minutes. But right now Katie Zachary is watching the traffic this morning. Happy friday to you. Volume is building on the area roadways. First there is a water main break were watching in abbington township. Easton road is closed between york road and fitzwater town road. You can take york roud around